Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS)

ITBS, aka runner's knee, is an inflamatory overuse injury commonly felt on the outer (lateral) side of your knee. Usually the pain is at its' worst during knee flexion (ie. going down stairs).

Common causes include:

• Leg Length differences
• Flat Feet
• Worn out footwear (ie. irregular soles)
• Increasing workout duration/intensity too excessively
• Running on banked surface (i.e. a running track)
• Running on inclined, declined, or angled surfaces
• Inadequate warmup/cooldown

[edit]Prevention and Prehab

Properly warming up before exercise and cooling down after, plus some stretching will help prevent this syndrome. Also not only is the POSE running technique a more efficient way of running, but if you are a runner, using this technique will greatly diminish the onset of ITBS from ever occurring.

[edit]Recovery and Rehab

• RICE
• Stretching and More Stretching
• Foam rolling
• Trigger point therapy
• Strengthening the adductors
• Walking stiflegged
• IT Band Support Straps

"But when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. Therefore, when everything was done... He finally took thought concerning the creation of man... He therefore took man as a creature of indeterminate nature and, assigning him a place in the middle of the world, addressed him thus: "Neither a fixed abode nor a form that is thine alone nor any function peculiar to thyself have we given thee, Adam, to the end that according to thy longing and according to thy judgement thou mayest have and possess what abode, what form and what functions thou thyself shalt desire. The nature of all other beings is limited and constrained within the bounds of law. Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul's judgement, to be born into the higher forms, which are divine." (Pico 224-225)

I would change "to be born into the higher forms" to "to be borne into the higher forms" personally. While I do not agree with the postulate that there is a Craftsman (or that said entity created 'Man' or 'Adam' with a purpose), I do agree that:

*Humans collectively have the power to create an objective framework of Laws (under which to collectively dwell) which dictates, places limits on, and constrains 'all other beings'
*Humans individually have the power, by choice (in this case indicated by 'thy soul's judgement'), to degenerate or regress (in my view, regression from Human to an 'other being')
*Humans individually (and, uniquely) have the power to ascend (or, be 'borne into') into _A_ higher form (be that from 'other being' to 'Human' or indeed 'Human' to a so-called 'Post-human'), also by choice


I feel that humans are unique (in our capacities, which may or may not have evolved over time as a result of the biological systems we appear to be made up of and which may indeed present itself again - or already has), and gifted with one crucial gift: that of personal choice.

From mental hop to mental hop, the seed thought from my comic-reading led me to read about the history of Carl Jung. I was captivated! Individuation, as described by Jung, makes worlds of sense. I've posted the Wiki excerpt here, along with the contextual links. Goodness but I love Chrome's copy/paste! :)

Carl Jung on individuation

According to Jungian psychology, individuation is the process of transforming one’s psyche by bringing the personal and collective unconscious into conscious.^[1]Individuation has a holistic healing effect on the person, both mentally and physically.^[1]

Individuation is a process of psychological differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality. "In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology." ^[2]

Besides achieving physical and mental health^[1], people who have advanced towards individuation, they tend to become harmonious, mature, responsible, they promote freedom and justice and have a good understanding about the workings of human nature and the universe.^[3]

Date:	2009-08-19 09:53
Subject:	Living life alone
Security:	Public
Mood:	contemplative

This is an adjustment, to be sure. It has been almost three months (tomorrow) since we parted ways - in the intervening time I've had to abandon the former lifestyle and roommates. Today, I share an awesome apartment with my goody buddy Jason and my pets... I'm THAT guy.

I've noticed (especially as Jason is off cavorting) that my life possesses a lot of downtime. Attempting to fill this time is difficult at best, made worse by my lack of connection to the Internet and reduced social circle. What this leaves me with at the end of the day is a full measure of free time against which long-running excuses against improvement fall flat.

As it turns out, I find it difficult to self-motivate. All excuses aside when left to my own devices I will tend to do whatever will require the least investment... This does not work without ready access to media sources, however. I am beginning to experience life in a way that more closely resembles what my good friend Ed chose willingly. That is, a life without constant distraction.

I know that this time, like times before it, can serve as a great tool for my personal advancement. I know it deep in my gut, my heart, and even my brain.


This time I have available to me... I detest it. Ever the petulant child, I prefer to wallow in life regardless of the negative side-effects. My challenge, now, is against myself and my competing desires. Enter the classic angel/demon perched on my shoulder, with wafts of greasy and salty fried Jack in the Box to torment and distract me from my life's goals.

Verily, yea, I can consumeth of the fine flesh. The respite from a limited diet would be as waves crashing down upon the rocks - but in their ebb, they take from the stones their very strength. I tempt fate with each bite as though I were a raging alcoholic looking for an opening..


As times come and pass, these influences will change and grow. I have certainly been through this before and can succeed again. If I do not waver in my resolve, if consistent progress can continue to be made, I will be looking back on these times as I did those that came before. Else and I will be looking back in hopes of finding where it all went wrong.

An Event Horizon Conflict is given to be the point in time at which a decision is made when either answer will sufficiently propel events - including decisions made through indecision.


Just as light approaching a black hole approaches it's Event Horizon, conversations progressing through the 4th dimension approach conversational Event Horizons. When light approaches and skates at the Event Horizon we understand/believe that a duplicate of that waveform enters the black hole while the waveform itself can continue unharmed - unless it entirely crosses the event horizon. At conversational Event Horizons, the conversation approaches this same point, given a slightly different understanding (but, backwards compatible).

During a conversational Event Horizon, the conversation progresses to the point at which a 'perceived truth' is mentioned (light approaching). Within the conversation, the speaker who brought up the 'perceived truth' can either continue or await a response (light not yet touching Event Horizon but still has the possibility of touching the Event Horizon as it is unknown where it specifically is) from the other parties. This response, like light, can go one of 'two' ways (just as the light itself could) - positively or negatively for the conversation. The listener can choose to believe the speaker's perceived truth or disbelieve it (still 'approaching').

This yields a situation in which attempting to prove the truth (or disprove it) will irrevocably alter the conversation as it attempts to prove whether or not the light has approached the event horizon or not. However, the only proof is in external observation of the events as neither party involved is capable of proving or disproving 'perceived truth' without knowledge of the full extent of both outcomes after the event horizon. Either party in the conversation represents the potential of light at the event horizon - it either continues into the black hole or continues outside of it (whether or not this will eventually lead to all matter in our universe being sucked into a black hole is still debateable). It cannot be proved by a 'mere man' what happens to the waveform of light as it approaches the event horizon but we believe that a copy of it is made and continues into the black hole - even as the light which does not continue in continues instead on.

The question is this - are you 100% certain that light cannot escape a black hole versus 100% certain that light CAN escape a black hole versus perhaps you cannot make this distinction as a universal truth 100% accurate without further information which may change your answer later.

Three options - heads/tails and edge.


Conflicts and arguments, ultimately, can track back to a perceived truth wherein an improvable postulate approaches a second improvable postulate....


And explode.

Perhaps I'll move to France for a few months... 

I love so dear... It's all those little things that I fear.


Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.



There are a lot of things to think about, a lot of ideas to make manifest. So little time. For now, a time to eat. But, for later, a time to create to laugh to play... I'm adrift, without a creation partner to stand by. Essentially, I've no reason to fight or to strive. I'll merely continue on this course, I fear. 

"By saying that, Mr. Serena told me that being a grownup was just a modified version of being a kid. All the same issues were there; you just treated them differently, found new tools. And that was a pathway that I still follow, and I suspect if I’d asked Mr. Serena he’d tell me that on some days, he still felt as foolish and lost as I did back then.

You just learn to find your path when you’re lost, is all. That’s the trick." -Ferrett Steinmetz

cult

[kuhlt]  Show IPA

Origin: 
1610–20; < L cultus habitation, tilling, refinement, worship, equiv. to cul-, var. s. of colere to inhabit, till, worship + -tus suffix of v. action

mu⋅sic [myoo-zik] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
2. the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.
3. musical work or compositions for singing or playing.
4. the written or printed score of a musical composition.
5. such scores collectively.
6. any sweet, pleasing, or harmonious sounds or sound: the music of the waves.
7. appreciation of or responsiveness to musical sounds or harmonies: Music was in his very soul.
8. Fox Hunting. the cry of the hounds.
—Idiom
9. face the music, to meet, take, or accept the consequences of one's mistakes, actions, etc.: He's squandered his money and now he's got to face the music.
Origin:
1200–50; ME musike < L mūsica < Gk mousik (téchnē) (the art) of the Muse, fem. of mousikós, equiv. to Moûs(a) Muse + -ikos -ic



I thought up a definition, but on review I think I'll go with the dictionary on this one. :)

Date:	2009-02-19 09:54
Subject:	Brock knows six languages!
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused

9:36:21 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
i know how to say some things in some languages, but it goes from speaking english pretty well and relating ideas like philosophy...
to french where i can maybe order food and live...
asking for the toilet in spanish..
what color my car is in dutch
and 'boobs' in yiddish

9:36:59 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
When I went pub crawling in Europe in 1995, everyone leared to say the basics in each country we went to

9:37:08 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
very smart! :D

9:37:22 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
count zero to ten, beer, wine, yes, no, toilet, don't shoot

9:37:30 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
XD
helpful, with your window installers

9:37:49 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
lots of hand gestures

9:37:50 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
"no wine, no beer. yes don't shoot!"

9:38:01 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
it is a limited set of words anyway

9:38:34 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
window, door, single, double, picture, hung, help, open, finished?

9:40:45 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
heh
boooobs
Shadayim!

9:41:48 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
my russian is more like;

9:42:21 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
yes, no, altitude, permission, I do not know, release the nuclear device, turn, meters

9:42:57 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
XD
RELEASE THE NUCLEAR DEVICE

9:44:13 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
I heard it once.
It caused quite a stir

9:44:23 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
amusing, that
....
oh goodness
story!

9:44:50 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
monitoring air defense frequencies.

9:45:15 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
listening to some yahoo at high altitude, way deep behind the border

9:45:36 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
suddenly he drops the codeword for release of a nuclear bomb
made me stand up and shout

9:46:09 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
you would have thought I had found religion

9:46:51 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
XD
yes.

9:46:53 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
while concurrently declaring my belief that JC had sex with Mary

9:46:57 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
or, shat your pants

9:47:09 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
no, I wasn't that sure of myself

9:47:12 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
XD

9:47:25 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
But two senior analysts listened and went white as well.

9:47:31 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
oi.

9:48:11 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
sadly, I was not the one on headset when the controllers told the pilot to stop fucking around
I was already back in the transcription room

9:48:27 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
OUR pilot?
XD

9:48:38 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
no, 'them'

9:48:49 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
oh
:-p

9:49:10 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
it would be like a pilot calling "broken arrow" on an open frequency
one of ours saying that

9:49:23 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
mmm

9:49:55 AM 2/19/2009 Brock says:
that equates to "oh shit, I think a lost a nuclear bomb from my wing"

9:50:13 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
hahahaha

9:51:26 AM 2/19/2009 Jim says:
Transcribing this for the lulz.

Frankly, you probably already know that there's a problem if there is one - masturbation isn't it.

blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

My damn Stevie boy don't ever do nothin'.

Whoops. Should be pt.3.

Fuck it hard.