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Posted by: Eating The Road | December 10, 2009

Chacho’s & Chalucci’s

Chacho’s & Chalucci’s
Address: 8614 Perrin Beitel Road, San Antonio, TX 78217
Phone: (210) 892-1400
Known For: Breakfast Tacos
What I had: 2 Eggs (Scrambled), 2 Bacon, 2 Sausage, 2 Floor Tortillas & 2 Pancakes
Price: $5.89
Rating: 7.5 out of 10

This is a funny place…it’s open 24 hours, it’s not quite a chain, but they have several locations, it’s huge and they offer a wide variety of mostly Mexican (…Tex-Mex) dishes, oh they’re extremely cheap, especially for the portions that you receive.

There was only one customer there when I arrived and it was a bit off putting only because the space is so big, it was pretty early in the morning so it was actually not strange…but again the size of the place made it seem that much more empty.

I was going to get a few breakfast tacos but they have an egg breakfast plate that comes with flour tortillas so I figured I’d just go that route and just fashion my own. The plate comes with 2 eggs (got mine scrambled), 2 bacon strips, 2 sausage, homestyle potatoes (with onions), 2 floor tortillas and 2 pancakes. I told you it was a lot of food.

The eggs were actually pretty good, they were cooked just right which sometimes is not that easy for places like this to do. These were not over cooked at all. The potatoes were really good too, the grilled onions were a nice touch. The bacon was way over cooked and not even really edible. The sausage was okay, a bit greasy. The pancakes were slightly above average, pretty good actually, nice and fluffy. The one amazing thing were the floor tortillas, they make them fresh on premises and they were some of the best floor tortillas I’ve had, delicious. They made for a great breakfast taco!

The portions were absolutely humongous, certainly “Texas Sized”….and the price, are you kidding me, under $6. You literally could eat just this breakfast and be set for the entire day. They also have a really nice salsa bar with a wide variety of great salsas and dressings. One that really stood out was a fresh Mango Salsa.

I would say if you’re in the neighborhood and are hungry this would be your go to place. It’s quick, cheap and actually surprisingly tasty.

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  1. I haven’t had Tex-Mex in such a long time. Seeing this kind of food makes me miss Texas so much. I was born in Texas and now I live in Georgia, the food here doesn’t measure up (with the exception of some restaurants). This is just my opinion, though.

    You should stop by, “Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles,” if you plan on visiting Atlanta, GA anytime soon. Be sure to try out their sweet potato sticks! They taste great!

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SANFRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc's board seems to be looking for any way possible to escapetakeover by Microsoft Corp , but in the end directors' duty may be simply totake what the software company offers.

The pioneering Web company maybe known for its fun-loving culture where employees refer to each other as"yahoos", dress in loud purple-and-yellow T-shirts and harbor a deep SiliconValley-bred distrust of rival Microsoft's corporate culture. But Yahoo's10-member board is far from being some band of Microsoft-hating ideologues thatwould block a deal with the world's largest software company at any price.

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The offervalue has since shrunk to about $42 billion -- still a substantial premium. WallStreet has grown convinced that Microsoft's price is an insurmountable hurdle towould-be rivals and that the search for alternatives by Yahoo's board isbasically designed to exact a higher offer from the Redmond, Washington-basedgiant. "Doing some alternative deal is almost sure to be of less value toshareholders," Moran said.

"You would see all sorts oflawsuits -- and they would be lawsuits with merit." A spokeswoman declined tocomment on the board's activities beyond a statement on Monday rejectingMicrosoft's bid as too low: "Yahoo's board is carefully and thoroughlyevaluating all of the company's strategic alternatives and will pursue the bestcourse of action to maximize long-term value," it said. Despite discussions,according to sources, of tie-ups with other companies from Google Inc to NewsCorp , Yahoo's directors are not tech radicals who will attempt to go it aloneat any cost.

"One way Yahoohas grown up is that they have created a pretty good corporate board," said alocal recruiter who has performed a variety of executive search assignments forYahoo and is familiar with the dynamics of the directors.

"The average age is 55, whichis typical for many corporate boards, but old for Silicon Valley," the recruitersaid. "There is not a lot of next-generation thinking there." LOTS OFCONNECTIONS Even directors drawn from the tech world like venture capitalistEric Hippeau, one of the first institutional investors in Yahoo, and RobertKotick, head of video game company Activision Inc , have ties thatsuggest they won't oppose a Microsoft deal.

A key driver of Activision'sbusiness is selling gaming titles for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console,accounting for one-third of its latest quarter's software publishing sales. In acurious twist, Hippeau was on the board of Danger Inc, makers of an innovativehybrid Web and phone device, that agreed to sell the company to Microsoft in asmaller-scale deal for undisclosed terms announced this week. Hippeau was aboarda plane and could not be reached for comment.

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"There should be no realsurprises," Lindsay said. "They are just exercising their responsibility asboard members." He predicts the sale of the company at a modestly higher price.Both sides are working from well-rehearsed scripts performed in dozens ofunsolicited takeovers in the past. Goldman, Sachs & Co, Lehman Brothers andMoelis & Co are working as financial advisers to Yahoo; Skadden, Arps,Slate, Meagher & Flom is Yahoo's legal adviser. Munger Tolles & Olson isacting as counsel to Yahoo's outside directors.

Jeffries & Co analystYoussef Squali expects a drawn-out process in which Microsoft ultimatelyprevails by sweetening its bid by another $2 to $3 per share. But he warnsagainst board brinkmanship in pursuing a goal as high as $40 a share. "The riskof derailing a deal at the end of the day can prove dangerous ... consideringthat a 'no deal' scenario would send the stock back below $20 quickly," Squaliwrote in a research note to clients, published on Thursday. The board has daysor weeks to decide.

A monthfrom now, nominations for board members are due for Yahoo's annual shareholdermeeting. Microsoft could turn hostile and nominate its own candidates as a wayof winning support for its deal. "If they unreasonably drag it out, Yahoo boardmembers would be subject to criticism," Lindsay said. Moran was more blunt:"Regardless of their personalities, they really have a pretty clearresponsibility to the shareholder -- and potential (legal) liability if theydon't do what's right."
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WASHINGTON: Internet users reveal more personal information online if they believe that they can trust the organisation that requests the information, says a new research.

The project, 'Privacy and Self-Disclosure Online', led by Dr Adam Joinson, found that people who had previously demonstrated a high level of caution regarding online privacy would accept losses to their privacy if they trusted the recipient of their personal information.

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In the first of its kind study, rigorous methods were used to measure Internet users actual behaviour.

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara, on June 13, 2017.

(CNN)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her election rival Martin Schulz of "bowing down to populism and prejudice" after both candidates called for an end to Ankara's European Union membership talks in a live TV election debate Sunday night.

In a series of tweets posted Monday morning, presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said that the two candidates chose to attack Turkey and Erdogan "while ignoring Germany and Europe's fundamental and critical issues" and accused Germany of embracing the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that the Turkish government has branded a terrorist organization.
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    The exchange of blows marks a further escalation in tensions between the two countries.
    Relations between Berlin and Ankara have been in a downward spiral since last summer, when a failed coup against Erdogan sparked a crackdown on civil liberties and mass arrests of the political opposition, activists and journalists, including German citizens.
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    Germany has changed its tactics over Turkey in recent months, threatening to impose travel and trade restrictions if journalist Yucel and activist Steudtner aren't released from prison.
    In July, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned Germans against traveling to Turkey and suggested that the German government would review corporate investments in Turkey.
    "Someone who detains law-abiding visitors to their country on the basis of outlandish, indeed absurd, accusations and throws them into prison has left European values behind," Gabriel said, calling for Steudtner's release. "We cannot continue as before."
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    Soon after, the Turkish government blocked German lawmakers from visiting German troops stationed in Turkey participating in NATO operations in Syria.
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    Relations with Turkey are a key issue in the days leading to federal elections in Germany, where there are some 3 million people with Turkish roots.
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College of Engineering Distinguished Alumna Barbara Simons (Ph.D. '81) is the subject of an article in the Dail Kos titled "Computer scientist Barbara Simons proves how easy it is to hack elections—and how it can be stopped."  Simons,  who runs Verified Voting, has been a longtime advocate for bringing paper ballots back to all states and exposing the perils of electronic paperless ballots.  Last summer, she ran an experiment at the Def Con Hacker Conference in Las Vegas in which she secured 4 voting machines and had two teams of hackers successfully compromise them. “Anything that’s happening in here, you can be sure [it’s something] that those intent on undermining the integrity of our election systems have already done,” she said.  Simons will be a keynote speaker at the WiCSE 40th Reunion on Saturday.

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Prof. Michael Jordan has been named a Plenary Lecturer at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August.  ICM is considered the world’s premier forum for presenting and discussing new mathematical discoveries.  Plenary speakers are invited from around the world to present one-hour lectures which are held without other parallel activities--an honor that has been bestowed on only a small handful of computer scientists over the 121 year history of the ICM.

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Undergraduate students Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan (EECS  + Business M.E.T.),  Naomi Jung (CS BA), and Louie McConnell (EECS + Business M.E.T.) have been selected to participate in the 2018 KPCB Engineering Fellows Program, named one of the top 5 internship programs by Vault.  Over the course of a summer, KPCB Engineering Fellows join portfolio companies, where they develop their technical skills and are each mentored by an executive within the company. It offers students an opportunity to gain significant work experience at Silicon Valley startups, collaborating on unique and challenging technical problems.

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AI training may leak secrets to canny thieves

A paper released on arXiv last week by a team of researchers including Prof. Dawn Song and Ph.D. student Nicholas Carlini (B.A. CS/Math '13), reveals just how vulnerable deep learning is to information leakage.  The researchers labelled the problem “unintended memorization” and explained it happens if miscreants can access to the model’s code and apply a variety of search algorithms. That's not an unrealistic scenario considering the code for many models are available online, and it means that text messages, location histories, emails or medical data can be leaked.  The team doesn't “really know why neural networks memorize these secrets right now, ” Carlini says.  “At least in part, it is a direct response to the fact that we train neural networks by repeatedly showing them the same training inputs over and over and asking them to remember these facts."   The best way to avoid all problems is to never feed secrets as training data. But if it’s unavoidable then developers will have to apply differentially private learning mechanisms, to bolster security, Carlini concluded.

How Flight Simulation Tech Can Help Turn Robots Into Surgeons

Robotics researchers from Berkeley's AUTOLab, led by IEOR and EECS professor Ken Goldberg, have built a heaving robotic platform — mimicking the motion of a breathing, heart-beating human patient — to help develop algorithms that robotic surgical assistants can use to guide their cutting.  This research is the subject of an article in Wired magazine titled "How Flight Simulation Tech Can Help Turn Robots Into Surgeons."  During surgery, when the chest heaves or blood pumps, the surgeon has to compensate for that movement.  The researchers took the data from watching the surgeon's movements and developed algorithms that could mimic his strategy for cutting along a line. This new robot, which is a kind of a Stewart platform, mimics that movement.  Stewart platforms are normally hefty pneumatic devices that power things like immersive flight simulators. But for this study, the researchers took the concept and shrunk it down to a 6-inch-wide device, opting for servo motors instead of pneumatic power. The machine costs just $250.

Retraining the brain’s vision center to take action

Neuroscience researchers, including Prof. Jose Carmena, have demonstrated the astounding flexibility of the brain by training neurons that normally process input from the eyes to develop new skills, in this case, to control a computer-generated tone.  Carmena, the senior author of a paper about the development that appeared in the journal Neuron, explains that “to gain a reward, the rats learned to produce arbitrary patterns of neural activity unrelated to visual input in order to control a BMI, highlighting the power of neuroplasticity and the flexibility of the brain.”   “These findings suggest that the striatum has a broader role in shaping cortical activity based on ongoing experience and behavioral outcomes than previously acknowledged, and have wide implications for the neuroscience of thought and action and brain-machine interfaces,” said Carmena.

RISELab's AI research wins $10M NSF award

The RISELab, led by Prof. Ion Stoica, has received an Expeditions in Computing award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), providing $10 million in funding over five years to enable game-changing advances in real-time decision making technologies.  The award is presented to research teams pursuing large-scale, far-reaching and potentially transformative research in computer and information science and engineering.   RISELab’s award will be used to develop technology for an era in which AI systems will make decisions that will play an increasingly central role in people’s lives in areas such as healthcare, transportation and business.

Ling-Qi Yan helps to improve computer rendering of animal fur

CS graduate student Ling-Qi Yan (advisors: Ravi Ramamoorthi/Ren Ng) and researchers at U.C. San Diego are the subject of an article in TechXplore titled "Scientists improve computer rendering of animal fur."  He is part of a team that developed a method for dramatically improving the way computers simulate fur, and more specifically, the way light bounces within an animal's pelt.  The researchers are using a neural network to apply the properties of a concept called subsurface scattering to quickly approximate how light bounces around fur fibers.  The neural network only needs to be trained with one scene before it can apply subsurface scattering to all the different scenes with which it is presented. This results in simulations running 10 times faster than current state of the art.  "We are converting the properties of subsurface scattering to fur fibers," said Yan. "There is no explicit physical or mathematical way to make this conversion. So we needed to use a neural network to connect these two different worlds."  The researchers recently presented their findings at the SIGGRAPH Asia conference in Thailand.

Dan Wallach to testify about election security and voting machines in Texas

EECS alumnus Dan Wallach (B.S. '93) will testify before the Texas Senate Select Committee on Election Security at a hearing about recent election irregularities in Texas, a review of voting security protocols and the responsibilities and duties of members of the Electoral College.  Specifically, the hearing will examine the use of electronic voting machines and paper ballots, voting fraud and disenfranchisement occurring inside nursing homes and assisted living facilities, outside interference and manipulation of elections, and the voting requirements of presidential electors.  Wallach is widely regarded as an expert on voting machine security.  He is currently an EECS professor at Rice University and a scholar at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Security for data analytics – gaining a grip on the two-edged sword

Prof. Dawn Song and graduate student Noah Johnson are taking a new approach to enable organizations to follow tight data security and privacy policies while enabling flexible data analysis, as well as machine learning for analysts.  Working with Uber, they tested their system using a dataset of 8 million queries written by the company’s data analysts. The system is currently being integrated into Uber’s internal data analytics platform.  With help from the Signatures Innovation Fellows program, they are advancing the system to provide the same level of security and flexibility for a broad range of data analysis and machine learning, whether needed in basic and medical research or business analytics.


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CS Assistant Teaching Prof. Josh Hug

Thank you, Josh Hug

In an article for the Daily Cal, undergraduate Taylor Choe thanks CS Assistant Teaching Prof. Josh Hug for helping her overcome her negative first impression of Berkeley and discover what makes it so special.   "My mindset going into CS 61B was definitely not a positive one. I struggled with 61A and felt discouraged, making me really come to dislike computer science." she wrote.  But Dr. Hug made her fall in love with computer science and helped her find faith in the public school system.   "You could tell that he wanted to be at lecture and wasn’t thinking about being somewhere else. His projects, homeworks and labs were entertaining and engaging, displaying the time and thought that went into each of them. He constantly emphasized the importance of being an honest person in addition to being an honest programmer. He was somehow able to make a 1,400-person class feel a little smaller. And I don’t think there is anything more you can ask of a professor, especially at a school as large as UC Berkeley."

Vasuki Narasimha Swamy and César Torres win Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants

EE graduate student Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (adviser: Anant Sahai) and CS graduate student César Torres (adviser: Eric Paulos) have won inaugural Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants.  These grants offer financial support to selected doctoral students from groups that are under-represented in the field of computing.  Of the 200 applicants, only 12 were chosen.  Vasuki's research topic is “Real-time Ultra-reliable Wireless Communication” and César's is “Hybrid Aesthetics – A New Media Framework for the Computational Design of Creative Materials, Tools, and Practices within Digital Fabrication.”

Wenting Zheng wins the 2017-18 IBM PhD Fellowship

EECS graduate student Wenting Zheng (advised by Ion Stoica and Raluca Ada Popa)  has won the prestigious 2017-18 IBM PhD Fellowship.   Wenting works in the RISELab and her research involves system security and distributed systems. The IBM Ph.D. fellowship is an "intensely competitive worldwide program that honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study." Only 50 fellowships are awarded worldwide annually.

UC Berkeley alumni are 2017's most wanted tech employees

According to an analysis by online recruiting company HiringSolved, UC Berkeley has the most undergraduate and graduate alumni hired by the 25 biggest Silicon Valley employers in 2017.  Using data from more than 10,000 public profiles for tech workers hired or promoted into new positions in 2016 and the first two months of 2017, the company determined that Berkeley alumni were hired more frequently than any other, followed by Stanford, CMU, and USC.  A Quartz Media article attributes some of that success to the close relationships our faculty and administrators have with Bay Area tech firms.  HiringSolved also determined which skills were the best indicators for getting entry-level jobs and the most likely job titles for new graduate applicants.

Two sophomores are using AI to fight fake news on Facebook

EECS sophomore Rohan Phadte and Interdisciplinary Studies major Ash Bhat have built a Messenger bot called NewsBot to help users discern whether articles are "fake news" on Facebook. Besides determining the validity of an article, it also offers a barometer that shows where an article might fit on the left-right bias spectrum, and is one of the only tools of its kind.  The idea for the algorithm first came to them during machine-learning classes.  Although it still has some bugs, they are making updates every day and the tool will improve as more users provide feedback.   "We want people to read more than just the headline. We want them to understand what the news they see says and who it's coming from." Bhat says.  Read the article on Mic.

Sam Kumar is 2017 University Medal runner up

EECS major Sam Kumar is a runner up for the 2017 University Medal.  Candidates for the University Medal must have overcome significant challenges, made a difference in the lives of others and carry a GPA of 3.96 or higher.  Sam is involved in research related to software-defined buildings, has spent each semester volunteering time as a tutor, allowing him to give back to a community that he said has been instrumental to his time as a student. One of his favorite memories from Cal involves a class in Sanskrit.  "Before we got to the literature, we had to learn the basics. We started were reading simple passages and doing vocabulary exercises to get the basics, but eventually I was able to read authentic texts from thousands of years ago. Being able to read an ancient language – after only two semesters of studying – was a breathtaking moment for me.”    Sam will receive a $500 award as a tribute to his academic efforts and, after graduation, he plans to work on a Ph.D. in computer science.

Tomás Vega Gálvez and Corten Singer chosen Lemelson-MIT “Drive it!” Undergraduate Team Winners

CS undergraduates Tomás Vega Gálvez and Corten Singer have been chosen the $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Drive it!” Undergraduate Team Winner for an open-source smart add-on system for wheelchairs. Vega and Singer created WheelSense, a modular, customizable add-on system for wheelchairs that provides spatial awareness for visually impaired users to identify obstacles and ease their navigation. It has three features: frontal staircase detection through auditory feedback, backward obstacle-avoidance assistance through auditory feedback, and lateral ramp-edge detection through haptic feedback. They hope to disrupt the expensive market for assistive technologies for the disabled community by making their technology open source.  The “Drive it!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize rewards students working on technology-based inventions that can improve transportation.

Meet Ray, the Real-Time Machine-Learning Replacement for Spark

CS Prof. Michael Jordan, graduate students Philipp Moritz and Robert Nishihara, and research in the RISELab are featured in a Datanami article titled "Meet Ray, the Real-Time Machine-Learning Replacement for Spark."  Ray is one of the first technologies to emerge from RISELab, the successor to AMPLab and its host of influential distributed technologies including Spark, Mesos, and Tachyon. Ray is a new distributed framework designed to enable Python-based machine learning and deep learning workloads to execute in real-time with MPI-like power and granularity. This framework is ostensibly a replacement for Spark, which is seen as too slow for some real-world AI applications.

BiasBusters at the Community Grants Showcase

BiasBusters @ Cal EECS will make a presentation at this year's Community Grants Showcase:  Changing Social Norms on April 19, 2017.  BiasBusters @ Cal EECS focuses on engaging EECS faculty, staff, and students to shift culture and increase the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in our community.   The program, modeled on Google’s Bias Busting @ Work program, was initiated by Director of Diversity and Achievement Tiffany Reardon and is organized by graduate students Vasuki Swamy and Regina Eckert.  Regular workshops are led by volunteers in the EECS community who have been trained as program facilitators in an effort to promote self-awareness about unconscious bias and teach how to address it in our department and daily lives.  The grant was sponsored by the PATH to Care Center with support from the Violence Prevention Collaborative.

Radhika Mittal and Sam Chiu-Wai Wong win 2017 Google PhD Fellowships

Graduate students Radhika Mittal (advisors: Sylvia Ratnasamy and Scott Shenker) and Sam Chiu-Wai Wong (advisor: Christos Papadimitriou) have won 2017 Google PhD Fellowships. This is one of the highest honors available for Computer Science graduate students.  Each selected university is permitted to nominate two students and Google awards approximately 15 named fellowships per year.  Radhika, whose area is Computer Networking, was awarded a Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship in 2013.  Sam, who is interested in the area of Algorithms and Complexity, won Best Paper at the IEEE FOCS Symposium in 2015 and has been awarded an IBM Scholarship.


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Makeshift Studio

When faced with finishing drawing homework at 2am, desperate times call for desperate measures. If you ever wondered how I actually draw, this is (mostly) it; we started using charcoal last week and thus, have finally been able to start shading. Although charcoal is a harder medium to control, I find it a better medium than pencil, if only because one can finally see what I’m drawing as my touch is far too light with a pencil- so light that when hung up on the wall, the pencil drawings appear “invisible.”

Happy Thursday!

  1. Sam said:

    I’m not a huge fan of charcoal predominantly because it’s quite a messy medium compared to pencil although it has this kind of carefree texture to it that can’t be achieved with the narrow point of a pencil!

    • I’m not sure when I started to like charcoal, but I definitely agree about the messiness! (Each class I come back looking like I was a chimney sweep in Mary Poppins.)

  2. this is an awesome drawing! love this image.

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Jing-Ian Yang, Shiau-yee Chen, Ching-Lin Hsieh and Jiu-jenq Lin Feb 19, 2018

Applied twice a week for four weeks, an 18-minute shoulder massage led to significant improvements in range of motion, function and muscle tightness among people with posterior shoulder tightness, according to recent research.

The study, “Effects and predictors of shoulder muscle massage for patients with posterior shoulder tightness,” involved 52 people with posterior shoulder tightness, recruited from a hospital-based, outpatient orthopedic and rehabilitation practice. These subjects ranged in age from 43 to 73 years, with a mean age of 54 years.

Participants were randomly assigned to either the massage group or the placebo control group. Those in the massage group received an 18-minute massage to the tight shoulder twice a week for four weeks. A physical therapist with clinical experience in manual therapy provided the massage, focusing for six minutes on each of these three muscles: the posterior deltoid, infraspinatus and teres minor of the involved shoulder.

“The techniques of massage, including petrissage for three minutes and rolling for three minutes of soft tissues, were applied to the patients with prone position and arm by side,” state the study’s authors. “For the control group, the same therapists applied light hand touch on the muscles (placebo control) 10 minutes two times a week for four weeks.”

The main outcome measures for this study were glenohumeral internal rotation range of motion (ROM), functional status and muscle tightness, all of which were assessed before the massage and control intervention and again after the four-week intervention period came to a close.

Glenohumeral internal rotation ROM was assessed using a hand-held goniometer, with subjects in a prone position, and during the test, “the scapula was palpated at the lateral border and stabilized by hand,” report the study’s authors. Then, to evaluate muscle tightness, the researchers used a computerized myotonometer, with which they measured the tightness of the posterior deltoid, infraspinatus and teres minor. The third outcome measure, functional status, was assessed via the self-reported Flexilevel Scale of Shoulder Function (FLEX-SF).

Results of the research revealed a significant increase in the overall mean glenohumeral internal rotation ROM among subjects in the massage group compared to those in the placebo control group. There also was a significant decrease in the muscle tightness of all three posterior shoulder muscles among subjects in the massage group compared to those in the placebo control group. As for functional status, the overall mean FLEX-SF scores increased significantly among the participants who received massage compared to those who received the placebo control intervention.

“In this study, four-week massage was effective in internal rotation ROM, FLEX-SF and muscle tightness compared with the control group,” conclude the study’s authors. “Muscle-tightness reduction in the posterior shoulder contributes to improvement of glenohumeral internal ROM after four-week massage.”

Authors: Jing-Ian Yang, Shiau-yee Chen, Ching-Lin Hsieh and Jiu-jenq Lin.

Sources: Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Occupational Therapy, School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, Physical Therapy Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University-Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Originally published in 2012 in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 13(46).

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Spanish Words and Phrases I Find Myself Saying or Hearing Frequently

By Lyn Nelson

GOALLLLLLL (like a soccer goal): Never once is a soccer game not on our television downstairs. Also every time my little brother scores a goal on me during our mini indoor soccer matches he runs around the house yelling goal.
Buenos días (good day): The only thing I have time to say to people I pass as I’m rushing to school in the mornings.
Cuidado (be careful) : A term I use frequently while playing soccer with my host brother inside our house. I’ve only been here a week and he’s already knocked over several family photos.
Que rico (pretty much means how delicious): My host mom is a professional  cook so that pretty much explains that one.
Mae (dude): A term casually thrown around in our gap cohort- used like in the United States.
¿Quieres café? (would you like coffee):  Costa Rica has some of the best coffee I have ever tasted, and fortunately my host mom serves it with every meal.
 ¿De dónde eres? (where are you from): Generally one of the first things a person I meet will ask me. I guess my blonde hair pretty much gives away that I am not native to Costa Rica.
llueve otra vez (it’s raining again) : You can expect a heavy downpour every afternoon. Let’s not forget we are in rainy season.
El terremoto (earthquake) :  Apparently there are tons of earthquakes here every day and we can’t even feel them!
Saprissa – The name of my host families favorite soccer team- we may even be going to see them play this weekend!

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Knuckles peered out from behind the charred stub of a tree. He had just pulverized a mob of silver combat robots, and, for the time being, seemed to have lost his pursuers. Before him stood the entrance to his enemies headquarters. It was built on the location of one of Dr. Robotnik’s earlier bases, when he was attempting to re-launch the Death Egg. For all anyone knew, a similar operation was going on currently. A road lead from jungle towards the heavy, reinforced gateway that blocked the entrance to the ravine. Along each side of the road were evenly spaced dirt-toned mounds. Hidden defense turrets. High on the sides of the metal mountains, heavy artillery cannons were aimed at the spot, waiting for any sign of the echidna who was crouching in the shadows. But he wasn’t waiting for the gate to open, or planning any sort of advanced strategy to get past. He had simply paused to catch his breath.

With a sudden bolt of motion Knuckles blasted out of the cover of the trees. Immediately the advanced programming of the entire surrounding area kicked in. The turrets in the ground rotated into their attacking positions and aimed towards him. Knuckles slammed his fist through one before it began to fire, and used it as a shield against the others. He jumped into the air and threw the turret at one of its partners. They exploded, and Knuckles jumped to the side as soon as he hit the ground. The turrets were firing at him with high-caliber laser machine guns, and each turret rotated from side to side, sending the bullets in a wide spray. However, their range fire power had carefully been calculated in their placement so that they never shot down each other. However, that didn’t mean their streams didn’t cross, and when it did it often caused large explosions. Knuckles had to dodge these in addition to the regular stream of laser. He jumped into the air and glided across to another turret, spinning out of the air towards it. He smashed it into the ground with a heavy punch, and did a back flip in time to dodge the incoming bullets.

He continued this gliding maneuver for a moment and managed to destroy a few more turrets. However, they gauged the situation and began to increase their fire power, as well as putting up and electrical shield around themselves. Knuckles jumped and rolled left and right, looking for a weakness in their design. He quickly spotted that there was a small hole in the shield where the guns were located. He charged a turret, aiming for that. Every few seconds the stream of bullets from any one particular turret would stop as it rotated too close to another turret, and Knuckles had to time his attack perfectly. He jumped over the gun fire and threw himself forward. His hand entered the hole in the shield just as the turret ceased fire. He grabbed a hold of the bowl shaped top of the turret and used his inertia to pull himself through the air behind the turret. Knuckles wrenched of the cap of the turret, causing its shield to disappear. He quickly grabbed the turret and turned it towards its comrades. Their programming prevented them from directly shooting each other, which meant the Guardian was protected. Knuckles soon destroyed the remaining turrets and tore the last turret out of the ground. He was about to throw it at the ravine barricade to attempt to damage it when he felt a vibration. It quickly grew to a powerful tremor as another of the gates defense mechanisms activated.

High walls shot out of the ground on each side of the road, stretching all the way to the gate and connected to its frame. Knuckles ran towards the jungle, but a third wall shot out of the middle of the road, sealing him in. He ran back towards the gate and jumped onto one of the side walls. He dug his knuckle spurs into the black metal and began to quickly climb out. He had almost reached the top when he heard a loud boom, followed by a whistle of sorts, but with a strange electricity to it. Whether the temperature actually increased, or it was merely Knuckles heightened senses, he felt his back getting hotter and turned to see a large energy blast rocketing towards him from one of the mountain cannons. He jumped and glided to the opposite wall, and the laser blasts obliterated the spot where he had been hanging a few seconds earlier. But before Knuckles could get free he saw more rounds coming in. And there was nowhere to run.

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Miles was approaching the city, looking as dismal and desolate as ever. He didn’t see much activity, and began to descend. However, something just didn’t feel right, and the fox’s suspicions were answered when the T4’s defense system began to sound an alarm indicating oncoming projectiles. Miles immediately checked the radar, located the missiles coming from below him, and pulled back on the controls. The Tornado 4 arched up just in time, the two antiaircraft missiles shooting past him and exploding a short distance away. “So, finally decided to go on the offensive, huh?” The explosion rocked the plane, but Miles kept it steady, quickly executing a barrel roll to dodge the third incoming missile. However, he didn’t see the fourth coming in from the opposite side, which blasted the left wing off. “Crap!” Miles yelled as the plane began to go into a tailspin. He spotted the location of the SAM site and forced the Tornado 4 towards it, grabbing his sword and jumping out at the last second. “Looks like I’ll have to rebuild this plane again.”

The Tornado 4 crashed into the missile launcher as Miles landed on a nearby building. Flames coiled into the polluted air as the SAM site building collapsed. Miles watched for a moment before running to the edge of the building and jumping off. He began to fall down the multi floored building, his coat flapping noisily as it twisted around him in the wind. He spun his tails around and slowed himself down, landing in a crouched position. He slid his flight goggles up to his ears and replaced them with his sunglasses. He stood up slowly, reaching into his coat and drawing his handguns. “Well, if it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get.”

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The last of the cannon rounds exploded on the ground, and the smoke began to clear. The road had been utterly obliterated. A giant crater was all that remained, lined with rubble from the walls that had trapped Knuckles. And even most of that had been disintegrated by the blasts. Even the heavily fortified gateway had been damaged, and almost looked like it would soon fall off its hinges. The cannons analyzed the area and saw no sign of their target, and so returned to their stand-by positions. A deathly silence fell over the area. It was punctured a minute later by the sound of the densely packed ground of the crater cracking. A fist shot out of the center of the crevice, quickly followed by the rest of Knuckles’ body. He ran forward and threw a punch into the seam of the gate, which had been opened by the explosion. He slammed his other fist into the hole, and pulled against the two sides of the towering doors. After struggling for a moment the two halves were flung apart, leaving the ravine wide open. Knuckles dashed in as the cannons prepared to fire.

* * * * *

Miles rounded the corner of the building and was met by a stream of bullets. He jumped back around the corner, pressing himself against the low wall. He waited for the gunfire to stop, then dashed around the corner, firing two shots quickly. Two of the silver robots fell, and Miles quickly spotted the third advancing behind it. He charged forward, holstered his guns, jumped off the bodies of the fallen robots, drew his sword in mid-air, activated the electric core, and slashed straight through the robot. Miles skidded along the ground as the robot exploded behind him. He sheathed his sword and dashed into one of the buildings still standing nearby.

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The ravine was lined with more turrets, firing rapidly at him as he ran. He weaved from side to side, dodging the laser bullets and smashing turrets as he got the opportunity. The lasers’ heat scorched Knuckles fur, but he continued to move forward, ignoring them. The laser fire continued to fall heavily, but began to get more focused as Knuckles moved through the ravine. The reason for this was soon revealed to be the army of battle robots marching against Knuckles. They stretched across the entire ravine, and all their weapons were trained carefully on Knuckles. He met them head on, smashing into the fire ranks. They began to fire at him, but he moved his way carefully through the horde. He smashed his fists through the metallic soldiers, throwing them into each other, knocking them down in groups. Combining this with the turret fire that Knuckles also used to his advantage, it was almost too easy. It would almost seem, at least to an outside observer, that Knuckles was being enticed into the valley. Of course, none of this occurred to him, only his warrior’s instinct and rage drove him on through the battle. Eventually he had fought his way to the end of the ravine, and the robot numbers began to thin, he destroyed the last of them, as well as the turrets surrounding him. He paused again to recover, the grand expanse of the Eggman Empire’s Floating Island Headquarters stretched out before him.

Factories, warehouses, research facilities made up the majority of the buildings, where new units were developed and awaited deployment. Build into the sides of the mountains were hangers and more factories devoted to aerial units. Similar hangers existed all along the underside of the island itself. There were also new structures that Knuckles hadn’t seen before. They were single level buildings, made of gleaming metal like all the others, and they were positioned next to more factories, but of a different kind than the robot-producing kind. Whatever they held, they obviously didn’t bode well. There were no power plants of any kind in the base, except for the power produced inside the towering Central Command building that stood in the center of the fortification. It, more so than all the other buildings, seemed to glow a strange green energy. Knuckles knew the source of this power, which had been stolen from him. He knew it as well as he knew himself, and felt its mystic power coursing through his body, strengthening him. At the top of the building stood the power source of Metal Knuckles’ operations, the Master Emerald. And no doubt Metal Knuckles was there with it, waiting for a challenge. A challenge Knuckles would be sure to provide.

Rain began to fall on the gleaming metal city, as nature itself realized the powers preparing to wage battle that night.

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Miles quickly ascended the stairs leading towards the roof. He walked across the small room at the top and kicked the door open. He dashed out and quickly scanned the roof of the former office building. No robots. Miles ran to the edge of the building. He jumped off and flew onto the next building. This roof wasn’t empty. Miles landed running, immediately taking out the quintet of silver robots waiting for him.  He leapt to the next roof, which only had a small arch along one edge remaining. As he ran across, two jet-like robots flew in straight towards him, trying to trap him and force him off the thin ledge. He turned back for a moment to see another robot flying in behind him. As two trio drew closer to him as he ran, and idea struck him. He shot the two robots coming towards him, causing them to fall and crash into the side of the building. Using his tails to keep balance as the roof shook, Miles continued to the edge and jumped straight off. He turned around in mid-air as he fell, and aimed up at the black jet robot. It passed the edge and turned to descend towards Miles, but the robot wasn’t quick enough for the fox’s trigger finger. He shot straight into the robot’s core, and it began to fall towards him. He flipped around and began spinning his tails, moving away from the falling mech’s path. It fell past him, and he pushed himself off it to help propel himself to the next building.

He ran across the roof of the lower building, taking out the two robots that jumped out of holes in the cement and attempted to capture him with an energy net stretched between the two of them. He jumped the crossing light beams, turning around to shoot the small flying robot that was flying in to finish him off. He jumped off the edge of the roof and flew towards a broken skyscraper in the distance. He was about to step onto the edge of the highest level still intact when a laser blast shot past him, he fired in its direction, barely missing the large robot that had fired it. Miles began to lose his balance and fell off the building. He turned in mid-air to see the small squad of battle robots waiting for him, and the smaller robots flying up towards him. He shot them down as he fell, however their comrades dodged the falling remains. Miles fired down at the robots, but they deployed shields, blocking to darts. They began to fire at him. Miles bent himself from side to side, using his flying skills to help direct his body. He holstered his guns and drew his sword, slowing himself down. He impacted the center of the squad, slashing through their shields with his sword. He immediately eliminated the machines closest to him and dashed through the group, cutting them in half. Sparks and oil flew through the air as the robots exploded and collapsed on the ground. Miles stood up from the wreckage and looked around. He’d made a lot of progress, and soon realized he was only a mile or so from the base of the hill. From there, the real city began. Not abandoned and lifeless wreckage, but bustling metropolis. Still lifeless none the less. But that should be expected of Robotnikland, capital of the Eggman Empire.

Miles’ ear twitched as he heard the sound of jet engines coming towards him. He sheathed his katana as he jumped into the shadows of a brick wall. As three more of the black jet robots neared his location he reached down and drew his guns. They passed his hiding spot, and Miles jumped out of the shade and quickly shot them down. He ran over to where they fell, fighting off the swarms of small bomb robots they had deployed. Miles ran to the robot that appeared to be the least destroyed in the crash and opened up its core. “A little quick work should fetch me a ride from one of these ‘bots,” Miles said as he fiddled with the CPU. He soon brought the robot back to life, removing the darts and putting them in his pocket. He was almost out of ammo, but at this point he didn’t plan on turning back, or even returning for that matter. Miles quickly reprogrammed the robot to allow him to input orders directly from the outside and then jumped on the back. He powered its engines and pointed them towards the ground. The robot began to lift into the air, and Miles ascended above the ruins. He then turned the robot towards the building he’d been shot off of. He spotted the large machine that had fired at him and destroyed it as he flew past. He was approaching the edge of the mountain quicker now, shooting down robots with help from their former comrade. Until one of them managed to shoot him down.

The fox jumped from his robot steed onto the building where the attack had come from. It was another office building, the exposed floor being a room full of small cubicles. The attacker was hiding in one of them. Miles drew his guns once again as he slowly walked forward. He kept a keen eye and ear, waiting for any sign of the enemy. It decided to show him a sign. A row of cubicles exploded as Miles barely dodged the laser fired through them. He turned to see a machine he had not yet encountered. It stood a good two feet taller than him, its body large and bulky, the head flat against the wide core. Its arms were especially large, with clawed hands that were sliding out to replace the laser blasters there previously. The robot’s thick armor was a menacingly dark red and black, and its left shoulder bore an ancient symbol that could be likened to a strangely formed upside-down “U”. Its electronic voice was deep and foreboding.

“SUBJECT: MILES PROWER. FOX. APROXIMATELY 20 YEARS OLD,” it declared. It pointed its arms back towards Miles, transforming them into Gatling guns. “RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. COME WITH ME OR BE ELIMINATED.”

“So, you must be the latest of Robotnik’s super robots, sent to finally eliminate me once and for all,” Miles said, keeping his guns aimed at the robot’s head.

“We’ll have to see about that,” Miles said as he quickly fired at Omega. The robot brought up his arm, deflecting the darts with his powerful armor.

“ELECTRICOMAGNECTICLY CHARGED DARTS. IMPRESSIVE, BUT THEY WILL NOT SAVE YOU,” Omega said. He pointed his guns back at Miles, and began to fire heavy streams of bullets. Miles rolled to the side to dodge it, but the E-100 series robot’s advanced sensors immediately followed him. He ran around the robot, but it continued to fire at him, destroying the entire office area. “TARGET IS FAST THAN IN DATA, SWITCHING TO MORE POWERFUL WEAPON.”

Miles turned back to Omega as the gunfire stopped, only to see tiny missile launchers extend themselves from his wrists. Omega began to fire, and Miles jumped back and to the side as the projectile sped towards him. He wouldn’t be able to run around these as the robot would likely predict the maneuver. So he continued to jump back as Omega fired round after round. Miles quickly glanced behind him as he felt his foot leave ground, and realized he’d been backed to the edge of the building. “Not good,” he muttered as he turned back to Omega.

“PREPARE TO BE ELIMINATED,” the robot said, before firing another missile. He shot through Miles left side. He yelled in pain, dropping one of his guns as his hand flew to grasp his side. He stumbled back, and fell off the building, plummeting to the ground below. Omega walked to the edge of the building and looked down, scanning the area. “TARGET CAN NOT BE LOCATED. TARGET HAS BEEN ELIMINATED. RETURNING TO BASE.” Omega fired up the flight boosters on his back and took off for the center of the city. Polluted rain began to fall on the dusty ruins.

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In the follow up to the recent announcement of President Putin that the Turkish military operation in Syria “was not something unexpected” for the Kremlin and Turkish recent proposal to announce a 48-hour ceasefire in Syria’s Aleppo, Sputnik Turkiye sat down with Turkish political scientist and expert in international relations, Professor at the İstanbul-based Yeditepe University Mesut Hakkı Casın to get his comments on these issues.

“Diplomacy and chess strategy are the key factors which define the developments on the battlefield in Syria,” the political scientist told.

“Russia is advocating the territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq. This is exactly what President Putin had in mind when speaking about the need to adhere to the norms of the international law while settling the crisis in this region,” he added.

Mesut Hakkı Casın further noted that during the G20 summit  in Hangzhou President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said that Turkey’s ‘Shield of the Euphrates’ operation is not aimed at violating the territorial integrity of Syria.

Besides, on Tuesday, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said that Ankara is proposing to introduce a 48-hour ceasefire around Syria’s besieged city of Aleppo and after that extend it until Kurban Bayrami holidays, which begin on September 12.

Otherwise it could lead to a new influx of refugees who have already flooded Turkey, and Europe will then get 1,5 million more migrants from Aleppo.

Besides Turkey, it will come as a crushing burden to a number of European countries, and first and foremost to Germany, the expert said.

Meanwhile during his press conference at the G20 Summit, Barack Obama said that while the US and Russia had some “productive conversations” on the ways of settlement of the Syrian conflict, there are still “gaps of trust” between the two countries.

“All the above means that unlike the US, Turkey and Russia do understand each other on Syria,” Casın told.

“I think that Presidents Putin and Erdogan will be able to make an agreement on Aleppo in the nearest future, which will lead to the announcement of ceasefire for Kurban Bayrami celebrations and to the opening of humanitarian corridors,” he added.

Commenting on the developments on the ground in Syria, the political scientist noted that last year the Syrian army was controlling only 15 percent of the country’s territory. And if not for Russia’s involvement, Assad would not have been the country’s president by now.

“Russia, undoubtedly, is playing a leading role among the five countries who define the situation in Syria, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey,” said the political scientist.

If any of the above countries is taken off the table, there will be no agreement reached on the settlement of the conflict.

However the current situation, he said, is complicated with the mutual distrust of the players.

All the parties to the conflict should be interested in and have a clear intention for a ceasefire in the region.

However the US, using the Syrian Kurds, wants to set up such a Syria, which will be in their own geopolitical interests.

Meanwhile, the expert reiterated, Moscow, Damascus and Tehran insist on adherence to the principle of Syria’s territorial integrity.

Thus, he said, what should be done as soon as possible is to announce the cessation of hostilities in accordance with the norms of the international law. And all the large players in the region should realize this.


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Enlighten Fellowship Church 1.0

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We send you greetings in the Mighty name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining Enlighten Fellowship Church and myself on your mobile device. We are one church in two locations; Our Southshore location in Kenner, Louisiana and our Northshore location in Hammond, Louisiana. I take this time to invite you to download our mobile app. Whether you are an internet surfer who just happened to land here or you came here specifically to learn more about Enlighten Fellowship Church, we are delighted that you stopped by! Take some time to download our app and explore the many features and services available to you.

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Enlighten Fellowship Church is a free software application from the Food & Drink subcategory, part of the Home & Hobby category. The app is currently available in English and it was last updated on 2016-09-12. The program can be installed on iOS.

Enlighten Fellowship Church (version 1.0) has a file size of 61.66 MB and is available for download from our website. Just click the green Download button above to start. Until now the program was downloaded 0 times. We already checked that the download link to be safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded software with your antivirus.

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Vengeance r2

Vengeance r2 is a Quake engine modification I worked on for a few years, early on in my learning of programming and graphics technology. Through tinkering around with this project, I developed my skills significantly in the areas of OpenGL and C. A number of developers from the online Quake modding community, including DrLabman and Black (aka BlackHC), contributed heavily to the project. The project also included a QuakeC and content modification portion which added new single player and deathmatch levels, altered and improved the game balance and AI, and added bots (Frikbots) for multiplayer.

Engine Features:

  • Enhanced, scriptable Particle System
  • GLSL Per-pixel lighting
  • Improved file format support, including MD2, MD3, Half-Life BSP, PK3, .tga, .jpg
  • Reflective Water
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Frequently Asked Questions

The subject of medical waste can be both complicated and confusing.  We are here to answer any questions you may have.  Please reference the list below for answers to questions that are frequently asked of us.

What is medical waste?

Medical waste is a subset of wastes generated at health care facilities, such as hospitals, physicians’ offices, dental practices, blood banks, and veterinary clinics, as well as medical research facilities and laboratories. Generally, medical waste is healthcare waste that may be contaminated by blood, body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials. Medical waste is frequently referred to as biohazardous waste, biomedical waste, clinical waste, regulated medical waste (RMW), other potentially infectious material (OPIM), potentially infectious medical waste (PIMW), or through its UN classification number, UN 3291.

What are the different types of regulated medical wastes?

Biomedical, Biohazard, or Red Bag Waste:  These materials represent the largest portion of the medical waste stream.  Materials include potentially infectious materials, blood products, contaminated personal protective equipment and bandages, IV tubing, and cultures.

Sharps:  Materials include needles, ampules, broken glass, blades, razors, stables, trocars, guide wires, disposable surgical instruments, or any other item that has the potential of puncturing skin.

Trace Chemotherapy Waste:  Materials utilized for chemotherapy treatments which may contain some small residual material from this activity.  Materials include empty vials, empty syringes, empty IVs, contaminated gowns, gloves, tubing, aprons, wipes, and packaging.  These wastes must be segregated by the generator and then incinerated for proper treatment.

Bulk Chemotherapy Waste:  This includes all bulk or unused chemotherapy drugs.  Envirolaska does not accept bulk chemotherapy wastes.

RCRA Pharmaceuticals:  This includes material assigned a P or U code which are wastes that exhibit characteristics of corrosivity, flammability, reactivity, or toxicity.  These items are considered hazardous waste and are not accepted by Envirolaska. In addition, Envirolaska does not accept DEA regulated or controlled pharmaceutical substances.

Non-Hazardous Pharmaceuticals: This primarily includes all pharmaceutical waste which is a chemical waste product, vaccine, or allergenic that does not contain a radioactive component which is intended for use in the diagnosis, care, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease or injury in humans or animals.  These wastes are not regulated under RCRA legislation.

Pathological Waste: Pathological waste includes human and animal tissues. These wastes must be segregated by the generator and then incinerated for proper treatment.

Radioactive Wastes:  This primarily includes radioactive material generated through diagnostic activity within the health care industry.  Envirolaska does not accept radioactive wastes.

Why is this service important?

In addition to the requirements established through federal, state, and local regulations, the proper management of medical waste, including storage, transportation, treatment, and disposal ensures that the potentially infectious materials within this waste stream cannot be passed to other individuals or animals who may be exposed to it.  The effective management of this waste stream protects both public health and our environment.

In what areas do you offer collection services?

We currently service facilities within the Anchorage municipality.  If you are outside of Anchorage, but on the road system, please contact us to learn when we may be expanding to your area.  Customers can also utilize our fully compliant mail-back solutions in any community that is serviced by the USPS.

Do you have customer service representatives?

Of course!  Friendly and knowledgeable customer services reps are available to answer your questions whenever they may arise.  Please contact us if there is anything we can do to be of assistance.

Can you support our compliance and training programs?

Absolutely.  Envirolaska offers no obligation audits to help current and prospective customers ensure that they are providing all required training for their staff and managing biomedical wastes at their facility according to all current federal, state, and local regulations.  In fact, we provide all Envirolaska customers with a custom Biomedical Waste Operating Plan free of charge for this specific purpose.

All customers also receive complementary access to Envirolaska’s compliance training portal.  Through this resource, our customers are able to obtain all required OSHA, HIPAA, and DOT training associated with medical waste.  Customers can easily generate custom safety plans, manage SDS materials, complete audits, and generate incident reports among many other features with this system.  It is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies safety and compliance activities for our customers.

Envirolaska is the only medical waste service provider in Alaska to offer this resource.  More information about our helathcare compliance solutions can be found here.

What type of facilities do you service?

We service all types of small, medium, and large facilities generating regulated medical wastes including:

  • Airports
  • Ambulatory Centers
  • Animal orphanages
  • Allergists
  • Assisted living homes
  • Blood banks
  • Clinics
  • Dentist offices
  • Dialysis centers
  • Funeral homes
  • Government agencies
  • Health departments
  • Hematologist / Oncologist
  • Hospitals
  • Hospital satellite facilities
  • Imaging centers
  • Medical laboratories
  • Nursing homes
  • OB/GYN offices
  • Oral surgery centers
  • Outpatient surgery centers
  • Pediatrician offices
  • Physician offices
  • Prisons / Correctional facilities
  • Property management groups
  • Radiology facilities
  • Schools and Colleges
  • Tattoo parlors and body modification shops
  • Testing centers
  • Urologist offices
  • Urgent care centers
  • Veterinary offices

Do different types of waste have to be segregated?

Yes. Trace chemotherapy, pathological, pharmaceutical, and sharps must be packaged in separate containers from general biohazard wastes. Please contact us for appropriate containers or with any specific questions you may have.

What should be placed in my medical waste container?

General biohazard wastes should be placed in your medical waste container including, but not limited to, gauze, table paper, blood soaked items, bandages, along with contaminated intravenous bags, tubing, soft plastic items, gloves, gowns, petri dishes, and empty plastic containers.

Essentially, you should dispose of any item that may contain potentially infectious material into your collection container. Loose sharps should NEVER be placed in a medical waste container.

What should not be placed in my medical waste container?

In order to reduce your processing volumes and remain compliant, the following items should NOT be placed into your medical waste containers:

  • Soiled linens. These items can be effectively sterilized through standard laundry service
  • Loose syringes or needles or other sharps. Placing these items into an open waste container can result in injury to other employees or service providers
  • Loose liquids in excess of 20cc
  • Chemical or radioactive wastes
  • Hazardous, chemical, radioactive, or DEA controlled pharmaceuticals or substances
  • Compressed gas cylinders or containers under pressure
  • Any mercury containing material or device including, but not limited to, thermometers, non-contact and contact amalgam dental products, and fillings
  • Food wastes or other non-infectious garbage

What should be placed in my sharps container?

Any item which may contain or could have been exposed to a potentially infectious material that has the potential of puncturing a red biohazard bag should be placed in an OSHA approved sharps container. These materials would include needles, syringes, lancets, pointy hard plastic items, pipettes, sharp or pointy metal items, scalpels, knives, razor blades, tweezers, scissors, along with glassware items including glass tubes, vials, bottles, slides, or vacutainers.

How do I package my medical waste?

Per federal regulation, medical waste generators are responsible for packaging and preparing their waste for collection.  The process of preparing these wastes for collection is as follows:

Step 1: Line your container with a properly marked biohazard bag prior to use.
Step 2: Tie the bag when the container is full. Each bag must be hand-tied by gathering and twisting the neck of the bag.
Step 3: Secure the lid on the container. Make sure all closure and/or locking mechanisms are engaged. Red bags must not be visible once the container is closed.
Step 4: Check the containers markings. Ensure that federal markings (biohazard symbol, this-side-up-arrows, regulated medical waste, N.O.S., and UN number) are present. Ensure you’re complying with your individual state regulations.

Do you provide services for rural Alaska generators?

Yes. Customers can purchase USPS compliant mail-back kits from Envirolaska to safely dispose of their medical waste. The price of these kits includes the kit itself and return postage. When the kit is received, generators place general biohazard and sealed OSHA approved sharps containers inside of the primary container.

Once filled, customers package the waste per the included instructions and deliver to their local USPS facility for return shipment to Envirolaska. All return postage is prepaid and included with the price of our kits.  You can learn more about our mail-back solutions here.

Do you collect from residences?

No. At this time, we provide collection service for commercial entities.

How can I dispose of my personal medications?

Pharmaceutical wastes and expired medicines, even in small quantities, should not be directly discarded into the municipal sewer system due to the potential risks of contaminating the water supply we all rely on.  Several public disposal sites in the Anchorage area exist including the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center.  The Municipality of Anchorage also accepts expired medications and drugs.  Information on these locations can be found by searching the map linked here.

Do you require an agreement for service?

Yes. Our agreements articulate the terms, conditions, and responsibilities involving the management of wastes associated with a highly regulated waste stream.  Service agreements may be canceled at any time, however, they are an important step in reducing the liabilities and defining the responsibilities associated with this waste stream for all involved.

Whether you choose to work with Envirolaska or not, you should require your provider to present documentation of the services provided and coverages extended due to your “Cradle to Grave” responsibilities associated with these wastes. Without any agreement in place, your liability exposure involving these wastes is greatly exacerbated.

How will I receive documentation that my wastes have been effectively treated?

All customers have access to their shipping and destruction manifests through our online customer portal. In addition, customers can use this same portal to review and pay invoices, manage their scheduling, request service, and more!  No other medical waste service provider in the Alaska market offers these capabilities.

To learn more about the capabilities of this resource, please view our software technology page.

When can you begin servicing my facility?

Generally, we can have a new customer up and running with our service within two days.  Please contact us to request a quote for service as an initial step.

Mailback Frequently Asked Questions

Is Envirolaska’s mailback service legal and compliant?

Yes. Envirolaska’s mailback service is a legal and compliant solution for the disposal of your sharps through the USPS.  Envirolaska is the only Alaska medical waste service provider to offer USPS-authorized solutions.  This is documented through unique authorization numbers printed on each system offered through Envirolaska.  If you cannot clearly identify a USPS-authorization on the packaging supplied by an authorized vendor, your system is not legally allowed to transported via USPS and, consequently, your practice maintains full liability for its use.

What goes into collection containers and how do I determine the right system for my needs?

If your practice generates only sharps, one of our smaller systems may meet your needs best. Individual sharps, like needles and syringes, as well as other used healthcare materials, may be disposed of in our smaller systems. Collection containers over 3 gallons may not contain loose sharps per USPS regulation, however, larger collection containers offered through Envirolaska are designed to hold several smaller collection containers and general biomedical wastes. Larger systems (5-28 gallons) may fit your practice’s needs better if you generate both sharps and soft medical wastes requiring treatment. If utilizing a larger system for medical waste and sharps, you must first secure all sharps in a container under 3 gallons, then place those containers into the larger collection container system for disposal.

Is there a weight limit for collection container systems?

Yes.  All collection container systems have weight limits which are listed on the front of the box. If your system exceeds the amount listed on the front of the box, additional fees for pickup and disposal may apply.

How do I track my waste and receive treatment documentation with Envirolaska’s mailback systems?

Every system offered by Envirolaska is shipped with a unique tracking numbers regarding shipping and manifest management to provide full visibility into shipping and treatment information.  Also included with each system is a waste tracking manifest. This manifest is preprinted with your facility’s information, however, will need to be signed prior to return shipment. Once your wastes are received at Envirolaska, the manifest is signed by our representatives to confirm that your waste has been properly treated. This manifest receipt will then be emailed and digitally stored  in your online account.

How much does it cost to use Envirolaska’s mailback service?

The price shown next to each product is the all-inclusive price. This includes the costs for all outbound and return shipping along with waste treatment/disposal for all offered systems.  In addition all mailback customers receive complementary access to our online account management system to access treatment records as required 24/7/365.  Envirolaska is the only service provider in Alaska with these capabilities.

Can I use your larger Collection Container Systems to store and return different sizes/types of collection containers?

Any FDA-approved sharps container 3 gallons and under can be stored inside of Envirolaska’s larger (5- 8- 18- and 28-gallon) systems.  If you purchased any of our smaller systems under 3 gallons in capacity, these should be returned together using the pre-paid return shipping box that is included with each system.

Still need help?  Contact Envirolaska today if our knowledgeable staff can help answer any questions you may have regarding medical waste disposal for your practice.