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The fire and the sign
We stood in the charred remains of a life that once was – my sister and I – and said not a word. What was there to say? Finally, I spoke.
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We stood in the charred remains of a life that once was – my sister and I – and said not a word. What was there to say? Finally, I spoke.
Many people have crossed the path of my life but only one crossed it from three different directions. Don Light, one of Nashville's most admired power brokers and star makers, was meant to be part of my life.
Sometimes a man, despite his best efforts, doesn't find his destiny. Try as he might, down through the earnest years of his life, he chases it and can even believe he has it, only to awaken one morning and discover he doesn't.
Carrie called the other day and I grabbed the phone just as I was coming in from the garage. I dropped my purse at the foot of the stairs and sat down on a step to talk. No conversation with Carrie is ever short. Even her voicemails run three to four minutes.
Coming home one Sunday from the family dinner after church, I said, out of the blue, "I feel like we should volunteer for Vacation Bible School."
Without hesitation or discussion, Tink nodded. "That's fine."
My people, as I have long said, were raised up on hard times in the Appalachian foothills. I don't know that I had a grandparent who ever saw the sum of $500 at one time or even held a hundred-dollar bill in hand.
It was over Sunday dinner that my sister told me what I did not know. A childhood friend, the red-headed, freckle-faced girl with laughing eyes and the brightest sense of humor possible, was sitting vigil with her husband as death crept close.
My husband is like a relentless teenager. When he wants something, he persists until it's easier for me to say "yes" just to get him out of my hair.
We stood in the charred remains of a life that once was, my sister and I, and said not a word. What was there to say? Finally, I spoke.
To be honest, I was more than a mite worried. I was plenty worried. My husband, raised not in the South or in the country, wanted a chainsaw. The one farm accessory that has brought down many a man.
It often amazes me how many words of kindness and encouragement I receive for the stories I tell. Often, a reader will write, "You don't know me but I feel that we are friends."
A friend of mine, long embroiled in upsets, distractions, problems and tribulations, called one day to announce happily that she was learning to "let things roll right off my back."
"Really?" I asked. "And, how is that?"
When the New Year arrives every year, I, like most, look forward to the next 12 months filled with promise, opportunity, and a chance to reform from bad habits.
I've already done that. In early November, I went on a serious diet instead of waiting until mid-January. Tink was puzzled.
It was late in the summer of my parents' lives that I was born into a family with three children well on their way to being grown and done with home.
You may be surprised to learn that people sometimes disagree with me. You may be equally surprised that sometimes I see their point in the disagreement. Sometimes I agree with that disagreement.


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Borgarnes Travel Guide: 16 reviews and 123 photos
11 September 2007
From Hveragerdi I went driving to the direction of Borgarnes. When I was passing Reykjavik, I went to a picknick/parking place. From here there was a walking route to the top of the Pjerfessvalln (mountain). I walked up here just a little bit. There was a stream coming down the waling route. You will have a great view over the area. After an hour I was back at the car. I wen on driving. At a certain point you could go in a tunnel that goes under the Hvalfjordur. But I decided to take route 47. This route is going around the bay of Hvalfjordur. This route is about 61 kilometers long. This is really great to do. Great views on the bay. On the way I had lunch. When I came at the other side of the Hvalfjordur I went driving to Akranes. In Akranes I went to the beach first. Up there I took some sand for my penpal who collects it. Then I went to the lighthouse. Up here I had great views over the ocean. After that I went to the folk museum. The museum was interesting. Outside there were some fishingboats. When I finished up here, I went to Borgarnes. I arrived here around 4pm. I went to the hotel and checked in.
12 September 2007
This morning I stood up at 7.30am. After breakfast I went driving. I took route 54. I couldn't make too much pictures as it rained all day. At a certain moment I drove over the mountain Frodarheidi. Some parts were 10% or 12%. Which was a challenge to take as I never had done it. In Grundarfjordur I had lunch. During lunch I noticed that the food wasn't so good for my stomach. After lunch I went on driving. While driving my head and neck started to hurt. I took route 56 back. Once I was in the hotel, I relaxed for the afternoon.
13 September 2007
This morning I stood up and I was feeling sick. I threw up a few times this day. After breakfast I was buying some water and knäckebrot. The rest of the day I was relaxing as I was feeling bad.
14 September 2007
Today it was my birthday!! It is a bit weird to be a birthday-girl when you are on a holiday. But I stood up at 8am. After breakfast I packed my bags and I checked out. Once I had my stuff in the car, I was driving to Keflavik Airport. 5 kilometers before the airport I went to a parkingspot by a gas station/supermarket. For a few hours I was reading before I went to the airport. Inside the airport I waited for my parents to arrive. They arrived half an hour later as scheduled. First we went the rental car company to add my dad as a 2nd driver of the car. Once we had all our suitcases in the car, we went to Keflavik.
Previous city: Hveragerdi, next city: Keflavik.
For pictures about Akranes, please check my Akranes page
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Priory Meadows Shopping Centre, Hastings
The system is made up of 670 Renesola 260W Solar PV panels, installed flat to the roof on a 20-30 degree roof pitch (dependent on roof area) with an installed capacity of 174.2KWp
The expected annual electricity generation has the equivalent ability to power 44 average homes
St Elli Shopping Centre, Llanelli
The system is made up of 192 Risen 260W Solar PV panels installed at a 20 degree pitch on a flat roof area facing just off South, with an installed capacity of 50KWp
This saves approximately 24,179.57 kilograms of CO2 per year
London City Bond Building, Barking
The system is made up of 1000 CSUN 250w Solar PV Panels raked south-east facing on a 10 degree fixed mounting frame.
This will significantly reduce demand from the grid throughout the year and is able to fully power London's oldest bonded warehouse during daylight hours on a clear day.
Pure Offices, 14 UK Sites
Syzygy Renewables was appointed by Northwood Investors to advise and manage a £2 million investment in solar power, with the installation of 4,500 solar panels on the majority of its Pure serviced offices throughout the UK. This is expected to save around 15,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the 25 year period.
Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
900 Solar Panels on a combination of standing seam and flat membrane roofs. This is the largest roof mounted Solar installation on a shopping centre in the UK and is a finalist for 'UK Renewable Energy project of the Year'award.
Sovereign Shopping Centre, Boscombe
The 208 Suntech 240W Solar PV panels and SolarMax inverters
The need for a low-ballast system was addressed by installing an East/West Solar PV array. The system is performing almost as well as South facing installations in locations with similar irradiation levels.
Brotherswood Court, Bristol
192 Trina 250W Solar PV panels were installed on the roofs of 4 'houses' within the BrothersWood Court Office Park.
System provides 20% of the electricity requirement.
Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre
PV installation was the first to incorporate the innovative Trinamount III mounting solution in Europe
This 100kWp Solar PV installation was the first to incorporate the innovative Trinamount III mounting solution in Europe
The system is divided into two 50kWp systems located on a combination of flat and sloped roofs. This Solar PV instalation was the first to incorporate the innovative Trinamount III mounting solution in Europe The system is divided into two 50kWp systems located on a combination of flat and sloped roofs. This Solar PV instalation was the first to incorporate the innovative Trinamount III mounting solution in Europe (click here to read more)
X2 Hatton Cross
The system is made up of 400 Suntech 250W Solar PV panels installed at 10 degree pitch on a trapazoidal roof using Fronious Inverters
The Solar PV System powers the common areas of the building saving the tenants a significant portion of their electricity bill as well as reducing the building's carbon footprint
- 25% reduction to electricity bills for common areas
- Reduction of the service charge
- Healthy financial return
Biomass is a form of stored solar energy and is available in a number of different forms. These include wood, straw, energy crops, sewage sludge, waste organic materials and animal litter.
Although burning biomass releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, this is offset by the carbon dioxide absorbed in the original growth of the biomass, or captured in the growth of new biomass to replace the materials used. As a result, using biomass for heating/electricity generation results in very low net 'lifecycle' carbon emissions relative to conventional sources of heating, such as gas, heating oil or electricity.
Biofuels are any kind of fuel made from living things, or from the waste they produce. We use the term biofuels to encompass any alternative substitute for petrol or diesel or other liquid fuel made from processing plant material or waste oil.
Biofuels are not a recent development, they have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil. They have though seen significant attention recently due to humanity's ever-dwindling supply of natural resources or more specifically our over-dependence on fossil fuels.
Hydropower is one of the most efficient ways to generate electricity in the right locations. C.16% of the world's energy is generated by hydro schemes. Hydro power is also incredibly versatile, providing the ability to increase/decrease output very quickly in response to demand. The UK has a lot of untapped potential in the sub 1MWp market (small/medium)
Renewable Heat
We use more heat than electricity in the UK, however a unit of electricity is generally more expensive than a unit of heat – hence the focus within the renewable energy world has been more about electricity. This should diminish the technologies or the taking advantage of the opportunities there are to generate heat from renewable sources.
Solar PV
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into energy. Panels (or photovoltaic panels if you prefer) generate DC power which is then converted into AC before being fed into the grid or a building's supply
Whilst a nice sunny day will generate excellent output, the PV can produce energy on cloudy days, it is daylight that is required.
The beauty of solar in the context of UK Commercial property is that you are using space that has hitherto been unused (no 'land cost')and you can generate electricity to decrease grid usage and therefore reliance on 'brown' power.
The UK has some of the best wind resources in Europe that can be used as a low carbon renewable energy supply, to help meet our security of supply and climate change goals,
Onshore and offshore wind generation can make a significant contribution to the UK's renewable energy targets and aspirations given the UK's substantial wind resource and the relatively advanced nature of wind generation technology. The UK already has more offshore wind capacity than any other country in the world.
The combination of hands-on real estate asset management experience together with their obvious technical ability is what set them apart when assessing who to work with. We have been delighted with the work carried out and would have no hesitation in recommending them to other property owners
Syzygy handled the whole process from advising on the size of the installation, producing initial designs, tendering and project management. They delivered the project on time and on budget and are now managing and monitoring the the installation on an on-going basis... Gunwharf Quays now has the largest solar PV system on a shopping centre in the UK and has been nominated for UK Renewable Energy project of the year, which we are very proud of. We were very pleased with their work and would have no hesitation using them again and indeed recommending them to others.
Syzygy managed a retro-fit PV project for us at our Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre in Sheffield. They took the project from identifying the opportunity, producing the financial appraisals through to delivering the final installation and now they monitor it for us. We felt it was important to use an experienced specialist consultancy to run this project for us, and have been very pleased with Syzygy's work to this end. The installation was delivered on time and ahead of initial budget estimates. In summary, they handled all aspects of the project, including tendering the contract and monitoring the contractor, making what was a high profile project very simple for us to deliver. Our local team was particuarly impressed with their ability to work without affecting the day to day operation of the centre.
Meet the Team
Syzygy's team is committed to delivering best in class service to our clients. We are very passionate about what we do, and care about how we do it.
Our team has over 40 years of industry experience, and has consistently delivered high quality projects for an impressive array of clients.
John Macdonald-Brown
"What we are seeing now as regards current and future legislation and policy-making is a very clear sign of where the agenda is being driven"
John managed commercial property funds from 1999 to 2009, at Ashtenne Holdings and subsequently at Spitfire Estates. In this period John managed investment from AXA REIM, BlackRock and Lasalle IM.
"The sustainability agenda has been the elephant in the room for many commercial property owners. What we are seeing now as regards current and future legislation and policy-making is a very clear sign of where the agenda is being driven.
Planning requirements, 2018 minimum EPC requirements, 2019 zero-carbon development and the CRC regime to name but three….it is incumbent on property owners to introduce measures to improve building performance both in terms of reducing energy usage but also in finding ways to generate renewable energy on-site, it is going to be much more cost effective in the long run for those that take decisions now than it will be for those have changed forced up on them in later years."
John set up Syzygy in 2009 aiming to help bridge the two worlds of renewable energy and commercial real estate. Providing practical advice and to deliver well thought out and relevant renewable energy solutuions to property owners and occupiers.
Away from work John sails when he can, plays cricket, and occasionally golf. In the winter, he can be found at most London Scottish home games, as a retired 1st XV player he is happy to bore the young athletes with advice on what it was like in his day!
John is married to Anna and they have two children, Tommy and Kitty.
Neil Sinclair
"Not being a contractor nor being wedded to any technologies really does allow us to deliver the optimum renewable generation solution for our clients"
Neil worked for 14 years at various financial institutions in London trading Emerging and European equities. His interests however lay elsewhere within renewable energy so in 2008/9 he completed a Masters at London business school and went on to set up and run a renewable energy contracting business, which he sold in 2011 prior to joining Syzygy. Neil brings practical experience in several of the major technologies as well as financial know how.
Away from work Neil loves to golf, ski and occasionally play tennis.
Neil is married to Bryony and they have three children, Cammy, Alex & Lochlan. He hopes all his boys play rugby for Scotland but if they fail to make the cut, the good news is they are eligible to play for England.
Craig Aves
Craig has worked in the Renewable Energy sector since 2001 where he started out in New Zealand delivering off-grid energy systems to Hawaii, Fiji and other remote locations. Since then, he has been involved in over 200 ground mount installations, more than 50 roof top installations and 100's of bespoke solutions together totalling over 60MW of installed capacity.
His aim is to help people to reduce their reliance on fossil fuel generated energy, design and build high quality systems and maximising the potential of Renewable Energy in today's market. Project Management within Syzygy Renewables brings together practical skills combined with professional development. Commercial understanding teamed with technical diligence gives a well-rounded set of traits.
Although Craig studied electronics originally, he loves cars and most things mechanical. A yacht in Monaco watching the F1 will do him well. A few pints never go a miss either.
Rachael Graham
Rachael works within the Renewable Energy Consultancy team, keeping up to date with new and emerging technologies as well as designing and optimising solutions in line with client requirements. Rachael studied mechanical engineering at Durham University and has an MEng in Design and Optimisation Engineering. After graduating Rachael worked as a consultant engineer before joining Syzygy early 2014 as a Renewable Energy Consultant Engineer.
In her spare time she is a keen runner and recently completed her first Half Marathon and Triathlon this year.
Sab Hari
Sab joined Syzygy's Project Delivery team in 2014. He works closely with Craig in delivering Renewable Energy projects and operating clients' portfolios of solar assets, ensuring their investment returns are on target. Sab holds a Masters Degree in Sustainable Energy Technologies from the University of Southampton and has previously worked with a long standing Renewable Energy company. He has designed and delivered several domestic and commercial Renewables Energy projects in the UK.
Outside work, Sab is actively involved in socially relevant projects that deliver high quality service free of cost to the underprivileged.
Diogo Nunes
Diogo graduated in Portugal as an Environmental Engineer in 2010. Since then he has studied and worked abroad in Spain, Saudi Arabia and France, giving him experience with working and dealing with different nationalities. During this time he has developed different undertakings, ranging from Engineering in Environment to R&D in Solar Technologies and even Logistics. He is looking forward to the challenge of developing his career and establishing himself at Syzygy and in the Renewable energy sector.
Outside of work Diogo loves outdoor and sporting activities. He enjoys tennis and football, having played in some national and international competitions.
Michael Russell
Michael is an electrical engineer with six years of experience working for consultancies in Australia including the consulting arm of Australia's largest renewable energy generator, working on projects across Australia and the Pacific. His experience is in electrical design for utility and private clients as well as both solar and wind across multiple stages of project development.
Being new to the UK, Michael is looking forward to exploring more of Europe, especially London. He enjoys photography and is a keen cook.
Kelly Alexiou
Kelly graduated in 2012 as a Mechanical Engineer with a specialisation in Energy Engineering (M.Eng). After finishing her internship in Greece, she continued her studies at the University of Edinburgh, in the field of renewable energy (MSc Sustainable Energy Systems). Her main interest in this area led her to Syzygy Renewables where she aims to implement all her knowledge she has gained and develop a career in this sector.
Away from work, Kelly loves to run, play basketball and excels at canoe-kayaking (in which she is a winner of several Greek championships)
Joshua Williams
Joshua graduated in America with a Bachelor of Business Administration and is currently studying for an MBA focused in Energy Management. He has mainly worked in the Bahamas and America where he was able to develop his professional work experience. During the last two years Joshua established and operated a renewable energy company in the UK which allowed him to gain an understanding of the local market and the implementation of Renewable Solutions.
Outside of work Joshua enjoys sports; mainly tennis and basketball and has a love for travel, especially Europe and the UK.
Debbie Curtis
Deb has over 15 years' experience in all areas of Office Management and ensures the smooth day to day running of the Syzygy office. Her responsibilities also include HR, Payroll and Financial Management and with her professional experience combined with her enthusiastic and efficient approach is ideally suited to the company.She brings a vitality, professionalism and warmth, and a mind-set of service and advocacy to her work with clients and colleagues alike.
Deb plays netball regularly and does the odd bootcamp here and there, although she also enjoys a glass or two of red wine (with lemonade!)


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C-Tran will seek a court order to keep the city of Vancouver from releasing an email C-Tran argues should be exempt from public disclosure laws.
The Columbian, which has a standing request for Vancouver City Council email under the Public Records Act, was named as a defendant in the lawsuit as required under the PRA.
C-Tran attorney Tom Wolfendale, in a request for an injunction filed Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court, wrote that a Feb. 6 email was clearly labeled as covered by attorney-client privilege and should not be made public.
Judge Robert Lewis is expected to rule on the matter May 2.
Wolfendale wrote in his injunction request that he sent the email to Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, who serves on the C-Tran Board of Directors. The next day, Leavitt forwarded the email to City Manager Eric Holmes.
That forwarding qualified the email as one to be given to The Columbian under its standing request. The city notified Wolfendale it would be releasing the email, prompting the request for the injunction after The Columbian declined to waive its request.
A single member of the C-Tran Board of Directors lacks the authority to waive attorney-client privilege, Wolfendale wrote, and said the content of the email relates to "a (legal) controversy involving C-Tran."
C-Tran "has no adequate remedy at law to prevent the harm that will befall it should the city release C-Tran's privileged email to The Columbian," Wolfendale wrote.
In a written declaration filed in court, Holmes said he didn't read the email after he saw that it was labeled privileged communication. In his written declaration, Leavitt said he should not have forwarded the email to Holmes.
"I forwarded the email as an oversight," Leavitt wrote. "Because I serve two municipalities, I temporarily forgot (Holmes) is not part of the C-Tran attorney-client privilege relationship."
Attorney Eric Stahl from the Seattle firm Davis Wright Tremaine filed a response on behalf of The Columbian.
Stahl asked Lewis to determine whether C-Tran has met its burden of proof in establishing that the email should be exempt. The city apparently has decided the email should be released, Stahl wrote.
Since The Columbian has not seen the email, it's not in a position to say whether it should be exempt, Stahl wrote. Even if Lewis finds the email should remain private, Stahl asked the judge to consider whether attorney-client privilege was waived once Leavitt forwarded the email to Holmes.
Finally, if Lewis determines the email should not be released, Stahl asked that if portions of the email are not privileged then those should be released.


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Presidential race shows deep seated strife toward minorities
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It started with Mexicans being publicly accused by presidential candidate Donald Trump of being criminals and rapists. It escalated to ejections, to sucker punches, to pepper spray. And now violence and strife seems to be a commonplace occurrence out on the campaign trail....
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Putin blasts West on first trip to EU country this year
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- On his first trip to a European Union country this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday sharply criticized western policy toward Moscow, describing a newly expanded U.S. missile defense system as a threat to his country's security - and vowing to retaliate....
Obama uses Hiroshima visit as opportunity to urge no nukes
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- With an unflinching look back at a painful history, President Barack Obama stood on the hallowed ground of Hiroshima on Friday and declared it a fitting place to summon people everywhere to embrace the vision of a world without nuclear weapons....
Text of Obama's speech at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Text of President Barack Obama's remarks Friday at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park about the U.S. atomic bombing, the legacy of World War II and nuclear weapons, as delivered:...
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Pennsylvania priest on leave after sexual harassment suit
DUBOIS, Pa. (AP) -- A Catholic priest has been placed on leave after a woman sued his diocese, saying she was forced to resign when she complained that the cleric touched himself improperly during work meetings....
Man admits to 2003 killing of ax murderer's 3-year-old son
READING, Pa. (AP) -- A man already serving time in a Pennsylvania prison has pleaded guilty to killing a convicted ax murderer's 3-year-old son in 2003....
Police: Owner killed in shooting at Pittsburgh-area motel
JEFFERSON HILLS, Pa. (AP) -- Police say the owner of a motel in the Pittsburgh suburbs was fatally shot while working behind the front desk....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Striking Verizon employees may be back to work next week after the company and its unions reached an agreement in principle for a four-year contract....
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125 prominent scientists, doctors and medical ethicists are calling for this summer's Olympic Games to be postponed, or moved from Rio de Janeiro due to the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil. In a letter sent to World Health Organization the group sited new findings about Zika that should result in the International Olympic Committee directing the games be moved, postponed or even canceled to safeguard the thousands of athletes, staff and reporters scheduled to attend the games.
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Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation
By Jacob Bercovitch
Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation
By Jacob Bercovitch
Mediation is one of the most important methods of settling conflicts in the post-Cold War world. This text represents the most recent trends in the process and practice of international mediation.
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The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies By Peter L. Berger Westview Press, 1998
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Janeway orders the ship to stop, and then pops down to Astrometrics to visit with Seven. Seven reports that she "applied 10,053 algorithms" to their surroundings, and has thus found "an isolinear frequency". She points at a purple blob on the screen, which Janeway manages to recognize. In fact, what she sees was a question on her "exo-genetics" final during her senior year at the Academy. She missed the question, and that one miss kept her from getting an A, and here she is, able to instantly recall it thirty years later. Bitter much?
So, professors at the Academy use questions on their finals based on previously unknown areas of space where the rules of physics don't apply? And if their students miss just one of these questions—based on something no human has ever encountered or experienced—they don't get a top mark? Hot damn, that's pure academic evil! I'm going to have to file that one away for use on my spring exams. Captain, my students thank you in advance for the "chaotic space" bonus question.
[Editor's Note: And it's also reassuring to know that B students still get to be starship captains. There's hope for me yet. —Albert]
Turns out the signal Janeway recognizes is designed to activate DNA. While it was pretty obvious that the chaotic space aliens were responsible for Chakotay's hallucinations, now we have a technobabble mechanism for it. The episode makes so much more sense now.
Chakotay is still reeling from the vision quest, so when he gets the news from Janeway, his response is all mixed in with his hallucinations. "Do you believe me now? They scheduled the fight! They're putting up the purse!"
It's pretty clear that Chakotay is losing his grip on reality, but the Doctor has a technobabble explanation handy anyway, saying that his "sensory cortex is hyperactive." Chakotay angrily yells that it's not a hallucination, but a "prize fight!" He's not helping his case here much, is he?
Chakotay is still mad about the Doctor stopping the fight. You know, back in the vision quest. He's afraid nobody will schedule him for more bouts after he dropped out of this one. Janeway understandably tells Chakotay that maybe he should get some rest, until they can figure out what's happening to him.
Chakotay slips back into lucid thought, although we know this only through his words. His demeanor is the same as when he was spouting crazy talk, but now he says the aliens want to contact him. Janeway is obviously interested in the aliens, but Chakotay heads back into Nuttsville, describing Kid Chaos, and talking about everything in boxing terms. He's certain he can beat Chaos, if he just stays "off the ropes!"
Again, the Doctor explains the obvious, telling us that the holodeck boxing simulation is the primary source for Chakotay's hallucinations. Janeway thinks the rest of the situation out loud: the aliens that live in chaotic space can't be seen by Voyager's crew, so they're changing Chakotay's senses so that he can see them. It just so happens that Chakotay's crazy gene is what gave them the opportunity.
New rule! All Starfleet vessels must now disembark with at least one certifiable basket case on board!
Janeway and the Doctor go back and forth about the derelict ship they found—were the aliens trying to communicate with them, too? They must not have had an insane person on board, though. Sucked to be them.
Meanwhile, Chakotay is still ranting like a lunatic, wanting to go back into his vision quest, but the Doctor now protests that further attempts to communicate with the invisible aliens could harm Chakotay permanently. Didn't we already establish that Chakotay is their only hope, and thus, this is an acceptable risk? Actually, Chakotay is pretty expendable even on an average day. So what's the deal?
Chakotay is now back in Lucid-Town, and he knows how to push Janeway's buttons: "Captain, when have we ever turned away from a first contact?" Janeway orders him "back into the ring."
On the bridge, things are getting worse. The gravitational shear forces are getting stronger, and the ship is jostling around quite a bit more. Janeway calls down to Sickbay, basically to tell the Doctor to do what she just told him to do before the commercial break. He's doing it, already! Sheesh!
The Doctor fully activates the crazy gene. Okay, what? First: he didn't know how to shut it off, but he knows how to turn it on? And it wasn't fully on already? Second: activating a gene causes its phenotypical effects to happen immediately? Really? So, if I have a dormant gene that encodes for six fingers, and the Doctor turns it on, I should immediately be able to type this recap that much more quickly?
The Doctor punches some buttons, and Chakotay is suddenly back inside his alien-induced, doctor-enhanced hallucination. He's in the ring again, wearing his purple satin. Boothby is in his corner, and Kid Chaos is still dancing with his hood up and his back to us in the other corner. Chakotay is introduced by the ringside announcer as representing "Earth, the Alpha Quadrant, and humanity", and god help us all if he's our representative. The crowd cheers. I assume they all bet large sums of money on him hitting the mat in the first round.
Chakotay is worried that he doesn't know anything about Kid Chaos, but Boothby tells him, essentially, that his primary enemy here is himself. Like we didn't all know that already.
Round one starts. Kid Chaos finally turns around, only to show that he's apparently made of star-filled space! Dude! Like, dude!
As soon as Chakotay and Kid Chaos tap gloves in the center of the ring, the aliens are able to communicate with Chakotay. They do this by piecing together words that Chakotay has heard other folks say recently. It's like those movies where ransom notes are made by cutting words out of magazines, except here, it's video clips of words previously spoken by the actors. [Editor's Note: Not to mention, it's a pretty blatant rip of the prophets talking to Sisko in the DS9 pilot. —Albert]
Snap back to Sickbay. And, I'm pretty sure this is where we're done with flashbacks. Finally!
Chakotay pleads for the Doctor to get the aliens out of his head. He says he can't take any more punches—and I tend to agree—but the Doctor tells him he's not really being hit. Further, the Doctor tells him he'll have to take the risk of being destroyed. Before the flashback, wasn't the Doctor worried about Chakotay's safety? Not anymore! Nice bedside manner, Doc.
The Doctor and Chakotay both start talking about the crazy gene, and the Doctor says that the only thing preventing Chakotay from understanding the aliens is his own fear. Basically, the Doctor is giving Chakotay a pep talk for a suicide mission, so that the rest of the crew can survive.
Chakotay says he can't understand the aliens, because they're talking too fast. The Doctor's pleas finally sink in, and Chakotay starts to again hear phrases like "18th gradient", "trimetric fracture", "paralateral rentrillic trajectory", and other assorted words that are completely made up. It makes sense to Chakotay, though; he rushes out of Sickbay, heading for the bridge.
Before recapping the final, climactic scene, let's take a moment to bask in the wondrous anti-sense of the aliens' means of communications, shall we? The aliens who live in chaotic space are really something else: They're able to analyze and decode the human genome (admittedly, they may have had some prior experience, based on all the Bermuda Triangle Starfleet ships lost in chaotic space previously). Further, they can examine particular genes and safely predict what will happen when these genes are activated. And they can set up a signal that can reach into Chakotay's body and activate his crazy gene. They can also read Chakotay's mind, learning all about boxing, his recent memories, and English, even if they have a tendency to repeat themselves.
They can do all this, but they can't send a simple message that Voyager's communications equipment could already understand? Argh! Allow me to communicate in a manner they would understand:
Mark: NotMark: BuyingMark: ItMark: ItMark: It!
On the bridge, Kim and Tuvok aren't too keen on the idea of letting a crazy person twiddle all the buttons. Torres, who was on the bridge complaining about the hull buckling before all the flashback nonsense started, seems to have departed.
The Doctor follows Chakotay, again letting everybody know the obvious: "He's hallucinating." Chakotay can't explain what he wants to do, which is not increasing anyone's comfort level about the whole button-pressing idea. Why can't he just explain things? The aliens were talking to him in English, weren't they? Janeway, however, trusts Chakotay. She tells everyone to stand down and allow Chakotay to do his thing.
Tuvok gives a technobabble play-by-play of the button mashing. Just in time to make things dire, I tells ya, the flux increases again. The hull starts to get microfractures—like it does every week—but Chakotay's work has succeeded in altering the sensors so they can find a way out. Just to add some extra suspense (yeah, right), the ship shudders for a while as they go to full impulse. But, wonder of wonders, they fly out of chaotic space in a matter of seconds.
Again, writers, get thee to a science class! If this area of chaotic space is two light years across, and full impulse is one-fourth the speed of light (according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, anyway), how does it only take five seconds to get out? After all that moving around inside, were they right on the edge the whole time? Of course, taking only five seconds to get out would match the visuals, if not the dialogue, since earlier we saw chaotic space was only slightly bigger than Voyager itself.
Once they've entered normal space, Janeway orders them to again resume a course to the Alpha Quadrant. An exhausted Chakotay crumples to the bridge railing. It's tiring to be crazy!
And so, the crisis is over. What? No way!
Chakotay has now taken some time off, long enough to recover from the stress of talking to the aliens. He's feeling so much better now, in fact, that he returns to the holodeck boxing simulation for another bout with the same alien from the beginning of the episode. Boothby is there, naturally, and he's a little surprised that Chakotay wants to fight again, given how the last bout went. Now, which one is he talking about? It can't be the hallucinatory one versus Kid Chaos, right? So, it must be the first bout, where Chakotay got knocked out. When he was following Boothby's advice. What I'm surprised about is that Chakotay sticks with this old coot as his trainer!
Chakotay nevertheless steps into the ring and starts throwing some good punches. He swings at the camera, literally punching us into black.
And... cue credits! Don't worry about that whole "crazy gene" thing, by the way! There's no way that could be ever be important again, right? I mean, nothing in the dialogue would indicate that it was ever turned off, but so what? He's only the first officer. So what if he'll be experiencing hallucinations from time to time?
So, there you have it. Easily one of the weirdest Star Trek episodes ever. I think it rivals even "The Alternative Factor" in terms of sheer incoherence. I'm still not sure what the point of it all was, but I can say the same thing about a lot of episodes of Voyager. This certainly isn't the first time an episode was based around an idea that was half-baked. But this may be the first time an episode was scripted by writers who were fully baked.
Goose Law already exists, sadly, it's "comic relief characters in war stories always die to show the Cruel Nature of War."
I gave on Voyager really, really early. Look at the cast of characters the pilot episode inflicts on us among them an astoundingly misguided captain who deliberately strands her crew impossibly far from home after a fit of pious legalism; a tedious Hollywood Indian stereotype; a kind of bland, second-string Riker clone (and the original Riker was bad enough); a perpetually clueless non-entity of an ensign; and an alien cook who combines all the best traits of Wesley Crusher and Jar-Jar Binks. When the only compelling character is a computer-generated doctor you know you're in trouble. I took a look at these clowns, decided that they were the dumbest pack of morons ever to crew a starship, and lost almost all interest in Voyager. I tuned in a few times afterward but never regularly.Weirdly, though, I've come to respect Voyager's commitment to running with some truly bizarre story ideas like this one. Especially compared to the uninterrupted awfulness of Enterprise, which was mostly about Archer being a petulant dick to everybody and making an absolute mess of every situation he gets into.
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Businesses across the region are invited to attend a free seminar to be held Feb. 26 in Carteret County.
The Business Services Seminar sponsored by the Eastern Carolina Workforce Development Board will be take place at the Crystal Coast Civic Center from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This is an event to make businesses aware of the services available to help them sustain, develop and grow. N.C. Commissioner of Small Business Scott Daugherty will be keynote speaker.
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When it comes to designing a large-scale learning programme, the processes you work through are probably not much different to building something just for your team. The difference is that you will need to be much more explicit in your thinking, rather than relying on gut instinct.
When I start out with a new learning programme I try to split my work into three core areas:
- Learning architecture
- Technology infrastructure
- People (probably the most important)
Getting the learning architecture is important, but, if you get the technology or the people aspects wrong then nothing's going to make the learning work!
Much of the thinking is iterative; as soon as you get one thing sorted you need to go back and work out its impact on the rest of the design.
Throughout the process, the role of the Solutions Architect is to balance the needs of the organisation and the needs of the learner with the resources available (eg. systems, budgets, people).
Just like in a real-world building project, getting the architect in early is essential. On large-scale projects there's no point giving the builder their instructions on what to build, and then bringing in an architect to make sure they do it properly. The architect is the link between your organisation's real (rather than perceived) needs and the solution to those needs.
Learning architecture
Building a learning architecture
Business need
Before you even start thinking about what the learning programme is going to look like you need to consider the problem that it is meant to solve.
It might be that your client organisation is wanting to explore new approaches to a particular aspect of its work, where the outcome is uncertain.
Or there may be a need to proove that the organisation has complied with particular legal or regulatory requirements. (I'll leave it for others to debate whether that means training is the only solution.)
Perhaps the organisation needs to ensure that there is a consistent skill base across the whole workforce.
Your client might have decided that people need a raised level of knowledge and understanding of what you do.
Or perhaps there's a strategic need to change behaviours across the organisation.
Whatever the business need, you must understand it. And you must get to the bottom of the reasons behind that business need. Alongside that you'll need to know very quickly what drives the organisation's culture. Without those two converging streams of understanding, you will find it extremely difficult to create a learning solution that matches the client's needs and expectations.
There are two tools that really help in this process with clients. One is Cathy Moore's action mapping presentation. This, very clearly, shows the client the importance of focussing on what they want people to do, rather than know.
The other tool I use considerably, especially in client workshops, is some sort of visual mapping tool. Options here include:
- MindManager - a very powerful mind mapping tool that integrates well with MS Office.
- Freemind - an open-source mind-mapping tool. Fast and simple to use.
- CmapTools - a free concept-mapping tool
These tools are useful to both collect ideas together, and then to re-present those ideas back to the client as your understanding of what they are trying to achieve.
As an adjunct to understanding the business need, you will also need to understand your client's expectations of what they will measure.
As soon as you put any part of a learning programme online, you run the risk of measuring things just because they are easy to measure, rather than because they are important. Online learning provide huge amounts of data about what learners are doing and when they're doing it. Much of that data might be useful as aggregated statistics (given a large enough population sample), but it tells you very little about the individual learner.
The challenge is to find the things that you can measure that will give you meaningful information about whether you are achieving your business needs.
Consider what it is you want to find out:
- Learners' skill levels before and/or after the learning intervention?
- How your learning intervention is perceived?
- How many people took up your offer of the learning intervention, and to what extent
- Whether your learning intervention made any difference to learners' behaviour?
You'll also need to consider whether the measurements are "high stakes". In other words, are other actions dependent on the results of the measurements.
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For a franchise that had Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, the New York Mets have never had a no-hitter.
The streak stretched to 8,000 games on Friday.
Jose Reyes has tripled leading off the first inning against his former team, cinching the milestone for non-achievement by Mets.
And though the San Diego Padres are also on the short list of no no-hitters, the Mets' 50-year drought is baseball's longest such streak.
Johan Santana's bid to end the streak Friday lasted only four pitches against the Miami Marlins.
The Mets have thrown 35 one-hitters, most recently by R.A. Dickey on Aug. 13, 2010. Twice Seaver pitched a one-hitter, with the lone blemish each time a ninth-inning single. Ryan threw a record seven no-hitters, but none for New York.
The fickle game of golf reared its ugly head at Sawgrass on Friday.
Among the big-name players who won't be around this weekend for THE PLAYERS (and why exactly is this CAPITALIZED?) Championship is Rory McIlroy.
"I just need to try and get the hang of his golf course somehow," McIlroy told reporters Friday at TPC Sawgrass after a 4-over 76, well over the cut line. "I just find it pretty difficult. But, yeah, just one of those weeks."
He arrived in Florida after losing in a playoff at Quail Hollow.
"It's unbelievable. I shoot 14 under last week and I feel like I hit it just the same this week. And I'm going home. So it's just one of those things. But I'm not getting down on myself about it."
Portland's Ben Crane can also relate. He was two shots off the lead after the first round and came back with a 78 to miss the cut by one shot.
Then there's Tiger Woods. He was well off the pace Thursday and made the cut thanks to a 68 on Friday.
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The Coastal Conservation Association is calling for an end to the winter sturgeon gillnet season in the lower Columbia River to reduce handling of the dwindling population.
"It is an unneeded season on fish that are in serious trouble," said Bruce Polley, CCA Oregon government relations committee chairman. "Because this season is unnecessary to access the commercial quota, it results in an increase in discarded sturgeon in fall salmon/sturgeon gillnet fisheries."
Historically, the winter sturgeon season has been in January and early to mid-February.
In 2011, Washington and Oregon allowed four 24-hour commercial fishing periods during Jan. 18 through Feb. 9 from the ocean to Bonneville Dam. The commercial fleet was required to use 9-inch minimum-mesh nets and could land a maximum of 10 sturgeon per vessel per week.
Fifty sturgeon from a 200-fish guideline were caught, along with 88 spring chinook salmon. The five-year average is 912 sturgeon and 78 chinook in the winter sturgeon season.
"Last year, more spring chinook salmon were sold during this fishery as allowed by-catch than sturgeon," Polley said. "This is an early salmon fishery disguised as a sturgeon fishery.
The fishery had seven to 10 deliveries in the first three periods, but 31 deliveries on Feb. 8-9.
Jim Wells of Astoria, representing Salmon For All, a commercial group, said his industry is not interested in losing any of its fishing opportunities.
"We don't want them dictating to us how, where and when we fish as long as we stay within our allocation," Wells said.
Commercial interest in sturgeon fishing has dropped as the sturgeon population wanes, he said. The weekly 10-sturgeon landing limit also plays a role in limiting commercial effort.
"The best fishing in the winter is upstream of the Willamette," Wells said. "With the landing limit, it's not enough for guys down here to travel that far."
State biologists said in October the population of legal-size sturgeon in the lower Columbia is projected to drop from 77,000 in 2011 to 65,000 in 2012. The harvest is expected to drop from 17,000 in 2011 to 14,500 or less.
The commercials get 20 percent of the harvest, which would be about 2,925 in 2012.
Polley said the winter sturgeon season comes when endangered wild winter steelhead and wild spring chinook are entering the lower Columbia River.
"Because it is considered a sturgeon fishery, there are none of the normal safeguards (tangle nets, observers, maximum soak times, recovery boxes) that are in place during spring chinook seasons," he said.
Winter steelhead do not get caught in 9-inch-mesh nets, Wells said.
"When we use 9-inch, we don't even see a steelhead," he added.
In the past five years, commercial fishermen were paid an average $2.40 per pound for sturgeon in the winter. The average was $1.96 per pound in all the other seasons.
The commercials are able to catch their allocation of sturgeon as bycatch during salmon seasons, Polley said.
Staff from both Washington and Oregon will present briefings on Friday to their policy-setting commissions regarding sturgeon.


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It�s a shame that Steve Turro, whose letter concerning the Republican Women�s Club was published on Thursday did not attend the talk by Dr. Bernadette McNulty about which he wrote. If he had, his request for applause for Dr. McNulty and the club�s president, Sherry Bradbury, might have been genuine instead of sarcastic.
Dr. McNulty is very scholarly and well spoken. Her talk on �Obama: The Road to Dictatorship� was exceedingly well documented. The truth remains the truth. No amount of repeating falsehoods will make them correct. Yes, Mr. Turro, President Obama won re-election, and that�s a pity because he is not good for our representative republic. (We are not, thank heaven, �a democracy� which is, of course, another way of saying �mob rule.�) Benjamin Franklin was right to be concerned about whether we could manage to keep the beautiful form of government with which our country�s founders presented us. Let us hope our electorate becomes better educated and more morally sound. If so, perhaps the disaster toward which we are traveling at a great rate can still be avoided.
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Bell was discovered shot at his home at 3421 Highway 58 South in Pollocksville. Lewis is in the Jones County Jail under no bond. His first court first appearance will be Friday at 9:00 a.m. at Jones County Superior Court.
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The body of Edward Bell III was found at his home off Highway 58 south of Pollocksville on Thursday. The man had been shot.
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Extraction Of Wisdom Teeth [3rd Molar] (Patient's Manual)
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Wisdom teeth are your third molars that are way in the back of your mouth. You usually have four wisdom teeth, one in each corner of your mouth – two on top, two on bottom. Wisdom teeth are the last of your teeth to come in, or erupt through the gums. They normally emerge between ages 17 and 25, a time of life that has been called the "Age of Wisdom.
Wisdom teeth pain, infection, or decay- Why third molars are extracted? from H. Ryan Kazemi, DMD on Vimeo.
Crowding of other teeth.
Tooth decay or gum disease if there's not enough room to properly care for the wisdom tooth and surrounding teeth.
Pain or jaw stiffness near an impacted tooth. Pain or irritation from a tooth coming in at an awkward angle and rubbing against your cheek, tongue, or top or bottom of the mouth. An infected swelling in the flap of gum tissue that has formed on top of an impacted tooth that has partially broken through the gum.
The pulling out of wisdom teeth has become so rampant. The wisdom teeth can be pulled out when it has failed to emerge fully into its expected position. This problem may occur due to lack of space or room in the persons jaw that can accommodate it, or it may occur when the angulations of the tooth is not proper. When the tooth has been impacted mesially, it can be pulled out. This means its erupting towards the front of the mouth. Wisdom teeth can occur vertically or horizontally.
The procedure for the removal of impacted teeth depends upon the type of impaction.
Before Surgery
Wisdom teeth are molars in the very back of your mouth that come in between the age of 17 and 21. If your dentist determines that your wisdom teeth are impacted–or unable to come in due to their placement or being stuck inside the jaw–the teeth will have to be removed. Another reason for wisdom teeth to be removed is if your mouth is too crowded with other teeth and there is no room for them to come in properly. Your dentist or orthodontist will take X-rays and send them to your oral surgeon. Together, they will make a decision to determine how soon your wisdom teeth need to come out.
A good X Ray photograph and OPG go a long way in diagnosing the case and planning of the extraction procedure.
Before the operation dentist, ask most of the people to stop smoke as smoking increase the threat of wound infection and slow down the rate of recovery. During the time of operation patient is not allowed to take any drink or food. Different dentist use different procedure for removing wisdom teeth.
Surgical Steps
Local Anasthesia
Before extraction of the tooth the dentist will anesthetize (numb) the tooth and the area surrounding it (jaw bone and gums), using an local anesthetic, usually lignocaine with 2% adrenaline. It takes around 5 – 10 minutes for the local anesthesia to act and make the area numb. The numbness may last for 2 – 3 hours.
Some people expect the injection to hurt and whatsoever the dentist says they are not ready to accept nor understand. They don't give the process a chance, thus making a guaranteed unpleasant experience for both themselves and the dentist. The more cooperative a patient is when the dentist performs the injection the better it will be for him/her.
The discomfort of the injection is related to the rate at which the anesthetic solution is injected. Slower the rate, lesser the discomfort. If you are being a poor patient the dentist's natural instinct will be to speed up the injection process and to finish it off quickly.
Additionally, when a dentist performs an injection they must place the anesthetic solution in the proper location. If the dentist is focused more on your behavior, as opposed to only on performing the injection, it will increase the likelihood that the injection will be slightly off target and additional injections will be required to numb the area properly.
During the injection relax completely, do not exert or use force by tightening the muscles of your face, hands and legs. Concentrate on your breathing, and breathe in and out normally.
Remember, the injections are never that painful. Surely you will feel a prick but nothing more. Do not fear the unknown. If you are uncooperative the pain will be 10 times more.
Reflecting the gingival tissue
The dentist checks for the proper numbness around the surrounding tissues. If it is an lower tooth, part of your tongue will also feel numb.
If the tooth is underneath the gums the dentist will first make an incision in the gums and then the gums around the tooth is separated from the tooth with the help of a periosteal elevator.
If you feel any pain during this procedure communicate with your dentist and he may inject more local anesthetic to numb the area further.
Surgical Removal of the Tooth
To remove an impacted tooth the dentist must gain access to it through the bone.
If the tooth is encased in bone then the dentist will remove a portion of the bone which lies over and around the tooth.
Sometimes to minimize the amount of bone to be removed around the impacted tooth the dentist will section the tooth into parts, for easier removal.
When your dentist performs the extraction expect to feel a lot of pressure. You will feel a pressure, but no pain. The reason you feel pressure during the tooth extraction is because our body have different types of nerve fibers, each of which carry different types of sensations. The local anesthetic is very effective at blocking pain transmitting nerve fibers, but the nerve fibers which transmit pressure sensations are not so profoundly affected. Expect to feel a pressure during your tooth extraction but don't assume this indicates that you will soon be feeling pain, because it doesn't.
The 'Wisdom' Behind Wisdom Teeth Extraction from H. Ryan Kazemi, DMD on Vimeo.
If you do happen to feel pain during the extraction you should let your dentist know so they can numb the area some more. But more anesthetic injections will never decrease the pressure sensation you experience.
Recovery After Wisdom Teeth Are Pulled?
During the first 24 hours
Bleeding may occur for several hours after tooth extraction.
To control it, position a piece of clean moist gauze over the empty tooth socket and bite down firmly. Apply constant pressure for about 45 minutes.
A moistened tea bag is an effective alternative. The tannic acid in tea helps healing blood clots to form (blood clots function similarly to scab over an open wound). Repeat this process if a small degree of bleeding continues; if heavy bleeding continues to occur, contact your dentist or oral surgeon.
Avoid rinsing or spitting for 24 hours after tooth extraction, avoid "sucking" actions (for example, don't drink beverages through straws or smoke) and avoid hot liquids (such as coffee or soup). These activities can dislodge the clot, causing a dry socket (see below) to develop.
Facial swelling in the area where the tooth was extracted typically occurs. To minimize swelling, place a piece of ice, wrapped in a cloth, on that area of your face on a schedule of 10-minutes on, followed by 20-minutes off. Repeat as necessary during this first 24-hour period.
Pain medications, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil) can be taken for minor pain. Your dentist or oral surgeon may prescribe more potent pain relievers, such as narcotics, if necessary.
Antibiotics that may have been prescribed prior to tooth extraction (to treat any active infection around the wisdom tooth to be extracted) should continue to be taken until the full prescription is gone.
Foods should be restricted to a liquid diet until all the numbness from anesthesia has worn off. Eat soft foods for a few days. Also avoid alcohol if you're also taking narcotic pain medication.
Continue to brush your teeth, but avoid the teeth directly neighboring the extracted tooth during the first 24 hours. On day two, resume the gentle brushing of your teeth. Do not use commercial mouth rinses — these can irritate the extraction site.
After 24 hours
Rinse your mouth with warm salt water
Facial swelling in the area of the tooth extraction should be treated with heat after the first 24 hours of ice. Apply a moist warm towel to the area on a 20-minute on, 20-minute off schedule. Repeat as necessary.
Stitches, if used and if not of the self-dissolving type, need to be removed by your oral health care provider in about 1 week. If you do require stitches, ask what type you have been given.
Watch for signs of dry socket (described below). This condition requires treatment by your oral health care provider.
Complete healing doesn't occur for a few weeks to a few months following the extraction. However, usually within the first week or two, enough healing has taken place for use of your mouth to be reasonably comfortable in the area of the extraction. Your dentist will explain what to expect in your specific case.
Post surgical complications
2 post surgical complications are most common :
Dry socket. Dry socket is a common complication that occurs when either a blood clot has failed to form in the extracted tooth socket or else the blood clot that did form has been dislodged. Without clot formation, healing will be delayed. When it happens, dry socket typically occurs 3 or 4 days following the extraction and is accompanied by pain (ranging from "dull" to moderate to severe) and a foul mouth odor. Your dentist or oral surgeon will treat the dry socket by placing medication in the socket.
Paresthesia. Paresthesia is a less frequently occurring complication. Wisdom teeth entrapped in the jawbone are often close to nerves. Sometimes these nerves can be bruised or damaged during the tooth removal process. The result is a numbness (called a paresthesia) of the tongue, lip, or chin that can last a few days, weeks, months, or may even be permanent.
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