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The Diamond is the newest member of the Royal Navy's Daring class of Type 45 air defense destroyers. The Type 45 has been commissioned to replace the navy's older Type 42's, scheduled to retire at the end of 2013, after being in service since the 1970s. All six ships in the new D-class are built by BAE systems. The HMS Diamond, the most recent, began service at the end of 2011. The ships are based in Portsmouth and are expected to remain in service until 2040.
Displacing 7,800 tons, the 152 metre-long Type 45 dwarfs the Type 42's puny 5,200 tonnes. In fact, in terms of displacement, the D-class is the largest escort ship ever commissioned by the Royal Navy. To get all that boat moving, the HMS Diamond relies on a pair of WR-21 advanced cycle modular gas turbine engines and two Wärtsilä 12V200 diesel generators. These allow the huge ship to reach 30 knots at full speed, or about 17 knots under all-electric propulsion. Conversely, the turbines are also outfitted with intercooler and recuperator (ICR) heat exchangers to help reduce the amount of fuel that each 25MW engine consumes.
Staffed by a crew of 190, plus a 60-Royal Marine contingent, the HMS Diamond is charged with providing air defence for the surrounding fleet—swatting incoming missile threats out of the sky from up to 70 miles away using Sea Viper interceptors and its long-range, wide-area sensor suite. Even under the "massive volume of missiles" that Iranian General Mohammad Ali Jafari is threatening, the Daring class is capable of simultaneously tracking and engaging more incoming threats than five of its predecessors could have, even when working in concert, thanks to its Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS).
The PAAMS utilizes 48 Aster 30 anti-aircraft missiles as well as another 48 of its big brother, the Aster 15. These interceptors are incredibly agile, capable of sustaining 50- and 62-g turns, respectively, and can be launched in large numbers to knock down incoming missile salvos. The HMS Diamond can be equipped with the Raytheon Phalanx system for short range defense, and it can support Lynx HMA 8 helicopters armed with Stingray torpedoes. And in the event that something on shore needs to be blown to smithereens, the Diamond is outfitted with a 114mm cannon (that's 4.5 inches of "no, fuck you") as well as a pair of 30mm guns, a pair of miniguns and another half dozen general purpose machine guns.
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Created by a software developer named Jerome Lambert, the website Next Microsoft CEO asks people to vote on who should take the gig after the departure of reigning boss Steve Ballmer, who plans to retire within the next year. And thanks the first law of the Internet—If There Is A Poll, Gabe Newell Will Win It—Valve's boss is leading the pack with 37,000+ votes.
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Kaggle recently ran another great competition, which I was very fortunate to win. The goal of this competition: detect clouds of dark matter floating around the universe through their effect on the light emitted by background galaxies.
From the competition website:
There is more to the Universe than meets the eye. Out in the cosmos exists a form of matter that outnumbers the stuff we can see by almost 7 to 1, and we don't know what it is. What we do know is that it does not emit or absorb light, so we call it Dark Matter. Such a vast amount of aggregated matter does not go unnoticed. In fact we observe that this stuff aggregates and forms massive structures called Dark Matter Halos. Although dark, it warps and bends spacetime such that any light from a background galaxy which passes close to the Dark Matter will have its path altered and changed. This bending causes the galaxy to appear as an ellipse in the sky.
The task is then to use this "bending of light" to estimate where in the sky this dark matter is located.
Although the description makes this sound like a physics problem, it is really one of statistics: given the noisy data (the elliptical galaxies) recover the model and parameters (position and mass of the dark matter) that generated them. After recovering these dark matter halos, their positions could then be uploaded to the Kaggle website where a complicated loss function was used to calculate the accuracy of our estimates.
Bayesian analysis provided the winning recipe for solving this problem:
- Construct a prior distribution for the halo positions , i.e. formulate our expectations about the halo positions before looking at the data.
- Construct a probabilistic model for the data (observed ellipticities of the galaxies) given the positions of the dark matter halos: .
- Use Bayes' rule to get the posterior distribution of the halo positions: , i.e. use to the data to guess where the dark matter halos might be.
- Minimize the expected loss with respect to the posterior distribution over the predictions for the halo positions: , i.e. tune our predictions to be as good as possible for the given error metric.
For step 1. I simply assumed that the dark matter halos were distributed uniformly at random across the sky. Step 2 is more complicated. Fortunately the competition organizers provided us with a set of training skies for which the positions of the dark matter halos was known, as well as a summary of the physics behind it all. After reading through the tutorials and forum posts it became clear that the following model should be reasonable:
where denotes the normal distribution, is the tangential direction, i.e. the direction in which halo bends the light of galaxy , is the mass of halo , and is a decreasing function in the euclidean distance between galaxy and halo .
After looking at the data I fixed the variance of the Gaussian distribution at 0.05. Like most competitors I also noticed that all skies seemed to have a single large halo, and that the other halos were much smaller. For the large halo I assigned the halo mass a log-uniform distribution between 40 and 180, and I set . For the small halos I fixed the mass at 20, and I used . The resulting model is likely to be overly simplistic but it seems to capture most of the signal that is present in the data. In addition, keeping the model simple protected me against overfitting the data. Note that I assumed that the galaxy positions were independent of the halo positions, although it turns out this may not have been completely accurate.
After completing step 1 and 2, step 3 and 4 are simply a matter of implementation: I choose to use a simple random-walk Metropolis Hastings sampler to approximate the posterior distribution in step 3. The optimization in step 4 was done using standard gradient-based optimization, with random restarts to avoid local minima.
Like I remarked in the competition forums, the outcome of this competition was more noisy than is usual: final prediction accuracy was judged on a set of only 90 cases, with an evaluation metric that is very sensitive to small (angular) perturbations of the predictions. The public leaderboard standings were even more random, being based on only 30 cases. In fact, the 1.05 public score of my winning submission was only about average on the public leaderboard. All of this means I was very lucky indeed to win this competition. Nevertheless, runner-up Iain Murray seems to have taken a very similar approach, suggesting there is at least something to be said for looking at this kind of problem from a Bayesian perspective.
Finally, I would like to thank the organizers Dave and Tom, and sponsor Winton Capital for organizing a great competition. Looking at a problem different from the standard regression/classification problems was very refreshing.
I will post the Matlab code for my solution sometime later this week


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|The Hunter Farm Gather Place being unveiled.
The Hunter Family has been an anchor of NE Seattle going back to the 1950's when they first started selling Christmas trees in the Wedgwood neighborhood. They eventually purchased the property at 7744 35th Ave NE from the Wedgwood Presbyterian Church in the 1960's and have been there ever since.
However, for 10 months out of the year, their property has sat unused with the exception of seasonal berry sales and overflow parking from the adjacent US Post Office. Many people who recognized the lack of open space and parks in the area thought that acquiring the site for a community park would be ideal.
|The Hunter Farm site, circa 1962.
In 2011, the NE Seattle community came together with the Hunter Family through a grant received by the Wedgwood Community Council. The project resulted in a wonderful experience for NE Seattle to come together, get to know one another better, and develop a real gather place for community to share. This could only have been done with the overwhelming generosity of the Hunter Family, by making their site available to the community throughout the 10 months where they're not selling Christmas trees.
We hope that the HFGP becomes as cherished in NE Seattle as the Hunter Family already is.


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Marquette University and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design have established a joint cross-registration process whereby undergraduate students from Marquette can register for classes at MIAD. These courses are listed in the Marquette Schedule of Classes under the subject area FIAR and may fulfill a fine arts requirement or minor requirements in studio art or art history.
Registration in the MIAD courses is by permission only, and students must complete a Marquette/MIAD cross-registration form.
The student's request will be forwarded to MIAD for approval at the close of MIAD's early registration process. (MIAD's early registration is approximately two weeks after Marquette's.)
MIAD will process the student's request in the order it is received at the Office of the Registrar. Because approval is granted on a first-come, first-served basis, students are encouraged to submit requests as early as possible.
If approved, the Office of the Registrar will issue a permission number to the student. The permission number will be sent to the student's Marquette e-mail account and can be used to register in the FIAR course via CheckMarq.
Registration at MIAD will be guaranteed for two weeks after the permission number is issued. If the permission number is not used within those two weeks, the student must complete a new form to register for the MIAD course.
Please note: At this time, only undergraduate students are eligible to participate in the cross-registration process. Graduate students will not be given permission to register for these courses.
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Humitas are one of my favorite fillings for empanadas--and if you like corn, it will be one of yours, too. It's also vegetarian (if you make the dough yourself) a welcome variety from Argentina's meat-heavy menus.
Humitas is really an adaptation of indigenous cooking at its most basic--ears of corn, grated fine, peppers roasted over a flame, and onion, chopped and cooked and seasoned with the world's oldest condiment, salt. The dough, and the concept of filling that dough, came over with the Spanish. From those basic ingredients--commodities like flour, salt, and lard--the dough for empanadas was created. Stick the whole thing in a blazing hot clay oven and you'll get the idea of what gauchos were eating. And another testament to the endless creativity born out of necessity that Argentineans have a knack for.
Today's conveniences make this recipe only slightly easier--the old-fashioned way, though a lot of work, is made up for in flavor and quality. As for the labor, which can be daunting in our busy modern times, I found it easier to spread the process out over 2 days. Grating ear after ear of corn on a box grater is tiring, but totally worthwhile. The filling and baking process took place the second day, a faster and less laborious process. If you are making the dough from scratch, that can be done the day before, too.
Try as I might, I haven't yet found a shortcut way to make humitas without compromising taste. But there's a satisfaction in making something that takes more work than pressing buttons on the microwave, a sweetness to biting into something made by hand that took some time, effort, and love to create. Take a look at the other humitas recipes on this blog--Francis Mallmann's Humitas and Humitas en Chala, and join the conversation on twitter and facebook (group page, From Argentina With Love) where we answer questions and have giveaways!
Empanadas de Humitas
Corn and Piquillo Pepper Empanadas
This recipe is yet another version of the other humitas recipes I've made. The major differences are the omission of milk, the addition of cornstarch, and the longer cooking time--all for thickening so the filliing doesn't ooze out of the empanada. I made a dozen empanadas, and then froze the remainder of the filling for another day so I can skip the labor-intensive humita-making, but this recipe easily makes two dozen. Dough made from scratch can last a few days refrigerated, so feel free to space out the process of this recipe over a few days. Also, the filling itself can be adapted to be vegan, gluten, and dairy free.
10 ears of fresh corn
1 medium-sized onion
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup (57 grams) cornstarch
about six roasted piquillo peppers or three roasted red bell peppers
one teaspoon salt, or more to taste
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste
1 cup (80 grams) shredded mozzarella cheese
12 tapas or discos for empanadas, either store-bought or homemade
1 egg, beaten
Shuck the corn, removing all hulls and silk, and rinse the ears under cold water. Then, using the large holes of a box grater, grate the kernels into a large bowl. Rotate the ear around, grating the ear of corn, until all the kernels have been grated off. Slide the flat edge of a butter knife down the edge of the ear of corn all around to release any additional starchy juices into the bowl.
Peel and finely chop the onion, and heat the oil in a medium-sized non-reactive sauce pan to medium high heat. Add the onion and saute until translucent, but not browned, lowering the heat if needed. Add in the grated corn and stir to incorporate.
Bring the corn mixture to a boil (it will just sort of bubble up slowly) and continue to boil, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Add in the cornstarch and stir to incorporate, and continue to cook at a simmer until the mixture thickens, about a half hour. Meanwhile, dice the peppers. Stir the peppers into the corn mixture, then add in the salt, crushed red pepper, and grated Mozzarella, and stir to incorporate.
Remove the mixture from heat and let cool completely, first on the stovetop and then in the refrigerator--this helps a lot in getting the mixture to thicken and make a good spoonful of filling. When the humitas have cooled completely, you're ready to fill the empanadas.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly dust a baking sheet with flour.
Lay out the tapas four at a time on a clean countertop, lightly dusted with flour. Put out a small glass of water for sealing the empanadas, along with a small glass with one beaten egg, for brushing over the empanadas before baking.
Place a heaping tablespoon of the humitas filling in the center of the empanada shell.
Moisten the edge on the top half of the shell with a little water on your finger. Fold the bottom half of the dough up until the edges meet and seal with your fingers by pressing down. The empanada should have a half-moon shape.
Use the palms of the hands to pack the filling firmly in the center. Next, fold the edges with the Repulgue: (Video clip) you can also use this repulgue option: (another clip). Using your fingertip, fold one corner of the empanada over, pressing down firmly. Go to the edge again and repeat, pressing firmly each time. Move around the edge of the empanada and you'll get a spiral pattern. You can also use a fork-seal, instead. Place the finished empanadas on on the baking sheet, and then gently put a few holes in the top of the empanada to release the heat and prevent the empanada filling from popping out.
Paint the top of each sealed empanada with the beaten egg so that when they bake, they have a shiny, golden shell. Put the empanadas in to bake for about 15 minutes--they should be golden brown on top.
Take out and let cool slightly before serving, and eat very carefully while hot!


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OK/TX Pandhandles Expect Tourism Increase (Nov 21, 2012)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma and Texas panhandles expect an uptick in tourism following a two-part television series on the Dust Bowl, what many call the nation's worst manmade disaster.
PBS' series on ``The Dust Bowl'' concluded Monday night. The film by Ken Burns featured interviews with a number of Panhandle residents who lived through a decade's worth of drought and wind storms.
The executive director of the Guymon Chamber of Commerce, Jada Breeden, expects interest in the area to pick up due to the series.
Nick Olson, director of the XIT Museum in Dalhart, Texas, said the series and books about the period will bring people to the region. Olson says many people who visit think the area still has sand dunes. He says the dunes exist but are now grass-covered.
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text: RDS WINTER SHOWCASE RECAP | Red Bulls RDS teams win 18 titles Tweet Red Bulls RDS U-13 © The New York Red Bulls fielded a total of 21 teams in the RDS Winter Showcase and won 18 championships. The remaining three teams finished either as a runner up or in third place, with at least one team from each age group claiming a title. Three Red Bulls RDS teams also won the NYCFC Coliseum Cup and will be honored on field at Yankee Stadium in a victory parade. The RDS Winter Showcase, which lasted from late January to mid-March, featured girls teams ages U-10 to U-15 and boys teams ages U-8 to U-13. The Red Bulls had up to three teams in some age groups due to the depth of the talent pool in some age groups. All players were identified through participation in the RDS and were recommended to play in the Showcase tournament by RDS coaches. As supplementary showcase teams, they play in only one tournament each and then disband so as not to conflict with existing team commitments. All teams play 5 v 5 tournaments at the Soccer Coliseum in Teaneck, N.J. The small-sided tournaments promote the importance of rotating playing positions, ensuring that players learn the demands of the game in every position. Small squads ensure balanced playing time with all players in the thick of the action at all times. Winter showcase performances are used as a means of identifying candidates for the summer showcase teams, which are a more comprehensive select experience, but still occur in off-seasons to avoid conflicts. The next opportunity to earn selection for showcase teams is the eight-week Spring RDS, or weeklong summer camps, which are now open for registration. For more information on the RDS Showcase process, visit the RDS Showcase tournament page. Back to news


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MIAMI — Seven-time Grammy winner Gary Burton is one of the world's best-known jazz vibraphonists. But until late middle age, even Burton didn't know something crucial to his being: He's gay.
MIAMI — Seven-time Grammy winner Gary Burton is one of the world's best-known jazz vibraphonists. But until late middle age, even Burton didn't know something crucial to his being: He's gay.
"I was gay all along," says the one-time prodigy, now 70 and a Fort Lauderdale resident since 2003. "I just couldn't allow myself to accept it. I think I said I was so busy keeping it a secret from everyone else that I kept it a secret from me, too."
Burton recently released a new CD, "Guided Tour," and a memoir, "Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton."
The new autobiography is as much about Burton's musicianship as it is about his being comfortable as a gay man.
"When I came out publicly, officially in 1994 in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR, she asked me what it was like being a gay jazz musician," Burton recalls.
"I gave this statement that I was a musician who happened to be gay. I've been now a more fully out gay person in all these years since then and it's safe to say I feel it's the opposite: I'm a gay guy who happens to be a jazz musician," he says. "I describe it that way because I don't think about music every waking moment. I do lots of things during the day and some days I hardly think about the music at all, if I'm not working that day or playing that day."
Burton grew up in small-town Indiana, teaching himself music. He recalls experimenting with other boys in high school, but not identifying as gay. At a military draft office in 1963, he answered honestly to the question, "Have you ever had any homosexual tendencies?" Yes.
A short time later, he and several other gay draftees were dismissed. "OK, all you faggots get out of here," a uniformed man shouted at them.
The same year, Burton began touring the world with pianist George Shearing. He joined saxophonist Stan Getz's band in 1964, months after they recorded the monster hit "The Girl From Ipanema."
Getz frequently called Burton "faggot," and "Ipanema" vocalist Astrud Gilberto assumed he was gay "since I was the only man she knew who hadn't come on to her," Burton writes. ... "But my real reason for disliking Astrud was that she just didn't sing well."
In the late 1960s, Burton started his own quartet and found huge success. DownBeat magazine named him its youngest Jazzman of the Year in 1968. He has had a 40-year musical collaboration with pianist Chick Corea, and played with modern jazz luminaries including Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett and tango legend Astor Piazzolla.
Burton twice married women, in the '60s and '70s. He and second wife Catherine, granddaughter of famed Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn, have two grown children together, Stephanie and Sam. Two years ago, Burton became a grandfather.
In July, Burton married his longtime partner, Jonathan Chong, 32, in Provincetown, Mass.
Burton, a retired professor and executive vice president at Berklee College of Music in Boston, says coming out has enhanced his musicianship.
"Naturally, your state of mind and your emotional state is reflected somewhat in what you play," he says. "When I go back and listen to early records I made, I don't hear them as being cold and unemotional. But I can say that after I came out, I felt a greater sense of freedom when I was playing."


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Olympics loses tech provider
No medal for Nortel
The London Olympics and its network infrastructure provider Nortel have agreed to split.
The London 2012 organising committee said the contract with Nortel had ended on good terms. The move could cost the Olympics as much as £10m, because as well as providing infrastructure, Nortel was also a "Tier One" sponsor of the event.
The firm has been replaced by Cisco, at the organisers' invitation, but only as a "Tier Two" sponsor. The organising committee blamed the move on the recent sale by Nortel of its wireless business - which Nokia Siemens Networks bought last month.
Organisers said they wanted to work with one company for all of the games' network infrastructure, and therefore the committee and Nortel "amicably decided to bring the current agreement to an end.".
The deeply-troubled, 100-year old, Canadian firm is struggling to survive - it was only just recovering from accounting scandals when the credit crunch hit telco infrastructure spending.
The company only just survived the dot-com crash - lost $19.6bn in one quarter in 2001. Last month it delisted its shares from the Toronto exchange.
The UK business went into administration in January. ®
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This is post #8 for the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories.
Okay, so I got the appetizer out of the way. Now, I'm skipping straight to dessert.
One Christmas about a decade ago, while visiting my mom, I pored over her cookbooks, recipe cards and magazine clippings for the dishes I loved so much growing up. I was finally out of college, with a kitchen I could cook in, and I was desperate to recreate many of those dishes on my own.
Among the recipes I copied down were several for cookies. Chocolate chip cookies were the standard throughout the year at our house growing up, but at Christmas… Oh, at Christmas. That's when all the special recipes were made — gingerbread men, chocolate butter cookies (for the cookie press), peanut butter cookies with Hershey's Kisses on top, molasses cookies, pfeffernüsse (literally, pepper nuts), almond crescents, we made them all.
My all-time favorite holiday cookies always mesmerized me as a child, the way the powdered-sugared crusts of the cookies would split and crackle, revealing the dark chocolate yumminess inside. And all of this was topped with a nonpareil (Now, how do you pronounce that? Non-peril or Non-pair-eye?).
I so wish I had a picture of these cookies. Hmmm… might just have to bake some, so I can take some pics. That's the kind of sacrifice I'm willing to make for you, my readers. In the meantime, imagine these with these on top.
Here is the recipe for Sugar-Coated Chocolate Cookies:
1/2 c. butter
3 1-oz. squares unsweetened chocolate
2 c. sugar
2 c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 c. powdered sugar
1 pkg. nonpareils
Directions: Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees (F). Melt the butter and chocolate in a heavy saucepan over low heat; combine the sugar, flour and baking powder in a large bowl; add the chocolate mixture, eggs and vanilla; mix until smooth (will be thin). Cover and chill for 2 hours. Roll into 1-inch balls and roll these in the powdered sugar. Bake 2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheets for 10-12 minutes. Press one nonpareil onto each cookie as soon as they come out of the oven.
12/29/2009 UPDATE: Picture now available! Just baked a batch of these with my sis:


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New York, January 4, 2012--Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo shut down broadcasts of the French government-funded Radio France Internationale over its coverage of the aftermath of the November 2011 presidential elections, news reports said.
On Monday, Communications Minister Lambert Mende said the Council of Ministers had ordered the "temporary" measure of switching off RFI's six FM broadcast frequencies until the Congolese Broadcasting and Communications Superior Council, the new state-run media regulatory agency, had issued a decision.
The run-up to the presidential elections saw anti-press violence, including arson attacks, against journalists and media outlets supportive of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, according to CPJ research. On November 28, incumbent President Joseph Kabila defeated Tshisekedi although he took less than 50 percent of the votes in the election, which was marred by deadly violence and allegations of irregularities, news reports said. Security forces cracked down on subsequent protests by pro-opposition supporters, but Tshisekedi declared himself president-elect and staged a swearing-in ceremony and a new year's national address, according to news reports. RFI reported on both of these events.
"The government did not at all appreciate the way RFI attempts to trivialize the anti-constitutional comedy of Tshikedi," Mende told Agence France-Press. RFI Deputy Director Geneviève Goëtzinger declined to comment when contacted by CPJ.
"This decision is part of a pattern of closures to punish Radio France Internationale whenever it reports independently on political news in the DRC," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "We call on the Congolese media regulatory agency to break with this pattern of political censorship and reverse the decision immediately."
RFI is the most popular news station in the DRC, according to CPJ research. On December 23, the station's broadcasts were disrupted after it aired information about Tshisekedi's staged swearing-in, AFP reported. The government also suspended RFI for more than a year through 2009 and 2010 over its coverage of the military, and in 2006, authorities expelled RFI journalist Ghislaine Dupont, according to CPJ research.


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A memorable luncheon…
Just came from a very cool luncheon which takes place each year and is hosted by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association.
Vin Scully was receiving the President's Award from the organization and Jim Hill was put into the Hall of Fame and both gave very moving speeches but the event turned into an impromptu lovefest for Vin that has rarely been equaled. It seemed that everyone who won an award talked at length about Vin's role in their career and he was clearly humbled by the whole thing. He really is as classy as any individual I've ever been around and we are all very fortunate to have him be the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Other key Dodger people who won awards were Vin for best TV and radio play by play announcer, Jaime Jarrin for Spanish-language broadcaster, Ken Levine for talk show host (he gave props to Josh Suchon, his partner) and Eric Karros for pre or postgame host. We're proud of all of them, and a personal shout out goes to Nancy Mazmanian, formerly of the Angels, who won the "High Five" award. And lots of love went out to the memory of Rory Markas, among others who we lost this year.
Meanwhile, at the same time that event was going on, we had the kickoff to the caravan at USC Hospital and tomorrow and Wednesday, we'll be kicking around town and hope to see you all there.
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Thanks for the new thread Josh!! Sounds like a great time, but then anything involving Vin would be just that.
Way to go Vinny!
In response to the comments from the last thread- :)))!!!!
Kudo's to all the award recipients listed above, and thank you Josh for all you do!!!
Thank you Josh for keeping us informed!
Looking forward to Wednesday! I hope there is no rain in the horizon during the caravan!
Happy February everyone!
I think Ned is the "Crow"!!! Should be dead as a GM, but gets a chance to stay around and correct some gross mistakes!!!! I'd prefer some eye makeup to the cheesy mustache!! JMHO!!!!!
Good early evening all………..
Gotta Love Vin!!
Congrat's to everyone…..
Note to Ned. If your going to wear the cowboy boots, grow the mustache out or cut it off. If you want to keep it like it is, wear fine Italian dress shoes and Armani suits, shirts, and ties!!! I've got your back dude!!!
Go with the later Ned. It's a better fit for you!!! Wyatt Earp you ain't. DePodesta tried that one!!!
And Ned, if you could arrange for a horse head in Scott Boras's bed, I will laud you!!!
Congrats to all who won awards today, although I'm a bit surprised that EK could actually win any kind of broadcasting award. Hearing him use the phrase "No Question" over and over again is like hearing fingernails runs over a chalkboard.
Great to hear about the Caravan. I can't wait to go…oh, wait a minute, I've got to work like the thousands of other people that miss this every year because they hold it at the absolute worst times for those of us the work! Is a FanFest that tough to put together? Does it cost a bunch of money that Frank obviously doesn't have? Anyway, I hope those of you that can make the Caravan have a good time, but will someone please plug the FanFest idea to someone who might care?
OK, Ned and I will set the fashion world on its ear. Paris, here we come.. Now, let's talk pitching!!!!
Cy ~ Since I don't even live in the L.A. area, a FanFest would be a much better way for the organization to go…..that's why even the ITD tour was a fantastic day.
Pitching, who needs pitching! LOL
Obviously, we are not shopping at Nordstrom's when it comes to pitching these days for obvious reasons. Jamie ate up the budget. However, shopping at the thrift stores will very rarely complete the wardrobe. We need to develope our own line. Honeycutt is probably not the best choice to perpetuate your pitching. Sorry!!! For the new, LaColletti line, we should probably seek out, Hershise' or LeGreg (Maddux)!!!!
Hi'Ya Trumom!! We need pitching, sigh!!!!!! Or more precisely, we need more pitching guidance!!!
I know, Jhall. The Dollar Store doesn't quite cut it 🙂
Hey Trumom, I think we have the talent and arms, I just don't think we have the people in place to develope it!!! JMO!!!!
You are right about that, Jhall. I think Honeycutt is highly over-rated.
Trumom, I'm just going by what I've seen the last 2-3 years. I don't see our young pitching progressing. Maybe its Honeycutt, maybe its not, but, I would like to see a change!!!!
Where have you gone Don Drysdale!!! Good God, we need you now!!!
I think he has to take some of the responsibility, Jhall. Billz and Kersh are young but, they do have a few years under their belts and should be much better than they are right now.
I guess we will see Trumom!!! This is a make or break year, IMO!!!
Whoever called Ned a "Crow" was being far too kind. Magpie is my choice, given his scavenger habits and digging up bodies that abuse the olfactory senses. Of course, it's Frank's fault that he is still around.
Frank – the Magpie keeper.
By the way, SELL THE TEAM, Frank!
I agree with the comments that Honeycutt is probably a bit overrated. I also think this is the year for Billz to breakout or maybe we might need to come to the realization that he may only be a really good 3 or an average 2.
However, with Kershaw, we all need to remember that last season was his first full season in the bigs and that he is only 21 years old. He has been in pro ball for 3 years total, I think, and he has been treated with kid gloves. When one looks at his stuff, it is easy to tell that he is special, but he still young in age and experience (can you imagine trying to carry the weight of an organization on your shoulders at 21 years old?). Have some patience and give it time; he is going to be the best lefthander in baseball by the time he is done.
You are right, Cy. Kersh is young. I just think with a better coach, he may be mentally stronger. He definitely has the "stuff". I kind of want the 'No-Fear" factor that Lincecum has.
Bear ~ weren't the magpies of cartoon fame called Heckle and Jeckle? It does seem to fit, doesn't it?
It's official!! The Dodgers signed Johnson……………………Reed Johnson that is 🙂
Thank You Bear!!! :)))
I was exploring my Jamie/sensitive side. You obviously can read between the lines!!! LMFAO!!!!!
LMDO, Jhall!
Good evening all.
So I'm guessing the signing of all the extra arms & catchers isn't to add depth during the season. But to add depth during ST so there are enough players with some going to Taiwan. Most of these guys won't make it to the season.
I complain about the organization having a plan. That will continue if they sign Anderson. If their plan has been to go young then why sign him? I understand having some vets to help out in certain situations but come on now.
I would be okay with R. Johnson. I think he is a Repko type of player. I know Repko isn't an amazing player, but I think he would of been a decent 4th outfielder. I would then keep X Man in AAA for some more seasoning.
I still don't know why they went after Carroll. I would of thought Cabrera to play 2nd with DeMitt as the sub for 2nd & 3rd. Cabrera would of also been a safety valve in case something happens to Ferk and his injury issues he has had since he's gotten older.
I think Carroll is ok but not my 1st choice.
Defense & pitching wins championships. I think we have become worse in both these areas since last season.
So sorry, but I'm still not excited…
Thanks goodness the Giants continue to the path we have been doing by signing 30 somethings to contracts. I remember hearing last season they were going to go young. Well their not looking to young now. Their pitching is great still.
I think the Rox will be good but I think the D-Backs are going to be real tough. They've gotten better just by getting Webb healthy. Throw in getting Jackson and they are formidable.
I think Wally has been hanging out with Eddie too long :))
Collie – I have been paying attention to the gnats and they are making the same bonehead signings we are. What's even more, is their big star isn't even through his arbitration yet so that may dampen their moral as well depending on what happens. I think you are right about the Dbacks. They are looking good if they stay healthy.
I see we have ITDFST going on tonight. 8:26…
Glad to see it's Johnson & not Anderson. I think it was Eric that mentioned that Johnson has a pretty good game. He isn't an all star but he is really a gamer.
Also submission errors. Been trying to post this since 7:51…
Make that 8:37…
So almost an hour to get that post.
Yup… pathetic.
Josh — Can't you get a Geek Squad member to fix this blog!
Collie~ We call it Submission Error H………….. oops……….Satan's Lair,and I have been stuck in it for the last hour or so too. I am thinking the submission errors and the time warping are related so, going back to what Eric has said all along, you would think it's just a matter of fixing the clock. Either that, or they need to call in a better Geek Squad to figure out the problem.
Our time warp is up to 40 minutes now. It started out as only 5 months and months ago now. 8:49pst
I was surfing YouTube and I found this tribute to the 1992 Dodgers:
Remembering all those guys should make me happy. But instead it makes me sick because I immediately think about how that era of Dodgers baseball was thrown away by Fox when they made the stupidest trade in Dodgers history.
I swear I just want to cry.
Please, God, don't let the idiot McCourts undermine these youngsters the way Karros, Mondesi, and Piazza were undermined.
I've been thinking about some of the signings lately, and it is really pathetic that the best thing I can say about them is something like, "Well, at least Johnson isn't Anderson." I thought the same thing about Padilla in terms of the Angels giving Pinero 2 years. If the best thing about the leftovers is that they don't smell as bad as the other leftovers, then those leftovers probably would've been better suited going down the garbage disposal if you all know what I mean.
With all of the yelling and screaming and cursing and non-cursing and differing of opinion that goes on around here, there is ALWAYS one thing that we all agree on: WE LOVE VIN SCULLY! God Bless you Vin. Josh is right. You're the classiest guy ever and we've been unbelievably lucky to have had you around. I have and WILL appreciate every blessed syllable you utter this season.
Back to slamming.
Sorry. It still gets me angry that we're hanging the season's hopes on the improvement of virtually every player on the team instead of going out and getting a difference-maker. And by that I mean Lee or Halladay. There was no one else. We didn't have enough last year and we didn't get better. We'll make the playoffs again and McCourt will stick out his chest and brag that we made the playoffs again and we'll watch someone else carry the World Series trophy around their park again.
Back to a little positive.
The more I read of Reed (see what I did there?) the more I like him. Seems he had his own blog with the Cubs (http://reedjohnson.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/10/1020_thanks.html). Have a look. Those Cubbie fans really seemed to like him and he was only there for year. Granted, I'm already predjudiced with him being a local boy, but I think we're going to like what he brings to the table.
Go Dodgers
Go away McCourt(s)
*and he was only there for two years.
Reed and read – very good Dodgereric 🙂
I was watching mlbtv,and Peter Gammons was talking about our division. He said it is filled with young talent that should be fun to watch,and that our division is up for grabs for any team to take. Well, the Padres really weren't mentioned.
lny4loney – always good to read what you are thinking.
I like Reed Johnson. But a lot of that is because of the one year I played fantasy baseball. I consistently overrate anybody who had a good year in 2006. And '06 was clearly Johnson's career year. Still, I'm going to let that unduly influence me because he's on the team so I want to like him.
Hi Nelly!
Josh, I know Vin wouldn't want it for himself but I hope he will put up with it for the sake of those who love him. As it looks like this will probably be Vin's last year, will you please do everything in your power to get us a Vin Scully Day. Really we need a Vin Scully Week or at least Weekend for all the people who would like to come out and show their appreciation for him, but I'm trying to be a realist here.
I think eric and the others are right in we did not really improve on paper. Maybe Billz and the Kid will step it up. We'll need a good year from Padilla and a healthy Kuroda to compete. I don't think we can ask for much more from Andre or Matt, but maybe Manny will regain a bit of his old form. Maybe. We'll probably see a similar Loney performance, which is not bad. We should be around in the end, but I think we'll need a few lucky bounces on the way, and sign Weaver. What's the hold up? He gave us a major league performance last year.
A teacher asks her students if they are all Giant fans. All but one raised their hands. "Well, who are you a fan of?" "The Dodgers", she said. "Why?" "Because my parents are Dodger fans", she said. "Well that in't a good enough answer, If your paarents were morons, would you be a moron too?" "No, she said, I'd be a Giant fan!"
LMDO!!!! I will make sure I tell that one to Gilbert…………and my hubby and my son :))
Wang is, indeed, still being examined. What fun to have a Wang and a Johnson on the same team, Enchanted. Who knows, maybe we can sign a Peter too 🙂
Good one Tru! LOL!!
I see Ned finally got ahold of his Johnson. I'm sure Torre would like to get ahold of his old Wang too, but even if he does he can't make it go until May.
I'm with Eric – why spend a million here, a couple million there on dubious PVLs that might give you a good game now and then. Save the money and get a difference maker. But as long as Ned and Frank are running the show, every single year we'll always have 10-15 FAs and at least 8-10 changeovers on the 25-man roster. Not that bench players and mop-up pitchers can't be filled that way, but its just spinning your wheels year after year while someone of value goes somewhere else.
LMDO, Enchanted!!!!
I'll mention it about the a Fanfest and I'll pass along what they say.
Thanks for the reminder on the Reed Johnson blog. I had forgotten he has one. Love the name "Reed between the lines"
Happy Groundhog day everyone!
No rain in the forcast in the L.A. area so that is good for the Caravan I asked for a day vacation so that I can attend. I will meeting with my two traveling friends. I can't wait!
I think Johnson and Wang are part of the Peter principle Tru.
I don't think Kemp's anywhere near his potential either Wally. Billz has all the tools, but he needs some mental toughness to make it all come together. Kersh could've easily won 13-14 games last year with some run support.
A lot of reasons to be optimistic about their chances in the West, but not too many beyond that.
Now I'm back on Pacific Standard time…
Surely MLB can afford someone to reset the clock or fix what's wrong with the program so that this blog runs smoothly.
Gotta have a manager that'll actually let them pitch to the 7-8 inning. Torre's worthless in that regard.
Good late morning all……..
Jhall here is your answer to Weaver.
Hello gang!! Thanks for the laughs!! I think Billz is a big key to our season. If he rises to his potential, he could seperate us from the rest of the west and perhaps beyond!!!! Make or break year for Martin. Is he or isn't he a star? I'm not sure. I think Loney will have a break out year.
I'm not sure if Jeff Weaver is still available, but, I would take him as a long reliever and spot starter. He did a good job last year.
Hi, Jhall. I think James will have a great year too. He was good and consistent last year…this year I vision more power from him. Russell, I'm hoping will bounce back. I pray that last year was just one of those things and not a sign of the future.
Hi'Ya Beav!! Agreed!!! Billz and Kersh have to become the second coming of Koufax and Drysdale for us to win it all. Geez, if they can just consistently get to the 7th inning it would be a huge stride!!!!
Hi'Ya Trumom!!! Great stuff earlier. LOL!!! I think Martin can turn it around!!! If not, groom him for 3rd base and develope our young catchers!!!
Of course, Manny, sans the juice, will play a big part in our success!!!
Hi'Ya D4!! Thanks!!!
Thank god the railroads didn't have this much trouble with time management. H*ll, all they had was telegraph and pencil and paper. You'd think in the digital age we could get it right!! LOL!!!
Hey D4! That's what happens when you fill your 40-man roster with a bunch of meadow muffins. Most of the guys Ned's signed you could wait until the end of ST to get if you needed one.
Manny IMO will be lucky if he knocks in 70 for the year. I think he'll pull an Andruw on us, though maybe not to that drastic of an extent. That and his contract will of course lead to being unable to deal him at the trade deadline. And it will be yet another $45 mil wasted.
But at least Frank will have Mannywood.
Frank should have called it Moneywood! 🙂
It's all about concessions and parking my brother!!! LOL!!!
LOL Trumom!!! Franks got a high maintenance wife!!!
Soon to be ex-wife………..and, then she will be even more high maintenance…alimony doesn't come cheap 🙂
Sigh!! So true Trumom!!
Hey again everyone…..The guy I would like to see improve upon last year is our lead-off guy and SS. He needs to set the table, consistently….stay healthy and become the spark of the offense.
Bills and Kershaw do possess the most potential, I sure would like to see them attain some success in that regard. If they can progress as the season goes along and stay healthy, anything can happen.
The PVL's we have acquired are gonna be asked to drive in runners when needed, something we struggled with last year.
I hope DeWitt can show the organization he can manufacture runs, in a hurry. Otherwise it sure is looking like he will start in AAA, to get playing time.
Don't know too much about Repko, I'm sure khali can give us better insight on this though.
Stults is out of options and the Japanese have inquired of him, makes you think the 5th spot is his to lose?
Two rule 5 guy's…vs Weaver……Weaver sure had some grit!
Anyhow….great seeing the comments from everyone 🙂
Lny4…..I think that if everyone took one quality of the many that Vinny has displayed and taught that to a youngster, or just used it for their own betterment…..Everyday could be Vin Scully Day…..But yes showing our love and appreciation at some point would be cherished.
Lets Do It With A Championship!!!
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
We need a "Best Of Vin Scully" DVD – at whatever the price – as long as the proceeds go to whatever charity Vin wants.
That reminds me that I have DVR tapes of tapings of "Sundays with Vinny." He did some great interviews with oltimers and I love the cartoon they used to do there. they moved to a different station after that. I should dig them all up and see about putting it all together.
did you know Reed went to Temecula High School?
Having said that, Reed Johnson (who went to the same high school as my son, although quite a few years ago) has quite a motor. As long as he's healthy, I think we'll like the guy. And he's light-years better than Anderson.
By dodgereric on January 31, 2010 5:55 PM
Dodger4, I am, indeed, a Repko fan, but I seem to be in the minority. The rap against him is he gets hurt and can't hit. He gets hurt because he plays all out, and he can't hit because he's been hurt and never plays. He was a #1 draft choice a few years back as a shortstop. so you know he's an athlete. No one questions his speed, arm or glove. As for fitting him in, Ned has done a fine job of cluttering. With a 12-man pitching staff, the bench would hold five guys, one being Ausmus by default. That leaves four spots (assuming DeWtt as your starter…a BIG assumption in world of Joe Torre PVLs) between Jamey Carroll, Nick Green, Ronny Belliard, Reed Johnson, Doug Mientkiewicz, Chin-lung Hu, Xavier Paul and Jason Repko. Do the math. Who goes…barring injury? If I'm Hu, Paul and Repko, I'm packing for AAA, and if Mientkiewicz (left-handed bat) sticks, DeWitt can catch that flight with the other three. So much for the youth movement.
Add this to your list Kahli……………………….We signed Alfredo Amezenga to play in the outfield and SS
Alfredo Amezenga was just shuffled in there somewhere also khali…..According to TrueBlue L.A..
Guillermo Mota is the enemy!!!!
I like Repko.
Well, at least Amezaga was only signed to a minor league deal. Very low risk for a very low ceiling player. He actually wouldn't be a bad 25th man on a well-constructed roster because he is versatile. Unfortunately, I don't know if I would really consider the Dodgers roster well-constructed.
Cy ~ the construction beams are a little shakey, aren't they? lol
Tru ~ very shakey, indeed.
Is there any injured PVL this derierrehole won't sign?
You guys must read the HomePage and see Joe's plans for resting Manny and Blake. He's excited to have Reed because he can play all outfield positions…..that way he can rest Andre and Matty wouldn't have to relocate position.
He also thinks that by signing Johnson, Repko is the odd man out.
If we are smart, we will not go to any day games. All of our regulars will be RESTING!!!!
I do believe Repko will be out of options after this year. Say bye-bye to a guy who never got a chance. For his sake, I hope he hooks on somewhere and mashes for the next 15 years. Of course, by then, Joe will be long retired, as will Reed Johnson, Jamey Carroll, Nick Green, Casey Blake, Ronny Belliard and Alfredo Amezenga. So ask yourself, is Joe looking out for the Dodgers in the long run…or for Joe and his personal legacy? Yeah, I'm bitter. This parade of PVLs we've seen for the past few years strikes at the heart of win NOW…which, of course, with Ned's cunning and Frank's checkbook, is a pipe dream……in my humble, non-profane opinion.
Weaver signs a minor league contract to remain a Dodger. I actually applaud that move.
I second that!!!
I just read the article on the homepage tru was referring too. I must say that the comments about Manny sound an awful lot like excuses, whether they are from last year or in anticipation of this season…..Let me just say…No Excuses!!!…Not from Frank….Ned….Joe …Manny…or anyone else that can't get it done. The last team standing on the field in October won't be making them….. so lets just find a way to overcome these frivolous, mamby pamby obstacles and be that team.
Maybe Simers is right….maybe we are too soft on these guy's!!!!
My thoughts and prayers go out to the Sanchez family…..
Rest in peace Desiree! I remember her with her bright smile and her beautiful black hair.
My prayers too to the Sanchez family.
Thanks for the article, Nellyjune. Finally some recognition for our Dre and Matty!!!!
I know!! However, I was watching mlbtv last night and this morning, and the panel was saying that the Dodgers have spent less money than anyone in the entire league, and that everytime the Dodgers are approached with players, we tell them we have no money. Like we have said before on here many, many times, how can the team that sets records for attendance not have money to spend. I know……………….it's a hypothetical question because we all know the answer, don't we?
Sell the Team!!!
Here?s Joe?s explanation of why Manny had a tough time of it in the second half of 2009:
"He seems anxious to get started," Torre said. "Last year, missing 50 games [to a drug suspension], his biggest problem was having trouble recovering from coming back in cold. It's not easy to do, especially on a first-place team, taking somebody out of the lineup like Juan Pierre. He felt a lot of pressure and fought himself a lot."
What a crock of number two! ManRam felt a lot of pressure, because he was replacing the MVP Juan Pierre! He was having a hard time filling Juan?s shoes! Or was it he was having a hard time filling Juan?s hat???
Maybe he was having a difficult time hitting, because he had to relearn how to hit without the benefit of performance enhancing drugs?
Come on, enchanted, with Spring Training around the corner, it's time we vent. Just so you won't feel isolated, I'll go first: Frank, Joe and Ned are do-do heads! And Honeycutt is a double do-do head just because!!
I'm OK with the Weaver signing, in fact, I'm not even sure why he should have to compete for a spot after last season, but so be it.
On the otherhand, WTbumpinguglies – Ramon Ortiz?? Another washed-up hasbeen with a lifetime 4.90 ERA, hasn't pitched in the majors since 2007, and hasn't had an ERA under 5.36 since 2004.
I'm not too far from taking the nice-nice gloves off.
I'm surprised it has taken you this long, Enchanted! lol
I'll bet Bear's come off any minute 🙂
Actually I'm still kind of hibernating, since our front office execs haven't come up with anything exciting this winter. I'm also wondering what the heck Mannion does with all of his time over the winter. For a guy who's supposed to be such a big key, you never hear anything from him. Maybe he got stuck in one of his PortaPotties. I hope!
LMDO!!!! too funny:))
OK. What a crock of poop!!!
There, I've said it.
Crock of poop, or bucket of waste……it's the same all over again.
And, it doesn't come out in the wash! 🙂
The pile of poop just keeps growing, but what do you expect with Ned in charge.
The Head POOPSTER!
SELL THE TEAM NOW, while we can still dig out.
You know what they say…
One man's trash is Ned's next signing.
"One man gathers what another man spills…"
–The Grateful Dead
"If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind…"
–The Grateful Dead
The difference between stupidy and genius is that genius has its limits…………….Albert Einstein
Let's recap Ned's busy and "exciting" offseason shall we.
Reed Johnson
Justin Knoedler
Alfredo Amazaga
Jeff Weaver
Ramon Ortiz
Brad Ausmus
Ronnie Belliard
Vicente Padilla
Francisco Felix
Russ Ortiz
Juan Perez
Prentice Redman
Michael Restovich
Argenis Reyes
Doug Mientkiewicz
Scott Dohmann
John Lindsay
Nick Green
Justin Miller
Carlos Monasterios
Armando Zerpa
Josh Towers
Luis Ayala
Jamey Carroll
John Link
John Ely
Angel Berroa
10 of those he signed in one day.
You may now hurl.
I'd like to hurl, but I can't, 'cuz I just lost my lunch.
I didn't realize Ah-Satan's Lair Berroa was signed again.
enchanted – very hard to keep down the lunch IMO. So, we couldn't have gathered up all the money we spent on those players and had a contract for a SP?
Exactly which one of those were we supposed to get excited about and I'll give it a big WHOOP-TI-DO and a HOTDOG.
EXACTLY Nells.
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- Take medications prescribed by your doctor.
- Avoid certain medications, if recommended by your doctor.
- Arrange to have someone drive you to and from the procedure. Also, arrange for help at home after your procedure.
Description of Procedure
With regional anesthesia, you may remain awake, but you will usually be given a sedative to help calm you. Prior to administering the anesthesia:
- Your doctor may set up monitors to track your vital signs.
- The area to be injected will be cleaned with an antiseptic solution.
- A local anesthetic may be applied to the skin or injected. This may sting slightly.
Your anesthesiologist will inject medication near a cluster of nerves. The selected nerves will be the ones that supply the area of your body that requires surgery.
Types of regional anesthesia include epidural and spinal. Both involve injecting medications in or near the spinal canal.
Another type of regional anesthesia, a peripheral nerve block, is often used for knee, shoulder, or arm surgery. The anesthesia is injected near clusters of nerves that feed the arms or legs. A cervical nerve block is a type of peripheral nerve block for surgeries in the neck or arm.
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After Procedure
If local anesthetic is used, you will slowly gain sensation and motion again in the area that was numbed. It can take a few hours or longer before your sensation is completely back to normal. If treating for pain, the pain will return in a few hours, and the relief may take up to 2 weeks. Any pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
How Long Will It Take?
While the regional anesthesia procedure itself takes several minutes or longer, its effects typically last for 2-6 hours.
Will It Hurt?
Depending on whether sedation or local anesthesia is used, you may feel slight pain or tingling with the injection. The anesthetic will prevent you from feeling pain during your surgical procedure. You may feel that your limb may be heavy initially and then light later on.
Postoperative Care
Your postoperative care will depend on the nature of your surgery. Most likely, you will receive instructions about limits on your diet and activities.
Once the anesthesia wears off, sensation will return to the region where pain was blocked. You may have to restrict activities, such as driving, since you may feel numb or drowsy as your anesthetic and sedative wear off.
During your stay, the hospital staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection such as:
- Washing their hands
- Wearing gloves or masks
- Keeping your incisions covered
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chance of infection such as:
- Washing your hands often and reminding visitors and healthcare providers to do the same
- Reminding your healthcare providers to wear gloves or masks
- Not allowing others to touch your incision
Call Your Doctor
It is important to monitor your recovery. Alert your doctor to any problems. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Redness, swelling, increasing pain, or discharge from the injection site
- Tingling, numbness, or trouble moving the affected area that lasts longer than expected
- Pain that you cannot control with the medications you have been given
- Headache
- Persistent coughing
- Shortness of breath or chest pain
- Lightheadedness
- Heartbeat abnormalities
- Funny taste or numbness of the mouth
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists http://www.aana.com
American Society of Anesthesiologists http://www.asahq.org
Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society http://www.cas.ca
Health Canada https://www. canada.ca
Anesthesia basics. Kids Health—Nemours Foundation website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/anesthesia-basics.html. Updated September 2015. Accessed October 2, 2017.
Regional anesthesia for surgery. American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine website. Available at:https://www.asra.com/page/41/regional-anesthesia-for-surgery. Accessed October 2, 2017.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Marcin Chwistek, MD
- Review Date: 09/2018
- Update Date: 01/22/2014