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Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen has been busy with his side project, Delta Deep and a new album from Def Leppard on the way.
Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen has been busy with his side project, Delta Deep and a new album from Def Leppard on the way.
Def Leppard returned to their old sound with 'Euphoria,' which was released in June 1999.
Phil Collen recently stopped by an Orange County performing arts high school to deliver a master class.
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliot has no interest in being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The bands have laid out a pretty extensive tour that starts in Utah on June 23rd, and wraps on Sunday August 21st in Houston TX.
Def Leppard and Kiss will join forces for a summer 2014 tour, in what is expected to be one of the year's biggest classic rock events of the year.
In terms of charts and sales, 1996's 'Slang' marks the spot where Def Leppard went from being multi-platinum rock gods to just another veteran act struggling to fit in among the rapidly changing Top 40 trends of the '90s. But for the band members, the record has always meant a lot more.
Def Leppard's Joe Elliott will produce the sophomore record by Black Star Riders, a band featuring former members of Thin Lizzy. Elliott previously worked on the 2011 reissue of Thin Lizzy's 1976 classic 'Jailbreak' album. The Def Leppard singer also produced the first two solo albums by Black Star Riders' Ricky Warwick, who joined Thin Lizzy as vocalist in 2010.
a Def Leppard will enter the studio on February 1 to begin recording its first new studio effort since 2008's No. 5 Billboard hit 'Songs from the Sparkle Lounge.'
In one of the scariest and ultimately inspiring stories in recent rock history, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen nearly lost his life and did lose his left arm in a car accident on Dec. 31, 1984.
2013 was a busy year for Def Leppard, between their Las Vegas residency, assorted live and studio engagements and guitarist Vivian Campbell's treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. But not busy enough for guitarist Phil Collen, apparently, since he is devoting parts of his holiday season to promoting a new musical endeavor named Delta Deep.
Def Leppard are planning their second Las Vegas residency, this time focusing on 'Pyromania,' the 10-times platinum 1983 breakthrough album that included the hits 'Photograph' and 'Rock of Ages.'


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While working to improve the lives of so many in Nolan County, Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital (RPMH) is receiving some vital help as well. The hospital has recently launched a renovation project that will increase the hospital's energy efficiency and improve the medical/surgical wing.
"A lot has changed in the way buildings consume energy since our facility was first built more than 36 years ago," said Donna Boatright, administrator of RPMH. "The impact of our renovations not only lowers our energy use, but also enhances our patients' experience at our facility."
The West Texas Art Guild is sponsoring a Children's art show at the County-City Library on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. The show will be divided into five age groups including ages 3-5, ages 6-8, ages 9-11, ages 12-14 and ages 15-18.
Name and age of the child must be attached to the back of the artwork. Ribbons will be awarded to first, second and third places, as well as honorable mention winners. One Best-Of-Show ribbon for the over-all best artwork will be awarded. All work must be matted and ready to hang.
The Sweetwater Police Department (SPD) received 40 calls for service, issued no citations and made three arrests on Jan. 25, 2012.
The SPD received 18, 911 calls.
Calls for service:
• Theft — 2000 block of Lamar.
• Criminal mischief — 500 block of Wall.
• Criminal mischief — 200 block of E. Third.
Arrested by SPD:
• Male juvenile, 13 — Assault.
• Male juvenile, 16 — Disruption of classroom.
• Male juvenile, 14 — Order of immediate custody.
The Nolan County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) had 15 calls for service, served three civil papers and made no arrests on Jan. 25, 2012.
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During the short days and cold nights of winter, many of us crave comfort foods. Unfortunately, the rich dishes we usually think of tend to be low in nutrition and packed with fat and calories. Well, take heart. It's possible to enjoy satisfying dishes that are tasty, hearty and nutritious.
The annual Sweetwater Jaycees Miss Snake Charmer Scholarship Pageant is a time where young ladies from throughout the Big Country come together to compete for scholarship money. At last year's pageant, past queens were recognized for the 52nd year of the Miss Snake Charmer Pageant.
The annual pageant will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at the Sweetwater Municipal Auditorium. The pageant is open to all girls between the ages of 16-19 who live within a 75 mile radius of Sweetwater.
The SISD (Sweetwater Independent School District) Board of Trustees were recognized at their regular meeting on Monday evening, Jan. 23, 2012.
As this month has been named School Board Recognition Month in Sweetwater, Nolan County Judge Tim Fambrough was in attendance to read the proclamation to the board members. The document praised their commitment to children and their education; the ongoing work with parents, staff and community members; establishing a firm foundation in local education; and supporting local and public education for the district.
Nolan County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Executive Director Dennis Cumbie, announced that sign-up for the 2012 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) Program began on Jan. 23, 2012 and continues through June 1, 2012.
"I encourage producers to make an appointment with our office to sign-up for program benefits," said Cumbie.
Waco, Texas — Texas Farmers Union delegates and members will convene for the 110th State Convention at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The convention will run Jan. 27 and 28, 2012, and will start at 1 p.m. on Friday, the 27th.
Texas Farmers Union President Wes Sims stated, "We will have a number of interesting speakers and programs. One of the speakers will be National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson, who will be speaking at the banquet on Saturday night."
The Sweetwater Police Department (SPD) received 50 calls for service, issued no citations and made four arrests on Jan. 24, 2012.
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• Credit/debit card abuse — 200 block of E. Fourth.
• Sexual assault — 200 block of E. Fourth.
• Theft — 1400 block of Hailey.
• Assault — 1300 block of McCaulley.
• Family violence assault — 200 block of Orange.
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- Bayesian learning provides the core concept of processing noisy information. In standard Bayesian frameworks, assessing the price impact of information requires perfect knowledge of news' precision. In practice, however, precision is rarely dis- closed. Therefore, we extend standard Bayesian learning, suggesting traders infer news' precision from magnitudes of surprises and from external sources. We show that interactions of the different precision signals may result in highly nonlinear price responses. Empirical tests based on intra-day T-bond futures price reactions to employment releases confirm the model's predictions and show that the effects are statistically and economically significant.
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- Measuring financial asset return and volatilty spillovers, with application to global equity markets (2008)
- We provide a simple and intuitive measure of interdependence of asset returns and/or volatilities. In particular, we formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates study of both non-crisis and crisis episodes, including trends and bursts in spillovers, and both turn out to be empirically important. In particular, in an analysis of nineteen global equity markets from the early 1990s to the present, we find striking evidence of divergent behavior in the dynamics of return spillovers vs. volatility spillovers: Return spillovers display a gently increasing trend but no bursts, whereas volatility spillovers display no trend but clear bursts.
- Central bank misperceptions and the role of money in interest rate rules (2008)
- Research with Keynesian-style models has emphasized the importance of the output gap for policies aimed at controlling inflation while declaring monetary aggregates largely irrelevant. Critics, however, have argued that these models need to be modified to account for observed money growth and inflation trends, and that monetary trends may serve as a useful cross-check for monetary policy. We identify an important source of monetary trends in form of persistent central bank misperceptions regarding potential output. Simulations with historical output gap estimates indicate that such misperceptions may induce persistent errors in monetary policy and sustained trends in money growth and inflation. If interest rate prescriptions derived from Keynesian-style models are augmented with a cross-check against money-based estimates of trend inflation, inflation control is improved substantially.
- Financial literacy : an essential tool for informed consumer choice? (2008)
- Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy among the U.S. population, particularly among specific demographic groups. Those with low education, women, African-Americans, and Hispanics display particularly low levels of literacy. Financial literacy impacts financial decision-making. Failure to plan for retirement, lack of participation in the stock market, and poor borrowing behavior can all be linked to ignorance of basic financial concepts. While financial education programs can result in improved saving behavior and financial decision-making, much can be done to improve these programs' effectiveness.
- Endogenous systemic liquidity risk (2008)
- Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing, 2007), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback between lender of last resort policy and incentives of private banks, determining the aggregate amount of liquidity available. We show that imposing minimum liquidity standards for banks ex ante are a crucial requirement for sensible lender of last resort policy. In addition, we analyse the impact of equity requirements and narrow banking, in the sense that banks are required to hold sufficient liquid funds so as to pay out in all contingencies. We show that such a policy is strictly inferior to imposing minimum liquidity standards ex ante combined with lender of last resort policy.
- Confronting the Robinson Crusoe paradigm with household-size heterogeneity (2008)
- Modern macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind economic actions by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. This analytical approach requires that incentives of the poor and the rich are strictly aligned. In empirical analysis a challenging complication is that consumer and income data are typically available at the household level, and individuals living in multimember households have the potential to share goods within the household. The analytical approach of modern macroeconomics would require that intra-household sharing is also strictly aligned across the rich and the poor. Here we have designed a survey method that allows the testing of this stringent property of intra-household sharing and find that it holds: once expenditures for basic needs are subtracted from disposable household income, household-size economies implied by the remainder household incomes are the same for the rich and the poor.
- How do fiscal and technology shocks affect real exchange rates? : New evidence for the United States (2008)
- Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series relative to an aggregate of industrialized countries, this paper provides new evidence on the dynamic effects of government spending and technology shocks on the real exchange rate and the terms of trade. To achieve identification, we derive robust restrictions on the sign of several impulse responses from a two-country general equilibrium model. We find that both the real exchange rate and the terms of trade – whose responses are left unrestricted – depreciate in response to expansionary government spending shocks and appreciate in response to positive technology shocks.
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- Motivated by the prominent role of electronic limit order book (LOB) markets in today's stock market environment, this paper provides the basis for understanding, reconstructing and adopting Hollifield, Miller, Sandas, and Slive's (2006) (henceforth HMSS) methodology for estimating the gains from trade to the Xetra LOB market at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE) in order to evaluate its performance in this respect. Therefore this paper looks deeply into HMSS's base model and provides a structured recipe for the planned implementation with Xetra LOB data. The contribution of this paper lies in the modification of HMSS's methodology with respect to the particularities of the Xetra trading system that are not yet considered in HMSS's base model. The necessary modifications, as expressed in terms of empirical caveats, are substantial to derive unbiased market efficiency measures for Xetra in the end.


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The girls basketball team from Phoenix South Mountain defeated the talented team from Chandler Seton Catholic once this season. Now the opportunity is there for the Lady Jaguars to try to do it again.
The eighth-seeded Lady Jaguars earned a rematch with top-seeded Seton with a 63-53 second-round victory over No. 9 Tempe Marcos de Niza on Friday night (Feb. 21) at South.
South Mountain (26-3) will meet Seton in a quarterfinal game on Tuesday (Feb. 25) at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. A start time will be announced later. Marcos de Niza finished 23-7.
Friday night's game was pretty much even through three quarters, and South outscored Marcos 26-17 in the fourth.
Senior Jazmon Jacobs keyed the outburst by scoring 10 of her 13 points in the first 4:07 of the fourth.
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Everyone knows Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. But in recent years, the day after Black Friday has been dubbed "Small Business Saturday" -- a day you're encouraged to go out and shop at locally owned stores, eat at some locally owned establishments and keep the money in our community.
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NASA employees use open-source tools to build a site in two days with no budget
Agency: NASA
Project: OpenGov Tracker
Location: www.opengovtracker.com
Technology: IdeaScale Application Programming Interface; Tornado, a lightweight, open-source web development framework; MongoDB, an open-source, document-oriented database; Googlechart, an API for chart generation; Uservoice, a free, Web feedback forum; and Github, a Web-based hosting service for projects that use Git revision control system.
Robbie Schingler, one of the developers of OpenGov Tracker, describes the site as a tiny hack — and in this case, the word "hack" means something good — with immediate value. Schingler, an executive at NASA's Office for Open Government, and co-developer Jessy Cowan-Sharp, also with NASA, created the Web site in two days during the record-setting snowstorm in February that halted activity around the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
"Two developers, two days, no money" — that was Schingler's description of the project at a recent conference on Web development and new media for government Web managers.
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The Open Government Directive, which ordered agencies to open their doors and data to the public, was the motivation for the site. The directive states that each open-government Web page had to incorporate a mechanism to provide input on the agency's open-government plan. In early February, the General Services Administration offered a citizen engagement tool based on the IdeaScale platform to 24 federal agencies, including NASA. Twenty-three agencies accepted.
The online dialogue tool allowed members of the public to submit, rank and comment on ideas about how agencies could best fulfill the goals of the Open Government Directive by becoming more transparent, participatory, collaborative and innovative.
Schingler and Cowan-Sharp essentially developed a site consisting of one basic page that aggregates 23 of those sites to give the public a quick glance of the best-rated contributions in each of four categories: collaboration, participation, transparency and innovation.
For instance, in the participation category, someone proposed that the Education Department promote funding for open-source textbooks. The idea is to create free textbooks that schools could customize. Another example, in the innovation category, was to let NASA employees set aside time each week for unstructured, creative thinking.
OpenGov Tracker tracked all government ideas, votes and comments. It then highlighted agencies with the most or least ideas, votes or comments. NASA topped the list with the most ideas (470), votes (4,747) and comments (700). Those with the least ideas, votes and comments were organized in another category: Needs More Love.
The developers accomplished the task on their own time using their own server on the NASA Nebula cloud computing platform. In addition to using IdeaScale's application programming language, open-source software formed the project's foundation.
The developers used the Python programming language with the Tornado Web development framework and MongoDB document-oriented database. The developers also used Uservoice, which is free Web feedback forum software, and Github, for storage, Schlinger said.
Here are some of their lessons learned.
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Fast and Furious update: I'd walk a grenade for you, yeah, yeah, yeah
We first mentioned blog reports on a Project GrenadeWalker scandal last month. (See here).
CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson is out with a new report on grenades crossing the border to Mexico. Government officials shrugged at the breaches because they deemed grenades "novelty items." Details:
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this story from the beginning, said on "The Early Show" that the investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s so-called "Fast and Furious" operation branches out to a case involving grenades. Sources tell her a suspect was left to traffic and manufacture them for Mexican drug cartels.
Police say Jean Baptiste Kingery, a U.S. citizen, was a veritable grenade machine. He's accused of smuggling parts for as many as 2,000 grenades into Mexico for killer drug cartels — sometimes under the direct watch of U.S. law enforcement.
Law enforcement sources say Kingery could have been prosecuted in the U.S. twice for violating export control laws, but that, each time, prosecutors in Arizona refused to make a case.
Grenades are weapons-of-choice for the cartels. An attack on Aug. 25 in a Monterrey, Mexico casino killed 53 people.
Sources tell CBS News that, in January 2010, ATF had Kingery under surveillance after he bought about 50 grenade bodies and headed to Mexico. But they say prosecutors wouldn't agree to make a case. So, as ATF agents looked on, Kingery and the grenade parts crossed the border — and simply disappeared.
Six months later, Kingery allegedly got caught leaving the U.S. for Mexico with 114 disassembled grenades in a tire. One ATF agent told investigators he literally begged prosecutors to keep Kingery in custody this time, fearing he was supplying narco-terrorists, but was again ordered to let Kingery go.
The prosecutors — already the target of controversy for overseeing "Fast and Furious," wouldn't comment on the grenades case. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke recently resigned and his assistant, Emory Hurley, has been transferred. Sources say Hurley is the one who let Kingery go, saying grenade parts are "novelty items" and the case "lacked jury appeal."
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Interchangeability of biosimilars is 'feasible,' according to FDA's Janet Woodcock. The primary requirement is switching testing to rule out immunogenicity.
IPF patients' greatest need is products that stop disease progression or address symptoms. None are imminent.
A dearth of programs for blood disorder patients with inhibitors will leave a major unmet need until gene therapies come to market.
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* Changing the procedures for I-485 adjustment of status to allow legal immigrants caught in the immigration quota backlogs to register their applications and begin the final step of the process.
* Directing agencies to look at modernizing the visa system, with a view to making optimal use of the numbers of visa available under law.
I'm startled when people still say all of this 'social media business' is a fad, when really it's now a part of our culture.
Yet, I've traveled from Florida to Canada to Germany and beyond (it seems) promoting my best-selling book, A Necessary Evil: Managing Employee Activity on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn … and the Hundreds of Other Social Media Sites (SHRM, 2013); and I can't tell you how many people tell me social media causes disruption and erodes communication and no good will come of it. (They said the same thing about the Internet 25 years ago, too, and we all know how
That is not a question about physical stature or your eating habits. I am referring to ACA approved medical insurance plans currently under Scrutiny.
When the ACA came out they designated four plans called "metal plans" as acceptable standards for insurance coverage. They were called metal plans because they were named Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Each plan provided more coverage as the metal value increased.
Then the chaos began. Employers (and everybody else) found that these plans were really expensive. Clearly "Affordable" was only in some parallel universe based on a different income system. Some very bright insurance people, attorneys and CPAS found that if you read the ACA law carefully you could offer a medical insurance plan that did not include all that expensive coverage and still be in compliance.
Those plans became known as "Skinny Plans, and "Minimum value plans". Read more
Hi HR Professionals:
I am continuing this week in my Human Resource Management course and this week shifts to Ulrich, Younger, Brockbank, and Ulrich's chapter on Capability Builder in the book HR from the outside in. This involves our doing a capability audit which includes 13 capabilities. When I am evaluating this in regards to my employer, I can see ones that I would like to see improvement on such as risk. Happily, I can see areas that, in my opinion, score very high. These are social responsibility and customer connectivity (Ulrich, Younger, Brockbank & Ulrich, p.117).
I would really appreciate if you could tell me which of the 13 capabilities you find your company handles well and which area improvement could be made in. The 13 capabilities are as follows:
Talent, Speed, Shared mindset, Learning, Collaboration, Innovation, Accountability, Leadership, Strategic unity, Efficiency, Customer connectivity, Social responsibility, and Risk.
Laura Hutter
In my profession, I am linked to HR leaders and practitioners around the globe. Both colleagues and clients share their frustrations as they lead HR Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning initiatives. Recently, I launched a quick, 60-second pulse survey to see whether the challenges for 2015 were going to be any different than they have been in the past few years. Granted, this quick pulse survey is not scientific, but it is still informative.
If you are a practitioner in this space and wish to take the survey, use this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NI2015 I will continue to monitor responses across the globe.
Regardless of the country in which you reside, HR leaders are struggling with the challenge of getting stakeholder and/or leadership buy-in for Strategic Workforce Planning. My advice on this challenge is to find the person with the most "workforce pain" inside your organization. They will be overly joyed to receive any assistance you can give them and if you can ease their pain, they will be your biggest asset in validating the value of your work and spreading a positive message throughout the organization. Also look for projects where you can show a "quick win" to your leadership. When it comes to new initiatives like workforce planning and analytics, leadership patience drifts off rapidly if you can't show value quickly.
I am not sure where to start on this because I am tempted to just say "I told you so!" and leave it at that.
But I won't. So let's get into this issue.
As the ACA rolled out, employers began trying to avoid compliance in any way they could find. My advice has been to plan for implementation and do it right because it is coming and will not go away.
Consider the usual IRS tactic here: First a regulation is proposed and then implemented after comment. Then everybody scrambles to see how they can avoid the new rules. Then sales methods jump on board and sell "Alternatives". And finally, after all that private research, the IRS just eliminates all the Loop Holes that have been turned up. And in the more egregious case they also prosecute.
ACA has not missed a beat in this scenario. And now you ask me "Bill, which issue are you actually talking about here. Read more
Wellness is not just better drugs and more medical treatment, or testing metrics. It is also work place attitude and a sense of community with other employees. Good management and solid teams can lead to dramatic productivity improvements. Oppressive or abusive management can lead to increased employee loss of time, theft, and other losses to actual productivity.
Employee wellness plan can have more impact as it keeps employees at work and in a productive state. In addition, healthier employees tend to have better attitudes and enjoy work more.
Employers need people to build their companies - answer the phone, build the product, sell the product, haul out the trash, deal with ACA and employee issues - all that stuff. Every employer knows they have to keep their machines running but many of them fail to realize their most valuable office equipment - people - are assumed to be self maintained. Read more
With an appropriate nod to Eric Burdon, let's talk about human behavior and health today.: "It's my life and I'll do what I want. It's my mind and I'll think what I want"
There was an article on Physicians Briefing today about the efficacy of telephone outreach to diabetics (MONDAY, Oct. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News)). Basically, it said the approach is not working because even if you call people and ask them to take medication, they frequently ignore you.
Well now there's a big surprise!
I am a big advocate of wellness programs and improved health, BUT I am frequently heard to say it has become its own industry and much of it is a lot of hooey.
People already know what will make them healthier, what would make them happier, what would make them thinner, they just don't do it. And calling to tell them they are slacking doesn't help. If it did, nagging would be called coaching and men would put the toilet seats down more frequently. Read more
From: Laura A. Hutter
To: HR Professionals – Bloggers
Posted: November 09, 2014
Subject: Put into effect an 'outside-in' approach to HR
I am an MBA student and am looking into the six paradoxes of HR as outlined by Ulrich, Younger, Brockbank & Ulrich. (2012) I am frankly surprised that it is still hard to convince an organization to shift its HR practices to put into place an outside in strategy that will successfully enable them to evolve and not be stagnant in their thinking?
In this every changing world of technology and business, I find it interesting that so many companies are still hiring for key positions from a resume. I understand that you need to review their background and gather information before you actually have a face to face interview. What surprises me, is the process after the interview and the money that is spent to find the right fit.
According to a study completed by Robert Half (a staffing specialist firm), 36 percent of 1,400 executives surveyed said that the leading factor of a failed hire , besides from performance problems, is poor skills matching.
Skill matching is a key competency that should be and needs to be matched or you are just throwing your money out the window. According to a Career Builders survey 68% of hiring managers spend two minutes or less reviewing resumes. The interview question process can be only 15 – 30 minutes with an additional 10 minutes on small talk. So now at this point you think you know the person, their experience and possibly their 5 year plan and so on. So how does that information make them a great fit for the Managers position in your department?
Journalists must be wary about getting too close to a story. Distance typically equals objectivity, but it's not always as easy as it may sound.
Recently, I have found that I have become part of a trend that I've written about numerous times during my 25 years at SHRM. I've joined the "Age Wave," which was a particularly hot topic during the mid and late 1990s. I think the term has shifted through the years and has morphed into various forms like the aging workforce, the multigenerational workforce, the retirement boom, phased retirement and the sandwich generation.
I wrote about it with a lot of interest, trying to understand and present every wrinkle and permutation of these trends and topics with an even hand. I never gave much thought to how it would apply to me, until of late.
This whole age wave/sandwich generation thing happened so gradually that frankly it snuck up on me. And it really hit home about a month ago when my elderly mother (she's 92) suffered a "minor" stroke. I put minor in quotes because any health care stumble at her age is a pretty big deal and bouncing back won't be easy. A complete recovery only has a glimmer of hope at best.
Tying biometric screenings to health premium reductions is a common wellness program incentive, which is why the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit against Honeywell's program has caused such an uproar.
Incentives are typically aimed at promoting participation in wellness initiatives, such as screenings, so health coaching can be provided to help those who might have, or be headed for, chronic conditions. When the incentives are tied to obtaining health-improvement goals, the law requires there be alternatives for those whose physical condition prevents them from meeting the target.
The problem, as I see it, is that regulators seem to think wellness programs exist so that employers can financially penalize high-cost employees. Or worse, locate—and then terminate—them. I just don't think that's so.


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Wyndham Pointe Apartments
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Wyndham Point offers two and three bedroom apartments for rent locatd in Dumfries Virginia
SPECIALS...SPECIALS...SPECIALS MOVE IN BY 12/09/14 AND RECEIVE DECEMBER RENT FREE!! and 1 FREE ACCENT WALL PAINTED Along with $100.00 additionally taken off of the month rent!!
Floorplans and Pricing
2 Bedrooms
|Roxbury with Sunroom/Fairfax Floor plan
|1 Bathroom
|$1335 - $1619
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|Windsor w/Sunroom
|2 Bathrooms
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|Kenmore w/Sunroom/Lenox
|2 Bathrooms
|$1344 - $1669
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3 Bedrooms
|Madison w/Balcony/Strathmore
|2 Bathrooms
|$1540 - $1749
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|Madison w/Sunroom/Strathmore Floorplan
|2 Bathrooms
|$1550 - $1869
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Special Features
- New State-Of-The-Art Fitness Center!
- Storage Rooms & Private Entrances!
- Full size washer and dryer!
- Sparkling Pool!
- Fully equipped kitchens w/ contemporary upgrades!
- Spacious Closets!
- Bright, Open Sunrooms and Patios!
- Minutes to Quantico and Historic Destinations!
- Close To Potomac Mills Mall, NVCC and VRE!
Community Features
- Bilingual
- Club House
- Disability Access
- Fitness Center
- Freeway Access
- Garden Style
- Garden Style
- Playground
- Pool
- Public Transportation
- Short Term Lease
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Apartment Amenities
- Air Conditioning
- Broadband Internet Access
- Cable or Satellite
- Carpet
- Ceiling Fan
- Dishwasher
- Extra Storage
- Garbage Disposal
- Internet Access
- Patio or Balcony
- Walk In Closets
- Washer Dryer In Unit
- Water Sewer and Trash
- Window Covering
Additional Information
Year Built: 2005
Apartments in Community: 194
Pet Policy
Pets Welcome! Some breed and weight restrictions, call for details!
- Cats Allowed
- Pets Allowed
- Small Dogs Allowed
Local Schools
- Kilmer Middle School
- Marshall High School
- Stenwood Elementary School
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CM Punk
Real Name
Phillip Brooks
Date of Birth
October 26, 1978
Place of Birth
Wade Barrett hasn't been on television in quite some time now because he suffered a shoulder injury during a match with Jack Swagger. He was recently up in Toronto, so he sought the help of Trish Stratus, a former WWE diva who now runs a successful yoga business. Barrett stated that the workout session with Trish helped his shoulder feel a bit better.
September 27, 2014
A selfie picture of former WWE diva Maria Kanellis before she does her workout for the day.
June 14, 2014
Since he has been able to get so many people to convert to his workout system in the United States, Diamond Dallas Page is now focused on expanding his yoga empire into Canada. The former WWE star will be heading up to British Columbia this weekend for a workshop, and the belief is that he will be picking up quite a few customers on Sunday.
May 1, 2014
A selfie picture of Cameron after her workout. The WWE diva is wearing a tight tank top that shows off her upper body.
April 21, 2014
An Instagram picture of Nikki Bella in extremely tight pants during her workout session.
March 15, 2014
Vince McMahon posted a picture of himself in the gym on Twitter.
November 5, 2013
Now that she has given birth, Taryn Terrell has started working out, in order to get in shape for wrestling again.
November 1, 2013
Since he has one of the most impressive physiques in professional wrestling, an industry filled with well toned bodies, Scott Steiner has been asked for years about his workout program, so the former WCW star released a fitness DVD, which teaches beginning, intermediate and advanced level people.
January 17, 2012
When the two of them were feuding, there were rumors of backstage heat between CM Punk and Ryback. During a recent podcast interview with Colt Cabana, the former world heavyweight champion confirmed those rumors. He stated that he felt that Ryback was purposely injuring him, since it happened so frequently. Punk also thinks that Ryback was abusing steroids, an allegation that will not sit well with WWE officials.
November 27, 2014
Good news for fans who are afraid of CM Punk going to TNA to help them catch up a little to WWE. The former world heavyweight champion stated he will not be signing with the company. It has nothing to do with how he feels about management. Punk simply has fallen out of love with professional wrestling and does not want to be involved in it again. WWE also had him sign a no compete clause.
November 27, 2014
While a lot of fans are under the impression that he walked away from WWE, CM Punk contradicted those beliefs during a podcast interview with Colt Cabana. The former world heavyweight champion was suspended for two months by Vince McMahon. When the suspension was over, he received a letter from management, informing him that he was fired and would no longer receive royalty payments.
November 27, 2014
Another thing that was revealed during the podcast interview between Colt Cabana and CM Punk is the fact that the latter was fired by WWE on his wedding day. The former world heavyweight champion revealed that he received a phone call from Triple H a couple of days before the event, so he sent a text message back to let the company know that he was getting married. In response, WWE sent a letter, informing Punk that he was fired.
November 27, 2014
During a recent podcast interview with Colt Cabana, CM Punk revealed some details about why he decided to walk away from WWE. A lot of the issues backstage involved Triple H. Punk feels that HHH never liked him, and he was not treated equally with the other top level performers. The former world heavyweight champion did confirm the rumors about his desire to headline Wrestlemania 29.
November 27, 2014
For those of you that are clinging on to the smaller glimmer of hope that CM Punk will return to WWE some day, there may possibly be some good news this week. Punk posted a warm message towards Paul Heyman, his former on screen manager and good friend in real life, on Twitter. That post was noticed by Triple H, who made it one of his Favorites. For those that are not keen to social media, that means that he approves of the message. It also shows that HHH isn't as upset with Punk as some people think he is.
November 23, 2014
Through Twitter, CM Punk revealed to his fans that has now been married to AJ Lee for exactly six months. He joked that people thought they were not going to last, so he wants them to pay up on the bet. AJ made a joke as well. The WWE Divas Champion noted how the two of them were buddies on screen not too long ago. Thus far, their marriage has not affected business relationships for either of them.
November 15, 2014
WWE fans looking to see CM Punk again, will get an opportunity to do so again on Sunday night. No, he's not showing up for a wrestling pay per view or anything. The former world heavyweight champion is scheduled to be a guest on the Talking Dead, a show that discusses the latest happenings on the Walking Dead television series. Punk has been a guest before, and he showed that he is quite a fanatic for the series.
November 13, 2014
It looks like CM Punk has found himself a new job, now that it is all but certain that he is not returning to WWE anytime soon. Marvel has announced that the former world heavyweight champion will be writing a story for upcoming issues of Thor, one of their more popular characters. Punk, who has been an avid comic book fan since childhood, has also stated that he would love to write stories for the Punisher character.
November 10, 2014
There is some development in the bitter feud between WWE and CM Punk, it seems. When the former world heavyweight champion had his lawyers send a 22 page letter to the company about royalties, management responded by removing most of his products from their online store. Something might have changed backstage, as WWE is selling Punk merchandise again.
October 27, 2014
There are reports floating around right now that the reason why AJ Lee was not chosen to be a cast member on Total Divas is because she is married to CM Punk. However, she has repeatedly stated in the past that she was not interested in doing a reality television show. She enjoys her privacy and prefers to focus on being a wrestler. Management recently added Alicia Fox and Paige to the series.
October 21, 2014
Anyone that has watched WWE routinely over the last year has heard the audience chanting for CM Punk, who walked away from the company due to backstage heat with management. Those chants are especially loud whenever AJ Lee, his real life wife, is in the ring. During recently live events, Paige has decided to turn the tables around on the fans by actually responding to the chants. She reminds the audience that it is actually AJ in the ring and not Punk.
October 15, 2014
While Stephanie McMahon recently took a jab at CM Punk on Monday Night Raw, WWE is doing their best to show restraint. There is a fear backstage that if they are overly criticial of the former world heavyweight champion, then it might motivate him to gain revenge by working for a competing company. With word that TNA is interested in Punk, it would not be a surprise if WWE kept quiet about him for the foreseeable future.
October 9, 2014
Reports have surfaced this week that TNA had made a big contract offer to CM Punk to join the company. Management has long been interested in acquiring the former world heavyweight champion, but they needed to wait until his deal with WWE expired, in order to avoid a potential tampering lawsuit. Punk has a good amount of name value and would be quite appealing to television networks.
October 9, 2014
Since walking out on WWE earlier in the year, CM Punk has not really been involved with professional wrestling. However, he decided to end the sabbatical recently, in order to support a very close friend. Cliff Compton, who formerly worked as Domino in WWE, was scheduled to win the OVW heavyweight championship, so Punk decided to attend the show backstage and support his buddy.
October 7, 2014
In a rather bold move, Stephanie McMahon took the opportunity during the opening segment of Monday Night Raw to bash CM Punk, as the show was emanating from Chicago, where the former world heavyweight champion resides. She admonished the fans for chanting for a quitter. Stephanie also appeared to have taken a jab at Punk's personal life by stating that he quit on his real life family.
September 30, 2014
If you're a big fan of Hulk Hogan, then you do not want to miss Monday Night Raw this week. The WWE legend and Jimmy Hart have flown into Chicago for the event. Hogan is definitely expected to make an on screen appearance. Some are speculating that his presence is needed to help promote the company's fight against breast cancer, while others think that he is there to help control the audience from going overboard with their chants for CM Punk.
September 29, 2014
In a move that appears to be very petty, WWE muted the audience reaction when CM Punk was revealed for the upcoming WWE 2K15 roster. Management initially kept things cordial between the two sides when Punk first left because they were hoping that he would consider a return. However, now that a reunion is very unlikely to happen, some bitterness has started to show.
September 27, 2014
Since he no longer has the burden of the hectic WWE schedule to worry about, CM Punk has been enjoying his time tremendously. The former world heavyweight champion was recently spotted at the Riot Fest music event in Chicago. Punk was even invited onstage by a band called The Bouncing Souls and performed a song with them.
September 15, 2014
Last week, CM Punk had his lawyers send a 22 page letter to WWE regarding his royalty payments, and it appears that the company is responding by quickly removing his merchandise from their online store and at live events. The belief is that management does not want to keep paying Punk money, but at the same time, they already spent money on creating the merchandise.
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