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Opioid prescribing rule and guidelines
BWC's opioid rule for prescribers
Based on Ohio's opioid prescribing guidelines, we developed an opioid prescribing rule effective Oct. 1, 2016. It applies to all BWC-certified prescribers and is designed to help prevent opioid dependence for Ohio's injured workers through its three primary goals.
- Encourage prescribers to incorporate best clinical practices when prescribing opioids for treating Ohio's injured workers.
- Establish provisions and criteria for treating opioid dependence that arises secondary to treatment with opioid medications covered by BWC.
- Provide and strengthen BWC's peer review processes for opioid prescribing that address noncompliance with opioid prescribing and other quality of care issues in our system.
Patient education
- Drug addiction affects all Ohioans
- If opioids have not relieved your chronic pain
- Is my pain medication making me worse?
At-risk patients
If you suspect your patient is at risk for dependency, addiction, or overdose, please consider these resources.
- Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- Risk Assessment Tool
- BWC Drug Tapering Schedule
- Start Talking! Building a Drug-Free Future
Provider education and free CMEs
- The opioid prescribing website offers one free CME hour to providers who watch an hour-long video and accurately complete a questionnaire.
- Washington Labor & Industry Guidelines
Best clinical practices
We will not reimburse for opioid prescriptions written by prescribers who fail to comply with Ohio's best prescribing practices as outlined by the Ohio State Medical Board and reinforced by the Ohio Administrative Code (OAC). The rule reinforces important foundational elements of appropriate opioid utilization and customizes it for our population. Because injured workers have a vulnerability that differs from the general population, an additional level of opioid prescribing oversight is required by prescribers. The rule outlines the details needed for this necessary oversight.
Checkpoints: Tighter controls on duration and daily dose of opioid prescribing, as measured by milligrams of Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED)
Pay attention to the duration of time an injured worker may be on opiates. For example, prescriber dose/duration checkpoints to review pain treatment plans are:
- 50 mg MED/Day for more than six weeks after injury or during the subacute injury phase;
- 80 mg MED/Day or for more than 42 to 84 days;
- 80 to 120 mg MED/Day or for more than 12 weeks for the chronic pain phase.
Opioid treatment programs reimbursed
Be aware of red flags that may arise when treating the injured worker. Fortunately, BWC ensured the rule includes policies for supporting an injured worker and his or her physician if the injured worker receiving opioids covered by BWC wants to stop using them. BWC will reimburse for opioid treatment programs that include medication assisted treatment, behavioral and psychological counseling and inpatient detoxification. If necessary, BWC will reimburse for up to 18 months as long as the injured worker follows the plan developed collaboratively with his or her physician. For added safeguards, this rule allows the injured worker to relapse twice during the 18-month period. In addition, the injured worker may complete these programs without adding drug dependency as an allowed claim condition as long as the injured worker has a treatment plan.
Peer review
Peer review will now be included as a new component of utilization review for BWC prescribers as outlined in the rule. Although this process falls outside our progressive disciplinary process, it similarly could result in BWC decertifying a physician.
For more information about this rule, email BWC pharmacy benefits.
Opioid prescribing guidelines
Ohio's opioid prescribing guidelines are designed for physicians treating patients with chronic, non-terminal pain. They're based on data that shows patients who receive higher doses of prescribed pain medications are at an increased risk for addiction or overdose.
BWC recommends that all prescribers follow this step-by-step process when prescribing opioid analgesics and managing your patient's pain treatment. When managing opioid analgesics for more than 12 continuous weeks, prescribers must:
- Review and follow the Ohio Administrative Code Chapter on Drug Treatment of Intractable Pain (OAC 4731-21). Notice the documentation requirements of a thorough medical evaluation, informed consent, an individualized treatment plan and an evaluation by a specialist in the body area perceived as the pain source. Incorporating the four A's of chronic pain treatment is required in your assessment;
- Analgesia
- Activities of daily living
- Adverse side effects
- Aberrant drug-taking behaviors
- Review the patient's progress towards treatment objectives and provide ongoing assessment of the patient's functional status, including the ability to engage in work or other gainful activities, quality of life, etc. Multiple validated tools to monitor functional status are available;
- Register in the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) and use the OARRS data as an additional check on patient compliance. Remember this is required by BWC rule;
- Monitor for an 80 MED (Morphine Equivalent Dose) per day trigger at which point you should review the treatment plan and gauge its effectiveness and safety. Use the 80 MED trigger to assess addiction risk or mental health concerns, including the need to refer to an addiction medicine specialist if appropriate;
- Establish a pain agreement that includes prescribing parameters and expectations. For example, the patient should engage only one physician and utilize one pharmacy for long-term opioid analgesic medication management;
- Perform an opioid risk assessment. There are several risk assessments available that can be found online;
- Consider a urine drug screen when appropriate. Note: OAC 4731-21 requires chart documentation of drug-screen results when obtained;
- Educate the patient on the potential adverse effects of long-term opioid therapy and include written handouts/materials in the process;
- Communicate with involved healthcare providers as part of the essential steps in the process.
Important: On Oct. 1, 2016, BWC moved to a 60 MED trigger and a six to eight week time table to address our unique injured worker population where return to work is paramount.
For more resources about opioid prescribing in Ohio, click on any one of the topics listed below.
- Ohio's Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
- OAC Drug Treatment of Intractable Pain
- Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS)
- BWC Drug Testing Policy
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- Power to the People: Using Technology for Government/Citizen Innovation Dustin Haisler, Paul Pluschkell
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The rise of Government 2.0 signals the emergence of IT innovation and the Web as a platform for fostering efficiencies within government and citizen participation. How can we harness these innovations to decrease waste and increase productivity? Gov 2.0 Expo brings stakeholders together to explore transformative technologies and discover new solutions.
Watch Tim O'Reilly's 'What is Gov 2.0?' webcast
Technology experts at Gov 2.0 Expo give government employees and contractors access to the practical tools, in-depth training, and industry contacts needed to answer the new mandate for transparency, efficiency, and cost containment across 5 topic tracks:
Data is one of the key enablers of innovation, accessibility, and transparency. These real-time case studies and techniques will show you how to demystify the sheer mass of data sets available, overcome systemic roadblocks in getting to open, use open data as the new vehicle for civic engagement, and train the next generation of Web gurus in government.
The social web is evolving into the civic web and how we communicate is changing rapidly. Hear from those spearheading innovative projects and learn how to set your social networking and collaboration strategy to improve access to information, build better communities, and increase user engagement.
Doing more with less, government agencies are learning ways to be nimble and deliver additional services with fewer resources. Get access to the latest creative solutions - from rapid app deployment and meeting increased demands for information to streamlining procurement and pioneering new models of citizen engagement. Lessons can be learned from the smallest city to the largest agency.
Moving your data from internal systems to the cloud raises a number of very serious questions, including will this increase productivity? Am I really going to save money? And perhaps most importantly, is it secure? In this track you'll learn how to effectively and securely use the cloud to drive efficiency and cost savings across a wide variety of IT projects.
Innovation is the heart of Government 2.0 and it's happening all around us. Every day new technologies, best practices, and thought leaders emerge in the marketplace. Hear about interesting topics and different ways of thinking that can help provide immediate as well as long-term benefits.
Join us May 25-27, 2010 at the Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC for this groundbreaking convergence of public/private sector and civic engagement.
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Insight and Learning
Having the right skills to open doors to meaningful, lasting employment or business ownership is critical. We launched Skills to Succeed in 2009 to address this need and to advance employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in markets around the world. By mobilizing our people, partners, clients and others, we strive to make a measurable and sustainable difference in the economic vitality and resilience of individuals, families and communities.
Together with our network of strategic partners, we plan to equip over 3 million people with the skills to get a job or build a business by the end of fiscal 2020. As a part of this, we will increase our focus on the successful transition of individuals from skill-building programs to sustainable jobs and businesses, and bring together more organizations across sectors to create large-scale, lasting solutions aimed at closing global unemployment gaps. To read more, please access our 2014 Corporate Citizenship report.
To attain these goals and maximize the collective impact of our programs, we need to make the sharing of insights a core component of our global network of skilling practitioners. We seek to actively learn from one other (as a "learning practitioner network") and build an evidence base of solutions that work to drive outcomes at scale. Our goal for this S2S learning practitioner network Insights & Learning site is to be an enabler for this collective learning process—to help us learn, connect, and innovate together.
The Skills to Succeed Insight and Learning Agenda communicates the insights we seek as we build the actionable evidence base of what's working and what's not to take demand-led skilling to employment and entrepreneurship outcomes to scale. In this process, we are aiming to address key topics that represent gaps in our collective understanding. We have defined a set of learning questions to guide our research on these topics. We will build out deeper evidence based on key evaluation criteria: relevance, differentiation and potential for impact. These are:
What skills will be required to transition jobseekers and entrepreneurs (particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds) to experience sustained Skills to Succeed outcomes at scale in the 21st century?
How can we design training and other workforce enablement programs to build needed skills and competencies, and then support transitions from skilling through to sustained employment and entrepreneurship outcomes at scale?
How can we scale and then sustain large programs over time to maximize Skills to Succeed impacts?
How can we measure and track outcomes in a way that improves performance?
Our expectation is that the insights we gain by addressing these research questions will be leveraged by current projects and will inform future investment decisions, with the objective of deepening and accelerating Skills to Succeed's impact on creating meaningful, lasting employment or sustainable business ownership for disadvantaged populations.
Insight to Action: Paving the Pathways to Employment
We are pleased to share with you the Skills to Succeed Insight to Action: Paving the Pathways to Employment report. Based on in-depth interviews with over 75 practitioners and subject-matter experts, an online survey of over 30 subject-matter experts and an extensive literature review, the research highlights new imperatives for workforce development practitioners, key success factors needed to drive positive outcomes and a tool that can help practitioners to assess their current capabilities to support continuous improvement and innovation. We hope these insights help organizations achieve sustainable employment outcomes for their clients and communities.
One of the ways of building an actionable evidence base of 'what's working and what's not' in driving demand-led skilling to employment and entrepreneurship outcomes at scale, is through our insight bytes. After harnessing the considerable amount of publicly available information, as well as experience and practices of our Skills to Succeed network and beyond, this content has been synthetized into actionable insights that our practitioners can adopt to improve performance for jobseekers and entrepreneurs. The insight bytes encompass practical and relevant tools, guidance and techniques in accordance to our key Insight and Learning topics. Insights harnessed from relevant events and conferences are also featured.
In January 2016, Accenture held an interactive Insight to Action virtual event attended by more than 120 workforce development professionals from the Skills to Succeed practitioner network. In this session, we shared the recently released 2015 Baseline Report published by the Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE) Coalition, and, building on the report findings, we explored ideas for addressing youth unemployment.
Panelists: Manuel Torres (Accenture Health & Public Service, Managing Director), Dr Nicole Goldin (Author of the report, World Bank), Shahida Begum (Save the Children, Director for Youth Livelihoods Program), Angie Kamath (Per Scholas, Executive Director for Social Ventures), Rohati Chapman (YBI, Director of Partnership and Programs).
The replay can be found here.
The summary publication can be found here [PDF]
On the 23rd of July 2015, Accenture held an interactive Insight to Action virtual event with over 200 skilling professionals from the Skills to Succeed practitioner network. In this session, we shared Accenture's latest research and reflections on the Workforce of the Future, and explored what this means for skilling professionals
Panelists: Nate Boaz (Accenture, Director of Talent Strategy), Yaarit Silverstone (Accenture, Director of Global Talent Practice), Jamie McAuliffe (Education for Employment, President & CEO), John Trew (Plan International, Youth Employment Initiatives Lead)
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There are a lot of regrettable movies that have been chosen as nominees for Best Picture at the Academy Awards over the years. Bad movies. Horrible movies. Movies that cause you great anger because they are so breathtakingly awful. Sometimes, these movies even manage to win it all (coughCrashcough). Up until this year, the number of truly bad Best Picture nominees has traditionally been limited to one or two slots every year, usually reserved for films produced by Harvey Weinstein.
But with the news that the Academy has decided to expand the Best Picture category to a stunning TEN nominees, you can expect those regrettable nominees to become much more abundant -- and in a hurry. Because one of the things people haven't talked about in the wake of that announcement is the fact that Hollywood is now producing fewer movies to cull those ten nominees from. Far fewer, in fact.
Remember, Hollywood had a writers strike two years ago. Given that two years is the average time it takes for a film to be developed, produced, and distributed, that industry-wide shutdown finally manifested itself in the number of releases this year. Case in point: this March article from Variety that detailed the large cutbacks in production of studio films. To the blockquotes:
So far, there are 118 wide release set to open in 2009. That's a 16% drop from the 140 last year…
In October, Paramount said it was winnowing its annual release target from 25 to 20. Sony has quietly reduced its output from 29 titles in 2005 to 20 in 2008. And Disney topper Bob Iger has persuasively argued on behalf of a leaner and meaner distribution slate.
"It's the best thing that could happen to the business," one studio topper says.
It may be sound business policy in a rotten economy, but it could serve to turn the Best Picture nomination process into a laughingstock. Here we have a category that has doubled in size in just one year, a year that also happens to feature a drastically reduced number of films in the wake of labor strife and economic hardship.
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One in every 12 films released this year will garner a nomination for Best Picture. Just one year ago, that ratio was 1 in 28. Holy moly. And the nominees from last year were already arguably the weakest batch to come along in a while. I saw Frost/Nixon. It was like being stuck in social studies class.
To give you an idea of what this expanded category will be like, consider that the Golden Globes has 10 Best Picture nominees every year, split into two categories. Here are some of the nominees they've come up with: Mamma Mia!, The Phantom Of The Opera, Analyze This, Patch Adams, Green Card. Not a murderer's row of excellence.
Here are the top ten potential Best Picture nominees for this year, according to Entertainment Weekly: The Hurt Locker, Invictus, The Lovely Bones, Precious, Up In The Air, Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, Nine, A Serious Man, Up. Now, many of those films could easily be considered worthy of a nomination. I saw The Hurt Locker. It's beyond awesome. But half of those films haven't been released yet. And, if you know the Academy, you know any number of worthy films will be snubbed in favor of a movie that blows but has a healthy Oscar marketing budget.
So keep an eye out as we get into this as this Oscar season kicks into high gear with prestigious release after prestigious release. Those ten slots have to be filled, regardless of whatever Hollywood decides to pump out. And there's a very good chance that the resulting pool of nominees further erodes an awards show that was already in dire need of MORE credibility, and not less.
Drew Magary is the author of Men With Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook and a writer for Deadspin.com.


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Skinnytaste. They looked like a perfect summer crock pot meal (unlike the soup I'm making tonight...oh well :-) and really hit the spot. The chicken was spicy but paired perfectly with the cool crisp lettuce leaves and veggies. We used light ranch in ours since we had that on hand and I made quesadillas with the leftover chicken the next day for lunches. Super yummy!!!
For the chicken:
24 oz boneless skinless chicken breast
1 celery stalk
1/2 onion, diced
1 clove garlic
16 oz fat free low sodium chicken broth
1/2 cup hot cayenne pepper sauce (I used Frank's)
For the wraps:
6 large lettuce leaves, Bibb or Iceberg
1 1/2 cups shredded carrots
2 large celery stalks, cut into 2 inch matchsticks
optional: blue cheese crumbles, light blue cheese or ranch dressing
In a crock pot, combine chicken, onions, celery stalk, garlic and broth (enough to cover your chicken, use water if the can of broth isn't enough). Cover and cook on high 4 hours.
Remove the chicken from pot,
reserve 1/2 cup broth and discard the rest.
Shred the chicken with two forks,
return to the slow cooker with the 1/2 cup broth and the hot sauce and
set to on high for an additional 30 minutes. Makes 3 cups chicken.
To prepare lettuce cups, place 1/2 cup buffalo chicken in each leaf, top with 1/4 cup shredded carrots, celery and dressing of your choice. Wrap up and start eating!
Servings: 6 • Size: 1/2 cup chicken + veggies (no dressing)• Calories: 147.7 • Fat: 0.1 g • Carb: 5.2 g • Fiber: 1.6 g • Protein: 24.9 g • Sugar: 1.7 g • Sodium: 879 mg
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Tent cities and what they tell us
The blockbuster love story, Slumdog Millionaire, has brought images of a ramshackle slum in Mumbai, India, to millions of American viewers. Although the slum may have been a bit prettified, it did the trick: Moviegoers were shocked, offended and also deeply moved by how the poor of other nations live.
The movie's popularity has inspired a spate of real-life Slumdog articles and broadcasts about slums around the world, from Mumbai to Brazil, to Mexico City. But rarely do U.S. neighborhoods appear in these accounts. Maybe they should.
Most of us like to believe that the closest we ever get to large-scale squalor is just the other side of the Mexican border -- in the dusty barrios of Nogales, the colonias of Juarez and a community in Tijuana that rose up on and based its economy on the city's dump. Surely our nation has enough governmental and charitable safety nets, not to mention land-use laws, to make slums a virtual impossibility here. Or so we like to believe, if we think of this at all.
Yet in recent months, the media revealed a different reality. Outlets from the New York Times to Oprah have carried stories on informal settlements of the poor that have risen up on the fringes of urban areas, including Fresno and Sacramento in California, and Seattle, Wash. These settlements are known as tent cities, a name that for some readers probably conjures up images of mountain meadows or parks covered with North Face nylon, perhaps pitched by revelers at a music festival.
But, as journalist Scott Bransford points out in the March 16 issue of High Country News, these settlements are more akin to the slums of the developing world than they are to group camping. While they can't compare in scale to the slums of India or Peru, they share some of the same qualities. Tent cities are improvised and include dwellings made from all kinds of recycled materials, ranging from plywood and salvaged construction material to placards advertising a big-box, going-out-of-business sale. Though most people may think of tent cities as informal homeless shelters, a lot of residents have come to think of them as home, and they're not moving. They put care into the construction of their dwelling, keep it tidy and place "wipe your feet" welcome mats at the door. The shantytowns develop a sense of community, a culture, and sometimes even their own economies. Often they become strongly rooted in a specific place, much to the dismay of local officials.
In other words, these are not the temporary settlements that the name "tent city" implies. In fact, many of today's Western slums -- let's just call them what they are, why don't we? -- arose not during the bust times, and not as a result of economic collapse and mass foreclosures, but during the unprecedented boom times of the 1990s and the first half of this decade. During our orgy of prosperity, we tended to forget our less fortunate brethren. Social welfare was outsourced to the churches -- alienating non-believers in need of help -- and government aid dried up.
The contrast is stark, for just as McMansions sprouted in the deserts and vacant land around our Western cities, ranks of tent colonies burgeoned nearby. The juxtaposition of the American slum with the American suburb became yet another echo of the developing world, and a tangible symbol of the growing abyss between the rich and the poor in the United States.
Perhaps this deepening foreclosure crisis will leave the suburbs so empty and in need of residents that they will become affordable -- even for the working poor. Perhaps Obama's plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and bolster social welfare programs will lessen the gap between the haves and have-nots. Perhaps we will collectively develop a deeper sense of compassion during these tough times, and lend a hand to those in need.
In the meantime, though, the tent cities aren't going anywhere. They remain a symbol of our collective failure to keep our fellow citizens from being disowned by society. Until we right that wrong, communities nearby will have to figure out how to deal with these slums. They could try to bulldoze them, but that always turns into a public relations debacle. In fact, it's also futile, as past efforts have shown. Or communities could try to accept the new slums for what they are: Tent cities are the new affordable housing in a nation that has lived beyond its means for far too long.
Jonathan Thompson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the magazine's editor in Paonia, Colorado.


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American companies now marketing themselves as "veteran friendly" get a chance Tuesday to verify the depth of their patriotism by simply filling out a survey.
The National Veteran-Owned Business Association (NaVOBA) — an advocacy group for more than 3 million businesses owned by former service members — will release on Tuesday its annual questionnaire to once again assess, grade and name "the 10 best U.S. corporations that work with veteran-owned businesses," the organization said.
The top 10, to be published in the April issue Vetrepreneur magazine, will include only U.S. firms with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to ensure a fair comparison. NoVOBA assembles its annual list by examining how heavily each company uses veteran-owned businesses in its supplier network and by how aggressively the company works to pull veteran-owned vendors into its larger mission and keep them there.
"Being a 'veteran friendly' company — not only in your hiring but also by using veteran firms — is very good press, and companies want to be reflected in that way," said Matthew Pavelek, managing editor of Vetrepreneur magazine. "But I think there's something to be said about the business case: They're getting the best-quality products and services by using these (veteran-owned) businesses."
For companies that choose to participate in the online survey, NaVOBA weights the percentage of small-business contracts that are allotted to veteran-owned firms as well as the total dollar volume paid to veteran-owned vendors.
For any veteran-owned outfits involved in helping boost conglomerates into top 10, there is pressure as well, Pavelek added.
"Wearing your veteran status on your sleeve kind of comes with this inherent responsibility and obligation to the rest of the veteran community to really follow through," Pavelek said. "You run the risk of giving all veterans a bad name if you don't come in under budget or actually accomplish what you were set out to do with that contract."
Some of the U.S. companies that have earned slots in NaVOBA's recent top-10 lists include: Booz Allen Hamilton, Comcast Corporation, DynCorp International, Johnson & Johnson, Life Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and Mack Trucks, Inc.
(NBCNews.com is owned by Comcast's NBC Universal unit.)
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Ever wonder why everyone is so crazed about disc golf? Courses seem to be popping up all over and with the opening of two new courses, Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) decided to do a bit more research on the whole topic.
Ever wonder why everyone is so crazed about disc golf? Courses seem to be popping up all over and with the opening of two new courses, Clean Up the River Environment (CURE) decided to do a bit more research on the whole topic.
Near as anyone can tell, the first noted disc golf course was on an elementary school playground in Vancouver, BC in 1926. Children designed and created their own course and played with lids from tin cans. Throughout the decades the sport has transformed into a phenomenon that continues to grow today.
Disc golf is a fun alternative to getting outside and exercising. A player will walk between 2.5 and 5 miles on an average course. It is a relatively inexpensive sport to get started in that requires a basic 3 disc set that includes a driver, mid-range and putter disc. A basic set will cost under twenty-five dollars. You can play individually or with a party of disc enthusiasts. As a lifetime activity, disc golf may be experienced by people of all ages and abilities. It is a sport that can be played any time of year and most courses in Minnesota are free and open to the public. Rumor has it that they even make discs that glow in the dark.
In 2006, Southwest Minnesota State University installed an 18-hole course on campus that has gone through a variety of transformations. It was started as an activity for students to do during summer orientation sessions and people now play the course on a daily basis and is managed by the Residence Hall Association (RHA). One year later an 18-hole course was designed and installed at Robbin's Island in Willmar. The last two years courses have opened in Montevideo and Granite Falls through funding in part by BlueCross and BlueShield of MN Foundation in the "Connect for Health" Challenge grant that is administered by CURE with the support of local partners. Shortly after the opening of the Sunset Lodge #109 Course in Lagoon Park, Montevideo, and the city of Clarkfield put in a 9-hole course and this spring the River's Edge Disc Golf Course opened in downtown Granite Falls on the Minnesota River. There are also new courses in Canby, Balaton, Slayton, Morris and soon Appleton.
With all of the opportunities to play in the area as well as just over the border in South Dakota, the local partners involved in the Granite and Monte courses organized a two-day, 18-hole tournament named the 2013 Monte-Granite Riverfront Disc Classic. What makes this tournament different that other area tournaments according to Marc Dissell, a Montevideo disc enthusiast is that it is over two days, two courses with a Saturday morning Skills Clinic for those individuals who want to learn more about the sport as well as an evening throwing exhibition at Wegdahl County Park that is sponsored by Frog's on the Footbridge.
The Skills Clinic that Dissell spoke about will have four stations to learn some of the basic skills. Marc's son, Henry Dissell who was the Fiesta Days Youth Champion will instruct the Putting Clinic, Mike Jasperson from Montevideo will instruct the Rollers Clinic, the Backhand Clinic will be taught by Nick Mentele also from Montevideo who was the Fiesta Days Men's Champion and the Forehand Clinic will be by Justin Samson from South Dakota.
Another feature of the 2013 Monte-Granite Riverfront Disc Classic this coming weekend is that it is an opportunity for community members to learn more about the sport of disc golf. The Skills Clinic is free and the first 75 people to register for the clinic on Saturday morning will receive their very own disc. Saturday evening the event at Wegdahl County Park is also FREE and open to the public and will feature a light supper, a disc throwing exhibition and smores around the campfire. For more information about the Monte-Granite Riverfront Disc Classic July 13 & 14th please visit www.cureriver.org or check out our Facebook pages – Monte Disc Golfers, Granite Ridge Disc Golf and CURE MN River or call 1-877-269-2873.


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Christmas Comic Covers - Part 7: International Comics
Britain and the USA aren't the only countries that produce Christmas editions of their comics. I'm not exactly sure how many other countries do, but here's a few festive comics from afar. Starting with the Nemi album for 2002 written and drawn by Lise Myhre, and published in her native Norway. Several of Norway's most popular comic characters such as Pondus and Ernie receive festive editions at Christmas time, in a slim 32 page full colour softback format such as this. (Although since Nemi became a regular monthly comic a few years ago I'm not sure if the character is still awarded a separate Christmas album as well.)
One of Norway's most popular titles, published by Egmont eight times a year, is Herman Hedning by Jonas Darnell. The Christmas 1998 edition is above, which is actually the Swedish edition from where the comic originates. (An identical edition is also published for the Norwegian language.) You'll notice that at that time this 52 page anthology also featured Fingal and Hans Finne, - the Swedish name for my Pete and His Pimple strip. Reprints of this old Oink! strip ran in Herman Hedning for its first year. My Suburban Satanists strip also featured in the comic regularly for several years.
Norway has a tradition of folk tales and one of its most beloved Christmas comics is the annual Tuss og Troll publication. This slim landscape comic is beautifully drawn by another of Norway's top female artists, Solveig Muren Sanden who is now 90 years old and, at least a few years ago, was still drawing comics.
Solveig Muren Sanden is also the artist of Smørbukk, who initially was created as a Norwegian Tintin type of character, although sources on the internet refer to Smørbukk as an anti-hero so I presume he developed somewhat.
Moving to France, and above is the December 1987 edition of Pilote with a rather downbeat cover by "Fred". This adult comic magazine anthology includes some stunning artwork in its 100 pages. The nearest UK equivalent in terms of format (serial strips plus text features on comics) would be our current Judge Dredd Megazine.
Over to Amsterdam for this next batch of covers, starting above with the Christmas 1984 issue of Eppo. The wraparound cover is by Evert Geradts. This 32 page glossy humour / adventure weekly also includes Storm by Don Lawrence, and Colin Wilson artwork on Blueberry.
Another Dutch comic, Kuifje, is their translated version of Belgian weekly Tintin. (Kuifje is pronounced "quiff", hence it being a suitable name for Tintin.) This festive edition is also from 1984 and the cover is by Dany, featuring characters from the strip Roze Bottell.
The same week of December 1984 brings us the wraparound cover to Robbedoes, the Dutch version of Belgian weekly Spirou. (Update: Cover of Spirou also shown, thanks to reader Dave Whitwell.) I'm not sure who drew this cover. You'll have noticed that the humour of these covers is more sophisticated and quiter than those of UK comics. Same goes for the content, which on the whole seems pitched at a slightly older reader than we've come to expect from The Beano or Buster. I'm not totally convinced a European style comic would work in British culture but The DFC seems to be the closest thing to it at present.
Finally, another Dutch weekly, this time from 1987, with popular kid characters Sjors en Sjimmie in their own comic. The cover has no gag, but it's a nice piece of design work.
Next time it's back to the UK for another gallery of British festive covers!
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When I click on the pictures I only get the covers. How can I download the torrent?
- Monday, 15 December 2008 at 14:57:00 GMT
- Flint Lockjaw said...
I absolutely love all these Xmas cover posts. Brings back a lot of memories.
- Monday, 15 December 2008 at 17:31:00 GMT
- Tim Perkins said...
Hi Lew,
I have to agree with Stephen, this is an excellent group of Blogs, especially this last one on European comics.
If we don't speak before, mate...
Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Best Wishes,
- Monday, 15 December 2008 at 23:29:00 GMT
- Lew Stringer said...
Thanks Tim. You too mate. Actually, compiling those Euro covers inspired me to pull your book on World Comics off the shelf and have a browse. Excellent job Tim.
- Tuesday, 16 December 2008 at 00:34:00 GMT
- Lew Stringer said...
Note to "Anonymous": you won't find any torrents on my blog. These are covers only, not the full comics!
- Tuesday, 16 December 2008 at 23:50:00 GMT
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Dennis Lagasse IV was not scared away a bit when he first contacted me in December 2010. Since then he has shared more than 100 pictures his father Lionel had.
This is his latest picture: no. 102.
These are his great-grandparents Pierre Dubé and Emma Sévigny.
They were his grandmother Marie-Louise Dubé's parents (yellow circle). Marie-Louise's sister Olive is in the red circle.
Olive Dubé never married so I have no descendants to search for and scare away.
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On tonight's Adventure Time, the Candy Kingdom is under attack from one of the biggest threats it's ever faced. Sounds like a good time for some introspection, right? Spoilers ahead.
This week's episode drops us right into the action, as the Candy Kingdom is under attack by some sort of giant ent-like creature. Worse yet, Root Beer Guy has been killed in action, setting up a giant force field to slow the creature's progress toward the kingdom.
We quickly learn who's behind the attack, Maja the Sky Witch from last season's Bubbeline-tastic episode "Sky Witch." She's even still wearing the shirt.
Maja shouts to Princess Bubblegum that if she surrenders now, she won't "donk up the kingdom." The tree-beast, who refers to himself as "Darren" (I really love the fact that the ancient primordial force of destruction is named Darren, that's a super Adventure Time thing to do), doesn't agree, and says that he must feed. Maja shrugs, "Well, what can you do?"
We cut to the city's walls, where a cookie named Crunchy is freaking out in terror of the attack. He explodes. Woah, that's a callback. I don't think we've seen that since "Slumber Party Panic." I guess candy people are just really hard to freak out.
We quickly flashback to one day earlier, and see Maja in the dead of night climb to the top of a hill, and use her magic, along with the sentimentality of the shirt she took from Princess Bubblegum back in "Sky Witch" to summon Darren.
Her spell specifically seems to (if the way her incantation is phrased is any indicator) merge every moment of time together, to "awaken the terror of a forgotten age." Then the moon turns into an eye, it's pretty cool.
Darren arises from beneath a hill, and tells Maja that he had a dream of an army which could birth new soldiers from their own blood. He asks if that makes sense, and Maja says "Yes. You want to go conquer the Candy Kingdom?"
He asks what the Candy Kingdom is, and Maja says it's the place in Ooo with more caring and sentimentality than anywhere. It seems Darren truly is ancient, more a primal force of the world than anything (predating the Mushroom War and our own society?) and does not even understand the concepts of caring and sentimentality.
He does, however, want to destroy stuff, and murder people. Both of which he'll get to do if he works with Maja, so hey, that works. He says he wants to destroy all realities, and Maja cuts him off, saying they'll talk about that later.
Back in the present, Darren and Maja are still trapped by a forcefield created by Gridface Princess (who I don't... think we've seen before?). We also see that both Gumball Guardians were deactivated by Darren, somehow. Princess Bubblegum tells Colonel Candy Corn to ready the cannons. In the background, Finn and Jake slip off.
Darren casts a spell to summon a portal which drops giant eggs from the sky, which instantly hatch into creatures called the "dragons teeth."
The monsters rush the forcefield, trying to break the generator. The cannons are effective, but every time they destroy a monster, a new egg falls from the sky. Worse yet, the creatures can apparently just put themselves back together after being blown apart.
Peebles shouts for Finn and Jake, and only now realizes that they've disappeared. She's not happy.
The cannons have run out of ammo, and the monsters are able to overcome the forcefield. PB hops onto a flying goose (this might have shown up since then, but I think this is a callback to "Dungeon"? So many first season references) and flies toward Darren.
Colonel Candy Corn loads himself into the cannons, since they've run out of ammo, and fires himself into the fray. The cookie guards do the same, but Darren sees them coming, and instantly fries all of the cookies with a laser blast from his mouth.
Colonel Candy Corn survives, though, and runs toward the monsters Darren summoned, fighting them one on one.
Write your own Attack On Titan joke here, I don't know, I'm still behind on that particular cultural craze. Theme song's pretty cool though, right?
Colonel Candy Corn and Princess Bubblegum are both quickly defeated. Darren holds PB and her goose down on the ground, and tells her to prepare to be annihilated across all dimensions. He begins charging up his mouth beam, and Maja tells him to chill, because she still needs to harvest PB's feelings.
"What the flip are feelings? Darren understands only life... and death!"
Luckily, just before the final blow is cast, guess who shows up?
The Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant! Oh, and Finn and Jake, I guess.
Dang, when I said I was happy to see him back two episodes ago, I didn't think he'd be like, important here. Cool!
Even more surprising than the show bringing back the war elephant in such a major way, we actually get some backstory on him here too! Turns out that wherever/whenever Darren is from, he totally knows APTWE, who he affectionately calls "Ellie."
"Ellie! Were you asleep forever too? All this stuff is different now. What are we even doing now?" "Yes. It's been a difficult adjustment."
During a fight scene, Maja begins charging a blast to fire at Ellie, but Ellie shoots a laser blast of his own at Maja before she gets a chance. She flies through the air, hits her head on a tree, and—
Ooh. Uh. Yikes.
As the fight continues, Ellie tells Finn that Darren's weakness is his "brain seed." Finn takes this as his cue to get thrown straight into Darren's exposed head.
He is entangled by branches which grab him, but he's able to just stab Darren's brain.
"Thank you." Darren says, as his head violently erupts. Well that's dark.
The portal closes, and the life force of all those he killed flies back across the kingdom, reviving them. Except Root Beer Guys. Poor Root Beer Guy.
You'll always have that one episode, man.
As everyone celebrates, PB asks where Finn is. He's standing where Darren exploded, and he's literally sparkling. PB tells him that he can make the guac for their celebration party, and he says "I'll make the guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccc..." Oh Finn, did you get possessed by an ancient evil again? Between the grass blade and this, you're having some serious problems.
Hmmm. I wonder. The grass blade is a plant, Darren was an ent, could they be related? Eh, probably not. But maybe? But probably not.
So, the day is saved, everyone's going to the afterparty, episode is over, right? Nope, turns out we're only at the 8:22 mark of our 11:41 episode (that's with credits). So what's left? Well, Ellie still has to go on an emotional journey to find himself, obviously.
Ellie asks Finn what he needs to do now, and Finn says he really doesn't know. He says to go do his own thing, and be free, but Ellie says he's only an ancient war machine created to serve its master. Finn says he's more than that, and that he needs to go figure himself out, basically.
So Ellie does. Ellie flies around, and starts picking up psychic commands from things around him, all of which have a purpose. The ant has its purpose pulling a leaf. The baby birds have a purpose to eat the worms their mother has a purpose to bring them. Ellie even starts listening to the thought of the sun, which tells him that it's more ancient than even he is. The sun gives Ellie advice. "How do you light a candle without a match?"
Ellie flies back to the outskirts of the candy kingdom, to Maja's body. Awakens her mind, and tells her that she's in a coma.
She orders him to help her assault the Candy Kingdom, but Ellie refuses, saying he is now both the candle and the match. He says that he will carry her around, be her friend, and keep her alive until she awakens from her coma (maybe).
He lets her see through his own eyes, and she realizes that he's the very elephant who lasered her, putting her in the coma in the first place. She screams for help (within her mind), as Ellie picks her up and flies off with her, but it's no use.
A leaf falls to the ground, psychically sighs that things aren't going according to plan, and a caterpillar crawls up and psychically says he's going to eat it.
Final Thoughts:
Man, this episode was a blast. It's a really great example of just how much stuff Adventure Time manages to fit in the eleven-minute format. Whereas recent episodes like "Betty" (yes I'm on this again) rushed what should have been important plot points, this managed to fit a huge battle scene, backstory on two of the most ancient characters in the series thus far, payoff for previous plot points (mainly from "Sky Witch") and several hooks for future episodes all into roughly ten minutes, without ever feeling like it's breezing over anything.
Darren was an awesome villain. and reminded me in some weird way of Rockbiter from The Neverending Story. Like, an evil Rockbiter. The "thank you" comment was either super depressing (if he's really dead), or super creepy (if he's possessing Finn now).
I also loved the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant's expanded role in this episode, and I'm dying to see what they're going to do with him now. I'm definitely getting a villain vibe off of his actions in that last scene, Finn might've really messed this one up.
The payoff for Maja was excellent, and the character was much more fun than I remember her being the first time around, primarily because I just don't really remember her from "Sky Witch" all that well.
Also, apparently she's voiced by Jill Talley, who is married to Tom Kenny (the Ice King). So uh, there's your trivia for the day.
Overall, just a really strong episode. I can't wait to see where they're going with the threads introduced or extended here.
(This was originally posted to Whereinirant.com. Check out the website for more content like this, including my The Legend of Korra recaps.)


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Here are Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson ziplining on Grouse Mountain this weekend with their oldest daughter. It was straight up summertime weather here in Vancouver over the Easter break. Like over 20˚C (70˚F for you Americans) and glorious sunshine.
Why I love these pictures, apart from the spectacular scenery:
-the daughter happened to look away when Sam and Aaron kissed. Like, ew parents kissing. And, as I'm sure many of you will point out, ew parents kissing and one parent is super young
-did some people who'd no idea they're celebrities wonder why the woman was kissing her son, especially as Aaron, right now, with his hair so short, and dressed this way, looks extra, extra youthful ...while she's wearing mom jeans...?
But that's why they're My Obsession, non? For all these reasons, and the mystery of it all, though for them, it's simply Love -- without boundaries, without convention, without complication -- while the rest of us wonder about all the rest. God I wonder about all the rest. I can't stop wondering. I never want to stop wondering.


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Snowball truffles
Prep: 30 mins Cook: 5 mins Plus cooling time
Festive fun for the kids, these snowy truffles are great to give as gifts and fun to make in school holidays
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Easily doubled / halved
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per truffle
- kcal111
- fat10g
- saturates7g
- carbs4g
- sugars2g
- fibre1g
- protein1g
- salt0.01g
- 200ml double cream
- 200g good-quality dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa solids)
Dark chocolatedahk chok-o-let
Dark chocolate means the shiny, dark-reddish brown treat produced from the cacao bean, theobroma…
- 200g desiccated coconut
Pour the cream into a saucepan and bring just up to the boil. Chop the chocolate into small pieces and place in a large bowl. Pour over the boiling cream, then stir until the chocolate and cream are well blended and smooth. Cool, then set aside in the fridge until the mixture is solid, about 2 hrs.
Scoop out teaspoons of the mixture and roll into small walnut-size balls with your hands. Sprinkle the coconut onto a plate and roll the truffle in the coconut until evenly covered. Will keep in a cool place for 3 days or freeze for up to 1 month.
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Comments, questions and tips
25th Dec, 2012
The messiness is easily solved as long as you don't mind having cubed chocolates instead of balls. They taste the same and still look really good in pretty boxes and are much quicker to make. Simply grease a baking tray and line with cling film before pouring the mixture into it. I then left the tray in the freezer overnight before using a long knife which I warmed under the hot tap first to cut the mixture into cubes instead of balls. Then roll in cocoa as usual.
25th Dec, 2012
Made these as part of a Christmas hamper for a friend plus lots of extras for family and work colleagues, and they went down very well! I made these as well as the other choc hazelnut and mint truffle recipes that are on here, decorated half the batch and froze the other half (without any decorations) in tuppaware boxes spaced out on baking parchment. Froze for about a week, defrosted in the fridge the day I needed them (which didn't long at all!) and just before I needed to decorate them I got them out the fridge to bring them to room temperature (that didn't take long either!). Although messy, it was great fun and I actually found it easier to handle the truffle balls slightly in my hands to "reactivate" the stickiness as I found the truffles picked up the decorations much better for a better coating. Originally used a melon ball spoon which works great though get stuck in their with your hands! Added about three capfuls of Malibu and they tasted great, nice kick to them! Enjoy! :)


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San Francisco police reported minor flare-ups of violence in the Mission District as disappointed San Francisco 49ers fans reacted to their team's loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday during the Super Bowl.
A few people threw bottles at police officers around 24th and Mission streets and 16th and Mission streets following the 49ers 34-31 loss, according to Officer Carlos Manfredi. And as of 10 p.m., police had arrested 25 people, mostly for being drunk.
Police were doing their best to prevent more major calamities; they shut down parts of the Mission to stop cars from cruising and parking, and street sweepers cleaned up any potential fire hazards.
"I think they're doing a great job," said Shanah Ucan of San Francisco. "People are safe, people who want to come out and enjoy what's happening."
The city was much calmer than when the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in October. Back then, several vandals took to the streets, setting fires, breaking windows and torching a Muni bus.
For the Super Bowl, Mayor Ed Lee had worked with police, fire and bar owners to prevent such mayhem from happening on the streets in San Francisco, even asking patrons to not serve hard alcohol and cut customers off if they were getting too drunk.
"It's nowhere compared to the Giants," Manfredi said.
At Pete's Tavern in San Francisco, the mood was definitely somber, as fans clapped their hands to the heads as the Niners lost the game. Still, many said they were proud of their hometown team.
Marvin Miller/ Oakland:
"We're still second place," said Marvin Miller of Oakland. "We are still better than every other team out there. And Harbaugh brought us farther in one season than any other coach did in years. "
Elsewhere in the city, in neighborhoods such as the Haight Ashbury, fans reported a somber mood but no violence. Although in some part of the city, residents felt the need to set off some fireworks, despite the loss.
Lee congratulated the 49ers for their "spectacular performance" despite the 34-31 defeat.
"The entire team demonstrated what you can accomplish with enough perseverance and teamwork," Lee said in a statement. "The journey of the 49ers in their 'Quest for Six' reinvigorated San Francisco Bay Area football fans in a way unseen for nearly two decades."
Bay City News contributed to this report.