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Younger Cloutier still in the game
IceRays coach's brother lends a hand while awaiting return to NHL
CORPUS CHRISTI - After a decade on big-league ice, Dan Cloutier finds himself in a strange place this hockey season.
Far from the bright lights of the NHL, Cloutier has settled for a seat in the upper deck at the American Bank Center, giving his brother a hand while also working toward his own goals.
Whenever the IceRays are at home, Cloutier can be found charting scoring chances, face-offs and other statistics while serving as an extra set of eyes for his older brother Sylvain, the team's first-year head coach.
For Dan Cloutier, it's the only hockey fix the longtime NHL goalie has while recovering from a November surgery to replace a torn labrum in his right hip.
"The last three or four years, I've been through a lot of rehab and injuries, so hopefully this is it and I can stay on the ice and get my game back together," Cloutier said. "I don't know how long it's going to take, and I'm not getting any younger, but I'm going to keep trying to get back up there."
Cloutier's last NHL action came on April 5, 2008, with the Los Angeles Kings. Since then, he's been bought out by the Kings, but the sides are involved in a rancorous dispute regarding the amount of the buyout as Cloutier alleged he was injured at the time. Knee and hip injuries limited him to just 33 games the previous two seasons after never playing fewer than 57 games from 2001 to 2004.
Cloutier is still a couple weeks away from being cleared to practice on the ice, and realizes that at age 32, the clock is ticking on a comeback bid.
"I've been fortunate throughout my career to be consistent and play well, but all of a sudden with injuries and being out of the lineup (regularly) for two or three years, it's going to be very hard," Cloutier said. "But as an athlete, you want to push yourself and get to the next level. It doesn't matter where I have to start, I just have to play and see how my hip reacts to doing this as a job again with practices and travel. Then I'll make the ultimate decision if I want to keep pursuing it or not."
In the meantime, he helps his brother as a de facto assistant coach. That includes passing on his observations between periods and offering advice to the goalies when necessary.
"I talk to him about a lot of goals and he gives me good insight on what I did wrong, what I did right and what I can do better," IceRays goalie Kris Tebbs said. "He's been an NHL goalie for a long time, so anything I can get from him, I want to soak up. It's a huge benefit having him around."
For Sylvain Cloutier, getting his brother's hockey advice is a fringe benefit to a reunion with his best friend from their childhood days in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
"It's great to spend time together," Sylvain Cloutier said. "I used to watch him (play) on TV all the time and that was the only way I saw him. It's really nice for our kids and we get to hang out together. It's like we're little kids again.
"I was pretty surprised (he moved here). He could've picked anywhere to live and do his rehab. That tells you how important family is. That first week (of the season), when we got off to that (1-5) start, he was there for me and kept me positive. It's been great having him around because I know he's going to support me."
The brothers and their families were joined by their parents Ivan and Susan for the Cloutiers' first Christmas together since 1994. That alone has made Dan Cloutier's time in Corpus Christi worthwhile, even though he's been forced off the ice.
"This was a great time for me to come down here and do my rehab," Cloutier said. "I think it's worked out great. I have great people working with me at the rehab center and I get to spend some time with my brother and his family.
"Even though I've been injured, it's been a fun year for me."
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Career stats: 139-142-33-16 record, 2.77 goals against average, .899 save percentage
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Cowboys hog Hall of Fame nominees
Overshadowed by all the hoopla surrounding Tony Romo's new contract was the announcement that several former Cowboys – and one current member of the organization – are among the list of 124 modern-era players, coaches and contributors on the preliminary list of nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The formers Cowboys players on […] [Read More]
Tony Romo hangs with Britney Spears
According to People.com, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo "partied with Britney Spears and pals in Los Angeles on Friday." Romo apparently is "good friends" with Spears' longtime friend Alli Sims. People.com says the threesome, along with other friends of Romo's, spent the evening at Hollywood hotspot Les Deux. While he acknowledged being in Spears' company, Romo […] [Read More]
Barber's workload
CNNSI.com's Peter King has the Cowboys fourth in his latest Fine 15 rankings behind New England, Indianapolis and San Diego. Here's what King says about Dallas: "Marion Barber III's running the ball 12 times a game. That's not enough for one of the 15 best backs in football." Barber had 19 carries in the Cowboys' […] [Read More]
What a day for McBriar
IRVING – Mat McBriar's performance Sunday was one of the best by a punter in club history. But then again, what else is new? This guy is simply the best in the league. His gross average of 53.3 was the fourth best in club history. He holds the record of 56.8 (against Houston on Oct. […] [Read More]
Cowboys inactives
IRVING – Rookie receiver Isaiah Stanback was among the inactives listed for the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. The other inactives listed were Courtney Brown, Anthony Henry, Oliver Hoyte, Joe Berger, Doug Free, James Marten and Terry Glenn. [Read More]
Will Peterson run wild?
IRVING – The Vikings' Adrian Peterson shredded the Bears defense for 224 rushing yards last week. Don't be surprised if the Cowboys hold him below 100 on Sunday. Dallas yields about 80 yards on the ground per game. They've got strong run stuffers in Marcus Spears, Chris Canty, Bradie James, Akin Ayodele and Roy Williams. […] [Read More]
Cowboys likely to be without Henry again
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips on Wednesday all but ruled out injured cornerback Anthony Henry for Sunday's game against Minnesota. Henry has missed the last two games with a high ankle sprain. He did not practice Wednesday. "I just don't think he's ready yet," Phillips said Wednesday. "If he was ready, we would play him. But […] [Read More]
Parker, Bowen hanging with Jerry
IRVING – Tony Parker, Eva Longoria and Bruce Bowen will watch today's Cowboys-Pats game from Jerry Jones' suite. Longoria isn't the only Hollywood type in attendance. Actress Kate Hudson is on hand, along with singer Billy Ray Cyrus and composer/producer/singer/rapper Timbaland. Former Mexican president Vincente Fox is also a face in the crowd. [Read More]
San Antonio well represented in 'Game of Century'
IRVING – The Northside and San Antonio School Districts have produced plenty of NFL players over the years. On Sunday, two of them will meet at Texas Stadium. New England running back Sammy Morris and Dallas receiver Sam Hurd have both played roles in helping their teams get off to 5-0 starts. Hurd, by the […] [Read More]
Phillips continues to backtrack
Wade Phillips continues to deny he told HBO's Inside the NFL's Peter King that he considered "Spygate" to be a "black mark" against the Patriots' three Super Bowl victories. "To quote me as saying, 'black mark'?" Phillips said Friday. "I mean, that's an Eastern term. That's a Connecticut term. I mean, I might use 'smudge,' […] [Read More]
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Benches installed at Stoke Station as disabled parking is too far away
Posted: December 28, 2012|
BENCHES are to be installed outside a train station to allow disabled people to rest – because blue badge parking bays are to be moved too far away from the entrance.
Work is underway on Stoke-on-Trent City Council's scaled-back 'gateway' project to cut congestion and create a better first impression for visitors leaving Stoke Station.
But a row has broken out between council planners and disability groups over plans to move disabled parking bays more than 30 metres further away from the entrance.
The council wants to remove the two disabled parking spaces and a bus lay-by from Winton Square, directly opposite the entrance, and create four new bays further along Station Road.
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It said removing the bays would help improve the appearance of Winton Square and benches can be used as rest stops for those who struggle to walk.
Stoke-on-Trent District Disability Network claims the new parking bays are too far from the station's entrance and called the offer of benches 'unacceptable'.
Network vice-chairman Pam Bryan, of Weston Coyney, said: "We have asked the council not to move the bays because the new ones are too far away. At the moment there is already only two that are convenient and they are often abused by taxi drivers and other motorists.
"There will be more bays, but if they are too far away they are useless. Putting in benches as resting points is not good enough. It's ludicrous to expect people to stop for a sit down when they are trying to get inside to catch a train."
The council is spending £693,000 on the work, which is due to be completed by March, but has shelved plans to invest £3.4 million on a makeover of the area.
Earlier this year The Sentinel revealed how the University Hospital of North Staffordshire was to spend £60,000 on two golf buggies to transport patients because disabled bays had been installed too far from the entrance.
Councillor Ruth Rosenau, cabinet member for regeneration, planning and transport, said: "We've had a number of issues raised by groups representing the disabled about the relocation of the disabled parking bays. We currently offer two. What we're proposing is moving them further away from theentrance by 30 metres, but we will be providing four bays. These will be better located for enabling our CCTV to monitor usage and allow us to enforce against those non-disabled drivers who abuse the parking facility.
"The increased walking distance is accepted as a compromise but overall we feel the public realm will provide benefits for everyone.
"One of the things we've said we may do to help anyone who's disabled who feels the distance is too far is we'll provide benches."
Selwyn Brown, of North Staffordshire public transport users group Aces, said he was hopeful the scheme would prove successful despite the row.
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We've got a special cookie themed episode for you today...check it out!
Happy Friday, Penguins! We have a little surprise for you today...
A few mascots will be online for a little random meetup today at 11:15am Penguin Standard Time! We'll update this blog post with the server a few minutes before the meetup. Thanks to Spike Hike for arranging this little random surprise!
UPDATE: The server for the surprise mascot visit will be... Blizzard!
In other news... I'll be logging on later today for Field Friday, too! I'll be logging onto the server Fjord later today and will update this post with the time for that, too. :)
UPDATE #2: Field Friday will start at 2pm Penguin Standard Time on the server Fjord. I'll be checking out some of the awesome igloos on the island!
Waddle on!
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There are still loads of nominations coming through for penguins doing good deeds in their local communities. Chetai helped his school fundraise to build new elevators for disabled people at his school! What a brill thing to do! It brought a huge smile to my face, well done!
10,000 coins and the Green Viking Helmet coming your way, buddy!
Don't forget to leave your POTW nominations in the comments below!
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Another teaser video for the Muppets World Tour coming to Club Penguin March 20-April 1!
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Joseph Mount, the frontman of Metronomy, has made a selection of modern pop sounds for LateNightTales' popular series. The album features tracks from a diverse range of artists including Outkast, Chick Corea, Tweet and Autechre.
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Falacy@ RayCast()
May 30, 9:25 am
This engine is currently lacking in more important pixel movement related support, unless its been added in 500+. Simple things like being able to calculate and move at angles, even a simple redesign to the controls, so you can use more than one movement button at a time by default, etc. This is all stuff I've already had to build into Box Zombies to get a simple top-down 2D shooter working.
EDIT: That's also a nearly 5 year old post being bumped, such speedy progress made around here =P
Lummox JRSounds like that server is running an older version.
May 27, 1:53 pm
The resource package shouldn't have to re-download; that can cache. I haven't had issues with the caching.
FalacyI've been banned from bug reports for a decade now, and don't use the 499+ versions of BYOND, but logging in to this for a quick test (SS13) http://www.byond.com/play/159014470. Walking around for a bit, the background/tiles clearly become corrupted in some way, drawing things that shouldn't be there. The audio (music) seems to have cut out after a few seconds, though I can steal hear random sound effects from messages. And after a short while, the entire map portion of the screen just blacked out on me, and doesn't seem to be coming back.
May 27, 1:45 pm
EDIT: Also, it seems the web client re-downloads the resource package every time you connect, not sure if that's truly a bug, or just a technical limitation, but not exactly a desirable feature either way.
Lummox JRI'm happy to look into any specific bug reports about the webclient, and have done so on a regular basis. You mentioned layering issues but didn't say which ones. Macros ought to be loading (they've been tested in lots of scenarios), but if something specific is failing it'd be good to have a test case that shows that.
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FalacyJust a heads up, unless you have some secret version of the web client, far more advanced than the current version, this game you're promoting (which we'll just refer to as the failure formerly known as NEStalgia 2.0), you're basically advertising an existence that will in no way be possible (mobile/multi-platform/huge player counts). Here an incomplete quick list of issues I had with the webclient, in less than an hour of messing around with it, that made it completely unplayable in multiple projects. It also seems just as broken (or more-so) in a version of SS13 I tried playing. Not sure how its even legal to be selling products on such false pretenses, but that does appear to be a core mechanic of Kick-starter's existence. glhf
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Bears stay unbeaten at Heritage Classic
The Sevier County Smoky Bears improved to 3-0 on the season by winning two basketball games in convincing fashion at the Heritage Thanksgiving Classic over the weekend.
The Bears downed the William Blount Governors by 25 points, 67-42, and then crushed the previously-unbeaten Walker Valley Mustangs (Cleveland, Tenn.) by a 17-point margin 81-64.
Coach Ken Wright was pleased with his team's play in the Classic, especially the win over District 5-AAA's Walker Valley — which had just blown out Morristown East the night before by 29 points.
"They've got a really good ball club," Wright said of the Mustangs. "(But) we really came out ready to play. There were times in that game where we looked really good. But our problem has been with our consistency — that maintained level of consistent play."
The Bears raced out to a 23-8 lead in the first quarter, and Delta State-signee Devin Schmidt accounted for 13 of those points.
"That's just what Devin's capable of," Wright said. "He played a fantastic game offensively. He ended up scoring 39. (And) he sat out about half the second quarter with a couple of fouls on him."
With Schmidt and teammate Jacob Whaley held out for much of the second to avoid foul trouble, Walker Valley cut the lead to 38-25 by intermission.
"We didn't want to take a chance on foul trouble with a big lead," Wright said.
After half the Bears fought to hold their lead over the Mustangs, outscoring them 43-39 in the third and fourth periods to take the big win.
"Defensively, their point guard gave us a lot of problems," Wright said. "We had a hard time stopping his penetration. We've got to do a better job defensively, but offensively we were about as good as we can be.
"Cody Underwood played a really solid game for us," the coach continued. "He scored 13 points took a couple charges and had some big rebounds."
Whaley also ended the game in double-figures with 10 points, while Brent Delozier tallied seven and Weston Underwood, Trent Pope and Logan McCarter combined for 12 more.
The loss dropped Walker Valley to 3-1.
The previous night the Bears toppled William Blount 67-42.
In that game Schmidt again led the way with 20 points.
Whaley had 12, while Cody Underwood, McCarter, Jesse Adams and Delozier had six each. Weston Underwood, Bailey Fields and Devonte Mathews combined for another 11 points in the win.
"We got on them 16-7 at the end of one and were up 35-21 at half," Wright said. "We pulled away in the second half."
TIGERS NEXT: Sevier County's next challenge will be this Thursday against county rival Pigeon Forge, which is coached by Jonathan Shultz, who played for Ken Wright at Gatlinburg-Pittman.
The Tigers are playing an unconventional style this season that emphasizes the full-court press and a barrage of 3-point attempts. The system was created by Grinnell College coach David Arseneault, and Grinnell recently had a player, Jack Taylor, score an NCAA-record 138 points in a game — mainly due to his 71 3-point tries.
"(Pigeon Forge) plays a different style," Wright said about what his team would face Thursday. "(Shultz) is running in a new group of players in every 45 seconds or so, they're pressing you all over and they're shooting a ton of threes. If they're on from the outside they can beat anybody.
"With a team like that you almost have to forgo the help-side (defense), they're wanting you to help so they can kick it out and shoot the open three," Wright said. "And they're trying to force you into running up and down the floor and shooting quick.
That's something the Bears won't likely try to fight.
"You want to attack it, you don't want to be passive," Wright said. "It's a high-risk, high-reward defense. It's about how well you handle the ball and how well you can weather the storm."
WORK IN PROGRESS: Though his players have now back from football for over a week, Wright said his squad is still a work in progress.
"We're still not in basketball shape," Wright said. "Our football guys will be the first to tell you they're still wearing down."
That could be a challenge with Pigeon Forge's up-tempo style.
"Our depth is going to be tested, no doubt," the coach said. "We're going to have to have some of our young guys step up. We're going to need to play 10-12 kids just to be able to handle the pace of the game."


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By K.L. VantranAmerican Forces Press Service
WERNERSVILLE, Pa., June 16, 2004 There's a sadness in Army Lt. Col. Kevin Cannard's voice as he talks about his return from Iraq.
Because of the uncertainty of flights from Iraq, Cannard and his wife decided not to tell the children Andrew, 9, and Grace, 7 -- that he was coming home from a six-month tour.
"I'd lost 30 pounds and they weren't expecting me," explained the doctor, who is assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. "They didn't know who I was. I walked up to them and they're looking at me. It was kind of sad that they didn't recognize me. My son said 'Daddy?' Then there were huge hugs. It was a great moment."
Cannard said his children had different reactions when he told them he was deploying. "My son cried and my daughter was quiet," he said. 'Later, she told me she was crying on the inside."
While he was away, the lieutenant colonel said bedtime was particularly rough on the kids. "I'd always read them stories," he said. "The kids always pay the highest price."
Helping children cope with their feelings and the stress of having a parent deployed is one of the goals of Operation Purple, a program that gives kids a chance to attend summer camp for free. The program, which is funded by Sears and organized by the National Military Family Association, kicked off June 15 at the South Mountain YMCA here. Operation Purple will be held in 10 other states and the U.S. territory of Guam.
When he found out that Operation Purple needed a doctor, Cannard said he jumped at the chance to spend time with his children while helping the program.
While he's enjoyed tackling the confidence course and swimming in the pool, Andrew said the best part about camp was having his dad there.
The doctor called Operation Purple a "fantastic" opportunity. "I think it's just incredible. You've got all services represented, as well as the Guard and Reserve, and officer and enlisted. It gives kids a chance to be around other military kids."
Cheryl Whipple, who also is volunteering at the camp, said her daughter, Caitlyn, 10, was having a wonderful time. "It's a great opportunity for kids to talk to each other and counselors,' said Whipple who works in the Pennsylvania National Guard Family Assistance Centers.
Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Michael Kovach, 193rd Special Operations Wing, Middletown, Pa., said he's been deployed many times since 9/11, including tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He too volunteered to help at the camp to be with his son Kurtis, 12.
Kovach said Kurtis misses him when he's deployed, but the young man understands it's the nature of the job. "He knows that Dad's got to go away from time to time." He the program. "It's a wonderful thing the National Military Family Association has done," he said.
The campers' days are full of activities. "They (the camp staff) really fill up the day," Kovach said. "When 10 o'clock rolls around, everyone is ready to get in the bunks."
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Winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize
"As if through an echolocation of brilliant and insistent off-rhyme, these poems effect a delicate placement of self into body, body into world, world into word. And at the center of it all is even more delicate loss. Oshiro's Pier takes its measure in precise instances that ache with intelligence. A truly masterful first book."
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"Who can whisper in the spare dark and still be heard in the greater stillness? Only a poet who bets everything on spirit and the ability of language to outline that spirit. In prose honed to home and verse like stones skipping on the surface of water, who can tell where this wonderfully quiet and haunting book will lead? Not where you would ever think: "Everywhere is a potential/exit, except the door." In a virtuosic range of approaches to line, image and poem, Janine Oshiro makes a unique new music."
—Kazim Ali
"The poems in Pier refuse to privilege poetic craft over intensity of feeling, landscape over interiority, the mundane over the fabular, stoicism over grief. Instead, they have it all–or rather, they emerge from the spaces between contending states: 'It came out in a child's hand and I was/ not a child.' Oshiro's is a new voice of antique resonances, born of an anxious apprenticeship to beauty and to pain."
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Fast Meth Detox
Hi all,
My name is Brian and ive been addicted to opiates mainly heroin for 7 years. It got to the stage where i didnt think i could go on and the project i was attending thought i was best to get on MMT. I started 15mths ago on 100ml and im now at 75ml.
Ive been reading posts on this forum about other withdrawel options(sub etc) i can say ive never heard anyone mention any these at any clinics iv attended. The British govs answer is to stick everyone on methedone.
Anyway the point of this posts is that from next week i think the clinic is going to do a rapid detox and reduce me weekly from 75 to 60, 40,20 then 0. I am so scared i dont want to go back to that lifestyle.
I must add that this is mostly my own doing, for the most part ive handed in heroin free samples its only in last month my use has got out of hand. I was given 4 appointments and told if i miss any im off and i had to be clean again by 3rd appointment. During the 1st 2 weeks i reduced my use to only totally sporadic occassions. For the 3rd appointment which was tuesday past i am totally borderline. I have had the H out my system in 3 days b4 so thought it would be ok again as i had been unwell for previous 2 days(sickness sweats etc u know what i mean). I even went to sauna and steam room twice to help clear my system. Dont know if that will help but thought it was worth a try.
I now realize what a idiot i hav been and havnt used since then. The more i read the less i wish hadny went on meth but thought it was good for me at time.
I am so serious now about getting clean altogether that even if im struck off my meth im ready for it. Any thoughts on all this would help me greatly. Im very scared of such fast reduction. I have CT of the herion b4 and the last time i said i couldnt put my self through that again but the more i think about it, maybe ive forgotton but i think i could do it.
My girlfriend is also on meth but her program is safe and she is tapering well. I would move out 2 my mums even though this will break her heart again just to give my girlfriend a decent crack at it.
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Hi Brian,
Dropping off methadone rapidly is pretty tough. If you're still around drugs it wont be easy.
But anyone can make it if you're ready. Do you have a Dr who could help?
It sounds as if you've begun to think about giving up drugs for good. If you go for it, just remember, it has to be 100%. Usually we screw up by thinking we can use just once. Good luck
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Hi Dave, the problem with all the doctors here is they dont really want anything to do with it and just refer you to the clinics i have been attending and there answer is MMT. Apart from the last month i have done great all my samples have been clean, i actually moved away from the area i lived to start a fresh. Everthing was good but someone i know who sells H has moved in right accross the road from me. I wouldmt even take a bag for nothing right now. I can get extra meth of people i know to help with this reduction, i can also get valium to help. What else could u reccommend. Is it just me or does that reduction seem quite severe..75-60-40-20-0 over 5 weeks. I have been working and am prepared to quite my job to concentrate on thsi detox 100%. I have to giv it my all. I know that i will not be easy but like everyone else in our situation there comes a time when u have had enough. I know its easy to write this here we'll see what i write in next 5 weeks. I have to do this.
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Is it just me or does that reduction seem quite severe..75-60-40-20-0 over 5 weeks. I have been working and am prepared to quite my job to concentrate on thsi detox 100%. I have to giv it my all. I know that i will not be easy but like everyone else in our situation there comes a time when u have had enough.
Having the ability to quit your job and take this to the mat is hugely to your benefit, Brian. You may very well require that....particularly going from 75 to -0- in 5 weeks. Its a toughie...but all things are possible when you want it badly enough.
However...as Dave pointed out...using to mitigate the WD effects will negate any effort to come off of the MMT.
The thing that concerns me is that you have the ability and opportunity to hang out with people who are still using H* or Methadone and because of this, I'm extremely hesitant to advise you to get more Methadone to help with this detox. Unsafe companions evoke dangerous behavior.
Can you get some Clonidine, Brian? Are you familiar with its uses. There's a sticky on the forum. Do you get any takehomes which you can use as your own taper doses?
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Hey Brian, like Ar suggested I would defo ask them to provide you with some meds, ask for britlofex as they often start that whilst still on it, (when the taper gets uncomfortable) and build it up to its full effect for when you reach zero. If you suffer from the whole leg thing quinnine can help, and maybe 1wk of zopiclone or something for sleep.
I know what u mean about the gov' sticking everyone on meth, although subutex is becoming more popular now here in England, meth is cheaper long term for the NHS....<<<and thats half the problem.
Wishing u well. will keep you in my prayers. xx
Lilac girl
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Hi Brian!
I love your honesty and candor. I also look foreward to "watching" your next five weeks! I think you are sizing up the ENEMY and you "see" that you can win! I think you are also seeing what life WON'T be, if opiates are on the scene AT ALL, Yes?
I tapered from between 120-240 mg Methadone a day, to zero in 9 or 10 weeks. Very fast, the later part of those weeks! I am so glad that <it> is imortalized, in part, back on these pages! I believe it's page 18, May 2007, my, "5 Weeks" Brian. Now, it's your turn.
It's a beautiful journey Brian. There will be a lot of laughs with the tears, and you will have a cheering section unlike any you've EVER even imagined, K?
Welcome Brian!
Love and Respect,
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Thanks to all who replied, i have my meeting tomorrow so its crunch day. A little nervous but still going strong. Will post what is to happen tomorrow night. Then i'll no what my next 5 weeks and onward are going to be like. Thanks all
get off the meth! you just need to deal with the addiction to H first so you dont wind op in the same spot. meth assisted in ruining my life. A fast detox for me was easy(but in the hospital)its the months later that hurt...just go for it,meth is evil!


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A Canton native and McKinley High School grad, Matt Corey is on the fast track these days. As those who caught the Matt Corey Band's crowd-pulling outdoor show at July's First Friday already know, he is a smoking-hot player with a high-energy, groove-based sound that blends hip-hop and funk.
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Dad no doubt was impressed by Corey's impromptu performance. The guy has serious chops, an impressive résumé and undeniable star quality.
A Canton native and McKinley High School grad, Corey is on the fast track these days. As those who caught the Matt Corey Band's crowd-pulling outdoor show at July's First Friday already know, he is a smoking-hot player with a high-energy, groove-based sound that blends hip-hop and funk.
With his band, Corey performed two ballroom concerts last Friday at Fort Hood, the vast military base in Kileen, Texas. "It was crazy," he says. At the afternoon show, for base kids in third grade through high school, his versions of current hits by Drake, Usher and Rihanna scored big. "They knew the words to every song," Corey said. "Even the little ones."
Fort Hood was the kickoff to a lengthy national tour that includes gigs in Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis and across the Midwest, primarily on college campuses. "Last time I counted, we're at 36 cities," Corey says. "It's going to be a fun year."
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Corey's bass player is Matt Vick, a Canton native he grew up with at Trinity Gospel Temple. "I still play in the band at church every Sunday I'm home," Corey says. Rounding out his band is new drummer named Chase Williams. Corey's previous drummer, James Agnew, left in June to go on the road with Justin Bieber and Sean Kingston.
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Even while an active touring member of Skinny, Corey always had side projects cooking on the home front in which he was honing his current sound. He'd put together all-star jazz-funk shows at local clubs using a shifting lineup of musicians, vocalists and rappers.
"I was testing the waters with what I could do. I didn't want to do another 'smooth jazz' thing," Corey says. "I wanted to play at the same clubs I would go to."
In his Matt Corey Band shows, "we do a lot of covers and some originals," he says. While the trio has no vocalist, Corey will sometimes man the turntables to mix recorded vocals by Justin Timberlake, Usher and others into the sound. "One song segues into the next," he says. "The set goes continuous, like at the clubs." Corey has released a vibrant 13-song CD, whose songs can be sampled on his MySpace and Facebook pages.
It was in fifth grade that Corey began playing the saxophone.
"I didn't realize what I was getting into when I started," he said in an About magazine interview. "It didn't really catch fire for me until junior high. It was (Tony Watson Sr.) that really got me going. He has such a strong program at Crenshaw. I remember walking in and hearing that jazz band and thinking, 'That's the ultimate!' "
McKINLEY AND CHURCH
Corey got even more involved in music while at McKinley High School (Class of '96), where he played in the jazz band, marching band and symphonic band, while also playing in the band at Trinity Gospel Temple under "amazing bandleader" Stan Morse. In church, "we'd play everything from old-school gospel to funk that sounded like Earth, Wind & Fire," he says.
After high school, Corey earned degrees in jazz performance and music education from Youngstown State University, while simultaneously playing in an early version of Skinny that was "basically a college cover band for beer money." At YSU, he was classically trained in music.
"I'm so glad I did that, because I now don't struggle with technique. I feel very free," he says. "At some point, your fingers catch up with your mind and you get this ability to even hear what key the music is in."
Memorably, at Corey's senior recital at YSU, he was joined by Billy Beck, a Grammy-winning keyboardist from the Ohio Players. "Billy was around Youngstown when I was in school," Corey says. "He really took me under his wing and helped me find that funky groove."
Years later, Beck recommended Corey to famed funkmeister (and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer) George Clinton, who invited Corey to sit in at a Parliament-Funkadelic show in Cleveland in 2004. "Here's this skinny little white kid trying to play funk onstage with George Clinton — and he's shoving his microphone down the bell of my horn!" Corey says, marveling at the memory.
Page 3 of 3 - Through connections with college friends, and a video audition tape, Corey landed a featured spot in a music show at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center titled "Blast 2: Shock Wave," which later went on a 40-week bus tour. A revamped version of the show, titled "Blast! Cyberjam" — which Corey describes as "like 'Stomp' with horns" — opened in London for an eight-month run. Corey, then 23, had a starring role.
"If you stood in Picadilly Circus, you could see my picture on the front of the theater," he says. "It was crazy."
After his stint in London, Corey returned to Canton and did a musical about-face, taking a spot in the Glenn Miller Orchestra for a bus tour. "I did that for a couple of months," he says. "It was great to play that music, but it wasn't me."
As anyone who attends a Matt Corey Band soon will discover, his music is all about fresh and contemporary. As he puts it, "If Charlie Parker was alive today, he'd be playing Lil Wayne."
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At its simplest level, a navigation bar for a website is nothing more than a list of pages that the user can visit in any order. It follows that the markup should reflect that. A simple example would be:

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This spaces the links out nicely. Before we completed this step, you may have noticed that the first list item was indented slightly from the left. This is a leftover from the browser's default CSS: by definition, an ordered or unordered list is slightly indented from the left. To remove this indentation, we must work on the

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In our first discussion of HTML I said that spaces and returns don't matter: that the language ignores anything more than a single space and that returns without markup don't make any difference. That remains true… except in this case.
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Vermont Campus Compact (VCC) held its annual Gala and award ceremony at the UVM Davis Center March 18. Jacob Park and Joe Bossen presented "Fostering Corporate Citizenship through Service-Learning" and several GMC folks were recognized for their commitment to service at the college and in Poultney. Honorees included Sue Sutheimer, Thayer Raines, Peter Davis and Marli Rupe.
War Resister to Speak at GMC
The first U.S. soldier court-martialed for desertion during the Iraq War plans to speak at GMC on Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. in Ackley Auditorium.
Camilo Mejia comes to campus as the speaker for a Voices of Community plenary. His talk will address his nine-month jail sentence, his views on torture in Iraq, and his reasons for refusing to fight.
In April 2003, Mejia was deployed to Iraq as a member of the Florida National Guard. During his deployment, he witnessed the killing of civilians and the abuse of detainees, leading him to question the morality and legality of the war. When he returned to the United States in October 2003 for a two-week leave, he decided never to return to Iraq. He went into hiding to avoid redeployment and was classified as AWOLor Absent Without Leaveby the military.
After five months underground, he surrendered to the military at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and submitted a formal application for discharge as a conscientious objector. His application was denied. In May 2004, a military jury convicted him of desertion and sentenced him to jail.
Mejia has authored a book titled Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia. His talk is free and open to the public.
GMC Choir to Perform at National Cathedral
The Green Mountain College Choir will provide the prelude music to the Evensong Service at the Washington National Cathedral on Vermont State Day, Sunday, March 30. The performance takes place at 3:30 p.m.
Vermont State Day will be observed in conjunction with the Cathedral's Racial Reconciliation and Justice Week, March 30April 6. The week, and particularly the Sunday morning service, will celebrate the ministry and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his last sermon, Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution. King preached the sermon at the National Cathedral March 31, 1968, just days before he was assassinated.
The preacher at the 11:15 a.m. worship service will be the Honorable John Lewis, a living legend of the civil rights movement and Georgia 's representative for the 5th Congressional District. Other events will include a 10 a.m. Sunday forum, a Vermont Day Coffee Hour and a tour featuring the ways Vermont is represented in the Cathedral.
The Green Mountain College Choir and Cantorion is directed by Prof. James Cassarino.
Science Series Features UVM Professor
On Monday, March 31, the chair of the University of Vermont 's Department of Plant Biology presents the second lecture in GMC's spring science series.
Tom Vogelmann will give a talk titled The Inner Lives of Plants at 4 p.m. in Ackley Hall room 334. It is free and open to the public.
The final lecture in the spring science series has been rescheduled. Neil Kamman from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation now plans to visit GMC on Monday, April 28, for a talk titled Mercury Contamination in the Northeastern Landscape. It begins at 4 p.m. in Ackley Hall room 334.
GMC Economic Forum Continues
Alfred Watkins, science and technology coordinator for the World Bank in Washington D.C., comes to Green Mountain College on Tuesday, April 1, as part of the Green Mountain Economic Forum.
He will present a lecture at 3 p.m. in Ackley 334 titled Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity Building in Developing Countries: How World Bank Programs (and others) Can Create the Potential for Growth and Poverty Reduction.
The Green Mountain Economic Forum is co-sponsored by the GMC Speakers Bureau and the business department.
Family Farm Forum Event Next Week
Author Will Allen visits GMC on Wednesday, April 2, to discuss the history of pesticides and the media as documented in his new book, The War on Bugs.
The talk begins at 7 p.m. in the East Room of Withey Hall. It is part of GMCs Family Farm Forum, and is free and open to the public. more...
GMC Sustainability Guru Invited to Conference
Jesse Pyles, GMCs sustainability and service learning coordinator, has been invited to speak at a Rutland conference on the environment.
The Four College Conference takes place Wednesday, April 9, from 2 5:30 p.m. at the Clementwood Spiritual Life Center in Rutland. Jesse will be part of an afternoon panel presentation and open forum regarding environmental concerns. Fellow panel members include local sustainability advocate Natalie Brassile, Avery Cleary, executive director of Hooked on Nature, and Marion C. Honors, an artist and lecturer from Latham, NY.
Students at GMC, Castleton State College, St. Josephs College and the Community College of Vermont have been invited to attend the conference, which was organized by the Clementwood Spiritual Life Center and a committee of student services staff from all four colleges.
The program is designed to raise the consciousness of college students regarding the environment, as well as get them involved with solving environmental problems.
The general public is also welcome to attend this event. There is no fee. For further information or for registration, call 776-2960 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Prof. Jennifer Baker (arts & sciences) is an exhibiting artist at the Brick Box Gallery in Rutland. The group show, titled "The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center's March Madness," will run from March 14 - April 6.
Prof. Steven Letendre (management & environmental studies) served as the lead author on two recently released energy reports. The first report, titled "Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles and the Vermont Grid: A Scoping Analysis", was co-authored with colleagues from the University of Vermonts Transportation Center. This report presents the results of six months of research to better understand the regional impacts that would likely result from greater use of so-called plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).
Steven served as the lead author on a second report titled "Residential Photovoltaic Metering and Interconnection Study: Utility Perspectives and Practices." The report presents findings from a survey of 63 electric power companies that Steven conducted on behalf of the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA). The report documents how individual utilities handle the integration of home-scale solar electric power systems.
Prof. Bill Prado (business) will lead a professional development workshop at the 2008 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference titled Leading and Managing for Global Sustainability: A Conversation for Possibility and Action. AOM is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world, with 17,500 members from over 100 nations.


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Thanks! And help with texture colouring?
06 May 2013, 17:35
Mark Ortiz (2 posts)
Hi. I've enjoyed working through the book. Thanks for writing it.
I'm trying to do my own project which is mostly just 2D.
I'm stuck making grayscale bitmaps my own color. The book uses a grayscale bitmap, and decides it's color in the particle app. I'd like to be able to do the same thing (but not particles)
Would it be possible for anyone to show me how to put the "particle_texture.png" on the hockey table, so I can set the color myself? I'll then be able to use that knowledge to do what I really want to do.
EDIT: I probably should explain what I want to achieve - I have a color photo, that I've used photoshop to split into the 3 RGB channels. This gives 3 grayscale bitmaps. I'm trying to animate them combining. So one would be red, the other green, the other blue. When they reach the same position as each other, the full color photo is revealed. The coloring would need to be additive for this to work.
Thanks for your help!
10 May 2013, 18:24
Mark Ortiz (2 posts)
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I've sorted this myself in the end (always more satisfactory). I hate coming across orphan questions on the web, so here's what to do for any other future searchers.
In the load texture:
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11 May 2013, 04:37
Kevin Brothaler (41 posts)
I've been away overseas, so my apologies for not getting to this sooner.
Does that code also work if you're using OpenGL ES 2.0? With a shader, it would be very similar to the way the particles are done. You could pass in a uniform like this:
uniform vec3 u_Color;
In the main body, you'd apply the color as follows:
gl_FragColor = vec4(u_Color, 1.0) * texture2D(u_TextureUnit, v_TexCoord);
Where u_TextureUnit is the bound texture unit, and v_TexCoord is the texture coordinate coming from your vertex data. Let me know if this helps out as well.
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A fun day in the sun quickly turned tragic this weekend. The body of a man who was swept away by the Rogue River Saturday afternoon was located on Sunday.
Search and rescue dive teams in Josephine County located the body of 51-year-old Rodney Clayburn near Galice.
We're told Clayburn was with friends trying to swim across the river behind Morrison's Lodge. Witnesses said he made it half way before losing energy, then he screamed for help.
"One of our guests was down here by the water and she said that he almost got to a shallow part where he could stand up and almost got to where his friends were at but the water was just to swift and took him down the river," said Lesley Pratt, the Manager of Morrison's Lodge.
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Researching First Impressions in the Age of Online Profiles
Posted: March 1, 2008
Sam Gosling, writing in the Psi Chi National Honor Society's online magazine:
A flurry of recent news articles has highlighted a new challenge faced by college students: giving the wrong impression about our personalities through our online profiles. Much of this interest can be attributed to the popularity of MySpace®, Facebook®, and other social-networking websites visited by over 10 million people each month (Nielsen/Netratings, 2007). The news articles often caution us about posting information that could disrupt others (particularly potential employers) from seeing us accurately (or at least as we see ourselves). But don't we want to avoid giving anyone an inaccurate impression of what we are like? How can psychological research help us with this issue?


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I got this article in an online (yahoo) group today that got me to thinking a bit about safety in the scene.
The immediate reaction to the article was that safety was being disregarded. That people need to put aside their "know it all" attitudes and focus on safety whenever they play.
And a large part of me agrees with that. We need to educate ourselves on the things we're going to be doing – and we need to educate ourselves BEFORE we attempt to do them. We need to know the risks, our bodies limitations, the fundamentals of how to use equipment, etc. And I've often been the first one to stand up and point a finger when I see someone who doesn't know what the hell they're doing committing an unsafe act.
But therein lies the crux of the matter.
Education is a key part of the BDSM lifestyle. One must know what they are doing and be doing it intentionally. Accidents happen and the best of intentions aren't going to stop them – but education is going to go a long way toward ensuring that they're few and far between. When you've not bothered to educate yourself before doing something you are far more likely to have an "accident". Except it isn't even an accident. It's just a stupid move by someone too stupid to have learned HOW to do something before trying it.
There is a huge difference between choking someone until they pass out because you wanted to and doing it because you didn't know they would/didn't know when to stop.
There is a large difference between leaving marks and scars because you meant to and leaving them because you didn't know what the fuck you were doing when you picked up that whip, flogger, cane, knife or rope.
I'm all for safety. Safety is important. And people who are unsafe because they are foolish really get my back up. Those who unintentionally cause harm, damage or undesired consequences by their actions make me want to boot them right out of the lifestyle, never to be allowed to return. (Isn't it a shame we can't actually do that? "Look, Roger, you're too stupid to be allowed to do this. Go home, fuck yer vanilla wife and don't EVER entertain thoughts of participating in BDSM again – even in your fantasies. Your memory is wiped of all desire. Flee now or we shall kill you.")
But there's a flip side to that. And that's the real key to my opinion.
What about those of us who know the risks, have the info and education we need, have enough experience to be BORED with the basics… and actually ENJOY playing in ways that are vaguely (or even blatantly) unsafe?
Most of what Taylor and I do is relatively unsafe.
We do knife play to the point of cutting/drawn blood/scarring. We do breath play to the point of unconsciousness. We use whips in a way that draws blood and often scars me. We use floggers and canes to get bloody marks and deep bruises. We do face slapping. We do punching. He generally scares the living shit out of me in some way or another no matter what we do.
Cuz he's a sadist, damn it! And I like to be scared. I like the intense emotion of pain that actually hurts, pain that is unpleasant. I like to be taken, conquered, forced to surrender to whatever he wants to put me thru.
And yanno what? That isn't always safe. In fact, the safety police hate us. (Y'all know who you are) But it's what we do. We know the risks and we're willing to take them. We're not stupidly doing things we don't know the effects of. We KNOW what we're doing, we understand the risks, we're doing it INTENTIONALLY.
That didn't used to be so uncommon. The people I initially met when I got involved in the lifestyle weren't a bunch of vanilla folk trying to put some kink in their lives who got into a little bit of spanking and a little bit of rope and a pinch of foot fetish tossed in. They were dominant sadists. Heavy ones. And masochistic bottoms/submissives who were there to get what they needed – be it a chance to serve one of the dominants or the beating of their lives. We all understood that it was about mutual needs. We understood that S & m meant Sadism and masochism not froofroo, role playing, whipped cream and fur lined cuff bullshit. We understood that B & d meant bondage and discipline not running around a munch or party with some rope to play with or "bondage sheets" to pull out on occasion. It was "oh, I strung you up a bit too tightly? Your arms ache? Sorry, baby, but your fingers aren't purple or cold and you're breathing just fine. Suffer. You're supposed to, you whining bitch." We understood that D/s meant domination and submission and, yanno what? The submissives actually SUBMITTED to the dominants!
(As a side note – I do not find bondage sheets or fur lined cuffs offensive. I don't mind folks who are into a bit of kink as part of their sex lives. I don't feel superior to them or look down on them for their part time kinks. Some of my best friends are vanilla with a bit of chocolate drizzled over them on occasion. That's all good. I just don't need folks like that telling ME when I'm being unsafe, yanno?)
So what are a sadist and masochist to do in the lifestyle today?
Get chased by the safety police and looked down on for "knowing it all" and being too extreme, that's what.
And yet these same idiots don't make a peep when some newbie top mixes lighter fluid with his alcohol to do fire play. (No, they obviously CAN"T read the can where it says lighter fluid is dangerous to the skin)
Nor do they say a word when some moronic wannabe gives a girl a kidney shot with a flogger. (Cuz, chances are they don't even know where the kidneys are)
Not only can people not tell the difference between intentionally unsafe and stupidly unsafe but they don't even SEE the stupid mistakes people make. Cuz unless it's something obvious – like Taylor punching my thighs for twenty minutes which seems HORRIBLE to them, or blood running down my back – they don't even fucking know it's unsafe.
You've got the barely educated, conservative, inexperienced, soft kinksters running the safety police and the folks who actually know what they're doing being ostracized for being too rough, extreme or "know it all" for their tastes.
Is it any wonder we reminisce about the good old days or laugh at those who tout SSC?
I say…
take your safety and shove it up your tight, dry ass until yo
u can recognize what IS safe or unsafe and understand the difference between disregarded safety/mistakes and intentional risk.
Then, maybe we'll talk.
Unless, of course, I'm too busy bleeding.