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KNIGHTDALE — Students at East Wake Middle are taking their holiday breaks to celebrate their chosen winter holiday, but they're also celebrating the season by giving back.
Through a holiday food and toy drive organized by the Student Council Association and the National Junior Honor Society, the school gathered over 1,600 non-perishable food items and toys.
The school's social worker was able to pass on names of families in need in the East Wake community so the local Kiwanis Club of Knightdale would be able to distribute the food and toys to families within the school.
"What I consider particularly impressive is the amount our students were able to give considering some of the challenges many of them face themselves," principal Nancy Allen said in a release. "Their spirit of giving was alive and well and they were all acutely aware that regardless of their circumstances, someone, somewhere this holiday season is worse off than they are."
East Wake usually holds a food drive around this time of year but it's never been this successful, assistant principal Brady Kocher said.
This year, the school made participation in the drive part of their Positive Behavior and Intervention Support program.
"I thought by giving students a clear reward for their positive actions ... we could increase participation," Kocher said.
PBIS is meant to help schools address behavioral problems within a school byt rewarding positive behaviors rather than punishing bad ones.
For the food drive, if students brought in three items, they were rewarded by being allowed to spend their last homeroom period of 2013 in the gym with friends, listening to music and playing games.
Those kind of special events are part of East Wake's normal PBIS program. Faculty and staff can give out PRIDE tickets for when students demonstrate a characteristic of the acronym: punctuality, respect, integrity, determination and excellence.
Those tickets can be exchanged for special privileges, like hanging out with friends in the gym, or they can be used at the school's PRIDE store.
"It's not just about punishing those who are making bad choices here, we are also constantly working on ways to reward those who make the right ones," Kocher said.
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The dangerous West Nile virus was detected in Suffolk County this week when mosquitoes in Gardiner County Park tested positive for the disease.
The news comes a week after a dead crow found in Northport tested positive for the virus.
West Nile, which has become a repeat problem on Long Island in the Summer, is particularly dangerous to humans for the neurological effects it could present.
Not all people infected develop the disease, and some symptoms could include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis, the Suffolk County Department of Health Services said.
There have been no human cases reported in Suffolk in 2012 to date.
The county so far has limited insecticide spraying to areas on Fire Island, though in the past other areas in Suffolk County have been treated.
Suffolk Judge Censured for Poker Games
County District Court Judge Paul Hensley this week was censured by the state for appearing to endorse and playing in private poker games that took place at the Fraternal Order of Eagles clubhouse in Northport.
According to the Associated Press report, Hensley didn't do anything illegal, but they ruled that his attendance "was inconsistent with his role as a judge and his obligation to respect and comply with the law, because he was voluntarily in the presence of those who were violating the law."
The state panel charged the game's organizer with breaking the law since he was keeping a portion of the pot.
An undercover police officer collected the information about the games.
Bellone Taps Human Rights Leaders
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone this week named a slate of new appointees to its Human Rights Commission, a group that patrols for discrimination and other rights abuses in the county.
Bellone named Luis Rodriguez and Dr. Luis Valenzuela to the commission, and re-appointed chairperson Rabbi Dr. Steven A. Moss, vice-chair Lynda Perdomo-Ayala and members Michele Del Monte and Dr. Carolyn Peabody to new terms.


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Northwick Park Underground (Metropolitan Line) lies adjacent to the campus and is less than 5 minutes walk from the St. Mark's Entrance. Trains take approximately 20 minutes from central London, Baker Street station. Please note that not all trains stop at Northwick Park.
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Six-day style race on tap at StubHub Center
Jack Simes is known as an avid cycling fan and promoter. The Breinigsville resident is the original co-director of what is now the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown, and one of the co-founders of the pro championship cycling road race every June in Philadelphia .
Simes is also a multi-time U.S. Olympian , U.S. Olympic coach and a member of the Bicycling Hall of Fame.
He is hoping to put his promoter's hat on one more time in hopes of kick-starting Six-Day style racing in the United States. He and business partner Josh Rechnitz of New York are in the final stages of signing contracts for the inaugural Hollywood Championship Cycling event set for Oct. 11-13 at the StubHub Center (formerly the Home Depot Center) in Carson, Calif.
Simes had hoped to restart Six-Day races several years ago during the annual Interbike Show in Las Vegas, but the time frame was around 2007-08, the start of the Great Recession.
"I'm excited about this opportunity, really excited," Simes said. "It's the return to this type of pro cycling to the U.S. for the first time in around 40 years."
The European Six-Day circuit is built around the Madison, a tag-team cycling race that originated indoors at Madison Square Garden back in the 1890s. The teams also compete in elimination races, scratch races, a flying lap and team time trials. Simes said the idea is to have a corporate sponsor for each race during the Hollywood Championship Cycling.
"Every night we'll have about a half dozen different races going on," he said. "It will be fast paced and we'll probably have a preliminary race card like an Open Madison that will include Masters racers and anyone else, and maybe even a women's omnium. The core event, of course, is the Madison, with the same guys doing the events each night."
Simes is very proud that the event will have a strong Lehigh Valley flavor. Bobby Lea of Topton, the two-time U.S. Olympian and multi-time national champion, will be racing with Simes' son, Jackie. Shane Kline of Bally, and Barry Miller, a T-town regular at the VPCC, have also said they will race.
Brian Drebber, who was one of the original announcers at the velodrome in Trexlertown, will be the voice of the Hollywood Championship Classic for the crowd and on air via webcast. Drebber has announced Olympic Games, Goodwill Games and 28 sports, including boat and auto racing.
The webcast is being produced by Kent Gordis, an eight-time Emmy winner who has produced six Tour de Frances, eight Olympic Games, the Biathlon World Cup and the "Dick Clark Rockin' New Year's Eve" with Ryan Seacrest.
Adam Duvendeck, a former U.S. cycling sprinter and two-time Olympian who raced at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, is the director of the Velo Sports Center at the StubHub Center where the HCC will take place.
What makes Simes most enthused about the event is the potential audience because of the webcast. Track cycling races, other than time trials, are practically made-for-TV events, yet there has been very little effort to televise them on a national basis.
"This will be an historical moment in American cycling," Simes said. "I think that over the next couple of years, this type of racing will change the landscape of American cycling viewership. It will broaden the viewership. The indoor track with the steep banking makes everything fast paced."
Simes said Hollywood Championship Cycling is basically a pilot program for other races. He and Rechnitz plan to build a portable indoor velodrome and take it to different indoor venues across the country — perhaps even here at the new downtown arena in Allentown — to stage similar events.
"We want to expand it to the full Six-Day racing," Simes said. "We can go to Las Vegas and do one during Interbike."
Donut Derby on Labor Day: It will truly be a sweet labor of love at 9 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 3, Labor Day. The 2013 Donut Derby will begin and end at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center.
The Donut Derby follows the same 36-mile route professional and area cyclists ride along the back roads of Lehigh and Berks counties that they've affectionately named "the Derby."
The big difference with the Donut Derby is that there are doughnut stops at miles 12 and 24, and time is taken off your finish time based on how many doughnuts you have eaten. A lunch and awards ceremony will follow the ride. Register by going on http://www.active.com and entering Donut Derby in the search box. There are no day-of-event registrations.
Ski for the Cure: Winter is a long way off (and we really don't want to be thinking about the cold weather after these last few absolutely gorgeous days), but Bernie Oldroyd, founder and organizer of the Ski for the Cure at Jack Frost Mountain, passed along information about a fundraiser dinner that will be held at 8 p.m. Aug. 8.
The Comedy Dinner Show at Boulder View Tavern in Lake Harmony, featuring Corey Alexander, Geno Bisconte and Father Paul, will donate portions of the proceeds to the JFBB Ski for the Cure, which has raised more than $128,000 for Komen for the Cure the past six years. For reservations and details, contact Boulder View Tavern at 570-722-9696, or go online to http://www.boulderviewtavern.com.
The seventh annual Ski for the Cure will be held Feb. 22 at Jack Frost.
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Unless you get a better job offer, or drop dead in your prime, odds are that you will retire — sooner or later — from the government. Maybe from the very job, in the very agency, you are in now.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Then consider, when should your end days planning begin?
I have a fed friend who has been retiring for the last six years. Maybe more.
She sets a date, begins the planning, but doesn't tell any of her colleagues or bosses. She doesn't want to be a lame duck and fears, probably correctly, that she might be passed over for key training, or a promotion, if they know she's leaving. During this time frame she got one grade promotion and one within-grade raise. So her high-three has gone up despite the pay freeze.
This time, she says, for sure. She's leaving either in December or January. No matter what. But she still hasn't told her agency!!!
Meantime, along comes an email from a very thorough fed, an attorney, who wants to retire in December. But she's concerned about the stories she's read about the retirement backlog at the Office of Personnel Management. It's been a problem for decades. In some cases retirees wait a year, or more, before they get their first full annuity check. Interim payments can range from 80 percent to, in a worst case scenario, 44 percent.
Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry (who happens to be a long-time fed himself) has made eliminating the backlog a top priority. New people have been hired (it takes some time to get up to speed) to handle the paperwork. The backlog has been reduced 27 percent since the first of the year. OPM is getting — and processing — more claims than expected each month. With all the buyout offers, there could be a crush of retirements at the end of the year.
So our about-to-retire attorney asks when should she put in her papers:
"I would like to know how early I can submit a request for retirement? I plan to resign at the end of the year and my first unreduced retirement check would be paid on the first day of the month after my 60th birthday. The question is, how early should I submit my request? I was told two months. Can I put it in earlier — maybe July — so they could work on it and maybe have it done on time?"
David Snell, director of Retirement Services at the National Active and Retired Federal Employees, says the two-month rule is a good one IF...
"If the employee is eligible for an immediate retirement at the end of the year, the two-month period suggested to him is a good one. He/she needs at that time to submit a date he plans to retire — he should not resign if he is eligible for an immediate or postponed annuity — and complete his retirement application.
He should also keep in mind that his agency will not submit his application to OPM until the effective date of his separation from service. The important piece in the retirement process, the one really necessary to ensure OPM processes his retirement in a short period of time, is making sure that all of the forms/documents/information OPM will need is included in his agency's submission of his retirement package.
OPM suggests employees start the retirement process a year prior to the date of retirement. But as far as actually submitting the application forms, two months prior will work. One caveat: He should keep in mind if his agency is a large one and they think there will be a large number of end-of-year retirements, his agency HR and payroll office might get swamped, which could slow processing down." — David Snell
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Mmmmm...s'mores. In case you missed it, Friday was National S'More Day to honor the gooey treat, an invention largely attributed to the Girl Scouts.
Learn how to create a s'more with more and read an original recipe on NPR's food blog "The Salt."
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By refusing to hear Alabama's appeal of the Obama administration's lower court victories, the justices steered clear of a hot-button debate at a time when Congress is engaged in writing legislation to overhaul immigration laws.
Both a federal judge and an appeals court agreed with the White House that federal law trumped a provision in Alabama state law that made it illegal to harbor or transport anyone in the state who had entered the country illegally.
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Here's a recipe from Cindy's Supper Club, by Cindy Pawlcyn, featured in today's Buffalo News.
"My Belgian friend Anne says that in Belgium this gratin is served with mashed potatoes and a green salad for a satisfying and simple supper. It also makes a rich, warming appetizer, portioned at
one-half endive per person. In this menu, it plays the role of a hearty side dish. It may be assembled in advance and then baked just before serving, which makes it ideal for entertaining. It also holds well for 5 to 10 minutes in a warm oven if the timing of dinner needs to be adjusted.
This gratin may be baked in a single large dish and then plated for serving or baked in individual dishes. For the latter, I like to use either classic white French porcelain dishes or Spanish earthenware cazuelas." Serves 6
Gratin of Belgian Endive and Ham
4 to 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
9 heads Belgian endive, halved lengthwise and stem ends trimmed but not cored
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 cups whole milk
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Freshly grated nutmeg, for seasoning
A few dashes of Tabasco sauce
11/2 cups grated aged Gruyère cheese
6 large slices cooked ham (such as Black Forest or honey-cured)
1/4 to 1/2 cup grated aged Gruyère cheese
1/4 to 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
In a large sauté pan, melt 4 tablespoons of the butter over medium heat. When the butter is hot, place the endive halves, cut side down, in the pan and sauté for 5 minutes, until the edges are caramelized. Turn the endive halves and cook, adding some or all of the remaining 2 tablespoons butter if the endives threaten to scorch, for 3 to 5 minutes, until the outer leaves are tender. Season with the lemon juice, salt, and pepper and continue to cook for 8 to 10 minutes, until just tender. Remove from the heat and reserve until needed.
To make the béchamel, in a sauce pan, melt the butter over medium-low heat. Sprinkle in the flour and cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until aromatic and the raw smell of flour is gone. Do not allow the roux to brown. Slowly pour in the milk while stirring constantly, and then cook, continuing to stir, for 5 to 8 minutes, until thickened to the consistency of thick cream and it coats the back of the spoon. Season with the salt, pepper, nutmeg, and Tabasco. Add the Gruyère cheese and stir just until melted. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly.
To assemble the gratin(s), butter 1 large or 6 small gratin dishes. (The large dish should accommodate the endives, snuggly but not crowded, in a single layer.) Cut the ham slices in half crosswise, and wrap a piece of ham around the center of each endive half. Place the endive halves, cut side up, in the prepared dish(es). Pour the béchamel evenly over the top and sprinkle with the Gruyère and Parmesan. (At this point, the dish may be covered and refrigerated for up to 2 hours before baking.)
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Bake until golden brown and yummy. This could take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes, or more, depending on how cold everything is when you put the dish(es) in the oven. If everything looks cooked through, but the top is not nicely browned, pop the dish(es) under the broiler (make sure they are broiler safe) for a few minutes to finish caramelizing around the edges. The dish should be hot and bubbling when served.
(Reprinted with permission from "Cindy's Supper Club: Meals from Around the World to Share with Family and Friends," by Cincy Pawlcyn, copyright (c) 2012. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group.)
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Oklahoma State pitchers Chelsea Ross and Kat Espinosa combined to throw a perfect game Tuesday as the Cowgirl softball team defeated Eastern Oklahoma 14-0 in a regulation seven-inning scrimmage. The pitching duo combined for nine strikeouts without allowing a runner on base.
The OSU offense stepped up at the plate, connecting on 13 hits, including four home runs. The Cowgirls took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second on a two-run homer by shortstop Gessenia DeLaCruz, her third of the fall season.
Sophomore Ari Morrison hit a triple to lead off the third, and after centerfielder Shannon Kaufman walked with two outs, designated player Simone Freeman hit a two-run single between the first and second basemen. Catcher Tarah Ettinger followed that with a two run home run of her own over the fence in left centerfield, giving OSU a 6-0 lead.
An error, a walk and a base hit loaded the bases in the fourth inning for Oklahoma State, when freshman Tiffany Mikkelson hit a bomb over the wall in left field, giving her 10 RBIs this fall. She added another in the fifth on a base hit before Ross contributed to the cause with a three-run home run to give OSU the 14-0 win.
Ross, a freshman from Kansas City, Mo., started the game and threw five innings, striking out five. Espinosa, a senior from Houston, Texas, came on in relief in the final two innings and struck out four of the six batters she faced.
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Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 20 min
Difficulty: Easy
6 cups Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and diced into 1-inch cubes
1 clove garlic, minced
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1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
3 1/2 cups panko bread crumbs, divided
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar
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1/2 cup chopped green onion
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup sour cream
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
In a large Dutch oven, add the potatoes and cover with water. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; then reduce heat, and simmer until tender about 10 to 12 minutes. Drain well and add to a large bowl.
Mash the potatoes with the garlic and salt and pepper. Fold in 2 1/2 cups of the panko, the egg, cheese, bacon, onion, butter, and the sour cream. Form the potato mixture into 3-inch patties. Put the remaining 1 cup of panko in a shallow dish and dredge the potato patties in the crumbs.
In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the potato patties, and cook until brown and crisp, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Arrange on a serving platter and serve immediately.
I am a 62 year old working grandmother of four beautiful growing grandsons who love my home cooking. Everything is made from scratch,unlike that of their Mommas. Every Sunday all 4 grandsons know they are eating healthy at Mams home. They will try anything I put on the table.There are sometimes problems when it comes to fruits and veggies. What I do is let them pick between 2 fruits and 2 vegetables. But I make a deal with them. Whatever they choose I will make but I also choose 2 and in order to have what they chose they have to try mine also. If they choose corn than I also make asparagus. The boys may not like it but they do try it! Sometimes it actually works. Their favorite meal is Breaded Bonelss Pork Chops ( fried )in olive oil. I use a milk bath then coat them with seasoned breadcrumbs, mashed potatoes. Instead of butter and milk I use chicken broth with Mrs. Dash seasoning for the mashed potatos. Always applesauce! They all love it! Refreshments: a glass of ice water and usually 1% milk or homemade iced tea with Spenda. they don't know the difference. I don't know any grandma who doesn't go overboard on dessert. Mine is 2 layer ( eggless ) chocolate cake. Believe me, I do want my boys to eat healthy. Even if it's only once a week! BTW: Did I mention I am a Diabetic? Ms. Deen I enjoy your program and watch it whenever I have the chance. I believe it isn't the cooking shows on TV that has made our youth obese. It is the availability of fast foods.Not just the ones that are on Resturant Row but the quick foods that are purchased in grocery stores, plus the lack of outdoor activities. We as parents and grandparents need to get them away from the indoor activities ( video games,computers,cell phones ) and outdoors (walking,bike riding,playing basketball,soccer,baseball,weight lifting,golf,etc. Ican honestly say my grandsons are involved in many outdoor activities. Hopefully they keep up their active lifestyle!!!!!! I will continue watching your cooking show and your son Bobby's new show. From my kitchen to yours. As they say in Pa. " Luv Youins "
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Lessons on fitness from kickboxing and other martial arts.
Let's look at coordinated strength versus raw strength.
Raw strength is just unharnessed power at your disposal. If you pick up a heavy weight often enough you get stronger. You have more raw strength at your disposal and can handle more mass.
Coordinated strength is different. Coordinated strength is something that we can apply in complex movements and through a wide range of motion. Martial arts are exponentially more complex in movement than something like weight lifting. This complex movement used in kickboxing leads to strength and conditioning that can adjust to meet a wide variety of demands.
We are only as resilient as we are adaptable. Injury or failure happen when the body is pushed outside of its familiar range of motion and physical demand without resources to meet the challenge. At that point our structure actually physically gives out and we are injured. Or, we simply physically fail this task that we needed to accomplish and are set back. Recovery may take days, even weeks, or longer depending on the severity of the failure.
A good fitness regimen should make you look and feel good. We all want that.
Kickboxing which develops high levels of coordinated strength makes you feel good but also, more resilient. It gives you more strength through a wider range of movement.
From this we learn that any workout plan you put together should incorporate as much variety of movement as possible.
It should utilize the core extensively.
Kickboxing uses every part of the body but the power of the movement is always connected to the core. The entire body is worked with kickboxing training.
Your workout should also try to use every intensity level, or gear the body has.
The training should have a warm up phase for more gentle movements. It should have a cruising phase, something you could maintain for hours if need be. It should have an endurance-speed phase which is physically challenging but you can still maintain for a significant amount of time. There should also be a physical red line phase where you are pushing your body absolutely to its limits. Redline training can't be maintained for long at all. However, you want to be familiar with that zone so, if it's ever demanded of you can rise the challenge.
Follow those simple principles as you put together a workout routine and you'll get excellent results! Also, consider adding complex movement training like kickboxing or another martial art for developing coordinated, robust, resilient strength.
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The IRS has served notice that most U.S. income tax filers can being filing 2012 tax returns on January 30, 2013. The timetable had been questioned because of the so-called fiscal cliff legislation signed into law earlier in January.
According to Forbes magazine, the nation's bill collector says it will begin processing tax returns for most filers at the end of January.
There are forms and instructions to revamp, as well as computers to retool, according to Forbes. Although the IRS says that it worked to anticipate Congress' changes, the new law required the IRS to do considerable updating and processing before starting the annual tax routine.
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The best piece may have been something that didn't have anything to do with intercepting passes, making tackles or any other traditional on-field skill.
"The most important part of football is the touchdown dance," he told campers. "You have to have a good touchdown dance."
Practicing their own celebration after scoring make-believe touchdowns was just part of the experience for the kids who attended the event at the John Davis Recreation Center in Dalton. The three-hour camp included offensive and defensive drills for ages 6-12.
Bryce Stanley, a 12-year-old Christian Heritage School student, said he knew a lot of what was taught but learned new routes as a wide receiver.
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Hilt, who played indoor football season for the first time this year, called interacting with kids his "favorite part" about playing at the professional level. However, his touchdown dance bit was offered somewhat tongue in cheek. He was just giving the same advice he received.
"I'm not that kind of a flashy player," Hilt said. "Last season someone was joking and said, 'A big part of indoor football is getting the crowd into it.' The more I saw, it kind of is. The fans are right there in the game so it's about getting the crowd into it."
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It seems like no matter what I do, or where I go I always end up having to wear some kind of uniform. I went to St. Theresa's Catholic School from K-6th grade. Being a parochial school, we of course had to wear uniforms everyday. Humorously, we had to wear navy pants. There were also burgundy jumpers we had the option of wearing until we got into 6th grade when we could wear gray skirts and had to do away with the jumpers. At certain times of the year we could wear shorts. There were length requirements. We had the option of white, light blue, or light pink shirts we could wear. They had to have a collar. We had to wear a belt. Shirts had to be tucked in. Socks had to be white. If you were wearing a skirt, jumper or shorts you had to be wearing knee-high socks. Once I left this school I swore I would never wear a uniform again.
I was wrong. I played volleyball and softball all the way through high school. If you think Mercy College uniforms are bad, you should try being forced to wear spandex shorts under the spotlight of a crowd when you're finishing up puberty and totally uncomfortable in your own body. I'm not sure if that was worse than the un-breathable, thick, polyester pants we had to wear for softball in 95 degree heat or not. Thankfully by my senior year we'd gotten rid of both. Also in high school I worked at Panera Bread. That uniform was khaki colored pants and tucked-in, solid color polo's. (Probably my favorite uniform) For my CNA clinical my senior year of high school we had to wear all white scrubs. Even white underwear showed through. That was hideous.
I've also had to wear scrubs a majority of my time out of high school. I worked at a nursing home until my senior year of college at University of Iowa. I got out of scrubs for about a year, though. My senior year I worked in the office of the radiology department at the UIHC. That uniform was basically just business casual. My other job my senior year was at the University Box Office. We could wear whatever we wanted (EVEN SWEATPANTS) unless we were working a show (taking tickets and all that jazz), then we had a red t-shirt that said "STAFF" on the back and "UBO" on the front. I now currently work at Mercy Hospital as a PCT. Green is one of my favorite colors.
Obviously I have never found a way to get out of wearing a uniform for too terribly long. I've been wearing them a majority of my 22 years on this Earth, and it seems like I'll be wearing them for at least 22 more. Navy colored pants seem to be my calling. I started with them and will probably end with them at Mercy.
While they may seem annoying at first, uniforms can really be quite convenient. Some superficial perks I've come to realize: You don't have to think about what you're going to wear. (This can come in handy for early clinical/lab days when you otherwise may end up wearing pink and red, or something out of sheer tiredness.) Your mom will usually buy your uniforms for you. (I'm a poor college student.) Also, you don't get quite so upset if something gets spilt on them. "Blood on my scrub pants? Oh well." I'm sure you can think of others.
On a more serious note, there are a lot of important reasons for a dress code too. The obvious main reason for a dress code is to identify one's self. I think they bring a sense of empowerment. Hitler actually used the Nazi uniform to empower his lowly soldiers. It apparently worked a little too well in that case. In a situation where everyone is wearing the same uniform it creates a sense of equality and unity. There becomes a feeling of comradeship with others that look like you. This can build trust along with a sense of belonging. It's very important for staff to identify with each other because we lean on one another for all kinds of things.
In our setting as healthcare providers, it also is especially important to differentiate staff into hierarchies. Students need to be identified because half the time we have no idea what we're doing. It would be terrible for a doctor to assume that we were capable of doing all kinds of cool things we had yet to be taught. Navy means pain pills, very important for some patients. It is easier for our patients to understand what we can and cannot do. Things are color-coded in society constantly to make things work more smoothly. And it works the same for our staff members. It's important for us to identify each other, and for patients to identify us. We all have limitations. A patient isn't going to ask a guy that comes into their room wearing a white coat to empty their urinal. Green deals with that.
The actual uniform isn't the only important aspect of how we look at work. Having an overall dress code (which puts restrictions on more than just clothes) is especially important for us. It ensures that we look professional. We are expected to have clean hair and nails for one. If we do not look clean, how can we expect our patients to trust our care? I would not want someone who didn't look like they'd showered in days to be touching me, period. Since the healthcare field is completely centered on the patient, we do not want to in any way distract from that care. For example, if one of us had a large visible tattoo, this may inhibit us from properly giving a patient care because of that patient's personal values. I think tattoos are great, but visible ones in this field can have negative connotations to how effectively we can do our job. Clients may make judgments on us immediately based on that and not trust us, or they may not give us pertinent information we need to help care for them.
Bottom line: dress codes are put in place as another tool to help effectively care for all of our main focus, the client. That is what Mercy is all about, and a dress code is one of the easiest and most efficient ways we have to help do that.
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My G4 has been sitting in my room for a while now since I'm waiting to meet with a trainer and rep. I'm really eager to just do it myself and get started with the user guide. How many of you have started the system on your own? Would you guys recommend waiting for my appointment date(another 2 weeks from today)or have you all found it to be straight forward. Just an FYI, this is my first CGM. Thanks
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I started on the Dexcom Seven in April. I didn't attend any training, wasn't even offered any. Just started it all on my own, without any trouble. It's not that complicated, really. Just read the user guide closely and it's a breeze.
Well, if it was Me? Being a T1- and A Old guy ?
1- If allelse Fails, Read the Instructions!
2- Then I would find Someone Else who Has it and uses it and ask them To Help Guide me thru it.. ( Give them your Email, etc..)
But, Unless your Going Low alot? Not so sure it's worth it..
youtube has a lot of videos that will show you how use.
From your profile / other discussions, looks like you've had a couple years experience with T1, BG testing and also pumping with Omnipod ? So if you consider yourself in pretty good command of those, and good A1C, then I think you can handle CGMS startup on your own.
As others mentioned, the user guide and you tube videos will provide lots of help, and the worst is you end up wasting a sensor that Dexcom may not replace.
The most important thing is to not rely on the CGMS number for dosing insulin, or treating a low. Always confirm with a meter BG check. Expect the first 24 hours to be the most unreliable.
When I tried my Dexcom a couple of years ago, I did not wait for my training. It's very straightforward, and I didn't feel that I needed a trainer. I ended up canceling the training session and just did it on my own. Go with what you're comfortable with. If you read the directions and it all makes sense, I don't see the harm.
I had no training for my G4. It's really rather easy to get started. As said, good advice in here. Don't rely on it too much for the first little bit, keep up with stick test. After a week on it though I've found it to be pretty spot on.
I say go ahead and start, not like it's a pump where you can do some damage to yourself. At worst you get some inaccurate readings and life goes on.
As an avid cyclist, I have had allergic reactions to the adhesive and adhesive failure due to sweat(live in Central Fl.), I use an adhesive barrier like tagaderm and glue everything down with skin-tac, after I set the sensor, I wet the dex adhesive pad with more skin tac, then cover the whole conglomoration with more barrier tape. I will occasionaly reapply skin-tac during the session to keep the corners from peeling up, this has been the perfect set up for me.
I cannot take credit as I learned all of these procedures here on Tudiabetes.
Thanks everybody:)
By the way I have the e-mail confirmed my G4 order has been placed and I am simply waiting on a shipment confirmation:)!!!!!!!!!
If you check my page I've documented my first week (going into number 2) with the G4. I've had Tegaderm on there since day 3 and I haven't had an issue yet. That's through 4 work days, 11 hours of Karate and 3 showers.
I simply cut a hole in the middle of the Tegaderm patch for the sensor to fit though. Though I do have some flexfix and IV prep on order as well. I am currently on day 6 with my sensor.
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Thread: Evolution of your Gaming Space
Friday, 13th July, 2012, 09:11 PM #11
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In defense of my patio furniture in the house, I have 2 little girls and live in a ranch style house. Playing in the kitchen or dining room would have been too loud for them, so we ended up in the family room. At the time, the patio furniture was the easiest things to move.
Everyone liked the round table as well.
We're also seeing ourselves get away from the grid. The TV works well to display a rough maptools map for the players, instead of a small graph paper map. It makes it easy for the remote guy to join us, and it prevents the good old player trying to map, DM constantly taking the map to correct it, etc. Now the DM sees how it gets drawn, so it's easy.
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Friday, 13th July, 2012, 09:25 PM #12
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Grew up playing on dining room tables or in basement's at one friend's house or another. Back when your gaming stuff arrived in one hand and your sleeping bag was in another.
As an adult gamer, played on a lot of folding tables in a lot of basements. Some dining room tables.
Got married a little over 6 years ago, and took over a not-quite-finished room in the basement. And that's when the real improvements started.
For several years we played in that basement (we called it the Grotto). I built a rig for a projector, with a mirror to direct the image down onto the table, and that was our method for a long time.
For a while we had a period where I tried running the game via maptools, but with everyone in the room -- I have enough old laptops and computers that I could set up a terminal of some sort for every player and the DM (yeah, I'm that guy). But it didn't work very well -- no one liked it, everyone felt like the screens/monitors were getting in their way. But the computer-driven maps, via projector, are a HUGE timesaver for the DM.
Now my wife and I have moved into a new house -- a big ranch with no basement -- but a big family room that has become the game room. I'm not allowed to hang a projector from the ceiling, so we're using a temporary solution (a pole, basically) while I work on other options.
I looked at the Geek Chique Emissary long and hard -- it's a much more presentable table than the Sultan is, and I have a chunk of money saved that I can spend on this, but it doesn't suit our needs -- we're very much dedicated to having the computer-assisted surface to play on. I actually just started talking to a local custom furniture maker in town about a table that, I hope, will suit our needs much better than the Emissary.
Saturday, 14th July, 2012, 03:15 PM #13
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Started at a variety of tables, just a friend and myself with him DMing. A dining room table, basement with an old dining table, a conference table in a room where his dad worked (and he had the keys to get us in after hours). We soon added more players and moved to playing atop a ping-pong table in the basement at his house. Got up to 6 or 7 players for most games when we merged games with another group.
He'd met a group of players discussing D&D when he was working at Pizza Hut and we all joined his game - yeah, it was a really sizeable crowd at times. He had the second floor of a house pretty much to himself. His bedroom had a dividing wall splitting his actual bedroom from an area with another ping-pong table - which sat atop a pair of sawhorses - atop which was a full 4x8 sheet of plywood - the surface of which was almost entirely covered by plastic-coated graph paper we used to be able to buy off a roll for about 40 cents a foot. Gamed there all day Saturdays, noon-midnight+, about 48 weeks a year, for the better part of a decade. A number of players moved away and/or gave up D&D.
Eventually I got a place of my own and by that time I was starting to run my own games so went back to a dining room table at my condo with a now much more manageable roster of players. Burned out on DMing for a while but joined as a player in another game that had been running by the guy who first DMed for me (he'd moved back into town). That one was at a large dining table in the living room of an oversized apartment being shared by other gamers. There were actually a couple other weekly games being played at the same table on different days.
Eventually wound up joining another new game starting up by old gaming aquaintences having moved back into town - back at another dining room table. His house was utterly trashed and I grew to despise his wife who was also playing with us, but the D&D itself was mostly fairly good. More moving around and I ran a few more games from my condo but had difficulty keeping games running when Spring and Summer came along. Finally _I_ moved and got another game started. This one started around a HUGE boardroom table in office space one of the players had for his business. I loved that space for gaming. TONS of room and storage for all the minis, books, Master Maze pieces and schtuff. Only problem was that it was a 30-45 minute drive for me, and when the game rolled into the AM hours it was annoying to have to still pack up my campaign stuff so I could work on the game at home and head home. When that business shrank he got rid of the office but we moved that table into my unfinished basement without a break in the campaign. Later moved the campaign to an outdoor venue.
The roster had finally shrunk to 4 fairly regular players. We were having good weather so on a fluke one night we set up the game outside under a large awning next to a travel trailer. When it got dark we set up oil lamps to game by. It was great. We managed to play for well over 6 months outdoors by oil lamp. I had a lot of fun running that game and while I wouldn't say it was perfect (still that 30-40 minute drive) I had reduced my DMing "overhead" to minimal gear and the mood of the actual physical setting of the table was awesome.
When it got cold again moved back to my basement for a while. This was all in Washington state in the Seattle/Tacoma area.
Finally, made a move to California. Back to kitchen table gaming but its been hard to start a game and keep it going. Best campaign I've managed in the last decade is probably a dozen sessions.
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Wednesday, 18th July, 2012, 12:56 AM #14
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Wednesday, 18th July, 2012, 01:11 AM #15
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Wednesday, 18th July, 2012, 03:49 AM #16
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Started at the kitchen table or floor. Went from house to house in this fashion for years. Ended up in my parents garage on an old table I reclaimed(garbage picked.) Had a blast playing after hours at my buddy's game store until it shut down for good. Went to my garage and now we play in my brother's carriage house or in my sunroom(depends which group and what game.). I'm happy to say that I play Shadowrun 2nd on Sundays with same friends from 20 years ago and Monday's I play AD&D 2nd at my brother in law's carriage house that is only used for gaming, drinking and smoking cigars.
Wednesday, 18th July, 2012, 10:12 PM #17
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We used to play on a dining room table in a friend's rented house.
Now, with a different group, we alternate between a long folding table and kitchen chairs in my living room to the dining room table at our DM's place. My husband *really* wants to get a projector rigged and to build his own version of the Sultan, and there's a room in our basement that's allegedly going to become a gaming room but since it requires him to finish building bookcases and potentially that table first.... (I'm pretty much writing that room off as a lost cause :P ).
Ideally, I'd like to get a more comfortable setup.. maybe a pair of couches and a comfy chair around a table midway between coffee and dining height, plus cabinets/bookcases for books and minis and boardgame storage. Maybe my desk. If only my home office room was bigger....
Wednesday, 18th July, 2012, 10:32 PM #18
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I played at home. My son was born. Now I play in pubs.
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Thursday, 19th July, 2012, 12:01 PM #19
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20 years ago we started playing in the basements of churches (community rooms you could ask to use for a weekend or so) and we built our dungeons with matches and used pebbles and dice for monsters, and sometimes the odd Ral Partha mini for NPCs .
Today we play in my apartment and our battle map is a 48" LED TV lying flat on the a big table. It's connected to my notebook that runs maptools and we use D&D minis for our encounters.
So much for the evolution of our gaming space. Now that I've written that it feels kind of scary and fantastic and the same time
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Thursday, 19th July, 2012, 01:20 PM #20
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We used to use our Florida room, but it just gets too hot in the summer. So, we use the Family room now.
I turn on the fireplace (electric); everybody sits on couches and uses trays; I set up my DM table (2' deep by 5' wide card table); hook my laptop up to the TV for maps, pictures, and music/sounds; and we use the coffee table for the game mat (it's one of thos coffee tables where the top is hinged and can be raised up to eating level, we elevate it and it's perfect for the minis).
It Works Awesomely. And you're right, everybody is comfy.
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Richard and Mary Williams of Meridian announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica, to Hank Lewis, son of Tracey and Janice Lewis of Rose Hill.
The wedding will be Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 4:32 p.m. at Meridian Little Theatre.
Miss Williams is the granddaughter of Mrs. Joyce Chaltry of Columbus and the late Michael Chaltry and Mari Williams of Meridian and the late W.O. Williams.
The bride-elect is a graduate of Meridian Community College and a 2008 graduate of Meridian High School. She attended Mississippi University for Women in Columbus.
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