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May 31, 2008

Buprenorphine for Drug Addition Treatemnt


Buprenorphine: This is a relatively new and important treatment medication. NIDA-supported basic and clinical research led to the development of buprenorphine (Subutex or, in combination with naloxone, Suboxone), and demonstrated it to be a safe and acceptable addiction treatment. While these products were being developed in concert with industry partners, Congress passed the
drug rehab Treatment Act (DATA 2000), permitting qualified physicians to prescribe narcotic medications (Schedules III to V) for the treatment of opioid addiction. This legislation created a major paradigm shift by allowing access to opiate treatment in a medical setting rather than limiting it to specialized drug rehab treatment clinics. To date, nearly 10,000 physicians have taken the training needed to prescribe these two medications, and nearly 7,000 have registered as potential providers.

Filed under: Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 1:20 am

Buprenorphine for Drug Addition Treatemnt

Buprenorphine: This is a relatively new and important treatment medication. NIDA-supported basic and clinical research led to the development of buprenorphine (Subutex or, in combination with naloxone, Suboxone), and demonstrated it to be a safe and acceptable addiction treatment. While these products were being developed in concert with industry partners, Congress passed the drug rehab Treatment Act (DATA 2000), permitting qualified physicians to prescribe narcotic medications (Schedules III to V) for the treatment of opioid addiction. This legislation created a major paradigm shift by allowing access to opiate treatment in a medical setting rather than limiting it to specialized drug rehab treatment clinics. To date, nearly 10,000 physicians have taken the training needed to prescribe these two medications, and nearly 7,000 have registered as potential providers.

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May 29, 2008

About Guns

Filed under: Charities, Community — Airsoft @ 11:29 am

About Guns

Cheap airsoft guns safety is an issue that unites people from all ideologies concerned with protecting the welfare of children and securing homes, Lewis said.

A bipartisan collection of Members of Congress have committed early support to the bill. In a joint statement to congressional colleagues, Lewis and The Congressman wrote, We believe this incentive is an important way to better encourage the use of safes, advancing our shared goal of reducing cases of theft, accidental injury and death because of irresponsible firearm storage. #

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Mini Blind Installation Documentation

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Mini Blind Installation Documentation

The contractor(s) shall provide a copy of all invoices and over per location and a copy of the floor layout to show room numbers and the number of windows with installation.

Invoices shall indicate:

a) Type of window coverings

b)Number of window treatments at each size

c)Square footage of each blind

d)Total number of window coverings

e)Total square footage

f)Quantity Discounts

g)Itemized Additional Charges

h)Installation Charge

i)Total Price

Such invoices shall be forwarded to the attention of

Quality Assurance Inspection.Invoices shall be sent on accumulative monthly basis.Failure of the contractor to comply with this requirement may result in the removal of the contractor from the contract.Upon acceptance by quality assurance inspection to determine compliance with specifications, terms and conditions of this contract, approval for payment of this invoice will be forwarded to the using agency.INVOICES WILL NOT BE PAID BY THE USING AGENCY UNTIL QUALITY ACCEPTANCE HAS BEEN APPROVED.

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May 28, 2008

One Inch Mini buy blinds Contract

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One Inch Mini buy blinds Contract

Approximately 200 window treatments will be purchased during the contract period. Sizes will range from 17 x 142 wide and 24 to 126 long. Lift cord and wand placement (left or right) to be available. The customer (KUMC) shall perform their own mini blinds installation.

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May 23, 2008

Master Mindreaders

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Master Mindreaders

Much of the effort to understand the brain substrate of theory of mind and empathy

has involved the study of individuals with deficits in that domain, such as those on

the autism spectrum. Studying individuals with presumed superior abilities in

picking up social signals may yield important additional information. We predicted

that reading readers may have superior abilities and tested this by contrasting a

group of 22 professional psychic readers with matched controls on a measure of

theory of mind (”Reading the Mind in the Eyes” test) and a multidimensional

measure of empathy Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Although tarot readings readers

were not superior in reading the language of the eyes, they were shown to have more

cognitive empathy, as measured with the ”Fantasy” subscale of the IRI. We discuss

the merits of research involving ”experts” in social cognition and propose other

possible groups of ”master mindreaders.”

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Referral

Filed under: Social — Admin @ 6:49 am

Referral

Use the referral format to contact employers to whom you’ve been referred. The effective job seeker will receive referrals to many job opportunities through networking and informational interviews. The referral may be to a specific job opening (advertised or unadvertised) or to an employer who may not be hiring. In a cover letter the individual who provided the referral is mentioned in the letter.

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Appreciation Flows on A SECOND CHANCE

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Appreciation Flows on A SECOND CHANCE

Now its people like the five in Operation Second Chance that are showing their appreciation.

Cindys good about having stuff for us to do, Fernandez said about McGrew and her four helpers. Anything they can do to help us, they do.

Operation Second Chance marks its one-year anniversary as a nonprofit entity this month, McGrew said. She started the organization after a friend of hers went to Iraq to work as a DynCorp employee attached to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team in northern Iraq. She began reading about the brigade and about Soldiers who were injured and ended up at Walter Reed. She went to visit some of the Soldiers at Walter Reed in October 2004. From then on, she has spent most of her spare time trying to help patients get a second chance.

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May 21, 2008

Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot, Get A Gun Safe

Filed under: Charities, Community — Airsoft @ 11:37 pm

Don’t Shoot Yourself In The Foot, Get A Gun Safe

In today’s world a lot of people want to have a gun, not for hunting, but for the protection of their family and their houses/offices.

Though once you have bought a gun, you have to be aware of the responsibility that comes with it. Sometimes the lack of a gun safe can cost you dearly, if you have curious kids. Or if it is stolen you will not only lose the money paid for it, but you can also be morally responsible for a potential attack or even a murder. According to the FBI, more then 30% of the cheap Airsoft guns used in illicit actions were initially obtained through a theft from homes or businesses.

You have to take the time and the money to assure yourself that your gun is safe!

Some of the Airsoft gun are provided with a lock. For example, Winchester electric Airsoft guns are sold together with a cable-type lock or a trigger lock, depending on the gun. The Winchester company offers a wide range of safes. These are not only very practical, with a high protection rate, but also have a very nice classic design, that can sit well in your home or office. When buying a Winchester safe you will also buy the assurance that it comes with one of the best gun industry warranties. The safes are standardly provided with 3-point handles, spy-proof, combination locks and interiors which are user-convertible.

Next to Cannon Safes, Browning Safes, Winchester Safes and Fort Knox Gun Safes, Liberty is one other well respected name in the gun safes business. Certified locksmiths (members of ALOA -The Associated Locksmiths of America Inc.) consider that the Liberty safe is the best sold safe in the USA. Liberty also manufactures the National Security brand of gun safes in the States. One of its assets is its certification by Omega Point Laboratories, a fire testing lab recognized by the U.S. Government. This certification guaranties that the Liberty safe protects its interior for a longer time compared to other safes.

Although a safe gun is a good and wise investment, it will cost you extra money. That’s why it is not unreasonable to think of a discount gun safe!

The price of the safe depends on its size, on its options if it is fireproof (usually the fireproof safes cost more, but if you have an expensive gun collection it’s worth choosing the safe to be fire proof). But you can get a good discount if you buy the safe at the same time as the gun or if you buy it from specialized dealers (because they usually have good discounts from the producers).

If the safe has a bigger size (for 10 to 25 Airsoft guns), you can increase its security by fixing it on the floor or on the wall. If it is in a small size, it would be advisable to hide it away (even if a burglar didn’t come with the intention of stealing your gun, he will not resist the impulse to take it with him and try to open it later).

And remember that a good safe will keep the children or any other unauthorized persons away from the gun! It will protect your gun not only from thefts and fire but also from dust and humidity.

Jeff King is a technologist who writes on many consumer topics.

There’s more about locks and safes at Safe’n'Locked

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jeff_King

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May 20, 2008

Energy Efficiency Funding

Filed under: Charities, Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 2:59 pm

Energy Efficiency Funding

For more than 20 years, mini blinds I&I program has funded more than 500 energy efficient inventions with nearly 25 percent of them reaching the marketplace. Cumulative sales for those products total nearly $710 million.

window blinds NICE3 program provides funding to state and industry partnerships (large and small business) for projects that demonstrate advances in energy efficiency and clean production technologies like advanced window buy blinds and window shade systems. State and industry partnerships are eligible to receive a one-time grant of up to $525,000. The industrial partner may receive a maximum of $500,000 in federal funding. The non-federal cost share must be at least 50 percent of the total cost of the project.

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May 17, 2008

Multidimensional Family Therapy


Multidimensional Family Therapy, which addresses a range of influences on the
drug rehab patterns of adolescents and is designed for them and their families.

Filed under: Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 3:49 pm

Multidimensional Family Therapy

Multidimensional Family Therapy, which addresses a range of influences on the drug rehab patterns of adolescents and is designed for them and their families.

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May 16, 2008


New Venetian Blind Created

Filed under: Social — Admin @ 9:24 pm

New Venetian Blind Created

RADIANCE is description of a set of new venetian window treatments. The depth of the window coverings (X dimension) is given first, followed by the width (Y dimension), followed by the height (Z dimension). The number of slats to place evenly within this height is given as nslats. The angle of the blind, where zero is perfectly horizontal and a positive angle tilts the positive X edge upwards, is given in degrees. The window treatments are initially situated so that the corner of the bottom blind isheight/nslats/2 above the XY plane, and all coordinates are positive.Each new slat is placed height/nslats above the previous one, until the top slat is at height - height/nslats/2 . The window coverings may of course be moved from this starting point with the xform(1) command.

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Lack of Experience Can Hurt

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Lack of Experience Can Hurt

The nature of Sharks Jerseys places the participant in a precarious position from the moment that the skates are worn. The participant is required to balance, while moving, on narrow wheels that offer little resistance to hard surfaces. Although roller skating and ice San Jose Sharks Apparel require many of the skill components that are essential to Sharks Apparel, many in-line skaters have no previous experience with skating of any type.13,32

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May 15, 2008

BASIC cheap airsoft guns SAFETY RULES

Filed under: Charities, Community — Airsoft @ 12:30 am

BASIC cheap airsoft guns SAFETY RULES

When the air soft guns is not in your hands, you must still think of safety. Use a California-approved firearms safety device on the cheap airsoft guns, such as a trigger lock or cable lock, so it cannot be fired. Store it unloaded in a locked container, such as a California-approved lock box or a airsoft gun safe. #

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May 13, 2008


Window
custom blinds Heat Reducing Capacity




Window window treatments vertical or horizontal slat-typeare more effective at reducing summer heat gain than winter heat loss.Because of the numerous openings between the slats, it’s difficult to control heat loss through interior window blinds to go, but the slats offer flexibility in the summer. Unlike shades, you can adjust the slats to control light and ventilation. For example, when completely closed and lowered on a sunny window, highly reflective mini blinds can reduce heat gain by around 45%. They can also be adjusted to block and reflect direct sunlight onto a light-colored ceiling. A light-colored ceiling will diffuse the light without much heat or glare.


Filed under: Charities, Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 2:40 am

Window custom blinds Heat Reducing Capacity

Window window treatments vertical or horizontal slat-typeare more effective at reducing summer heat gain than winter heat loss.Because of the numerous openings between the slats, it’s difficult to control heat loss through interior window blinds to go, but the slats offer flexibility in the summer. Unlike shades, you can adjust the slats to control light and ventilation. For example, when completely closed and lowered on a sunny window, highly reflective budget blinds can reduce heat gain by around 45%. They can also be adjusted to block and reflect direct sunlight onto a light-colored ceiling. A light-colored ceiling will diffuse the light without much heat or glare.

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May 11, 2008

What is Pre-Diabetes?

Filed under: Charities, Giving Back — Cardiocheck @ 1:45 am

What is Pre-Diabetes?

People with pre-diabetes have blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. This condition raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cardiochek stroke.

Pre-diabetes is also called impaired fasting glucose (IFG) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), depending on the test used to diagnose it. Some people have both IFG cardiochek IGT.

IFG is a condition in which the blood glucose level is high (100 to 125 mg/dL) after an overnight fast, but is not high enough to be classified as diabetes. (The former definition of IFG was 110 mg/dL to 125 mg/dL.)

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May 10, 2008


North Carlolina General Contract Terms for
custom blinds Installation

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North Carlolina General Contract Terms for custom blinds Installation

The Dize Company will complete on-site measurements within 10 to 18 days after request from the user. Contract Shading Systems will complete on-site measurements within 10 to 20 days after request from the user. In the event the on site measuring is not completed within the contracted time period, the contractor may be held in default in accordance with paragraph 1, DEFAULT AND PERFORMANCE BOND in the North Carolina General Contract Terms and Conditions, and the state may procure the articles or services from other sources and hold the contractor responsible for excess cost occasioned thereby.

It is important that agencies make the contract administrator aware of any measurement problems.

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May 9, 2008



FOCUS on Fitness

Filed under: Charities, Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 8:29 pm

FOCUS on Fitness

This months ADD Update focuses on inclusive recreation.

People use recreational activities, such as Hockey Jerseys or Skating, to relieve stress, connect with friends, be creative, or

escape from their daily lives. For people with disabilities, recreation can be an important way

to improve health and fitness, as well as an opportunity for community interaction. Individuals

who are active are healthier, live longer, and enjoy a better quality of life. Regular physical

activity substantially reduces the risk of dying of heart disease, the nation’s leading cause of

death.

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May 8, 2008

Safes - How childproof is yours?

Filed under: Charities, Community — Airsoft @ 4:54 pm

Safes - How childproof is yours?

A safe is essential if you have a gun at home. It is also essential that your safe is easy for you to use but difficult to acces without your authorization.

Safes are made from tough, heavy guage steel, typically half an inch thick. The safe may have two sheets of hard steel, with ballbearings sandwiched between the two layers. The ballbearings make drilling through the door or sides very difficult.

The door and lock are inherently the weakest points of any safe. Locking the safe door should operate hardened steel or titanium bolts on all four sides. Hinges are internal so that they do not present a weakness to an intruder.

Locks may be key, combination or fingerprint operated. The best safes have combinations of different types of lock and time delays before a lock will open.

Key locks can be picked, even the most complex key operated lock can be picked by an expert. An expert can find a combination code on a rotary combination dials fairly easily. A keypad combination is the best if you have a combination lock. There are no moving parts to go wrong, or to give clues to a safe cracker who is listening to the lock as he or she operates it.

It is important to keep the keypad clean. Dirty or clean keys give clues to anyone trying to get into your safe. Make sure the combination you choose bears no relationship to phone numbers, birthdates or any other data that can be guessed.

The best option is a fingerprint operated lock. Then you can have absolute confidence that while your fingers are attached to your body that nobody will be able to open your safe without your knowledge.

A fingerprint operated lock combined with a keypad combination lock, or a second fingerprint operated lock set up for a second person provides the best security for cheap Airsoft guns or valuables.

Fire protection is usually built into home safes, with layers of insulating material and expanding door seals that exclude oxygen and prevent combustion of the safe contents.

Article Source: http://www.kokkada.com

Ventura is a professional writer who writes about a wide range of topics. You can find more information and resources on safes at www.safes-today.info. You can find more of Ventura’ s work at perfecthexagrams.com

#TITLE# Instill a Mind Set of Safety and Responsibility

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May 6, 2008


Invoicing for Mini
discount blinds Installation

Filed under: Charities, Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 7:29 am

Invoicing for Mini discount blinds Installation

The cellular shades shall invoice at the actual installation cost of the cellular shades, per location.The minimum installation charge shall apply only in cases where the installation cost of the faux wood blinds exceeds the minimum installation charge.

*Location is defined as one or more buildings within close proximity to one another requiring installation service. The minimum installation charge is not intended to apply to each building at a single location. When installation can be completed at more than one building, and it is not necessary for the installers equipment to be transported by vehicle between the installation sites, only one minimum installation charge should be applied.

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Cool Bonus with Dish Network

Filed under: Events, Social — Lucy Tan @ 3:58 am

If you want to see the difference between Dish and DirecTV, click here.I usually get a bunch of junk mail about this stuff, and most of them don’t even show the satellite deals offered on this site.After doing my due diligence, I’m glad that I order Dish Network online.I’m glad that I got an Ipod with my satellite package.

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Getting Paid for the Short Term

Filed under: Events, Professionals, Social — Lucy Tan @ 1:04 am

Last night I took a peak at a short term disability insurance site. Most people don’t know that when they take sick leave, they’re actually using a special type of disability insurance. Most private companies have vacation time, but that’s not what sick leave is. However there are cases where companies just call their sick leave a part of vacation time. Sick leave can be used for a few hours if you’re at a doctors appointment. Sometimes it can be used if you’re sick for a multiple amount of days. Wealth Protector has a lot of info online regarding short term disability insurance

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May 4, 2008

Motivational Interviewing


Some
drug rehab centers use Motivational Interviewing, which capitalizes on the readiness of individuals to change their behavior and enter treatment.

Filed under: Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 12:29 pm

Motivational Interviewing

Some drug rehab centers use Motivational Interviewing, which capitalizes on the readiness of individuals to change their behavior and enter treatment.

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Who needs
eating disorder treatment?




An estimated 0.5 to 3.7 percent of females need eating disorder treatment in their lifetime.1 Symptoms of eating disorder treatment nervosa include:



Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height

Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight

Disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight

Infrequent or absent menstrual periods (in females who have reached puberty)

People with this disorder see themselves as overweight even though they are dangerously thin. The process of eating becomes an obsession. Unusual eating habits develop, such as avoiding food and meals, picking out a few foods and eating these in small quantities, or carefully weighing and portioning food. People with eating disorder treatment may repeatedly check their body weight, and many engage in other techniques to control their weight, such as intense and compulsive exercise, or purging by means of vomiting and abuse of laxatives, enemas, and diuretics. Girls with eating disorder treatment often experience a delayed onset of their first menstrual period.


Filed under: Events, Giving Back — Altamira @ 11:59 am

Who needs eating disorder treatment?

An estimated 0.5 to 3.7 percent of females need eating disorder treatment in their lifetime.1 Symptoms of eating disorder treatment nervosa include:

Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height

Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight

Disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight

Infrequent or absent menstrual periods (in females who have reached puberty)

People with this disorder see themselves as overweight even though they are dangerously thin. The process of eating becomes an obsession. Unusual eating habits develop, such as avoiding food and meals, picking out a few foods and eating these in small quantities, or carefully weighing and portioning food. People with eating disorder treatment may repeatedly check their body weight, and many engage in other techniques to control their weight, such as intense and compulsive exercise, or purging by means of vomiting and abuse of laxatives, enemas, and diuretics. Girls with eating disorder treatment often experience a delayed onset of their first menstrual period.

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Cleaning up after Mini Blind Installations

Filed under: Social — Admin @ 2:50 am

Cleaning up after Mini Blind Installations

Upon completion of installation, vendor shall clean up and dispose of all debris occasioned by his work. All debris is to be removed from premises and rooms shall be left broom clean. If existing custom blinds are removed, disposal of such should be at the direction of the using agency and if desired, the responsibility of the contractor. Disposal of discount blinds may be off-premises, at the direction of the user.

14.B. Labels

All window blinds sold under this contract shall be labeled inside the headrail with CONTRACTORS name and date of shipment. If the contractor installs custom blinds, the date of installation must be shown in place of the shipment date. Failure to identify discount blinds will result in rejection by Quality Assurance Inspectors and invoices will not be released until such omission is corrected.

15. Quality Acceptance Inspection

Installations in excess of $2500.00 are required to have a Quality Assurance Inspection.

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May 3, 2008



Interviews with the Dead

Filed under: Charities, Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 9:24 am

Interviews with the Dead

BACKGROUND: Hippocrates devised his theory of the 4 humours (blood, phlegm, black

bile and yellow bile) 24 centuries ago. Since then, medicine has evolved into a

complex body of confusing and sometimes contradictory facts. The authors, seeing a

need to determine the validity of his theory, hired a psychic. METHODS: The tarot reading

interviewed 4 eminent ancient physicians, including Hippocrates. A randomized

double-blind cross-over design was used for this meta-life qualitative analysis.

RESULTS: All of the interviewees agreed that the theory of humours is an accurate

model to explain disease and personality. INTERPRETATION: Hiring a psychic readings to

conduct after-death interviews with key informants is a useful way to validate

scientific theories

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May 2, 2008



The NIH Rink Club

Filed under: Charities, Community, Events, Giving Back, Professionals, Social — Admin @ 9:30 am

The NIH Rink Club

NIH San Jose Sharks Apparel Club veterans (from l) Drs. Gary Murray, Pierre Henkart and Ed Ginns reflect on past glories, future triumphs.

The NIH club began, initially, as a county-run game, once a week. “A bunch of us from NIH got involved and kind of took rink time — this was at Wheaton Regional Park,” said Henkart. “We played Thursday nights from 10:30 to midnight. We held that slot until this year,” when the games migrated to Cabin John Regional on alternate Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, sometimes beginning as early as 9:45 p.m.

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