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darkly wrote:^Sorry to hear that. Dogs are awesome, I still think about our dog and she died 26 years ago. What kind of a dog was it?
Also, a double post is better than no post (at least that's what I think). Sometimes things move to slowly here for you to wait when you have something you want to post. Personally, I'm more interested in what you have to say to care about anything else.
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Emelie Forsberg has just taken a stunning victory in the Mont Blanc marathon 80km race. But it's not her epic win she's talking about – nor the fact it means she's now the 2014 Skyrunning Ultra champion.
Take a look at her Facebook page and you'll see it's her love of running and her passion for the mountains that comes across. "From my heart I can truly say I enjoyed every second of it," she writes. "Pure skyrunning. J´adore! I love!"
Before the race, we asked her exactly why she loves to run. Her answer is both refreshing and inspiring:
"It's hard to describe it's so good," she says. "You get a really good feeling in your legs. You feel so light – you're just flowing over the ground. Every uphill is super easy. Maybe you reach the summit and you just want to go further. Everything is connected. You feel like really wow, I could go on forever, or wow, what a great feeling, this is so beautiful."
"You can still get a great run even when it's also a rainy day and you have to really push yourself to go out the door," she adds. "You're always super happy you got out there."
For Emelie, running is all about pleasure. "It is never difficult or hard!" she says, although she admits that it can get tough in a race.
As for what she thinks about for all those hours on the trail, she says she tries to cultivate a state of 'mindfulness'.
"If I have things that I think about, I make a list but when I have done that I'm less in my mind. With mindfulness you don't think about anything. You are just there – and nothing more."
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Dr. Jerrilyn Cambron,
professor at National University, has been elected "president
elect" for the Massage Therapy Foundation. Her position will
begin in March of 2013, and she will serve her two-year term as
president from 2014 - 2016.
Dr. Cambron was previously elected to the Foundation's board of
trustees in 2010, and became a vice president of the organization
in 2012.
The focus of the Foundation is to "advance the knowledge and
practice of massage therapy by supporting scientific research,
education, and community service."
Dr. Cambron says, "These three tenets of research, education,
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as a massage therapist, the Foundation was a natural match for
me. "
"The Massage Therapy Foundation's work is very exciting," says
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conference coming up, and also an online open-source journal that is indexed in PubMed.
The Foundation gives out funding for research and community service
projects, and is starting a webinar series on how to write case
reports. In fact, we have a case-report contest for both students
and practitioners." says Dr. Cambron.
Dr. Cambron serves on the faculty of National University's
Research Department and in addition to her doctor of chiropractic
degree, holds both a master's degree in public health and PhD from
the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
She is also a licensed massage therapist and founder of MassageNet, a
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Why is child labour on the rise in Gaza?
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More and more children are working in the Gaza Strip, as the small territory continues to suffering from isolation, chronic humanitarian concerns, and an economy on the brink of collapse. The legal age to work for Palestinians is 15 years, however children have been joining the workforce younger and younger.
With around 2 million Palestinians on some 365 square kilometers, Gaza ranks as the third most densely populated polity in the world. It is isolated because both Egypt and Israel control its borders. Egypt has been keeping the Rafah border crossing closed most of the time. Israel is imposing a sea and air blockade, and monitoring who and what comes in and out of the Strip – severely restricting the movement of people and goods.
"We work to bring food on the table," say 10-year-old Mazen and 8-year-old Mohamed. The two brothers work in the Midan al-Jundi al-Majhool (Square of the Unknown Soldier ) along Omar al-Mokhtar street, in the fancy neighborhood of al Rimal, Gaza City.
They sell balloons and make about 15 shekels (4 dollars) a day all together. "We started to work two years ago, when our father lost his job," explains Mazen. Their mother does not work as she takes care of a family of 6 children and her own mother who suffers from a bad heart condition.
Mazen and Mohamed are the oldest children in the family. Their siblings are under the age of seven and go to school – so do Mazen and Mohamed, but not on a regular basis. Both insist that they decided by themselves to come and work in the park just so that the family "would not starve".
Mazen says he had heard from other children in school that working in the streets was not dangerous. He asked around what he could do and found the balloon business safe and easy. "We buy the balloons, and we sell them, nobody is taking shares in what we earn," he explains.
The economic situation plays a major role in the significant increase in child labour. Unemployment continues to rise – reaching 42% of working-age population (as much as 65% for women). Parents do not work, or work so little that everybody else in the household has to work. More than 80% of the population relies on humanitarian aid to survive.
The Gaza Strip also experienced 3 wars with Israel in less than 10 years, which left a deep mark on its social fabric. According to the UNHRC, 1,462 Palestinian civilians died during the seven weeks of the 2014 war.
"My dad stopped working after he got injured during the war, he can't move his arm now," says Odeh, 13. He has been working in the port for five years. At first, he says it was because he really wanted to be more independent. After his father was hurt, his family relied only on his earnings.
He has a small toy car, decorated with ribbons and shiny plastic strings. Odeh charges one or two shekels a ride. He says he makes 20 shekels (5.50 dollars) a day, sometimes more. He starts working after school and stops around midnight. Odeh walks back home for about 30 minutes and gives the money to his parents. "It pays for everything we eat the next day," he says.
Labour law enforcement agencies as well as NGOs are trying to tackle this issue but often lack sufficient funds to build a comprehensive strategy.
Several organizations working on child labor in the Gaza Strip, including Terre de Hommes, told Palestine Monitor that one of the ways they prevent child labor is by tracking children who drop out of school.
Schools are often not a welcoming place for children as classrooms are overcrowded. During the last Gaza war, about half of its 520 schools were damaged or destroyed, according to Human Rights Watch.
Mahmoud, 13, a rag picker, dropped out of school after the building was razed in 2014. "I liked going to school even though I was not very good at studying," he recalls. His parents tried to register him in other schools, but the classes were too packed and the shifts system (going to school in the morning or in the afternoon) did not work out for Mahmoud who had to take care of his younger brother at the time. Today only his older sister, who is 16 years old, goes to school.
Another way of fighting child labour would be monitoring businesses more closely to stop children from working in the streets. None of the children Palestine Monitor met in the Gaza Strip said they had ever interacted with a policeman.
Children's NGOs working in the Gaza Strip say they could work with the help of the labour inspectors who visit businesses to check whether children work there – using the data gathered by labour inspectors to contact get in touch with the families of working children. Some organizations offer vocational training for children so they can train and learn skills instead of being cheap labour. Hundreds of children have stopped working in the streets through such programmes.
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An ever-increasing number of couples are seeking an affordable getaway, and a short cruise appears to be the ideal solution.
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I cleaned out the two freezers today. The small one is soup only. There are 15 tubs right now. The big one has chilli and curry. There are 12 containers of curry and 7 chilli. Each have their own row(s). Can we try to keep it this way? There is lots of room on the other side of the big freezer for wraps and pitta. Also, I found frozen roast vegetables in there. I am defrosting and trying to salvage, but I don't think that's really the thing to do with roast veg! Also found frozen chickpeas?
There will be an organic veg delivery on Tuesday. Please bear in mind when ordering veg over the weekend. It will consist of the following:
- 12 pc ndl cucumber
- 5kg scottish courgettes
- 8 head grb green batavia lettuce
- 3kg ndl white mushrooms
- 2pun scot mixed sprouts
- 2 bag scot kale
There will be an SDS delivery and a Funny Bones delivery on Monday. There are also cakes ordered. I think it would be good to leave a note if you've ordered cakes since they take two days to come. Otherwise, we might end up with overlap (almost did this week).
What is the deal with cleaning toilets for money right now? I gave Danny a fiver today for doing them. I think this might have been wrong. Faith and I did them for free on Wednesday. Would be cool to get them done over the weekend as well. It's a much more pleasant job when done this way.
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Texas Lawmakers Increase Funds for OHV Facilities
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AUSTIN — More and better off-highway vehicle (OHV) facilities will surface around Texas after a bill passed during the 81st Texas Legislature this year will allow Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to use all of the funds generated from OHV decal sales.
The department has been approved to spend an estimated $572,000 from decals sold in recent years. That includes an almost $500,000 increase for the 2010-2011 biennium over the previous biennium, reflecting increasing revenue from expanding OHV decal sales. The funds will pay for basic necessities for OHV parks, such as land surveys, appraisals, land acquisitions and biological or cultural surveys. Any additional money collected from decal sales beyond projected estimates can also be used.
"If we sell more than the expected amount, we will also be able to use the additional money, which is good news for people who utilize OHV facilities," said Steve Thompson, OHV program manager with TPWD in Austin.
The department administers grants that can help fund OHV projects. The National Recreational Trails Fund (NRTF) is an 80-20 matching grant that requires recipients to provide an amount equal to 20 percent of the federal grant. Grant funds come from a portion of the federal gas tax generated by gasoline purchases to utilize off-road recreational vehicles, such as off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. A federal requirement is that 30 percent of the funds be spent on motorized recreational trail projects, 30 percent on non-motorized trail projects, with the remaining 40 percent discretionary.
TPWD recently allotted $1.6 million in National Recreational Trail Grant Funds to the Texas Motorized Trails Coalition to purchase 3,300 acres in Crockett County near Ozona for the Escondido Draw Recreation Area. Though the park is already OHV-friendly, the non-profit organization had to purchase private land running from a county road to the entrance of the park so OHV users could access the park.
"We're either supporting existing grant projects by providing money for consulting or professional services, or we will help grant recipients match the amount of money needed for land acquisition," Thompson said.
The 78th Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 155 several years ago, which closed navigable stream beds in Texas to motorized recreational vehicles, except for some parts of the Canadian and Red Rivers. That law also directed TPWD to "facilitate development of sites for motor vehicle recreation other than protected freshwater areas."
In 2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens and other authorities began enforcing the requirement that all qualifying trail vehicles must have a current Texas OHV decal properly mounted on their trail vehicles when used at OHV venues on public land in Texas.
The TPWD Off-Highway Vehicle Program and the Sam Houston National Forest were recently awarded a 2009 Recreational Trails Program Achievement Award, awarded by the Coalition for Recreational Trails. This national competition for motorized and non-motorized trails projects recognizes efforts which exemplify the best attributes of trails design, construction, rehabilitation, environmental & wildlife protection and public education for the safe & responsible use of trails.
The Sam Houston National Forest multiple use trail system restoration project won the award category for Best Trail Construction and Design. The project involves a partnership between members of the Trails Riders of Houston, the USFS Trails Unlimited Enterprise Team and the staffs of the national forest and OHV program. The partnership was created to restore a largely user-made trail system which was in need of major restoration because of decades of heavy use and some fundamental trail design and construction problems. The first two phases of this project are nearly completed; the third phase will be finished by the end of 2010.
OHV decals are now required to be properly mounted on any vehicle (street-legal or not) used at a legal trail riding venue on public land in Texas, or at any private OHV park which has received TPWD grant funding. Public land here includes any local, state or federal government OHV venue. Except for private OHV venues which have received TPWD grants, decals are not required for vehicles used on private land.
Chapter 29 of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Code defines "off-highway vehicle" as either (1) an all-terrain vehicle, as defined by Section 663.001, Transportation Code; (2) an off-highway motorcycle; or (3) any other motorized vehicle used for off-highway recreation on: (A) public land over which the department has authority or on land purchased or leased by the department; or (B) land acquired or developed under a grant made under Section 29.008 or any other grant program operated or administered by the department. A Texas OHV decal costs $8 and is good through Aug. 31 of the year it was purchased.
Texas OHV decals can be purchased at more than 50 OHV dealers, parks and other locations across Texas. See lists of decal sales locations and places to ride on the TPWD Web site. Or, decals can be purchased by phone using a credit card through the TPWD Customer Service Center at (512) 389-8917.
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Winery's Social-Media Maven Job Search Down to 50 Candidates
Remember Murphy-Goode, the Sonoma County, California, winery that gained widespread attention in the food blogosphere through its search for a social-media maven? The winery dangled a six-month, $60K job with free housing in exchange for someone's skills in marketing the operation via the interwebs. Fifty finalists have been chosen and now appear on the company's website. [via 7x7]
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It's quite clear that New Jersey took an extreme hit from superstorm Sandy, according to a National Hurricane Center report released today.
Here are some of the 157-page report's points, and I focus mainly on New Jersey:
– Preliminary U.S. damage estimates are close to $50 billion, making Sandy the second-costliest cyclone to hit the nation since 1900.
– Sandy killed at least 147 people in the Atlantic basin. Seventy-two died in mid-Atlantic and Northeast states.
– Sandy weakened somewhat and then made landfall as a post-tropical cyclone near Brigantine. But because of its tremendous size, Sandy drove a catastrophic storm surge into the New Jersey and New York coastlines.
– New Jersey almost certainly received sustained hurricane-force winds (at least 74 mph), but the winds are believed to have arrived after Sandy became an extratropical storm.
– The following water levels, as measured in feet above ground level, were prevalent along the coast due to the storm tide:
* Monmouth and Middlesex counties, 4 to 9 feet.
* Union and Hudson counties, 3 to 7 feet.
* Essex and Bergen counties, 2 to 4 feet.
* Ocean County, 3 to 5 feet.
* Atlantic, Burlington and Cape May counties, 2 to 4 feet.
– In New Jersey, water levels were highest along the northern portion of the Jersey Shore in Monmouth and Ocean counties, north of where Sandy made landfall. Barrier islands were almost totally inundated in some areas, and breached in some cases, because the storm surge and large ocean waves met rising waters from back bays such as Barnegat Bay and Little Egg Harbor.
– The U.S. Geological Survey found high-water marks of up to 4 to 5 feet above ground level in spots such as Sea Bright, Tuckerton, Seaside Park and Long Beach Island.
– Sandy's storm surge, along with large, battering waves, devastated large portions of New Jersey and New York coasts. The extent of catastrophic damage along the New Jersey coast was unprecedented in the state's history, with Monmouth and Ocean counties getting the brunt of the damage. Whole communities were inundated by water and sand, houses were washed from their foundations, boardwalks were dismantled or destroyed, cars were tossed about and boats were pushed well inland.
– Gov. Chris Christie's office estimates that 346,000 housing units were damaged or destroyed and 22,000 of those units were uninhabitable. Nearly 19,000 businesses in New Jersey sustained at least $250,000 in damage, with total business losses estimated at $8.3 billion.
– Power and gas line repairs are expected to cost roughly $1 billion, and it's estimated that repairs to waste, water and sewer services will cost about $3 billion.
– Damage estimates for the transit, road and bridge system in the New Jersey reached $2.9 billion.
– The fishing industry in the New Jersey and New York areas suffered heavy losses, with millions of dollars in damages to local docks, marinas, restaurants and fish processing plants. BoatUS estimated that Sandy destroyed more than 65,000 boats and caused about $650 million in marine-related damage in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.


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Cooking from the Glossies: Key Lime Coconut Cake Recipe
What to do with two limes on the verge of expiration? Seriously, they didn't even look like limes anymore, but more like deformed green balls of death. Not to worry—they still turned out to be exceptional in this Key Lime Coconut Cake from the March issue of Gourmet. Even with my decrepit, non-Key limes, the cake turned out great and was the family favorite among the four desserts I randomly baked one weekend.
I made a couple of additional changes to the recipe. Of course, I substituted 2 percent milk for whole milk like I nearly always do. I really don't think whole milk is necessary for any dish except maybe puddings and other dairy-heavy desserts. And who has whole milk in their house besides those with young children? Second, I found that just drizzling the glaze over the cake led to the glaze pooling in the center of the cake, throwing off the ratio of glaze to cake. Solution? Poke holes with a toothpick all over the cake so that the glaze can settle evenly. Third, this cake is supposed to serve eight people, but three of us devoured it over the weekend (you know; a slice here, a slice there). Be careful—this cake is dangerously addictive!
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- 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated Key lime zest
- 2 large eggs
- 1 3/4 cups self-rising flour
- 3/4 cup 2 percent milk
- 1/4 cup fresh Key lime juice, divided
- 1 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 tablespoon rum (optional)
Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Generously butter a 9 x 2-inch round cake pan and line bottom with a run of parchment paper.
Toast coconut in a small baking pan in oven, stirring once or twice, until golden, 8 to 12 minutes. Cool. Leave oven on.
Beat together butter, granulated sugar, and zest with an electric mixer until fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Stir together flour and 1/2 cup coconut (reserve remainder for topping). Stir together milk and 2 tablespoons lime juice. At low speed, mix flour and milk mixtures into egg mixture alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour.
Spoon batter into pan and smooth top. Bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 40 to 45 minutes. Cool to warm, then turn out of pan and discard parchment.
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The Treasury Secretary chimes in on what any market watcher should know instinctively. Mnuchin talks tech: 'I don't understand these valuations', yet the price on promises and future expectation of earnings has a large amount of the equity speculators and computerized trading in a crisis of sanity. Avoiding the fundamental relationship that a stock value is based upon the ability of a company to turn a profit, has become the hottest investment hoax since Bernard Madoff was pitching his Ponzi scheme. Uber, Snapchat and Twitter may be high flyers for the smart set, but for rational venture capitalists, plunking down gambles on risky enterprises that only feed on publicity hype is a sure bet on going broke.
While angel funding, seed investment and incubation have a nice ring to their functions, what they all have in common is gaining a piece of the equity action before any IPO is sold to the investment insiders, much less the general public. What is often lost is that any new startup enterprise must develop cash flow well before any earnings can be achieved.
Defying common sense, many of this new generation of cutting edge technology companies are pitching a dream that often turns into a nightmare for the imprudent investor. At least Apple sells, admittedly very overpriced phones, a product that has a functional and utilitarian purpose. But what possible claim of intrinsic worth does a trendy app have when duplication of utility is achieved by a tech giant as Facebook?
Even the most bombastic huckster, Elon Reeve Musk finds himself reliant on the intrepid waters of government subsidies to keep his bubble run on solar cells, alive. Yet his stock price keeps inflating with little financial connection to turning a profit, even when Sparks fly on Wall Street over Tesla's current valuation.
"For now, Musk and his team have built up enough investor goodwill to buy him time to follow through his vision. Tesla narrowly missed its target of delivering 80,000 vehicles last year and has only reported two profitable quarters in its brief history. Nonetheless, its rapid rise could see it accelerate past Honda and move into the top five most valuable carmakers in the world.
This comes as the finances of Ford and GM are in rude health. GM is expected to earn more than $9bn this year and Ford to rake in profits of $6.3bn; Tesla is expected to lose more than $950m."
Come on folks, in what mystical world of consumer sales indifference does one accept that in the immediate future buyers will jump from the torque of a four wheel drive F-150 V-8 into the restriction of a Tesla electric cord? In order to make this fantasy work Road and Track contends, The Case for a Tesla-GM Merger. The argument simply comes down to "You put together a carmaker with mojo and a carmaker with capacity."
"We live in an era where brick-and-mortar companies frequently play second fiddle to apps and platforms and clouds and other entirely ephemeral ideas. It suits the stock market just fine, because the stock market is much like the baseball-card market, or the art market, in that it serves more as a reflection of prevailing views than as any truly prescient or even intelligent verdict regarding a company's merit. It's an illusion. Of course, it is an illusion with the power to build fortunes and destroy lives in a millisecond."
When government motors was bailed out by the Obama administration to save the unions while wiping out the bond holders, GM was given a second chance at the taxpayer expense. Now we are suppose to accept another rescue of Tesla debt to keep the illusion that the future belongs to the driverless "green" vehicle. Hey, why not just go all the way; ban humans from using gas guzzlers on the highways, while taxing a per mile user fee to replace the gas tax? Just keep diesel commercial trucks to navigate the steep grades to fix all the infrastructure that driverless vehicles will use.
The absurdity of this brave new world is as obscene as the stock prices of the technocratic anti-human robot society that is facing an expendable population. Nonetheless, do not take our analysis for the last word. Look to the essay in The Street, From the Absurd to the Ridiculous: When Fundamentals Don't Matter, where the example of Yahoo is reviewed.
"Yahoo! (YHOO) , which was a highly valued company during the dot-com era.
When looking at Yahoo!'s price and P/E ratio, the fundamentals didn't really reflect the stock price. Yahoo! was trading at nearly 3,500 times its P/E ratio at one point, which may have been unjustified.
Following that, the markets were quick to realize that the company wasn't that valuable, and it began to tank once the bubble popped.
Take a look at how Yahoo!'s market capitalization evolved over time. Prior to the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! had a market cap of less than $1 billion.
However, during the bubble, Yahoo!'s market cap rose to more than $100 billion at its peak. Thereafter, its market cap and share price fell significantly, with the former falling to between $5 billion and $10 billion."
If such a stable of the computer age as Yahoo could be reduced to the humiliation of a hostile takeover by Verizon at a price not much more than an unknown startup as Team Chat provider Slack with a valuation of about $3.8 billion, what true value does any of these high tech ventures provide over time? Anyone remember one of the scores of services from Yahoo called Messenger? Do the math, plunging down your bucks on such moving targets as superficial fads is most risky.
Google search beat out Yahoo, but will Alphabet retain the preeminent crown of dominance with their imposition of censorship and filtering out of free speech? Stock values are never guaranteed and especially with tech companies, you are only safe if competition is eliminated.
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General information for applicants
Q: What is an MPN?
A: A medical provider network (MPN) is a network of providers, including physicians, created to provide medical treatment for work injuries of employees in California. Self-insured employers or workers' compensation insurers may have an MPN. Under SB 863, an entity providing physician network services can also have an MPN. An MPN must be approved by the California Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC) before it can be used. Unless exempted by law or the employer, all medical care for workers injured on the job whose employer has an approved MPN will be handled and provided through the MPN.
Q: Where can I find the regulations pertaining to MPNs?
A: The MPN regulations are found in Title 8, California Code of Regulations, sections 9767.1 - 9767.16 (MPN regulations).
Q: Are MPNs mandatory after Jan. 1, 2005?
A: No. There is no requirement for employers or payors to use an MPN to treat covered work injuries. Each eligible employer, insurer, or entity providing physician network services may decide if it wants to establish and use an MPN to treat employees' occupational medical care.
Q: Who is covered by an MPN?
A: All employees of an employer using an approved and implemented MPN are required to receive medical treatment through the MPN for work injuries, EXCEPT:
- Those employees who properly pre-designate a physician any time before an injury occurs, even if the pre-designated physician is a provider in the MPN's network;
- Those employees with injuries prior to the effective date of the MPN whose care has not been transferred into the MPN; and
- Those employees who are otherwise exempted from the MPN by the MPN insurer or employer.
Q: Who can apply for an MPN?
A: A workers' compensation insurer, self-insured employer, joint powers authority, the State of California, California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA), State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF), and groups of self-insured employers. Under SB863, an entity providing physician network services will also be eligible to apply for an MPN.
Q: How do I apply for an MPN?
A: Submit an MPN application with the information required by the current MPN regulations.
Include a completed "MPN Cover Page for medical provider network application" with an original signature by the MPN applicant's authorized representative who must be an employee or officer in the applicant's organization.
Q: Where do I send my completed MPN application?
A: Submit the completed application by mail to:
CA Department of Industrial Relations
Division of Workers' Compensation
MPN Applications
P.O. Box 71010
Oakland, CA 94612
Or by overnight delivery to:
CA Department of Industrial Relations
Division of Workers' Compensation
MPN Applications
1515 Clay St., 17th floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Q: Who is responsible for the MPN?
A: The MPN applicant is responsible for compliance with the MPN regulations, regardless of any delegated authority given to a third party to administer an MPN, including the MPN liaison.
Q: Can we submit our MPN application electronically?
A: No. Currently, DWC is not accepting MPN applications, MPN updates, or material modifications electronically. All MPN submissions are to be sent in hard copy to the MPN address.
Q: Who must sign the MPN application?
A: An authorized officer or employee of the eligible MPN applicant must sign the mandatory MPN cover page,.
Q: I've seen more than one version of the mandatory cover page for the MPN application. Which one should I use?
A: Make sure you use the new cover page which is included in the permanent regulations. Do not use any earlier version of this form.
Q: What is the deadline for applying to be an MPN?
A: There is no deadline for applying for an MPN.
Q: What providers should be included in an MPN?
A: Licensed physicians and providers of medical services are to be included in the MPN. These providers include physicians, surgeons, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, chiropractic practitioners, and physical therapists. All MPN providers must have a contractual agreement to treat workers' compensation injuries to be included in an MPN. The MPN provider network shall also include ancillary services.
Note: The Attorney General has issued an opinion that an entity or individual not licensed to practice medicine may not perform professional radiology services, either as part of a medical provider network or otherwise. For more information, see the Attorney General's Opinion No. 08-803 on the performance of professional radiology services by an entity or individual not licensed to practice medicine.
This opinion does not prohibit MPN ancillary service providers from including, but not limited to, diagnostic imaging networks that comply with California law and MPN regulations.
Q: Can DWC add a provider to an MPN network?
A: No. The MPN applicants determine which providers will be in their provider networks.
Q: If I am a provider, how do I get added to a network?
A: As a provider, you need to contact the MPN applicants to offer your services as a network provider. You can also contact organizations which contract with applicants to provide network providers such as PPOs, HCOs, HMOs or other network entities.
Note: A memorandum for providers interested in joining an MPN network is located on the DWC website.
Q: Should chiropractors and acupuncturists be included in our MPN network?
A: MPNs must include acupuncturists and chiropractors as providers if they are commonly used by the employees being treated.
Q: Must we submit our provider list on disk?
A: Yes, under the current regulations, you must submit your provider listing on disk or CD-ROM as a Microsoft Excel file with your MPN application.
Q: We are planning to use the provider network of a certified Health Care Organization (HCO) as the deemed network for our MPN. Can we change some of the providers in the HCO network?
A: If you are using an HCO network as a "deemed entity" MPN network, you must use the entire list of HCO providers exactly as certified under the HCO and you may not make any modification to the provider list. If you make any changes to an HCO's provider listing, you are no longer filing as a "deemed entity," and must file your entire provider. If you have questions about using the network of a deemed entity, discuss these issues with that entity before submitting your MPN application.
Note: If the MPN applicant is providing ancillary services within the MPN in addition to the services provided by a deemed entity, the ancillary services shall be set forth in the application.
The HCO regulations are available on the DWC website.
Q: Does DWC have a ratio of necessary physicians to the expected number of injury cases for an MPN?
A: No. There is no specific ratio of physicians to expected injuries. In order to establish that your MPN has a sufficient number and type of providers, here are some things you may want to consider:
- Number of employees to be covered;
- Geographic service area to be covered;
- Number and types of injuries expected;
- Number and types of providers needed to accommodate injured workers' right to change physicians, and to support the second and third opinion processes;
- Number and type of providers needed to meet the MPN access standards for PTP, specialist and hospital access.
However, a minimum of three primary treating physicians and three providers for each commonly used specialty within the access standards must be available to employees.
Q: What kind of MPN provider listing is required to be given to covered employees?
A: At a minimum, a written regional provider listing is to be provided to covered employees. It is not acceptable to only provide a select list of five or ten providers, as that does not constitute a complete regional provider listing. If the provider directory is available on a website, the URL shall be provided, as well as sufficient information to allow an employee to access the provider directory online.
Q: If a worker or a worker's representative requests a complete provider listing in writing, must it be provided?
A: Yes. If a worker or a worker's representative requests a complete provider listing of all providers in the MPN, it is to be made available in writing.
Q: What can I do to increase my chances of getting my application approved more quickly?
A: Read and carefully follow the current MPN regulations.
Before submitting your application to DWC, make sure that it is complete by double checking that it has all the required information, including
- A cover page signed by the applicant's authorized individual.
- The correct legal name as verified or certified by the Office of Self Insurance Plans (OSIP) or the Department of Insurance (DOI);
- The correct tax ID number for the MPN applicant;
- The number of covered employees for the MPN;
- An MPN liaison listed with the phone, mailing and email address;
- Complete provider listings with only the three required columns of name, location and specialty included.
- Include a copy of the cover page and application materials.
Q: Is there any information that applicants often forget to include in their applications?
A: Yes. Remember to include the following information in your application:
- A description of any alternative rural access policy, if applicable;
- A written policy for covered employees working or living outside the MPN geographic service area who need non-emergency medical care;
- An MPN contact name and phone number;
- Statements disclosing that a copy of the entire continuity of care policy (COC) and the transfer of care (TOC) policy are available upon request;
- A statement that the second and third opinion physicians' reports will be given to the employee and the treating physician within 20 days of the employee's appointment; or the receipt of results of any tests, whichever is later.
NOTE: Also, under the permanent MPN regulations, a toll-free number is to be included in the employee notification for employees to obtain MPN assistance if the MPN geographic service area covers more than one area code.
Q: Can I use as a model an MPN application approved under the emergency regulations?
A: No. As of Sept. 15, 2005, the permanent regulations are in effect. All MPN applications received after Sept. 15, 2005 must comply with the current regulations.
For more information about the latest regulatory changes, please check the DWC website.
Q: What if my application is incomplete?
A: If your application is determined to be "incomplete," DWC will send you a letter identifying the area(s) in which the application is incomplete. It is then up to you, the MPN applicant, to submit materials to ensure that your application is complete. No further action will be taken on an incomplete submission and the regulatory review deadline does not begin until the submission is deemed complete.
Q: How do I find out the status of my application?
A: DWC does not give status updates on applications. However, after receipt of your initial application and determination that all required information has been submitted, you will receive a letter of completeness. The letter of completeness will also include the MPN log number, which will allow you and DWC to identify and track the application.
All complete applications are processed for full review and are reviewed in the order received. Within 60 days of DWC's receipt of a complete application, you will be sent a decision letter stating whether the application has been approved or disapproved.
Note: If an email address is provided for the MPN DWC liaison, the decision letter will be sent by email as well as U.S. mail.
Q: What are common deficiencies seen in MPN applications that can lead to disapproval?
A: Some common problems identified in MPN applications are:
The imposition of additional or different time frames not required by the regulations. For example, imposing deadlines not in the regulations to respond or object to transfer of care determinations by the MPN applicant;
- Having an insufficient number or type of providers to meet the access standards;
- The failure to include all information required in the employee notification;
- Changes made to the transfer of care dispute resolution process that are not allowed by the regulations;
- The use of vague terminology that does not reflect the requirements under the regulations, such as referring to "a specified time frame" or "specified circumstances";
- Failure to clearly inform a worker of the 60-day deadline for a waiver of the second or third opinion;
- Inconsistency between the same policies stated in the application.
Q: How do I find out if my application is disapproved?
A: You will receive a disapproval letter identifying the deficiencies in your application.
Q: What do I do if my application is disapproved?
A: If your application is disapproved:
- You will receive a disapproval letter stating the deficiencies found in the application. Carefully review the letter detailing the deficiencies in the application, and revise the application accordingly.
- Follow the instructions in the disapproval letter to prepare your resubmission.
- Submit an original and a copy of the revised application. If the employee notification materials have been revised, submit a copy in English and in Spanish.
- Include a newly signed cover page.
Q: Do I have to include a newly signed cover page when I submit my revised application?
A: Yes. All revisions to an MPN application must be accompanied by a newly signed cover page. No application will be approved without a signed cover page by the Applicant's authorized representative indicating that the MPN applicant has read the revised application and verified the contents of the revised application as true and correct. Resubmitting the original signed cover page with the initial application will not suffice.
Q: How long does it take to get my revised and resubmitted application reviewed?
A: Although the 60-day review period restarts upon resubmission of an application, resubmitted applications are considered a priority for review and will be expedited to the extent possible.
Q: How can I find out what MPNs have been approved?
A: Once DWC approves an MPN, it will be posted on the DWC MPN webpage.
Q: What is the "MPN Plan Approval Number"?
A: Upon approval of your MPN plan, the DWC will assign an MPN plan approval number. Each number will be unique in corresponding to one MPN plan. So, if a carrier creates three MPNs each one would have its own independent MPN approval number.
After approval: Filing a notice of plan modification for an approved MPN
Q: If I have an approved MPN and I want to make changes to the MPN, what do I need to do?
A: For most changes, you will need to submit a Notice of MPN Plan Modification. Changes which require a material modification include, but are not limited to, the following:
- A change of 10% or more in the number or specialty of providers in an MPN network;
- A change in 25% or more in the number of employees to be covered by an MPN;
- A change in employee notification materials;
- A change in the economic profiling policy, including instituting an economic profiling policy when the original application stated that economic profiling was not performed;
- A change in the name of the MPN;
- A change in the geographic service is of the MPN, within the state of California;
- A change in how the MPN complies with the access standards;
- A change in the DWC liaison person for the MPN or authorized individual (NOTE: either change must be reported to DWC within five business days of the change taking place)
You will need to fill out and submit the material modification form, and submit a copy of any proposed modified policies or employee notification.
Q: After I file the Notice of MPN Plan Modification, can I go ahead and implement the changes in the MPN?
A: No. Unless it is a change of the DWC liaison or a change of the authorized individual, DWC must review and approve the proposed changes to the MPN plan before the changes can be implemented. DWC will review your notice of plan modification and issue a decision on the plan modification within 60 days of receipt of a complete plan modification submission. You may institute the changes to your plan only afterDWC issues its approval, or after 60 days if DWC fails to issue a decision on the plan modification within that time frame.
Q: What do we need to do if our company has an approved MPN and we decide to change carriers, third-party administrators (TPAs) or MPN networks?
A: When changing partners involved in an MPN contractual arrangement it is critical that you plan ahead to avoid any unnecessary disruption of MPN coverage for your employees. Even with careful planning it is possible that there could be some interruption of MPN coverage when changing TPAs, MPN networks or insurance carriers if enough time is not allowed for plan modification review and approval. Consult with DWC's MPN staff as early as possible for guidance on implementing such a change as smoothly as possible.
Q: What happens if I have an approved MPN through my insurance carrier and I decide to become self-insured for workers' compensation?
A: If your company becomes self-insured you will no longer be covered by your former carrier's MPN. Employees with old injuries which occurred while you were covered by the carrier's MPN will stay in that carrier's MPN as long as it is being used by that carrier. As a self-insured employer you will have to file a new application for an MPN of your own. After the new MPN is approved, you would need to provide a totally new or updated employee notification to reflect the changes in the new MPN now being offered to your employees. Please consult with DWC MPN staff as early as possible to determine what will happen and how best to make the change from one MPN to another.
Q: What happens if I am a self-insured employer and I decide to change TPAs?
A: It depends on how the original MPN was structured. If the MPN design, provider listings and contracts, notices and policies were created by the TPA you are leaving, you may need to file a completely new MPN with new TPA's MPN information. In other situations, you may only need to file a notice of MPN plan modification. Please consult with DWC MPN staff as early as possible to determine what will happen and how best to make the change to reduce the impact on covered injured workers.
Q: What should I do if I have an approved MPN under one insurance carrier and want to switch to a different MPN under a different carrier?
A: Before changing carriers, you should talk to the new carrier about how to ensure that your employees' coverage gets transitioned to the new MPN. This will most likely involve a new employee notification using the new carrier's MPN employee notification materials. It is possible that you could have an interruption of MPN coverage unless this change in carriers is carefully planned well before the effective date of the new policy. Please consult with DWC MPN staff as early as possible to determine what will happen and how best to make the change.
Q: Is a change of MPN notice still required to be given to employees?
A: Yes. The change of MPN notice is still required to be given to injured covered employees before an insured employer or an MPN applicant changes to another MPN within 60 days.
Q: When do we give out the implementation notice?
A: The MPN Implementation Notice must be given to every employee prior to the implementation of an approved MPN and must be provided to a new employee at the time of hire. Also, if more than 60 days has passed since an MPN was last used for the employer, an implementation notice must be sent to all covered employees, in addition to the termination/cessation of use of MPN notice for injured covered employees.
Q: If we are using an MPN that was approved before Oct. 8, 2010, can we still use our old employee notices?
A: If the old employee notices are in compliance with the revised regulations, then you can still use your old notices. If the old notices do not comply with the revised regulations, then new notices will need to be distributed. Please note: If an MPN plan application approved prior to Oct. 8 needs to be modified to comply with the latest regulations, a material modification filing may be required under the revised section 9767.8.
Q: What employee notices will need to be filed with DWC for new MPN applications on or after Oct. 8, 2010?
A: MPN applicants should submit (1) the complete MPN employee notification given at time of injury and transfer into the MPN and (2) the independent medical review (IMR) notices for review with their MPN applications, as is currently required. DWC requires the filing of the employee notification in 9767.12(d) and the IMR notice in 9767.12(g) with all MPN applications received on or after Oct. 8, 2010.
Q: Is there a grandfather clause, as there was for the 2005 permanent regulations, that allows us to update to the October 8 revised regulations only when we file a modification after the regulations go into effect?
A: No. All MPNs are expected to be in compliance with all the requirements of the new regulations on and after Oct. 8, 2010. All employee notices distributed on or after Oct. 8, 2010 will need to comply with the new regulations, irrespective of when the MPN was approved.
Q: If the MPN was approved prior to Oct. 8, 2010, do we still need to post the MPN employee notification?
A: Yes. The revised workers' compensation poster states that if the employer is using an MPN, the complete employee notification will be posted.
Q: What do I do if I have questions about the new employee hire pamphlet, the claim form, or the workers' compensation poster?
- Contact an Information and Assistance (I&A) officer at your nearest DWC district office.
SB 863 Changes
Q: What significant changes affecting MPNs were made in SB863?
A: Significant changes affecting MPNs in SB 863 include the following:
For applicants:
An entity that provides physician network services can now also apply to be an MPN applicant.
For established MPNs:
- As of January 1, 2013, a contracting agent must inform MPN providers entering or renewing a provider contract that they are part of an MPN whether their contract is sold, leased, transferred or conveyed to another MPN applicant, contracting agent or WC insurer.
- Medical Access Assistants are required for each MPN to assist workers with finding available MPN physicians and contact physician offices for appointments, and must be available from 7 am-8 pm Pacific Standard Time from Monday through Saturday through a toll-free number.
- 4-Year Approval: MPN plans will be approved for four years, as of Jan. 1, 2014.
- Applications for re-approval of existing plans must be submitted six months prior to four-year approval expiration
- Geocoding of provider listings is required for re-approval
- Quality Assurance processes must be established for MPNs
- MPN physicians need to acknowledge that they elect to be part of the MPN, as of January 1, 2014.
- Each MPN will need to have a website and access to their provider listing on their website as of January 1, 2014:
- The provider listing must be updated quarterly
- The Administrative Director will post website addresses for approved MPNs
Administrative oversight:
- The Administrative Director can conduct random audits and investigations of MPNs.
- The Administrative Director can impose penalties, probation, suspension or revocation with the right to appeal to the WCAB Reconsideration Unit.
- Any person contending that a MPN is not validly constituted may petition the Administrative Director to suspend or revoke the approval of an MPN.
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 no.5 Pretoria may. 2011
Libya - a South African doctor's story
In spite of UN-sanctioned air 'support' and pin-point strategic bombing to reduce civilian casualties, Libya's rebel fighters remain relatively easy targets for Gaddafi's ground forces because of their 'chaotic and aimless leadership'.
This is the opinion of Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, founder of Gift of the Givers (GOTG), and chief architect of a humanitarian South African medical rescue mission to that country last month, a week before the aerial no-fly zone was enforced. Besides saving dozens of lives of rebel Interim Transitional National Council (ITNC), fighters and civilians at Adjidabia and Benghazi hospitals, the South African team of 10 doctors (among them several Libyans working in South Africa), passed on vital trauma treatment skills to less experienced local medics.
Sooliman, whose war-zone experience as a GOTG medic includes conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip over the past 18 years, was asked how the short-lived Libyan experience compared. Similar in many respects, he replied, but with one striking difference. That was the 'total lack of capacity, administration, management or leadership', either in the health care infrastructure or among the rebel forces.
Casualty overrun byincoherent civilians
'In the hospitals we had 25 guys bringing one gunshot victim into casualty - you can imagine the chaos, with everyone shouting. We had gunfire and bombs in the background all the time; but it's the chaos that sticks,' he said. From what he could see, the rebels seemed 'best at chanting victory songs and waving flags - they don't organise resistance or communication systems. Because of the lack of systems and management, they'll lose the war in a hopeless manner,' he predicted. Sooliman cited television footage he saw of two different battlefront rebel groups arguing heatedly on what to do next.
The advance doctor team (of five Libyans working in South Africa) managed to enter Libya with the tenuous official help of the Egyptian ambassador to South Africa, Dr Muhammad Zayyid and the Egyptian Medical Council. These doctors, accompanied by nearly R350 000 worth of vital donated medical equipment, reached Adjidabia on 7 March, amid heavy aerial bombardment by Gadaffi's air force.
They immediately faced hundreds of casualties, mostly civilians, pouring in from the nearby Rus Lanov and Brega oil fields and found themselves working 16 -18 hours at a stretch. Three days later the back-up GOTG team, accompanied by a large contingent of South African journalists and a similar quantity of medical supplies, arrived at Adjidabia District Hospital. There was however a sudden and mad wholesale scramble just three days later when they heard that Gadaffi's forces were only 30 km away. The entire medical team, journalists and patients evacuated. Twenty hours later the hospital was hit by a bomb. The entire contingent travelled in a convoy of ambulances, bakkies and cars to Benghazi, 160 km away, taking nearly three hours as they negotiated their way past various friendly-force checkpoints.
Steady retreat by doctors, patients and journalists
By 15 March Adjidabia was surrounded and being overrun by Gadaffi forces which had also begun advancing on Benghazi, prompting a sudden decanting of Benghazi hotels and placing Sooliman in a predicament over his team's safety. 'I decided we should stick around a little, based on the need' - a trickle of overflow patients from the bombed Adjidabia hospital had managed to get out and reach Benghazi while many superficially treated local patients needed urgent help.
With the vivid mental picture of a 22-year old woman with chest and abdominal injuries and ruptured arteries dying on a Benghazi operating table after half an hour of 'touch-and-go' surgery and Gaddafi jets strafing the outskirts of Benghazi, Sooliman finally gave the order to pull out.
He cited three main reasons. The first was that if his Libyan doctors, originally from Tripoli in the west (Gaddafi territory), were found in the east, they would be summarily executed as 'traitors'. The second was the large contingent of South African journalists in the context of eight missing journalists from the BBC and the New York Times and an El Jazeera journalist killed by a sniper, while the third was the now undeniable accelerating advance on Benghazi.
The decision proved timely. 'Exactly 12 hours' after they headed out on the desert road via Tobruk to the Egyptian border, Gaddafi's jets mounted a 'huge' aerial attack on Benghazi. Ironically the United Nations 'no-fly zone' and defence of civilians was first enforced by French jets on 19 March, just a few days after the GOTG team left. The UN jets pulverised several convoys of Gaddafi tanks on the outskirts of Benghazi, buying time for the resistance to regroup and the local medics left behind to save more lives.
The South African team was left to ponder and evaluate their brief but valuable intervention.
SA trauma expertise 'invaluable'
Sooliman said he decided trauma assistance was needed in Libya when it became clear by 23 February that Gadaffi was going to cling to power and had begun attacking defenceless citizens. The real catalyst however was when he received an anxious call from a Libyan doctor working in South Africa. 'It was obvious they had a scarce skills shortage and that we have unique trauma skills to offer (the advance team of five Libyan doctors working in South African public sector hospitals had three years of trauma experience under their belts).'
Asked to describe the closest shave of any team member, Sooliman said that an explosive device carried by a child in an Adjidabia Hospital passage detonated, blowing off her fingers and spraying shrapnel within millimetres of Dr As'ad Bhorat, the team's anaesthetist and Dr Livan Turino, their orthopaedic surgeon. Both were prepping a gunshot wound patient when the explosion happened.
'I suppose you could say that at every moment we were not at the wrong place at the wrong time, which makes you think ... but I'll also take with me the pitiful plight of refugees at the border, the docile nature of ordinary Libyans, their total unpreparedness for war, the poverty, under-development, the terror, the torture, the incarceration and the summary executions (they were told of while there).'
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Bank of America to Cut 30,000 to 35,000 Positions
By Kevin Reynolds and David Mildenberg
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp., the third- largest U.S. bank, said it plans to cut 30,000 to 35,000 positions over the next three years because of its acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. and the weak economic environment.
The final number of job cuts won't be decided until early next year, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said in a statement today. The takeover of the New York-based investment bank is expected to be completed later this month.
The cuts will occur throughout the companies, affecting all lines of businesses and staff units, Bank of America said.
"As many reductions as possible will be made through attrition," the lender said.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Breaking - Bank of America to Slash 35,000 Jobs
Hate to say it, but our false financial industry was way, way too big. False profits, false financial industry, false economy coming home to roost.
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I don't normally like to post pictures of children, not because it's creepy, but because they're not Kate Upton. But I decided to change that today since there were a bunch of kids at the Super Bowl's NFL Experience yesterday and they were absolutely adorable. And yes, this is my strange way of admitting that I had a sheltered childhood as a shogun assassin, and I'm quite jealous that these kids get to dive into pits of foam squares while pretending to catch a game-winning pass. All I had was a stupid Pogo Ball and Miami Dolphins tickets.
But childhood inadequacies aside, I'm just an absolute sucker for the images of little kids standing behind the gigantic NFL player bodies. Also, in a macabre sort of way, I started wondering, "What could Aaron Rodgers do to get his head chopped off?" I'm not saying I want him dead, because as I've already stated multiple times I have a huge hetero man crush on him, but seeing that giant No. 12 jersey with no head just got me thinking that a girl would have to be pretty pissed at him to chop his head off.
Dammit, I think I just made another federal watch list.
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What are you doing over spring break?
Emily Miksovic: "We don't get one because of soooo many snow days."
Molly Deacon: "I'm going to play with my friend Chloe, and I'm going to play on the computer and play school with my little brother and play outside pretending I live in the 1700s."
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http://mmajunkie.com Three fights are now set for the next Strikeforce Challengers show.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported one of the Strikeforce Challengers 19 fights: light-heavyweights headliners Lorenz Larkin (11-0 MMA, 2-0 SF) vs. Virgil Zwicker (10-2 MMA, 1-1 SF).
Additionally, previously reported competitor Ryan Couture (2-1 MMA, 2-1 SF) now has an opponent: Hawaiian lightweight Maka Watson (4-1 MMA, 0-1 SF).
Also scheduled for the Sept. 23 event is a heavyweight bout between Lavar Johnson (15-4 MMA, 3-1 SF) and Shawn Jordan (11-3 MMA, 0-1 SF).
Strikeforce Challengers 19 takes place at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. All of the three above fights are slated for the Showtime-televised main card.
Larkin recently moved to 11-0 with a unanimous-decision victory over Gian Villante at Strikeforce Challengers 16, which followed a Strikeforce Challengers 15 TKO victory over Scott Lighty. Zwicker made his promotional debut in October at Strikeforce Challengers 11 and suffered a KO loss to heavyweight Lavar Johnson. However, he then returned to light heavyweight and scored a recent TKO victory over Brett Albee on the preliminary card of "Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley."
Meanwhile, Couture's quick rise was temporarily halted when Matt Ricehouse outpointed him in June at Strikeforce Challengers 16. Prior to the setback, Couture had racked up Strikeforce wins against Lucas Stark and Lee Higgins, which built on a 5-1-1 amateur record. He now meets Watson, who went 4-0 at Rumble on the Rock from 2007 to 2008. He recently returned from a three-year layoff and suffered a submission loss to Bill Cooper at Strikeforce Challengers 17.
Finally, Johnson looks to rebound from a submission loss to Shane Del Rosario at February's "Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva" event. The loss snapped a seven-fight win streak that included a trio of Strikeforce Challengers wins. He now meets Jordan, a former fullback on the LSU football team who had a four-fight stint with Bellator. In his Strikeforce debut (and as a late replacement), he suffered a decision loss to Devin Cole at Strikeforce Challengers 17.
For more on Strikeforce Challengers 19, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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I'm not much for the whole hyperbole thing, as I naturally like to keep my over-embellishment limited to Brittney Palmer being the greatest person ever in the history of history, but I do find myself using the "My favorite thing ever" tag on a pretty regular basis. Well, I'm here to put an end to that today, folks. Because on December 20, 2012 – one day before humanity is set to end, according to people who completely misinterpreted an ancient slab of rock – I have finally found my very absolute favorite thing ever, and it's called Baseball Card Vandals.
As simple as it sounds, Baseball Card Vandals is simply a crude artistic endeavor by a few unknown souls, who I assume are baseball fans, but it doesn't really matter. Because as long as I've been sitting on my collection of cards that are now worth as much as the cardboard box that I keep them in – thanks a lot, 18 Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards and that Bo Jackson Classic card – I should have just been doodling on them with a black Sharpie like these guys, because the result is awesome.
Seriously, guys like Rick Rhoden and Dan Quisenberry should be elated that someone is doing anything with their old baseball cards. Especially something as fantastic as this.
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• Pau Gasol's putback with 0.5 ticks left gave the Lakers a 95-94, series-clinching win over the Thunder, who, if you didn't know, was only a No. 8 seed. That is, this was a first-round matchup. So yes, it was a great series — tough and gritty and, dare I say it, a heavyweight bout and all — but it was still the first round, and if the Lakers defend their crown, no one's going to be talking about the Lakers escaping. Probably, they won't talk about this series at all. So you can forget it now, too. The Jazz, which waits in the second round after dispatching the Nuggets, certainly has.
• It might rain up to two inches at Churchill Downs. Then again, it might not rain two inches at Churchill Downs. The weather might affect the Kentucky Derby. Then again, the weather might not affect the Kentucky Derby.
• The White House Correspondents' Dinner — a cross between a prom for nerds and the ESPYs, if journalists were invited and there were no awards and, um, the President spoke — is tonight, which means the D.C. party circuit was totally hoppin' last night. Who was at The New Yorker party? Why, hello, Tony Romo, with your arm around Zach Galifianakis, broin' out. And look, there's Maureen Dowd, wearing sunglasses and pearls and talking to — oh hi! — Tony Kornheiser, who is flashing four fingers, for some reason, and whose face appears as flushed as Dowd's locks. Part of me wants to construct one of those signature MoDowd fake conversations and maybe even give them cutesy nicknames. A bigger part of me wants absolutely nothing to do with that.
• Tim Tebow practiced football! Let's see what he had to say about it:
"Oh, it's great because we can go back and watch it," said the ever-excitable Tebow following the 90-minute workout on a chilly morning. "We can look at every play, every throw, go back and see what I did good, what I did bad, what I have to work on and what I need to change."
"It was just everything from the plays to footwork to getting my body in position to throw and just different things like that," Tebow said. "All football, all the time, and I love it, it's great."
"Just improving, getting better on everything, I mean the footwork, the drops, the cadences, identifying the right [reads], going through the protections, everything like that has been what I've been working on," Tebow said. "I can't just narrow it down. I got too many things I'm working on right now."
"Oh, I'm just excited. It's not really pressure," he said. "I just go out here and play football. I'm loving doing it. I'm learning a great offense from great coaches, just trying to soak it all in every chance I get and I'm having a great time with it."
"I had been working really hard so I felt like I was in decent shape," Tebow said. "But I can definitely feel a difference. ... You just can't get as much air."
Almost 900 words later, in short, we've learned one thing about Tim Tebow. He's a rookie.
*Oh, and the answer is this sign (via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and nothing else. I hope.
morning afternoon, folks, and sorry for the late start. I woke up to an e-mail from Fearless Leader informing me that he couldn't move, and that, apparently, "it's all yours whenever you're ready." (At least we know that the bachelor party for one William F. Leitch didn't kill everyone in its path. I can't vouch for the others.) Moral of the story? Send me tips, please, and chances are, I'll publish them. And no, I'm not lost.


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Schlafly Beer Trademark App Brings Out All The Egomaniacal Schlaflys In Existence
from the go-schlaf$#@-yourselves dept
I don't get it, but the never ending list of trademark disputes centered around alcohol just continues to grow. Previously we've seen universities going after small brewers over common sports terms, disputes over completely dissimilar lables, and depictions of zombie trademark lawyers doing what zombie trademark lawyers do: kill the living. But this one is a whole new level of egotistical crazy.
For a couple of decades, the St. Louis Brewery Co., co-founded by Tom Schlafly, has been selling Schlafly beer. Phyllis Schlafly, Tom's Aunt, is a special kind of "conservative commentator" and has spent a couple of decades proudly setting back the women's rights movement, railing against marriage equality, and insisting that this whole "being Latino" thing in America is just a fad and Republicans need pay no mind. Now the family is entering into a trademark battle in which Phyllis doesn't think Tom should be able to trademark his beer because, essentially, she's totally a big deal. Seriously, that's what her claim amounts to.
The Schlafly beer maker applied for the trademark on the use of the brand name in 2011; Phyllis Schlafly filed a notice of opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in September 2012. Settlement talks have failed to produce a resolution, and neither side appears ready to back down...Phyllis Schlafly, who declined to be interviewed for this story, argues that the word Schlafly has no usage or meaning other than as a last name, and she lays claim to it.
"In connection with its usage as a surname, it has the connotation of conservative values, which to millions of Americans (such as Baptists and Mormons) means abstinence from alcohol," her filing with the trademark office states. "An average consumer in Saint Louis and elsewhere would think 'Schlafly' is a surname associated with me, and thus the registration of this name as a trademark by Applicant should be denied."Got that? Phyllis Schlafly is well known, therefore everyone's going to look at a beer with her last name on it and immediately think of this smiling face.
See the absence of eyeballs? It's because she doesn't have a soul.
"The full federal trademark has nothing to do with our right to sell beer, and no one is contesting our right to do that," Tom Schlafly said. "We sell the equivalent of 20 million bottles of beer a year, and we want to keep someone else from selling beer and calling it Schlafly."Get it yet? Phyllis Schlafly is contesting the trademark application because she doesn't like her name being associated with a beer brand. However, denying the mark wouldn't keep Tom Schlafly from using the name on his beer labels, he just wouldn't be able to register a trademark for it. In other words, the entire ultimate goal driving this opposition won't be attained by the opposition. Way to go, Phyllis! Other Schlaflys have been coming out of the woodwork since, including Andy Schlafly, Phyllis' son, and Bruce Schlafly, an orthopedic surgeon and also Phyllis' son, have since come out in opposition to the mark.
Fortunately, the brewery is likely to win.
Yvette Liebesman, an assistant professor of law at St. Louis University who teaches intellectual property law, said Schlafly beer has a strong case because the company has used the name in commerce for so long.But, like, Phyllis Schlafly is going to be so upset! Oh well, I'll just drown my sorrows in some brew. One Schlafly, please!
"The very first time they started selling beer from the tap, that is when they got rights to the mark," she said. "They certainly have been around long enough to acquire a secondary meaning." To get the trademark, Schlafly beer must show its goods are not likely to be confused with goods sold by others, Liebesman said. Phyllis Schlafly "would have to prove that there's a likelihood that people would confuse the two, and I think that's going to be tough," Liebesman said.
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Judge strikes down Idaho's same-sex marriage ban
BOISE, Idaho -- A federal judge has issued an injunction Tuesday blocking enforcement of Idaho's ban on same-sex marriage, saying it is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Magistrate Candy Dale issued the ruling in the case of four same-sex couples who challenged the constitutionality of Idaho's marriage laws, which voters approved as an amendment to the state constitution in 2006.
In her decision, Dale wrote that Idaho's laws barring same-sex marriage unconstitutionally deny gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry.
"Plaintiffs suffer these injuries not because they are unqualified to marry, start a family, or grow old together, but because of who they are and whom they love," she said.
Dale says the state must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples starting at 9 a.m. Friday.
Gov. Butch Otter said he will appeal the injunction.
"Today's decision, while disappointing, is a small setback in a long-term battle that will end at the U.S. Supreme Court," Otter said in a statement. "I am firmly committed to upholding the will of the people and defending our Constitution."
Four Idaho couples filed the lawsuit challenging the marriage ban in November, against the governor and Ada County Clerk Chris Rich. The couples are Sue Latta and Traci Ehlers; Lori and Sharene Watsen; Shelia Robertson and Andrea Altmayer; and Amber Beierle and Rachael Robertson.
Latta and Ehlers married in 2008 in California, and the Watsens married in 2011 in New York. Both couples have children and say Idaho wrongly treats Ehlers as a legal stranger to her grandchildren and requires Lori Watsen to obtain a new power of attorney every six months so she can have legal authority to consent to medical treatment for her son.
Their attorney, Deborah Ferguson, said the ruling recognized that the families are part of Idaho's community and that they deserved the same protections and respect as other Idaho families.
"The court's ruling is a victory not only for the courageous couples who brought this case, but for everyone who cares about freedom and fairness," Ferguson said in a statement.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that a law forbidding the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. Since then, federal judges have ruled against marriage bans in Michigan, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Texas, and ordered Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel heard an appeal of a federal judge's decision to overturn Virginia's constitutional ban on gay marriage.
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Christian fundamentalists argue against abortion on the grounds that fetuses have souls. The argument starts with two premises: that people have souls while animals do not, and that the right to life goes with possession of a soul.
It proceeds by asserting that the developing fetus must acquire its soul at some instant; and because no point after conception is special enough to be that instant, it must happen at conception. (It takes hours for an egg and a sperm to unite, but they could choose some brief part of the process as the crucial "instant".) Therefore, the argument concludes, the fetus has a soul and the same rights as a grown human.
The fetus at any given time either has a soul or it doesn't. There is no intermediate state, no way to change gradually from soul-absent to soul-present, so the change must be instantaneous.
It is normal in quantum mechanics for an object to change gradually from state A to state B, even though there are no intermediate states between A and B.
Take for example, an electron's spin can either point up or down (along whichever axis you choose for the measurement); there is no possible intermediate value it can have. Yet in the proper conditions can reliably and gradually convert spin-down electrons into the spin-up state, over a predictable length of time. What changes is the probability you will find State A vs State B moves gradually from 0% to 100%.
So my question is, When does the Fetus Acquire the soul and is it an instantaneous event or a continuous event. Can someone explain this?


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