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The Wooden Tongue Speaks
Bogdan Tiganov
Romanians: Contradictions & Realities
ISBN: 9780956665805 | 199 pages
This collection of short stories and poetry set in post-Ceauşescu and post-Cold War Romania takes readers on a journey through the author's home town of Brăila in the east of the country.
Exiled Romanian author Bogdan Tiganov explores social, religious and political issues with insightful frankness, through an array of colourful characters and narratives focusing on this newly, supposedly liberated world.
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"With Tiganov, the intricateness of reality does not lose perspective of the intricateness of the imagination. In this way, the realm of detail becomes a political asylum."
Lucas Hüsgen, Het labyrint wil niet (The Labyrinth is Unwilling)
"A collection of short stories and poems, The Wooden Tongue Speaks uncannily distills the very essence of Romanians, from the small joys and beauty to familiar warts-and-all everyday domestic blights."
Read the full review by Andrew Begg at Vivid
"This volume of short stories and poems deserves its place in any library. Bogdan Tiganov distills emotion and offers frank descriptions to illuminate our vision. His composites of people, joys, scars, and of the ordinary are almost too lovely, too painful, and too eternal in their pure timelessness. […] Do not pass the opportunity to own this book. It is more than a book. You will want to drink every word."
Book Review by D.B. Pacini American Writer and Youth Mentor/Advocate November 16, 2008 California, USA
"These moving memories, stories and poems explore the mind-warping paranoia created by Romania's notorious dictatorship, and are a brutally honest insight into the bleakness of its post-communist disillusion."
Helena Drysdale (author of Looking for George)
"A mature book from a young author, whose writing already carries the fingerprints of a personal style with powerful lyrical accents, that decants in a language crossed by a rough, uncensored sensibility contrasting images from a disintegrated universe recomposed in words from the substance of nostalgia."
In Romanian:
"O carte matura a unui autor tânar, al carui scris poarta deja amprenta unui stil propriu cu puternice accente lirice, ce decanteaza într-un limbaj de o sensibiliate frusta, necenzurata, imagini contrastante ale unui univers dezintegrat si recompus apoi din substanta nostalgiei."
Ilinca Bernea (author of Iubiri in Camasa de Forta)
"The wonderful prose pictures that the exiled Romanian writer Bogdan Tiganov paints of everyday life under an oppressive regime are both vivid and revealing. The dialogues and arguments which punctuate many of his stories unmask the tensions and the feelings, both of profound love and intense hate, that arise within families and friendships. The 'Wooden Tongue Speaks' is a worthwhile and impressive addition to the literature of Romanian exiles."
Exiled Writers INK (Esther Lipton)
4.4 rating based on 7 ratings (all editions)
Goodreads: 10813116
Author(s): Publisher: Honest Publishing
Published: 10/1/2010
The Wooden Tongue Speaks is a collection of short stories and poetry set in post-Ceausescu and post-Cold War Romania that takes readers on a journey through the author's home town of Braila in the east of the country. Social, religious and political issues are explored through an array of colourful characters and narratives focusing on the newly, supposedly liberated world. Himself an exiled immigrant, Tiganov shines an insightful light on the search for a better life from an Eastern European perspective: the opportunities and the pitfalls, the pains suffered, the euphoric hope and optimism, the naivety and the greed.
It bothers me to think that I was being listened to, that my phones were tapped, my walls too, and the neighbours had glasses up to theirs. In fact the walls were so thin there was no need for glasses. As a boy I could hear how my neighbours upstairs chased each other and the woman screamed: "Help!" But nobody stopped her husband.
I couldn't whisper a joke about Ceausescu without being told to "Shh." I realised it even then. I knew I couldn't say everything I wanted or everything that came to mouth, but that was fine. I now know not everything that comes to mouth is useful. Not everything, if anything, is worthwhile.
But there in my home, and in my grandparents' home, what was there to listen to? Why would it interest anybody else? Do you want to hear how my parents are unbelievably tired and bad-tempered, shouting at each other because they can't understand each other's point of view? You don't want to hear that. You can hear that in your own home. I certainly didn't want to hear it. Do you want to hear what we're screaming at our new colour television? We're screaming: "Bullshit!" because we no longer believe what you're showing us. You're telling us how everything's rosy and how we're the best but I don't see that on the table. My table's empty and I'm hungry. The electricity's gone off. We light some candles. The walls start shaking and so does the floor. Do you want to listen in to our panic as we hold on to what we have so it doesn't smash on the floor and we lose it all? Nature tells us that we're fragile.
At times, during our exile, we wanted to leave the problems of living in a foreign country as refugees and go back home to what we thought we knew. Would you swap isolation and loneliness for love? The love, we felt, would not come simply from our family, but from the very trees and the earth that uprooted them. The expressions on peoples' faces would make us feel like we belonged. Be it poor, sad, heartbroken, happy, delirious. We had these fantasies. I still get flashes of fantastic euphoria though I know that they're as much bullshit as what the Communists were feeding us.
I've learnt to mistrust the easy answer.
Maybe you're so interested in my family because television's not enough for you, your life is not enough, so you start listening and reporting, ratting and spreading lies about us because you are now a fully-grown unshakable demon of a pervert. You're addicted to what we're having for dinner, hooked on to our morning routine, how mama brushes my hair or how tata shaves, how many plops you hear in the toilet. You're in love with our dreams and imagination, how innocent, naive and terrifying.
Most of all, it bothers me to think that some element of happiness or sadness or honesty was lost because we were hiding it from you. We didn't want you to know how deeply scarred we were, our stomachs slashed inside and our hearts burning slowly on a spit, but all you heard was some hysterical laughter or howled cries. That's all you heard. What we couldn't hide. And mama realised we're alive right now so why waste it? Why give so much and receive so little?
What does it matter now though? You must feel utterly satisfied sitting in your villa in the mountains with the eagles singing to you and a great big pitchfork impaled up through your anus and out of your mouth. Enjoy the horrifying silence you created and upheld.
Click here to read a full excerpt of The Wooden Tongue Speaks.


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The Pima Community College softball team (2-0) began its season in Henderson, NV on Friday as part of the Southern Nevada Kick-Off Classic and came away with two very different wins.
The Aztecs' offense dominated the first game as they beat El Paso Community College 17-6. Shawna Comeaux (Sabino HS) was a perfect 4 for 4 at the plate hitting a 3-run homer and finishing with four runs batted in and two runs scored. Cynthia Pelayo (Vision HS) left her stamp on the game going 4 for 5 with three RBIs, two runs scored and three stolen bases. Alejandra Ortiz (Tucson Magnet HS) also contributed with homerun of her own.
In their second game, the Aztecs trailed 4-0 going into the 6th inning but two big hits helped propel Pima to the 5-4 win over Snow College. Pitcher Yvette Alvarez (Sahuarita HS) hit a 3-run homer in the 6th inning and Pelayo came through again with a 2-run shot with two outs in the Top of the 7th to give the Aztecs the lead for good.
Pima will continue competition in Nevada on Saturday when they play College of Southern Idaho at 8:00 a.m. and Salt Lake Community College at 10:30 a.m.


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Brantley staying true to self in No. 5 spot
Brantley staying true to self in No. 5 spot
OAKLAND -- Paradoxically, what's pleased Indians manager Manny Acta most about Michael Brantley in the No. 5 hole is that Brantley hasn't become a No. 5 hitter. "We knew he wasn't going to change his swing," Acta said. "He's a very smart kid, very fundamentally sound, mature beyond his age. He knows not only how to handle himself but he has baseball knowledge. He comes from a baseball background. He's a coach's dream." Brantley, the son of former Major Leaguer Mickey Brantley, was thrust into the No. 5 spot because of injuries to middle-of-the-order hitters like Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore. Brantley is not a prototypical No. 5 hitter because he doesn't hit home runs, but someone has to hit there, so Acta reasoned that Brantley could handle the role without trying to make himself a power hitter.
Brantley is hitting .294 with a .343 on-base percentage. He's been one of the Indians' most consistent offensive players all season. "He's done a tremendous job in the middle of of our order, but I don't see Michael being a middle-of-the-order hitter," Acta said. Acta said, ideally, Brantley would hit at the top or the bottom of an order. Acta added that Brantley is not simply some slap hitter, though. He pointed out that he has 34 doubles. "People always relate power to home runs, but if you can hit 40 doubles in a season, it's not bad," Acta said. "He's not doing it by chopping the ball over the third baseman's head. He's hitting the ball in the gap."


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Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2005 Article IV Consultation with Portugal
October 19, 2005
|Public Information Notices (PINs) are issued, (i) at the request of a member country, following the conclusion of the Article IV consultation for countries seeking to make known the views of the IMF to the public. This action is intended to strengthen IMF surveillance over the economic policies of member countries by increasing the transparency of the IMF's assessment of these policies; and (ii) following policy discussions in the Executive Board at the decision of the Board.
On October 14, 2005, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Portugal.1
Portugal has yet to emerge from the downturn that followed the bursting of the euro adoption bubble. A gradual domestic demand-driven recovery started in 2004, but activity weakened during the second half of last year amid ongoing concerns about competitiveness. Preliminary data show year-on-year GDP growth of 0.3 percent in the first half of 2005. Private consumption has proven resilient, reflecting low interest rates and lengthening tenors on bank lending, while investment and export growth remained weak. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate reached a seven-year high of 7.5 percent in the first quarter of 2005, before moderating slightly to 7.2 percent in the second quarter. Due in part to weak demand, inflation fell to just over 2 percent in the first half of 2005. Poor productivity growth has weakened external competitiveness. As a result, export shares shrank and the current account deficit (excluding capital transfers) widened to 7.2 percent of GDP last year.
High private indebtedness, especially among households, weak competitiveness, and planned significant fiscal consolidation are expected to constrain growth in the near future. Real GDP is projected to grow by about ½ percent in 2005 and 1¼ percent in 2006.
Extensive use of one-off measures kept the budget deficit within the SGP ceiling of 3 percent of GDP over the last few years. These measures, however, did not address the underlying source of fiscal problems: the steady rise in current expenditure over the last decade. After an independent audit forecasted a deficit of about 6½ percent of GDP this year without one-off measures, the authorities announced their intention to reduce the deficit below 3 percent of GDP without one-off measures by 2008. In July, a series of revenue measures-including an increase in the VAT rate-were introduced, with a view to reducing the 2005 deficit to 6 percent of GDP. Over time, expenditure measures, especially pension and civil service reforms, are expected to constitute the bulk of the adjustment effort. Some key elements of the consolidation effort remain to be defined, however.
Strong growth of bank lending to households, especially for mortgages, led to a continued increase in the private sector credit-to-GDP ratio, which reached about 144 percent by the end of 2004 (well above the EU average). The banking sector has, however, proven resilient to the economic downturn: indicators point to improved capitalization, solid profitability and low levels of Non-Performing Loans.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors concurred that in an unfavorable context marked by large fiscal and external imbalances, slow growth, and a weak competitive position, the challenge confronting the Portuguese government is to create the conditions to restart Portugal's per capita income convergence toward the euro area average as soon as possible. Accordingly, Directors underscored the need to pursue sustainable fiscal adjustment and measures to improve product and labor markets, enhance the business environment, and strengthen human capital development. Directors welcomed the authorities' policy outlines in these areas, but called for early action in implementing them to build confidence and credibility.
Directors agreed that short-term growth prospects are not auspicious, owing to weak competitiveness, high private debt ratios, and the need for significant fiscal adjustment to reduce the public sector deficit. Most Directors welcomed the authorities' commitment to proceed with fiscal adjustment despite the weak economic outlook, agreeing that a determined consolidation effort is essential to lay the foundation for a resumption of growth and a reduction of the current account deficit.
Directors therefore commended the authorities' fiscal strategy, which emphasizes medium-term expenditure containment and sets an appropriately ambitious pace of adjustment. Directors noted that steady rises in the public wage bill and in pension spending in recent years have been at the heart of current fiscal difficulties; they thus supported the authorities' intention to focus measures on these items. Directors also supported the decision to largely abandon one-off measures, which they agreed have tended to create uncertainty about the true state of the public finances and to complicate future budget execution. They underscored that bringing the deficit below 3 percent of GDP by 2008 would strike an appropriate balance between the need to make rapid progress in reducing the deficit and the focus on longer-term reforms. Directors were encouraged by the authorities' willingness to take additional measures-ideally on the expenditure side-if needed to achieve the deficit targets.
Directors noted, however, that adjustment in 2005 has come primarily from revenue measures. They recognized that this is true in part because a number of key expenditure-side elements of the authorities' program are still being defined, including reforms of the public administration and of the retirement system for private sector workers. They stressed, however, that early definition and implementation of these bedrock spending reforms will be essential to distinguish the current adjustment effort from previous fiscal consolidation efforts, which had failed to produce durable gains. They considered that sufficient progress to allow these reforms to be reflected in the 2006 budget will be critical for the credibility of the consolidation effort.
Directors cautioned that the fiscal adjustment planned for the next four years is but the first stage of a longer process of deficit reduction that should aim at achieving overall budget balance. They noted that the looming rise in pension and health care spending from population aging underscores the need to find durable measures to improve the quality and efficiency of public expenditure. Directors agreed that greater use of Public-Private Partnerships could help raise spending efficiency, but cautioned that care will be needed to ensure that these transactions involve an appropriate transfer of risk to the private sector, that contracts and associated liabilities are recorded transparently (including in budget documents), and that commitments to make payments over time to private partners do not unduly constrain future budget flexibility. Directors supported the government's intention to consider reforms to local government financing arrangements-including possible binding expenditure limits-as these could help reduce medium-term fiscal pressures.
Directors stressed the need to pursue structural reforms that improve labor productivity and enhance competitiveness, and, ultimately, speed income convergence. In this respect, while recognizing that initiatives to promote research and development and information technology spending could play an important role in stimulating growth, they also praised ongoing and planned reforms to the education and training system and to the business environment. Directors stressed the important complementarities among these reforms. They were encouraged by recent measures to reduce the time required to open a new business, while noting that reducing delays in the legal system and accelerating the process of granting licenses and permits should remain a high priority. Directors stressed the need to enhance competition in key sectors like telecommunications and transportation, where relatively high costs undermine competitiveness.
Directors called on the authorities to pursue additional steps to raise labor market flexibility and improve the responsiveness of wages to productivity and skill differentials. They observed that restrictions on collective dismissals exceed the EU average, and those on individual dismissals are the tightest in the OECD. While recognizing that these restrictions are less binding in practice because of extensive use of temporary contracts and self-employment, Directors cautioned that such mechanisms can create a segmented labor market, with strong protection for some workers and considerable job instability for others. They noted that such conditions raise equity concerns and can hamper productivity growth by slowing the movement of protected workers from low-growth sectors to higher-growth ones.
Directors' welcomed the resiliency of the financial sector to the economic slowdown. They noted that banks have remained adequately capitalized and liquid, that profitability has been solid, and that the quality of banks' loan portfolios has remained broadly stable. Directors cautioned, however, about potential vulnerabilities arising from high household and corporate debt and the concentration of loans across sectors and enterprises. They therefore welcomed the authorities' commitment to continue to monitor developments carefully, to intensify oversight of risk management practices, and to undertake a Financial Sector Assessment Program this year.
Directors encouraged the authorities to actively support progress in multilateral trade liberalization under the Doha round, and to increase Portugal's overseas development assistance toward the UN target level of 0.7 percent of gross national income.
Portugal: Selected Economic Indicators, 2001-06
Sources: Bank of Portugal; Ministry of Finance; and IMF staff estimates and projections.
1/ 2004 is estimate and 2005 and 2006 are staff projections.
2/ Excludes currency in circulation held by non-bank private sector.
3/ Data refer to new deposits for 2001-02 and to the stock of outstanding deposits thereafter. Before 2003 deposit rate with 91-180 day maturity is reported.
1 Under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. A staff team visits the country, collects economic and financial information, and discusses with officials the country's economic developments and policies. On return to headquarters, the staff prepares a report, which forms the basis for discussion by the Executive Board. At the conclusion of the discussion, the Managing Director, as Chairman of the Board, summarizes the views of Executive Directors, and this summary is transmitted to the country's authorities.
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Well, how else to celebrate my 1 year anniversary than to offer one special couple a free wedding photography package in the very place my hubby and I tied the knot – IBIZA! Honestly I just adore the place, the light, the colours, the sea, the flowers, the prickly pears, the mojitos, the bars, the chilled out vibe, the people… it's a photographer's heaven and holds such a special place in my heart. Although I already have 2 weddings in Ibiza next year, I would love to shoot more in this gorgeous location and meet like-minded couples who have decided to have their special day in such a magical place!
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Blogs aren't just for marketing - there are many areas of the business
where they can help improve information flow, reduce clutter and avoid
the dreaded "but I didn't know about that" situation. Here's ten ways
that we've used blogs for managing projects - both internally and with
our clients.
Communicating with project stakeholders
Keeping your stakeholders up-to-date with the progress of the project is
vital - but if they're busy people with other things to worry about,
how do you keep them informed between major milestone reports with
bombarding them with email?
One way is to post regular intra-milestone updates to a blog. It can
be updated weekly, daily or even hourly without drowning your
stakeholders with emails - and if they use RSS webfeeds to keep updated, they only need to scan the webfeed summaries to know if it's something they'll need to respond to.
Replacing paper
Anyone who's used a methodology like PRINCE or the PMBOK
will have wondered if they were designed by people with shares in paper
mills. A well-documented project will fill entire shelves with dead
trees over the course of it's lifecycle. But with the right
categories and a customised template or two, much of the paper can be
replaced by web pages built of blog entries. They're accessible to all
who need them, there's no problem of version control and search
functions come built in.
Building issue logs
Anyone involved in a project should be able to raise an issue - whether
it's a question, request for change or an off-specification. And every
issue should be captured in the project issue log. But unless you've
got an automated system, that usually means an email to the project
manager, with all the attendant problems.
By providing an open blog into which anyone can post, project issues can
be raised immediately and be visible to all straightaway. By using
the search functions, you can check if someone has raised the issue
beforehand. Then the comment functions can be used to capture the
discussions, actions and conclusions relating to each issue - and
provide an automatic audit trail.
Capturing information snippets
There's usually a huge amount of miscellaneous snippets of information
generated in the course of a project - from shared passwords to useful URLs
to code snippets. The more organised members of the team will have
their own personal filing systems to capture the snippets that they
create - but how about capturing these for the benefit of all in the
By posting the information onto a blog, it can be easily captured,
categorised, searched and retrieved - and built into a knowledge base
for subsequent projects.
Publicising the project progress
If your project is going well, then why not shout about it? By posting
news, updates and status reports to a blog that can be seen
organisation-wide, you can keep everyone informed as the project
progresses. This can be very useful if you're managing something with a
big end-user impact - and it's a great reason for driving the use of
webfeeds in the organisation.
Reducing email overload
Email is both a blessing and a curse - great for quick communication
with colleagues or clients, but sometimes it's just too easy to bash off
an email copied to all and sundry. Rather than sending emails with
huge cc lists, why not post these kind of messages to a blog instead?
Not only is there a single, searchable and archived copy of the message
as a result, but you can use webfeeds to quickly scan new postings and
decide if they're worth reading further or acting on in a fraction of
the time that it takes to deal with a new email.
Capturing requirements
How often do the most important end-user requirements come to light
after the requirements capture workshops have taken place? An open
blog can be used to capture new requirements - and discussions about
existing ones - before, during and after the main workshop period.
Together with good use of categories and archives, blog entries can be a
good way of documenting the system requirements as well - online,
searchable and archived.
Circulating screenshots
Got screenshots or pack shots of new products to distribute? Rather
than annoy your remote workers - or bury the image files away in shared
directories - why not post them as blog entries? Many blog engines
have built-in image manipulation tools that can create thumbnails and
galleries on-the-fly. If a picture says a thousand words, why type?
Keeping team members up-to-date
It's becoming increasingly common for teams to be spread across
organisations or even timezones? How can you keep members up-to-date
with what others are doing without contributing to email overload?
Create a private team blog and encourage your team members to post their
status updates (or even project gossip) and you're created a shared,
searchable repository of news about how the project is running.
Combine this with webfeeds and you've got a powerful way of avoiding the
cluttered inboxes and keeping people up-to-date with progress as it
Provide an automatic audit trail
Hopefully your project will run to time and budget - but what happens if
there are problems along the way? That's when an audit trail can
become vital - particularly if you end up in an inquest scenario. One
advantage of blogs is that they're public - and another that they're
automatically timed and dated. It's very easy for pro
And best of all…
These benefits - and more - can be had quickly and cheaply. Some of
the best blogging software is open-source and free-as-in-beer, and it
can be set up in minutes. If you've not got the capability of hosting
a blog in-house, there are several cheap and secure hosted services
that can be set up even quicker - meaning that the benefits of using
blogs for project management can be enjoyed not just in your
organisation, but with clients, supplier and partners alike.
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Submitted by Tony on 7/12/99. ( firstname.lastname@example.com )
Is there a substitute to the sal-soda solution to boil excess tissue of the
antler bases? Will regular arm and hammer produce the same results? Thanks
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This response submitted by John Bellucci on 7/12/99. ( email@example.com )
Hi Tony,
Sal Soda is Carbonate of Soda, whereas Baking Soda is Bi-Carbonate of Soda ... chemically they are not the same. The Sal Soda, besides breaking down the proteins in the meaty tissue on the skull caps/ skulls, also degreases the bone as it boils. It does a thorough cleaning job, and should not be eliminated or substituted. Also, Sal Soda is not new. Years ago it was referred to as Soda Ash, and served the same purpose in taxidermy. Stick with the Sal Soda and you won't go wrong.
Best of luck to you ... John B.
This response submitted by deer woman on 7/12/99. ( )
The washing soda by Arm and Hammer is the same stuff basically as sal soda- though i generally find i have to use a larger quantitiy of washing soda than the WASCO sal soda. I have used washing soda for years now and it cleans same way as sal soda does.
This response submitted by Jeff T. Becker on 7/13/99. ( )
High percent sal soda , does a superb job!
This response submitted by John C on 7/18/99. ( )
Fab, Tide, etc. is about the same, unless you are in south america. Don't use anything from another country EPA stuff ya know. John C
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I use A&H Washing Soda for skull cleaning also ,i use alot of it,so i just purchase at grocery store because its cheaper. and as a bonus it makes a great deer attractant when the powder is dumped in your deer woods and mixed well with the dirt and then soaked with water
It has been my secret for many years,but now you know!
SAL Soda or Sallie Soda ,lol
This response submitted by Liz on 12/21/99. ( email@example.com )
This is not quite a response. But, I have been looking for Sal-Soda for a long time. Back several years ago you can use Sal-Soda and La France together to get the your white, whiter than ever. When they get gray, it sures brings them back. I have the La France, but that certainly doesn't do the job.
Thank you for reading this.
I have been looking for sal soda for quite some time now. I found an old recipe for homemade hand cleaner while going through some stuff my parents had and I have been wanting to try it out!
Sal Soda is produced by Dwight & Church. They have given it the new name of "Super Washing Soda". If you call their consumer relations department at 1-800-524-1328 they will tell you the location nearest you that it can be purchased. Sheryn
WASCO sells Sal Soda for bone cleaning at http://www.taxidermy.com/cat/15/skull.html
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Workers' Compensation laws provide employees who are injured or disabled on the job, fixed monetary awards, without having to endure litigation. Benefits are also provided for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses. Other laws protect employers and co-workers by limiting recovery amounts and liabilities of both the employers and co-workers. Both state and federal workers compensation statutes provide this structure.
Workers' Compensation cases are a part of business whether we like it or not. Injured employees are entitled under the system to be compensated for the time they miss due to the injury. Employers benefit from the system because their injured employees are compensated by their workers' comp insurance. Those of us who are intimately familiar with state workers' compensation systems know that the process of working through that system may be difficult and filled with uncertainty. Oftentimes, there is a point at which either the employee or the employer and its workers' compensation carrier is interested is finally resolving a case, usually by paying a lump-sum settlement to the employee. Is there a time when a lump sum personal injury settlement is in best interest of both parties? The answer is not simple for either claimants or their employers. This article will discuss some issues to consider.
Many injured workers ask their attorneys whether, and when, they should settle their workers' compensation cases. As in most litigation, the outcome of an individual case might be uncertain. There may be a time when either the injured worker, or the employer, or both, simply does not want to take the chance that the judge will rule unfavorably.
Benefits & Settlement Examples
For example, an employee may be receiving ongoing workers' compensation benefits when the employer attempts to have the employee's benefits suspended or modified by petitioning a workers comp judge. This petition is typically filed after the employee is sent to an independent medical examination (IME) and the IME doctor opines that the employee can return to work in some capacity. The employer must then find jobs that the injured worker may be able to perform. For many reasons, the employer's workers' compensation carrier may want the employer to offer the injured employee a job even if the employee has not been released to full duty work. Or, the carrier may identify other jobs, not with the original employer, within the injured worker's physical capacities.
The injured worker (and her doctor) often disagrees with the IME doctor's assessment that the worker can perform the jobs offered, and will vigorously defend such a modification or suspension petition. As one can imagine, the ensuing litigation can be complicated and risky. Will the judge find that the injured worker can indeed perform one of the jobs offered by the employer? Does the injured worker want to take that chance? Does the insurance carrier believe that its doctor's opinions will be given more credence than the opinions of the claimant's treating physician?
This scenario presents a prime, and frequently-seen, example of why workers' compensation litigations settle cases. The parties simply do not want to take the chance that the judge will rule against them. An injured worker may decide to receive three years' worth of benefits in a lump sum rather than take the chance that the judge will suspend or terminate his benefits altogether. Similarly, an employer and its insurance carrier might rather pay three years' worth of benefits rather than litigate the case to its conclusion and lose, potentially entitling the claimant to benefits for a much longer period of time. The "sure thing" can be much more comfortable than the uncertainty of litigation.
Special Considerations for Injured Workers
Each party has its own special considerations. For the injured worker, settlements require consideration of very serious consequences. The employee has to realize that if he settles his case, most of the time, the insurance company will require a full compromise and release of his claim. This means that both parts of the injured employee's workers' compensation benefits – the wage loss portion and the medical benefits – will be lost forever. So, not only will the employee no longer receive wage loss checks each week, but also the insurance company will no longer pay for any of the medical treatment related to the work injury. Furthermore, any other health insurance available to the employee will probably not pay for treatment of the work injury. An injured worker must realize that his injury might still be problematic years later, and if the case has been settled, he has no recourse.
Often ongoing prescriptions are necessary to treat pain or other symptoms from a work injury. Many injured workers do not believe that paying these prescriptions into the future will be difficult, because they will receive a large sum of money as part of their settlement. However, those claimants may not realize how much their medications can cost over the long run. Two to three hundred dollars' worth of prescriptions each month can add up over time! Before settling her case, any injured worker should sit down with an attorney and actually add up the total possible medical costs that may be incurred over the years following a settlement. Even with a full knowledge of the risks, the "sure thing" is a tempting option.
Similarly, there are many reasons why employers should settle cases. It is not uncommon for an employer settling a case to require that the employee resign from his employment as a condition of the settlement. For most employers, requiring a resignation presents little difficulty, as new (presumably healthy) employees can replace the injured worker. But many employers often take an injured worker's absence from work very personally. Employers sometimes believe that their injured worker is merely abusing the system, and, indeed, this is sometimes the case. However, unfortunately, there are injuries that can prevent injured workers from ever returning to work. If this occurs, an injured worker could potentially receive benefits for the rest of her life. Thus, there are times when an employer may conclude that it will spend more time and money trying to terminate a case than can be justified in light of the potential savings from a settlement.
For example, take the "standard" modification petition discussed above. In the typical case, the injured worker will be paid total disability benefits for six months to a year before such a petition is filed, and, depending on the pre-injury wages of the employee, the insurance company may pay out over $38,000.00 in wage loss benefits per year. Once the petition is filed, the litigation may take well over a year, during which time the injured worker usually continues to receive benefits.
Thus, in our example, the carrier may spend another $38,000.00 paying wage loss benefits, plus medical expenses, plus somewhere around twelve to fifteen thousand dollars in litigation expenses, and will take the chance that its attempt to reduce or cut off the employee's benefits is not successful. What if it loses its case? Does the carrier seek another doctor's opinion, and then file another petition? Should it start this expensive process over again? Sometimes the employer is better served by assessing the severity of the injury, together with its odds of successfully terminating or modifying an employee's benefits, and determining whether a lump sum payout might be more economical.
In the above case, the employer might have spent $76,000.00 plus the costs of medical treatment, attorneys, doctors, and litigation expenses, and may still be required to pay the injured worker's full benefits if it loses the case. Savvy businesspeople will quickly realize that if the employer and its insurance carrier had settled the case for $80,000.00 early in the litigation, they would have come out ahead. The potential savings, and the certainty of putting a cap on the employer's liability, are important considerations when deciding whether or not to settle with an injured worker.
Hopefully this article will have given the reader some insight into workers' compensation settlements. It is by no means an exhaustive treatment of the intricacies involved in settling a workers' compensation case and is based on my experience with Pennsylvania workers compensation laws. Both claimants and employers should give careful consideration to their attorneys' advice on such matters.
Daniel E. McCabe, Esq., is an associate in the law firm of Wolf, Baldwin & Associates, P.C.. His practice, located in the firm's West Chester office, concentrates on the representation of injured workers and medical providers.
The Federal Employment Compensation Act provides workers compensation for non-military, federal employees. Many of its provisions are typical of most worker compensation laws. Awards are limited to "disability or death" sustained while in the performance of the employee's duties but not caused willfully by the employee or by intoxication. The act covers medical expenses due to the disability and may require the employee to undergo job retraining. A disabled employee receives two thirds of his or her normal monthly salary during the disability and may receive more for permanent physical injuries, or if he or she has dependents. The act provides compensation for survivors of employees who are killed. The act is administered by the Office of Workers Compensation Programs.
The Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA), while not a workers' compensation statute, provides that railroads engaged in interstate commerce are liable for injuries to their employees if they have been negligent.
The Merchant Marine Act (the Jones Act) provides seamen with the same protection from employer negligence as FELA provides railroad workers.
Congress enacted the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) to provide workers compensation to specified employees of private maritime employers. The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs administers the act.
The Black Lung Benefits Act provides compensation for miners suffering from "black lung" (pneumoconiosis) The Act requires liable mine operators to pay disability payments and establishes a fund administered by the Secretary of Labor providing disability payments to miners where the mine operator is unknown or unable to pay. The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs regulates the administration of the act.
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICP) began on July 31, 2001 with the Department of Labor's implementation of Part B; Part E implementation began on October 28, 2004. The mission of the program is to provide lump-sum compensation and health benefits to eligible Department of Energy nuclear weapons workers (including employees, former employees, contractors and subcontractors) and lump-sum compensation to certain survivors if the worker is deceased.


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COLUMBIA, SC (ATS Consultants) – No. 6 South Carolina hosts No. 5 Georgia on Saturday at 7PM ET on ESPN, live from Williams-Brice Stadium.
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Both teams come into the game at 5-0 overall. The Bulldogs are 1-0 on the road and 2-3 against the spread while the Gamecocks are 3-0 at home and 4-1 ATS. South Carolina has won two straight in the series and Georgia has not covered against the Gamecocks in their last 5 meetings.
Odds: The oddsmakers at Bovada.lv have South Carolina as the slight favorite at home, as the Gamecocks are getting odds of -2 points at home against Georgia. The over/under total has been set at 54 points.
Line Movement: Opening odds had South Carolina as a 2.5-point favorite. The spread reached a peak of 3 points and a low of 1.5 before closing at South Carolina -2.
Public Betting: Of the wagers that have been placed on this game, 55% are going on Georgia with odds of +2 points at South Carolina on Saturday. Be sure to click on the public betting link to get the latest odds and betting percentages.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL FREE PICK: South Carolina is 4-0-1 ATS L5 in series. Georgia is 0-7 ATS as a dog. Last year: GEORGIA (-3) over South Carolina, 45-42. This is a matchup of 5-0 teams that could determine a lot in the SEC. The Gamecocks started out slowly last week, before routing Kentucky, 38-17. Marcus Lattimore ran for 120 yards last week and for two touchdowns. It looks like he's finally up to speed after missing the final six games last year due to a knee injury. The Gamecocks are led by Jadveon Clowney, who is second in the SEC with 9.5 tackles for loss. South Carolina goes for its 10th straight win, which would break a program record. The edge that South Carolina has is on the defensive side of the ball and that will be the difference.
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Every year around the end of July somebody steps up to release a new record on Alpha Pup Records. This year Nobody is doing that. That's right, Nobody is releasing an album on Alpha Pup, and Nobody is calling it Vivid Green. Why has Nobody stepped up to the plate? I guess because Nobody feels like he is capable. Apparently Nobody is interested in "bass heavy beats, electronic bangers and psychedelic rock," because, if somebody had an album coming out at the end of the month that's probably what it would have on it. Since Nobody is releasing an album, though, who knows what'll happen as our verdant planet rolls into a new month.
If anybody was putting this album out, they'd probably get vocal collaborations with folks like Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Baths, Nocando, Anna Wise, and Teri Gender Bender. But again, Nobody. Nobody has put a single on SoundCloud, either. (Seems a little unbelievable, right? No one? No new tracks on SoundCloud? I'm sticking right with the press release, though.) If anybody, anybody at all really, had put something new up on SoundCloud, I would def post it below (it is my job after all, LOL!).
Nobody has been making music since back in 2000, when Nobody made an album called Soulmates. Honestly, that previous sentence seems like a huge overreach. Nobody's made any new music in over 13 years?!?!?!?! For real? I just double checked the press release, though, and that's what it says. I guess if anything, that's the real news in this news-free post: all that music we thought we had been listening to? Turns out it's all been fake.
Imagined tracklist for Vivid Green which Nobody is actually putting out:
01. Third Charm
02. Pentwater
03. Our Last Dance
04. Rhombus
05. Flat Black
06. Sleeping Alone
07. Iceplants
08. Rex
09. Spliff!
10. In Limbo
11. Vivid Green
12. Beaches
• Nobody: https://www.facebook.com/pages/DJ-Nobody/134998376568135
• Alpha Pup: http://www.alphapuprecords.com
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Issue No. 05 - Sept.-Oct. (2013 vol. 28)
pp: 44-48
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIS.2013.138
Paul Groth , Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam
The Web has enabled us to construct massive knowledge bases that enable both intelligent applications and complex analyses. The construction of these knowledge bases invariably involves combining multiple sources using a stack of human and automated decisions, which leads to an opaque process that hampers both transparency and repurposing. The intricacies of this problem are concretely formulated, along with potential research directions for addressing it.
data science, intelligent systems, natural language processing, knowledge bases, knowledge acquisition systems, remix, Web science
Paul Groth, "The Knowledge-Remixing Bottleneck", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 28, no. , pp. 44-48, Sept.-Oct. 2013, doi:10.1109/MIS.2013.138


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represent an encouraging constant: the funding total for Internet startups was nearly identical to the $24.5 million raised across five deals in the sector in February. March's biggest Internet deal, at $11 million, went to DataXu, a Boston startup whose bidding-oriented system helps online advertisers decide which purchases will best translate to conversions and click-throughs.
We'll have to wait and see if our list of smaller, "under-the-radar" deals worth less than $1 million make up for the dropoff in venture funding in March. In the meantime, here are a few other observations from the rain-soaked month:
—Energy investing fell off the grid last month, as not one energy startup crossed our funding list. The sector ranked second in February with $39.8 million, the peak of what looked like was its comeback, and we boldly declared that investing in the industry was on the up. That'll teach us to be so confident.
—Investing in mobile companies slowed from its already low rates, with not a single mobile deal last month. I was surprised, considering the state dubbed March as Mobile Madness Month (a great backdrop for Xconomy's Mobile Madness Forum). Maybe it won't be until this month that we see the fruits of that buzz. The sector only had one deal in January, worth $1.2 million, and another one in February, worth $1.3 million.
—Software was another area that took a tumble in March. The industry pulled in a grand total of $10.1 million, in one deal for Akorri Networks, a Littleton, MA-based maker of IT infrastructure management software. That's less than half the $21.6 million that three software startups raked in during February.
–The one bright spot (aside from the surge in healthcare funding) was the fresh flow of cash for startups in the computer hardware and services space. The sector grabbed only $1.4 million in one deal in February, but boasted more than 10 times that last month. Twin $8 million deals for Framingham, MA-based CorrelSense and Woburn, MA's SensAble Technologies brought the funding total for the industry to $16 million in March, putting it in third place. SensAble makes 3D and haptic systems for purposes from product design to dental modeling, and CorrelSense develops IT systems for helping businesses monitor transactions and improve the performance of large enterprise applications.


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I wasn't aware the city had money to burn.
I rode over the GWB to the NY side for a change and met some friends for a ride down the west side highway. I noticed stepped up parks police presence in the 150's as I rode south. I passed by an patrol officer, standing tall, arms crossed in green parks uniform behind him, leaning up against a tree was a rather upright hybrid frame shod with some deep ZIPPS... I had to do a double take.
There's a chance the bike didn't belong to him but there was no one on that lawn around him and he was standing three feet from the tree.
If true, talk about a waste of money.
Pretty windy day in NYC today.
PS- I later found out that increased police presence may have had something to do with a rape in hudson park at 5AM same day.
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Do you decorate for Fall/Halloween?
Do you decorate your house inside or out with Fall/Halloween decorations?
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I have a pumpkin hanging on the front door. I don't really go all out with decorations.
Somewhat. I wish I had more decorations.
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Yes I have pumpkins on my front porch, out by my mailbox,.hanging ghosts from trees today, andbthe inside has a Halloween tree and other decor.
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Yep. I do not do halloweeny stuff...more fallish....so you can keep it up through october and november. decorations make me feel happy....lol. Truth be told with my husband gone and kids so grown they do not care...I do it because I like it!!!!
by Kendall on Oct. 6, 2012 at 10:10 AM
I put out fall flowers, maybe some decor on the dining table.. but that's about it. Christmas is usually when I go all out.
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