Headaches News
Watching Michael Vick Giving Redskins’ Defensive Players Headaches
While most of Washington is wondering how Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb will fare in his return to Philadelphia, his defensive teammates are trying to figure out how to cool down red-hot Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who’s even more of a two-way threat than McNabb was during his 18 starts against them.
“Donovan can throw it and also he can run, so you had to keep an eye on him (but) you could spy with one of our faster linebackers,” said cornerback Carlos Rogers. “Vick, he’s gonna need a DB on him. If you put a linebacker on him, they have no chance. He’s a real fast guy.”
Indeed, the 30-year-old Vick, the only quarterback to ever run for 1,000 yards in a season, is leading the NFL with 7.4 yards per carry since replacing McNabb’s successor, Kevin Kolb, at halftime of the season opener.
“Watching film, you see why (Eagles coach Andy Reid) made the change,” Rogers said. “Kolb, he can make the throws and some of the plays, but he don’t have the ability like Vick to get out there and make first downs and run. if we had Kolb it might change up a few things, (but) we’ve got Vick. Once a play breaks down, it’s still not over with yet so we’ll be running a lot.
“We’re gonna be jamming the receivers but also keeping an eye on him because he’s got the ability to scramble and get the yardage. A lot of quarterbacks drop back and if the first or second read is not there, they can just dump the ball to the running back. Vick is his own checkdown. He’ll take off and run.”
And Rogers said that Vick never had downfield receivers in Atlanta like Philadelphia’s DeSean Jackson, whose 24.5 yards per catch leads the league for those players with at least eight receptions, or Jeremy Maclin, who has four touchdowns on just 11 catches.
“We’re gonna have guys watching (Vick) but also we’re gonna have to put our hands on these receivers to not climb up on these safeties. Every week they’re getting 40-, 50-, 60-yard touchdowns.”
Or as Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall, Vick’s teammate in Atlanta from 2004-06, said, “The offense is putting up points and he’s directing the choir out there. He’s got them singing right now.”
For the record, Vick was just 8-for-16 for 122 yards and two touchdowns while running 10 times for 59 yards the last time he started against the Redskins in a 24-14 Falcons victory in 2006. He was 1-for-2 for five yards with five carries for 13 yards in brief appearances against Washington in his return to the NFL last year following a two-year suspension.
HART Health: Headaches Cause More Than $61 Billion a Year in Lost Time
Stocking Commercial First Aid Supplies Can Save Employers Billions a Year
SEATTLE, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ — Headaches, back pain, arthritis and other aches distract employees and cost companies more than $61 billion a year in lost productive time, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
For individual companies, the cost is $22,000 a year for a company with 50 workers and $88,000 for a company with a staff of 200 people.
Employers can save billions of dollars in lost productive time each year by providing basic first aid supplies and over-the-counter pain medications in the workplace.
“Companies are often blind to the how much the real cost of minor pains such as headaches and back pains adds up to,” said Larry Shaw, CEO of HART Health a national manufacturer and distributor of industrial first aid supplies. “It isn’t just the hourly wage you have to pay when an employee struggles to get through the workday with back pain or a headache; it’s the value of what they could be producing.”
Using a sample of nearly 30,000 working adults, researchers found more than half reported having headache, back pain, arthritis or other muscle pain. Overall, 12.7 percent of the workforce reported lost productive time in a two-week period due to these common pains.
HART Health operates a first aid supply franchise that makes it easy for employers reduce the impact of common pain problems in the workplace.
“The cost of providing high quality commercial grade first aid supplies is very small,” said Shaw. “Larger companies get huge returns on the cost of the supplies. Our first aid van service is growing at double digit rates as more companies come to understand the true cost of employees who can’t treat common pains and aches while on the job.”
HART Health manufactures and distributes proprietary commercial grade versions of common over-the-counter medications, including BackPrin, an acetaminophen pain reducer with caffeine for faster relief, and Proprinal, an extremely popular coated ibuprofen tablet.
“We take the headaches out of the process,” said Shaw. “The majority of the $61 billion in lost time is easy for companies to recover by having the right first aid supplies available and our company is growing as a result.”
For information, please visit www.harthealthfranchise.com
Heavy Rain Causes Headaches
WNEP Stormtracker 16 meteorologists say some parts of our area have already received two inches of rain.
It has been pouring non stop for hours and it shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.
The heavy downpours are making a mess of some area roads.
Rivers, streams and creeks are definitely moving a lot faster and fuller Thursday after so much recent rain.
The wet weather is already affecting more than just roads but homes and businesses.
What’s usually a little run-off from a mountain in Lackawanna County looks more like a small river behind Advance Auto Parts near Clarks Summit. So much rain so fast caused water to pour into the back of the store.
It didn’t slow down business but it did soak some cardboard boxes on the floor. Workers put up sandbags around the back entrance to prevent any further flooding.
The road in front of the place, Routes 6 and 11, was not much better.
“It was nasty. There were streams coming down the side of it. Potholes were covered up but it was nasty out there,” said Keegan Scofield of Clarks Summit.
PennDOT crews stopped by multiple times to clear blocked storm drains.
Another nearby business waged a small weather war against mother nature using squeegees.
A swollen creek next to Kost Tire and Muffler prevented employees there from fixing cars for the morning until they could dry out the garage area.
“Because there’s a risk of shock. All of these lifts are electronic,” said Robert Fritsch of Kost Tire.
The wet weather isn’t just making a mess of some businesses, it’s also causing some trouble for a variety of outdoor events.
In Wilkes-Barre The River Common was gearing up to host an outdoor concert Thursday featuring Mike Miz. Now his act and the dozens of expected concert goers will be forced indoors.
While many outdoor events are being canceled one the biggest, the Bloomsburg Fair, is open for business.