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The Smiley Collection
Books in the series: The Smiley Collection
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Smiley Collection
Author: John le Carré Format: Paperback / softback Release Date: 27/02/2020
In 1963 John le Carre published his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Written over a period of about five weeks in response to the fear and ugliness of the Berlin Wall, its bitter, devastating story crystallised the doubts and moral dilemmas of the time. It altered irrevocably our understanding of the Cold War, the shape of the spy novel, and John le Carre's writing career, propelling him to international fame.
A Murder of Quality The Smiley Collection
In his second novel, also featuring George Smiley, le Carre forsakes the world of espionage to reveal the secret heart of another peculiarly British institution: the public school.
Smiley's People The Smiley Collection
The seventh Smiley novel sees a phone call drag the acting chief of the Circus back to active service. But only to bury a case, not to solve it...
Call for the Dead The Smiley Collection
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carre's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy The Smiley Collection
In his fifth outing George Smiley is facing a remarkable challenge: a mole who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence.
The Secret Pilgrim The Smiley Collection
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.
The Looking Glass War The Smiley Collection
A department of ageing British spies will break any rule for the glory of launching a secret agent into communist East Germany, in the fourth novel featuring George Smiley.
The Honourable Schoolboy The Smiley Collection
George Smiley, now chief of the battered British Secret Service, seeks revenge for the betrayals of a Soviet double agent in the sixth Smiley novel.
Board Games to Create and Play
Gravity Is the Thing
The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories
Pretty Unhealthy
LoveReading Bookshop of the Month: Far From The Madding Crowd
Industry Insight: Q&A with Deborah MacLaren (A LoveReading Very Short Story Award)
This Year: Make A Difference
LoveReading Book Club Feature #17: The Buddies Book Club
LoveReading Library of the Month #16: Parkstone Library


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sixteen-year-old multi-platinum recording artist (with over 225 Million global streams) and pop's spiciest newcomer, Malu Trevejo, has announced the release of her debut EP Una Vez Mas
Ainsley Hutto July 19, 2019 2 min read
Sixteen-year-old multi-platinum recording artist (with over 225 Million global streams) and pop's spiciest newcomer, Malu Trevejo, has announced the release of her debut EP Una Vez Mas out Friday, August 2nd that will offer her millions of followers an array of tropical, sun-soaked bilingual bops to dance their way through the end of the summer. The EP will feature tracks "Adiós," "Una Vez Mas," "Hace Calor" featuring multi-platinum artist and producer Jeon, of Aruba, and Malu's lead single "Down 4 Your Love," a euphoric and melodic surrender of love that has quickly amassed millions of streams around the world. PRESS HERE to watch.
After serenading audiences around the world this spring, Malu will be lighting up the stage at this year's Lollapalooza on Sunday, August 4th in Chicago from 12:15-1PM where she will be performing on the Tito's stage and will be joined by DJ Susie. Malu's next era of bilingual dance music follows fiery dance bop "Como Tu Me Quieres" about getting lost in the heat of love. PRESS HERE to download/stream. Last year, the budding pop diva released her first all-English retail therapy anthem "Swipe Dat" which showed the firecracker unapologetically indulging in life's finer things, without the help of any man. PRESS HERE to watch. "Swipe Dat" was the follow up to her 2018 bilingual single "Nadie Como Yo" with multi-Latin GRAMMY winners and urban music superstars Gente de Zona (Enrique's Bailando) that amassed over 24 million streams. PRESS HERE to watch the music video.
Follow Malu:
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Una Vez Mas
Down 4 Your Love
Hace Calor (ft. Jeon)
CLOE WILDER RELEASES DEVASTATING SECOND SINGLE, "i don't wanna"
Elizabeth P-W Talks With TMI About Her New EP
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"Swipe Dat" – Malu Trevejo Releases Cyber Monday Anthem & New Video

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This isn't news of the day per se, but it's context information for my life.
Late last year, I got a great raise; so great, in fact, that I decided to buy a nice house. This involved some scrimping and saving, because although I had been saving over 10% of my income, my income indicated a larger house than my savings did.
This spring, I got laid off from my job at Clairvoyance Corporation. A company called Queria moved in with an attempt to license the technology and hire the key members of the staff. But since Queria was in a somewhat precarious financial position, they hired me as a contractor instead.
Then in June, I got married, and I was worried about being able to afford that. So for a few months, I didn't save for quarterly income tax and self-employment tax, and saved for the wedding instead, figuring that I could make up for it with extra saving in the second half of the year.
So in July, I sat down with Quicken's tax planner, wrestled a bit, and came to the conclusion that in order to pay for all the income tax and self-employment tax I expected to owe, I would need to save about 55% of my income for the rest of the year. This is unfortunate, particularly so because I estimate our normal living expenses to be about 55% of my income. And there are house repairs and so forth that I'd like to spend money on.
Fortunately, there's a way out of this mess (at least for the short term). I only have to pay 100% of my 2000 tax liability by the end of December; I can make up the rest by April 15, 2002. And by April, I should be able to save up enough money to pay the rest.
Or rather, I should be able to save up enough money, if I'm employed by then. If I'm still a contractor, things will be very tight then. (Though somewhat less tight). In a sense, I'm only deferring the problem.
Since October now, I've been feeling "If I can get by this financial crunch, then I'll be in the clear." (Where in the clear means, more or less, "able to save effectively and occasionally make significant purchases without crashing our overall savings rate.") First the house, then the wedding, and now the taxes.
Sigh. I'd like to be an employee again, with health insurance and the company paying half my self-employment tax. And a raise while I'm at it. And a pony.


Hello I'm Geoffroy Saint-Aimé, a French student and temporary member of the marmots team!
I am at RMBL during this spring to develop one of the requisites of my Master program.
It's a great opportunity to work at RMBL, and observing the marmots emerging from hibernation and interacting. I am being advised by the Professor Daniel Blumstein to look into the socials effects of emergence on marmots, relations between emergence and dominance among socials animals.
Coming from France, it was a great adventure to live in the US, and going in a snow-mountain was a kid's dream. Acclimatization to the new conditions of altitude and temperature was really rough, but I'm enjoying the snow. I really appreciate the life here and the landscape, it's a new horizon for me. I will not be here for long, but I had already a great experience by meeting foxes, deers, and of course marmots. This experience is a great personal achievement and is improving my scientific skills. I am with Gabi and Ana, two exceptional members of the marmots team, and thanks to them I was able to learn several interesting things about marmots and some good stories about RMBL.


Oxera had a closer look at HS2 (High Speed 2) and what can be expected from a benefit–cost ratio perspective. If constructed in full, the train line is expected to bring positive economic outcomes as well as improving rail connections between the North and South of England in the future.
Increased market power: a global problem that needs solving?
Competition between airports in Europe soars… but where next for regulation?
Where airports do not face effective competition, it may be necessary to introduce economic regulation to protect passengers' interests. Regulation can help to ensure fair prices, sufficient investment, high-quality service, and efficient costs. At the same time, it is important that regulatory interventions are targeted at areas where competition will not deliver the desired outcomes. With increasing competition between airports, what tools are available to help policymakers decide whether regulation is required?


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The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
KPMG January 17, 2013
KPMG Doesn't Need You, FORTUNE; It Has Plenty of Other Employer Rankings That Say It's Still a Great Place To Work
Oh Christ, the FORTUNE1 100 Best Companies to Work For came out today, which means marketing and PR teams all across Corporate America are on high alert. Who went up? Who went down? Who's new on the list? Who's off the list? Who gives a shit? That's my take. If you're not Google, then you suck. I want an employer who has a cafeteria that serves the most obscure cuisine on the planet (e.g. BBQ Tasmanian devil short ribs with poached platypus eggs) and I want it for FREE. If you can't make that happen, then I might as well be working for the Taliban as the Womens Initiative coordinator.
Career Center February 3, 2011
Best Place to Work Bupkis
Last week we went through the painful ritual of listing out the accounting firms blessed with a spot on Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work. All the usual suspects made an appearance but ultimately a regional firm, Plante & Moran, took the highest spot among accounting firms (but they didn't get to ring the closing bell, did they?).
None of this is of interest to you and frankly we've had about all we can stand when it comes to these lists but Adrienne pointed us to this post by Laura Vanderkam that takes the debunking to an intricate level, starting with something that we all know, that most of these lists are opted into by the companies HR or Marketing Departments (emphasis ours):
To be eligible for a list, you have to fill out whatever paperwork the tabulators require […] This means that not only do you have to be a great place to work, you have to be a company where management cares about being listed in magazines as a great place to work. Only 311 organizations bothered this year, out of thousands of employers in the US. So if you went through the whole process, your odds were pretty good. But that doesn't means that the 311 employers that did try are better than the thousands that didn't.
Our resident math genius is on vacay but if you do some rough calcs, your chances are, what, 1 in 3? Decent odds. Then, comes the strange phenomenon of where these companies fall and why:
[I]t's strange that a magazine with such great reporters as Fortune relies on such a flimsy methodology for creating their rankings. If you believe this list, then Americans prefer to work at Nugget Market (a 9-store supermarket chain) than at McKinsey, at Google vs. Facebook even though some headline-making defections would point otherwise, and we should want to work at Aeropostale because, as one young employee put it "Where else can you talk to the boss over pizza?" (Um, where can't you?)
The Trouble With "Best Places To Work" Lists [BNet]
News January 26, 2011
Someone Would Like to Qualify Plante & Moran's Fortune Ranking
From the mailbag:
The firm would be a great place for a new hire and/or intern. They offer competitive starting salaries along with a great support system and culture. I don't know exactly how Fortune determines their ranking. If they surveyed newer staff and partners, they are going to look great every time, which seems to be the case.
There are some serious compensation issues for managers. How does a base of [70k-ish] sound (with potential bonus up to a staggering 8%)? How about a [marginal raise] over a 2.5 year period while [being promoted] that same time frame? The partner:staff ratio is so upside down that it is no wonder why they try and keep managers' salaries so low. Some of the senior partners are a joke to try and rationalize with. I did my best, but couldn't convince them what market salary was for a manager. I told them good luck.
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The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Plante & Moran #26 (2011)
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: KPMG #86 (2011)
Wrapping up our review of the mother of all employer lists, is everyone's favorite four-letter word, KPMG. Since we've had about all we can stand of this, let's get right to it.
KPMG – Previous rank: #88. How does the firms make up for the lack of sherpas? They appeal to employees' desire to give back, reports Fortune, "Employees of the U.S. branch of the auditing firm get 12 paid hours to volunteer each year and can leave at 3 p.m. Fridays in the summer [Ed. note: while keeping in mind the needs of clients]."
Stats of note:
• New Jobs (1 year): -1,043
• % Job Growth (1 year): -5%
• % Voluntary Turnover: 15%
• No. of Job Openings at 1/13/2010: 5,000
• Most common salaried job: Senior Associate – $73,300
• % Minorities: 27%
• % Women: 48%
Compared to last year's stats, new jobs and percentage job growth have improved while voluntary turnover jumped 3%. Average salary for the most common job was down from $78k last year, number of job openings nearly doubled and percentage of minorities and women were unchanged. So a slight improvement for KPMG this year in the F100BCTWF and nary a mention of the possibility of more free flesh in the future.
Annnnd so, that wraps up the coverage for this year's Fortune rankings. The biggest takeaways being the ascension of Plante & Moran and Ernst & Young's massive drop while the other three amigos managed to improve slightly but they all managed to extend their streak of years on the list. Look for a flier boasting this arbitrary victory in an office near you.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Deloitte #63 (2011)
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: PwC #73 (2011)
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Ernst & Young #77 (2011)
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: KPMG #88
E&Y January 24, 2011
Well, there had to be a biggest loser in Fortune rankings this year amongst the accounting firms and this year the honor belongs to E&Y. Now, we're sure you'll give us your thoughts on why you think the firm took a dive from #44 (highest ranked firm last year) to #77 but the fact that Fortune indicates the firm dropped subsidized gym memberships could be a good place to start. Maybe E&Y decided it prefers its people on the frumpy side? Or maybe they're simply saving for the Lehman Brothers defense fund?
Ernst & Young – Previous rank: #44. Need reasons? How about corporate citizenship? Fortune says, "The consulting and auditing firm donated some $31 million to charitable causes in 2009, including $6.4 million in matching contributions."
• No. of Job Openings at 1/13/2010: 10,000
• Most common salaried job: Manager – $102,593
Taking a look at last year's stats, new jobs, percentage job growth, voluntary turnover, average salary for most common job all trended negatively. Percentage of minorities was flat and percentage of women ticked down 1%. The number of job openings jumped from 622 last year to the 10,000 above, so interpret you can either interpret that as "we're desperate for people" or "we're growing like gangbusters." Arguments for each, thoughts on the 33 slot drop or speculation on what kind of cigars Jim Turley (Cohibas, we thinks) took to Davos are welcome at this time.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Ernst & Young #44
PwC January 21, 2011
Next up on our F100BCTWF watch is the former home of the next great superhero, PwC who slid a couple a spots from last year's #71 but this does extend the streak to seven years on the list. We'll dispense with any more pleasantries and get right to the particulars.
PwC – Previous rank: #71. Why so great? Fortune cites "flexibility" (you read that Times article too?), "training" and "ethics" (although a more robust appropriate email refresher is probably needed).
• Most common salaried job: Manager/Supervisor – $86,826
Comparing with last year's stats, things have dropped off a bit as new jobs, % job growth and average salary have all gone down while turnover has gone up. Percentage of minorities is unchanged while percentage of women is down a tick. The brightest spot (or biggest pain in some of your asses) is the number of job openings, which has nearly doubled from last year and is nearly triple of rival Deloitte's current number of openings.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: PricewaterhouseCoopers #71
Deloitte January 21, 2011
Next up on Fortune's "You wish you worked here" list, comes the newest future resident of 30 Rockefeller Center. A slight improvement for the Green Dot this year, as the firm jumped from 70 to 63. Let's get right to it.
Deloitte – Previous rank: #70. Deloitte wins the race for fewer white people reports Fortune, "A third of its employees are nonwhite, the highest percentage of the Big Four."
• New Jobs (1 year): -552
• Most common salaried job: Senior/Senior Consultant – $81,622
Compared to last year, new jobs, job growth, number of jobs (last year it was 11k), average salary and percentage of women are all down. Turnover ticked slightly up as did % of minorities. So while Deloitte manages to be the top Big 4 firm in the ranking, we're guessing that the brass is a little miffed by the wide margin between themselves and P&M. Still no tweet from Jim Quigley on this but he seems a little distracted with Davos to be notice a seemingly permanent spot on the F100BCTWF, "Oh, gosh. That old thing? That's great, just change the number and dates on the press release. And try to get Salzberg to say something a little less cliché."
Too late, Jim.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Deloitte #70
Early January marks another edition of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For and unsurprisingly, accounting firms are littered all over it. If it were any other year, we could give a rat crap and would cover the list out of basic necessity. However, this year an interesting development has occurred – the highest ranking accounting firm is not a Big 4 firm. Now we realize that this may come as a surprise to you but P&M has been on the list for 13 straight years, topping out at 12 in 2006, so this is hardly a fluke.
Anyway, let's get to the tape, shall we?
Plante & Moran – Previous rank: #66. Fortune informs us that good times have returned at P&M after a year off, "Employees cheered when the accounting firm reinstated its annual gathering, eliminated in 2009." Also, the firm throws around busy season survival kits that include "aspirin, stress balls and candy." No word if they help employees survive cranky spouses and kids but the line has to be drawn somewhere, s'pose.
• New Jobs (1 year): -61
• % Voluntary Turnover: 9%
• No. of Job Openings at 1/13/2010: N/A
• Most common salaried job: Audit staff with average salary of $64,300
• % Minorities: 6%
It's interesting to note that the number of new jobs, % job growth and average salary are all down from last year, while % voluntary turnover is up and yet the firm jumped 40 spots in the ranking. Perhaps the leap is due to a HR policy change from last year: the firm now has a nondiscrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and offers partner benefits for same-sex couples. Regarding these issues last year, we said this:
The firm offers onsite child care during busy season but does not have a nondiscrimination policy that includes sexual orientation nor does it offer domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples.
We're not saying the latter two reasons are why they fell from #12 but it might help them jump back into the top 50.
Not that we'd dream of taking any credit but could a positive change in human resources policy result in a forty spot jump, despite the salary and hiring stats being down? It certainly didn't hurt. Discuss P&M's minor upset and we'll get to the rest of the firms in due course.
The Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Plante & Moran #66
Big 4 January 26, 2010
Putting Accounting Firms' Quest to Dominate Magazine Lists into Perspective
We've hypothesized about accounting firms' quest to dominate every magazine list on Earth. Admirable goal, no question but the motivation has escaped us.
Until now. We've been enlightened:
Going back to the dominating magazine lists – its a lot like the bald middle aged guy (Big 4 accounting firms) that buys a Corvette (magazine awards) to compensate for a lack of equipment size (crappy work environment) to attract the ladies (slaves).
That pretty much clears it up.
RSM January 25, 2010
Let's Speculate as to Why Certain Accounting Firms Weren't on the Fortune 100 List
By now you've digested the Fortune list to the point of nausea, so we'll dispense with rehashing the firms that we covered last week.
What we do want to address is the obvious absence of Grant Thornton, BDO, and RSM on this year's list. Hell, they aren't on any of the lists going back to 2006. Are these omissions meant to be a thumb in the eye to these storied firms?
Perhaps they blew their lobbying budgets on the BusinessWeek lists? OR maybe — GASP — they just don't GAF?
We'll dispel with that for now and assume each of these firms were dying to be on this year's list. Accordingly, the reason for their exclusion leaves ample room for wild-ass guessing:
• Grant Thornton – We realize Steve Chipman just started his new job and he's trying to get a blog up and going but for crissakes, how does he explain this to you? Will this regime change make a difference? He didn't mention it on the call so should we assume this disappointment will continue in perpetuity? Could the Koss fiasco be the reason?
• RSM McGladrey – This one doesn't make any sense at all. Does anyone at Fortune know that RSM sponsors this woman? Aaaaannddd, we realize it's too late for this year but RSM is now helping get Yele Haiti's house in order. Please note both of these for next year.
• BDO – They owe Banco Espirito half a billion dollars and they've been planning a 100th birthday extravaganza. Maybe campaigning for the list isn't at the top of their to do list but still.
If any of you GTBDORSMers have any idea just what the hell is going on (i.e. why this gross oversight has gone on for at least five years), fill us in.
Last, but definitely not least, on the F100BCTWR is the House of Klynveld. We figure that if you judged the HoK based solely on the fact that it sponsors a golfer who can manage to keeps his pants on for five minutes, they dominate this list. Unfortch, Fortune takes additional variables into account out of respect for the process.
KPMG – Previously ranked #56. It's great because, "[The] firm introduced a sabbatical program allowing employees to take leaves of four to 12 weeks at 20% of pay. Some 450 employees immediately signed up for it. Employees average 25 paid days off." Thoughts?
Other interesting stats per the snapshot:
• Most common salaried job: Senior Associate with average salary of $78,100
So the numbers aren't so hot compared to others. Not to worry though! TF is out there rallying the troops even jumping across the Hudson every now and again just to check on everybody. What more could you ask for?
Ernst & Young #44
Plante & Moran #66
Deloitte #70
PwC #71
Next on the F100BCTWF is PwC. While one of you (yes, we're speculating that it was an inside job) was irked enough at P Dubs to send bogus checks out to randos, enough of you still love the place to keep it on the list.
PwC – Previously ranked #58. More lemons into lemonade from Fortune, "Accounting firm had minor layoffs (less than 1% of the staff), canceled 2008 year-end holiday parties, and gave two extra paid holidays to employees."
• New Jobs (1 year): 402
• % Job Growth (1 year): 1%
• Most common salaried job: Manager/Supervisor with average salary of $93,274
Still not sure about that number of job openings but it's less unbelievable than the 11k that Deloitte had in their snapshot.
We still get the feeling that PwC is the biggest of Big of Brothers what with everyone's utilization getting extra special attention. We're not saying utilization can't be considered but motivating employees with something more useful, like say, tighty whiteys, may be a better approach. Certainly wouldn't hurt the ranking.
Continuing our F100BCTWF coverage, we find Deloitte next in the pecking order at #70. This extends Deloitte's streak of umpteenththousandth straight years on the list. Congrats.
Deloitte – Previously ranked #61. Fortune cites Delta Chi as the big whoop-de-do at Deloitte: "[The] Firm has invested $300 million in Deloitte University, a 107-acre campus in Texas that opens in 2011 and will be the 'symbolic heart' of their organization."
• No. of Job Openings at 1/13/2010: 11,000 (?)
• Most common salaried job: Senior/Senior Consultant with average salary of $84,658
11,000 job openings? Thoughts on that?
The snapshot also states that 32% of its workforce is minorities and 44% of the workforce is women. What do you think new Chief Diversity Dude John Zamora is shooting for? 50/50? People are kvetching about a few H-1Bs, can't imagine what that will sound like if Barry Salzberg finally is satisfied.
Plus — not to disappoint some of you looking forward to doing keg stands — if Deloitte scrapped the whole "symbolic heart", project JARED (can anyone come up with something better than "Jointly Address Reducing Expenses at Deloitte" for the love of God?) wouldn't even be necessary.
Uncategorized January 21, 2010
Contrary to what you're probably thinking, Plante & Moran is no dark horse. They've been on the list for five twelve straight years and rank ahead of the rest of three of the Big 4 in this year's list (cue for "who the hell is Plante & Moran?"). They've fallen from their peak of 12th back in 2006 but we're sure the firm can explain.
Plante & Moran – Previously ranked #42. Fortune took the unorthodox approach of using P&M's layoffs to describe their greatness: "Audit firm laid off employees, but staff members commend the "team pain" approach: enhanced severance pay, outplacement services, pay cuts for partners, and deferred pay hikes for staff."
• New Jobs (1 year): 10
• No. of Job Openings at 1/13/2010: 17
The always über-hyped Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is out and a handful of accounting firms make an appearance, thus, extending the number of years that firms will continue to boast about their inclusion. We'll present each in the order they are ranked for your enjoyment/debate/debunking, starting with E&Y.
Ernst & Young #44 – Previously ranked #51. According to Fortune E&Y is great because, "E&Y is the only one of the Big Four to offer a traditional pension in addition to a 401(k). The firm is courting alumni via a new magazine, Connect."
• New Jobs (1 year): -1,111;
• % Job Growth (1 year): -4%;
• No. of Job Openings at 1/13/2010: 622
• Most common salaried job: Manager with average salary of $105,544
This is the first we've heard of Connect but we're guessing Zitor makes a regular appearance. If no Zitor, we wouldn't bother.
On a more biological note, it's not clear is where E&Y would rank if Fortune had gotten word of someone hoarding the keys to the mens john in Jericho. We figure if they knew a sicko like that worked at E&Y it would knock them out of the top 50 at least.


Through the last 7 years I have performed as a beatboxer / Vocal Percussionist with vocal groups and choirs, as well as given workshops on technique and musicianship.
In March 2015 I visited Faaborgegnens Efterskole and Ollerup Efterskole together with UFO / Kristian Humaidan.
Together we did a combined workshop, teaching beatbox and rapping/writing.


While this may or may not be the last year for our mega Christmas light display, I expect the deluge of Christmas cards to continue no matter where we're living.
One thing I always try to do is pick a nice US Postage stamp if one is available. There have been a couple years when we used the generic "wreath" or "tree" or "Merry Christmas" stamp. But it's better if it's a nice commemorative stamp, particularly if it's one that I really like.
This year we didn't have a super fantastic choice, but went with the "Peanuts" stamps, which were a pretty good second choice.
In the last week of 2015 the US Post Office announced a number of their stamps to be issued in 2016. This one caught my attention, for obvious reasons.
Nit picky details! These will be spectacular!!
But something's missing, especially considering the biggest science story of 2015.
Well, that's not true any more! But it's not a planet any more? Maybe? Kinda? Sorta? But wow, what about New Horizons and the views we got last year?!
Wow, two sets of stamps that I would love to use on our Christmas cards! They're all "forever" stamps, so I can buy a bunch now and just horde them until Christmas 2016, then use the other batch for Christmas 2017. Right?!
It looks like I'll be investing in US postage stamp futures this year.
I do like those Star Trek stamps.


How Impairment Ratings work in a Texas workers' compensation case.
Once a worker reaches Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI - Read about MMI here) in their workers' comp case, they are issued an Impairment Rating. The Impairment Rating is a rating of deficiency given to an injured worker, stating to what degree their injuries will affect future job performance. Or to put it more simply, imagine you are selling a car online and you describe the exterior as an 8 out of 10 and the interior as a 7 out of 10. An impairment rating is just like that but for injured workers.
In a Texas workers' compensation claim, the Impairment Rating is issued to an employee after they've "recovered," and it dictates future benefits they may receive. As such, the Impairment Rating an employee is issued is a hotly contested part of a workers' comp case. In this article, Texas workers' compensation attorney Michael Grossman explains how Impairment Ratings work and what injured workers need to know to protect their legal interests.
Who assigns a workers' Impairment Rating?
How does the Impairment Rating affect future benefits?
How can an experienced work accident injury attorney help you get maximum compensation for your injuries?
What Texas law dictates how doctors issue Impairment Ratings?
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A workers' impairment rating is issued after they have reached Maximum Medical Improvement, which is the point at which their workers' comp doctor basically says, "This is as good as you're going to get." Once the comp doctor determines that the worker has achieved MMI, the doctor will then issue an Impairment Rating to illustrate how well the recovery went.
After an employee has been certified by a doctor as having reached Maximum Medical Improvement, the certifying doctor shall evaluate the condition of the employee and assign an impairment rating using the impairment rating guidelines described by Section 408.124. If the certification and evaluation are performed by a doctor other than the employee's treating doctor, the certification and evaluation shall be submitted to the treating doctor, and the treating doctor shall indicate agreement or disagreement with the certification and evaluation.
(b) For determining the existence and degree of an employee's impairment, the division shall use Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, third edition, second printing, dated February 1989, published by the American Medical Association (AMA).
If that seems a little outdated, for reference the most up-to-date Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment is the 6th Edition, which was released in 2008. Recently, it appears that the Workers' Compensation Commissioner has instructed workers' comp doctors to use the 4th Edition. While that may seem like a leap forward, don't get too optimistic; the 4th Edition is still 15 years behind the most recent edition.
Imagine a worker (Bob) suffered a knee injury in a work accident. This will continue to be a problem for the rest of his life, he walks with a limp and doesn't move as fast as he used to. Let's say he's issued an Impairment Rating of 10, which means he's 10% deficient. This makes a big impact on his Impairment Income Benefits. The lower his Impairment Rating, the healthier he is. An Impairment Rating of 1 would mean that he's 1% deficient. Whereas an Impairment Rating of 15 would mean he's 15% deficient. Long story short: the bigger the number, the worse the condition of the worker.
It's also worth noting that the higher the rating, the more compensation an injured worker is able to get in the form of Impairment Income Benefits. Obviously, it behooves an injured worker who wants to get maximum compensation to be issued an Impairment Rating that is a big numerically as possible. But since this is open to interpretation, naturally, a workers' comp attorney can argue this point in order to get the worker additional money.
What no one likes to talk about is that the doctor an injured worker sees is paid by the workers' compensation insurance carrier, and although they're supposed to be impartial on matters of a worker's recovery, it is ultimately the insurance company who is paying them.
While the list of doctors who injured workers can see is determined by the Workers' Compensation Board, they work very closely with workers' compensation insurance providers to keep workers' compensation costs down. This means that their is tremendous pressure on the Workers' Compensation Board to replace doctors who return consistently high impairment scores, with those who score workers' injuries in a way that is more favorable to the insurance companies and thereby lowers the cost of the entire workers' compensation system. It is tragic that these cost control measures come at the expense of the most seriously injured workers in our state.
Ultimately, pressures from insurance companies can cause injured workers' cases to receive lower impairment scores than they would otherwise receive.
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The Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment have been criticized in recent years because it is viewed as archaic and biased against injured employees. It was created more than two decades ago and does not include different complications for certain injuries. It also lumps people with the same injuries together when, in reality, each person can be limited by the same injuries in different ways. Everyone has different skill sets and we feel that it is unfair to claim that everyone without, say, the use of their left arm will function at the exact same efficiency.
While short of lobbying the legislature to update the statute, there is really nothing that can be done about this, it is still important for an injured worker to be aware of this shortcoming in the workers' comp system, so that they can safeguard their own interests throughout the process.
The best way to help offset the bias created by this guide is to hire an experienced work injury lawyer who can fight for your rights. An experienced work accident attorney will be able to help you determine the true impact of your injuries and get you the necessary compensation you deserve.
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" Wikipedia Entry for GOP 'Voter Fraud' Front Group Co-Founder, Thor Hearne, Scrubbed of References to ACVR	"
Wikipedia Entry for GOP 'Voter Fraud' Front Group Co-Founder, Thor Hearne, Scrubbed of References to ACVR
Latest Edit Performed by Someone at Hearne's Lawfirm, Lathrop & Gage, According to Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog...
Mark F. "Thor" Hearne must really want to hide something about his discredited past as the front man for the GOP front group calling themselves the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR).
In the latest chapter of a string of attempts by Hearne to cleanse his public record as lead snake-oil salesman for the mysteriously-funded "non-partisan" group that he founded to push propaganda about a massive (if non-existent) Democratic 'voter fraud' epidemic, it seems his Wikipedia page has been expurgated of all references to the ACVR.
Loyola election law professor Rick Hasen reports at his Election Law Blog today...
Someone Named Sam92077 Has Cleansed Thor Hearne's Wikipedia Entry to Remove References to the American Center for Voting RightsSee here. The current cleansed page is here. Sam92077 does not appear to exist either. UPDATE: While I still don't know who Sam92077 is, the latest edit to the page (from ip address 63.76.92.100) was done by someone at Hearne's law firm.
As BRAD BLOG readers know, Hearne was formerly the national general counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc. and continues to be both a friend of Karl Rove and a big time GOP operative in Missouri via his big time GOP law firm of Lathrop & Gage.
Since the spotlight has shone on the "voter fraud" fraud at the heart of the DoJ Attorney Purge, Hearne has been running for cover. The ACVR site was shut down, references to them have been purged from Thor's resume as various exposés have been run on his scam, by Murray Waas at National Journal, Hasen at Slate, and even on the once-ACVR and Thor-friendly NPR.
Of course, several of the scrubbed references and links on Thor's page were to our site, as we originally outed Hearne and his ACVR scam just days after he and fellow "non-partisan" "voting rights" activist Jim Dyke, Communications Director for the RNC, first started peddling their deceptive information. We first noticed them back in March of 2005 when Hearne testified before a Congressional hearing on the 2004 Election, claiming to be little more than a "long time voting rights advocate." Despite promises to the contrary, neither he nor Dyke have ever explained who was really behind the group, and who funded them to the tune of $1 million back when they set up shop out of a PO Box in a strip mall in Dallas, TX, where neither of them lived. The bogus information they peddled from coast to coast was --- and still is --- used by the folks throughout the DoJ and the Bush administration in hopes of affecting elections and seeing disenfranchising Photo ID restrictions legislated for polling places.
Hearne's powerful MO lawfirm, Lathrop & Gage, has also come into the spotlight of late in relation to a state fee office scandal said to have been under investigation by Arkansas US Attorney Bud Cummins at the time he was fired by the DoJ.
Recently, in one of the rare interviews he is now willing to grant to the media, Hearne blamed The BRAD BLOG specifically for many of his current woes.
You're welcome, Thor. Ready to come clean? Or will it take a subpoena for that? (We're guessing it'll take that subpoena.) Either way, unlike you, we've got nothing to hide, and we're not going anywhere...
UPDATE 6/13/07: Wiki info on ACVR restored, but Lathrop & Gage un-restores it. Twice. Plus, ACVR lied on their 990 public disclosure forms. Details on both matters now here...
For more information on the "non-partisan" tax-exempt ACVR "Voter Fraud" scam and the snakeoil salesmen who invented it, Bush/Cheney '04 National General Counsel Mark F. "Thor" Hearne and RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, please see BRAD BLOG's full Special Coverage of the "American Center for Voting Rights" at https://BradBlog.com/ACVR.
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"Wikipedia Entry for GOP 'Voter Fraud' Front Group Co-Founder, Thor Hearne, Scrubbed of References to ACVR"
... oldturk	said on 6/12/2007 @ 5:48 pm PT...
You think Mark F. "Thor-N" Hearne will take down his bronze esquire name plate and become a Franciscan Monk to repent for all his evil/lying/cheating/anti-DEMOCRACY deeds ?
... Bruce	said on 6/12/2007 @ 6:50 pm PT...
Well, someone put that fucking text back on, and on again if necessary. Screw those crooked bastards.
... Michael Keenan	said on 6/12/2007 @ 6:52 pm PT...
I found these pages on the wayback internet machine after the first srub and now when I checked they too have been taken down. I smell a rat ...A BIG FAT ONE.
... Wayne	said on 6/12/2007 @ 9:37 pm PT...
Perhaps 6 or 7 Brad Blog readers might want to update Thor Hearns' entry in Wikipedia!
... big dan	said on 6/13/2007 @ 7:37 am PT...
Someone named Brad1234 should put it right back there, and then sit and wait to catch them red-handed, removing it again. And keep doing it, to document a trail.
... david porter said on 6/13/2007 @ 9:02 am PT...
Put the truth back on Wiki! Don't let those scum erase the truth.
... Brad Friedman said on 6/13/2007 @ 12:55 pm PT...
If some[one] here can do so, please do!!!
... JEP said on 6/14/2007 @ 6:54 am PT...
Ditto, Big Dan...
Just keep changing it back every time they de-post it. And post a copy of the complete record here at BradBlog before it gets edited again. Then, if they keep changing it, and Brad doesn't want to spend his precious time babysitting the Wiki site, we can set up a blogger's circle to take turns re-pasting the real story back on every time we see it's been changed...
... Phoenix Woman said on 6/14/2007 @ 7:50 am PT...
This is part of a larger effort to remove all evidence of ACVR's existence from the Web. The Commissar Vanishes. (In case the link above doesn't work: http://phoenixwoman.word.../the-commissar-vanishes/)
... Milo Fonbil said on 6/15/2007 @ 1:11 pm PT...
This is corrupt as heck...
The article from http://simple.wikipedia....ark_F._%22Thor%22_Hearne
was deleted too...
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Mark "Thor" Fernlund Hearne, II
Mark Fernlund "Thor" Hearne, II (born June 23, 1961), American lawyer. He is a member and principal of the Lathrop & Gage law firm.
* 1 Background
* 2 Controversies
o 2.1 Voter rights
o 2.2 Voter ID
* 3 Personal
* 4 Career
o 4.1 Legal
o 4.2 Television
* 5 Memberships
* 6 Awards
* 7 Bibliography
* 8 References
* 9 Links
[edit] Background
Mark F. (Thor) Hearne, II is a member and principal of the Lathrop & Gage law firm and serves on the firm's government relations committee. Hearne was General Counsel to the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) and served as a member of the organization's Board of Directors.[1]
Prior to joining ACVR, Hearne served as National Election Counsel to Bush-Cheney '04 and Missouri counsel to Bush-Cheney '00. Hearne has represented a number of clients on campaign- and election-related matters, including President Bush, Missouri Governor Blunt, members of the U.S. House and Senate as well as corporations, campaign organizations and not-for-profit organizations. Hearne has won a number of landmark precedent-setting cases in property rights and election law including the landmark decision Bush-Cheney, 2000, Inc. v. Baker, 34 S.W.3d 410 (Mo. App, 2000).[citation needed]
He has been recognized for his work on election law from all quarters of the political community. A recent St. Louis Post Dispatch article noted in regard to Hearne's status as a nationally recognized expert on election law, "But one point is not in dispute: Hearne's status as one of the top Republican lawyers in the country on election-related matters."
Hearne has testified on issues of election law and election reform before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Federal Election Assistance Commission, the Missouri State Senate and other state and federal legislative committees and agencies. Hearne was an academic advisor to the bi-partisan Carter-Baker[2] co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker. Other members of this commission included Lee Hamilton and Tom Daschle.
Hearne serves as general legal counsel to individuals, families and closely held firms on matters of wealth preservation and investment, and has gained national recognition for his work in property rights, constitutional law and civil rights litigation. In a federal civil rights case in which Hearne was lead counsel, the NAACP legal counsel wrote "[Mr. Hearne carried] the burden of a substantial amount of the NAACP's case…. [Mr. Hearne] provided great help to counsel for the NAACP during this fast-paced redistricting litigation. [And Mr. Hearne took] the leading role in this action and in incorporating the NAACP's objectives."[citation needed].
[edit] Controversies
[edit] Voter rights
Hearn was reported to have urged, through a senir senior Justice Department official, William Mateja, that United States attorneys invistigate voter groups registering individuals likely to be democratic voters, or to cease investigations of Republican candidates.[3]
In February 2005, with encouragement from Karl Rove and the White House, Hearne founded the American Center for Voting Rights. Although the group posed as a nonpartisan watchdog group looking for voting fraud, critics, such as People for the American Way and various state chapters of the League of Women Voters, have said that the group was a Republican effot and pursued only allegations of voting fraud by Democrats. The group is apparently defunct as of May 2007.[3]
[edit] Voter ID
Hearne helped Missouri Senator Delbert Lee Scott draft Missouri's voter ID law.[4] The law was later found to be unconstitutional.[5]
[edit] Personal
Hearne received his law degree from Washington University Law School and his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.[citation needed] Hearne and his wife Susan live in St. Louis, Missouri with their two daughters, Amelia and Elise. He is a licensed pilot and experienced sailor.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
[edit] Legal
General Counsel to Closely Held Businesses: General counsel to individuals, families and closely held firms on matters of wealth preservation and investment. Particular experience in matters concerning unique issues of real estate development and investment and investment in closely-held firms. Substantial experience as general counsel advising clients on the unique investment, tax planning and succession issues faces by high-net worth individuals and families. Successfully negotiated a variety of complex real estate and investment transactions and related state and federal tax and regulatory issues. Manage and supervise other legal counsel and professionals assisting in these matters. Counsel clients in public policy matters and the formation and management of private foundations, trusts, faith-based organizations and philanthropic enterprises.[citation needed]
Property Rights, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights Litigation: More than 15 years of experience in Fifth Amendment takings cases arising under the federal Trails Act and the Tucker Act. Represented more than 200 property owners nationwide in numerous cases involving eminent domain claims against the federal government. A national expert on federal Trails Act litigation, having served as counsel for property owners in several of the most landmark and influential rails-to-trails cases. Obtained one of the largest recoveries of compensation for property owners affected by the Trails Act. Specific notably property rights litigation includes: Counsel for Town of Grantwood Village in successful Fifth Amendment takings case in U.S. Court of Claims, Grantwood Village v. United States, 45 Fed Cl. 771 (Cl. Ct. 2000), (consolidated for partial summary judgment sub nomina Glosemeyer v. United States). Counsel for 93 property owners in successful Fifth Amendment Trails Act taking case. Miller v. United States (2006). Achieved judgment of more than $8.1 million in total compensation and won landmark decision on rate of interest due property owners for a Fifth Amendment Rails Act taking claim. Currently counsel for other property owners from Arizona, Florida, Kansas and other states in Fifth Amendment Taking cases. Significant litigation experience in federal and state court defending individual's civil and constitutional rights. Counsel for plaintiff in Lowe v. American Standard, federal jury trial in February 2005 (E.D., Mo.). Jury returned verdict for Plaintiff in full amount of claim in excess of $500,000.[citation needed]
Government Relations, Election and Campaign Finance Law: Election counsel to various federal, state and local candidates, political parties, campaigns and businesses involved in the political process. Experienced in advising clients on compliance with state and federal campaign finance regulation and all related matters concerning the conduct of an election and participation in political process. Representation of clients in regulatory and enforcement action by Federal Election Commission and the Missouri Ethics Commission. Village Attorney and Prosecutor, Town of Grantwood Village, Missouri (1995 – 2004). Representation of clients in various municipal law matters and related litigation. Regional counsel to major national wireless-PCS telecommunications firm on matters of federal Telecommunications Act and state and local government litigation and regulation. National expert on state and federal election law. Advisor to Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, testified before, United States Commission on Civil Rights, Federal Election Assistant Commission and both the United States House of Representative and U.S. Senate on election reform. Testified before various state legislatures and committees on election law. Appointed by Missouri Secretary of State to Missouri Committee on Help America Vote Act to advise on Missouri implementation of Help America Vote Act and related state legislation and rulemaking.[citation needed]
Recent Professional Accomplishments: National election counsel to President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign. Counsel to Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, and various members of U.S. Congress and Senate and campaign committees. Advise campaigns on campaign finance (state and federal), litigation before Missouri Ethics Commission and campaign communication and political advertising. Counsel for campaigns and individuals in numerous state and federal election law cases. Counsel for Bush-Cheney-2000 in Bush-Cheney, 2000, Inc. v. Baker, 34 S.W.3d 410 (Mo. App, 2000), successful emergency appeal quashing Circuit Court order holding polls open beyond legal closing hour. Counsel for Plaintiffs in Corbett v. Sullivan, St. Louis County redistricting litigation (federal civil rights action) in U.S. District Court. Successful redistricting on behalf of africian-american plaintiff and NAACP interveners. Counsel for U.S. Congressmen Todd Akin in Akin v. McNary, successful defense of primary election recount challenge.[citation needed]
Political Experience
2005: Academic-Advisor to Commission on Federal Election Reform (Carter-Baker Commission), Election law counsel to Republican National Committee, Missouri Republican Party, Missouri Governor Matt Blunt and Missourians for Blunt, various members of U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate and their campaign committees. Testified before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (July 2006) on election reform, before U.S. House Administration Committee, hearings into conduct of 2004 presidential election in Ohio (March 2005), before U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (October 2006) on election reform, and Federal Election Assistance Commission (December 2006), Member of Federal Election Assistance Commission working group on vote fraud and voter intimidation (Spring 2006). Counsel in numerous civil rights and election litigation (some of which is noted above).[citation needed]
2004: National election counsel to Bush-Cheney '04. Advised campaign on issues of national election law and litigation strategy and recruited and organized local counsel and oversaw election litigation in all battleground states. Delegate to Republican National Convention, Missouri State Republican Convention and Chairman of Missouri Republican Platform Committee and member of National Republican Platform Committee. Election Counsel to Missouri Governor Matt Blunt and to members of U.S. House of Representatives.[citation needed]
2003 – 2004: Vice-President and Director of Election Operations for Republican National Lawyers Association, Chair of National Election Law School and Seminar, Orange County, California, August 2003 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in July 2004. Advisor to California State Party counsel on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign and California recall election on Election Day operations and litigation.[citation needed]
2000 - 2002: Republican National Lawyers Association, Vice-President-Director Election Operations, Counsel to Bush-Cheney – 2000, Inc., Coordinated Missouri Election Day Legal Team and counsel in Bush-Cheney, 2000, Inc. v. Baker (see above), Broward County, Florida Recount Team – Observer, Counsel to U.S. Congressman Todd Akin and Missouri Republican Party, Missouri State Republican Convention – Alternate– Clayton Township[citation needed]
1988: Republican Candidate U.S. Congress, Missouri 3rd Cong. Dist – Successfully raised in excess of $200,000 and received campaign fundraising support from former Secretary of Interior, Don Hodel, former U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong and former U.S. Congressman Tom Curtis, Chairman.[citation needed]
1986-1987 - Reagan Administration – U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Attorney-Advisor-Law Clerk.[citation needed]
1984 -1980 - Missouri Republican Convention, Alternate[citation needed]
1976 – National & Missouri Republican Convention, Page[citation needed]
[edit] Television
Hearne has provided commentary for National Public Radio, FOX News and MSNBC.[citation needed]
[edit] Memberships
Hearne has been admitted to the Michigan and Missouri bar and has been admitted to and practiced in a number of courts including the U.S. Supreme Court, Michigan Supreme Court,Missouri Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Claims.
[edit] Awards
* Selected for Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005 and 2006[citation needed]
* Named one of Missouri's ten best attorneys by the Missouri Lawyers Weekly in 2004.
* Named as one of the Up and Coming Young Attorneys, "St. Louis Business Journal" for his work on real estate and real estate-related regulatory matters.[citation needed]
* Martindale-Hubbell® "AV" Rating[citation needed]
* Republican Candidate, United States House of Representatives, 1988 (3rd Cong. Dist.)[citation needed]
* Thor served as Attorney-Advisor with the Reagan administration from 1986-87.[citation needed]
[edit] Bibliography
* Author, Is There Life After the Clean-Air Act, In-Form: Journal of The American Oil Chemists Society. (5/95).
* Author, Legal Aspects of Doing Business In Missouri, Kluwer & West, Chapter on Missouri and annual updates, Doing Business in North America Series. (7/90-current).
* Author, Missouri Tightens Regulations of Underground Storage Tanks, St. Louis Business Journal. (4/91).
* Author, When Retirement Homes are Ad Valorem Tax Exempt, Missouri Bar Journal. (5/94-6/94).
[edit] References
1. ^ Mark F. (Thor) Hearne Biography.
2. ^ Commission on Federal Election Reform.
3. ^ a b Waas, Murray. "The Scales Of Justice", National Journal, National Journal Group, May 31, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-31.
4. ^ Scott Lauck. "Voter ID decision denounced as "activist"", Lawyers Weekly, 2006-10-23. (in English)
5. ^ Natalie Hrubos. "Missouri judge rules voter ID law unconstitutional", Jurist, 2006-09-14. (in English)
* Page at Lathrop & Gage Web site
* Analysis of American Center for Voter Rights at Web site for People For the American Way
* Recent Article in St. Louis Post Dispatch
* Missouri Lawyers Weekly Article
* Hearne's donation of $2,000.00 to George W. Bush at fundrace.org
* Hearnes involvement with voter scam fraud group ACVR
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American Center for Voting Rights wiki page history
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In recent years, several advances have been made in the lung cancer space, particularly in squamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC), said Janakiraman Subramanian, MD, and groundbreaking data from 2 key pivotal trials—KEYNOTE-407 and IMpower133—have resulted in practice-changing outcomes for these patients.
Those who received the pembrolizumab regimen had a median overall survival (OS) of 15.9 months (95% CI, 13.2–not evaluable) compared with just 11.3 months (95% CI, 9.5-14.8) with chemotherapy alone (HR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.49-0.85; P = .0017). The addition of pembrolizumab also improved progression-free survival (PFS) in these patients. The median PFS was 6.4 months with the investigational regimen (95% CI, 6.2-8.3) versus 4.8 months (95% CI, 4.3-5.7) with chemotherapy alone (HR, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.45-0.70; P <.0001).
These data led to the October 2018 FDA approval of first-line pembrolizumab for use in combination with carboplatin and either paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane) for the treatment of patients with metastatic squamous NSCLC, a new standard of care.
In the IMpower133 trial, the addition of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) to standard upfront carboplatin and etoposide was found to significantly prolong survival in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC).2 After a median follow-up of 13.9 months, the median OS was 12.3 months (95% CI, 10.8-15.9) in those who received the atezolizumab regimen compared with 10.3 months (95% CI, 9.3-11.3) in those who received placebo (HR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.54-0.91, P = .0069), which equates to a 30% reduction in the risk of death.
This is the first time in 20 years that a new initial treatment option for extensive-stage SCLC has delivered a clinically meaningful survival benefit. As such, the FDA granted a priority review designation to the supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for the agent. The FDA action date for a decision on the sBLA is March 18, 2019.
In an interview during the 2018 OncLive® State of the Science SummitTM on Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, Subramanian, a medical oncologist and director of thoracic oncology and director of the Center for Precision Medicine at St. Luke's Cancer Institute, discussed ongoing advances and remaining challenges in the field of lung cancer.
OncLive: Could you discuss recent trials that have led to major advances in lung cancer treatment?
Subramanian: The KEYNOTE-407 study was [conducted] primarily [in patients with] squamous cell lung cancer and looked at giving chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab, which is a PD-1 inhibitor. Patients were randomized to receive carboplatin plus paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab versus carboplatin/paclitaxel alone. They also got placebo on that arm. They were looking at the co-primary endpoints with PFS and OS and patients were randomized to either arm, irrespective of their PD-L1 status.
Therefore, whether patients were PD-L1–negative or –positive, they were still able to go on the study and receive immunotherapy. What they clearly showed was that the OS was significantly better in patients on the immunotherapy arm. Similarly, the PFS was also better. Across all treatment parameters, adding immunotherapy for patients with squamous cell lung carcinoma improved their outcomes.
Adverse events were not anything unexpected from what we already knew about immunotherapy and chemotherapy combinations. Definitely, that is the next step in how we treat squamous cell lung carcinomas; until now, chemotherapy has been the primary first-line treatment, but this study has changed that. Now, that we are using chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy and that's becoming the standard of care in how we treat these patients.
[Two other important studies] were IMpower131 and IMpower133. In the SCLC study in which patients were randomized to receive carboplatin/etoposide plus atezolizumab or carboplatin/etoposide plus placebo.


FRIDAY, 27 JUNE – Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Campus Radio Station, KKFM this morning welcomed five guests from the University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) who were in Sabah for a voluntary programme.
They were Nathan Gunning, Richard Gittons, Charlotte Wade and Blaithin Hadjisophocleous all graduates of the Physiotherapy course. They were led by their lecturer, Marjan Blackburn whose specialty is in Neurological Rehabilitation.
Interestingly, the group found Sabah, a place they then committed their voluntary work through surfing the internet.
The group has been in Sabah the past six weeks lending their expertise at Bukit Harapan, a home not only for the orphans but also abused women and children as well as persons with special needs.
"All students of Physiotherapy need to do 1,000 hours of clinical work, as stipulated by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and the Healthcare Profession in the UK," said Marjan, citing that the first programme focussed on the children and the centre in Sabah, where they had also visited the Women and Children Hospital Likas.
They also record their activities through video blog besides keeping a record of their studies for future reference.
"We have to raise our own funding to come here," said Nathan Gunning who had been doing this particular volunteer work for the second time since 2011. Nathan is a Band 5 Physiotherapy graduate, a reference used in UK for those newly graduate physiotherapists.


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Boston, MA, United States - (4 Mar 2021)
The Museum of Science, Boston, one of the world's largest science centers, announced today the opening of Engineering Design Workshop, Powered by MathWorks, a new, permanent exhibit that will invite visitors to think, create, and problem solve like engineers. Developed by the Museum of Science, with generous support from MathWorks, this new exhibit will inspire visitors of all ages to engage in the skills used by engineers and computer scientists to solve creative problems.
"Creating transformative experiences for visitors to immerse themselves in the diverse field of engineering is at the heart of our mission of inspiring a love of science in everyone," said Tim Ritchie, president of the Museum of Science. "Partnering with MathWorks, a leader in computational thinking, we've been able to design an enriching experience that brings visitors along in the engineering design process through experiential learning. Engineering Design Workshop, Powered by MathWorks will ultimately be an active and iterative embodiment of the role that creativity plays in engineering and computer science."
Over the course of five years, exhibit staff at the Museum of Science worked with engineers at MathWorks to develop a permanent exhibition that invites visitors of all ages to explore the many ways that engineers solve problems and create the solutions that impact our lives.
"This collaboration epitomizes the deep and long-standing partnership between our company and the Museum," said Jeanne O'Keefe, chief financial officer and senior vice president of MathWorks. "We are excited to be a part of the Museum's next generation of exhibits, which then seeks to inspire the next generation of engineers and innovators."
Inside Engineering Design Workshop, Powered by MathWorks, visitors of all ages blend the creativity of hands-on engineering with state-of-the-art digital analysis delivered by MathWorks flagship product, MATLAB. Within the exhibit, guests will find the new home of the Museum's immensely popular Design Challenges program. The challenges offer visitors the opportunity to use familiar materials and repurposed items to create and iterate models based on the daily prompt. The program offers visitors the opportunity to explore the engineering design process to create, test, and iterate their own designs.
The exhibit also includes a series of self-guided interactive stations where visitors are encouraged to think like engineers to design, build, and test devices in a digital setting focusing on key engineering principles including:
Sift & Sort: A mechanical engineering design lab where visitors can create a sorting machine that will collect balls based on their different properties.
Dive & Splash: A modeling and simulation design lab that offers visitors the ability to physically build divers and virtually test their designs to try to accomplish the deepest or shallowest dive possible; or the biggest or smallest splash with their diver.
Program & Collect: A computational thinking design lab that combines two experiences into one. This collaborative, computational thinking experience offers guests the ability to program robots and systems to collect and sort gems to activate an art experience.
The new exhibit also features two Young Learner Zones. The Test and Measure and Plan and Predict zones are strategically designed to support the development of foundational engineering skills.
"Engineering Design Workshop, Powered by MathWorks focuses on the importance of visitors of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to have fun and learn together," said Dr. Christine Reich, Jane and Payson Swaffield chief learning officer. "The exhibit was developed for visitors to immerse themselves onsite and online in the core fundamentals of engineering through iteration, creative thinking, and problem decomposition to create solutions like an engineer."
Engineering Design Workshop offers visitors opportunities to discover the many ways people use the engineering design process to improve our lives. From disciplines, including art, nature, sport, health and conservation, the exhibit aims to share how the field of engineering is as diverse and multifaceted as the Museum's visitors themselves. Engineering Stories, a series of vignettes available online and as a component of the exhibit itself, demonstrates the critical engineering thinking skills in practice through real-life case studies that highlight the innovative nature of people from all over New England.
Engineering Design Workshop, Powered by MathWorks will open on March 22, 2021. The exhibit is included with Exhibit Hall admission and tickets go on sale March 8. All visitors including members, holders of MA EBT/WIC, ConnectorCare cards, and other free/discounted passes must reserve tickets in advance either online at www.mos.org or by phoning 617-723-2500.
About the Museum of Science, Boston
Among the world's largest science centers, and New England's most attended cultural institution, the Museum of Science engages 1.4 million visitors a year to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through interactive exhibits and programs. Nearly an additional 2 million people experience the Museum annually through touring exhibitions, traveling programs, planetarium productions and preK-8 EiE® STEM curricula through the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Science Education Center. Established in 1830, the Museum is home to such iconic exhibits as the Thompson Theater of Electricity, the Charles Hayden Planetarium, and the Mugar Omni Theater. The Museum influences formal and informal STEM education through research and national advocacy, as a strong community partner and loyal educator resource, and as a leader in universal design, developing exhibits and programming accessible to all. Learn more at https://www.mos.org.
Remy Frisch: 617-589-0256, press@mos.org
MathWorks is the leading developer of mathematical computing software. MATLAB, the language of engineers and scientists, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink is a block diagram environment for simulation and Model-Based Design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, electronics, financial services, biotech-pharmaceutical, and other industries. MATLAB and Simulink are also fundamental teaching and research tools in the world's universities and learning institutions. Founded in 1984, MathWorks employs more than 5000 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. For additional information, visit mathworks.com.
MATLAB and Simulink are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc. See mathworks.com/trademarks for a list of additional trademarks. Other product or brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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Walid Mesloub (* 4. September 1985 in Trappes) ist ein algerisch-französischer Fußballspieler.

Vereinskarriere
Mesloub wuchs nahe Versailles auf und spielte in seiner Jugend bei einem Verein aus der Stadt. Von dort aus wechselte er 2005 zum SC Levallois in die unmittelbare Umgebung der französischen Hauptstadt Paris. Bei Levallois gehörte er von 2006 bis 2007 dem Viertligakader eines Vereins an, für den unter anderem Didier Drogba gespielt hatte. 2007 gelang dem algerischstämmigen Spieler mit seinem Wechsel zum FC Istres der Sprung in die dritte Liga, wo er sich ebenfalls einen Stammplatz sichern konnte, den er zuvor in der vierten Liga innegehabt hatte. Nachdem er 2009 mit der Mannschaft den Aufstieg in die zweithöchste Spielklasse erreicht hatte, absolvierte er beim 1:0 gegen Bastia am 7. August 2009 sein Zweitliga- und damit sein Profidebüt.

Mesloub, der im Trikot von Istres die gesamte Hinrunde über zu den Leistungsträgern zählte, wurde im Januar 2010 an den Ligakonkurrenten Le Havre AC verkauft. Über eine mögliche Ablösesumme ist nichts bekannt. Bei Le Havre erlangte der Spieler eine Position in der Stammelf, die er im Verlauf der darauffolgenden Spielzeiten verteidigen konnte. Im Sommer 2014 wurde er vom Erstligisten FC Lorient verpflichtet; eine Ablösesumme wurde nicht fällig. Trotz der Tatsache, dass er zuvor noch nie in der höchsten französischen Spielklasse angetreten war, konnte er sich bei den Westfranzosen innerhalb kurzer Zeit einen Stammplatz erkämpfen.

Nationalmannschaft
Gegen Ende seines ersten Jahres in Le Havre wurde der algerischstämmige Spieler im Herbst 2010 in die algerische Nationalelf berufen. Für diese kam er zu seinem Debüt, als er bei der Partie gegen Luxemburg am 17. November in der 46. Minute eingewechselt wurde. Dieses Freundschaftsspiel blieb zunächst sein einziger Einsatz für die Auswahl. Im Vorfeld der Afrikameisterschaft 2015 zählte er wieder zum erweiterten Kader und am 6. September 2015 setzte sich seine Länderspiellaufbahn bei einem 3:1-Sieg über Lesotho nach fast fünf Jahren fort. Dieses Qualifikationsspiel für die Afrikameisterschaft 2017 war zudem sein erstes Pflichtspiel im Nationaltrikot. Daran anschließend wurde er regelmäßig in die Auswahl berufen.

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