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This is a place holder for the events of the last14 years after which will follow session 1 of the Next bunch of adventurers to brave the Path of Geada!
Liath agrees to stay and guard the newly created access tunnel to the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth while Zarunal teleports the rest of the party back to Tor Indradath. Unfortunately, en route Zarunal is somehow separated from the party and they end up arriving without him. (he eventually arrives much later, but that tale will have to wait until next session)
Politics and conspiracies rule the day back in the Storm Reach Kingdom. Anthec is hosting foreigners and plotting something, but nobody knows just what. Tor Alric has been liberated from the orcs and is demanding aid to re-establish the hold. Kendra El-Eladra wants to build a new shrine to Ge'an at Tor Eladra. Mio Jo Jolie is somewhat recovered from her madness, but she remains aloof and does not interact much with the party. Iolar has his hands full getting the council to pursue a sane course going forward.
Ala, meanwhile, receives a mysterious visitor in the evening: it is our old friend Victor. He has been sent to deliver a blackmail message on behalf of person or persons unknown, threatening to expose to Iolar that she is using a false name and is wanted for some reason by the elves of Alfaen. The terms he offers are a demand for information: a complete account of everything that has happened on the expedition to the Lost Caverns.
Ala decides to come clean with Iolar of her own accord: she reveal s herself to be his long-lost wife from a marriage arranged when they were barely of age. A marriage that each of them fled from in their own way. He is not overly surprised by the revelation, and the settle on a cordial but formal relationship for the moment. Victor eventually appears to Iolar, and Iolar notices that he looks haggard and sleep-deprived. Victor delivers the message he's been paid to deliver, but Iolar gets him to stop for a brief moment and talk. He realizes that Victor is scared – apparently, the Drow have been sighted abroad in the surface world. Victor reiterates his fear of the deeper places of the earth before departing.
Avron does some research in the archives regarding the wondrous ship from the caverns, and he learns something of its history as well as the command word to get it to shrink down to a portable size.
Finally, Losfal is lured away from the Tor by an invitation of a peculiar nature. In the hills to the northwest of the tor, there are strange lights, and he encounters a bizarre individual who calls himself Punchwood and who makes odd pronouncements, claiming that there is a great work ahead, that Losfal must "Move within the spheres" and "Beware the eight hundred and eighty-two". Punchwood then wanders away and vanishes into the night. When told of the incident, Iolar suspects that Punchwood is some kind of lunatic Fey.
The party eventually returns to the lost caverns, and finally descends the lift in the ice cave that Chossus was guarding. There is a partially collapsed passage into a much greater, temple-like space, where the heroes encounter a number of Troglodytes. Chossus had warned them that the lower caves had somehow become infested with these strange creatures and the party was prepared for the belligerent welcome they recieved. However, an alarm is sounded, and there is the noise of much movement in the surrounding caverns…
The party enters a new unexplored cave and Losfal once more encounters a sinister, shadowy presence that flees before his scrutiny. The party is sidetracked into a cave that appears to be lavishly furnished and staffed by dancing girls and a genial host. However, tucked away in a corner the party spies the Genie's lamp, and it becomes clear that these are Jinn who are guarding the lamp. They weave an complicated web of illusions which temporarily befuddle and confuse the party, but ultimately they are dispatched. The Genie's Lamp is returned to him and he offers Iolar a wish.
Iolar, wary of wishes and not wanting to get himself in trouble, makes a selfless wish for "prosperity for my house and my people". The Genie interprets this as a propserous future for the Storm Elves, which he says is assured.
The party then makes it's way to the final chamber: which turns out to be a deep, ice-filled shaft going down to darkness, and equipped with some kind of lift/elevator device. The party makes arrangements to descend, with Liath staying at the top in order to work the lift. Halfway down, however, a Dragon named Chossus makes it's presence known in the cave. It seeks revenge on the Storm Elf King, as it has been trapped in this chamber for over a century due to the actions of Thessala of Khem and the difficulties surrounding the previous civil war. The Dragon almost carries Iolar off to feast on him, but some very hasty and desperate negotiations are made, and Iolar makes many promises, the most immediate of which is to get the Dragon out of the cave somehow.
With Zarunal's help and a good deal of planning and advice from the entire party, it is eventually managed. Chossus is freed from the mountain, and the party decides to return to Tor Indradath to rest and resupply before descending the shaft to explore the lower caverns of Tsojcanth.
Before the session ends, Iolar figures out how to use his Shout spell to shatter the crustal growing on Zarunal's hand.
The party engages the Banshee briefly, but she nearly kills Avron with a single blow and everyone decides that discretion is the better part of valor. The party flees back to the boat and sets off once more across the underground lake. Crossing the lake, however, they attract the attention of a Water Orm which nearly capsizes the boat before Liath's sharpshooting puts it down.
They discover a damp cavern full of raging waterfalls and cruel, sharp, stalactites. There is a chest overgrown with mineral formations and a key hanging from a chain amidst the most powerful of the falls. The party spends an inordinate amount of time debating how to retrieve the key, but eventually they get the chest open, revealing a magical crystal ring that Zarunal claims as his own. Unfortunately, not long after he begins wearing it the crystal begins to grow, affixing itself to his hand and gradually threatening to take over his entire arm. Zarunal is forced to keep his hand in a mitten full of rocksalt and rice to keep the crystal from growing further.
Later, the party enters a water-filled cavern where rests Marid Genie, entombed in ice. They free him, but he demands the return of his lamp. They are unsure how powerful he is, and agree to look for his lamp elsewhere in the caverns.
Eventually a new set of caves is reached, and the party prepares to delve into the last of the unexplored passageways.
The party investigates it's only remaining avenue deeper into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Losfal falls afoul of a trap that seems to kill him instantly, but this is an illusion concealing a far more mundane and annoying pit trap, which eventually ensnares nearly the entire party in one fashion or another.
A further trap is noticed by Liath's eagle eyes and deftly defused by Ala. The party makes their way deeper into the cavern and is ambushed by a hoard of spiders and a pair of giant ettins before reaching the shores of an underground lake. There is a current here – and a boat – and hints of something moving in the water.
The party retrieves the boat, discovers the secrets of its magical locomotion, and begins investigating those caves which give onto the lake. Disembarking in one likely area, they begin exploring the maze of passages only to find themselves cornered by some sort of apparition- in the ruins of a once-inhabited chamber they are accosted by the spirit – it screams at them, revealing itself to be a Banshee!
The party finally delves into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. They discover a number of dangers, from giant bats to guardian golems, fiendish trapped fountains and wandering ghosts, among other things. There is evidence that this place was once indeed a storehouse of Elven treasure, but most of it has obviously been previously looted or cleared out. There is an underground river here as well.
On top of this, there is a strange presence in the caverns – some kind of tall, cloaked or winged apparition with red glowing eyes that seems to lurk in the darkness, always just out of sight. Only Zarunal and Losfal have seen even a glimpse of the thing so far, but it seems to appear when danger is near.
The party exhausts most of their options for proceeding forward into the caverns, but there is one corridor that has yet to be explored.
The party rouses them selves and discovers that Liath is missing. They eventually track him down to the grove of the nereid Lahn and attempt to break the enchantment upon him, unsuccessfully. Lahn appears and is angry at their meddling. She summons several water elementals and a battle ensues. Iolar is nearly drawn into the water himself by the nereid's wiles, but eventually she is forced to surrender and agrees to restore Liath's proper form.
The party picks their way north along the river. At one point, Liath sees that they are being followed/observed – he suspects by a small group of gnomes. Ultimately the group reaches a nearly hidden ravine of bare rock, which leads to a hidden staircase, partially obliterated. Eventually they come to a shelf of rubble where part of the mountain has fallen down, but there is evidence that the avalanche has buried some kind of structure here. Zarunal takes the form of an earth elemental and digs into the ground to investigate.
While he does so, the rest of the party is attacked by a dracolisk. Iolar is almost immediately turned to stone by it's gaze, but the rest of the heroes make short work of the beast.
Zarunal returns and reports that there is some kind of cave system or structure buried below. IT appears that the party has finally found the [[Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.]] Zaurnal breaks the enchantment upon Iolar, and he is restored to life. Some arrangements are made, and the party uses dimension door spells to penetrate into the buried caverns.
A mysterious Elven wanderer named Ala arrives at Tor Indradath and manages to insert herself into the courtly intrigues of Iolar and his crew. Iolar spurns lady Kendra's advances, there is some political back and forth regarding Lord Anthec, and the Party finally sets out into the mountains to find the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.
One the way they encounter a group of Kashwa barbarians who seem to be led a Storm Elf who has "gone native" after attacking the party and being driven off, he warns them not to disturb the Tomb of Kings – a Storm Elf burial site just to the north. The party finds the tomb, and notes that it's locks and wards are secure. They decide to leave the tomb undisturbed and press on.
Meanwhile, Liath has had encounters with Lahn, the spirit of the river that flows down from the mountains. While sitting by the banks of the stream one night, she appears to him and coaxes him into a nearby ravine where there are several trees. Giving Liath a Kiss, she transforms him into a tree!
The party digs in for a long cold winter at Tor Indradath and makes the first steps towards rebuilding that shattered kingdom. An elven woman named Kendra El-Eladra shows up and insinuates herself into the court.
Meanwhile, a new party member, Bishop Losfal di Martillo of New Delos has been on the trail of the mysterious bespectacled man for some time, investigating a series of missing corpses and necromantic incidents. Tracking him to an old Storm Elf tomb complex, he witnesses the emergence of an undead colossus, which has been aimed at Tor Indradath. He joins the party there, and the abomination assaults the gates, but is ultimately put down.
Some time later, Anthec returns to Tor Naether, and demands a seat on the new High Council.
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The party spends a good deal of time in this session investigating the vast wealth hoarded by Ingo in Tor Indradath, and squabbling about it's distribution, with Iolar arguing for the preservation of artifacts and Andros making a case for getting House Martillo it's due shares out of the expedition.
Several dangerous traps are avoided through careful application of magic as locked chests are opened, revealing their contents. Numerous bits of magic, major and minor, are discovered, along with a vast trove of physical wealth. The crown jewels of the Storm Reaches are recovered, and placed in the trust of Indrid.
The party is perplexed when they find an extremely large and heavy sealed chest which, when opened, contains a flight of steps leading down into a good sized room. The room is littered with corpses, and there appears to be a lever on the opposite wall. Liath attempts to cross the room and pull the lever, but while wading through the bodies picks up a number of rot grubs who burrow into his leg. Fire and sharp steel are frantically applied to Liath's body in an attempt to cut the burrowing worms out before they reach his heart. He barely survives the experience.
The lever on the opposite all turns out to be an exquisite facsimile of an arrow crafted entirely of iron, bearing an obscure and arcane fire rune on the broadhead shaft, which radiates weak magic. This strage artifact is wedged into a crack in the masonry in the far wall. Attempts are made to shoot with it, but it has the aerodynamic properties of a fireplace poker and there is little success.
September of 1902 has arrived, and Zarunal's time to pay his debt is almost up. In desperation, he uses the Eye of Arioch to access the Akashic Record. Doing so requires him passing a test of entrance, answering a bevy of obscure questions before a panel of outsiders. He barely gains admittance, and learns some things about Galen, about his apprenticeship, and about the Eye of Arioch, although some of the answers are frustratingly vague.
Armed with this knowledge, he keeps his final appointment with his master and leaves his service in the same manner that Galen left his master: by making an attempt on his life by attacking him with magic. This turns out to be a largely symbolic or ceremonial act, and earns Zarunal his freedom.
The party will divide their wealth and dissolve the Storm Reaches expedition, and spend the winter holed up in Tor Indradath before they make the final push on to the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth in the spring.


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Hope there is a new political scandal soon, so we can move on to something else.. this has had the prerequisite 1/2 hour of face time..
Michael Jackson was a very sick, sad, and disturbed freak. He was also a pederast. Sad end, but better that he not commit any more heinous crimes against children. //
If Rowe doesn't want them, they'll just stay with Michael's mom - no way she lets them near a DNA test. They had their heads buried for over a decade during their son's decline, no reason they would want the truth about their "grandkids" too.
He That Is Without Sin Among You, Let Him First Cast a Stone As Christ Forgave You, So Also Do Ye Your a hypocrite and a fake christian if you really believe what you wrote. Do you know michael jackson? have you ever met him? or are all you facts something you heard off the T.V or Net? Bottom line is, these parents that let there kids stay with him are to blame and should have there kids removed from them. What kind of parent let's there kids stay with another man>???? sick ppl, greedy ppl and liars.... You trust there word over his why? there just as sick and twisted as him. I don't know all the facts so I don't judge cause I practice what I preach and that is I don't have the right to judge others for there sins or push my value systems on them. I have a hard enough time dealing with my own
maybeitstrue, maybeit's not. Jacko paid out many millions to several different parents after admitting having a number of young teenage boys sleep over in his house, giving them alcohol, and God knows what else. Can't cover it up. He did it. No use trying to hide it. Best to learn from past mistakes and not repeat them. //
Nice way to dodge the issue dude, When you have kids who's responsible for them? BelichickFan its the parents right? So if my kid goes out and gets hit by a bus cause I was not watching him who is to blame? BelichickFan its the parents right? I didn't judge them, its there responsibility to take care of the kids so they are to blame. If taking there kids away, so that this dosent happen agian then so be it.
Hey since you know everything and anything, whats tonights lotto numbers? and will the pat's win the SB this year? also when's god comming? All your info is from T.V and the Net........you don't know anything about the case or the ppl involved. Your just another sheep but hey keep thinking your in the loop!
Just don't say "I don't judge" then go on to be judgmental. Me, I wouldn't send my kids over to Michael Jackson's place. If he molested them, though, he is the criminal not me.
"Just don't say "I don't judge" then go on to be judgmental" Reading comprehension is cool man, you should try it sometime I didn't judge them for the second time now, I put blame on them cause there one more time for you "responsible" for them. Do you understand?
I doubt he had any interest in sex at all, not that I wouldn't want to slap my sister and brother in law silly if they ever dreamed of leaving their kids with him. I just think Jackson's unfortunate childhood and the enormous pressure of fame left him disturbed to the point that he wasn't up to a normal, adult-type relationship with anyone. Funny though how of the three great names in music of the past 60 years, Elvis, John Lennon, and Jackson, the flaming, counterculture, commie pinko was really the only one who had at least a chance at living a complete and normal life.
Link?? I'm only aware of the one pay out to the father of the first kid... the one who pumped his kid full of controversial sedatives before prodding him for a "confession". The same kid who was later tape recorded saying, "If I go through with this, I win big-time. There's no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever...Michael's career will be over". The same kid who's own mother admitted that the father had concocted a scheme to extort $$ from Jackson. Now im not saying that Jacko didn't touch the kid, maybe he did. But to claim it as an absolute, without even calling into question the character of the accusers, is flat out absurd.
Jackson belonged in an institution, his money kept him out of prison, he was a sick man, that sickness finally did him in. I'm flying out to California tomorrow to put a Teddy Bear on his fence. "oh but he was so talented" he should have been a priest.
If Jacko was so innocent, as you infer, he pays one-tenth of what he paid those parents to have his stable of Beverly Hills lawyers tear new ones out of any and all who even breathe a word of "child molestation". But Jacko didn't. He paid hush money 'cause he did it. And every body knows it. Jacko was a Sicko. //
The whole pedophile stuff began with the Jordan Chandler case in '93. If you fail to see how this kid's father's motives were a little bit shady... then your opinion is predetermined and no amount of evidence will change that. Fact is... Jackson never wanted to pay out that settlement in the first case. The insurance company did so without his consent... as shown in the below affidavit. I personally find it pretty doubtful that Jackos "junk" even worked. I firmly believe that he did something to his body that chemically altered his hormones, ultimately raping him of testosterone and any sort of sex drive at all. it's no coincidence that ever other male in his family (brother, uncles, father) all have fairly strapping and manly features while Michael remained small, frail, with a voice that sounded as though it never made it through puberty. I think it is much more likely that in his mentally unstable attempts to stay childlike, Jackson (with the aid of others) injected all kinds of compounds with the hopes of staying young and boyish forever (Peter Pan Syndrome X10000); and in the process he made a complete mess of his chemical make-up. Basically he screwed his body up on the inside just as much as he did on the outside. But hey... everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Regardless of the parents (Chandlers, et. al.) motivations, if Jacko was innocent he would have fought it. With all the resources he had at that time, all the legal counsel and pressure he could bring to bear, he would have blown any kind of extortion attempt completely out of the water in five seconds, had that been the case. The fact that he payed out some US$ 20 Million is an admission of his guilt, imho. As to whether his package was ever usable, that is not the issue, either. Mere intent to seduce or sexually engage a minor is a felony of very serious proportions in every state ( 'cept maybe Alabama or Deliverance, Georgia). I do feel sorry for Michael Jackson, as he was used by so many people, including his own family. //
lol you never talk about the issue at hand, your just like every right-winger I've ever met. You where wrong about what I said, you assumed and when you assume it makes and ass out of me and you I have no inconsistencies, so I don't know what your talking about but half the time I don't know what your talking about anyway cause your so out to lunch somtimes So show me my "inconsistencies" plz or stfu and talk about the issue not me. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? for the 3rd time now....god damn, you must have like a 5 inch thick skull lol
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The reader's comment read: "And people on MSNBC and liberal media wonder why many white people have a fear of the black community. An Australian murdered in Oklahoma. A baby in a stroller shot and killed in Georgia. A male nurse in Memphis, Tenn., murdered by three blacks. An 89 yr old WWII vet beaten to death by two black thugs. A Dept of Homeland Security worker with a website advocating a war on white people. When and if the black community decides to take some responsibility for these animals they are letting loose on the streets then maybe 'we can all get along."'
That fiery rant was one of hundreds on the Huffington Post in response to a recent rash of unspeakable crimes committed by teenagers, mostly black and mostly male. America, we have a problem — and it's expanding.
It's not just our dirty, little secret anymore. This matter has become global.
When Australian baseball player Christopher Lane was killed on Aug. 16 by three teens — two black and one white — Tim Fischer, former deputy prime minister of the country, said international tourists should consider boycotting the United States.
"Just for the record," Fischer said on CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" last week, "Australia has had zero gun massacres since 1996 and in the United States, 80 people are killed by guns every single day. So it is another example of murder mayhem on Main Street. Yes, people thinking of going to the USA on business or tourist trips should think carefully about it given the statistical fact you are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA than in Australia per capita per a million people."
Apparently, killing for the sheer hell of it has become the latest sport in the field. It makes you shudder. There is even a name for this game — "knockout." The "knockout game" occurs when a mob — usually young people — surround a vulnerable and unsuspecting victim or prey. One person in the circle seeking major "street cred" punches the victim in the face, attempting to knock him out. If he can't, the other mobsters proceed to beat relentlessly and kick the prey just for fun. When the "knockout game" is black-on-white, the act is called "polar bear hunting."
Police said the three teens in Oklahoma indicated they were "bored" and just had to kill someone to relieve that state of mind. Remember, just for fun. They apparently wanted to "knock out" their victim with gunfire, then make a quick getaway.
From another reader: "And Obama really thinks we are going to give up our guns so people like this can have them and we don't??? Yeah, right! RIP sir …"
Many Australians, understandably, are livid regarding these horrific developments. And Fischer ratcheted up the rhetoric with his boycott message. The man does have a point. If the United States can't clean up its act, foreign tourists should boycott the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave.
This latest dose of horror is also about money; the stakes just got higher. Major tourist attractions, such as New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, would suffer the most. This country would lose billions in tourism revenue. But that's the price you pay for letting evil fester.
Another irate post read: "I hate saying this about my own race or really half of my race, but I'm going to say it. Until black men stop emulating Jay-Z and all that hardcore gangster rap music, you will always be ghetto trash and second-class citizens. You give all hard-working educated brothers and sisters a bad name. If you want to make a better life for yourself, pick up a book, get an education and be a father when you have a child."
When Americans consider traveling to nations labeled as danger zones, what does the U.S. State Department do? Strongly advise them to avoid the offending country like the plague. Now, what goes around comes around.
Turnabout is fair play is another applicable cliche. If Australia feels an imminent threat on the streets of the United States, then what right does America have to disavow that nation's belief? Especially since the United States has publicized purported — and perceived — threats from other countries for decades.
Now, let's get real here. It's time to call it what it is. This "knockout game" stuff is essentially domestic terrorism, and U.S. law enforcement agencies should label it as such. These cases, as well as those of gang-bangers, should be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security.
But with that comes a few prickly issues. Does Homeland Security issue warnings regarding young black males traveling in pairs or groups? Are there terror alerts posted with yellow, orange and red specifications?
Now, the next $64,000 question is this: What do the Roving Reverends of Recompense think of these disturbing developments? That would be Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They led the re-enactment of the transformative 1963 March on Washington on Aug. 24 and they often mysteriously surface for white-on-black catastrophes. What about now?
Sharpton spouted off on MSNBC last week that he only orchestrates his interventions under two conditions: When he's called in by an affected party, and when justice is conspicuously absent. His logic being that when the Australian baseball player was murdered, the three thugs were diligently arrested and charged, so therefore no need for him to get involved — unlike the much-delayed arrest in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case.
Look, we all know that's a convenient cop-out. We all aren't naive or crazy. Everybody won't be fooled by that quick-draw, lame excuse.
Here's another reader posting: "hmmm, I wonder if obama will get on tv and tell us how this could have been his grandfather. It, afterall could have been; his maternal grandfather is a white ww2 vet."
The first bottom line is this: Sharpton and Jackson never will be fully respected by mainstream America until they equalize and balance their intentions. That is to say, they must exhibit the same amount of noise supporting Christopher Lane and World War II veteran Delbert Belton as they did with slain black teenager Trayvon Martin.
The second bottom line: In 2010, there were 31,513 firearm-related deaths in the United States; in Australia of that year, the number was 236. The math is astonishing.
The third bottom line: Whether you are killed by Boston Marathon terrorist bombers from Chechnya, or a crazed black-teen mob participating in a "knockout game" or a hardcore gangbanger, the end result is the same.
Dead is dead. Therefore, the semantics of international terrorism vs. domestic murder don't matter.
Case closed.
Gregory Clay is assistant sports editor for McClatchy-Tribune News Service, 700 12th Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, D.C. 20005. His email is email@example.com.


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Prediction of Sickness Absenteeism, Disability Pension and Sickness Presenteeism Among Employees with Back Pain
- Gunnar Bergström,
- Jan Hagberg,
- Hillevi Busch,
- Irene Jensen,
- Christina Björklund
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Purpose The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the predictive ability of the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (ÖMPSQ) concerning long-term sick leave, sickness presenteeism and disability pension during a follow-up period of 2 years. Methods The study group consisted of 195 employees visiting the occupational health service (OHS) due to back pain. Results Using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, the area under the curve (AUC) varied from 0.67 to 0.93, which was from less accurate for sickness presenteeism to highly accurate for the prediction of disability pension. For registered sick leave during 6 months following the baseline the AUC from the ROC analyses was moderately accurate (0.81) and a cut off score of 90 rendered a high sensitivity of 0.89 but a low specificity of 0.46 whereas a cut off score of 105 improves the specificity substantially but at the cost of some sensitivity. The predictive ability appears to decrease with time. Several workplace factors beyond those included in the ÖMPSQ were considered but only social support at the workplace was significantly related to future long-term sick leave besides the total score of the ÖMPSQ. Conclusions The results of this study extend and confirm the findings of earlier research on the ÖMPSQ. Assessment of psychosocial risk factors among employees seeking help for back pain at the OHS could be helpful in the prevention of work disabling problems.
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- Title
- Prediction of Sickness Absenteeism, Disability Pension and Sickness Presenteeism Among Employees with Back Pain
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
Volume 24, Issue 2 , pp 278-286
- Cover Date
- 2014-06-01
- 10.1007/s10926-013-9454-9
- Print ISSN
- 1053-0487
- Online ISSN
- 1573-3688
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Back pain
- Prognosis
- Yellow flags
- Occupational setting
- Sickness absenteeism
- Sickness presenteeism
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Gunnar Bergström (1)
- Jan Hagberg (1)
- Hillevi Busch (1)
- Irene Jensen (1)
- Christina Björklund (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Division of Implementation and Intervention Research, The Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 210, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden


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Greetings, I'm pleased to start off on a good note (normally I complain about users not following the image policy). I've noticed you been uploading a bunch of vehicle images, which are of good quality for the most part. I only came here to say that you should also add your rear view images to a gallery lower down the vehicle article. That is all.
Just one bit of advice I have to offer; check your lighting when taking a photo - be sure to get good light coverage on the subject, so that the features aren't surrounded by shadows.
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Sorry for reverting the whole edit, my bad. I don't think repeating the same photo as the one in the liveries section is too good of an idea though, I think I might eventually take a better one myself. (Henriquedematos (talk) 20:50, March 25, 2014 (UTC))
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Syria conflict: Central Damascus hit by clashes
Fighting is intensifying across the Syrian capital Damascus, where the military has deployed tanks and helicopters, activists say.
Shooting was reported in one of the main central streets and a square housing the Central Bank.
Rebel forces say they have launched an all-out assault on the capital, calling it Operation Damascus Volcano.
UN envoy Kofi Annan has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow over the crisis.
Mr Putin told reporters after meeting Mr Annan that Russia still backed the envoy's six-point peace plan, which called for a ceasefire and talks between the government and opposition.
Russia and China have consistently refused to back any measures that hint at intervention in Syria, or ask for Mr Assad to step down.
With international diplomacy virtually paralysed by big-power splits over how to tackle the Syrian crisis, the clashes in Damascus seem to have carried the conflict into a new phase.
The fighting in the capital may have started on Sunday as a case of security forces tackling armed rebels displaced by a crackdown on the suburbs. But the Free Syrian Army has now declared that Operation Damascus Volcano is under way. The Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest and most organised opposition group, has called it a "decisive battle" and urged all Syrians to join a nationwide civil insurrection.
The regime is clearly discomfited. With parts of the capital's centre paralysed, and thousands of residents displaced within the city limits, state media have dropped all mention of the Damascus fighting.
The UN has until Friday to renew the mandate for observers in Syria, and Western nations want the two nations to back tougher measures to stop the fighting.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has landed in Beijing, where he called for rapid unified action by the Security Council to tackle the crisis.
In other developments:
- Defector Nawaf al-Fares tells the BBC the regime has colluded with al-Qaeda in bomb attacks, and would not hesitate to use chemical weapons if it is cornered
- Iraq warns its citizens to flee the violence, hours after the bodies of two killed journalists were handed over by the Syrian authorities
Activist video on Tuesday showed government tanks and troops moving on the main roads into the centre of Damascus.
The rebel Free Syrian Army said it had launched Operation Damascus Volcano, and has called for an escalation of attacks on regime targets and the blocking of main roads all around the country.
One of the biggest and most organised opposition groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, has called on all Syrians to join what it called a decisive battle.
Nawaf al-Fares does not look at first glance like a man who has just defected from a regime he calls "murderous criminals". Neatly dressed in suit and tie, he was until last week Syria's ambassador to Iraq and is the most senior diplomat to defect so far from the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. Sitting now in a luxury hotel in the Gulf state of Qatar, he piles one accusation after another against the regime he served for 34 years.
He accuses his former masters - without offering proof - of colluding with al-Qaeda to carry out mass-casualty bombings on its own citizens to discredit the opposition. He says the regime, if cornered further, "will not hesitate to use chemical weapons".
This is a serious allegation from a defector with some inside knowledge, but Mr Fares is not a scientist nor a soldier. And his words have disturbing echoes of the sort of claims being trumpeted about Saddam's mythical WMD in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Nawaf Fares does of course have a vested interest in discrediting the regime which he has just deserted.
Witnesses say the government's military deployment in Damascus is the biggest since protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule began in March last year.
Clashes were reported in a major thoroughfare, Baghdad Street, the first time fighting has reached central Damascus since the conflict began.
Also, machine-gun fire was reported in nearby Sabaa Bahrat square, site of the Central Bank and scene of several major pro-government demonstrations.
Activists reported continued clashes on the south-western side of the city, including in Midan.
"The army is shelling al-Midan hysterically; the collapsing regime has gone mad," one activist told AFP.
Fighting is also said to have broken out on the other side, at Barzeh and Qaboun. Attack helicopters were seen there firing rockets for the first time since the uprising began.
Rebels told Reuters news agency they had shot down a helicopter in Qaboun.
Syrian Information Minister Omran Zoabi told Reuters that "some armed elements had infiltrated Damascus".
"The security forces surrounded them and dealt with them - and are still dealing with them," he said.
"Some [fighters] have surrendered and others escaped on foot and by car and are firing randomly in the air to frighten people," he said.
The BBC's Jim Muir in neighbouring Lebanon says it appears the uprising has moved into a new phase in the heart of the capital, paralysing parts of it for a time and causing panic.
Meanwhile, the head of Israeli army intelligence said Syrian forces had been redeployed from the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to help defend the capital.
"The Syrian military is acting very brutally, which shows the regime is desperate. Its control of Damascus is getting weaker," Maj-Gen Aviv Kochavi told a parliamentary committee, according to a Knesset spokesman.
Mr Fares, the former Syrian ambassador to Iraq, is the most senior Syrian politician to have defected to the opposition.
Syria is known to have a stockpile of chemical weapons and there are growing concerns about the security of such weapons should the government fall.
Asked if he thought President Assad might use chemical weapons against the opposition, Mr Fares told BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner that he would not rule it out, describing Mr Assad as "a wounded wolf".


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