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8.8-1 Corrupt Organizations and Racketeering Activity (CORA) -- § 53-395 (c)
Revised to December, 2007 (modified June 13, 2008)
The defendant has been charged [in count __] with violating the Corrupt Organizations and Racketeering Activity statute, also known as CORA. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
It is unlawful for any person employed by, or associated with, any enterprise to knowingly conduct or participate in, directly or indirectly, such enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity, or through the collection of an unlawful debt.
This section, in essence, makes it a crime to conduct or participate in an enterprise through a pattern of certain violations of law known as "racketeering activity." In this case, the charged racketeering activity includes <identify each crime alleged to be an incident of racketeering activity>.
The word "racketeering" has certain implications in our society. Use of that term in this statute and this courtroom, however, should not be regarded as having anything to do with your determination of whether the guilt of this defendant has been proved. The term "racketeering" is used only by the legislature to describe certain violations of the law contained in the statute.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Existence of an
The first element is that an enterprise existed. An enterprise under the statute need not have a particular name, or for that matter, any name at all. Nor must it be registered or licensed as an enterprise. It does not have to be a commonly recognized legal entity, such as a corporation, a trade union, a partnership or the like. An "enterprise," as defined in the CORA statute, means "any individual, sole proprietorship, corporation, business trust, union chartered under the laws of this state or [any] other legal entity, or any unchartered union, association or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, and includes illicit as well as licit enterprises and governmental, as well as other entities. In determining whether any unchartered union, association or group of individuals exists, factors which may be considered as evidence of association include, but are not limited to: (1) A common name or identifying sign, symbols or colors and (2) rules of behavior for individual members."1
Thus, an enterprise may be a single individual or a group of people informally associated together for the common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct. In addition to having a common purpose, this group of people must have a core of personnel who function as a continuing unit. Furthermore, the enterprise must continue to exist in substantially similar form throughout the period charged. This does not mean that the membership must remain exactly identical, but the enterprise must have a recognizable core that continues throughout the period charged.
The information alleges that the following enterprise existed: <describe the alleged enterprise>.
In the special verdict form that will be reviewed later, you will be asked to report whether or not the jury unanimously finds that this alleged enterprise has been proved to exist beyond a reasonable doubt.
[<Insert if appropriate:> Although the state contends that this group of individuals was known as <insert alleged name of enterprise>, you need not determine that the individuals actually referred to themselves by that name in order to find that an enterprise existed.]
In summary, in order to determine that an enterprise existed, you must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was acting in (his/her) individual capacity or that there was, in fact, a group of people characterized by 1) a common purpose or purposes, 2) an ongoing formal or informal organization or structure, and 3) core personnel who functioned as a continuing unit within the time frame alleged in the information.
Element 2 - Association with
the enterprise
The second element is that the defendant was associated with or was employed by the enterprise.
[<Insert if appropriate:> When the enterprise is alleged to be the defendant acting as an individual, the association is self-evident. In this case, the state contends that the defendant is the enterprise.]
[<Insert if appropriate:> The state contends that the defendant was associated with an enterprise described as a group of individuals known as <insert alleged name of enterprise>.]
It is not required that the defendant have been associated with the enterprise for the entire time that the enterprise existed. It is required, however, that the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt that at some time during the period indicated in the information the defendant was associated with the enterprise.
The state must show that the defendant's association with the enterprise was knowing -- that is, made with the knowledge of the existence of the criminal enterprise through a general awareness of some of its purposes, activities and personnel. If you find that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was knowingly associated with the enterprise, then the second element is satisfied.
Element 3 - Pattern of
racketeering activity
The third element is that the defendant wilfully engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity. "Racketeering activity" means to commit, to attempt to commit, to conspire to commit, or to intentionally aid, solicit, coerce or intimidate another person to commit any crime which, at the time of its commission, was a felony chargeable by indictment or information under the provisions of the general statutes then applicable. <Insert underlying crimes as appropriate.>2
A "pattern of racketeering activity" means engaging in at least two incidents of racketeering activity that have the same or similar purposes, results, participants, victims or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics, including a nexus to the same enterprise, and are not isolated incidents, provided the latter or last of such incidents occurred after October 1, 1982, and within five years after a prior incident of racketeering activity.3
The incidents of racketeering activity charged are: <Insert underlying crimes as necessary and take judicial notice that they are felonies.>
The elements of each of these alleged incidents will be covered in a few minutes. You must be unanimous as to which incidents of racketeering activity have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt before you may find that the third element of CORA has been satisfied. In other words, there must be at least two specific incidents of racketeering activity that all of you believe were committed by the defendant in order to convict the defendant under CORA.
Difference between
"enterprise" and "pattern of
An enterprise, as used in the statute, is not the same thing as the pattern of racketeering activity. In order to convict, the state must prove both that there was an enterprise and that the enterprise's affairs were conducted through a pattern of racketeering activity. The enterprise in this case is alleged to be (the defendant himself / a group of individuals who associated together for a common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct). A pattern of racketeering activity, on the other hand, is a series of criminal acts.
The existence of the enterprise is proved by evidence of an ongoing organization, formal or informal, with a common purpose and by evidence that various core personnel of the group functioned as a continuing unit.
The pattern of racketeering activity, on the other hand, is proved by evidence of a minimum of two incidents of racketeering which the participant(s) in the enterprise committed.
The proof used to establish those separate elements may be the same or overlapping -- for example, if you find that an ongoing enterprise existed, the existence of this enterprise may help establish that the separate incidents of racketeering activity were part of a "pattern" of continuing criminal activity. Nevertheless, you should bear in mind that proof of an enterprise does not necessarily establish proof of a pattern of racketeering activity, and vice versa. The enterprise is a separate element which must be proved by the state.
Element 4 - Knowingly
conducted or participated in
enterprise through pattern of
The fourth element is that the defendant, by engaging in racketeering activities, knowingly conducted or participated in the enterprise. A person acts "knowingly" with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense when he is aware that his conduct is of such nature or that such circumstance exists. <See Knowledge, Instruction 2.3-3.>
It is not enough that there be an enterprise and that the defendant engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity. More is required. There must be a meaningful connection between the defendant's racketeering acts and the affairs of the enterprise. The defendant must have conducted or participated in the enterprise by engaging in the pattern of racketeering activity.
It is not necessary, however, that the racketeering activity directly further the enterprise's activities. It is enough that the defendant's activity was related to the enterprise's activities or that the defendant was enabled to commit the racketeering activity solely by virtue of (his/her) position in the enterprise.
Incidents of racketeering
I will now instruct you on the elements of the alleged incidents of racketeering activity charged in the information. You may not convict the defendant unless you have found that (he/she) committed or conspired to commit at least two incidents of racketeering activity.
The information charges the defendant with <insert number> incidents of racketeering activity. I will now instruct you on the law relating to each of the charged incidents.
Incident <insert number>
of racketeering activity
The (first / next) alleged incident of racketeering activity reads as follows: <Read incident of racketeering activity.>
The state alleges that the defendant (committed / attempted to commit / conspired to commit / intentionally aided, solicited, coerced or intimidated another person to commit) <identify underlying crime and refer to instruction on that crime and then present the facts as presented by the state and the defendant>.4
If you find that the state has proved the elements of <identify underlying crime> beyond a reasonable doubt, then you will find this incident of racketeering activity proved. If you do not find that the state has proved those elements beyond a reasonable doubt, then you would find that the racketeering act of <identify underlying crime> has not been proved.
<Repeat for each charged incident of racketeering activity.>
Again, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant engaged in at least two incidents of racketeering activity that have the same or similar purposes, results, participants, victims or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by the distinguishing characteristics, including a nexus to the same enterprise, and are not isolated incidents, provided the latter or last of such incidents occurred after October 1, 1982, and within five years after a prior incident of racketeering activity.
Remember, you must agree unanimously on at least two specific incidents and you are going to be provided a special verdict form for that purpose.
you find that the state has
proved beyond a reasonable
doubt each of the four
elements of the crime of
violating the CORA statute,
including the finding beyond a
reasonable doubt of two or
more incidents of racketeering
activity, then you shall find
the defendant guilty of a
crime under CORA. If you find
that the state has failed to
prove beyond a reasonable
doubt any of the elements, you
shall then find the defendant
not guilty of a crime under
1 General Statutes § 53-394 (c).
2 General Statutes § 53-394 (a) specifies the felonies that qualify as racketeering activities.
3 General Statutes § 53-394 (e).
4 If the underlying felony is an attempt crime, the court must instruct the jury on the definition of criminal attempt. Small v. Commissioner of Correction, 286 Conn. 707, 727 (2008). See Attempt -- § 53a-49 (a) (1), Instruction 3.2-1 and Attempt -- § 53a-49 (a) (2), Instruction 3.2-2.
The information may charge the defendant with "racketeering acts" which encompass several incidents of racketeering activity. In this case, the jury instruction should make clear the difference between "racketeering acts" as used in the information and each incident of racketeering activity as defined by statute.


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Saturday, March 16, 2013
MORROW, Ga. – The regionally fifth-ranked University of South Carolina Aiken women's basketball team had its 2013 season come to a close in its 83-66 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional semifinal loss to national No. 1 Clayton State.
The regional semifinal loss concludes another impressive season by USC Aiken (22-8) that saw the Pacers claim their sixth 20 or more win season in the last seven years.
The Pacers have acquired an NCAA Tournament victory in each of the last three years.
The game began with the two squads playing extremely close for the first five minutes of the game with the contest tied 12-12 with 15:13 to play in the opening half.
Clayton State (31-0) from there would pull away for a 44-30 lead at the halftime break.
The Pacers ended the first half shooting 34.6 percent (9-of-26) as a team. The Pacers shot 83.3 percent (10-for-12) from the free throw line in the first half.
Clayton State shot 47.1 percent (16-for-34) from the field in the first half. The Lakers missed just one free throw (8-of-9) in the first half.
USC Aiken's Daniela Tarailo (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point HS) led all players in the first half with 15 points. Clayton State's Kayla Mobley led the Lakers with 10 points at intermission.
In the second half the Pacers would continue to battle, but their efforts would fall just short.
In her final game as a Pacer, Tarailo collected a game-best 29 points. She was a perfect 15-of-15 from the free throw line in the game. The senior guard also had four rebounds and one steal.
A 2013 Peach Belt Conference First-Team All-Conference choice, Tarailo concludes her Pacer career in the top-10 in school history for total points with 1,169 career points. She is also in the top-10 in USC Aiken's NCAA Division II history in 3-pointers made (216), games played (119) and minutes played (2,894).
Fellow senior Mia Antoine (Stone Mountain, Ga./Dominion Christian HS) was the other Pacer in double figures. The senior guard ended her final game in a Pacer uniform with 11 points, five rebounds and three assists. The Peach Belt Conference Elite 15 Award winner finishes her Pacer career in the top-10 all-time for games played (116).
Pacer senior Tiffani Moody (Raleigh, N.C./Ohio Valley University) concluded her career with a team-best seven rebounds to go along with eight points. She also had two blocks to finish her career holding firmly fourth all-time in USC Aiken women's basketball history with 108 career blocks.
Four Lakers ended their efforts in double figures with Kayla Mobley leading the way with a game-high 26 points.
USC Aiken as a team closed out its loss shooting 35.2 percent (19-for-54) as a team. The Pacers shot 86.2 percent (25-for-29) from the free throw line in the game as a team.
Clayton State shot 52.6 percent (30-for-57) as a team in its win over the Pacers. They hit 89.5 percent (17-for-19) of their free throw attempts as a team.
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You will need something to put your bugs in (a mayo jar with holes punched in the lid or perhaps a super cool bug house like this one), a bag of bugs (we used a sack of snakes too), a magnifying glass and some cool explorer dress-up clothes too.
Hide your bugs all over your garden. I usually placed them in small pockets of 2 or 3, so it was challenging to find them but was a great reward to find a few at once.
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ALAMEDA -- Rather than look far and wide to solve a problem at cornerback, the Raiders hope to have found the answer by crossing the San Francisco Bay to sign 49ers free agents Tarell Brown and Carlos Rogers.
The revolving door of veteran Raiders corners started in 2012 with Ron Bartell and Shawntae Spencer, neither of whom could stay healthy. Spencer went on injured reserve and Bartell was released before the season was over.
Last season it was Mike Jenkins and Tracy Porter, with the Raiders determining at the end of the season that neither merited a serious contract offer.
Brown and Rogers represent a third chance to get it right, and likely will go into training camp as the projected starters -- just as they were for the past three seasons on a 49ers team that went 36-11-1 and went to the NFC Championship game each year, winning one.
Rogers, who sat out his second straight minicamp practice with a minor calf injury, said the 49ers team he joined in 2011 as a free agent was in a similar place to where the Raiders are now.
The 49ers had gone eight years without a winning season before Jim Harbaugh and his staff arrived. Rogers was one of several veterans brought in to go along with some good young players drafted in previous years.
"Before I got there, they weren't good," Rogers said. "They always had a top 10 pick, were sorry, and the division wasn't really good, period."
Brown, who played under Mike Nolan and Mike Singletary on teams that went 5-11, 7-9, 8-8 and 6-10, can see a parallel.
"My first few years we weren't as successful, but the attention to detail changed, the mindset changed and the attitude changed and you can see that here," Brown said. "On days like this at practice, the attention to detail is amazing and guys have been putting in extra work. You see guys standing afterward and asking lots of questions. That's how we started with the 49ers."
Brown, who felt slighted by the 49ers' initial contract offer and signed with the Raiders for one year, $4.5 million, is entrenched as one starter.
Rogers was brought in to play in the slot and will on third downs, but could end up playing full time if second-year player DJ Hayden can't stay healthy long enough to develop into the player the Raiders thought he'd be when he was taken in the first round in 2013.
One advantage the veterans have over their predecessors at cornerback is they are already familiar with each other as well as with a defensive scheme that has seen coordinator Jason Tarver borrow heavily from the 49ers.
Tarver was a 49ers assistant when Brown was there but departed for Stanford when Rogers arrived. He said both players have already identified familiar plays called by different names.
"The biggest thing with those two guys is they want to be right," Tarver said. "They want to win, they understand how to win, and they've won."
Brown said there's a comfort level having Rogers on the same team on the opposite side of the bay.
"We understand each other," Brown said. "We understand what we like, we understand our body language, how to play together and how to win games."
Rogers feels like a handful of his teammates in that at 32 he feels he's got plenty of football left.
"You can be playing good, but you get to a certain age and it's not about how you're playing," Rogers said. "If you're making too much money at age 30, they're ready to push you out and get somebody younger. It happened with (Tarell) and he's younger than me.
"We've got guys, whether we were pushed out because of cap room or age, we've got something to prove. We still think we can play -- actually, we know we can still play. Things are happening. Me and 'T,' we're on the other side of the bay and we're going to make a change."
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on Twitter at twitter.com/Jerrymcd.


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Set 2: Halley'sHalley's Comet -> Runaway Jim, Frankie Says, TTETime Turns Elastic, Sleep, Mike'sMike's Song > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, Boogie OnBoogie On Reggae Woman, Character Zero
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- Mar 27:
- Gay marriage in the U.S. Supreme Court: Federal law denying benefits to gay couples on shaky ground
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- Prop. 8 at the Supreme Court: Key questions emerge
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From a cupcake bakery in Oakland and a Latino church in San Jose to the snowy steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, Bay Area residents are anxiously awaiting arguments to begin Tuesday in the contentious and historic same-sex marriage debate that began on the steps of San Francisco City Hall.
"It's the civil rights issue of our time," said Jordan Haedtler, of Oakland, who traveled to Washington and has been camping out in the wet snow in front of the Supreme Court for three days hoping to snag a seat for Tuesday's arguments.
"We always said if it went all the way to the Supreme Court, we'd go," said Haedtler, who is straight but wants his gay friends to gain the right to marry.
Whether they have a direct stake in the issue or not, people across the Bay Area are closely following a case that challenges traditional notions of family, but one that many believe is a fundamental issue of equality. Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments over whether California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, is unconstitutional. On Wednesday, the court takes up the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bars same-sex couples from receiving federal benefits.
The court's decisions in the landmark cases are expected in June, more than nine years after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom defied state law by allowing gay weddings at City Hall. California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who was San Francisco's district attorney when the first gay weddings were performed there, has a reserved seat in the courtroom.
So does San Franciscan Jean Podrasky, who is the first cousin of Chief Justice John Roberts and traveled to Washington this week with her lesbian partner. Despite his conservative reputation, Roberts sided with the majority last year upholding President Barack Obama's health-care law and is considered unpredictable on same-sex marriage.
In an open letter she wrote for the National Center for Lesbian Rights published on Monday, Podrasky called Roberts "a good man" who is "wise enough to see that society is becoming more accepting of the humanity of same-sex couples."
It is an issue, however, that still divides the state and country. But just as Obama's position on same-sex marriage "evolved" since he first took office in 2009, many have changed their attitudes. While 52 percent of voters approved the Proposition 8 ban in the 2008 election, a Field Poll last month shows 61 percent of California voters approve of same-sex marriage now. Only 32 percent disapprove.
Nestor Morales, a pastor at Amor Agape church in South San Jose, is one of them. While he isn't "crusading" against gay marriage, he hopes the court upholds Proposition 8.
"We love gay people, and Jesus loves them, too. But we are just going to maintain our ground that marriage is sacred, and is between a man and a woman," Morales said. "We are not judges; God will judge. God is the highest authority, and he is going to judge even the judges."
Henry Heller, 85, lives in an assisted living facility in Gilroy and said the same-sex marriage debate is one more sign that the "Democrats' war on religion is paying off."
Marriage, he said, should remain between a man and a woman. "If two women want to live together or two guys, all right, fine," he said, "but I don't think they should be considered man and wife."
Angella Tai, a 34-year-old real estate agent from Los Altos, says she hopes people will change their minds like her conservative Chinese mother did.
"It took me years with my mother, but she has changed her point of view and absolutely adores my fiancée," said Tai, 34, who plans to wed her partner next summer. "We would like it to be legal. In our hearts we really want that."
But the case is bigger than that, she said. "We have the opportunity to become a better nation, a nation of equality and a nation of fairness."
It's an ideal shared by Dashiel Ridolfi-Starr, the 17-year-old son of Linda Starr and Cookie Ridolfi of San Jose, who have been a couple for 25 years. The high school senior and his older sister were conceived through artificial insemination. While his mothers have no immediate plans to marry, the whole family is fixated on the case.
"It would allow my family to have the same opportunities that every other family has and to be perceived as every other family is," Ridolfi-Starr said, "not just some makeshift collection of relatives."
In Oakland, Janet Appel has seen firsthand the power of marriage among same-sex couples. She performed the first gay marriage ceremony in Alameda County in 2008 during the five months gay marriage was legal in California before Proposition 8 banned it.
"For them to have lost that right is just gut-wrenching," said Appel, a volunteer deputy marriage commissioner for the county clerk-recorder's office. "When they bury Prop. 8, please dear God, it will be redemption for most of us that believe that all people are equal."
Kevin Bell is 36, a veteran raised in Livermore and living in Manteca who calls the whole debate "silly."
"I think we're going to look back in 20 years and say 'Why were we still arguing about this stuff?' " said Bell, who is married with three children and runs That Takes The Cake bakery in Oakland. "I don't have a huge stake in the whole thing. It doesn't affect me directly. But it just seems ... why shouldn't we allow people to be who they want to be with and have the same rights as everyone else?"
Staff writers Katy Murphy and Mike Rosenberg contributed to this report.


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KFMB gets wrong kind of exposure
Clip goes viral after radio regular's bikini doesn't do its job during live TV broadcast
The dreaded "crossover" promotion between radio and TV backfired on KFMB this week when the former embarrassed the latter in a live simulcast.
Channel 8 morning co-anchors Nichelle Medina and Alicia Summers were "hosting" the DSC (Dave, Shelly & Chainsaw) radio show from 100.7 Jack FM for their daily cross-promotion. No doubt being a good corporate soldier, DSC was trying to promote that night's Victoria Secret Fashion Show telecast on CBS when things went south. Literally.
DSC regular Chris Boyer, dressed in a black bikini because apparently that's still considered funny by someone, walked on to the TV set and positioned himself behind the two women in a way that — how should we put this? — exposed part of what is normally (and thankfully) hidden behind the bottom of the bikini.
With the radio hosts chuckling off camera — "Oh the horror; oh the humanity," Shelly Dunn said — someone tried tilting the camera up in an attempt to save TV viewers. Noticing that, Boyer began jumping up and down so his "show" could continue as one of the TV anchors said, "Let's take it to break."
Not surprisingly, the incident went viral, even on sports sites like Deadspin.com.
Word around the station's Kearny Mesa headquarters was that the TV operation had no idea anything like that was coming — and later made that point clear in language definitely not suitable for radio, TV or print.
Efforts to get comments from station officials were either declined or ignored, although, come to think of it, what was anyone going to say except to declare it wouldn't happen again? There's no good defense for what happened.
Quick hits
• There's a new channel available on Time Warner Cable; unfortunately it's not Fox Sports San Diego. RLTV, described as "the only cable network and online destination for adults 50+" (does that make it the cable counterpart to CBS?), is now part of the Digital Basic lineup (Channel 223).
• To clarify an item from last week about TV ratings for the November "sweeps" period, those were preliminary ratings. The final ratings are due out at mid-month, although they are not expected to change the rankings much, if at all. If they do, it will be noted.
Now Hear This
Monthly radio ratings were released last week, and the local country station, KSON-FM, remains on top in the 12-plus demographic. KSON's sister station, smooth jazz KIFM-FM, also sits in the top 5 below Channel 933 FM (KHTS), KPBS-FM and classic rocker KGB-FM. The top three remained unchanged from October.
After losing its top-rated morning show (DSC) in 2010, KGB has suffered over the years but has shown considerable growth in recent months — outperforming DSC's current home in other key dayparts.
Star 94.1 (KMYI-FM) continues its downward trend since the departure of "AJ's Playhouse," but AJ's new dial position at Energy 103.7 (KEGY-FM) is even lower in the ratings. The Chargers' losing season has done little to boost Rock 105.3's overall ratings, but the station (KIOZ-FM) is currently outperforming competitors 91X-FM and FM-949 (KBZT-FM) in the 12-plus category.
While industry insiders have questioned the longevity of FM-949, the alternative rocker has grown its cumulative audience since making the radio station "about the music." Meanwhile, 91X is preparing for its 30-year anniversary next month with special programming.
In the battle of sports radio stations, XX1090-AM (XPRS) and XTRA Sports 1360 (KLSD-AM) remained flat, with 1090 still drawing more than double the 12-plus rating of its competitor.
Chris Cantore
Now Watch This
"The 2012 Hollywood Christmas Parade," 6 p.m. Monday, Hallmark Channel
Like grocery-store egg nog, scary Christmas sweaters and Alvin and the Chipmunks, the yearly Hollywood Christmas parade is a holiday tradition that is so cheesy, it skips tacky and goes directly to classic.
The extravaganza formerly known as the Santa Claus Lane Parade is still alive and well and putting the tinsel in Tinseltown, with this year's lineup featuring marching bands, floats and appearances by everyone from "Leave It to Beaver" star Jerry Mathers to "Glee" cast members and Herbie the Love Bug.
The live parade happened Nov. 21, but the broadcast airs Monday on Hallmark Channel and again Dec. 21 on Hallmark Movie Channel. If you don't give yourself the gift of nostalgia, who will?
Karla Peterson


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Finding application memory leaks
By user12614486 on Sep 24, 2007
Today, I unlocked my screensaver and found that I couldn't launch anything from the GNOME panel launchbar. Everything reported fork failing from "out of memory".
A coworker had had a similar problem, and it went away when, in trying to debug it, we had to kill gnome-panel.
Well, let's look at gnome-panel's pmap output: gee, its heap is over 1GB. (!)
So, that's probably a memory leak. How to find it? With some quick IRCs to some helpful GNOME engineers (GMan and Laca, to the rescue, as so often happens), I discover that I can remove gnome-panel from my session so it doesn't auto-restart when I kill it, by using
gnome-session-remove gnome-panel
(from a command line, of course, because...I can't launch anything). First,
though, I copied down its current arguments for restart, which were
--session default1. Then, I'm ready to try out libumem.
Adam has a wonderful introduction, Jonathan Adams wrote a really nice reference on the topic of libumem and mdb, and there are plenty of other examples of use around. My particular method was to enter the command
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libumem.so.1 UMEM_DEBUG=default gnome-panel --session default1
and then use
mdb -p $(pgrep gnome-panel) to start up an mdb and access libumem's debugging features.
::findleaks immediately showed some false hits, and ::umem_verify was clean, so I waited for a little while and saw no further leaks in ::findleaks. Then I started a terminal from my custom terminal launcher on the panel. Bam! New leaks from ::findleaks! After messing about with manual ::bufctl_audits on the bufctl addresses in ::findleaks output, I decided that ::help findleaks might be handy, and indeed, it showed the -d option which put it all together, showing stack backtraces for the leaked buffers, which allowed us to examine the code and spot the leaks.
GMan and I were quickly able to find a bug in libgnome-desktop and another in gnome-panel itself (a fix to one of the Sun patches for gnome-panel, in panel_lockdown_is_forbidden_key_file). I was able to verify that all the leaked buffers sprang from one of those two sources.
I can't even begin to tell you how much faster and more fun that was with libumem than without. If you have any sort of allocation problem at all, you should seriously consider libumem debugging...free with Solaris.


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There were 72 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday. At that time, there were 1,384 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Robbery: A man entered a store in the 8900 block of Thornton Road about 9:20 a.m. Thursday, jumped over the counter with a knife in his hand and forced an employee to remove money from the cash register, police reported. The employee took the knife away from the robber and threw it, but the robber took the cash and the employee's cellphone before running out of the store. He was described as a black man standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 160 to 180 pounds. He was wearing a black do-rag, a blue scarf, a black zip-up jacket, blue jeans and black high-top shoes.
The California Highway Patrol did not submit an incident report Thursday.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 111 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Thursday, including six vehicle accidents, 87 medical calls and one structure fire.
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The following is the forecast from the National Weather Service: Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. South wind 11 to 14 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. North northeast wind 10 to 13 mph.
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People lined the streets for the annual Mountain Brook Christmas Parade with the first round of cheers going to the Grand Marshal.
"He is a symbol of hope. He just came back Tuesday from MD Anderson and they gave him a clean bill of health."
12-year-old Sean Fredella sharing a happy moment with friends after spending the last year battling a rare adult tumor pushing on his brain.
"Recovering has been a bit hard, but other than that, it's been pretty good."
The Mountain Brook Elementary student was diagnosed with leukemia at age two, was treated and relapsed a couple of times, before getting a bone marrow transplant.
Things were looking up until doctors found a new tumor in his sinuses last year.
"He's gone through lots of chemotherapy and two major surgeries and he's doing great."
With the community behind him the whole way.
"It's kind of indescribable. It's really different just coming back and knowing everyone is think about you and praying for you."
Bows started popping up all over Mountain Brook on mailboxes in front of businesses and the money raised is going towards research.
A family friend came up with the concept called Sean strong. The family started getting lots of money for help, so much in fact, Nell Fredella says they decided to use it to help others.
"Now, we has a fund at Children's Hospital called the Sean Strong Fund and money has been pouring into that and we're going to use it to fund research for pediatric cancer."
Providing a means for other children to also become symbols of hope.


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A Philadelphia woman sustained minor injuries in a one-vehicle mishap Thursday night in Marion County.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the accident happened at 7:40 p.m. on Route Z four miles north of Monroe City.
A 2006 Chevrolet Uplander was being driven south by 51-year-old Kevin R. Douglas of Philadelphia. When Douglas lost control of the vehicle on the ice-covered pavement it left the road and struck a fence post.
Injured was 49-year-old Sheila A. Lorenson of Philadelphia. Lorenson, who was wearing a safety device, was taken by ambulance to Hannibal Regional Hospital.
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Red Rocks was the night before. I remember it was the first time I did the drive through the Rocky Mountains to get to the next show. Northern lights and orange sunshine were our rocket fuel. We smoked the whole way and I don't think we realized the gravity of sketchiness that driving thru Utah on drugs entails. Béla Fleck and the Flecktones opened (my first time seeing them). They sat in most of the second set.
Buried Alive starts up the show. They opened with this song quite a bit back in the day. Then into Poor Heart. Foam is a little off in the middle. Page is slipping for a few measures. They quite the song down and play softly for a few bars, then play gradually louder and louder. The first three song of this show are a bit off. Guelah Papyrus is sounding better. Followed by a decent Rift. The Stash that they play at this show is one of the highlights, an absolutely stunning version. It has that Phish 1.0 jam going for it. I believe they were doing their filling the hey hole style of jamming (all the be-bop scholars out there will know what Im talking about). By the time they finished this Stash I was glad that I made the drive. Sparkle really got us dancing. I was definitely laughing laughing. Into The Landlady which hasnt been played in this form since 1994 (at least as I write this, you never know what theyll surprise us with next). A hopping version to be sure. Next up they do I Didnt Know. Fish auditions for a washboard part on Bela Flecks next album. They close out the set with Runaway Jim. Complete with extended trippy, hair razing jam at the end. Yehaa!
Possum bake to start the 2nd set with a nice introduction. A nice solid Horn slows it down a bit. Then they throw down a Bill Monroe song called Uncle Penn. Now I have always held that Phish was probably the first jam band playing bluegrass in the early nineties. The term jam band hadn't been heard at that time. And the music industry was a different beast. They dont play much bluegrass these days. Next is Fee followed with an extended outro to introduce Béla and the Wooten brothers. They jump into Llama followed by a nice Lawn Boy. Victor Wooten plays the bass solo on this one. The David Bowie that follows is a bit choppy at the beginning, which is understandable. However the second half of the song throws down a great improvisational jam. HYHU and Fish gets reacquainted with his old friend - his brain. Vacuum style. A cool percussion jam and into a great Hood with Béla solo. Phish never plays a bad Hood ever. I would have to go out of my way to find a Hood that is sounding off. Daniel Saw the Stone closes it out. They do a vocal jam with Victor Wooten accompanying on bass.
Encore: Amazing Grace w/out a mic and Nellie Kane to finish. Catch a bus back to the cheap hotel. Good times


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—Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room
What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel—the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original—poignant, powerful, and extremely funny—a miraculous work that prompted London's Daily Mail to declare it "the novel that should have won the Booker prize."
"This is a story about a terrible thing which happens to me. I have to warn you that nobody is bad or good here, or rather everyone is a bit bad and a bit good and the bad and the good moluscules get mixed up against each other and produce terrible chemical reactions. Did you know cheetahs cannot retract their claws?"
Six-year-old Billy loves animals, David Attenborough documentaries, and sneakers that flash when he runs. He does not love sitting still, the blood-soaked sky in Watership Down, or his father's cell phone.
When Billy runs into a busy street, ignoring his father's commands, he sets in motion a series of unexpected, family-altering events. What I Did is a heart-wrenching reminder of how best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences, and how one rash decision can take on a life of its own.
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"Like Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap, [WHAT I DID] documents one family's attempt to copewith the aftermath of a public outburst and the failure of their own innocent attempts to put things right . . . an affecting, thought-provoking tale of parent-child relations." — Booklist
"Warm, hilarious, eye-wateringly moving, with the cleverest use of point of view since Jane Austen . . . WHAT I DID is the novel that should have won the Booker prize." — Daily Mail (London), "Christmas Pick" in the literary fiction category
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"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging, and above all, self-conscious. WHAT I DID is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I loved it." — Emma Donoghue
"A powerful, poignant and funny novel, perched on the precarious line between protecting children and destroying families." — Melbourne Age
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Career Center > Careers in Statistics > Which Industries Employ Statisticians
Did you ever want to be a detective, to gather information about a puzzle and then infer the missing pieces? In some respects, a career in survey research is like being a numerical detective.
As Cervantes wrote in Don Quixote, "By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece." A survey statistician designs samples that can be used to make inferences about the whole piece.
Being a survey statistician involves much more than calling people and asking who they plan to vote for in the next election. Following are some areas in which surveys are used and some of the problems on which a survey statistician might work:
Government Surveys
Many U.S. government agencies conduct surveys to collect data used in public policy decisions. The best known of these is the decennial Census of Population, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Other large-scale surveys include the Current Population Survey, which collects data on employment, unemployment, earnings, and other labor market topics; the National Crime Victimization Survey, which measures crime against individuals; and the National Health Interview Survey, which collects information about the amount and effects of illness and disability.
A survey statistician might study the following:
- Efficient survey design
- Experimental methods for increasing response rate
- Accounting for nonresponse and undercoverage
- How to release data to the public but maintain confidentiality of respondents
Social Sciences
Social research depends heavily on surveys, which can provide a snapshot or moving picture of social trends. In many instances, the only way to obtain information about behavior or opinions is to ask a representative sample of people. Political polls fall into this category.
A survey statistician might study the following:
- Question wording and design
- Methods for follow-up of nonrespondents
- Deciding where to take samples in an archaeological dig
- Analyzing survey data collected for another purpose
Educational research and improvement of the educational system requires that performance and subsequent development be measured.
A survey statistician might study the following:
- Designing surveys to include under-represented groups
- Longitudinal surveys that follow a cohort of children to adulthood
Survey research is commonly used in the legal arena. In trademark cases, consumers of a product may be surveyed and asked whether a trademark is associated with a certain brand, even when the company's name is missing. Surveys also may be used by attorneys to help with jury selection in high-profile cases.
Forestry and Agriculture
Surveys are crucial for estimating agricultural production, and many commonly used sampling designs were developed for agricultural surveys.
How do we estimate the number of caribou in a region? How many mosquitoes in New York are estimated to carry West Nile virus?
A survey statistician might study the following:
- How to sample from a population when no list of the population exists (e.g., the mosquitoes in New York)
- Estimating sizes of wildlife populations
- Avoiding bias in samples of wildlife (e.g., because it might be easier to catch infected animals)
Medicine and Public Health
The National Health Interview Survey mentioned above is just one of the surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor public health. State governments and medical researchers conduct numerous surveys to estimate prevalence of disease and cost to society.
A survey statistician might study the following:
- How to sample persons with rare disorders if no national registry exists
- How to estimate effects of environmental toxins when comparing samples from neighboring cities
- Methods for combining data from a specialized survey of AIDS patients with national survey data
- How to profile and explain the extent of cardiovascular disease, back pain, and other chronic medical conditions
- Methods to assess the impact of specific community programs to promote health through exercise, better eating habits, and other strategies
Market research commonly relies on surveys and focus groups. Economic surveys such as those conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics may be used in making business decisions.'
The Internet has the potential to become a widespread medium for conducting surveys. (After all, you're reading this page, aren't you?) To date, however, most surveys have been of the "click here for yes, click there for no" variety, and the fact that web viewers decide whether to respond makes these surveys unreliable. How can the Internet be used to conduct reliable, statistically valid surveys?
As you can see, survey research embraces far more than tallying "yes" responses on questionnaires. For more information, see the web site and related links of the Survey Research Methods Section.


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Sought by authorities: May 5, 2013
Published: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 10:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 10:56 p.m.
NAME: Ernest June Williams
DATE OF BIRTH: Aug. 26, 1989
CHARGES: Domestic abuse battery in the presence of a child, aggravated burglary, resisting an officer, criminal trespass and failure to appear in court.
AGENCY: Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office
LAST KNOWN ADDRESS: 229 Crozier Drive, Houma.
STILL AT LARGE: Lance Anthony Verdinm Tate Paul Allemand, Carlos Andrew Alvis, Linda Marie Bland, Byron Gerard Brown, Joshua Leo Brown, Stephen Patrick Callahan, Anthony James Collins, Jamie Howard Davis, Christopher Lawrence Diggs, Isaias Alvarran Escobar, Rosella Angela Foret, Resendiz Jose Francisco, Randy Joseph Gorley, Ronald James Hebert Jr., Columbus Kennedy, Matthew Basin Mitchell, Dirk Ion Mousseau, Peter Long Nguyen, Tyron Anthony Rainey, Kristen Wallace Rios, Akeem Jermall Ross, James Earl Samuels, Byron Charles Shelby, Paul Kenneth Smith Jr., Edward Lee Swing Jr. and Kedar Aska Wallis.
Sought by Authorities is a public service of The Courier and Daily Comet. Readers who have seen this suspect are urged to call the Bayou Region Crime Stoppers, 1-800-743-7433, or the police, and not take action on their own.
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Activists who have been rallying for the closure of a coal plant in Somerset and the development of offshore wind will undertake a six-day, 60-mile march from Fall River to Hyannis.
The "Energy Exodus" march will feature Iowa state Sen. Rob Hogg and target Bill Koch, an energy businessman aligned against the Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound.
Some marchers will sleep outdoors in tents while others will stay in churches along the route.
According to organizers, the march following routes 6 and 6A will include stops along the way, at a "green jobs" rally in New Bedford, a meeting with the Friends of Fairhaven Wind, and a "Clean Planet Picnic Lunch" in Sandwich.
The activists are seeking the closure of Brayton Point, a coal plant with large cooling towers that protest organizers said is the second-largest carbon polluter in the region. At a recent protest at the power plant, about 350 people gathered and 45 were arrested, according to an organizer.
The six-day event will kick off at 9 a.m., Wednesday, from Kennedy Park in Fall River.
The walk will end on Labor Day, at Village Green in Hyannis at 11:30 a.m., where activists will highlight Koch's support of Barnstable in its legal battles with Cape Wind.
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The Chocolate Box
Visit the Chocolate Box located in the retail corridor, featuring gourmet hand-made truffles, chocolate dipped strawberries and pretzels. As long as it's chocolate, you can find it at The Chocolate Box.
Hours of Operation:
- Sunday – Thursday • 11AM - 9PM
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
September 14, 2011
DOE Finalizes $90.6 Million Loan Guarantee for Colorado Solar Project
DOE announced on September 9 that it finalized a $90.6 million loan guarantee to Cogentrix of Alamosa, LLC. The loan guarantee will support the Alamosa Solar Generating Project, a 30-megawatt high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) power generation facility. Located in south-central Colorado near the city of Alamosa, it represents one of the first utility-scale, HCPV energy generation facilities in the nation. Cogentrix estimates the project will support up to 100 construction jobs.
The proposed facility will use innovative HCPV systems consisting of concentrating optics and multi-junction solar cell panels that are controlled by a dual-axis tracking system. The tracking system rotates and tilts the cells throughout the day so the surface of the solar panel maintains an optimal angle with respect to the sun. Cogentrix estimates the multi-junction solar cells are nearly 40% efficient, which is about double that of more traditional PV panels, making concentrated photovoltaic technology advantageous in areas with high amounts of direct sunlight, such as south-central Colorado. The facility is expected to produce enough clean renewable energy each year to power more than 6,500 homes, and it will avoid the emissions of more than 43,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. See the DOE press release.


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The tour bus begins to fill with a hum of lively conversation and childlike anticipation, even though the average age of passengers is around 70.
After all, everybody loves a road trip. And on this rainy late-April morning, 35 members of the Santa Clara Senior Center's travel group were heading out on a daylong visit to San Francisco -- lunch at the Cliff House then a guided tour of "Chomp!" the carnivorous plant exhibit at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. Many in the group know each other, but those who don't happily make fresh acquaintances.
Loretta Riddle, 86, is really good at that. Seated in a rear row by herself, the world traveler and former chief of staff for Sen. Alfred Alquist spins around to greet the passenger behind with an enthusiasm so boundless it nearly knocks her purple hat off in the process.
"My husband and I used to travel the world -- Papua New Guinea, India, Thailand, Burma, China," she says, repositioning her hat over silver curls. "He died four years ago, and now that he's gone, I've joined five different senior travel groups. I've been up to Bodega Bay to see where they filmed 'The Birds,' up to Fort Bragg to the Skunk Train trip and lunch in the redwoods, been to Gold Country, down to Solvang -- oh that was just delightful. I've been to shows in San Francisco -- 'The Book of Mormon," that was something else.
"I don't know what I'd do without these bus trips," she says. "They're so much more than they used to be."
Indeed, the cliché busload of gray-haired seniors off to play the slots in Reno is nearly extinct. Such trips remain, but group motor-coach tour options have exploded in recent years to satisfy the varied interests of people age 50 and beyond. Single travelers still appreciate the ease of bus transport, plus the camaraderie and security of group journeys rather than going it alone, but crave everything from history and educational tours to wine tasting and golf adventures.
Quick quests
Short trips of one to four days are extremely popular and usually involve a full package of meals at top-notch restaurants, hotels and stops at attractions along the way, says Alicia Niskanen, who, with her husband Brian Niskanen, runs San Jose-based Kanen Tours. They work with numerous senior centers around the Bay Area and arranged today's trip to the city.
"There's been a huge resurgence of interest in group bus travel," she says, boarding the coach to ride along on this trip. "Especially on short hops like this where you can travel in a day. More people are working later in life, younger seniors in their 50s and 60s, and they can't get away more than a couple of days. And when they do, they want variety -- educational tours, museums. People seem to want to learn something while they're out."
Kanen Tours has been in business for 50 years, started by Brian Niskanen's parents, who met on a bus tour themselves when his dad was a driver and his mom was on a tour to Tahoe.
Bus tours were big in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, but dropped off during late '90s with soaring fuel costs and a decline in group participation. Clubs such the Elks and Eagles, which booked a lot of the tours, experienced their own decline and stopped organizing the big trips. The proliferation of Indian casinos closer to the Bay Area hurt the Reno market, Alicia Niskanen says.
Oddly, the recession helped the turnaround.
"A lot of people cut back on expensive extended vacations and cruises and opted for these mini vacations instead," she says.
"It's all about customization," says Gerard Manuel of the Sunnyvale Senior Center, where organizers plan their own trip offerings and contract with motor coach companies. "We've gotten really creative with things like historic home tours in San Francisco, shows like Cirque du Soleil when they're in town. We just had a ranger-led trip to the former Nike missile site in San Rafael."
One of Sunnyvale's most popular recent tours was a "CSI tour" led by a justice studies professor at San Jose State University, where the group got to investigate a mock crime scene.
Mystery trips, where the destination is kept secret, are big too, Alicia Niskanen says.
"Those sell out every time," she says. "It's amazing how many people are so adventurous to just go. Last year, we had one to Lodi for carriage rides at an equestrian center, then to a winery for lunch and tasting, then to the San Joaquin historical museum."
"I went on that one, too," Riddle chimes in. "It was fabulous."
Road rapture
For today's tour, everyone meets at 9:45 a.m. to board the motor coach. Even the buses are better these days, with plush seats, wi-fi and video screens. Our driver, Darryl, greets passengers and advises about safety rules, then we were off on a smooth trip up Interstate 280. Some folks share photos on their smartphones. Some play a mini road-trip game, counting people in passing cars who were texting. An apt bumper sticker was spotted: "Honk if you love Jesus. Text if you want to meet him."
At the Cliff House, Darryl drops the group off at the door, and everyone heads right in for the prearranged lunch featuring salmon, chicken and vegetarian dishes. At a table with Sue Farley, Lucille Giorvas and Linda Cardoza, all agree one of the best parts of such trips is the all-inclusive nature. This trip was about $100 a person, but included lunch, tip, taxes, driver gratuity and tickets to the Conservatory.
"There are definitely perks, going with a group," Farley says. "You go to the front of the line, you don't have to arrange tickets or parking. It's great."
Cardoza, 56, still works at a bookkeeping job and says she wouldn't be able to visit these places without the travel groups.
"I hate driving," she says. "Oh no, I wouldn't drive up here to San Francisco. I don't drive the freeways. Never have liked it. So this really expands my horizons."
She recently took a trip to baseball spring training in Arizona, organized through the On Tour travel group in Pleasant Hill.
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Recently I have started having knee pain around the 4-6 mile mark. The pain is center of the knee cap. I was thinking about trying a knee band. Any input. Anyone have similiar pain or tried a knee band? Thanks
I wear a knee brace, but it is important to get a professional evaluation so you are choosing the best product for your individual circumstances. For example, there is a difference between patella stabilizing, neoprene and arthritic support. You could certainly experiment with a simple knee band or compression sleeve, and that might help with reducing some pressure on the tendon. Again, it is critical to have a good grasp on the cause of knee pain (better now than later to avoid ongoing problems). There are some great options out there, so it really just a matter of finding the most appropriate match for whatever is going on with your knee.
Wishing you all the best.
When troubleshooting pain, it works much better when you can identify the cause of the pain before selecting a treatment. It is not unusual for runners with tight quads to have pain in the center of the knee cap. You can treat the knee all day, but if you do nothing to address the tight quad muscles, particularly Rectus Femoris and Vastus Medialis, the problem will be made fresh daily, and whatever band-aid you put on the pain will need to stay on.
If you want to actually solve the problem, so that you don't need any band-aids at all, learn how to troubleshoot and remedy the quads. You can do this yourself.. and really should, because no one has a better opportunity - or responsibility - to understand how your body works, than you.
Pop medicine has a love affair with fixes coming from the outside, but problems like these usually come from the inside, and can be solved from the inside. You just need to know how to find problems and solve them, and fortunately, that's getting much easier in the Information Age...
The above graphic from Gray's Anatomy (via wiki) allows you to trace the kneecap upwards through the powerful muscles that control it. Note the V. Medialis (R) and R. Femoris (C) that I mentioned earlier. You can see how the R.F. pulls directly on the kneecap, and the V.M. pulls on it from one side. The product of tension in the RF is obvious, but knots in the VM can weaken it, allowing the kneecap to be pulled to the side by massive Vastus Lateralis (L), sometimes causing patellar tracking error, a potential source of kneecap pain as well. I say potential, because pain can occur with or without a tracking error, and may have nothing to do with actual knee damage.
In the first video, a Coach shows his favorite foam-roll technique for nailing knee pain caused by unequal quad tension. It is based on his work with many clients trying to lose excess weight, one of the primary causes of knee pain. Remember this is a coach, not a physiology professor, but he really cuts to the chase. I find it easier to do the same thing with my fingers, but to each his own..
Same coach demonstrating his foam-rolling wisdom for the R. Femoris...
Again, foam-rolling is not a pancea for muscle dysfunction, and skilled fingers can usually do a better job of finding and removing knots that may cause a muscle to tighten or fail to contract properly. It is easy to do, however, is cheap, and looks savvy-athlete cool.
So what about strengthening the muscles if they are weak? If you literally moved from the couch to the road, you might expect the quads to need some preparation for running, and you would be right. However, if the pain is happening after months or years of running, it is more likely that the muscles are failing to contract properly, not that they lack the intrinsic ability to do so. Knots in muscles tend to alter the extent to which muscles can contract, producing pain in the joints they are meant to move with balanced, smooth contractions.
But why would muscles get into such a condition? Often times it is because they are over-trained, not under-trained. This is why the problem often becomes evident after a runner has realized some progress in their training. The setback is an opportunity to learn your current limits for increases in exercise time or intensity, which runners see as mileage and speed. Rapid changes in your routine can overwhelm your body's ability to adapt to the demands you are placing on it. Pain can come sooner, or much later when you have overworked your body beyond its ability to recover. Muscles can rebel and form knots.
Another culprit is form. I'm not just talking about sloppy running techniques, but characteristics of your unique body type that may not lend themselves to efficient running. These can be variations in the structure of your feet, knees, hips, or spine. They can be postural problems related to your work or leisure habits. The more time you spend in chairs, for example, the more likely you are to experience knee pain when running. As mentioned earlier, weight is another common factor, but form will trump them all. Before you spend too much time trying to find a way to keep running, have your form analyzed on a treadmill for pain-producing characteristics.
Sometimes anatomical realities can severely limit your potential for pain-free running. Eric Dalton gets into a bit more detail on conditions of the knee that may directly cause pain, or indirectly cause it by overworking some of the stabilizing muscles...
To summarize, the pain you feel could be from your knee, but it probably just feels like it is. Before you self-treat, make sure you know what you are treating. There is no one fix for all potential problems, and some cannot be fixed easily or at all. However, making sure your muscles are working properly, and that you are using them appropriately, is priority number one.
Knee Pain & Knee Bands !
Arthritis is the name for a group of over 100 different conditions that affect joint health. The only thing these conditions have in common is severe pain. Unfortunately, over 40 million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis. These men and women are all looking for the best type of knee pain relief. If you are seeking the best treatment for knee pain relief, you have plenty of options available. The demand for natural and alternative methods of treatment means that many arthritis sufferers no longer have to rely on expensive medication. That being said, drugs are often the backbone of a successful knee pain relief program.
Doctors usually prescribe one of two types of drugs: NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) or analgesics. Patients usually take NSAIDs for long term knee pain relief. This type of drug includes Ibuprofen and Aleve as well as the old staple, Aspirin. NSAIDs reduce inflammation and provide knee pain relief when taken in sufficient doses. Analgesics, on the other hand, do not treat inflammation but are effective and powerful painkillers. There are two types of analgesics, narcotic, and non-narcotic. Non-narcotic analgesics include Tylenol and other mild painkillers. Narcotic analgesics include Morphine, Codeine, and Vicodin. Although these drugs provide short term knee pain relief, they can also be extremely addictive. Discuss any new medication with your doctor before proceeding.
Knee bands for arthritis are one treatment method that a lot of people rely on. There are a lot of different treatments out there, of course, but people love having things that are less invasive or that don't involve medication. Therefore, knee bands for arthritis are designed to give people just that. There are plenty of different types of bands and braces to choose from out there, giving you the chance to have different options for your pain relief and knee support, no matter what you have in mind.
Knee Bands for Arthritis are only effective if they get the job done. With so much to choose from, it can be hard to find the right ones. Fortunately, you can talk to your doctor and learn all about the different knee bands for arthritis that can help you. They will be able to figure out exactly what is right for your needs, depending on the type of arthritis and pain that you have. Some people can use knee bands for arthritis that come straight from the store, while others need customized models. What you get or need depends on your doctor's recommendations, so make sure that you talk to them about what's going on.
I have had similar knee pain... It was caused by off balanced quad muscles and an IT Band issue that were all ultimately related to an on going hip/low back issue. I saw a knee specialist who prescribed a brace and PT. If I slack off on the stretches the PT gave me ( some are similar to what JamesJohnsonLMT posted) the pain returns when I increase milage. There were some tracking issues with my knee cap that could have been alleviated with taping if I wasn't allergic to the stuff....
On the other hand, my brother has had knee and hip pain which turned out to be arthritis, which involves a totally different plan of treatment.
SO... get a solid medical opinion, your doctor should be able to give you a prescription for PT (who will help with stretching and releasing muscles/tendons/fascia etc), if you don't have a local sports medicine doc.
Good luck
The only problem I have with the arthritis theory is that arthritis is a normal part of age progression for many people. In fact, studies of healthy individuals without pain symptoms have shown arthritis to be present in one or more joints, without them knowing it. A direct link between what we call arthritis and pain is assumed, but not scientifically based. For example, I've got expanded thumb joints from years of practice, but no pain.
"Itis" is a suffix used in medicine to denote inflammation. Yet, it is not clear there is inflammation present in all cases of apparent arthritis, but the term sticks. Even when there is inflammation, it is still not clear that inflammation is the source of pain when pain and inflammation are present at the same time. Once again, it is assumed, and explains why anti-inflammatory meds often have no effect on pain.
One thing is for sure.. If the muscle tissue moving your joints has any problems at all, the millions of sensitive nerve cells therein present a whole lot of pain potential. Any structural deficit in a joint will require more work on the part of the involved muscles to stabilize it, and that predisposes you to pain right away. Where a compression band might come in handy, is the leverage advantage it might have keeping an unstable fibular head in place (see the Dalton clip above).
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News of Mr. Mandela's death broke during a star-studded premiere in London Thursday night, with one of Mr. Mandela's daughters in attendance alongside Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton. According to local press accounts, there was a two-minute moment of silence following the end of the film.
The film has become a personal cause for company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, the producer of the film and a former acquaintance of Mr. Mandela's. The two men met when Mr. Mandela visited New York City and met several Hollywood stars shortly after being released from prison in 1990, Mr. Weinstein said at a recent screening of the movie in Los Angeles.
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As Mark points out, in comparison to going out to see a movie, buying a book is not a horrendously expensive activity. And in comparison to going to the theatre, it's downright cheap.
But, as Colleen can attest, I had a strong reaction when I grabbed the new Best American Poetry, a wee 192 pages, and saw the price was $16. It went right back onto the table from which I picked it up. I haven't bought a BAP since Lyn Heijinian's 2004 volume, which was also $16 (for 288 pages), but I ordered that one online and for a sharp discount, which is probably what I'll do for the new edition (the editor, Heather McHugh, is a poet I like quite a bit -- I buy BAPs for the guest editors, not the contents, really).
Later, I asked myself what price I would have been willing to pay for the book, and thought that probably $13.95 was about the threshold between, "Wow, a book!" and "Wow, that price!" If the new BAP had been priced at that, I would have left the store with it.
In some ways, this makes little sense -- $13.95 is only $2.05 less than the actual price, and $2.05, particularly here in the region of NYC, ain't a lot of money. But there is a psychological barrier -- $16 feels like a rip-off for a 192-page paperback, even though I don't make it a practice of buying books based on weight.
Interestingly, the list price for The Best American Poetry 1999 is $17.95, which in 2007 dollars would be about $22.44, so the price of the books has gone down over the years. Really, though, the lesson here is patience: that 1999 edition is available used for $0.01 (plus shipping) from Amazon.
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It's true - it was as though he'd burned his hand when he saw the price. And he shrieked like a little girl, too. ;-)ReplyDelete
It could be worse. US publishers seem to think the Canadian dollar is trading at $.65 when really its around $.94. Funny how prices haven't moved.ReplyDelete
Hm ... perhaps I'll wait till BAF costs $0.01 too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/06/2007 5:09 PM
Weird. I thought I posted here the other day and it came through then...but now it's gone.ReplyDelete
YA books are a lot cheaper than adult books. Don't know why.
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Thanks for posting again Ellen -- your comment might have been eaten by the word verification thingy, which is occasionally temperamental. I have to feed it regularly, or else it starts picking on innocent people.ReplyDelete
I've often wondered why YA books are less expensive, myself. It's played into my perhaps odd psychology, too, in that I've bought YA books in hardcover that had far less of a hold on me than other hardcover books, but because they were a few dollars less, I felt like I was getting a deal. (Yes, now publishers know I'm a sucker. But they knew that anyway...)
not exactly true (although I agree with your general point).ReplyDelete
The 1999 anthology is available for 1 cent plus $3.99 shipping fees (i.e. Amazon profit).
(See my thing about the wrong way to reward a musician ).
Ebooks will change all that of course. What excuse will Amazon.com have to jack up the price?
- Gursky9/10/2007 9:33 AM
Fun. I like that Ellen's a reader here, too. A genre forum doesn't feel complete unless she's got a toe in it somewhere.ReplyDelete
This years BAP is worth picking up, and not only because McHugh is great (she put out a translation of Celan fer chrissakes). Maybe, because it's so slim, the higher price per word will lead you to chew them over that much more, and you'll get more out of each poem.


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