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"The study consists of 3 sections, each of which is 15 minutes in length. The study will therefore take 1 hour to complete."
Friday, May 28, 2010
Math fail
"The study consists of 3 sections, each of which is 15 minutes in length. The study will therefore take 1 hour to complete."
13 comments:
Perhaps they were factoring in a 15-minute break for you too? That would have been very thoughtful, but not likely.
- May 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Todd said...
Deb's correct. there is a five-minute breather scheduled before you begin and then between sections. You know, because those surveys are sooooo stressful.
- May 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- terri c said...
That includes 15 minutes for banging your head on your desk.
- May 28, 2010 at 12:32 PM
That's just enough time to go to the break room and enjoy a Diet Coke before the final section.
- May 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- a.generic doc said...
They figure you're going to get paged 3 times while filling out the survey.
Or, more likely, you're right. They're just bad at math. And they probably just bought a lot of lottery tickets, too. - May 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM
Maybe they factored in your prostate size and the amount of bathroom breaks would be needed:)
- May 28, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- John Woolman said...
Sounds like lawyers' time. You know, charge an hour's fee for 45 minutes work.
- May 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM
- Pat F. said...
Clearly, further research is required!
- May 28, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Dreaming again said...
sounds like someone had more trouble with algebra than I ever dreamed of having!
- May 28, 2010 at 3:55 PM
- InkstainedPsyche said...
I'm thinking it's sort of like in football, you know, where it takes four hours to play exactly one hour of real playing time. Maybe not as long. Or like a TV show where you get 40 minutes of show and 20 minutes of commercials.
- May 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM
- The Mother said...
That includes 15 min to write your name and SSN. Because with only an MD, you can't be expected to pull that off quickly.
On the other hand, I have yet to do a CME that takes me even 1/3of the allotted time. - May 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM
- Moose said...
I just started doing an online survey [mine are usually about computers, go figure :-)].
First it asked me a bunch of questions like "True/False: People come to me for help with computers."
Then when I hit next it asked:
"Do you use a computer?
Yes No"
I'd show you a screenshot but my craptastic Windoze box crashes when I try to paste one. YAY. - May 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Claude said...
P.S. Don't worry. I'm not the one who will evaluate the survey.
- May 30, 2010 at 12:08 PM


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Watch Guns N' Roses Join Foo Fighters for 'It's So Easy'
Foo Fighters promised fans something different every night on their current tour, but it may be tough for them to top what they had in store tonight (June 14). At the Firenze Rocks festival in Florence, Italy, three members of Guns N' Roses -- Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan -- came out to perform "It's So Easy."
Guns N' Roses are headlining Firenze Rocks tomorrow night, and the we-were-in-the-neighborhood approach was the same used by Dave Grohl back in November, when he sat in on "Paradise City" with the Gunners in Tulsa.
The two frontmen also shared a throne in recent years. In 2015, Grohl broke his leg when he fell off a stage in Gothenburg, Sweden. Although Foo Fighters canceled the remainder of their European tour, by the time they started the North American leg three weeks later, Grohl had designed a throne, complete with guitar necks shooting out from it, while he was high on painkillers. Grohl lent it to Rose when he broke his foot on the eve of the first dates of the Not in This Lifetime tour a year later.
However, Rose made a few changes to it. He made it "a little more low-key," putting in a different base that blended better with the way their stage was set up. Rose also used it during 12 dates in Europe where he sang with AC/DC.
Grohl recently referenced his accident when, nearly three years to the day, he opened his band's Gothenburg show with somebody dressed as Grohl falling off the stage.

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Hubble Serves Up a Holiday Snow Angel
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope presents a festive holiday greeting that's out of this world. The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched "wings" of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop of a colder medium.
Sharpless 2-106, Sh2-106 or S106 for short, lies nearly 2,000 light-years from us. The nebula measures several light-years in length. It appears in a relatively isolated region of the Milky Way galaxy.
A massive, young star, IRS 4 (Infrared Source 4), is responsible for the furious activity we see in the nebula. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from the central star. This hot gas creates the "wings" of our angel.
A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an "hourglass" shape. Hubble's sharp resolution reveals ripples and ridges in the gas as it interacts with the cooler interstellar medium.
Dusky red veins surround the blue emission from the nebula. The faint light emanating from the central star reflects off of tiny dust particles. This illuminates the environment around the star, showing darker filaments of dust winding beneath the blue lobes.
Detailed studies of the nebula have also uncovered several hundred brown dwarfs. At purely infrared wavelengths, more than 600 of these sub-stellar objects appear. These "failed" stars weigh less than a tenth of our Sun. Because of their low mass, they cannot produce energy through nuclear fusion like our Sun does. They encompass the nebula in a small cluster.
The Hubble images were taken in February 2011 with the Wide Field Camera 3. Visible narrow-band filters that isolate the hydrogen gas were combined with near-infrared filters that show structure in the cooler gas and dust.
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There can really be no excuse for a modern employer not to have in place comprehensive anti-discrimination policies that are fully understood by all workers. In one case that illustrates the consequences of failing to comply with the law in this respect, a transgender sales assistant who was subjected to playground-style bullying whilst working for a major retailer has been awarded almost £50,000 in compensation (De Souza E Souza v Primark Stores Limited).
The worker had been dressing as a woman on a permanent basis for almost 15 years before the retailer employed her. Although her male birth name appeared on her passport and other documentation, she made it clear during her interview that she wished to be addressed by her preferred, female name. Both names were, however, entered on the retailer's computer system and, despite her protests, one of her supervisors persistently called her by her birth name.
The woman had been in the job for about three months when her transgender status became widely known amongst her colleagues. A series of incidents followed, in one of which a co-worker commented on her deep voice and sprayed male perfume in her direction, causing her to cough. In another, when she was fixing her makeup in the women's toilets, a colleague commented that there were 'no ladies in there'. She had also overhead colleagues referring to her as 'evil' or 'a joke'. She became so upset by her treatment that she ultimately resigned.
After lawyers launched proceedings on her behalf, an Employment Tribunal (ET) found that she had been constructively dismissed after enduring harassment and direct discrimination due to her gender identity. Despite her complaints, including to the police, her employer had done nothing to assist her, merely telling her to calm down and that she was drawing attention to herself.
She had been bullied out of a job she loved and the injury to her feelings was severe. The discrimination had made her feel insecure about her gender identity with the result that she had been prescribed anti-depressants and was unable to work for a considerable period following her dismissal.
She was awarded total damages of £47,433, made up of £20,000 for lost earnings, £25,000 for injury to feelings and interest. The ET recommended that the retailer put in place a training regime and a written policy instructing its managers how to deal appropriately with new or existing staff who are transgender or who wish to undergo gender reassignment.


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The unflinching arrogance of the Bush Administration is prompting the exodus among liberal citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray in public, and agree with Bill O'Reilly.
Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists, and Unitarians crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota.
The producer was cold, exhausted, and hungry. "He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"
In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields. "Not real effective," he said. "The liberals still got through, and Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk"
Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves. "A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though."
When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR.
Liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers. "If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age," an official said.
Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies." I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?"
In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said. "We're going to have some Peter, Paul & Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The President is determined to reach out."
My only source is my friend Jessica, who got it from her mother. Smells like The Onion though, eh?


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We read and absorb as truth the accounts of idealistic observers like Thomas More, Amerigo Vespucci, Las Casas, Rousseau, and others who bolster our view of our ancestors. We paint our people as innocents, pristine in relationship with all of nature, and pure in social structures and systems.
In our struggle for the rights of our Native people and our tribal governments, we point out the terrible things that we have suffered over history. Those accounts are manifold in history books in our research—the taking of our lands and our forced removal from primeval homelands, and the slaughter of our people from the earliest days of contact with the European immigrants. We have adopted the terms genocide and holocaust to describe the killing of our tribes through pestilence, removal, and unprovoked warfare. And we grieve the memory of the massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho families at Sand Creek in Colorado, the slaughter of Cheyenne men, women and children at Washita, rampant slaughter of the inhabitants of Indian Island in California, and the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee Creek.
Often we recall these things to put our conquerors and colonizers on a guilt trip to loosen up federal purse strings to meet the needs of our people, and to stir our political adrenaline to fight for our rights as the citizens of the first nations on this continent.
So it is painful in reading history to learn truths that disappoint our preconceptions of our nobler selves—to learn that we are just humans after all. Increasingly we are shaken to consciousness to this fact by actions in our tribal nations today.
Such is the case in the ongoing disenfranchisement of the Freedmen Blacks of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
It is true that the newly emancipated slaves of Cherokee plantations were forced onto the tribe by the victorious Union as punishment for having fought against the North in the Civil War, and the tribe was forced to incorporate them into their citizenry.
It is true that early on Cherokee entrepreneurs, trying to meet expectations of the conquerors and colonizers to assimilate, had become slave owners because it enabled them to compete agriculturally, especially in growing cotton. So, it can be said—albeit in gross irony—that as part of their efforts to become "civilized" Native farmers adopted slavery.
These Cherokee farmers and entrepreneurs were the core of the group that negotiated and signed the 1835 Treaty of New Echota which accepted removal west to Indian Territory. And it was the slave owners largely that formed the first wave to emigrate west on the Trail of Tears. But for these, the Cherokee elite, the Trail of Tears was facilitated by the slaves they took with them, and the hundreds more that were purchased along the way, most of them to be sold in the new territory.
And in the new territory, during the Civil War, the issue of slavery split each of the Five Civilized Tribes, and dragged them into the cruelest internecine warfare imaginable. Cherokee Stand Watie, General in command of the combined tribal troops fighting for the South and the last confederate general to surrender his forces at the end of the War, waged a cruel, merciless campaign against the anti-slavery forces of Apothle Yoholo, Creek leader of the ragtag intertribal group loyal to the Union. General Watie's orders to his troops forbade them to take any black prisoners. They were to be killed upon capture. He drove Yoholo's pathetic mass into Kansas, with scant supplies in the dead of winter, and left them there to die of the cold and starvation.
In the end, the surviving slaves were those that, out of loyalty, wouldn't leave their Native plantations, and others that were afraid to leave knowing they would be killed as runaways. Some of the remaining slaves fought beside their Cherokee masters for the South. These were the Black people that were forced upon the Cherokee by treaty to take into their tribal membership rolls at the end of the Civil War.
This is my reading of that tragic era in Civil War history, which included several books on the subject. Thus, to me, the actions taken by the Cherokee Tribe and its Supreme Court to disenfranchise those Freedmen, and the way it was done with apparent political motives, reek of injustice, if not racism. And using tribal sovereignty as the reason—or excuse—cheapens it further. The exercise of its sovereignty also means that the Cherokee Nation could tell those black citizens that they are welcome to stay and enjoy the heritage that was forced onto them, however tenuous. Sovereignty is powerful stuff, but it must have humanity; it must have soul.
There is light, however, in this messy swamp that taints Indian America. Cherokee attorney Ralph Keen, Jr., who courageously represents the Freedmen in their cause, is to be commended for his defense of this embattled minority among minorities. He sets a standard for which the entire Cherokee Nation, and all Indian Country and beyond, must admire and celebrate. I knew his father, the late Ralph Keen, who must from beyond be proud of his son.
Charles "Chuck" Trimble was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was principal founder of the American Indian Press Association in 1969, and served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians from 1972 to 1978. He is retired and lives in Omaha, Nebraska. His website is IktomisWeb.com.
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President Alberto K. Fujimori continued his efforts to suppress critical reporting in a year that ended with the long-anticipated announcement that he would seek a third five-year term, a move widely considered unconstitutional. The Fujimori government's systematic campaign to discredit Peru's independent press earned him a place on CPJ's list of the top 10 enemies of the press.
CPJ has characterized the Fujimori government as an "infotatorship," in which power is maintained through the control of information. Government intelligence agencies have used assassination plots, death threats, wiretapping, surveillance, and smear tactics to harass and threaten journalists, often forcing them into exile.
The judiciary also operates under Fujimori's control and has been extremely compliant when called upon to prosecute journalists. One blatant example was the June 18 conviction of Julio Genaro Sotelo Casanova, the former general manager of the television station Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2, on charges of fraud and illegal alteration of corporate documents. According to CPJ's sources, the case lacked all merit and represented yet another salvo in a two-year legal campaign against Baruch Ivcher, the station's former owner. Ivcher, an Israeli immigrant who was a naturalized Peruvian, was stripped of his citizenship and, as a result, his right to own a television station after Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2 aired a series of damaging investigative reports about the government.
Another example of the government's legal tactics against the press was the intimidation of Asociación Prensa Libre, a press group. Without any credible evidence, the government accused Prensa Libre of forging documents to substantiate its claim that the Peruvian intelligence services were waging a campaign of harassment against two opposition candidates in the coming presidential elections.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the final arbiter of inter-American law, this year admitted several complaints against Peru, including the Ivcher case. In July, the Fujimori government responded with a fit of pique, taking the unprecedented step of withdrawing from the court's jurisdiction. In a July 14 editorial, The New York Times described the move as "the international equivalent of taking your marbles and going home."
Meanwhile, the government-orchestrated defamation campaign against the independent press, which began in March 1998, continued throughout 1999. Two tabloids were launched whose titles played derisively on the name of the opposition daily La República: Repúdica and Repudio. The papers ran mostly scurrilous articles about La República's publisher, Gustavo Mohme Llona, an opposition member of Congress. The title of another defamatory tabloid, La Gran Repútica del Sur, parodied the Puno-based newspaper La Gran República del Sur. The fortnightly Sólido Norte, which appeared in the northern departments of La Libertad and Lambayeque toward the end of the year, not only attacked journalists and members of the opposition but also praised the work of government officials in both regions.
Peruvian reporters revealed that Héctor Ricardo Faisal, director of a defamatory, Miami-based Web site called APRODEV, had formerly served as a second lieutenant in the Argentine army, was subject to an international arrest warrant issued by the government of Argentina, and had close ties with the Peruvian intelligence services. But a Peruvian court quickly dismissed a defamation case filed against Faisal on the grounds that the articles on his site were reprints of piece that had already appeared in local tabloids.
Ever since the Lima-based Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad instigated the case against Faisal, its e-mail system has been regularly sabotaged. The press freedom group's director, Jorge Salazar Cussiánovich, received a telephoned death threat.
Over the next few months, new evidence emerged that the government had planted the defamatory stories in the tabloids. Several former editors and reporters with a Lima-based tabloid called El Chato, which regularly attacked journalists, revealed that many of the paper's front-page stories had been submitted by a Fujimori publicist. On October 27, Hugo Borjas, one of the journalists who went public with this information, was briefly kidnapped by unidentified individuals.
In a country where some 98 percent of the population watches television, control of the airwaves is crucial to Fujimori's reelection strategy. In the past two years, the government has succeeded in forcing all critical news programming off the air. Local sources describe Fujimori's presence on television as "overwhelming," and recent attempts to defy the president on television have proved costly. After Genaro Delgado Parker, a businessman and former president of Peru's Asociación de Radio y Televisión, denounced the government's control over Peruvian television, a national and international warrant was issued for his arrest because he missed a court appearance.
March 15
Hugo Meza Layza, free-lancer THREATENED, HARASSED, LEGAL ACTION
Meza, a free-lance journalist who reports for Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2 in Coishco, in northern Peru, informed the local press freedom organization Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad that Capt. Wilmer Vásquez Delgado of the Peruvian National Police had harassed and threatened him. Vásquez also filed a lawsuit against the journalist.
In March, Meza began working on a report about Vásquez for the station's well-known investigative program "Diálogo." The report linked Vásquez to a criminal gang and drew attention to other irregularities in his conduct as a police officer. In mid-March, Meza started receiving anonymous telephone threats that were traced to the police station where Vásquez works. One typical threat was, "You will die like a bum."
Vásquez used Meza's free-lance status against him by informing the deputy mayor of Coishco that Meza was not an employee of the station. On June 15, Meza was charged with extortion and false representation. The charges were based on assertions that Meza falsely represented himself as a correspondent for Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2, a charge that Meza denies.
The prosecutor submitted business cards carrying Meza's name and telephone number with the logo of the television station as evidence. Meza denied having given out such business cards or ever having had them made.
On July 15, Vásquez sued Meza for defamation, a criminal offense in Peru that carries a sentence of up to three years in prison. Vásquez has also threatened Meza's sources. Police officers from the Coishco precinct have confirmed that Vásquez wishes to see Meza imprisoned or eliminated before the results of his investigation can be made public.
All charges against Meza were pending at year's end.
March 18
Staff of Radio Marañón ATTACKED, THREATENED, HARASSED
At 1 a.m. on March 18, two hooded assailants attacked José Luis Linarez Altamirano, director of the romantic program "Punto Corazón" on Radio Marañón in the northeastern city of Jaén, at his home in a lightly populated area some distance from Jaén. The assailants shot him in the hand, the small intestine, and the left kidney.
According to the victim's girlfriend, Graciela Romero Pérez, who witnessed the incident, the attackers fled the scene of the crime but then returned to steal a small black-and-white TV set and a tape recorder. Romero believes this was a ruse meant to suggest robbery as a motive. It is significant, in this connection, that the attackers left behind an entertainment system worth more than four times the value of the items stolen.
Since the end of 1998, journalists at Radio Marañón have been subjected to threats, break-ins, and violent attacks in response to programming that has criticized official corruption, environmental degradation, and human-rights violations.
According to Hitalo Salazar Castillo, the station's programming director, the first phone calls were insulting but not menacing and therefore not considered a serious cause for concern. By February of 1999, however, the calls had taken on a more threatening tone. One journalist, Anny Mejía Cieza, who directs the youth-oriented program "En Collera," received an anonymous call from someone who claimed to know the names of her husband and son and the location of their home.
Another reporter, Roxana Robles Ramos, who hosts "La Mañana es Aquí," a morning program for peasant women, received six threatening phone calls in a single day. The station employees began to take precautions: entering and leaving in pairs, not giving out home addresses, and not arriving home late.
On March 20, the house of reporter Homero Marín Salazar was burglarized. One day later, reporter Olinda Mori Díaz had her home broken into; a bicycle and some clothing were stolen. In both cases, the thieves left behind items of much greater value than what they stole.
That same day, March 21, the station received a call from an individual who claimed to be related to programming director Salazar. The caller requested Salazar's home telephone number. Salazar, who is from Trujillo, does not have relatives in Jaén.
A week later, the house of producer Pedro Delgado Mendoza was also robbed. The circumstances were similar to previous robberies, except that this time the thieves left a note containing a death threat. And in July, the station began receiving threatening phone calls again after a lull of several months. Sometimes the callers insulted and threatened station staff. On other occasions, they simply remained silent on the line.
Linarez had noticed armed individuals outside his residence who ran away when approached. On July 10, Linarez recognized one of the armed individuals as one of the attackers who had shot him four months earlier. On other occasions, orange-and-black vehicles bearing the logo of the presidential office have passed by his home very late at night. These vehicles are known to be associated with the Peruvian military.
Local journalists see these attacks as part of a concerted effort to control the independent press and stifle public opposition to government policies. Local human-rights organizations pressured Minister of the Interior José Villanueva Ruesta to investigate the attacks and provide the journalists with protection, but the staff of Radio Marañón received no guarantee that they would be allowed to continue their work in safety.
May 14
Jaime Antonio Angulo Quesquén, Radio Stereo Laser Plus THREATENED, HARASSED
Angulo, the owner of Radio Stereo Laser Plus, in Pacasmayo Province, informed the Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad, a local press freedom organization, that he had been repeatedly threatened by state official Carlos Vera Cépeda and businessman Eduardo Burgos Delgado.
In his investigative program "Impacto Noticioso," Angulo had reported on a series of irregularities committed by Vera and Burgos, administrator and promoter, respectively, of the state-owned Regional Refrigerated Fisheries. Both were subsequently fired from their positions.
On May 14, Vera and Burgos broke into Angulo's house and verbally insulted him in front of his wife and young children. From that night on, Vera and Burgos threatened to kill Angulo each time they met him on the street.
On the evening of June 7, unidentified individuals threw rocks at the radio station. The next evening, an anonymous caller warned the station operator that Angulo should keep an eye on his children.
June 18
Julio Genaro Sotelo Casanova, Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2 IMPRISONED, LEGAL ACTION
Sotelo, former general manager of the television station Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2, was arrested and convicted of fraud and illegal alteration of corporate documents.
The Court of Tax and Customs Crimes, headed by interim judge Nicolás Trujillo López, ruled that Sotelo was guilty of having illegally transferred shares of Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2 from Baruch Ivcher, the majority shareholder, to his four daughters in 1997.
In July 1997, Ivcher, who was born in Israel, was stripped of his adopted Peruvian citizenship and thereby made ineligible to own a television station under Peruvian law. At year's end, Ivcher was in exile, living in the United States and Israel.
The charges against Sotelo were filed by Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2's former minority shareholders, the brothers Mendel and Samuel Winter, who currently exercise majority control over the station.
On April 16, the Court of Tax and Customs Crimes sentenced Sotelo to four years of probation. Sotelo did not attend this session, but he did submit a medical certificate attesting that he was absent because of health problems. The court acknowledged Sotelo's medical condition. But on June 18, it cited his absence as one of the reasons for changing his sentence from probation to an unconditional prison term.
According to CPJ's information, it has been established that Ivcher's daughters have been legitimate shareholders in Frecuencia Latina-Canal 2 since 1994. In a June 24 letter to President Alberto K. Fujimori, CPJ condemned Sotelo's arrest and conviction, which it described as further evidence of a systematic campaign against Peru's independent press.
Sotelo began serving his sentence in San Jorge Prison. On June 29, he was transferred to San Borja Hospital for health reasons. On July 7, the Appeals Court of Tax and Customs Crimes, headed by Judge Raúl Lorenzi Goycochea, reversed the sentence to four years of probation. Sotelo was ordered to report to the court every month. He was not allowed to change his residence or leave the country without judicial authorization.
June 27
Marco Antonio Cossío Vega, Radio Mix ATTACKED
At about 1 a.m. on June 27, six individuals attacked Cossío, director of "La Voz del Pueblo," a program broadcast on Radio Mix from the city of Paramonga, just north of Lima. The assailants beat Cossío and then fled, leaving him with a broken leg. Cossío was able to identify only one of his attackers, a local criminal who goes by the alias piojo ("louse") and had escaped from jail two months earlier.
While preliminary police reports suggested that the attack was a common crime, none of Cossío's personal belongings were taken. According to local sources, the attack may well have been intended to silence Cossío's critical coverage of Paramonga politicians. Shortly before the attack, Cossío had broadcast a segment about alleged official misconduct under the current mayor of Paramonga, Domingo Ortega Narváez. The allegations included abuses committed by his personal security guards.
At the end of May, Cossío and the station's owner, Rafael Huertas, received an anonymous telephone threat warning them to take "La Voz del Pueblo" off the air. Flyers attacking the journalists' reputation and character then started circulating in the area.
On July 2, local trade unions held a demonstration to protest ongoing abuses of press freedom in Paramonga. The demonstrators demanded that authorities investigate the Cossío case and punish those found responsible.
July 12
Reporte THREATENED, HARASSED
Journalists from Reporte, a bimonthly magazine that circulates in the southern city of Puno, were subjected to telephoned threats and other harassment because of an article in the magazine about alleged financial irregularities at the National University of the Altiplano (UNA).
The article, entitled "We Defend the University, Stop the Savagery," appeared in the July 1Ð15 edition of Reporte. Subsequently, UNA's administrative vice chancellor, Edgardo Pineda Quispe, sent a letter to the magazine's office asking that the author of the article be identified so that the vice chancellor could "take measures."
Reporte staffers were also subjected to harassment and intimidation by unknown individuals who began loitering outside the magazine's headquarters around July 12, when Pineda Quispe's letter arrived. The magazine also received anonymous telephone threats.
After the threats began, Reporte received support and solidarity from press unions in Puno. The threats stopped around the end of August.
September 3
Asociación Prensa Libre LEGAL ACTION
Guillermo Gonzales Arica, Caretas LEGAL ACTION
The Peruvian government accused the independent journalists' group Asociación Prensa Libre of forging documents to substantiate its claim that the Peruvian National Intelligence Service (SIN) and Military Intelligence Service (SIE) were waging a campaign of harassment against two opposition candidates in the presidential elections. One of Prensa Libre's members, Guillermo Gonzales Arica, was singled out arbitrarily for official harassment in connection with this accusation.
Prensa Libre was created in an effort to provide independent broadcast news in a country where critical TV journalism has been crushed. On August 25, Prensa Libre held a press conference to reveal the existence of "Operational Plan Politicians," an official scheme for spying on presidential candidates Alberto Andrade Carmona and Luis Castañeda Lossio and their respective political organizations. During the same press conference, Prensa Libre showed a video of Andrade and Castañeda being followed and harassed by suspected SIN and SIE agents.
Prensa Libre filed a formal complaint with the National Elections Jury (JNE) about these alleged irregularities. Meanwhile, the Supreme Council of Military Justice (CSJM) investigated Prensa Libre's allegations. But the CSJM did not examine Prensa Libre's documentary and video evidence. Instead, it relied on second-hand accounts in the Peruvian press. Based on this sketchy "evidence," the CSJM concluded that Prensa Libre had falsified documents.
On September 3, the CSJM filed its own complaint with the JNE, accusing Prensa Libre of obstruction of justice and "crimes against the public faith." The JNE referred both complaints to the Public Ministry, which authorized the CSJM case to proceed, while reportedly not taking any action regarding Prensa Libre's complaint. In response to the legal proceedings initiated by the CJSM, Prensa Libre filed a writ for the protection of its constitutional rights, including freedom of expression. The Public Law Court threw out the appeal.
While all members of Prensa Libre were accused of having falsified documents, authorities singled out only one member for investigation. On November 19, Gonzales Arica, a reporter with the weekly Caretas, received a summons to appear three days later at the Police Division of the Public Ministry. On November 22, at Prensa Libre's request, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asked the Peruvian government to guarantee Gonzales Arica's right to liberty, physical integrity, freedom of expression, and due process. It also asked the government to explain what it was doing to protect Gonzales Arica's rights.
Local journalists suspect that Gonzales Arica may have been targeted because of his hard-hitting reports in Caretas and his testimony in a separate case against Peru's intelligence services, currently pending before the IACHR.
In a December 16 protest letter to President Alberto K. Fujimori, CPJ argued that according to all available evidence, Prensa Libre had merely exercised its constitutional rights to free expression, to the extent still possible in Peru. It urged the president to guarantee the right of Gonzales Arica and all other Prensa Libre journalists to do their jobs without fear of reprisal, as called for by the American Convention on Human Rights, which Peru ratified in 1978.
On January 6, 2000, the IACHR notified Prensa Libre that it had received a reply from the Peruvian government, stating that Gonzales Arica was in no danger of being detained.
September 3
Kela León, Caretas HARASSED
Paul Vallejos, Caretas HARASSED
Reporter León and photographer Vallejos of the weekly magazine Caretas were assaulted during a public rally in support of Manuel Garrido Castro, the former mayor of the district of Los Organos, in the northern department of Piura.
The Lima-based journalists had traveled to Organos on assignment. When they entered the arena where the rally was being held, individuals jumped on Vallejos, snatched his camera and credentials, and threw him out. When León asked local authorities for help, they replied that they could not intervene because the rally was private. Another individual then confiscated her credentials and ejected her from the arena as well.
September 20
Reynaldo Benavides Ramos, Radio Luren THREATENED, LEGAL ACTION
Three unknown individuals accosted and threatened Benavides, director of Radio Luren in the coastal city of Ica, as he was leaving the station to return home. The assailants pointed a gun at the journalist's head and threatened to kill him if he continued broadcasting reports about José Luis Huasasquiche, the owner of a local computer company.
That same day, on his program "La Hora Clave," Benavides had reported new evidence linking Huasasquiche to a brutal January 27 attack on another journalist, Víctor Raúl Arroyo Huamán (better known by his pseudonym Paul Mayor) of Radio Exito. The attack on Arroyo Huamán had previously been attributed to common delinquents.
Benavides was threatened just minutes after broadcasting this report. He told the local press freedom organization Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad that Huasasquiche had filed a slander and defamation suit against him on August 27. The suit was still pending at year's end.
September 28
Juan Sausa Seclén, La República, Radio Marañón THREATENED
La República CENSORED
Seclén, a correspondent for the national daily La República and a reporter with the radio station Radio Marañón in the northeastern town of Jaén, received death threats that drove him into hiding for three weeks.
The threats came immediately after La República published an article by Seclén accusing Hugo Coral Goycochea, a former member of the paramilitary group "Colina," of working as a bodyguard for the mayor of Jaén under an assumed name.
Colina was the paramilitary group responsible for the 1992 kidnapping and murder of nine students and a professor from the Enrique Guzmán y Valle University in Lima. Their bodies were later found burned and buried. The group was supposed to have disbanded in 1995, when its members were first prosecuted. Goycochea himself was never charged, and the group was granted amnesty in 1996.
Seclén's article appeared in the September 28 edition of La República, which hit the newsstands at 8 a.m. Government agents had confiscated all unsold copies by 10:30 a.m. The National Intelligence Service (SIN) is believed to have conducted this operation.
Subsequently, Seclén received anonymous death threats on his cellular phone, at his home, and at the Radio Marañón office. After spending some three weeks in hiding, he went back to work. Police offered Seclén 24-hour protection, but he declined it, fearing it would interfere with his ability to work as a journalist.
Jaén police are currently investigating the case, although local sources are skeptical that the investigation will yield positive results.
November 10
Angel Durán León, Radio Quassar ATTACKED
A single masked individual shot Durán, a journalist with Radio Quassar in Huaraz, while he was en route to an interview with a local official. When the journalist and his driver stepped out of the car to remove some stones from the road, a masked individual jumped out and shot Durán in the thigh.
Although the assailant is still at large, Durán suspects the attack was ordered by Fredy Moreno Neglia, former vice minister in President Alberto K. Fujimori's government. The incident is only the latest in a series of attacks and threats against Durán that began in 1995, when the journalist started airing investigative reports about Moreno's alleged corruption, including embezzlement of government funds.
Moreno has held several prominent positions as Fujimori's representative in the Ancash region. He is also the owner of a daily newspaper in Huaraz, Prensa Regional; a radio station, Radio Ancash; and a local Huaraz television station, Canal 2 on AMR Televisión.
Since 1995, Durán has endured attacks, threats, bribery attempts, and some 15 different legal cases filed against him by Moreno (he has been cleared of the charges in 14 of these cases).
On February 18, 1998, Durán was kidnapped and beaten by individuals whom he suspected of working for Moreno. The journalist spent two days recovering in a hospital in Ancash. Media outlets under Moreno's control also subjected Durán to an ongoing defamation campaign. Yet he continued to pursue his investigations.
On September 16, 1999, Durán staged a sit-in outside the Congress building in Lima. He threatened to go on a hunger strike if his evidence about Moreno's personal corruption and vendetta against him were not heard. Only six days earlier, a member of the Moreno family had called Durán, offering to pay him US$6,000 if he would refrain from appealing to Congress.
After five hours, the legislature agreed to give Durán a hearing, where he received assurances that his allegations would be investigated. Subsequently, Moreno filed a contempt suit against Durán. On October 18, an Ancash court sentenced Durán to a one-year suspended prison term and a fine of approximately US$1,450. In an interview with CPJ, Durán said he planned to continue investigating Moreno as soon as his leg healed.
In early December, facing mounting public scrutiny as a result of Radio Quassar's investigative work, Moreno resigned his position as vice minister. However, he continued to be affiliated with Fujimori's government.
December 9
Radio Libertad HARASSED
Ministry of Transportation and Communications official Waldimar Huamaní Alfaro ordered the closure of Radio Libertad, an independent radio station located in the city of Trujillo, claiming that it was operating without a proper license. The action appeared to be part of a general government campaign to stifle critical radio stations.
Carlos Burmester Landauro, director of Radio Libertad's program "La Voz de la Calle," and a member of the family that owns the station, told CPJ that he showed Huamaní the radio's operating licenses dating back to November 5, 1951, as well as receipts for license renewal fees dating back 10 years.
While Huamaní was visiting the station, Burmester also had him telephone the Ministry of Transportation and Communications in Lima, where an official confirmed that the radio station's papers were in order.
Nonetheless, Huamaní ordered the station to stop broadcasting immediately and disconnect its equipment. He threatened civil, criminal, and administrative sanctions if the station did not shut down.
That same evening, 28 opposition members of Congress passed a motion asking Transportation and Communications Minister Alberto Pandolfi to explain the government's harassment of Radio Libertad. The next day, the director-general of telecommunications of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications announced that Radio Libertad could ignore the closure order.
At year's end, Radio Libertad continued to operate as an independent radio station.
December 21
Liberación HARASSED
Judicial police attempted to prevent the distribution of the recently launched daily Liberación. The paper's director is César Hildebrandt, known as a strong critic of President Alberto K. Fujimori's government.
The officers, accompanied by the secretary of the 59th Lima Civil Court, arrived at the offices of Lea, the company that prints Liberación, with two cranes and a bulldozer. The officers used this equipment to break down the main door of the building. The owner of the building, Abraham Hochman Bilbao, and staff members prevented the officers from seizing any company assets. The siege was lifted after an hour and a half.
While the operation was ostensibly aimed at seizing Hochman's assets in order to cover an outstanding debt, Hochman merely rents office space to printing companies and does not own any of their assets. Moreover, the debt case against Hochman had been dormant for three years. According to CPJ's Peruvian sources, the raid was in fact prompted by articles published in Liberación concerning a US$2 million bank account held by Vladimiro Montesinos, advisor to Fujimori and chief of the Peruvian intelligence services.


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Filipino woman treated as a slave in Canberra after accepting housekeeping job
/She came to Australia with the promise of a job, but in reality she ended up being the victim of a sinister trade.
Gloria (not her real name) came to Australia in 2011 from the Philippines, after answering a job advertisement for a live-in housekeeper for a foreign diplomat.
But when she arrived in Canberra to take up her role, she began to get a sense of what was in store.
"Bad, I don't have a bed the first three days, at least I have a carpet," she said of her living conditions.
Despite having a clear employment contract stipulating her work hours, salary and conditions, Gloria says she was made to work seven-days-a-week, often long hours and was not paid a wage.
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- Since 2004 the AFP has looked into 380 cases under human trafficking and slavery laws
- 60 per cent of trafficking investigations are linked to the sex industry
- Forced labour occurs in construction, factory work, agriculture and domestic work.
- This year the Federal Parliament passed tougher laws on slavery
- For the first time a separate offence of forced labour has been created
"I was treated like a prisoner," she said.
"I'm not allowed to talk, I'm not allowed to go out, even throwing out the rubbish."
Her passport was taken from her and her movement restricted.
Even on a simple trip to the local shopping centre with her boss's family, Gloria says the wife would escort her and stand guard when she went to the bathroom.
It all came as a horrifying shock to Gloria, who never imagined she could find herself in servitude in the national capital of a country lauded as a beacon of democracy.
"I didn't expect here in Australia that things will happen, because I know in Australia they have strong laws, with human rights," she said.
Police have looked at 380 cases since 2004
But Gloria is not alone - each year the Australian Federal Police (AFP) conducts dozens of investigations into allegations of human trafficking, slavery and labour exploitation.
Since 2004, the AFP has looked into more than 380 cases under human trafficking and slavery laws.
About 60 per cent of trafficking investigations are linked to the sex industry, but police say reports of forced labour in other sectors are on the rise.
Jennifer Burn from Anti-Slavery Australia at the University of Technology, says forced labour occurs across a range of industries including construction, factory work, agriculture and domestic work.
I didn't expect here in Australia that things will happen, because I know in Australia they have strong laws, with human rights
"We know that Australia is a destination country for men and women from the Asia Pacific region," she said.
"So particularly to date from Malaysia, China, the Republic of Korea and the Philippines, so it's a global problem, Australia is not immune."
Fiona David of the organisation Walk Free, says people who are vulnerable, like those on temporary visas, are most likely to be exploited.
"We're not talking about cases where people are just being badly paid or they just don't like their jobs," she said.
"We're talking about cases where the exploitation is so severe that it is proper to use terms like slavery."
New laws provide greater protection to exploited
Earlier this year Federal Parliament passed tougher laws on slavery and for the first time a separate offence of forced labour was created.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says broadening the scope of the laws should make it easier to investigate and prosecute.
"To make it clear that any conduct which is forcing someone into a slavery like situation which might include deception and including in that forcing someone into unfair debt contracts ... we wanted to make sure that was unlawful," he said.
And he says there are now more protections for witnesses.
Loading..."It will enable vulnerable witness ... victims of slavery-like offences to give evidence through closed circuit TV, via video link, to give evidence with a support person in attendance and to give evidence in a way in which their identity is protected," he said.
"Now all of those are very important if we are to secure convictions against people who've been involved in slavery-like offences or any offences that involve forced labour."
Advocates have welcomed the new laws but say more needs to be done to raise awareness of the issue.
As for Gloria, she managed to escape her situation with the help of her embassy and the AFP.
She is now suing her former employer in the Federal Circuit Court.
But she says while she now has freedom, she knows of others who remain trapped in similar situations to hers.
"Worse than mine, it's really sad," she said.
However she says by speaking out she can give voice to those who lack the freedom to speak for themselves.


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Pose too much danger to toddlers
Ikea has promised to stop selling window blinds with cords in an effort to improve childsafety.
As of today, it's stopped selling them in the US, and says it plans to discontinue them internationally by the end of the year.
"Product safety is the highest priority for Ikea, which is why we have been working to develop alternative solutions to exposed cords in window coverings. In 2012, Ikea made the commitment to only offer window blinds and coverings with no or non-accessible cords by January of 2016, and we're pleased to be able to announce that we've met this commitment," says Heather Spatz, Ikea US country sales manager.
"Ikea is committed to working together with our customers to raise awareness of this important issue and to help families get the knowledge they need to ensure a safer everyday life at home."
On average, one child a month died in a window blind accident in the US between 1996 and 2012, according to the US Consumer Products Safety Commission – which has named the cords as one of its top five hidden home hazards.
In the UK, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), there have been at least 30 deaths across the UK due to looped blind cords since 1999 – 17 since the start of 2010.
Most such accidents, it says, happen in the bedroom, to children between 16 months and 36 months old. More than half involve children of around 23 months.
At this age, toddlers are mobile, but still have a comparatively heavy head and undeveloped control of their muscles, making it harder to free themselves if they become entangled.
In addition, toddlers' windpipes are smaller and less rigid than those of adults and older children, meaning that they can suffocate far more quickly.
"It can take as little as seconds for a toddler to lose their life after becoming entangled in a window blind cord or chain, but simple steps – such as securing cords and chains with safety devices and keeping furniture away from windows so that children cannot climb up – can help prevent deaths," says Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England.
Last month alone, three inquests were carried out into the deaths of toddlers from blind cords.
Two-year-old Roisín Redmond choked to death after becoming caught in a looped blind cord at her grandmother's home in Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny.
Three-year-old Mohammed Javaid, known as Haseeb, also strangled himself at his Huddersfield home, as did Oxfordshire thirteen-month-old Johnny Doran.
Recent changes to the law mean it's no longer legal to sell blinds with cords unless the cords are fixed to the wall or have a snap-mechanism that breaks them when more than 4kg of pressure is applied; Ikea is going one further.
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In the spring of 2011, Ray Lewis made the prediction that crime would increase if the NFL lockout prevents the football season from occurring. For some people, like the kids mentioned in his statement, football is a substitute for causing trouble. Ray Lewis (and subsequently LaVar Arrington) left out half the story. A group exists that causes crime because of football. Examples include football drunks and overly aggressive fans (e.g. the baseball incident in May 2011). Without football, the first group will cause more crime while the second group will commit less crime. Due to the uncertainty of the relative sizes of these two groups, predicting the end result is not so easy. I would've suggested that crime would decrease, but I am no better of a predictor as we are all victims of the same type of bias.
Mr. Lewis and Mr. Arrington believe the number of aspiring players is larger than unruly fans. I suggest the opposite. Why? Tversky and Kahneman's availability heuristic suggests that we tend to think there are more of the types of people or things that can easily be brought to mind. The aforementioned NFL players believe that in the average community there are more aspiring athletes than fans. They grew up in such communities. I grew up in a place with relatively more fans, so I fall for the same type of selection bias by asserting the contrary. None of us has experienced the random sample necessary to make a reliable estimate. One of us is likely right, but based on poor methods of estimation.


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Dec. 2 – An inmate at Mule Creek Prison stabbed Charles "Tex" Watson in the back and then attempted to throw him over a second story tier. Watson spoke of the attack, which occurred on the morning of February 16, 2013, at his parole hearing last month.
According to Watson, he was washing his clothes in a sink on the second tier when an unidentified inmate started hovering around him with a rolled up magazine in his hand. The inmate asked Watson if he knew anything about Kabala, and Watson replied that he didn't. As Watson walked away, the inmate began stabbing Watson in the back with a sharpened paint brush.
Watson told the Board of Parole Hearings that he didn't think the inmate could hurt him because of the man's small stature. According to Watson, he initially thought the man was punching him and was unaware that he was being stabbed.
The inmate then began trying to lift Watson and push him over the tier but Watson was able to hang onto the railing until staff intervened.
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Title: Outliers
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Adult Dystopian
Publisher: Twisted Press
Publication Date: Mar. 6th, 2018
In the dusty ruins of the world, three groups exist: the Sovereign, the Fortis, and the Outliers. Within their walled city, exclusive access to the only remaining technology gives the Sovereign an advantage that seems impossible to beat. In exchange for meager scraps and free reign outside the walls, they use the brawn of the Fortis to their advantage while the Outliers struggle to survive. Living on land that has not healed from the poison of the past, and surrounded by dangers too numerous to count, the Outliers have adapted - but to the Sovereign and the Fortis, they are nothing.
Indra is an Outlier. Each day she braves the wastelands, making the dangerous journey from the wilds where she lives to the City so she can serve the Sovereign in order to give her family a better life. Inside the walls, she has no rights and no freedom. Not only is she powerless to resist the Sovereign's harsh rule, but she is also unable to do anything to save her people from the brutality of the Fortis. For centuries they have made their abuse of Outliers a sport, but when Asa comes to Indra's rescue, she sees something different in him. Something that marks him as so much more than just a Fortis guard.
But as Indra's world begins to unravel, even the quiet alliance she has formed with Asa cannot save her from the wrath of the Sovereign. In one life-altering moment, everything Indra has ever known is ripped away, forcing her to face a world even more harsh and unforgiving. Broken and scarred, Indra finds herself on a journey that will challenge everything she's ever been taught, learning along the way that she's stronger than she ever imagined. Maybe even strong enough to free her people forever.
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"He is in love with you," Mira finally said.
The statement warmed my cheeks even though I had already come to this conclusion. "I know."
"And you?" She glanced my way, not turning her head completely when she did it, as if she thought it would make me more likely to answer her honestly. As if she thought I was hiding something from her. "Do you love him?"
"I know nothing about him, but the answer would be no either way. I love Bodhi. I would not have married him otherwise. Plus, no matter what Asa does to help me, an Outlier cannot be with a Fortis. It is impossible."
"Why?" Mira asked.
I turned my body to face her, walking sideways so that my back was to the Lygan Cliffs even though I had been taught to never lose my focus in this way. "Because we are not the same."
"Now you sound like one of the Sovereign." Mira's blue eyes rolled in their sockets, but her lips pulled up into a smile that helped to ease some of the sting her words had brought to me. "We are the same, Indra. We are all people. We have just been trained to believe that we are different."
I opened my mouth to argue with her, but no words came out. She was right. Sovereign, Outlier, Fortis, we were all just people. The only thing that kept us apart were the walls that had been constructed years ago, both the physical ones and the ones that existed only in our minds. Those were built on oppression and prejudices so old that no one alive today had a clue why they even existed.
A click echoed off the rocks at my back, followed closely by a few more. In front of me, my friend's body went rigid. I spun to face the cliffs, the knife in my hand up and ready as more clicking rang through the air. But there was nothing in sight. Not yet, anyway.
"Where is it?" Mira hissed.
At my side, she too had her knife up. This was a position we had been in before, and as long as there was only one of the creatures, we knew what to do to defend ourselves. The problem would come if they were hunting in a pack. One lygan was dangerous enough, but four or five? We would not be able to beat that many.
We remained still. The clicks grew closer together and louder, but with the way the sounds echoed off the rocks, it was impossible to tell how many there were until the creature—or creatures—decided to show themselves.
"Be ready," I said for my benefit as much as for hers.
The hiss came first. It was a sound that was low and seemed to come from the deepest part of the animal's belly, and it was followed only a beat later by the appearance of the lygan itself. The creature was bigger than average, its tail as long as my arm and its body only a little shorter. Its claws clicked across the rocks as it scurried forward, seeming to move at an impossibly fast speed considering its stunted legs. The red and purple scales shone even in the limited light of the evening as the lygan twisted between the sharp rocks that made up the cliffs. Now that it was closer, the click of its claws seemed twice as loud, and when it hissed a second time, the sharp points of its teeth were visible.
Readying myself for a fight, I planted my feet. I knew from experience that the creature would pounce without warning, that was how Mira had been injured before, and I was ready when it finally flew through the air, headed right for me.
I slashed my knife up and the blade hit home on the lygan's stomach. It screeched just before its body slammed into mine, and when I flew back a cry retched from my body on impact. We went down together, my back slamming into the dry ground and the lygan landing on top of me. It was injured and my knife was still in its belly, but it had not given up yet. The animal wiggled and snapped its jaw, and his teeth came close enough to my nose that I felt its moist breath against my face. His yellow eyes were focused on me, the black pupils dilated to slits. The scales were smooth against my hand when I grabbed its neck in an attempt to hold him back, and his claws scratched at my body as he tried to get the advantage.
Mira's voice seemed far away, but I knew she was nearby and ready to help. Just as I had been with her the day she was attacked. Her face appeared above me. The setting sun shone down on her blond hair, making it glow, and in the brilliant light her passage markings seemed twice as dark against her pale skin.
The sun reflected off the metal when she raised her knife and I had to turn my head away. My hand was still on the lygan's neck, holding the thing back as it snapped its teeth, but even before Mira had stabbed it I could feel its strength waning. Then she did, and when the knife entered the lygan's body, the creature let out a shriek that left a ringing behind in my ears. The lygan jerked and its claws clamped down on my stomach, puncturing my dress and forcing a scream out of me. Mira pulled her knife from the creature and brought it down again, and this time the animal let out a drained wail that was preceded by its entire body going slack.
When that happened, its claws relaxed as well, freeing me from the piercing hold it had on my body. I shoved the animal off and it rolled to the ground at my side. Mira was panting, as was I, and for a beat neither one of us moved. She stayed frozen, standing over me while I remained on my back, staring up at her.


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The launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard, is seen at Space Launch Complex 2, Sunday, June 29, 2014, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. OCO-2 will measure the global distribution of carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate. OCO-2 is set for a July 1, 2014 launch.
OCO-2 is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va., built the spacecraft and provides mission operations under JPL's leadership. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
For more information on OCO-2, visit: http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ and http://www.nasa.gov/oco2.


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Free Colonoscopy Coverage Means Polyps, Too
By Candy Sagon, February 25, 2013 09:00 AM
A routine colonoscopy was supposed to be free under the new health care law, but then insurers began charging if doctors found and removed a polyp during the procedure.
That's a no-no, announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last week, in an effort to clear up confusion about this and other medical tests that should be considered free preventive care, the Associated Press reported.
In the notice posted on the HHS website, the agency explained that "polyp removal is an integral part of a colonoscopy. Accordingly, the plan or issuer may not impose cost-sharing with respect to a polyp removal during a colonoscopy performed as a screening procedure." Including polyp removal as part of a routine colonoscopy also has the backing of several medical associations, the agency noted.
In addition, the government's notice about covered preventive care included genetic testing for breast cancer, which can run as much as $3,000, plus coverage of doctor-prescribed over-the-counter products such as aspirin for heart care and nicotine patches for smoking. According to the Associated Press, the notice does not have the force of law, though patient advocate groups say insurers are expected to follow it.
A colonoscopy can dramatically cut the death rate from colon cancer by catching precancerous polyps early. Adults are urged to have a colonoscopy to screen for any problems when they turn 50, but it's an expensive test that can cost more than $1,000.
When it was first announced that a colonoscopy would be covered for free under the health care law, this got a lot of attention, but then patients began complaining when many insurers started charging if polyps were discovered and removed during the procedure.
"Insurers were reclassifying it from a preventive test to a diagnostic procedure," Stephen Finan, policy director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, told the Associated Press. "In some cases the cost-sharing was a significant amount of money." His group was among several that complained to the administration.
The HHS notice also said that if a health plan does not have a network doctor who performs a particular preventive service, "then the plan or issuer must cover the item or service when performed by an out-of-network provider," without charging the patient copays or additional charges.
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ESSEX NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATES, P.C. is an adult neurology group practice, founded in 1976. We are dedicated to providing quality medical care for patients on Boston's North Shore. ENA provides neurological diagnostic and treatment services to physicians and patients north of Boston as well as consultative services to North Shore Medical Center.
We are integrated into Partners Health System which includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital and collaborate with all the teaching institutions in Boston.
Our board certified neurologists diagnose and treat all neurological conditions including, but not limited to, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy, Headache, Movement Disorder/Parkinson's Disease, Back Pain, Memory Disorders, Nerve and Muscle Disorders, Head Trauma and Sleep Disorders.
We are committed to availability and communication. Consultation appointments are available in a timely fashion. Referring physicians receive reports promptly to assist in the ease of coordination of patient care.
Our staff is trained to be of service to patients, both new and current. Putting our patient's needs first is our priority.
State-of-the-art medical treatment and equipment is provided in a convenient community setting near Route 128, behind the North Shore Shopping Mall with plenty of free parking.


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Wichita Wind Surge Integrate Massive LED Scoreboard in New Ballpark Stadium
Following a 12-season absence, Minor League Baseball has returned to Wichita, Kansas. With the relocation of the New Orleans Baby Cakes, the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins comes to Wichita with a new name—the Wind Surge—and will play their games at a new $90 million stadium. Built at the site where Lawrence-Dumont Stadium formerly stood, the new 10,000-seat Riverfront Stadium was completed in March 2020 and features luxury suites in addition to other amenities.
To drive excitement and engage fans in Riverfront Stadium, outdoor LED video wall technology from Planar and Lighthouse was integrated throughout the ballpark. The installations include a nearly 80-foot-wide, 35-foot-tall outdoor LED scoreboard with a 16mm pixel pitch as well as two 90-foot LED ribbon boards with a 16mm pixel pitch. The LED scoreboard is installed over left field and the two LED ribbon boards are mounted on the stadium's second level facade, extending down each line above home plate.
LED scoreboard provides a vivid ballpark centerpiece
The large LED scoreboard was a key component of the new stadium design, according to Jordan Kobritz, partner and senior advisor to CBI Investors Limited Partnership, the parent company of the Wichita Wind Surge.
"From the fans' perspective, the scoreboard is something that will truly affect their senses and impact their experience at the ballpark," he said.
In today's day and age, where visual technology has become an integral part of the gameday atmosphere in sports stadiums, a dynamic scoreboard is critical in baseball for meeting fan expectations for high-resolution replays and game statistics.
"Baseball has a different pace than other sports and there is a lot of downtime between pitches when fans are likely to have their eyes on the scoreboard," Kobritz said. "That's why it is so important to get it right."
As the visual centerpiece for Riverfront Stadium, the LED scoreboard delivered on everything the team ownership had envisioned, Kobritz said. "We are absolutely thrilled. The color is vivid and the picture is very clear. The impact of the scoreboard is difficult to describe. You really have to see it to appreciate it."
Creating partnership opportunities
The LED scoreboard and two LED ribbon boards are anticipated to drive advertising and sponsorship opportunities. "In addition to entertaining the fans, the LED installations represent a potential revenue stream for the club," Kobritz said. "It's an opportunity to incorporate sponsors as a part of the in-game experience."
Beyond baseball, Kobritz said the LED scoreboard will also be utilized to support other events held at the stadium. "We are completely satisfied with the service and support from Planar," he said. "We can't wait to use the LED scoreboard and ribbon boards in front of a full house."


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Business Insurance and Your Employees
Business-related insurance can impact your employees in multiple ways. Health and life insurance may be a part of your benefits package. They likely are covered for work-related injuries through Worker's Compensation Insurance and you probably contribute to unemployment insurance for them.
Most employers view their employees as valued assets and want to do everything possible to make sure their staff is properly covered when it comes to business-related activities. There are, however, instances when you may need to be protected FROM your employees. Here are several instances where your employees may cost you, and how business insurance can help.
An employee may sue you for discrimination or other employment-related activities. If an employee feels they have been discriminated due to their age, sex, or race, for example, they potentially could take you to court. This not only happens in the hiring process but when being passed over for a promotion. Employees can take employers to court for wrongful termination or harassment as well. Small and mid-size businesses may be particularly vulnerable for these types of legal actions because they may not have an extensive employee handbook or necessary legal resources. This is where Employment Practices Liability Insurance can help. EPLI can protect your company from the legal costs and financial penalties and even settlement expenses involved in such cases.
An employee causes property damage or injures someone. Some may not be aware that they can be held responsible should one of their employees harm someone else or cause damage to the property of another while conducting work for the company. Something as simple as an individual tripping over a hose or cable left unsecured by an employee can lead to significant expenses. The liability portion of your business insurance should be adequate enough to cover the actions of employees in such circumstances. Where professionals are involved, as in an accounting, financial services, legal or medical firms, Errors and Omissions insurance (E&O) can provide coverage for mistakes made in providing these related services.
Some business owners, especially small to mid-sized company owners, may feel this type of coverage is unnecessary. They may trust their employees or feel theirs is a close, tight-knit organization where such actions wouldn't take place. These are risks that are unnecessary. Contact one of our business insurance professionals to discuss your company and your specific areas of risk. Allow them the opportunity to create a business insurance program to protect your company at the least possible cost.


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George Foreman Talks to Iceman on Sportstalk
Former two-time World Heavyweight champion and gold medalist 'Big' George Foreman conducted an intriguing interview with the Iceman on Sportstalk on Wednesday. Among the numerous topics that Foreman discussed were, the state of boxing today, how the UFC has affected the sport, winning the heavyweight championship for the first time over Joe Frazier in 1973, his famous "Rumble in the Jungle" bout with Muhammad Ali, and his retirement followed by his incredible comeback in the late 80's that ultimately resulted in Foreman becoming the oldest man in boxing history to regain the heavyweight championship.
"Big George," competed from 1969-1977 and from 1987 to 1997, won his first heavyweight title in 1973 with a second round knockout of Joe Frazier. Foreman would retire for the first time a few years after a devastating loss to Muhammad Ali in "The Rumble in the Jungle."
George would then make a tremendous comeback in 1987 where he would win his first 24 bouts before getting a title shot against Evander Holyfield on April 19,1991. Foreman lost the fight by a unanimous decision, but in doing so, became the first fighter to go the distance with Holyfield.
Foreman was given one final shot at regaining the heavyweight championship of the world when he fought Michael Moorer on November 5, 1994. George struggled the majority of the bout as he was being out boxed by the much younger and faster Moorer, and entering the tenth round, was losing on all judges' scorecards. George had a tremendous tenth round before knocking out Moorer with a right hand, and at age 45, became the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Interviewing George Foreman on Sportstalk was without question one of the more memorable moments during my career as a sportscaster, and is something that I will never forget. The man is a true mensch and gave conducted an interview for the ages.


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Your website is a powerful tool to showcase your brand story. 2024 emphasizes the use of narrative-driven layouts, interactive features, and personalized content to create a memorable experience. By seamlessly integrating these elements with your website's objectives, you can craft a compelling narrative that resonates with your audience.
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Simple, thoughtfully crafted animations have become a powerful tool for small businesses to tell stories, reveal information, and guide users through the site in an engaging way. From the gentle parallax scroll to loading animations that entertain while they inform, the key is subtlety. Microinteractions, such as "liking" a product or hovering over images to zoom, further enhance the user's interactive experience.
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Your website is a canvas, and the design is the story you tell about your brand. Custom illustrations, narrative-driven layouts, and interactive features can all help to create a memorable brand experience. With storytelling through design, the focus is on integrating these elements seamlessly with the website's objectives to form an engaging narrative.
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