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Lonsdale shooting leaves one man dead; victim identified
The Knox County Sheriff's Office allows people to anonymously submit tips on crimes they may have witnessed. Here are several ways you can submit a tip to Crime Stoppers.
Police are investigating a deadly early morning shooting in Lonsdale that left one Knoxville man dead.
At 1:56 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to the 1200 block of Delaware Avenue to investigate a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located 28-year-old Walter Vail inside a car with at least one gunshot wound, according to police.
Vail later died of his injuries.
KPD investigators and forensic technicians responded to the scene and are continuing the investigation at this time.
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Probation Officer arrested after fleeing State of Georgia
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Georgia Department of Corrections Probation Officer on charges related to his relationship with a female that was currently serving a probation sentence. Probation Officer JAMES JOHN TOHAL, 31, of Senoia was arrested Tuesday evening by the Meridian Police Department in Meridian, Mississippi.
The GBI Region 2 office in Columbus initiated an investigation on Tuesday morning at the request of Heard County Sheriff Ross Henry. A female probationer reported that she has been involved in an intimate relationship with her previous probation officer, TOHAL, for several months. During the Easter weekend, TOHAL reportedly assaulted the female probationer with a knife at a residence in Franklin, Georgia.
GBI Agents subsequently traveled to the Newnan probation office to interview TOHAL regarding the allegations by the female probationer. During a meeting between TOHAL and his supervisor, TOHAL grabbed his service weapon from his desk, fled from his office and left the Newnan area in his personal vehicle. Agents and area law enforcement pursued TOHAL but were unable to locate him or his vehicle. A statewide/ nationwide lookout was broadcasted for TOHAL and his vehicle.
After several hours of investigate acts and multiple communications between the GBI and TOHAL, TOHAL's location was established in the area of Meridian, Mississippi. The GBI notified the Meridian Police Department of TOHAL's probable location and he was taken into custody by Meridian Police without incident at a local restaurant in Meridian. TOHAL is currently in the custody of Meridian Police and awaiting extradition back to Georgia on the charges of Violation of Oath of Office and Aggravated Assault.
The following agencies assisted in the apprehension of and search for TOHAL: Heard County Sheriff's Office, Coweta County Sheriff's Office, Newnan Police Department and the Georgia Department of Corrections Probation Office.
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Tank Commanders,
TOG II or the Panther/ M-10? Decisions. Decisions. Why not have them both?
From 1st to 6th May, these 2 mammoth tanks will be made available on our Gift Shop at incredible deals so now you can have the best of both worlds. If you want to make an impression on the battlefields and instill fear in the hearts of your enemies, then these bundles are not to be missed.
Grab these beasts now and Roll Out!
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+1 Week Premium
+5 Automatic Fire Extinguishers
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The TOG II is a tier VI premium heavy tank that hails from the British tech tree. The vehicle is a beast that can take a lot of punishment and is able to absorb a ridiculous amount of damage for its tier. It's equipped with a great gun with excellent accuracy and penetration and has a good rate of fire, making it capable of damaging anything in its path without much problems. Being the second largest tank in the game, it is slow and its girth makes it a susceptible target as its huge tracks are easy to target and your opponents can manipulate this weakness to their advantage. However, what it lacks in speed is made up by its sheer strength as this mighty sumo of a tank has a huge pool of HP and is very resistant to ramming. It's said that it's probably the only tier VI tank that can survive a penetrating hit from the KV-2's 152mm cannon so don't underestimate it or you'll be sorry!
As the tank is rather slow and not very efficient for offensive strikes, the best way we recommend to play tank is as a support in the second-line or used defensively in a chokepoint.
What do you get if you decide to get this bundle? You will receive a garage slot to store the tank, a one week's premium that gives you 50% more credits and 50% more experience per battle to aid you in your grind and free consumables to make your life a breeze on the battlefields. Intimidate your foes on the battle field now with the TOG II!
What's not to like about a Panther? The Panther/ M10 is a German tier VII premium medium tank that is basically a Panther without the magnificent 75mm L/100 gun. It has 50 less horsepower which is hardly noticeable and comes with a larger turret. It has a good rate of fire, superb accuracy for its tier and excellent speed and traverse. Although its armour is low and it doesn't quite pack a punch in the damage department, it has the highest hit points out of its tier VII medium tanks counterparts. So to say that it doesn't match up to the regular Panther would not be doing it any justice at all. One point that we absolutely love about this kitteh is its low repair costs and high credit income which makes it much more cost-effective than a Panther. You can't pass up on a great tank like this!
Trivia: The Panther-M10 is the first tank to sport a different color from the rest of the tanks of its nation.
You get almost the same deal as the TOG II bundle should you decide on this pack but instead of 5 Large Repair Kits and Pudding and Tea, you will get 5 Automatic Fire Extinguishers and Chocolate. And yup, they're all on the house. Get your Panther/ M10 pack today!
Purchase these packages for yourself or as gifts for your friends. Please refer to the Gift Shop Guide for information on how to use it.


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Aphria (TSX:APH; OTCQB:APHQF) has invested $11.5-million in Scientus Pharma's HydRx Farms unit by way of a 2-year secured debenture convertible into common shares of Scientus Pharma at a rate of $2.75 a share.
"Coming on the heels of the two companies completing a major wholesale supply agreement in June, this sizable investment serves to validate the Scientus Pharma business model to be the leader in extractions, formulations and provider of best-of-breed derivative medical cannabinoid-based products," Trevor Folk, CEO of closely held Scientus, said in a statement.
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Vic Neufeld, CEO of Aphria, said Scientus Pharma's proposed pipeline of new and innovative products represents a major step forward for cannabinoid-based medical products in Canada. "Gaining access to their dealer's license provides Aphria immediate access in the short-term to enhanced global opportunities," he added.
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AR Blue Clean AR383 Pressure Washer Reviews
- OUTDOOR CLEANING POWER: Make quick cleaning jobs of decks, patios, siding, driveways, outdoor furniture, cars, trucks, RVs, ATVs and more.
- ATTACHMENTS INCLUDED: Professional-style pressure washer gun, 2 different pressure washer wands, 20 foot high pressure hose, 14 oz. detergent bottle and 2 high pressure quick change wands with pressure washer turbo and variable nozzles. Hose diameter: 0.25 inch
- ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY: Conserves water by using 80% less water with 40% more power than a standard garden hose. Quieter than gas engine models.
- EASY TO ASSEMBLE: Pull it out of the box, insert the hose reel and attach the handle. Connect the high pressure hose and garden hose. Plug the GFCI to a 3 prong outlet with a ground. Pull the trigger to start cleaning.
- CUSTOMER SERVICE: Best in class support. Contact us at anytime in Fridley, Minnesota. using the information found in the owner's manual.
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When you are in the market looking for the best pressure washers to give your patio, deck, wood fence or vehicle a new lease of life, you will have to make sure that it is able to meet certain standards.
How do you look for the product that is right for you? In general, you might want to look at its ease of use, noise level, power, durability and application. Considering customer service as a factor is also good, as it is common to meet problems with these types of equipment. It is always best to be prepared for every situation.
General Home Use
Having a pressure washer at home sounds like overkill. Do you really need a high-powered machine to clean things around the house? Well, you probably can do away with those models that come with very powerful machines – and thus high water pressure levels – and instead opt for one that is less powerful but still as efficient. Not to mention, these "downgraded" models are much easier to use, more lightweight and easier on the pocket, too.
When you intend to use a pressure washer at home, one of the things that you would want to make sure is that it is easy to assemble. No one wants to spend hours or even days just to get the entire machine together or figuring out how to get it to work – there is cleaning to be done!
It is also important to know what is already included in the package. How does the gun look like? Is it ergonomically designed or will it hurt your wrist after cleaning? What about the wands, hose or the detergent bottle? Is it gas powered or electric powered? How noisy will the machine be during use? Certainly, you would not want to bother your neighbors while you go about your cleaning, right?
In the end, the most important thing to consider about getting a pressure washer to do general cleaning around the house is simply to make sure that it is able to do its job. Whether you are about cleaning your patio or driveway or bringing back life to your sidings, fences or other wooden furniture, you simply need to have a machine that can do what it is intended for.
Of course, it is always a big plus when that particular machine is lightweight and portable. No one wants to be lugging around such heavy equipment during clean up, even if it is done at home. Transporting the equipment would be enough to wear you out. What you want is something that you can bring around to every nook and cranny of your property to do the chores.
Thus, go for one that it easy to assemble, easy to use, portable and gets the cleaning done – and done fast!
About AR Blue Clean AR383
If you are too intimidated to pick up those heavy duty pressure washers but need something to do quick outdoor clean-ups at home, this pressure washer is definitely worth considering. Just a quick spray will make your patio, decks, sidings, fences, vehicles and other outdoor equipment look brand new.
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Among the best features of this product is its size and portability. The moment you look at it, you will probably think that it is a vacuum cleaner!
At just 11.7 pounds, it is easily one of the most lightweight of all pressure washers available in the market. Because of this, doing the regular house chores such as cleaning old wooden fences, the patio or deck, sidings and windows, or even your vehicles – become a breeze. Plus it is also equipped with a 20-foot high pressure hose, which is long enough to make cleaning outside smooth and hassle-free.
Another reason you might like this product is that it does not generate as much noise as the other pressure washers. It probably is not the toughest and most powerful of all – there are certainly others that can generate more water pressure – but it does its job quite well!
What Others Say
More than half of its Amazon customers are impressed by the performance of the AR Blue Clean Pressure Washer plus they love that they come with excellent customer service. Once they ran into a problem, all they had to do was give a call and the company was quick enough to address their needs.
Most complaints were related to the leaking in the plastic hose adapter and, while there were some who resorted to purchasing a brass male-to-male hose adapter separately, there were also some who did not experience any leaking.
Another common complaint was the handle design. You will have to constantly hold on to the trigger as it does not lock itself when being used, and can cause hand cramps in the long run.
Otherwise, everyone is happy with this portable and easy-to-use pressure washer.
Buying Advice
While there are certainly several other pressure washers that can do a better job than this one from AR, it does not mean it cannot function as intended. If you only have to use it for the typical maintenance chores at home then it is well worth considering adding this equipment to your arsenal of tools.
If you are looking for the best pressure washers that can do heavy-duty jobs, this might not be the best fit for you. However, if you intend to use it at home, this one provides a pretty decent performance and comes with an excellent price, too. It can certainly take care of just about anything around your home.
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World Cup 2010 kicked off this past weekend. The U.S. Team is off to a surprisingly good start, having battled strongly favored England to a 1-1 tie.
It's exciting watching the competition being played in South Africa (the first African nation to host the tournament), but could the fans please go easy on blowing those damn vuvuzela horns!?! Someone described the sound as like that of a swarm of giant mutant bees, and we can tell you that the constant drone gives you a headache before you've watched even 30 minutes of a match. We've taken to watching with the sound turned off and the captions on.
Watching the games got us to thinking: Just how old is too old to play soccer at this level?
The answer? 39 years, 314 days. That's the age of the older player, goalie David James of England. Makes sense it would be a goalie doesn't it? They don't have to do all that running around. But the second oldest player is a forward, Cuauhtemoc Blanco of Mexico, who is 37 years, 145 days old. There are 20 players who are 35 or over at the start of the World Cup. Denmark has the distinction of having the team with more players over age 30; they have 10 of 'em.
We didn't harbor any delusions there might actually be a boomer out there running around on the pitch for one of the World Cup teams. Soccer at this highest level is definitely a young person's sport.
And speaking of young persons, can you guess who is the youngest player in the 2010 World Cup?
Midfielder Christian Eriksen of Denmark at only 18 years, 117 days old. Why in America, he's not even old enough to hoist a glass of Carlsberg during the victory celebration!


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Big tech magazine T3 posted up an article pitting three popular electric bikes (well, maybe two, as one we've never heard of) against each other. The article does admit a few times that it's not really exactly a fair fight, as each bike is aimed at different markets.
But it's all generally accurate and fair, and apart from whoever placed the photos in the wrong places (someone clearly doesn't know their G3 from their Trayser)
Out of the three, I would only place the Gocycle G3 as clearly one of the best electric bikes on the market. I doubt even Haibike would put forward the Urban from the line-up.
And although I would never claim to be the world authority on the inner workings of electric bike systems, I don't think Haibike would quite agree with the way the author refers to their motor as utilising 'trick Bosch electric gubbins' - ha, it sounds a bit more like Pub Landlord than authoritative review.


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Made by the same family who bottles Booker's, Jim Beam, etc, they present this incredible 9 year old bourbon. It is undeniably big, rich, and full. Powerful aromas of caramelized brown sugar, maple syrup, smoky vanilla, and oak hit the nose. On the palate, there is a distinctive rich, woody flavor, a nice peppy acidity with a long, smooth finish with a hint of dark chocolate, wood spice, and charred oak.
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A cask strength sherried scotch that delivers on the nice toffee and chocolate notes that we expect from a sherried cask but also it's surprisingly smooth and elegant for its high ABV. A really special dram for those who love sherried whisky.
Classic Islay peated malt that is non-chill filtered and has a higher than normal ABV for a standard expression. The result is a beautifully rich and peaty dram that has a nice sweetness of the front end to balance the overall headiness.


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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Well, it sounds like the boys are out in force this morning, each trying to outdo the other and call in the girls.
Hi, this is Kathy's husband Tom again. I'm just putting up the video real quick this morning but Kathy'll be providing the commentary when she returns home from work. Hope you enjoy the sounds of the springtime Missouri woods.
Look what happens when you share your Blogger password with your husband! Remember, when I was sicker than a dog and he put up a note saying I didn't really fall off the face of the Earth? Well, he's hijacked it! So, if you start seeing discussions on Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica or perhaps a tutorial on how to work on a 1999 Jeep Cherokee or perhaps jet boating in 2 inches of water on the Meramec- it ain't me! LOL
It was a day off for that carpenter and he was scouting out the turkeys as a giant gobbler was dancing in full display in front of his lady friends. His beard was so long that it dragged on the ground. The hubby sneaked out onto the deck to try and get a quick movie but they were just too on guard to get the great video, the audio came through ok through. There's something in the background right at the start of the video that must be a deer, although Google Earth used to have Big Foot sightings noted right in our valley. I still say it was our friend, David, after one of the infamous Halloween parties scratching his back on a tree!
Hope you all have a wonderful evening. It's raining here as predicted. Baseball sized hail reported in Lake St. Louis and parts of Illinois.
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- Candy C. said...
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love! ;-)
- March 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Yahoobuckaroo's Blog said...
Turkey, the other other white meat.
We've got tons of them out here too. There's been a huge resurgence of wild turkeys and coyotes the past five to ten years in Southerm Illinois.
Still no wild boars in sight though, darn the luck.
- March 15, 2012 at 4:34 PM
- LindaG said...
Thank you for sharing with us!
- March 15, 2012 at 5:03 PM
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really enjoyed your post.
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Enjoying your blog. I'm a follower.
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A Plea to Pray for Pastors
When the churches cease to pray for ministers, ministers will no longer be a blessing to the churches. O you blood-bought churches, your ministers need your prayers, for the exceeding greatness of that power which God worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead (Eph. 1:19,20).
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'Which iPhone has the biggest screen?': Currently, it's the iPhone 11 Pro Max — here's how it compares to other iPhones
Currently, the iPhone 11 Pro Max has the biggest screen of any iPhone with a diagonal display of 6.5 inches and a height of 6.22 inches.
Apple says some iPhone 6S and 6S Plus devices have a problem that makes it so they can't turn on, but it says it will fix them for free
If your iPhone 6S or 6S Plus won't turn on, Apple might help you out for free.
Apple has quietly killed off a bunch of older devices in the last few months — here are the products that are gone forever
Apple has recently discontinued several of its older devices, including the iPhone X, iPhone SE, and Apple Watch Edition.
Apple's iPhone lineup is the weakest it's been in years — and it has everything to do with the iPhone XR
The iPhone XR is not the best phone Apple could have made at that particular size.
RANKED: The iPhones that give you the most bang for your buck, from the iPhone 6S to the iPhone X
Not everyone wants the newest or most expensive iPhone available — plenty of people just want a great phone at a great value.
The best Apple products to buy from Apple's Refurbished Mac store
You can save big on Apple products by going with models that are just a little bit older.
8 reasons Google's Pixel is better than the iPhone
I keep wishing I had the Pixel instead of the iPhone.
I've had the iPhone 6S Plus for over a year, and I'm so happy I didn't upgrade to the iPhone 7
I'm $800 richer and not missing out on much.
8 reasons Google's Pixel is better than the iPhone
After some time with the Pixel XL, I'm not looking forward to returning to my iPhone.
Here's why you should always hold your iPhone in your right hand when making a call
Looks like we were "holding it wrong" after all: a new study shows much stronger cell signal strength when you hold an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus in your right hand.


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Xen Virtualization Is a real good book for beginners to intermediate users looking for Xen documentation, it is written in an easy language, with examples which are easy to follow, and from which you can learn how Xen works, and also how to use it, but lets now go to the review.
Chapter 1: Introduction
On this chapter the author start explaining what virtual machines are, and how we can get advantage from them, also he explain the different ways to virtualize a machine, once he has our attention, goes to define Xen and how it works as well as some applications you may give to Xen in the real world, one of the best is to safe money by using only one PC to do the job of a lot of them, and also security as you can split your services between different Virtual machines, thus minise the risk of a hacker attack to all your services at once.
Chapter 2: Running Xen
In this chapter we will learn how to install and start Xen Dom0, which is the host for the virtual machines, it is installed on Fedora, and the author shows us how to install from binary packages, using yum and also from source, of course you can apply what you will learn here to install Xen in other distributions of Linux
Chapter 3: Creating Virtual Machines
At this point we are ready to start creating the virtual machines, and this is also one of my favorite chapters of the book, as the author teach us, how to install different operating systems
- Ubuntu
- NetBSD
- CentOS
- Slackware
and each of the using a different methods of installation, all with examples, and step by step instructions.
Chapter 4: Managing Xen
Here we learn how to install, configure and use three different managing tools, which are:
- xm
- XenMan
- virt-manager
Chapter 5: Networking
And out of some few exceptions a virtual machine is not useful if it is not networked, so in this chapter we learn how to network our Virtual Machine, and we explore different approaches like:
- Bridged Networking
- Routed Networking
- Vlan and NAT networking
Chapter 6: Storage
The author here focuses on how to store the files the Virtual Machine needs to exist, and there are three options explained in detail, with examples, and instructions.
- File Storage
- Network File System storage (NFS)
- Logical Volume Managed (LVM) storage
We learn how to set up each of them and also its advantages and disadvantages.
Chapter 7: Encryption
What is this world with no security?, well nothing, so on this chapter the author teach us how to encrypt our Virtual Machine information, once again all the instructions are given, and you just need to follow them step by step, to have the job done.
Chapter 8: Migration
This is a very important topic, and one of the advantages of virtual machines, is that you can migrate them from one server to another, and that could be needed because your server failed, you need more power, or just because you are upgrading your hardware, in this chapter we learn how to achieve that task.
Chapter 9: Xen Future
Here, the author touches some future technologies associated to Xen, but the evolution is to fast, that maybe when you got the book, those are not future but present technologies.
As you may see, with this book, you will be able to install, manage, and use Xen for any requirement you may have, so if you want to enter in the virtualization world, more specifically in para-virtualization world this book is a must for you, you will not regret after reading it.


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Hand-Woven Linen Care
Wash warm
Linen is very durable and even stronger wet than dry. You can generally machine wash linen on a warm cycle. All the towels have been pre-washed and will shrink little to none. Wash dark colors separately.
Line dry
Shake out and straighten wet linen pieces before using a cloth line, hanger, or cloth rack to let them air dry. Linen dries fast and won't need much if any pressing after line drying. Avoid tumble drying as it can weaken linen fibers and create permanent creasing and fraying.
Iron warm
Line dried linen has a distinct crinkled texture that looks great as it is. If you prefer a more polished look, you can steam press linen using a warm to hot iron. It is easier to press linen when it is damp, so iron your towels before they are completely dry or spray them lightly with water before pressing.
Wash kitchen towels often! Frequent laundering makes linen towels softer, more absorbent and prevents linting. The fringe on the towels will also change and look more casual. With a little care the towels can last for years. Any rips or holes are best mended by hand.


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THE EDIBLE GUIDE: Beer Bars
With summer just two days away, temperatures are rising and so is our thirst. What better way to beat the heat than a cold beer? In our Edible Guide, you'll find links to over 20 beer bars in Manhattan and Brooklyn where you can grab a draft, a can or a bottle of your favorite brew.


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Material: 82% viscose, 12% silk
Grizas Rust Velvet Jacket
Regular price $160.00 Sale price
The Grizas Rust Velvet Jacket is luxurious and special. It's great for the holidays.
Material: 82% viscose, 12% silk
Origin: Made in Lithuania
Care: Washable
- Relaxed fit
- Front button closure
- Soft lapel
- Front patch pockets
- Back hemline slit
Shown with Grizas Velvet Pants and Grizas Velvet Tank
The Grizas team's main goals are great design, outstanding quality and satisfaction of each customer. They want every woman wearing Grizas' clothes to feel charming and unique.


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Pyboard D-series documentation
Welcome! This is the documentation for the pyboard D-series and associated hardware.
The pyboard runs MicroPython which is an implementation of the Python programming language designed specifically to run on microcontrollers. For full details of the MicroPython software see the documentation at docs.micropython.org. The documentation here gives details related specifically to the pyboard hardware.
References for hardware:
Additional resources:
Design resources
Firmware downloads
External links:
MicroPython homepage
MicroPython forum
MicroPython on GitHub
MicroPython documentation


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Submitted by admin on Wed, 18/07/2012 - 22:42
Wakefield Tennis Club's mixed 'B' team have secured second place in Division 2 for the 2012 tennis season. We've also achieved over 20 points for the season, and only two other teams in the league have acheived this, one of the 'others' being our Wakefield 'A' team.
If the Wakefield and District League remains as eight teams in two divisions next season, this should mean promotion to Division 1.
A BIG thank you, and well done, to the core team of Sharon, Cath, Aimee, Gary, Plamen and Steve C, and also Della, Rebecca, Graham, Ann, James and Ian for their valued contribution.


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RuneScape 3
RuneScape 3 is a rework of an oldschool RuneScape game, including better graphics, sounds and cosmetic features. RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role playing game, developed and published by Jagex Game Studios on January 04, 2001. Now RuneScape is available on MMOAuctions! Gameplay of RuneScape is taking place in a quasi-medieval, fantasy, mythical world, divided into kingdoms, regions and cities. Instead of classical experience system known from most popular MMORPG games, Runescape is featuring a system where every skill is being trained by using it. As the levels of skills grows higher, player is able to widen it's variety of armors and weapons to be worn, and gain access to higher tier's abilities. There is a variety of 26 skills to be trained in RuneScape - it gives a player incredible amount of different builds to be created. Looking for well developed RuneScape account? Or maybe want to get rid of one? You are in the right place! Check MMOAuctions for the most actual offers from players and traders worldwide!


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Reflecting on my post of yesterday I felt a tickle of memory. So, I pulled from my bookshelves the catalogue of the 1983 exhibition "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" and turned to the pages on the Museo Pio-Clementina, the member of the Vatican Museums that safeguards the collection of early Christian art. Paging through the catalogue entries I found what was causing the tickle and something else besides.
The something else is a monument inscription to a twenty-year old youth named Datus, dedicated by his parents (cat. 139, dated to 3rd or 4th c.). It is the very monument spoken of by Pope Benedict in the section of "Spe Salvi" that I included in yesterday's post (Spe Salvi, Sec. 6). In English it reads: "Given by his parents for their well-beloved son, Datus, who lived 20 years, in peace". Such inscriptions were not uncommon in the Roman world, as indeed they continue to be common in our own. The recent reinstallation and reopening of the Greek and Roman collections at the Metropolitan Museum show many similar inscriptions and monuments to children, young adults, wives, husbands, etc. There are some major differences, however, between this monument and those. It is, first of all, not a very impressive slab. The parents must have had some money in order to be able to afford the monument at all. However, by comparison to the monuments in the Metropolitan, they were not rich. The inscription is not as finely chiseled. It's a bit ragged, in fact. So, the carver who made it was not one of the highly skilled. But, what makes it remarkable is not the inscription, but the rather clumsy image that occupies the left side of the slab. Christ, identified by a halo, holds a staff in his right hand and points it at a somewhat sketchily executed image of a building with a small pedimented porch with three steps. On the top step stands a figure, completely wrapped in bands like a mummy. It is the raising of Lazarus (John 11:39-44). The family knows the story of Lazarus and has the hope that as he was raised, so their "well-beloved son, Datus" will also be raised "in peace". It is the self-same hope felt by Christians everywhere.
I confess though that this monument was not the one that caught my memory when I viewed the exhibition at the Met all those years ago. The one that caught my eye then, and that I have carried in my memory ever since, is the monument to Severa (cat. 136, dated ca.330). In this stone the left side bears a portrait of a Roman woman, presumably Severa herself. On the right three figures in short tunics and capes, carrying gifts approach a woman seated in a wicker chair, who holds out her baby. The baby reaches his arms out toward the first of the three figures. In the space between the baby and the first figure appears a star. Behind the woman stands a male figure who points at the star. Quite clearly this is an early image of the Adoration of the Magi. The catalogue identifies the standing male figure as Balaam, who prophesied "A star shall advance from Jacob, and a staff shall rise from Israel" (Numbers 24:17).
Important as an early image of the Adoration of the Magi is, however, the thing that made the Severa monument memorable to me was not the images, it was the inscription. The inscription, which is placed between the image of Severa and the scene of the Magi, says: "SEVERA IN DEO VIVAS (Severa may you live in God)". This blew me out of the water when I first saw it. It was one of those moments when the veil of time, like the veil in the Temple on the first Good Friday, is ripped in two. It made the words of St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians resonate "You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead….For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. "(Colossians 2:12, 3:3,4) Therefore, this Roman woman and her family in 330 believed as I believe now. They have long since ceased to breathe and to walk in the world, but both they and I live in Christ. We are one body across the centuries because we live in Christ through baptism.


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Tired of outings ruined by belt failures?
The Assault Industries Cobra Cooler is a coolant injection system that works to reduce clutch housing temperatures by as much as 50ºF. Keeping temperatures down can dramatically reduce the risk of belt failures.
At the flip of a momentary switch, the system injects distilled water into the clutch housing air intake tube as a fine mist intermittently over the course of 45 seconds. Temperatures will immediately begin to drop until the system shuts off.
Temperatures will climb back up over the next several minutes. Operation is recommended when housing temperatures reach 195ºF which is approaching critical. Clutch/belt housing and its internal components should still be routinely maintained along with everything else on the vehicle for maximum performance and longevity.
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Pump + 5 liter water tank and bracket(s)
3ft of 1/2" clear tubing
6ft of 6mm black tubing
Pump discharge ½" clear tube with reducer to 6mm barb fitting
Black "T" and black "90º elbow" with nozzles
(6) 1/4" cable clamps
(3) 1/2" cable clamps
(3) 1/2" hose clamps
Wiring harness with 20A rated on/off switch and in-line fuse.
(10) Zip ties
(10) #8 x 5/8" self-tapping for the cable clamps
(5) #10 x 1" self-tapping screws for mounting the pump
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In Europe we've had our fair share of misery. During World War II the small French resistance would sit eagerly and listen to the BBC broadcast Charles De Gaulle speaking and raising morale amongst his fellow compatriots. Then came one of Sir. Winston Churchill's most fiery speeches such as the following:
Moreover, when our fellow Eastern Europeans were trapped behind the Iron Curtain (essentially a big prison), they would manage to find their little radios and tune into 'Free America' over than being totally hypnotized by the state government propaganda machine's delusional fairy-tales.
Our efforts also go out to those forgotten remote little tribal civilizations across the world. You will never walk alone nor be forgotten regardless if you're stranded in the Bermuda Triangle.
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Whether or not you're on a mere patch of sand 2 x 2 m wide with only a palm tree suspended above you and a crow constantly shitting on your head, GQLive is with you.
To the Falkland Islands as well as Palau and the East sandwich islands. Once again, it will be said:
We're proud to have all 2500 of you listening to the one and only GQLive – The Fastest Sound Around.
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O'NEILL, Eugene Gladstone, Jr.
A.B. Yale, 1932; Berkeley Schol., 1933-6; Ph.D., 1936.
Instr. class. Yale, 1936-43; lctr. Princeton, 1945-6; lctr. Fairleigh Dickinson Coll. & New School for Soc. Res., 1948-50.
"Metrical Studies in the Distribution of Individual Words in Homer and Aratus" (Yale, 1936).
The Complete Greek Drama, with Whitney J. Oates, 2 vols. (New York, 1938); "The Importance of Final Syllables in Greek Verse," TAPA 70 (1939) 256-94; "Word-Accents and Final Syllables in Latin Verse," TAPA 71 (1940) 335-59; "The Prologue of the Troades of Euripides," TAPA 72 (1941) 288-320; "Note on Phrynichus' Phoenissae and Aeschylus' Persae," CP 37 (1942) 425-7; Seven Famous Greek Plays, ed. with Whitney J. Oates (New York, 1950).
When O'Neill was two years old, his parents divorced and it was not until the age of 12 that he knew who his father was, nor even his real name. Shortly after meeting his father in 1922, he took his name and retained friendly relations with him throughout his schooldays. O'Neill was a brilliant student at Yale and his knowledge of classics inspired his father's play Mourning Becomes Electra, in which he tries to blend classical mythology with modern drama. By one account, he also convinced his father that he should not to delay publication of A Long Day's Journey into Night for fear the play might damage his son's career at Yale. Nevertheless relations deteriorated after the son received his Ph.D. and his father complained that he was "too erudite." His articles on metrics in particular are models of precision and statistical compilation, and all his publications are marked by a critical acumen and wide learning that promised a great career. Although he left Yale to join the war effort, he was turned down by every branch of the service, perhaps for physical reasons, perhaps because he had for a short time belonged to the Communist Party. He spent the remainder of the war working in a cable factory. After the war, his collaborator Whitney Oates, chair of the department at Princeton, arranged a lectureship for him that lasted only two terms before he was let go. He became interested in mass communications and education and worked as a television and radio commentator but was fired from this job as well following a disastrous interview with the actor Adolphe Menjou. He took more and more to drink as his life began to crumble, and after leaving a note beside an empty bottle of bourbon that read "Never let it be said of O'Neill that he failed to empty a bottle. Ave atque vale," slit his wrists and ankles in a tub, Seneca-style.
Doris Alexander, The Tempering of Eugene O'Neill (New York, 1942); Crosswell Bowen, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill (New York, 1959); Arthur and Barbara Gelb, O'Neill, rev. ed. (New York, 1973); Louis Sheaffer, O'Neill: Son and Artist (Boston, 1973).
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Bryan and Angela have also made appearances as guest hosts on the show.
Jupiter@Nite has no set subject and instead draws its theme from current events with an emphasis on science and technology.
Jupiter@Nite is the shortest show on the network with most episodes being slightly less than twenty minutes long. With the shorter episode length Jupiter@Nite lacks the different segments that have come to define some of the other shows.
Jupiter@Nite first began airing in early June 2010 in a series of 9 beta episodes and an additional pilot episode. In the beginning, J@N - as it is often abbreviated - aired Monday through Thursday, but the Monday show was eventually cut.
In addition to Jupiter@Nite's standard fare there have been two special episodes featuring the Linux Action Show's Bryan Lunduke focusing on dick and fart jokes, a game show episode, and a series of space themed episodes (Space Wednesdays) feauturing Jupiter Broadcasting fan Mars_Base.
On June 23rd 2011, Jupiter@Nite was relaunched after a brief hiatus with a new format, which incoroprates elements from Jupiter Broadcasting's previous shows CastaBlasta, Beer is Tasty and Joint Failures. The first episode of this relaunch was titled "Jupiter@Nite 2.0" and numbered as episode 200 (presumably to distinguish it from previous shows - on June 23rd 2011 there were only 133 actual episodes that had been previously produced, not including the betas).
"Jupiter@Nite 2.0" featured Bryan, Jeremy, John and Chris giving their views on various upcoming movies and TV shows in a style reminiscent of CastaBlasta; while also giving a shoutout to Mirror Pond Pale Ale by Deschutes Brewery as they would do during an episode of Beer Is Tasty; and then highlighting a random news topic (Japanese scientists resequencing human feces into meat) as they would do in the previous Jupter@Nite format. This episode had a running time of approximately 54 minutes.
After the 211th episode the show was canceled with no reboot in sight.
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All packed for your China trip? Don't forget to load your smartphone with these essential Chinese apps!
This article was first published on Skyscanner.
Visiting China for the first time can be a fun but also troublesome experience. To keep yourself connected with the outside world and enjoy the experience seamlessly, here's a list of recommended apps that you can download from Apple App Store or Google Playstore to overcome connectivity issue and be a smart traveller in China.
1. Stay on Facebook and Instagram with VPN Express
If this is your first time visiting China, you might be shocked to find out that most of your frequently used apps do not work anymore. The firewall in China has blocked a list of websites and apps from working properly. So, you will not be able to access apps like Google or Facebook.
If you still want to stay connected, ExpressVPN will come in handy. It provides a secured channel and protects private web traffic from China's interference and censorship by modifying your IP address – 'tricking' the network that you're surfing the internet in a different country.
After testing a couple of VPN apps, ExpressVPN ranks the best in reliability. It offers a 7-day free trial which is enough for a 7-day trip. Once your trial is over, you can purchase their paid plans to continue surfing freely. It's really worth the price if you cannot live without updating the Instagram.
2. Ctrip for last minute booking
Ctrip app is a must-download app if you're intending to visit around China cities. Besides being the biggest online travel agent in China that offers everything from flights, hotels, tour packages, rails, destination activities to cruises, Ctrip also has the best customer service that operates 24/7. If you have any customer issues, you can expect them to follow up with you in 15 minutes.
After you've done a booking on Ctrip, they will prompt you if you're keen to join the trip WeChat group created by them. The group connects you with other travellers who've booked the same trip so you'll be able to network with new friends.
3. WeChat and WeChatPay (微信, 微信支付)
From our Prime Minister's speech years ago at the National Day Rally, you might have already known that China has turned into a cashless society. Digital wallet is preferred everywhere – from shopping to dining, everything is paid with a mobile wallet such as WeChat Pay or Alipay. Be prepared to be stared at when you take out cash to pay your meals.
To use Wechat Pay, simply just scan the merchant's QR code, then insert the amount you'd like to pay and tab submit. In cases that you'd like to 'Go Dutch' after dining, WeChat Pay also allows you to split the bill easily with your friends.
4. Baidu Map
As mentioned above, Google doesn't work in China, this includes Google Maps. Your best bet for navigation in China would be Baidu Map. Baidu Map interface is very similar to Google Maps but some of the words are in Chinese. It also has voice-guided GPS navigation for walking, public transport, and driving.
Baidu Map also contains a comprehensive list of restaurants, cafes, cinemas, shopping, places of interest and more. Drop a pin at your favourite venue and keep them highlighted while you explore around the area.
5. Metro China Subway
The subway is one of the most common forms of transportation used in China. So, downloading the Metro China Subway app gives you a better view of the public transport system in each city. Some China cities might have a very complex subway system, this app also provides enter or exit instructions of the station to help you navigate around. Filter by duration or simplicity (least number of transfer), and you can get the best option that fits your needs. And, one more plus point is this app is available in English.
6. DiDi Chuxing (滴滴出行)
Not keen to squeeze in the subway or metro? DiDi might be your best choice! DiDi is a private car or cab hiring platform in China similar to Grab or Uber. Insert your pick-up and drop-off destinations, choose the vehicle type, and get matched with a driver in seconds. You can pay DiDi for these rides using WeChat pay too!
7. Dian Ping (大众点评)
Covering more than 300 cities and over 1 millions shops, Dian Ping is China's leading platform in providing independent consumer reviews and merchant information (similar to TripAdvisor). With the hundreds of thousands recommendations by locals, the platform ensures authenticity and quality of reviews which makes it one of the most trusted review platforms in China
The robust search filters also allow you to find the best restaurants within your budget and vicinity. Before you splurge on an expensive meal at a fancy restaurant, it is always advisable to do some prior research with Dian Ping. The only caveat for Dian Ping is that it's only available in simplified Chinese.
8. Waygo
Can't speak Chinese (Mandarin)? Waygo has got you covered. Waygo is an award-winning translation app that enables travellers to scan an image of anything with Chinese characters (e.g, Menu, street signages) and it will translate the Chinese characters into English instantly. What's great about the app it works offline!
The free trial allows 10 free translations per day and paid options are available at S$2.58 for one week of free unlimited translations or you prefer to pay S$8.58 for unlimited translations for life.
9. Air Matters
Air pollution can reach extremely unhealthy levels in different cities of China. Air Matters provides data from more than 10,000 monitoring stations over 50 countries. With this app, you can check the real-time pollutant index, temperature, wind, humidity, visibility and any other information regarding the current climate or weather of the city you are in.
It's a daily routine for the Chinese locals to do a round of checks on the app before leaving their home.
Tip: Bring a mask in your bag when you're heading out in case the pollution index goes up during the day.
10. Currency converter
Our last recommendation is the XE Currency app. I bet most of you already have an exchange app in your phone. If you haven't downloaded, you should give XE Curreny a try. It's a comprehensive exchange app that helps you calculate the exchange prices you quickly. I personally like the calculator function which reduces the hassle of going back-and-forth between exchange app and the calculator app.
You are able to select the up to 10 currencies to monitor after downloading the app. It will be of great help especially when looking for the best bargain at the Silk Market in Beijing.
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Customizing Printable Packing Slips
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Merchants commonly request developers modify the default content of packing slips in order to satisfy specific business requirements and industry demands. In order to assist developers in making these changes, this articles contains instructions on how to edit the printable packing slip's HTML.
Customizing Printable Packing Slips
Customizing your Stencil theme's printable packing slips currently relies on a template and variables from BigCommerce's legacy Blueprint themes framework. Here are the steps:
Download this printable packing slip .zip file, which contains the skeleton of a printable packing slip.
Make your customizations to the HTML file.
Use WebDAV to upload your customized HTML file to WebDAV's /template/ folder.
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VANCOUVER — Lululemon Athletica Inc. says it had a profit of $839 million in the last quarter to beat analyst expectations.
Net revenue in the quarter ending April 29 was a 25 per cent increase from the same quarter last year, and above the roughly $800 million expected by analysts according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.
The Vancouver-based clothing retailer says total comparable sales were up 20 per cent, and comparable store sales increased eight per cent.
Direct to consumer net revenue, which largely comes from the company's website sales, increased 62 per cent compared with a year earlier.
Retail analyst Neil Saunders says in a note that the company had a "stellar quarter," although the improved numbers do compare to a fairly soft performance last year.
He says the results are especially impressive as competition in the yoga clothing market increases from specialist players like Gap's Athleta, sports suppliers like Adidas, as well as smaller niche companies.
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2020 World Health Care Congress to Feature Wellness Debate!
It looks like the Mother of All Wellness Debates will be held March 29th in Washington, DC, at the World Health Care Congress.
This is a particularly timely issue because the EEOC is, even as we speak, drafting proposed rules defining "voluntary" to replace the 1984-type rules (where "voluntary" means "forced") tossed out by a federal court in December 2018. There is a tension between protecting employee civil rights (as EEOC is tasked with doing) and allowing employers to fine employees (or move to high-deductible plans and then "incentivize" them to earn back their deductible) who don't lose weight or otherwise toe the line. Or even to participate in these so-called "pry, poke and prod" programs, whose clinical value is dubious and often provide misinformation or violate clinical guidelines.
As noted in the link, key EEOC administrators have indicated they will be paying close attention to this debate. Further, the interest level extends to Capitol Hill. Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin (arguably the most influential non-senior Democrat on the Hill) and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander (who runs the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues), have already commented for the record on this debate.
Someone needs to show up to represent the "pro" side, though — or else the debate will be a rather one-sided affair. So far the invitation to debate has not been accepted — by the exact people who spend their entire lives looking for forums to spread their pro-pry,poke,and prod message.
Let me encourage them to show up by striking a conciliatory tone.
In the past, perhaps this column has not been respectful of my potential adversaries in this debate — the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) and/or Ron Goetzel. However, I have great regard for them — when they tell the truth. For instance, Ron Goetzel endorsed Quizzify as being "a lot of fun and very clever," (minute 42:57 of our last debate). And when he acknowledged I am the best peer-reviewer in the industry (minute 30:38). Or when he acknowledged that it requires 2-3 years to reduce risk by 1-2%.
I am also very very upset with The Incidental Economist (they are the New York Times' economics bloggers). They referred to Ron's analysis as — please excuse the technical jargon — "crap." How dare they!
I also give HERO tremendous credit for admitting that "pry, poke and prod" programs harm employee morale and can damage corporate reputations (like Penn State). But most importantly, for admitting that wellness loses money. It's a rare trade association honest enough to admit their product –and once again, pardon the technical jargon used in the lobbying industry — sucks. It took real candor and courage to do that, and it is much appreciated. I have great respect for integrity.
I will reciprocate by acknowledging the benefits of "pry, poke and prod." Screening according to established clinical guidelines, though it won't save money, is a good idea for long-term employee health — assuming someone is able to interpret the findings correctly and assuming the findings are accurate, and assuming they aren't already getting too many checkups.
I look forward to matching wits with them next month.
You can see the full World Health Care Congress agenda here, and register here.
Upcoming webinar: Is is time for a wellness reboot?
Facts are the wellness industry's kryptonite.
How do we know this?
Last month you may have seen ads from the Health Enhancement Research Organization for something called The JAMA Wellness Study: A Balanced Discussion.
Unfortunately for anyone who for whatever reason dialed into this session, that's an hour you'll never get back. Balancing fact and fiction in a webinar leads to curious results. For instance, here's what would you'd learn by attending a "balanced" webinar on astronomy:
- Ptolemy: The sun revolves around the earth.
- Copernicus: The earth revolves around the sun.
- Balance: The earth revolves halfway around the sun and the sun revolves halfway around the earth.
And that's exactly what happened here. Instead of actually presenting factual information, as in their very own candid albeit subsequently retracted foray into integrity, HERO wrote:
Hundreds of research studies published in scientific journals conclude that well designed, evidence based, comprehensive health and well-being initiatives work. We know this, yet occasionally, a new study is published that is inconsistent with the overall body of research.
The only thing more tortured than the grammar of that passage are the logic and the facts. Logically, math and science are not popularity contests. It wouldn't matter if "hundreds of research studies" say the opposite, if indeed the opposite is wrong as a matter of arithmetic proof.
In any event, there are not "hundreds of research studies" showing "evidence-based" wellness programs work, for the simple reason that (along with the math) the "evidence basis" goes exactly the other way.
- The US Preventive Services Task Force and Choosing Wisely recommend against screening the stuffing out of employees, based on the evidence ("tests and screenings can cause problems");
- You can't pay people to lose weight any more than you can pay people to cure disease. Obviously if financial incentives were all it took to lose weight, Oprah Winfrey would be Size 2 by now. Quite the contrary, outcomes-based wellness that by definition requires paying people to lose weight, or fining them if they don't, causes binge-eating and crash-dieting…and has seriously harmed employees with eating disorders;
- The last 5 winners of the wellness industry's C. Everett Koop Award lost money–and in the most recent case of Wellsteps, harmed employees;
- The last 12 studies published have shown huge losses.
Having seen this webinar promoted, I thought it would be a good idea to enlist some card-carrying grownups to do a fact-based webinar as a counterpoint to a webinar balancing fact and fiction.
One of the original entries in my Rolodex (and that's how far back we go) for card-carrying grownups would be the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health. PBGH is hosting a webinar on this very topic (meaning wellness) on July 9th. It will present actual facts about wellness outcomes. In that sense it will be the first webinar of its kind following the release of the JAMA study. Entitled Wellness: Is It Time for a Reboot, the registration link is here.
One fact all parties can agree on, unfortunately, is that this webinar will set you back $25. (There are a few friend-of-Al promo codes available.)
"And so, Little Miss Minnow, the wolf ate the big bad outcomes-based wellness vendor, and all the employees lived happily ever after."
We interrupt this program…
I have several new posts ready to go — the usual suspects acting out in their usual hilarious fashion — but this is a serious post.
It is time for wellness vendors to stop harassing employees about their weight.
A new article summarizing the voluminous data on the futility and harms of weight-shaming just appeared. It doesn't contain new data, but rather presents the existing evidence in a clear and compelling format.
This article finds fault in the physician community, but the wellness industry (the outcomes-based companies and their enablers at the Health Enhancement Research Organization (and their enabler-in-chief, Ron Goetzel) is even worse because they tie money to weight loss. They give employees a financial reason to binge before the first weigh-in and then dehydrate themselves and crash-diet before the last one.
This does nobody any good, except of course the outcomes-based wellness vendors — like Interactive Health, Wellsteps, Wellness Corporate Solutions, Staywell, Bravo, Total Wellness, Star Wellness, Health Fitness Corporation and probably a host of others. And there is a special dishonorable mention for HealthyWage, whose entire business model is corporate crash-dieting contests.
They aren't going to agree to stop on their own, any more than Monsanto stopped making DDT on its own volition. They need to have it made clear that this behavior won't be tolerated any more.
Action Steps
A starting point is this linkedin post. Like it, comment on it, share it. Once we get to 100 likes and comments, and we're already more than halfway, I can probably generate media attention.
Warning: Workplace Wellness Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Sometimes we bring up the many ways in which conventional outcomes-based "pry, poke and prod" wellness programs harm employees. For the first time, we are putting all those harms in one place, a hand clip-and-save guide for journalists, regulators, and legislators.
This series now includes three. First is The Outcomes, Economics and Ethics of the Workplace Wellness Industry. The good news about this one is its exhaustive comprehensiveness in covering the industry's misdeeds, garnished with 400 linkable footnotes. The bad news is it was published more than 9 months ago, too soon to capture the most recent swarm of misdeeds. For example, it predated Interactive Health's scorched-earth screening program, designed to leave no employee undiagnosed. (This is literal — according to their own data roughly a quarter of employees discover "new conditions" every year. So in 4 years, every employee, on average, gets one new condition.)
The next was an expose of the economics of wellness, a compelling, fully sourced and linked proof that the whole pry, poke and prod endeavor served no economic purpose beyond enriching pry, poke, and prod vendors. (Screening according to guidelines, should a vendor ever choose to do it even though it would require sacrificing two-thirds of revenues in the name of integrity, would be exempted from this conclusion.) That's because there is no chance that vendors "playing doctor" at work saves money.
Confucius observed that an mistake that remains uncorrected after being pointed out becomes a lie. Using that definition, two-thirds of the wellness industry –– including the Koop Award Committee and the Health Enhancement Research Organization — is lying, as they are fully aware that their very stable economic genius fantasies are nothing more than the stuff dreams are made of. That also explains why the $3 million reward for showing wellness is not an epic fail remains unclaimed.
The Hazards of Workplace Wellness
This whole thing would be hilarious were it not for all the harms and hazards of workplace wellness visited on employees who are forced to choose between, as Judge Bates noted in his epic decision in AARP v. EEOC, paying two months' rent or forfeiting that sum by submitting to needles wielded by unlicensed, unregulated and unsupervised wellness vendors. Employees should never be forced into clearly unhealthy situations at work, at least without the hazards being disclosed, and yet, today's American Journal of Managed Care posting covers six hazards employees face as they navigate the shoals of workplace wellness:
- Actual, well-documented, harms to an exposed population
- First-person case studies and reports
- Crash-dieting-for-money risks
- Flouting of established clinical guidelines
- "Hyperdiagnosis" leading to unneeded medical care
- Incorrect or potentially harmful advice that employees are told to take
All of this is covered in one place this month — and is totally worth the read.
Not if you don't have a license, aren't required to understand what you are doing, and can force employees to harm themselves or lose money
Wellness trade association (HERO) throws itself under the bus
In wellness, there is a saying that you don't have to challenge the data to invalidate it. You merely have to read the data. It will invalidate itself.
Now that adage can be extended to cover the May "position paper" published by the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). HERO manages to invalidate its own position even though they didn't actually take a position in this "position paper" to invalidate. They didn't even present any data…and yet their data was wrong.
All they said was "critically examine research." Then they provided four paragraphs which showed why doing precisely that invalidates everything they've ever published. See for yourself with each paragraph header.
I agree totally — except with the grammar, English being right up there with arithmetic, logic, statistics, and ethics as being courses that HERO's staff have struggled with. There has not been a single study in the last five years showing wellness saves money. Sometimes, the studies say explicitly that wellness failed, as the National Bureau of Economic Research did, with Medicare close behind. Or Pepsico. Or the state of Connecticut, which, having thrown away millions on inappropriate screenings and doctor visits, declared that losing money was "a good thing."
Other times, you have to actually read the study to realize that wellness loses money, as in every Koop Award-winning example in the last six years through 2016, like this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and this one. Why not 2017? Because in 2017, they couldn't even find a study that pretended to save money.
HERO has painted itself into a corner here too, because if a study ever does come out that alleges wellness saves money, critics would simply note that it is important to be skeptical of a claim from a single study refuting all the others. Apparently Prof. Baicker is working on a new paper, having found the arguably the most stable genius vendor in the wellness industry to support what are likely to be claims of savings high enough to support her own previous claims of savings, but low enough so they won't immediately self-invalidate upon exposure to sunlight. And let us not forget that her original conclusions were publicly invalidated, by name, by her own subordinate. Is this is a great country or what?
The HERO position paper complains that:
Media criticism is sometimes based on programs that are not evidence-based, are poorly implemented, or are incorporated into unsupportive environments.
Hmm… so every time a study comes out showing wellness loses money, it's because the program was done badly? This list of losers apparently includes the aforementioned Pepsico, whose program was so bad they won two Koop Awards.
During my debate with Ron Goetzel, a number of questions from the audience complained that their own company's wellness program was horrible. Ron's stock response: your company needs a better program. He reserved particular animus for the Penn State program, which he himself decried as "horrible," even though he was the prime architect. In another instance he blamed the questioner for being a bad employee.
Since employees dislike being pried, poked and prodded, "unsupportive environments" would include every company, according to WillisTowersWatson. That means the only companies with "best practice" programs would be wellness vendors themselves, like Vitality Group, where, as a wellness vendor, they curated and implemented only the finest wellness interventions available to mankind. Oh, wait a sec, I goofed. That program failed miserably. Shame on their own bad employees!
Vitality Group is in good company. As Mr. Goetzel says, thousands of programs are done badly while only 100 have succeeded.
"Best practices" might include adhering to US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines, not demonizing social drinking, avoiding harms to employees with eating disorders, and not telling people to do stupid things. I'd settle for a program that does any one of those things.
How much time do they need? 3 years? 6 years? They need more? Sure — here is 14 years' worth of results for the entire US, showing virtually nothing has happened. The "wellness-exposed" and "wellness-non-exposed" <65 populations are virtually coincident, with only Medicare — where, by definition, there is no workplace wellness — showing a little improvement. It's all spelled out here.
This paragraph is supposed to be a subtle diss of the NBER paper, which in the 4 months subsequent to publication, the very stable geniuses at HERO have not mentioned by name to avoid drawing attention to it due to its obvious quality and validity. (Welcome to my world.) True enough that the NBER paper covered only one year, though the authors added there was absolutely nothing "trending towards savings" to suggest that the second year would be any different.
The irony of course is that almost every one of those Koop Award-winning programs did claim first-year savings. So first year savings are obtainable, except when they aren't.
Confirmation bias? HERO is a thesaurus-level paean to confirmation bias. Look at a typical study, and all you will see is citations to studies by their colleagues. Not one study in the wellness trade association's journal (whose prevaricator-in-chief Paul Terry, also runs HERO) has ever cited me in all of its history, whereas this single article by me cites various members of the Wellness Ignorati 115 times. Not one study in the history of that journal has ever found wellness loses money. At least deliberately. Just like Perry Mason lost one case that was overturned on appeal, that journal accidentally found "randomized control trials exhibit negative ROIs," but then devoted an editorial in the next issue to overturning their previous conclusion.
Here is HERO's exact language on confirmation bias:
Confirmation bias is the tendency of researchers to draw inferences from their study that align with their preexisting beliefs but are not well supported by their data.
This is, of course, is how the Wellness Ignorati got their name — deliberately ignoring the overwhelmingly conclusive data that undermines their revenue stream. Examples are legion but my favorite is Larry Chapman breathlessly propagandizing a study that he interpreted as aligning with his preexisting belief that health risk assessments save 50% ("they should be treated like a beloved pet"). Alas, he made the mistake of also providing the actual data, which naturally not only can't be interpreted to show 50% savings, but also can't even be misinterpreted to show 50% savings. Or any savings, for that matter.
Larry, one question for you:
The wellness industry's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year just got worse.
The Wellness Industry's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Year just got worse. Seems like CMS (Medicare) and Modern Healthcare are also ganging up on the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) and all their cronies.
The headline in today's Modern Heathcare turns out to be a bit of an understatement:
Wellness programs aren't generating Medicare savings
Read farther the article and you'll come up with gems like:
Utiization and expenditures actually increased among program participants… The results mirror those in the corporate world.
Asked for comment, the National Business Group on Health's very stable spokesgenius, Steve Wojcik, said:
So, while it didn't reduce healthcare expense or utilization, it seems to have had a positive impact…by preventing or delaying normal deterioration that comes with age.
Where Mr. Wojcik came up with this spin, creative even by wellness industry standards, is anyone's guess. Nothing in the program suggests it and when he finds something that does prevent age-related decline, I will be the first to nominate him for a Nobel Prize.
The curious thing is this failed approach is not "wellness or else" as Jon Robison calls it. Instead these programs are truly voluntary. Also unlike corporate wellness programs, vendors aren't harassing healthy employees to eat more broccoli but rather focusing on unhealthy ones. Instead of making healthy 30-year-olds get unneeded checkups, they're encouraging 70-year-olds with chronic disease to get more medical care.
And yet the programs still don't work. Color me surprised. I genuinely thought (and I honestly still think) that willing participants in voluntary programs who have chronic disease would benefit from these programs. Perhaps when they re-review another year's data they will find a benefit.
Alternatively, instead of trying to maintain the revenue streams of their members, perhaps HERO could actually try to find a new model that does provide a benefit. Certainly there are plenty of vendors out there with possibly better mousetraps, but they all have one thing in common: they have no use for HERO's pet vendors, any more than companies that make solar panels have a use for coal.
Speaking of HERO, let us review HERO's comments from just last week:
Teddy Roosevelt said, "complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining." It's a quote that also reminds me why I've not thought of angry bloggers who target health promotion [vendors] as bullies. Though they relish trolling for bad apples, their scolding is toothless, more the stuff of chronic whiners.
Not to mention:
We're fortunate to work in a profession with a scant number of vociferous critics. My take is that there is one thing these few angry loners want more desperately than attention: that's to be taken seriously.
Just like wellness vendors like to define "voluntary" as "forced," I guess in wellness-speak "scant number of vociferous critics and chronic whiners" mean "every commentator," and an "angry blogger" is any blogger with a great big smile on his face.
The wellness industry's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year
OK, this time I'm not the one causing the kerfluffle in the wellness industry, though I will confess to being a force multiplier.
Not since 2014, when the very unstable morons at the Incidental Economist made fun of the very stable geniuses who give out the Koop Award and also unequivocally concluded wellness loses money — combined with continued fallout from the Penn State debacle and the Nebraska scandal — has the wellness industry had such a bad year. And it's only February.
Let's review what's happened so far in 2018. First, a federal judge ruled that voluntary wellness programs need to be — get ready — voluntary. The EEOC's responded with the legalese equivalent of: "Fine, be that way."
Next, WillisTowersWatson did something that might get them in hot water with the very stable wellness industry leaders: they were honest. They published a study revealing that employees hate wellness even more — way more — than they hate waiting for the cable guy to show up.
Finally, the very unstable National Bureau of Economic Research conducted a controlled study finding basically no impact whatsoever of a wellness program. More importantly, they specifically invalidated the "pre-post" methodology. Even more importantly, they specifically invalidated 78% of the studies used in Kate Baicker's "Harvard Study" meta-analysis.
Here is an interesting piece of trivia. The lead researcher is an assistant professor at the Harris School of Public Policy. Why is this interesting trivia? Because Katherine Baicker — the Typhoid Mary of Wellness, whose THC-infused 3.27-to-1 ROI is the basis for essentially every subsequent genius wellness outcomes claim — is now the dean of that very same Harris School. I'm just guessing here, but I'd say it's gotta be a trifle embarrassing when your own subordinate publicly disproves your own study. I mean, it's one thing for me, RAND, Bloomberg, and anyone else with five minutes, internet access and a calculator to do it, but…your very subordinate?
On the other hand, the researcher, Damon Jones, just demonstrated not just amazing competence, but amazing integrity as well. In other words, he has no future in wellness.
The Wellness Empire Strikes Back
How does the wellness industry respond to these smoking guns threatening their entire revenue stream? Apparently, there is little cause for concern on their planet.
Let's start with America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the health insurance industry lobbying group. Here is AHIP's oxymoronic Wellness Smartbrief (January 26), on the NBER research. Yes, it summarizes the same wellness-emasculating study as the one above, though you could never guess it from the headline:
Continuing, AHIP said:
Offering incentives for completing wellness activities might be more cost-effective than offering incentives for wellness screening, a recent study of a comprehensive program found.
Perhaps AHIP has been infiltrated by Russian trolls, because here's what the NBER article actually said about "completing wellness activities":
We…do not find any effect of treatment on the number of visits to campus gym facilities or on the probability of participating in a popular annual community running event, two health behaviors that are relatively simple for a motivated employee to change over the course of one year.
AHIP continues:
Wellness programs might attract mostly employees who are already fitness-conscious, but the potential to attract healthy employees whose medical spending is already low could nonetheless be a boon to employers, the researchers found.
And on the subject of "the potential to attract healthy employees" being a "boon to employers," the authors actually said:
We further find that selection into wellness programs is associated with both lower average spending and healthier behaviors prior to the beginning of the study. Thus, one motivation for a firm to adopt a wellness program is its potential to screen for workers with low medical spending. Considering only health care costs, reducing the share of non-participating (high-spending) employees by just 4.5 percentage points would suffice to cover the costs of our wellness program intervention.
In other words, you can apply some workplace eugenics to your company by using wellness to weed out obese employees, employees with chronic or congenital diseases, and so on. Good for you!
Soon, if AHIP and others have their way, there will be no need for guesswork in eugenics: employer wellness programs will be able to screen these employees out based on their actual DNA.
AHIP's take on AARP v. EEOC
And now, AHIP's take on this landmark case, their ace reporters scooping everyone with this February 2 headline on the December 20th court ruling:
Here are more typical headlines on that court ruling, headlines that came out the same month that the court ruling came out. Perhaps AHIP used the interim six weeks to focus-group various verbs until they settled on…tweak???
AHIP: It's not just the headlines
One prominent healthcare executive recently attended an AHIP conference and reports:
I just returned from one of the dumbest meetings I've ever attended in Washington. Report of a new "study" by AHIP. Turns out people don't mind health costs all that much, they just want more benefits. And everything is hunky-dory with their health plans, people like them so much. They love wellness benefits and crave more. Prescription drug prices have been nicely controlled thanks to the competitive marketplace (no, I am not making this up or exaggerating for drama). For every $1 employers spend on benefits workers get $4 in value. Priorities for SHRM rep: Fitbits for all employees, solving the outrage that only 20% of her employees got an annual physical. 85 cents of every dollar spent on health care goes to chronic disease.
Over these same two hours, I'd estimate about a thousand employees were misinformed, harmed or harassed by wellness vendors, roughly equal numbers of employees got useless annual checkups, employers spent about $200-million on healthcare and 40 people died in hospitals from preventable errors. But I'm being such a Debbie Downer! I'm going home to read Why Nobody Believes the Numbers to remove myself from this alternative universe.
Enter the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO)
HERO's Prevaricator-in-Chief, Paul Terry, is demonstrating his usual leadership abilities in this crisis, of course. After all, HERO is the wellness industry trade association and these three items — the NBER invalidating their product, employees hating their product, and a federal judge forbidding them to force employees to use their product — represent existential threats to his "pry, poke and prod" members.
Here is quite literally his only blog post on any of these three items:
Teddy Roosevelt said, "complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining." It's a quote that also reminds me why I've not thought of angry bloggers who target health promotion [vendors] as bullies. Though they relish trolling for bad apples, their scolding is toothless, more the stuff of chronic whiners.
I suspect he is talking about me here as the "chronic whiner" who is "scolding" them. Or perhaps he is referring to the "angry bloggers" at the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Slate, or STATNews, since those "toothless" publications seem to be scolding wellness vendors more than I ever have. For instance, I've never called wellness vendors' offering a "scam" or a "sham." I simply quote these very stable wellness geniuses verbatim, as above or below, or last week.
Being quoted verbatim, not angry bloggers, is their worst nightmare. (One thing I would concede, though, is that "Paul Terry and the Angry Bloggers" would be a great name for a rock band.)
Yep, looks like the implosion of his industry all my fault. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure who is the "angry blogger" he is referring to, other than to note that Mr. Terry himself seems to blog a tad angrily himself, both above, and here…
Why I choose to ignore the blogger critics: We're fortunate to work in a profession with a scant number of vociferous critics. My take is that there is one thing these few angry loners [Editor's note: the complete "scant list" of the 220 "few angry loners" who have been "vociferous critics" can be found here] want more desperately than attention: that's to be taken seriously. What they fail to comprehend is that as they've gotten ever more farfetched and vitriolic in search of the former, they've cinched their inability to attain the latter.
Baiting people with misinformation and offensive insults (but just a tad under highly offensive) is a pesky ploy that trolls hope will eventually land a bite that confers credibility where there is none. Even reading such drivel is a form of taking the bait; responding is swallowing it whole. Some say dishonesty should not go unchallenged and I respect their view; nevertheless, I'm convinced responding to bloggers who show disdain for our field is an utter waste of time. I've rarely been persuaded to respond to bloggers, and each time I did it affirmed my worry that, more than a waste, it's counter-productive.
…and especially here, a seemingly incongruous decision to "act out" by someone who claims to be "choosing to ignore the blogger critics."
Having read years of my "drivel" alongside Mr. Terry's posting explaining why you shouldn't "swallow this bait," perhaps readers might opine here: which of us, exactly, is the "chronic whiner"?
Coincidentally, when I run live health-and-wellness trivia contests, the first of our 3 rules is: No Whining. Seems to me that he would have just violated it. Indeed the only rule HERO hasn't violated so far is #3 below. Not that I want to put ideas in their head.