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I got a card done for the week 2 sketch at the 2 Sketches 4 U blog last night, using the new "Get Happy" line by Cosmo Cricket. My card design kind-of took a life of its own on as I kept going, but I think you can still tell that the sketch was my jumping off point for it!
We did a father's day theme for this week's sketch at the CPS blog. Lots of awesome dad inspired cards this week....be sure to check them all out! My dad got this card in the mail on Thursday, and his comment cracked me up! He said that cards aren't as fun to see in magazines as layouts are....but it is awesome to get one in real life. They look so neat! Tee hee....so he isn't a fan of Cards Magazine obviously....but he like them in person. Lots of Scenic Route on this card, and Heidi Swapp chipboard.
You can probably tell from the tone of my first paragraph that I have had a rough week. I am not going to go into detail, but it has just been one of those weeks. Jody Ferlaak has this song on her music roll on her blog, and part of the lyrics really spoke to me this week. It is a song called "Held" by Natalie Grant. It just reminds me that amidst all of the pain and disappointment that you suffer in this world, God is bigger than all of it. He wants us to cling to Him, rely on him to be our saving grace. It is so easy to get bitter, broken, and cold hearted in this world. God doesn't want that for his children. Here is the part of the song that really spoke to me through the entire week:
This hand is bitterness.
We want to taste it, let the hatred numb our sorrow.
The wise hands opens slowly to lillys of the valley and tomorrow.
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we'd be held.
If hope is born of suffering.
If this is only the beginning.
Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?
If you want to hear the song, I am also attaching the video to the post. Hope you like it.
I hope that everyone has a blessed Saturday,
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- AnonymousJune 14, 2008 at 12:13 PM
I love all of your cards. I love the bright colors. Thank you for the lovely comment on my blog.ReplyDelete
Take care,
WONDERFUL cards!!! Thanks for the blog love too!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 14, 2008 at 12:43 PM
I adore the colors in your top card ... and the softer, masculine design of your father's day creation ... your dad's comment is too funny ... of course it's better to have one in real life :^)ReplyDelete
Lea .... I have no idea how I haven't been to your blog before!! *blush* Your cards are ALL wonderful!! Your very talented!! Thank you for your kind words on my blog! :]ReplyDelete
Lea those are such yummy colors on the first card - I love that your card took on a life of it's own - that is your brilliant creativity rocking! Thanks for playing this week - hope next week is a little less hectic for youReplyDelete
:) Kazan
- AnonymousJune 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM
HI there, thanks for my blog comment :o) Your cards are lovely, i especially love the colours of the first one - really different and striking! KateReplyDelete
TWO BEAUTIFUL CARDS AS ALWAYS LEA, WELL DONEReplyDelete
Wow Lea! This cars is stunning!!! I love your color combo:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 14, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Hi Lea...Well two gorgeous card again....ReplyDelete
and that is a beautiful song...
Hope you are feeling a lot better:)
Bless you and your family:)
I hope you dont mind if I add you to my blog roll please:)
Have a lovely week:)
- AnonymousJune 14, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Awesome cards Lea!!ReplyDelete
Amazing Cards : ) Luv the color combo in the 1st card, and I really like how you did the greeting on the Father's Day card - Very Cool!ReplyDelete
Your work is always so amazing, and these cards are no exception. tfsReplyDelete
Sorry your week has been so rough. What a beautiful song to have rollin' around in your head, though. Very inspiring message there. Hope next week will be better for you.
Both cards are gorgeous. I used SR for my Father's Day card as well. ;-) Hope you are doing better, and that next week will be a good one for you.ReplyDelete
Love both cards! Sorry you had a bad week. Congrats on the Fab5!ReplyDelete
Oh, Lea, I am sorry to hear you had a hard week. Keep turning to Jesus! He will strengthen you and remember...His mercies are new EVERY morning!! I hope you will see His mercy today in some way!ReplyDelete
Your cards are beautiful :)
Completely gorgeous card, loving those colours together :)ReplyDelete
This is just sweet sweet sweet Lea! I like the top color combo esp!ReplyDelete
Wow Wow Wow....I just love all of your cards, what a beautiful blog : )ReplyDelete
Hope you have a better week.
lis xx
Lea, these are SO beautiful--you rocked this challenge!ReplyDelete
I love both cards, Lea. Gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
oh wow! totally GORGEOUS! i adore the first one, especially, and i can TOTALLY "see" the sketch...but i love the way you used it as a "starting point" and went on from there. fabulous!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous cards as always.ReplyDelete
I'm still sending you hugs!! :)
Love your cards! And thanks for stopping by my blog!ReplyDelete
Congrats on being one of the Fab5! Your card is wonderful! I LOVE the colors, beautiful but still perfect for guy colors... :PReplyDelete
I was away for the weekend so didn't find out until yesterday afternoon.
Nikki...one of the other Fab5 :)
Yummy- Orlando oh, and your card too- hehe! Hope you have a great day girl!ReplyDelete
Wow, love your father's card.. gorgeous colours and patterns. No wonder he loved it too! :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful Father's Day card, Lea! Sorry I missed the first one. Congrats on the pub! Hope you are having a better week!ReplyDelete


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How India is Handling Electronics Recycling in 2012: Part 2
In regards to what makes India so efficient while handling E-waste, the reasons lie in what is made available through various disposal facilities located throughout India. These facilities are designed to handle computers, cell phones and other electronic components deemed unsafe for traditional landfills. The top three companies offering this type of safe disposal for 2012, include E-Parisaraa, Earth Sense Recycle and Trishyiraya Recycling. The main purpose of using special E-waste facilities for disposal of electronics is to prevent the hazardous material they emit from getting into the region's water supply where it can cause health problems for the population.
E-Parisaraa has a recycling facility located in the industrial area in Dabaspet and in the rural region of Bangalore. The services offered by this company include inspection of collected items as well as the disposal of products upon request. When someone requests to have their computer destroyed, the company offers secure data destruction for all of the information contained on the hard drives. The secure data destruction is also used when recycling computers for additional use.
Earth Sense Recycling offers secure disposal of electronics as well as the safe disposal of waste classified as bio-medical material. This company began its recycling efforts in 2000 by accepting used up or old electronic components such as floppy disks, used toner cartridges, CDs and batteries.
Trishyiraya Recycling is located in Chennai and deals in the disposal of various hazardous materials. This company can dispose of chemical waste products as well as electronics. Their electronic waste includes the disposal of cables used for telecommunication systems. This company has a lot of business clients who dispose of electronic components on a regular basis.
All of the electronic recycling centers accept items from private individuals as well as from large corporations. The advances made in India for the proper disposal of electronic materials have significantly improved the country's environmental status and could set the standard for the rest of the world.

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Blackberry and Apple Loaf Cake
Serves 6
60g unsalted butter, chilled and diced
80g plain flour
2 heaped tbsp demerara sugar
170g self-raising flour
170g unsalted butter, softened
170g caster sugar
3 large eggs, beaten
170g (prepared weight) apples such as Braeburns or Cox's, peeled, cored and diced
70g blackberries
You will also need a 900g (2lb) loaf tin, the inside buttered and the base and ends lined with a strip of buttered baking parchment.
Preheat the oven to 180oC/160oC fan oven/350oF/gas mark 4.
Combine the topping ingredients: rub the butter into the flour and sugar either in a food processor using the pulse button or with your hands. Once the mixture reaches a crumble-type consistency, put it to one side while you make the cake batter.
Tip the flour, butter, sugar and eggs into a bowl and, either using a free-standing mixer or an electric hand whisk, beat until really light and creamy. Gently fold in the diced apples and blackberries using a large metal spoon.
Spoon the cake mixture into the prepared tin, spread level and sprinkle over the crumble topping in an even layer.
Bake on the middle shelf of the preheated oven for about 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes away cleanly.
Cool the cake in the tin for about 5 minutes and then carefully lift it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.


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Paco Sery
Paco, born 1st of May 1956, has always been fascinated by Drums. Driven by this passion, he made his first drums out of wood by the age of 9.
Paco, original from the Ivory Coast, later moved to Abidjan to start his musical career. Over the decades, he has played with Edy Louiss, Nina Simone, Jaco Pastorius, Sixun, to name a few. From 1995 to 2007 he was the drummer of Joe Zawinul's "The New Zawinul Syndicate" that brought international popularity for Paco. But he has also been active working on his solo projects, with his first album "Voyages" (Blue Note / EMI), released in 2000.
His music is often described as a mix of pure groove, blended with afrobeat, funk and a jazz feel that provides the ever solid foundation of his music.


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Gay pair awarded $147K in Council Bluffs bias case
A Council Bluffs jury has awarded a gay couple thousands after being mistreated by apartment management.
Two years ago, Charles Anderson and Brandon Morehouse lived in the Sherwood Apartments. They said when the maintenance man entered their home, he threatened them and called them names for being gay.
"You couldn't imagine how degrading it is, how much you don't even feel human anymore. It takes your soul away basically," Anderson said.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, a maintenance technician employed by New Life Multi-Family told Anderson he would, "Get him one of these times and it would all be over with," and he was "going to beat him with a lead pipe."
When Anderson complained to apartment management, New Life Multi-Family took no action to address the multiple complaints of harassment. Instead, management began the process to evict the couple, giving them three days to get out.
"I'm like, 'Man, this is not right. This is what happened. This is not right,'" Anderson said. "We didn't get our deposit back. We didn't get our months' rent that we paid."
Anderson and Morehouse moved out, but the Iowa Civil Rights Commission stepped in to file a lawsuit against New Life Multi-Family Management on behalf of the couple.
On Friday, a jury ruled unanimously in the couple's favor, awarding them $147,000 in damages.
"I didn't feel ecstatic or happy or anything. I just felt like there was some closure," Anderson said.
Anderson said he hopes the lawsuit sends a message that it is OK to speak up and that hate will not be tolerated.
"Before someone decides to call somebody a name like that or discriminate against someone in any aspect of any life, they just kind of think about it, what kind of effects that can have on somebody?" Anderson said.


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Outgoing publisher reflects on some regrets, favorite memories, things he'll not miss and those he truly will.
Farewell columns are, by definition, a clich�.
Despite this reality, they are still written. Perhaps I�m missing an opportunity to halt the streak. But, alas, like most newspaper types, the chance to grab the bullhorn one more time in this community that I love is too tempting.
As I thought about the typical farewell column clich�s, a few jumped out. Here�s one: �I have no regrets.� Guess what? I do have regrets. But rather than call them that, I�m going to call them �wishes.� Here are a few:
� I wish I had spent more time experiencing the outdoors in this area. I�ve hiked to the falls at South Mountain Park and done some hiking at Crowders Mountain, but not enough at either place.
� I wish I had done more in my church.
� I wish, early in my career, I had been less strident and arrogant. I�m still guilty of that, but as I�ve grown older, it has become easier for me to find common ground or disagree respectfully.
� While I loved going to my children�s sporting event and rarely missed them, one that I decided I could take a pass on was the Fun Run. Boy, did I blow that one. I wish I had been there when my youngest made an epic kick around the final turn and won the darn thing while I was off playing golf or doing something lame like that. Bruce Boyles never lets me forget I missed that one.
� I wish I had been a better listener.
Another column clich�: �favorite memories.� There are many.
� Remember The Star Car? It suffered an untimely demise in a crash, but when we first launched, just as the Internet multi-media boom was starting, the �cool� factor was through the roof.
� Remember the Shelby Yarn scandal? It obviously was very painful to the affected employees, but I was so proud of our relentless coverage that shined the light on that scandal.
(Other big stories that carried lot of pain and stress but made me proud: Chris White scandal at Gardner-Webb; our coverage of the big ice storms; the battle over school merger, Yelton�s rest home).
� Remember when we adopted Laurel, Miss.? Our community felt so much pride over that.
� Remember the inaugural �Connect, Commit to Change� event? What a feeling of pride to see all those volunteers committing to help dozens of agencies.
� Then there are the warehouse full of personal memories � the birth of my three children and the recent graduation of my oldest. Wherever we end up, all of my children will claim Shelby as their birthplace. I�m glad about that.
Now, it hasn�t all been roses. There will be some things about this area I won�t miss.
� It�s infinitely better than when I first came to Cleveland County, but silly turf wars still crop up from time to time. They are counterproductive and unattractive to newcomers. I won�t miss those.
� I won�t miss people who can�t seem to walk the fine line between healthy debate and naysaying (or worse, those who don�t even try to walk that line). We�ve got some folks who really seem to find sustenance by railing against progress or change, in almost any form. And, of course, we also have a few extreme voices of hatred who aim only to destruct.
� On a related note, there is plenty of judgment in this (and every) town. Sometimes it feels like folks are fighting over that �first stone,� forgetting that is to be avoided, not sought. It�s funny to watch people contort themselves in an effort to disguise their judgmentalism as something legitimate.
� I won�t miss all those leaves in the fall! They are pretty in the trees, but a big pain on the ground.
� I won�t miss trying to get across Dixon Boulevard on Dekalb Street.
� I won�t miss paying higher gas prices than surrounding counties and I also won�t miss being frustrated that we can�t explain to readers why that is the case.
� I won�t miss ice storms.
Now, some things the absence of which will leave a little hole inside me:
� I will miss Star night, especially the faces of children for whom � you could just tell � this might be their most joyous night of the holiday
� Speaking of Christmas, I will miss seeing the Inn at Webbley all dressed up for the holidays
� I will miss the wintertime vigil of snow lovers � waiting and hoping for a winter wonderland. Those who don�t care for snow don�t understand the bond that we snow-lovers established.
� I will miss the American Legion World Series � if you�ve never been to a game, please break that string this summer.
- And, finally, the ultimate clich� � I will miss the people. But clich�s are usually grounded in truth. And the people here are amazing.
Finally, we come to the final salutation � the granddaddy of all clich�s.
The truth is, the guy who has written editorials for 16 years doesn�t really have the words to describe what this community and this newspaper has meant to me and my family. Our first child. Our first home. My first gig as editor. Dina�s judicial appointment. Our second and third children. Publisher. Parents of a graduate. All of that happened here and will forever be a series of chapters in the Foster family history. Here�s one thing I know � we�ve received more than we�ve given to this community. With no family here, our friends, church parishioners and colleagues helped us in so many ways.
And at the paper, so many top-notch journalists, salespeople, production workers, customer service experts and more have worked so hard � not for me, but for all of you and for this community.
While Shelby was a stopping point in many newspaper careers, while they were here Star employees gave so much to help bring you the best newspaper. Whatever success I achieved is solely because of their fine work and dedication. The folks here today are a particularly fine crop � you won�t notice one bit of difference in the quality of your Star in the days ahead.
So I leave you with the quote I have had on my Facebook �about� page for many years. It describes everything that I have grown to love about this county � the giving spirit of its residents; the kindness offered by our friends; the pursuit of excellence by The Star�s staff.
It is from the late Margaret Mead, an American anthropologist:
�Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.�
Thank you, Cleveland County, for changing the world so many times during our time here.
Thank you, dear friends, for changing ours, so much for the better.
And thanks Star staff, for changing Cleveland County�s world, every day.
Godspeed to you all.


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Negro League baseball and even plantation games long pre-dated 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Historian Lawrence Hogan told a Wabash College audience Thursday black baseball has been around since the game's beginning.
Hogan, a professor of history at Union County College at Cranford, New Jersey, not only has studied the history of black baseball but has helped vote members of the Negro Leagues into Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame.
While popular history focuses on Robinson's achievement, the best trivia buffs know the color barrier was broken long before the Dodgers signed the future Hall of Famer.
Moses Fleetwood Walker played briefly for a team in Toledo in 1887, along with another black man, before they were effectively booted from the game.
African-American men played baseball back into the 1860s and the game prospered following the migration north of African-Americans in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The first professional Negro Leagues formed around 1920 and lasted until the Depression. Negro Leagues flourished again after the Depression until Robinson's break into the major leagues.
Hogan suggested the black pioneers were not just playing baseball but were part of a civil rights movement long before the 1960s. "When someone does something so well in the public arena, they're making a statement," he said. Many of the early black players of the Babe Ruth era are recognized as the equals or even better players than many who were in the major leagues.
When Robinson, Hank Aaron, and Roy Campanella, among others, joined the major leagues they were immediately successful. "They came up and played so well because they were professional baseball players," Hogan said. "That (Negro Leagues) is where they learned their skills."
Hogan and other historians call their mission one of public education. Despite the 2006 induction of 17 Negro League-era players and officials added to the Hall, there is no mechanism for future inclusion.
Many of the Negro League players are now advanced in years, but Hogan marvels at their lack of bitterness for being shut out of major league baseball or being denied an opportunity in the late 40s because there were unofficial quota systems in the majors.
Still, they all have great respect for what Jackie Robinson accomplished. "They harbor no malice at all," Hogan said of the Negro League players and Robinson. "They knew Jackie was the right guy to do it. They knew he had the right stuff off the field to do it. But to a man they'd also tell you 'we had better players.' "
In photos: Top left, Hogan signs copies of his book "Shades of Glory." At right, he makes a point during his lecture. On homepage, Josh Chatman '10 models a Negro League era baseball uniform.


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PESHAWAR: Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks on Friday, when gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian, and a suicide bomb attack on a district court in the town of Mardan killed 10 people and wounded 41 others.
Militants stormed the Christian neighborhood early on Friday morning, triggering a shoot-out in which four attackers were killed and one Christian died, police and the military said. Three security officials and two civilian guards were wounded in the attack.
Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said in a statement that the attack was quickly repulsed and that security forces were searching for any accomplices.
Local police official Shaukat Khan said four suicide bombers entered the Christian colony. One of them went into a church, but no one was there at the time. He said the attackers killed one Christian in the neighborhood. It was not immediately clear if any of the suicide bombers had detonated their explosives.
The quick response from the local civilian guards and security forces prevented more deaths, Khan said.
Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a breakaway Taliban faction, claimed responsibility for the attack.
In the town of Mardan, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Peshawar, a suicide bomber threw a grenade at the district court before detonating his explosives, according to government spokesman Mushtaq Ghani. He said that lawyers, policemen and passers-by were among the 10 people killed in the attack. Some of the wounded were critically injured, Ghani said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for second attack.
Pakistan has been struck by a number of large-scale militant attacks in recent months, including a March suicide bombing targeting Christians celebrating Easter in a park in the city of Lahore that killed around 70 people. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the bombing and warned of further attacks.
Christians are a tiny minority in this majority Muslim nation. While some Christians live in Muslim areas, many choose to live together in Christian-only neighborhoods.
Last month, a bomb blast targeting lawyers and journalists gathering outside a hospital in the city of Quetta killed some 70 people. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and the Islamic State group issued competing claims of responsibility for the attack.
The Pakistani army said on Thursday it had prevented IS from establishing a network in the country, saying it had arrested over 300 IS militants in recent years, including fighters from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
On Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued statements condemning both attacks, saying "these cowardly attacks cannot shatter our unflinching resolve in our war against terrorism."


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Candles...from Target.
I couldn't resist. At first I was thinking that they were kinda like neat Mexican Day of the Dead candles. Then I saw the tag for the orange one - "Drips black wax!" Then I saw the tag for the black one - "Drips orange wax!"
Then I knew I had to have them.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Black And Orange
Candles...from Target.
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- Necropolis said...
Ummm.. okay. I'm sold. I would have never known they had such qualities. Thank you.
- September 23, 2010 at 9:21 PM
- K.O. said...
Must. Have.
- September 24, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- Anonymous said...
I purchased one last year from Target...black wax, sort of with a decorative embossed design all around it. It's supposed to ooze red wax from the eyes when lit, but I love the thing so much that I don't want to light it and use it up!
- September 24, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- Aelwyn said...
Those are FREAKING COOL! How much were they, if you don't mind me asking?
- September 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM
- Rot said...
Those were EACH $9.99...
And they were the last two on the shelf, so I figured they wouldn't be there if I went back and I'd regret thinking it over.
- September 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM
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- September 25, 2010 at 6:49 PM


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Hot on the heels of the first trailer for the significantly delayed genre pic Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, a witch hunting film of a different sort may have found its lead. The Wrap reports that Vin Diesel is in talks to star in The Crazies director Breck Eisner's The Last Witch Hunter. Diesel would play one of the last remaining witch hunters who is tasked with "discouraging a group of witches and warlocks from reproducing." Vin Diesel: Cock Blocker was previously set up as a directing vehicle for Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov, but he's now only onboard in a producer role. The script for the Lionsgate/Summit film was written by Cory Goodman (Priest).
Diesel is currently in London filming the Justin Lin-helmed sequel Fast & Furious 6, and he recently wrapped the third installment in his Chronicles of Riddick series, Riddick. The actor is also attached to star in the Iron Giant-esque possible franchise-starter The Machine, in which he'll play a government-created machine that must protect the family who's harboring him.


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If you're a fan of Web standards and compatibility, two announcements from last week probably have you clutching your cascading style sheets in terror. First, Firefox maker Mozilla struck a partnership with Samsung in which the handset manufacturer pledged to help bring an experimental Web browser engine called Servo to phones with ARM processors running the Android operating system. (ARM chips power most Android phones—and most mobile devices.) Then Google's browser team said it would be "forking"—creating a new branch of code—from the WebKit engine that Apple helped bring into being and develop for its Safari browser.
This sparked a torrent of tizzies among Web developers and users with long memories. Surely, Twitter tweeters and Web commenters wailed, having different versions of the engines that browsers rely on to transform the HTML code in pages into graphical layouts in browsers means the return of incompatibility! Google (or Samsung or Mozilla) will use its deviance from WebKit to create new properties and options that will either break the display of standards-compliant existing sites or add new options that only users of browsers powered by the new engines can take advantage of! Or both!
Fear not, world. It won't play out that way. In fact, structurally, it can't. Nobody has enough control over desktop or mobile browsers—not even Apple with iOS—to win a new battle of the broken browsers. Still, for people who remember the way things were back to 2006 and earlier, last week's browser machinations may have triggered some not-so-pleasant flashbacks. Let me talk them (and you) down from the ledge.
Engine of creation
A browser's engine is the unseen motive force that, when you visit a webpage, requests the page's HTML file and all the images and media associated with it, and turns them into something you can interact with graphically. What we think of as a browser comprises the front-end user interface that we poke at and view, and the hidden engine that handles parsing, scripting, formatting, networking, plug-in architecture, and display. (Like any other software, the browser leans on the operating system to hand off tasks such as drawing fonts and processing mouse clicks.)
In the dark days of the Web, between about 1999 and 2006, Microsoft held a dominant share (around 90 percent) of the market; but its Internet Explorer 5 browser was full of fail, and version 6 didn't improve matters once it arrived in 2001. In that era, to make Web styles (CSS or Cascading Style Sheets) work correctly in layouts with any degree of object placement, you had to break CSS. You had to write a combination of good code (that did what you wanted) and bad code (that smart browsers would ignore but IE 5 and IE 6 would pay attention to). Each version had different broken parts, too.
Designers and developers who had to create HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that conformed to specifications and that "validated"—that is, passed tests to confirm their compliance against a spec—could be found weeping in the darkest corners of taverns after finding, for the umpteenth time, that IE6 had barfed up an unrecognizable HTML ball. Some websites gave in to the IE-using majority, adding workarounds for IE 6's quirks to their carefully constructed standards-compliant pages. Microsoft further locked things down by allowing the use of ActiveX, a proprietary component for Web applications that was usable only in Windows, despite feeble attempts to port it to other platforms. (Corporations that developed ActiveX-based apps for in-house use during this period still lean heavily on the terrible troika of ActiveX, IE 6, and Windows XP.)
In 2003, Apple released Safari, built on top of what it called WebKit—a fork of the Linux-oriented KHTML project. In 2004, Mozilla released Firefox, based on a thoroughly overhauled Gecko engine it had inherited from Netscape. Four years later, Google's Chrome, also built on WebKit, emerged.
Browsers based on WebKit and Gecko were faster, produced better-looking and more-interactive pages, and had fewer security flaws when used with Windows. More important, Apple put Safari on every Mac; Google promoted Firefox in its ever-more-popular search engine; and then Google encouraged visitors to download its own Chrome offering when that became available. These days, though IE still maintains a marketshare of at least 50 percent, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari split up most of the rest on the desktop. (Specifically, the numbers as of March 2013 are 56, 20, 16, and 5 percent for IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, respectively, according to figures from Net Applications.)
On the mobile side, smartphones had a negligible share of overall browser usage until Apple released the iPhone in 2007 with a version of WebKit-based Safari. Android adopted WebKit from the beginning of its development in 2009. The two platforms together account for more than 90 percent of mobile browsing, according to Akamai. The separately available mobile Chrome (based on WebKit) and Opera Mini take most of the remaining share of usage. Opera, which currently has its own engine, said in February 2013 that it would move to WebKit, but then last week amended that plan to adopt Blink instead.
The world today
We're in a world now in which Microsoft's IE (using its little-mentioned Trident engine), Firefox's Gecko, and the Apple-backed WebKit control substantial fiefdoms. Microsoft's desktop dominance continues to erode, however, and it has multiple competitors there. Meanwhile, WebKit may own mobile, but Apple's substantial share (in the form of mobile Safari) doesn't give it absolute power—as the Blink fork shows. And Apple must contend with versions of IE, Firefox, and Chrome on the desktop, where Safari has only a tiny piece of the market.


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Hawaiʻi Island police have charged a second man with numerous offenses related to burglaries in the Waiākea area of Hilo.
On Monday (December 15), 30-year old Keoni Mata of Hilo was initially arrested on a $500 bench warrant for contempt of court and for suspicion of fraudulent use of a credit card. The card was removed during a burglary in the Waiākea area on December 2.
Mata was taken to the Hilo police cellblock while South Hilo patrol officers continued the investigation. While in custody, Mata was additionally arrested for burglary in connection with a Waiākea break-in on December 5 and for theft in connection with a Waiākea burglary on December 12.
Tuesday evening (December 17) police charged Mata with two counts of burglary, eight counts of theft, four counts of fraudulent use of a credit card, three counts of identity theft and two counts of forgery. His bail was set at $185,000. He remained at the cellblock pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Wednesday afternoon (December 18).
Last week, 18-year-old Kyson Dameron of Hilo was also arrested and charged with crimes related to these three burglaries, including the use of a stolen credit card.
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This really isn't an Insurance Question - It's a "Medical Question" One - My Father and Grandfather were also an Insurance Agents. They taught me that if the client can pay the premium - we have a policy for them. Basically the general rule of Insurance is that they are insuring the average general population at the regular price. If you have an issue that makes you "riskier" then you either don't get the coverage or you pay a higher price. If you were a lot healthier - then you would want a lower price than everyone else.
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A powerhouse score by James Horner.
Click below for nine minutes from the golden age of film scoring.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Now Playing: Krull
A powerhouse score by James Horner.
Posted by Rot at 6:19 AM
Labels: composer, james horner, now playing, youtube.com
2 comments:
- wicKED said...
I remember this movie when I was very young. I loved it. I kept trying to make Popsicle stick glaives. The music is pure awesome.
- November 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- pensive pumpkin said...
Thank you! When I talk about Krull people just look at me like I've grown an extra head. And you'd think the third wouldn't be that big a deal...
- November 17, 2011 at 1:00 PM
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The states model has changed quite a bit in the Flex 4 framework but it's a lot easier to use. In this video I show you just how easy it is to add different states and to add different behaviors and change properties based on the current state.
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - hmm.. i suck Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "hmm.. i suck" Klayhamnjunior memberMember #Joined: 29 Dec 2000Posts: 16Location: Ra'anana, Israel Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 9:22 am Hey... I'm new here... Seems like a very cool place. I got here after checking some really cool art on the web which made me go back to drawing - and inspired me. This is my recent attempt for a floating ROBOT... The inspiration for this was this awsome artwork by Feng Zhu (http://www.artbyfeng.com)... What do you think people? I know it's not that bad, i mean, i hope it isn't... but it's not what i wanted - i wanted to get to the level of this Feng... Mine is so clumsy and crude compared to his robot... (lol) I have all these images and ideas in my head but i seem to never be able to translate them well to paper. Can anyone help me? Any ideas of how to improve in realistic art and how to make my art more accurate, detailed, precise and in short - perfect? I'm only 16, but i sense that i stopped improving, and i fear that it won't get any better when i grow up and i'll have to take another course in life... ------------------ ------------------------ I can't draw! Klayhamn Back to top hydridmemberMember #Joined: 20 Jan 2000Posts: 193 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 9:36 am Dude, calm down... it's pretty cool. I don't have much in the way of constructive criticism... rather, just a question. Do you sketch with a ruler? It looks awfully well defined. Back to top Lunatechjunior memberMember #Joined: 28 Dec 2000Posts: 10Location: Georgia Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 9:40 am I hate drawing robots, they're the hardest thing imho. You did a good job! That artist is great, his work inspires me as well. Back to top AndromedamemberMember #Joined: 18 Jan 2000Posts: 708Location: Lower Ward, Sigil Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 9:49 am You're on your way to becoming a great illustrator Klayhamn. All of us when we first start out, we have our heroes, and we 'copy', we get inspired by this artist, that artist. Youre going the right direction. the only advice i can give is one that has been given time and time again. Start with the basics, still life, life drawings and such. Theres nothing wrong with taking someone's image and copying it to better yourself.copy for personal use only, for me, if i copied someone's work for reference i wont even show it to close friends. In time you will find your own style(which you already have but do not yet know). Maybe you should by a small book, that you can carry around with . Kinda like a visual journal. And everyday just sketch something. Maybe tell yourself that youre going to complete 1 drawing per week, and sketch everyday. dont have to be proper sketches, just doodles will do. Just as long as the drawing hand dont go to sleep. ------------------ IsCuXcAr "On carpeted lace of emerald jags; Skin to skin, a tangle of blacks" Back to top hennifermemberMember #Joined: 28 Feb 2000Posts: 247Location: toronto, on, ca Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 10:21 am hey, good job posting your reference along with your picture. that makes it a lot easier to critique things. if you're gonna keep doing more of these images, try for the following things: 1) when you're drawing machinery, try to make something that would actually work. in other words, when you're showing machinery in an elbow joint, try to imagine what you'd need to make it work, and draw accordingly. random little machine-shapes don't look as convincing. i just got an amazing book called Robosapiens, and i'm gonna scan some of the beautiful photos and post them on the forum for reference. 2) draw in 3d. sketch out all the main shapes of the robot in three dimensions first, and construct it from simple shapes. on the arms of your drawing, there are a lot of weird surfaces that don't look like they're in perspective at all. if you look at feng's drawing, it can be broken down to cylinders, cubes, and hexagons. 3) try to get more crisp lines. its pretty easy to go over the lines of a scanned drawing with the paintbrush at 100% opacity and fix them up a bit. ------------------ jeffery_ Back to top waylonmemberMember #Joined: 05 Jul 2000Posts: 762Location: Milwaukee, WI US Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 5:31 pm FYI - Feng is on this board... goes under the name "Vortx". Back to top ShijimamemberMember #Joined: 23 Nov 2000Posts: 53Location: oregon-usa Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2000 9:08 pm when i draw things like that i do it on graph paper makes it easier for me to draw more symetrical! dont let things like that make you get mad at drawing its something that your supposed to do for fun Back to top ZosomemberMember #Joined: 23 Dec 2000Posts: 132Location: Stuttgart, Germany Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2000 8:18 am Klayhamn - Not bad. Feng is definitely an incredible artist, and is also one of my major influences. When I do mechs or robots I follow some simple steps. They might help you, so here they are. 1. Think about what sort of mech you want, and what its function is. Does it repair things or is it a combat vehicle, for example. 2. Stick figure for pose, and proportions. This works best for humanoid robots, but is always a good place to start. 3. Think about how this thing will move. Like hennifer said, try to imagine the machinery or devices needed to make it move. Apply an underlying "skelatal" structure to your robot. Make sure your joints, motors and such make sense. You'll also need sensors - like eyes and such. 4. External armor, plating or devices. We can't have a naked robot now can we? Try to make sure that your exterior is jointed and broken up in a way that works with its movement. Include access panels and such for maintenance or access to the interior. I hope this helps. Give me a holler on ICQ or email if you have any questions. I'm no expert but I can try to help. 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Central Connecticut volleyball freshman Cassidy Stankowski was named Molten/Northeast Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday afternoon. Stankowski helped the Blue Devils to a four set victory over Bryant on Saturday. In addition, the victory, paired with the outcomes of the NEC's other matches on Saturday, secured CCSU its 11th consecutive NEC Tournament appearance.
The victory over the Bulldogs was the only match for the Blue Devils (17-7, 8-2 NEC) last week.
Stankowski continued her strong play with an excellent defensive effort against Bryant. Stankowski posted 15 digs in the match. She also contributed a pair of blocks for CCSU's net defense.
On offense, Stankoski posted eight kills and had a service ace.
She averaged 2.0 kills, 3.75 digs, 0.50 blocks and 0.25 aces per set in CCSU's four set victory.
The Blue Devils return to action with a match at Sacred Heart on Saturday. They will follow that with a match at Fairliegh Dickinson on Sunday.


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Denis McDonough's appointment as Chief of Staff is probably the biggest win for the Soros Lobby since the Obama victory. Denis McDonough was a Senior Fellow at the George Soros funded Center for American Progress, which is the criminal brain behind the Frankenbody of Obama Inc.
Delivering a speech after the Benghazi terrorist attack, McDonough profaned the very concept of religious freedom, at a conference on US policy and international religious freedom, where he eulogized the dead and blasted the Mohammed video, a worldview that eventually led Obama Inc. to see to the imprisonment of the filmmaker.
A top White House official has blasted as "truly abhorrent" the anti-Islam film which appears to have triggered an outpouring of violence against U.S. diplomatic posts in Egypt and Libya.McDonough also praised Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood thug Mohammed Morsi in this same speech.
Speaking to an international religious freedom conference in Washington Wednesday, Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough endorsed efforts to create "a world where the dignity of all people—and all faiths—is respected."
According to his prepared remarks released by the White House, he then added: "This work takes on added urgency given the truly abhorrent video that has offended so many people–Muslims, and non-Muslims alike—in our country and around the world."
Denis McDonough also appeared at the ADAMS Islamist center which is linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to promote Obama's outsourcing of "violent extremism prevention" to mosques.
ADAMS (All Dulles Area Muslim Society) is led by its Executive Director, Mohammad Majid. Majid is also the President of the largest Muslim Brotherhood / Hamas support entity in North America – the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).At ADAMS, Denis McDonough delivered a speech dedicated to whitewashing Islam and promoting Obama's appeasement of Islamism.
For example, we know there are many different reasons why individuals—from many different faiths—succumb to terrorist ideologies. And there is no one easy profile of a terrorist. But based on extensive investigations, research and profiles of the violent extremists we've captured or arrested, and who falsely claim to be fighting in the name of Islam, we know that they all share one thing—they all believe that the United States is somehow at war with Islam, and that this justifies violence against Americans.
So we are actively and aggressively undermining that ideology. We're exposing the lie that America and Islam are somehow in conflict. That is why President Obama has stated time and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.Islam can be at war with the United States, but as long as Obama Inc. is in charge of America, we'll continue living in denial.
We undermine al Qaeda's ideology by showing that it is the power of nonviolence and democratic change that leads to progress, not senseless terrorism. And now people across the Arab world are proving the point.Al Qaeda couldn't overthrow Egypt's government, but Obama could. And once Obama did that, the Muslim Brotherhood took over and Salafis launched attacks on the US Embassy in Cairo with the approval of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Consider this. Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman Zawahiri, an Egyptian, has spent decades trying to overthrow the government of Egypt through terrorism. But in just a few short weeks, it was the people of Egypt—men and women, young and old, secular and religious, Muslims and Christians—who came together and changed their government, peacefully. It is the most dramatic change in the Arab world in decades, and al Qaeda had nothing to do with it.
Al Qaeda is alive. American national interests are dead.


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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Scrub Club
I've just received an email from a designer, in New York City. She's addressing the issue of surgical scrubs and related attire, and asks for my input. (I love the unexpected connections that have arisen from blogging -- and state once again that it wasn't falling out of love that led to my abloggia. Or the current hypobloggia.) I imagine her contact was a scatter-shot towards all the surgeon-bloggers she could google; still, I'm both flattered and intrigued. And it seems a good topic for a post. Writing about a thing, after all, is the best way to figure out what one thinks.
Simple and entirely functional, scrubs are nonetheless among the most recognizable of uniforms, and make an easily understood statement of authority. And not a little edginess: "I work in an OR. I know things you don't, and never will (unless you read Surgeonsblog.)" Assuming the wearer is legit, which more and more is less and less the case.
I think there are phases of scrub-wearing: at first, as a student, you feel entirely a pretender. But you like it. If you select surgery as your future, when you wear them it feels like a commitment; before long, they become comfortable and practical, and wearing them is a matter of convenience (and saving money on laundry.) Somewhere along the line they become a badge of honor; and, eventually, it's all of those at once. I'm most aware of them, self-consciously and proudly, when I'm talking with family members immediately after completing surgery on their loved one. Which means, among other things, that one wants them neither dorky nor unclean.
In surgery, we wear gowns of some sort over the scrubs. Claims of imperviousness to the contrary, they often allow, uh, fluids to penetrate and stain our scrubs. (I wrote about some implications of that fact here.) And, permeable gowns or not, when an operation is fluidiferous the cuffs of one's pants and the shoes or the covers on them bear witness. It behooves, in other words, a scrub-survey before heading to the waiting room. (I know of one curmudgeonly and generally embittered surgeon who liked to talk to families still engowned -- the bloodier, the better.)
Having checked for nastiness and changed, if needed, into clean scrubs, I nearly always donned some sort of cover before going to the families. Since I eschewed a white coat until the latter part of practice, for many years that meant grabbing a cover gown: color-matched but generally untidy and sloppy-looking. It's only in retrospect that I see the get-up as unimpressive. Functional, efficient, but inelegant. I absolutely don't think that the clothes matter much; but when I began wearing a spiffy thigh-length white coat, I found I liked much better the appearance of a clean and pressed lab coat over scrubs. And I took off my surgical hat, too. I hate how I look in hats, and, having fairly long hair, I always wore a bouffant cap anyway. If there's anything to presenting a nice image, that pretty much tears it.
I worked in one surgery center that provided pink scrubs. Having no choice, I wore them.
And now, let me get to the central issue of scrub-wearing, as it applies to the male of the species. Here, I'll let you in on one of the best-kept secrets of the club. I'll begin with an aphorism known to males of any occupation: "No matter how you shake and dance, the last few drops go down your pants." I trust I needn't explain any further. Whatever else it might be, when wearing normal pants drippage isn't a, uh, cosmetic issue. But thin light scrub pants -- well, a spot is easily spotted. That may play into the controversy of tucking one's scrubs in or not; walking back into the OR having taken a break between cases, there may be, on occasion, reason for self-consciousness. Particularly if the stock of clean scrubs is low.
A friend -- my favorite anesthesiologist -- handled it best. Before returning after relieving himself, he'd put a drop of water on his fingertip, and dab it on his scrub pants, down at about knee level.
P.S: what the heck are those people in the title picture doing, anyway?
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- Patrick Bageant said...
That design doesn't look all that new . . . but the caressing embrace is DEFINITELY not a feature of any scrubs I have owned!
I say the designer is on the right track!
- Sarah said...
My son has had surgery a few times and the surgeons have always had scrubs on, for a consult, but when we had to see a plastic surgeon (mind you my son was about 10 months old) he was wearing probably the most expensive suit I've ever seen, what is it with plastic surgeons????
You have touched a nerve. As a female surgeon I detest having to wear mens pyjamas daily at work. My male surgical other half also suffers the consequences of inexpensive and poorly designed attire. Diagnosis "crotchilitis" aka jock itch stateside. This is due to a rather rough friction inducing inseam at the crotch which oftentimes sits around knee level in these monstrous shapeless tents. After a night on call this induces a characteristic pathognomic wide based gait and look of excruciating pain. Cured only be steroid creams.
I have gone to the lengths of buying scrubs online from the states - much to the chagrin and undisguised envy of the nursing staff. Who do i think i am trying to look stylish at work! I would be happy to provide a female perspective if you designer wishes; unisex scrubs are my bete noir.
I beg you to advise her thus;
no unisex, slight bootcut, low rise, nothing shiny or nylon, not so many pockets (scrubs not combats) and fitted/wrap/tie at the waist of tops. Extra absorbance for the lead-wearing sweat-soaked orthopods and neuroscurgeons (and ideally fragranced) would be welcomed
Any invention to eliminate "builders arse" or "ass crack" from the portering fraternity would be ingenious..And please remind her, all docs/surgeons are not men.
Looking forward to seeing your creations on the catwalks of Milan, modelled by your great self, of course!
- rlbates said...
Part of the problem in designing them is where they get worn. In the OR, we don't need the extra pockets (just one on the shirt for a pen to write orders and one on the pants for watch/wedding band). The PTs, OTs (my sister), and floor/ER nurses and personel may like (and need) more pockets.
I don't want low rise, but waist or slightly below waist with straight legs. And I am fond of blue for the OR. And I tuck my shirts, so my pager can sit at my waist.
When I was in plastic residency, we were not allowed to wear the scrubs out of the OR suite. Not even for a quick check on patients. Had to change back into our "nice clothes" and white coat.
- Unknown said...
Dr. Schwab, I'm assuming you've seen the fairly entertaining thread on this topic over at studentdoctor.net - check it out here: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=143702
They had quite a discussion on the pee-spot issue. I liked the solution of the guy who stepped up close to the sink, disguising the errant drops with a splattering of water. Cleanliness is godliness, you know. ;)
- Sid Schwab said...
sara: I hadn't seen it. Thanks. Very amusing. I've certainly done the sink thing. And most of the other suggestions as well.
I'll begin with an aphorism known to males of any occupation: "No matter how you shake and dance, the last few drops go down your pants."
I've been trying to explain this to my girlfriend for months. Thank you.
I am glad to see I am not the only person suffering this affliction.
A cure, may it someday come.
A friend once said, "If she looks good in scrubs, she'll look great out of them!" I'm all for non-unisex garb.
- David said...
I think the models are in post-call delirium and they're just holding each other up.
To confess, everytime I go pee when I wash my hands I always manage to splash a little extra on my pants...it camouflages quite nicely.
I think that a well worn pair of OR scrubs is the most comfortable thing on earth. I wish I knew of a supplier that sold them online as it has become illegal to steal them at work.
Hilarious post. Many thanks.
- Sid Schwab said...
david: I do that trick, too.
- SeaSpray said...
Gee Sid...I guess that anesthesiologist is the guy that goes to see a man about a horse too! ;)
I enjoyed the post - educational and entertaining!
I do have a question. I always assumed that each time a surgeon goes into the OR that he has put on a new/clean pair of scrubs. But if said scrubs didn't get contaminated with fluids, etc...do they just cover up what they were wearing with a gown and that is sterile enough? Is that gown all the barrier that is needed? And if they don't change scrubs each time...then how is it considered sterile after the doc has been walking all over the hospital in them and then back into the OR? They must change them...yes?
This is off track a bit and I suppose could be another post, but how sterile is sterile in the OR? It seems you can't cover everything or housekeeping short being staffed could possibly take shortcuts, etc.
Also, while watching a surgery on the web...I noticed that there was other traffic that came into the OR to get things or for some reason and left. How common is it to have people other than the surgical team come into the OR during surgical prep/surgery?
And...I remember you saying you like to shave the pt yourself but forget why. I think it had something to do with less chance of infection.?
- Michelle said...
LOL, I enjoyed this post! I'm a seamstress and actually worked for a lady who ran a home business making scrubs (animalkingdomscrubs.com). I really enjoyed the job - could whip out a top in 7 minutes, pants in 11, jackets in 24. I had a good system going!
Anyway, glad to see you're back. Its giving me a much needed break (or at least distraction) from morning sickness...(third kid - I always forget how bad it gets at first)
- Sid Schwab said...
seaspray: good questions all. It might indeed be a good subject for a post. Meanwhile: One is supposed to change scrubs after leaving the OR suites and returning. I'd say not everyone does. If scrubs get sloshed, pretty much everyone changes them. Under most circumstances as long as the cover gowns and gloves are sterile -- which they are -- the cleanliness of the scrubs underneath isn't absolutely critical. They're clean, but never sterile, no matter what. On some occasions, when all hell is breaking loose, I've gowned and gloved over street clothes. No OR is absolutely sterile: as long as the tools and the gowns and gloves are, and the drapes, it seems to be enough. People do come and go into ORs frequently. In some -- in particularly when a prosthetic joint is being placed, very extraordinary precautions are taken: the room is specially cleaned, and closed down. No one enters when the operation is going on. The surgical team wears more extensive sterile coverings, including total headgear, sometimes with special re-breathers.
- Doc's Girl said...
It's clearly the doctor's girlfriend hugging the surgeon boyfriend after a long day of work. ;-)
The scrubs get a separate run in the laundry machine because of those lovely hospital fluids. :)
- SeaSpray said...
Wow on the ortho precautions and why?
Why is it alright for people to come and go into ORs frequently? I am guessing out of necessity?
What if the person in the OR happens to be a fellow hospital employee on the table now with their Bajingoland on display? How much control does the pt's doc-surgeon have in keeping the traffic out or down for privacy concerns? Or does everyone the OR just figure the pt is out, will never know and so they don't worry about it?(Everyone is always more interested in all the details of a pt when they find out it is one of their own vs a stranger)
- Sid Schwab said...
seaspray: infections of a prosthesis are disastrous and extra precautions are taken to prevent it. Also, when there's a foreign body present (a prosthesis, etc) it's much harder to eradicate infection than when an infection occurs post op absent foreign material.
People come and go based on need: to provide a break to personnel (surgeon excepted), to bring something that's been requested -- an instrument, etc.
When it's hospital personnel on the table, sometimes extra privacy is requested: signs on the door, etc.
- SeaSpray said...
I had my first knee surgery done where I worked but after that I always opted to go where I wasn't known.
Now I am "considering" (because I like it a lot) going to the hospital I have been a pt in over these last couple of years. 7 times in OR with Bajingo and God knows what else, on display and who knows what breezy things I said? I have been saying it wouldn't bother me because I have been there and done that already and the barrier has been broken. And I am alright with working there even now. But i am starting to think that once working there the hospital is going to seem a lot smaller to me as I get to know people and the various areas they work in, which may cause me to be shy about having anything done there as a pt in the future and I do like that facility and my docs who are affiliated there. So...I need to rethink this whole thing.
I would still be ok in the doctors office and wouldn't give it a second thought because it is a controlled environment and really everyone there would not care. But in hospitals it's different -at least that has been my experience when one of our own becomes a pt.
I have been operating under the assumption that it was the fault of unisex scrubs, with their lower rise intended for men, that I expose my "coin slot" every time I bend over. It would be nice if we could get some non-unisex scrubs!
If you all wore healthy, thick cotton underpants you wouldn't have jock itch or wet spots! Sheeeesh
What happens if you drop a coin in the coin slot?
- Unknown said...
If I get mediums - I'm showing way too much curve, and the waist is huge. If I get larges - I look like I forgot to leave my sheet in the bed. Oh, and the tops - I'm only 5'2" - my cleavage is not intended for the OR! Can we get some more petites with some shape? I've tripped (thankfully not catastrophically) on the pants that drag (no matter what I do) about 5 inches onto the ground. Sigh.
- Sajel said...
i randomly came across this post, and in response to gingerladysurgeon, i have to say that these are awesome scrubs for women :)


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NHL Bumbles its way to Alex Edler goalie-crashing decision
Vancouver Canucks defenceman Alex Edler knocks Phoenix Coyotes goalie Mike Smith to the ice, and gets called for a five-minute charging penalty, during their National Hockey League game on Thursday, March 21, 2013, in Glendale, Ariz.
Photograph by: Ross D. Franklin , Associated Press
VANCOUVER — "The law," as Mr. Bumble so aptly put it in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, "is a ass — a idiot."
In this case, we are not talking about 17th century English law, the part that supposed that a man's wife acted under his direction at all times. ("If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor," Bumble lamented.)
We are, today, addressing the law of the National Hockey League, under which "direction" is a fluid concept, written in chalk, designed to be heavily underlined and accompanied by a stern finger-wag, or erased, according to the wind direction.
Case in point: Vancouver Canucks defenceman Alex Edler, pursuing a puck behind the Phoenix Coyotes' net Thursday, finds goalie Mike Smith is in the process of playing it. Edler barges into him from behind, knocking the goalie flat, touching off a minor brouhaha as the Coyotes, quite reasonably, rush to their 'keeper's defence.
Edler gets five minutes for charging, a hearing late Friday and eventually a two-game suspension from Brendan Shanahan's department of player safety, a title which, if you were visiting from another planet, you might assume was all about the safety of players. You would be wrong.
And here is where the law is substantially as Mr. Bumble described it.
Two springtimes ago (not to belabour an old sore point), then-Canucks' winger Raffi Torres worked up a full head of steam and made an honest effort at beheading Chicago's Brent Seabrook, blindsiding the vulnerable Blackhawks' defenceman with a shoulder-to-head hit behind the Chicago net in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series.
Torres, despite a history of violent hits and just off a four-game sentence for knocking Edmonton's Jordan Eberle silly, got two minutes for interference, because Seabrook didn't have the puck. Otherwise, the league ruled — hauling out an obscure bit of fine print in Rule 48, the head-blow rule, and declining to suspend Torres — the hit was perfectly legal because it was delivered within the trapezoid behind the net, the previously unheard-of "hitting zone" in which all hits are deemed to be "north-south" and concepts such as blindside, vulnerable, and defenceless are all inapplicable.
In fairness, this was under the Colin Campbell administration, which had no "player safety" wording in its mandate. Shanahan, in his early efforts at providing video explanations for his decisions to suspend, or not suspend, was at minimum more transparent and, we hoped, would be more consistent.
But it turns out his job is hopeless.
His department is assailed from all sides by conflicting interests, unwritten codes, invisible forces, influential objectors, teams less important than other teams ... he's basically got no chance.
The same night Edler got five for charging Smith, New York Rangers' Rick Nash felled Florida's Tomas Kopecky with a blindside, leaping elbow to the head just after Kopecky had released a shot, in the most obvious spot on the ice, directly in front of the net, and two referees gave it a pass.
Not even a minor. No hearing, no suspension.
Is that because Nash is a model citizen, a Ranger, a skill player? Who knows?
But then, why Edler? The big, placid Swede plays his position in a dreamlike state, with no evident pulse-rate, makes as many wonderful plays as awful ones but is no worse than Vancouver's third-best defenceman, and has shown no previous proclivity for violence.
Leave it for another day to debate the absurdity of Seabrook being fair game in the hitting zone, but not Smith, wearing more padding than the Michelin Man, while out of his crease playing the puck like a real hockey player.
Leave it to another day to ask why there should even have been a major to Edler, when Milan Lucic's steamrollering of Buffalo's wandering goalie Ryan Miller in November of 2011, causing a concussion, drew only a two-minute charging penalty, and no subsequent discipline.
Did Edler make contact with Smith's head? It doesn't seem so. Nash on Kopecky's melon? Sure did.
Did Edler's hit cause Smith — who apparently is being treated for "whiplash" — to leave the game at the end of the second period? Maybe, maybe not. He might have been injured earlier when Daniel Sedin's nose punched him in the catching glove.
But the location of the Edler-Smith collision was nearly identical to a hit by Chicago's Andrew Shaw (also on Smith) that netted him a three-game suspension in the playoffs last spring. In that case, though, Shaw delivered a glancing blow to Smith's head as he went by.
In today's game, Smith would also have gotten two minutes for embellishing the Shaw collision. Italian soccer players, reached for comment, were appalled at the poor quality of his acting. Nonetheless, it was a gratuitous head shot, and Shanahan was right to throw the book at Shaw.
But not Nash?
But not Torres (that time)?
But not Lucic?
The NHL's interpretation of its rulebook — both through its referees, who seem to prefer to go all minimalist and leave the cleanup to Shanahan, and through the player safety department itself — is so riddled with contradictions, there is no chance of delivering consistent rulings.
Precedents have been all over the map.
Even if there were in place a common-sense blanket rule on, say, head shots — major penalty at minimum regardless of intent, ejection for intent to injure, with supplemental discipline optional — there are a dozen other rules so absurd, or unevenly enforced, the NHL is practically volunteering to be mocked.
The league wants to get head blows out of the game, but allows fighting because, supposedly, fighters willingly accept the risk.
So a player can be tossed for an elbow to the head of an opponent, but not for punching him in the face.
A player, one hand on the stick, waves it in the general direction of the puck-carrier's hands ... or a goaltender, his hands encased in armour unsuitable for the task, tries to clear the puck and it goes over the glass ... and it's the same two minutes a guy gets (or often doesn't get) for obliterating an opponent with a cross-check to the back of the neck in front of the net?
As concerns the Edler-Smith collision, it's right there in black and white.
"A goalkeeper is not 'fair game' just because he is outside the goal crease area," says NHL Rule 69.4.
"However, incidental contact, at the discretion of the Referee, will be permitted when the goalkeeper is in the act of playing the puck outside his goal crease provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact."
Well, no one's arguing that Edler tried to avoid hitting Smith, even though it was in the Immunity Zone.
It's just that, you know, the rulebook is a ass.


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If only there was video of the kid actually asking Dwyane Wade why he flops. That would be beautiful. Wade's explanation of the story is a decent consolation prize.
The Heat guard mentioned the question during a Q&A session at a sports camp headlined by him and Brandon Marshall. He thought it was a joke at first, but the kid apparently wanted an explanation.
Well? Answer the question, Dwyane.
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