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Summary Report for:
39-9032.00 - Recreation Workers
Conduct recreation activities with groups in public, private, or volunteer agencies or recreation facilities. Organize and promote activities, such as arts and crafts, sports, games, music, dramatics, social recreation, camping, and hobbies, taking into account the needs and interests of individual members.
Sample of reported job titles: Activities Assistant, Activities Coordinator, Activities Director, Activity Aide, Activity Assistant, Activity Director, Program Assistant, Recreation Assistant, Recreation Specialist, Recreation Supervisor
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Enforce rules and regulations of recreational facilities to maintain discipline and ensure safety.
- Manage the daily operations of recreational facilities.
- Administer first aid according to prescribed procedures and notify emergency medical personnel when necessary.
- Organize, lead, and promote interest in recreational activities, such as arts, crafts, sports, games, camping, and hobbies.
- Greet new arrivals to activities, introducing them to other participants, explaining facility rules, and encouraging participation.
- Supervise and coordinate the work activities of personnel, such as training staff members and assigning work duties.
- Confer with management to discuss and resolve participant complaints.
- Explain principles, techniques, and safety procedures to participants in recreational activities and demonstrate use of materials and equipment.
- Complete and maintain time and attendance forms and inventory lists.
- Evaluate recreation areas, facilities, and services to determine if they are producing desired results.
- Ascertain and interpret group interests, evaluate equipment and facilities, and adapt activities to meet participant needs.
- Encourage participants to develop their own activities and leadership skills through group discussions.
- Meet and collaborate with agency personnel, community organizations, and other professional personnel to plan balanced recreational programs for participants.
- Meet with staff to discuss rules, regulations, and work-related problems.
- Direct special activities or events, such as aquatics, gymnastics, or performing arts.
- Provide for entertainment and set up related decorations and equipment.
- Conduct individual in-room visits with residents.
- Serve as liaison between park or recreation administrators and activity instructors.
- Evaluate staff performance, recording evaluations on appropriate forms.
- Schedule maintenance and use of facilities.
- Take residents on community outings.
- Oversee the purchase, planning, design, construction, and upkeep of recreation facilities and areas.
Technology Skills
- Calendar and scheduling software — Scheduling software
- Charting software
- Data base user interface and query software — Database software; Recordkeeping software
- Desktop publishing software — Microsoft Publisher
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Internet browser software — Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Office suite software — Corel WordPerfect Office Suite; Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Microsoft Windows
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Braille devices for the physically challenged — Braille materials
- Calendars
- Cash registers — Cashboxes
- Desktop computers
- Dry erase boards or accessories — Whiteboards
- Emergency medical services first aid kits — First aid kits
- Informational signs
- Ladders
- Laser fax machine — Laser facsimile machines
- Microphones
- Minivans or vans — Passenger vans
- Mobile phones
- Photocopiers
- Pocket calculator — Handheld calculators
- Sport scoreboards — Electronic scoreboards
- Two way radios
- Wheelchairs
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Work Activities
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Detailed Work Activities
- Enforce rules or regulations.
- Monitor recreational facility operations.
- Administer first aid.
- Explain regulations, policies, or procedures.
- Organize recreational activities or events.
- Greet customers, patrons, or visitors.
- Promote products, services, or programs.
- Assign duties or work schedules to employees.
- Supervise service workers.
- Train service staff.
- Communicate with management or other staff to resolve problems.
- Demonstrate activity techniques or equipment use.
- Prepare operational reports or records.
- Gather information in order to provide services to clients.
- Inspect facilities.
- Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
- Develop plans for programs or services.
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Arrange facility schedules.
- Accompany individuals or groups to activities.
- Arrange items for use or display.
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Work Context
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 91% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 67% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 62% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 63% responded "Extremely important."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 51% responded "Every day."
- Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable — 63% responded "Every day."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 51% responded "A lot of freedom."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 43% responded "Extremely important."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 45% responded "Some freedom."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 44% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 47% responded "Important results."
- Deal With External Customers — 45% responded "Extremely important."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 56% responded "Every day."
- Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 36% responded "Every day."
- Electronic Mail — 46% responded "Every day."
- Physical Proximity — 44% responded "Slightly close (e.g., shared office)."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 35% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Responsible for Others' Health and Safety — 43% responded "High responsibility."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 41% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 28% responded "Very high responsibility."
- Spend Time Standing — 41% responded "About half the time."
- Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled — 31% responded "Every day."
- Public Speaking — 26% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Very Hot or Cold Temperatures — 27% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Letters and Memos — 32% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 30% responded "Important."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
Interest code: SEA
- Social — Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
- Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
- Artistic — Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
Work Styles
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
Work Values
- Relationships — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2016)
|$11.48 hourly, $23,870 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2014)
|379,000 employees
|Projected growth (2014-2024)
|Faster than average (9% to 13%)
|Projected job openings (2014-2024)
|State trends
|Top industries (2014)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2016 wage data and 2014-2024 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2014-2024). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- Recreation workers . Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-17 Edition.


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Rover addresses weekend arrest
(Cleveland) - Shane "Rover" French of "Rover's Morning Glory" on 100.7 WMMS has addressed his weekend arrest,
The Avon resident spoke Monday morning about his arrest that took place in the early morning hours of July 5.
Rover's comments were about the allegations against himself and co-host Michael "Chocolate Charlie" Toomey.
"A lot of people know, over the past few days because of all the media reports, that "Chocolate Charlie" and I were arrested Friday morning. I can't get into a whole lot of detail about this, of course, because of the pending charges and that kind of stuff. I can't get into any of the factual details. I can't tell you my side of the story at this point. But trust me when I say, that will come out very very soon.
To be honest, I don't have a prepared statement or anything, but I will say this: The allegations are absolutely absurd, ridiculous and not based in fact whatsoever. In fact, if these charges weren't so serious, it would be comical. But it is very serious and I'm taking the matter very seriously.
As soon as I'm able to talk about it more, I will.
I know it's difficult. People form opinions after you hear one side of the story or after an initial report. Human nature is to say, "Well, OK, that must have been the way that things went down." But I will urge you to resist that temptation until all the facts are out there.
My attorneys have interviewed every single eyewitness to these events. They are in possession of surveillance video of these events. I will tell you with 100 percent certainty that when all of these facts are brought to light that I will prevail in this matter and the truth will come out. After that happens, I will take steps to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone else.
I would love to get into more detail, I would love to give my side of the story -- but unfortunately I can't. But I think you may hear my side of the story much sooner than you are counting on and I will try to do that as quickly as possible.
But let me just say, in as strong of terms as possible, that these allegations are 100 percent false. They will be proven -- with an underline -- proven to be 100 percent false. I eagerly await that opportunity.
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French was charged with felonious assault after being accused of shoving an off-duty police officer in a dispute over fireworks.
The 37-year-old French spent the night in jail before being released on $5,000 bond.
According to the police report, French and Toomey are accused of shooting fireworks at an off-duty police officer, shoving him and running away when he tried to arrest them.
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No longer are hospitals and healthcare facilities merely functional— they must now also take the emotional well-being of users into consideration.
No longer are hospitals and healthcare facilities merely functional— they must now also take the emotional well-being of users into consideration. Here's how color, light, and music can all help.
We spend our lives inside buildings, our emotional well-being shaped by their structure and interior. This is especially the case within the healthcare environment, where the building and its décor can play a huge role in the healing process.
Part of this involves bringing nature indoors—utilizing space, lighting, aesthetics, and the outside world to appeal to our natural affinity with nature, also known as biophilia. Through this process, architects and designers are reuniting humans with an environment that they are more comfortable in. Indeed, in one study 95 percent of all individuals who were asked how to alleviate a stressful situation responded that being outdoors was the most useful strategy. This explains the extensive evidence showing that patients who have access to nature heal more rapidly.
But creating a truly empathetic healthcare environment involves more than adding windows or healing gardens. Designers must use the full palette of sensory tools available to them, including color, lighting, and music, to create spaces that fully support patients' well-being.
color and response
Colors generate an emotional response, which is why greater value is being placed on chromotherapy, or color therapy, in healthcare environments.
Rooms and halls in warm earthy tones or soft ocean tones have been found to lower stress levels in patients while also evoking a positive mood. Professor Max Lüscher, head of the Institute of Psycho-Medical Diagnostics in Switzerland, believes the common association of tranquillity with the color green may be the result of early humans' use of green forests or jungles as an escape from the open fields of sunlight.
White hospital walls and corridors are a thing of the past and tend to be associated with sterility. Furthermore, based on research, the use of monochromatic color schemes can appear institutional, and should therefore be avoided. Healthcare facilities now tend to borrow colors from nature, as well as those used traditionally in spas, hospitality, and retail to either soothe or energize.
Researchers have found that while there is no evidence for any one color impacting healthcare outcomes, an understanding of the elements of color when designing healthcare facilities can impact healing. Sara Marberry, a healthcare design knowledge expert with Midwestern University, says, "Color is literally the 'wavelength' medicine of the future. It calls to us and asks us to recognize its value as an alternative medicine that the environment can provide."
Seeing a color is not an isolated event within the body. When it is interpreted by the brain, a physiological response is triggered which activates the cortical center of the brain—the part associated with memory, attention, and perception. It also activates the autonomic nervous system—our control center—which functions primarily below our consciousness and regulates heart rate and blood pressure.
light and rhythm
Related to color, which is translated from light reflecting on the eye, is the use of phototherapy, or the harnessing of light to treat medical conditions. Light is made up of different spectral distributions and wavelengths. Natural light, and to a lesser degree, full-spectrum fluorescent lighting, is made up of every wavelength or color in the spectrum. (Incandescent lamps, cool white fluorescent lighting, and energy-efficient fluorescent lighting lack the blue portion of the color spectrum, which is most important for optimal brain and body function.)
Natural lighting increases serotonin levels and helps regulate circadian rhythms. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter chiefly linked to positive feelings and happiness, while circadian rhythms help regulate our sleep, both of which are fundamental to emotional well-being. An additional physiological effect of full-spectrum or natural light is a reduced response to stress hormones such as the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). These hormones are responsible for our fight-or-flight response in dangerous situations, but in normal (albeit stressful) conditions, they can actually be harmful.
Alzheimer's patients exposed to full-spectrum lighting and darkness during sleep report a decrease in agitation and insomnia. Furthermore, our bodies take Vitamin D from sunlight, which stimulates the absorption of calcium and increases bone density. These are important nutrients for general health, but even more vital when recuperating from an illness.
music and mood
Given the evidence supporting the link between nature and healing, psychoacoustic therapy, or music therapy, combined with the sounds of nature has become popular. The sounds of wildlife, rain, birds, and waves, for example, are being integrated with soft classical music to lower anxiety and increase comfort within healthcare settings.
Music therapy, utilizing all but the loudest and most jarring forms, has been used to manage chronic and postoperative pain. Personal music preferences play a role in its efficacy for pain management, since the more appealing the music is to the individual, the more they focus on it. Physiologically, pleasant music causes the release of endorphins, which reduces pain, and also lowers heart rate and blood pressure by slowing down breathing.
Music that is favored by an individual will similarly cause the brain to release dopamine, the "feel-good" hormone that is essential for preventing depression and increasing a 'high' feeling. The type of music is not important for healing; opera, rap, metal, or any other genre will have the same effect as long as it is the preference of the patient. By decreasing levels of cortisol, music also improves immune function.
In short, evidence-based design that attends to the emotional well-being of people is the future of healthcare architecture. Indeed, architectural psychology is helping create buildings from the occupants' point-of-view, leading to structural empathy in modern buildings. The practice of green and biophilic design, in particular, brings people closer to the healing powers of nature's sights and sounds. What the interior design community can learn from this is to make healthcare more about hospitality than hospitalization.
Dr. Nicola Davies is a psychologist, researcher, and freelance writer with an interest in architectural psychology and person-centred care. Follow her at @healthpsychuk.


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Nerve conduction velocityNCV
Nerve conduction velocity (NCV) is a test to see how fast electrical signals move through a nerve.
How the Test is Performed
Patches called surface electrodes, similar to those used for ECG, are placed on the skin over nerves at various locations. Each patch gives off a very mild electrical impulse, which stimulates the nerve.
The nerve's resulting electrical activity is recorded by the other electrodes. The distance between electrodes and the time it takes for electrical impulses to travel between electrodes are used to determine the speed of the nerve signals.
Electromyography (recording from needles placed into the muscles) is often done at the same time as this test.
How to Prepare for the Test
Normal body temperature must be maintained (low body temperature slows nerve conduction).
Tell your doctor if you have a cardiac defibrillator or pacemaker, as precautions may need to be taken.
How the Test Will Feel
The impulse may feel like an electric shock. Depending on how strong the stimulus is, you will feel it to varying degrees, and it may be uncomfortable. You should feel no pain once the test is finished.
Often, the nerve conduction test is followed by electromyography (EMG), which involves needles being placed into the muscle and you contracting that muscle. This can be uncomfortable during the test, and you may have muscle soreness after the test at the site of the needles.
Why the Test is Performed
This test is used to diagnose nerve damage or destruction. Occasionally, the test may be used to evaluate diseases of nerve or muscle, including myopathy, Lambert-Eaton syndrome, or myasthenia gravis.
Normal Results
NCV is related to the diameter of the nerve and the degree of myelination (the presence of a myelin sheath on the axon) of the nerve. Newborn infants have values that are approximately half that of adults, and adult values are normally reached by age 3 or 4.
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Most often, abnormal results are due to some sort of nerve damage or destruction, including:
- Axonopathy (damage to the long portion of the nerve cell)
- Conduction block (the impulse is blocked somewhere along the nerve pathway)
- Demyelination (damage and loss of the fatty insulation surrounding the nerve cell)
The nerve damage or destruction may be due to many different conditions, including:
- Alcoholic neuropathy
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Nerve effects of uremia (from kidney failure)
- Traumatic injury to a nerve
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Diphtheria
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Brachial plexopathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (hereditary)
- Chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy
- Common peroneal nerve dysfunction
- Distal median nerve dysfunction
- Femoral nerve dysfunction
- Friedreich's ataxia
- General paresis
- Mononeuritis multiplex
- Primary amyloidosis
- Radial nerve dysfunction
- Sciatic nerve dysfunction
- Secondary systemic amyloidosis
- Sensorimotor polyneuropathy
- Tibial nerve dysfunction
- Ulnar nerve dysfunction
Any peripheral neuropathy can cause abnormal results, as can damage to the spinal cord and disk herniation (herniated nucleus pulposus) with nerve root compression.
There are no risks.
An NCV test shows the condition of the best surviving nerve fibers, so in some cases the results may be normal even if there is nerve damage.
Griggs RC, Jozefowicz RF, Aminoff MJ. Approach to the patient with neurologic disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 418.
Review Date: 6/18/2011
Reviewed By: Kevin Sheth, MD, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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A SAFE full of cash was stolen from a busy Hampshire museum packed with visitors.
Thieves walked out with the large grey safe and cash tins, containing £1,000, while families were wandering around Fort Nelson near Fareham.
Police said the Royal Armouries museum was busy with visitors last Sunday, when the thieves struck.
However a museum spokesman stressed the theft was from offices in a non-public part of the museum.
The empty safe and tins were found discarded at Newlands Farm, Fareham, on Wednesday.
PC Stephen Way said: "It was a busy Sunday at the monument so there were a lot of visitors and possible witnesses to the theft.
"The safe was heavy and cumbersome and it would have taken at least two people to carry it. We are appealing for anyone who thinks they might have seen anything suspicious in the area late on Sunday morning or early in the afternoon."
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Right-wing media have responded to the Supreme Court's decision upholding the health care mandate -- the requirement that most Americans purchase health insurance or pay a fee -- by claiming that President Obama has instituted the "biggest tax increase in the history of the world" and a "massive, regressive tax on all Americans." In fact, the fee will only be applied to a small percentage of people who choose not to purchase health insurance.
Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Mandate
USA Today: Supreme Court Ruled "Individual Mandate -- The Requirement That Most Americans Buy Health Insurance Or Pay A Fine -- Is Constitutional As A Tax." From USA Today:
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Obama's health care law in a complex opinion that gives the president a major election-year victory.
The historic 5-4 decision will affect the way Americans receive and pay for their personal medical care.
Chief Justice John Roberts announced the decision that allows the law to go forward with its aim of covering more than 30 million uninsured Americans.
A majority of the justices said that the individual mandate -- the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a fine -- is constitutional as a tax.
"Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness," wrote Roberts. [USA Today, 6/28/12 [1]]
Right-Wing Media Respond By Claiming Obama Instituted "Massive" Tax "On All Americans"
Fox's Todd Starnes: Supreme Court Ruling "Will Force A Massive New Tax On The American People." During the June 28 edition of his "Fox News and Commentary" radio segment, Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes claimed that the Supreme Court ruling "jeopardizes religious liberty" and "will force a massive new tax on the American people." [FoxNews.com, 6/28/12 [2]]
Rush Limbaugh: "What We Now Have Is The Biggest Tax Increase In The History Of The World." During the June 28 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that, with the Supreme Court ruling, "what we now have is the biggest tax increase in the history of the world." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 6/28/12 [3], via Media Matters]
Limbaugh: Individual Mandate Is A "Massive, Regressive Tax On All Americans." Limbaugh also said on his radio program that the individual mandate is a "massive, regressive tax on all Americans." [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 6/28/12]
Jim Hoft: Obama "Now Owns Largest Tax Hike In US History." In a post on his Gateway Pundit blog headlined "FLASHBACK: Barack Obama Promises to Cut Taxes -- Now Owns Largest Tax Hike in US History," Jim Hoft wrote:
Today the Supreme Court ruled the Obamacare mandate was a tax.
Barack Obama now owns the largest tax in US history. Obamacare will cost over $1.76 trillion in ten years.
Take that, 99%ers! [Gateway Pundit, 6/28/12 [4]]
In Fact, The Fine Will Only Apply To Small Number Of People Who Don't Buy Insurance
Urban Institute: Individual Mandate Would Not Affect 94 Percent Of Americans. A March 2012 report by the nonpartisan Urban Institute found that 94 percent of Americans "would not face a requirement to newly purchase insurance or pay a fine." From Urban Institute's report:
The "individual mandate" -- the requirement that individuals either have health insurance coverage or pay a fine -- is both the best known and the least popular component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That people know about the mandate -- and may even worry about it -- is not surprising, given both the heated political controversy and the constitutional challenge surrounding this provision of the law. What may be surprising, however, is that if the ACA were in effect today, 94 percent of the total population (93 percent of the nonelderly population) or 250.3 million people out of 268.8 million nonelderly people -- would not face a requirement to newly purchase insurance or pay a fine. [Urban Institute, March 2012 [5]]
CBO: 4 Million People Will Face Fine For Not Having Insurance In 2016. From an April 2010 Congressional Budget Office report:
Of the remaining 7 million to 8 million uninsured, some individuals will be granted exemptions from the penalty because of hardship, and others will be exempted from the mandate on the basis of their religious beliefs. Among the uninsured who do not obtain an exemption, many will vol-untarily report on their tax returns that they are uninsured and pay the amount owed. However, other individuals will try to avoid making payments. Therefore, the estimates presented here account for likely compliance rates, as well as the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to administer and collect the penalty. After accounting for all of those factors, CBO and JCT estimate that about 4 million people will pay a penalty because they will be uninsured in 2016 (a figure that includes uninsured dependents who have the penalty paid on their behalf). [CBO, 4/30/12 [6]]
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The new ad promotes the new Samsung Note
As far as product obsession goes, Apple is definitely the company to beat. Apple loyalists aren't only concerned with the technology behind devices like the iPhone or iPad, but also feel they obtain a certain status by owning the latest gadget with an Apple logo. They have a love for the brand, and Samsung is looking to grab consumers' attention the very same way -- while throwing a punch or two at Apple, of course.
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Lee, who used to work for cosmetics companies Lancome and L'Oreal, started working for Samsung four and a half years ago. She was known as the "cosmetics lady," and many in the technology industry couldn't figure out what Samsung was doing hiring a person familiar with make-up. However, Lee argued that both make-up and devices like smartphones have something in common -- they're both based off of technology, but also give consumers a sense of who they are by owning them.
"Very often, people believe cosmetics are a box of hopes or illusions," said Lee, who added that cosmetics are technology-based as well. "Mobile can be a symbol of who you are. A lot of people believe, 'what I have in my hands is me.'"
That's exactly what Lee is trying to target with customers. She wants to grab at their heart strings and make them feel a love and loyalty for Samsung's products.
"Especially in the U.S., people are obsessed with Apple," said Lee. "It's time to change people's attention."
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Samsung did just that in its latest jab at the Cupertino company. In a commercial that appeared during the Super Bowl yesterday, a line of fans, assumed to be Apple fans waiting outside for the next big Apple release, are swayed away from the line when they discover their love for Samsung products. Justin Hawkins, lead vocalist and guitarist for the British glam rock band The Darkness, appears on the street singing the band's hit song, "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," as the ex-Apple fans join Samsung lovers in a series of celebratory events like dancing and shooting themselves from cannons. The ex-Apple fans make statements like, "We're free!" to show their newfound love for Samsung instead.
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Check out the commercial for yourself if you happened to miss it:
There has been increased rivalry between Apple and Samsung over the last year especially. For starters,
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One of the most significant episodes of anti-Semitism in Manitoba's history was the exposure of the University of Manitoba faculty of medicine's notorious quota system.
It was never easy for a Jewish student to be accepted into the medical college, but not impossible. Entrance was based on academic grades and the "moral, social and physical qualities" of the applicant. During the '20s, on average, 64 new students were admitted each year into the faculty. Of these, 18, or about 25 per cent, were Jewish — a fair number by any estimation.
Any element of fairness vanished with the appointment of Dr. Alvin T. Mathers as dean of the faculty in 1932.
Starting that year, and for the next 12, strict quotas were set which severely regulated the number of Jews, Ukrainians, Poles and an assortment of other ethnic groups who could be admitted. Women were doubly discriminated against, making it next to impossible for a Jewish woman to be admitted. The members of the faculty administration and its professors were aware of the change in admittance practices, although it was not publicized.
By 1936, the number of Jewish students accepted each year into the school had dropped to nine or fewer. High grades or other qualifications made little difference — indeed, Jewish students with averages above 80 per cent were often turned down. The only criterion that ultimately mattered was race.
Each applicant had to designate his or her "racial origin" on the entrance application form. The faculty then made its selection from "preferred" and "non-preferred" lists, with only about 14 spots of the 64 annually offered set aside for students on the latter list.
Why had Dr. Mathers become the architect of such a blatantly racist policy? There was nothing in his background to indicate that he was anti-Semitic. He was a pioneer in the emerging field of psychiatry, an associate editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, and highly respected in the international medical community. The only indication that he ever publicly gave of his thinking on this matter was at the 1944 provincial government committee hearing convened to investigate allegations about the quota system. When challenged, he argued without hesitation that "certain nationalities and groups" would never be welcomed as physicians and he saw no point in providing them with a medical education. Mathers also cautioned that if his procedures were not followed, the university could become too "Jewish." For his dedicated service, the university awarded Dr. Mathers an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1949.
With bright Jewish students being turned down for the medical college year after year, suspicions of an anti-Semitic policy were aroused. In 1936, the Israelite Press first brought the matter to the attention of Sidney Smith, president of the University of Manitoba and a former dean of the Dalhousie Law School. He indicated that he would look into the charges, but in the end did nothing. There matters stood until the fall of 1943, when members of the Avukah Zionist Society, a small Jewish university student study group, undertook its own investigation.
Avukah's leader was Shlomo Mitchell, then a lecturer in the mathematics department. Mitchell and his friends devised an index-card system to track the hundreds of students who had gone through medical college from 1926 to 1943 and all those who had applied. Using directories, university information and interviews, they recorded all relevant biographical information, including each applicant's ethnic origin. It took them more than five months to compile the data they collected.
Before the group could act, however, the Jewish community leader M.A. Gray, then a CCF MLA, found out about their investigation and used it to publicly accuse the Manitoba minister of education of discrimination at the faculty of medicine. The minister denied the allegations and Gray was ordered to produce evidence or withdraw his accusation.
Now that the issue was out in the open, the Avukah society decided to assist Gray. They enlisted the support of lawyer Hyman Sokolov to present their findings to a legislative committee.
Speaking before the provincial committee, Sokolov delivered a hard-hitting speech. Strategically using Avukah's evidence, he lashed out at the university, a public institution supported by taxes, for violating the human rights of its students and for essentially rewarding failure.
In the audience listening to Sokolov were Judge A.K. Dysart, chairman of the University of Manitoba board of governors, Dr. Sidney Smith, and Dr. Alvin Mathers. Naturally, Smith dismissed the whole event "as a publicity stunt," while Mathers more or less confirmed the allegations by his comments that only certain nationalities and groups were fit to be doctors. Judge Dysart was also in denial, although he agreed to investigate further and report back to the legislative committee. Sokolov was permitted to participate in these meetings.
Within five months, Dysart was forced to admit that Avukah's findings and Sokolov's case had been proven: The faculty of medicine was guilty as charged of practising discrimination for the past 12 years. On threat of changing the Manitoba University Act, the university board of governors agreed to halt the practice immediately and insert into its regulations that henceforth "the selection [of faculty of medicine candidates] shall be made without regard to the racial origin or religion of the applicant."
This was an important and symbolic victory, but there was a long way to go. The matter of Jewish students in the medical college was raised at a meeting of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba in the spring of 1946. The chairman of the admissions committee was Dr. Bruce Chown, a brilliant pioneering Canadian pediatrician and scientist, yet he was clearly influenced by the prejudices of his day.
In his report, Chown noted that there were approximately 200 to 250 students in the university's pre-med program, and from those 60 would be admitted into medicine. Based on their grades, 30 per cent of these new students would likely be Jewish — a point of some concern. While Chown acknowledged the problem of anti-Semitism and conceded that he was sympathetic to his "Jewish confreres," for many of whom he had a "warm affection," he was, nevertheless "unhappy" about this situation.
"We have not progressed so far in this country, or this community, that our Jewish citizens are completely amalgamated and looked upon simply as Canadians," he observed. Adding, with dubious logic that, "I cannot help but feel that concentration, such as is taking place in medicine, can only lead to more and bitter animosity."
Arguing that it was the duty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to select the best men and women possible as well as to preserve peace in the land, he wondered if "those with some authority in the Jewish community" might be able to assist his committee in making the selection and thereby control the number of Jews who applied.
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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Public Law 90-542
|Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
|Sec. 6
|912 Land acquisition.
|Sec. 6
|Sec. 6
|Right of use and occupancy.
|Sec. 6
|"Improved property."
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) this Act may be cited as the "Wild and Scenic Rivers Act".
(b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Congress declares that the established national policy of dam and other construction at appropriate sections of the rivers of the United States needs to be complemented by a policy that would preserve other selected rivers or sections thereof in their free-flowing condition to protect the water
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quality of such rivers and to fulfill other vital national conservation purposes.
(c) The purpose of this Act is to implement this policy by instituting a national wild and scenic rivers system, by designating the initial components of that system, and by prescribing the methods by which and standards according to which additional components may be added to the system from time to time.
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each authorized to acquire lands and interests in land within the authorized boundaries of any component of the national wild and scenic rivers system designated in section 3 of this Act, or hereafter designated for inclusion in the system by Act of Congress, which is administered by him, but he shall not acquire fee title to an average or more than 100 acres per mile on both sides of the river. Lands owned by a State may be acquired only by donation, and lands owned by an Indian tribe or a political subdivision of a State may not be acquired without the consent of the appropriate governing body thereof as long as the Indian tribe or political subdivision is following a plan for management and protection of the lands which the Secretary finds protects the land and assures its use for purposes consistent with this Act. Money appropriated for Federal purposes from the land and water conservation fund shall, without prejudice to the use of appropriations from other sources, be available to Federal departments and agencies for the acquisition of property for the purposes of this Act.
(b) If 50 per centum or more of the entire acreage within a federally administered wild, scenic or recreational river area is owned by the United States, by the State or States within which it lies, or by political subdivisions of those States, neither Secretary shall acquire fee title to any lands by condemnation under authority of this Act. Nothing contained in this section, however, shall preclude the use of condemnation when necessary to clear title or to acquire scenic easements or such other easements as are reasonably necessary to give the public access to the river and to permit its members to traverse the length of the area or of selected segments thereof.
(c) Neither the Secretary of the Interior nor the Secretary of Agriculture may acquire lands by condemnation, for the purpose of including such lands in any national wild, scenic or recreational river area, if such lands are located within any incorporated city, village, or borough which has in force and applicable to such lands a duly adopted, valid zoning ordinance that conforms with the purposes of this Act. In order to carry out the provisions of this subsection the appropriate Secretary shall issue guidelines, specifying standards for local zoning ordinances, which are consistent with the purposes of this Act. The standards specified in such guidelines shall have the object of (A) prohibiting new commercial or industrial uses other than commercial or industrial uses which are consistent with the purposes of this Act, and (B) the protection of the bank lands by means of acreage, frontage, and setback requirements on development.
(d) The appropriate Secretary is authorized to accept title to non-Federal property within the authorized boundaries of any federally administered component of the national wild and scenic rivers system designated in section 3 of this Act or hereafter designated for inclusion in the system by Act of Congress and, in exchange therefor, convey to the grantor any federally owned property which is under his jurisdiction within the State in which the component lies and which he classifies as suitable for exchange or other disposal. The values of the properties so exchanged either shall be approximately equal or, if they are not approximately equal, shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secretary as the circumstances require.
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(e) The head of any Federal department or agency having administrative jurisdiction over any lands or interests in land within the authorized boundaries of any federally administered component of the national wild and scenic rivers system designated in section 3 of this Act or hereafter designated for inclusion in the system by Act of Congress in authorized to transfer to the. appropriate secretary jurisdiction over such lands for administration in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Lands acquired by or transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purposes of this Act within or adjacent to a national forest shall upon such acquisition or transfer become national forest lands.
(f) The appropriate Secretary is authorized to accept donations of lands and interests in land, funds, and other property for use in connection with his administration of the national wild and scenic rivers system.
(g) (1) Any owner or owners (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as "owner") of improved property on the date of its acquisition, may retain for themselves and their successors or assigns a right of use and occupancy of the improved property for noncommercial residential purposes for a definite term not to exceed twenty-five years or, in lieu thereof, for a term ending at the death of the owner, or the death of his spouse, or the death of either or both of them. The owner shall elect the term to be reserved. The appropriate Secretary shall pay to the owner the fair market value of the property on the date of such acquisition less the fair market value on such date of the right retained by the owner.
(2) A right of use and occupancy retained pursuant to this subsection shall be subject to termination whenever the appropriate Secretary is given reasonable cause to find that such use and occupancy is being exercised in a manner which conflicts with the purposes of this Act. In the event of such a finding, the Secretary shall tender to the holder of that right an amount equal to the fair market value of that portion of the right which remains unexpired on the date of termination. Such right of use or occupancy shall terminate by operation of law upon tender of the fair market price.
(3) The term "improved property", as used in this Act, means a detached, one-family dwelling (hereinafter referred to as "dwelling"), the construction of which was begun before January 1, 1967, together with so much of the land on which the dwelling is situated, the said land being in the same ownership as the dwelling, as the appropriate Secretary shall designate to be reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of the dwelling for the sole purpose of noncommercial residential use, together with any structures accessory to the dwelling which are situated on the land so designated.
Approved, October 2, 1968.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Maybe it was the slow, deliberate pace of this Mississippi River town.
Or perhaps it was the soothing music oozing from the jazz clubs along Beale Street and the sweet aroma of barbecue hanging in the air.
Whatever the reasons, the Clippers arrived here last week armed with a 2-0 lead and a confident swagger in their Western Conference first-round playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies, only to immediately lose their edge, numbed by a false sense of security and the gentile surroundings of this sleepy city.
That they return to Los Angeles for Game 5 on Tuesday tied 2-2 with the Grizzlies is only half the problem.
Memphis, like the Clippers did at Staples Center, held serve in its home arena. If that wasn't expected, it was a strong possibility.
While it fell short of what the Clippers hoped to accomplish this weekend, the notion they'd roll through the Grizzlies was farfetched.
The bigger issue is how the Clippers lost here. Better yet, how the Grizzlies took the fight to them, specifically inside with Memphis big men Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol having their way with them on the boards and the scoreboard alike.
More disturbing was the Clippers' response - or lack thereof - to the Grizzlies' aggressiveness.
The result was two straight losses to even the series, the last of which was an alarming beatdown that left Matt Barnes angrily questioning the Clippers' manhood.
While Barnes wasn't out of line, in the heat of the moment he was guilty of being overly dramatic in how he colorfully called out the Clippers.
But he said what he said, and now he has to live with it.
"Everybody's got a different way of putting it," Clippers forward Lamar Odom said.
What's important is the message seemed to resonate.
For the Clippers to regain control of this series it has to be them, not the Grizzlies, forcing the issue.
That means standing up to the rugged Gasol and Randolph, who feed off a nasty streak that intimidates opponents and forces officials to call games on the Grizzlies' terms.
"When you are aggressive, things tend to go your way," Clippers guard Jamal Crawford said.
The Clippers have to flip that script, and that means bringing the fight to the Grizzles.
"I think just right from the jump you need to be a more aggressive team," Clippers forward Blake Griffin said. "We need to hit first."
And they need to do it within the framework of how the game is being officiated. That can be a difficult read in a series as forceful as this one, and against an opponent as rugged as the Grizzlies.
There is an art form to forcing your will on someone without going too far. The Clippers have had trouble staying within those borders, and the result is Griffin and center DeAndre Jordan picking up early fouls.
"This series is physical, extremely physical," Griffin said. "Sometimes it is hard to find that line of physicality. It is a thin line sometimes between being physical and battling. We need to find that line, and we need to be aggressive.
"We need to push it. We need to not worry about this guy getting into foul trouble and this guy. Just go out and play and let our depth take care of that."
It would also help if Jordan re-emerged. The Clippers center was a no-show in Memphis and was badly outplayed by Gasol.
No one is asking Jordan to match Gasol play-for-play. The Grizzlies center is too good for that. But Jordan can still make an impact on the boards and on defense, two areas in which he disappeared in the past two games.
"DJ has to set really good screens to free our guards up so he has to help them and get them on the glass that way," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "Gasol does it to a lot of teams and a lot of players. I mean he's one of the top players in the league for a reason."
That's true, but it's still no excuse for the two points and two rebounds Jordan had in Game 4.
Then again, there is no excuse for the way the Clippers laid down for the Grizzlies either.
And unless the Clippers pick themselves up in time for Game 5, Barnes is right: They'll be on the beach enjoying vacation by next weekend.
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Earlier this week, the local rap-rock hybrid band The Beginning At Last opened for Kottonmouth Kings at In The Venue. Many Utahns might have wondered, "Who are these guys?"
Named for a Black Label Society song, the band formed in 2007, after members graduated from Olympus and Granite high schools.
King MF and Simon Eleven share vocals, and Brian Lan and Kevin Crocheron play guitar with DJ Arson manning the turntables.
"As far as our music and our live show, we are most similar to Linkin Park," band members wrote in a collective email. "If we say we are a mix between Linkin Park, limp bizkit and Eminem, that draws a good picture for most everybody."
What did you hope to accomplish with your debut album, "No Music, No Life"?
We wanted "No Music, No Life" to introduce the world to us and get ourselves noticed by music lovers. We wanted to be different and create an album that was interesting all the way through. The first time you listen to it, each song is different so you don't know what you are gonna get next hip-hop to rock to blues to metal.
What inspires you?
All of us have different inspirations, but a serious love for performing and writing and making music people like is pretty good inspiration and motivation. We all have different backgrounds in music and our own styles, and it comes together to create something amazing and original, and that alone inspires us to make another album and go show it off live.
Why do you admire Linkin Park?
Linkin Park inspires us in so many ways as far as the live show and music videos and how they present themselves and how they are always willing to push their boundaries that the music business tries to place on them. We don't want to be lumped in one category. We want people to say that The Beginning At Last is similar to other bands, but are their own and have their own sound.
If you were a grunge band from the early 1990s, whom would you be?
We don't think we would want to be a grunge band. We think because we are different now, we would have been different then, so we probably would have been like Korn meets Beastie Boys. But we think if we all got together we would probably be doing the same type of s- we are doing now ... like Aerosmith and Run DMC.
When people ask you to describe your sound, what do you say?
We call it aggressive hip-hop. But sometimes we just let people decide what we sound like. We hear a lot of stuff after we get off stage, or [after] they have a chance to listen to the album. One guy told us we were an Eminem and Rob Zombie mix. A lady at Saltair said we sounded like Kottonmouth Kings with Zakk Wylde. So sometimes it's better to let people decide for themselves.
Describe a perfect day.
Getting a call from Mike Shinoda to pack our s- for a world tour.
Twitter: @davidburger
At last …
O Find The Beginning At Last online at facebook.com/thebeginningatlast, On iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and YouTube. playing with Kottonmouth Kings April 29th at In The Venue.


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From HaskellWiki
Haskell programmers publish a great deal of research at conferences, which are also great places to meet and discuss Haskell and its future. The following is a list of some of the conferences at which Haskellers and their research appears.
1 The Haskell Workshop
The Haskell Workshop is an annual workshop organized in affiliation with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). The workshop is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) under the aegis of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).
The purpose of the Haskell Workshop is to discuss experience with Haskell, and future developments for the language. The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of Haskell.
2 The International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)
ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) is an annual programming language conference. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery under the aegis of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), in association with Working Group 2.8 of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).
3 Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
4 Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
5 Implemenation of Functional Languages (IFL)
6 Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL)
7 Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS)
8 Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming (DAMP)
9 Types in Language Design and Implementation (TLDI)
10 Trends in Functional Programming (TFP)
11 Commerical Users of Functional Programming (CUFP)
12 Principles, Logics, and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages (PLI)
13 Types in Compilation Workshop (TIC)
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Long Beach Commission Appointments
Do Commissioners Serve At The Pleasure Of The Mayor?
By George Economides - Publisher's Perspective
November 18, 2013 – As the Business Journal went to press, the political maneuvering surrounding Mayor Bob Foster's recommendation to oust Long Beach Harbor Commission President Thomas Fields continues. One of the latest to enter the fray is the former mayor, Beverly O'Neill.
However, the issue is not as complicated as many people – and the media – are making it out to be. The fundamental question – one councilmembers must ask themselves – is this: Do city commissioners serve at the pleasure of the mayor? The Business Journal believes they do. If councilmembers agree, then the mayor's request should be supported unanimously at tomorrow night's city council meeting.
Set aside the politics, the impact on the port or what a good guy Thomas Fields is – and he is a good guy, and he has done yeomen work for the city through his service on a number of commissions over the past two decades. If the city's top elected official – or the nation's or the state's, for that matter – wants a commissioner or other appointee to step down, it should be done.
On November 11, Foster issued a statement for Fields' removal, citing City Charter Section 510, which provides the mayor the right to remove a commissioner with two-thirds approval of councilmembers – or six votes if all nine councilmembers are present. Foster did not indicate a reason for his recommendation, nor does the charter require he state a reason. If the mayor's request were approved, it would mark the first-ever removal of a sitting harbor commissioner. Foster appointed Fields to the five-member board in 2009. Fields' term runs through 2015.
According to Fields, who visited with the Business Journal on Thursday, November 14, after returning from a two-week-long port-arranged trip that took him and several harbor department personnel to the Far East and Denmark, he spoke with the mayor on Friday, November 8 (Saturday in California). Fields, who was in Japan at the time, said that Foster told him he wanted to take the port in a new direction and asked Fields to resign. Fields said "no."
Since saying no to the mayor, Fields has taken his case to the press, to individual councilmembers and to his supporters who are rallying behind him. Evidently, O'Neill is one of those supporters. Fields, however, is an appointed commissioner, not an elected official, yet he is putting on a full-court press as if the people of Long Beach elected him.
Letter From Former Mayor
O'Neill's letter – sent to the mayor, councilmembers, harbor commissioners, the city attorney, city auditor, city manager and the interim port executive director, Al Moro – is out of character for her. During her 12 years as mayor, she always made an effort to avoid controversy. Yet, she writes: "Today we are facing destructive actions that are threatening Long Beach's economic strength – by airing our internal squabbles to the world. . . . The tenants of the world will not continue to work with an unstable local government."
Unstable local government? That is a very strong statement coming from a former mayor who always attempted to put a positive spin on the worst of news. She concluded her letter with this: "This situation tells the world that Long Beach is a city that cannot take care of its own problems. Our stellar reputation could be gone overnight, destroying the outstanding work of over 50 years. I love Long Beach and I implore you to end this internal squabble."
If O'Neill is as concerned about the image of the city as she writes, then why didn't she first pick up the phone and call Foster to personally express her concerns? Instead, she chose a more combative approach, giving the letter wide dissemination. If anything, her letter fuels the fire because port customers throughout the world are likely reading it.
Fields Shares Conversation With Mayor
Fields told the Business Journal that the call from Foster went as follows: "After we got over the pleasantries, he said to me, 'I have made a decision. I want to take the port in a new direction.' Okay. And he said, 'Because I am taking the port in a new direction, I am asking you for your letter of resignation.' I then asked why, and he said, 'Because I need to take the port in a new direction.' And I refused, and his comment to me was: 'You don't have to give me an answer now. You can wait a couple of days. I'll wait for you to get back to me.' And I said, 'I don't have to wait. I'm not going to resign.' The end of the conversation was [Foster saying] 'Okay, I'm taking it to the council.'"
Asked if he would sue, Fields' response was: "No. Here is what I've said. The way this thing has unraveled, because if it was just a matter of me being kicked off, fine. It has become – my reputation, my name has been dragged through the mud. I'm not suing because I'm getting kicked off . . . Frankly, I would be better off not being on the board because I could start to make some money."
Fields has nothing of which to be ashamed. For the past 20 years, he has represented the city well as a harbor commissioner and as a planning commissioner, as a member of the former redevelopment agency and economic development commission, and as a member of the Shipyard Reuse Advisory Commission. However, he should accept the mayor's request and resign.


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Ivy League Tournament Central
Directions to Franklin Field | Franklin Field Security Information
Friday, May 3
4 p.m. #2 Princeton vs. #3 Dartmouth
7 p.m. #1 Penn vs. #4 Cornell
Sunday, May 5
12 p.m. Championship Game
PHILADELPHIA – The Ivy League's Women's Lacrosse Tournament returns to the only home it has ever known as Penn hosts the four top teams in the Ancient Eight for the fourth consecutive year to determine the automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament. Play begins Friday with two semifinals games, #2 Princeton taking on #3 Dartmouth at 4 p.m. before #1 Penn hosts #4 Cornell with a scheduled start time of 7 p.m. On Sunday, the winners will meet at noon with a guaranteed trip to the national tournament on the line. All games will be played at Franklin Field.
The Quakers earned the right to host for the fourth year in a row after earning their seventh consecutive Ivy League title with a 7-0 mark in conference play. Penn is one of two Ivy League programs to have qualified for all four Ivy League Tournaments, Dartmouth the other. So far, in three previous Tournaments, there have been three different winners: Penn (2010), Princeton (2011) and Dartmouth (2012).
Ticket prices are as follows:
Session I (Friday)
Adults: $15 Students (18 and under): $10
Session II (Sunday)
Adults: $10 Students (18 and under): $5
All-Session Passes (Friday and Sunday)
Adults: $20 Students (18 and under): $10
Please Note: All college students will be admitted free with valid school ID.
Five of the six games played between the four teams meeting for the Ivy League Tournament title during the regular season were decided by two goals or less, setting up for a weekend of exciting action. In the most recent RPI released this week, the four teams are ranked No. 19-22, each angling for improved at-large status for the first year of the 24-team NCAA Tournament. Only Princeton (No. 15) and Penn (No. 16) are ranked this week in the IWLCA Coaches Poll.
All three games of the 2013 Ivy League Tournament will be streamed live at IvyLeagueSports.com.