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State Representative Susan Lynn
The Tennessee General Assembly
CAPITOL HILL REVIEW
A weekly wrap-up of legislative news
June 8th – June 12th, 2009
House mandates energy efficiency
The House of Representatives considered this week legislation that requires energy conservation standards to apply to new home construction.
In addition, the bill requires international building codes be met for new home construction. The legislation would not affect every county in the state, as some counties already have more stringent requirements than what is stipulated in the bill.
In addition to traditional building codes, the legislation also includes Lawmakers debated the bill at length on the House floor, where they shared concerns ranging from increasing the cost of new homes to taking away from the autonomy of local governments. Proponents of the measure said the legislation would make homes safer and more energy efficient, which ultimately result in cost savings.
However, some stated that the traditional police powers of government are health, safety, welfare and morals. That means that the state might see fit to intercede through laws by limiting activity if there is an unseen danger in what you do that could have a significant effect on another individual; thus jeopardizing that individual's right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness in a tangible way.
For instance; health inspections have increased cleanliness, cutting down on diseases that could severely impact your health. Safety inspections ensure that unseen dangers, like in electrical wiring or gas hook-ups, are minimized. Welfare typically refers to some sort of fraud – it is why we inspect bank records. Morals normally refer to activity, perhaps that concerning drugs or alcohol.
It is one thing for the state to take precautions because something may seriously jeopardize your health, or safety, or all that you have worked to earn, or to keep you from being a danger to others when you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but to police energy efficiency?
People already have an incentive to build energy efficient homes or to purchase energy efficient appliances – it's called a utility bill.
After several hours of debate, the legislation was amended to allow for local governments to opt out of the requirements. Each time a new county commission is installed the body will have to pass a resolution by two-thirds in order to opt out. The final version of Senate Bill 2300 passed with an 82 to 12 vote.
House to consider constitutional amendment giving Tennesseans the right to hunt and fish
House Joint Resolution 149 was read for the second time this week in the House, meaning it will be up for final consideration by the House next week. If passed by a 2/3 majority of the General Assembly, the constitutional amendment will appear on the ballot in a 2010 voter referendum. The constitutional amendment gives Tennesseans the right to hunt and fish.
The resolution states that, "hunting and fishing are a vital part of this state's heritage and economy and should be preserved and protected." The sponsor has said that Tennessee has always enjoyed hunting and fishing as a leisure activity, and the amendment was necessary to clarify that Tennesseans have a constitutional right to pursue wild game that cannot be infringed upon the legislature, courts, or local authorities.
House, Senate pass menu labeling pre-emption
A bill that would bar some local entities from requiring nutritional labeling on menus has passed both the House and Senate. The legislation comes as other states, municipalities and cities are passing or considering laws that mandate chain restaurants put calories and other nutritional information on menus.
Lawmakers arguing in favor of the bill said that mandating chain restaurants to put certain nutritional information on menus places an unnecessary burden on restaurant owners in an already struggling economy and creates an atmosphere that is unfriendly to business owners. They also said that often, the laws are selective, targeting only large restaurant chains.
The legislation was amended to prohibit non-elected bodies from making the decision to require nutritional information on menus. It also specifies that if the federal government passes legislation requiring menu labeling and the federal action specifically authorizes state departments to enforce such action, then the Tennessee Department of Health will be the department that is primarily responsible for the implementation and supervision of the new requirements.
· Two new nominees to the State Election Commission were confirmed on Wednesday in a joint legislative session of the General Assembly. The move to place the two members, Kent Younce of LaFollette and Judy Blackburn of Morristown, on the Commission honors a long-standing state law to give the majority party in the Tennessee General Assembly a one vote edge on the State Election Commission.
· House Bill 250 passed the House this week, and creates an offense for any owner, occupant, or other person having a lawful right to the exclusive use of property to knowingly allow an underage adult to consume alcoholic beverages, wine or beer on such property.
· House Bill 804 seeks to allow a parent that has been granted court-ordered visitation with their minor child or children who has been called to active duty military service, to petition the court for the temporary assignment of that parent's visitation rights to a legal or biological relative or relatives. The petition must state the relative that the parent is requesting to maintain contact with the child during the parent's absence and shall include a proposed visitation schedule with such relative. The bill, having now passed both the Senate and the House, is now on its way to the Governor for his signature.
· State House leaders continued discussions this week on the Governor's proposed budget, trying to reach a consensus as state government prepares to make more reductions and cuts. Lawmakers also received and began addressing the technical corrections legislation, which originates in the Department of Revenue and provides revenue through specific changes to the Tennessee Code.
As the Senate prepares to remain in session on Friday, June 12 to take up budgetary matters, the House Budget Subcommittee will meet Monday afternoon to begin their discussions. Although lawmakers are hopeful session will adjourn for the year next week, both the Republicans and Democrats acknowledge that with an unprecedented budget shortfall wrapping up session next week may not be possible.
**TIMES AND ROOMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE**
*All meetings will be held in Legislative Plaza Room 16 unless otherwise noted*
Monday, June 15, 2009:
· Budget Subcommittee, 1:00 p.m.
· Finance, Ways and Means, 2:00 p.m.
· Calendar and Rules, 3:00
· House Session, House Chambers, 9:00 a.m.
· TBA


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MOSCOW, 7th October. As the head of Russian 2nd MOF department of Asia said, recent Kunduz fight has shown that USA failed to train Afghan forces.
'It is evident. Even New York Times statistics said there were about 500 Taliban or ISIS fighters in Kundus against 7 thousands of Afghan security personnel. How did it happen that 7 thousands failed to stand 500 insurgents? It is certainly an evidence of train quality', as his words were quoted by RIA News agency.
Kunduz was recaptured by Afghan forces Thursday, a day after insurgents enter the city. Complicated operation against Taliban forces was performed by Afghan special forces with the aid of NATO aviation.
Sunday, October 4th insurgents also tried to invade Faryab administrative center, Maymana, but were bet back by Afghan security forces.


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While some VRI fencers go on to compete locally, nationally and internationally, many of our young members love coming into the club to bout, train with friends…and maybe live out a few swordfighting fantasies.
The discipline, challenge and enjoyment of fencing has flow-on effects for the rest of their lives.
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One of the most common dilemmas of the working professional is: how do I find work-life balance? With each new promotion, responsibilities increase and, in turn, the demands on time. A typical day starts with an early morning commute (averaging 25 minutes each way) to arrive at the office where a clogged email inbox awaits. Then, one must manage to complete their daily tasks while attending various meeting throughout the day. Often, people find themselves staying later to get things done. They arrive home exhausted in the evening, still having to contend with dinner, significant others, children, or other personal commitments.
In a study completed by Adobe on email use, nine out of ten people reported checking email outside of work hours. That means most people are looking at work email while watching TV, winding down for bed, talking on the phone, and even when on vacation. How can one decompress from the day when they are always thinking about work?
What compounds the issues is the inability to get into a 'flow' during the workday when workers can spend a good chunk of time on one specific task. They are constantly interrupted with incoming urgent emails, the ping of instant messages, and questions from coworkers. This reduces productivity during the workday, making them feel like they need to continue working on their commute home and check their emails outside of work.
How then can we achieve work-life balance? As individuals, we may not be able to change the entire system, but we can make small changes to our habits. Here's how.
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr., author of From Values to Action, suggests we stop looking at it as work-life balance. Instead, see it as merely 'life balance.' Instead of boxing work time into an 8-5/Monday-Friday schedule, be willing to work late, come in early, or work a weekend to take time for fun or family activities that fall within those hours.
The key to leaving work at work is productivity. Time blocking is a technique that creates the focus needed to complete tasks (that flow we mentioned), so you can get more done in a day. Essentially, you schedule time on your calendar (blocking off that time) to complete specific tasks. For instance, instead of checking your email as it comes in, block off 30 minutes every one to two hours to read and respond to new emails.
It requires some planning, which can be done weekly or daily, to block off the time for those deadlines. Be realistic in the time needed to complete tasks, so you don't feel like a failure if you don't finish it in the allotted time. Eventually, as you keep up the practice, you'll determine the accurate timing of things.
Prioritizing goes along with time blocking, which can help you determine the most critical tasks to complete. Put the least important tasks off until later. Set aside time at the end of the day or week to work on menial administrative things that can wait.
Make time for family and friends. You can use the time blocking to ensure you're making family commitments and events you don't want to miss. You won't regret making your children's soccer games or that weekend trip with your old high school buddies.
A recent Harvard Business review article talked about the hobbies of CEOs from Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is a DJ by night. Andy Wilson of Electronic Arts practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Brian Roberts of Comcast plays squash (and once lead his team to win a gold medal)!
How do some of the busiest professionals make time for hobbies? With all the pressures and demands of their jobs, the typical decompressing strategies, such as spending time with family or watching TV, will not cut it. Hobbies are essential to shut out those demands to focus their attention on something they enjoy. Hobbies help them reset and come back to work refreshed.
We can take a lesson from these CEOs by planning time to engage in activities we enjoy as well. Like to paint? Take an art class or participate in art shows. Love hiking? Plan trips to hike the highest peaks in the U.S.
Engage in activities that relax you so you can return to work with a renewed mindset.
There will always be tension between personal and professional demands. However, we can achieve equilibrium by changing our perspective, planning our calendars effectively, and making time for those personal things that matter most to us.


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Downdetector: How the popular site outage tracker is helping to improve web security
Stephen Pritchard 17 March 2022 at 15:00 UTC
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'Minutes matter, and being able to get that additional feed can give infosec teams the edge'
When a business goes offline, its customers are inconvenienced and its operators lose money. The outage might also be evidence of a cyber-attack.
Monitoring web services and identifying what has failed and why is far from straightforward. Organizations may think that all is well according to their own logs, while their customers see an entirely different picture.
Crowdsourcing outage data is one way to find out what is really happening – and it was that thinking that led to the creation of Downdetector, the outage monitoring service.
Downdetector was founded just short of 10 years ago in the Netherlands by Tom Sanders, a former journalist, and Sander van der Graaf. The original idea was to gather information for journalists covering e-commerce and internet services.
"It started by a couple of people working together in a press room. They kept seeing examples of outages or problems with internet hosted companies coming up," Luke Deryckx, CTO at Downdetector parent company Ookla, told The Daily Swig.
"The reporters they were working with didn't really have much in the way of information or data to go on about what was wrong.
"Their idea was to create a tool, a website or an app to help the community or the userbase track outages or problems with internet hosted services."
Luke Deryckx (left) and Brennen Smith
By crowdsourcing data from web services' own users, Downdetector was able to build up a more accurate, and timely, picture of outages.
The value of this to consumers is clear: losing access to the internet or an online service is frustrating, and not all organizations are transparent about outages.
By looking at Downdetector or other crowdsourced data, users can at least start to determine if the problem is their local connection, at the service provider, or somewhere in between.
Over the years, though, Downdetector has also been adopted by online businesses themselves, feeding the data into their network operations centres.
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This is especially useful in a world where businesses rely on complex networks of content distribution networks, mirrors, peering, and ISPs to deliver their services to users.
In one example, a fault in a bank's peering arrangements with a telco meant that the telco's customers were unable to access services despite the bank's own logs claiming all was well.
"The users were able to report on Downdetector that, hey, there's clearly an issue," says Downdetector VP of technology, Brennen Smith.
"It does help provide that early warning signal that effectively will help drive these investigations and help companies to figure out that they need to do a root cause analysis that something is going wrong."
This is increasingly of interest to the cybersecurity industry, too. Sometimes the cause of an outage is clear cut – more often it is not.
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Using crowdsourced data can help narrow down whether a problem is due to criminal hackers, technology failure, or some other cause. Aggregating this data across firms and across industries can help security operations centres and emergency response teams to focus their response.
"Ultimately, I'll say that this product was not directly targeted at security," says Smith.
"However, there are many cases where it could be applicable. Ultimately, it is a form of threat intelligence. It is a form of getting that early warning signal."
He does not see Downdetector as replacing conventional threat intelligence feeds, but rather working alongside other data sources to flag incidents quickly.
"Minutes matter, and being able to get that additional feed from users saying, 'Hey, I'm seeing this weird certificate error or hey, I'm seeing this odd issue' and it's localized in a particular geo or country, that can give infosec teams the edge that they need to catch something before it becomes a widespread event."
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Even data from members of the public with little technical knowledge can provide valuable red flags to security teams, Deryckx argues. He believes that Downdetector provides contextual information that is not otherwise easy to uncover.
"One of the things the teams in the NOC [network operations center] are always looking for is any sort of signal around security incidents or security problems. Again, it's not that Downdetector is positioned as a security-focused tool entirely.
"But we do know that there are many, many content providers out there who are watching the Downdetector dashboards in real time, 24 hours a day.
"If there were to be a security related incident that is highlighted as a problem on Downdetector, it would absolutely be something that that team would see and would be able to investigate earlier than they would with without that context," he explains.
Navigating hurdles
Downdetector has the potential to fill a gap between security emails aimed at consumers, which tend to be overwhelmed by spam, and "hyper-technical" vulnerability alerts from security researchers or bug bounty programmes.
One hurdle could be opposition from companies that the service monitors. In the early years of Speedtest, owned by Downdetector parent company Ookla, some ISPs were critical of a service that exposed their performance.
"We got a lot of push back from the industry about being measured by a third party," Deryckx admits. "Not everybody was entirely comfortable with us being that objective, third-party measurement tool that empowered consumers."
Similar reservations applied to Downdetector – at least in its early days.
Deryckx explained: "Some organizations feel as though they have the full picture of the performance and availability of their services. And they want to own the consumer interface and the messaging end to end.
"Our point of view is that that does a disservice to the consumer, when the content provider owns that message and may or may not be updating the status page or even maintaining a status page, for example.
"It doesn't always answer the questions that the consumer has." Mature organizations, on the other hand, appreciate the value of an "unfiltered" consumer viewpoint.
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The company is working to make its service "bi-directional", allowing organizations to upload messages about outages or other problems on the Downdetector site, rather than forcing users to trawl through status pages.
Another area that Downdetector wants to develop is outage correlation. Again, although it is not specific to security, pooling information across service providers should give infosec teams more accurate information about whether it is their service, a third party, or even a wider entity such as national infrastructure, that is being attacked.
"So many services are hosted centrally on a few cloud platforms or using a few CNDs," says Deryckx. "And so, it's much more common now that when there's an incident, it affects a lot more services than it would have in the past.
"Downdetector is really the only voice out there that is in real time [that is] able to communicate that with customers and frankly the engineers who are responsible for the products impacted so we all know what's happening."
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Triathlon Magazine August 21, 2014
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Challenge Bahrain has announced its pro field to date and confirmed the start list for the race which will take place on December 6, 2014. The line up is one of the most impressive ever seen over the half distance.
Hundreds of age group athletes will race along side the biggest names in triathlon on one of the fastest and most diverse course on the international circuit. The race will feature the world's largest prize purse over the half distance of $500,000 which has attracted the top long distance athletes as well as prompted a number of short course stars to make their long distance debut.
Nine former and current world champions including – Pete Jacobs (AUS), Mirinda Carfrae (AUS), Chris McCormack (AUS), Leanda Cave (GBR), Terenzo Bozzone (NZL), Eneko Llanos (ESP), Julie Dibens (GBR), Catriona Morrisson (GBR), four Olympic medallists including Jan Frodeno (GER), Bevan Docherty (NZL), Lisa Norden (SWE) and two Commonwealth Games gold medallists including Brad Kahlefeldt (AUS) will battle it out beginning on the shores of Bahrain Bay.
The World-class short course athletes making their long course debut include this year's Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jodie Stimpson (GBR), current Xterra World Champion Nicky Samuels (NZL) and Olympic bronze medallist Erin Densham (AUS).
"We are honored to host each and every professional triathlete to the Kingdom of Bahrain to participate in Challenge Bahrain, an event we are holding very dear in our hearts," said Dr Saqer Al Khalifa, president of the Bahrain Triathlon Association. "Having such a great lineup will most certainly bring us closer to our goals, to raise awareness of the importance and significance of having sports become an integral part of a person's life in all global societies."
"A field of this calibre is going to ensure Challenge Bahrain is one of the most memorable races of the year – and it's open to everyone!" said Zibi Szlufcik, Challenge Family CEO. "Age groupers will race along side the greatest and most inspirational athletes in our sport. Triathlon is the only sport on the planet where everyday people like you and me, regardless of ability, can share the course with the world's best and Challenge Bahrain is the ultimate showcase of what makes this sport great along with its definition of quality leadership and warm welcome to all."
The professional athletes confirmed to date for Challenge Bahrain are as follows:
Pete Jacobs (AUS), Dirk Bockel (LUX), Sebastian Kienle (GER), Tim Berkel (AUS), Terenzo Bozzone (NZL), Timo Bracht (GER), Tyler Butterfield (USA), Frederik Croneborg (SWE), James Cunnama (RSA), Bevan Docherty (NZL), Tim Don (USA), Michael Dreitz (GER), Jan Frodeno (GER), Nils Frommhold (GER), Brad Kahlefeldt (AUS), Eneko Llanos (ESP), Chris McCormack (AUS), Luke McKenzie (AUS), Dylan McNeice (NZL), Tim O'Donnell (USA), Rasmus Petreaus (DEN), Michael Raelert (GER).
Mirinda Carfrae (AUS), Rachel Joyce (GBR), Caroline Steffen (SUI), Nikki Butterfield (USA), Leanda Cave (GBR), Erin Densham (AUS), Mary Beth Ellis (USA), Helle Frederikson (DEN), Lucy Gossage (GBR), Sarah Haskins (USA), Heather Jackson (USA), Rebekah Keat (AUS), Meredith Kessler (USA), Carrie Lester (AUS), Annabel Luxford (AUS), Michelle Vesterby (DEN), Radka Vodickova (CZE), Laurel Wassner (USA).
For further information on Challenge Bahrain, visit Challenge-Bahrain.com.bh.
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Living in space sounds like a claustrophobic nightmare, and Ostranauts isn't doing much to change my opinion on the matter. Billed as a "noir spaceship-life sim", it's the next from Neo Scavenger studio Blue Bottle Games, and set in the same universe. Earth is completely screwed by forces both man-made and cosmic, so players get to manage a small ship, trying to make ends meet in a solar system in the throes of (very) late capitalism. The game's full nature is still a mystery, but it's reminding me of The Sims, Duskers and Space Station 13. Take a peek at the teaser trailer below.
Ostranauts appears to be a game of equal parts mechanical, financial and social management. You've got realistic control panels to get your ship from A to B, dock safely or manage its systems, but what goes on inside the ship seems just as important. The few screenshots on its store and official pages are still full of debug text, but interesting reams of character flavour, too. One screen even shows a drop-down menu featuring social interactions as varied as 'Dark Joke' 'Offer Smoke' 'Flirt' and 'Commiserate'. Ostranauts is to small-talk as Neo Scavenger was to inventory management.
As with Neo Scavenger, there will be a fragmented story to reassemble, but only if you want to. There's weird things going on in the solar system – the kind of stuff you waded through in Neo Scavenger – but beyond that the game is governed by 'hard-ish' science. No FTL travel or force fields, but it's set far enough in the future for the remnants of mankind to live in scattered colonies on other worlds, even if it's a meagre existence. Ships are apparently fully modular, letting you tweak and customise their hulls, while you've just got to live with the personality quirks and needs of your AI-driven human crew.
It all sounds horribly intense, but apparently the game offers a variable time-scale with pause. You can fast-forward through the long quiet times, or pause to issue precise commands in the middle of a crisis. Whether it'll be as low-stress as the developers intend (mostly just ex-Bioware guy Daniel Fedor) is yet to be seen. Honestly, I'm expecting a lot of failure, death and bankruptcy before I figure out what's going on, but maybe I'm just a little scarred by my many Neo Scavenger deaths. The game is due out late this year, although nobody's putting any kind of firm date on it. Still, this one's intriguing – I'll be keeping close eye on it.
You can see a little more of Ostranauts on Steam, or its official page here.


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La península Hardy es uno de los lugares más meridionales de Sudamérica. Está ubicado en Chile, en el extremo sur de la isla Hoste, perteneciente a la comuna de Cabo de Hornos, en la Provincia Antártica Chilena, a su vez parte de la XII Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena. En ella se encuentra el falso Cabo de Hornos. La península pertenece al parque nacional Alberto de Agostini, al sur de la isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.

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SNL Québec is a Canadian television sketch comedy series, which aired on Télé-Québec in 2014 and 2015.

A French language adaptation of the influential American sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, the series featured both translated recreations of sketches from the original series and original material written for the Quebec series: the show's first episode included a translation of the iconic Schweddy Balls sketch, and a sketch in the second episode recast the leaders' debate from the 2014 provincial election as an episode of Un dîner presque parfait, the French-language version of Come Dine with Me.

Cast
The show's core cast members were Katherine Levac, Virginie Fortin, Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pier-Luc Funk, Mathieu Quesnel, Guillaume Girard, Mickaël Gouin and Phil Roy. Quesnel served as Les nouvelles SNL anchor for the first two episodes, with Girard and Gouin taking over thereafter.

Production
Initially announced as two standalone comedy specials, several further episodes were produced in 2014 and 2015 as a once-a-month series. Ten episodes, nine originals and a "best-of" compilation of sketches from the earlier episodes, were broadcast overall. As advance publicity for the first two specials, hosts Louis-José Houde and Stéphane Rousseau each recorded segments in which they visited the New York City set of the original Saturday Night Live, including brief interviews with some of SNL's cast.

Cancellation
Télé-Québec announced in early 2015 that due to cutbacks to its budget, the series would not be renewed for another season.

Ici Radio-Canada Télé subsequently announced that it had signed the show's production team and cast to produce a new series, Le nouveau show, for that network.

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2014 Canadian television series debuts
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO MY FELLOW CANADIANS!!
Thanksgiving - A time to reflect on the things in our lives that we are grateful for. Even for those who have not had the best of years - things could always be worse. For us 2010 was a great year, building on the year before - another great year. We are thankful that we have had the opportunity to help dozens of struggling homeowners with a successful short sale.
This weekend we stop and give thanks for all the blessings we have.... Time to celebrate with our families and friends, and to be truly thankful we live in such a great country where we enjoy the many freedoms others do not, that we take for granted.
We celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in October, and as a long standing tradition, much like our American friends, most of us will enjoy a turkey dinner.
Here are some tips on how to prepare your turkey.
•1. That the frozen turkey in the refrigerator, not on the counter. This may take a day or two so remember to take it out of the freezer a day or two beforehand.
•2. To prepare your turkey for roasting, remove all the wrappings and the packing containing the heart, liver etc. Remove the neck and rinse the turkey thoroughly, both inside and out, and pat dry.
•3. You can either brush the bird with butter or insert herbs and butterunder the skin for added flavor. One thing I learned from my grandmother as a child, was to crush a few cloves of garlic, add salt and pepper and cut together to a very fine coonsistency with a knife.
•4. Make a few slits on the skin and place the mixture under the skin in a few areas... then brush with olive oil or butter.
•5. Put in roasting pan and add a small amount of olive oil or water in the pan to prevent sticking. Cover the pan and roast in a 350 degree oven, usually about 30/minute per pound (without stuffing). Remove foil about 30-45 minutes before turkey is cooked to allow the skin to brown.
•6. Pierce with a knife to test if cooked. Juice should run clear when thoroughly cooked.
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends and colleagues!
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IS-K Spreads Tentacles Across Afghanistan As Taliban Struggle For Control
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Kabul: It's happening… the worst what we had predicted for Afghanistan is slowly creeping up with the war-torn nation, three months after the Taliban took control of it. Khorasan branch of the ISIS (IS-K) has expanded its influence in Afghanistan and now seems to be present in all 34 provinces of the country. The concern was reiterated by the UN special envoy for
Haqqanis Push Taliban's Struggle For Power To The Extreme
The Taliban's domestic power struggle in Kabul is growing to an unprecedented level with the Haqqani network leaders seemingly splitting the Kandahari southern leadership between the Taliban deputy prime minster Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Taliban defense minister Mullah Yaqub Mujahid. Go deeper: Haqqani leaders have brought the power struggle in the public sphere and have tried to embolden the Taliban's founding leader son,
President Ghani Donates 40 Million Afghanis To Address Situation Of IDPs
Kabul: The Presidency announced on Saturday that President Ashraf Ghani had donated 40 million afghanis to address the situation of IDPs. President Ghani said that a camp will be set up to house the displaced and that all the necessary facilities, including electricity mosques and other facilities, will be provided. "I will help the IDPs with 40 million afghanis and all the activities will


The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) recently announced the 2018 nominees for the HPA Awards creative categories.
The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) recently announced the 2018 nominees for the HPA Awards creative categories, recognizing excellence in color grading, editing, visual effects and sound. Deluxe Toronto Colorist Chris Wallace earned a nod for his outstanding work on visionary director Guillermo del Toro's "Shape of Water;" the Deluxe Toronto sound team of Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Nelson Ferreira, Nathan Robitaille was also recognized for their contribution to the Oscar-winning drama. On the visual effects front, artists at Encore VFX were nominated for both "Supergirl" (For Good) and "Legends of the Tomorrow" (The Good The Bad and the Cuddly) in the Outstanding VFX – Television (over 13 episodes) category; led by VFX Supervisor and ECD Armen Kevorkian, the "Supergirl" team includes Gevork Babityan, Kris Cabrera, Jerry Chalupnik and Jason Shulman, and the "Legends of Tomorrow" team includes Andranik Taranyan, Jason Shulman, Dan Aprea and Lycee Anaya.


As writers, words are our tools. The goal of any story, essay, or poem is to express something to the reader. If we choose words that are flimsy and vague, the story loses its potency. By cultivating a strong, sturdy vocabulary upon which we can build our tales, we make our voices that much more powerful.
Which, he asked, was more gripping for readers? The entire class agreed that I thirst carried with it a sense of urgency and desperation. I'm thirsty meant the same thing, but it didn't draw such a clear picture. By removing filler words and flowery language — as much as I'm a lover of floral embellishments in my own writing — the meaning of each statement is expressed in a way that is that much more clear and precise to the reader.
For inspiration this week, simplify. Crack out the (virtual) red pen and remove any extraneous language from your post. With each sentence, ask yourself: what would make it stronger? Apply a philosophy of minimalism to your language, whether it's in a poem, essay, or personal blog post. Cut away the overgrowth and show us the heart of your message.
How do you go about streamlining your sentences? Are there any fillers you especially try to avoid?What tips do you have for editing and cutting down on embellishments?
While I agree that brevity is an art in itself, isn't it fun to unleash a salvo of literary devices that enhance your original points?
My thesis guide doesn't agree though, haha.
So true! What's you're thesis on?
I work in an Italian language environment, and I feel it weighs sometimes on my written English. I've been told to read Hemingway (not crazy about him) and to cut out adverbs.
I always try to avoid "I think." To avoid sounding as though I'm not sure of my own opinion or what I'm saying.
Its so hard sometimes to keep in mind when you respond that (of course) its what you think! 😉 Such a silly thing that most of us feel like we have to declare before saying.
yes, but always sounding like your opinion is law has rhe opposite effect 😉 I think in small doses is all right, I think.
Good style can be sounding like you're talking to a friend, though. In just your normal voice.
I really try to not to use 'I' or any filler words but it is actually really hard. I am a new blogger so I guess I'm not really used to keeping it simple and not waffling on. If you could check out my blog and give me some tips on how to improve, it would be much appreciated.
Hi. Could you tell me how this works? Do people just click on your blog and read or do they have to follow you? If you have no one following can no one see the writings but you?
Hi. You don't have to follow my blog. But if you can, can you read one of my posts and just tell me how I'm doing and if I need to improve on anything.
I totally agree with you and I am also a new blogger so I understand what you are saying and doing.
There is greatness is simplicity, without a doubt, but I do love crafting complex sentences from time to time. There is such power to be found in diction and syntax, and the unique voice of a writer only adds to that strength. This post poses a nice challenge for me to tackle with my own writing!
We're on a similar page here. Simplicity is valuable, but if simple sentences supplant complex and compound sentences, complex thinking is often the victim. Complex thought is not done in short sentences. My high school English teacher, Mrs. Seamor, insisted we move beyond simple to complex. I've since re-learned the simple sentence but not at the expense of the others.
Of course. Writing composed entirely of simple sentences would be boring and lacking depth, while a piece made completely of complex sentences would be difficult to grasp. Balance and rhythm – that's what creates beautiful syntax.
Well said, Gordon. A succession of pared-down, ultra-simple sentences can also sound staccato.
Couldn't agree more about the staccato. Happy writing!
Your writing style is very personable. Easy to read and descriptive as needed. Nice!
I'm a lover of floral embellishments has a hint of self mockery to it, which I like. It depends on the tone of your piece.
Really the words are the best tool to express the feeling and also through the way of writing and vocabulary used one can know about the personality of that person.
I've read writing that worked both ways. Your purpose, your style, your message all play into what words you choose and how. I have writer friends who eschew all adverbs, but I love a good adverb.
One good rule to making writing more alive is to not use passive voice/verbs. Here's a link with lots of help, http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/grammar-and-syntax/active-and-passive-verbs/, but here's an example. Instead of saying, "I had learned how to…", use "I learned." Don't say, "The ball was thrown by Jean." Use "Jean threw the ball." You now have both brevity and action.
Less is more. Brevity is powerful. It might seem less impressive than flowery prose, but writing isn't about proving an ornate way of communication; it's about sending a message. One of the most powerful books I ever read was Night by Elie Wiesel. His short, to-the-point delivery still painted a picture in my mind of surviving a concentration camp. Wordiness would have taken away from the narrative.
Thanks for this post it was enlightening, I will have to try this with my next chapter for my story. Not sure how well I will do but will try so thanks for the idea.
I began blogging my story a few months ago. I found blogging it has helped me cut out extraneous words as I want to keep the posts at no more than 500 words. Perhaps this would work for you?
My story is being blogged 🙂 it is on my site Cryptic Fables. Thanks though for the help. Though with my story the minimum word count for a chapter is around 1k. However, I hope to eliminate unneeded words to make my story more enjoyable to read.
I will check it out! I don't post a whole chapter at once but rather find a natural place to break it up or put a recap at the top of my next post.
Definitely will be practicing the minimalist approach in future posts. Some posts, more than others, could use this "minimal" mindset. As for other posts, it's fun to see how much flows out your noggin and onto your page.
If I find myself using "very" then I find a stronger word and eliminate the "very." The most beneficial thing for me has been blogging my story, which requires short and sweet; my writing is generally long-winded.
Very important point I agree, about finding a stronger word instead of using 'very'. Makes all that difference to the straight forwardness of a statement.
"Apply a philosophy of minimalism to your language." Loved this.
Filler — that's me. I weary myself with my long sentences. Extra editing helps, but wordiness abounds anyway. The gift of gab has conquered me.
I love good descriptive phrasing, but am learning that every word counts. If the floral design of my sentences distracts the reader rather than inspiring further interest in the story, then I've failed in my mission.
Left me wandering! That's a great point!
Being Irish, I have the "Gift of the Gab," and I do tend to write long sentences. I do not think that is necessarily a bad thing though. As long as every word counts towards moving the story along.
I am always so eager to get my thoughts down that I rush to post something and then find myself editing and publishing a new draft constantly. Do others do that too? I have to learn patience before posting!


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adjective Referring to a maximum (often used interchangeably).
1. The greatest quantity or effect.
2. Height of a disease.
Maximal has nearly 600 employees, and its 133,000 square meter facility in the Lushan Industry Area near Hangzhou, approximately 200 miles southwest of Shanghai, has a current production capacity of 30,000 units.
We draw attention: the concept of EPOC (Excess Postexercise Oxygen Consumption) states that any effort starts and ends with an oxygen debt (O2D max); it results that, for mobilizing the body to reach maximal oxygen consumption, at least 3 minutes must elapse, depending on the length of the event.
Three characteristic pedal downstrokes were selected to describe each sprint condition: the pedal downstroke at maximal average force (the first entire pedal downstroke in the beginning of the sprint), the pedal downstroke at maximal average power (towards the middle of the sprint) and the pedal downstroke at maximal average velocity (at the end of the sprint).
This is because point-wise M[phi](x) [less than or equal to] M[phi](x), where M is the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator.
2]), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), and maximal oxygen uptake (V[O.
On optimized rib is maximal fatigue life more than 1011 cycles.
i) Maximal Electroshock-Induced Seizure Threshold Test: To evaluate the threshold for maximal electroconvulsions at least 4 groups of mice consisting of 10 animals per group were challenged with electroshocks of various current intensities ranging between 5 and 9 mA to yield seizures in 10-30 %, 30-50 %, 50-70 %, and 70-90 % of animals consequently, then a current intensity vs.
The injections were made after maximal sensory effect of spinal was achieved and we successfully augmented the sensory level which was in contrast to a previous study.
Example 10 (Unsigned paths) When T is a path labeled by [v] increasingly from one leaf to the other and with only negative signs, the maximal spines on T are the binary search trees on [v], i.
In this paper, we present two pattern-growth based algorithms, DIMASP-C and DIMASP-D, to Discover all the Maximal Sequential Patterns in a document collection and in a single document respectively.
Each subject performed 1 maximal test using the same protocol, the progressive speed protocol (PSP).


Menorrhagia stands for "excessive bleeding", so this woman was not a candidate for a full hysterectomy. She had a fibroid in the uterus, several polyps, and a thickened endometrial tissue, which was the mechanical cause of bleeding.
The method of endometral ablation Mr. Bolanos chose was operative hysteroscopy, the instrument chosen is GyneCare VersaPoint. It is a bipolar cutter instrument and in the video you will be able to clearly see how it "shaves off" the endometrium, leaving the red tissue, soon to be exterminated on the left and with the greyed out, ablated, tissue on the right.


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Responding to Client Needs Lee Enterprises Consulting Restructures Divisions
World's Premier Bioeconomy Consulting Creates Five Practice Groups
By: Lee Enterprises Consulting
Wayne Lee
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Dec. 14, 2017 - PRLog -- Lee Enterprises Consulting, the world's premier bio-economy consulting group, is pleased to announce the restructuring of its subject matter experts into five major divisions - biofuels, biomaterials, technologies, feedstocks, and specialty services. CEO, Wayne Lee, says the move was necessary to accommodate the ever growing capabilities of experts in the group, and the wide variety of projects the team handles.
"Within our original business model, we had very specific groups such as biodiesel, ethanol, biomass, emerging technologies, and renewable chemicals," says Lee. "We found that as we continued to grow, we were continuously adding groups to accommodate over 100 experts in the group, so we chose to place everything within broader divisions to simplify administration". Lee notes that the five new divisions will cover over 90 areas in which the group has expertise and that company's two Executive Vice Presidents, Joel Stone and Terry Mazanec, will continue to oversee the new broader groups.
The Biofuels Division will cover the group's expertise in Aviation Fuels, Advanced Biofuels, Biobutanol, Biochar/Biocoal, Biodiesel, Biogas, Biomass Power, Dimethyl Ether (DME), Ethanol, Producer gas/Syngas, Pyrolysis Oil, Renewable Diesel, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and Wood Pellets.
The Biomaterials Division will cover the group's expertise in Animal Health, Aquaculture Health, Biochemicals, Bio-fertilizers, Bio-fibers, Biomass to Sugars, Bioplastics/Polymers, Enzymes, Food Ingredients, Industrial Chemicals, Lubricants, Nanocarbon/Cellulose, Nutraceuticals, 0rganometallics, Renewable Chemicals, and Solvents.
The Technologies Division will cover the group's expertise in Anaerobic Digestion, Bio-Oil Extraction, Bioreactors, Carbon Capture & Storage, Catalysis, Cellulosic Ethanol, Fermentation, Fischer-Tropsch, Gasification, Genetic Engineering, Hydrothermal, Nano Technology, Organosynthesis, Plasma Gasification, Pyrolysis/Carbonization, Synthetic Biology, Torrefaction, and Water Treatment.
The Feedstock Division will cover the group's expertise in Agriculture, Algae, Biogas, CO2, Construction & Demolition, Waste Cooking Oils, Energy Crops, Fermentation Waste, Forestry, Hemp/Cannabis, Lignin, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Palm Waste, Railroad Ties, Sludge, and Solid Recovered Fuels
The Specials Services Division will handle matters involving Carbon Credits, Corporate Finance, Equipment Sales, Experimental Validations, Expert Witness Services, Feasibility Studies, Grant Writing, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), Litigation Support, Plant Sales, Red Teaming, RINs and RIN Evaluation, Risk Analysis (FMEA), and Technical-Economic Analysis.
"We have redone the website to better reflect the full scope of projects that we can handle," says Martin Wahl, Director of Marketing. "I think clients looking for assistance in the bioeconomy will find it very easy to see our full strength". Director of Operations, DeAnna Huffman, says the new divisions are a better delineation of the group's talents. "Everything we currently do will naturally fall within one of these major categories," says Huffman.
The Executive Vice Presidents are also excited about the new classifications. "Our strength is in our vast, collective knowledge and our ability to assemble interdisciplinary teams to fit virtually any bioeconomy project," says EVP Joel Stone. "This new design reflects the breadth of all the things we can provide".
"This group has over 100 of the top experts in virtually every area of the bioeconomy," says EVP Terry Mazanec. "Our range of services is broad, and our client base so diverse, that the new divisions provide a better representation of the entire organization"
ABOUT LEE ENTERPRISES CONSULTING, INC: Lee Enterprises Consulting is the world's premier bio-economy consulting group, offering services in biodiesel, biofuels, biomass power, renewable chemicals, renewable jet fuels, pyrolysis, hydrolysis, gasification, waste-to-energy, anaerobic digestion, torrefaction, wastewater treatment, steam reformation, biochar, carbonization and biogas. In addition to its team of over 100 consultants, the group maintains strategic alliances with leading alternative and renewable fuels companies worldwide, and maintains ongoing relationships with top alternative fuels law firms, accounting groups, engineers, and fabrication facilities. The group's consultants and strategic partners represent the top talent in the bioeconomy and can handle almost every aspect of a project. The group also owns a full-service business brokerage firm specializing in the buying and selling of alternative and renewable fuels plants.. Visit our website for more details.
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British artist Bryan Ferry will be at the Opera Garnier Monte-Carlo on May 31st, 2018 for a tantalising evening performance!
Bryan Ferry, a music and art lover, was described as a "godfather of contemporary style" by the Sunday Times. When his first single, "Virginia Plain" with Roxy Music was released in 1972, he was named one of the most innovative and elegant musicians of the time and considered as the embodiment of the romantic universe evoked in his songs. The band mainly owes its success to the song "Avalon", released in 1983. This song was quickly acclaimed by critics as one of the most emblematic songs in pop-rock history.
Tickets cost 100€ and can be purchased online.


Tasos Panteli graduated in law from Queen Mary University of London in 1999. In 2000, he completed the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law, UK and he was Called to the Bar. He obtained an LLM in Commercial and Corporate law from King's College London in 2001. In 2002 he was admitted to the Cyprus Bar. In 2010 he became a partner in Andreas M. Sofocleous & Co LLC.
He is charge of the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution department.


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Jerusalem Post Diaspora
Chabad assists disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico
"To see the utter devastation firsthand and so close to home is shocking."
By BECKY BROTHMAN
Updated: OCTOBER 1, 2017 11:12
A man carrying a water container walks next to damaged houses after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria in Canovanas, Puerto Rico.
(photo credit: CARLOS GARCIA RAWLINS/ REUTERS)
Chabad-Lubavitch of Puerto Rico is assisting communities left devastated by Hurricane Maria.
Approximately 97% of the island's 3.4 million residents are without power and suffering from a food and potable water shortage in the wake of the Category 4 hurricane, which made landfall on September 20.
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello said that the storm was "without a doubt the biggest catastrophe in modern history for Puerto Rico." At least 16 people have been killed by the hurricane and its aftermath, and that number is expected to rise due to the lack of electric power and the toll that may take on essential health services.
To mitigate the damage to local communities, Chabad-Lubavitch has sent private planes full of essentials like canned food, bottled water, medical items and other critical supplies to affected areas. A doctor was also on board to provide medical assistance to those in need.
Two planes loaded with approximately 4,000 pounds of food and supplies landed in San Juan on Tuesday and Wednesday. The private plane that flew on Tuesday belongs to Ralph Nakash, real-estate developer and founder of Jordache. The second plane was largely supported by the Falic family who own Duty Free Americas, a network of duty-free shops.
With or without private planes, Chabad members are getting involved. Because the storm cut off communication lines, Idan Labor -- who attends the Chabad in San Juan -- took a raft and searched for elderly Jewish residents to make sure they were okay. After they were all accounted for, Labor made an additional trip with food and water.
"To see the utter devastation firsthand and so close to home is shocking," Rabbi Mendel Zarchi, co-director of Chabad of Puerto Rico, told Chabad.org. "Thousands of homes are locked in by the filthy floodwaters, even six days post-storm. With gratitude to the Almighty, we were able to locate the families we were looking for, and bring them food and water."
Chabad also assisted Israeli citizens who were trying to evacuate from the island. Flights from Puerto Rico have been severely curtailed due to radar damage and other problems caused by Maria.
For many Jewish residents staying on the island, the storm has also impacted the high holidays as Maria hit right before Rosh Hashana. Services were cancelled and synagogue leaders urged their congregants to stay home during the Jewish New Year.
A curfew that requires residents to stay in their homes from 6pm to 6am affects worshipers getting to Yom Kippur services. Chabad worked with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, however, who notified the police that Jewish residents would be allowed outside after 6pm to get to synagogue services.
Puerto Rico is a US territory and Puerto Ricans hold US citizenship. The Trump administration has been criticized by many residents and government officials for being slow to respond to the disaster.
Trump will visit Puerto Rico on October 3 to survey the damage.
Donations to Chabad of Puerto Rico may be sent here.
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Green is nothing new for Stonhard. For over 30 years, Stonhard has been an innovator in sustainable products.
Since June of 2005, through recycling efforts, Stonhard has prevented 92.7% of all returned material, including discontinued and obsolete products from going into the waste stream. Stonhard's unique packaging prevents over 4.8 million one gallon pails and quart cans from being dumped into landfills annually.
For over 10 years, Stonhard's Maple Shade, NJ manufacturing facility has not discharged process waste-water to the local municipal sewer system.
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Mining Coal Miner's Wife Tells it Like it Is
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One of the benefits of blogging at The Pump Handle is connecting with people who have first-hand experience with our nation's inadequate public health protection system. We've heard from parents and wives who appreciate us writing about their loved ones' fatal on-the-job injuries, and federal employees who share their unique experiences with how scientific information is used (or misused) in public health decision-making. Today, I'd like to introduce you to Mrs. Patty Sebok, who I first "met" a few months ago through a blogpost at Gristmill. We've been exchanging emails since then about her work with Judy Bonds at Coal River Mountain Watch, an organization battling powerful economic and powerful Goliaths that which support mountaintop removal mining.
Since then, I've learned that Patty Sebok's father was a coal miner, and her mother was only 3-years old when her own father was killed in the 1921 Blair Mountain March (and here) in Logan County, WV. Fighting for justice runs deep in Patty's blood. When overloaded and speeding coal haulage trucks became a menace in her community, she worked diligently to get a coal-truck safety bill passed. She's been working since then with Coal River Mountain Watch and other groups who live with the damage caused by mountaintop removal mining to communities. (Yes, they're "environmentalists" because it is the environment where they live!)
Through my email exchanges with Patty, I've also learned about her husband, 57-year old Harry "Butch" Sebok. He is a Marine and Vietnam Vet who became a red-hat coal miner and joined the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in 1976. Butch Sebok proceeded to work nearly 30 years as an underground coal miner, most of that time at the same mine: Peabody Energy's Pine Ridge Coal Company's Big Mountain Mine in Boone County, WV.* In October 2004, coal-miner Sebok suffered a serious neck-spinal injury at work, and that began this family's battle with another Goliath: the workers' compensation system.  (More on the inadequacies and perils of workers' compensation here, here, here, here, here.)
A few weeks ago, when the tragedies unfolded at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah, Patty and I exchanged numerous emails. She agree to let me share some of her thoughts with you:
I've been reading all the articles and some blog posts about the miners trapped in the coal mine in Utah. It sickens me to hear what Bob Murray has to say. He talks about east coast elites who don't know where there electricity comes from. That they don't know what a bucket and hard hat are. [here]
Well I know all too well where my electricity comes from and all about a bucket and hard hat. I'm the wife of a disabled, retired, union, underground coal miner. I know all too well how dangerous mining is and how coal barons like Mr. Murray feel about coal miners and their families. They use you up and toss you out like yesterday's trash without another thought.
I have some personal experience with the coal industry and how they treat injured miners.Â
Patty went on to tell me about her husband Butch's on-the-job injury in October 2004. When Peabody found out the severity and the disabling nature of Mr. Sebok's neck injury, he was sent to the "company" doctor. Within two days of that visit, Butch was told that his injury was not work-related, and he would not be further reimbursed for lost-wages or for medical care related to the injury. To-date, he has only received three lost-wage reimbursement payments from Peabody Energy's workers' compensation insurance carrier.Â
Patty wrote:
That's how much they care about their employees. So now my husband isn't able to work, and had to take an early retirement just so we can make ends meet.
Why do I think the workers' compensation system is broken? Because I hear stories like this one. Here's a man who labors nearly 30 years underground in a union mine, work that obviously takes a toll on the body. When he suffers an injury, obstacle after obstacle is put in his way to prevent him from receiving lost-wage reimbursement and medical care. What kind of a public health protection system is that? A broken one, that's what it is.
 The chronology of events goes like this:
 (1) Peabody Energy disputed that Mr. Sebok's neck-spine injury was work-related so they challenged his workers' compensation claim. Â
(2) The Sebok's appealed the worker's compensation carrier's decision with the WV Office of Judges. The Office of Judges ruled in the Sebok's favor.
(3)Â Peabody Energy challenged the Office of Judges' ruling, so the case went to the WVÂ Board of Review.
(4) The Board of Review ruled in favor of Peabody Energy, so the Seboks have appealed that decision to the WV Supreme Court of Appeals.
(5) The WV Supreme Court of Appeals has not yet heard the case.
Recall that Mr. Sebok suffered this injury nearly three years ago, and this matter is still not resolved. According to Butch Sebok's physician, the herniated disk in his neck is so severe, if damaged further, it could cause paralysis.  For that reason, he has not been able to go back to work in the mines. With no income provided through workers' compensation, Mr. Sebok, 57, had no choice but to take early retirement. He wasn't ready to retire, Patty told me, but there wasn't really any other option for them.
In an interview with The Boone Standard, Butch Sebok said:
"As long as your working, it's fine, but if you get hurt, you're screwed." (here)
In my conversations with Patty, I've also learned that Peabody Energy failed to file the required accident report with MSHA because they insist the injury is not work related. When pressed allegedly by MSHA to submit one, they complied but state "filing this form in no way acknowledges our belief the injury is work-related." (We haven't yet seen this for ourselves, but the Seboks have filed a FOIA request to obtain these records from MSHA.) Â
Through another Pump Handle-connection, I spoke to another disabled coal miner and we determined that his injury was also not reported to MSHA. I worked with him to file his own FOIA request.   Â
So, when my 84-year old dad asks "what's all that blogging good for?" I respond "the people I would otherwise never meet."
*Use MSHA's Data Retrieval System to search records on this mine (Mine ID#: 4607908)
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Joanne Tamayo says:
Dealing with Workers' Comp is a crucial, and almost inhumane. I can honestly say that they need to be considered as organized criminals. I say this because my family is still struggling with them, and has been since 1997 when my mother had an on-the-job accident. Because she was sent to one of their 'doctors' (which if you do enough research, you'll notice that many of them are not even real doctors of medicine), her diagnoses was prolonged, and her condition kept getting worse and worse as time progressed. Now, in 2007, she's undergone 3 cervical discectomies and fusions on her cervical spine. She was almost paralized. After the surgeries, she had to learn to pretty much walk again. And in order to get approval for anything, I have to fight with them every day. I'm close to getting fired from my job because of them, and my poor mother is now so depressed, that she even considered suicide.
I have contacted a city councilman, and his reps are reviewing the documents, so hopefully, the media can have some sort of impact on these people. But one cannot give up; you have to keep on fighting and not let them get away with this.
Joanne,
Thank you for sharing your story with us. I am so sorry for the suffering that you and your mother have endured in fighting for justice from the workers' comp system. Kudos to you for continuing on with your battle, and remember that you are not alone. It is stories like yours that inspire others to push for reform!


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Fat Studies scholar Dr Cat Pausé. Photo / David Wiltshire.
Naomi Arnold talks to those fighting the stigma of size in a thin-obsessed society.
Pretty much the first thing that fat studies scholar Dr Cat Pausé asks when I contact her to see if she'd like to contribute to our story on fat is, "Are you going to use any photos of headless fatties?"
If we are, she's not interested.
Awkwardly, we were going to, actually. For the cover, we had planned to use a photo of a headless fat person with the headline, "What's wrong with this picture?" and then earnestly point out how frequently the media uses images of headless fat people and how problematic they are.
Even though it was meant to be sympathetic, meant to open discussion on the problems of being fat in a society obsessed with the thin, Pausé, a Massey University senior lecturer, said no. It's still a headless fatty. Even if you're trying to be clever with it. No interview.
"Why not use a photo of happy, smiling, laughing fat people with the same headline?" she said. "When do you ever see that?"
The term "headless fatties" comes from a 2007 essay of the same name by London-based psychotherapist, author and fat activist Dr Charlotte Cooper, who began noticing it was "a staple of news journalism", with bigger people literally beheaded and turned into an object of shame, ridicule — and warning.
"We are presented as objects, as symbols, as a collective problem, as something to be talked about," she wrote. "Unless we play the game and parrot oppressive, self-hating, medicalised views about fat, fat people's own voices, feelings, thoughts and opinions about what it is to be fat are entirely absent from the discourse."
It has become such a recurrent trope that Pausé has simply said, "No." No heads on the fat people, no interview. We did want to talk to the main Fat Studies scholar in New Zealand for a story on the stigma of being fat. So, heads it was.
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It's really come to this. Fat people are so dehumanised in our society that those who are protective of their mental health actually have to demand of our mainstream media that real human beings deserve the respect of their head — along with their brain, feelings, mouth, and voice.
Fashion blogger Meagan Kerr. Photo / Michael Craig.
If you're in a bigger body, what effect is this mindless discrimination having on your health? And how much of the poor health outcomes of bigger people are due to the fat your body carries, and how much is due to society's discrimination against it? That depends on who you talk to, Pausé says.
"A growing number of scholars, myself included, would argue all of the disparities that exist health-wise between fat people and non-fat people can be explained by the structural discrimination and stigma fat people experience. Just as many, and probably more scholars would disagree with that and say fatness is a risk factor for X, Y and Z."
This is the point where we would normally bring in a medical professional to share their thoughts; the most common argument people make when confronted with the depth of discrimination against fat people is "But being fat is unhealthy." Pausé counters by saying you can't hate people healthy.
"More importantly though, when we're talking about fatness as a civil rights issue, I would suggest that it's incredibly dangerous to suggest that someone's civil rights should be based on their health status," she says.
"That's not a road we go down with any other group; we don't say, 'Oh, but the health costs associated with being X means we should allow them to be discriminated against.' I don't think that most people would be comfortable suggesting that someone's health status is how we should determine whether or not they have the same rights as others."
So, we're not going to talk to medical professionals for "balance". There are lots of those stories published every day. This is a story focusing on being fat, and how the stigma of that endangers your health all by itself.
Many of us are likely to have inbuilt negative attitudes towards bigger people, deeply if unconsciously believing they are lazy, greedy, or lacking willpower. In one experiment, subjects who were tricked into thinking they should smell something in differently coloured odourless creams reported they smelled less pleasant odours when they viewed pictures of the bigger people in the study.
It has been well-documented internationally that experiencing prejudice — both overt and unconscious — can result in worse health. After the Christchurch mosque murders, the Mental Health Foundation drew a direct line between discrimination and poor mental health. "Being on the receiving end of racism, discrimination, exclusion and bullying are all risk factors for mental distress," it said. "They all contribute to suicide."
But it's not just mental health. United States research into the health effects of racism, for example, demonstrates that those who report regularly experiencing even small, day-to-day occurrences of disrespect develop coronary heart disease more rapidly than those who don't. Pregnant women who report high levels of discrimination give birth to babies who are lower in birth weight. And being black or of another minority means you receive poorer-quality medical care across nearly every single medical intervention, irrespective of education level, job status, the severity of the disease, and health insurance.
It's a similar story with people who are fat. Fat stigma has a powerful effect on your mental and physical health; research shows that just like experiencing racism, living in a larger body in this thin-obsessed society can make you sick. Furthermore, discrimination against fat people actually increases the likelihood of weight gain.
It is difficult to measure the extent of fat stigma and discrimination in New Zealand, because there hasn't been specific research into it. Pausé hasn't yet been able to get any funding to collect data around the perceived and actual experiences of discrimination of fat people here.
"I think there would be a lot of money if I was proposing a way to 'cure obesity', but that's absolutely not what I am doing," she says. "I still think the type of work I want to do is difficult for a lot of people to wrap their head around, because they can't understand fatness through any lens other than 'the obesity epidemic'. So why would you study anything about it except how to how to fix it or make it go away?"
It has been studied internationally, however. In 2017, a review of 33 published studies into the link between fat stigma and physiological and psychological health, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, found weight stigma resulted in worse health outcomes. It was positively associated with obesity, diabetes risk, cortisol level, oxidative stress level, C-reactive protein level (a blood marker for acute inflammation and infection), eating disturbances, depression, anxiety, body image dissatisfaction, and negatively associated with self-esteem among overweight and obese adults. The researchers said there was a need to increase awareness about the effect of weight stigma and develop strategies to prevent it.
Fat people face discrimination at work, in terms of lower salaries, being passed over for promotion, or getting jobs at all. There is, in fact, research to support the idea of a fat gap; a British Medical Journal study found a high BMI was a factor in worse income and deprivation for women, and shorter men had worse education, income, and job class. Pausé is currently working towards seeing physical size added to the Human Rights Act in order to ensure fat people have the same rights and legal recourse when they are discriminated against.
"At the moment, that option isn't there for fat people, and so, even though we know that they're less likely to be hired and promoted and earn the same wage as their non-fat colleagues, they're less likely to be supported to go to university, less likely to get evidence-based health care — I could go on and on," she says.
"There is no legal recourse for them in New Zealand or most of the world at the moment."
Medical professionals are not exempt from perpetrating this. Fat people delay both urgent and routine healthcare checks because their GP fat-shames them. Research shows that not only do doctors spend less time with fat patients, but, as a study in Obesity Review found, many healthcare providers hold strong negative attitudes and stereotypes about them.
"There is considerable evidence that such attitudes influence person-perceptions, judgment, interpersonal behaviour and decision-making. These attitudes may impact on the care they provide," the study's authors said.
Sometimes, doctors miss health problems because they attribute all issues to weight. Auckland fashion blogger Meagan Kerr hears many of these stories from her audience, which includes 27,000 followers on Instagram.
"They don't go to the doctor for wellness checks, for things like smears and breast checks or to get things they're concerned about seen to," she says. "So they are reporting it later, when it is a bigger issue and harder to do something about. People are routinely denied medical care because many doctors don't examine them, they don't listen to what their symptoms are and they prescribe weight loss instead of whatever will fix the problem."
She experienced this herself, visiting a specialist to try to find out why she was regularly dislocating her knee.
"The specialist said it was because I was fat and suggested bariatric surgery. It turned out to be a tumour in my knee, so bariatric surgery would not have fixed that. That would have been missed if I hadn't been confident enough to press it further and lay a complaint about the fact that she was misdiagnosing me."
If doctors don't suggest bariatric surgery, they often suggest controlling eating. But we have known for years that diets don't work; the overwhelming majority of diets fail, and the biggest predictor for weight gain is, in fact, dieting to try to lose it. In fact, your first diet is where many eating disorders begin.
The American Journal of Public Heath published a study which found long-term weight loss is all but impossible for most people. In fact, researchers from Kings College Cambridge have quantified this; they looked at 10 years' worth of data from 278,982 people in the UK health records and found women in the "obese" BMI category have a one-in-124 chance of reducing their BMI to the "healthy" BMI range, or a one-in-677 chance if they are "severely obese". It's worse for men. A man with an "obese" BMI has a one-in-210 chance of achieving a BMI in the "healthy" range. This becomes a one-in-1290 chance if he's "severely obese".
"Overall, the evidence seems clear," New Zealand endocrinologist Dr Robyn Toomath said in her 2016 book Fat Science. "For the great majority, dieting as a means of achieving lasting weight reduction just doesn't work."
What the dieting process does achieve is shame, disordered eating, and a lack of trust in your body, its needs, and its cues.
Thomas uses a mixture of CBT-E (cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders) and the Health at Every Size paradigm to help her clients recover from poor body image and a crippling relationship with food.
"The latter doesn't come without the former," she says. Her typical client swings between restricted eating and the resultant, inevitable overindulgence, a pattern that may have lasted years by the time she sees them.
"Disordered eating is a spectrum and unfortunately my belief is that most women are on that spectrum," she says. Many of her clients come to her saying, "I'm too fat to have an eating disorder." But she says any kind of dieting to lose weight is unhelpful.
"We don't have to love our bodies to be okay but if we are spending an unusual amount of time and energy on hating our bodies and trying to do something about it, that's where the problem comes in," she says. That includes avoiding life: Relationships, trips to the beach, travelling in aeroplanes, and clothing that shows off parts of your body you hate.
"That impacts our self-worth and happiness," Thomas says. "From a neurobiological point of view the more effort we put in to trying to change our bodies the worse our body image will become."
It's nobody's fault, she says. "This is diet culture. That is what we are taught as women; that this is what we should be focusing all our energy on." As Naomi Wolf says in The Beauty Myth: "Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one."
Thomas tries to get her clients to the point where they may still want to lose weight, but the urgency of that desire has lessened.
"You will probably be left with the thought 'I wish my body was smaller' but in the same way someone wishes their nose was smaller, or everyone wishes they had more money," she says. "It doesn't become an obsession and there's a level of acceptance there."
As for how we can individually address fat stigma, Kerr suggests simply not talking about yours or other people's bodies. Ever. Particularly to children.
"If you are catching yourself saying or thinking things about your body or about other people's bodies, take time to examine why you're doing that and what you can do differently," she says.
Thomas echoes this. "The idea that big bodies are bad can be extremely triggering for others with their own body insecurities, and we may be inadvertently reaffirming their own eating disorder behaviour. Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes.
"And what I would say to people living in larger bodies and feeling shame about that is: Your body is not your fault. Your body is not a problem to be fixed."
Your relationship with food and your body image might need help, she adds — but your body is simply doing what it does best. Surviving.
Developed by US eating disorder specialist Elyse Resch and dietitian Evelyn Tribole, Intuitive Eating is a clinically-proven programme, often undertaken in eating disorder recovery, that teaches you to reject diets and eat whatever you want, whenever you want, while respecting your internal cues of hunger and satisfaction; honouring your health and taste buds; and moving your body for enjoyment.
It is based on the idea that restricting certain foods is what makes you overeat. When the emotional side of food is addressed, eating normalises, in a process that may take years.
You may then slowly return to whatever weight your body is meant to be. But that weight may be higher than what you started with, Resch and Tribole caution; they say undertaking Intuitive Eating can initially involve a traumatic process of letting go of the dream body that our thin-obsessed society has told you you're meant to want, and accepting your genetic blueprint. But in return, Intuitive Eaters report that a new sense of freedom and peace returns to eating, something they may not have experienced since early childhood.


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ZAG Signs Global Deal with Flik Flak
Posted by Rebecca Ash | Jul 12, 2021 | News |
Award-winning global independent animation studio ZAG has signed an exclusive global license (excluding China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) with Switzerland-based Swatch subsidiary Flik Flak for a range of ZAG HEROEZ MIRACULOUS™ branded watches to debut at retail in early July in over 100 countries across five continents, with the U.S. launch on July 15. The announcement was made today by Julian ZAG, Executive Vice President, Global Operations, ZAG.
Swatch's Flik Flak watches are the world's most popular children's timekeeper — the first child's watch to translate the concept of telling the time into accessible fun and entertainment. From July 2021, fans of Miraculous™: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir can have their own "magic jewel" in the form of a Flik Flak watch–durable enough to stand up to any powers of destruction they may run into when the play gets tough. Developed in close collaboration with teachers, each timepiece seamlessly combines education with appealing looks.
Available at Swatch stores, select retailers and online, Swatch's Flik Flak watches have broad appeal for both boys and girls, matching the 60/40 girl/boy audience viewership for the series and specials. The Miraculous Ladybug watch (SRP $45) salutes the ladybug-themed superhero's daytime dream of becoming a fashion designer. The watch features a red and black design, including a sassy color-coded dial for convenient time telling on the run. Tikki, the creative kwami, is perched strategically on the strap above 12 o'clock, ready to leap to the rescue at a second's notice! And on the Flik Flak Cat Noir watch (SRP $55), Cat Noir stretches out along the strap, while his kwami, Plagg, leaves paw-print marks on the dial and strap.
"Swatch's Flik Flak has been helping children all over the world to tell the time for more than 30 years, and we are delighted that Miraculous branded watches will now be available to our millions of fans around the world," commented Julian Zag. "Miraculous has become a global phenomenon, with the series scoring #1 ratings around the world, and over 200M products have been sold during the past four years. With our $100M+ movie Ladybug & Cat Noir: Awakening premiering later this year supported by a global QSR promotion, and the Miraculous toy line from Zag Labs and Playmates toys available at brick and mortar stores across the U.S. this fall, the future continues to look Miraculous!"
"We are thrilled to be part of the Miraculous world!" commented Flik and Flak. "As they always say: "together, we're stronger!" They are convinced that the 2 Miraculous themed watches will help any superhero wannabe around the world be on time and not miss any adventures of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Swatch's Flik Flak joins Italian candy manufacturer Ferrero, and French company Epopia–whose unique epistolary letter format encourages children to read and write through interactive storytelling–as global Miraculous brand partners. Miraculous currently has more than 300 licensees across the globe across all major categories.
During 2020, Miraculous grew its digital reach by 178%. Miraculous attracts over 19.6 million subscribers across its nine official YouTube channels, currently available in eight languages. With a total 25 billion views, fans have collectively viewed more than 1.7B hours of content. Miraculous is available on TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr—whose 12 official accounts feature dedicated accounts for the series' main characters–boasting 6.6 million followers in total.
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A popular teen on Instagram was killed. Now the gruesome photos are spreading across the web
By Eli Rosenberg
July 17, 2019 — 3.53am
Police arrived at the gruesome scene on Sunday morning, alerted by frantic calls from users on the messaging app Discord. What police heard in those calls was horrifying: Someone had uploaded an image of a bloodied, lifeless young woman to the server, her throat marred by a deep gash.
"You're gonna have to find somebody else to orbit," a man wrote, using a term for tracking potential romantic interests online.
Police allege Bianca Devins (left) was killed by Brandon Clark (right), a man she'd met through Instagram.
Police located 21-year-old Brandon Clark after he called 911. They found him at the end of a dead-end road, on the ground next to a black four-wheel-drive, officials said. He stabbed himself in the neck with a knife as an officer approached him. Then, police say, Clark moved to a tarp where a teen's bloodied body was located. He then took a selfie while lying across her body as the officer watched, police say.
Bianca Devins, the victim, was 17. Prosecutors charged Clark on Monday night with second-degree murder in Devins' death, after he received emergency surgery at a nearby hospital.
The horrific killing of the teenager in Utica, in upstate New York, has drawn headlines, its brutality underscored by its broadcast. It has echoes of the massacre at two mosques in New Zealand this year, which the perpetrator live-streamed on Facebook.
Bianca Devins, 17. Credit:Devins family via AP
Like the New Zealand suspect, the social media user accused in this incident had marked posts about the violence with a winking reference to a popular YouTube star, writing "Subscribe to PewDiePie", according to images obtained by The Washington Post.
And like the bloodshed in New Zealand, the violence in this case was not only broadcast online – its genesis also appears to have been rooted there.
Photos of the violence and the moments before and after were posted to Discord and what appeared to be Clark's Instagram account, @yesjuliet. The account shared a photo of a dark road, with the caption "Here comes hell", followed by a picture of a woman's bloodied upper torso. Images of the posts on that account suggested it was owned by Brandon Andrew Clark.
"I am sorry Bianca," one caption read.
A Utica police spokesman, Sergeant Michael Curley, confirmed the authenticity of the post.
Adding to the toxic online cloud, rumours, hoaxes and other misinformation about the case spread like wildfire as people on social media published misleading facts, made impostor accounts and teased sending the grisly photos in apparent bids to get more followers. Devins' account, which had about 2500 followers on Sunday, had shot up to more than 80,000 by Tuesday.
Devins' killing highlighted long-standing questions about the ability and willingness of technology companies to regulate the content that makes their services so profitable.
Instagram struggled to remove the images from its service on Monday, as more and more copies were posted. Some users were so frustrated by the company's inability to police itself that they tagged and reported the users posting the images themselves. Others flooded the hashtag of Devins' username with cheery pictures of hearts and animals to overwhelm the number of photos of her killing, making it less likely that they would surface when someone searched her name.
Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, did not answer questions about how long the violent content remained on its site after it was initially posted under the @yesjuliet account.
Spokeswoman Stephanie Otway said that Instagram was working with investigators and that it removed the suspect's Instagram and Facebook accounts after his identity was confirmed. She said it continued to remove problematic material related to the killing, including posts that expressed support for the death.
Discord expressed regrets in a statement sent by spokesman Will DeGirolamo.
"We are shocked and deeply saddened by this terrible situation," it said. "In the meantime, our hearts go out to Bianca's family and loved ones."
Police said Clark met Devins on Instagram and eventually grew to know each other and their families in person. Police said they had a romantic relationship.
Clark and Devins went to a concert on Saturday in New York City, about four hours south of Utica.
Police said they got into an argument at the venue, but did not elaborate. Clark and Devins departed for the drive back to Utica after 10pm, eventually making their way to the dead-end road where Clark was found with Devins' body, police said.
"The argument progressed until the male produced a large, black-handled knife, and used this to inflict the injuries that caused her death," the police said in a statement.
Devins' family, in a statement, described her as a "talented artist, a loving sister, daughter, and cousin, and a wonderful young girl, taken from us all too soon". They said she had just graduated from high school and planned to attend Mohawk Valley Community College later this year.