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Here it comes—the beginning of that dull, throbbing pain of a tension headache. But what if you want to feel better without turning to over-the counter or prescription medicines? We have some natural approaches that you may want to try!
If you are desperately looking for a way to manage tension headaches without the use of drugs, here are some alternative treatments that have shown to either prevent or help relieve tension headaches in scientific studies:
Acupuncture is a type of Traditional Chinese Medicine that has become more popular in the United States. This treatment involves inserting very fine needles into specific locations on the surface of the body. There are many different types of acupuncture, including a technique that uses laser beams instead of needles. There have been studies supporting the use of acupuncture to prevent tension headaches.
If you are interested in trying this treatment, do your research. For example, find out which types of acupuncture may be the most helpful for tension headaches. Ask your doctor if she can recommend a qualified acupuncturist who has experience in treating headaches. Read your health insurance policy to find out if acupuncture visits are covered. Keep in mind, too, that most states require acupuncturists to be licensed.
Biofeedback is a way to control processes that are normally involuntary. A biofeedback session involves having sensors attached to your body. These sensors are connected to a biofeedback machine, which translates the data into an image on a monitor or a sound. For example, if you undergo biofeedback for tension headaches, a therapist can teach your strategies to reduce the tension in your muscles, which in turn would produce a less dramatic image on the screen or a quieter sound. Studies have shown that biofeedback may be helpful in relieving tension headaches.
Since not all states require biofeedback therapists to have a license, proceed cautiously. Make sure that the person has been trained in biofeedback and has experience treating tension headaches. Check with your doctor to find out if she knows of a qualified therapist that you can make an appointment with. In addition, look into your insurance plan to find out if you need to pay for the sessions out-of-pocket.
Chiropractic is a common treatment that typically involves hands-on manipulation of the vertebrae in the spine. While you may think that chiropractic is only used for back pain, there are actually a range of other conditions that chiropractors can treat, including headaches and pain in other areas of the body (eg, neck, jaw, shoulder, knee). Other providers, such as Osteopathic doctors, may also perform some spinal manipulation. Some studies have shown that spinal manipulation may help relieve and reduce the number of tension headaches.
If you are interested in working with a chiropractor, you can ask your doctor for a referral or search a professional website, such as the American Chiropractic Association. All chiropractors must have a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree, and they must have a license to work in your state. Most insurance plans do pay for chiropractic care.
Relaxation therapies actually encompass a range of different techniques. One example that may be helpful for people with tension headaches is guided imagery. This involves working with a therapist to learn how to use all of your senses to focus on a particular, calming image. Practicing guided imagery can bring your body to a state of deep relaxation.
Unfortunately, states do not require a license for this type of treatment. But there are certification programs for guided imagery, and many practitioners are licensed mental health therapists or nurses. Again, your doctor may be able to recommend someone who has experience in guided imagery. You can also search The Academy of Guided Imagery's website for practitioners in your area.
If you want to break the cycle of tension headaches, you have many options to try! Taking over-the-counter or prescription medicines does not have to be the answer for you. Now may be the right time to look into alternative treatments.
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Wine tastings are $5 and $10.
Tasting room hours: 12-5:30 Friday and Saturday; 12:30-5:30 Sunday. Open every day in October.
Cavender Creek Vineyards is now proudly presenting three labels of our white Petit Manseng wine, a Merlot, a Cabernet Sauvignon, and four labels of our American Norton red wine. We also serve three sweet muscadine wines from Still Pond, a south Georgia winery.
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Simon Perry of Digital-Lifestyles.info writes: Saturday saw anti-DRM protests at eight Apple stores across the USA organised by DefectiveByDesign, who are running an on-going 'Campaign to Eliminate DRM.'...It's the first time we've heard to a flashmob being used for anything approaching useful."
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EDMONTON - As a songwriter, Neil Young is known for his poetic turns of phrase. He has, after all, seen the needle and the damage done.
So, it's not surprising that when describing Alberta's oilsands region he compared it to the site of an atomic explosion.
"There's no way to describe it, so I described it as Hiroshima, which was basically pretty mellow compared to what's going on out there (in the oilsands)," said Young at a news conference in Toronto on Sunday in advance of the first of four concerts to raise money for a First Nations legal fight against the oilsands.
Young is certainly right that there is nothing particularly pretty about Alberta's oilsands operations.
Huge open-pit mines look like an excavation project as conducted by an asteroid strike. Even the less invasive in situ method involves burning massive amounts of natural gas to turn water into steam that is injected underground to free the bitumen. Not only does the process release large amounts of carbon dioxide, making the industry the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, it disturbs the land with networks of cutlines that from the air make the forest look like the surface of a waffle iron. Then there are the toxic tailings ponds that are more like lakes than ponds, large enough to be seen from lower Earth orbit.
The oilsands operations look like many things, none of them pretty. However, they are not Hiroshima in 1945 after the atomic bomb. Young's analogy — especially when he says Hiroshima was "mellow" in comparison to the oilsands — is gross hyperbole that trivializes the death of more than 100,000 people who perished in the Japanese city. Some First Nations downstream from the oilsands have complained about higher rates of cancer and other diseases (which the provincial government disputes), but even the staunchest critics of the industry haven't blamed it for the deaths of 100,000 people.
But then, Young is a poet, not an epidemiologist.
Raising the spectre of Hiroshima certainly grabs your attention more than quoting scientific papers that, for example, raise questions about the impact of the oilsands on wildlife by concluding "co-exposure of fish to arsenic and benzoapyrene can increase rates of genotoxicity eight to 18 times above rates observed after exposure to either carcinogen alone." Try putting that to music.
Young's "Honor the Treaties" concert tour of four Canadian cities uses the Americanized spelling of "honour" so as not to confuse our neighbours down south who are the real targets of the anti-oilsands movement. The tour's title, no matter how it's spelled, makes it sound as if all First Nations are against the oilsands. They're not.
Some First Nations people have learned to make the oilsands work for them through jobs and investments. The oilsands company Syncrude calls itself the largest employer of aboriginal people in Canada and has conducted $1.7 billion worth of business deals with aboriginal companies since 1992.
The Fort McKay Group of Companies, for example, is among the country's most successful aboriginal business ventures with $100 million a year in revenues. That's not to say the oilsands is the employer of first choice for First Nations; it's just that there are no other options. In the pragmatic words of Jim Boucher, chief of the Fort McKay First Nations, "I think our community is benefiting from oilsands development, but we do so because there are no other economic opportunities."
The exploitation of the oilsands is a complicated business whichever way you look at it. Saying it looks like Hiroshima, though, does nothing to encourage a meaningful discussion on how we should be exploiting the resource.
Having said that, the oilsands industry has nobody to blame for its public relations black eye than itself. Well, other than the Alberta government.
It was the government that opened the door to unfettered expansion of the industry with little environmental oversight. It was the government, under Ralph Klein, that dismissed climate change as the fault of "dinosaur farts." It was the government, under Ed Stelmach, that refused to put its foot "on the brake" of more, bigger, faster, expansion of the oilsands. The government, under Alison Redford, has now made plans to improve environmental monitoring of the oilsands but it is change moving at the pace of glutinous bitumen in January.
For those upset with Neil Young's simplistic and cantankerous attack on the oilsands, the real culprit here is a provincial government that for too long ignored or ridiculed the voices of opponents.
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The following list of events has been confirmed. Dates, times, and locations of events will be announced as quickly as possible. Please check the Law Daily/Weekly and the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute's website for updates.
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Tuesday, February 11
The Modern Challenges of International Law
Ambassador David Scheffer, Formerly U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues
3:00 PM, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Susman Classroom (No. 404)
Reception and book signing immediately following lecture
Monday, February 24
Local Knowledge: Explorations in China's First Encounter with the Modern Company
William C. Jones Lecture by Professor Madeline Zelin Columbia University
4:30 PM, Anheuser-Busch Hall, Zorensky Classroom (No. 306)
Thursday, April 3
Rule of Law, Criminal Justice, and the U.S. in Afghanistan
Karen Hall, U.S. Department of State
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Expert Meeting on "Fulfilling the Dictates of Public Conscience:
Moving Foward with a Convention on Crimes Against Humanity"
Villa Moynier, Geneva, Switzerland (invitation only)
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Fall 2013
- 7th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs [more]
- International Law Weekend (ILW) Midewest Conference [more]
- Challenges of Global Governance (Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference
Call): Stewart M. Patrick
- 2013 World Peace Through Law Lecture: H.E. Sir Christopher Greenwood [more]
- Holocaust memorial Lecture Speaker: Sarah Wagner
"Srebrenica's Legacies of Loss and Remembrance" [more]
- American Grand Strategy(Council on Foreign Relations Academic Conference
Call): Richard N. Haass
- Roundtable on "Sebrenica's Legacies of Loss and Remembrance
- Seeds of Hope: Can the Women of Congo Dare to Dream of Peace and Justice:
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Spring 2013
- Harris Institute Speaker Series: Professor Raj Bhala [more]
- Third Annual Workshop on International and Comparative Law
- William C. Jones Lecture Series: Tae-Ung Baik [more]
- Panel on Conceptualizing a New Institutional Framework for International Taxation [more]
- Harris Institute Speaker Series: Robert Petit [more]
Fall 2012
- 6th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs [more]
- Harris Institute Speaker Series: Ambassador Louis Susman [more]
- Harris Institute Speaker Series: The Honorable Kim Post [more]
- Film Screening of Blood in the Mobile [more]
- The International Criminal Court at 10 [more]
Spring 2012
- Immigration Law and Family Reunification: A Comparative Perspective [more]
- William C. Jones Lecture presents Judge Xue - International Criminal Court [more]
- Conversation with J.D. Stier from the Enough! Project [more]
Fall 2011
- Live Seminar: "Countries in Upheaval: Developing a Protection Network in Situations Short of Armed Conflict" [more]
- 5th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs - "Widespread and Systematic!" Crimes Against Humanity in the Shadow of Modern International Criminal Law" [more]
- 2011 World Peace Through Law Award Recipient: Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor, International Criminal Court [more]
- Dr. Andreas Schloenhardt Lecture - "Be Careful What You Pay For: Trafficking in Persons in Australia".
- Public Lecture by Andrew Cayley - "Prosecuting Mass Atrocities at the ECCC".
- Panel Discussion on Litigating International Human Rights Violations - Speakers: Mr. Steven Schneebaum, Prof. Leila Sadat, and Prof. Melissa Waters.
- Faculty Colloquium on International Law and Theory [more]
Spring 2011
- International Graduate Student Conference - "Creating Healthy Opportunities for Healthcare Management in a Global Context" [more]
- Rebecca Hamilton - "Sudan Divided: What Next for the People of Africa's Newest Country?" [more]
Fall 2010
- International Criminal Justice Day
- 4th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs - "Reflections on Crimes Against Peace: Aggression in the 21st Century" [more]
- IHL/Red Cross Students as Teachers Enrollment/Training [more]
- Arsalan Iftikhar - "Islamic Pacifism" [more]
- Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Presentation - "Downstream: Untold Stories on Water, Sanitation and Wetlands" [more]
- Harris Institute Debate Series - "Are U.S. Drone Attacks in 'The War on Terror' Lawful? Do They Make for Sound Foreign Policy?" [more]
- Dawn Johnsen, Indiana Law School - "Reflections on Promoting Liberty and the Rule of Law" [more]
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I was describing a situation where I was no longer perceiving the rock and somebody came along and stubbed their toe on it. If what you are saying were the case, then when they stubbed their toe I would feel the pain even when not perceiving them stubbing their toe or perceiving them feeling pain. Quite clearly it is not the case. Today ,I bashed my knee on a chair when I stumbled while trying to take off my pants, did you feel it? Obviously not!futerko wrote:Yes, precisely because the rock is known by mind - if there are no truly seperate selves, then there is no seperate rock. When you see that person stub their toe - its the same toe in your mind as in theirs, the same rock, the same cry of pain - this does not happen outside of mind - there is no seperate realm of matter outside of what is known. Therefore the skandha of form is also totally within mind.
Somebody told you that all our mindstreams are one? Who exactly? Where exactly?In fact it would seem that the only way you can have the idea that the rock is somehow a seperate object, not within mind itself, and somehow experienced differently by different people and animals, requires a concept of seperate selves.


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Robert Lee Morris
He made art wearable. Known as the godfather of fine jewelry, Robert Lee Morris' groundbreaking SoHo gallery, Artwear, redefined the way jewelry is perceived and merchandised. Working from inspirations as varied as Bronze Age spears, Chinese jade axes and African tribal ironwork, Morris made an instant splash after opening his store in 1977. He has since collaborated with designers such as Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Kors and Donna Karan, earning a reputation for crafting irreplaceable, utterly original pieces that are at once sculptural, cerebral, sexy and fun. His honors include a Coty award, two CFDA awards and the DeBeers "Right Hand Ring" award.
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Costume Trend Sale under $75For a little shine or a lot of notice-me sparkle, check out the supremely well-priced baubles in this sale. Get delicate touches with the charm necklaces, stud earrings, and stackable rings. Bolder, edgier looks consist of embellished bangles, thick cuffs, crystal-heavy bibs, giant medallions, and more.
SALE ENDED ON: June 21, 2010
Summer Steal: JewelryWith more than a dozen top designers represented in this high-volume sale, get ready to pamper your wrists, lobes, ring fingers and any other extremity worth pampering. From wonderfully delicate earrings (including Nancy Cohen's amethyst chandeliers and Page Sargisson's butterfly and hibiscus cutouts) to assertive necklaces (Pade Vavra's spike nescklace comes in turquoise and howlite) and rings (don't miss the bullet-hole ring from Odette), you'll find something to complement every outfit you own.
SALE ENDED ON: March 29, 2010
Final Jewelry SaleLook closely among this treasure trove of jewelry — there are some real steals here. Check out the gorgeously crafted bib necklaces by Ranjana Khan. Beribboned and dripping with gems, pearls and chains, these are real statement pieces that take an ordinary dress into extraordinary realms. Elsewhere, colorful baubles by KEP, Gara Michelle and Rachel Leigh are just bright for spring.
SALE ENDED ON: February 3, 2010
Robert Lee Morris JewelryIn Robert Lee Morris' hands, sterling silver is shaped and hammered into simple but stunning works of art. Among the highlights of this sale are rings in modern square or circle shapes, hammered earrings that reflect light beautifully, and a wavy cuff that's like a small sculpture.
SALE ENDED ON: December 16, 2009
Robert Lee Morris JewelryRobert Lee Morris' striking silver jewelry draws its inspiration from Bronze Age tools and African tribal art. These deceptively simple designs (elongated triangle drop earrings, wide wavy cuffs, multi-strand acorn-bead bracelets and necklaces) are truly versatile pieces that she'll be able to wear again and again. Give her this sculptural silver jewelry, and you'll be golden in her eyes.
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General Electric hasn't achieved its phenomenal success by using old-school management methods but by inventing a new way of doing business. Chairman Jack Welch is a true believer in employee participation. As he says, "We're going to win on our ideas, not by whips and chains."
Welch's approach is simple: "Take out the boss element." Successful managers need to tap into employees' ideas and then win employees the resources they need to make those ideas a reality. Welch has built a "boundaryless" organization and encourages employees "to work up and down the hierarchy, across functions and geographies, and with suppliers and customers" to find ways to streamline systems and work more efficiently.
Welch's management plan has three key parts:
1. The Work-Out This three-day session, which is conducted at a conference center or hotel, brings together 40 to 100 GE employees who are handpicked by managers from different levels and departments in the organization. On the first day, the boss roughs out an agenda--and then leaves. The group breaks into five or six teams. With an outside facilitator guiding the process, each team chooses a piece of the agenda to work on for the next day and a half. When each team finally presents its ideas, the boss must agree or disagree on the spot, or ask for more information.
Armand Lauzon, who is head of plant services at the GE Aircraft Engines factory in Lynn, Mass., said of the meeting, "I was wringing wet within half an hour. They had 108 proposals, and I had about a minute to say yes or no to each one." Lauzon agreed to all but eight ideas, which resulted in a combined savings over the next year of more than $200,000. For example, one Work-Out proposal resulted in the discontinuation of certain useless business forms at NBC, the GE-owned network, saving the company more than two million sheets of paper per year.
2. Best Practices Welch's management plan relies on benchmarking. One GE study of eight firms that had achieved faster productivity growth and had sustained that growth for 10 years or longer (including Ford, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox) taught the company much about its own processes and measurements.
3. Process Mapping Process mapping identifies discrepancies between how people assume the work gets done and how it actually proceeds. It also streamlines GE's systems. For example, when the group that produces turbine shafts for jet engines mapped out its process, the exercise took more than a month, and the map filled the walls of a conference room. The group identified bottlenecks, which led to cutting production time in half and reducing inventory by $4 million.
1. Brainstorm ideas--Get employees together to solve the organization's problems, perhaps at a meeting like GE's Work-Out.
2. Get employees involved--Employee involvement leads directly to improved performance. People feel good about themselves and what they have achieved.
3. Allow free access to information--Become a "boundaryless" organization. Let employees go wherever they need to go and to interact with whomever can provide the information or the answers they need.


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Direct marketing agency MRM Worldwide named five senior leadership appointments on Feb. 13, a move MRM CEO Bill Kolb told Direct Marketing News will help the company "manage the growth and multinational nature" of its client base.
The rise of the socially-educated patient is here.
The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) reported revenue of $1.73 billion for the third quarter of 2011, an 8.7% growth increase compared with Q3 2010.
MRM Worldwide global president and COO Bill Kolb will succeed Marc Landsberg as CEO of the direct and digital agency after a months-long transition period.
Automotive brands GMC and Buick have integrated their online vehicle-configuration tools with Facebook to better track social media ROI. The General Motors Corp. brands worked with digital agency MRM Worldwide on the initiative.
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Better than my mom. I got (first) "stop crying! You'll wake your brother!" (a horrible sleeper), a kiss on the head and "it's not real, go back to sleep." *leaves room*
Better than my mom. I got (first) "stop crying! You'll wake your brother!" (a horrible sleeper), a kiss on the head and "it's not real, go back to sleep." *leaves room*
Haha, this reminds me. When bringing DD home from the hospital, I wanted to take her out of the carseat and carry her into the house. We lived on the 16th floor of this huge apartment building. Anyway, DH said, "What if there are kids playing in the lobby and one runs into you? I think you shouldn't take her out of the carseat."
Whaa?? lol. Apparently it's not safe to carry newborns in your arms.
When DS1 was a few months old, I was walking in our neighborhood with him in a Maya Wrap sling. A woman actually pulled over her car to tell me that she was really worried that the baby could breathe in there and that I should check right now that he was still breathing.
I looked down at him, back at her, "he's fine. Thanks !" Went on with my walk....
i have a friend who tells me
#1 my kids are so much EASIER than her one kid bc they have each other to play with... (ok it would have NOTHING to do with how hard I have worked with them for the last 3 years on sibling rivalry and all of the books I have read about sibling rivalry and GD Parenting and how hard I have worked to change my reactions to help lesson the rivalry they had at ages 1 and 3 when I thought I was going to LOSE my MIND.... nothing to do with that...)
#2. my house is always clean bc its small (bull crap, smaller houses have lesser places for things to go ... i still have two kids, and it must have nothing to do with my dedication to having a clean house)
#3.my yard looks nice bc its smaller than hers and not as much upkeep and my floors are clean bc they are tile and bc I see the dirt im motivated to clean them more often!!!! (seriously????... I know this one isnt parenting but i had to vent)
I know exactly how you feel. I hate when people hold my baby because even if they are not wearing perfume, my baby still ends up smelling like them and it drives me bonkers. Once the neighbor's teenage daughter came over (she LOVES my baby, so I let her see her all the time) and held her for a little while and when I got her back, I couldn't smell my baby. She smelled like someone else's scent and detergent. It drove me absolutely wild! I could only stand it for about three minutes before I went and scrubbed my baby down in the bath, even though she had already had a bath that morning.
And the worst was when my dd was about 6 weeks and my (childless) friend called and i casually mentioned that i had been trying to get my dd to sleep for a while. She told me that I shoudl try her BIL's trick - they put their baby's crib in the CLOSET and would just put the baby in the crib and close the door until the morning : I didnt even know what to say so I just said, "well my dd is only 6 weeks old" and she said that her BIL did this from the day they brought their baby home! : poor baby!
I have a friend pregnant with twins who has a pet pig. This pig weighs more than she does. The pig sleeps in bed with her and her boyfriend. They bought a platform bed so the pig can get up and down.
When the twins come, they go into their own room and the pig stays (at least that's what they say now, haha) because according to her boyfriend "the pig HAS to sleep with us, he will freak out".
For the record, they brought this pig to a party at my house once and someone wanted to take a picture and this man had a FIT because he didn't want the pig laying on the ground-he didn't want the pig to get dirty.
From my Grandmother:
"He can't sit up by himself? All my girls could sit up and stand up when they were 3 months old."
We took our 5 week old to Target in a bucket (we put it in a convertible stroller). I wanted to bring her in the Baby Hawk, but wasn't confident with wearing it yet.
She started crying and really wanted out so I unbuckled her and carried her in my arms the rest of the way. Most people smiled when they saw her, but there was a guy in our checkout who kept staring and staring (with a shocked look on his face) as if seeing a baby in someone was the biggest oddity in the world.
I have since given up using the stroller. We've taken some really lovely walks in her Baby Hawk and are going to an art exhibit with it tomorrow. I don't care what other people think. I think it's horrible when people explicitly carry their babies in buckets all the time. Once in a while, I understand, but I almost never see babes in arms anymore... Because people always have them in carseats, it's like you almost never see babies in public. I miss it!
I was on vacation with my extended family and we had a day that consisted of a three hour drive to the airport, delayed plane, four hour flight, lost luggage, another two hours in the car...not an ideal day for a two year old! We got to the town where we were staying and we had to stop at Target. Inside my at the time two year old daughter completely melted down and was screaming at the top of her lungs. I had seperated from my family and was trying to find them so I could take her outside to settle down and they would know where we were. We were walking around trying to find them with her just losing it and this older woman walked over, got right in DD's face and yelled "YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS STORE!" I was in total shock! We finally found my aunt and told her we were heading outside and went and sat on a bench. DD was sitting on my lap, but still crying when the same woman came out the door, looked over, and once again, "STILL?! GET A GRIP CHILD!"
I got a real doozy this morning... from my HUSBAND. I was crabby because Eleanor has been gradually getting up earlier and earlier in spite of going to bed at the same time - I start getting her ready for bed at 8, and she's asleep by 8:30, or 8:45 at the very latest, but that's rare. She used to get up around 8:30 (not STTN), then 7:30, now she's down to 7:15. : Plus, she usually wants to get up and nurse 3 times per night, so the most I sleep at a time is 3 hours or so.
His response?
Well, that's almost 12 hours! That's plenty of sleep for anyone, even if you are getting up during the night!
I was speechless! By the time I was able to speak again he had already left the room, which was a good thing because I was about ready to punch him!


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For the next couple of weeks I thought I'd go back and revisit a few of my pre-season columns to see where I stood, while comparing them to now.
Right Wings are incredibly deep and yet left wings are not
- Advice: Don't overreach for RW, if you have the opportunity to draft a LW ahead of a RW, DO SO! I would probably go as far as an extent to say draft your first two LW before you even make your first RW pick. As you can see the talent pool of the lower ranked RW are fairly deep that you could easily find a 55-65 point player on the WW post-draft, but I can't say the same for LW though.
- I was pretty spot on with this one. 21 right wings hit the 55-point plateau compared to just 19 left wings, so not a big difference there. The noticeable difference was the number of fantasy-worthy players. There were 52 "fantasy worthy" righties that tallied above 40-points, compared to just 42 lefties, so there were plenty of "late round" options available after the draft.
Center, as always, is as deep as ever
- Advice: Same situation as with the RW, if there is a LW sitting right in front of you, go after him before taking the C. If you look above, there isn't much difference between the 30th drafted C compared to the 20th or perhaps even the top 10.
- Once again pretty much hit the nail on the head, 27 centermen hit the 55-point plateau and 54 tallied 40+ points to be deemed "fantasy worthy". Definitely much more "prevalent" than the either wing position.
Much like last year, the goalie hype seems to have died down this year, as draftees are holding off on picking up goalies early and electing to wait into the mid-rounds, (rounds 4, 5 or 6), to draft their first goalie.
- Advice: Generally speaking you probably should have two solid goalies by round nine, and a third by round 10-12. You don't want to be left with a Brian Elliott/Kari Lehtonen/Steve Mason/Jonas Gustavsson as your number two goalie.
- Many poolies were happy with their early picks (Roberto Luongo, Ilya Bryzgalov, and Pekka Rinne), but there were plenty of disappointments as well (Martin Brodeur, Jimmy Howard, and Tukka Rask). On the bright side, poolies who waited to snag surprises like Sergei Bobrovsky, Michal Neuvirth, Kari Lehotnen, Carey Price and Tim Thomas were very well rewarded. Once again this just proves how fickle the fantasy goalie market really is. You win some, you lose some.
"Big named Dobber favourites" on the back end are still relatively unknown to the general public.
- Advice: A favourite of mine, Tobias Enstrom, I've managed to snag in quite a few of the mock drafts with an average draft position of 108.
- Guys like Jamie McBain, Stephane Robidas, Marek Zidlicky, Erik Karlsson, Tom Gilbert, P.K. Subban and Paul Martin have been left largely undrafted or were drafted very late in many mock drafts, so there are plenty of late round steals available.
A few of our Dobber favourites panned out and a few fizzled out. Enstrom, Karlsson and Subban worked out, but McBain, Robidas, Zidlicky, Gilbert and Martin didn't.
Now, onto the good stuff!
Drew Doughty – D – Los Angeles Kings
Don't get me wrong I think this kid is definitely talented. His stat line of 59 points, plus 20 rating, 54 PIMs, 31 PPP and 142 SOG last season speaks volumes. The problem is that he's being overreached in many drafts. There are plenty of similar alternatives being drafted 3-4 rounds later like Niklas Lidstrom who has a three-year stat line average of 59.3 points, plus 31 rating, 31.3 PIMs, 29 PPP, and 187.3 SOG or Dan Boyle's two-year stat line of 57.5 points, plus six rating, 61 PIMs, 30.5 PPP and 196.5 SOG, (both being drafted 50 spots later). Doughty's value is just way too inflated for me to spend my second round pick on him.
I mentioned this during my column last week, a lot of the reason for DD not meeting expectations were due to his sky-high expectations from the beginning of the season. He finished with a line of 40 points, plus 13 rating, 68 PIMs, 15 PPP, and 139 SOG, which ranked him as the 14th best blue liner in Yahoo! leagues. Not exactly the big payoff we were looking for from the high price investment. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Jimmy Howard – G – Detroit Red Wings
I brought this topic up last week. Basically it comes down to my lack of trust in him heading into this season. There have been too many sophomore slumps in recent history to blindly enter this season thinking that Howard will be immune. According the mock draft results, he's being drafted just behind the big four of Ryan Miller, Roberto Luongo, Martin Brodeur and Henrik Lundqvist which is a huge investment for a potential bust candidate. If I'm in a position to select a goalie in the 21-30 slots, I'd probably go with a "safer" option in Ilya Bryzgalov instead.
The sophomore slump did hit Howard, but luckily he was backed by the high-octane Red Wings' offense to help salvage the wins column despite sub-standard peripherals stats (2.79 goals-against-average and .908 save percentage). Unfortunately if you owned Howard you were pretty much sacrificing two stats for just one, which isn't exactly an ideal trade-off for fantasy purposes. Those who waited and took Bryzgalov instead were definitely rewarded more so than those who gambled on Howard. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Alex Burrows – LW – Vancouver Canucks
"Torn Labrum" is the two major words that you need to remember about Burrows. I know LW is a very shallow talent pool, so grabbing a good one is a priority, but the risk attached with selecting Burrows just isn't worth it. Vinny Lecavalier, Zdeno Chara, and Mike Richards all underwent a similar procedure and all had down seasons the year after the surgery, so I wouldn't doubt that Burrows would follow a similar suit especially considering his dependence on physical play. I really do like Burrows' across-the-board stats, but with the prospect of him missing out on the first two months of the season, the price tag attached just isn't worth it. I'd much rather wait a few rounds and snag a late rounder in Brendan Morrow instead.
Overall, it wasn't a terrible season for Burrows, but it definitely wasn't one that is going to get poolies overly excited. He finished on a 0.66 point-per-game pace, which would have translated into a 54-point campaign over a course of a full 82-game season, but unfortunately it was still well below the 67 points that he tallied in 2009-10. The PIMs, plus/minus and SOG are still pretty fantasy significant, but it's the one PPP (and 1:01 PP ice-time per game average), that's hurting his overall fantasy value. If you went with Morrow instead, you pretty much would have broken even (trading PPP for plus/minus), but saved yourself five rounds worth of draft positioning. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Erik Johnson – D- St. Louis Blues
On average Johnson has been selected as the 11th overall blue liner in most Yahoo! mock drafts. He does have plenty of potential, but that's all that it really is, potential! Even last season's stat line of 39 points, plus one rating, 79 PIMs, 15 PPP and 186 SOG isn't exactly all that spectacular and certainly isn't enough to justify taking him over proven veterans like Brian Rafalski, Tomas Kaberle or Brian McCabe.
Once again I was pretty on the ball with my EJ prediction. Last season, he had a bit of a dip in production and many poolies were hoping for a rebound year, but he managed to sink even lower too much disdain. He finished 2010-11 with a stat line of 29 points, minus 13 rating, 56 PIMs, 10 PPP and 161 SOG, while splitting time between the Blues and the Avs. Plenty of poolies must have been kicking themselves selecting EJ over the likes of Rafalski, Kaberle or McCabe. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Dustin Penner – LW – Edmonton Oilers
Penner started off blazing hot with 30 points in the first 27 contests of last season, but then slowed down dramatically with just 33 in the final 55. Last year he pretty much had full reigns on the number one LW slot in Edmonton. This year he has plenty of competition with the new kid duo of Taylor Hall and Magnus Paajarvi, so definitely don't head into 2010-11 thinking similar numbers as last season.
Penner was on average selected with the 16th overall pick in Yahoo! drafts during the preseason. At the end of the season he finished as the 52nd ranking left winger, which isn't exactly the most wise investment piece of the season. Many poolies were expecting a boost in production when he was traded to LA at the trade deadline, but he managed to post just six points in 19 contests with his new team. Penner is a big boy who just doesn't play like one, Don't fall into that trap for next season. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Patric Hornqvist – RW – Nashville Predators
I potentially could be kicking myself at the end of the season because of this pick, but two factors have led me to this conclusion. First, is that Horny is being a tad overrated in Yahoo! mock drafts, (drafted on average 91st overall). Second, is that RW has an extremely deep talent pool that if you missed out on him, you could find 10-15 other RWers that have similar potential. I'd rather wait a bit and snag someone with similar fantasy value and use my mid-round pick in a shallower position.
As mentioned during the pre-season, Horny was probably the most unsafe pick in my opinion. He was on average, selected as the 19th overall right winger and he finished pretty much bang on par ranking 23rd. The problem with RW, as stated during the pre-season, is depth. I could probably list 10-15 RWers that finished around the same ballpark in production as Horny, but you could have waited four or five rounds later. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Taylor Hall– LW- Edmonton Oilers
I'm just not that big into drafting rookies for one-year fantasy leagues. Malkin (85), Kane (72), Ryan (57), and Duchene (55) were the rookies that led their respective years in scoring. There is an adjustment period for youngsters to adjust to the NHL level, which prevents them from having consistent optimal production throughout the year. Hall might be an exception since the Oilers will give him plenty of opportunities to succeed, but I'm a conservative fantasy player and would much rather have a Brendan Morrow, Wojtek Wolski, or Alex Frolov in my pocket than an unknown quantity in Hall.
Hall was on a 52-point pace prior to departing the season with an ankle injury in early March, which was very much in line with the leading rookie scorers of the past two seasons. I don't think many poolies would be happy with a 42-point effort (especially when Dobber predicted 70), so I have to ding a few points off of his overall seasonal report. Expect a John Taveras-like 67 points next season, but for now it was pretty consistent with my pre-season prediction. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Nik Kronwall – D – Detroit Red Wings
Kronwall does have plenty of offensive upside, but the problem lies in his injury proneness. Recent news coming out of Detroit is that his injured knee is still giving him some of problems, and from what I can tell knee problems tend to linger unless rested properly. With him undergoing surgery this close to the start of the season, I just don't think he has enough time to get it properly rested to survive the entire season. That, plus the fact that he ranks third on the depth charts buried behind Niklas Lidstrom and Brian Rafalski, I'd much rather pick up better alternatives like, Enstrom, Lubomir Visnovsky, and Joni Pitkanen, over the 29-year old Swede.
I've been on fire with many of my pre-season predictions and Kronwall continued the trend. He was initially drafted as the 22nd blue-liner, but finished a very disappointing 36th. I don't know if it was his knee that gave him problems, but he certainly didn't look as comfortable on the ice as he did during his 51-point season two years ago. As mentioned during the pre-season, Kronwall was buried behind Lidstrom and Rafalski (who both took up 56 percent of the defensive scoring pie in Detroit), so there wasn't a lot of room for him to produce mind boggling numbers. I'm sure you would have been mightily disappointed selecting Kronwall over Enstrom, Visnovsky or Pitkanen, that's for sure. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Mason Raymond – LW – Vancouver Canucks
Raymond had a big bust out year last season when he posted 53 points and 217 SOG in 82 contests. The problem for me is when it counted the most, during the playoffs, he was essentially non-existent with a mere four points in 12 post-season contests. Raymond also benefitted from Daniel Sedin's foot injury during the regular season, as he picked up 13 points in 15 contests when Daniel was out of the line up, while registering just 40 in 67 when the twins suited up together. I know LW is a shallow talent pool, but I'd there are plenty of "safer" picks than Raymond.
As predicted, Raymond took a step backwards this campaign with just 39 points and 197 SOG in an injury-shortened 70 contests. The plus side is that he did spend over 71 percent of his overall shifts alongside Ryan Kesler, unfortunately it didn't translate on the offensive front. The major reason for the drop off in offensive production could be attributed to the lack of quality ice-time. In 2009-10, when he notched 53 points, he averaged 2:04 per contest on the PP. This campaign he garnered just 1:22 per contest. More evidence to strengthen one of Ma's Laws: ice-time = production. Right on the money on this one. Maaasquito Bite: HIT
Nikita Filatov – LW – Columbus BlueJackets
If you've been following my forum rants/articles during the off-season, you'll probably realize that I'm not a big fan of offense by committee teams and that's exactly what Columbus will be in 2010-11. With the depth that the Jackets have offensively, Rick Nash, R.J. Umberger, Antoine Vermette, Kristian Huselius, Derick Brassard, and Jakub Voracek, that doesn't leave a lot of room for Filatov to be productive in one-year leagues. Dobber thinks 40, and I think he's spot on with that projection.
There were plenty of quality discussions regarding Filatov during the preseason here, here, here, here and here. Definitely go back and have a read if you're bored and have nothing better to do. I pretty much hit the nail on the head with my pre-season predictions for Filatov. The top-six offensive scorers in Columbus concluded in an order of Nash, Umberger, Vermette, Brassard, Voracek and Huselius, with Filatov exiting the picture by mid-December. He finished with an uninspiring 20 points in 36 contests with the Falcons, which brings the question of whether or not he has a bright foreseeable future with the Columbus organization to the forefront. Maaasquito Bite: PUSH. I'll give myself a push for this one only because I didn't stick to my guns to adamantly proclaim that he was going to be a bust.
So overall I think I did well in my pre-season assessment going 9-0-1. I was pretty much on the ball with all of my predictions and hopefully some of my "biases" did come in handy.
Stay tuned next week as we analyse my Undervalued and Underappreciated column from the pre-season. Questions or comments? As always I'll be ready and willing to discuss them with you in the comments section below.
D M said:
My main point was that he was a 59 point player in 2009, and -- for much of last year, other than a brutal start and finish -- was producing at that pace.
In 2009, Doughty played 362:35 on the powerplay, or 4:25 per game. He was on the ice for 52 powerplay goals.
In 2010, Doughty had 317:20 on the powerplay, or 4:10 per game. He was on the ice for 32 powerplay goals.
So yes, he had a slightly lower percentage of them, but the overall number of Kings' powerplay goals dropped significantly. The Kings went from 7th in powerplay percentage (20.8%) to 21st (16.1%). The Kings as a whole went from 64 powerplay goals to 47.
Ryan Ma said:
Great find DM.
Yeah I think most of the dropoff was due to the lack of PP production. The fact that JJ had more impact on the PP probably took away a lot of the opportunities for points from DD as well. I don't think it was a team slumping in PP efficiency, but it was just the distribution of the PPP that changed the scenario in LA. In 2009, DD owned around a 60% of the marketshare for PPP, with JJ owning 25% and Greene at 15%. This season it was JJ that owned 58%, DD at 31% and Martinez at 10%, which explains why DD had a slump in numbers.
The problem with DD as I mentioned in the pre-season and in the recap was that he was overvalued. He should have gone where Lidstrom, Boyle, or Chara went, not 18th overall where he generally went in Yahoo! drafts.
I wouldn't expect him to be going in the top-20 in next season's drafts, but he's definitely someone to earmark for the right price.
Ryan Ma said:
D M said:
Have to wonder if he rushed back too soon from an October concussion, which cost him 6 games.
For what its worth, Doughty attributed his slow start to a defensive focus:
Anyway, he went from 28 even-strength points in 2009 to 25 this season, in a similar amount of TOI. Negligible drop off. The big change: his powerplay points dropped from 31 to 15 (!!!).
If you have faith in the LA powerplay, I'd recommend buying low this offseason...


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Federal employees across government are concerned these days about the possibility of widespread furloughs. Some are clearly beginning to plan for the prospect of losing a portion of their income -- but maybe not in the best way.
According to the Office of Personnel Management, some employees are calling the agency and expressing interest in canceling their coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program if they lose income under a furlough scenario.
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If you participate in premium conversion where you are paying for your health insurance with pre-tax dollars, you won't be able to cancel your coverage until the next open season since being furloughed is not one of the permissible events that would allow you to change your coverage.
If you don't participate in premium conversion and cancel your coverage, you would need to wait until the next open season to reenroll.
If you are within five years of retirement, you cannot continue FEHBP into retirement if you haven't been covered for the last five years of your career -- unless you're covered under a spouse's FEHBP or you've had coverage under TRICARE for the five years.
But the most important reason not to cancel your health insurance is because you might need it. Having an accident or an illness can cause much more severe financial problems than a furlough.
For specific information on how health insurance coverage is affected in a furlough situation, see OPM's guidance on administrative furloughs. It says, "If the employee's salary becomes insufficient to pay FEHB premiums due to the furlough, [then] leave without pay/insufficient pay rules apply. If the employee chooses to remain covered, the enrollee share of the FEHB premium will accumulate and be withheld from pay upon the employee's pay becoming sufficient to cover the premiums."
Tammy Flanagan is the senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning Inc., which conducts federal retirement planning workshops and seminars. She also writes the weekly Retirement Planning column on GovExec.com.
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LOS ANGELES -- They met in this same round a year ago, finished with the two best records in the National League this season and each had home-field advantage in the division series, and yet somehow the fact that the Phillies will meet the Dodgers in the NLCS feels mildly surprising. The Dodgers upended a Cardinals team overflowing with top-quality starting pitching, supposedly that most determinative of postseason factors, while the Phillies eliminated a Rockies team that had been playing the best of any team in the league since late May.
There will be no surprise, however, when one of these teams advances to the World Series. In many ways, they are a more even matchup than the Yankees-Angels ALCS clash that is being viewed as the main event to the NLCS undercard. Whichever NL team survives will almost certainly be viewed as the underdog in the World Series, but to get there, they will have to first find the answers to these key subplots
1. Lefty vs. lefty
He's young, left-handed, the most reliable starter in their rotation and now the Game 1 starter in the NLCS. Cole Hamels? No, Clayton Kershaw. The Dodgers' 21-year-old lefty started Game 2 against the Cardinals but has been bumped up a spot in the L.A. hierarchy on the strength of a stellar outing in the NLDS (6 2/3 innings pitched, two earned runs) that followed a consistently excellent regular season (2.79 ERA, nearly a run and a half better than his rookie year of 2008, and an NL-best 6.3 hits-per-nine-innings allowed).
Kershaw will start Games 1 and, if necessary, 5 for the Dodgers, who hope he'll be as dominant in those outings for them as Hamels was against them a year ago. But after appearing to emerge as the game's next great starter (being named NLCS and World Series MVP in 2008), Hamels was inconsistent throughout this season, finishing 10-11 with a 4.32 ERA that was more than a run above his 2008 total. He was at his best, however, against the Dodgers this year, posting a 0.56 ERA in two starts, striking out 14 against just one walk in 16 innings pitched. That, even more than his dominant NLCS a year ago, should give Charlie Manuel and the rest of the Phillies confidence that the old Hamels will emerge for this series.
2. Stagnant stars
The team's offenses are, for the most part, fairly even, and dangerous in their own way. The Phillies led the league in home runs and runs scored, the Dodgers in batting average and on-base percentage. But both teams have key players who need to heat up. Both Manny Ramirez of the Dodgers and Jimmy Rollins of the Phillies are potential game-changers, and both showed signs of snapping out of late-season funks with multi-hit games in their respective teams' clinchers. Rollins has never been much of a postseason performer (his .263 average against the Rockies was actually his second highest of the five playoff series in his career), but even discounting for the small sample size in the NLDS, he has not been the same hitter this year that he's been for much of his career. His on-base percentage of .296 was the fifth-worst in all of baseball this year, and his batting average dropped to just .250.
Ramirez, meanwhile, tortured the Phillies in last year's NLCS, batting .533/.682/1.067. But he entered this postseason having struck out nine times in his last four games of the regular season while going just 1-for-14. He had just one hit in the first two games of the NLDS before busting out with three hits in Game 3, causing both Dodgers manager Joe Torre and general manager Ned Colletti to hope he had turned the corner for good. "It looked like Manny was looking line drive," Torre said. "I thought his swing was a lot more level, and that was important."
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