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Dodge 1500 TRX4 Pickup - Backup Lights That WorkPosted in How To: Electrical on July 1, 2007
We've all wanted better backup lights on new trucks, whether it be for trail, road, trailering, or even parking-lot use. The silly white doodads that come on the back of most rigs seem to make better decorations than true reverse lights. Heck, we've been able to lightly touch the brakes on most trucks for better light output from the brake lights than the reverse lights themselves! Luckily we found a manufacturer that specifically targets this market, with the emphasis on towing trailers, a pastime we've been enjoying far too much of with our Dodge 1500 TRX4 pickup.
White Night rear-lighting systems are specifically tailored to be used with the rear hitch, since that is about the only area you can install aftermarket lights without drilling, cutting, or gluing stuff on to your 4x4. The plastic housing holds two 55-watt halogen lamps aimed slightly outward for great light distribution. Depending on your bumper, hitch, hitch pin, locking pin, and/or hitch insert, the unit is installed so the hitch insert goes through the center, or the unit can be installed under the hitch. We tried it out on our Dodge both ways, and like the looks of the through-the-unit mounting.


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Liverpool legend Alan Hansen is confident the Reds can capitalise on a number of high-profile Manchester City absentees in tonight's League Cup semi-final first leg clash.
The Citizens will be without club captain Vincent Kompany after his four-match ban, for a red card against Manchester United in the FA Cup on Sunday, was upheld, whilst Ivorian duo Yaya and Kolo Toure are both out of action for their club at the African Cup of Nations.
It leaves the Reds with an opportunity to right the wrong of a 3-0 defeat at the Etihad Stadium a fortnight ago, and Hansen believes his former side can capitalise on their 'weakened' opponents.
"One of their stars, Yaya Toure, is away on African Cup of Nations duty and he will be a big, big loss for them," Hansen told LFC magazine.
"All of a sudden I'm thinking we've got a chance here. With their two most consistent players [Kompany and Yaya Toure], who were also their best players against us in the Premier League game, potentially missing it gives us a better opportunity for progressing.
"As Kenny said himself, all three of City's goals were soft. They all came from mistakes by Liverpool players and obviously such errors need to be cut out."
Hansen enjoyed plenty of Cup success as a player at Anfield, winning two FA Cup and three League Cup trophies during 14 professional years with the Reds - many of which spent alongside Kenny Dalglish.
And, with a place at Wembley on the line, the Scot is confident compatriot 'King Kenny' will be able to draw on the positives from their last outing against City and push for victory in the tie.
"Anything can happen over a two-legged semi-final and the aim for Liverpool is to get a result at City that gives us a great chance of getting to Wembley when we bring them back to Anfield," added the BBC pundit.
"Kenny will concentrate on the positives from last week's game. There was never three goals difference between the two teams - Liverpool played well and the score line flattered City.
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Sabi Pictures - Zak Forsman and Kevin Shah - have done a three part series (so far) on this year's Park City and filmmakers' efforts to get their work seen and appreciated. They do very nice work. Check out all the episodes on Vimeo.
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Happy February everyone. Today I am sharing with you a vintage box I found at a yard sale last summer. During the hot days of summer a small town near where I live has a city wide yard sale. Every house, business, parking lot and driveway is filled and overflowing with tables and lots of "stuff" to sell. I mean everything under the sun. Lots of fun objects to choose from and look at. An absolutely fun day.
Moving on, or I will talk about it forever, I would like to share with you this little 6 slotted box. I found it on the ground and I really liked the natural weathering and rustic look. So I picked it up and it was mine for a buck. My kind of price!
Above is a picture of the whole project. You can see how the
box is divided into 6 sections.
The sewing machine is highlighted with WOW embossing
powders. I used both the silver and hop pink.
The center of the box is highlighted using "Singer Sewing
Centers" taken from a vintage Ladies Home Journal, 1952.
The bottom half of the box is above. The chipboard spool
and scissors is also from Basically Bare. Really cute and oh
so easy to use. The scissors are also embossed with WOW
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As part of Chunkster Challenge 2009, I committed to reading three to five books of 450 pages or more. For my first "chunky" book, I selected Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney, which caught my eye after reading the blurb on the back cover. I am attracted to stories of the immigrant experience, and once I got started, I was hooked.
The story begins with a young German immigrant who wakes up in the middle of a fire. He works in P.T. Barnum's circus stable, and soon watches the place go up in flames, after he is only able to free several animals. He is then accused of setting the fire, and struggles for the rest of the story on many levels – to avoid the authorities, maintain his ever-changing identity, and keep his wits about him as he is followed by gang members and heart-breaking memories. He falls in love with a tough gang leader's girl, works for a time in the sewers, and then works on the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. This character is endearing, pathetic, and heroic all at the same time.
The story unfolds in 1860s New York, and gives the reader glimpses of several facets of American history. Dietary and medicinal practices, emerging feminism, cultural conflicts and pride, and the physical and ideological "building" of a nation by its immigrants, are all part of a story that kept me engaged from beginning to end.
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For Immediate Release
Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst,
Office: (212) 633 6700 ext. 13;
Major FAIR Exposé of PBS: Taking the 'Public' Out of Public TV
PBS Fare Differs Little from Commercial TV
NEW YORK - A multi-part FAIR exposé of PBS's most prominent news and public affairs
programs demonstrates that public television is failing to live up to
its mission to provide an alternative to commercial television, to give
voice to those "who would otherwise go unheard" and help viewers to "see
America whole, in all its diversity," in the words of public TV's
founding document.
In a special November issue of studies and analyses of PBS's major
public affairs shows, FAIR's magazine Extra! shows that "public
television" features guestlists strongly dominated by white, male and
elite sources, who are far more likely to represent corporations and
war makers than environmentalists or peace advocates. And both funding
and ownership of these shows is increasingly corporate, further eroding
the distinction between "public" and corporate television. There is
precious little "public" left in "public television."
FAIR undertook the examination following news last fall that PBS was
canceling Now and that Bill Moyers was retiring from Bill Moyers
Journal. PBS announced that it was replacing the two shows, which
exemplified the public broadcasting mission, with Need to Know, a news
magazine launched in May and anchored by two journalists from the
corporate media world.
FAIR's findings reveal:
Need to Know. FAIR's study of the first three months of Need to
Know's guestlist and segments finds that its "record so far provides
little encouragement that it will ever serve as an adequate replacement
for Now and the Bill Moyers Journal."
The program's heavily white (78 percent) and male (70 percent) guestlist
failed to "break out of the narrow corporate media box." Corporate
representatives outnumbered activists 20 to 12. And black people
appeared overwhelmingly on stories on drugs and prisons.
PBS NewsHour. If PBS's signature news show is any indication, the
system is doing little to help us "see America whole, in all its
-- The NewsHour's guestlist was 80 percent male and 82 percent white,
with a pronounced tilt toward elites who rarely "go unheard," like
current and former government and military officials, corporate
representatives and journalists (74 percent). Since 2006, appearances
by women of color actually decreased by a third, to only 4 percent of
U.S. sources.
-- Women and people of color were far more likely to appear as "people
on the street" providing brief, often reactive soundbites, than in more
authoritative roles in live interviews.
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-- Viewers were five times as likely to see guests representing
corporations (10 percent v. 2 percent) than representatives of public
interest groups who might counterweigh such moneyed interests--labor,
consumer and environmental organizations.
-- While Democratic guests outnumbered Republican guests nearly 2-to-1
in overall sources, Republicans dominated by more than 3-to-2 in the
program's longer format, live segments. (FAIR's 2006 NewsHour study,
which examined a period when Republicans controlled the White House and
Congress, showed Republican guests outnumbering Democrats in both
categories: 2-to-1 among all sources, 3-to-2 in the longer live
-- On segments about the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the most frequent
story of the study period, viewers were four times as likely to see
representatives hailing from the oil industry (13 percent of guests) as
representatives of environmental concerns (3 percent).
-- On segments focusing on the Afghan War, though polls show consistent
majorities of Americans have opposed the war for more than a year, not
a single NewsHour guest represented an antiwar group or expressed
antiwar views. Similarly, no representative of a human rights or
humanitarian organization appeared on the NewsHour during the study
The NewsHour, "public TV's nightly newscast," is actually privately
owned. For-profit conglomerate Liberty Media has held a controlling
stake in the NewsHour since 1994. The company is run by industry
bigfoot John Malone, who has declared that "nobody wants to go out and
invent something and invest hundreds of millions of dollars of risk
capital for the public interest." Public dollars still support the
NewsHour, and former PBS president Ervin Duggan declared the show "ours
and ours alone," but Liberty CEO Greg Maffei refers to the program as
"not our largest holding," but "one we're very proud of."
And it's not just the NewsHour. The Nightly Business Report was sold
earlier this year by public station WPBT to a private company. The
details of the deal-- which shifts the most-watched daily business show
on television into private hands-- are mostly unknown.
The Charlie Rose Show--a show produced outside the PBS system but
widely carried on public television stations--boasts a remarkably
narrow guestlist. FAIR found the most common guests (37 percent) were
reporters from major media outlets, and corporate guests, well-known
academics and government officials also made frequent appearances. Of
the 132 guest appearances, just two represented the public interest
voices that public television is supposed to highlight (equaling the
number of celebrity chefs who appeared). Eighty-five percent of guests
were male, and U.S. guests were 92 percent white.
Washington Week, the longest-running public affairs show on public
television, suffers from similar problems--which would seem to be by
design, given the show's inside-the-Beltway focus. In four months of
programs (May-August 2010), Washington Week presented 29 [64] reporter
guests; only one did not represent a corporate-owned outlet. Only four
of 64 appearances by guests were by non-white panelists (6 percent),
and the guestlist was 61 percent male.
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September 12, 2012
How to Neutralize Energy Competition in the South China Sea
This post originally appeared on the Choke Points blog at Consumer Energy Report.com on September 11, 2012.
During her visit to the Asia Pacific last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to the dispute over the South China Sea, arguably one of the region's most intractable challenges that, left unmanaged, could uproot stability in East Asia. Those countries at the heart of the dispute — particularly China, Vietnam and the Philippines — need to "establish rules of the road and clear procedures for peacefully addressing disagreements," Secretary Clinton urged.
High Stakes at Sea
The dispute is complex. States ringing the sea are becoming increasingly assertive in their claims, driven by concerns of nationalism, sovereignty, and even the need to stake claims to the region's lucrative (but dwindling) fish stocks. And then there are the potential petroleum resources. Estimates of the region's energy potential ranges widely, according to the independent U.S. Energy Information Agency: U.S. estimates suggest the region could contain roughly 28 billion barrels of oil; while Chinese estimates are much more optimistic, projecting more than 200 billion barrels of oil beneath the sea.
Despite much uncertainty about the size of the region's oil and natural gas resources, countries in the region are increasingly behaving as though access to those potential petroleum reserves is zero-sum — a winner take all and leave none for the loser approach — that is pitting countries against each other to tap into those resources first. Indeed, China, Vietnam and the Philippines are actively soliciting bids from petroleum companies to explore for oil and gas in contested waters, escalating tensions and reinforcing this zero-sum perspective. This continued competition is destabilizing and countries in the region need to take efforts to tilt the balance of behavior toward cooperation so that countries across the region can benefit from the sea's potential resource wealth.
Opportunities for Regional Cooperation
There are practical steps that countries in the region can take to, as Secretary Clinton suggested, "literally calm the waters."
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A new consumer survey has crowned In-N-Out Burger as the nation's fast food favorite, while giving low marks to iconic chains such as McDonald's, Burger King and KFC.
The first-ever fast food survey from Consumer Reports, released Thursday, also gave low scores to the big name sandwich joints Arby's and Quiznos as well as pizza slingers like Domino's (DPZ) and Pizza Hut.
In-N-Out, with locations in five Western states, earned high scores for quality of food and service, as well as value and speed, according to Consumer Reports. In addition to those qualities, Chick-fil-A also drew praise for its polite staff.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) was the top franchise specializing in south of the border cuisine, earning high scores for food as well as "politeness of staff and speed of service."
But at the bottom end of the burrito scale was Yum Brands' (YUM, Fortune 500) Taco Bell, according to the survey.
The favorite pizza franchise was Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Pizza, with its "unconventional concept" of buying a ready-make pizza to bake at home, according to Consumer Reports. The chain scored high marks for food and "exceptional scores for value, staff politeness and speed of service."
The best sandwich shops were Jason's Deli and Firehouse Subs, according to the survey.
In a sign of the times, the nearly 37,000 fast food fans who participated in the survey were focused on value.
"Chains like McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500) and Taco Bell boast supersized values, but consumers don't necessarily think they offer much bang for the buck," said Tod Marks, senior projects editor for Consumer Reports, in a press release.
He said that 54% of respondents "cited low prices as a reason for picking a particular fast food restaurant."
Lee Renz, chief restaurant officer for McDonald's USA, responded to the survey by saying that customer satisfaction is a "top priority" for his company.
"Through restaurant evaluations, customer and employee feedback and more, we are continually evaluating our performance against our high standards," said Renz. "Our internal and third party research shows that we have consistently improved in customer satisfaction over the past several years."
Domino's spokesman Tim McIntyre said his company launched a new pizza recipe last year, based on input from consumers, resulting in a 10% spike in same-store sales.
"Millions of new customers tried our pizza in 2010, and millions of them kept coming back for more, and continue to come back," he said. "That tells us we must be doing something right."
Representatives of Yum Brands, parent of KFC and Pizza Hut as well as Taco Bell, were not immediately available for comment.
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Keys To Treating Common Triathlon Injuries
The combination of a diehard mindset and the stresses triathletes must endure can lead to repetitive injuries. Accordingly, this author provides a treatment guide for common triathlon injuries such as stress fractures, blisters and Achilles tendonitis. Participation in triathlons has grown at an enormous rate in the last 15 years worldwide. USA Triathlon publishes a demographic study each year and cites over 500,000 participants in races in the United States in 2012 with almost double-digit growth each year since 2000.1 In discussing triathlon-related injuries, the best approach is to start with a window into the unique world of triathletes. It is necessary to have an understanding of the sport and the stubbornness that is ubiquitous to triathletes to be able to treat this group of athletes successfully in your practice. Let us start with the basics. A common perception of what the average triathlete looks like is what people see on TV watching the Ironman World Championships. Namely, people tend to envision an extremely fit, 30- to 45-year-old male with six-pack abs and less than 10 percent body fat. This is simply not the case. There is no "average" triathlete. In my practice, the youngest competitive triathlete is a 9-year-old girl and the oldest is a 78-year-old man. They come in all ages, sizes, shapes and socioeconomic as well as ethnic backgrounds. This was extremely apparent when I competed in my first Ironman event. The diversity of the field was amazing to me but the one thing triathletes all have in common is an underlying stubbornness that equates quitting with personal failure. Triathletes quit when their bodies (or equipment) can no longer function. In fact, Chris McCormack (a.k.a. Macca, a multiple Ironman world champion) coined a mantra that pretty much explains the attitude of most triathletes. The mantra is "embrace the suck," which means that in a race, you look your inner weakness in the eye and embrace the suffering to make it to the finish line. Quitting is not an option. This is a tough group to treat because of this underlying stubborn nature. It is important to understand this psyche to be able to speak athletes' language, and have the ability to educate them and validate your comprehensive treatment plan. No, not all triathletes are sadomasochists but a degree of determination and ability to withstand pain is an inherent part of most endurance sports. This being said, not all triathletes are competing in the Ironman distance. In fact, currently the most popular distance is the "sprint triathlon." This is a 300- to 500-meter swim, a 12- to 17-mile bike and usually a 5K run. This takes most people one to two hours or so to complete, and requires minimal training (a few hours a week) to make it to the finish line in one piece. The other most common distances are the "Olympic triathlon" (1,500-meter swim, 40K bike ride and 10K run), the "Half-Ironman" (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run), and the full "Ironman" (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run). It is important to understand the distances so you can characterize your patients better. A sprint triathlete is training just a few hours each week in each discipline whereas an athlete training for an Ironman event may be spending 20-plus hours per week swimming, biking and running. Newbie triathletes are the most commonly injured. They are also the ones starving for more information and most likely to get their medical information from Dr. Google. Many people move from just running or cycling to triathlons because of the perception that adding variety to their exercise regimen will reduce overuse injuries. The theory is that the variety of the muscle use in the three sports will ideally minimize the strain on any single muscle set. For runners in particular, adding biking and swimming to their routine means less pounding on the pavement. It is a great theory but in practical terms, it almost never works. The very nature of a triathlon and an underlying competitive nature lead to training harder and longer. Therefore, these athletes wind up adding more stress to workouts without necessarily subtracting anything. Accordingly, the idea that people can reduce their chance of injury by competing in triathlons is usually a misconception.
An Overview Of Traumatic And Repetitive Stress InjuriesNow that you understand a little more about the nature of the sport and its participants, let us talk about these injuries. Triathlon injuries fall into two main categories: traumatic and repetitive stress. Traumatic injuries for triathletes include sprains, tendon ruptures and fractures, abrasions from falling off a bike, and even puncture wounds from running from the beach to the bike in transition. These injuries are not unique to triathlons and are commonplace in most podiatry practices. The most common triathlon-related injuries are caused by repetitive stress. These are the "too much, too soon, too fast" injuries. One study of training patterns and injury rates showed that for non-elite triathletes, the likelihood of sustaining an injury is lowest when training for a total of eight to 10 hours per week, specifically cycling for five to six hours and running for three to four hours weekly.2 Time spent on swimming training does not appear to affect injury risk. Less training or more training increased injury risk. A common training tip is that it is better to be 15 percent under-trained than 1 percent over-trained. The literature supports this common sense approach as well. One might think swimming is relatively free from podiatric injuries but keep in mind that many triathletes will train with flippers on their feet and can actually aggravate a foot or ankle injury with these training aids. Flip turns can also be quite traumatic to an already injured foot or ankle. Do not forget to caution an injured athlete to be less zealous with turns. Cycling-related injuries are often due to poor bike fit and shoe gear. If the saddle of the bike is too high or too low, and/or the cleat of the bike shoe is too far forward on the pedal or too loose, Achilles tendonitis, patellar tendonitis and iliotibial band syndrome can occur. If the cycling shoes are too tight or not wide enough, Morton's neuroma and metatarsalgia are not uncommon. Get a professional bike fitting or a Retül (Retül Studios) computerized fitting of your bike to prevent and/or treat these injuries. I urge every podiatrist who is interested in treating triathletes to spend some time at a good cycling store to learn the basics of troubleshooting a bike fit or at least find a local resource to analyze your athletes' bike fit. Fit is everything, especially when a long course triathlete can easily spend seven hours in the saddle. Running is by far the culprit of the most triathlon-related injuries. Studies relate up to 78 percent of injuries as overuse.3 A review of the literature shows little agreement on the "most common" injury but shows an injury rate of up to 75 percent of runners.4,5 One study did find a small correlation with a cavus foot type and an increased rate of injury, but did not confirm this as a major risk factor.6 Training time and errors seem to lead to the greatest number of injuries. Since there is little agreement except for the fact that triathletes get injured at a rate that is comparable to long distance runners, here is a practical top ten lower extremity injury list for discussion. 1. Stress fractures 2. Blisters 3. Subungual hematoma 4. Achilles tendonitis 5. Plantar fasciitis 6. Metatarsalgia/Morton's neuroma 7. Iliotibial band syndrome 8. Patellar tendonitis/chondromalacia patella 9. Medial tibial stress syndrome 10. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
Pertinent Pearls On Treating Stress Fractures In TriathletesMetatarsal stress fractures are the most common injury I see in triathletes in my office. Of course, stress fractures of the tibia and calcaneus as well as the occasional cuboid fracture are also common. One study in the literature did correlate age with an increased incidence of stress fractures but this is not unique to the triathlon.3 In my office, I correlate the rate of stress fractures with a rapid increase in training volume as well as shoe gear. The barefoot running phenomenon has infiltrated the triathlon to the point that many triathletes are shedding their stability running shoes for much lighter and "barefoot feel" shoes. If athletes make this transition too drastically and increase the volume of running at the same time, this is a recipe for a stress fracture. Personally, I think we see stress fractures more often than anything else because triathletes are notorious for "running through" an injury. You can't "run through" a stress fracture. I have tried. It hurts too much. The diagnosis of a stress fracture can be difficult in the early stages. Accordingly, if your athlete has pinpoint tenderness on the bone and the plain film X-ray is inconclusive, I recommend a magnetic resonance image (MRI) for definitive diagnosis.7 Be aware that if you do not have a definitive diagnosis, this group will try to run anyway. Treatment for stress fractures is relative rest for six to eight weeks. I recommend placing the athlete in a below-knee walking boot type cast to rest the fracture for at least four weeks. If you place patients in a post-op shoe, they will try to run on it. I have actually had several athletes complete up to a marathon distance in a below-knee walking cast, which is crazy. I also give athletes a steel shoe insert similar to a turf toe insert for their cycling shoes and make them promise to cycle indoors on a trainer and stay in the saddle. They can swim as much as they want but they shouldn't perform any flip turns or use flippers. Remind them that a stress fracture can lead to a displaced fracture if they are non-adherent. Have them picture a plate and six screws. This will usually instill the need for adherence.
Why Blisters Can Be A Bigger Problem Than Athletes RealizeYou may think that blisters are not a big deal. Think again. Blisters will sideline an athlete quickly. After Ironman Texas, the most painful thing I had was a large blister on the back of my heel. Spectators were trying to be helpful and cool off the athletes by spraying us with their water hoses. Yes, it helped cool us down on a hot, humid day but try running a marathon in wet shoes. Making sure your cycling and running shoes are big enough is important for blister prevention. In a long course triathlon, I recommend athletes buy shoes at least a half size to a full size bigger than their street shoes. Feet swell during the race. Fluid balance is also important and runners rarely think of it in the quest to prevent blisters. If you over-hydrate and take in excessive sodium, your toes and feet swell and rub together, which is a recipe for painful blisters. Keeping your feet dry with moisture wicking socks or double layer socks can prevent blisters. Actually, wearing socks in cycling shoes (many triathletes go sock free on the bike) can also help. Liberally applying body glide or another lubricant on the toes, ball of foot and heels also helps. After the race, to pop or not to pop the blister is always a question athletes ask. The answer is to teach your patients to cleanse the area, drain the corner of the blister and leave the top as a biological dressing. Protect the area with a soft clean dressing. I always instruct my patients that if the blister is larger than a silver dollar or red and irritated, they should come into the office immediately. Debridement with application of a hydrocolloid dressing will quickly decrease their pain. Antibiotics may be necessary for large infected blisters.
Keys To Managing Subungual HematomasBlack toenails are almost a badge of honor for the long distance runner. Triathletes are no different. Again, emphasize the need for slightly bigger shoes. An underlying biomechanical issue may be causing their toes to curl, forming a hammertoe and jamming their toenails. Educate your patients not to pick at their black toenails. I only recommend nail avulsion if the hematoma is almost 100 percent of the nail bed or if the edges are loose already. Using a fine gauge insulin needle to evacuate the hematoma is quick and virtually painless.8 The old school technique of trephining the nail is considered archaic. I also recommend discussing fungal infections that can occur in the damaged toenail so our athletes will be hyper-vigilant with their care of the damaged nail.
What You Should Know About Achilles Tendonitis In TriathletesIrritation of the Achilles tendon is the most common myotendinous injury in triathlon events. Often, this is due to poor bike fit or old cycling shoes. If the foot is rocking on the pedals, pronation will occur through the bottom of the pedal stroke. The gastroc muscle will fatigue more quickly and the Achilles will be irritated. Changing shoes and/or type of cleats can help quickly. Achilles irritation can also occur due to the transition from cycling to running. If you have ever gotten off a bike and tried to run, you will understand the biomechanical imbalance that occurs in the first part of the running leg of a triathlon. A late stage pronatory foot type or wearing a racing shoe that is too flexible can also be the cause of irritation. A tight gastroc soleus complex is often the underlying culprit as well as a weak core and tight hamstrings. Early recognition of the problem and being a good detective is the key to successful treatment. Emphasize that rest is important. This is the time for athletes to work on swimming. Physical therapy with a lot of eccentric stretching and strengthening of the weaker muscle groups is extremely helpful. If the patient is experiencing a nodule within the Achilles paratenon or crepitus upon range of motion, a small period of immobilization in an Aircast AirHeel (DJO Global) or other device is often helpful. A below-knee walking cast with a heel lift or a non-weightbearing fiberglass cast for four to six weeks is useful in those tough cases or non-adherent patients. Functional foot orthotics in both cycling shoes and running shoes can be helpful in those patients with a pronatory foot type. No one wants to rupture an Achilles tendon so most athletes will listen if you tell them that injury can be the outcome of non-adherence.
Addressing Plantar Fasciitis In TriathletesEvery podiatrist in the United States knows the causes, diagnosis and treatment options for plantar fasciitis. Triathletes are no different. One should emphasize aggressive conservative treatments plans with liberal use of physical therapy. The only word of advice is to be very specific on the running restrictions and the need for shoe gear modifications and/or functional foot orthotics. Avoid injection therapy in those triathletes who are still running. This is the group that would rupture their plantar fascia. The return to running should be gradual after successful treatment of this common problem.
Recognizing And Treating Metatarsalgia/Morton's NeuromaAgain, metatarsalgia/Morton's neuroma is a common problem we treat in podiatry offices today. Bike shoes and transitioning to very flexible or "barefoot feel" running shoes are often contributing factors. Early signs are usually numbness in the toes after riding for some distance. Patients may not have pinpoint interspace pain at first. Always rule out a stress fracture. It is often very helpful to add metatarsal padding to the cycling shoe and getting wider shoes. The remainder of the top ten injury list (iliotibial band syndrome, patellar tendonitis/chondromalacia patella, medial tibial stress syndrome and sacroiliac joint dysfunction) are beyond the scope of podiatry in some states. However, remember that one can address most of these injuries with better bike fit, changes in shoe gear and/or functional foot orthotics, and physical therapy.
In ConclusionAs you can see, the injuries that occur in triathlons are not unique to the sport but one should understand the psychology of these patients for successful treatment and return to sport in a better condition than when the patient walked in your office. A demand for adherence and upfront vocalization of the risks associated with non-adherence are essential keys. I hope this article has helped you have an understanding of these complex athletes and the need for comprehensive treatment plans. Dr. Crane is the managing partner of Foot and Ankle Associates of North Texas in Grapevine and Keller, Texas. She is a lifetime distance runner and has finished multiple Ironman triathlons. Her practice focuses on foot and ankle surgery, biomechanics and sports medicine. For more information about running and triathlon injuries, visit www.faant.com or www.myrundoc.com . References 1. 2012 USA Triathlon Demographics Report. Available at www.usatriathlon.org/about-multisport/demographics.aspx . 2. Shaw T, Howat P, Trainor M, and Maycock B. Training patterns and sports injuries in triathletes. J Sci Med Sport. 2004;7(4):446-50. 3. Burns J, Keenan AM, and Redmond AC. Factors associated with triathlon-related injuries. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2003;33(4):177-84. 4. Egerman M, Brocai D, Lill CA, Schmitt H. Analysis of injuries in long-distance triathletes. Int J Sports Med. 2003;24(4):271-6. 5. Korkia PK, Tunstall-Pedoe DS, Mufulli N. An epidemiological investigation of training and injury patterns in British triathletes. Br J Sports Med 1994;28:191-196. 6. Burns J, Keenan A, Redman A. Foot type and overuse injury in triathletes. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 2005; 95(3):235-241 7. Fredericson M, Jennings F, Beaulieu C and Matheson GO. Stress fractures in athletes. Top Magn Reson Imaging. 2006; 17(5):309-25. 8. Kaya Tl, Tursen U, Baz K, Ikizoglu G. Extra-fine insulin syringe needle: an excellent instrument for the evacuation of subungual hematoma. Dermatol Surg. 2003; 29(11):1141-3.
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Davis leads Pelicans over Bucks 112-104
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Anthony Davis had 29 points and 14 rebounds, and New Orleans defeated the struggling Milwaukee Bucks 112-104 on Friday night.
Tyreke Evans scored 25 points for the Pelicans, who've won two straight after losing their previous eight games. Anthony Morrow added 16 points, including a 3-pointer as he was fouled to give the Pelicans their largest lead at 100-90 with 4:50 left. Brian Roberts scored 14 and Eric Gordon 12 for New Orleans.
Khris Middleton scored 25 for Milwaukee, which lost its second straight. Jeff Adrien added a career-high 20 points to go with 10 rebounds, while Ramon Sessions had 16 points and Brandon Knight 15.
Milwaukee entered the game without starting forward Ersan Ilyasova, suspended for throwing a punch in a game Wednesday. The Bucks then lost guard O.J. Mayo to an ejection for a flagrant-2 foul late in the first quarter.
There were 24 lead changes in what turned out to be a highly competitive, action-filled game between a pair of struggling teams with no hope of making the playoffs.
The Pelicans shot 50 percent (42 of 84) but struggled to build a significant lead because the Bucks managed to shoot 45 percent (40 of 89) despite missing two of their more productive scorers.
Milwaukee led 79-78 after Sessions' driving layup opened the fourth quarter, but Davis' driving layup and 15-foot jumper sparked a 10-2 run that put the Pelicans in front for good.
Neither team led by more than five points in the first half, when there were 20 lead changes.
Davis, coming off his 28-point, 15-rebound performance in a victory over the Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, paced New Orleans early with 16 first-half points.
Middleton had 10 early points for the Bucks, who did not score from outside the paint in the entire first half.
Mayo, who averages 12.1 points per game, had taken only one missed shot when he was ejected after less than three minutes on the court.
Mayo collided with Pelicans center Greg Stiemsma, who was setting a screen, the appeared to shove or punch Stiemsma with a flailing arm. Pelicans coach Monty Williams rushed onto the court to pull Stiemsma away from the confrontation. Officials initially called a flagrant foul, then upgraded the severity to a flagrant-2, resulting in the ejection, after video review.
Still, the Bucks were clinging to a one-point lead when Roberts hit 5-foot floater as he was fouled for a three-point play, giving New Orleans a 51-49 halftime lead.
NOTES: Davis has now surpassed 20 points and 10 rebounds in a game 21 times this season, and he has 29 double-doubles overall. ... Pelicans reserve center Jeff Withey, a rookie, grabbed a career-high eight rebounds in 14:29. ... Middleton's 25 points were more than double his average of 11.7 coming in and four short of his career high of 29.


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Gilead Sciences Inc. said sales of its new treatment for hepatitis C soared in the first quarter, helping the biopharmaceutical company's bottom-line to triple.
The treatment, called Sovaldi, is closely watched by analysts who have estimated annual sales could surpass $17 billion in several years, making it one of the biggest selling drugs in the world. The treatment costs $1,000 a day and has been used as an example of how hard it is for insurers to curb the use of pricey lifesaving medicines.
Gilead GILD, +0.24% said Tuesday that Sovaldi had $2.27 billion in first-quarter sales. The treatment, which received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in early December, recorded sales of $139.4 million in the final weeks of 2013.
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Sovaldi has won praise for its cure rate and being the first pill approved to treat some types of hepatitis C without interferon, an injected drug that can cause flulike symptoms.
Overall, Gilead posted a first-quarter profit of $2.23 billion, or $1.33 a share, up from $722.2 million, or 43 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding stock-based compensation and other items, adjusted per-share profit grew to $1.48 from 48 cents.
Revenue nearly doubled to $5 billion from $2.53 billion.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected a profit of 89 cents a share on $3.92 billion in revenue.
Gilead shares, which were halted before releasing its first-quarter results, rose 3.5% to $75.40 in after-hours trading.
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Peyton Manning is cleared to play football. Still not so clear is whether it will be with the Indianapolis Colts.
He got the good news Thursday while little brother Eli was making final preparations to lead the New York Giants against the New England Patriots in Sunday's Super Bowl — something big brother always aims for.
Maybe there's even a Manning vs. Manning Super Bowl in the offing.
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What remains unsettled, though, is Peyton's status with the Colts and whether he and team owner Jim Irsay can patch up their very public spat.
At least it's a possibility now that Manning's surgeon has given the star quarterback clearance to start taking hits again.
"Peyton Manning underwent a thorough medical re-evaluation as part of a postoperative visit with his surgeon," Dr. Robert Watkins said in a statement. "As a result of this examination, Manning is medically cleared to play professional football."
Colts owner Jim Irsay responded to Watkins' statement by writing on Twitter that Manning has not been cleared to play by the team because he has not passed its physical. He said the club would issue a statement later Friday.
That's just another piece of this muddled mess.
The Colts owe Manning a $28 million roster bonus by March 8, they want to use the No. 1 pick in this year's draft on Manning's successor and they must make key decisions over the next five weeks without knowing yet how much room they'll have under the salary cap.
Manning had neck surgery in September — his third in 19 months.
"We're in a holding pattern in that respect," new general manager Ryan Grigson said when asked if the uncertainty would prevent the Colts from doing business with their soon-to-be free agents. "Until it is (resolved), we're going to go about our business as usual."
Nobody seems to know how this will play out.
The biggest problem in Manning's recovery has been regaining the strength in his throwing arm. That's something Manning and the Colts have not discussed, and, apparently, it's not even a topic between the two brothers.
"I don't know what's going to happen with Peyton," Eli Manning said. "I know he is rehabbing. He is going to try to get better. I know he wants to continue to play football, if that's an option. The No. 1 priority for him is to get to 100 percent. Until he gets to that position, it's tough to say what is going to happen."
The Manning circus has dominated the headlines at Indianapolis' first Super Bowl.
It started with rumors about Manning's possible retirement, and the Colts' pending statement will certainly keep Peyton in the headlines — and overshadow his brother's quest for a second Super Bowl title — for a fifth consecutive day.
The question is whether the Colts are willing to pay a 36-year-old quarterback who has had three neck surgeries in 19 months.
And there have been growing indications the Colts may be ready to part with their longtime franchise player, though Irsay will make the final call.
"You can't do things to where you are going to hurt the whole franchise with other decisions that you know might hurt at the moment, but in the end they help the sum of the parts," Grigson said. "It is a tough deal in this business, and it happens at every position. It happens with coaching, it happens with people in personnel and it is completely part of the process and the business."
Irsay and Manning are scheduled to meet again next week.
Last month, the Colts fired vice chairman Bill Polian, general manager Chris Polian, coach Jim Caldwell and most of Caldwell's assistants. The flurry of moves prompted Manning to go public with his complaints, which drew a strong rebuke from Irsay.
The two appeared to mend fences Friday.
But the onslaught of Manning news just keeps coming.
"It's hard not to pay attention. It seems to be all over the news everywhere and I don't live in a cave," said Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, the presumed successor to Manning.
"You never really replace someone like that," he added. "He (Manning) is such an iconic sports figure especially for this city, this area. From what I understand, he's done so many great things outside of football and in the community."
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Mass Effect DRM Causing Backlash Among PC Gamers
If you'd like to play the PC version of Bioware/EA's hit XBOX 360 title "Mass Effect," you'd better have an internet connection. Why? Because in order to remain "activated" the game will need to reauthorize itself via the internet every 10 days. Go 11 days without checking in and your game won't work until you do. Some gamers are saying that this requirement makes them feel like criminals, and doesn't make a lot of sense for a game that otherwise doesn't require an internet connection.
From the Mass Effect forums:
It is good that Bioware and EA want to kill piracy — but really, though; at what expense?…If somehow a copy of MEPC game gets out w/out any protection around comes out, that copy won't be hindered by any checks. Why should a legitimate buyer of MEPC have to pay money to be treated like he's a pirate when he isn't the pirate?
Say you, the legitimate MEPC owner, has lost their Internet connection — and it's say not on your end, but your ISP's. What now? Will you be locked out of your legit copy of your game for NO REASON?
Say you, legitimate MEPC owner, tried to get your copy verified online from its online check — but, for some reason, EA and Bioware's servers are down. Or say, too many MEPC users are booting MEPC at once to get verified and you just can't connect for a good while — whether it's 2 minutes, 20 mins, or 1 hour or more. That's an inconvenience. So, will the game boot b/c you can't get your legit copy verified?
Let's hope EA and Bioware are planning on operating these servers in perpetuity, because Mass Effect is very addicting, and if you don't agree, my level 60 Adept Nemesis will Singularity your ass.
What do you think of this style of DRM? Are they punishing the ones who don't steal? Or is this necessary to protect their investment?
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Working toward a universal vaccine for all influenza A and B viruses
(Phys.org)—Smart viruses find ways around host defenses. In the case of the influenza viruses A and B, rapid genetic changes and resistance to available therapies make it hard to combat flu epidemics in humans. Mortality rates for influenza B viruses are higher than those reported for seasonal influenza A H1N1. Human monoclonal antibodies were previously shown to neutralize a wide variety of influenza A viruses, so extending that work to include influenza B viruses is critical because these flu strains cause a large proportion of the annual flu infections and are a major cause of seasonal epidemics every two to four years.
A research group from The Scripps Research Institute, Crucell Vaccine Institute, Gustav Wieds Vej (Denmark), and The University of Hong Kong, building upon their earlier work with influenza A viruses, has now discovered a similar phenomenon for neutralizing influenza B viruses. Their breakthrough results, aided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science's Advanced Photon Source (APS), Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), and Advanced Light Source (ALS) pave the way for development of a universal vaccine for all influenza A and B viruses.
"Several structures were solved using the [GM/CA CAT 23-ID-B beamline] facilities [at the APS] in order to study the interaction of CR9114 with group 2 influenza A viruses," said Cyrille Dreyfus, lead author on the paper and team member from The Scripps Research Institute. "These structures allowed us to confirm the broad neutralizing activity of CR9114".
The earlier work on the influenza A viruses showed that monoclonal antibodies can neutralize the viruses by binding to a highly conserved region, called an epitope, in the stem region of a viral surface glycoprotein. To look for similar reactions in the influenza B virus, the research team focused on two co-circulating, antigenically distinct strains.
The researchers found three human monoclonal antibodies that protect against potentially lethal infection from these two influenza B strains. Two of the antibodies, CR8033 and CR8071, bind to conserved epitopes in the head region of the influenza B hemagglutinin (HA). The third antibody, CR9114, attaches to a conserved epitope in the HA stem, and, most important, provides protection against influenza A and B viruses.
The study showed that the three antibodies did not compete against each other for HA binding sites and thereby concluded that they recognized different epitopes. The results pointed to the mechanism by which the antibodies CR8033 and CR8071 thwarted viral infection: although the virus gained entry to the cell and performed genome replication, propagation of the virus was prevented.
Antibodies CR8033 and CR8071 appear to prevent release of viral progeny from infected cells and, hence, disrupt the infection process. CR9114 uses a different mechanism and blocks infection by preventing the low pH conformational changes that trigger the fusion of the viral and endosomal membranes during the entry process (Fig. 1).
A key aspect of these results is the finding that the CR9114 epitope appears to be highly conserved in all influenza A subtypes and in influenza B. This finding is so important primarily because it provides an inroad to the previously intractable problem of finding a universal influenza vaccine. A highly conserved epitope is likely to remain the same even if the virus undergoes repeated mutations and resistance cycles. And when searching for a vaccine, a neutralizing epitope region that remains constant and therefore vulnerable to existing treatments is a beautiful thing. Antibodies such as CR9114 may be possible to elicit by vaccination and may already be present in the immune systems of some individuals.
"Future directions," said Dreyfus, "are to apply this knowledge toward the development of improved therapies and vaccines such as development of monoclonal antibody therapies," and "the design of small molecules that target the weak point in the virus defense."
Since previous work had shown that the influenza A viruses exhibited broadly neutralizing epitopes in the HA stem, those now found in the influenza B HA head point to both the head and stem regions of these viruses as targets for neutralizing antibodies.
Universal therapies against the many strains of influenza that may be circulating at any given time require somewhat of a "one vaccine fits all" approach. The work presented in this research study—especially that concerning the CR9114 antibody—brings that dream into the realm of the possible.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Happy Back-to-School Day!
Today we had staff development. The presenter, who was very engaging, ran us through the new science program we'll be using this year. It was somewhat overwhelming. I'm sure teachers everywhere can understand how stressful it is to add on new material and more expectations to an already overloaded curriculum.
After lunch, we returned to our schools for more grade level meetings, science discussion, opening more boxes, counting and distributing texts and materials, and setting up for opening day.
I stayed until 5. I managed to put up my bulletin board out in the hall, and I cleaned up the mess from the box-opening frenzy. I got started on my paperwork, and I sketched out a plan for tomorrow's activities.
I'm a bundle of tense nerves. There is never enough time in the day. But I'm excited about tomorrow. For me, the first day of school is like, well....... it's like Christmas.
6 comments:
- TeacherDee said...
Enjoy your day tomorrow! I always feel so much better once that first day starts and I fall back into the rhythm of teaching. I love how they seem to sit on the edges of their seats that first day, hanging onto my every word. It's funny, too, to look at this room of strangers and think of how close you will be by the end of the year--how much you'll grow to care about each one of them.
- September 4, 2008 at 12:49 AM
- Sue said...
Good luck on your first day of school. Thanks for stopping by my blog the other day :)
- September 4, 2008 at 8:44 AM
- Susan Helene Gottfried said...
Ooh, good luck on your first day! My kids have been back for a week and today was the first day I got to go in and volunteer. The kids are so darn cute...
- September 4, 2008 at 12:19 PM
- Lana Banana said...
bueno, amiga, cuentanos! como te fue tu primera semana?
you still think it's christmas?!?!
cheers . . .
- September 5, 2008 at 10:00 PM
- The Fearless Blog said...
Glad to hear you too feel like Christmas when school starts. That excitement and anticipation, good energy and positive outlook make people become great teachers.
True...knowledge is essential, but the teacher must first have the passion and the heart if anything truly wonderful is to happen. Enjoy your year my friend.
- September 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM
- Betty said...
I can't wait to hear about your first day. I'm sure it was wonderful. I agree that there is never enough time to get everything done!
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Boehner: Obama's like Santa
Speaker John Boehner came down on President Barack Obama as lacking guts earlier this week, and on Thursday he came up with a new description: Santa Claus.
The latest jab came as Boehner took the president to task for again promising to fix the nation's crumbling roads, bridges and other infrastructure without saying where he would get the money.
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"Trying to find a funding source to repair the nation's infrastructure is still a big goal of mine. And the president talked about infrastructure, but he didn't talk about how to pay for it," Boehner told reporters Thursday morning. "It's easy to go out there and be Santa Claus and talk about all these things you want to give away, but at some point, somebody's got to pay the bill."
The president used his State of the Union address to again call for more investment in infrastructure, a $40 billion Fix-It-First" program and a "Partnership to Rebuild America" — proposals with few details yet and no clear mechanism for funding those plans.
In the past, Obama has endorsed using savings from winding the down the military operations overseas — the "peace dividend" — to revamp the county's roads, rails and ports. That idea has been derided as a budgetary gimmick by Republicans, and the president, along with Congress, has yet to seek an increase in the gas tax or any other fee that infrastructure desperately needs.
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly described recent comments from Boehner.


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For all those women who carry an hour glass body shape, shopping for right clothes might seem to be a big challenge. If you get the right size, the design is not convincing, and then there is some mindset about color combination, which makes it even tough to shop. Fashion is all about freedom to wear what you want with confidence. So, the first thing you should remember is not to go by what is being followed from ages. Wear your own style. Don't hesitate to buy dresses that in others opinion is 'not meant for plus size women'. If you fall in the same category and you feel stressed whenever you open your wardrobe or go for shopping, then the below amazing tips will help you enjoy dressing and shopping.
Tip 1- Look for a Nice Tailor
It often happens that just due to minor fitting problems, we have to reject the dress. Well, if you have a good tailor, you don't have to do that. When a little alteration can help you to fit in the dress you liked, why not just pick it. Look for a tailor who is expert in alterations. This might demand spending some extra money, but it's worth. So, the dresses which you had put out of your shopping cart can now be in your closet with this idea.
Tip 2: Don't Compromise with Your Undergarments
Undergarments make a lot of difference to your outfit and posture. Make sure you invest in a good fitting brassier. It will enhance the look of your clothes, improve posture, and some even can make your look toned. You may find it little too much to spend on a high quality brassier, but trust that it is one investment for which you will never feel guilty of spending.
Tip 3: Do Explore New Trends and All Stores
If you have the habit of passing by the stores thinking that they will not have your size and type of clothes then give yourself a break. Today, designers and brands are putting all possible efforts to cater to everyone. So, until and unless you try it out, you are never going to know. Don't stick to your staple stores for buying your dresses, explore new stores and brands, and expect the unexpected.
Tip 4: Avoid Baggy and Oversize Clothes
This is the weirdest fashion myth that plus size women should go with loose fitting clothes only. It is absolutely wrong. Baggy clothes make you look even more oversize. For hiding the body curves, many women prefer oversize clothes. However, there are other strategic clothing techniques that can solve the purpose.
Tip 5: Hairstyle, Makeup, and Accessories
According to the style of your dress, figure out which hairstyle can best highlight your features. It is important to do some makeup also to complete your look. Stick to basic makeup, never overdo. Lip gloss and little eye shading should be sufficient. Finally, accessorize your clothes with complimenting add-ons.
Above all, be confident of whatever you are wearing. You should be comfortable in your attire, only then it will appeal to others. Follow your fashion instincts rather than following the herd. If you know how to do it right, then you don't have to look for 'the right'.


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A few safety reminders for attending conferences or #rwa12
I travel a lot for Harlequin and I stay in a lot of hotels. I also go to a lot of conferences, and I see attendees doing some unsafe things, probably without even knowing, at every single one of these conferences. So as you prep for #rwa12, please keep these things in mind
1) After you get your room keys, do not, under any circumstances, keep them in the package that has your room number on it. Once you get to your room, throw that little envelope away in your hotel room bin (don't toss it in a trash in the lobby, just to be on the safe side, either). It's so easy to lose this envelope, or if you have your purse or bag stolen (god forbid) you don't also want to give the thief free access to all of the possessions in your room. Memorize your room number and keep your room keys somewhere else in your purse or pocket. Not in the envelope.
2) As soon as you know you're leaving the hotel, take off your name badge. There are a variety of reasons behind doing this, but all of them are meant to keep you safe and from being a target. Gently remind the people with you to take theirs off as well.
3) Know where the stairs are in case of a fire alarm. Yes, it's a running joke that the fire alarm seems to always go off at RWA, but even so, there is always the very real possibility that it's a genuine fire. Don't get caught not knowing which direction to go. If you're not sure, there's a map on the back of your hotel room door, but scope it out ahead of time. It only takes a minute and it could literally save your life.
4) Keep your valuables in the safe in your hotel room. Jewelry, ereaders, cash, small laptops. Anything you're leaving in the room while you're not there. And even if you decline housekeeping, don't assume no one will be coming into your room. You'd be shocked at how often hotel employees may have reason to enter your room (checking air conditioning filters, restocking the minibar, maintenance issues, etc.) there are also other people who might enter your room (see #5)
5) And on that note, when you ARE in your room, put the security bar (you know, the one you always forget to take off before you open the door. Or is that just me?) on. As I said, hotel employees often have reason to enter your room, and it's my experience that they rarely actually give you enough time to get to the door after they knock. You don't want them walking in on you at any time, though especially while in the bathroom, changing, napping or doing other, er, more intimate things. Not only that but hotels often mistakenly assign rooms more than once so it's entirely possible they could give someone the key to your room–and your possessions. I have twice been given the wrong room and I know others have as well. Never assume your room is a totally safe haven, free from others entering, because it is not.
6) This is common sense but…if you're leaving the conference hotel to go drinking, please have at least one person who's staying relatively sober, who can make good decisions for getting everyone safely back to the hotel, keep an eye on everyone while they're drinking, and basically make sure nothing tragic can happen. The same things that can happen to us at the bars at home can happen at the bars in the conference city.
7) and on that practical note, here's another that every college-age girl knows: whether at the bar in the hotel, at the bar somewhere else, do not, under any circumstances, leave your drink or drinks unattended, or accept drinks from strangers. It should come direct from the bar staff, bartender or one of your friends. If a stranger hands you a drink, decline politely. If you all want to go dance, finish your drinks and get fresh ones when you get back, or leave someone to guard them. You guys know this, but I see people treat their time at conferences like it's life in a bubble, not the real world. Don't do that.
8 ) Last, be cautious about sharing your room number. Of course you can tell your conference buddies where to meet you. Just don't shout it across the bar, okay?
I know I'm forgetting some important tips but I've covered some of the key things I've noticed at conferences. Please share your conference or travel safety tips in the comments.


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George's 27 Points Lead Pacers Over Celtics 97-82
The Boston Celtics played a sloppy second half and the Indiana Pacers made them pay.
Down by eight points at halftime, the Pacers charged back for a 97-82 win Friday night behind 27 points from Paul George to improve the best record in the Eastern Conference.
Indiana (11-1) trailed at halftime in nine of its games. Its latest comeback was helped by Boston's 16 turnovers in the second half, leading to 23 points.
"Our starters, as a unit, have a gear defensively that they can reach that's pretty special," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "They hit that in the third and took control of the game."
The Pacers shut down Jordan Crawford after he made all eight of his field goal attempts and scored 19 points in the first half. He finished with a season-high 24.
"I think probably I was lackadaisical," he said, "disappointed in myself, didn't complete the game."
Crawford committed six turnovers in the second half when Boston, which hit 59 percent of its shots in the first half, connected on just 40 percent.
"We passed (the Pacers) the ball too much," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "That probably had a lot to do with our shot selection."
Trailing 50-42 at halftime, Indiana outscored Boston 25-8 in the third quarter to take a 67-58 lead. It was the Celtics' lowest scoring quarter of the season, worse than the 11 points they had in the second period of a 93-87 loss to the Toronto Raptors on Oct. 30. The Pacers kept rolling with a 30-24 fourth quarter.
George had 22 points in the second half.
"Whatever the circumstance is in the first half," he said, halftime "is the time for us to re-evaluate what's going on."
David West and Luis Scola each had 17 points for Indiana, which had lost its previous four games against Boston. Lance Stephenson had 10 points, 10 assists, 11 rebounds and four steals.
"We need to come out and destroy teams early," Stephenson said. "We can't rely on the second half to win the game."
Jeff Green scored 20 for the Celtics, who lost their sixth straight to drop to 4-10 after winning four in a row.
The rebuilding Celtics played impressively in the first half against a team that had won five of its first 11 games by at least 10 points. But Boston had more turnovers, nine, than points in the third period. And West outscored Boston's entire team in the quarter with 10 points.
"Our guys' energy level, enthusiasm and intensity was really the difference" in the second half," West said.
The Pacers took their first lead since 7-6 on a tip-in by Roy Hibbert that made it 55-54 with 5:48 left in the third quarter. Green's two free throws gave the Celtics the lead again. But they never got it back after George's 3-pointer with 4:05 left in the period began a 10-0 run that gave Indiana a 65-56 lead.
Stephenson followed with a layup, George hit a 20-footer, West made a short bank shot and Ian Mahinmi sank a free throw.
The surge began after Crawford missed for the first time on a jumper from the left corner with 4:15 remaining in the third. He had made his first nine shots and both free throws.
"We didn't play with the same intensity that we had in the first half," Boston's Jared Sullinger said.
The Celtics had taken their biggest lead of the game, eight points, on Crawford's 30-foot 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer.
Boston sank 59 percent of its shots in the half, while Indiana hit 44.4 percent. But in the third quarter, the Celtics hit 21.4 percent (3 of 14) to 42.3 percent (11 for 26) for the Pacers.
Indiana had won its first nine games before struggling as it began a three-game road trip. It lost to Chicago 110-94 then went to overtime before beating the New York Knicks 103-96 Wednesday night.
The Celtics were coming off a loss to another team that began Friday night with a 10-1 record. They lost at San Antonio 104-93 Wednesday night.
NOTES: Boston forward Kelly Olynyk didn't return after spraining his right ankle when he fell under the Pacers basket with 4:15 left in the first half. Stevens said he had no update on his condition. ...The Pacers had six turnovers in the second half, leading to just two points.
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The shutdown is not a game. The shutdown is failure of a fractured government.
Thomas Jefferson was a careful thinker with a super-sized dose of shrewdness. He once wrote:
�If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.�
The wolves have seized control of our collective sheepfold because the citizens of this nation have stopped keeping a careful eye on that bunch of pampered and self-entitled posers.
Nothing brings this issue into greater focus than the current government �shutdown.�
By law, the U.S Congress is required to pass a national budget that goes into effect on Oct. 1 � the beginning of the federal fiscal year. Our government is not allowed to spend money unless Congress first appropriates that money. In fact, spending money without congressional authorization is a felony.
Since 1977, this nation has faced 17 shutdowns � most lasting from one to three days. The longest shutdown lasted from Dec. 16, 1995 through Jan. 5, 1996, a period of 21 days. Even if Congress passes either a budget or a continuing resolution to temporarily fund government, the President can veto either � and spark a government shutdown.
The heart of the issue for the current shutdown is the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has passed a continuing resolution to fund government, but the resolution stipulates that Obamacare�s individual mandate requiring citizens to have health insurance coverage will be suspended for one year.
The Obama administration, on its own authority, has already suspended the employer mandate for a year. House Republicans want the same action for the individual mandate.
When the House sent its bill to the U.S. Senate, controlled by Democrats, that group rejected the proposal with a vote strictly along party lines. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, purportedly speaking for Senate Democrats, has asked the House to send the Senate a �clean� continuing resolution � a resolution that does not interfere with funding Obamacare and does not gut the individual mandate.
When Obamacare passed Congress in March 2010, the vote in the U.S. House was 220-215.
On Nov. 2, 2010, the Republicans picked up 63 seats in the U.S. House and six seats in the U.S. Senate. The shift in House membership was the third largest ever and gave control of the House to the GOP. Evidently, many citizens did not approve of Obamacare and voted out a number Democrats who supported the bill.
So we have divided government � the GOP controls the House, the Democrats control the Senate and the Presidency. The officials that the citizens of this nation pay to represent us cannot even agree on modest continuing resolutions to keep national parks and war memorials open.
I have no doubt people on both sides of the aisle have sincerely-held ideological views, but the job of every one of them is to represent the interests of the American people, not the interests of their ideology nor the interests of the groups that support their reelection bids.
The shutdown is not a game. The shutdown is failure of a fractured government. If those who presently �represent� us cannot figure a way to resolve this impasse, then the voters should throw out all of 435 House members and a third of the Senators during the mid-term elections in 2014.
The voters have the power to put these wolves on the endangered species list.
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The Power Of Suggestive
Attention Parents: Today's post contain adult humor - albeit extremely childish adult humor.
You know how it goes: you see something, you choke back a laugh, you look around to see if anyone ELSE is laughing, you note that no one is, and then you figure your mind is just in the gutter and you're the only one who sees something a little iffy about the sheep bone on this one-year-old's cake, for example:
[Photo removed at baker's request. (Although *she* thought it was funny; the client did not.) Instead, please enjoy this lovely picture of Epcot. And then imagine a sheep holding a giant dog bone at hip level.]
Doooo yoooour "bones" hang low?
Do they dangle to and fro?
Can you toss 'em in a sack?
Do they startle little Bo?
The point, my fellow gutter-minded friends, is pointing skyward at the moment - and a little to the right.
But in a more metaphorical sense, the point is I understand. Call it a hazard of the job, but I, too, often see giggle-inducing unmentionables where others see, say, unusually shaped "flowers:"
{Insert stamen joke here}
And I'm forced to wonder just how curious Curious George has become to warrant a giant censor dot:
Of course, some people are even further down the gutter pipes than I am, as evidenced by those of you (John) who felt this less-than-ladylike graduation bear deserved a mention - or at least a longer gown:
Sew Unseamly! Someone get this bear a Barely There Censor Bear, STAT.
(Btw, I've heard of a nip slip before, but what do you call this?)
(No, wait - don't answer that. There are innocents present.)
Ok, I know that one was a stretch - [rim shot!] - but tell me you're not in the LEAST bit curious why a baker decided to do this:
Maybe it's a pun: you know, a trunk down the Gingerbread man's trunks? But then, why does the elephant look so unhappy?
Again, probably best if you don't answer that.
Ever see a cake so cute you just want to squeeze it?
Yeah, I'm feeling the exact opposite of that right now.
And then there are the cakes that cross over from vaguely disconcerting into outright cringe-inducing:
And... [whimper]... is that a pearl necklace?
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Thanks to Anony M., Beth B., Carrie C., Patrick V., Katie Q., Cindy K., & Lesley W. for ruining the song "Butterfly Kisses" for me. No, wait, that was already ruined. Never mind.
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Liko MasterVest is a versatile lifting aid and an excellent help for toilet visits, standing training, gait practice mobility training and putting children in to standing tables.
MasterVest allows you to achieve objectives that are often difficult to reconcile, namely:
Severe strain injuries often result from manual lifting and transferring to and from the toilet. With MasterVest, this type of transfer can be accomplished easily and smoothly, while at the same time leaving the lower body free for dressing and undressing.
MasterVest lifts around the upper body and partly under the arms, a lifting principle that presupposes a certain degree of body stability, since the patient supports some of his/her body weight via the legs and feet.
MasterVest is available in two fabrics, polyester and plastic-coated net (certain sizes only). The plastic-coated net vest has good friction and can be used in a wet environment.
The front-fastening vest, Liko MasterVest model 64, is used in cases where the patient is using MasterVest on his/her own.The front-fastening MasterVest is equipped with two variable safety clasps that enable tension adjustment and regulation of pressure on the chest.
The leg harness is commonly used in combination with MasterVest for gait training. It helps to keep MasterVest in place during use.
The upper body narrows during raising, so don't choose a vest that is too large. Certain sizes of MasterVest can be specially ordered with removable synthetic sheepskin. Consider a larger size in this case.
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Looking forward to an exciting week discussing learning analytics next week! We (SoLAR, IEDMS and others) are organizing a Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI). A call for attendance was held earlier this year and the event was/is (massively) oversubscribed. We were only able to accept 100 attendees due to space and cost constraints. Since then, we have heard from numerous disappointed individuals. In response, LASI is organizing a series of local events and live-streamed keynotes.
We have an outstanding program:
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Old Etonian Cocktail
2 Dashes Orange Bitters. (Angostura Bitters)
2 Dashes Crème de Noyau. (2/3 barspoon Rowley Noyau)
1/2 London Gin. (1 1/2 oz North Shore Distiller's No. 11)
1/2 Kina Lillet. (1 1/2 oz Homemade Lillet Clone)
Shake will and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze orange peel on top.
Lot of homemade shit in this one, eh?
Now you know when you get liqueur in a bottle as confidence inspiring as the above, you are in for a treat.
Matt Rowley, being the fearless man that he is, made a batch of Noyau earlier this year: If I had a Hammer. The minute after I read his post, I had an email out to Rowley asking if he was interested in a trade of Noyau for Nocino. He was amenable and soon a bottle of Noyau appeared in the mail.
Zyklon B or no, it is tasty stuff. If you don't have an enterprising friend like Rowley, the usual substitution of Amaretto will likely be fine.
The cocktail is one of the more pleasing in recent memory. The bitter almond and cherry-like flavor of the Noyau combines quite well with the slightly sweet oranginess of the Kina Lillet Clone. I can only imagine it would be tastier with Cocchi Americano.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Designated 15-minute parking in the main hospital parking lot makes it easy to pop in, and we'll give you a magnet to remind you to come back next month. This drop-in clinic is staffed by Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center nursing leadership who will take your blood pressure and give you a wallet-sized card to track your numbers each time you have a screening.
It's important for all adults to know your blood pressure. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a condition in which the force of blood against artery walls is too strong. Over time, high blood pressure can damage the arteries, heart, and kidneys and can lead to heart disease and stroke.


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The patient is 85 years old. He is scared. He's in pain. He needs surgery if he's to live. A situation this volatile could easily turn frantic. It could, in the wrong hands, be terrifying.
But this photograph feels not only calm, but somehow beatific. Everything about the man carrying the patient — the expression on his face, his evident strength, the competence of his grasp — says, Here is a person familiar with crisis; here is someone who will not panic.
He is, in fact, a general practitioner named Dr. Ernest Ceriani. In 1948, he was the subject of a groundbreaking photo essay in LIFE magazine, "Country Doctor," by the great photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. Smith spent three weeks in Kremmling, Colo., chronicling the day-to-day challenges faced by the indefatigable Ceriani. But no picture in the entire essay — one of the greatest photo essays ever to appear in the pages of LIFE — captured the doctor's commitment, his compassion, his kindness, quite like this photograph does.
[See the full "Country Doctor" photo essay, plus previously unpublished pictures.]
Born on a sheep ranch in Wyoming, Dr. Ceriani attended Chicago's Loyola School of Medicine but opted not to pursue a medical career in the big city. In 1946, after a stint in the Navy, he was recruited by the hospital in Kremmling, Colorado — a ranching community on a 7,000-ft. plateau beneath the towering Rocky Mountains. He and his wife Bernetha, who was born in Colorado, settled into the rural town. Dr. Ceriani was the sole physician for an area of about 400 square miles, inhabited by some 2,000 people.
"His income for covering a dozen fields is less than a city doctor makes by specializing in just one," LIFE wrote, "but Ceriani is compensated by the affection of his patients and neighbors, by the high place he has earned in his community and by the fact that he is his own boss. For him, this is enough."
In that quiet instant illuminated in Smith's masterful photo — and in every other photo in "Country Doctor" — Ceriani's essential decency shines through. On World Kindness Day (Nov. 13), we're celebrating his tender, powerful example.