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Some excellent costumes.
Franken Stein y Mira Naigus, from Soul Eater!... nice, but the Stein's ayes are not psycho enough... Hell!... Hellboy has gone down... The girl with grey eyes and pink dress got two shots... who cares, she is cute! WTF... Hreen Lantern Luigi is on the house! I thought Tails was a dude... i like this one much better XD Rorschach!, Excelent! Is that Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter?!! Anyway, very cool production everyone!
Sue Storm....SHWING!!!!
Is the tall person dressed as an Avatar character a chick or a dude dressed as a chick Avatar? I'm cunfused. If that is a chick, wow she is a skyscraper!
I think I almost know these people/characters. My neighbor, an old girlfriend, maybe that's the barista from Starbuck's? Windows to the inner soul, the id, the alt-ego?
Images 1 and 100 - No superhero looks good with nipples poking through their shirt. Image 5 - A look into the life of retiree superheroes. Not pretty. Image 23 - Guessing he left when he saw how great this costume COULD have been (Image 110). Image 27 - Hellboy apparently ate his cats... Image 31 - Nothing scarier than a huge hermaphrodite Avatar! Image 42 - Please pick one costume with which to embarrass yourself and stick to it. Image 53 - Yeah I had to turn in my Guy Card for dressing like this , but look who I'm going home with :) Image 60 - The unholy offspring of Andre the Giant and Big Bird. Rarely seen in the wild.. Image 77 - Dude, great costume but did you just wet your pants?! Image 99 - Anyone have a flyswatter?
dude. There's usually some guy in a Princess Leia slave girl outfit too. Weird.
I had one of those when I was a kid. I don't even remember what it was.
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And I disagree big time on the Love-is-overrated talk. He's a matchup nightmare ... not very good defensively, but that's mitigated somewhat by just how dominant he is on the boards (a big part of defense in itself). That the guy combines a post game with a strong 3-point shot makes him a guy not many can hope to really match up with.
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"I don't know if people know I dislocated my pinkie finger. And [Tyreke] told me, 'You wanna go home or you wanna be here?' I want to be here. And he said, 'All right, then go tape it up and let's play. Let's go. We not stoppin' at no stores. Straight gas. That's what we do, just keep going.'"
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I don't think Gasol is the clear cut best PF anymore. The previous season Dirk had surpassed him leading his team to a championship while Pau disappeared in the playoffs. Pau disappeared in the playoffs this past season as well. He's still the best low post PF, even though at his height, he could start at center on most teams. But Bosh can make a strong case considering how well he has played in the playoffs the last two seasons. Miami doesn't win a championship or beat Boston without Bosh.
Love obviously puts up great numbers and his defense isn't that bad. Not sure if he can be considered the best PF, but he played like it last season in the regular season. Ryan Anderson had a great season as well.
I think Pau can be considered as a top PF, but he needs to do more in the playoffs instead of disappearing. Also, can't forget about Dirk.
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I don't get the love overrated stuff, he played great the past week. Did the Gasols score on him? Yes, who didn't they score on? But he held his own in the 3rd and 4th quarters. Love got to the free throw line and made some nice off rebounds/tip-ins in times when the game was very close. Couldn't have asked for much more than that.
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If Anderson, who only averaged 12.4 shots last year, took as many shots as Love (averaged 19.3) did last year, Anderson would have averaged 25 points per game. Also, Love shot the 3 at 37% while averaging 5 per game. Anderson shot the 3 at 39% while averaging 7 per game. Anderson took more 3 point shots and had a higher percentage, so Anderson was the better shooter last year. Anderson is the better FT shooter (87.7%) compared to Love (82.4%), and if Anderson (32 minutes/game) had averaged Love's minutes/game (39/game), then Anderson would have averaged 9.3 rebounds - that isn't even counting the fact that Howard took away a lot of easy boards from Anderson because he is the best rebounder in the league (which deflates Anderson's numbers a bit).
Stat lines averaging the same # of shots and minutes:
Love - 26 points, 13.3 rebounds, and 2.3 TOs while shooting 37% from the arch and 82.4% from the FT line
Anderson - 25 points, 9.3 rebounds, and 1.0 TOs while shooting 39% from the arch (at 2 more attempts/game) and 87.7% from the FT line
Now, I'd say Love is a top 3-5 PF in this league, so by the numbers, Anderson is also in that category (or very close). That isn't even to mention that Love is going to make a whopping $14.7 million next year, yet Anderson will only make $8.3 million next year.
Ryan Anderson's game is very similar to Love and had an outstanding season. Dude was really performing for Orlando. Definitely All-Star caliber last season, especially with his advanced metrics. 9th in win shares, 10th in win shares per 48 minutes, 5th in offensive rating among guys who played over 1000 minutes. He was outstanding last season. Dude played like an All-Star last season.
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(AP) - Prosecutors on Friday dismissed the last of the charges against a Houston day care provider who is already serving an 80-year prison sentence for the death of one of the children killed in a fire while she was out shopping.
A jury in November convicted Jessica Tata of murder in the death of 16-month-old Elias Castillo. She was indicted on nine charges, including four counts of murder, in the February 2011 fire in which four toddlers died and three others were injured. Hot oil Tata left on the stove caught fire while the children were alone when she was at a nearby Target store, authorities have said.
Any additional punishment the 24-year-old woman would face from further convictions would be served concurrently and not alter her sentence, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Steve Baldassano said. Tata is eligible for parole after 30 years, which also wouldn't change with any further convictions, he said.
A phone message left for defense attorney Mike DeGeurin at his Houston office was not immediately returned.
Baldassano said the jury considered testimony that pertained to all of the victims when it imposed its sentence.
"To give her that amount of time, they probably considered everything they heard, which included comments from all the families," he said.
Families of the children were notified of the decision to drop the remaining charges. She had also faced three counts of abandoning a child and two counts of reckless injury to a child.
"It didn't appear to me that they had any objections to it," Baldassano said.
Tata has appealed her conviction and should she win, prosecutors would re-try her for murder, he said. There's no statute of limitations on murder in Texas.
State District Judge Marc Brown approved the dismissal of the remaining charges. As a result, Tata will be transferred from the Harris County jail to state prison.
Tata operated the day care out of her home. During her trial, prosecutors painted a portrait of a young woman who had long wanted to run her own day care but who was soon in over her head, caring for too many kids and taking chances by leaving them alone to run errands.
The three other children who died in the fire were 3-year-old Shomari Leon Dickerson, 20-month-old Kendyll Stradford and 19-month-old Elizabeth Kajoh.
Tata fled to Nigeria after the fire but was captured after about a month, returned to the U.S. in March 2011 and has remained jailed since. She was born in the U.S. but has Nigerian citizenship.
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SPRINGFIELD – Local philanthropic leaders Harold Grinspoon and Diane Troderman expanded their already-substantial charitable reach in western Massachusetts today by presenting a $1 million gift to Baystate Medical Center's adult emergency department.
The facility's new name will be the Harold Grinspoon & Diane Troderman Adult Emergency Department at the Baystate Medical Center Emergency & Trauma Center. It joins the Sadowsky Family Pediatric Emergency Department as the two named elements of the new Emergency & Trauma Center at Baystate which opened December 3, 2012.
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Sometimes timing really is everything. Take the political game of chicken over sequestration and the fiscal cliff. After months of posturing, threats and partisan chess moves, both sides appear to have decided they don't want to take the PR fall if the legislative time bomb they created actually goes off.
If you are following the news, it appears — as many predicted — that a last-minute compromise is in the works. If there is a winner, it will likely be the White House rather than GOP fiscal conservatives in the House.
Losers are yet to be determined, but...
You, as a fed worker or retiree, may be on the side that gets the short end of the stick.
A compromise that avoids sequestration and a cliff dive would spare feds from the worst-case scenario: furloughs of up to 20 nonconsecutive days. But it is likely that the two-year pay freeze will be extended beyond next year's March 31 cutoff spelled out in the stopgap continuing resolution that expires on that date.
Unless an agreement is reached fast, as in real fast, feds have little chance of getting the day before Christmas off, even though it had become something of a tradition. In 2009, President Obama gave feds a half-day off on Thursday, Dec. 24th.
Even worse — for feds and people under Social Security, civil-service or military retirement — is the possibility that White House-congressional dealers will OK the feared, but little known chained COLA. That was the subject of yesterday's column. If the new yardstick was used to determine the rate of inflation, future benefits would be an estimated 0.3 percent less each year.
Although it is very late in the game, feds are starting to become aware of the impact of the so-called chained COLA. And they have mixed opinions. Such as:
Mike, I am a firm believer that our federal government should have a balanced budget, stated in understandable terms without any bookkeeping gimmicks. However, as you point out, chained CPI-based COLAs will have an immediate and future profound negative effect on all federal retires (civilian, postal and military) Social Security beneficiaries and also on the future recruitment ability of the federal sector. Stepping back a couple of decades, this is similar to a period during which our government attempted to renege on promised health benefits to retired military members and their spouses. Spouses of military personnel from our Greatest Generation were verbally promised lifetime health benefits after WWII if their spouses would convert to regular from reserve and stay on as a career soldier to continue to ensure the "American Way of Life" and our freedoms they had fought for over the previous five years. Only when the federal budget got tight decades later, did those on Capitol Hill ask, "Where is the piece of paper that promised that benefit?"Or...
As I stated in a previous note to you, given the current continuing pillorying of the federal workforce, it will become progressively more difficult for our federal agencies and military to recruit the brightest and best once prospective recruits realize that their government has the ability to change the terms of their employment after the fact to suit other needs. — Mike L.
I just don't understand all the hullabaloo about the so called "Diet COLAs." How can you miss something you don't have? And if you do miss (want) it, doesn't that violate the biblical admonition about coveting your neighbor's COLA?
You know, it's not like they're going to go back in time and make it retroactive for the past 10 years. And if it does go into effect, then, they'll only complain when it is a low inflation year (such as this one). If the COLA were .057 and the diet COLA made it .054 do you think anybody would really notice? — Paul M at the IRS
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President Barack Obama is proposing lower cost-of-living increases for Social Security beneficiaries, employing an inflation index that would have far-reaching consequences, including pushing more people into higher income tax brackets.


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Yale Medical GroupPsychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center; Human Genetics, Division of; Molecular Psychiatry, Division of; Yale Mood Disorders Research Program; Aging & Geriatric Psychiatry, Division of
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- Bordner KA, Kitchen RR, George ED, Carlyle B, Mahajan MC, Mane SM, Taylor JR, Simen AA (2011). Parallel declines in cognition, motivation, and locomotion in aging mice: association with inflammation in the medial prefrontal cortex. Experimental Gerontology. In Press.
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Greensburg, Pa. – First-year medical students at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill marked another milestone in their medical education on Wednesday, Nov. 3, when they received their first stethoscopes. Alice J. Zal, D.O., President of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association, spoke at the special ceremony. POMA donated new stethoscopes to 110 first-year medical students. Dr. Zal presented the first stethoscope to Class of 2014 President Kai Schlingmann.
Dr. Zal explained to the students how the stethoscope is an important tool in osteopathic medicine. She said stethoscopes can be used to listen to the heart, lungs and abdomen for warning signs in the body. But, she said, there are certain things osteopathic physicians must do before using their stethoscopes. "You must listen to your patients and really hear what they are saying," Dr. Zal said. "You have to observe them coming in and out of your office for clues. You have to use your hands to find signs which might disclose underlying causes of disease."
"This event is a milestone that marks one of the first steps in our professional career," said Kai Schlingmann, Class of 2014 President. He noted the stethoscope is an internationally recognized symbol of medicine, and the students were honored to have Dr. Zal take time out of her busy schedule to attend the ceremony. "It's very inspirational to know that we have the support from an organization like the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association," Schlingmann said. The POMA Foundation donates stethoscopes to all first-year medical students attending osteopathic medical schools in Pennsylvania.
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Alice J. Zal, D.O., President of the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association, checks out one of the OMM tables at LECOM at Seton Hill while Irv Freeman, PhD., J.D., Vice President for LECOM at Seton Hill, gives her a tour of the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Laboratory.
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Employee theft and other forms of counter-productivity are critical factors in determining the success or failure of a carwash business. In fact, recently an owner converted his carwash, which was full service for over 30 years, to an express exterior wash due to problems stemming from employee theft. This theft involved removing money from vehicles, forging/hiding receipts, stealing merchandise and taking cash from the register.
Employee counter-productivity can also increase negligent hiring claims. Such claims arise when an employee commits an act of theft, negligence or violence against a customer or an employer. Rather than taking action against the employee, the harmed individual frequently sues the employer claiming that the business was negligent in hiring the employee, and such negligence was the cause of them being harmed. Claims often seek millions of dollars in damages, but can be successfully defeated if the employer has an effective hiring process in place.
This type of lawsuit is typified by a carwash patron's recently published allegation that her car rear-ended the auto in front of it due to an employee's inattentiveness. Subsequently, the car's undercarriage allegedly detached on the freeway and caused harm to the driver. While there are a number of complaints that this patron might file, certainly negligent hiring would be a legitimate lawsuit in this situation.
This article will focus on the various ways carwashes can screen out job applicants who are likely to engage in workplace theft and other problematic behaviors. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach will be discussed, along with underlying legal issues. Based on an analysis of the various approaches to applicant screening, best practices for the carwash industry are recommended.
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Employers are not always aware of the frequency with which employees engage in theft, drug use and other counterproductive behaviors. The following research findings are helpful in providing an accurate perspective of how common these problematic behaviors occur:
Clearly, prudent employers must take serious steps to address ethical issues when evaluating job applicants for employment. Some of the tools that are helpful to address these issues are reference checks, criminal background checks, interviews, drug testing and written integrity testing. The advantages and disadvantages of each of these tools are discussed in this article.
Reference checks
Reference checks are a very important part of any applicant screening process. They can document that the information provided by the applicant via resume and/or interview is truthful. The reference check is a mandatory step to help protect an employer against negligent hiring liability.
Unfortunately, reference checks are time consuming and costly to conduct. In addition, applicants' previous employers often provide very little information for fear of defamation claims. Many younger applicants will not have any previous employment experience, which precludes gathering any insight from prior employers. Also, if an employer utilizes a third party to conduct reference checks, then the employer has to ensure that it is complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), along with its many notice requirements.
Criminal background checks
Since past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior, criminal background checks can help determine whether a prospective employee will steal from an employer. If an applicant has a recent conviction for a theft-related crime, then it should be a legitimate and useful basis for denying employment. Also, conducting a criminal background check demonstrates that the employer is taking proper care in hiring employees, making such checks a useful defense in negligent hiring suits.
On the other hand, ADP's 2007 Annual Screening Index indicates that only 5 percent of criminal background checks reveal a conviction. And of these convictions, many are not theft or job-related crimes. Since research and the general experience of employers consistently shows that about 25 percent of the workforce poses a significant counter-productivity risk, obviously a 5 percent or less rejection rate of job applicants doesn't come close to eliminating problems.
Another problem with criminal background checks is that they exhibit a disparate impact on the basis of race. As a result, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has indicated that it will pay close attention to an employer's rejection of applicants on the basis of criminal convictions. The EEOC has recently filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in Maryland against Freeman Companies, a Dallas-based corporate event-planning company. The EEOC claims that Freeman's use of criminal background checks discriminates against African American and Hispanic job applicants.
Another limitation to criminal background checks is their use with younger job applicants. In the vast majority of cases, no information regarding juvenile convictions will be provided, since juvenile records are typically sealed by the courts.
Finally, the vast majority of employers who utilize criminal background checks in the employment process use a third party to get that information. Use of a third party requires that the employer comply with the FCRA. Employers must be very careful about which third party they use to help ensure that the criminal background information they receive is free of errors and omissions.
Credit checks
According to the Society for Human Resources Management, up to 60 percent of employers use credit checks to help assess the trustworthiness of their job applicants. Even though conducting credit checks is a common practice, there is little concrete evidence to prove their effectiveness in screening job applicants.
Additionally, both federal and state legislatures have expressed concern about this practice. As documented by an October 21, 2010 article in the Wall Street Journal, credit checks are coming under fire from legislators particularly in light of the bad economy and its impact on people's credit. To date, a handful of states (e.g., Illinois, Washington, Hawaii and Oregon) have enacted laws that specifically restrict an employer's use of credit checks, with similar measures being recently introduced in many other states and the U.S. Congress.
Also, like criminal background checks, they tend to exhibit disparate impact (on the basis of race and gender). Also, the use of credit checks requires strict compliance with the FCRA and younger job applicants may not have any credit information available.
Interviews are a standard piece of the hiring processes and can be very useful when conducted by trained professionals using a structured format. While interviews can be useful to help identify falsehoods on an applicant's resume, they generally are very poor predictors of ethical behavior. Therefore, an employer should ensure that its interviewers are well trained, unbiased and focused on uncovering resume misrepresentations.
Drug testing
Drug testing is a very accurate method of discovering whether a job applicant recently used illegal drugs. As a result, drug testing is a somewhat useful means of predicting some forms of employee counter-productivity. This form of screening should lead to lower levels of absenteeism, tardiness and healthcare costs, while increasing workplace productivity and safety. Drug testing can also be a reasonable line of defense in negligent hiring suits.
On the downside, drug testing is relatively expensive and needs to comply with various state statutes. While courts have pretty much allowed drug testing regardless of the position a job applicant is seeking, it is commonly viewed as invasive and has caused extensive litigation. Additionally, research recently released by Quest Diagnostics, the nation's leading provider of employment drug testing, reported that only 3.8 percent of drug tests for job applicants are positive. Ostensibly this rather low hit rate stems from the fact that many savvy job applicants simply abstain from the use of illegal drugs for a few days before they must submit a urine sample for testing.
Written integrity testing
Written integrity tests have been used by employers for over 40 years. These tests have been developed to predict whether an applicant will take part in various forms of workplace counter-productivity (e.g., absenteeism, illegal drug use, theft, not working during working hours). Research in the area of personnel psychology has consistently shown that these tests are extremely effective in predicting workplace counter-productivity. A quote from an extensive review of the research on written integrity tests states:
"Results indicate that integrity test validities are substantial for predicting job performance and counterproductive behaviors on the job, such as theft, disciplinary problems, drug use and absenteeism."
In addition to the strong validity evidence discussed above, integrity tests have been shown not to exhibit disparate impact. These tests have been administered to millions of job applicants over the last forty years and have not been a lightning rod for litigation (only about 35 challenges). Moreover, in the case of every challenge, the EEOC or the relevant state human rights agency has found in favor of the employer. Also from a legal perspective, integrity tests can be a useful form of defense against negligent hiring suits.
Finally, written integrity tests are relatively inexpensive compared to all of the hiring procedures discussed here. They can be easily and quickly administered either online or via a toll free number. As a result, high-risk applicants can be screened out before time and money are wasted on interviews, credit checks, criminal background checks, references and drug testing.
Employers who are interested in using a written integrity test need to be sure to select a scientifically supported assessment. This stems from the fact that not all test publishers offer appropriately researched assessments. Employers should look for a publisher with appropriate professionals (e.g., industrial psychologists, employment attorneys, measurement specialists) on staff, as well as documentation of the test's validity. An employer should also look for a publisher who is a member of the Association of Test Publishers.
Combat the problem before it's too late
In summary, without an effective hiring process, a carwash's bottom line and its exposure to legal liabilities can be jeopardized by various forms of workplace counter-productivity. Employers can effectively combat these problems in the employment process through the use of various screening tools.
Certainly an employer's goals and jobs will determine their choice of tools used in their hiring process. However, given the effectiveness and low cost of written integrity tests, prudent carwash operators should strongly consider their implementation.
David W. Arnold is General Counsel for Wonderlic, Inc., where he is involved with legal issues concerning privacy, negligent hiring, employment testing and equal employment matters. He also serves as General Counsel for the Association of Test Publishers. Dr. Arnold holds a J.D. from Loyola University Law School and a Ph.D. in industrial psychology from the University of Nebraska.


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