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Brooklyn, Mississippi 13.89 miles NE
Wiggins, Mississippi 21.45 miles SE
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 23.91 miles NE
Perkinston, Mississippi 27.6 miles SE
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Sites: 126 | Latest Rate: $28.00 | 19 Reviews
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Aug 2014 - $28.00
I stayed here for 4 nights. The grounds were very well maintained and the management was very friendly. When checking in they issued us a bag of ant poison and were advised to use it after we were parked. They advised they had a small ant problem with some of the sites. The sites were level and hookups were easy to get to. The sites were spaced so you weren't right next to your neighbor. Nice campground to walk and ride bikes. The only issue was the sugar ants, they were terrible!! After parking my RV, within a short period we were invaded by hundreds of ants! We used the poison to no avail. We then were told by another camper to use Comet Cleaner and sprinkle around our tires, jacks, hoses, and electrical cord and the ants would not cross it. It seemed to work pretty well. After that we had an enjoyable stay. We plan to return and secured reservations while we were there. I would advise to call and get reservations. The park was full the weekend we stayed. - Camping Fox
Jul 2014 - $28.00
This is no longer the great little fishing park with the quaint cabins, and campsites nestled in the woods. This park has been turned into an AMUSEMENT PARK! No sleep, so refunds, no supervision of children on golf carts with loud music everywhere. There was an ATV running the streets as well even though the management says they don't allow them. There is a zip line now installed over the dam spillway, right beside the campground. Poor planning! This is a dry county, but a private park even though some land was taken by eminent domain. Drinking and drunks are abundant here, including some of the management. There was an event here one of the weekends we stayed, which was very ill planned. Too many people, not enough management or security, and once again not far enough away from the campground and cabins so we could enjoy the quiet (though there was none to be had really). Fishing used to be great here, no longer. And we were told that there was an $8 per fish charge for each caught in addition to the normal fees for fishing. After hearing that, we stopped. Too many speed boats in the shallow lake anyway. And the prices have risen dramatically! At $28 per night, and being the highest cost park in the area, there are many local alternatives, most being much better campgrounds as well. While here, there seemed to be a big upheaval in personnel, which we were told has been the case since the new management took over. Seems like the new management is nickel and diming the campers too much as well. There were lots of complaints from other campers around us, who were also looking for a refund and an opportunity to find another park. Just not a good atmosphere anymore! And certainly no place to take young children! - LIAB
Apr 2014 - $28.00
This place just reopened under new management. All the trees have been cut down. Private sites are no longer private. The owners promote drinking and the smell of liquor is prevalent. I guess because this is a dry county. Beer cans and bottles were abundant everywhere! We looked at the cabins for future use. No real improvements were made to the cabins except expensive granite counter tops were added to plywood cabinets, but the bed bug ridden mattresses that are at least 10 yrs old are still there. They did buy some log furniture. Everything there smells of mold and mildew. Daylight can be seen through the walls. The park is in need of a cleanup....badly. the campsites are horrid. We paid a $3 fee or "mandatory donation" each and time we left the park and drove back in to the site we had rented there for several weeks. We paid a 3.25% fee for using our debit card to pay. They were charging $8 for each fish caught in addition to the license and fishing fee, so we declined. Golf cart rentals were $70 per day. Boats were also unreasonably priced. The camp store was ill equipped and extremely overpriced. The elderly store clerk was extremely rude and ill mannered. Several drunken parties kept us up for three nights. The park would not give a refund if we left so we were stuck. All in all, not a good way to spend our vacation dollars. Would not go back. - Jilliebean


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Beautiful is Christmas in Japan
Here in the US we have our fair share of gorgeous cosmetics but you know that my heart always lays with the gorgeous collections that my most favorite Japanese brands put out for the Holiday season!
What better way to learn all about what's coming out this season then visiting with the Muse's very good mate Iris at Rouge Deluxe!
Iris has been making the Muse very happy with all her posts about the goodies that Lavshuca, MJ, Paul and Joe, Gransenbon, and many other brands have in store for us this Christmas Season!
Some of the items I am looking forward to this Holiday Season are included in this little blog entry!
The entire Majorca Majolica collection! Iris has just posted the details and the Muse is drooling in delight at what's being offered!
Two (not one but two! Celebrate good times come on!) new Majolook Line Impact palettes! Oh my and one looks purple with shimmery bits and pieces! Go right ahead and count the Muse in as being excited about these! If you'd like a look at past Majolook palettes please see my prior blog Spolight on Majorca Majolica by clicking here.
Lash Freeze Glitter Mascara! OH.MY.GOD! You know I want this don't you? Count me in for two of these please! I love the old glitter mascara they introduced and this is on my MUST MUST MUST HAVE TO HAVE OR DIE LIST! Oh sorry was I being a bit too dramatic? Glitter does that to me.
And finally Snow Carat Face Powder which sounds like something very yummie that I must have as well 😉
MJ looks like it's coming out with quite a gorgeous range for Christmas! You can see the pictures, prices, and first impressions from Iris by visiting her here.
Next up on the list is Lavshuca's two new Holiday palettes! The packaging on these looks adorable! You can see both by clicking here and here. Puffy's back as Lavshuca's model for the palettes! Yes, I know I know everyone is groaning but the Muse likes Puffy! I'm not entirely sure I'm loving her hair in these promo images but I still think she looks gorgeous! Anyway enough babbling about Puffy back to the palettes! The palettes are a bit weird in color as these appear more Autumn than Winter however they both look quite nice and too good to use! Beauty Vault anyone? They consist of three strips of shadows and two lip creams! Yum the Muse is writing her Letter to Santa now!
Dear Santa,
Please bring me two each of the new Lavshuca palettes and I'll be sure the cookies are extra good this year! Promise!
Much love, the Muse!
Sonia Rykiel has caught my eye with the sparkling face powders they are introducing for the season! You can click over here and see them. I'm thinking all three need to make an appearance under my Christmas tree!
Aube Christmas line looks pretty darn nice as well! The new Jewelry Shower eye palette has caught the Muse's eye! If you'd like to see the past Jewelry Shower eyes click here.
My Japan/Asian wish list is growing quickly and I'm happy that most of my US shopping has been done (aside from the MAC bits that have to make an appearance). The Muse has to go count her pennies and see about making all these wonderful items her very own 😉
Visit with Iris on Rouge Deluxe for your Japanese Beauty fix but don't say I didn't warn you! Japanese makeup makes you broke and poor kids! Don't be annoyed when the Muse says "I told you so!" when she hears your wallet screaming in pain!
Look for these at your favorite Japanese online shops starting around the end of the month and the beginning of November!
I wannaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa here you guys talk! Comment! Tell me what you are getting this year from these lines or other Japanese lines!
New to Japanese cosmetics? Check out the Muse's Spotlights on Japanese Brands to learn more! Got a question about Japanese Cosmetics? Ask away!
10/22/07 17:46 Anonymous:
Hi Muse,
I saw Iris' post and instantly started drooling myself. Did you go see the Biteki special section online? Bad mistake.
I am liking the Snow Carat & of course the Magie Deco. Btw, Magie Deco is pretty much Lunasol but under a Kose brand. It lasted well during a normal work day.
Hugs & Cheers!
10/22/07 20:19 the Muse:
hey betsy 😉
totally in lust with the MJ and drooling!
I haven't hit Biteki yet! I was trying to get a copy of October's issue! I did hit the Voce site and seen some piccies! Is the special section good?!!?!? I'm heading over to the website right now heheheh!
I'm loving all the MJ and it's so inexpensive it's worth picking up doubles!
Hmmm interesting! I'm lemming MD anyway so this is an excuse for me to give it a try! I love Kose period so I'm very curious! You should send me FOTD's!
I got your comparisons of the Classic Rock and Platinum and you're utterly right! They are totally worth buying both as they are completely different! So those are on my wish list!
Also the MD palette looked fantastic!
I really have to answer your emails! My inbox looks like hell at the moment so I try to refrain from actually entering it!
Tomorrow 😉 Promise!
Love ya!
10/22/07 20:27 the Muse:
just back from the Biteki site and I'm loving the presentation of the Dior, Lancome, and Givenchy!
I was talking to PJ about the Dior and it appears we are only getting the crummy brown color here in the US so that's an utter skip unless I have my mate CP it from England for me or I can get it when I'm over if it's still around! I'm lemming the pink but the beigey color is doing nothing for me!
The YSL palette is making me want it more and more but I need it like a whole in the head!
The Beaute de Kose palette is uber nice so that may be on the wish list!
The RMK is damn nice too but I can safely skip on it I think!
the new cle de peau looks nice as well but I'm not thrilled! this is what we get for our beloved testimo? Sheesh!
Shu Uemura not so impressed may ski p those as I already have a double chin and don't need the bronzey blush making me look fuller than I already am!
Totally need the Givenchy Exclusive. Are you nabbing that?
The Ayura looks fab! I have none and PJ's been telling me how cute it is so I'm tempted!
the Elegance is AWESOME! Very nice I think I need those!
and the KP is looking hot as well! As is the Awake! But I'm wondering should I get the Neiman's Awake LE or get this kit!
Like the esprique precious but I know I can always nab that after the holidays on jpmon they keep it in stock years later!
Oh my god the is the mosiac powder Aube?! YAY! I want that for sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for pointing this out! I didn't think it was up and available online yet! I snuck onto Voce and seen the updates but not Biteki!
Anyway you've made my wish list triple and of course I don't like you anymore for that 😉
Love ya!
10/22/07 20:45 the Muse:
ugh totally sicko here.
I just checked the elegance
$99 for one and $200 for both sets from Kelly.
Hohum do I need 'em?
whatta ya think? I need 'em! Ok I'm convinced!
I'm gonna email her see what sorta break she'll give me on both!
10/22/07 20:49 the Muse:
grrr I should take this to email instead of commenting a hundred times lol!
Are you getting the e-Mook! It's sorta on my wish list!
10/22/07 22:12 Angelique:
Hello m'dear!
Well, I'm actually not getting anything from any Japanese brand, on account of not even knowing where or how to get anything since I live in the ninth layer of hell known of Texas.
Not only that, it all seems way too cutesy and girly for me. The girliest I can manage is stuff like MAC's Barbie Loves MAC collection and anything in that vein. But the cute little fairy-princess stuff like Jill Stuart and Majorca Majolica just makes me want to brain myself with a fireaxe and go watch a bloody violent movie like the "Saw" series (speaking of which, I have such a crush on the actor who plays the Jigsaw killer! I can't wait for part four to come out.). I'm really and truly not a girly-girl. I'm actually happy that I'm not– I can't imagine myself in pink and watching romantic comedies and wanting to look all pretty for the boys and being scared of bugs and snakes. Nope, I'm happy with my horror films and action figures and my love of odd and unusual makeup colors.
I will say that the only Japanese/Asian brand I'm a fan of is Anna Sui. And even though I know she's American, her stuff really isn't sold here. I love it! Her line rivals Versace in terms of gigantic variable color spectrum and just fantastic products! My favorite is absolutely the lipsticks. Blue glitter, black glitter, multi-color glitter, a green glitter lipgloss ring…it's all fabulous! I wish Sephora still carried Anna Sui.
Might I just say that the Anna Sui Holiday Collection pictures that were posted at Rouge Deluxe made me curse and scream at the fact that there's no way I'll be able to get my hands on 'em. Oh sure, we can put out sixteen million different beige and nude lipsticks and lipglosses and fuckin' metric tons of self-tanner but we can't carry Anna Sui? Thanks a lot, you distributer jackasses!
….I'd best go before I whip myself up into more of a frenzy than I already have.
Have a good night, my dear!
P.S.: On your MM entry where you talk about the Majewel Collection, something that caught my eye was the Splashing Blue mascara. It looks to be jelly-like in consistency. It reminds me, in color and in texture, of Givenchy's Eyelashcolor mascara-gloss. Is it a gel? If so, then you've basically already got Eyelashcolor gloss! Neat, aye?
I still do want to try Stila's Wet Mascara simply because Givenchy's is a fiendish limited edition (so is Stila's, now that I think about it…). Do you know of any company who puts out a mascara like either Eyelashcolor or Wet Mascara as part of their permanent line? (I know of Bourjois, but I don't really like theirs for some reason)
10/23/07 5:27 Anonymous:
Hi Muse,
Sorry for the late reply. Looking at Biteki made my list triple too…
Good to know about JPMon keeping Esprique in stock later. I'm considering the Givenchy but it looks like 1/2 of the caviar & pearls and I have that.
The elegance is expensive but it is very cute. I liked the Anna Sui more than I expected.
I haven't decided on the E-Mook. I keep going back and forth.
Hope you have a good day!
Hugs & Cheers!
10/23/07 7:03 the Muse:
Hey Betsy *hug*
It's ok! No apologies needed
God yes! My list is outrageous now and to think I was doing so well with the US releases as nothing great caught my eye aside from the MAC, Guerlain, and Givenchy!
ya jpmon always has it left over and hijapan!
I was thinking the Givenchy looked similar to something I already had too but it's still in debates for me
The elegance is a bit over the top. I believe it's $78usd! I'm loving the Anna Sui myself!
EEP the list is growing!
I think maybe I'll skip on the e-mook. I already have a JS mirror and as much as I wanna see the couture I think it's safe to say I can do it online on the site if anything!
Hugs back my friend!
10/23/07 7:13 the Muse:
Hello Angelique!
I'll be doing a Japanese blog soon about where to purchase! I haven't had time to map it out fully as of yet 😉 but I will be! hehe!
My aunt lives in Texas Houston!
I think the reason many of us favor Japanese brands is because it's so girly! lol! LOL a crush on the jigsaw killer? You've surpassed me in weirdness my friend lol!
I do so hate to disappoint but I love pink and I am scared silly of bugs lol!!!!!!!!!
Anna Sui is quite goth! You really have to love the line! And the colors are very vibrant so that should be fitting with what you love 😉
I wish Sephora carried it too! God that was ages back!
You can definitely find very wonderful, friendly Singaporeans willing to CP anna sui for you on cozy and MUA
LOL 😉 I'm positive with a bit of hard work you can locate some Anna Sui on E-bay, online shops, or MUA The Muse promises!
You have a great day!
the MJ isn't really that gel like but it most definately makes the lashes blue!
YAY good news that it's like Givenchy's Eyelashcolor! One less thing to lem!
I've never tried any Stila Mascara I'm somewhat of a snob when it comes to Mascara and a majority of my mascara is Japanese!
Hmmm a wet mascara…I dunno…let me think…ummm….
bourjois paris clip ons are all great and they have a wet blue gloss! poop that's no help. Just checked they no longer have the snap ins! That sucks!
However, the maxi frange is a fav of mine!
and it comes in green and blue!!!!!!! I have both and love those!
I have to look through my stash and let ya know 😉
10/23/07 23:00 Angelique:
Hello again!
Since my back IS crap tonight, this shall be kinda short. So! a list:
1. Yes I do indeed have a crush on the Jigsaw Killer! I have really weird taste in men–always have. Most of the men I find attractive are primarily older–MUCH older–than I am. I'm twenty-two, and the typical age range of my actor-crushes is about thirty-five-to-sixties. My mum thinks I'm insane and most of my friends thought I was pretty nutty too. And most of the actors I think are to-die-for cute are more or less horror film actors and sci-fi actors. Probably the most mainstream or 'normal' actors I have crushes on are Alan Rickman, Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Thomas Jane, Robert Downey Jr, Bill Nighy, Steve Buscemi and Crispin Glover. The rest of my list is made up of actors that a lot of people haven't even heard of. But it's all good. Thankfully! my wife-to-be has the same taste in men that I do and likes the same actors. Women too.
2. Awww, you don't disappoint me at all! Hell, I've known men that scream like little princesses at the sight of a spider so you definitely don't disappoint me in any way! I was just an odd child growing up: I spent all my time outside in a pair of shorts looking for pillbugs and earthworms and playing with spiders. When I was in middle school I had a pet tarantula– my dog ate it, the damn fool thing. I always wanted a python but mum never would let me get one. Now that I have squirrels and rats I couldn't have one anyway: I love rodents too much to feed one to a python.
3. Anna Sui is uberly goth! But it's goth in a pretty colorful vibrant happy way. It's not goth in that silly Hot Topic mall way, y'know? I love stuff with bright colors and glitter and innovative designs/packaging so when I found Anna Sui I about died of joy. Here was my kind of stuff! I bought some stuff off of Sephora while they still had it but then they liquidated it and I had to look elsewhere. Anna Sui's cosmetic site doesn't even work anymore so the only places I can buy it are places like Strawberrynet and eBay. It kinda sucks but it's better than nothing, y'know? I just wish there was a way to get the new collections. (and while I'm registered on MUA, I don't have any tokens or points or anything and I don't really have anything anyone would want to trade for. It's mostly effects makeup and the stuff I do know other women would want is the stuff I want! Stuff like my Givenchy stuff and my Dior eyeshadow palettes and stuff like that.)
4. Ha, I'm a bit of a mascara snob too! My favorite mascaras so far are Dior's Diorshow and Diorshow Blackout, Givenchy's Captiv'Eyes, Burjoris' Maxi Frange–I LOVE the huge effect it does with my already pretty long lashes– and Givenchy's Eyelashcolor. I'm dying to try Burjois Maxi Frange in blue and green– I love to turn my lashes blue and green. Green looks the best on me. I'd like to try Givenchy's Eye Fly mascara and Fresh's Supernova mascara, too. I love long long lashes.
(I love false eyelashes too. I just can't put 'em on fer shit–my joints are too unstable. I need a false eyelash applicater. I know Sephora makes/sells them and so does Shu Uemura. I really need to buy one and then start buying falsies again. Shu's got some new ones out right now in his Tokyo Lash Bar 2007 collection, called Lucent Sky I want to say. I've got a MAJOR lemming for those!)
Please do look through your collection to see if there's some other kind of gel mascara– I'd appreciate it like you wouldn't believe! And if you have any good recommendations on blue and green mascaras I'd love to hear 'em.
And even though I'm not fond of Japanese brands (so far anyway) I'm excited as hell that you're thinking of doing another blog! I love your blog right now and I know I'd love another blog from you simply because we really do have extremely similar tastes in makeup and it's really nice to find someone else that likes what I like.
Anyhows. This is a LOT longer than I thought it was going to be (oy I really can't shut up can I?) so I'm going to go lay down.
Shall talk to you soon! Hopefully this weekend you and me or you me and a group can do some sort of chat! I'll try to make my back cooperate.
Good night my dear!
10/25/07 13:17 the Muse:
hello Angelique
Hope your back is better as I am late replying
LOL nothing wrong with liking older men =) you got quite a list of crushes there! I have a crush on Bill Murray hehe. So that's a weird one for sure!
oh my god your dog ate your spider? was he sick? holy cow how terrifying and gross hehe!
Mmmm Anna Sui definitely appeals to my inner goth side but it also keeps the ideal "girlish" image as well which is a fabulous contradiction!
I enjoy well packaged cosmetics myself
I'm lucky enough to nab many of the Anna Sui items due to very kind friends in singapore and japan Phew! Too expensive on ebay!
Well you can offer CP service to someone who'd like something from the US that always works So if you order something from sephora or have someone pick it up for you and do a sorta swap
Gosh my fav mascaras are mostly japanese but I definitely love the maxi frange myself! I'm a big MJ supporter and cheerleader and most of my fotd's I'm using it! I also adore Kose's mascara! pain to get off but awesome!
the maxi frange in blue and green are brilliant! Sasa had them on sale for like 12.50 a while back ago!
I like falsies as well but I suck at putting them on too! I have the sephora applicator and it does nothing for good eyelash alignment! I normally go false on special occasions only! Too much worth for anything else!
The Tokyo Lash Bar is always appealing to me but I normally skip because I can't warrant a good place to wear the lashes too lol!
I sure will look and see what sort of bases are used in the mascaras I have
oh gosh I'm not doing another blog hehe. I'm teaming up with Janice at Specktra for a most happy union of Muse and Specktra I'm going to be a product Muse for Specktra. Specktra most targets the MAC market and Janice and I have discussed introducing something other than MAC to the blog which will be exciting!
Gosh I can barely keep up with Musings hehe! Another blog might be a bit too much But maybe soon!
I love sharing my passion of cosmetics with people that enjoy similar brands and types of cosmetics
LOL it takes me a sec to get through your comments but I do my best
a chat sounds great!!!!!!
thanks for your comment!


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Bill and Pattye Bomash had heard the warnings about why parents shouldn't lend money to their grown children. How it keeps them dependent. How it inflames family tension. How it robs your retirement. How you'll never see the cash again.
Not exactly the ingredients of a healthy relationship. The financial and emotional costs of lending to a loved one can indeed be high. What seems straightforward can become a straitjacket if families aren't careful. How do you keep family harmony when money is given to one child and not others? What happens if a son or daughter can't -- or won't -- repay the loan?
Those were some of the concerns the Bomashes faced when they arranged to have the mortgage on their daughter and son-in-law's house paid off and to give them a new loan on more favorable terms.
"They were talking about a second mortgage or refinancing," Bill says. Instead, the Bomashes are now the banker, and their daughter is paying a 2.7% interest rate instead of almost 7%.
"We're getting a little less income than we would have, but we're helping our children," Bill says.
For Bill, a retired University of Minnesota professor, and Pattye, a retired schoolteacher, making this loan was pretty much a given: the Minneapolis couple had borrowed from his mother to remodel their house about 25 years ago, paying her back with interest. Says Bill: "It's something we've done within the family for several generations."
Family loans aren't always so cozy. Too often, the ideal of helping out a grown child becomes an ordeal with many strings attached. That's why so many personal-finance experts are dead set against establishing the Bank of Mom and Dad.
"It's easy to botch things," says Gary Buffone, founder of consulting firm The Family Wealth Resource in Jacksonville, Fla. "It's a risky proposition unless you do it very rationally and really think it through. Even a small loan can disrupt or destroy a family relationship."
Yet there are benefits to being the family piggy bank, not least of which is being able to lend money cheaper than a bank would and to keep money within the fold. You just have to be more "bank" about it than "piggy." So if junior asks for a leg up, and you don't want to make it a handout, consider these steps:
1. Call it what it is
Honestly, is this a loan or a gift? Parents can each give away up to $12,000 annually without filing a gift-tax return. If you actually don't expect any payback, give the money unconditionally; otherwise it's not really a gift, but a debt in grandiose disguise.
A loan is much more work. Family loans often are informal arrangements, with a parent magnanimously writing a check and telling a son or daughter to "pay me back when you can."
Do yourself and your family a favor and be specific. "Families will loosely call it a loan, but there's no parameters established before the loan is made, and that is fraught with problems," says Nathan Dungan, founder of Share Save Spend, a Minneapolis-based educational program that encourages families to practice healthy financial habits.
"I'm a big believer in formalizing things," he adds. "Loose boundaries invite problems."
2. Discuss the need
It's hard enough for families to talk openly about money when everything is humming along, but having a conversation when a loved one is in need can be unbearable. To avoid pain or a rift, parents sometimes will simply give the money with no questions asked.


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Conan O'Brien Stops by 'Late Night' to Pick Up Something He Left Behind (VIDEO)
Really, he admitted he was there because he'd forgotten to take something with him when he left the studios for greener pastures. "You were here for 16 years," Fallon marveled at one point. "And then what happened?"
Louis C.K. Discusses 'Louie's' Success and His Dark Worldview on 'Conan' (VIDEO)
Louis C.K. was on 'Conan' last night, and talked about 'Louie's' success, its two Emmy nominations, and his bleak, hilarious worldview that permeates the entire show.
"I don't expect any of it to keep going. You can't ... I think life is pretty ... I don't think it's so awful, I don't think you should expect anything to go well, but the only thing you really have coming to after you're born is death," he said, remaining stubbornly skeptical that his hard-won success can last.
Kathy Griffin Asked Michele Bachmann If She Was Born a Bigot or Grew Into One (VIDEO)
Griffin told an amazing story on 'Conan' about running into Bachmann at an event in Washington, D.C., when the comedienne was organizing a rally in support of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' repeal for 'My Life on the D-List.' When she found herself riding an escalator with Bachmann, Griffin asked the Tea Partier if she'd support the rally for gay rights. Bachmann said, "I don't think so."
Weirdly, Bachmann's aide then pulled out a flip-cam to record the conversation for her website. Griffin couldn't resist, and followed up with a zinger: "Congresswoman Bachmann: Were you born a bigot or did you grow into it?"
Billy Bush and Kit Hoover Analyze the 'Lopez Tonight' Cancelation (VIDEO)
"So hey, did you guys see the news?" Lopez said on his show. "Unemployment is at an all-time high and for Latinos, it just got a little higher." Bush thought it might just be that TBS is a difficult station to find. He shouted out to the live audience to see who know what station it was. "I think it's a legitimate point," he said. "I think it's hard to find. I don't know, it's like two-fif- I really don't know. 252 maybe? Something like that?"
Howard Stern Rips Jay Leno for Stealing Material and Doing a 'Terrible Thing' to Conan (VIDEO)
"Jay is insane, and Jay is a crook, and the whole world knows what he is up to," Stern told Morgan. "He steals a tremendous amount of material, he's not fit to scrub David Letterman's feet."
Morgan followed up Stern's diatribe by asking him his opinion on what happened between Leno and Conan O'Brien at NBC.
Team Coco Goes Crazy at Conan O'Brien's Chicago Show
No city might be as Coco crazy as Chicago. Not only was there an actual protest in the city to support Conan O'Brien during that whole 'Tonight Show' debacle, students at Northwestern University gathered to collectively perform O'Brien's trademark string dance in solidarity. And when a pair of shows for the Chicago stop of his "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" went on sale, the shows immediately sold out.
So the expectations for the show's first night in Chicago May 19th were naturally huge – legions of fans showed their support with Conan T-shirts, and some people even tried to sell their own Team Coco shirts outside the theater until the cops busted up the operation. But leave it to the hysterically self-deprecating O'Brien to try to lower those enormous expectations. "I want you people to leave here tonight thinking, 'That was sort of worth it,'" O'Brien said, of course, to laughter, cheers and applause. And for the die-hard Coco cuckoos, it most definitely was.
Questions We'd Ask Conan O'Brien on '60 Minutes'
He'll be sitting down with '60 Minutes'' Steve Kroft this Sunday for an exclusive interview on everything that's happened since he gave 'The Tonight Show' back to Jay Leno, just a day shy of his interview contract deadline.
This isn't intended to question Kroft's journalistic ability or choice of questions, but he has a position that most TV fans would sacrifice a live goat to have. Ever since the "s" hit the "f" during NBC's "Late Night-Gate," people have been dying to ask Coco questions that could cost him money, legal fees and quite possibly a finger if he answered them before his contract expired. Here are the questions that inquiring minds want to know.
Letterman Talks Late-Night Leno/O'Brien War to Dr. Phil (VIDEO)
Watch the video after the jump.
Conan Close to Moving Production Company to Warner Bros.
Though the ink is now dry on a new deal that will bring Conan O'Brien to TBS , there are still a few plot threads which need to be tied up -- one of those being where O'Brien's production arm, Conaco, will reside.
Luckily, it looks like Warner Brothers TV will swing in to give the production house a new home.
Previously, Conaco was partnered with NBC Universal, but that agreement is ending in May. As Conan and NBCU didn't part on the nicest of terms, Conan needed to find another support base. Turner Broadcasting doesn't make production deals, so it was up to older sibling Warner Brothers TV to come in.
While the deal has yet to be signed, sources say that an agreement is imminent. Meanwhile, Conaco still has an untitled legal drama in the queue at NBC under its current setup. Would it be considered irony if the drama got passed the pilot stage and became the biggest show on NBC since 'The Cosby Show?' Of course, that's if it even gets that far.
Late Night Wars on '30 Rock' (VIDEO)
Watch the video after the jump.
Jay Leno on Conan O'Brien: 'I Knew He'd Land on his Feet'
"I think he'll be great," he added. "He's a very funny guy." (Whether that was a nod to TBS' slogan, "very funny," remains to be seen.)
On Mar. 1, Leno returned to the 'Tonight Show' following a highly publicized feud with NBC and then 'Tonight Show' host O'Brien.
O'Brien's new talk show will kick off in November, after the World Series.
For more on this story, visit PopEater.
Stewart and Colbert Ink Deals Through 2012
According to the New York Times, Comedy Central recently signed its two award-winning "fake news" stars -- Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert -- to deals that would keep them on the air through 2012's presidential election.
"Jon and Stephen have established themselves not only on the cable landscape but also on the cultural landscape," said Doug Herzog, President of MTV Networks, which owns Comedy Central. "I think of myself as the manager of the '61 Yankees. I just wanted to keep writing Mantle and Maris into the lineup as many seasons as I can."
Bill Simmons Claims TBS Gave Conan "'The Godfather' Treatment"
In that regard, he's probably right. TBS offered Conan ownership of the show, a whole lot of money and more creative freedom than he could ever wish for compared to what he would get from any of the networks.
Simmons is also correct in that Conan's 11 P.M. show on a cable channel will put him more in competition with 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' than either Letterman or Leno. That's ironic when you consider the sketch the three of them put together during the writer's strike.
While Simmons is correct about all this, we don't appreciate being called "the egghead crowd." Give us some dignity, man. We don't call you "the dumb jock crowd." It would be a cliché.
Don't Laugh at Conan's Move to TBS... It's the Future
A fifth reason can also be added. A broader reason encompassing not just Conan's show, but the current talk shows that populate the cable horizon. You see, cable is the future of late night talk shows. I see you rolling your eyes and chuckling! However, I would hold off in calling me various versions of 'idiot' until you hear me out.
George Lopez Should Be "Loco" For Coco
No one, however, is closer to achieving a full-on joygasm than 'Lopez Tonight' host George Lopez. He should. He's going to have an awesome lead-in audience, worldwide attention, and a better chance of beating the late night bigwigs than he could ever hope for if he was on his own.
So why should he not go "muy loco" or any other ethnically charged verb for sharing a late night block with "Coco"?
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ARROW DYNAMIC To battle Sydney's 20-knot springtime gusts and enhance the accuracy of the venerable X10 arrow long used in archery competition, Easton Technical Products sought out technology from a Defense Department contractor that builds tank-killing shells. The new addition to the barrel-shaped, aluminum/carbon-fiber shaft is a tungsten tip that's 2.2 times denser than conventional steel. With more of the arrow's weight concentrated at the front, the upgraded X10 travels straighter in a crosswind.
FUEL INJECTION Sports drugs now come in more blends than you'll find at Starbucks. With the threat of a new Olympic dope test that could detect EPO (the popular hormone that stimulates the formation of red blood cells and thereby increases aerobic capacity by up to 15 percent), endurance athletes have found a new way to boost the transport of oxygen to redlining muscles. The illicit concoction is a blood expander - an undetectable and experimental synthetic plasma that carries additional oxygen and was originally designed for people in need of transfusions. Problem is, the shelf life of these red-cell substitutes can be short, and they may have been responsible for trauma-patient deaths in clinical trials. "The artificial blood could cause an allergic reaction, get stuck in your kidneys, and cause them to fail," warns Don Catlin, an opponent of such tactics who directs UCLA's Olympic Analytical Lab.
SKIN TRADE The most impressive of the new uniforms debuting Down Under is Speedo's intricately textured Fastskin. Following four years of development, the full-body stretch-nylon swimsuit is covered with tiny scales and sharklike, V-shaped ridges. Water literally breaks off the Fastskin, lowering hydrodynamic drag by 6 percent over conventional spandex. Meanwhile, adidas' One-Armed Throwing Suit for javelin and discus competitors, as well as shot-putters, has a Power Lycra sleeve that compresses the athlete's arm to heighten proprioception, or the awareness of where one's limbs are in space. And Nike's Swift Suit has golf ball-style dimples on the arms and legs to cut down runner-generated turbulence.
THRUST AND PARRY Fencers' feet perform distinctly different tasks, so adidas designers concluded that fencing footwear should follow suit. The lead shoe (far right) is always pointing at the opponent and moving back and forth, so the rubber tread runs side to side for maximum traction. A generous helping of foam cushioning provides for softer landings during Zorro-style attacks. The rear shoe, positioned perpendicular to the lead shoe, is canted toward the arch, easily rolling inward when an athlete lunges forward.
LIVE HIGH, TRAIN LOW One big conundrum for endurance athletes is finding a way to sleep at high elevations (where thin air prompts the body to produce more red blood cells) and train at sea level (where oxygen- rich air permits exercise at the greatest intensities). Solution: the Hypoxico Tent System. The collapsible tent can accommodate a queen-sized bed and is attached to a hypoxicator, or air-separation generator, that withholds enough oxygen molecules to simulate conditions up to 9,000 feet. Olympic race-walkers and cyclists have been snoozing between the nylon walls since late last year.
INTERNAL COMBUSTION The night-before group spaghetti-feed has been delivered a death blow: Performance diets are now tailored to the requirements of individuals and their sports. It begins with a prick of the finger in the lab, where white blood cells are isolated and analyzed down to the DNA level. After testing the effectiveness of various nutrients on the cells, a nutritionist determines specific responsiveness to such things as carbs and protein, and builds a custom diet that can result in fewer injuries and better performance. "Athletes in the same event can have very different dietary needs," says Jeffrey Bland, a nutritional bio-chemist and president of Washington's Institute for Functional Medicine, which is attracting the doctors of Olympic cyclists and runners.
SPRING ACTION Some Paralympic runners will strap on Flex-Foot's latest Sprint-Flex III prosthetic, a carbon-fiber, bowed spring of a lower limb, to speed them down the track. Drawing on feed-back from athletes, designers at the Aliso Viejo, California, company built the Sprint-Flex III's toe about 2 inches longer than earlier models for increased ground contact and better stability when launching out of the blocks. Look for the 2.5-pound artificial shin to propel a 100-meter competitor under the previously unassailable 11-second barrier.
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I have been on the road traveling to a lot of client sites the last month and did not get a chance to comment on this great article by Seth Godin about the job interview process when it came out.
Here are some short thoughts about how it can relate very well to contractors:
Who the ____ cares where the applicant has parked themselves for the last decade? Let's dig into what they did. You can do this through a structured information gathering process during the pre-employment screening (see website screening example) and then go deep on that information during the interview.
Why is it that most managers talk a lot about the revenue they produced or managed? Wouldn't you rather have an estimator say "I really don't get a lot of jobs. I typically only get 1 or 2 jobs each year but they have always made $1M or more in GP." What do they normally say - "I get 75% of the jobs I bid and got $10M in work last year."
How much can you really tell about how someone performed based on an interview? Test them out by putting them on the job for a few days and working closely with them. See how they ACTUALLY perform - if they don't then move on.
Integrating these processes into an overall organizational planning process will improve your company more than any other single action you can take.
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Yes. I am giving no reason except my new address. I haven't really found a reason:
The tale of a very good idea06.25.09 (12:10 pm) [edit]
It seemed like a very good idea. It always does and you think of "why the hell did I have not tried this before". Then you try to think of the drawbacks in the plan: you could not find a single one because you really don't look for it. Oh no, you dont! You just want to convince yourself later with the false fact that you were circumspect from the start. Its like the life insurance you take when you go out with a serial killer to the "Saw" movie: you really don't need it once everything is over.
Isn't life a bit too complex to comprehend when you are 26. You are old enough to have people ask: what happened to your dreams but in your mind, you still want to hope that you have time. Hope, is the quintessential strength, weakness and all that is true but when it comes to the time you are faced with hope and action, the guy from within who says "procrastinate" is the worst enemy of all. Does he ever answer anything else? Is he the guy with eternal hope that gets nothing done? Probably yes. What is "certainly" yes is that I am using the word "Procrastinate" a lot. Reason, well, I know it.
All this leads me to one conclusion, desperate times need desperate measures. Enough of desperation that you start pinging back people who had last sent a message 15 mins ago, to ask "is that all you had to say?". I mean, this is the worst, isn't it? A real low-life.
Ok. What was the very good idea? Sleeping at 7 PM in the evening so that you get up at 9 PM and "work" late. Why does it sound not very good at the moment: Because you get up at 9:00 PM and start looking back at life and wondering if its too late to change anything. You talk to yourself looking at the mirror and you have all this bull shit to contend with. And you just can't sleep...argh. I rarely use an expletive in this bloglet but I think this one deserves it: Fuck J D Salinger who came up with this quote: Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
Not worth it06.23.09 (7:34 am) [edit]
Ever get the feeling of total indulgence wherein you want to do something for a long time, but had been putting it off for the same long time and one fine day comes when you no longer want to hold it back, and you realize that you cannot take another breath before starting the activity? no? reallllly no? Well I had one just now - and thats to write a bloglet. I have been procrastinating the writing part of it (but not the thinking part which accounts for my "indulgence") and I finally get to do it.
That said, I have not had a worthy subject to write about. Some people write bloglets about the films they saw, books they read and everyday cheery thing. I cannot get to do those these days (but I used to). Others have their boozing sessions to share (are you reading, Arun?), songs/video to share and even make posts on how their first cooking session went (not giving out this name). I look back here and I see that I usually write..er.. ramble about myself. Its the truth - I write my bloglets when I am usually off-mood and there is no one else to vent on. Its true in a sense - a habit which still forces me not to write often. Does this bloglet reflect my nature? yes.. my nature when I am senselessly down in gloom. I am akin to the joker only in a different sense: I am an agent of gloom.
I like my rooms dark, windows closed. I like my drive long and slow. I am a loner. I like sad songs more than the chirpy ones. I am quite the opposite what many people seem to know me as. Things change as they have always done and there is a slow process that I am going through now.
I am done successfully writing this bloglet with the same mood as others. All I now need is a "depressed" label.
Significant times ... singnificant things05.29.09 (6:26 am) [edit]
Since my last post here, some significant things have happened. They are listed in no particular order below
I learnt one Bengali song. I can atleast sing two lines
I bought a black jacket - and yup, its fabulous
I learnt to be less arrogant by 0.056%
Learnt to type in a new kind of keyboard which is QWERTY but all the keys are arranged so spatially that I often came up with "kumba viil" when I needed to type "kinda cool
all days bright and beautiful02.27.09 (11:32 pm) [edit]
a day when you ought not to write a blog. Writing blogs on days like this let you know whenever you read it, what the meaning of a black day is. My day was not black because I am mourning someone but because its the day which started off badly, took a turn to the worse and at the end of it, had to end like the most unidealistical way.
A day when you constantly try to cheer yourself up, clinging to the hope that something positive would happen, should happen because its illogical for everything to fall away so rapidly, but yet does. A day when all the science of probability fails, the law of averages is proven wrong. A day when you dodge a kid's bicycle by inches only to be shaved off the face of the road by a water tanker. A day when there is so little to gain that you wish the 24 hours didn't even exist.
Days like these are not uncommon, they happen one time or the other to everyone - you say to yourself. Each time they come, you tend to recover in the coming days, looking forward to the light but at the end of the day, all you have is a big black hole which threatens to pull oneself in. Is it dark there? you can bet your life its not, its too bright and sunny and too warm for coziness. Infact the right word is hot like a fire. You can only burn yourself.
A day when writing a blog becomes so pleasant, so relieveing - the total vent that it contains. A day when a phone call could have made the day, but when the phone call does come, it last for exactly 1 minute. You say to yourself that its not possible but your cell phone doesn't lie. A day when you better accept that the earth is indeed flat for if you do disagree you may suddenly see that the earth is indeed flat as a pancake.
Days like this happen so irregularly, irrationally that the human species still exist. You cannot survive days like this unless you have a keen sense of deja vu, have had a nauseating headache more than once a year and are apt to snap at anything and everything. And days like this make you wonder where the logicality of the occam's razor is. Days like this, you see that Firefox has underlined the word logicality with a tiny red line because it thinks the word is wrongly spelled, but you dare not open it. Its 11:58 PM, still 2 mins to go. The chance of the whole system crashing on you for that simple, cynical error is nearer to 100 than 99. There you go. I ain't taking the chance
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A sentence about how I am opening the blog post page for the nth time in m days and I might finally post it,
A para about how very serious/drowsy/sad/dumped-like I am at the moment,
A quote about how I may be following the dreams of my infancy and/or the times I spent in my mother's womb,
A collection of words, meaningless and bloated, about how sleepy I feel now, the background song making no sense and that I write bad bloglets,
A deja vu feeling about a colleague's advice, mom's beating, brother's icecream et cetera,
A very random mumbling of the status of my own principles and the ruthless, constant gnawing by the inner rats of one's own soul,
A bad review on the book, movies that I may or may not have watched recently. I am pretty sure that atleast 38.89% of all reviews are written by people who have not seen/read/tasted the damned thing they are writing about. I also read that almost 96.78% of all stats are made up on the spot. For the kiddo who had to go through this drivel yesterday - sorry!
A very bad abstract piece on how I had a call at 2 AM in the night when I had been playing from a guy called rizi 15 years in the past, with a pain in the head. Should I call it ache?
A constantly vociferous appeal, in the name of mankind to stop pretending to be not afraid of heights. Acrophobia exists! Ain't no vertigo
A beautiful post describing the work I do, the place I work, the things I do which I finally end with a yearning to do better
A random advice post (the most dangerous on the lot) wherein I ask everyone to look into their own soul. Like Jagan once said, there are 7 rings and ... Ok - I will ask him to write a blog on it. and give the link here
Speaking of links, I have never given a link to another blog or to a song or to poem/lyrics or to anything useful/useless from my blog. This para is an aberration - an exception to the rule..
An extreme posting of how best to solve a people management problem that has words like attitude, assertiveness, perseverence, dilligence, mitigation, delegation thrown in.
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Sans comedy01.26.09 (9:56 am) [edit]
Its strange that the level of antagonism I have for a font is still not easy for me to explain. Part of me still doesn't believe that I once liked Comic Sans font (if someone who reads the blog wants to claim that they have no idea what it means, you may as well try politics) and came out of its usage for purely egotistical reasons. There is more to it than that - the purpose of this bloglet is to explain my gradual transformation in my liking for this font. It may be laborious for most to read but there is nothing like a full-fledged vent after seeing your nemesis font used in a website that you have to refer to, daily.
I had used the font widely when in my early internet years (I cite my obvious immaturity at that point as a reason for this - after all that was the time when I thought Java will rule the world for eternity) but had to snap out of it mainly because everyone else was doing the same. I am pretty sure that somewhere in the early years of this decade, I got myself a smug look every time I looked at someone using the font because I had "grown" out of it. This slowly changed to a mild irritation because so many people used it all the time that the smug look started to wear me. What better than to use a irritated look! It was at that point that I started my first work and I learnt that that the folks in my offfice were no better than the ones I met in my MIRC - they had to show off all their apparent imaginative skills in their fonts. One guy who sat near me used a font size of 20, in green color and the font (you guessed it right) Comic Sans. I made friends with him very quickly to make him comfortable calling me rather than just ping me. I used to cringe everytime he used to say that he is chatting with his onsite boss. I wonder where the boss went for treatment of his eyesight. It was then that I also realised that some of my office intranet sites were developed by people with vivid imagination of how Comic sans would work in different modes - bold, italic and even superscripts/strikeouts. If it had not been a free font, I would have written directly to concerned department that someone was advertising for the font using office resources. Too bad that it was available free and for some strange reason looked nice to everyone except me.
My dislike for comic sans seems not unique. I was recently going through the highly anticipated list of the best webdesigns of the year 2008 (atleast I anticipate it) and there was a selection of the best fonts availbale. Unfortunately most of them were not free but someone had written a sarcastic comment at the end of the page. It went like is the new Comic sans. I instantly knew that I had to start running all over again - if people are going to flood my surroundings with a new comic sans, I had to end my existence. Fortunately its still not widely (ab)used like CS and hopefully there is some sanity to it. Also found this - http://bancomicsans.com/. I would like to have a T from the site
Some calls..01.25.09 (11:18 pm) [edit]
It was as good as someone calling me from the other side of life. I knew that I had the right to sleep but I was in demand and after all the egotistical cravings that I had, it was not possible to ignore the meaning of the ring. I yanked my blanket completely and got up - I would usually stretch my hands from inside the blanket and pull the mobile phone into the blanket, but I was acting differently. I knew that the call must be important, there was no way someone was calling at this hour to tell me how their health insurance plan was going to help me in my afterlife. I checked the number and as soon as my mind registered the number, felt that something was wrong about the whole situation.
I knew that the call would end soon if I didn't prepare for it. Also, there was the problem of call being missed as well. I shook my head a few times to let the sleep drain of me. I took the call and tried to be as active as possible in my "hi". The other took no longer than a moment to find out that I had been sleeping (who was I kidding anyway, eh?). After a few seconds, I dropped the mobile phone to where it belonged. I had decided that my sleep was enough and went to my PC - it had been turned on already and I knew immediately that I was going to go for the information. I didn't want to do it - it was far better for me with less knowledge about the whole situation.
I knew that I was tensed in an unusual way. I had no idea what I was going to do but I felt that I was as active as I had been awake for hours now - I knew that the change was coming. It was unusual for me to feel that way. It was not the sound of inevitability that shook my conscience, but the sound of my own emptiness at that hour that shook me. I sat down at my PC after yanking out my LAN cable. I hate to act weak but this was necessary. I took an hour before blending into my everyday life. It was as good as nothing had changed.
A little less random post01.19.09 (11:38 am) [edit]
I was born in some obscure month in 1983 in some obscure place in Tamilnadu. I didn't have a blog at that time. I did get an entry in my dad's diary and I think he still has that diary with him. Atleast that one exists.
I got my job offer at around midnight in another obscure day of July in 2003 - I was more than thrilled with the achievement. I called on people waiting to hear to news that I indeed did have some worth. I was more than enthralled at that point. I am pretty sure that it got an entry in my diary for the year 2003 - all I now have to do is find out what happened to that diary. This may or may not exist.
It is hard to imagine that when I went to the ATM near my learning center on a bright sunny day in August 2004, I was merely a 'kid'. It was more harder to imagine that my bank balance was more than zero for the first time in my life and I had seen something that I was worth finally. It was a moment I realised that my childhood fantasies would remain so all my life. I had forgotten the idea of diary writing and it would be atleast another month until I started blogging - this was not documented at all.
Today, I blog. I wonder what needs to be pulled to let everything sink in.
P.S: Those who do not understand what this all means, please believe that I would grow enough to let you all know.
P.P.S: Those who understand what this means, please maintain your silence as you have been all throughout. I would be in your gratitude
History brings no lessons01.13.09 (1:44 am) [edit]
A long time ago when I was a fresher having joined this industry with multitude of dreams and a penchant for being excited about anything and everything, a wise old colleague gave me some advice. I still remember it being delivered - he was taking his coffee in the pantry while I had gone in to fetch some drinking water. We shared our usual hi's and he commented that he had come to my place a tad earlier but since I was in an animated discussion with my project mate, he had gone away. I asked him what he had come for and he told me that it was irrelevant. I was a bit surprised and proceeded to look at him with a face that said, "won't you tell me?". He smiled and said that he was expecting me to react the way I did. He then proceeded to tell me that he was happy to see me work hard but I was wasting my energy. I had heard that same piece of advice before - its the kind of advice that was delivered dime-a-dozen in pantries all over the world by the boss but never in a conference room. I proceeded to keep a wry smile. He stopped stirring his coffee, looked straight at me and said that he was really sorry that he could not explain me better. He then moved on. I realised a whole moment later that the "advice" was complete - I was relieved a bit that somehow my face had suggested to him that I have heard the same thing before and I was not interested in it at all. I fetched my water and made my peace with work sooner.
I didn't think of it much after that. I don't think I can still make out what happened between us after that - he was not in my same project and we had moved on while being in the same company. It was the kind of incident that you would remember when you write a diary but not when you write a yearbook. But still I can still recollect it often. I still cannot fathom the emotions in his face when he delivered his last sentence. There was helplessness, a tad of anger and pity in that look - its the kind of look I wouldn't give to a beggar in the street. That was perhaps a bad example - the last time I gave a beggar a pitiful look was perhaps when I was still wearing shorts to school.
Anyway, there was no reason for me to remember that story here. There's nothing that is happening in my work/project that made me think of that incident again. Its just that I always remember it and perhaps there is no right time to write it here... better late than never I suppose


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Randomized Controlled Trial of Ultrasound Guided Needle Placement Versus Nerve Stimulation for Coracoid Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block
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Nerve blocks for arm and hand surgery provide many advantages for patients including excellent pain control and reduction in general anesthesia-related adverse effects. Infraclavicular block is possibly the best method for performing regional anesthesia of the arm because of the consistent anesthesia of the whole arm and low incidence of serious adverse effects. Normally the anesthetist uses nerve stimulation to identify nerves supplying the forearm and hand. Recent research has indicated that to improve success from 60% to 79% two types of muscle stimulation must be sought before injection of local anesthetic. This can be time consuming, requires a significant learning process, increases complications and leaves 21% of patients with inadequate anesthesia requiring supplementation or general anesthesia. More recently practitioners have been using ultrasound imaging to direct the needle and watch local anesthetic spread around the nerves. Preliminary reports have documented that this technique is associated with much greater success than the nerve stimulation method. However a good quality study comparing the dual-endpoint infraclavicular technique with an ultrasound-guided technique has not been performed. This randomized study aims to rectify this deficiency by determining if ultrasound-guided infraclavicular block has a significantly greater success than the current standard, dual end-endpoint nerve stimulation technique.
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