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ICD-9 Diagnosis Code 954.8
Injury trunk nerve NEC
Diagnosis Code 954.8
Short Description: Injury trunk nerve NEC
Long Description: Injury to other specified nerve(s) of trunk, excluding shoulder and pelvic girdles
This is the 2014 version of the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code 954.8
Code Classification
Injury and poisoning (800–999)
Injury to nerves and spinal cord (950-957)
- 954 Injury to other nerve(s) of trunk excluding shoulder and pelvic girdles
- Injury to nerves and spinal cord (950-957)
Information for Medical Professionals
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- S24.3XXA - Injury of peripheral nerves of thorax, initial encounter (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- S24.8XXA - Injury of other specified nerves of thorax, init encntr (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- S34.6XXA - Inj prph nerve(s) at abd, low back and pelvis level, init (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- Iliohypogastric nerve injury
- Injury of thoracic sympathetic nerves
- Intercostal nerve injury
Index of Diseases and Injuries
References found for the code 954.8 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:
- Injury 959.9
- nerve 957.9
- trunk, excluding shoulder and pelvic girdles 954.9
- nerve 957.9
Information for Patients
Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Also called: Neuritis, Peripheral neuritis, Peripheral neuropathy
Your peripheral nerves are the ones outside your brain and spinal cord. Like static on a telephone line, peripheral nerve disorders distort or interrupt the messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
There are more than 100 kinds of peripheral nerve disorders. They can affect one nerve or many nerves. Some are the result of other diseases, like diabetic nerve problems. Others, like Guillain-Barre syndrome, happen after a virus infection. Still others are from nerve compression, like carpal tunnel syndrome or thoracic outlet syndrome. In some cases, like complex regional pain syndrome and brachial plexus injuries, the problem begins after an injury. Some people are born with peripheral nerve disorders.
Symptoms often start gradually, and then get worse. They include
- Numbness
- Pain
- Burning or tingling
- Muscle weakness
- Sensitivity to touch
Treatment aims to treat any underlying problem, reduce pain and control symptoms.
NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Axillary nerve dysfunction
- Chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy
- Common peroneal nerve dysfunction
- Distal median nerve dysfunction
- Femoral nerve dysfunction
- Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
- Metabolic neuropathies
- Mononeuritis multiplex
- Mononeuropathy
- Nerve biopsy
- Neuralgia
- Neuropathy secondary to drugs
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Radial nerve dysfunction
- Sensorimotor polyneuropathy
- Tibial nerve dysfunction
- Ulnar nerve dysfunction
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Wounds and Injuries
Also called: Traumatic injuries
An injury is damage to your body. It is a general term that refers to harm caused by accidents, falls, hits, weapons, and more. In the U.S., millions of people injure themselves every year. These injuries range from minor to life-threatening. Injuries can happen at work or play, indoors or outdoors, driving a car, or walking across the street.
Wounds are injuries that break the skin or other body tissues. They include cuts, scrapes, scratches, and punctured skin. They often happen because of an accident, but surgery, sutures, and stitches also cause wounds. Minor wounds usually aren't serious, but it is important to clean them. Serious and infected wounds may require first aid followed by a visit to your doctor. You should also seek attention if the wound is deep, you cannot close it yourself, you cannot stop the bleeding or get the dirt out, or it does not heal.
Other common types of injuries include
- Bruises
- Burns
- Dislocations
- Fractures
- Sprains and strains
- Amputation - traumatic
- Animal bites -- self-care
- Bleeding
- Closed suction drain with bulb
- Crush injury
- Cuts and puncture wounds
- Electrical injury
- Gunshot wounds -- aftercare
- Hemovac drain
- How wounds heal
- Human bites -- self-care
- Laceration - sutures or staples - at home
- Lacerations - liquid bandage
- Nail injuries
- Skin flaps and grafts -- self-care
- Sterile technique
- Sternal exploration or closure
- Surgical wound care
- Surgical wound care -- closed
- Surgical wound infection - treatment
- Wet to dry dressing changes
- Wound care centers
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|2009-01-06, 19:03
|Link #62
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Antwerp area, Belgium, Europa
Age: 42
In a conflict that has been going on for 60 years the whole "Who started it?" discussion is utterly pointless. And one should remember the line between terrorist and freedom fighter is very small. Not that blowing up a restaurant is a good thing to do, but the same can be said about attack helicopters bombing schools.
This issue can't be solved until a way is found to allow the Palestinians to live in a comfortable way where they can work and live in decent conditions, if they achieve this terrorism from their side will die out due to lack of a reason. However in order to achieve this Israel would need to make some big concessions which will make them very vulnerable to any attacks dring the transition period which, realistically, will take over a decade at minimum, probably more.
In order to even get remotely close to a solution both parties need to trust one another which is extremely hard if half the Israeli government is very anti-palestinian. At the same time the leading Palestinians don't agree with one another (so who to talk to) and on top of that alot of them come from groups that have been blowing up restaurants in the past 20 years. Not a great basis to negotiate any agreement.
This problem is far more complex than a simple "we attack them out of self defense" a statement used by both sides. The conflict is the result of unresolved issues which happened after Israel was created 60 years ago. This isn't a black&white problem where one side are the "good ones" and the other are the "bad ones". Both sides have blood on their hands but at the same time both sides have very valid claims as well.
|2009-01-06, 19:06
|Link #63
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
Aye. For peace to happen, both sides would need leaders to tell them that no, your demands cannot be met 100%, or even most of them for that matter. Take the compromise if you want peace, or postpone the fight for future generations. It's really your call for both sides.
|2009-01-06, 19:12
|Link #64
Gregory House
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Over six hundred. Over six fucking hundred. Most of them innocent civilians.
How many Israelites died in the same week?
Four. Four soldiers. And by their own fire.
You've got to be fucking kidding me if you believe that one of the countries with the most powerful military around the globe, backed both economically and military by the most powerful country in the world, is doing this to survive. Stop eating media shit. Grow a brain, for fuck's sake. Even the conservative US media crap is stepping down a bit from defending Israel.
|2009-01-06, 19:29
|Link #65
Aria Company
Join Date: Nov 2003
There's a video of recent news in that link, but I'm referring to the text story under it.
"Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. According to the sources, Barak maintained that although the lull would allow Hamas to prepare for a showdown with Israel, the Israeli army needed time to prepare, as well."
So a friend of yours claims they're faking the intelligence to make Israel attack schools and planting the bodies? Sorry, but your friend is not a reliable source.
The rest of that is merely an excuse to try to justify Israel's actions. Hamas doing bad things does not give Israel the right to do bad things in retaliation. This will only end if one side decides to try to break the cycle of violence. Israel is the one in a much better position to do it.
|2009-01-06, 19:30
|Link #66
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
Israel is in trouble. Why? Because it cannot even command the allegiance of many of its own Arabs citizens, who unsurprisingly is on the side that legitimacy of Israeli rule is becoming 0. Also, forget the "destroy Israel" howls of the Arab world. It's the Jews they're after.
What's more, the Arab-Israeli population is growing. Demographically, Israeli Jews are staring at a situation which they cannot handle and (for most of them) want to pretend that it wouldn't happen. Only Jewish state in the world? Soon, the Jews would be a minority in that state. What then? A Jewish identity for the state, or an Israeli identity?
|2009-01-06, 19:55
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The assumption that if the Palestinians renounced violence Israel would give up its goal of "redeeming" the land God gave them thousands of years ago is silly. Anybody who believes propaganda that blatant has been drinking too much Kool-Aid.
You only have to look at what's happened on the West Bank in the last few years. After Arafat died and Abbas took over, Fatah has been enforcing a ceasefire on the West Bank. The Israeli response has been to expand the settlements and increase the number of roadblocks from 470 to 630.
There are now over 280,000 Israelis living in settlements in the West Bank, and another 200,000 in and around East Jerusalem. Large numbers of those would have to be moved if there was a peace deal with Palestinians. Israeli governments know they could never achieve that. In 1994 when Baruch Goldstein murdered 29 Muslims in a mosque in Hebron, Yitzhak Rabin looked at removing the Hebron settlers. The army warned him there would be civil war if he tried, and instead Rabin moved thousands of Palestinians from Hebron to safeguard the settlement.
Things have got worse since then. Israel can never stick to a peace treaty with the Palestinians and the Israeli governments know it, which is why their strategy is always to delay peace talks
|2009-01-06, 20:11
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Renouncing violence worked for Gandhi, it could have worked for the Palestinian cause.
How many humanitarian aid organizations would have leapt to the cause of the poor disenfranchised likeable Palestinians?
But instead, they brought their cause to the world scene..... through hijacking, kidnapping and murder.
|2009-01-06, 20:36
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Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
@mg1942: Actually, independence was no antidote to the sub-continent's troubles. With independence came the bloody split of India. The horrors of that period is another of those stories which is not well-known. I dare say that it was the British who got the better deal out of it. They get to leave smelling like roses, while ethnic tensions continue to fester in India and Pakistan.
Founding a state and running it are often two different matters.
|2009-01-06, 22:05
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books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
The status of Jerusalem will always be a problem. If Jerusalem could become a city-state like the Vatican, it might help, but it would need to be a independent city-state.
|2009-01-06, 22:06
|Link #71
Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
On the other hand, Israel is not specifically targeting Palestinian citizens. I'm not going to claim that everyone in the Israeli government or chain of military command tries their hardest to avoid civilian casualties, or that there aren't some who feel gleeful about it. I'm sure there are. But in general they do what they can to minimize casualties. If Israel responded to rocket attacks by randomly bombing apartments and schools then we could make a comparison. They're doing a crappy job at precision revenge killings (which is a ridiculous concept in itself), but that's what they're attempting to do. I also think that Hamas knows this. I don't believe it's a coincidence that rockets aren't fired from deserted areas. They know that Israel will likely clumsily respond with too much force, and as a result civilians will become involved. Having more people against Israel generally translates to more power and support for Hamas. Why wouldn't Hamas want that?
What for? Is it worth it? Will it lead to anything? Israel isn't saintly to be certain, but they're not actively going out and killing people - not unprovoked, anyway. Maybe they are attempting to muscle the Palestinians out, but that should be dealt with in a more civilized manner (if possible). It seems that the demand for the Palestinian side is that Israel practically remove itself from the region entirely - an unreasonable demand, and not something that any amount of fighting is likely to accomplish. Not without genocide occurring.
Perhaps the fighting started because the "civilized" manners of Palestinian protest were ignored. Fine, Palestine has showed that it's upset and that it's willing to use force to get what it wants. It's been showing that for some time now, and it's drawn both Israelis and Palestinians into a cycle of violence and suffering. Stop the violence, and attempt negotiations again. Get more people involved if necessary. And if the negotiations continue to fail, consider whether the demands being made are unreasonable.
|2009-01-06, 22:27
|Link #72
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
On Jerusalem, it wouldn't be enough to nuke it. Nukes don't ensure that people in the future would not return. For Jerusalem to be taken off the agenda, it must be made into a wasteland, where only animals or insects could survive. Maybe then would they stop fighting.
|2009-01-06, 22:52
|Link #73
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: PMB Headquarters
Considering that Israel had launched an attack on the Hamas which resulted in about 30 civilian deaths near an United Nations school, aren't the U.N. going to do something to intervene? Unlike the Hamas who uses home-made rockets, the Israeli military have advanced weaponry and how did that attack resulted near a non-Hamas infrastructure? No matter how just the Israeli government claims, their actions proves to be questionable. The ones they had killed mostly aren't Hamas, but everyday civilians. Seems problematic..
|2009-01-06, 23:03
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|2009-01-07, 01:38
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The UN can't just 'intervene'. Specifically, anything beyond sending angry letters (and even sending particularly angry letters, for that matter) requires the agreement of all five of the UN's permanent veto-holding nations. This makes sense when you think about it; the purpose of the UN is to provide a forum for diplomacy, not a big stick nations can use to hit each other (they have to do that themselves), and therefore anything it actually does has to have the agreement of all of the world's most powerful nations.
But the US has very close ties to Israel, and will use its veto power to block the UN from doing, well, anything. Having one of the most powerful nations in the world on your side tends to accomplish things like that.
|2009-01-07, 01:45
|Link #76
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
But, do Israel and the US have the same interests? No. They may have similar interests, but when you remember that Israel's location is very unfriendly compared to the US's, unconditional support cannot be justified. Yes, the Israeli lobby in Washington has tons of influence, but perhaps the US might want to do something about it.
|2009-01-07, 02:31
|Link #77
Senior Member
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Location: PMB Headquarters
The only interest the two countries share seem to be oil and perhaps, control of the Middle East region. On the contrary, this is merely speculation. The United Nations on the other hand can't really do much as pointed out that it is actually run and controlled by 5 major nations in which 2 of them are siding with Israel, while 2 don't really care. This leaves France who probably can't do much on their own. Generally, I don't expect to see a peaceful end to the current Middle East crisis within these few months.
|2009-01-07, 06:56
|Link #79
Join Date: Jan 2009
and its not like they dont have enough country's that they live in and if you say that they are here bacause of the history that means that they do want to kill us because that is the only way that they will get israel, because if u speak about history i think we win that department considering we are there before there were moslims and arab's or even christian's for that matter
|2009-01-07, 07:23
|Link #80
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
^Oh, <bleep>. Fine, you are now responsible for the criminal genocides and enslavement inflicted upon the so-called Philistines, original inhabitants of the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean, done for religious and political reasons and if we are to believe your own mythologies also done horribly.
Pay up. Apologize. They came before you, don't they? Why should you people have it when, far worse than the Arabs, who actually weren't taking the land from you but rather from the Romans, or the Ottomans, who conquered it from the Mamluks, your great-great-great-great-ancestors (may be) took it directly from its original owners, possibly.
Also, cue "my friend" issues on the internet. Why should we trust what you say when you're shown to be completely biased for one side? Where is the link to the "news?" Even if a "news" source doesn't have a website like most do these days something as big as that's going to get uploaded on youtube somehow, so why don't you show us where? And really, did the Palestinians want to die as much as you insinuate they do?
Again with that "they" and "us," neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians have clean hands here. Blame on, it's your country, your war, and as you yourself said your sufferings -- we just happen to think you're not ever going to get peace (except for facetious, or if not facetious then bloody racist, "flatten them all" answers) unless you people talk to each other and stop thinking of the other side as evil and inhuman.
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A springtime drive along Interstate 5 through the West Side of California's San Joaquin Valley is a 200-mile palette of colors that painters dream about.
Orchards of contrasting hues of pink-blossomed fruit trees are interspersed with dominating blankets of blooming white almonds seemingly stretching to the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the valley's East Side.
The beauty makes it difficult to keep your eyes on the road.
This I-5 corridor from Stockton, Calif., to Bakersfield, Calif., is "Almond Alley," and is visual testimony to one of the most rapidly expanding crops in the state. Almond growth has increased by 300,000 acres in less than 15 years with an estimated 730,000 acres presently in the ground.
The California almond industry is headed toward an annual production of 1.5 billion pounds or more. Almonds are likely to become California's third most economically significant agricultural crop, and almonds could take grapes out of the No. 2 crop spot in a few years. The dairy industry is No. 1, but almonds play a significant role, with hulls as a popular ration for cows.
The majority of the orchards along the I-5 corridor are young, and already filled with high-producing trees, spawning a need for more hulling and shelling capacity.
The newest huller-sheller in the state, Superior Almond Hulling Company LP, is the largest commercial facility built to date. It is strategically located near California Highway 33 and I-5, and is scheduled to go into operation this season.
The huller-sheller is a partnership between six of the largest almond growers on the West Side of the valley and Panoche Creek Packing Corp., the largest independent almond handler in the state. The 25-year-old Panoche Creek Packing now handles more than 70 million pounds annually from crops that have averaged 1 billion pounds annually for the past five years.
The plant, on 80 acres, is expected to process 25 to 30 million pounds of almonds during its first year of operation, increasing in annual volume until it reaches plant capacity of about 60 million meat pounds per season.
Panoche Creek general manager Frank Roque and one of the grower partners, Michael Gragnani of Cantua Creek, Calif., said the $11 million huller-sheller is state of the art.
The Superior plant will focus on handling sizable runs by large acreage growers to maximize efficiency and achieve the highest possible turnout of premium, high quality almonds.
"When we say high quality, we are talking about contamination-free dark nuts with no chips or scratches," said Roque.
The California almond story is an incredible account with basically five seasons averaging a billion pounds or more and growers seeing record and near-record prices of well over $2 per pound.
"What is amazing is that people were tearing out almonds in the 1970s because prices were so bad," recalled Gragnani. "People could make more money then on tomatoes and garlic."
Now the tables have turned. "We are getting out of the row crop business after 30 years. I planted my first almonds 12 years ago, and even I thought we had missed the boat on almonds."
Gragnani did not miss the boat. Since the early 1990s California almonds have taken the world by storm through aggressive promotion from the industry-funded Almond Board of California and other handlers like Blue Diamond.
The six grower partners at Superior represent about 10,000 acres of crop destined for the new huller-sheller. Roque said these growers will utilize about half the plant's capacity.
"The other half of the tonnage handled by the new facility will come from outside growers. We have had a good reaction from growers in the area. We think we are in just the right spot to service the West Side of the valley," said Roque.
Panoche's general manager said Superior will have its own trailers and will manage its own trucking to bring in the crop for more efficient handling of each customer's product.
Brad Craven, former Anderson-Clayton northern operations manager for five cotton gins, is the general manager of the new huller-sheller.
Beeler Industries of Salida, Calif., designed the facility. Much of the processing equipment came from Lewis M. Carter (LMC) Manufacturing in Donaldson, Georgia, a major designer of peanut handling equipment, which has found a niche in California's almond hulling industry. The general contractor is ICC from Madera, Calif.
"We have been very pleased as the contractors have worked diligently to see that this project will be completed by Aug. 1," said Roque.
New almond orchards have been planted at breakneck speeds for the past five years or so, but that is slowing down, Roque and Gragnani said.
"We are looking at 2007 almond crop prices at less than $2 per pound for the first time in four years," said Roque.
"The water shortage situation this year on the West Side has also been a wake-up call and has definitely slowed down plantings," added the grower.
Farmers in many of the West Side irrigation districts faced a major water crisis this year. After a very wet 2006 when farmers received all the surface water they needed from state and federal water projects, 2007 has been a dramatic opposite with a much reduced winter snowpack.
For example, growers in Westlands Water District received only a 50 percent allocation and in late May the state turned off its Delta pumps to protect fish. It was 13 days before water deliveries resumed and in the interim growers were scrambling for water, even paying $510 per acre foot for open market water.
Still growers are uncertain if they will have adequate water to finish the year. Some have abandoned row crops to ensure the availability of water in order to finish high value crops like almonds, which are harvested starting in August.
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by Punchy » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:08 amThe main thing this issue did for me was to remind me that I need to go pick up the last few issues of Astounding Wolf-Man, I had no idea Powerplex was in the Actioneers. The rest of it was only OK, this is one of the lesser Invincible issues I've read. I did like how Kirkman didn't drop the Gravity Gun stuff from the last issue, I thought that was just a one-off joke, but he brought it back. Mark being all emo didn't feel right though, I'm guessing this is leading to an 'Invincible No More' type situation, and then we'll get a new Black Invincible like that teaser, well, teased. Oh yeah, and Rick and Shane from the Walking Dead showed up.
by Flynn the Pirate » Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:16 pmI'll be honest: I really didn't like this issue very much. It just felt like it was trying to do so much without committing itself to any one tangent and none of it felt very well developed. And while I understand that Mark was trying to wrestle with feelings of ineptitude as Invincible, it came across as very whiny and very woe-is-me, which, after so many issues of that being pretty much the only emoting he seems capable of pulling off, is starting to get a little boring.
On the other hand, as I have stated before, Kirkman always reads better in big chunks, so perhaps if I go back and read this entire story all in one setting, it will flow better.
But taken on it's own merits, this was something of a bust.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:55 pmHunh. Yeah, this may not have been the best issue to jump on in singles. But having read the whole run up to now, there have been several other blah issues along the way too. Are we really building up to a new Invincible? That's kinda sad, I'm just getting to know this one.
by Punchy » Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:01 am
by Schlemmer » Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:52 am
I think TWD is like that, as well. Much better story over 80-100pgs, rather than 20pgs.
by Flynn the Pirate » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:36 am
... which wouldn't be a problem if he would do only graphic novels, but by choosing to do twenty-thirty page comics as his medium every month, it isn't exactly the best choice, I think.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:59 amI think it's questionable though--perhaps the main reason people feel books like this and WD are better reading in larger chunks is that they are essentially character-driven soap operas with a few Viltrumites or zombies here and there, and the single issues, quite smartly, leave the reader wanting more. That's what beings them back. If everything is tidier and even sort of wrapped up in individual arcs for the reader, I know from my own experience as a reader that it's easier to walk away having read tpbs.
What I'm saying is, of course the trades provide a more "completed" feeling when you finish one, even when the story continues on. Of course the single issues make the reader feel like he hasn't gotten full satisfaction yet--that's kind of the point of serial fiction and is in large part what drives those single issue sales to be later compiled into trade-form.
by Schlemmer » Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:38 pm
Def agree with the wanting more theory; that's the problem, too. I'm not disciplined enough to buy six issues without reading them.
Even if I was, with the internet (spoiler warnings such as they are), I wouldn't be able to tune everything out.
I guess it's a good problem?
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri Aug 05, 2011 4:59 pm
Only a good problem when the creative team stays on schedule though.
Or in the cases of certain media-darling hacks, as long as they bother to finish what they start.
I think this issue has other problems rather than simply "would read better inside a tpb" that make for a sort of second-rate single issue experience. There's the repetitive Powerplex fight, where the "joke" has just gotten a little stale--I put that in quotes because it's not really a joke, but hopefully it's pretty much done with finally, and the the pages spent on Mark sort of not saying much about his guilt or sense of responsibility lead up to a very down-beat almost depressing last page. But besides maybe wrapping up the Powerplex subplot, not much new is added to the mix other than that.
I gotta be honest here too, the Dinosaurus issues were not my favorites either, though there were moments.
by Potter Who » Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:43 pmDefinitely an issue for exposition and world-building, but the title always pays off eventually.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
But maybe she's trying to get more involved now, because that's the only thing that can explain this monstrosity.
I'm sure there are ladies out there who love this (and I actually kind of like the heel/sole of it) but the whole picture just completely turns me off. It just looks way too clunky and overdone.
Take it away and bring back your original designer.
7 comments:
- Beka said...
I'm with you. Something isn't right. That shoe looks like it should be broken up into two separate shoes. The heel/sole does NOT go with the body whatsoever. Tisk tisk, Jessica Simpson shoe designers.
- January 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- LightStealer said...
Arrrgh. Horrible!!
PS: I have to admit that I really like this pair by JS: http://karlascloset.blogspot.com/2008/12/sunny-day.html
- January 14, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Ashe Mischief said...
It would be cute if it were a bootie, and didn't have studs around the base of the leather. Then I'd be all over them, and pretend they were like, Chloe knock-offs.
- January 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Poochie what do you think of her "Gusla"? It's the one with the cut out platform. I hate to admit it but I like the silvery white one... Sort of... Actually I secretly love it but my hubby says it looks like a stripper shoe LOL. What is your opinion? PS new commenter but long time reader!
- January 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Princess Poochie said...
LightStealer, those are an interesting mix of materials and the same shoe Dorie mentions too (I think the acrylic is better than the wood version) but she's leveraging some recent trend.
I'd probably kill myself wearing it though!
Dorie - Welcome and thanks for commenting!
- January 14, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Swell Vintage - Frankie said...
Wow, that is one hideous shoe! x
- January 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- WendyB said...
I don't despise it. Mind you, I don't like it either. I'm indifferent. Some people say indifference is worse than hate. But I'm indifferent to those people.
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28 August 2010
August 28, 2010 (Holland, MI) - After two days and six championship races at the 2010 Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Championship, Michael Kiss on Bacio continues to lead the twenty-one strong one design fleet. In second overall is Canada's Kate Mullin on CAN-141 while John Arendshorst on Blink slips back to third.
Today was a much easier day on the race committee, yet nothing could be further from the truth for the well-seasoned Audi Melges 20 fleet racing on Lake Michigan. Kiss poured on the heat from the very start with a carbon copy performance on race 1 and 2.
The day started on time with a comfortable 8-10 knots out of the south. Kiss managed another great start, catapulting him to the front of the field. Once out front, that's where he remained. Another impressive lead took him to the finish. Simon Strauss on Simplicity took second place honors, Arendshorst was third.
Race two brought a little less breeze and shiftier conditions, which simply frustrated teams as they worked hard to productively get around the course. Defending National Champion Eric Wynsma on Superfly finally found a groove for a second place finish. Macatawa Bay Yacht Club Member Tony Tabb with Steve Sisson at the helm of USA-88 also got in on the action placing third. Kiss appeared unstoppable at this point taking yet another strategic win.
For the final race of the day, the sun shined brighter than ever under clear blue skies and very warm temperatures, the breeze faded drastically with the afternoon hours. From start to finish there were a continuous stream of lead changes involving George Gamble on A Little Wicked, Tom Ritter on Tramp, Mullin and Chuck Holzman on Flyer. Kiss remained in the top five, being patient for positioning to win. On the last upwind leg, as the race committee shortened the course further, Holzman found himself in charge with Kiss challenging until the end. "I'm glad to have broken Michael's winning streak." said Holzman after racing. Kiss settled for second. Mullin won out for third.
Kiss now leads the Audi Melges 20 U.S. National Championship with a substantial 17 point advantage. The major battles take place between the second thru fourth positions — Mullin with 22, Arendshorst with 23 and Tabb in third with 26 points.
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TOP TEN RESULTS (After 6 Races, 1 Discard)
1.) Michael Kiss/Mitchell Kiss, Bacio; 1-1-1-1-1-[2] = 5
2.) Kate Mullin/Harry Melges III, CAN-141; 2-[14]-5-6-6-3 = 22
3.) John Arendhorst/Scott Nixon, Blink; 3-3-3-3-[12]-11 = 23
4.) Steve Sisson/Tony Tabb, USA-88; 7-2-6-[8]-3-8 = 26
5.) Simon Strauss/Nigel Young, Simplicity; 5-4-4-2-15-[17] = 30
6.) George Gamble/Sam Rogers, A Little Wicked; 4-8-2-[11]-10-7 = 31
7.) Paul Reilly/Andy Burdick, Red Sky Sailing Team; 9-7-7-5-[13]-4 = 32
8.) Eric Wynsma/Anthony Kotoun, Superfly; [14]-12-8-4-2-10 = 36
9.) Chuck Holzman/Bora Gulari, Flyer; 15-6-[18/ZFP]-15-4-1 = 41
10.) Alex Post/Erik Post, Vaya Con Dios; 8-[15]-9-12-8-5 = 42
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