Police: Report of motorcyclist attacked unrelated to wreck
A motorcyclist who crashed early Friday morning was not assaulted, according to the Redding Police Department, and the wreck is unrelated to an incident where another motorcyclist was allegedly assaulted by two men who threatened him.
Even thought both cases are unrelated, both motorcyclists were at the same bar earlier in the evening, according to a news release issued Wednesday afternoon.
The police in the news released explained what they've been able to figure out what happened so far.
At 1:49 a.m. emergency dispatchers received a 911 call of a motorcycle wreck in the 1900 block of Pine Street. Officers found a motorcyclist, Ryan Rhodes, 28, of Burney, in the road. Witnesses tried to give Rhodes medical attention while he went in and out of consciousness. He was unable to tell officers what happened.
Rhodes had serious injuries and was taken to Mercy Medical Center, where he went into surgery.
Someone who witnessed the collision in a vehicle behind Rhodes said as he turned left onto Gold Street toward Market Street, the motorcycle accelerated away from him going eastbound through Market Street. The witness watched as Rhodes went down on the east side of the intersection of Gold Street and Market Street, sliding more than 70 feet before stopping in the road near his motorcycle, according to police.
More witnesses stopped and stayed with Rhodes until emergency personnel arrived. Rhodes was not assaulted or threatened and officers arrived within three minutes of the 911 call, police said.
Earlier that night Bryant Krause, 27, was allegedly knocked off his motorcycle when he stopped at a crosswalk to let pedestrians cross the street around 12:30 a.m. He told police he was stopped at Park Marina and Parkview when two men assaulted him and threatened to stab him, according to Lt. Bill Schueller.
Two women told the men to leave Krause alone and pulled them away. The men were last seen leaving toward Parkview Park, according to police.
Krause did not see a weapon, but rode his motorcycle to the Redding Police Department where he reported the incident. He described the four people as Hispanic.
Police said they searched the area and found potential suspects, but the case remains under investigation.
Rhodes was interviewed this week and told officers he met Krause for the first time earlier that night at a local bar. Krause left about an hour before Rhodes left. Rhodes remembers riding his motorcycle but cannot remember crashing and falling off his motorcycle.
Rhodes only remembers hearing voices and being moved before waking up hours later in the hospital. Rhodes heard about the incident with Krause and assumed the two could be related.
Based on evidence and witnesses, Rhodes failed to stay on the roadway and struck a raised curb at Gold and Market streets and he was thrown from his motorcycle.
It’s unknown whether alcohol was a factor in the crash. Rhodes needed immediate medical treatment and officers were not able to investigate whether he was intoxicated.
Rhodes admitted he drank half a beer before leaving the bar.


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|dc.description.abstract||The domestic sector will play an important role in the decarbonisation and decentralisation of the energy sector in the future. Installation numbers of building-integrated small-scale energy systems such as photovoltaics (PV), wind turbines and micro-combined heat and power (CHP) have significantly increased. However, the power output of PV and wind turbines is inherently linked to weather conditions; thus, the injected power into the public grid can be highly intermittent. With the increasing share of renewable energy at all voltage levels challenges arise in terms of power stability and quality. To overcome the volatility of such energy sources, storage technologies can be applied to temporarily decouple power generation from power consumption. Two emerging storage technologies which can be applied at residential level are hydrogen systems and vanadium-redox-flow-batteries (VRFB). In addition, the building-integrated energy sources and storage system can be combined to form a hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) to manage the energy flow more efficiently.
The main focus of this thesis is to investigate the dynamic performance of two emerging energy storage technologies, a hydrogen loop composed of alkaline electrolyser, gas storage and proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, and a VRFB. In addition, the application of building-integrated HRES at customer level to increase the self-consumption of the onsite generated electricity and to lower the grid interaction of the building has been analysed.
The first part deals with the development of a research test-bed known as the Hybrid Renewable Energy Park (HREP). The HREP is a residential-scale distributed energy system that comprises photovoltaic, wind turbine, CHP, lead acid batteries, PEM fuel cell, alkaline electrolyser and VRFB. In addition, it is equipped with programmable electronic loads to emulate different energy consumption patterns and a charging point for electric vehicles. Because of its modular structure different combinations of energy systems can be investigated and it can be easily extended. A unified communication channel based on the local operating network (LON) has been established to coordinate and control the HREP. Information from the energy systems is gathered with a temporal resolution of one second. Integration issues encountered during the integration process have been addressed.
The second part presents an experimental methodology to assess the steady state and dynamic performance of the electrolyser, the fuel cell and the VRFB. Operational constrains such as minimum input/output power or start-up times were extracted from the experiments. The response of the energy systems to single and multiple dynamic events was analysed, too. The results show that there are temporal limits for each energy system, which affect its response to a sudden load change or the ability to follow a load profile. Obstacles arise in terms of temporal delays mainly caused by the distributed communication system and should be considered when operating or simulating a HRES at system level.
The third part shows how improved system models of each component can be developed using the findings from the experiments. System models presented in the literature have the shortcoming that operational aspects are not adequately addressed. For example, it is commonly assumed that energy systems at system level can respond to load variations almost instantaneously. Thus, component models were developed in an integrated manner to combine theoretical and operational aspects. A generic model layout was defined containing several subsystems, which enables an easy implementation into an overall simulation model in MATLAB®/Simulink®. Experimental methods were explained to extract the new parameters of the semi-empirical models and discrete operational aspects were modelled using Stateflow®, a graphical tool to formulate statechart diagrams. All system models were validated using measured data from the experimental analysis. The results show a low mean-absolute-percentage-error (<3%). Furthermore, an advanced energy management strategy has been developed to coordinate and to control the energy systems by combining three mechanisms; statechart diagrams, double exponential smoothing and frequency decoupling.
The last part deals with the evaluation, operation and control of HRES in the light of the improved system models and the energy management strategy. Various simulated case studies were defined to assess a building-integrated HRES on an annual basis. Results show that the overall performance of the hydrogen loop can be improved by limiting the operational window and by reducing the dynamic operation. The capability to capture the waste heat from the electrolyser to supply hot water to the residence as a means of increasing the overall system efficiency was also determined. Finally, the energy management strategy was demonstrated by real-time experiments with the HREP and the dynamic performance of the combined operation has been evaluated.
The presented results of the detailed experimental study to characterise the hydrogen loop and the VRFB as well as the developed system models revealed valuable information about their dynamic operation at system level. These findings have relevance to the future application and for simulation studies of building-integrated HRES. There are still integration aspects which need to be addressed in the future to overcome the proprietary problem of the control systems. The innovations in the HREP provide an advanced platform for future investigations such as electric-vehicles as decentralised mobile storage and the development of more advanced control approaches.||en

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It’s here again.
A sea of pink and red ugly stuffed bears and stale candy
greets me in the drugstore aisle.
Sappy, dripping, honeyed greeting cards with red hearts.
Be mine! I love you! XOXOXO!
The vile presence of Cupid appears.
“Pay homage to me. Worship me.
Bring me flowers, candy, diamonds, stuffed animals, cards!
Or I shoot you!”
Cupid flits around, stuffing drugstore candy into chubby cheeks.
I regard with contempt the fat, leering, winged vermin.
Be gone you flying fiend!
He smiles vacantly.
“Love me for I am superior to you.
You are nothing.”
I hurl a nearby handy object at him.
A box of condoms smacks his face.
He rubs his reddened cheek; swoops to pick up the box.
“Ribbed for her pleasure. What does this mean?”
He takes one out of the box and opens the wrapper. “A balloon?”
Stupid Cupid. I throw a box of candy at him.
He dodges it.
“Love me!” he commands. He drops the condom.
I heave flowers. Red rose petals explode on his face;
shower the floor like blood droplets. I pick up the condom.
“Come here Cupid.”
He approaches cautiously . I lunge.
I grab a tiny foot. I throw him to the ground.
Wrap the condom tightly around his neck.
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Die Valentine’s Day!
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A judge-led review said Tuesday that extradition agreements between the United States and Britain are fair and unbiased.
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May set up the inquiry last year after some lawmakers and human rights groups complained that the treaty gives American citizens more protection than British ones against extradition requests.
Both Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg had criticized the treaty while in opposition. The previous Labour Party government had agreed to the treaty after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Judge Scott Baker who led the review said he found no evidence that the treaty between the U.S. and the U.K operated in an unbalanced way.
The U.S. is currently seeking the extradition of Gary McKinnon _ a British hacker who has admitted breaking into U.S. military computers following the Sept. 11 attacks. Efforts to extradite him to the U.S. have been delayed for years over questions about his mental health and the fairness of the extradition request.
While in opposition Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrat party, had supported McKinnon and called on Labour to "tear up the unequal, unfair treaty."
Cameron had also supported McKinnon's case, arguing that the treaty was designed to deal with terrorists and that "it was never intended to deal with a case like Gary's."
Lawmakers on a human rights committee said in June that the treaty should be changed to ensure the U.S. had to present more evidence before a British citizen could be extradited. They also said British courts should have the power to refuse extradition requests if an alleged crime took place mainly in the U.K.
Baker's report did criticize the time taken by the European Court of Human Rights to hear appeals over extradition cases, including the case of radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri who is wanted in the U.S. for a raft of alleged terrorist offenses, including trying to set up an al-Qaida training camp in rural Oregon.
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Picnic-Perfect Italian Subs With Homemade Baguettes
This recipe for homemade French baguettes was adapted from The Food Network. I added more flour and honey, to make them just a touch sweeter. This is a great yeast bread to make when you don’t have a lot of time.
Makes 2 (14-inch) subs
For the Homemade Baguettes
- 2 packets (1 1/2 tablespoons) of active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3 to 4 ice cubes
To Assemble the Subs
- 4 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 4 tablespoons spicy brown mustard
- 12 slices provolone cheese
- 12 pieces Genoa salami
- 12 pieces capicola
- 12 pieces mortadella
- 2 cups lettuce
- 2 large tomatoes, sliced
- 1 cup thinly sliced onion
- Sweet peppers, optional
- Salt and pepper to taste
To Make the Homemade Baguettes
Combine the yeast and warm water in a small bowl and let sit until the mixture is foamy, about 5 minutes.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the kneading attachment, combine the honey, flour, and salt. Slowly add the water/yeast mixture to the bowl, and mix until the dough comes together in a sticky ball, about 5 minutes. The dough should be elastic to the touch.
Form the dough into a ball and transfer to a lightly greased bowl. Cover with a tea towel and allow to rest for about 30 minutes, or until doubled in size.
On a floured surface, divide the dough into two equal parts to make two baguettes. Roll each part into a flat rectangle, about 10 inches long by 5 inches wide, and orient it so the long edges are on the top and bottom. Then fold the top third down toward the middle and the bottom third over the top, pressing the dough together to seal the seam. Continue to fold, seal, and stretch the rectangle until it is about 14 inches long and 2 inches wide. Place the baguette seam side-down on a baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough.
Cover the dough with a tea towel and allow it to rest until it has doubled in size again, about 30 more minutes. Score the tops with a knife.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F, with one rack in the middle and one rack on the bottom.
Place a second baking tray or oven-proof dish on the bottom rack of the oven. Slide the baking sheet with the baguettes onto the top rack while putting the ice cubes into the dish on the bottom rack, and quickly close the oven door. This creates steam in the oven, which helps give the baguettes a crispy exterior.
Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes.
To Assemble the Subs
Cut each baguette in half lengthwise. Spread mayonnaise onto the bottom half and mustard onto the top half. Layer on the cheese, meats, and toppings. Sprinkle salt and pepper on to taste.

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What Is “Trap Tox”?
“Trap tox” is short for “trapezius Botox”. The trapezius muscle is a larger muscle that spans from the neck, shoulders, and down the upper portion of the back. It has several functions such as aiding in head movements, lifting shoulders, and even rotating the arm. Therefore, treating the trapezius muscle with a neurotoxin like Botox requires a skilled provider.
Generally, trap tox only treats the upper portion of the muscle near the neck and shoulders. Additionally, because the muscle is so large, it would require a large amount of Botox to fully disable it. This amount of Botox is never injected into any muscle of the body. Though, proper administration of Botox by injecting it into the right areas is vital for obtaining the desired results.
Why It’s Done
Providers administer trapezius Botox for medical and/or cosmetic reasons. Firstly, Botox is widely used and FDA-approved for some other areas of the body to treat muscle spasming and pain. This includes the treatment of cervical dystonia which sometimes injects Botox into the trapezius muscle along with other neck muscles. Overuse of the muscle—which is common with modern life because of phones and office chairs—can also cause pain in the area which trap tox may help treat.
Sometimes called “tech neck,” a visible change in posture or a hump can form due to overuse and stress on the trapezius muscle. This is becoming more common because of the way we hold our necks when working on a computer or phone. While it can be prevented and treated with some at-home remedies and exercises, Botox can help quickly treat the current cosmetic appearance.
Benefits & Risks
Trapezius Botox injections come with many possible benefits considering that it can help treat both medical and cosmetic conditions. Regardless of the patient’s reasoning for seeking the treatment, benefits a patient may enjoy include:
- Appearance of a longer neck
- Slim the neck and shoulder contour
- Contribute to better posture
- Alleviate neck or shoulder pain
- Reduce and prevent “tech neck”
- Feminizes the shoulder contour
- Help correct a developed “rounded” shoulder appearance
- Treat certain medical conditions such as cervical dystonia
- May help reduce migraines
- Quick treatment
- Virtually painless
- Little to no recovery
- See initial results within a few days and final results in two weeks
- Customizable based on the patient’s needs and anatomy
- Performed by qualified, experienced injectors
All medical treatments—including non-invasive ones—do come with some inherent risks. For Botox shoulder slimming, the risk of complications is very low for the average patient. However, certain patients may be at a higher risk of adverse reactions or events. Possible risks or complications of trapezius Botox may include:
- Overtreatment of the muscle
- Could hinder long term strength with consistent overtreatment or overuse of Botox in the area
- Results in the incorrect area
Major issues or complications of trapezius Botox are rare. Seeing a qualified injector who performs thorough patient screening helps prevent adverse events.

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Before playing Dungeon Souls, you have to choose one of six playable characters, each with its own attributes, weapons, and powers. The archer, for example, can attack from a distance but is quite weak, while the knight can only perform melee attacks but is very strong.
As you move through the different levels on Dungeon Souls, you can keep improving your character's attributes. You can also find lots of objects that add other effects to your character. To advance through the dungeons of the game, however, you'll need both skill and precision, because neither the traps nor the bad guys will make it easy.
Dungeon Souls is an excellent game whose prime appeal is that it's reminiscent of Nuclear Throne. A real treat for all fans of the genre.

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Wicked Game (Reindeer Games) is now available!
All’s fair in love and war when the Reindeer Games are in play!
Santa didn’t give bad boy Elf Brody his Christmas wish. Instead of sexy Beryl, he’s stuck with goody-goody Holly for a partner. But Brody discovers the best gifts aren’t always wrapped in the fanciest paper and Holly is so sweet, she melts on his tongue.

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Color etching printed on thick wove paper. Edition unknown, probably small. Signed in pencil.
Bertha Jaques (1863-1941) was ahead of her time in many ways. A woman artist who photographed, wrote poems and was also a visual artist, she also helped rediscover the unpopular technique of etching in the United States late in the 19th century. Influenced early on by Whistler’s cityscapes, Jaques meticulously taught herself, through trial and error, many finesses of the etching technique. Jacques also liked to engrave with the drypoint needle, its delicacy particularly fitting for her floral compositions, which she sometimes hand colored. She left us a large oeuvre, nearly 500 compositions rich.

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About Yellow Box Honey
The scientific name for Yellow Box, Eucalyptus Melliodora literally means “odour of honey”. It’s no wonder bees foraging the blossoms produce some of the sweetest, most tempting honey in Australia!
Australian Beekeepers know the popularity of Yellowbox Honey. They take their bees to the yellow box ranges in spring so the bees can forage amongst the creamy pale-yellow flowers.
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Yellow Box Honey is smooth and free-flowing. As one of the slowest honeys to crystallise, it will remain liquid for many years when stored in the pantry.
The honey is sweet, light, and softly buttery, inviting you to sit back and savour every delicious mouthful. The aromatic floral fragrance engages the senses to provide a “honeymood” lift that lasts far beyond the last finger-licking moment.
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Ig Nobels reward weird science
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | We humans are nothing if not curious.
How else to explain the Australian scientist who studied the composition of human belly-button lint?
Or the Scottish researchers who investigated why public toilets were collapsing in Glasgow?
Or the Pennsylvania scientist who studied the effects of Prozac on clams?
These, and other achievements like them, might go unnoticed were it not for a brave group of Harvard students who, 13 years ago, conducted the first Ig Nobel awards ceremony at the school's Sanders Theater.
Not in any way to be confused with the Nobel prizes, the Ig Nobels recognize "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."
The 2003 winners, announced earlier this month, include, in the category of physics, "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep Over Various Surfaces"; in the category of medicine, a study that supplies evidence that the brains of London cab drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens; in the category of chemistry, an analysis of why a particular bronze statue fails to attract pigeons and, in the category of interdisciplinary research, a paper on why chickens prefer beautiful humans. (Presumably a paper on why, or whether, humans prefer beautiful chickens is forthcoming.)
I was rather surprised to learn that an Ig Nobel award is not only not an embarrassment, it is actually coveted by the people who do these goofy things. Many people nominate themselves and, judging by this year's ceremony, most show up in person to receive their award.
According to Marc Abrahams, editor of "Annals of Improbable Research" and chairman of the Ig Nobel Board of Governors, an Ig Nobel "signifies to one and all that you have done something. What that thing is may be hard to explain maybe even totally inexplicable. But the fact is, you did it, and have been recognized for doing it."
Needless to say, that leaves a lot of leeway in choosing who is deserving and who is not deserving of an Ig Nobel award. However, it would be hard to justify withholding the Ig Nobel literature award from John Richards of Boston, England. After all, he is the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, an organization dedicated to "protecting, promoting and defending the differences between plural and possessive."
Or denying the peace prize to Viliumas Malinauskus of Grutas, Lithuania. After all, how many people would have even dreamed of creating an amusement park called "Stalin World."
"It combines the charms of a Disneyland with the worst of the Soviet gulag prison camp," said Malinauskus, who apparently has never visited Disney World in August.
The facility part amusement park and part open-air museum is circled by barbed wire and guard towers. Some 65 bronze and granite statues of former Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin and various other commie big shots dot the landscape.
The Ig Nobel award did not mention whether any of the statues were resistant to pigeon poop.
Another clearly deserving winner, in the category of literature, is Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, D.C., who had published in the "Journal of Analytical Psychology" an article titled "Farting as a Defense Against Unspeakable Dread."
(I intended to look up the article, but suddenly I found myself overcome with unspeakable dread.)
Speaking of tasteful, let us commence clapping with one hand for the achievement of Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik of the University of Bergen, Norway, for their report in the British Medical Journal titled "Effect of Ale, Garlic and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches."
I don't know about the leeches, but I've suddenly lost my appetite.
(For more information on these and other potential science-fair projects, go on the Web to www.improb.com.)
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Was she scared? Not really, she said. "But it was a very great surprise," she said deadpan. "And I guess it was part of the Jewish fate. The writing was on the wall that we had not chosen the easiest path."
The same could be said for most of the 360,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union who have arrived in Israel over the last three years. They are the largest group of immigrants in decades, a force of such high education and culture that almost inevitably they will alter the shape of Israel, from the computers it builds to the tunes it hums. They also may affect the outcome of Israel's election Tuesday as opinion polls show them leaning heavily toward the opposition Labor Party. As the Likud Party has discovered to its dismay, these newcomers as a group are not happy.
That is not to say they are sorry about having come to Israel. Ask them about that point-blank, and almost all say they have no regrets. The lure of their native land, the curiosity about where it is headed -- these seem not to be burning passions.Continue reading the main story
"No part of me misses Russia," Ms. Solodkina said. "I like Russia and Russians. But theirs is the history of another people. Let them make it by themselves, and let us watch. Being a Jew, I was deprived of full participation. Here, I'm one of 'us.' "
But ask newcomers about their daily lives, and listeners quickly hear the Chekhovian tales of frustration: How two out of every five Russian emigres cannot find work. How even those with jobs all too often are performing menial tasks far from their professions. How Hebrew can be hard to learn. How they have traveled from a country where there was nothing to buy to a relatively prosperous place where some of them find there is nothing they can afford to buy. Roiled Emotions
In many respects, Marina Solodkina and the husband, parents and two children who came with her are atypical. Her husband, Gregori, has a job in his field, metallurgy. The kids are happy and learning Hebrew quickly. They live not in a trailer park, as many Russians across the country do, but in a three-bedroom apartment in the desirable Jerusalem neighborhood of Rehavia.
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Still, she too can smolder with indignation, even if it is expressed in a soft voice. Most of all, she resents the commonly held view among Israelis that their Russian cousins have come not out of Jewish or Zionist solidarity but simply to find an easier life.
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At SAS, a software company headquartered in Cary, N.C., an employee might start her workday by dropping off her child at one of two onsite daycare centers. If she’s feeling under the weather, she can go to the campus healthcare center to see her doctor before heading to her desk. At lunchtime, she might head to the gym for an aerobics class, to the pool for a swim or perhaps to a workshop on finding assisted living for an aging parent. If the employee is a nursing mom, she can use a comfortable lactation station during the day to nurse or pump in private. And if she works later than she expected, she can stop by one of several cafeterias to buy a takeout dinner — maybe a half tray of lasagna and some fresh veggies from the salad bar — to bring home.
SAS, a private company with nearly 10,000 employees worldwide and more than 4,000 in Cary, is almost unrivaled in its proactive use of wellness programs to create a culture that values employees and helps them to achieve work-life balance. For example, when the company set out to launch its fitness program, “We put all the reasons why people don’t exercise up on a wall and, one by one, tried to eliminate all of them,” says Jack Poll, the recreation and employee services manager who looks after a complete fitness center and several outdoor athletic fields.
More companies are beginning to follow SAS’s lead. They want to make their people healthier. But they’re also looking for ways to acknowledge that employees are more than what they do from 9 to 5. They want to encourage their employees’ outside interests and show them that their personal life and values are respected on the job. They also want to provide support and solutions for those who struggle with personal issues that could be stressing them out and distracting them from doing their best work.
There are several explanations for the interest in corporate wellness programs and for this new corporate point of view. But the primary motivation, it appears, has its roots somewhere near the intersection of health, fitness and the cost of insurance.
Sick and Tired
America has perhaps never been less healthy. According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 65 percent of U.S. adults are overweight, and 30 percent of those people are obese. One in 10 (about 25 million people) suffers from chronic illnesses severe enough to limit his or her activity. Correctable conditions like obesity, poor nutrition and smoking (and failure to be screened regularly for things like diabetes or high blood pressure) are leading causes of chronic illness.
The CDC categorizes such lifestyle-related diseases as highly preventable. Left unchecked, however, they’re costly, accounting for more than 75 percent of what this country spends on healthcare each year.
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To make matters worse, Americans are also working longer hours, often in sedentary jobs. All that time spent in front of the computer and away from family and activities is hurting our bodies and minds. Inactivity contributes to a variety of major diseases, including colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension. Musculoskeletal ailments, which may arise from repetitive stress or excessive time spent in sedentary, static postures, have become common.
Our mental health is suffering, too. David Hunnicutt, PhD, president of the Wellness Councils of America, a nonprofit organization in Omaha, Neb., estimates that 20 percent of managers in corporate America are depressed.
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It’s easy to see these broad trends trickling down into individual companies. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, for example, estimates that five out of eight of its employees are overweight or obese. David Dahlke, a corporate wellness manager at the company, reports that two of the top reasons employees go to the doctor are for repetitive stress ailments, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, and “those ill-defined conditions that usually have to do with stress, like stomachaches and headaches.”
“The new issue in the workplace isn’t absenteeism, it’s ‘presenteeism,’” observes Renee Moorefield, CEO of Wisdom Works Group, a wellness consulting firm in Boulder, Colo. “People show up to the office,” she explains, “but they work at a reduced capacity because they’re burnt out or depressed or have personal issues distracting them.”
One more motive in the drive toward wellness is less easily measured than health insurance and disease, but no less important. “There’s a new contract emerging between companies and employees,” asserts Moorefield. The prospect of lifetime employment used to drive employee loyalty and give people a sense of shared values and mission with their companies, she explains. (Remember when there was such a thing as the company song?) But after several cycles of layoffs that began in the 1980s, and the frequent job-hopping that so many people did during the Internet boom, it’s become clear, says Moorefield, “that companies can’t be loyal for a lifetime, and employees won’t be either.”
Currently, only 53 percent of Americans feel that their company’s values are consistent with their own, according to a recent study by the American Business Collaboration, in Watertown, Mass. But competitive companies still want to be seen as good places to work, and they are looking for ways to communicate that. Meanwhile, Moorefield observes, “People want to bring more of their spiritual and ethical selves to work. They want an outlet for their creativity. They’re willing to take a lower salary to focus on family and physical and emotional health. And they’ll choose an employer that shares these values over one that doesn’t.”
Putting a Value on Wholeness
The corporate wellness programs coming into favor these days acknowledge that an employee might also be an active community volunteer who’d like a flexible schedule, or a baby boomer concerned about an aging parent who lives alone, or a young mother worried about finding quality childcare. These programs also recognize that people who are always scrambling to meet deadlines are less likely to pay attention to what they eat for lunch, how little they exercise or when they’re overdue for a physical.
Moorefield and others say that a good wellness program can bring a company’s values closer in line with employees’ personal values, which fosters morale and boosts loyalty. And she might be right. In a survey of large companies, conducted by the National Business Group on Health, in Washington, D.C., 56 percent said they saw employee morale improve after they launched fitness programs. In a separate survey commissioned by the American Association of Occupational Nurses Inc., more than 50 percent of employees said a health and wellness program would provide a strong incentive for them to stay at their current jobs.
The best wellness programs look at employees holistically, and they tend to their career goals as well as their values and their mental and physical well-being. A comprehensive wellness program might offer weight-loss and smoking-cessation groups; health and fitness assessments; workshops on life issues such as paying for college or caring for an older parent; various coaching and counseling services; plus, access to a fitness center, walking and running clubs — even healthier vending machine and cafeteria options.
Among the largest companies in the United States, 95 percent offer some sort of wellness initiative, according to Hewitt Associates. But Hunnicutt warns that many of these programs are fairly basic: They might be nothing more than a monthly newsletter with wellness tips, or a perk like weekly chair massages.
“These types of programs are a good way to get started,” Hunnicutt says, “but they don’t generate concrete outcomes.” He says it’s harder to count the number of companies offering the broader, more well-rounded approach to wellness that he prefers, but he observes, “In the past 15 months, I’ve seen more changes in health promotion than I’d seen in the previous 15 years.”
Planning a Program
Hunnicutt, who advises companies on how to set up a wellness program, prefers what he calls a results-oriented approach to wellness. He likes to see companies set measurable goals, like trimming absenteeism and turnover, or keeping health-insurance costs at a certain level, and then build a broad wellness program to meet them.
SAS, for example, has kept its employee turnover below 5 percent a year, about a quarter of what it is at other tech companies. And Gale Adcock, manager of corporate health services at the company, says the health center alone, with four doctors and 10 nurse practitioners, saves the company about $1 million a year in insurance costs and lost productivity. “Any time employees use our doctors instead of going outside, they don’t file an insurance claim, which keeps our premiums down,” she explains. “And we estimate that a trip to an outside doctor can take two hours out of the day. But if nothing is seriously wrong, we can have employees back at their desk in 30 minutes.”
While the breadth and depth of SAS’s program is something to shoot for, it’s important to remember that the company started modestly and built up gradually over 28 years. Adcock, for example, started with one nurse practitioner (no doctors) in a small office.
The Container Store, a Dallas-based retail chain that has won recognition for being a good employer, launched its first serious wellness effort in 2004. The company has tried to make the program broad in its philosophy and has given it measurable goals (reducing insurance claims enough to keep insurance costs flat). But with only one person dedicated to wellness full-time, the company decided to get its program started with a single, high-profile effort that it could build on as the human resources staff learned more about wellness and about what employees were likely to respond to. The idea was that focusing on one activity would also give the wellness director a chance to build interest and excitement among employees scattered across 34 stores nationwide.
That first project was a yearlong challenge, where employees earned points toward prizes that included $500 health reimbursement accounts — sums they could use toward their share of their health-insurance premiums or for health-related items like gym memberships or eyeglasses.
Employees earned points by taking part in companywide contests meant to turn them on to healthy habits. One had them drink more water for eight weeks; another had them walk, run or bike more. They could earn additional points by doing active volunteer work, going to the gym, joining a weight-management group, getting a physical or doing an online health assessment, which asked questions about smoking, weight and even whether a person wore a seat belt regularly.
About 800 out of 3,000 employees took part, according to Rene Morris, who oversees the wellness program. And she expected 400 to do well enough to qualify for prizes. The cost of getting it up and running: about $30,000. This year, Morris plans to offer more exerting physical challenges — her experience last year suggests that her relatively young employees are up to it — and add elements that focus on overall well-being, such as a smoking-cessation program.
Most of the studies done on wellness programs measure both investment and results. And for well-done programs the impact is real: Hunnicutt estimates that these companies will see at least three dollars in savings for every dollar they spend on wellness. But if the employees don’t see clear health and monetary benefits for themselves, even a well-planned program is likely to falter for lack of popular support.
“If an employer saves 10 percent on insurance costs, that savings can go back to the employee,” says LuAnne Heinen, director of the Institute on the Costs and Effects of Obesity. The company can cut the employees’ share of the costs, too, or spend more on care for nonpreventable illnesses.
Some employers try to directly tie employees’ insurance savings to healthy behavior. Highsmith, a library-supplies distributor in Fort Atkinson, Wis., launched an incentive-based wellness program after it saw its health-insurance costs spike 53 percent in one year. One of the company’s ongoing initiatives is to give employees who keep on top of their health a discount on their insurance. To qualify for the discount, employees can’t smoke, must get tests from their doctor that are appropriate to their age and gender, and take the annual company-offered physical.
Eighty-three percent of employees go for the discount. And with the aggregate information collected during the physicals (they can’t see an individual employee’s results) Highsmith can create programs that zoom in on its workforce’s most widespread health problems.
For a program to succeed, employees have to see more than bottom-line results, though. Particularly if they are putting in a personal effort by exercising, eating healthier or instituting other healthy habits, they expect to see a change in themselves. And in a best-case scenario, they do.
At Highsmith, after the company discovered that high cholesterol and high blood pressure were common problems, they focused on educating employees about how to improve these conditions. Between 2000 and 2004, the number of employees at risk for each condition fell by more than 50 percent, allowing both employer and employees to breathe a sigh of relief.
To combat companywide obesity, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas began offering low-cal entrées like grilled salmon in the company cafeteria, at a lower price than the usual meat-and-potatoes options. And it launched an eight-week challenge program similar to The Container Store’s that focused specifically on weight loss. By the end of that program, its 3,000 employees shed a combined two-and-a-half tons. “Some lost 10 to 12 pounds and some lost in the 20-to-25-pound range,” says Dahlke.
And, coming full circle, what’s good for the employees is usually good for the employer, too. At The Container Store, Morris knows of a handful of employees who lost more than 25 pounds as a result of that challenge program. She says, “I’ve had a lot of feedback from employees who say they feel better and have more energy [and as result] I have to assume that we’ll find that absenteeism is down and they’re at work more.”
The tangible benefits such as savings on health insurance are what compel most companies to look into wellness programs. But this dynamic of mutual appreciation — companies valuing and supporting their employees as loyal high performers and employees crediting their employers with making them healthier and less stressed — often proves to be an even more meaningful payoff in the long run.
Once again, SAS is a case in point: “One of the most important things at a technology company is to have a culture where people are innovative. But people don’t create when they’re worried about something that’s going on in their personal life or at home. You have to be feeling pretty good in order to have good ideas flowing,” notes Laura Wallace, manager of work-life programs at SAS. “We understand that, and inherent in our wellness program is the message that it’s not just about an employee’s role or position. What matters to us is the whole person.”


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by Graeme Gilloch
- Language: english
- Format: paperback, 320 pages
- Genres: philosophy
- Author: Graeme Gilloch
- Publisher: Polity Press
- Release date: February 1, 2002
- ISBN: 9780745610085 (0745610080)
About The Book
The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.
This book provides a lucid introduction to Benjamin’s oeuvre through a close and sensitive reading not only of his major studies, but also of some of his less familiar essays and fragments. Gilloch offers an original interpretation of, and fresh insights into, the continuities between Benjamin’s always demanding and seemingly disparate texts.
Gilloch’s book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in social theory, literary theory, cultural and media studies and urban studies who are seeking a sophisticated yet readable overview of Benjamin’s work. It will also prove rewarding reading for those already well-versed in Benjaminian thought.
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A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.
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The ecologically devastated world will end at 4:44 h of the next day. In New York, the fifty and something year-old Cisco (Willem Dafoe) and his younger wife Skye (Shanyn Leigh) spend their last day together in their apartment, waiting for the coming doomsday.
"4:44 Last Day on Earth" is a boring and dramatic movie by Abel Ferrara disclosing the last day on Earth of a couple of lovers in New York. The movie seems to be sponsored by the Skype with many calls from their apartment using this software. The uninteresting plot is basically a filmed storyline with the usual use of religious images by Ferrara and nothing else. My vote is three.
Title (Brazil): "4:44 - O Fim do Mundo" ("4:44 - Last Day on Earth")
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The truth? 'Fire' is a good read
In her newest book, author Meg Cabot takes readers on a rocky ride with Katie, a 12th-grader who gets lost in all the lies she is telling.
By KATIE BRUCE Times X-team
Published May 21, 2007
"Liar, liar, pants on fire" is the single phrase that the voices mumble most inside the head of Katie Ellison. And it isn't that she lies too often - at least she doesn't think so.
Katie, the lead character in Meg Cabot's perfectly named new novel Pants on Fire, is heading into 12th grade in her small town of Eastport, Conn. And the Quahogs are both the town's highly ranked football team and the bivalve seaside snack that she cannot force herself to eat. But she would never admit that to anyone.
So why all the lies? Katie is running for the title of Quahog Princess and cheerfully boasts that she loves both the team and the bivalve. But neither of those are exactly true. She is dating Seth, the most popular boy in school and the quarterback of the Quahogs. But Katie is unsure of her love for the team, and finds herself making out with the school's drama hottie, Eric, behind the Gull N' Gulp, a cafe where she works.
Katie lies to Seth and Eric so they won't find out about each other. And she lies to her parents about how she is spending the money she makes working double shifts. She doesn't tell them that she wants a professional camera, which she has on layaway, instead of the digital camera they got her for Christmas.
No one seems to care about her interest in photography. So it's a shock when someone who knows all about her passion for photography, and the truth about every lie in her life, comes back into town. And he could possibly add to her boyfriend trouble.
Katie spends the rest of the book spinning webs of lies. She begins to lose herself in her stories.
I really enjoyed this book - it's a good summer read. Not only was it amusing to try to figure out all the plot lines, but it kept my attention through the whole story. All of the lies that Katie told tended to clash so perfectly that it created the perfect amount of dramatic irony to the reader.
I also enjoyed reading about how she handled her boyfriend situations. It's not every day you read about a girl having two boyfriends while having feelings for another boy.
Meg Cabot really delivers a brilliant story with Pants on Fire. I see it as a must-read for any teenage girl this summer.
Katie Bruce, 18, is in 12th grade at River Ridge High School in New Port Richey.
Pants on Fire
By Meg Cabot, HarperTeen, 272 pages, $16.99
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Second suspect in Worcester Co. fentanyl distribution investigation sentenced
SNOW HILL, Md. – The second of two co-defendants in a drug distribution investigation has been sentenced.
The charges stem from an investigation that began on September 25, 2021, after an employee of an Ocean City hotel, identified as 37-year-old Christopher Price, failed to show up for work. Hotel employees made entry into Price’s apartment and found him deceased. Ocean City Police Department detectives were called in and obtained cell phone records, which revealed that Price had been in recent contact with Bryan Zimmerman. Extensive analysis of digital evidence revealed that Zimmerman and Leigh Ann Williams had traveled in a vehicle to sell Price what Price reportedly believed was Xanax. Detectives also learned that Zimmerman had been arrested two days prior for possession of fentanyl.
Autopsy results revealed that Price’s cause of death was fentanyl and ethanol intoxication, and as a result, Zimmerman was indicted by the Worcester County Grand Jury in November 2021. Williams was charged for her role in the incident on April 5, 2022, and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
Williams has been sentenced to 10 years in the Division of Correction with all but 5 years suspended and placed on three years of supervised probation on release.
Zimmerman was previously convicted of distribution of fentanyl and was sentenced to serve 20 years with all but 10 years suspended and placed on 5 years of supervised probation on release.


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I jump at opportunities to create masculine cards, so when I saw this card on Pinterest, I got really excited! Although I CASED the vest, I went one step further and actually mounted it on a card.
The original vest card was created by Amy Celone here
A template for the vest is included with Amy's tutorial.
Stamp: Petite Pair, Friendship (retired)
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Romantic interactive story about an encounter with a mysterious girl on a moonlit beach. Gameplay: You take the role of a guy who’s spending his summer at his relative’s place on an island. You’re an avid photographer who enjoys midnight landscape shots – especially those at the beach. One lonely night when you’re out taking snaps, you see a random girl… and from there you make the decisions about what to do and say. That’s the condensed version of the story, but actually there’s a sweet and well written script in this game. Just to clarify how it works: the screen is filled with an image to help set the scene, and then there’s text overlayed on top. Tap the screen, and the next paragraph of text will come up. At specific points, there will be choices of what to do or say. Your choices will determine which set of dialogue or story to unravel. Romantic elements: I like the meld of graphics, sound and dialogue in this game. I think they really come together to give quite a beautiful story which one can enjoy. I’m particularly impressed at the illustrations, and I think the facial expressions of the girl in the game help to bring her to life. I think the real key here is the story though – it’s well thought out, and the permutations are worth reading. Verdict: 3/5 I liked the core of this game, and I felt the romantic story telling was quite innovative. I’m being quite generous and one of the stars is literally for bringing this gameplay style to Android… I believe there are many Japanese story games of this genre out there… but hey I can’t read Japanese, and they’re “special” in a rather male way. I should state very clearly that I am only suggesting people download to try out the whole game for about 30 mins (that’s more than enough time). There are some rather big negatives. 1) There are only about 6 decision branches, making this game really short. 2) When running from the SD card, the memory footprint is about 3MB. Once you’ve completed the game and unlocked the gallery art, then the game takes up a further 6MB data. Therefore the whole game will be 9MB, which I think I can safely say you won’t be keeping for too long.
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Roncarelli v Duplessis
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|Roncarelli v Duplessis|
|Hearing: June 2–6, 1958 |
Judgment: January 27, 1959
|Full case name||Frank Roncarelli v The Honourable Maurice Duplessis|
|Citations|| S.C.R. 121|
|Ruling||Trial judge correct, amount awarded at trial increased by $25,000.|
|Chief Justice: Patrick Kerwin|
Puisne Justices: Robert Taschereau, Ivan Rand, Charles Holland Locke, John Robert Cartwright, Gerald Fauteux, Douglas Abbott, Ronald Martland, Wilfred Judson
|Majority||Martland J., joined by Locke J.|
|Concurrence||Rand J., joined by Judson J.|
Roncarelli v Duplessis,  S.C.R. 121, was a landmark constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court held that Maurice Duplessis, the premier of Quebec, had overstepped his authority by revoking the liquor licence of a Jehovah's Witness. Justice Rand wrote in his often-quoted reasons that the unwritten constitutional principle of the "rule of law" meant no public official was above the law and so could neither suspend nor dispense it. Although Duplessis had authority under the relevant legislation, his decision was not based on any factors related to the operation of the licence but was made for unrelated reasons and so was held to be exercised arbitrarily and without good faith.
Frank Roncarelli was a restaurant owner in Montreal and a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He used his wealth to provide bail security for other Witnesses who had been arrested by the municipal government.
At the time, tension and unprovoked violence by the dominant Roman Catholic community against Jehovah's Witnesses saw increasing arrests of members for distributing their magazines without the necessary permits under a city by-law that was later determined to be unconstitutional in Saumur v. The City of Quebec.
Roncarelli furnished bail for 375 of Jehovah's Witnesses in three years, many of whom were arrested multiple times.
The Chief Prosecutor of the city, Oscar Gagnon, overwhelmed by the number of Witnesses being arrested and then set free by Roncarelli's intervention, contacted the Premier who spoke to Édouard Archambault, Chairman of the Quebec Liquour Commission. Roncarelli's licence was subsequently revoked. Extensive testimony showed the government actors believed that Roncarelli was disrupting the court system, causing civil disorder and so was not entitled to the liquor licence.
Roncarelli was told that he was barred from holding a liquor licence and that the action was a warning that others would similarly be stripped of provincial "privileges" if they persisted in their activities related to the Witnesses.
Roncarelli received news of the revocation in December 1946, and while he tried to keep his business open without the licence, it was not profitable, and he put it up for sale within six months. Consequently, he brought an action against Duplessis for $90,000 in damages.
At trial, the Québec Court of Queen's Bench found for Roncarelli, but the decision was overturned on appeal.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada reinstated the trial decision, holding that Duplessis wrongfully caused the revocation of Roncarelli's liquor licence.
The six judges who sided with Roncarelli used different legal reasoning to reach their decision. Three judges wrote that Duplessis had ordered the cancellation outside his authority as premier; two judges stated that although Duplessis had the power to order the cancellation, he had done so in bad faith; and the sixth judge concluded the premier was not entitled to immunity as a public official.
Roncarelli was awarded $33,123.53 in damages as well as costs in the Court of Queen's Bench and the Supreme Court of Canada. Roncarelli's son, however, maintained that it was a significant moral victory in his father's struggle against the system.
Roncarelli's legal counsel throughout were A. L. Stein and Professor Frank Scott.
Cartwright wrote a dissenting judgement which argued that it was within the power of the commission to refuse to grant Roncarelli a permit, as the act only fettered the commission by delineating circumstances under which the granting of a permit was forbidden and circumstances in which the cancellation of a permit was mandatory. Cartwright argued that as this was an administrative tribunal, and not a judicial one, it was "a law unto itself" and did not need to base its decision on anything more than policy and expediency. Cartwright went on to argue that even if the commission were to be considered quasi-judicial, in which case procedural fairness guarantees would apply, that still would not entitle the plaintiff to monetary damages.
- List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Richards Court through Fauteux Court)
- Awake! - Magazine 8th march 1975, article "Defeat of Oppression"
- Sarah Blake, Administrative Law in Canada, 5th edition, pages 99 - 100.

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