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KEMPER INSURANCE COMPANY and SUPERIOR
NATIONAL INSURANCE GROUP c/o WESTERN
Insurance Carriers/Appellees,
Insurance Carrier/Appellant.
1. Kansas appellate courts have established a bright line rule for identifying the date of injury in a repetitive, micro-trauma situation like carpal tunnel. The date of injury is the last day worked.
2. When a claimant continues to work in the same position that caused his or her injuries, the date of injury in a repetitive micro-trauma case is the last date the claimant worked prior to the administrative hearing.
Review of the judgment of the Court of Appeals in an unpublished decision filed April 4, 2003. Appeal from the Workers Compensation Board. Judgment of the Court of Appeals affirming the Workers Compensation Board is affirmed. Judgment of the Workers Compensation Board is affirmed. Opinion filed December 12, 2003.
W. Greg Wright, of Hill, Beam-Ward, Kruse & Wilson, LLC, of Overland Park, argued the cause, and Thomas R. Hill, of the same firm, was with him on the briefs for appellants University of Kansas Medical Center and Royal & SunAlliance.
Dennis L. Horner, of Horner and Duckers, Chartered, of Kansas City, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellee Ethel M. Kimbrough.
Michelle Daum Haskins, of Evans & Dixon, L.L.C., of Kansas City, Missouri, argued the cause and was on the brief for appellee Kemper Insurance Company.
Matthew J. Stretz, of Fox, Stretz, & Quinn, P.C., of Kansas City, Missouri, argued the cause, and Patricia A. Wohlford, of the same firm, was with him on the brief for appellee Superior National Insurance Group c/o Western Guarantee Fund.
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GERNON, J.: The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and its insurer, Royal & SunAlliance, have filed a petition for review of the Court of Appeals' decision establishing the workers compensation date of injury for a carpal tunnel claim.
Ethel Kimbrough worked at KUMC continuously since 1969. In 1998, she began medical care for pain with her hands and was diagnosed with bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome.
Kimbrough filed a workers compensation claim and an application for hearing on February 3, 2000. The regular hearing occurred on March 29, 2001. Three different insurance carriers insured KUMC for different periods of time from 1998 to the date of the hearing; thus, the date of injury determines which of the three carriers is responsible for coverage.
The administrative law judge (ALJ) found that Kimbrough sustained accidental bilateral carpal tunnel injuries to both arms in the course of her employment. The ALJ further found that Kimbrough continued to work for KUMC in the same job with the same activities that caused her injuries. Based on these findings, the ALJ determined the date of injury to be March 27, 2001, the last day Kimbrough worked prior to the hearing.
KUMC and its insurance carrier at the time of Kimbrough's date of injury, Royal & SunAlliance, appealed the ALJ's decision to the Workers Compensation Board (Board). The Board affirmed the ALJ's findings and conclusions regarding the date of injury.
KUMC and Royal & SunAlliance appealed the Board's decision to the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals affirmed the Board's decision, holding that the date of injury is the last day the claimant worked prior to the hearing. Kimbrough v. University of Kansas Medical Center, No. 89,214, unpublished opinion filed April 4, 2003. We agree.
KUMC and Royal & SunAlliance (hereinafter referred to jointly as KUMC) have petitioned for review of the Court of Appeals' decision, raising only the issue of the date of injury.
KUMC argues that the Court of Appeals and the Board have erroneously established Kimbrough's last day of work before the hearing as the date of her injury. KUMC asserts that the date of injury should be the date when Kimbrough informed the treating physician of her injuries.
Appeals from the Workers Compensation Board are subject to review under the provisions of the Kansas Act for Judicial Review and Civil Enforcement of Agency Actions (KJRA), K.S.A. 77-601 et seq. K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 44-556(a). The scope of review under the KJRA is limited to questions of law. K.S.A. 2002 Supp. 44-556(a). This court's review is limited to considering whether the Board erroneously interpreted or applied the law, whether the Board's decision is supported by substantial competent evidence in light of the whole record, or whether the Board's decision is unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious. K.S.A. 77-621(c)(4), (7), and (8). Treaster v. Dillon Companies, Inc., 267 Kan. 610, 615-16, 987 P.2d 325 (1999). Whether the Board's decision is supported by substantial competent evidence is a question of law. Treaster, 267 Kan. at 616.
Kansas appellate courts have established a bright line rule for identifying the date of injury in a repetitive, micro-trauma situation like carpal tunnel. The date of injury is the last day worked. Treaster, 267 Kan. at 616-18; Lott-Edwards v. Americold Corp., 27 Kan. App. 2d 689, 693-94, 6 P.3d 947 (2000); Anderson v. Boeing Co., 25 Kan. App. 2d 220, 221-22, 960 P.2d 768 (1998); Durham v. Cessna Aircraft Co., 24 Kan. App. 2d 334, 336, 945 P.2d 8 (1997); Berry v. Boeing Military Airplanes, 20 Kan. App. 2d 220, 229-30, 885 P.2d 1261 (1994). The Court of Appeals applied the bright line rule in this case to uphold the Board's decision.
In Lott-Edwards, Anderson, and Berry, the claimants were all forced to terminate their employment due to the injuries sustained by the micro-trauma. Lott-Edwards, 27 Kan. App. 2d at 693; Anderson, 25 Kan. App. 2d at 222; Berry, 20 Kan. App. 2d at 221 (noting that claimant was fired for failing to work the increased hours in an accommodated position). In these cases, the bright line rule is clearly applied.
However, in Treaster and Durham, the claimants did not terminate their employment but accepted accommodated positions that were significantly different than those that caused the micro-trauma. Nevertheless, the court applied the Berry rule, determing that the last day worked is the claimant's last day on the job that caused the injuries. Treaster, 267 Kan. at 624; Durham, 24 Kan. App. 2d at 335-36. The Treaster court specifically approved the Berry, Durham, and Anderson opinions and stated:
"We do not limit Berry to only situations where the claimant could no longer continue his or her employment because of medical conditions. The expected result of Berry was for workers to be allowed the latest possible date for their claim period to begin, not for claimants and respondents to try to pick a date of accident or occurrence that best serves their financial purposes." 267 Kan. at 623.
Although this case presents a different factual situation than those previously addressed, we conclude that the bright line rule established by those cases should be applied to the facts in this case.
The parties do not dispute that Kimbrough continued to work in the position that caused her injuries through the administrative hearing. Establishing the date of injury in this case as the last day Kimbrough worked prior to the hearing accords with the Treaster court's statement that the Berry rule was intended to allow the latest possible date for the claim. Treaster, 267 Kan. at 623. However, using another date as the date of injury erodes the bright line rule established by Berry. This court has specifically disapproved of attempts to erode the Berry rule. Treaster, 267 Kan. at 624. In addition to reinforcing the bright line Berry rule, establishing the last day worked before the hearing as the date of injury does not penalize the claimant for continuing to work in spite of the pain or difficulty caused by the injuries.
KUMC relies solely on Condon v. Boeing Co., 21 Kan. App. 2d 580, 903 P.2d 775 (1995), for its proposition that the date of injury should be the date that Kimbrough informed the treating physician of her injuries. KUMC's reliance on Condon ignores this court's disapproval of that decision in Treaster, 267 Kan. at 624. The Treaster court specifically concluded that the Condon decision should be limited to its facts and not used to erode the bright line rule established by Berry. Treaster, 267 Kan. at 620.
The facts in this case differ from those in Condon, where the claimant was laid off for reasons other than her carpal tunnel injuries. Accordingly, Condon provides no precedential value for resolving this case. KUMC cites no other authority for its proposition that the Berry rule should be altered simply because a claimant continues to work in the position that caused his or her injuries.
KUMC further argues that using the last day worked before the hearing could prejudice the employer's insurance carrier if the insurance carrier did not insure the employer when the claimant first made the claim. This argument has no merit. The employer is entitled to notice and receipt of a written claim, not the insurance carrier. K.S.A. 44-520; K.S.A. 44-520a. "[T]he insurance carrier has no separate right of procedural due process flowing from provisions of the Workers Compensation Act." Lott-Edwards, 27 Kan. App. 2d at 697.
Applying the Berry rule to the facts of this case, the date of injury is the last day worked prior to Kimbrough's hearing date. The Board and the Court of Appeals properly applied Berry and its progeny to the factual situation presented by this case. Because Kimbrough's continued employment in the position that caused her injuries is not in dispute, there is no basis for concluding that the Board's decision is not based on substantial competent evidence or that it is unreasonable, arbitrary, or capricious.
BEIER, J., not participating.
BRAZIL, S.J., assigned.1
1REPORTER'S NOTE: Judge J. Patrick Brazil was appointed to hear case No.89,214 vice Justice Beier pursuant to the authority vested in the Supreme Court by K.S.A. 20-2616.


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dspolish needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We are a company that continues to bring new products to market. We focus primarily on the imprinted sportswear and clothing industry.
Future Jock will target all parents of the toddler to youth demographic.
We are looking for a logo for the FUTURE JOCK line. A "jock" is a slang term for someone who is an athlete. One who plays any sport on the planet. Being this is for FUTURE JOCK, the theme should be sports and an infant/toddler feel. Solid colors only, no gradients. This will be used on hang tags, etc... Should be done as a vector graphic or a hi-res image. Fell free to throw in a tag line too if you can think of a good one. We will then be looking for designs for each sport for merchandising. Have fun!
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"Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn't she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.' In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."Over 20 years ago, the first spring I lived here, I was walking in the woods, checking it out, when a sigh of disgust at litter escaped my lips as I saw a partially inflated balloon stuck on some foliage. I went over to pick it up and discovered:Luke 15:6-10
A lady's slipper! A native Indiana orchid! A Cypripedium pubescens! It is an uncommon wildflower, considered threatened in many Midwestern states.
My woods had been ravaged by the former owner who fenced it and kept goats. The goats were very destructive and we have worked hard to restore the woodlands. Every spring I searched the area where I found the lady's slipper and never found a trace. Yesterday, I was working in the woods, pulling garlic mustard, removing bush honeysuckle and marking tree starts. I was scanning every square inch of the woods, when I beheld the long-lost flower.
Oh, pretty one, where have you been?
Now for a bonus photo from the adjacent woods:
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Why Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 3.1 Matters for Enterprise Private Clouds
Guest Blogger: Yair Dolev (@CiscoCloudY) brings extensive experience in enterprise application development and management of advanced data center virtualization technology products to Cisco's Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group. Prior to Cisco, Yair was Director of Product Management at data center automation authority Tidal Software, and managed the groundbreaking Azul Virtual Machine products at Azul Systems, which enabled data centers to run large Java workloads on highly scalable, optimized hardware.
What do IT managers want? Speaking with customers about their plans to adopt a private cloud, we get to glimpse into the wild world of enterprise IT transformation. Customers have been telling us about how their business environment is rapidly changing, and many share their elaborate vision for becoming a sophisticated IT as a Service organization. We, in turn, have shared with them the capabilities of our newly released Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud version 3.1 (Cisco IAC). I am delighted to see how Cisco IAC 3.1 resonates so well with IT teams. Here I mention some highlights of this newly upgraded cloud management solution.
First off, we've made it easy to leverage more of the infrastructure footprint for via the cloud. Customers often own different infrastructure stacks, whether by choice as a hedge, or by chance, as a result of mergers. They might have a vBlock, a FlexPod, and another asset that uses, say- HP servers. A cloud system should not require complete infrastructure homogeneity. With IAC 3.1, each infrastructure pod (regardless of the vendor) is treated as one "Compute POD" (Point of Delivery), with multiple PODs all connected to and managed by one unified resource management layer.
Aspiring cloud administrators reveal that they need to accommodate disparate teams of cloud consumers with varying levels of isolation between teams. To that end the new virtual data centers in IAC 3.1 closely model the access concept customers seek. IAC 3.1 affords administrators a high degree of control with each of these deployment environments, including where to locate it, the level of resource sharing vs. resource reservation, network isolation and access scope. And this opens up opportunities for more user teams, more applications, and more business operations to proceed with cloud adoption. For example, an application requiring a high trust level can be localized to a VDC that's placed on a dedicated POD, provisioned with extra network security measures, and given all pre-reserved CPU, memory and storage resources.
A highlight of the IAC Portal is the strict Role Based Access Control that ensures people get all the visibility allowed to them, without being able to access assets of other teams. IAC 3.1 puts stronger governance powers at the hands of the cloud administrator team with standard approval control. Now essential control tasks such as setting up to two levels of administrative approvals for each service request, are easily done with a few mouse clicks in the Portal. Ordering a physical server requires scrutiny? Increasing the size of a VM requires prior authorization? No problem. To ensure administrator don't lag behind on handling approval requests, IAC includes email notifications, queues and portlets out of the box. And this covers even additional services that the customers beyond the standard product. Another reason why it's more feasible to move to a cloud service in production.
One of the biggest resonating points is about robust growth and extensibility. IT organizations share about their growing demand for cost control, increased agility, and competing with public cloud services a la Amazon AWS. They need a solution that will grow with them through the stages of evolution towards an ambitious future vision. IAC 3.1 starts with a top-level "god panel" the enables or hides entire service classes. Cloud administrators get complete control over which services they prefer to start offering, and which ones to add next. Closely matching the larger organization's adoption readiness is key: don't offer too little, don't offer too much.
This is where the cloud admin enables and disables whole service classes from a "god" control box.
Enterprises need a solution path that fits their specific needs, and Cisco realizes that customers vary greatly. That's why IAC brings a rapidly expanding standard feature set and a visionary product road-map. That's why IAC 3.1 includes over 250 portal and orchestrator built-in points for cost-effective solution extension. And that's why we announced our growing solution accelerator program. This is such an important point that I need to expand on during a following post. Stay tuned!
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Leaving a permanent impression
When Ann Murray, art history professor and director of Beard and Weil Galleries, arrived on campus in the fall of 1974 she immediately took on one of her biggest challenges— organizing, documenting and protecting Wheaton's art collection.
That scattered collection of items, in Murray's hands, has become the college's very cohesive Permanent Collection. As she retires in May, the collection—along with the many gallery exhibitions she curated—stands as a testament to her many accomplishments at Wheaton.
Wheaton's eclectic collection consists of paintings, drawings and prints, as well as sculptures, antiquities, textiles, artists' books, Native American baskets and decorative arts. Original prints by Dali, Goya, Miró, Picasso, Rembrandt and Whistler are among the items.
And it is an accessible collection. As Murray points out: There are not many places where a student can hold (in a gloved hand) an original etching by Rembrandt.
Hunting for treasure
Surprisingly, the effort to gather together all of the works comprising the Permanent Collection (which was not even in Murray's job description) began like a game of hide-and-seek, because many of them were all over campus. Shortly after she arrived at Wheaton, armed with a list and accompanied by her part-time gallery assistant, she would go on what she calls a "treasure hunt."
"We would go on expeditions around campus looking for paintings, because we had found lists of works that were supposed to be here. But we didn't know where they were," she says. "Administrative offices sometimes had paintings, and when people would leave, they would just put the painting that had been hanging on the wall in a closet. And then the next person who came might or might not think to bring it back. It might just stay in the closet for a long time."
Surprising "finds"
Some works were found in a former barn behind a campus house located across the street from Murray's Watson Fine Arts office. Some were found stored in a crawl space under a heating duct in Watson, several more in the attic of the library, and elsewhere. Not unsurprisingly, many of the found works were not in good condition. So Murray has spent a great deal of time having pieces restored, with the support of grants and gifts.
The college has received several grants from what is now the Massachusetts Cultural Council on the Arts, as well as from The Bay and Paul Foundations in New York. The Wheaton College Friends of Art has provided generous funding for conservation over the past several years and continues to do so. Most recently the college received a $5,000 grant for conservation from the Cricket Foundation, which was matched by the Friends of Art.
The majority of paintings in the collection have undergone conservation, but the work is ongoing, notes Murray. Much of that has been done by painting conservator Susan Werner O'Day '77, one of Murray's early students.
For many years, students worked with Murray on the collection, gathering data and cataloging information. Gradually, they compiled a database that eliminated the need for accession cards.
Applauding Murray
College Archivist Zephorene Stickney praises Murray for her dedicated efforts: "Ann is to be applauded not only for bringing together the Permanent Collection, but also for realizing that there was a collection scattered about the campus, and convincing those of us who had artworks to have them accessioned as part of the collection and moved to Watson."
Now Leah Niederstadt, assistant professor of museum studies, is in charge of the collection. Before she began in 2008, there was no designated collections curator. Murray did the job, along with all of her other responsibilities.
Niederstadt recently worked with Kayla Malouin '10, who curated Collection/ Reflection: A History of Wheaton's Permanent Collection. The exhibition, on display in March and April in Beard Gallery, highlighted the vital role that individuals and families have played in building the collection through their donations of art.
In addition to the work on the collection, Murray by the end of this year will have curated 143 shows in the galleries (currently up to nine per year), which is what she was originally hired to do.
Stickney points out that the professor also gave the collection an academic focus by using it to teach students.
Murray has taught 19th- and 20th-century art history courses, senior seminars, and lectured in the team-taught art history survey. The last senior seminar she taught produced an exhibition called The Realist Impulse: Painting and Sculpture from the Wheaton College Collection, 1830–1940. Eleven students researched and wrote essays on 58 works of art that are now documented in a 132-page catalog. Another exhibition and catalog—An American Composer Looks at Egypt: Ruth Lynda Deyo and the Diadem of Stars (1999)—led to research that Murray plans to continue after she retires.
Looking back, she says, one of the most rewarding experiences has been working on the catalogs with students and watching them gain valuable research skills as they dug for firsthand knowledge.
"The joy of finding things out that you didn't know before and finding out that, in fact, it was really quite important, and helping students to make those discoveries, has been great," she says. "I've enjoyed it all."


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John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John enlisted the help of the man who penned one of their famous "Grease" duet to write a festive follow-up for their new Christmas album.
The two stars have teamed up again to produce a new holiday record titled "This Christmas," which features a number of cover songs as well as an original track called "I Think You Might Like It."
The song was penned by songwriter/producer John Farrar, the man behind the pair's smash hit 1978 movie anthem "You're The One That I Want," and is billed as a "sequel" to the Grease track.
Newton-John reveals a poll about their famous duet sparked the idea for the holiday album and she was delighted when Farrar agreed to work with them on a follow-up single.
She tells the Chicago Sun-Times, "We approached John (Farrar) and asked if he would write a sequel for the Christmas album, and he did… The whole Christmas idea started when You're the One That I Want was voted the No. 1 duet in history. I sent John (Travolta) a text to tell him the news, and he wrote back and said why don't we do a Christmas song together? And I said yes.
"Then we ran into each other at an event several months later and he said, why don't we do an entire Christmas album? And I said yes, and we decided to do it for our charities, and that was that."
The singer/actress goes on to reveal the project came together very quickly, adding, "We picked the songs in one day. Picked the (music) keys in one day. We met up at a studio in Florida and did the majority of the tracks in four nights. And then we finished it up over the next couple of months."
"This Christmas" is due for release this month.


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Start a Walking Group
Learn how three busy moms made a pact to walk together before dawn and how you can too.
Birmingham Walking Girls
As the mom of two, Kathleen Gard found herself seeing her friends only at soccer matches and school programs—not exactly the best places for meaningful conversations.
Her solution to fitting in time for friends? Starting an early-morning walking group with equally busy moms Teri Bundy, a fitness instructor, and Desiree Morgan, a radiologist. "Without these women, I would never get up at 5 a.m. to put on a pair of sneakers," says Kathleen, a market research manager.
The trio meets at 5:15 a.m. two to three times a week in Desiree's neighborhood. Together they walk 4.5 miles to supplement their individual fitness routines. Topics range from what books they're reading to what they're making for supper, with lots of laughs and shared stories in between.
"On the days when we walk, I genuinely feel better and have more energy, as well as a confidence because I've taken the time to do something healthy," Desiree says. "Plus, walking with friends helps me keep up with their lives."
Start Your Own Walking Group
How To Find Walking Buddies
Look for those with similar goals and schedules. Ask friends and neighbors, and be honest about your skill level and availability. Stick with three to six members to keep it manageable.
Establish and Stick to a Schedule
Pick a place to meet two to three times a week. To respect everyone's time, begin promptly, and let the others know if you can't show.
Stay Motivated
Keep a journal of your progress, rewarding each other for successful participation. Focus on rewards that are non-food related, like treating yourselves to pedicures or a movie together.
A Walking Plan for Beginners
Set Realistic Goals: Most people can start by walking 20 to 30 minutes two to three times a week. Gradually increase your time and/or distance by no more than 10% per week.
Focus on Technique: Stand tall with your shoulders relaxed. Don't look at the ground; instead, focus your gaze 10-15 feet in front of you. Push off with the ball of your feet and roll heel to toe, as if you are gliding on a surface.
Walk Two by Two: This will minimize natural inclination to turn your head to the side to talk with friends, which can slow you down.


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Sales drop in second week for 'Hard Choices'
NEW YORK (AP) — Sales for Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Hard Choices" dropped sharply in its second week of publication, but her memoir remains the country's most popular adult nonfiction book.
According to Nielsen BookScan numbers released Wednesday, "Hard Choices" sold just over 48,000 copies last week, compared to around 85,000 the previous week. The figures do not include e-book sales. Publisher Simon & Schuster, which had announced that total first-week sales exceeded 100,000 copies, declined Wednesday to offer any numbers on the second week.
Simon & Schuster issued a statement Tuesday saying that "Hard Choices" was placing high on best-seller lists around the world, although the publisher offered few specific numbers.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a question and answer session at the BIO International Convention Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in San Diego. Clinton has been on tour promoting her book, "Hard Choices." (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
"We can think of no other recent book written by an American leader to receive such an enthusiastic international reception," Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement.
"Hard Choices," which covers Clinton's four years as secretary of state, was released June 10. It has been among the most publicized books of the year, with an advance print run of 1 million copies, and is easily outselling such popular nonfiction works as Thomas Piketty's "Capital In the Twenty-First Century." Whether "Hard Choices," the fourth best-selling book overall on the Nielsen chart, can be called a success or disappointment depends on your perspective.
Sales are far behind the pace of her previous memoir, "Living History," which came out in 2003 and sold around 600,000 copies its first week. But "Living History" had a stronger commercial hook — Clinton's thoughts on President Bill Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — and was published at a time when e-books were almost nonexistent and there were hundreds more physical book stores. Releases such as Clinton's, a 600-plus page nonfiction work focused on foreign policy, tend to sell much better in paper editions than as e-books.
Much of the pre-publication interest in "Hard Choices" centered on whether she would indicate if she were running for president in 2016. She writes in the book, and has said in interviews, that she remains undecided.
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Sovietdeath, on 20 April 2017 - 06:42 AM, said:
A) This was a Live Q/A as in he spoke this
B) The Waffle IS Balanced in this version of the game (Stat Performance Wise), with our current meta on Console. If you bother looking at the data provided on WoTInfo.
I don't think anyone would argue that the stats show its balanced same with the deathstar. Fact is the guns are broken and the amount of battles both have been used skew it all. The stats and reality are 2 different things.
The wthstill has 4th highest avg damage in both xbox and ps4 and it's played 2-5times more than the top highest damage tanks and it still 1 of the lowest survival rates of the t10 tds in the last 30 days according to wotinfo. But that's OK though. The stats show its not overperforming because it's has so many more games over anything else.


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By By Douglas Nelms | December 1, 2011
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Combat is hard on helicopters, a known fact. It is particularly hard on those tasked to get down low to find the bad guys. As a result, aircraft attrition occurs through both accidents and enemy action. To alleviate those losses, Textron division Bell Helicopter and the U.S. Army are making progress with a Wartime Replacement Aircraft (WRA) program designed to replace the Army's lost armed reconnaissance helicopters by taking OH-58A Kiowa cabins for conversion into OH-58D variants. Known as the 'A2D' program, the conversion is needed in order to take the U.S. Army back to its requirement for 368 Kiowa Warriors, and is a combined effort between Bell, the Armed Scout Helicopter Program Office, and the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD).
The WRA program is completed in four phases. In Phase 1, an OH-58A model Kiowa is stripped down at the Aviation Forward Maintenance Activity (AFMA) in San Angelo, Texas. Phase 2 involves CCAD preparing the cabin for induction into the production line by conducting structural analysis and repairs. In Phase 3, Bell—through its Military Aircraft Assembly Center in Amarillo, Texas—converts the cabin from an A model to a D. The company also installs the wiring harness, fuel cells, instrument panel, firewalls, flight controls, environmental system and other structures. In Phase 4, CCAD repopulates all the components and returns the aircraft to flight.
Turnaround time per aircraft from entry into the program until returning to the Army will initially be two years—six months spent dedicated to stripping down the aircraft, 12 months for the conversion and six months for final assembly and post-production modifications. According to Bell, the time period is expected to "shorten up considerably" as experience is gained.
The WRA program is part of a three-pronged effort to resolve the issue of an increasingly aged fleet of scout helicopters. The OH-58A was developed in the early 1960s and deployed to Vietnam in 1969. Since then, "A" and "C" models have been converted into "D" under the Army Helicopter Improvement Program (AHIP).
While Bell did build an OH-58B model for sale to foreign militaries, there were no OH-58Bs delivered to the U.S. Army, according to an Army spokesman.
Initially, the OH-58D was just an unarmed, upgraded "C" model, introduced to the Army in 1985. However, beginning with production of the 202nd "D" model in May 1991, all OH-58Ds were produced in the armed Kiowa Warrior configuration. Bell was then contracted in January 1992 to retrofit all the remaining OH-58Ds into the Kiowa Warrior.
Bell delivered the first OH-58A dedicated to the program in June 2011, and CCAD handed over that initial aircraft to the Army's 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division in late October. The second cabin is set for delivery to CCAD by the end of 2011, with a production schedule of one per month starting in March 2012.
The current contract covers 18 cabins, with options for up to 66 cabins in future years. Overall cost for the 18 aircraft cabins is $76.2 million, which does not include post-production modifications and final assembly.
The A2D program is an interim effort to keep the Army at its required fleet of 368 Kiowa Warriors. In October 2010, the Army contracted for eight cabins plus three options for additional cabins, with a total ceiling of 66. The first option was awarded in August 2011 under a contract for 10 OH-58 cabins, accounting for the current order for 18. The two additional options are scheduled to be exercised using FY2012 and FY2013 appropriations.
There are currently OH-58As available for the A2D program to fill requirements under the second and third contract options, according to Lt. Col. Matthew Hannah, Kiowa Warrior product manager. Bell initially built some 2,200 OH-58s, of which there are still 114 in the active Army, including 55 OH-58Cs and 34 OH-58As within TRADOC (training and doctrine) units and 25 OH-58Cs in non-TRADOC units. The National Guard Bureau has an additional 117.
The A2D conversion provides a thicker mil skin and upgrades the aircraft from the 317-shp Allison T63A-700 on the A variant to the Rolls-Royce RR250-C30R/3 rated at 650 shp. This allows an increase from 3,500 to 5,500 lbs MGW.
As an alterative within the contract, the Army can exercise a "new metal" option instead of the conversion cabins. This would replace the conversion process with a new production cabin for a lower cost and more efficient production process. Bell built 39 new production OH-58Ds for Taiwan in the late 1990s. The company plans to submit a proposal to execute the option for new metal later this year.
Hannah said that new metal cabins "provide a capability to resolve the Kiowa Warrior fleet's many issues with overuse and age, and also provide an efficiency path for upgrades in concert with OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] guidance."
In describing the Army's plan to revitalize its reconnaissance helicopter fleet, Hannah noted that there are three general approaches available. These include rebuilding current helicopter models, upgrading current platforms or procuring new models. The Army's approach to solving its aging OH 58D Kiowa Warrior problem involves all three—beginning with WRA.
The second program in the Army's reconnaissance helicopter fleet enhancement efforts is the OH-58F cockpit and sensor upgrade program (CASUP) that will add new technology to the OH-58D, transforming it into the OH-58F. The Army, as lead systems integrator, has already begun this program, with the first aircraft scheduled for delivery in FY16 (See Rotor & Wing, May 2011, page 22).
One key element of the OH-58F program is moving the mast-mounted sight down to the nose. Mike Miller, Bell's director of business development and former Army experimental test pilot, said moving the mast-mounted sight "provides greater situational awareness to the pilots. They can now look under and close in to the aircraft. So when you're flying over [the enemy] and they pop up and try to shoot you with an AK-47, you can't see that with a mast-mounted sight, but you can with the nose-mounted sight."
The nose-mounted sight will be the Raytheon-built common sensor payload (CSP) with next generation acquisition and targeting systems. The F model will also have three large color displays in the cockpit. Other improvements include a dual-channel FADEC engine control and a new computer processor, going from a CDS 4 to a CDS 5 operating system to increase both speed and capabilities.
The final program in the Army's efforts to provide combat units with an armed reconnaissance aircraft will be the projected Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) helicopter. Bell currently has a company-funded program in progress to develop an advanced OH-58 aircraft—the OH-58 Block II—designed to meet the anticipated Army's requirement for the AAS. A prototype aircraft has already completed "hot/high" trials, hovering out of ground effect at "6K/95," or 6,000 feet at 95 degrees F, above a max gross weight of 5,500 lbs.
Miller noted that the new "6K/95" requirement is being applied to all of the Army's new helicopter programs—the AH-64D Block III, UH-60M and CH-47F—based on the extreme conditions mission commanders are finding in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bell is putting in a more powerful Honeywell HTS900 engine (1,021 shp) into the Block II aircraft with a new tail rotor, new transmission and blades, Miller explained.
The Block II concept is to build on the funded F model program and provides a "menu of options" for upgrading performance. He added that in today's budget environment "the Army needs a low-cost, low-risk path forward with its armed reconnaissance mission, while maintaining research dollars for future programs such as Joint Multi Role," or JMR.
The WRA program is addressing the replacement requirement, while the OH-58F CASUP program is addressing the service life, or obsolescence situation. As for improving the performance needs, Miller said that the new OH-58 Block II would allow the Army to "pick off the menu" as the budget allows.
"If the budget would facilitate a new engine, we can put a new engine on the aircraft," he explained. "Maybe the following year the budget will facilitate a new transmission, so we can put a new upgraded transmission on the aircraft. If the budget will facilitate the whole Block II upgrade, we can do that." Miller said that his job is to make the customer successful, which for Bell means laying out a strategy that provides the Army with a whole menu to meet its requirements and budget.


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Outfielder starts strong with Barons after trade from Red Sox
By Guy Curtright / Special to MiLB.com | July 30, 2013 6:00 AM
When Brandon Jacobs was pulled out of an Eastern League game with Portland on July 12 after two at-bats, the outfielder knew something was up.
Soon Jacobs found out he was being traded. He just didn't know where.
"They told me I'd have to wait until after the game," the 22-year-old said.
But the game at Binghamton went 15 innings, the suspense building. Finally Jacobs got the official word.
The former Auburn University football signee had been traded by Boston to Chicago for veteran left-handed reliever Matt Thornton. He was changing the color of his socks.
"It was definitely a surprise," Jacobs said. "It isn't something you think is going to happen, but I was excited. I looked at it as a good situation, a good opportunity. It showed the White Sox wanted me and liked my potential."
Jacobs jumped from the No. 11 prospect with Boston to the No. 8 prospect with Chicago and has quickly lived up to that ranking after joining Birmingham following the break for the Southern League All-Star Game.
The right-handed hitter struck out his first two times up against Chattanooga on July 18 but had an RBI double in his third trip and hasn't stopped producing since.
"You want to get that first hit out of the way and get off to a good start with a new team," Jacobs said.
He's certainly done that.
Jacobs has at least one hit in his first 12 games with the Barons and is batting .357 with 10 RBIs.
He went 7-for-17 with seven RBIs as Birmingham, which has the best record in the Southern League, took four of five from Mobile to complete an 8-2 homestand, then had two hits in a victory at Tennessee on Sunday.
"This is a really good hitting team, and Birmingham is a great place to play," Jacobs said. "Everything has worked out really well.
The former two-sport start at Parkview High School in suburban Atlanta is back in the South and back in football country.
The Barons honored some University of Alabama football greats during the Mobile series, but that's not where Jacobs' allegiance lies.
He was almost a part of Auburn's 2010 National Championship team.
"I hear 'War Eagle!' some," Jacobs said.
But the 225-pounder who was a star running back and linebacker in high school turned his back on college for a $750,000 bonus and signed with the Red Sox as a 10th-round choice in the 2009 Draft.
Jacobs hit .303 with 52 extra-base hits, 80 RBIs and 30 steals with Class A Greenville in 2011. But a partially cracked hamate bone turned last season with Class A Advanced Salem into a struggle.
"I played through the pain, but it definitely took a toll on me," he said.
Jacobs began this season back in the Carolina League and started slowly. But he hit .421 with eight extra-base hits and 12 RBIs in his final 11 games with Salem before being promoted to Portland, where he was 3-for-8 prior to the trade.
It turned out the White Sox had been looking at Jacobs for more than a year.
"He's an athletic kid who projects to be a power bat/corner outfielder," Chicago general manager Rick Hahn said at the time of the deal. "He's a toolsy player with upside to be an everyday corner outfielder."
That was Jacobs' goal with the Red Sox. Now he's trying to get to Chicago instead of Boston.
"I think everything has worked out the best for my career," he said.
In brief
Standing out: Mobile had no answer for Marcus Semien as Birmingham took four of five games from the BayBears in the first series of the year between the two first-half division champions. The versatile infielder was 11-for-16 with six extra-base hits, including two homers, along with nine walks, nine runs scored and five RBIs. Semien, the Chicago White Sox's No. 9 prospect, leads the Southern League in runs (86), walks (82) and on-base percentage (.417) while hitting .288 with 14 homers, 46 RBIs and 19 stolen bases.
Lonely at top: The promotion of Montgomery outfielder Kevin Kiermaier to Triple-A Durham left the Southern League with just one active .300 hitter with enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting race. Mobile outfielder Justin Greene was batting .323 through Sunday -- Kiermaier left Montgomery hitting .307. Next in the batting race is Mississippi outfielder Jose Martinez at .298.
Rolling along: Birmingham left-hander Scott Snodgress followed up his near no-hitter by holding Mobile scoreless on four hits through six innings Saturday, earning his league-best 11th victory. He didn't allow a hit until one out in the ninth against Chattanooga in his previous start and had yielded just one run in 27 1/3 innings over his last four games. Snodgress, the White Sox's No. 12 prospect, is 11-7 with a 3.88 ERA this season.
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On October 18, 2008 at 1:57 am the Waterloo Police responded to a report of shots fired in the 1900 block of Spring View Street.
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Some people—normal people—crave sweets. It's evolutionary. You'd seek out high-sugar foods in the wild, or you'd die of starvation. Me? I wouldn't have lasted a month. I crave umami. Salt. Tang. There's definitely something wrong with me.
Thankfully my CSA boxes and takeout Indian food get delivered, so I'm not overly worried about starving to death. (Also, thankfully I'm in my mid-30s now, so I'm not overly worried about whether there's something wrong with me, either. That's evolutionary, too.)
You hear a lot these days about how sweets are too easy to come by in the Standard American Diet. That's a can of worms for another day. But what you don't hear about so much, and maybe you should start to listen for, is the lack of tangy smoothies out there for those of us with some evolutionary challenges. A Google search for "tangy smoothies" doesn't even break a million results. By comparison, a search for "things that are extremely rare" produces 6.3 million results. I mean, come on.
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Although ETFs have begun to surge in popularity over the past few years, there are still a few misconceptions about how the products work. While mistakes are often made when it comes to how to utilize leveraged and inverse funds or commodity and volatility products in a portfolio, another key aspect of ETF investing afflicts nearly all investors no matter the product type; volume.
Volume, or the number of shares trading in a particular period, is regarded by many as the basis for liquidity in the stock world. The more shares that trade in a particular security, the easier it will be to move in and out of it, keeping bid ask spreads tight for popular stocks (see the Three Biggest Mistakes of ETF Investing).
When investors apply this logic to ETFs, the resulting thinking is that high volume funds are extremely liquid while low volume ones, much like thinly traded stocks, should be avoided by most. After all, it is only natural to assume that ETFs are like stocks in this regard as both are exchange-traded and many ETFs are just baskets of stocks anyway.
However, this isn't always true as, unlike a regular stock, an ETF doesn't rely on its actual volume to generate liquidity. Instead, an ETF's volume is dependent on its underlying holdings for its actual liquidity.
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The above statement is true because of how ETFs are structured and how new shares are created in a fund. Basically, what is called an Authorized Participant (AP) can step in and buy up securities in order to create a new basket of ETF shares, or trade in ETF shares for underlying securities as need be.
Due to this feature, ETFs often trade quite close to their net asset value (NAV), since when prices deviate too far—either high or low—the Authorized Participant can step in to balance the process out. Thus, when ETF prices are too high compared to the NAV, the AP creates more ETF baskets while when the ETF prices are below the NAV, the shares are traded in by the AP for the underlying securities.
The AP profits from the spread differential in this arbitrage-like move, which also helps to keep ETF prices in line with their NAV so that everyone wins in this creation and redemption process (read ETFs vs. Mutual Funds).
Why is this important?
This is key because many investors in ETFs were stock buyers first who are now beginning to see the promise of using exchange-traded funds in their portfolios. Due to being conditioned to apply stock logic to ETFs, many may be unfamiliar with the creation and redemption process and assume that if a low volume ETF isn't trading frequently that it will be unable to be bought and sold regularly and easily throughout the day.
In other words, while stock volume is limited to the float of the particular security, ETF volume is limited to the float of all its underlying securities and the ability of an AP to buy or sell them on an open market. Basically, if an ETF invests in liquid securities, it will generally be easy to trade, regardless of the current volume levels you are seeing.
Take for example the WisdomTree LargeCap Value Fund (EZY), a product that has just $30 million in AUM and volume of just 3,000 shares a day. While at first glance investors might automatically avoid the product, a closer look at the holdings reveals a different story (read Try Value Investing with These Large Cap ETFs).
The ETF's top holdings consist of some of the most liquid and widely held stocks in the U.S., including ExxonMobil (XOM - Free Report) , Apple (AAPL - Free Report) , and Chevron (CVX - Free Report) . All of these stocks trade at least six million shares a day, how difficult could it be to a build a basket with stocks like those?
Caveat to Low Volume ETFs
With that being said, investors should note that low volume ETFs still face some issues that their high volume counterparts do not, namely in the form of bid ask spreads. Low volume funds generally have a wider bid ask spread, a factor that can add to total costs when compared to their more liquid peers.
This also means that limit orders will definitely be necessary for low volume ETFs as well. Since the bid and the ask spread is much wider in these funds, one must set a tight asking price in order to get into a particular security at a good price (read Two ETFs for the Muddle Through Economy).
Furthermore, not all market segments are created equal and some will necessarily be more liquid than others. For example, those following large cap U.S. stocks are likely to have an easy time with the creation and redemption process, while those that target niche small cap U.S. stocks may find it a tad more difficult.
The same can be said for (especially) bond products and international markets as well. While these securities are relatively effortless to get your hands on if you are an AP, it is undoubtedly easier for EWC to build a basket of Canadian stocks than it is for IDXJ to find and easily trade in small cap Indonesian securities.
Still, no matter the volumes of these aforementioned funds, similar products tracking like indexes will probably face comparable issues when it comes to creating and redeeming baskets of the underlying ETF.
For example, both the iShares MSCI Russia Capped Index Fund (ERUS - Free Report) and the SPDR S&P Russia ETF (RBL) follow large cap Russian stocks. However, RBL has a volume that is roughly one-tenth of ERUS, and AUM that is a fraction of its more popular counterpart (read Seven Biggest International Equity ETFs).
Yet, when one looks at the holdings, the funds are strikingly similar as all of the top three holdings are identical, representing close to 50% of assets for both ERUS and RBL. So although ERUS has a (slightly) tighter bid ask spread and more volume, it is unlikely to be that much more liquid as it is targeting—more or less-- the same securities for its ETF baskets as its more thinly traded counterpart.
So, the moral of the story is that low volume ETFs shouldn't be automatically dismissed from the get-go. While investors will often have to pay a few basis points more thanks to the bid ask spread, the product will still be easily tradable so long as its underlying securities are sufficiently liquid.
As a result, the next time you see an interesting low volume ETF, take a closer look at its holdings and current spread instead of immediately crossing it off of your list. The ETF may not be as off-limits and as impossible to trade into as you may have initially thought before you understood the truth about the low volume ETF world.
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Elliptical trainers represent the next wave of advancement in low-impact cardiovascular exercise machines and continue to grow in popularity. By simulating motions experienced through walking, stepping, cycling, and skiing, elliptical machines allow for a smooth and fluid motion while building strength in the arms and legs. Similar to the exercise position for treadmills, elliptical trainers are used by standing in an upright position while holding the handrails of the machine. With elliptical trainers, however, your feet remain in the foot pedals throughout the exercise regimen and circulate in a smooth and seamless motion, resulting in little to no impact on the knees, back, and hips.
Elliptical trainers are compatible for all ages and fitness levels and allow you to select the difficulty level through the incline and intensity settings. Additionally, elliptical trainers allow you to determine the complexity of your workout based on your needs, all while listening to music, watching television, or reading a magazine while exercising in the comfort and safety of your own home.
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President Barack Obama will travel to Estonia early next month to reaffirm the United States' commitment to defend NATO allies in a Baltic region nervous about Russia's activities in Ukraine.
"In light of recent developments in Ukraine, the United States has taken steps to reassure allies in Central and Eastern Europe, and this trip is a chance to reaffirm our ironclad commitment to Article V as the foundation of NATO," National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said in a statement Friday.
Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization calls for a "collective defense" of countries under the Cold War-era pact's umbrella. An attack on one NATO country is considered an attack on all and NATO members are required to help each other in defense.
In Tallin, Obama will meet with Estonian President Toomas Ilves and Prime Minister Taavi Roivas "to discuss bilateral ties, strategic and regional cooperation, and our shared commitment to the trans-Atlantic partnership," Hayden said.
Obama will also huddle with Latvian President Andris Berzins and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite "to discuss ongoing cooperation on regional security and policies that support economic growth, and to discuss collective defense," Hayden added.
The meetings will take place before Obama attends a NATO summit in Wales Sept. 4-5.


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Tributes to Pope Benedict XVI's seven-year reign at the Holy See poured in from Catholic politicians Monday.
"The prayers and gratitude of American Catholics are with Pope Benedict XVI today," House Speaker John Boehner, who attended a Catholic high school as a teenager, said in a statement. "The Holy Father's decision displays extraordinary humility and love for the Church, two things that have been the hallmarks of his service. ... People of all nations have been blessed by the sacrifices he has made to sow the seeds of hope, justice, and compassion throughout the world in the name of Our Lord and Savior."
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sounded a similar note.
"Today Pope Benedict XVI displayed the qualities of an excellent leader and a true man of God by putting the interests of the Vatican and the Catholic Church over his own papacy," Rubio said in a statement. "Since becoming Pope in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI has served the Church honorably, particularly through his work promoting charity across the globe. I wish him well in the future and, as a Catholic, I thank him for his service to God and the Church. I also look with optimism toward the future of the Catholic Church as it prepares to welcome a new leader and as it continues to spread God's message of faith, hope and love to all the corners of the world."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi praised Benedict's focus on "justice."
"Pope Benedict XVI has been a great spiritual leader," she said in a statement. "Before His Holiness' triumphant visit to the United States, he stated that the 'world has greater need of hope than ever: hope for peace, for justice, and for freedom.' That was his message to America; that has been his message to the world. As a public official, I will be forever grateful to Pope Benedict for his powerful Encyclical, 'God Is Love,' where he wrote of the urgency for public servants and government to promote justice. Although Pope Benedict XVI is stepping aside, the world will continue to be inspired by His Holiness' spirituality, leadership, and vision for the future."
Benedict XVI abdicated the papacy Monday due to "advanced age," he said in a statement. He's the first pope to leave the throne. The selection of a new pope will begin in March, and one lawmaker has already made his pick.
"It is too early to determine the full extent of Pope Benedict's legacy; however, New Yorkers will never forget the gift he gave us with the elevation of Cardinal Dolan," Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) said. "Cardinal Dolan has lifted the spirits of Catholics and non-Catholics throughout New York and the world, and renewed the faith of many. If it were up to me to pick the next pope, Cardinal Dolan would have my vote!"


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Intel will launch 'Woodcrest', the Xeon DP server processor based on the chip giant's 65nm next-generation architecture, on 19 June and ship the chip almost a week later, on 25 June, Taiwanese motherboard-maker moles have claimed. The new chip will debut as the Xeon 5100 series.
According to a leaked presentation slide posted by Chinese-language site HKEPC, six Woodcrest parts will debut: the 5110, 5120, 5130, 5140, 5150 and 5160, clocked at frequencies ranging from 1.6GHz to 3GHz. Entry-level CPUs operate across a 1066MHz frontside bus, with higher-end parts' FSBs clocked to 1333MHz. Every chip contains 4MB of L2 cache shared by the two cores. The chips will use Intel's LGA-771 interconnect. The site claims the part supports virtualisation and demand-based switching in addition to the anticipated 64-bit addressing and execute-disable bit support.
The site's sources claim Woodcrest consumes no more than 80W, well below the 130W drawn by the current Xeon DP 5000 series. The six chips will priced from $209 to $851, the sources add.
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