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Disgruntled Employee's Alleged Parting Shot Leads to Federal Indictment
It's no secret on this blog that when employment relationships go sour, criminal charges can be one potential result. Now we have another example, by way of the recent indictment of Arturas Samoilovas.
According to the indictment, filed in Ohio federal district court, Samoilovas worked as a contract employee for Eaton Corporation as a financial analyst. In April 2014, he applied for several full-time positions, but was told that he didn't get the jobs. Unhappy about the rejections, Samoilovas "accessed the Eaton Corporation's computer system," inserting "certain malicious computer codes … into six … financial spreadsheets." If executed, these codes would have resulted in deleted files. In other words, they were malware. Read More ›
You're In the Zone… Of A Massive Punitive Damages Verdict for a Pregnant Manager
On Monday, AutoZone found itself on the wrong end of a $185 million verdict in favor of a former store manager, Rosario Juarez. Yes, you read that right. $185 million. This stunning verdict appears to have been the result of Juarez's allegations of discrimination and retaliatory discharge, combined with an insider turned witness who provided extremely damaging testimony against the auto parts retailer.
In her complaint, Juarez alleged that AutoZone had a "glass ceiling" for women employees, which it kept in place through a hidden promotion process where open positions were not posted. According to Juarez, she succeeded in cracking the glass ceiling, securing a store manager position, but when she became pregnant, she was treated differently by her district manager. After giving birth, she complained about the unfair treatment and was soon demoted by the manager, who told her that she could not be a mother and handle her job. Later, she was terminated as the result of a loss prevention inquiry, in which she refused to participate in a "Q&A" statement about a theft at the store. Juarez alleged that the loss prevention department's request for a statement was a pretext to fire her.
We've spent a lot of time on this blog discussing allegations of pregnancy discrimination like these (see, for example, here, here and here). The short of it is that a company can't treat pregnant women, or women who have given birth, differently than it treats other employees. But we've never covered a verdict for pregnancy discrimination that looked more like a Powerball win than a litigation result. Read More ›
The Inbox - Love Me Tinder
If you find yourself in the digital dating scene (or the market for highly-valued start-ups for that matter), you are probably familiar with Tinder, the dating app that allows users to identify potential dates with an easy swipe of a finger on a smartphone. Last July, Whitney Wolfe, Tinder's former VP of marketing, sued the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by Tinder's fellow co-founders, CMO Justin Mateen and CEO Sean Rad. The suit primarily focused on the ugly breakup between Mateen and Wolfe, and Mateen ultimately resigned in September, after Wolfe's suit revealed his "private messages to [her] containing inappropriate content." Now, the aftershocks of Wolfe's suit have spread to impact Rad's employment as well. As discussed in this lengthy Forbes piece, the company's majority owner, IAC (InterActivCorp), decided to oust Rad as CEO early this month, in part due to his involvement in the Wolfe-Mateen brouhaha. IAC says it still wants Rad to stay involved and focus on Tinder's business, so for now, it's not undoing the "match" between Rad and the company he founded.
Consumers of taxi and black car services have witnessed a sea change in options over the past few years. Thanks to internet-based car-summoning applications, customers are empowered with a range of efficient, cost-conscious alternatives to standing on the corner, arms waving, eyeing every yellow vehicle that approaches. Now, Lyft, one of the leading entrants into this new market, is squabbling in court with an employee who left it to join the other market leader, Uber. According to Courthouse News Service, Lyft recently sued its former COO, Travis VanderZanden, alleging that he breached his employment contract when he left the company to become Uber's new VP of international growth. Lyft says that VanderZanden stole 98,000 pages of confidential financial projections and forecasts, business strategies, marketing plans, and international growth documents. It also accuses VanderZanden of soliciting Lyft's employees to join Uber, including Lyft's former VP of operations. Meanwhile, just this week, Uber is rumored to be in talks with investors to raise significant capital toward international expansion. It seems obvious that Uber is focusing on growing its international market share, and perhaps time will tell if Lyft can prove a misappropriation of its own confidential international strategy. Read More ›
Fired for Taking the Fifth: Part 1 – The Private Sector Employee
Recently, in a government investigation by the civil division of a United States Attorney's Office, an employee of a private company was deposed pursuant to a Civil Investigative Demand (CID). The employee, on the advice of counsel, refused to answer questions on certain topics and invoked the Fifth Amendment right against compulsory self-incrimination (she "took the Fifth" in common shorthand). Several days later, she was fired by her employer for taking the Fifth. (The employer claimed that it wanted to show cooperation with the government's investigation and taking the Fifth is viewed as being non-cooperative.) When I recounted this story to my non-lawyer fiancée, he was outraged and wondered how could her employer do such a thing? Wasn't this retaliation? Didn't she have a clear wrongful termination claim against her employer? Good questions. While most, if not all, states (and the federal government) have enacted provisions to protect employees who blow the whistle on illegal activity from retaliatory discharge, is there any protection from discharge for an employee of a private company who chooses to keep mum to protect herself?
The short answer is no.
In our Bill of Rights, No. 5, it is written that "[n]o person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." Although the text limits the right to stay silent in a criminal case, it is generally accepted that a witness may assert the right in any context in which the witness fears his/her statements may later be used against him/her. Thus, as an American I have the right to refuse to answer questions or offer information which I fear could incriminate me. [A full discussion of the scope of Fifth Amendment protection is beyond the scope of this post. To learn more about the Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination, I refer the reader to The Privilege of Silence, authored by my fellow Zuckerman Spaeder attorneys Steven M. Salky and Paul B. Hynes and available here.] Read More ›
Can A Whistleblower Break the "Law" to Blow the Whistle?
A whistleblower generally shouldn't break the law in order to prove his claims. Indeed, the Whistleblowers Protection Blog says that this is a "basic rule," and cautions that an employee who breaks the law while whistleblowing in order to get evidence will suffer from attacks on his credibility and may even be referred for criminal prosecution. However, the parameters of this rule aren't always so easy to follow, as the Supreme Court heard last week in the case of Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean.
The MacLean case arose from a warning and text message. In July 2003, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) warned MacLean, a former air marshal, and his colleagues about a potential plot to hijack U.S. airliners. Soon after, however, the TSA sent the marshals an unencrypted text message, canceling all missions on overnight flights from Las Vegas. MacLean was concerned about this reduction in security, and eventually told MSNBC about it. The TSA then issued an order stating that the text message was sensitive security information (SSI). When it found out that MacLean was the one who disclosed the message to MSNBC, it fired him.
MacLean didn't take this while reclining; he challenged his dismissal before the Merit Systems Protection Board. But he lost. The Board decided that TSA didn't violate the federal Whistleblower Protection Act by firing MacLean for his disclosure, because MacLean's disclosure violated a TSA regulation that prohibited employees from publicly disclosing SSI. Read More ›
Complaint Provides Further Details About Former CFO's Defamation Suit Against Walgreen
When we first examined Wade Miquelon's suit against his former employer, Walgreen, we didn't have access to his complaint. Now we do. The complaint sheds more light on Miquelon's allegations, helping to explain why they are causing a spiral of problems for the drug company.
As you may recall from our last article on the case, Miquelon alleges that Walgreen defamed him (in layman's terms, lied) when it told the Wall Street Journal and investors that he had botched the earnings forecast for the 2014 fiscal year, and that his finance unit was "weak" with "lax controls." According to Miquelon's complaint, Walgreen executives made these negative statements for an entirely different reason: they had an "unchecked desire" to push Walgreen's merger with Alliance Boots to completion. Miquelon alleges that an activist investor had threatened him for being "too conservative," and that rather than standing up for him, the company's CEO and its largest shareholder decided to disparage him in order to "deflect investor disappointment" and push through the merger.
Miquelon's complaint is also somewhat of a public relations document, because it praises his work and goes into his interactions with the CEO and shareholder in great detail. It even says that Miquelon was next in line to be CEO (although the complaint also says he turned down that chance, instead deciding to move on). As to the allegedly botched earnings forecast, the complaint says that Miquelon recognized the problem well in advance of the call in which the company announced it was withdrawing its earnings goal. It also says that he was pressured at the same time by the company's CEO to raise his estimate of earnings per share that would result from the Alliance Boots merger. The most explosive allegation on this front is that the CEO told him that he had "no choice" but to approve a $6.00 earnings per share estimate, rather than a lower one that would hurt the merger. Read More ›
This Year's Scariest Posts on Executive Disputes
In honor of Halloween, we are looking over our shoulder at some of the most frightening news that we have brought to you this year on Suits by Suits:
- Earlier this week, we told you the tale of a CEO who was hauled into court thousands of miles away and slapped with an employee's wage bill. That's the kind of stuff executive nightmares are made of.
- Bonfires are part of what makes Halloween special. Unless they involve torching a laptop, destroying evidence, and getting hit with an adverse inference for spoliation at trial, which is what happened to one unhappy executive.
- The SEC announced its presence as a boogeyman for employers who punish whistleblowers, filing its first Dodd-Frank anti-retaliation action against one company and ordering a $30 million bounty for another employee.
- Terror babies are scary, as anyone who's seen Rosemary, Chucky, and Damien on screen knows. Now, we have more terror babies to add to the mix, thanks to the bizarre saga of Rep. Louis Gohmert and fired Texas art director Christian Cutler.
- Ever been lost in a hall of mirrors? Just think how confused this executive was, after her employer told her that she wasn't releasing her claims for a shareholder payment and then defeated those same claims based on … her release.
- And perhaps the scariest story of all: the company that lost a non-compete dispute and then had to pay $200,000 of its opponent's legal fees. That's like finding a razor blade in your Mounds bar.
Employee Wins Cross-Country Wage War Against CEO
The Supreme Court of Washington's recent decision in Failla v. FixtureOne Corporation is noteworthy on two levels.
First, it involved the surprising claim by a salesperson, Kristine Failla, that the CEO of her employer (FixtureOne) was personally liable for failing to pay her sales commissions. Typically, if an employee had a claim for unpaid commissions, you'd expect the employee to assert that claim against her company, not the chief. But under the wage laws of the state of Washington, an employee has a cause of action against "[a]ny employer or officer, vice principal or agent of any employer ... who ... [w]ilfully and with intent to deprive the employee of any part of his or her wages, [pays] any employee a lower wage than the wage such employer is obligated to pay such employee by any statute, ordinance, or contract." Read More ›
The Inbox - What Would Woody Guthrie Think?
Putting an imperious spin on a Woody Guthrie classic, I imagine Jimmy John's singing, "This land is my land, this land is my land, from California to the New York island." The sandwich giant has garnered a meaty amount of press (and congressional scrutiny) lately over the breadth of its non-compete agreements with its employees. The language, as written, would essentially prevent employees, from management down to the hourly sandwich builder, from seeking employment with a competitor for up to two years following the employee's departure. The non-compete, although not universally utilized by Jimmy John's franchisees, further defines a competitor as any business that derives more than 10% of its revenue from sandwiches, wraps, hoagies, etc., and is within a 3 mile radius of a Jimmy John's location. According to HuffPost, Jimmy John's has yet to enforce the clause against a minimum wage-earning sandwich maker or delivery truck driver, but The Atlantic's CityLab map demonstrates the potential impact on the departing employee who might wish to make sandwiches elsewhere.
Comcast may have found an enemy for life in a former cable-subscribing customer. Comcast recently received a novel form of public scrutiny when Conal O'Rourke, a PWC accountant, accused it of causing his termination from PricewaterhouseCoopers. O'Rourke alleged in a complaint filed in California federal court that Comcast's Controller, Lawrence Salva, contacted a PWC principal, alleging that O'Rourke invoked his position at the accounting firm to gain leverage in his ongoing arguments with Comcast over billing issues and equipment charges. According to Bloomberg, the Philadelphia office of PWC billed Comcast around $30 million for its accounting services, thereby giving Comcast leverage to potentially request the action from PWC. PWC, in its defense, claimed that O'Rourke was fired for violating company policy covering employee conduct. O'Rourke allegedly accused Comcast of questionable accounting practices during his (what I am sure were "spirited") telephone exchanges with Comcast customer service representatives. Read More ›
The Supreme Court's Recent Decision on the Taxation of Severance Payments
Today, we discuss taxes – specifically, the taxation of severance payments. It has long been recognized that severance payments are "income" to an employee, and that employers must withhold federal income taxes from the payments. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court made clear that severance payments also are "wages" subject to FICA taxes, and that an employer must withhold FICA taxes as well. The case, United States v. Quality Stores, 134 S. Ct. 1395 (2014), resolved a split among two federal appellate courts that had led many employers to seek a refund of the employer share of FICA taxes paid to the IRS on severance payments.
FICA is the federal payroll tax on wages that funds Social Security and Medicare. The tax is paid by both employers and employees. Each pays 7.65% on the first $106,800 of the employee's annual wages and then 1.45% on amounts exceeding that threshold. Employees never see their share of the tax – employers are required to withhold and pay the employee's share to the IRS.
In the 2008 case of CSX Corporation v. United States, 518 F.3d 1328, the Federal Circuit agreed with the IRS that a form of severance called supplemental unemployment compensation benefits (or SUB payments) falls within the broad definition of "wages" subject to FICA taxes. But several years later in Quality Stores, the Sixth Circuit reached the opposite conclusion, holding that SUB payments are not wages subject to FICA taxes. 693 F.3d 605 (2012). The court reasoned that because section 3402(o)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code states that SUB payments shall be treated "as if" they are wages for income-tax withholding, they are not in fact wages. Read More ›


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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - A Romanian court has given two journalists suspended prison sentences after they were convicted of trying to blackmail politicians and businessmen over a three-year period.
The Appeal Court in Cluj on Thursday handed newspaper director Florin Asimionesei a three-year suspended prison sentence and his editor-in-chief Alin Tocan a two-year suspended prison sentence for demanding money from businessmen and politicians from 2001 to 2004.
The pair were also ordered to pay (EURO)22,000 ($26,000) in damages to Transportation Minister Relu Fenechiu and others in the case. Fenechiu said after he refused to advertise in their paper the journalists published defamatory articles about his family and business interests.
The paper, now named `'Good Day Iasi," published a Friday editorial that called the ruling politically motivated.
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A witness identified the 22-year-old nephew of New York Giants owner John Mara as the person he saw hit a man in the head with a bottle during a New Year's Eve party, an arrest affidavit says.
The nephew, also named John Mara, was arrested by Fairfield police last week and posted $150,000 bail.
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Benson Bowl Routine is a variation of the Cups and Balls using a single brass bowl, a wooden wand, and three sponge balls developed by Roy Benson.
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Me and Chapman were doing this in Guelph (that's in Canada) 10 years ago (two of my daughters in the pic). It's important. I had more hair. Chapman's in better shape.
This is the first American Thanksgiving I'll be away from Amy, but it's not such a big deal because it's too damn hot in Brisbane at this time of year.
We used to run the food safety hotline in Canada, and had all the inquiries you could imagine.
So do the staff at Butterball's Turkey Talk-Line.
What started in 1981 as a group of six home economists answering calls has grown into a staff of more than 50 food and nutrition experts answering questions via phone, email, online chats and social media.
The hotline is open from early November to the day before Christmas and receives more than 100,000 questions per year. But, not surprisingly, the volume of questions peaks on Thanksgiving day, when the group answers more than 12,000 calls, Sue Smith, co-director of Butterball's Turkey Talk-line, told USA TODAY Network.
Some of the questions:
• A mother returned home from work to find her husband thawing a frozen turkey in the bathtub while simultaneously washing up the kids. "The kids were like, 'The water's cold!' because, you know, it's a frozen turkey," Smith said.
• A woman called the Talk-Line whispering her questions. When asked to speak up, the newlywed explained she was hiding in the closet from her mother-in-law, whom she was trying to impress.
• A young man hosting his first Thanksgiving called the Talk-Line while in a grocery store. A turkey expert stayed on the phone as he walked the aisle, advising him of all the items he'd need to buy.
• A landlord called panicked because his oven was too small to cook a turkey. He eventually was able to "rent" one from a tenant for $25. He thought he'd have to interrupt them every 10 minutes to baste it, but called the Talk-Line to learn that Butterball turkeys come pre-basted.
• A woman lost power one hour into cooking her turkey and called the Talk-Line. The hotline talked her through transferring her turkey to her gas grill to continue cooking. What accounted for the outage? The caller's neighbor had crashed into a power line while hang gliding.
But not all calls are quite that dramatic.
"How do I thaw my turkey?" is the most commonly asked question, according to Smith. One way is to put it in your refrigerator several days before Thanksgiving. It take one day for every 4 pounds, Smith said. But if it's too late for that approach, the fastest way is to thaw it in water.
State law requires counties inspect Indiana's nearly 12,000 restaurants twice a year. But even when inspectors find mouse droppings, flies and raw meat stored at the wrong temperature, customers might have a hard time finding out about it, an I-Team 8 investigation found.
I-Team 8 took a hidden camera into Central Indiana restaurants asking for copies of inspection reports. In four counties, the majority of restaurants wouldn't provide a report when I-Team 8 asked to see it. Six of eight restaurants refused. One restaurant said, "I don't have them."
Even when inspectors have found critical violations, state law mandates counties wait 10 days before making any of those results public.
I-Team 8 took the issue to Indiana State Sen. Vaneta Becker, who was part of the committee that wrote the 10-day rule 20 years ago as a then state representative. She said no one had ever challenged the 10-day rule since, despite most other states not having such a policy.
Some states post letter grades A-F right in the front window. Indiana doesn't. I-Team 8 checked the policies of all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Six states require restaurants turn over inspection reports to customers. Many more leave it up to the counties. In South Carolina, grades are posted as a decal in the restaurant immediately after the inspection. Some states like Mississippi you can check restaurant inspections as you walk in on a smartphone app.
Although Indiana doesn't post grades, I-Team 8 found two restaurants in the metro area that readily handed over their inspections.
"Why make you go through all that work to dig that stuff up when we have it right here?"
The manager at Culver's in Noblesville immediately said, "I can give you our most recent one, sir," when I-Team 8 asked for an inspection report.
At Pizza King in Cumberland an employee said, "Yes! They're supposed to be right here."
It's company policy at both Culvers and Pizza King.
"That's why we have to keep them here," the Pizza King employee said. "It has to be open to the public, so people can look at it."
Culvers keeps a copy handy. In fact, the manager said his restaurant helped with Hamilton County Health Department's online system.
"They post all the health inspections too because we helped them set up the program," the manager said.
Culver's owner Jeff Meyer said keeping the inspections on-site is about customer convenience.
"You can log on online and see for yourself, so why make you go through all that work to dig that stuff up when we have it right here?"
Razib Khan writes in The New York Times that it's commonplace to call our cats "pets." But anyone sharing a cat's household can tell you that, much as we might like to choose when they eat in the morning, or when they come inside for the night, cats are only partly domesticated.
The likely ancestors of the domestic dog date from more than 30,000 years ago. But domestic cats' forebears join us in the skeletal record only about 9,500 years ago. This difference fits our intuition about their comparative degrees of domestication: Dogs want to be "man's best friend"; cats, not so much.
Domestic cats are not just wildcats that tolerate humans in exchange for regular meals. They have smaller skulls in relation to their bodies compared with wildcats, and are known to congregate in colonies. But in comparison with dogs, cats have a narrower range of variation in size and form.
Wesley C. Warren, an author of the study, notes that domestic cats have excellent hunting skills, like their wild ancestors. This, too, supports the notion that cats are only semi-domesticated.
Comparing the genomes of the wildcat and the domestic cat added much to what we had known. Michael J. Montague, the lead author, told me he'd anticipated that the two genomes would be very similar, but our study found a specific set of differences in genes involved in neuron development. This brain adaptation may explain why domestic cats are docile.
In 1992, while I was working at the University of Waterloo (that's in Canada), I hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Science Writers Association.
I brought in some interesting and controversial folks, and because Waterloo was so big on computer graphics, I put together a panel about how images could persuade politicians and mere mortals, and a discussion on the ethical responsibility of such a task.
Heady stuff.
Today, two Cornell researchers, Brian Wansink and Aner Tal, reported in Public Understanding of Science, about a small online survey to assess whether alternative descriptions of the same information were more persuasive. Each respondent read the following description of a mythical drug trial:
"A large pharmaceutical company has recently developed a new drug to boost peoples' immune function. It reports that trials it conducted demonstrated a drop of 40 percent (from 87 to 47 percent) in occurrence of the common cold. It intends to market the new drug as soon as next winter, following F.D.A. approval."
When this was the only information given, 68 percent believed that the medication really did reduce illness.
Then for a randomly selected subsample, the researchers supplemented the description of the drug trial with a simple chart. But here's the kicker: That chart contained no new information; it simply repeated the information in the original vignette, with a tall bar illustrating that 87 percent of the control group had the illness, and a shorter bar showing that that number fell to 47 percent for those who took the drug.
But taking the same information and also showing it as a chart made it enormously more persuasive, raising the proportion who believed in the efficacy of the drug to 97 percent from 68 percent. If the researchers are correct, the following chart should persuade you of their finding.
What makes simple charts so persuasive? It isn't because they make the information more memorable — 30 minutes after reading about the drug trials, those who saw the charts were not much more likely to recall the results than those who had just read the description. Rather, the researchers conjecture, charts offer the veneer of science. And indeed, the tendency to find the charts more persuasive was strongest among those who agreed with the statement "I believe in science."
I loved my time at the University of Guelph and Kansas State University – to a point.
At KState, I met my wife, Amy, we have a daughter, and I was made full professor.
But I know, at both institutions, the people around me thought I was a freak, and when I moved to Brisbane to support Amy, the salary became attractive so I was unceremoniously fired.
KState now brags about its virtual campus, but they couldn't handle me doing more work than others, electronically.
Gotta be there to meet and greet, because if you follow KState president Kirk Schulz's blog, that's all he does to bring in the bucks.
Amy and I both got this message in the past week:
"Your K-State eID will lose access as of (December 03, 2014) to your K-State email account. That resource is intended solely for use by K-State faculty, staff, students, and sponsored users. This action is being taken because K-State records indicate you are not a currently enrolled student or a current employee. You will retain access to your eProfile, K-State Online, any student records in iSIS, and any personnel records in HRIS as long as you keep your eID active."
Don't expect a donation to the alumni fund. My e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. I'm in Japan this week (right, not exactly as shown) which could be a great opportunity to promote KState, but, narrow vision doesn't go far, no matter how much it's dressed up by PR flunkies.
One of our food safety friends from Jersey, Michele Samaya-Timm, writes:
It's November again, and the annual countdown to Thanksgiving is upon us.
If you haven't thought about defrosting the turkey, it might be a good time to get this started –unless turkey popsicles are on the menu.
Planning this step safely in the refrigerator (as recommended) is essential to food safety — experts at USDA calculate the average safe defrost time is one day for every 4 pounds of poultry. So that 20 pounder could necessitate a lead time of 5 days if the entire extended family is expected to show.
Growing up in a nice blue collar neighborhood in central New Jersey, I became accustomed to turkey prep traditions that perhaps heralded my future of improving food safety.
Every year on the Friday before Thanksgiving, my father would come home with a frozen turkey, compliments of his employer.
Usually a hefty 20-pound Tom, there was no room for it to safely sit in the modest sized Frigidaire without evicting the usual tenants of milk, eggs, condiments and leftovers. So my mother did what any good housewife in the 70's would do…she put the frozen poultry into a scrupulously clean mop bucket, filled it with cold water, and set it in the bathtub to defrost at leisure. When bath time came for us kids, she would remove the bucket, comet the tub, and scrub us clean. This would be followed by another bout of comet scouring, and replacement of the turkey bucket in the tub. T
The process would be repeated every night until Thanksgiving morn – by which time the bird had melted into a pool of Salmonella soup.
Mom didn't realize her turkey prep was flawed, or that she was putting her family at risk.
In the hectic myriad of preparations, most food safety errors seem like a good idea to many folks, often wrought out of desperation when a holiday — or one's family — is looming. A few of the defrosting debacles I have heard or witnessed are examples of this lapse in knowledge or judgment.
Food safe defrosting cannot be safely accomplished in a bathtub, on the counter, or on a chair on the back porch. Likewise, car engines and room radiators are not appropriate food prep equipment. Hairdryers, clothes dryers, dishwashers and irons are appliances that should be used for their expressed purpose, and in accordance with the manufacturers' instructions (which will not include any mention of melting a holiday bird.) Electric blankets, hot tubs and saunas are best used with non-feathered living companions. And blowtorches might just result in a flurry of unexpected guests yielding Scott Air Packs and hoses. No matter how you slice it, time, planning and good refrigeration are the best food defrosting tools.
If you are reading this on Thanksgiving morning, looking for solutions to melt a sub-zero fowl, consider cooking the bird from its frozen state. It takes a little longer (about 50% more time, according to USDA), but safety first, right? Just put out a few more appetizers and watch the game until it's done. Or you could forego the Norman Rockwell presentation and tableside carving part of your family meal by opting for a platter of turkey legs and parts — a dissected bird will defrost quickly and will get you to a safe internal temp of 165 degrees quicker, too. Consider it handing down a tradition of healthy and food safe holidays.
Looking back, I don't recall if the turkey-bathtub-defrost process from my childhood ever resulted in unwanted stomach effects and lengthy hours in the bathroom post- holiday. I do know that I have taken over the prep and cooking for Thanksgiving. That way, I can assure lots of handwashing, safe turkey defrosting (in the refrigerator!) and put my food thermometer collection to good use. Salmonella soup is one tradition I won't hand down.
Ever appreciative for the dedicated folks who regularly keep our food and water safe – (and also thankful that mom doesn't know I write about her culinary practices on the internet. )
Michele is Health Educator for Somerset County (NJ) Department of Health, currently focused on the (hopefully soon!) completion of a thesis in foodborne outbreak communications.
Whenever I travel, people ask me what I do, and it inevitably evolves into discussions about food safety and hockey.
The topics aren't necessarily connected, other than commitment.
I'm thankful for my parents who spent endless hours at the ice rink so I could play, and I'm thankful for all the food safety types who let me play as well.
Pat Quinn, a Hamilton (that's in Canada) boy, passed away yesterday and was widely praised as a respected hockey dude.
That's about the best most of us can hope for, whatever our profession.
Quinn, a two-time Jack Adams winner for coach of the year, led both Philadelphia (1980) and Vancouver (1994) to the Stanley Cup Finals as a bench boss and was highly decorated internationally, winning gold medals at the U-18, World Junior, World Cup and — most famously — the Olympic level, guiding Canada to victory in 2002 at Salt Lake.
Quinn also served as the chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Here's the statement from Canucks president of hockey operations Trevor Linden, who played for Quinn in Vancouver:
"We have lost a great man. It's a sad day for hockey and for everyone who loves our game. On this difficult day I am thinking about Pat, his family and his friends, and how much he will be missed.
"I wouldn't be the person I am today if it weren't for Pat. He was a great leader and always a teacher. He taught me how to be a professional on and off the ice. He taught me how to play hockey the right way, how to win, and about the importance of respect and loyalty.
"Pat's impact on our city has been immeasurable. He was responsible for bringing hockey to the forefront in Vancouver. He brought the pride back to the Canucks and today his finger prints and impact are still felt within this organization."
It's what I've tried to instill in my five daughters. and food safety types around the world.
A cesspool filled with excrement has exploded in central China, injuring 15 people and knocking down a building, state-run media reported.
The blast was apparently sparked by a local man burning waste close to the cesspool, igniting methane gas which was emanating from the pit, the Xinhua news agency said late on Sunday, November 23.
The incident in Zhangjiajie city, in the central province of Hunan, caused a residential building to collapse and three of the injured had to be hospitalized, Xinhua said.
China's urban infrastructure has often been hastily built with little regard for safety as hundreds of millions of people have moved from the countryside to cities in recent decades.
Paper towels are rare in Australian restrooms, and it's the same in Japan.
But new research confirms what we've been saying for a decade: hand dryers spew bacteria into the air and onto people.
Conventional (warm air) and high-velocity (jet air) dryers alike spread bacteria into the air, according to the study. Airborne germ counts near warm-air dryers were found to be 4.5 times higher than the counts near paper towel dispensers, and the counts near jet air dryers were a whopping 27 times higher.
It doesn't take a lot to figure out what's probably going on here. As study leader Prof. Mark Wilcox, professor of medical microbiology at the University of Leeds, told The Huffington Post in an email:
"While jet air dryers are good at hand drying, they achieve this by using air velocities of about 400 miles an hour … Unfortunately, this means that the dispersed water droplets (containing more or less bacteria/viruses depending on how hands were washed and how contaminated they were in the first place) will be fired longer distances and some will remain suspended in the air for many minutes (possibly hours)."
For the study, the researchers contaminated people's hands with harmless Lactobacillis bacteria that normally aren't found in bathrooms. Then they measured levels of the bacteria in the air at distances of up to two meters away from the dryer after the people had dried their hands.
"This research was commissioned by the paper towel industry and it's flawed," a spokesperson for dryer maker Dyson told The Telegraph.
Wilcox acknowledged that the study was funded by the European Tissue Symposium, an association of tissue paper producers. But the group "played no part in the results analysis," he said, adding that he had no ties to ETS other than the financial support for the study.
The study was published in the Journal of Hospital Infection and presented at a recent meeting of the Healthcare Infection Society in Lyon, France.


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Nice work
Nice buck. Congrats
Good luck
Tomorrow should be good. Maybe an all dayer for me....
The one i got has abbs on it.
I'm in the same boat. I thought it was going to really rain and scheduled some appointments in stead of hunting. Never rained much and my number 1 target went down as well. Saw buck chasing...
Had a pretty nice 7 point this morning. Probably should have took the shot. Just want something bigger.
Good luck brother. Just retired.
To me the valley is identical to the DNA sp but with more let off. It is important that the cams are timed properly or the valley is really bad.
Depends on the person. Some like the shorter valley. It certainly makes you push and pull through your whole shot. I find the decree very accurate for me. Once I shot it a bunch you get used to the...
Like the sp. Not the full throttle.
Love the morning hunts till at least noon.
Well got to really tune her up today. Ibo rating is right there. I was going to shoot it with the mods 1/2" shorter than the stops but it caused bad nock travel. Ill just have to get used to the...
To me the draw feels better than both the DNA and the sp. But there still isn't a big valley if that's a big deal for you I don't know. Shoots great though
Great buck. Congrats
Wipe it off good. Then I take a compressed to it. Scented oil and wax her up good
Not a lot of time behind it yet. It does seem a bit loud compared to my xpeditions. The valley is like the DNA sp to me. The draw is super smooth. Checking speed at shop today. Seems for me to be a...
I got one the other day . Very smooth bow for sure. I don't see a big difference in the valley compared to the DNA sp though. Moving the mods back a half inch gives you a great valley.
Your still waiting? Lol http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/31/150192f02b2e93002d57513aba6cef9d.jpg
Saw three buck this morning. Just got down. 14" 8 point, 16" 8 point and one that may have been a shooter but for some reason he took off and i didn't get a good look at him. They were all cruising...
Well didnt come today. Ups says tomorrow. Looking forward to shooting it.
Yep we have one that shipped last Thursday. Hopefully it will be in tomorrow.
Yep calling for 35 mph winds saturday. Hopefully it's mostly in the afternoon so i can get a morning hunt in. Friday night should be good i would think.
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