We take over-the-counter and prescription drugs in order to feel better, take away pain, and improve our health. However, in far too many cases, the medicine that is supposed to heal us harms us instead. If you or a loved one have been injured by a defective or dangerous drug, you should speak to a Las Vegas dangerous drug attorney at De Castroverde Law Group immediately.
Although the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is in place to regulate the drug industry and protect the public against harmful products, dangerous drugs end up on pharmacy shelves every day. In fact, in 2014, there were 836 drug recalls by the FDA. This included over one hundred Class I recalls, in which there is reasonable probability that a drug can cause a serious health problem or death.
At De Castroverde Law Group, a Las Vegas product liability attorney specializes in helping the victims of dangerous drugs and their families secure the compensation that they need and deserve. This compensation could include money for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and punitive damages.
The drug has a manufacturing defect. In these cases, the drug may have been tainted with a foreign substance or material, the drug could have been bottled or packaged incorrectly, or the drug could have been processed in the wrong way. These problems usually only affect specified lots of the medication or drug.
The drug has previously unreported dangers. For example, the drug may have a side effect that was not reported or found in earlier tests. In other cases, the drug may have a dangerous interaction with another drug that was previously unknown to doctors and patients.
The drug has poor labeling or marketing. In a surprising number of cases, a drug isn't dangerous except for the fact that the label does not properly warn users of dangerous drug interactions, overdose information, or side effects. Or the drug's marketing campaign does not properly explain side effects, drug interactions, or proper use.
Talk to your doctor immediately. It can be just as dangerous or even more dangerous to suddenly stop taking a drug that you have been taking than to stop taking a drug that may be defective. Only your doctor can tell you the best action to take.
Tell your doctor all of your symptoms. It is vital that your doctor knows exactly how the drug has been affecting you and exactly how you feel, both for the good of your treatment and for your possible product liability lawsuit.
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The good old fashioned paper Valentine cards are a thing of the past. These Valentines are a card, necklace, pencil, and box of candy all in one! Lunacy, you say? Yes, 100%. Open the Valentine tube to reveal a scented pencil that would make Cupid give up his day job. You'll also find a chain in the tube that connects to the top heart pendant and becomes a Valentine necklace! You can write "to" and "from" on the heart and perhaps a little note if you're a handwriting Mcgyver.
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I have a new project: make a frame to mount this beautiful print. Maybe when I return from Cincinnati?
Meet Gale Wollenberg, as he set up shop with his bow lathes at the Tecumseh (Kansas) Heritage Day festivities. On Saturday, September 25, Sandy and I had a wonderful drive to Tecumseh, just outside Topeka, Kansas. And we had a chance to meet Gale Wollenberg (and his wife Betty).
Gale Wollenberg, maker of bow lathes.
The large lathe at work.
The small lathe (notice the drive on the large one).
The tailstock options on the small lathe.
Work piece support, after the 1778 lathe at the Sloane-Stanley Museum.
New work piece support, front view.
Question: What makes the bow lathe run smoother?
Answer: (From Gale) Pork fat or bees' wax.
I accept a memento of our visit - the turned demo piece.
Getting a good angle on my memento piece.
If you are interested in buying a bow lathe from Gale, please contact him directly via e-mail, at gwollenberg@gmail.com. I won't provide his phone number here, but he will gladly provide it if you are serious about a lathe purchase.
Let me know if you connect with Gale. I look forward to hearing about your experience with the wonderful bow lathe!


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Liver little longer: Scientists develop virus that can repair the liver damage caused by ALCOHOL
A new virus has been developed that can convert cells damaged by toxins into healthy cells
Taylor Geall
Updated 17:56, 2 JUN 2016
Liver little longer: Scientists develop virus that can repair drinkers' damaged livers (Image: Getty/Rex Features)
A bespoke virus that targets damaged liver cells and converts them into healthy cells could prevent the need for liver transplants, according to research.
More than 10,000 people in the UK die every year from cirrhosis of the liver, which particularly affects heavy drinkers.
But now, a team of researchers at University College San Francisco have developed a way of converting cells damaged by toxins, called myofibroblasts, into healthy cells, called hepatocytes.
The study's senior author, Dr Holger Willenbring said: "Part of why this works is that the liver is a naturally regenerative organ, so it can deal with new cells very well.
"What we see is that the converted cells are not only functionally integrated in the liver tissue, but also divide and expand, leading to patches of new liver tissue."
(Image: Getty)
The process specifically targets liver fibrosis, which is the progressive scarring of the liver and the primary driver of liver disease.
Fibrosis occurs when certain cells in the liver, called hepatocytes, cannot regenerate fast enough to keep up with the damage caused by booze or certain diseases like hepatitis C or fatty liver disease caused by obesity.
When this happens, 'patches' are created - similar to fixing a flat tyre - but when too many of these patches appear, the liver begins to fail.
The liver is able to adapt, but when its overall functionality drops below the critical threshold of 20 per cent, patients can often die within two years.
Dr Willenbring said: "Liver fibrosis is not rare. It's actually the end stage of many chronic liver diseases.
Read more:Just how much damage is your drinking doing to your liver? Three readers took the test
"Obesity, for instance, can lead to fatty liver disease, which is predicted to become the number one cause of liver fibrosis in the next 10 years."
A team of researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany, headed by Dr Willenbring, have found a way of converting these 'patches' into new, healthy hepatocytes.
Following years of work, the team have identified an adeno-associated virus (AAV) which is able to specifically infect the patches.
They found that by filling the AVV viruses with a fate-changing cocktail, the virus converted the damaged patches into functional liver cells.
Read more:Lifesaving liver disease treatment could save hundreds of lives
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The number of new cells were relatively small - often less than 1% - but this was often sufficient to reduce fibrosis and improve liver function.
Dr Willenbring said that although the new technique is nowhere near replacing the current standard of care in liver disease, this technique does offer an exciting development.
He said: "A liver transplant is still the best cure. This is more of a patch.
"But if it can boost liver function by just a couple percent, that can hopefully keep patients' liver function over that critical threshold, and that could translate to decades more of life."
The study was published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
Read more:How to make your liver BOOZE-PROOF: Scientists identify way of healing chronic alcohol damage
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Punkt, established in 2008 by Petter Neby, was brought into the technology market with the idea that their products would help simplify the consumers everyday communications once again. Punkt derives from the German word for 'full stop/period' which ties in well with the simple, timeless and focused style of the products they offer.
Today's world is consumed with technology and I think we are too distracted by it in day-to-day life. I founded Punkt. to offer a viable alternative for those feeling overwhelmed by the advanced technologies that have pervaded modern lifestyles. Punkt. is about using technology to help us adopt good habits for less distracted lives.
I certainly think that Neby is onto something good here. With the world turning into a mass overload of digital communication, from smartphone notifications, to your clothes letting you know when you have an incoming call, this simplistic, distraction free philosophy really has it's place in the market. Punkt wants you to control your electronics and not the other way around, which is becoming increasingly common.
One item which I have been able to try out is Punkt's UC01 USB Desktop Charger. Italian made, it is a solid, high quality material unlike many other desktop chargers which are made of lightweight, cheap material causing it to wobble on the desk. Punkt's version will stay in place and charge your device as fast as it would if it were plugged into a mains socket.
In the Appcessories office, there is at least three laptops and three smartphones running in one room at any one time, so you can imagine it is pretty busy with wires and plug sockets. We have been on the lookout for a good desktop charger for a while now to try and reduce the clutter and I believe we may have found the one.
Using multiple extension cables means your devices may take longer to charge, which is never good, but when using the Punkt desktop charger I have found my laptop, phone and my colleagues laptop all charged at the normal rate and the charge lasted for 6-7 hours afterwards. This is exactly what you expect from a desktop charger and more. It is the perfect travel accessory too.
Have you ever been in the situation where you are in a hotel and you and your friends phone are about to run out of charge but there is only one spare plug socket after the hairdryer/straighteners are plugged in? Well I certainly have and it is not an ideal situation to be in believe me! This desktop charger can solve this problem easily when you have a shortage of plugs.
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Rare Interview With Highest Security Clearance Level Former MI6 Intelligence Officer Nicholas Anderson Now Available At The Authors Show
Dec 17, 2020 | Art
Anderson held the highest security clearance level a British intelligence officer could reach in MI6
WILMINGTON, NC, December 17, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — More than ever the current political climate leads many of us to distrust those in power who make laws and decide on conflict engagements. Is trusting them wise? How do we know they tell us the truth?
Because he is forbidden to tell the truth, Nicholas Anderson writes in his NOC Trilogy a fictionalized account of his experiences as a high-level UK MI6 intelligence officer running covert operations in many countries across continents. He experienced it all first-hand and heard it all in intelligence and government meetings of his country and its allies. He knows that truth and stories fed to the public too often are poles apart, and he wishes for the public to better understand what goes on behind closed doors, especially about military and covert actions.
Nicholas Anderson, a pseudonym, held the highest security clearance level a British intelligence officer could reach in MI6 and for obvious reasons he must remain anonymous. In a rare interview he discusses his books and the circumstances surrounding his telling it all in a fictionalized version of his exploits with "The Authors Show®" 's Executive Producer, Danielle Hampson. "When I reached overcover (retirement) only then did I think the extreme bravery of a small number of people doing extraordinary things and taking huge personal safety risks to protect us all, was not understood. It's not macho James Bond cliches, but normal people taking a deep breath and slipping undercover into war zones to keep everybody at home safer," says Mr. Anderson.
His need for anonymity combined with government eyes and ears never far away cause him to avoid conducting interviews and complicates getting his stories out to the world. "Be prepared to have your preconceptions changed," says Anderson.
"It is in the spirit of free speech and the right for citizens to better understand how things work behind the scene," announces Danielle Hampson, "that The Authors Show is making available this rare interview on its web page https://wnbnetworkwest.com/featured-author/Nicholas Anderson in audio and video formats. The page also includes a written transcription which may be used – with proper credit – by other media outlets."
The Authors Show is a publishing industry podcasting pioneer, specializing in the production of author interviews since 2005. In its 15+ years, the show has processed 6000+ authors from around the world and enjoys a high internet ranking.
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Постельниковы — древний русский дворянский род.

Род внесён в VI часть дворянской родословной книги Черниговской, Ярославской и Тамбовской губерний.

История рода
Предок рода, думный дворянин и наместник Обоянский — Иван Васильевич Постельников, за долгую службу жалован поместьями от царя Ивана IV Васильевича Грозного (1546). Дворяне Назар и Степан Постельниковы писаны в детях боярских и жалованы поместным окладом (1622).

Описание герба
Щит разделён на четыре части, из которых в первой части, в голубом поле, изображена выходящая с правой стороны из облака рука с мечом (польский герб Малая Погоня). Во второй части, в серебряном поле, красная крепость. В третьей части, в золотом поле, корабль с распущенными парусами, плывущий по морю. В четвёртой части, в голубом поле, древесная ветвь, означенная золотом. Щит увенчан дворянским коронованным шлемом. Намёт на щите красный и голубой, подложенный серебром и золотом. Щитодержатели: два льва с обращенными головами в сторону.

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Литература
 Гербовое дело Постельниковых Департамента Герольдии Правительствующего Сената по Тверской губ. 1857 г. РГИА, ф.1343, оп.27, д.6024

Шляхетские роды герба Малая Погоня
Шляхетские роды герба Гржимала
Дворянские роды, на гербах которых изображён корабль

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Becoming a mama changes you, it's a journey like nothing else-a journey I am grateful to be a part of. My journey began in 2014 as a thirty something mama with a incredible husband, family and a beautiful baby girl. Did I just paint a perfect picture? Because, we all have our struggles, myself included. We grow from our weaknesses and learn from our mistakes. It's the journey we all call life. As a mama who has grand ideas and little follow-through I decided to start a blog. A blog to gather my thoughts, reflect on life, to dream, explore, inspire and to organize my endless supply of notebooks, emails and post-its journaling my way through motherhood in all the ups and downs.
Maybe friends and family will stop in to read my ramblings and to take a peak into my mind. Maybe strangers will wonder along and relate to my musings and thoughts. Maybe I will draw criticism for my writing, grammar, or for having opposing views. And lastly, this may just become an abandoned site left to collect internet dust. Just like any other journey I cannot predict where this will end. However, with the best of intentions this is where I begin.


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Union Hill is a hamlet on the border of the Town of Ontario in Wayne County and the Town of Webster in Monroe County, New York, United States. It is located three miles (5 km) east of the Village of Webster and five miles (8 km) west of the hamlet of Ontario, at an elevation of 453 feet (138 m). The primary cross roads where the hamlet is located are N.Y. Route 404, Ridge Road (CR 103), and County Line Road (CR 100). N.Y. Route 104 passes just north of Union Hill.
A United States Post Office is located in Union Hill with a ZIP Code of 14563.

The Union Hill Fire Department ceased operations on January 1, 2020 after 76 years of continuous operation. The Union Hill Volunteer Ambulance closed three months later.

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Hamlets in Wayne County, New York
Hamlets in Monroe County, New York
Hamlets in New York (state)


From backpacker accommodations for a few bucks to five-star hotels, Bangkok has a place for everyone to rest their head. Frequent visitors to Paris, New York City, and Los Angeles wondering where to stay in Bangkok will delight in the reasonable prices of mid- to upper-level hotels.
Bangkok hotels are perfect for a relaxing vacation. Arun Residence is tucked away on a small residential street in the Old City quarter of Bangkok. The four-story hotel features only a handful guest rooms (book early). The hotel boasts incredible views, with proximity to Wat Arun. The wooden home combines Asian and European design influences to beautiful effect. If you can, try to book a suite with a private terrace lined with palms.
Le Méridien Bangkok is a modern, swanky hotel in Bangkok—some rooms even feature circular beds—located in the business district. Features including etched mirrors, wall-length windows, Thai sculptures, and black mosaic bathroom tiles add a ritzy flair to the neutral colors and clean lines of the rooms. Lebua State Tower—63 stories above the bustling street—offers incredible views of the Chao Phraya River and Bangkok's towering skyscrapers, especially from its rooftop restaurant. The hotel has excellent, attentive staff and luxurious amenities including balconies, feather beds and free Wi-Fi throughout. It is one of the best hotels in Bangkok.


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One Catastrophic Failure to Manage Risks
By Patrick Wraight | January 8, 2021
Wednesday, January 6, 2021, was a historic day in the US.
It could have been historic because the US Congress was voting to certify an election. That happens every four years. Most of the time, it's with little fanfare, but this time was bound to be different.
It wasn't even historic because of the several Senators and Congresspeople that were planning to dissent in the vote. That felt like par for the course of this election cycle.
It was historic because a mob was allowed to breach the doors of the Capitol building, resulting in death, property damage, and the delay of the business of government.
There were several failures that led to the moment when the riot breached the door, but one of the biggest failures was the risk management failure outside the capital on that day.
Who was (or should be) in charge of managing the risks at the Capital?
According to the US Senate's and US House of Representatives' websites, the Sergeant at Arms is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of their house of congress. Part of their responsibilities is the safety and security of congress. Since safety and security are included in these job titles, that puts the assessment of risk in their hands. Additionally, the DC Metro Police Department is the body that deals with ensuring that protests and demonstrations are conducted safely and lawfully.
Should they have seen this coming?
You might say that this is Monday morning quarterbacking, and you would be right. There is much more than all of us can see now that the incident is passed than could be seen by many of us before. However, this event should have been viewed far differently than it was. A person doesn't get elected to the Sergeant at Arms position or hired as the chief of police of a major US city, let alone the capital of the United States, without extensive law enforcement experience and a resume that shines in the light of the sun.
These officers are career law enforcement officials and they should have known that something big could happen. Police officers have a reputation of suspecting trouble, even when no trouble obviously exists. Why didn't these seasoned law enforcement officers think that there could be more than meets the eye with this demonstration? Did they have a gut instinct that said that things could go wrong? Did they ignore that instinct because they couldn't put facts with their instincts? Did they simply believe that no one would possibly ever try what happened simply because no one had?
There are several reasons that they should have known that something could happen.
Groups are required to file for permits for public demonstrations. A demonstration outside of the Congress building when Congress is in session should be a big enough deal that the Chief of Police should know about it and should make the Sergeant at Arms aware of it. They should have had a conversation about the potential risks that this demonstration posed. I don't know that they didn't have that conversation, but based on their mutual level of preparedness, they didn't seem to talk about it much.
From what we are told about this group, they were gathering in support of the sitting President to object to what has been characterized as the theft of an election. The idea that a group of people were coming to protest something that they considered to be a miscarriage of the election system should have indicated that this could get out of hand. It is not a stretch to imagine that this group could show up in a heightened emotional state, or that there might be people inside the group who intended to do more than just demonstrate.
The group held a rally beforehand where the President spoke. Given the President's history with his public comments, including his pattern of rhetoric, someone should have realized that his comments could create actions. This group was particularly interested in the President remaining in office and it's reasonable to think that after a rousing speech, someone among them might be inclined to take matters into their own hands.
It has been reported that days before the rally turned into a riot both the FBI and Department of Defense offered to support the DC Police in securing the Capital Building. The DoD and Justice Department both have resources that would give them better information than the DC Metro Police would have. It would seem reasonable that the chief should have known that something bigger might happen than simply a free speech demonstration at that location.
I'm a fan of free speech. I even like it when people disagree with me. At the very least, when someone disagrees with me, it forces me to think about and consider their position. When disagreement turns into violence, that's not protected speech. That's insurrection. That's not even a legitimate revolution. That's the path of anarchy.
About Patrick Wraight
Patrick Wraight, CIC, CRM, AU, is director of Insurance Journal's Academy of Insurance. He can be reached at pwraight@ijacademy.com.
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Georgia Senate Challengers Attack Second Amendment • NSSF
News	Posted on December 9, 2020 —by Recoil Daily 64 0
Georgia Senate Challengers Attack Second Amendment
By Larry Keane
Georgia Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff took part in debates in an attempt to gloss over their gun control agenda and the fact they would be the votes that would usher in President-elect Joe Biden's radical gun grab agenda.
Despite the theatrics, it didn't work.
Georgia's runoff elections on Jan. 5 promise to have monumental impacts on gun owners and Second Amendment rights, including the firearm industry. It is literally up to Georgia voters to send the firewall of Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler to stop Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) from trampling on the Constitution and ushering in a literal gun grab that's been pushed by the incoming Biden-Harris administration.
That's clearly not what Georgia or the rest of the nation wants. Americans voted with their wallets when it came to guns in 2020. So far, 19.1 million background checks were conducted for the sale of a firearm, including nearly 7.7 million first-time buyers. That's the backdrop against which the candidates tried to convince voters their gun rights don't matter.
Riots versus Safety
Incumbent Republican Sen. Loeffler explained that even while riots ravaged Atlanta, her opponent attacked law enforcement. Atlanta, Ga. saw some of the worst violence earlier this year. Calls to "defund the police" echoed at the same time as private gun sales increased. Georgians were rightly concerned about looting and destruction and a lack of police protection with law enforcement spread thin.
"You know my opponent, radical liberal Raphael Warnock, has called police officers gangsters, thugs, bullies and a threat to our children," Sen. Loeffler said. "When I gave him the chance to apologize at our first debate, he declined."
Rev. Warnock responded by claiming, "The land of the free is the mass incarceration capitol of the world," He didn't acknowledge the destruction and threat rioters brought to Georgia. Yet, he's chided law-abiding gun owners from the pulpit for exercising their Second Amendment rights.
The High Stakes for Firearms
Returning later to the topic of the gun rights of Georgians, Sen. Loeffler urged voters to support her to ensure the Second Amendment is protected from attacks by the Biden-Harris administration which has vowed to dismantle the firearm industry.
"They want to take away our guns. They want to tax our guns." She added that Warnock "is their agent of change," to accomplish those goals. "The [Republican] senate is the shock absorber against that agenda," Loeffler said.
Democrat Jon Ossoff, challenging Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue, debated solo earlier in the evening. He has tried to hide his true gun control beliefs from Georgians throughout the campaign. His platform includes a ban on modern sporting rifles (MSRs), limiting standard capacity magazines he knowingly mislabels "large capacity" magazines and instituting gun registration and confiscation schemes supported by the Biden-Harris administration. No surprise that Everytown has endorsed Ossoff.
Sen. Perdue's campaign manager Ben Fry said Ossoff was "unserious," about the serious issues facing Georgia and the nation. He added of Ossoff's debate performance, "Tonight we witnessed something we didn't know was possible: a candidate lost a debate against himself."
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Adjudication - O. Milton Fine II, Chief Administrative Law Judge
It is the function and responsibility of the Adjudication Division to see that the primary purpose of the workers' compensation laws are accomplished. Specifically, that timely temporary and permanent disability benefits are paid to all legitimately injured workers who suffer an injury or disease arising out of and in the course of their employment, together with reasonable and necessary medical expenses, before returning them to the work force.
The Division is currently staffed by nine Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), together with support staff for the judges. Six ALJs have offices in Little Rock and three are located in Springdale.
Based upon the number of claims filed within each county, Arkansas has been divided into six geographic districts. ALJs travel throughout the state within an assigned district, conduct hearings when disputes arise between claimants and their employers and/or insurance carriers. They also hold joint petition hearings. Cases are assigned according to the county in which the incident occurred. Pulaski County cases are assigned to all ALJs who have offices in Little Rock as a means of balancing the overall caseload.
Administrative Services - Leah Campbell, Administrator
AWCC operations are funded by a premium tax, limited by law to three percent, on Workers' Compensation premiums paid by insurance companies writing Workers' Compensation, on companies qualifying as self-insurers, and on public employers. The funds are collected and disbursed by Administrative Services' fiscal staff. All purchasing, accounting, investments, budget analyses, and payroll transactions are the responsibility of this division. In addition, Administrative Services handles job announcements, interviewing, and selecting of applicants.
Clerk Of The Commission - Philip Hood, Clerk
The Clerk's office was established to serve as a conduit for filing, processing and internal routing of pleadings, legal documents and other notices received by the Workers' Compensation Commission. This office is responsible for the assignment of all cases to the Administrative Law Judges and Legal Advisors. In addition, the Clerk maintains the required dockets for cases appealed to the Full Commission, prepares the record/transcripts for lodging with the Court of Appeals, reviews the record on appealed cases, certifies record composition, and certifies copies of documents from the commission files requested in writing from interested parties.
Health And Safety - Brenda Williams, Administrator
Act 796 of 1993, created the Health and Safety Division which serves as a resource center on safety issues pertinent to employers and employees in Arkansas. Within the Division are the following sections: Accident Prevention Section, Rule 32 Program, Job Safety Information Section, and Education and Training Section. This division coordinates the annual educational conference.
To see the division's latest quarterly report, click here.
Information Technology - Jason W. Hogue, Administrator
The Information Technology Division is responsible for the automation of the Commission. The backbone of the system is an in-house developed application that captures data from the inception of a claim and maintains and updates this data throughout the life of the claim. The division currently maintains databases consisting of over 560,000 reported claims, 200,000 employers, 650 insurance carriers and adjusters, and various other supporting databases. The division also administers the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) program for filing first reports of injury.
Legal Advisor - Johnny Gregory, Administrator
The Legal Advisor Division is a dispute resolution system created to provide legal information and assistance to interested parties who have questions concerning the Arkansas Workers' Compensation law. The Legal Advisors are attorneys who know both the law and the procedures through which the parties must navigate during the claim's process. The division gives presentations at various conferences and meetings, and will make on-site visits to businesses. The Legal Advisors serve as a link between unrepresented claimants and insurance adjusters and often help resolve problems before they escalate into issues which must be litigated.
Legal Advisors also conduct legal advisor conferences.
The head of this division serves as General Counsel to the Chief Executive Officer; organizes and maintains the law library for the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission; and collects and analyzes case opinions.
Medical Cost Containment - Mark McGuire, Interim Administrator
The major function of this division is to oversee the Medical Fee Schedule which limits the reimbursement to providers for treatment rendered to injured workers and the administration of the Comprehensive Managed Care Program which was established by Act 796 of 1993. This division also issues Change of Physician orders.
Operations And Compliance - Janna Craig, Administrator
The operations unit of this division is concerned primarily with the processing of compensation claims filed directly with the Commission by parties other than the employer; receiving and establishing files for all First Reports of Injury; and monitoring insurance carriers via report cards under Rule 099.29 for the timeliness of forms filing and first benefit payments. The compliance unit is the investigative arm of the Commission, making certain all employers under the law have secured payment of compensation. Certificates of Non-Coverage are processed by the compliance unit. This division assists in the form seminars.
Self-Insurance - Mike Baker, Administrator
The Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission Self-Insurance Division is responsible for the administration and regulation of the Self-Insurance Program in Arkansas. Commission Rule 099.5 governs the operation of the program. The division processes the applications for individual self-insurance, group self-insurance, group members, and applications for third-party administrators. The division prepares an annual renewal evaluation on both individual self-insurers and group self-insurers, subject to Commission approval, to renew the Certificate of Authority for Self-Insurance. The division prepares annual renewal evaluations on third-party administrators, subject to Commission approval, for renewal of their Certificate of Authority to act as a third-party administrator. The division also collects the Workers' Compensation premium tax from the self-insurers and group self-insurers.
Special Funds - Robin Mickel, Administrator
The Special Funds Division is comprised of two individual funds: the Second Injury Trust Fund and the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund. The Second Injury Trust Fund was statutorily created to encourage employment of disabled workers by limiting, in the event of subsequent injury, the employer's liability for permanent disability benefits. Act 1415 of 2007 amended Arkansas Code § 11-9-525, by stating that no new claims shall be filed with the Second Injury Fund on or after January 1, 2008.
The Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund pays weekly benefits to permanent and totally disabled workers or dependents of deceased workers after the workers' compensation insurer has paid indemnity liability of $50,000 or $75,000, whichever is applicable by law. In an attempt to assure the solvency of the Death and Permanent Total Disability Trust Fund, the AR General Assembly amended § 11-9-502, by increasing the compensation providers limit of liability to three hundred twenty-five (325) times the maximum total disability rate, for injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2008. (Act 1599 of 2007)
Workers' Compensation Commission
324 South Spring Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-0950
Telephone 1-501-682-3930 / 1-800-622-4472
Legal Advisor Direct 1-800-250-2511
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A new bill proposed by Elaine Nekritz and Daniel Biss takes many of the pension-reform ideas that have been floating around, and weds them with some new ones; it's already got a fair amount of backing. Is it legal? How well will it work?
So: Illinois has a brand-new pension plan. Who says Squeezy doesn't get results? News broke about it last night, and it got announced at a press conference this morning. It's big news in the sense that Elaine Nekritz, who is co-sponsoring the bill with Daniel Biss, says that she has, 21 co-sponsors from both parties (the pension debate has been a bit more bipartisan than you might think; the bills backed by Michael Madigan and Tom Cross have more similarities than differences, though the differences are substantial).
These are both straight out of Rep. Mike Fortner's playbook. The first basically says that if the state doesn't pay what it owes into the pension funds, it can be sued for doing so. This is significant because the main driver of the state's unfunded liabilities has been the state's unwillingness to make the requisite payments into the system (PDF), even more than investment losses.
Fortner said that the current fiscal year calls for a $3.6 billion transfer payment — coming from the state's general fund — to help move the system toward being 90 percent funded by 2045.
Fiscal year 2014 sees that amount increase to $3.8 million.
Fortner would reduce that by taking the same amount currently made to retire state bonds maturing in 2015, 2019 and 2033 and putting the outlay toward fully funding the system.
So it's not a new revenue stream per se—it's revenue freed up by the retiring of bonds, but it does make the state pay that revenue into the pension plan.
For those unfamiliar with cash balance plans, they are sometimes known as "defined-benefit plans in drag." Cash balance plans offer some of the features of both defined-contribution (DC) and defined-benefit (DB) plans. Participants are still guaranteed a minimum benefit and can collect a life annuity upon retirement — which provides more security from investment risks and longevity risks than a private-sector 401(k)-type individual DC account…. Each participant is credited annually with interest (accretion) on the employer and employee contributions, but instead of controlling an individual account and making their own investment decisions, that's all done by the pension board.
The cash-balance account of each employee is then credited each year with a minimum return, often set at something close to the government bond yield. So, their money grows at a rate that typically runs a little ahead of inflation and is fully guaranteed by the plan…. Upon retirement, the employee converts the value of the account into an annuity-pension based on the better of the base rate or the phantom values [a dividend] if the markets have been friendly. The actual mechanics are more complicated than that, but those are the key concepts.
Basically the current pension plan promises to pay employees a certain amount come hell or high water. The hybrid plan reduces that amount, then indexes the rest to the depth of the water.
This, from what I've seen, is new, and would apply to employees hired before 2011. Madigan's plan would have offered employees a choice: keep the three-percent compounded COLA and give up state-subsidized health care, or keep the health care and drop COLA to 1/2 of the consumer price index. It's basically another means of limiting the effect of COLA.
As I understand it, the deal is this: right now state employees don't have a "reasonable expectation" to future pension payments because the system is completely hosed, and the bill would introduce "new advantages" by realistically guaranteeing them pensions in the future.
In addition, a number of state courts, such as in California, permit reasonable modifications to an individual's pension benefits. However, "the modification must bear some material relationship to the purpose of the pension system and its successful operation; and any disadvantage to employees must be accompanied by comparable new advantages" (e.g., an increased pension amount). Thus, as explained by one commentator, the idea is that public employees are not entitled to any particular terms of a pension, but of the substance of the benefit which they could reasonably expect to receive.
Employees 46 and up are safe. 40-45, retirement age goes up by a year. 39-35 increases by three years. Below 34, five years. One of the previous problems the state has had is that pension changes cause employees to run for the exits, which is somewhat self-defeating: it adds pensioners and removes people paying into the system. Graduating the retirement-age increases reduces this possibility.
Pension contributions go up one percent in 2014 or whatever the first year after the plan passes is, two percent after that; see above for legality.
Lawmakers pushing a new pension reform plan said Wednesday they aren't sure just how much the proposal will save the state if enacted.
This is one of the many problems Illinois has run into with pension reform. Take, for instance, the Madigan-backed plan, SB 1673 A5. As noted before, it offered employees a choice between keeping their compounded COLA and keeping their health care. This was analyzed by the state's Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (PDF), but only for one plan, and assuming that half would keep the COLA… which is just a wild guess. So the result was a fairly limited ballpark figure. The legal aspect is a crapshoot; the fiscal aspect will need more vetting than we've gotten in the past.


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Goldman profit rises 2%; cautious on outlook
Aaron Elstein
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Goldman Sachs Group, deftly avoiding the mortgage mess that's made life miserable for its rivals, posted a 2% increase in fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday.
The investment banking giant generated net income of $3.2 billion, or $7.01 a share, on revenue of $10.7 billion, compared with per-share net income of $6.59 on $9.4 billion of revenue in the year-earlier period. Goldman's shares, until this morning the only ones among the major brokerage houses to rise this year, fell 5% in midday trading after the firm's chief financial officer said he was "cautious" about the future. They are now flat for the year.
"Goldman is almost operating in a different world from everyone else on Wall Street," said Michael Holland, a long-time Wall Street executive and chairman of Holland & Co., a firm that invests in financial stocks but doesn't own Goldman shares. "Whatever the cycle, they make money, and they've done that over and over."
Having dodged the huge mortgage-related losses that clobbered rivals like Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup, Goldman is now preparing to share its vast wealth with its staff. The firm set aside $20.2 billion, up 23% from in 2006, for year-end bonuses and benefits to reward its 30,000 employees. That comes out to an average of $660,000 for each and every employee. Last year, Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein received $53 million in total compensation—most of it in the form of a bonus. Surely he will do even better this year.
Of course, not everything is golden in Goldman's world. The firm still has $27 billion worth of loan commitments on its books for leveraged buy-outs in the works, although that's less than the $42 billion it had at the end of the third quarter. Similarly, CFO David Viniar noted that November, a dismal month for bond traders across Wall Street, was difficult for Goldman, too. He added that an in-house hedge fund that lost about $1 billion in August before Goldman bailed it out is still performing poorly.
Still, about the only negative thing Mr. Viniar could muster was to say that if the economy slows, Goldman would probably be less profitable than it has been.
A recession "will affect us, too," he said.
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Flying back to DC yesterday, I sat next to a woman devouring "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." It's not often you find folks reading plays. It may be the first play script she's ever read.
As a playwright, I'm very familiar with the format - character name centered, stage directions in italics, lots of empty spaces for actors to write down blocking and acting notes. Those blank spaces reminded me of something Newbery Award winning writer Kwame Alexander told us on "The Crossover" episode of Book Club for Kids.
Kwame remembered one kid who said he really loved the book, written in verse, because it "didn't have a lot of words and it had so much white space!"
Performing texts in the classroom and the improvement of a variety of verbal skills, including especially significant increases in story recall and understanding of written material.
Performance of Shakespeare texts helps to improve students' understanding of other complex texts including science and math material.
Drama can improve reading skills and comprehension better than other activities, including discussion.
And, needless to say, acting out a play is just fun.


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"Song of Liangzhou" by Ge Fei, translated by Dave Haysom
Surong Jing, 30/9/17
The reason why I choose this piece and would like to recommend it to other readers, in particular to my colleagues and students, is for its own sake as an English translation rather than for the Chinese original per se. I myself once translated this very story by Ge Fei when I signed up for the 2013 International Translation Contest of Excellent Chinese Contemporary Literature. Among many other options, this story was the only one I could entirely understand, at least in my view, in terms of language, plot structure and the author's emotional tendency of seemingly despising but actually sympathizing with the protagonist Dr Lin'an. Of course I did not win any prize in the contest, but the process of translating that story has left me with a deep impression. I still remember how it took a long time for me to decide upon the best English title. Considering that the original Chinese title 凉州词 is actually a kind of melody popular in the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907), I interpreted the story to be simply lyrics written to this kind of tune. So finally I translated it as "Lyrics to Liangzhou Tune", which may not be acceptable to many readers but was a conscious choice on my part. From a colleague of mine, I learned about this programme. I logged in and was very happy to see another version of 凉州词 by a native and experienced translator. His translation will surely provide me a good opportunity to learn how to translate literary works in a more literary, but not literal, way.
Cynthia Anderson, 18/9/17
Ge Fei's "Song of Liangzhou" is a story within a story about two scholars meeting after a long absence. Dr. Lin'an, a once celebrated academic, unexpectedly visits the narrator and recounts an anecdote concerning the famous Tang dynasty poet, Wang Zhihuan. At the same time the narrator recalls the puzzling circumstances of Dr. Lin'an's divorce. Within these story lines conjecture and fact are continually juxtaposed leaving the reader disoriented and unsure as to what is going on and what it all means.
But time and place gird the reader. Time is ever present. We see not only how the passage of time impacts the characters, 'Dr. Lin'an was no longer so talkative: his passion and his sense of humor had dried up,' but also how human experience can collapse time when the system Brother Ye developed in the 8th century for allocating courtesans to the band of wild and unruly frontier poets in Liangzhou is compared to blind-dating in modern day Britain. Ge Fei uses place to remind us of where we are going from the 'gorgeous women passing between the trees,' to the 'late-autumn air in the desert.' As Dr. Lin'an says towards the end of the story, 'wherever I went the desert followed. If our world had a predetermined course, as people say it does, then without doubt it takes the desert as its model.'
And what is the desert? The story is sprinkled with quotes and allusions to writers. Pushkin says 'oblivion is the natural lot of man' and Cao Xueqin muses that the world is 'nothing more real than flowers in the mirror.' There are no answers but I like the mix of Chinese writers with Pushkin, Kafka, Rilke harking back to the jumble of cultures and ideas that existed in Liangzhou during the Tang dynasty. Haysom's translation admirably captures Ge Fei's ironic tone and focus on time. "Song of Liangzhou" is a rich story that rewards with each new reading and I highly recommend it.
Todd Foley, 25/8/2017
Questioning the authority of official history and objective reality is a major characteristic of works produced by the generation of authors who began writing in the 1980s, and Ge Fei's "Song of Liangzhou" certainly fits within this vein. The bulk of the story centers on a visit by the introspective and mysterious Dr. Lin'an to the narrator, during which the former provides his own embellished account of a legend involving the Tang poet Wang Zhihuan. His version of the tale is significantly spiced up from the official one (in which the identity of the courtesan who sings Wang's poem is not revealed and he merely shares a laugh with his two poet friends), and it apparently holds some secret meaning for him, as he claims it has cured his insomnia. The story is largely plotless aside from this recounting, and it is peppered with a number of intriguingly enigmatic details causing one to wonder: why had the professor run off to Gansu province, and why was he reported to have died of cholera? What were his marital problems, and why had his wife written the narrator a letter in Russian?
As with all of Ge Fei's works, "Song of Liangzhou" is technically sophisticated and intellectually demanding, and it raises some very interesting broader questions. How, for instance, can history be subjectively appropriated to revise both itself and the present subject? Although it's quite short, this story offers a philosophical depth that I feel surpasses some of his other translated works, and I would definitely consider including it on a syllabus.
Translator David Haysom's style is contemplative and a bit on the wordy side, which complements the tone of this story very nicely. For a piece meant to undermine the academic pursuit of facts — "the naïve desire to defend the truth is the surest road to banality," according to Dr. Lin'an — Haysom's cadence, characterized by his pleasantly casual insertion of dependent clauses, is skillfully executed and more effective, I think, than a more straightforward and economical "academic" rendering would be. Interestingly, "Song of Liangzhou" was also translated by Charles Laughlin (Chinese Literature Today 4.1(2014)); although I have not had the opportunity to look at the original Chinese, I noticed a few places where I suspect Laughlin's word choice might be slightly more appropriate. Minor technical issues aside, though, I greatly enjoyed Haysom's translation and found his style very readable and refreshing.


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Q: Incorrect use of react hooks but no hook errors/faults React hooks can only be used inside

*

*Functional components

*Other hooks

If you don't follow the above rules, react complains about not following the rules via a fault
But, the below code works (albeit with lint errors) without any stack-trace/errors
import React from 'react'
import { useState, createContext, useContext } from "react";

const SomethingContext = createContext("what is the thing");

// Correct usage
const useSomething = () => {
  const something = useContext(SomethingContext);
  return something;
};

//Incorrect usage
const getTheThing = () => {
  const theThing = useContext(SomethingContext); // works with useState as well (ex below)
  return theThing;
};

//Incorect usage
const getTheThingState = () => {
  const [theThing, setTheThing] = useState("I am the state");
  return theThing;
};

const Child = () => {
  const theThing = getTheThing(); //OR getTheThingState()
  return `The thing is "${theThing}"`;
};

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <SomethingContext.Provider value={"it is something"}>
        <Child />
      </SomethingContext.Provider>
    </div>
  );
}

Here's a demo of the above code. The linter points out the incorrect usage, but the odd part where I'm confused is that React itself doesn't throw any error.
Not able to figure out WHY?
All resources point out to fix the above problem by changing the function into a component i.e function's variable name (I'm aware of it)
const GetTheThing = () => {
//...

But, when does react decide to say "okay, you are not supposed to do that" vs "okay, I'll let this one slide".

A: Technically there is no problem with the code provided. As the invocation of useContext and useState happening inside component's code. And there is no issue of having one outer function, which just calls the hook inside. Yes, we are breaking the Only Call Hooks at the Top Level rule. But if you go through rationale behind this rule - you'll see that the ordering of invocations is the key here. And having function without any nested if statements still guarantees the ordering. So your code:
export const useSomething = () => {
  const something = useContext(SomethingContext);
  return something;
};

const getTheThing = () => {
  const theThing = useSomething();
  return theThing;
};

const Child = () => {
  const theThing = getTheThing();
  return `The thing is "${theThing}"`;
};

Still complies with correct ordering of:

*

*Render fn of Child component started

*useContext invoked

*Render fn of Child component finished

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"Survivor Seb" makes his national television debut Wednesday, and those who know him weren't surprised by the news.
Viera High graduate and athlete Sebastian Noel was chosen as one of 20 castaways on the new season of the CBS series "Survivor," tagged "Ghost Island." The two-hour premier will air at 8 p.m. on CBS.
While he was a football player for the Hawks — Noel graduated in 2013 — he was also voted the member of his class most likely to be on a reality show.
"When you think about it, I wasn't surprised at all," fellow athlete and Viera grad Grant Willcoxon said. "He's born to do it, with his lifestyle."
Noel, 22, is a professional fishing guide now living in Satellite Beach. He referred to himself as "Survivor Seb" in a recent promotional interview.
His appearance marks the second consecutive season with a Satellite Beach resident among the show's cast. Ashley Nolan, a Satellite High grad who played volleyball and softball there, finished sixth out of 18 on Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers. Her season ran from September through December.
Noel and Willcoxon played various sports together while growing up in Brevard. Willcoxon's dad, former Melbourne High principal Jim, coached their youth basketball team.
Former Viera football coach Kevin Mays admitted it wasn't unheard of for Noel to come to weight room sessions in bare feet.
"He was a good player, great kid, loved the beach, carefree-type attitude," Mays said. "He definitely had a beach attitude, but when it came time for football, he was focused on football."
Noel played defensive line for Mays' first two teams, and though he hasn't watched "Survivor" in years, the former Hawks coach plans to watch this time.
"I've already got it being recorded," he said. "I want to see how this plays out."
The internet is loaded with Survivor fan sites and former "Survivor" contestants who comment on the show and its casts. Jeff Probst, the host of "Survivor" for all 36 seasons, told former contestant Andrea Boehlke in one interview that the producers decided to halve the amount of rice provided to the tribes this season, hoping to get them into the ocean to fish.
"I would want Sebastian on my tribe, for sure," Boehlke said.
How much of an advantage that proves to be for Brevard's second cast member will be revealed beginning Wednesday.


| Better than I'd expected.
During the height of his popularity in the 1930s, comedian Joe E. Brown made a horrible business decision. While he was among Hollywood's most popular actors with Warner Brothers, he decided to accept an offer from David Lowe Productions--a tiny studio that had little to offer Brown. Why he accepted this offer is unknown to me, though what is obvious is that his career took a nosedive. I've seen most of his Lowe films and while none of them are terrible, most are clearly second-rate. "Flirting With Fate" is the last of his Lowe films.
Joe is an actor and leader of an acting troop. Oddly, they end up in Paraguay--a strange place for American actors! But, despite being very down on their luck, things look promising when they have a try-out with a top theater owner. But, unknown to Brown and his employees, the owner is the same man that Brown had insulted in the previous scene. Now instead of having jobs, they are blackballed and can't find anything in the country. When the troop does get an offer, it's back in the States and Brown thinks the only way he can get the money for plane fare is to kill himself and leave them the insurance money (by the way, folks, don't try this yourself as insurance policies do NOT pay off for suicides). Much of the rest of the film is a dark comedy where Brown tries various methods to do himself in--first with ant poison and then by picking a fight with a lion! There's quite a bit more to it than this--tune and see what happens next.
For the most part, this is an amiable little film--mostly because Brown's character is a nice fellow--even if he is a clumsy oaf. In many of his Warner Brothers films, his characters are so ego-centric that they are hard to like--but that is not the case here. The film, though, it not without its problems. It rarely is very funny plus the scenes involving him and a new friend dressing up as a bull are just embarrassingly bad. Still, the film is enjoyable and not a bad little time-passer.
By the way, what is a 'woodpussy'?
The earliest documented telecast of this film took place in New York City Wednesday 3 May 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).


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