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Total proctocolectomy with ileostomy is surgery to remove all of the colon (large intestine)and rectum.
You will receive general anesthesia right before your surgery. This will make you be asleep and unable to feel pain.
For your proctocolectomy:
- Your surgeon will make surgical cut about 6 inches long in your lower belly.
- Then your surgeon will remove your large intestine and rectum.
- Your surgeon may also look at your lymph nodes and may remove some of them, if needed.
Next your surgeon will create an
- Your surgeon will make a small surgical cut in your belly. Usually this is made in the lower right part of your belly.
- The last part of your small intestine (ileum) is pulled through this surgical cut, and sewn onto your belly.
- This opening in your belly formed by your ileum is called the stoma. Stool will come out of this opening and collect in a drainage bag that will be attached to you.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Total proctocolectomy with ileostomy surgery is done when other medical treatment does not help problems with your large intestine.
It is most commonly done in people who have inflammatory bowel disease, which includes
This surgery may also be done if you have:
Colon or rectum cancer Familial polyposis
- Bleeding in your intestine
- Birth defects that have damaged your intestines
- Intestinal damage from an accident or injury
Total proctocolectomy with ileostomy is usually safe. Your risk will depend on your general overall health. Ask your doctor about these possible complications:
Risks for any surgery are:
- Wound infections
Blood clotsin the legs that may travel to the lungs Breathing problems Heart attackor stroke
Risks for this surgery are:
- Bleeding inside your belly
- Damage to nearby organs in the body and to the nerves in the pelvis
- Infection, including in the lungs,
urinary tract, and belly
- Scar tissue may form in your belly and causes blockage of your intestines
- Your wound may break open or heal poorly
- Poor absorption of nutrients from food
- Phantom rectum, a feeling that your rectum is still there (similar to people who have amputation of a limb)
Before the Procedure
Always tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, even drugs, supplements, or herbs you bought without a prescription. Ask your doctor which drugs you should still take on the day of your surgery.
Talk with your doctor or nurse about these things before you have surgery:
- Intimacy and sexuality
- Sports
- Work
- Pregnancy
During the 2 weeks before your surgery:
- You may be asked to stop taking drugs that make it harder for your blood to clot. These include aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), clopidogrel (Plavix), Naprosyn (Aleve, Naproxen), and others.
- If you smoke,
try to stop. Ask your doctor for help.
- Always tell your doctor if you have a cold, flu, fever, herpes breakout, or other illnesses before your surgery.
- Eat high
fiberfoods and drink 6 to 8 glasses of water every day.
The day before your surgery:
- Eat a light breakfast and lunch.
- You may be asked to drink only clear liquids, such as broth, clear juice, and water, after noontime.
- Do NOT drink anything after midnight, including water. Sometimes you will not be able to drink anything for up to 12 hours before surgery.
- Your doctor or nurse may ask you to use enemas or laxatives to clear out your intestines. They will give you instructions for this.
On the day of your surgery:
- Take your drugs your doctor told you to take with a small sip of water.
- Your doctor or nurse will tell you when to arrive at the hospital.
After the Procedure
You will be in the hospital for 3 to 7 days. You may have to stay longer if you had this surgery because of an emergency.
You may be given ice chips to ease your thirst on the same day as your surgery. By the next day, you will probably be allowed to drink clear liquids. Your doctor or nurse will slowly add thicker fluids and then soft foods as your bowels begin to work again. You may be eating a soft diet 2 days after your surgery.
While you are in the hospital, your nurse and doctor will teach you how to care for your ileostomy.
You will have an ileostomy pouch that is fitted for you. Drainage into your pouch will be constant. You will need to wear the pouch at all times.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Most people who have total proctocolectomy with ileostomy are able to do most activities they were doing before their surgery. This includes most sports, travel, gardening, hiking, and other outdoor activities, and most types of work.
If you have a chronic condition, such as Crohns disease or ulcerative colitis, you may need ongoing medical treatment.
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Cunningham D, Atkin W, Lenz HJ, et al. Colorectal cancer. Lancet. 2010 Mar 20;375(9719):1030-47.
Fry RD, Mahmoud N, Maron DJ, Ross HM, Rombeau J. Colon and rectum. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 52.
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Robert A. Cowles, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, and Stephanie Slon.


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or … Why Patient Awareness is Vital to Improving Autoimmune Arthritis Diagnosis
I thought I was a pretty aware patient. I'm a massage therapist, holistic health coach, and a yogi. I know bodies, and thought I especially knew my own pretty well. But looking back, I missed some signals.
It's been 14 1/2 months since I was officially diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I've been thinking about that diagnosis process lately, because until about a month ago I thought I was one of the lucky ones. My diagnosis process wasn't long. It wasn't fraught with speculation about various diseases. None of my doctors ignored my requests or told me that my concerns were in my head. So I thought that I had been lucky enough to have been diagnosed in an early onset stage.
Now that all may in fact be true … but lately I've realized that my RA symptoms started long before I even noticed them. Why did I realize this? Because it was this fall (about a year after official diagnosis) that I really started to feel like "myself" again. I realize looking back that three changes happened in my body that I discounted.
1. My entire body temperature felt like it raised about 5 degrees. Instead of always being freezing, I began to be warm or even hot most of the time. I attributed it to many things, but never thought about it being a possible symptom of systemic inflammation.
2. My ring sizes increased half a size at a time when I had lost about 10 pounds. Again, this would have been a warning sign but I attributed it to things other than inflammation. There was also no obvious joint swelling at this time.
3. I began to struggle with constant low-level fatigue, sometimes increasing to temporary exhaustion. I guess my sense of logic kept me focused on the many possible reasons (I had a long list) why I might be over-tired. I never ever considered that I had a disease. The fatigue crept up on my slowly, and was building during a time when I was indeed burning the candle at every possible end. So if you were working full time, going to school part-time, starting a new business, leaving your full time job and dealing with the illness and death of a loved one … wouldn't you just figure you were tired because of all that? I did.
All three of this things have resolved for me in the last two months. I believe this is due to medications, as well as lifestyle and nutrition changes. When do I last remember not having these symptoms? 2002. OMG – that's almost ten years ago!
Does this mean I've had RA to some degree for this entire time? And what if I had gone to my physician with any or all of these symptoms and asked for help? Sad to say, but I'm pretty sure she would have patted me on my head and written me an anti-depressant prescription. My family even asked me to get some anti-anxiety or anti-depressant meds but I resisted. (Been there, done that. It was helpful believe me!) Somewhere deep inside I knew I wasn't depressed … it was physical. But even so, I waited until my joints were visibly swollen to ask for help with medical diagnosis.
So here's my new crusade … when people tell me they are tired all the time, I remind them that it's not normal to be exhausted. Especially if it goes on for a long time and they are generally taking care of themselves. When people express their frustration at pain, I remind them that it's not normal to be in chronic pain.
We can all do a lot of things to take care of ourselves – exercise, eat nutritiously, sleep well, hydrate, etc. But when all those things aren't enough it's up to us to ask for help! There's no way to start working towards a diagnosis without first realizing we need to ask for help.
**This blog post is part of a larger Blog Carnival organized by Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior, Kelly Young. Please visit the other posts as well … this carnival's topic is "How Can Diagnosis Be Improved?"**
I bought three new turtlenecks today. Except for one purchased last year with outdoor activities in mind, these are the first turtlenecks I've wanted or been able to wear in 7 years.
So who cares and what does this have to do with RA? Well, about 7 years ago I noticed that entire body temperature had increased a few degrees. Not hot flash style increases – I'm too young still & this was 24/7/365 change. I was more likely to have a tank top on under a sweater than a turtleneck.
The change seemed permanent and I donated or pitched my turtleneck "collection" which had been extensive. But as fall and winter have approached this year, I am cold. Not just chilly on the edges, but cold cold cold.
My theory is that about 7 years ago RA started to generate subtle inflammatory changes. They were inflammatory enough to raise my body temperature. Now that I am taking the bundle of RA medicines and my disease has become better controlled, the inflammation has lowered. It just doesn't seem to be heating me up any more.
I've been thinking that RA was busy building inside me much earlier than I realized and this is also a bit more confirmation.
So I'll wear and enjoy these turtlenecks — at least until I start hot flashing in a few years!!
It's been nearly a year since my RA diagnosis, and that timeline has been on my mind so much lately. There have been many ups and downs, but generally my sense of the prognosis is a positive one.
I take many more medicines than this time last year. And yet they are making a tremendous difference in my life.
I take many fewer naps, and have been able to be more active in my life. While naps are kind of fun, it's better when they are a choice and not a necessity.
I hope that (for now) I've learned a lot more about where my limits are. I work less, I rest actively more. I have enjoyed and treasured slowing down because that's brought me time spent with family.
I spend some time on Twitter with a terrific group of folks – most of whom are also living with RA or another chronic / autoimmune illness. This makes me feel empowered and part of a tribe that genuinely cares about each other.
I've learned that asking for help is good. And that toughing it out can lead to some serious downsides – typically not worth refusing to ask for help.
Despite healthcare reform, I am more concerned about my husband's ability to retire since it is his job that provides my health insurance. It makes me want to find time to be politically active … although we'll see how that fits in my life's priorities.
I am so grateful for the good things in life – both those I can do easily, and those which take more effort. It's all luscious!
As a holistic health coach, I am blessed to be part of a large and vibrant community of progressive-thinking folks. I have learned a tremendous amount about nutrition and ultimately about wellness from my training and experience. In fact, it's this kind of naturally-based healing/health that I have focused on my whole life.
Many years ago I was a leader for Weight Watchers … my first experience with "diet" and nutrition programs. I've done yoga for years, and spent a lot of time at gyms working out before that. I've had acupuncture. I've trained in Reiki and receive it regularly. I've received other types of energy healing regularly for years. I'm a massage therapist who depends mightily on a weekly massage (and have for 6+ years). I love having green smoothies and shopping at my local farmers' markets. I believe in the power of prayer. And for the most part, I've always tried a lot of natural healing methods before turning to medical care.
And despite all this stuff … the RA symptoms started. Reiki and massage didn't help (although they certainly didn't make anything worse). I tried to keep eating healthy, but my ability to exercise became severely limited. I had to cut my work schedule back by 20% to keep the incredible pain in my hands at bay. Symptoms didn't get better when I wasn't working either. Weight gain ensued … and it was all depressing. I hung in there with the natural healing methods as best I could, but I knew it wasn't going to be enough. I'd reached a fork in the road.
It was time to pursue medical diagnosis and treatment. You've read about that process here on the blog, so I won't repeat it. But let me summarize the results: I feel a thousand percent better! Practically my old self. I continue to pursue all my natural health and wellness methods, which support the medical process that keeps me going.
What I discovered is that it isn't a fork in the road, but a new path. I don't have to give up the things that have always helped me. I don't have to feel guilty about getting the medical treatment I need to be well. In fact, my rheumatologist has been pretty darn impressed with my incredibly low inflammation levels. The other RA indicators are still positive, but my liver is processing the meds in the healthy way and my overall symptoms feel mostly under control.
So for those who might judge because I've chosen to integrate these (sometimes opposing) paths … take a walk in my shoes before you tell me I've done myself wrong. And remember, I wear mostly "sensible" shoes now … not the beautiful higher heels of my youth. So it may not be as easy or much fun to be in my shoes … but I'm happy here. Isn't that what life is all about?
**This blog post is part of a larger Blog Carnival organized by Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior, Kelly Young. Please visit the other posts as well … this carnival's topic is "Resistance to Rheumatology Treatment"**
When I turned 40 my aunt told me that my body would never be the same again. That it would change unexpectedly and often. That everything I thought I had figured out would become wrong. That these adjustments would keep happening every year or so for the rest of my life. None of that information was easy to absorb or adjust to! And that was before the RA symptoms started!
Here's an example of my "new body." This morning my pain alarm woke me up. Truthfully, it woke me twice (at least) last night and then once after it was light outside. I'd just like to know who installed this alarm. How do I control it and could I even disable it? It's bad enough to use an alarm clock to wake up every day, but having one inside my body stinks!
Another example is that lately my relationship to food has changed. I love delicious food. But I've been wondering why I find most food a lot less interesting. Maybe it comes from meds or maybe just from dealing with so many annoying issues related to RA all day. Sometimes I just don't have the energy left to get excited about meals. Except possibly ice cream … LOL.
I have always been a bit ADD, hyper and not very good at sitting still. Now I treasure those days when I can fit a nap in during the day. I know that I have to take a break to sit down or lie down during many of my former "normal" tasks. I am grateful that I can still accomplish a lot, since I know a lot of RA patients aren't able to do their everyday stuff. But it all just takes so much longer now.
Does anyone know where my body went … because I'd really like to trade this one for the other one. Okay? Thanks. Bye.
Just when I thought I was going to sleep … a rant took over my brain … because this afternoon for the third time this week someone told me that I probably have celiac disease & that it's probably the source of my RA. And that going gluten-free will make me well. Oooooh-kaaaaay …
I have been told about this connection (usually preceded by "I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but ….") more times than I can count. And nearly as many times as someone has suggested that dark cherry juice will also be the "solution I need." At this point I have already had 2 blood tests with negative results. I have absolutely no celiac or early celiac symptoms. And truthfully, my c-reactive protein and ESR numbers are quite low!
Even so, I am now seriously considering spending $300+ on DNA testing and attaching results for that plus the two blood tests to my chest with a safety pin. Just to get people to shut the heck up about "solving" my "problem" when they aren't qualified or knowledgable.
I just don't buy celiac disease as a cause for RA. But I do know one person with RA whose inflammation has improved from being gluten-free.
Maybe I will spend 2-3 weeks gluten-free because it certainly can't hurt. I have been 80-90% gluten-free for a month before – but this was before my symptoms became active. I lost weight and felt terrific, but who knows whether that means it would influence my symptoms.
Or maybe I will just keep doing what I'm doing. It's working so far and I'm happy. Now all I have to do is fall back to sleep …


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Word of mouth on the Internet: Being aware of message distortion
Kristine De Valck and her co-authors analyze an electronic marketing campaign designed to promote a specific cell phone model among bloggers. They show that, unlike conventional marketing campaigns, on blogs the message can be distorted depending on who is selected to talk about the product and the kinds of communities to which they belong.
"Marketers and sociologists have recognized the importance of word of mouth as a naturally occurring phenomenon for more than half a century, suggesting, for example, that word of mouth affects the majority of all purchase decisions," says Kristine De Valck. "However, these theories and observations about informal, unsolicited word of mouth were constructed in a marketing world untouched by the Internet." The Internet's accessibility, reach, and transparency have enabled marketers to influence and monitor word of mouth as never before. Kristine De Valck lists the ways marketers can achieve their goals online: "listening in" to online conversations, moderating word of mouth, engaging in dialogue on social media forums, giving products to people of influence, and so on. Notably, such tactics change word of mouth from a natural, spontaneous phenomenon, whose power, notes Kristine De Valck, rests primarily in the fact that participants are not commercially motivated, to a more artificial, calculated, and commercialized force in which bloggers are co-opted by marketers to become product advocates.
This phenomenon has become so widespread in the United States that the Federal Trade Commission has begun to regulate it. Bloggers are now obligated to say if they have a link to a brand or a company. "This has no legal consequence in Europe, but it sets the tone in regards to ethics, since many large firms are members of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) which, although based in the United States, has members worldwide. The practice is becoming more established and is beginning to resemble what we are already familiar with in other areas, such as journalists receiving free products." However, little research has been conducted on digital word of mouth, even after Robert Kozinets, Andrea Wojnicki, and Sarah Wilner's article on the subject was published in 2010. "There have been quantitative studies on how digital word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) affects sales. But before ours, there had been no qualitative article attempting to understand about what exactly or how people are talking and the ways in which consumers react to e-marketing campaigns."
By giving bloggers cellphones and then analyzing the blogs, De Valck and her co-authors show that digital word of mouth does not simply increase or amplify marketing messages but instead systematically modifies them during their integration. "Existing theories have a truncated view of word of mouth. The concept of viral marketing is based on a misconception, where a message that integrates into a market spreads, intact, like a virus," says Kristine De Valck. "We have shown that this is not what happens: Bloggers adapt what they say to their own narrative and the community to which they belong; they transform the marketer's message to suit their own identity (or that of the character they have created online) as well as their audience and their network."
Bloggers transform the marketer's message to suit their own identity as well as their audience and their network.
The authors identify four distinct communication social media strategies (evaluation, embracing, endorsement, and explanation), each of which is influenced by the speaker's character narrative, the norms within their virtual community, their communication forum (blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), and the marketing promotion element. "These communication strategies are marked by the prominent tension between commercial and communal norms," and their success depends on how they are shaped by blogger narratives, says De Valck. To illustrate her point, she takes the example of two bloggers: Judith, a nurse on sick leave who, in a transparent manner, uses 11, very professionally managed blogs to help make ends meet; and Alicia, a housewife who until now had never embedded marketing messages into her blog and who, despite her openness about the campaign, generates negative reactions from readers in her promotion of the cell phone. "Internet users are not accustomed to this type of promotional campaign on a blog about the hard life of a housewife and this can have adverse consequences for the brand of the phone."
Based on an interview with Kristine De Valck, associate professor of marketing, and the article "Networked Narratives: Understanding Word-of-Mouth Marketing in Online Communities" by R. V. Kozinets, K. De Valck, A. C. Wojnicki, and S. S. Wilner, published in Journal of Marketing (March 2010, vol. 74, n° 2, pp. 71-89), which earned her the Prix Article Professeur of the Fondation HEC in 2010.
The managerial implications for companies wishing to use word-of-mouth marketing (WOMM) on the Internet are manifold. As illustrated by the example of Alicia, it is important to find appropriate spokespeople for your marketing message — bloggers who are not controversial choices for discussing product promotions! Moreover, as the type of message changes depending on the identity of the blogger, marketers need to consider whether the point is to convey technical information, personal feelings, and so on, when choosing their bloggers. De Valck also advises marketing agents to engage over the long term rather than the short term with bloggers and account holders on Facebook or Twitter. Finally, her research suggests that it is better to favor virtual communities that are already open to these kinds of promotional campaigns.
The researchers designed a campaign to promote cell phones in six North American cities. They analyzed the blogs of 83 of the 90 people who were given a phone over a period of six months to evaluate the long-term effect of the online marketing campaign. "We were interested in blogs because studies have shown their importance in word-of mouth campaigns," explains De Valck. "Surveys in Europe indicate that blogs are the second most trusted source of information" (Nielsen Trust in Global Advertising Survey, Q3 2011).


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Geforce GTX 680 looks very much like its predecessor, GTX 580. However, a more detailed inspection reveals several important differences.
Looking at the front, we see that the cooler is blower-style and that the fan was placed towards the top of the card rather than dead center. Once we removed the cooler, we saw that the voltage regulation circuitry was placed horizontally in the lower part of the card, rather than vertically like on GTX 580 cards. It could be that the part of the cooler towards the GPU doesn't get as hot this way. The cooler was designed to cool the GPU, memory and voltage regulation circuitry at the same time.
The GTX 680 is powered via two 6-pin power connectors. It's interesting to see that Nvidia opted on stacked power connectors. We personally don't like this as it makes the task of connecting cables much harder. When disconnecting the cables, you'll have to take out the bottom one first and then the top one, which was rotated by 180 degrees.
We already said that Nvidia implemented a type of auto-overclocking (GPU Boost), which monitors consumption and TDP and then changes clocks on the fly in order to maximize performance. Monitoring consumption come courtesy of the three INA219 power monitor chips (two for 6-pin power connectors and one for PCI-Express consumption).
The memory is faster than ever before, which means Nvidia solved some important issues in this respect. The GTX 680 comes with 2GB GDDR5 memory that runs at 1502MHz (6008 MHZ GDDR5 effectively). The chips on Gainward's card are made by Hynix, and carry the model number H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6000 MHz GDDR5 effective).
The card has a dual-link DVI port (with analog VGA), one dual-link DVI port (digital only), one standard HDMI and DisplayPort. Thanks to Nvidia's new display output logic, Kepler based cards can support up to four displays.
The card is 25,6cm long, whereas last top models like the HD 7970 or GTX 570/580 are 27 long. Just like all high-end cards, Gainward's GTX 680 allows for chaining up one or two more Geforce GTX 680 cards, in order to get more performance (for 3D Stereo Vision now is enought to have just one GTX 680 graphics card).


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Our D getting older? yeah maybe in some places but it looks to me like we got some up and comers in Timmions and Woodley, also Smith in the saftey spot is a gamer. Just a thought. I wonder how old Anderson will think them new LB's are when he is looking up at them from the ground??
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the Browns................oh boy!.......too funny................
Let's change this thread back to what it should be...
Here We Go
Here We Go
PS...We will put the shiat talking browns fans comments to rest next Sunday!!!! When we kick there arses up and down the field
The Steelers last game was against Jacksonville, 245 days ago.... You could accurately say that I truly am, ready for some football.
I love football, and I am freakin nuts about Steelers ball!!!!!!! I cannot wait until kickoff tomorrow. I will be on here, following the game. I am so excited!!!!!
Let the Browns fans talk. They should enjoy their last few moments before their team becomes a laughing stock again.
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Andrea Still Affecting New Jersey With High Rip Current Risk
Tropical Storm Andrea is speeding away from New Jersey after dropping 3-4 inches of rain and leaving behind a high risk for rip currents at beaches.
Flood Warnings remain in effect for some parts of New Jersey for some minor flooding along the Raritan River, the Manasquan River, Swimming River in Red Bank, Raccoon Creek & Little Easy Run in Gloucester County.
Flood also remains on several roads around the state including Route 71 in Manasquan, Route 1 in Plainsboro and South Brunswick and on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights & Paramus. The afternoon commute on Friday was compounded by standing water and flooding on some major roadways.
Two fatal accidents are being blamed on the storm in Vineland and Elk according to the Star Ledger.
Life Threatening Rip Currents
There is a high risk for rip currents along the shore with heavy surf creating "life threatening" conditions with powerful swells and pounding waves. for anyone entering the ocean.
Today should be a transitional day with clouds and sun and a high temperature around 80 with the chance of showers & thunderstorms. Sunday will be a sunny day with temperatures reaching 85.
After bringing rain, strong winds and even tornadoes to Florida, Andrea lost most of its tropical characteristics late Friday. Early Saturday, the storm was packing winds gusting up to 30 mph.
The storm was also blamed for one traffic-related death in Virginia.
Late Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami discontinued all tropical storm warnings, yet cautioned about possible coastal and localized flooding from New Jersey to New England.
The National Weather Service says the storm is expected to pick up speed through early Saturday, and could drop up to 5 inches of rain in New England before tapering off.
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EDIT: Found out where I found it. I was reading some HawkBlogger....
The defense held another offense without a touchdown. This was the third time this year an offense could not reach the endzone against Seattle. They came into the season with a goal to improve their pass rush, and now find themselves tied for 2nd in the NFL with 28 sacks. They had 33 all of last season. Rookie Bruce Irvin climbed within a half-sack of the Seahawks rookie sack record with his 6th and 7th sack of the year. He is on pace for 11.0, and took back the lead among rookies from the Patriots Chandler Jones. The improved pressure, combined with the stunning secondary play has led to Seattle ranking second in the NFL in opponent passer rating (73.. The last two teams have thrown for a combined 145 passing yards.
We're also back to our TO forcing ways (for now). And we got 28 sacks! All last season we had 33!
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When your wife suggests an evening investigating the best use of a lubricant and you promptly head to the camera room and work on lubricating O-rings all evening.
That's taking it too far!! I think exploring the best use of lubricant with your wife will probably bring inspiration to your photographs... So please... explore the lubes with your wife and not your housing :-).


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If there had been an open container of 'Taste the Lin-sanity', the racially lin-sensitive ice cream flavor from Ben and Jerry's, right in front of me, I would have been offended, but I still would have wanted to try it. I do like a vanilla-lychee blend, it's kind of Eurasian or Africa by way of Asia. It's pretty exotic. There were also fortune cookie pieces in the mix, which actually seems kind of gross, as they are too lemony and stale in general, unless they are extremely fresh, which is rare because they are labor intensive with the message and everything. They tend to get made and sit around and for this they are made to sit around.
Is a fortune cookie still one when it lacks the fortune?
Were there little cryptic messages in the creamy concoction?
"Your sudden appearance will make everyone momentarily racist but not in an entirely unpleasant way, as sometimes they will have desserts."
What a strange way to exhibit stereotyping – through ice cream. That is totally new. I agree that the flavor should be discontinued for the diminishing quality it frames asian American artifact and history and culture in, as it trivializes us and shows us to be merely capable of takeout food and not a political point of view, but also I think that fortune cookies are not delicious. They have potential, but it is rarely realized.
Once when I was a child I was taken by nuns to a fortune cookie factory. I must have been five, and in the care of women who wore all black with the exception of one who wore all white, and they were busy but not mean in the way I have heard many speak of nuns. I thought they looked pretty and I wondered about their hair. The fortune cookies popped off the assembly line, golden brown and perfect, filling the air with a sugary batter scent. I broke them and cast away the fortunes, being unable yet to read, and gobbled down the shards in glee. I ate a number of them, trying to capture the magic of the first bite. Even as a preschooler, I was chasing the dragon.
In the years later I would never find that taste again, and my parents rarely partook of them, as the fortune cookies sat inert and plastic wrapped on a mound of cash after dinner at Chinese restaurants. My parents didn't care what they said inside. They were too tired from work and wanted to go to bed. They barely spoke when they ate and stood up nearly before the checks were laid down on the table. They'd pay at the counter and my father would walk out first fast down the street on his long legs. I think that the tips left were proportionally too small and they wanted to get out before the discrepancy was noticed.
That is what fortune cookies mean to me. Exhausted people living beyond their means without the support systems of extended family, trying to keep up and sometimes failing, like batteries losing their charge with no outlets to plug into.
Maybe Ben and Jerry's thought this flavor was cute and somewhat of a tribute, as fortune cookies mean something different to them. There's super great Chinese takeout food in Vermont – one detail I retained on a visit I paid there once to the campaign offices of Howard Dean, then just beginning his presidential run. Chinese food is a good prelude to ice cream, the salt balancing the sweet fat.
I start to think of people not meaning to be racist but lacking the language to speak about Asian Americans, us having endured invisibility for so long, they simply don't know what to say. They don't know how to talk about us beyond restaurant menus where you order by the number not the name of the dish as that's too hard to pronounce, because they haven't had to. It's infuriating but at the same time expected. It's hard to take but I will take it over non-existence.
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Channing Crowder's irreverent demeanor is kind of engaging. Now that he's playing again, and at a fairly high level, he is talking to the media again and giving his opinion about things such as politics and the opposition.
On Thursday, while discussing the Ravens, Crowders was actually being complimentary when he said, "They have amazing receivers on the outside. We know [Anquan] Boldin, [T.J.] Houshmandzadeh and the old, what the hell's the other guy's name?"
One of the huddle of the reporters standing nearby mentioned 36-year-old Derrick Mason.
"There you go, Mason, the old guy," Crowder said. "He's still good as hell, though."
He's not to happy in the manner Crowder brought him up, though. Mason was approached by Baltimore reporters today and told of the exchange between Crowder and the Miami media the day before. (The media loves this kind of tattle-tale stuff, you know.)
And Mason latched on to that line the Baltimore reporters were dangling. Hook. Line. Sinker.
"Listen, as long as their coaches know, that's all that matters. I'm not worried about Chowder," Mason told reporters from the Baltimore Sun and the Carroll County Times. "What's his name? Crowder? Excuse me. I've watched him on film, so I know his name. He's either not watching film or not paying attention in meetings. But it is what it is. You don't play through the newspapers, you play on the field. He's a pretty good player. He's just got to deal with the guys up front and our fullback."
It gets better ...
"A lot of people around this league wish, at 36, that they could play at the level that I'm playing at," Mason said. "There's only one other guy that's playing at this level when he's 36 and that's Terrell Owens. There's a lot of other guys wishing they could play at this level, i.e. Crowder, at the age of 36. He's what -- 20-something?
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Neel Jani, Nicolas Prost, Nick Heidfeld rally to win ALMS finale at Road Atlanta
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BRASELTON, Ga. – Rebellion Racing drivers Neel Jani, Nicolas Prost and Nick Heidfeld won the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta on Saturday night, overcoming early problems in the final American Le Mans Series event.
The No. 12 Lola-Toyota fell two laps down before rallying for a six-lap win in the 1,000-mile, 394-lap race. The series is merging with Grand-Am to form the United SportsCar Championship.
After qualifying on the pole position Friday, Jani encountered trouble with lapped traffic after the team led 30 laps. While leading, the Lola-Toyota made contact with a slower car that was exiting the pits. The incident forced the Rebellion team to replace damaged bodywork and the car also was brought back into the pits for a stop-and-hold penalty for avoidable contact.
As a result, the No. 12 team fell two laps behind the No. 6 Pickett Racing Honda prototype shared by Klaus Graf, Lucas Luhr and Romain Dumas. The race changed dramatically on lap 200, when the No. 6 car came to pit lane with overheating issues that forced its retirement from the race.
With the Pickett Racing entry out of the race and other P1 class contenders already out of contention, the Rebellion trio cruised to the victory. It was the second straight Petit Le Mans win for the Swiss team, Jani and Prost, and the first for Heidfeld, a Formula One veteran.
The No. 551 Level 5 Motorsports HPD-Honda trio of Ryan Briscoe, Marino Franchitti and Scott Tucker finished second overall and first in the P2 category to wrap up the ALMS P2 championship. The team battled throughout the race with the No. 01 Extreme Speed Motorsports Honda prototype shared by Scott Sharp, Anthony Lazzaro and David Brabham, who qualified on the class pole position and wound up third overall.
The No. 17 Team Falken Tire Porsche driven by Bryan Sellers, Wolf Henzler and Nick Tandy won the GT class. The No. 17 machine was an older show car that was pressed into service when the team's original car was damaged beyond repair in an opening-lap incident at the Grand Prix of Baltimore last month. Co-drivers Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen wrapped up the ALMS GT championship for Corvette Racing with a sixth-place run.
The Prototype Challenge class victory went to No. 8 BAR1 Motorsports ORECA drivers Chris Cumming, Kyle Marcelli and former Formula One and IndyCar driver Stefan Johansson. The victory — which was the third in a row for Cumming, Marcelli and the BAR1 team — gave Cumming and BAR1 the PC championship.
Atlanta's Spencer Pumpelly had a hometown victory in the GT Challenge class in the No. 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche he shared with Venezuelan Nelson Canache Jr. and 17-year-old Madison Snow, whose father and mother (Martin and Melanie Snow) also have won previously in ALMS competition. Teammates Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil took the GTC championship with a fourth-place class result.


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Logica axes 1,300 jobs as profits set to be just £240m
225 to go in Blighty
Logica is cutting jobs across Europe as it tries to sell its wares in the increasingly gloomy IT services market.
The company warned that it expected profit to now be in the range of £240m to £250m for the year, while Logica's revenue growth prediction for 2011 has also shrunk.
It now expects a climb in sales to be around the 3 per cent mark, compared with an earlier forecast of 5 per cent for the year.
Logica has been struggling to shift its order book from the public sector toward the commercial markets, after the firm's first half-year squeezed margins and deflated operating profits.
The company, which has a global workforce of 41,000, is now admitting that the outlook is much more uncertain and that means jobs will be lost.
It's cutting loose around 1,300 employees at a restructuring cost of £93m.
Jobs in the Netherlands, Belgium, UK and Sweden will be axed, Logica said, with around 225 staff being let go in Blighty alone.
"We deeply regret the impact job losses will have on the people affected in many of our businesses. But we are confident that it is best for our clients, people and shareholders that we face squarely into the difficult economic conditions ahead," said Logica CEO Andy Green.
"This decisive action will result in sustainable margin improvement in 2012, with the benefits starting to flow through in the second half. It will also ensure that a strong Logica can concentrate on helping clients to use technology to cut costs and serve their customers better." ®


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - What's Naples Really Like? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in What's Naples Really Like? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Italy View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message roger the cabin boyJoined: 07 Feb 2005Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:46 am Post subject: What's Naples Really Like? Hi! I've just been offered a job in Napoli, but I've been a bit put off by some of the things I've read about the city. Is it really as bad as that? Back to top jreinJoined: 07 Aug 2004Posts: 6Location: USA Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject: oh Napoli How old are you? I was in Napoli for a few days last year, and I had a great time. Actually it is my favorite city that I visited throughout my 4 month stay in Italy. It was more or less a manifestation of all my preconceptions of Italy. Can you speak Italian? People there do not speak english. Anyways, I ask how old you are because that is definitely important. As a 21 year old that could speak Italian, I had a great time, though I can see how it can be dangerous for tourists at night. I met lots of really cool Italian folks down there (much nicer than the ones up north) and speant less money than I did in the rest of the country. What part of town is the job in? HOW DID YOU GET A JOB THERE?!?!?!?!? What kind of job is it? I would kill for a job there, so if you decide you don't want it let me have it! If I am qualified whatsoever I will be all over it! Back to top GregorioJoined: 17 Aug 2004Posts: 105 Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:52 am Post subject: I loved Naples... though, I never lived there. I visited for about 5 days during the summer of 2000 and I thought it was amazing. Just like jrein said, it is all of what you think a large city in Italy is going to be like. It's dirty, loud, the people are friendly/great/nice/inviting...fill in other positive adjectives here, food is awesome. I do speak Italian well enough so I never felt any issues with the language barrier. I can tell you that when I did speak Italian, nobody spoke English back to me, which isn't the case in the North. As far as violence goes, I took a CTEFL course in Rome last fall and there was what seemed to be daily gang violence in Naples on the nightly news. I doubt it is anywhere near as bad as LA, Chicago, New York, or any other American metropolis. One of my favorite pictures from my trip is of a great dane sleeping on a pile of old clothes and garbage in the middle of the street... then there are also the Vespa/motonini traffic jams to watch out for. Or how about an entire family, including father, mother, and two kids tooling around on one scooter. I think we call that a minivan in the states. Anyway... it's great. Back to top jreinJoined: 07 Aug 2004Posts: 6Location: USA Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:32 am Post subject: cheers to the family on the vespa! I saw that shit too! Hilarious! Anyways, to the OP: Where can I find a job in Napoli? I am graduating college in May and I would love to go back to Italia! Back to top Mark a TeacherJoined: 29 Jan 2005Posts: 13Location: Chicago Ill USA Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:57 am Post subject: working in Naples I agree with you guys that Naples is a great place to visit as most of the comments have pointed out...BUT...as they say... great place to visit wouldnt want to live there!!! No offense to those wishing to artificially soak in the old world charm and smells of Napoli...but why bother? there are so many other cleaner, safer, beautiful, friendly, historical...i could go on...places in Italy. In my humble opinion, unless you have a lot of cash from the start {the only really nice places in Naples cost a fortune as they are geared toward tourists} the teacher payscale to quality of life ratio is just not that good anywhere in the south. My suggestion is just stick to the cities in the north{BOLOGNA is safe, clean, fashionable and VERY friendly}, get paid a bit more, youll also spend a bit more but at least the quality of life and service are more in tune to what most selfishly expect from Italy...La Dolce Vita! Back to top crashartist1Joined: 06 Jun 2004Posts: 164 Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:11 am Post subject: Naples I visited Italy 2 years ago, when I visited Naples I think that is when my hair started to go grey! I think the worst drivers in the world are in Naples! I think that they must have cars made of rubber or something because they have no fear, I say that all drivers in Italy (especially Naples) have M.S. Syndrome, Micheal Schumacher Syndrome to be exact! They all think they are F1 pilots and the streets are Monte Carlo! Good god people, anytime you can get hit on the sidewalk while walking and be blamed for getting in the way you know there is something wrong. Naples is wonderful, great food, amazing history I think you can really feel Italy in Naples and Rome. I'm not to crazy about Milan and as much as I love Venice, it is strictly for tourist nowadays. I think the girls wear more perfume in Naples then anywhere else in the country, and they travel in packs, like wolves (yes I was always begging to be eaten!) Naples is great, if you go have fun. Back to top jreinJoined: 07 Aug 2004Posts: 6Location: USA Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: my last reply, I swear Venice sucks. Definitely don't go there. Also, 9 out of every 10 girls in Napoli is the hottest girl I've ever seen. For the last time, get me a job there! Back to top Mark a TeacherJoined: 29 Jan 2005Posts: 13Location: Chicago Ill USA Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:28 am Post subject: Finally note on Naples A previous message stated that no one in Naples speaks English...well thats not exactly true... but the reality is that most dont speak it unless they study it in school where its FREE! Priorities are much different there...such as the 9 out of 10 girls looking hot! So, not much money is available or spent on English lessons...old supply and demand theory...Demand is low so prices are down...salaries paid to teachers are VERY LOW...Some parts of Naples are nice places to visit for tourist with CASH money but if you are looking to work to help the ends meet while your in Italy...Naples or most of the south is definitely not the place be as an English teacher. You may not like sharing your sidewalk cafe space with tourists in Venice and the cities like it in the north but at least working there youll be able to pay for your cappucino without too much having to watch your budget! Back to top Boy WonderJoined: 29 Mar 2004Posts: 453Location: Clacton on sea Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:24 am Post subject: Naples is a chaotic but interesting place with many contradictions. I have been living here and working as an EFL teacher for a while..my girlfriend is Napolitan , we socialise a lot with her friends and other families so I have got a pretty good grasp of what it's like to live here. As a TEFL teacher expect to earn around 1000 euros a month and deduct at least 300-400 for accommodation unless you want to share with students or migrant workers. The people are really nice and friendly and the place has vitality and energy that is missing from certain other places in Italy. Yep the food is good , plenty of restaurants well within your budget and the shopping isn't bad either. Plus points... * Close proximity to Pompeii, Ercolano, Caserta, Casertavecchia, Positano, Sorrento, Salerno and the smaller villages on the Amalfi Coast. * Beautiful Goddesses with raven black hair and sultry features that will blow your mind! * People are friendly and outgoing. * A city crammed with life and interesting buildings and events. * Close to Capri, Ischia and Procida..romantic islands all three. * Good cheap food * Lots of great photo opps if you like that sort of thing. Minus points... * The fact that people will try and rip you off whenever possible..be they the school, your landlord or whoever. * Getting around the city is a nightmare by public transport. * You won't be earning enough to save anything. * Petty crime, lots of drug addicts and the dirt and squalor. * Chaos I am off soon I hope...as a guy in my 30's my days of being content with just enough money to survive on are over. Yes the city infuriates me but it is better to be somewhere with action and life than in some sleepy backwater where the opening of a new supermarket is the yearly event!! I wouldn't want to live here and neither would my girlfriend who has lived here her whole life. I am glad I came but would prefer a more modernised organised functional and safe place to live. 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Hydrogen gas from the cladding oxidation with steam collected in the suppression pool and ignited. This scenario differs from those of units 1 and 3 where the explosion occurred outside the primary containment in the upper part of the reactor building. The reasons why the steam/gas mixture was not released to the reactor building are still not clear. This breach of primary containment is certainly more serious than the situation in units 1 and 3. Seawater is still being pumped in the containment and the reactor vessel. At this time radioactive releases from unit 2 have been similar to the ones seen from units 1 and 3.
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Thursday, February 16, 2006
How to use the Additional Waypoints feature
For those who cannot seem to master the entry of additional waypoints, here's a cheat sheet I created. It has been sent to one geocacher so far as a test.
Feel free to use it as-is or modified to meet your personal style. I will appreciate suggestions, clarifications, or corrections.
Recording Additional Waypoints
1. Sign in to your account on Geocaching dot Com
2. Display your cache page
3. There is a Navigation section at the top right of the cache page where a "waypoints" link will be seen; click on that link.
4. First, you may choose a waypoint type - Final Location, Parking Area, Question to Answer, Stages of a Multicache, and Trailhead.
4a. For a complex cache, you could have entries for the parking area, trailhead, questions to answer, stages of a multicache, as well as the final location.
4b. For a traditional cache, you might want to enter the parking area and/or the trailhead.
4c. For a puzzle/mystery cache or a multicache, it will be necessary to make an entry for each stage and for the final cache location.
5. After choosing a waypoint type, you may enter a name for it. This can simply be parking, stage one, stage two, final, or whatever you choose.
6. Next is an entry field for a waypoint lookup code. As it says on the Waypoint Collection page, STAGE1 or FINAL are good names for the lookup code. You may use anything you want, but each entry must be unique - you cannot have two waypoints with STAGE1 as the lookup code.
7. After that there is an entry field for a prefix code. Unless you have something special in mind, you can just use AA for the first waypoint entry, AB for the second one, etc.
8. Next are the entry fields for the waypoint coordinates, which are completed in the same manner as the coordinate entries on the edit cache page.
9. Finally, there are three choices for how the waypoint should be displayed.
9a. Show all information for this waypoint, including coordinates - this should be chosen for parking waypoints, trailheads, and in those cases where the geocacher is being sent to a location to gather information or to answer a question that may be required to determine the final cache location.
9b. Show the details of this waypoint but hide the coordinates - I do not have a good example for this choice.
9c. Hide this waypoint from view except by the owner or administrator - this should be chosen for intermediate stages of a multicache or a mystery/puzzle cache, as well as for the final cache location.
Hope this helps.
4 comments:
- welch said...
minor question, can reviewers see additional waymarks even after they are 'archived'?
- 8:22 PM, February 20, 2006
- IowaAdmin said...
Yes, reviewers can see additional waypoints after they are archived, at least as I understand how it works. I haven't actually seen any caches in reviewer mode that are archived and that have additional waypoints listed.
- 9:42 PM, February 20, 2006
- welch said...
My fault I should have explained it better. What I mean is, if I post an additional waypoint, and then delete that additional waypoint, can the reviewer still see the waypoint? (like they can still see reviewer notes... they can see reviewer notes right??)
- 9:39 PM, February 24, 2006
- IowaAdmin said...
Welch, after you posted your question, I've been experimenting to try to find the answer. So far I haven't been able to see additional waypoints on my test page after I archive them.
- 7:18 PM, February 25, 2006