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'Twas the Night Before D-Day
A big part of why we created this blog was to give a voice to our volunteers, staff and those affected by autism. Shannon's poem is our first guest blog post and a timely one at that.
Shannon is the mom to three boys and Jack (8.5) has autism. She is also the Connecticut Advocacy chair, and the Greater Hartford Walk Now for Autism Speaks Chair.
"He was diagnosed 6 years ago today and my heart was very heavy all day yesterday thinking about it because 6 years later not much has changed. The numbers are higher and the people in positions to aggressively put and end to autism are still qualifying it's existence."
Here is Shannon's adaptation of the classic Christmas poem:
(Shannon refers to the day Jack received his Diagnosis as D-Day.)
'Twas the night before D-Day, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, well except for the mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
With hope that they wouldn't be thrown through the air
All but one of the children, nestled all snug in their beds
Weighted blankets and melatonin could not calm his head
And mamma in her fleece, dad wearing his cap
They knew they would be awake for a while, no chance of a nap
When upstairs in Jack's room, there arose such a clatter
Mom and dad flew up the stairs to see what was the matter
Up the staircase they flew like a flash
Passed crayon on the wall, and piles of trash
And there in Jack's room, wouldn't you know
A fractured alarm clock, he was upset by its glow
And what to our wondering eyes should appear,
The emptied bookcase on the floor, he wanted it there
With a cry of frustration, so piercing and shrill
Mom and dad heard the echo of others saying "can't you just give him a pill?"
More rapid than eagles his tears they came
And he screamed, and howled and called us cruel names
"I'm leaving! I hate you! I'm running away"
Everyone hates me! I'm a loser, they say!"
To the end of the street! To the end of the block!
The screaming and yelling, it made the house rock.
So, into our arms, we hugged our boy close
Hoping we had the right sensory dose
And then, in a twinkling, we heard through our tears
"I'd like some water and to watch Sponge Bob downstairs"
As we drew in our breath, and were calming our hearts
We muttered, and cursed these Aspergerian parts
They were confusing, irrational, scary and quick
This disorder called autism, we had not picked.
A bundle of baby boy with whom we'd been blessed
Now 1 in 70 of autism's unwelcome guests
His eyes how they twinkled! – his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
And the cleft of his chin was as perfect as gold
We would love this sweet boy, until we were old
Now the stump of a chewstick, he held tight in his teeth
Perseverating and stimming at the tinsel on the wreath
He had a round face, and a little round belly
Would only eat peanut butter and jelly.
He was inappropriate and goofy a right jolly old elf
And I laughed when he said things, in spite of myself;
A blink of his eye, a smirk on his lips
A shimmy, a swagger a shake of the hips
He did not always have words, but wanted to work
On painting, and reading and some other fun quirks,
Sometimes he'd put his finger inside of his nose,
Look to us for a nod, and we'd shake our heads "no!"
He jumps up and down, in his joy shrieks a whistle,
And he laughs, and he laughs, with not so much as a bristle.
And we've heard him exclaim, more often than not
"My name is Jack and I can do the Robot!"
– Shannon, Conn.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - It's been three months since Romney's election loss and Republicans are starting to ponder what we need to do now. Writing in the Washington (DC) Examiner, pundit Michael Barone points out that Republican annihilation is not likely. Obama carried 26 states to Romney's 24 which bodes hopeful for the Senate. Romney carried 228 congressional districts compared with only 207 for Obama, largely because Democratic core constituencies tend to be clustered geographically in big metropolitan areas.
While Obama carried 93 percent of African American voters and 71 percent of Hispanics, Romney got 59 percent of white Catholics (a new record) and 79 percent of white evangelical Protestants because of the backlash over Obamacare. Romney's most disappointing performance was his 27 percent support among Hispanics, so that bears some analysis.
Latino Decisions is an amalgamation of professors of political science teaching at major universities in the US. Founded by Dr. Matt Baretto of the University of Washington and Dr. Gary Segura of Stanford University the organization is supported by major US charities and universities. This support affords them the resources to engage Impremedia, a polling organization, and they frequently check preferences of Latino registered voters.
In a recent web seminar Dr. Gary Segura shocked participants by opining that Romney lost the election on January 23, 2011, when he publicly advocated a national e-verify law so only citizens could get employment and "self deportation" of undocumented Latinos. Of course he was then in a tough primary contest and was uttering policy ideas to appeal to the GOP right wing but at that time, according to Latino Decisions' polling data, a majority of Latino voters were undecided. After that date Romney suffered a 50 point drop in Latino support.
And on June 15, 2012, according to Dr. Segura, Obama won the election by issuing an executive order deferring deportation of undocumented Latinos. Prior to that there was a huge percentage of undecided Latino voters because of Obama's history of aggressive deportation policies. The announcement caused Obama to shoot up 52 points among Latinos. As noted above the final result was 71 percent Latino support for Obama and 27 percent for Romney.
But, Segura cautioned, all is not beer and Skittles for Democrats. In response to a polling question: "If the GOP took a lead role in passing comprehensive immigration reform to citizenship would it make you more likely to vote Republican?", 27 percent of Obama supporters answered "yes."
That (27 percent x 71 percent = 20 percent), coupled with the 23 percent support Romney actually received, would bring GOP Latino support to 43 percent (almost exactly the 44 percent Latino support former Texas Governor George W. Bush received winning the 2004 election). Had Romney attained that level of support, Dr. Segura explained, he would have won the popular vote and clearly taken Florida, Colorado and New Mexico.
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Thread: My struggles from tragedy
06-13-2011, 06:55 PM #1pontiacgm01Guest
My struggles from tragedy
It has been two years since my attack on the job. It has been a long and treacherous road toward getting my life back together. Now suffering from constant pain and mental problems as a result of my attack, it has left me wondering if I will ever be able to go back on the job again? Every day officers on the streets and inside the jails put their lives on the line in order to serve and protect. Almost everyday we endure challenging situations that take us to the brink of our own sanity. I never thought that my day would come as soon as it did for me that night. I sensed something was wrong that entire night. Yet, I continued my duties as I promised. I followed orders from those in charge of me despite knowing their decision was a bad call, a call that would result in me getting attacked. Why? Because I was an officer sworn to uphold a duty. Not a day goes by that I do not wish I could have that day back, I wonder should I have done what I did, should I have stood my ground against ranking officers?, should I have done something differently? For many of you, I hope that the day never comes when these questions haunt you day and night. I hope that you are never faced with the pain and suffering that I have just because we are officers. Our wounds heal and our scars we can hide, people move on and forget that that day ever happened. For those of us who lived it, that day will never go away, our wounds will never fully heal and our scars will always have a place. It can be a very hard road to travel and no matter the extent of our injuries, the emotional and mental pain will remain the same. It can take it toll on you as an individual as well as families and friends. We are soldiers of our community that are often forgotten by others. We can be forever changed by one single action of an individual. But, we can move forward with time, we can move on with our lives and we can once again rise above and stand for what we believe in. My story does not end here and I encourage officers to share their stories and find the courage to move forward. Its not easy, but its not over!
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The reasoning of "why" is not going to help you....now. Easier said than done but you must concentrate on healing yourself.
The struggles of dealing with a line of duty injury are a task in itself. Pain has a way of making someone mad. Second guessing yourself will only create more pain and that will inhibit the healing process.
Fighting/dealing with workman's comp is stressful on the individual, family and finances. It's a game to them.
Often time, co-workers don't know what to say and therefore alienate the injuried. It makes you feel forgotten...bad for the mental process. If they could only walk in your shoes for just a day...they would understand...but they don't.
Our dept after hearing all of the W/C horror stories..came up with a "program" per se...no one left behind. They check up on those on disability, see if they can assist in anyway shape or form. From dinners, dr appts, filling out paperwork or just merely company.
DX1 was injuried and finally medically retired. It was a long process....one with no assistance or guidance. She was saddened to have to leave this line of work..on someone else's terms. It was hard for her to accept...but she finally said,"Things happen for a reason. I'm not sure what that reason is right now!"
She has helped others who are going thru the W/C process..and made it an easier transition for them. What to expect etc....
With that I hope that there is someone...who can help you. Don't feel that you are the only one in this predicament...and that you are alone.
Good luck and feel free to create threads here. It's been two years since you were attacked...and you only have one post. What took you so long?? We are all brothers and sister here....willing to help in any way that we can. Some of us have BTDT a few times in our career.This profession is not for people looking for positive reinforcement from the public. Very often it can be a thankless job and you can't desire accolades, because those are not usually forthcoming. Just do your job to the best of your ability and live with the decisions you've made.
06-15-2011, 09:21 PM #3pontiacgm01Guest
Shame and confusion took me this long to post. I am at a point now that I feel like I should be over it all by now. The fact that I am not leave me shameful and out of control. Its not easy for one day. Every time I hear the doctors tell me this and that, I think to myself how am I going to live with that label now, how am I going to deal with the effects of this now and later. I am too young to be in the position that I am in and I can't help but to partly blame myself because I feel like I should have expected this at some point doing this line of work. The fact that it happened to me should not at all shock me, I should recover mentally just fine and be able to get over the physical hurdles naturally. Struggling daily with depression, flashbacks, fear and anger....at some point I wonder what's the break point? I feel like I should not be experiencing these feelings, I feel like I should be better than that, trained better than that, be able to move on better than this. But, I am not. At 30, I face the prospect of never working law enforcement again, maybe never living a completely pain free life. Living a life restricted by all the damage done by one person. Every time I feel the physical pain, I get even more angry. Each time I have to go to the doctor day in and day out, I get a little more angry. I get angry at family, friends, doctors, medications.....I desperately seek my life back, but I don't know how. My department completely abandoned me, I have not heard from anyone except 2 close friends since the attack, the night of the attack, I received one visit from the Sheriff who spoke 1 min and left me lying there. From that moment on, the department left me laying in that hospital bed broken. A job I had cherished and made so many sacrifices for left me broken, insulted, and alone. Now, I move through wondering if the career I once loved truly exists out there.
It's called being human.
Anger is negative energy.....put your negative energy toward getting yourself out of your rut! You will make yourself crazy.
You are not the only one going thru this...how about age 32....can't walk, can't stand, constant pain, fighting W/C, no visits, no calls, no answers, no approvals for drs visits, no assistance. They WERE willing to provide an endless supply of any meds .....oxycodone...sure!! Nope not going to fall for getting hooked on an opiate...TYVM! Nice try to cover up the pain...and not fix the problem.
A year later.......uhh sorry due to your limitations...we don't have sheeot for you! Put in your disability retirement which takes a year to process...so no paycheck...zero!
Ten years later......had to learn to walk again, can't stand for long periods and still can't drive! Learned to live with the pain...good days and bad days. Still angry that her career ended on someone else's terms...YOU BET! We still talk about going on calls together....like it was yesterday.
"Things happen for a reason....maybe it was meant to be"
Today we are enjoying life...exactly where we want to be...both still young (well one of us is...her) with no cares in the world!
It will come......when?? That's up to you!This profession is not for people looking for positive reinforcement from the public. Very often it can be a thankless job and you can't desire accolades, because those are not usually forthcoming. Just do your job to the best of your ability and live with the decisions you've made.
06-16-2011, 11:06 PM #5pontiacgm01Guest
I appreciate all the replies and I take the comments to consideration. Its not an easy adjustment by far, I just didn't realize it would be this difficult. In my struggles with workers comp, I too have fought off medications in lieu of being treated for the problem itself. I refuse to become a person guided strictly by pills alone. I guess my mind is so used to structure and I always saw myself with a plan, well now I don't have either of those to ground me. I struggle to even grasp a thought of having a plan at this point. What should I do after this medical is over and what should I do while I am in this situation? Those are questions that haunt me all day. There have been moments during this that I was just inches away from suicide and one more beer away from starting to drink all my pain away. Days come and go and some times they are a little more worse than the day before. Doctors try to treat me with medications and every medication doesn't work or works exactly the opposite, and they tell me they are dumbfounded at this and I am one unique tough individual to crack. I look back on that day and I try to make sense of it all. I sometimes doubt my own ability to stand up for myself. Today, I sit and I think that good days will find me. Its the bad days that will get me. I want to refuse to give that man the power to control the rest of my life. However, its like all of the pain, the doctors, the dreams, the issues just keep putting me back in that day. Like my own personal prison cell, trapped in that moment. Trying to figure it out and make sense of it. I may never get that opportunity, I thought I would had that opportunity at his trial. That turned out to be a joke as well. The department, never took a statement from me, they never talked to me about the trial, they "lost" my report of the incident and the trial was over in hours. What started as an Attempted Murder charge ended up being "Reckless Endangerment", all my suffering was worth nothing to that jury or those entrusted with pleading my case. I was left crushed and instilled with even more anger. I look at that uniform sometime and I think of the man who used to wear that with pride and now I look at me and see a shameful, broken individual who may never be the same again. I appreciate your words and I enjoy this opportunity to release some of my ideas and frustrations with people who relate to me. Maybe that is what I am lacking, someone who truly can relate to my situation. Please do keep writing and I appreciate it all. Thanks and I promise to keep writing my thoughts and sharing my ideas if that is ok with this forum?
Just knowing and understanding that you are not the only one going thru this will be the first step. What you've written is what happens to most who deal with W/C.
Feel free to write anything you want on this forum.
Enable your PM's please...This profession is not for people looking for positive reinforcement from the public. Very often it can be a thankless job and you can't desire accolades, because those are not usually forthcoming. Just do your job to the best of your ability and live with the decisions you've made.
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I really can not step in your shoes. I have been attacked before and been in the hospital, but never anything major. But, I will say never ever let the POS that did anything to you win by giving up or letting them controlling you life. If you ever need anything shoot me a PM if you need someone to talk to. Stay strong brother. We are all a family here..
06-18-2011, 07:47 PM #8pontiacgm01Guest
Expectations. What are expectations? When we are kids we have dreams of someday becoming doctors, lawyers, vets, firefighters, or police officers. We set in motion in our minds a series of realities based on how we want our lives to be and how that occupation will entangle itself into our lives. We start pretending to be that person, we gather toys and items to solidify our position as we pretend we are helping others and saving lives. We happily go about our lives wishing for that day to come, not ever considering the sacrifices or the dangers involved. As we get older, some of us will lose track of the dream of one day becoming what we once hoped. However, some of us hold true to our dreams. We do the right things in life, we work hard to achieve our goals, we spend countless hours preparing for school, we go off to college, we go into training, we find work in our field and along this whole ride we gathered more and more glimpses of what that final day would be like. The day when we finally stepped into our careers we had dreamed about all these years. We realized we had worked so hard to get there, we had done so much to make our dreams a reality for us. But, as we travel further into the depths of our career we start to realize that all the glimpses we once had of a shimmering career have started to become over shadowed. Over shadowed, by corruption, over shadowed by politics, over shadowed by dishonesty and a lack of trust. Yet, we continue on down this path, clinging to our original dream of how this time would be. What we did not calculate is that one second in our journey, that could take what we had dreamed of and what we once hoped for, to crumble at your very feet. That one instant of tragedy, that instant of distrust, that instant of change that broke everything you built down to fragments that now you must make sense of. When a childhood dream is shattered by cold reality and your mind's perception changes, what do we do? I would like to think that we can build another dream. Expectations are building stones for dreams. Without expectations there may not be hope, there may not be goals and aspirations. But, with expectations comes a possibility of hurt and failure. Expectations can just as easily turn your life around for the negative, it is up to all people what do to with the pieces after that. I have found that these pieces are hard to put together. I write this piece as I begin to tell my struggles and issues with this forum on hopes that maybe I will trigger some form or release for me. I hope that you all will share your thoughts and comments as you have. I hope that not only maybe I can be helped in writing, but someone else can be helped in hearing my struggles and knowing as mention by others on here, that they are not alone. I hope that this thread lives for those who have struggles. I hope that end the end of this some light will shine on us all. Thank you guys for listening to me and responding, it really feels great to share.
Your posts are kind of hard to read..could you break them up into paragraphs please...thanks. It makes it easier to reply.
Expectations and reality are two different things. We expect or dream what this career would be like. When you make it...it's not really what is depicted. A career of excitement is usually 2 minutes of adrenalin and 6 hours of paper! The unknown is the excitement! Our day picks us...we don't pick it!
Work ethics are a personal trait. You are not responsible for how others do or don't do their job. Your evaluation only covers what you do and how you do your job. Don't worry about other people's work ethics...and how some stray.
Most in this field only know LE. No one likes change...certainly not type A personality people. Structured and anything else doesn't compute!
For you...you must move on. Accepting the change is the hardest. Dx1's career was cut short....2 years after FTO. Trust me she struggled and still gets angry..because it wasn't on her terms.
There is life after LE......physical limitations makes it difficult...but nobody here is a quitter. Do the best you have with what you've got...tiny steps forward...sometimes you'll take two steps backward...that's okay...but make a goal...and go for it!
No one tells you no! No isn't an option. You are in control of your destiny.
Did you fix your PM'sThis profession is not for people looking for positive reinforcement from the public. Very often it can be a thankless job and you can't desire accolades, because those are not usually forthcoming. Just do your job to the best of your ability and live with the decisions you've made.
06-21-2011, 01:37 AM #10pontiacgm01Guest
DepX2- sorry for the long posts, the thoughts start coming out and I just keep typing without regard to format. Susan, I have long desired to be at the beach. The problem is, now I am not a very out in the public person. I have PTSD as a result of this attack and I basically do not go out other than to doctors. I tried and I tried to overcome it.
See that is what is mentally frustrating about this whole ordeal. I can physically comprehend the injuries I can see or feel. I can not however, grasp something mentally defected. I expect PTSD from soldiers and I feel ridiculous and foolish to experience it myself knowing there are others that it would understandably apply to.
My PTSD has altered my entire personality and isolated me completely. I do not sleep very well almost daily, I know that each time I go to sleep is gonna be a reliving of that whole day over and over, stuck on a reel. My day away from sleeping consists of my mind constantly step by step going over that day and if I try to do something other than think about that day, my mind goes nuts. For example, lets say today I decided to wash the car to provide a task that would take my mind off of just sitting around tactically going over that day in my mind. My brain will start to go off even faster, instead of calmly washing the car I get angry, I get frustrated my mind tries to go back to its processing of the attack. As I try to focus on the task I am doing, I become anxious, nervous, very upset and things start going out of control. Throwing items and getting frustrated over the simplest mishap.
Now day 2 comes along and I find myself with out any thought in my mind what so ever, an hour may have went by and I have been staring at the wall the entire time without regard to anything going on around me. Suddenly, I will snap out of it realize I should try to do something and I cant get my mind to produce a thought as to what I need to do. I might stare at laundry that I intended to fold for several minutes before my mind will produce the thought to fold that item. Even though I went right over there to fold that item instantly.
Now as for going out, FEAR! My mind will start to automatically suspect everyone of being a threat. I can not go places with too many people around. If I can not keep my eyes on people or check areas before I enter, I just can do it. Everyone is registered in my mind as a serious threat that I have to tabulate a risk into my brain. As this continues I get anxious and tense up, leading to me getting angry toward people are simply fleeing back to the house, where I have been pretty much since the whole accident.
Now I say to myself, if I can think something just as easy as what clothes I want to wear today, then I should just as easily say ok......I will not be scared, I will not get angry, I will not think about that accident, I will not get flashes in my head of that day. But, I can not turn it off. After so long, well you eventually start to feel like you are losing it. I
It doesn't take much to trigger the thoughts in my mind, it could be a sound, a smell, an action and the physical pain serves as a constant reminder of what happened and in itself serves as a trigger.
I have isolated myself from the friends and family that where very close to me. I have no desire to have fun anymore, no desire to strive for goals or ambitions. The sad thing is I miss that and realize that I have tried to to return to that point in my life and it just hasnt worked out that way for me. I do not know how to let it go. There are times that I wish that that day I should have just died. When I get up each morning and realize that a groundhog day affect is going on day in and day out, well that starts to eat at a person. Just when I think that today is going to be different, it turns out the same.
Susan I love the beach and I loved traveling, but I don't get that opportunity anymore. If I did go, I am sure it would be me , my personal nightmare, pain and the beach. Different setting same circumstances. I do not know where this will go with me. I do not know if I will survive it or if one day I will finally give in and say enough is enough. I hate to think that I have become that person, I hate that I am that person now. I hate that I have come this far and have gotten no relief. Physical pain is tangible, you can feel that injury, you can see that wound, you know that it will heal in X amount of time or not. There is nothing tangible about the mental part.
DepX2, my PM should be turned on. I am sorry for X1s situation as well. I do not want to convey that my troubles are in any way more so than any other's troubles. Officers have lost their lives, I have a life, and it saddens me to think that I am in this state of frame when I know that some officers gave it all. I hate myself for that deeply. I hate this whole situation I am in. Its late and I have babbled enough to bore you to your own demises, so I will end in saying that I once again appreciate your comments, I appreciate the opportunity to vent, and I appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks for breaking up the paragraphs.
The hardest thing for a cop to ask for is help. Your dept or medical insurance carrier should have a program to help you deal with your feelings/behavior. Look into that.
Our dept had it for everyone. Most are too "proud" to ask but after talking with others and taking the step...it was the best thing they could have done. Saved alot of marriages, families and individuals.
You need someone to talk to in person...you can't push everyone away because obviously the problem isn't going to fix itself. It may be something simple...I don't know because I'm not in that field.
As hard as it may sound...you need to take the steps toward...small steps...just make a telephone call. You've walked into the woods...it's time to start walking out!
Do you have physical limitations that prohibit you from doing things on a daily basis?This profession is not for people looking for positive reinforcement from the public. Very often it can be a thankless job and you can't desire accolades, because those are not usually forthcoming. Just do your job to the best of your ability and live with the decisions you've made.
06-21-2011, 11:53 PM #12pontiacgm01Guest
Depx2.....I do have several compressed disc in the lower back, shifted vertebrae in the upper back, suffered a broken jaw in 3 places, nerve damage to the leg and back as well. I have constant migraines and difficulty eating, I have several more surgeries to go through regarding the jaw alone. I am limited to what I can do, but I try to continue to be as active as possible. Its EXTREMELY frustrating to be limited, especially from an active person I was. I have been battling WC since the attack regarding physical and mental health. Problem is nothing has seemed to help.
Kinda like it was said some people do not understand that situation from a LEO prospective. Its hard to even admit I have a problem sometimes and its very difficult to understand my own problems. It has felt good venting and getting you guys' feedback.
06-23-2011, 05:14 PM #13pontiacgm01Guest
Susan , I am really trying to hang in there and thanks for that encouragement. Each day is difficult, but I am optimistic that there will be light at the end someday.
06-28-2011, 02:02 PM #14pontiacgm01Guest
I do have a dog, that I had for several years out of college. He has provided me with some good days. Thanks for the music link, I will use it and see what happens. I have been in a huge depressive state recently and not been sleeping at all. This has caused me to not be thinking clearly. Few nights I have been up completely wondering about, thinking things through and trying to figure them out and I really don't even know what I am trying to figure out.
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You need to find a good therapist.
06-29-2011, 01:58 AM #16pontiacgm01Guest
Its 2am EST already, and I still can not sleep. I am actually sitting here listening to the music Susan linked me to. My legs are shaking endlessly and my mind is racing as my body says I am tired, but my mind will not let go enough for me to fall asleep. I am not sure how much of these days I can take anymore. The uncertainty that tomorrow might be even worse than today? I gotta find some type of peace with this thing or its going to eat me alive inside and out. I felt the urge to drink the other day and it's kinda stuck with me for the past few days, I know that I do not need to start drinking, but my mind seems to think that it might be some form of relief for me. I see all these posts for officers lately that have fallen in the line of duty and it saddens me deeply, just reading about them seems like I absorb that negative emotion associated with the story behind it and just attach it to mine. Whats going on with me?
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I repeat, first and foremost, you need a good therapist. Sleep, nutrition, exercise, and health will come with healing. The healing starts with therapy.
1984 I was getting ready for the NASTAR runs at Arapaho Basin. While going down Pavalocini(sp?) I lost it. When I hit the ground/snow it sounded like a shotgun went off behind my head. A hundred or so yards downslope I came to rest. I just knew my neck was broken. Fortunately it was not. Unfortunately I have lived in pain ever since.
1986 I was going through a nasty divorce. The stress magnified the pain to the point I couldn't function. What'd I do? I holed up. No schedule laying around, little or no exercise and I could not sleep. Pain meds didn't work. Sleeping pills failed me. I had to make a 4 hour trip KCKS for business. The night before I took close to 10 sleeping pills(vanax or zanax or something similar sounding). After 3 hours of waiting for the meds to work I decided to go ahead and drive to KC early. I never did get to sleep. I was bone freeaking tired when I go there and still couldn't sleep. After the meeting I drove back still no sleep.
My Dr. tried to teach me some relaxation techniques and failed. Finally I changed jobs that forced me to once again have structure and a schedule in my life. That was the best thing at the time.
Why am writing this? Your present condition/troubles brought back memories of that time. I'm not sure what you are capable of physically or how much you can get around. Try to get some regular structure back into your life as much as you can. Do your PT as often as you can. Be patient. Recovery as I have found can take several weeks to many years. I have to routinely workout to keep the pain at bay... if I don't, I always end up paying for it.
I've also had several other painful accidents that are still aggravating my body. Sometimes the pain never leaves, or it waits for you to get lax and comes back with a vengeance.
Hope this helps.
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07-11-2011, 08:51 PM #19pontiacgm01Guest
Hey guys, sorry for the delay in posting. I have had a little trouble this past week getting it together and making myself take the time to post on here. A quick response you to guy's recent posts:
@Zeplin: I try to stay as active around the house as possible, I always end up having pain doing the things I once did with ease, but I am trying to continue to be an active person and not be overcome by laziness. The thing I wish, well sleep. If I do get sleep its usually not long or continuous and most everything the doctors have given me does not work either. Most of the things doctors have given me have done exactly the opposite of what they were intended for. Which Dr says I am an unusual person in that regards.
@Susan: I greatly appreciate your concern. I still struggle with going out of the house into public, just simply because I can't go out without feeling highly alert and constantly on guard for something to happen and I can not stand for people to interact with me and vice versa. I find myself in the car going bananas!!! Result, I end up right back out the house, mad, frustrated and all worked up. I am in the process of therapy, but I am not sure that I am a good person for therapy. The reason I say that is, I do not feel like the same person exists inside me anymore, I was hit in the head several times with a flashlight and even though there was no brain damage visible, I simply do not feel the same, as if I have completely turned into another person trapped amongst my old self, weird I know.
For example, I am now more angry and easily agitated than before. I suddenly started signing my name differently, and it just kinda popped in my head to sign it that way as if I had been doing it all this time. I stopped being able to concentrate and remember things short term. I can listen to a person talk to me and not be able to tell you anything they just said. Docs say that it is the PTSD and the anxiety that is clouding my brain that I will eventually get over it. But you know I haven't gotten over it.
Its very frustrating and disheartening to brush off your family that you once spent time with or friends that you once went to have a drink with, because you get angry, too scared, too depressed, too mad at the fact you won't enjoy the moment anyways. When I go I do not feel like I am even there, that is part of the reason that I stopped going, doctors told me that the more you go the more you will be able to do it without thought, but that has not happened either, the more I go the more I hate it the more I get down on myself and the more I compare the new me to the old me.
You know what else doesn't help is the constant reminder of a broken jaw being wired shut, when you have braces in your mouth now, along with screws in your gums and mouth pieces. Every time I open my mouth my jaw pops and hurts, headaches constantly, neck pain constantly, constantly biting down so hard that you wake up with sore teeth and a migraine and your jaw will barely open.
I do wish I had died that day, I do not understand what my purpose is now. My injuries are nothing compared to what some have to deal with, what soldiers have to deal with, yet my brain has taken them and crippled myself with them. I do not understand why I can not just turn it off, if I can pick what color I like, what shirt to wear, then why can I not just turn off all the constant thoughts, the anger, the stupid ways of thinking and say to hell with it, I will not be that way anymore. I can't, I am not sure I can.
Thanks for listening guys! Sorry for rambling.
07-12-2011, 12:01 AM #20If I do get sleep its usually not long or continuous and most everything the doctors have given me does not work either. Most of the things doctors have given me have done exactly the opposite of what they were intended for. Which Dr says I am an unusual person in that regards.
Nasty side effects from pain meds. The ones that aren't even listed as side effects. I know about a few. NSAID's everyone of them gave me diarhea. It did not matter. The smallest dose of Tylenol did the same. Pain meds might work for a few rounds and then nada or with hydrocodone(which has tylenol in it) even the hydrocodone with the smallest amount of tylenol gave me the $h1ts. Percocet I built up a resistance to real quick. Never have tried oxycodone for fear of addiction. Moderate exercise and doing more on a very gradual scale is the only thing that has really helped me with pain. At this point in time I am back in the pain thing because of heat exhaustion(HE) and I laid around too long without doing any exercise at all. I know what to do and now that the IV therapy I've been getting for the HE is showing results I feel safe to start my exercises again.
The PTSD is one ugly bugger and no magic bullet for it. After 12+ years I still have a fear of ladders. The last time I was on one it wasn't bad. Prior to that if the ladder even settled as I was going up, it was flashback city and I'd freeze for an instant before realising what was going on, then I had to decide if I was going up or down. Usually down. The one where I was catapulted off the back of my truck, I got rid of that piece of equipment that I was on when it happened... but I did face my fears on it and I doubt it will haunt me again.
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07-12-2011, 01:13 PM #21pontiacgm01Guest
@Bratlif2 thanks for all your interest. I will give the meditation exercises a chance. I wanted to check in once again, I am about to head out to the back doctor in hopes that I will not have to have major disc repair done. I think everyday this week I have a doctors appointment, how old am I again? 80?
@Zeplin Yes pills seemed to be my only answer and I sometimes wonder if they still are, I am the type of person though that does not like to take pills. I saw too many of my family members have medical problem, get put on medication and their overall health go so fast that they ended up dieing before their time. I do not want to be that person, yet I do not want to be a person in constant pain. I admit that I do need some good rest and probably a whole new system of living here.
Well I must go for now, but I look forward to you all posting and writing. Attaches me to something.
07-13-2011, 10:34 PM #22pontiacgm01Guest
Hey to all been to the doctors literally all day today. @Susan, yes I do grind and I have a mouth guard. The tendons and muscles aligned with the jaw joint are damaged and tightened in their repair, they compare my bite to a dog's bite. I have been in a lot of pain today, I have tried to go all day without taking any pain medications and all, I have been really sick lately I think from medications. So I am a bit irritable right now.
On a positive note, I have collected all of the links and advice and have started to organize them into a routine for sleeping , relaxing and trying to get on with things. Tomorrow I visit my therapist and I am going to discuss the things in life that I miss, the things in life that I wish I could do without pain, and discuss my increasing urge to turn to drinking as a pain killer and number to all this. Hopefully, I will have some focus tomorrow, I hope that is the result.
Not trying to be pushy but perhaps you could share your story of what happened. It can be cathartic. Although not as serious as your injury sounds, I was injured in April 2010 and didn't return to work until late February 2011.Moooooooooooo, I'm a goat
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Not doing so great right now, mind is playing tricks on me and having a difficult time.
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VINCENT - Warren is hoping to add another boys' basketball crown to an already banner 2012-13 season.
The Southeastern Ohio Athletic League, sectional, and district champion Warriors are scheduled to play New Philadelphia in an Ohio Division II regional title game at the Ohio University Convocation Center at 3 p.m. today.
At stake is a state tournament berth at the Value City Arena in Columbus next week.
"They are big," said Warren head coach and Southeast District Coach of the Year Blane Maddox of New Phildelphia. "They are well-coached. They are patient. And, they like to spread the floor and get the ball to their big guys."
New Philadelphia (19-7) advanced to the showdown tilt against Warren with a convincing 65-50 upset triumph over No. 5 ranked St. Clairsville (22-2) in a regional semi at the Convo on Thursday. The red and black never trailed in the contest.
The Chad Spurgeon-coached Quakers were paced by 5-foot-8 Dylan Hagan, 6-6 Ethan Boose, and 6-3 Marco Colombo, who combined to score 53 points, grab 21 rebounds, and dish out eight assists.
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NP's other probably starters will be 6-3 Caleb Beans and 5-6 Jamal Johnson, a defensive specialist.
JoVoh Morrow chipped in with seven bench points for the Quakers, who shot a sizzling 63.4 percent from the floor against St. Clairsville.
The red and black cagers of Tuscarawas County compete in the East Central Ohio League.
Warren got to the regional final by virtue of its 74-69 overtime win against Athens at the Convo on Thursday night. The Warriors, who had to erase a double-digit deficit with a fourth-quarter rally to send the contest into OT, were led by 6-3 Southeast District Player of the Year Evan French, who tallied 29 points, including 27 after the third quarter.
Six-two Dylan Leffingwell added 14 points and was one carom shy of a double-double. Six-three Reece Patton netted 13 markers and collected seven boards.
Warren, ninth ranked in the state and the owner of a 20 game winning streak, is also expected to start 5-9 Evan Yabs and 6-5 Michael Hall.
Look for Danny Pannell and Adam Lang to be the first royal blue and white cagers off the pine.
Warren's only setback this winter was 69-47 to Upper Arlington in the Ohio River Classic at Marietta College's Ban Johnson Arena on Dec. 29, 2012. The Tim Casey-coached Golden Bears finished with an 11-11 overall mark, and were 8-6 in the Ohio Capitol Conference.
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Hey folks! My life-partner and collaborator Sarah has been working on a web comic that started in October... Although the idea had been gestating since she finished high school. She's completed 8 pages that are available to read now, starting here:
Every page has been painstakingly hand rendered, scanned, cleaned up and digitally painted. Obviously, we both have day jobs, so it can be a struggle to maintain it consistently.
We're trying to bridge the gap between older and younger audiences; it's a sweet and sentimental story about imaginary friends and what happens to them when you grow up and forget about them... but with a much darker tone than 'Fosters'. I draw other comparisons to Dark City and A series of unfortunate events - there are frightening elements but it will remain whimsical for the most part. Certainly no bad language.
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Your art is beautiful! It almost looks like color pencils, rather than digital.
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Thank you so much, she really appreciated that
Sarah has taken some feedback from a few other sources this week, I have a feeling the next panel may look a bit different.
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Interesting fun read and easy on the eye art, I was annoyed when I ran out of pages, good job.
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We've just hit the end of 'chapter one' and I'm hoping I can get some feedback. Chapter two will start soon from the perspective of "the girl in the window"
We're going to have a small press booth at Wondercon if anyone is going?
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Wow, your art is fan-fucking-tastic
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The story is interesting and holding my attention.
Please more!
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Thank you! Sarah is cranking out more pages again. Chapter 2 began on Sunday and there should be another update later this week. I wish I could help her more (it's a lot of work and she has a day job) but alas I am a mere graphic designer with poor draftsmanship... So instead of helping I'm making some cubeecraft versions of her characters
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Wow, I found myself getting into the comic pretty quick. The 3rd page was a real good hook for me haha. Your artwork is also very nice! About your text, is it the same as the text used for "Walt Disney"?
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I have to say I'm impressed. I especially like the coloring, but the art in general is good - it's solid and consistent. It all reads very easily, it's quite a page-turner at the moment, but it remains to be seen where you are actually planning to take the story.
If I have to find some minor things to point out, I think something's still off about the lettering. Little details make me assume it's hand-lettered, which would be fantastic. Still, it is decidedly uppercase, except for the letter "i". It's far from being a dealbreaker, but it just stood out to me. The "e"s also stand out a bit, though I can't quite put my finger on why either.
I have to say, chapter 1, page 1, final panel: I love it.
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Sarah got a BFA in animation, which might explain the Disney connection. She is indeed hand lettering it. We're thinking maybe it's time for her to have it made into a font, that way she doesn't have to hand letter every panel, with the exception of words that need special emphasis... But yeah, sorry if the letters are bothering you, it's a labor of love for her really, I think she really enjoys doing everything... even the scan cleanup
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Wonderful art style and great characters. The story is interesting too. Only complaint is it has too few pages at the moment
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TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama formally announced the hiring of Mario Cristobal as the football program's new offensive line coach Wednesday. The Tuscaloosa News reported Monday that the 42-year-old Cristobal would replace Jeff Stoutland in the role.
Cristobal had been the tight ends coach at the University of Miami for just five weeks before accepting a position at Alabama. Prior to that, the former Hurricanes offensive lineman spent six years as head coach at Florida International.
"We are very pleased to announce the addition of Mario Cristobal to our staff," UA coach Nick Saban said. "He has an outstanding reputation as both a coach and a recruiter. He will be a great fit in our organization, and I think our players will respond to his positive attitude and energy. This is a very important hire in terms of working with our offensive line, and we feel fortunate that we were able to hire a coach of Mario's caliber."
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As the only single-volume work to offer a full account of Navy and Marine Corps actions in the Philippines during World War II, this book provides a unique source of information on the early part of the war. It is filled with never-before-published details about the fighting, based on a rich collection of American and newly discovered Japanese sources, and includes a revealing discussion of the buildup of tensions between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Navy that continued for the remainder of the war. U.S. Army veteran and defense analyst John Gordon describes in considerable detail the unusual missions of the Navy and Marine Corps in the largely Army campaign, where sailors fought as infantrymen alongside their Marine comrades at Bataan and Corregidor, crews of Navy ships manned the Army's heavy coastal artillery weapons, and Navy submarines desperately tried to supply the men with food and ammunition. He also chronicles the last stand of the Navy's colorful China gunboats at Manila Bay.
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"Lest we forget their story, John Gordon's Fighting for MacArthur is an absolute must-read."
— Leatherneck, January 2012
"This is the keeper of this year's crop, and proof there are still new stories to be told about that dangerous, desperate time. Gordon shows skill with describing the choreography of combat, and the balance of factual detail doesn't overwhelm colorful anecdotes and streamlined storytelling."
— Honolulu Star-Advertiser, December 6, 2011
"Gordon's effort makes for interesting, if provocative reading…All in all, a well-written great read for all armchair strategists who have lingering questions regarding the Navy's role in the fall of the Philippines."
— Sea Classics, January 2012
"In this well-researched volume drawing on official and personal accounts, the author comprehensively covers the experiences of the Navy and Marine Corps in their supporting role under MacArthur to hold the Philippines during the ill-fated five-month campaign, December 8, 1941–May 6, 1942."
—WILLIAM H. BARTSCH, author of December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
"John Gordon is a consummate soldier-scholar. In Fighting for MacArthur he combines his deep military knowledge with exhaustive research to write the definitive volume on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps actions in the desperate fight for the Philippines at the beginning of World War II. Most importantly, Gordon also shows how Gen. Douglas MacArthur created a climate of distrust between himself and senior U.S. Navy officers that deeply affected the ability of the United States to fight a joint war against the Japanese. It is a superb contribution to the scholarship on World War II and the U.S. military."
—COL. DAVID E. JOHNSON, USA (RET.), senior researcher at the RAND Corporation, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and author of Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers: Innovation in the U.S. Army, 1917–1945 and Learning Large Lessons: The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post–Cold War Era
"Long overdue, John Gordon's study on the sailors and Marines who fought so valiantly in the early days of World War II is an apt tribute to these Americans who defiantly stood in the face of overwhelming odds. Today, few Americans know of their sacrifice or remember the names of individuals who fought so bravely. Now all will know the details that Gordon lays out so well, and the tragic story of the men who continued to battle the Japanese long after any hope of survival remained. Over the years, the saga of MacArthur and the Army has been enthusiastically told, but almost always without the role that the Navy and Marine Corps played in the fight to hold the Philippines. John Gordon has 'righted the ship' by providing this evenhanded volume, Fighting for MacArthur."
—J. MICHAEL MILLER, Marine Corps archivist, author of From Shanghai to Corregidor: Marines in the Defense of the Philippines


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Ireland's abandoned equine issue has reached crisis level. With thousands of unwanted and unregulated horses roaming the Isle and being easily targeted by unscrupulous meat processing practitioners, it begs the question: have abandoned Irish horses entered the food chain? And, more importantly, have those horses contained bute (phenylbutazone)? Bute causes cancer in humans.
While horses are only accepted into the human food chain with "clean" passports – that is having had no prohibited medications like the horse painkiller drug bute, it is difficult to confirm that Irish horses, which have been slaughtered for human consumption, had the required "clean" passport.
Irish horses do not wear ear tags, individually identifying them, which makes their "passport" history questionable. Joseph A. Collins et al., while doing research on Irish equine welfare, claimed, "Dealers openly admitted that they did not necessarily seek horse identification documents (in contravention of the law) when sourcing horses as they could apply to a Horse Passport Issuing Authority of their choice for a new set.")
Last year Stephen Philpott, spokesperson for the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) stated, "Hundreds of unwanted horses are being rounded up and sold into the food chain using false paperwork. We have been following lorry loads of horses to abattoirs in Ireland, Britain and Europe for months now. We have watched abattoirs being opened up late at night so people can deliver lorry loads of horses and have them slaughtered in the middle of the night." And, several days ago, British MP, Mary Creagh, reported that she "..... is in receipt of evidence showing that several horses slaughtered in UK abattoirs last year tested positive for phenylbutazone, or bute. It is possible that those animals entered the human food chain."
While the issue of illegal horse meat processing needs to be addressed, it seems that the underlying deeper issue that is culminating into this crisis is Ireland's unregulated and overpopulation of equidae. As a result of the Celtic Tiger, Ireland's equine ownership increased to the highest horse population per capita in Europe. During the boom, the horse, along with a golf club membership, a Mercedes Benz, and a sprawling house, became a symbol of status. Thousands of horses were purchased, some as pets, and some for racing. Ordinary farm lands were acquired as stud farms, and breeders turned out thoroughbreds that fetched as much as €1 million. The number of registered foals shot up 40 per cent between the years 2000 and 2007.
However, when the global recession hit, the sale price of horses plummeted. Top-class thoroughbreds sold for as little as €300,000, and non-thoroughbreds became almost worthless. According to Seán MacConnell of the Irish Times, "Horses have become so devalued in Dublin they have been swapped for a mobile phone….."
The low sale price coupled with the cost of upkeep made the horse a liability for many cash-strapped owners. They faced a conundrum: keep a horse they couldn't afford to feed, stable, and provide veterinary care for, or abandon it. Many owners chose abandonment, evidence of which quickly became widespread throughout the island. For example, 70 horses were rescued from appalling conditions at an Antrim farm. "The horses were confined in a tarmac yard and left wallowing in two feet of their own mess. It was unable to drain. It was saturated. There was not a blade of grass on it," charity spokesperson David Wilson told U Television. This was the largest equine rescue operation in the 174-year long history of the USPCA, who had to call in other organizations to assist in the effort.
At Dunsink, a former landfill near Dublin, 86 horses were abandoned in the winter and left to starve. When the horses were rescued by The Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) in the spring, many had to be put down. Twenty-seven were removed to the pound and 14 were found dead. DSPCA said that they "have encountered equine dying in horrific pain and numerous dead horses decomposing all round Dublin. Some dying and dead horses have been simply dumped by their owners, dragged from trailers or horse boxes and left so that the owner won't have to deal with veterinary costs or the risk of prosecution." DSPCA claims that it noticed a direct increase in numbers of abandoned horses following fairs such as the one in Smithfield, which is unlicensed and unregulated. "Markets like the one in Smithfield means anyone can easily buy equine for as cheap at €8, irrespective of a person's lack of resources and knowledge of equine care."
To make matters worse, Irish animal welfare societies are unable to cope with the tremendous number of abandoned horses. Welfare experts estimate that since the collapse of the Celtic Tiger, as many as 20,000 horses have been abandoned. "We have a huge problem," said Conor Dowling, an inspector for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA). ISPCA has seen a several-fold increase in the numbers of equine related calls and the numbers of animals taken into care in recent years.


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Firemen running to a blaze
The Firemen is one of Courbet's most enigmatic large-scale works. After the death of her brother, Juliette Courbet found this huge canvas rolled up in his studio and donated it to the City of Paris. The scene depicts the outbreak of a fire in a Parisian street at night.
A workman in overalls with his arm in the air has raised the alarm. The hand-drawn fire cart has been wheeled out of the fire station. Passers-by – a working-class mother, a staggering adolescent and a bourgeois couple – stand back to leave it room for manoeuvre. The firemen simulated setting off by torchlight for the painter, but the idea for the painting goes back to a trip Courbet made to Holland, which by his own admission was an important lesson in painting for him. Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642), which he saw in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, depicts the municipal guard setting off under the command of Captain Cocq. As in the Burial at Ornans (Paris, Musée d'Orsay), the wheeling movement performed by the firemen disrupts the longitudinal perspective of the composition in which all the figures are grouped in the lower half of the canvas. This movement, which is exaggerated by arm gestures, seems to extend beyond the canvas towards the visitor standing in front of it. Courbet reserved the upper half of the painting for the urban landscape, whose diagonal grounds punctuate the composition. In a striking form of shorthand, Courbet conjures up the urban renewal which is underway in the capital by juxtaposing a Gothic gate on the right, symbolising the medieval town, with a gas lamp, symbolising the City of Light under construction.
The uprising during the coup d'état on 2 December 1851 at Poissy fire station, where Courbet was working, put an end to the project. Second Officer, Jean-Victor Frond, depicted in the group of firemen, sided with the Republicans. He was brought before a council of war and deported to Algeria. Some historians, basing themselves on Courbet's socialist convictions have detected a political allegory in the unfinished work, recalling the social intentions of the Prince-president, elected by universal suffrage and the author, in 1844, of an essay entitled The elimination of pauperism. With its strong physical impact, rejection of theatricality and multilayered iconography, this piece is one of the most significant of Courbet's realist works, whose novelty was becoming apparent in the 1850s.


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- Jan 13:
- 49ers-Seahawks: What is Jim Harbaugh's team in for?
- 49ers' Harbaugh on Seahawks' ticket blackballing: 'I respect it'
- Jim Harbaugh says 49ers are well prepared for Seahawks
- San Francisco 49ers' previous NFC Championship games
- Kawakami: 49ers knew it would end this way: a trip to Seattle with Super Bowl on the line
- Grading the 49ers' victory over Panthers
SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers' reward for beating the Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers on the road is another game in an unfriendly environment. And the upcoming game against the Seattle Seahawks won't be played in just any venue.
CenturyLink Field has turned into a house of horrors for the 49ers of late, with the Seahawks beating the 49ers last season and this season by a combined score of 71-16.
Yet, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday that he feels as if the path to Sunday's NFC Championship Game prepared his team for the challenge that lies ahead.
"Our team has been in a lot of good primers, been through a lot of situations, been through tough environments, whether it be weather or opposing stadiums," Harbaugh said.
Indeed. The 49ers are 8-2 on the road this season, including a 23-20 victory over the Packers in an NFC wild-card game and a 23-10 win in Charlotte on Sunday.
They beat the Packers despite frigid weather and brutal conditions. A week later, they dominated the Panthers after flying cross country and playing before a partisan crowd for the third week in a row -- they played in Arizona in the regular-season finale.
The Packers and Panthers enjoy a distinct home-field advantage. The Seahawks are on a different level, though, Harbaugh conceded.
"There's a lot of loud venues; I wouldn't want to disrespect any of the loud venues," Harbaugh said. "But I would have to say that that's the loudest, yes."
The Seahawks lost only one game at home the past two seasons. That came against Arizona late this season.
Harbaugh likened his well-traveled team -- the 49ers played in London earlier this season -- to a country song.
"Been everywhere, man," Harbaugh said. "Just like something from a Johnny Cash song, 'We've been everywhere, man.' Everywhere. A lot of situations."
What most people probably were unaware of is that the 49ers switched from a standard six-lineman, two-linebacker goal-line scheme to a 5-3 look on the play. Brooks is the guy that defensive coordinator Vic Fangio moved as part of a new wrinkle for the Panthers.
"That's been our defense on the goal line for the (three) years that we've been here," Harbaugh said of the 6-2 alignment. "We've never shown a 5-3. And we'd taken Ahmad and moved him to the center to create the 5-3, which was unscouted. We had not shown that. It was a great move by Vic Fangio."
Overall, the 49ers held firm on four plays from their 1-yard line during two first-and-goal series in the first half. Three plays netted no yards. The other resulted in a loss of 1 yard.
"The game, for anyone that watched it, came down to two foot-to-go (situations) at the goal line, and penalties," Panthers tight end Greg Olsen said after the game. "If you start doing the math to know how all that adds up, the score's a different ballgame.
"Offensively, you can't have two goal-to-go opportunities at the foot line and get a grand total of three points."
Harbaugh isn't one of those up in arms about the exclusionary practice, which the Denver Broncos also are doing for their home game against the New England Patriots.
"Well, it's within the rules," Harbaugh said. "It's within the spirit of the rules of the National Football League. I actually respect it, what you're trying to do for your team, put them in the best possible position to win that you can.
"And I respect that their organization does that for their team. They do that in a lot of ways, with their team, with their fans, with their organization. So, what do I think of it? I respect it."
The NFL said that its teams are allowed to use such an approach and that this isn't a unique situation.
The Seahawks, of course, are trying to make it as difficult as possible for any 49ers fans to infiltrate Seattle's rabid fan base and cut into its considerable home-field advantage.
Seattle is 16-1 at home the past two seasons, including a victory over the New Orleans Saints on Saturday. They beat the 49ers in Seattle 29-3 on Sept. 15. Last season, the Seahawks beat the 49ers 42-13 at CenturyLink.
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LODI - Detectives from the Lodi Police Department's Special Investigations Unit made two arrests while conducting surveillance on a known drug house Thursday in the 2100 block of Newbury Circle, authorities said.
Police stopped Bryan Schaffner, 24, as he left the house in a vehicle about 1:40 p.m., authorities said. Inside the vehicle, police found 12.2 grams of heroin in a plastic container with a razor blade, authorities said.
Schaffner was arrested on suspicion of drug possession, drug transportation and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. Authorities also arrested Sundeep Singh, 25, on suspicion of possession of stolen property and for an outstanding warrant, police said.
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Officials of the Missouri State Fair say this year's attendance rose more than 3 percent from last year.
A final report says admissions to the 11-day August fair totaled about 366,000, an increase of about 13,000 from 2012.
Fair Director Mark Wolfe says the attendance boost is helping the fair's finances. He says good weather, promotions and special celebrations contributed to growing attendance.
Next year's Missouri State Fair is scheduled to run from Aug. 7 to Aug. 17.
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Definición de jab en inglés:
verbo (jabs, jabbing, jabbed)[with object and adverbial]
1Poke roughly or quickly, especially with something sharp or pointed: she jabbed him in his ribs [no object]: he jabbed at the air with his finger
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Mr Hoebig jabbed at it quickly with his bow, but had to return his attention to his playing.
- Ubdal found herself being jabbed at by rifles, and forced into her friends as the attacks advanced.
- The guy whacked at our van with his stick and jabbed at Austin's face through the glass as Mike drove us away.
poke, prod, dig, nudge, tap, butt, ram, elbow, shove, punch, jolt;
thrust, stab, push, plunge, stick, insert, drive, lunge
1.1Roughly or quickly thrust (a sharp or pointed object) someone or something: she jabbed the fork into the earth
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- Ketara repeated, picking up her fork and jabbing it into her salad.
- The way he was jabbing his fork at the pasta sort of showed his frustration with that too.
- Riana jabbed her fork at him before impaling another leaf of lettuce with it.
1A quick, sharp blow, especially with the fist: a jab in the stomach
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- Myst caught the fist but was still took the blow from the quick jab that followed.
- Using jabs to keep the bigger man at bay and hard rights to stun him time after time, Ellis handled Bonavena with surprising ease.
- Ali used his speed to avoid Cooper's hook and he used his jabs to open a severe cut over Cooper's eye.
poke, prod, dig, nudge, tap, butt, elbow, shove, punch, jolt;
thrust, stab, push, plunge, drive, lunge
1.1British informal A hypodermic injection, especially a vaccination: an anti-tetanus jab
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- Her mother Mandy, 38, has now urged all parents to have their children vaccinated with the MMR jab, which protects children against measles, mumps and rubella.
- Mrs Lloyd said her son developed symptoms of the rare Guillain-Barre syndrome eight days after receiving the MMR jab.
- A couple of weeks ago my son who has the same first name as me but he is M.A. Gray whilst I am M.P. Gray went to the surgery to have jabs etc. for his holiday in the Gambia.
1.2A sharp, painful sensation or feeling: a jab of envy
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- A sharp jab of pain stabbed at her leg, and she heard an ominous crack.
- Gabrielle lay motionless on the ground, curled up in a ball, vainly trying to stop the ponding, flashes and sharp jabs of pain coming from all over her body, it seemed.
- A warm, stinging feeling had begun to spread about her shoulder, and sharp jabs of pain began attacking her knee.
Early 19th century (originally Scots): variant of job2.
Palabras que riman con jabblab, cab, confab, crab, Crabbe, dab, drab, fab, flab, gab, grab, kebab, lab, nab, scab, slab, smash-and-grab, stab, tab
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The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's basketball team opens a string of seven games out of nine at home when it takes on Sam Houston State on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Dugan Wellness Center. This will mark the only game this season that the Islanders play on campus.
• The Islanders have one of the youngest teams in Division I, with an average age of 20 years, five months heading into today's matchup.
• Johnathan Jordan had a career-high 24 points and 10 rebounds against Southeastern Louisiana for his third career double-double.
• The Islanders posted their seventh game with 10 or fewer turnovers on Saturday when they had just nine turns at Southeastern Louisiana. That followed a season-high 20 turnovers at Nicholls the game before.
• Junior Will Nelson has three double-doubles in his last four games and has topped double-digit rebounds in each of the last four. He is now averaging 15.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in league play.
• Texas A&M - Corpus Christi had its worst game of the season at the free-throw stripe on Saturday, going 11-for-22, just the second time it has been under 60 percent in a game. The Islanders are shooting .097 higher at the line this year than they did a year ago.
• Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is ineligible for the postseason because of poor results in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate. No Islander who has played under Wilson had anything to do with the subpar score.
The Islanders are 5-11 all-time against Sam Houston State, including a 61-57 loss to the Bearkats when the team teams met at the start of January in Huntsville. Overall, the Islanders have a 3-4 record against SHSU in Corpus Christi, but that mark includes a 70-68 win over SHSU in the Dugan Wellness Center in 2010. Should the Islanders win Saturday's game, it would mark the third straight year in which the two teams split the regular-season series.
In the first matchup between the teams this season, SHSU used a late 10-2 run to rally past the Islanders at Johnson Coliseum. The Bearkats had four players in double figures in winning their conference opener.Johnathan Jordan led the Islanders with 13 points and added five assists, five rebounds and two steals in the loss. Darius Gatson led all players with 18 points for the Bearkats.
Sam Houston State continues to have one of the most balanced attacks in the Southland Conference. Darius Gatson is the team's leading scorer at just 8.9 points per game, but SHSU has eight different players averaging 5.6 points per game or more on the season. Terrance Motley leads the Bearkats on the glass at 5.8 rebounds per game, but six different players for SHSU average 3.1 or more.
After winning their conference opener against the Islanders, the Bearkats won three of the next four to sit among the conference leaders at 4-1. But a home, overtime loss to Oral Roberts started a three-game losing streak for SHSU, with the Bearkats dropping games at Southeastern and in overtime at Nicholls last weekend. In that game, the Colonels overcame an 18-point second half deficit to come back in the victory.
He's only a sophomore, but Houston native Johnathan Jordan has been thrust into the role of leader on the young Islanders squad. Jordan led the Southland in assists per game in 2011-12, and was also among the leaders in minutes per game.
Jordan was outstanding as a distributor a season ago, but his growth as a scorer is notable. After averaging 6.5 points last year, the point guard has contributed 12.9 points per game, largely on his ability to get to the rim and the free-throw line. Despite his 5-foot-10 frame, he leads the team with 114 points in the paint and has hit a team-best 89 free throws, including a 12-for-13 performance at the line against McNeese. His 12 free throws are tied for fourth-most in a game in Islanders history and he is just seven free throws away from cracking the single-season top 10.
Perhaps more impressive is Jordan's all-around game. His distribution is what he is most known for, and with 5.0 assists per game this year, he sits third in the Southland. On Jan. 12 at Lamar, he posted 11 assists, matching the school record, and had his second career double-double. Over the last five games, he has posted 38 assists to 15 turnovers, adding nine-assist games at McNeese and vs. UCA.
Jordan is also strong on the glass, having grabbed five-plus rebounds nine times this year, including a career-high 10 last game. He shows high on the stamina scale as well, where he is second in the Southland at 35.7 minutes per game. He has been on the court for 37 minutes or more 11 times this year.
The diminutive guard is one of the most athletic Islanders, as evidenced by his two slam-dunk contest championships, thanks to his 48-inch running vertical leap. His 138 assists last season set a school record.
Despite the Islanders' struggles in the win column and with offensive fouls, the team has been surprisingly efficient when it comes to turnovers. A&M - Corpus Christi is averaging 12.3 per game – fewer than their opponents' 12.6 – and ranked 74th in the nation entering this week. The Islanders have posted 10 turnovers or fewer in three of the last four games, including nine last game at Southeastern. They have six games this season with 10 turns or fewer.
Earlier in the year, the Islanders took care of the ball like no other time in program history. After posting six turnovers at Utah State – the second lowest total in school lore – the Islanders matched the school record with only five turns against Houston.
Last Thursday was a distinct exception, as the Islanders turned the ball over 20 times with Nicholls tallying just three steals. It marked just the fourth game this season that the Islanders had more than 15 turnovers (19 against TLU, 18 against Oklahoma, 16 at Toledo).
Nonetheless, it is a marked improvement from the ball control for the team from last season. A&M - Corpus Christi averaged 15.2 turnovers per game and ranked 291st in the country out of 338 teams. The Islanders had 14 games with 15 turnovers or more last year, and just three with 10 or fewer.
The Islanders' struggles at the free-throw line were well documented last year. A&M - Corpus Christi shot just 360-for-600 (.600) at the line a year ago.
But this year, the team has improved significantly, hitting at a .697 clip that has them second in the Southland. The Islanders have three regulars shooting .748 or better. Hameed Ali leads the way at .833, while Joy Williamson is connecting at a .750 rate and Johnathan Jordan is shooting .748. At McNeese State, the Islanders went 22-for-27, led by a 12-for-13 performance by Jordan. However, last time out, the Islanders went just 11-for-22 at the line, with Will Nelson going 0-for-5.
In 2011-12, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi ranked 331st in the nation in free-throw shooting. As of Jan. 31, the Islanders sat 146th in the nation this year. They have shot .667 or better in 10 of the last 12 games.
No newcomer on the Islanders roster came in with higher expectations than junior Will Nelson. The skilled wing was expected to play a major role in the team's offensive output, and he has shown on several occasions that he has the ability to fulfill those expectations.
The McNeese State contest was the most recent example, as the Louisiana native thrived in his return to his home state, knocking down four threes en route to 24 points and nine rebounds. It marked Nelson's third game this season with 20 points.
He has really heated up on both ends since beginning conference play. He posted the first double-double for the Islanders this season with 24 points and 14 rebounds against Stephen F. Austin, going 9-for-17 from the field. He added his second double-double against Oral Roberts, when he had 18 points and 10 rebounds. He then posted double-doubles in both games last weekend at Nicholls and Southeastern La. His career high in points is 28, when he added eight rebounds against Houston.
The junior college transfer is averaging 13.9 points and 7.9 rebounds for the Islanders, including an average of 15.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in conference contests. With his five double-digit rebound games in conference play, Nelson sits atop the league. He and SFA's Taylor Smith are the only two players with four double-doubles in Southland play. He has had at least eight rebounds in 12 of 18 games.


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