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A part of my work with the World Wildlife Fund for its Earth Hour event in Los Angeles on March 28, I helped organize a group of young musicians to perform at the event. My guitar teacher, Lonnie 'Meganut' Marshall, put together a group of kids who played drums on recycled plastic buckets they'd painted to fit the theme 'Funeral for Fossil Fuel'.
The Life Drum Core, as Lonnie named the group, was a big hit. They got coverage on all the local TV stations, and on the night of Earth Hour, their four-minute performance was well-received. They ended up afterward jamming with the mayor, who grabbed his own recycled bucket and began banging out a beat. (He wasn't bad.)
A week before the event, the ten kids in the Drum Core got covered by three local TV stations as they rehearsed downtown at L.A. LIVE. While we were waiting for the TV crews to arrive, one of the dads pointed out USC football coach, Pete Carroll, sitting on a bench near the entrance to the Nokia Theater. He was with a couple of young assistants, texting on a Blackberry. I walked over to Pete and asked if he'd mind saying hi to the Life Drum Core. "Sure. Give me a minute," he said, and went back to his Blackberry.
In a minute, he came over, talked with the kids, and got his picture taken with them.
And then Pete Carroll said something he did not have to say. He said, "Have them come out to football practice one day and play on the sidelines. Call my office and we'll make it happen."
We made it happen. Last Saturday, Lonnie and five of the Drum Core kids attended a USC football scrimmage at the Coliseum and played on the sidelines while the USC football team practiced. It was a good day for everyone involved.
You'd expect a successful coach like Pete Carroll to be solid on the fundamentals. He is. Let's break it down like a football coach would break down a well-run play:
Understanding the game. Carroll quickly picked up on the Life Drum Core game. These are students who don't have music or arts programs in their schools. Professional artists and musicians like Lonnie donate their time to give the students art and music instruction. It is project-based learning.  Carroll immediately understood the game and the players involved. He got the concept that these are students who don't have a school to schedule performances for them. Their performances are, in a word, improvised. This understanding of the game informed everything that happened afterward.
Teamwork. Improvisation is not designed as a solo act or soliloquy. It is most effective and teaches us the most when performed in groups. Carroll, in effect, put the Life Drum Core 'on the team' for an afternoon. While at the Coliseum, they were treated like members of the family.
Additions.  Because the group was formed to perform at Earth Hour, and would normally have disbanded after the event, Coach Carroll's invitation made it possible for the scene, and the group, to continue playing for a surprising new reason. Additions to a scene are great if they move the scene forward like this one did. The Life Drum Core's performance was, likewise, an addition to practice, a kind of gift from Carroll to his players. More than one player came up to the kids and Lonnie afterward and thanked them. "It really got me pumped up," offensive lineman Garrett Nolan told them.
Listening. It was Carroll's good listening skills that let him absorb what the Life Drum Core is all about, and act quickly and intuitively on that information. He could have gone into 'pep talk mode' and given the kids big-ups and left it at that. Letting the kids and Lonnie do a lot of the talking gave Carroll his opportunity to add to the scene.
Environment.  Carroll had a 'business objective' in inviting the Life Drum Core to practice. Their presence added to the environment he builds during scrimmages to simulate game conditions where sound is concerned. As the team runs its plays, speakers on the sidelines are cranked up to deafening volume with crowd noise. Drummers pounding drums on the sidelines made the 'hostile crowd' simulation more realistic.
Working with Status. As with just about every scene he's in, Pete Carroll was high status in this one. (Meaning he has more resources at his command, more prominence in the world than his fellow players.) Now, high status players, whether it's an arrogant athlete or a pompous CEO, can often be condescending. Much of their focus goes to maintaining their status, and behaving in ways that call their status to other players' and the audience's attention. (If you're a football fan, think Terrell Owens. If you're in business, think every other manager you've ever had.) As Pete Carroll showed, this does not have to be the case. By listening and giving gifts as Carroll did, a high status player can confer status on other players in the scene.  This is not always productive for improv comedy where the objective is to make fun of arrogant atheletes and pompous CEOs, but in business and in life, it is always a powerful and productive move. It's the move Pete Carroll made. He used his status to elevate the other players in the scene. (Speaking of which, note the book he's holding in his right hand. Thank you, Pete!)


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Silverstein Biography
This Canadian post-hardcore unit first began playing together in 1998 and was originally based in the members native Ontario. The line-up took shape around Shane Told (13 February 1981, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada; vocals), Josh Bradford (guitar), Paul Koehler (b. 9 September 1983, Burlington, Ontario, Canada; drums), and Richard McWalter (guitar), with this line-up recording the independently released EP Summers Stellar Gaze in 2000. Bill Hamilton (b. William Francis Alexander Hamilton, 13 August 1984, Burlington, Ontario, Canada) joined on bass the following year, allowing Told to concentrate on vocals, and Neil Boshart replaced McWalter on the bands second EP, When The Shadows Beam.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Everything tastes better than skinny feels.
23 comments:
- LJB said...
Amen. I've just signed up for a half marathon in 6 months time thinking it'll scare me into getting fit, but I'm not thinking about the joy of running at the moment, I'm thinking whether to get a pain au chocolate or a pain au raisin from the cafe downstairs :)
- March 26, 2010 at 6:36 AM
- Enough happiness said...
8 pounds lost, that is awesome!
Soon the weather warms up and you can run around outside with your baby and dog. That will be "fun" exercise with them that you will not even notice.
- March 26, 2010 at 7:27 AM
- Jennifer said...
Great job, you little hottie!! I'd much rather eat whatever I like & do a couple of crunches rather than starve myself & snort coke to stay skinny. That's just me though :)
- March 26, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- Mrs. Higrens said...
Frankly, I don't think poor little Kate has tasted enough to know of what she spoke. That girl needs to eat a philly cheese steak or six and then she'd be skinny.
But I must disagree - it's Waffle House at 2:30am after the bars close that is food of the gods. All of the grease, none of the nasty lingering spices.
Yay for your 8 pounds gone.
- March 26, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- areyoukiddingme said...
It was so strange to me to find, when I visited Ireland, that after a night of drinking, they went for Chinese food! Everyone I have ever known goes for Mexican after drinking. But I don't believe I ever saw a Mexican restaurant in Ireland. Hmmm...maybe a business opportunity...
Congrats on losing 8 pounds! As to Kate Moss, I think she means "Nothing tastes as good as heroin feels." But it's not politically correct, so she switched heroin to skinny.
- March 26, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- KimboSue said...
Ditto Mrs. Higrens...Waffle House at 3AM is AWESOME!
And YAY for you and your little skinny(er) ass self!
- March 26, 2010 at 9:52 AM
- Just me said...
I hate being hungry, so I could never totally starve myself, but for me there is no food I like as much as I hate working out. So it keeps me from eating too much junk...
Impressed with your eight pounds. I could use a good ten or twelve off... but I'm still on fertility meds so I think I'd be fighting a losing battle...
- March 26, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- carO__ said...
Taco Bell is good...but what about Whataburger honey butter chicken biscuit?!?!? Something about alcohol + greasy that makes things 100x better!
You inspired me to get off my lazy rump and do the Couchto5K too! The iPhone app is a super easy way to tell you when to run, walk, and even gives motivational quotes :)
- March 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Emily said...
Cadbury cream eggs are also better than skinny. ::drool::
- March 26, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- allissa said...
You are totally hilarious. And right. Everything tastes better than skinny feels, which is why the stairmaster is my best friend.
- March 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Crossed Fingers said...
haha - you are right - Kate Moss has it soooo wrong. I would like to add creme brulee to the list as well please...
- March 26, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Raych said...
you must know me or something. This is how I feel every freakin day of the week. Stupid taco bell. and stupid metabolism. and stupid boys who can eat whatever they freakin want and never gain a pound. I'm glad I'm not the only one :)
- March 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM
- HereWeGoAJen said...
For a while, we ate so much Taco Bell that I am now sick of it. Maybe you should try that?
- March 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- carolyn said...
My husband and I recently swore off the deliciousness that is the Bell due to um, the stomach issues that always seem to follow. Now we opt for the ever-healthy frozen pizza after a night out. I miss my late night burritos and cinnamon twists... Sigh.
- March 26, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- Aimee said...
Nice job on the 8lbs!!! You know what else rocks? Red Robin's endless basket of fries. Love me some Red Robin...
- March 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Anne Marie said...
Congrats on the 8 pound loss...though I have to disagree with you on the Taco Bell thing. Taco Bell is an amazing thing; however, in the town I grew up in, we had a local bakery. Starting at 1am, you could go to their back door, walk into the kitchen, and get a fresh from the oven donut with your choice of frosting for a dollar. Warm, fresh donuts after a night of drinking is the best thing ever...sorry.
- March 26, 2010 at 5:53 PM
- erin said...
exactly! i don't hate exercise as much as i love food. so i have to exercise so i can eat. eat things like chex puppy chow. in mass quantities.
maybe if i had a good coke dealer i could not eat AND not exercise. but alas, my life is not THAT good.
- March 26, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- rebecca said...
Great job on the weight loss!!! I hear you, I definitely think everything tastes better than skinny feels, I can't imagine living a life in which that were the opposite! Food is entirely too pleasurable of an experience, especially as you said late night snack attack trips:)
- March 26, 2010 at 7:44 PM
- Aunt Becky said...
Congrats, dude! I just got the SHRED and I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to walk again. But, whatever, I need to get in shape. We can DO it.
- March 26, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- PJ said...
Dammit Jen, now I'm craving Taco Bell. :P
Do you guys have a Moe's? OMG, better than Taco Bell, the best queso ever. http://www.moes.com/Food.php?ii=3
- March 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- Rebecca said...
I'm all about the food. If it's cheesy, pasta and potatoes, I'm all for it...which is why I am as wide as I am tall...but, who cares. I'd rather die fat and happy than skinny and hungry
- March 27, 2010 at 5:52 PM
- Bree said...
I heart taco bell, too! But, will only eat it late at night to avoid having to feel guilty for the remainder of the day. :)
- March 27, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Ineke said...
in the netherlands we go for shoarma after clubbing. With lots of garlic sauce.
Couldnt agree more with you.
although i'd give my right arm for her size of course.
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Focus on IDS
Re: PCI DSS 11.1 - ".. deploying a wireless IDS/IPS..". Kismet+Snort? Apr 27 2009 03:38PM
Jeremy Bennett (jeremyfb mac com)
A laptop with a wifi interface connected to the network with the intention
of extending the network into wireless is just as much of a threat as an
unauthorized AP. However, most laptops that are connected to the LAN are not
connected with the goal of extending the network. Most of them just happen
to have a wireless interface and a wired interface. In this case the
operating system does not automatically bridge the two interfaces.
That said, there are three possibilities that need to be addressed.
1. The device is acting as an AP. There's lots of software out there to do
this, Mac OS does it right out of the box if you know how to set it up.
However, this is the easiest case to detect because these appear identical
to rogue APs.
2. The device is acting as a node in an ad hoc network. This is what Windows
will often do unintentionally. Ad hoc networks are pretty easy to detect and
there is very seldom a good reason for having one on a corporate campus so
they should be tracked down and disabled just like rogue APs.
3. The device joins an existing wireless network and bridges it to the
wired. This is the most problematic case. If the wireless network is from a
rogue AP it can be detected. Likewise if it is an authorized network it can
be detected and is also less of a threat. However, if it is a recognized
neighboring network (say att-wifi or tmobile) then this is very difficult to
detect without a client agent of some sort running.
On 4/24/09 10:05 PM, "Emm Maxim" <maxus (at) infosec (dot) ru [email concealed]> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
> Could you share your opinion about notebooks with wifi interfaces activated,
> that attached to CDE environment?
> As you know, by default windows host try search any known SSID and connect to
> them. So somebody could connect to that host by setting up rogue AP outside
> the CDE but with that SSID ...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed] [mailto:listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]] On
> Behalf Of Jeremy Bennett
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:01 PM
> To: Gary Everekyan; Taras P. Ivashchenko; focus-ids (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: Re: PCI DSS 11.1 - ".. deploying a wireless IDS/IPS..". Kismet+Snort?
> Gary,
> I'm sorry if my statements seemed to self-contradict. I'm a member of the
> Wireless SIG reporting to the PCI DSS. We've had numerous discussions on
> this topic and have been working to provide better guidance on all of this.
> So, let me put this another way. You must assert that there are no rogue APs
> connected to your CDE. By definition a rogue device is unauthorized and out
> of your control. Therefore you can't use networking technologies like
> firewalls to prevent someone from physically connecting a rogue device to
> your network. The only way to be certain that there are no rogue devices
> connected to your CDE is to scan for them. Hence 11.1 applies whether you
> have a wireless network or not.
> Is that more clear?
> On 4/24/09 11:48 AM, "Gary Everekyan" <Gary.Everekyan (at) consumerinfo (dot) com [email concealed]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Jeremy IMHO you just contradicted yourself. PCI DSS SCOPE is for
>> Cardholder Data Environment that deals with PAN Data. It is this type of
>> scope
>> creep that moves InfoSec professionals away from the business decisions. It
>> is
>> very costly to include all your network hence you do what is absolutely
>> necessary to be complainant. (including segmentation)
>> Here is the excerpt from the PCI DSS 1.2 that talks about in scope and out of
>> scope. You can get the document at https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
>> https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss_download
>> Scope of Assessment for Compliance with PCI DSS Requirements
>> ..........................
>> Network Segmentation
>> Network segmentation of, or isolating (segmenting), the cardholder data
>> environment from the remainder of the corporate network is not a PCI
>> DSS requirement. However, it is recommended as a method that may reduce:
>> ô??? The scope of the PCI DSS assessment
>> ô??? The cost of the PCI DSS assessment
>> ô??? The cost and difficulty of implementing and maintaining PCI DSS controls
>> ô??? The risk to an organization (reduced by consolidating cardholder data into
>> fewer, more controlled locations)
>> Without adequate network segmentation (sometimes called a "flat network") the
>> entire network is in scope of the PCI DSS assessment. .......................
>> Regards,
>> Gary Everekyan
>> CISSP, CISM, CHS-III, ISSAP, ISSPCS, ITILp, CGEIT, MCSE, MCT
>> Gary_Everekyan (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeremy Bennett [mailto:jeremyfb (at) mac (dot) com [email concealed]]
>> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:04 AM
>> To: Gary Everekyan; Taras P. Ivashchenko; focus-ids (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
>> Subject: Re: PCI DSS 11.1 - ".. deploying a wireless IDS/IPS..".
>> Kismet+Snort?
>> Gary,
>> That is not true. The requirement for scanning for (and dealing with)
>> unauthorized APs or wireless devices is applicable to any physical location
>> that has a part of the CDE (Cardholder Data Environment). Whether you have a
>> wireless network and whether that wireless network is in or out of scope for
>> PCI DSS you are still required to scan.
>> There are a number of other wireless requirements if your WLAN *is* in scope
>> that you can avoid if you can move it out of scope but this is not one of
>> them.
>> Taras,
>> That requirement is focused on rogue detection and mitigation. If your WLAN
>> can be moved out of scope for PCI (using a stateful firewall) then you are
>> only required to scan for rogue devices.
>> You can either do walk-around scans using something like kismet or
>> NetStumbler or you can invest in a system with distributed sensors that can
>> scan for the rogue devices all the time. In theory you could build this with
>> low cost sensors running kismet and syslog and watch/filter the logs in a
>> central location. You'd need a way of filtering out the known neighbors and
>> internal devices and set up something to alert you, etc. I think you'll find
>> that it is a lot less "free" than you would hope.
>> On 4/23/09 2:20 PM, "Gary Everekyan" <Gary.Everekyan (at) consumerinfo (dot) com [email concealed]>
>> wrote:
>>> You can bypass the requirement if the WIFI Does NOT in any way transmit or
>>> connect to PAN data. If the Wireless network does not transmit PAN data and
>>> is
>>> segmented from the wired network with VPN FW ACL etc. than your WIFI is out
>>> of
>>> scope.
>>> Regards,
>>> Gary Everekyan
>>> CISSP, CISM, CHS-III, ISSAP, ISSPCS, ITILp, CGEIT, MCSE, MCT
>>> Gary_everekyan (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed] [mailto:listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]] On
>>> Behalf Of Taras P. Ivashchenko
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:51 PM
>>> To: focus-ids (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
>>> Subject: PCI DSS 11.1 - ".. deploying a wireless IDS/IPS..". Kismet+Snort?
>>> Hello, list!
>>> There is requirement in PCI DSS v.1.2:
>>> "...11.1 Test for the presence of wireless access points by using a wireless
>>> analyzer at least quarterly or deploying a wireless IDS/IPS to identify all
>>> wireless devices in use..."
>>> I made some research for open source wireless IDSs and results are not good.
>>> I found some articles about using together Kismet and Snort but it looks
>>> like
>>> not best soliution.
>>> Air Snort project is dead.
>>> What wireless IDS/IPS (especially opensource/free) do you use?
>>> --
>>> ТаÑ?Ð°Ñ Ð?ваÑ?енко (Taras Ivashchenko), OSCP www.securityaudit.ru
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The family was driving along Highway 50 near the Sierra Nevada community of Kyburz on Thursday afternoon when their SUV veered off the road, hit a concrete mile marker, a large tree, a boulder and then went into the American River, Sacramento television station KCRA-TV reported.
A kayaker on the river was able to get three children — a 4-year-old girl and twin 15-year-old girls — out of the SUV and get them to shore, officials said.
When the kayaker — identified as Mark Divittorio of Placerville — went back to the SUV he found the driver with his head partly underwater and the man's wife helping to hold his head up, the station said.
"It was fortuitous that they didn't actually land on me," Divittorio told KCRA. "I was kayaking right there moments before they plunged off the cliff."
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The driver, Christian Lemler, 50, of Livermore, suffered moderate to major injuries, said California Highway Patrol Sgt. Mike Poor. With the cause of the crash still under investigation, it had not been determined how fast the SUV was going when it crashed into the river. It was raining at the time, but it was not known if the weather contributed to the crash.
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VIA's waste of taxpayer money
Updated 5:01 pm, Wednesday, September 4, 2013
No one should get a free ride from VIA Metropolitan Transit.
But the for-profit Festival People en Español, for which VIA provided free advertising and bus service over the Labor Day weekend, did. Taxpayers shelled out nearly $35,000 for the free rides and gave away $16,000 in advertising, including two bus wraps.
VIA officials had characterized the free rides as crucial to supporting People en Español. "We provide public transportation, and this is about getting members of the public to this event," Charlie Gonzalez, VIA's chief of public engagement, told the Express-News' Vianna Davila.
Some 573 people rode the free buses. That's about $60 per rider. Gonzalez said VIA has to prepare for large crowds, even if attendance falls short.
This is the second year in a three-year contract between Festival People en Español and the city. Support like this will help ensure the festival continues in San Antonio.
But at what cost? It sets a terrible precedent, and it creates the appearance VIA will hook up with preferred events. As VIA Board Chairman Henry Muñoz III well knows, perception is reality.
His decision to be a speaker on a festival panel, more than three months after VIA voted on the free rides and ads, reeks of quid pro quo.
"To me, it's a matter of stewardship," VIA trustee Lou Miller told us. "Did we exercise good stewardship of taxpayer dollars by allowing that to happen?" The answer to that one is easy: No. VIA burned the public on this one.


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Last night I had the pleasure of watching Dr. Ethan Russo deliver a "Cannabis 101" talk at the High Dive in Fremont. The talk was part of a regular "Nerd Nite" series that caters to Seattle's tech culture, rather than the crowd of Seattle and Vashon-area cannabis enthusiasts that have discovered the engaging charm of perhaps the most accomplished and knowledgable cannabis researcher out there. A good teacher plans their talk around the audience they will encounter, so it was especially interesting to see how the humble scientist managed to introduce so many nuances of cannabis science — ones that often escape the cannabis industry itself — to an alcohol-oriented audience that was warmed up by a reconfigured marriage proposal about how he mined his own engagement ring. That the warmup show included stale comments about stoners made the brilliance of his talk shine all the brighter.
Yes, there were molecule diagrams in the slide show, but the man has a knack for delivering technical information with a "it's not as complicated as it looks" tone that helps his audience keep chewing on the rich substance of his talks. As someone who's done his share of instruction, it's always impressive to me to see a subject matter expert remain aware of and engaged with his audience. It's not easy, but the proof is in the sustained attention of his audience. In institutional settings, we "cheat" by structuring the audience for professional students in a professional classroom setting. But popular education has to reach a more diverse and less structurally focused crowd, whether it's a hundred stoney people packed into the Vashon Grange or dozens of tipsy nerds some of which know something about cannabis. Ethan comes off as a natural in front of a popular crowd, and has been developing a palette of talks that allow him to be himself. I think that's why people respond so well.
If you missed the talk, and you probably did given that it wasn't shared through ubiquitous local cannabis media outlets, I recommend his recent podcast interview with Shango Los. The 90-minute interview allows Ethan to "translate" his 2010 Taming THC article from The British Journal of Pharmacology for a popular audience, with a special focus on major terpenes and their potential therapeutic effects. Russo's work de-emphasizes cannabinoids while delivering research-grade information about them, which allows him to describe their role in producing "whole plant" effects widely misunderstood as the function of problematic strain names and the useless sativa/indica binary still subscribed to by most of the emerging legal cannabis industry.
Since leaving his long term position as chief scientist at GW Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Russo has been freed from contractual obligations that severely limited his ability to share what he knows. Over the last several years, he has enjoyed a blossoming friendship with Shango, his fellow Vashon Island resident and organizer-in-chief of the Vashon Island Marijuana Enthusiasts Alliance (VIMEA). His public talks at the Vashon Grange and, last month, at the Vashon Theater, have drawn interested attendees from neighboring states.
Beyond the content of his talks, the community vibe that infuses his students and how they come together for them is especially welcome. His organic audience may include cannabis industry, but there's a humility with respect to knowledge that owes a great deal to the humility and authenticity of the man himself that simply opens up space for conversations that are sidelined at industry events. The best educational outcomes are ones that the students themselves sustain and take with them — perhaps you've experienced a class or class talk that couldn't be contained by the time period or space it happens in, but simply has to spill outside and keep going, because it has connected to the relevance of everyday life in a way most boring lectures can't.
The mission of our organization is popular education about whole plant cannabis science, culture and politics, and Ethan has been a tremendous ally along the way. He is the headline speaker for our annual Terpestival, the third iteration of which will take place in Seattle on July 15, 2017 at Dockside Sodo. We look forward to amplifying not only the content but the spirit of his work, grounded in a Whole Plant, Whole Society ethic that seems to be in short supply these days when it comes to cannabis policy and markets.


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BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – Recent clown sightings and threatening social media posts have many people around the country on edge. So what effect does this have on Halloween costumes this year?
Canfield Schools have banned clown costumes during all Halloween activities because of the scare. The superintendent says the district is being proactive and not reacting to any threat.
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"I mean, you see it all over Facebook, the craziness that is going on," Dawn Kosmo said. "I've heard a few sightings around here, but nothing confirmed."
Even with all that's going on, she says Party Place isn't pulling the costumes off the shelves.
"Probably if they saw a rash of things happening in this general area, more than likely, yes. We don't have that many varieties of clowns, we have maybe three varieties of clowns in adults."
Local stores haven't made any changes related to selling clown costumes, but they all admit to looking suspiciously at anyone buying clown-related items. They say it's not the first time a costume has become unpopular for a bad reason.
"The 'V for Vendetta' mask a couple years back when it first came out. A lot of kids were buying those, and they would go driving around with them on and stuff," Kosmo said.
That phase mainly consisted of just yelling at people.
The scary clown outfit is now making news, but real clowns argue that the recent craze is hurting their reputation. They say being a clown is all about making people laugh and loving one another.
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Millions of seniors are in for a surprise.
On January 1, 2006, the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit is scheduled to go into effect. At its core is one of the oddest coverage designs ever created for a health insurance benefit. The coverage consists of a low initial deductible, followed by generous reimbursement for remaining front-end expenses, then followed by no coverage at all for mid-range expenses, and ending with almost full reimbursement of major expenses (see Table 1).
Apparently, Congress conceived this odd design as a way to reconcile the differences between its political objectives and fiscal reality. Congress's evident political intention was to win support from seniors by expanding Medicare to cover one of the largest heath expenses not yet covered by the program - outpatient prescription drugs. But the fiscal reality is that the federal government can't possibly afford to cover all such expenses. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that, even without the new program, spending on prescription drugs by or on behalf of Medicare enrollees in 2006 will total $134 billion, with annual spending rising to $284 billion by 2013.[1]
Faced with the reality that providing "everything to everybody" was fiscally impossible, Congress' political imperative became to provide at least something to most Medicare beneficiaries. Thus, the resulting coverage design included a low deductible of $250 and 75 percent reimbursement for the next $2,000 of each beneficiary's drug spending . Political and policy considerations also meant that Congress had to provide additional relief for the small number of beneficiaries with catastrophic drug expenses, as well as further assistance to low-income beneficiaries. So Congress set a per beneficiary limit of $3,600 in out-of-pocket expenses, beyond which Medicare will pay at least 95 percent of all additional drug costs, and also established a set of subsidies for low-income beneficiaries to further reduce their out-of-pocket costs and coverage premiums.
But the unavoidable result of this design was that it includes a large "coverage gap" or "doughnut hole" in the mid-range of drug spending. Once a beneficiary has spent $2,250 on prescription drugs, with Medicare reimbursing $1,500 of those costs, he or she will receive no further Medicare reimbursement until reaching a total of $3,600 in out-of-pocket drug costs. That means the beneficiary must pay entirely out-of-pocket for the next $2,850 of drugs, after the first $2,250. Of course, this "coverage gap" or "doughnut hole" feature of the Part D benefit design is likely to prove highly unpopular with Medicare enrollees
Volatile Variables
The interesting question then, is how might the conflicting political dynamics - particularly, beneficiary support for generous front-end drug coverage and beneficiary dissatisfaction with the coverage gap - play out next year when the Part D benefit is scheduled to take effect? Given that 2006 will not only be the first year of the new program but also an election year, it will be a test of whether Congress got its political calculations right.
The key variables are:
- The number of enrollees likely to
perceive that they have benefited from the generous front-end
coverage of the benefit design and/or the program's low-income
- The number of enrollees likely to not
benefit at all from the new program;
- The number of enrollees likely to
experience the "coverage gap;" and
- The timing at which some enrollees will experience the coverage gap and reach the out-of-pocket spending limit.
CBO projects that in 2006, out of a
total of 42.6 million eligible Medicare beneficiaries, 29 million
will participate in the new Part D program.[2]
A study conducted last fall by the Actuarial Research
Corporation and the Kaiser Family Foundation, and
using CBO's assumptions, further estimated that of those 29 million
enrollees, 6.9 million would reach the coverage gap, another 15.1
million would benefit from the program's front-end coverage and
low-income subsidy features but not reach the coverage gap, and the
remaining 6.0 million would not have enough drug spending during
the year to benefit from the program at all (see Table 2).
While the ARC/Kaiser study estimates the distributional effects on the enrollee population of the Part D coverage design and subsidies, it doesn't offer an analysis of the timing of those effects. Of particular interest is how the widely discussed drug "coverage gap" can be expected to effect the enrollee population over the course of 2006, the first year of the entitlement's implementation.
To assess the timing effect, one must start with data on the distribution of enrollees by total drug spending from all sources, prior to the inception of the new Part D program. By applying the benefit design to each spending level, one can calculate if and when beneficiaries within each spending level will reach the coverage gap and out-of-pocket limit. The distribution of enrollees by spending level must then be adjusted to account for projected Part D enrollment and for the effects of Part D subsidies, in order to generate revised estimates for the number of enrollees in each spending level. Table 3 shows the results of such an analysis.
The estimates
derived from this analysis (Table 3) are close to those reported by
the ARC/Kaiser study (Table 2) in three instances, including two at
the opposite ends of the distribution. First, both analyses
conclude that about 3 million enrollees will have no drug spending
at all in 2006. Second, the ARC/Kaiser study estimates that 3.1
million beneficiaries will have catastrophic drug expenses
sufficient to trigger the out-of-pocket spending limit in 2006,
while the analysis presented in Table 3 estimates a slightly higher
figure of 3.3 million enrollees. Finally, the ARC/Kaiser study
estimates that 16.1 million beneficiaries will have some of their
drug costs reimbursed by Medicare, but will not experience the
coverage gap, while the analysis presented in Table 3 estimates a
somewhat higher figure of 16.9 million enrollees.
However, the two analyses differ substantially as to the number of beneficiaries that will experience the coverage gap but will not trigger the out-of-pocket spending limit in 2006. The ARC/Kaiser study projects the number of such beneficiaries to be 3.8 million while the analysis presented in Table 3 puts the number at 5.8 million. The other significant difference is that the ARC/Kaiser study is able to estimate that 3.0 million unsubsidized beneficiaries will have drug expenses that do not exceed the $250 deductible and thus will also not have any expenses reimbursed by Medicare.
These differences in estimates can be attributed to the greater precision that can be achieved by a more thorough econometric analysis of the kind conducted by ARC/Kaiser. However, the analysis presented in Table 3 is still useful for projecting the rough timing effect of the coverage gap and out-of pocket spending limits in the new Medicare Part D program. Chart 1 graphs the cumulative effects of those provisions using the data presented in Table 3.
The Data
With the caveats that the underlying data both likely overestimates the number of enrollees who will experience the coverage gap in 2006 and lacks sufficient precision to plot smoother curves, Chart 3 does show that some reasonable conclusions can be made about the dynamics of these provisions.
First, some enrollees will enter the coverage gap during the first quarter, and their numbers will grow steadily until they peak near the end of the year. Second, those enrollees with the highest costs will begin triggering the out-of-pocket limit at mid-year and their numbers will climb gradually throughout the second half of the year.
Intuitively, these conclusions make sense. Drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries with mid-range to high annual drug spending are in most instances attributable to maintenance therapies - in other words medicines taken regularly over long periods of time to treat chronic conditions. Any changes in their monthly drug expenses will most likely come from adding or switching maintenance therapies. Therefore, their actual monthly drug expenditures are likely to closely track any estimate made by dividing their annual expenditures by twelve. This means that most will enter and exit the coverage gap on a steady, predictable path over time. The higher their annual drug expenses, the quicker they will enter and the quicker they will exit the coverage gap. Conversely, the lower their annual drug expenses, the longer it will take to reach the coverage gap and the longer it will be before they exit the coverage gap by reaching the out-of-pocket limit.
Third, there will be a year-end "pile up" in the Medicare drug "dough-nut" hole. As the experiences of the different drug spending cohorts overlap, the number of enrollees in the coverage gap and the number of enrollees whose drug spending exceeds the out-of-pocket limit will both "pile-up" towards the end of the year.
Furthermore, this "piling up" effect will be exacerbated by the fact that there are more enrollees in the lower-spending cohorts reaching the coverage gap and out-of-pocket limit later in the year than there are in the higher-spending cohorts who reach those thresholds earlier in the year, as can be seen in Table 3.
During the second half of the year, the effect will be somewhat dampened as those with the highest drug spending exit the coverage gap by reaching the catastrophic out-of-pocket limit. However, those in the lower part of the mid-range - with annual drug expense between $2,250 and $5,100 - will enter the coverage gap beginning in mid-year but not exit it before the end of the year.
Of course, at the beginning of each year the benefit calculation is reset to zero and the pattern starts over again.
The data presented in Tables 2 and 3 clearly show that the odd coverage design of the new Part D benefit is likely to achieve Congress's intended effect of creating a large number of "winners." However, the data also indicate that a significant share of enrollees are likely to be less than thrilled with the effects of that coverage design.
It is axiomatic among health care policy analysts that those who benefit from health care changes rarely voice their appreciation while those who feel disadvantaged by the changes always complain loudly. For Congress, that will be a problem.
Edmund F. Haislmaieris a Visiting Research Fellow in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.


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On Friday evening, Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade gave Nicole Muxo the surprise of a lifetime: he showed up at her senior prom!
Muxo, a student at Archbishop F. Coleman Carroll High School, had asked Wade to the event via YouTube.
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4. Thymes Body Lotion
5. Zoya Gems & Jewels Collection
Now for the reviews:
1. Alex & Isabelle Classic Hair Ties– There are a fun spin on regular ole elastics. They won't snag your hair either, a huge plus, and they look cute around your wrist. It's almost like you're wearing a bracelet, but you can use it to pull back your hair if needed. They come in an assortment of colors, so you can buy your favorite or get them all!
2. Jouer Lip Enhancer– My favorite product in the box. Not only will this help plump your lips without the ouchy tingly feeling of a regular plumper, it also moisturizes the lips- which I desperately need right now as the winter settles in. It also is just a very sheer pink color, so it looks good on. I love this stuff!
3. Kate Spade New York Twirl – My second favorite product in my box. Holy amazing smell. The first time I tried it, I ecstatically ran to my boyfriend and made him sniff my wrists. The description states that this fragrance is versatile, and I completely agree. I have worn in at work, on nights out, and when I have just been relaxing at home. And the bottle is adorable!
4. Thymes Body Lotion – I have used this on my hands mostly, but did use it on my entire body after a shower one time. The lotion has shea butter and Vitamin E packed into it, and I look for both in my body lotions. It smells great and seems to stay on my body long after I apply it.
5. Zoya Gems & Jewels Collection – This nail polish (I received Twila, the sparkly blue color) boasts that it lasts up to 50% longer than regular polish – and I think they are telling the truth! I applied the polish to my toes about three weeks ago, and I still have yet to see any cracks or peeling in the polish. I don't wear a lot of polish because of the fact that it never seems to stay on, so I would definitely give more colors in the collection a try.
And that is my first Birchbox. My December box has already been shipped, and I can't wait to see what I am getting. I love the element of surprise, and the low cost of only $10 (free shipping) to get these samples. What better way to try out products instead of wasting money on full size bottles and not liking them? Plus, with the reviews you write, you can earn points to redeem for full size products. Win-win for me! If you haven't signed up yet, you can easily do so by following this link. More to come next month!


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"Start with a joke", "deride the audience", "make them like you by making them laugh", the pundits say. And out they go, on a limb as always, out go the serious presenters who end up being the only ones who laugh at the end of their jokes. The day before the event (it is easier to remember), they rush to the web for recycled jokes, or they try out the latest joke heard in a bar or at the canteen where everyone burst with embarrassed laughter. That joke often has sexual, religious, or racial connotation, and upon hearing it, the audience instantly moves from a I-am-neutral-towards-you state to a I-intensely-dislike-you state. Some may even get up and leave. I know you will say it never happens this way. Well, it does, and I witnessed such disastrous joke-telling at an international gathering of scientists. Some refrain from risky jokes and instead use self-deprecating jokes; after all, it's ok to laugh at yourself, is it not? : "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, or it might have been… had you been able to skip my talk and run to the beautiful beach in front of this hotel." or " I'm delighted to be the one who has been selected to help you sleep after today's copious lunch. So I'll do my best to make this talk as boring as I possibly can. Could we have the lights down now? Thank you very much." The audience did not come to attend your talk expecting to be bored, but to discover new things. Your self-deprecating humour, will be translated by the audience as follows: "His slides are boring. He has not even bothered to rehearse his talk at all. He really doesn't enjoy presenting to us, but he's doing it because he has to." To conclude, avoid jokes altogether at the start of your talk, even cartoons that may be funny. A play on word requires a good understanding of English. Idiomatic expressions, or culture specific jokes are beyond the level of comprehension of scientists with English as a second language or from different cultural backgrounds. If you want the audience to relax, use the only way that works 100% of the time: Face the audience, and SMILE 🙂
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Observations from a Panel at the ACC/AAAE Design and Construction Conference in Denver03.18.2015 | HMMH |
by Stephen Barrett
I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on how airports apply unique engineering techniques to take advantage of available resources. I started off the panel discussion by presenting information on ACRP 02-56, Developing the Airport Business Case for Renewable Energy where I described how the research will produce a ranking system which quantifies the economic, self-sustainability, and environmental benefits of renewable energy projects. These benefits include stabilizing long-term electricity costs, investing in a modernized electricity generation and distribution network to ensure reliability and resiliency, and advancing environmental initiatives to open up permitting for future development. Traci Holton, Manager of Design at the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, followed up with a discussion of a variety of examples from Nashville Airport (BNA) including solar planning (which I am helping them with – thanks for the kudos Traci), to asphalt and rock reuse, to converting mulch produced through vegetation management activities into improving site stabilization and minimizing runoff. Traci also described their Geothermal Project which will utilize the constant water temperature from a large on-site quarry for heating and cooling resulting in savings to the airport from avoided natural gas use and potable water previously purchased for boiler make-up and on-site irrigation.
The project is currently out-to-bid with a design-build format and requiring a minimum payback period. The last speaker was Dale Stubbs, Associate Vice President for AECOM in Atlanta, who talked about Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson's (ATL) Green Acres Recycling Facility that is presently under development. The unique facility will be built, owned and operated by a third party contractor on 39-acres of airport property where all the airport's waste will be delivered, sorted and managed including the use of compost for growing food that will be sold back to concessionaires. Each of these projects shows how airports can be leaders in developing innovative approaches to areas such as energy consumption and waste management that can produce a financial benefit through the efficient use of available resources.


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An interactive whiteboard can be a prohibitively pricey addition to any conference room or classroom. But now a company called Interphase is launching an interactive display system that can deliver virtual whiteboarding without expensive, physical hardware.
The new penveu system doesn't rely on a traditional dry-erase board at all. Instead, it uses a wireless, ink-less stylus to interact with the image of a flatscreen display, or a projection on a wall. Using the teardrop-shaped pen, users can draw directly on screen or any flat surface, almost as if they were using a simple stylus on a touch-sensitive tablet. Likewise, they can gesture in the air, and their notes and annotation will appear on the screen or image projection, from up to 40 feet away.
It's all demonstrated in the video below.
Because it's stuffed with internal memory and interface controls, the penveu pen is bulkier than the pens and styluses associated with tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Note and desktop input devices like those from Wacom. Color and stroke-width options are actually controlled by on-pen buttons and a touch slider. The pen offers eight color "inks," and an LED near the tip of the device indicates the color that's currently active.
Because calibration is handled on the fly via a tiny camera near the writing tip, users never have to calibrate the pen with the display. The camera reads an array of "invisible" dots on the screen that only the pen can see. Orientation of the device is handled by 12 accelerometers.
The whole system is tied together by a table-top box that doubles as a storage area for the pen. The Penveu uses a simple VGA connection to link with the flat-screen or projector.
Yes, VGA. Interphase wanted to use a simple display interface to accommodate the aging hardware still found in some conference rooms and class rooms. The system can also be used without a computer: The pen simply saves whiteboard screengrabs directly to internal memory.
The penveu will be available in July at three price points. The 8GB education version starts at $500. The enterprise 8GB and 16GB versions start at $700 and $800 respectively.
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As lambing, milking, and pasture time are the focal points at 3-Corner Field Farm, each year on our farm begins not with the New Year, but with preparation for the lambing season.
MarchThe sheep are shorn in preparation for lambing. Fleeces are bagged and the best are set aside to be made into yarn. Shearing the ewes at this time makes lambing cleaner and, therefore, healthier for the lambs.
AprilLambing begins, and everyone helps out caring for the newborns and their mothers (dams). Lambs are kept in the barn for a few days to make sure they are healthy and strong. Then, the lambs and their dams go out to pasture together.
MayWe start milking the ewes this month. The ewes spend all of their time out on pasture. The grass is lush and succulent so their milk is plentiful.
JuneThe milking ewes get plenty of exercise walking to the milking parlor twice a day (some of the pastures are a half-mile from the parlor). Our herding dog, Hemp, can take them back-and-forth by himself while the shepherd stays in the field to set up the fencing in the new grazing area.
JulyEwes and lambs are given fresh pasture daily to ensure that they have the highest quality grass on which to produce milk and to grow. Zoe leads the flock in for milking.
AugustOn the hottest days of summer the lambs relax in the shade during the day and spend evenings and early morning grazing.
SeptemberWe now travel to the Green Market at Union Square in New York City twice a week and participate in the annual Washington County Cheese Tour.
OctoberAs the days shorten, the dairy ewes are milked less frequently and then the milking season ends for this year. The ewes are placed on our less productive pastures to reduce their milk supply and to add fertility to the soil with their manure.
NovemberThis is breeding season on the Farm. The ewes are divided into groups that include one breeding ram each. The colors on their wool indicate if they have been bred successfully.
DecemberDuring the early winter months the sheep live on pasture that has been allowed to grow in the autumn and is stored under the snow. When the grass is gone, they eat hay that we deliver to them. Their long fleeces protect them from the cold.
JanuaryWhen the snow is deep, we use a tractor to make paths for the flock to access the year-round stream and to find sunny places in which to lie down and ruminate. When the stream is frozen, they eat the snow as a source of water.
FebruaryToward the end of the month, we start training this years dairy lambs to go into the milking parlor. This prepares them for the first day they will be milked. With a little grain and some gentle coaxing, they learn not to be afraid of this new environment. Below is Emily in the milking parlor


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The Girl With The Roses:
A Tale From The Haunted Auctions
"It was to be a summer of storms."
A dark supernatural tale of love, obsession and power.
At the haunted auctions of Thornhill and Swift, where artefacts of the ghostly and the macabre are bought and sold, we learn of the statue entitled: 'The Girl with the Roses'.
***Charlotte Salt has always dreamt of marrying for love but when she receives a proposal she realises that romance isn't always the deciding factor in the Victorian marriage market.
Married to the eligible but secretive George Avery, she finds herself cut off from her family and friends when her husband takes her to live in his isolated Derbyshire home.
Trapped in a loveless marriage, she finds her thoughts turning towards her brother's newly returned friend, the handsome Charles Jameson. In failing health and increasingly troubled by strange sights and sounds, she cannot help recalling Jameson's mysterious warning: "be on your guard." What danger did he foresee?
As dark forces surround her, she contemplates the fate of her predecessor. What happened to the first Mrs Avery?
In a summer of storms, can anyone save her from the shadows?
A Gothic horror novella from the author of A Spirited Evening and Other Stories and The Haunted Chamber and Other Stories.
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A Spirited Evening and Other Stories
Vengeful spirits, mysterious maladies and wondrous happenings that aren't so easily explained—the world of A Spirited Evening harks back to the classic era of the 19th century ghost story, pulling you into a Victorian world where the line between reality and the supernatural is blurred.
This book contains six atmospheric and subtly creepy short stories.
A Most Unusual Disturbance – Algernon Hunter meets a young man who is being driven from his ancestral home. But what is the source of the strange music that haunts the old manor house each night?
Reflections on a Malady – Algernon Hunter finds himself involved in the case of an unusual malady. Thanks to a remarkable young woman, who shares his feelings of unease, he begins to see that sometimes there are forces stronger than death, and sometimes there are consequences.
The White Lady – Mr Palmer is intrigued by his friend's family legend. But who is the white lady and why should he fear her?
Three Knocks – One Christmas, a stranger comes to a remote country inn in the middle of a snow storm. Does he also bring with him the explanation for the mysterious, late-night knocking that troubles the inn?
A Spirited Evening – A sceptic gets more than he bargained for when the séance room threatens to give up a deadly secret.
The Darkness Within - A book purchased from a sale room opens up a world of trouble for Mr Worthington. But just what is the darkness within? And can Mr Worthington resist it?
Dim your lights, light a candle, and settle yourself in for A Spirited Evening…
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The Haunted Chamber and Other Stories
Set in the Victorian era, these ghostly stories evoke the candlelit drawing rooms of the 19th Century.
The Haunted Chamber and Other Stories contains six weird and wonderful tales of the supernatural from the pen of K.B. Goddard, author of "A Spirited Evening and Other Stories."
The Haunted Chamber - Would you accept a challenge to spend the night in a reputedly haunted room? That is precisely what John Williams decides to do and finds that the haunting is not quite what he expected.
The Inn by the Crossroads – The inn by the crossroads has an evil reputation. No one has set foot over the threshold of the abandoned building in years. So, what can it mean when lights are seen coming from the inn one foggy Halloween night?
Sir Henry's Folly – Sir Henry Morstan's plans to build a new folly on his estate are repeatedly foiled, but is the sabotage of his project really the result of a prank? Or might there be another explanation?
The Crying Ghost – A young bride has almost everything she could possibly want to make her happy in her new life. But when she is troubled by sights and sounds that only she can see and hear she begins to question her sanity. What does the woman in the empty room want with her?
Shadows – The newly engaged Isabella finds herself living in fear of a rejected suitor. But when his power over her seems to go beyond the realms of the possible, the shadows threaten to consume her.
Lifting the Veil – When a Christmas visit to a friend ends in disaster, Algernon Hunter is left pondering the barrier between life and death.
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12 Ghostly Tales
The White Lady
Three Knocks
A Spirited Evening
The Darkness Within
The Haunted Chamber
The Inn by the Crossroads
Sir Henry's Folly
The Crying Ghost
A Most Unusual Disturbance
Reflections on a Malady
Lifting the Veil
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Shadows at the Door -An Anthology - Contributing Author
No matter where you are in the world, there is a story that everyone knows. In every town, every village, there is a house no one sets foot in; a spectre in the woods that parents warn their children of; a local landmark whose history is stained with death. Shadows at the Door brings the whispered, hand-me-down horrors of thirteen such places together, to entertain and unsettle. The anthology will immerse you in the eerie locales of Durham, Norfolk, Derbyshire, Rugby, the Scottish Highlands, Toronto, Pittsburgh, New York, Rural Yorkshire, Lake Superior, Canterbury and Melbourne, so you can be scared all around the globe.
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Home >Knee > Medial (Inside) Knee Pain
Injury Information
1. Medial ligament Disorders (MCL)
The medial ligament is regarded as a very serious injury involving the knee. The ligament's purpose in the knee is to aid in sideways movement and balance.
The injury can either be a slight strain (2-3 weeks), a slight tear (4-6 weeks), or a complete rupture requiring surgery (approx. six months to full recovery).
The medial ligament when hurt will normally be associated with other surrounding injuries to that area. The medial meniscus, the cartilage and surrounding quadriceps muscles will usually be damaged or hurt also.
Damaging the medial ligament happens in a sudden jerky movement usually involving a twisting landing motion in which the knee will collapse inward, eg:falling from a great height and landing on a straight leg or landing in such a way your body weight is too large for the inner muscles and ligaments to bear.
The injured can sometimes feel the tear or hear an audible popping noise at time of damage.
Swelling quickly follows a sharp pain, which is usually followed by constant throbbing soreness and a need to limp.
2. Medial cartilage (meniscus) tear
There are two mensci in the knee; each rests between the thigh bone (femur) and shin bone (tibia) and act as 'shock absorbers' in the knee joint. The menisci are made of tough cartilage and conform to the surfaces of the bones upon which they rest. These menisci function to distribute your body weight across the knee joint. Without the meniscus present, the weight of your body would be unevenly applied to the bones in your legs (the femur and tibia). This uneven weight distribution would cause excessive forces in specific areas of bone leading to early damage of these areas. Therefore, the function of menisci is critical to the health of your knee.
How do the menisci work?
The joint is made up of three bones: the femur (thigh bone), the tibia (shin bone), and the patella (knee cap). The surfaces of these bones at the knee joint are covered with articular cartilage. This cartilege allows the bones to slide against each other without causing damage to the bone. The meniscus sits between the cartilaginous surfaces to distribute weight and to improve the stability of the joint.
The menisci are semilunar shaped and have a wedged profile. The wedged profile maintains the stability of the joint by keeping the rounded femur surface from sliding off the flat tibial surface. the blood supply to the menisci is provided by small blood vessels, but they also have a large area in the centre of the meniscus that has no direct blood supply (avascular). This presents a problem when there is an injury to the meniscus as the avascular areas tend not to heal. Without the essential nutrients supplied by blood vessels, healing cannot take place.
The two most common causes of meniscal tears are due to traumatic injury (often seen in athletes) and degenerative processes (seen in elderly patients who have degenerated cartilage). The most common mechanism of traumatic meniscal tears occurs when the knee joint is bent (flexed) and the knee is then twisted. It is not uncommon for this injury to occur along with tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the medial collateral ligament (MCL); these three problems occurring together are known as the "unhappy triad", which is seen in sports such as football when the player is hit on the outside of the knee. Individuals who experience a meniscal tear usually experience pain and swelling as their primary symptoms. Another common complaint is joint locking, or the inability to completely straighten the joint. This is due to a piece of the torn meniscus physically impinging the joint mechanism of the knee.
What treatments are available for a torn meniscus?
Any knee injury can be treated acutely with ice and immobilization. This will decrease swelling and pain in the joint. Your physician can use information about how the injury occurred and physical examination techniques to determine the likelihood of a meniscal tear. While x-rays are invariably normal with an isolated meniscus tear, the MRI evaluation will often reveal abnormalities of the meniscus. The next step is to determine whether or not surgery is necessary. If an individual is not a good surgical candidate or if their symptoms are not severe, surgery can often be delayed or avoided altogether.
A severe knee cartilage injury can radically change an active adult's lifestyle. Symptoms such as locking, catching localized pain and swelling often affect your ability to work, play, even perform normal activities.
A cartilage lesion appears as a hole or divot in the cartilage surface. Since cartilage has minimal ability to repair itself, even what may seem like a small lesion (ranging from the size of a dime to a quarter), if left untreated, can hinder your ability to move free from pain, and cause deterioration to the joint surface.
Strengthening programs should only be commenced when:
Exercises should be 3 sets of 8-12 repetitions.
Early Injury Management
For approximately the first 72 hours following an injury, the RICE regime should be followed to ensure control of inflammation and pain relief.
R - Rest
I – Ice
C - Compression
E – Elevation
Rest from aggravating activity.
Ice should be applied in the first 72 hours or when inflammation persists. Ice should be applied for 15 to 20 minutes at a time. Ice should not be applied directly to the skin, but through a wet towel or cloth.
Compression can be achieved with an elastic bandage.
Elevation is used to help swelling to return to the heart through the blood stream.
The injured area should be elevated above the level of the heart.
Strenthening exercises
The exercise bike provides for effective general knee strengthening, it is low/no impact and provides a consistent resistance for muscle strengthening.
The exercise bike can also be an effective exercise for conditions where joint stiffness is an issue.
The exercise bike is an effective warm-up prior to other strengthening exercises.
1. Quadricepts Stretch
2. Long Adductor Stretch
3. Hip Flexor Stretch


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ALcon Pharmaceuticals Selects Plateau to Deliver Training Around the Globe
ARLINGTON, VA, January 7, 2002 – Plateau Systems, a provider of enterprise-class
software that manages learning and knowledge processes for organizations, announced
today that Alcon has selected the Plateau Learning Management System (LMS) to
manage Web-based and classroom instruction for up to 12,000 employees at 14
manufacturing plants around the world.
The Plateau LMS will schedule, deliver and manage all of Alcon's live and asynchronous
learning events, from Web-based distance learning to instructor-led laboratory
work. A $2.8 billion international pharmaceutical company with offices in 75
countries, Alcon also will use Plateau LMS to manage a variety of soft skills
training, career planning and succession planning, enabling administrators to
select the best person for a given job and allowing employees to reach their
professional goals.
Alcon's manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, TX has used Plateau's LMS since
the mid-1990s to manage training for its employees. Based in large part on the
success of that program, Alcon selected the Plateau LMS to validate its training
program across the enterprise with the Food and Drug Administration and other
international regulators. Alcon must comply with a variety of stringent guidelines
on the management of electronic records, including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, FDA Good
Management Practices, and international ISO 9000 quality standards.
Plateau is helping more than a dozen global pharmaceutical and health care
companies validate their training programs with these regulations, including
Bristol-Myers Squibb, ALZA, AstraZeneca, Genzyme and Zimmer. Plateau LMS tracks
changes in individual training histories as a series of unique, time-stamped
events, allowing organizations to create comprehensive audit trails. Plateau
LMS also guarantees the validity and security of training records by developing
frequently updated PIN-based electronic signatures for all users.
Plateau's best-in-class configuration management features have produced significant
Returns on Investment (ROI) for pharmaceutical companies by automating one of
the most complex business requirements in the industry – version control of
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Each month, pharmaceutical companies update
hundreds of SOPs for manufacturing and quality control. Plateau LMS automatically
finds all employees affected by each of these revisions, alerting them by e-mail
that they must be retrained to keep their qualification for a given task.
Automating this process has saved companies millions of dollars in training
costs, reduced the learning cycle for employees, and allowed products to go
faster to market with stronger quality control.
"Plateau is the proven leader in developing learning and knowledge process
solutions that solve complex business problems for the pharmaceutical industry,"
said Paul Sparta, Plateau's CEO and Chairman. "After several years of work
with one of Alcon's manufacturing facilities, we are proud the company has selected
us to create a program for the entire enterprise that provides its employees
with anytime, anywhere education."
About Plateau
Plateau manages learning and knowledge processes for organizations, improving
their business operations by integrating and delivering the knowledge employees,
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text: Thomas did a great deal of this yesterday. Currently, the big question is whether to update guppi, g-wrap1 and gnucash to guile 1.6, or try to go all the way to the new g-wrap. I believe that staying with old g-wrap and 1.6 is a safe thing to foist on the new pkgsrc quarterly branch, but that g-wrap2 is too scary. ---------------------------------------- * Basic Goal: Migrate all packages that depend on guile14 to guile (1.6). For libraries that depend on guile, provide 14 versions if there is a need (e.g. because of a dependency), and make the main (unnumbered) version be for 1.6. * Complex dependencies (indented depends on prior line): math/guppi [this is guile 1.4 version] finance/gnucash devel/guile14-gtk [this is for guile 1.4, and an old version] www/galway cad/gwave devel/g-wrap1 devel/guile14-slib [this is guile 1.4 version] devel/g-wrap1 devel/g-wrap1 [1.3.4] finance/gnucash * IMMEDIATE PLAN This plan aims to replace all guile-using packages that are used by other packages with 1.6 versions, and to rename the 1.4 versions with the 14 suffix. After this, guile-using packages should be easily individually upgradeable, because all guile library-type packages will have 1.6 versions available. guile-pg: move wip/guile-pg to databases, thereby dropping 1.4 version [DONE] guile-slib: rename to guile14-slib, make guile-slib be 1.6 version [DONE] guile-gtk: rename to guile14-gtk, make guile-gtk be up-to-date and 1.6 [DONE] g-wrap: now 1.9.3 with guile 1.6 [DONE] math/guppi: If next 2 not synchronous copy to guppi14 for gnucash repoint gnucash change to 1.6: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=28522 g-wrap1: change to 1.6: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=28525 gnucash: change to guile 1.6 [wip/gnucash is an attempt at g-wrap 2 and guile 1.6. This can persist indefinitely; it's no worse than the current situation.] guile-lib: move from wip [DONE] guile-gnome: move from wip to devel/ * FUTURE After executing above plan, reassess, and do some of the following. finance/gnucash Convert to use devel/g-wrap (1.9.3/2), guile 1.6, and math/guppi (now 1.6). See wip/gnucash. math/guppi check for new upstream version (gnome2?) www/galway: change to guile 1.6, new upstream? cad/gwave: change to guile 1.6, new upstream? guile-{fcgi,www}: change to guile 1.6, new upstream? math/cassowary: change to guile 1.6, new upstream? misc/siag: change to guile 1.6, new upstream? lilypond: wip/lilypond20 uses 1.6. It is not clear if stable lilypond works with 1.6, but it probably does. If so, simply adjust lilypond to use 1.6. devel/guile-oops perhaps rename to guile14-oops to make it clear this is only for 1.4. (1.6 includes GOOPS, so there is no need for a 1.6 oops package.) misc/gnome-utils: This has guile commented out. This is a gnome1 package, so it can be ignored as no longer relevant. Or, someone could test with 1.6. -- Greg Troxel <firstname.lastname@example.com>


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The candy man makes everything he bakes satisfying and delicious. We know any trip to Leopold's Ice Cream leaves us wanting to eat the dishes. Everything you eat at Leopold's is made in house. The ice cream, of course. But also the chicken salad (Mary's recipe) the soups, and the fudge sauce. Now you can make that hot fudge sauce at home just like Stratton and his great staff do every single day on Broughton Street. Maybe you can pour it over the doughnuts you are going to make from the Pink House yesterday. Hey, now we are cooking with gas!! This is a great recipe. Let me know if you try it, Eat It and Like It.
Recipe courtesy Stratton Leopold
Prep Time: 10 min
Inactive Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 12 min
Level: Easy
Serves: 4 cups
- 1 3/4 cups heavy cream
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup butter, cut into small pieces
- 2 3/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a heavy bottomed saucepan over low heat, bring the cream just to a boil then add the brown sugar and stir just until it dissolves. Add small pieces of butter until mix until completely melted, then stir in the chocolate chips. Wait 3 to 5 minutes so that chocolate is very soft before folding it in with a spatula. Stir in the salt and vanilla extract and blend until well incorporated. Let cool for 15 minutes; it will thicken as it cools.
*Cook's Note: Can be stored up to 1 week in the refrigerator in a glass jar. Heat until warm but not hot, before serving.
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Click here to see our recipe for Fried Sweet Potato Doughnuts from the Pink House


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Transfer News: Man Utd £60m talks, Arsenal's improved bid, Liverpool's new Teixeira offer
STARSPORT brings you the latest transfer stories from around the world.
Manchester United have held talks over a move for £60m-rated Benfica midfielder Renato Sanches, the Daily Mail report.
The 18-year-old has a growing reputation and United scouts have watched him in three of Benfica's last four games.
It is the second time the Red Devils have met with Benfica officials, who inserted a £60m buy-out clause in Sanches' contract.
But it is claimed the Portuguese side would be willing to sell for an initial bid of £30m plus add-ons.
Arsenal have made a new bid for Leicester left-back Ben Chilwell, according to the Daily Mirror.
The Gunners had a £3m offer turned down last summer but they have retained their interest with Arsene Wenger keen to get a deal done this month.
The 19-year-old has also been a target for Liverpool and Manchester City while Leicester have offered him a new contract.
Chilwell impressed while on loan at Huddersfield and Wenger regards the England Under-21 international as a prospect for the future.
Liverpool are preparing a second bid for Shakhtar Donetsk forward Alex Teixeira, according to Football Insider.
The Reds made an initial £25m bid for the Brazilian on Thursday while Shakhtar are believed to want in the region of £38m.
And it is claimed Liverpool are now ready to make an offer of £29m in the hope it may persuade the Ukrainian club to sell.
Liverpool are reportedly confident that they can strike a deal within days.