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My husband is in the military and he's going to be gone for a few months, my 13 year old sister that I’ve had custardy of for 7 years (she calls my husband pop and me Mimi) and we have a 4 year old son they’re good kids they say please and thank you, yes mama/sir no mama/sir, holds our hand or stays by our side in public, my sister always told me where she was going and when she would be back, was getting straight A’s in school and my son helps my sister feed her cats as his chore, we rarely have to discipline them and if we do we both sit with them and explain why they were disciplined, but since my husband and I told them and he has been doing a lot of prep and training to leave they both have been acting out of the ordinary, my sister got into a fight at school, her grades have been going down, she’s not coming home after school till late without calling or asking, and she locks herself in her room and my son is throwing fits, screaming, covering his head when we talk to him. We’ve tried talking to them, disciplining them, taken them out on one on one “dates” to see if that would help but it seems like we’re not getting anywhere and we don’t know what else to do, can someone give us any suggestions ?

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Asked by Anonymous at 6:45 AM on Mar. 30, 2011 in General Parenting

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  • Sorry they are reacting so strongly to the upcoming situation. Set up strict guidelines for the 13 year old so things don't get worse. Monitor everything she does and maybe start picking her up at school? Go in and talk to her teachers so they are aware of what is going on. Work together with them to help her. Keep doing the one on one time. It will pay off eventually, for sure. You might also tell them how much you will need their "help" when your husband is gone (but not so much that they feel additional pressure). And make sure they feel loved. Look into getting Skype or any video messaging like that. If you don't have it already have them help with the research for it. I hope this "rough patch" doesn't last too long. I wish all of you the best and thank your husband for his service. GL

    Answer by elizabr at 7:08 AM on Mar. 30, 2011

  • Sounds like a serious separation anxiety issue. They've no doubt seen the war played on television, online, in the newspaper (at least your sister has) and knowing that their dad is headed there...very very scary and frightening for them. Elizabr has excellent suggestions. I hope everything works out and your husband is home soon.

    Answer by meooma at 7:20 AM on Mar. 30, 2011

  • Sounds like separation anxiety! She could be scared and really needs to talk about it... is there a school counselor she could open up to? It also sounds like he's acting out because he see's her act out.

    Answer by anichols1 at 7:23 AM on Mar. 30, 2011

  • they're upset about him leaving. sit them down and have an open discussion about why he has to leave and why it's important for the family as well as the country. let this be a "honest zone" where they can say exactly what's on their mind without being labeled "childish" or being punished. let them know that their opinions are important to the both of you. if this doesn't help, you should seek out family counseling.

    Answer by TiffanieK at 7:29 AM on Mar. 30, 2011

  • The previous answers are very good advice. They seemed to have "nailed" the problems and where they are coming from. Use a part of each of their suggestions and don't give up. Loving them, supporting their opinions, and helping them with their fears are of the utmost importance right now. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers.

    Answer by rosiemendo at 7:41 AM on Mar. 30, 2011

  • Dont be to hard on their acting out. Set expectations by all means, dont let that slide but understand that they are missing him already.They are afraid.He is very important to them &the vacancy is scary for them Help them to understand,why he is leaving &he will return.That you both love them very much. You arent leaving &you can be counted on. Plan parties for Dad to help with the separation anxiety. Separation Anxiety is tuff, so you will need to be aware of every detail of their emotions to stay ahead of it so they dont make bad choices, and understand their choices when they do... but dont overact to their bad doings as negative attention is easier to address with negative attention than positive &separation anxiety often flourishes negative attention. Bcuz their hurting &feel out of control of their normal environment so they strike out to find that control even if its unusual negative behavior. I hope this make since...

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  • The contractions hurt like hell. The birth was better for me, for DS came out in one big push.

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  • The contractions were terrible but I ended up getting a c-section..

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  • Depends, I had epidurals with both kids, but giving birth to my first hurt like hell, even with the epi. The contractions were horrible with my second (before epi) and her birth was easy breazy, no pain at all

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  • With my first the giving birth part was the worst.. with my 2nd and 3rd it was the contractions because they both came in one push!

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  • ive only felt contractions with my last ! i was induced with the other. i had epidurals with all 3 kids..the epidural failed with my first one soo labor hurt like hell. the contractions i had werent near as bad.

    Answer by 3HappylKidds at 4:19 PM on Apr. 7, 2011

  • contractions for sure. the baby coming out was such a relief. i had no pain meds. maybe tmi, but it was the kind of relief you get from a big poo. and the placenta felt like a water balloon coming out.

    Answer by KittyNat at 4:19 PM on Apr. 7, 2011

  • I didn't have an epidural with either of my boys. I had pitocin which makes contractions even more difficult to handle, but for me, once I reached 6 cm, the contractions were the worst! Once I was able to push, it was actually pleasurable! I had the urge to push with both of my boys, so being able to do what my body was telling me to do was soooo comforting! Even pushing the baby out wasn't bad. I didn't rush the pushing, just listened to my body and did it on my own time...

    Answer by MichaelsMom330 at 4:20 PM on Apr. 7, 2011

  • thank you all!!!!!!! you helped by putting my mind at somewhat ease

    Comment by mommy2be867 (original poster) at 4:20 PM on Apr. 7, 2011

  • The contractions, the moment of the baby finally coming out was a relief and I was anxious for both of my kids that I didn't really feel much pain while I was pushing. I had no pain medication either so the contractions were a killer.

    Answer by GomezMami2908 at 4:21 PM on Apr. 7, 2011

  • Do you plan on getting pain meds or no?  I've heard a lot that the worst pain after getting pain meds is the pushing.  I've had 3 natural births and my personal experience is that the first one, I was too scared to really focus on the pain.  I just did what I was told.  Mentally I had no idea what I was in for so I think it made it better.  My 2nd had a huge belly and that was the worst part.  My 3rd was the contractions.  The contractions had worn me out and I felt like I couldn't really give a good push.  That didn't last though.  :)  Your labor and your reaction to it will be different, all of our experiences are.  Yours will be unique and your own.

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What is type inference?

Type inference is the act of determining the type of an expression that isn’t explicitly typed. What does that mean? It means that I can write:

var result = 1 + 2

The compiler should know that even though I used the generic type var, it can be inferred that the variable result is an integer.

Most mainstream languages will not do that for you. But there’s no reason they shouldn’t.

The advantages of type inference

A lot of the time, type specifiers are useless. You don’t need the type annotation because it’s already obvious from the context. The compiler doesn’t need the annotation because it can figure it out. So it’s a redundant piece of information. And it isn’t harmless either; the explicit type specifiers get in the way.

It’s nice to have longVariableAndTypeIdentifiers. While you can go overboard with long identifiers, I find myself often using less-descriptive-than-ideal names to avoid having to type so much. Even if I didn’t mind typing them in, long names can still make the code less readable. Take this example from Java:

Set<Map.Entry<ComponentName,ComplexComponentImplementation>> entries = components.entrySet();

I might decide to use the identifiers CName and CCImpl instead of ComponentName and CCImpl to keep it readable:

Set<Map.Entry<CName,CCImpl>> entries = components.entrySet();

With the shortened names, this particular line of code is more readable, but now you’re going to have to use CName and CCImpl everywhere, making the entire program harder to understand.

What it comes down to is that, in this situation, the variable name (entries) is all the information you need. The surrounding context usually provides enough information to the reader. With type inference, I could just write:

var entries = components.entrySet();

The longer the type specifier, the less willing you’d be to type it in redundantly. So, naturally, you’ll either make your identifiers shorter than they should be or you’ll try to avoid using intermediate variables. Both are bad.

Why it’s stupid that many languages don’t support it already

Every statically-typed language I can think of (this includes Java, C# and C++) already does some type inference. It’s just that they make it inconvenient to use. If Java compilers didn’t have any sort of ability to infer types, you couldn’t do this:

String filename = pictureAlbum.getStuff().get("Big").getInfo().getFileName();

Instead, you’d have to add an annotation to every single term:

Map<String,List<Picture>> album    = pictureAlbum.getStuff();
List<Picture>             pictures = album.get("Big");
PictureInformation        info     = pictures.getInfo();
String                    filename = info.getFileName();

Also, if the compiler really needed you to specify all the types, then why does it complain when you do this:

int album = pictureAlbum.getStuff();

It complains because it knows the exact type of the expression pictureAlbum.getStuff() but still wants you to type it in. Why won’t it just accept the “var” specifier and stop complaining?

var album    = pictureAlbum.getStuff();
var pictures = map.get("Big");
var info     = pictures.getInfo();
var filename = info.getFileName();

It’s really too bad that local variable inference was left out of so many recently-designed languages.

Type inference can get complicated, but it doesn’t have to

As far as I can tell, there seem to be two basic types of inference: inference based on variable assignment and inference based on variable use. (I’m probably not using the right terms).

Inference based on variable assignment

In all the examples above, I’ve only used inference based on variable assignment. This is the easy one. This is the one all Java/C#/C++ compilers can do already. This is where you determine the type of the variable based on how it’s value is assigned. Since compilers already know the type of almost every expression, they can just use that type for the target variable.

This can also be used for function return types (and I believe C# allows this on closures):

GetFirst(List<Integer> list)
   return list.get(0);

The return type is automatically inferred to be of type Integer.

Tricky error messages

Some strange things can happen with even the most basic type inference:

1 var map = new Map();
2 map.put("Hello", "Guy");
3 var value = map.get("Hello");
4 int i = value.length();

Can you see the error?

Error on line 4: Could not find instance method 'length()' in class 'Object'.

The reason for the error is that map.get() returns an Object. This caused the compiler to make value a variable of type Object. You can’t call the length() method on Object. If you had to explicitly type the value variable, the compiler would have flagged the error at that point. With type inference, the error message has commuted a couple lines down.

First of all, I’m aware that real programs could trigger more complex error messages. On the other hand, it wont take long before we programmers learn to recognize that type of mistake and are able to deal with it just like any other seemingly-strange-at-first error message (like GCC’s “implicit declaration of function blah()”).

Multiple assignment and subtyping

It can get even tricker, though, when you allow for multiple assignments and subtyping. Let’s say you had the following class heirarchy:

| +-Doctor
| +-Clown

The type inference policy may try to find a common supertype to handle multiple assignments:

var x;
x = new Lawyer();
x = new Clown();

var y;
y = new Doctor();
y = x;

Here, the type of x will be inferred to be Thing, because that’s the greatest common denominator. This adds complexity because, unlike before, we couldn’t determine the type of a variable based on a variable’s very first assignment statement. Remove the second assignment to x and its type changes to Lawyer.

The type of y is also interesting. After the first assignment, the “running” type is Doctor. After the second assignment, what happens? Since the type of x was determined to be Thing, y’s type might also be pulled down to Thing. However, the compiler might do some control flow analysis and see that when the assignment occurs, x cannot be a Lawyer (since the original assignment has been replaced by Clown). It might then decide to make it a Human.

This could get complicated. However, notice that the smarter compiler would give us a more specific type (i.e. Human as opposed to Thing). I’m guessing that even though this gets complicated, a good compiler will usually allow us to do more of what we mean to do without complaining about type errors.

Inference based on variable use

This is the hard stuff. This is also the stuff that lets you write entire Haskell programs with barely any type annotations at all. (However, I think that most Haskell programmers suggest that you use type annotations for publicly exported functions so that type errors are localized and easier to debug).

String GetName(key)
   return map.get(key);

What’s the type of key? Well it all depends on the type of map.get. If map were of type Map<Integer,String>, then key would be inferred to be of type Integer (because that’s the only value that fits).

I’ve done a (very) little amount of programming in ML and Haskell and have come across weird type error messages. This kind of inference can get out of control. It’s usually accompanied by parametric polymorphism (where the genericity is also automatically inferred) so maybe some of the complexity comes from the combination and not from the inference itself. Either way, I can get by fine without it.

Just give me the simple stuff

All I want is the simple form of type inference (in a mainstream language). It’s not hard to implement and it’s not hard to use. I don’t even need the compiler to handle multiple assignments. I can’t guarantee that I wont start complaining again, but this should shut me up for a while.

The Nemerle Programming Language and the Nice Programming Language both have this level of type inference.

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Bishop Freeze & Lady Tasz perform at the National Sexual Assault Confernece in Hollywood, Calif.

Last week’s National Sexual Assault Conference in Hollywood was — from a CALCASA perspective — a great success. I, personally, learned a lot from many of the attendees.

Although the workshops and plenaries were a large focus of the conference, I think that the networking and dialogue were equally as important. It was inspiring to talk to people who had recently joined this movement, and on the flip side, to learn from those who have been doing this work for decades.

As attendees take this week to reflect, we’re interested in knowing what you walked away with from NSAC. What were some of the highlights? What did you learn? What else could we have had included?

A few people are already writing their reflections. Check out the blogs A Connectionist Perspective on the 2010 National Sexual Assault Conference and National Sexual Assault Conference 2010: Ashley’s Perspective.

Jessica Renee Napier joined CALCASA in 2009 as its Online Media Producer. She creates multimedia material, such as audio and video podcasts, for the organization. She also oversees editorial content and other aspects of CALCASA’s Web site. Jessica previously worked in Web production for KPBS Public Broadcasting and as an Online Editor for a publishing company.

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    I also saw comments from the Tech Lounge “Chefs” about their impressions of the National Sexual Assault Conference.

  • Lady Tasz January 29, 2012, 10:25 PM

    I will never forget the impact that event had on my life! To be on stage with Bishop and Dee, and delivering a message that was so dear to every one of those peoples’ hearts in the audience was amazing! The message is clear: stop the violence!!! Love, Lady Tasz


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Forbidden Dimension started out in 1988, just as Jackson Phibes's (aka Aleister Hexxx) previous combo, Color Me Psycho, was calling it quits. It was initially conceived as a one-man one-off project, sonically in the Chrome/Metal Urbain/Roky Erickson/60s punk/proto-metal mode. - CBCRadio3

To my ears, this cassette sounds better than FD's first CD release, Sin Gallery. Must be the undead drum machine.

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Stripping rock’n’roll to its most basic frame, Richie, Brent and original bassist Graham emerged from the garage in 1990 — you guessed it — without a singer — and immediately put out its first product, a 6-song cassette. - CBC Radio 3

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3. Latin Ranch
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Huevos Rancheros were:
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State wades into Canadian prescription controversy

From the Reno (Nev.) Gazette Journal:
As a former Plattsburgh, N.Y. resident who lived just 16 miles from Canada, Lynda Bevins still remembers when people from nearby Vermont started crossing the border by the busload to buy their prescription drugs.

“Bernie Sanders, the congressman from Vermont, actually arranged to have busloads of seniors trucked across the border,” said Bevins, who moved to Reno last September. “There was a lot of controversy about that.”...more

Sunday, May 29, 2005

Drug bill sent to governor

From the Fort Worth (Tex.) Star Telegraph:
A bill that would set up a state-run Web site to help Texans buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada is headed to Gov. Rick Perry's desk.

The Senate approved the bill on an unanimous recorded vote Sunday. The bill would allow the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to create a Web site listing approved Canadian prescription drug distributors.

The pharmacy board would be required to inspect up to 10 Canadian pharmacies and make sure they meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Texas and Canada standards as well as safe-shipping codes. Information about the pharmacies and how to order prescription drugs would be listed on the board's Web site. ...more

State Senate guts bill to let Nevadans buy Canadian drugs

From the Las Vegas Sun:
The Nevada Senate voted early Saturday for a bill let Nevadans buy low-priced prescription drugs from Canada online - after gutting it so that a state-run Web site linked to approved pharmacies probably wouldn't get off the ground.

AB195, chiefly sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, would have Nevada join eight other states that allow such purchases. Under the bill, the state would inspect and license Canadian pharmacies and set up the Web site. ...more

Saturday, May 28, 2005

221 House members push for vote on drug importation bill

From the St. Petersburg (FL) Times:
A majority of House members want to consider allowing Americans to import lower-cost prescription drugs from other countries despite fierce opposition from President Bush, the Food and Drug Administration and drugmakers.

The 221 Republicans and Democrats on Thursday sent a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, asking him to schedule a vote on a drug importation bill. ...more

Natives plan to resell Canadian drugs in U.S.

From The Globe and Mail:
Some U.S. native tribes are exploring ways to use their sovereign status to import and resell Canadian prescription drugs, amid warnings from Washington that such shipments will be seized.

At least two Minnesota tribes, Red Lake Nation and White Earth, are working on plans to buy drugs in bulk from Canadian pharmacies despite a federal ban on imported drugs. ...more

Friday, May 27, 2005

Canadian drug bill may face roadblock

From the Houston Chronicle:
Legislation that would help Texans buy less expensive prescription drugs from Canada faces an uncertain future in the Senate.

Although the House voted overwhelmingly to add the provision to a sunset bill reauthorizing the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, the Senate sponsor of the pharmacy measure said Monday he doesn't know if he will accept the change. ...more

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Rudy Giuliani defends report that says Canadian drugs pose threat

From the Canadian Press:
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani on Thursday defended his report that suggests prescription drug imports into the United States, including those from Canada, pose a threat to Americans.

The April report, commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to conduct a threat assessment of drug imports. "Whatever small percentage that comes through Canada that isn't examined creates a risk and a problem," Giuliani said at a speaking event in Toronto. ...more

Adverse drug reaction database goes online

From CBC News:
Health Canada has made its database of adverse drug reactions available to Canadians in a searchable online format, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh announced in a release on Wednesday.

The move comes 15 months after CBC News made a version of the database available online, following a five-year struggle with Health Canada to obtain the information in database format under Canada's federal Access to Information Act. ...more

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Weaning women off antidepressants in late pregnancy unwarranted risk: experts

From the Canadian Press:
Weaning women off antidepressants known as selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors in the final trimester of pregnancy to protect their babies can be an unwarranted and dangerous practice, experts suggest in a commentary published in a medical journal Tuesday.

The authors, led by the director of The Hospital for Sick Children's Motherisk program, said withdrawal of the medication can put the mental health of mothers at serious risk - potentially jeopardizing their babies in the process. ...more

Risk of side effects from cholesterol drug Crestor higher than believed: study

From the Canadian Press:
Contrary to government claims, side effects happen more often with Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that consumer advocates tried to get off the market earlier this year, a new analysis shows.

The review of leading cholesterol drugs taken by millions of Americans showed that most are very safe and that the risk of serious problems, even with Crestor, are very low. But the latest research seemed to challenge a Food and Drug Administration decision not to pull the drug off the market. ...more

Monday, May 23, 2005

Business finds Meds For You

From the Green Bay (Wisc.) Press-Gazette:
Canadian Meds For You is up and running at 2131 S. Webster Ave., Suite 203.

Leo Loeb of Bellevue and partner Jeff Fibus of Atlanta also own another branch in Atlanta.

Canadian Meds for You isn’t a pharmacy but has access to pharmacies in the United States and Canada.

Loeb says he can shop around for the best possible prices on common maintenance medications.

All that’s needed is a valid prescription from a doctor. ...more

Panel approves prescription drug bill by deadline

From the Las Vegas Review Journal:
Hours before a deadline for action, a Senate panel voted in favor of a bill to help Nevadans buy lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada.

Approval of the Canadian drug importation bill by a 6-1 vote came after Sen. Joe Heck, R-Henderson, won support for an amendment requiring drugs shipped to Nevadans meet U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards. ...more

Three Canadian drug firms eyed

From the Boston Globe:
Haverhill may join a growing number of Massachusetts communities that have turned to Canada for cheaper prescription drugs for their municipal employees.

Mayor James J. Fiorentini said he expects to choose one of three companies to provide municipal workers with prescription drugs from Canada -- a move he expects will save the city about $200,000 a year. ...more

Texas passes bill allowing purchase of prescription drugs from Canada

From the Canadian Press:
Texans could buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada under a bill tentatively approved in the state House of Representatives on Sunday.

"This would provide the safety and the cost savings" for Texas consumers, said Democratic Representative Scott Hochberg who sponsored a measure that would allow the Texas State Board of Pharmacy to create a website listing approved Canadian prescription drug distributors. ...more

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Bill lets Nevadans buy Canadian drugs online

From the Las Vegas Sun:
A state Senate panel voted Friday for a bill to have Nevada join eight other states in allowing residents to buy lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada online.

AB195, chiefly sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, and passed by the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, would direct the state to inspect and license Canadian pharmacies and set up a Web site for Nevadans. ...more

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Health Canada seeks public input on arthritis drugs

From the Globe and Mail:
For two days next month, Health Canada will open up to the public its discussion on the safety of cox-2 painkillers.

Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh is to announce today that the federal department will host a public forum in Ottawa on June 9 and 10 on the safety of cox-2 drugs, the popular anti-inflammatory medications now tied to heart risks. ...more

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Dosanjh mulling ban on bulk drug exports to U.S.

From CTV.ca:
In order to avert a potential drug shortage in Canada, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said Tuesday that he's considering prohibiting bulk medicine exports south of the border.

"We will certainly look at the possibility of bulk exports to the United States and see if they can be banned," the minister said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Tuesday. ...more

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Pharmacists shun suspect prescriptions

From CBC News:
Some St. John's pharmacists are taking action to prevent abuse of OxyContin, with a few going so far as to refuse filling prescriptions written by physicians they don't trust.

Pharmacist Brian Healey says strangers bearing prescriptions don't get very far at his Casey Street pharmacy.

"If we have a prescription for OxyContin, and we don't know the patient, then we just won't fill it. I just refuse to fill it," Healey says. ...more

Sunday, May 08, 2005

Drug company stockholders reject Minnesota resolution on Canadian pharmacies

From the Canadian Press:
Shareholders at three of the United States' biggest drugmakers have voted down a Minnesota state-sponsored resolution urging them to keep supplies flowing to Canadian pharmacies that cater to American customers.

But the Minnesota Board of Investment's resolution garnered significantly more support than shareholder-sponsored moves usually do. At Pfizer Inc.'s shareholder meeting last Thursday, 28 per cent voted to examine the company's policy of restricting Canadian inventories. ...more

Washington state governor to press for drug imports

From Reuters:
Aiming to cut Washington state's health-care costs, Gov. Christine Gregoire will lobby federal officials and lawmakers to allow imports of prescription drugs, her spokeswoman said on Friday.

Gregoire signed a state bill into law on Thursday that would allow retail pharmacies in the state to import prescription drugs from wholesalers in Canada as well as the United Kingdom and Ireland, but for the state law to take effect, the federal government must first lift its ban on pharmaceutical imports. ...more


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George Bass, first general counsel at Wawanesa, retiring this spring.
|Written By Jennifer Brown
A career well crafted
Wawanesa Insurance general counsel is retiring after 20 years serving in in-house roles.

When asked what his plans are for retirement, George Bass pauses and is somewhat at a loss for words.

“I will do what I want, when I want,” he says with a laugh. “I really enjoy art exhibits and cooking . . . . I would also like to get involved with some corporate and charity boards.”

At the end of April, Bass will retire after 40 years in the legal profession, the last 17 in-house as vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, the Wawanesa Life Insurance Company, and Wawanesa General Insurance Company (USA), which operates in Canada, California, and Oregon.

A life bencher with the Law Society of Manitoba, he has served on all major committees of the Law Society as well as a number of working groups and committees in the insurance industry.

Bass first arrived in-house in 1996 as general counsel of the Pan American Games when it was held in Winnipeg. It was a considerable change in direction having spent 19 years in general private practice in Neepawa and Brandon, primarily in the areas of real estate, wills and estates, litigation, and corporate law.

He had been looking to move from rural Manitoba where he had been in private practice and saw the Pan Am opportunity as a great way to move forward. Little did he know he was entering a realm of law that was largely still in its infancy — the in-house bar.

“It was being at the right place at the right time,” says Bass. “It was a great opportunity. With the Pan Am Games, you’re starting from zero and have to build everything — your processes, bylaws, the corporate secretarial function. The other part is you have an absolute deadline by which everything has to be done.”

In the early 1990s, Bass recalls becoming a general counsel was looked at as a way for a corporate lawyer to ease into retirement.

“It wasn’t looked at as a position where one was going to be active or proactive,” says Bass. “I think the growth in-house has been healthy. I think corporations and society in general have been well served by more counsel being in-house so they can gain knowledge and experience in terms of how the business is carried on.”

Bass has been part of a generation of in-house pioneers who changed the view of the role corporate counsel can play in the business.

“It became a very vibrant position,” he says. “It was expected that as general counsel you would have a seat at the business table and take part in those corporate discussions that took place and to do a lot more than what a lawyer in private practice would generally do for a client.”

Following the Pan Am Games role, Bass became Wawanesa’s first in-house lawyer. During the three years he worked on the Games, the president of Wawanesa, Gregg Hanson, was one of the directors of the Games and chairman of the finance committee. Unbeknown to Bass, Hanson was watching and the experience turned into a three-year job interview of sorts. Toward the end of 1999 Hanson told Bass if he was looking for his next position to consider a job in-house with Wawanesa.

“With the way regulatory matters were changing in the insurance business, he wanted to have a general counsel in the company. He said, ‘You’re the sort of person I would like to have, so please come and talk to me before you make any decisions.’ It’s quite amazing considering the company had been around for 103 years and was tremendously successful but hadn’t had in-house counsel and had not used external counsel that much,” says Bass.

For the first eight years, Bass was a legal department of one at Wawanesa, but it soon became difficult to handle the workload. He now has a department of four lawyers and one paralegal reporting to him. The team includes an associate GC at the company’s subsidiary in California who has been in the position for the last 16 months.

“During the first year, every six weeks I spent three days with her just so that I could talk with her and get her to understand the culture of the parent company so we could have consistent decision-making in terms of the legal decisions and the advice we give. It has been a good investment and I’m already seeing the dividends in terms of the work she’s doing,” he says.

Bass has also observed a broader evolution of the role of general counsel within Wawanesa and other insurance companies. “We moved from doing traditional corporate law only and started to work in areas that have really evolved such as regulatory and compliance, and for those of us who are also the corporate secretary, there has been a huge change in corporate governance issues,” he says.

Bass adds that involvement in the areas of strategic planning and risk management has also increased.

“It’s been very satisfying from the perspective of wanting to be involved from an intricate level with the business of the corporation,” he says.

In terms of a career highlight, he says it’s been about developing a department that has been accepted by the business side and how legal has been able to assist the business.

Over the years, Bass has also watched as the ongoing dialogue around legal fees and value billing has bubbled up. He acknowledges the need to look at new models, but he isn’t convinced that what is being tried right now is the solution either.

“I think there is still a lot of trial and error. I think it’s a really good idea and I understand the principles behind it, but I think as a profession — both in-house and external — we are struggling to find ways to make that work. I think we have these projects going on where we are trying different things, but I don’t think anyone has found the magic bullet yet. I think there are gong to be continued changes in billing approaches and it will become more value-based.”

Bass argues there are a lot of intangibles that go into the practice of law and understanding the values and culture of the company and the business, and not having to continually teach external counsel what the business is about has really been beneficial for corporations.

“There’s a balance point between in-house counsel and the cost of external counsel and where the sweet point is for organizations,” he says. “One of the other benefits internal counsel can bring is a provision of ethical considerations to business decisions. I think for the most part the in-house bar is there, but we keep hearing about these corporate scandals and we ask the question of where was the board in that sort of thing? Where were the lawyers? Where were the ethical considerations at the business table? I’d like to think to the extent in-house counsel are available and involved in that sort of thing they would bring a different perspective to some of the scandalous decisions made.”

His advice to lawyers who are new to the in-house role is to keep in tune with what’s changing, get business experience, and watch what is changing in terms of methodology. He points to programs such as the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s Certified In-House Counsel – Canada program.

“There is no way in today’s climate that someone could become a general counsel without having that understanding of the business side,” he says. “One of my reports here in Winnipeg has gone through the CIC.C program and our associate general counsel is just completing her MBA — they need to have that sort of knowledge,” he says.


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Jeff Saut is a rarity among Wall Street strategists. He actually gets bullish when prices go down and bearish when prices go up. He was correctly bullish until now. He has turned cautious in the near term. From Minyanville:

While I, too, think any correction will likely be for buying, I'm becoming more cautious now that we're in January, worried about a repeat of January 2010. Recall what happened last year; I was cautious coming into the new year while the “crowd” was waxing bullishly. And just to make me look foolish, the S&P 500 rallied 3.2% from 2009’s year end to a short-term peak on January 19 of 1150.23. Accordingly, the cry went out: “So goes the first week of the new year, so goes the month, and so goes the year.” However, from that January peak, the SPX fell more than 9% into its February 5 low of 1044.50.

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Yeah but that didnt' happen till Jan 21st as I remember that day.

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If the market was as easy as remembering what day the market went down last year than we would all be a lot richer.


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Violations would be infractions punishable by fines of up to $500 a day, and tickets could be written by any public employee empowered to enforce laws.

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Published on July 9, 2014 8:59AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Wasting water outdoors amid the state’s drought will begin hitting Californians in the wallet under get-tough restrictions being proposed by state regulators, with fines of up to $500 a day for overwatering front lawns or washing a car without a nozzle on the hose.

The State Water Resources Control Board next week is scheduled to consider draft emergency regulations made public Tuesday. They are intended to put teeth into conservation efforts that so far have produced disappointing results.

Most of the regulations to be considered by the board are aimed at reducing outdoor water use in cities and towns, which the board said accounts in some areas for more than half of residents’ daily water use.

The regulations would prohibit overwatering of lawns and landscaping that causes runoff onto sidewalks or streets, washing sidewalks, driveways and other hard surfaces, using a hose to wash a vehicle unless the hose has a shut-off nozzle and using drinking water in a fountain or decorative water feature unless the water is recirculated.

Violations would be infractions punishable by fines of up to $500 a day, and tickets could be written by any public employee empowered to enforce laws. While $500 is the daily maximum, most cities are likely to have a sliding scale that starts with a warning and builds for repeat violations.

“We are in a drought of historic proportions,” board Chairwoman Felicia Marcus said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “Many urban water users don’t realize how bad this drought is. They’re not seeing the communities that are actually running out of water. ... They don’t see the streams and creeks running dry.”

If the board adopts the regulations after hearing comments during a July 15 public meeting in Sacramento, the rules would take effect immediately and remain in effect for nine months.

They do not target indoor water use, such as doing the laundry or dishes, although some individual cities and water districts have asked or required their users to reduce overall water consumption.

Marcus said the restrictions to be considered next week represent what the water board considers the minimal level of conservation.

“We’re not doing standards here that say you have to kill your lawn,” Marcus said. “It doesn’t mean you can’t take a shower. ... It just means, think about it.”

She said the board might consider additional steps as the drought continues.

Under the proposed rules, urban water agencies would have to implement their water-shortage contingency plans to require mandatory restrictions on outdoor water use, if they have not done so already.

Water agencies without such a plan would have to act within 30 days to require their residents to restrict outdoor irrigation to no more than two days each week or take other mandatory steps to conserve the same amount of water.

Water agencies that do not comply could face fines up to $10,000 each day.

The generally obscure State Water Resources Control Board is assuming a more high-profile role during California’s drought, which has left some communities scrambling for drinking water and led to thousands of farm acres being fallowed.

The board usually regulates such things as wastewater and irrigation discharges to rivers and the ocean, as well as any activity that changes a waterway or harms water quality.

But the board’s five members, who are appointed by the governor, are acting under Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency drought proclamation in January and a related executive order in April, as well as drought legislation he signed in March. Last week, for example, the board adopted a different set of emergency regulations that will accelerate enforcement of orders prohibiting some junior water rights holders from diverting water from rivers and streams.

The additional restrictions the board will consider next week were proposed after a recent survey of water suppliers serving 25 million Californians showed that current voluntary and mandatory conservation efforts had resulted in just a 5 percent decline in use through May. Brown is seeking a 20 percent reduction.

The survey found 30 percent of water suppliers had imposed mandatory restrictions that include limits on outdoor irrigation, washing vehicles and filling ornamental fountains and swimming pools.

Water use already was down the last three years because of dry conditions and poor economic conditions, and the survey found a significant reduction this May compared with the previous three years.

Nearly all those who responded said they had increased their conservation outreach, while 40 percent had increased their enforcement and monitoring. Two-thirds of the suppliers are requesting 20 percent water conservation, and 7 percent changed their water rates in response to the drought.

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I have two quilts finished for donation to the annual Festival of Trees which benefits Primary Children’s Medical Center. Our family has been decorating trees since 2000 in honor of my husband’s brother Paul, who was killed in the line of duty in the Air Force in 1995. I have been on a volunteer committee …

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Festival of Trees 2014

Today was Decorating Day for Festival of Trees so the Carey family decorated our 15th consecutive tree in honor of Scott’s brother, Paul. He was an Air Force pilot killed in 1995 in Alabama, leaving a wife and three young children.

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Festival of Trees 2013

  This year our theme is “Boys Like to Read”.  We decorate a tree benefitting Primary Children’s Medical Center in honor of Scott’s brother, Capt. Paul Carey.  Here are some pix of the wild and crazy decorators!   We did the tree in lime, chocolate, and turquoise and set in a man’s study.  There is …

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Monday I finished whip-stitching the binding to the back of Paul’s quilt.  I made it for our tree space at Festival of Trees 2013 that we will decorate on December 2.  Paul is Scott’s brother and every year our extended family decorates a tree in his memory at Festival of Trees.  (You can see past …

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Festival of Trees 2010

Our extended Carey family does a tree every year for the Festival of Trees that benefits Primary Childrens Medical Center.  We do it in honor of Scott’s brother, Paul, an Air Force pilot killed when his plane crashed in Alabama in 1995.  This year our Carey tree was themed “Cookies and Cream” and we did …

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(5) Artificial sweeteners are linked to cancer
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Carmarthen Town is a Fairtrade Town and Council encourages use of Fairtrade Products as much as possible.

For two weeks every year communities across Wales and the UK celebrate ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’ in an attempt to raise awareness of and the sale of Fairtade products.

For information about Fairtrade in Carmarthen, please contact Carmarthen Town Council, St Peter’s Civic Hall, Nott Sq, Carmarthen, SA31 1PQ, 01267 235199.

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Carmarthen offers the visitor:

  • Provision market
  • Small and traditional shops
  • Narrow streets and lanes
  • National retailers
  • Road, rail, bus and cycle route connections
  • Europe's first all 3D multiplex cinema
  • Art galleries and theatres
  • County library, county museum and county archives
  • One of the world's oldest outdoor cycle tracks still in use
  • Historic coracle-fishing town
  • Castle
  • Notable public buildings and monuments
  • One of the smallest public houses in the British Isles
  • The most westerly amphitheatre in the Roman empire
  • One of the finest salmon and sewin rivers in the British Isles
  • Good car parking

 All this is to be found in the Vale of Towy, one of the finest valleys in the British Isles.

At Abergwili (2 miles east on the A40) is the County Museum in the Old Bishop’s Palace. This building was originally a collegiate church founded in 1283, but was converted to a Bishop’s Palace during the Reformation. The present Bishop’s residence is still in Abergwili. The museum contains extensive displays of Roman and medieval material and a collection of early Christian memorials. There are also comprehensive displays of later material.

Close at hand is the Gwili Steam Railway, which follows the route of the former Great Western Railway as it meanders up the beautiful wooded Gwili Valley.

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Trains run to and from the Bronwydd Arms Station (3 miles north east on the A484) between May and September with special events such as ‘Santa Specials’ and ‘Thomas the Tank’ days.

The railway has ambitious plans to extend its operations southwards to the A40 on the outskirts of town.

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Seven miles south west of Carmarthen (B4312) is the village of Llansteffan with its beach and 18th and 19th century houses. Llansteffan Castle, which stands within an Iron Age hillfort, commands extensive views of Carmarthen Bay and Gower. The walk to Wharley Point will repay you with views of Carmarthenshire’s breathtaking coastal scenery.

Laugharne (13 miles south west along the A40 and A4066) is a pretty township with a bold castle and some good 18th century buildings. It was once a resort for half-pay sea captains and a fishing village. Here Dylan Thomas lived and wrote at the Boathouse, now open to the public, which is superbly sited over the River Tâf. Laugharne Castle has been restored by Cadw and is open to the public. A few miles further on is Pendine Sands with its 7-mile beach famed for early world land-speed records and where the Museum of Speed has exhibits and displays about these record-breaking events.

Pembrey Country Park (12 miles south on the A484) and Cefn Sidan Beach. Attractions in the park include a ski slope, miniature railway, a complex of footpaths and cycleways which run through the park and Pembrey Forest linking to the Millennium Coast Path. Cycles can be hired at the ski slope. On the way, you pass the Pembrey Motor Sports Centre, and can take in Kidwelly Castle and the Industrial Museum with its steam-powered machinery.

The town is admirably located for exploring west Wales, with routes leading to Pembrokeshire and the Irish Ferries, Ceredigion, Breconshire and Swansea. The Tourist Information Centre in Nott Square has leaflets for most attractions. Within a short distance of the town, the Tywi Valley (A40 eastbound) offers a wonderful collection of historic parks and gardens as well as the National Botanic Garden of Wales, off the A48 at Middleton Hall. A tour up the valley to Llandeilo can take in such gems as Aberglasney Historic Gardens, Dinefwr Park and Newton House (National Trust), Dinefwr Castle (Cadw), the Golden Grove Arboretum and Dryslwyn Castle, all within a 35 mile round trip.


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The next thing that you will need to focus on when buying tires for your SUV is the ride quality that they have. There are a variety of high profile and low profile tires on the market and choosing the right one will take some time. You want to make sure that if you choose to go with a low profile tire, you will not be in danger of  damaging the bottom side of your truck due to lack of height. The more you are able to find out about the benefits of dangers of the tires you are choosing from, the easier it will be to get the right ones.

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March 24, 2013

THE MODERATOR: We have our runner‑up finisher Dale Earnhardt, Jr., driver of the No.88 National Guard Chevrolet. Can you just talk about that last lap there and what happened?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: Yeah, I wasn't racing up there, so I couldn't really get a good view of it, but I was running around the bottom of the corner, and I knew they were going to‑‑ they were slowing up and battling real hard, so I was just trying to get what I could get. I felt like on the back straightaway Kyle had the best shot at winning the race because those two guys were slowing down running so hard. Just lucky we were able to get by on the inside there. I got turned by Harvick one time when he had a flat tire back in '01 or '02. Man, turned into a wall there, and I didn't want to have that happen again today because that's what I thought was going to happen to me. So I was a little‑‑ that was the world I was in at that moment. I really wasn't worried about those guys too much and how they were wrecking and all. I was just glad to get through and get a good run.
We had a good car all day, and sort of just got off sequence and all screwed up on tire strategy there at the end with all the cautions and guys coming for four and two, and we were able to take advantage of that on that last caution, get four tires, and starting on the inside was terrible. I would lose five, six spots down there trying to get going on the inside, and finally that last restart we started 18th but we were on the outside and we were ninth by the time we come back around for the first lap under green. Just really important to get that outside restart, and we weren't getting it there near the end, so we were just going backwards.
Just happy we were able to finish. I thought the car was good enough to finish in the top 5, so I'm glad we got a good finish up there.

Q. Can you just talk about what a team effort it took from where you got knocked down to the back? You guys had the tire changes, you came to fight for where you are, now you're the points leader.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: Yeah, we had a little problem on pit road on one of our stops and lost a lot of positions. But we've always‑‑ we just stick together, and everybody was just kind of‑‑ patted each other on the back and we was going to get another chance to redeem ourselves on pit road. We had a good car. On that next restart we drove back up to 10th before the next caution, so I felt like we were back up in position to run well and everything was fine. We got a good pit stop on the next caution and put that mistake behind us.
You know, then the race sort of got weird. I'm not sure exactly‑‑ when we would take two tires, our car drove really bad. It just didn't like that old left rear on there, and it would‑‑ we'd just get really, really loose. So that was giving me some problems. And we were fading there at the end of the race, but we got an opportunity to fix it when we got that late caution.
But yeah, we just stick together. We got‑‑ we were pretty good at closing races, something I never really was good at for years, and now we're doing it as good as anybody. Just riding the wave. Just real happy with how things are going for our team.

Q. A lot has been said this weekend that the track hasn't been resurfaced or redone in a while. Some people are calling it character like Fenway Park or Wrigley Field. What's your take?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: I think it's great. Do everybody a favor, whoever owns this place, and pave the back straightaway. If you pave the back straightaway, there's some real bad bumps, we all watched it on TV in the Nationwide race and I'm sure you saw it today. It's just going down the back straightaway. It probably doesn't cost much to pave the two lanes that we race in, and that would really cure any complaints that I got. I think the corners are perfect. I wouldn't pave anything or change anything about the turns. This place has got‑‑ this is the age of asphalt that I think tracks strive for. This is what places like Michigan and Phoenix look forward to, you know, when they get a good 10, 15 years on their asphalt. This is really right in the ballpark, right in everybody's wheelhouse. I think everybody that runs in the Cup garage really likes the surface. It's just real bumpy down the back straightaway for some reason, and it doesn't have to be, and I think they can fix that with a couple lanes of asphalt on that outside toward the wall, and like I said, the corners, man, you couldn't ask for a better racetrack.

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Footage of an accident that shocked Czech Republic last summer has emerged, showing a train colliding with a truck while doing 88mph (142km/h).

You don’t need us to explain how unbelievably stupid it is to pass a rail crossing that flashes red warning lights and plays an acoustic signal. This is exactly what happened on July 22, 2015 in the Czech Republic, when a truck driver ignored all the warnings and drove over the tracks when he was trapped between the falling gates.

Instead of ramming through the gate (as it is advised to do in these situations), the truck driver moved his truck a few meters ahead to avoid a direct impact to the cab, with the trailer which was carrying aluminum sheets remaining over the tracks.

Seconds later, the train hits the trailer with immense force, destroying it completely along with the truck’s chassis, leaving the cab almost intact. The train was approaching the crossing at a speed of 160km/h (99mph) with the train driver pulling the emergency brake, slowing the speed of impact to 142km/h (88mph).

The debris of the crash reached the Studénka railway station, about 500 meters from the rail crossing, causing major damage to one of its platforms.

Three passengers died and seventeen others were injured. The train driver lost his leg and suffered further serious injuries from the aluminum sheets that smashed through the first wagon of the train and into the passenger compartment.

The truck driver walked away completely unharmed from the scene and was detained by the Czech police, facing charges of five to ten years in prison for public endangerment.

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AS I SAID: "HORRIBLY EXPENSIVE:" Our car was returned from the dealer with a new transmission with three new problems: a burning smell and check engine light, a gas filler lid that does not close, and a noise from a rear wheel when turning right. Despite dealer service every 3k miles, we were told what do you expect with a 100k mile car. The lid is $350 to fix the gas filler lid "motor." They won't look at the check engine light w/o running a diagnostic, which is more $$. Once again, none of these issues existed before we brought the car in to our regular Volvo dealer with respect to the transmission.

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I must say that I don't understand American service intervals! My Volvo, here in the UK, only needs servicing every 10,000 miles! It is now on 135,000 miles and fault free - I love the features, ergonomics inside and especially the comfort!

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Just passed 210,000 miles on my 2002 xc70 and feel I must have got a good one compared to other comments. Transmission went at 175,000 which I replaced with a 100k certified rebuild; no other major problems yet. Very comfortable driving cabin as you might expect me to say considering the mileage I've put on this beauty; great in the snow!

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We love this car, as it is great for our family. (all 3 kids fit in the back seat comfortably) We live in San Francisco, so we do a ton of hill/city driving. I was surprised, though, that we needed a new transmission at the 67000 tune up. there have been times when the transmission was a little jerky, and the service dept. simply updated some software. This time they are telling us that we need a whole new transmission at $4500. I love our car, but 67000 seems a quite a bit early for replacing a transmission.


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He was survived by his son, Darryl and daughter-in-law, Dolores; grandsons, Steven Johnsonbaugh of Germany, Alan Harper (Sarah) of Jessieville; granddaughters, Jacqueline Leinweber (Oleg) of Germany, Autumn Hernandez (Carlos) of Jessieville, Angel Turner (Alfred) of Fountain Lake; great-grandchildren, Ava Harper, Lea Leinweber, Evan and Easton Harper, Preston and Parker Turner; sisters, Eleanor L. Hewitt, Martavene Koch of Pennsylvania; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.

John was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 33 years, Florence Johnsonbaugh; sisters, Drucilla Detwiler, Denise Johnsonbaugh, Helyn Pine; and brother, Robert Johnsonbaugh.

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Asha, a native of Toronto, has worked in three provinces and one territory as an Anchor and Reporter. She started as a writer in Toronto and quickly moved in front of the camera, reporting in London, Winnipeg, and Edmonton. She also made the trek to the great white north working for the CBC in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

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At age 33, Zuri Scrivens discovered she had breast cancer. She endured a mastectomy, radiation, chemo and hormone therapy. But within nine months, Zuri’s cancer was back — and had spread to her liver and lymph nodes. Her disease was now considered incurable, and she faced the very real prospect she’d never see her toddler grow up.

That was six years ago. Today, Zuri has no signs of cancer, not because of a miraculous new cancer drug, but thanks to a standard treatment for diabetes. Zuri Scrivens has become the poster child for a revolutionary approach to cracking cancer.

It’s called POG - Personalized OncoGenomics - and it’s the subject of the gripping new documentary. With exclusive and rare access, Cracking Cancer follows a group of patients, all with incurable cancer, through the highly experimental clinical trial at the BC Cancer Agency, a trial that holds the promise of personalized cancer diagnosis and treatment.

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The trial compares patients’ normal DNA – each cell’s complete set of instructions – with that of their tumours, to find the genetic mutations causing their cancer. That means sequencing a patient’s whole genome, including roughly 20,000 genes. Researchers sift through mountains of data for the point or points where things went haywire: a mutation or mutations. Then the hunt for an effective tool to tackle the cancer begins.

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“We’re trying to find what’s driving that cancer,” says Dr. Janessa Laskin, who is co-founder of the trial.  “And then, can we identify a drug that will block the cancer driver in each patient?”  Zuri’s cancer driver was a mutation that caused a very high growth factor. The team painstakingly plowed through decades’ worth of scientific discovery, to isolate which drug in all of medicine, not just cancer, might block that growth factor. They zeroed in on a diabetes medication. Zuri received the drug, and continued standard hormone treatment. Within five months, her cancer became undetectable.

When POG launched in 2012, there were only 30 cancer patients in the trial. But initial results were so promising it has expanded to take in 750 patients to date. It’s aiming to enrol 5,000.

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Dr. Marco Marra, one of the world’s leading genome scientists and co-founder of the trial, says, “What would you do with 100,000 fully characterized genomes where you knew how the cancers had behaved after being treated?  I think you would have a resource that might actually revolutionize how we develop drugs.”

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Vancouver police are searching for a suspect after a violent assault on a sex-trade worker in East Vancouver Monday night.

Around 8 p.m. PT, a man picked up the 42-year-old woman in the Downtown Eastside. He then drove her to a secluded area where she was allegedly beaten and tied up.

Police say they received several 911 calls half an hour later describing a woman being dragged by a van on Clark Drive near 13th Avenue.

"The woman had managed to partially free herself and, fearing for her life, jumped from the moving van," Const. Brian Montague said.

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The suspect is described by police as a white, balding man with a tanned complexion and a moustache or goatee. It's possible he may have an Australian accent. He was driving a white panel van with roof racks.

"We want to make sure he doesn't have the opportunity to do this again," Montague said.

"I can't imagine how terrified this woman must have felt, being beaten, tied up, and driven somewhere that — she didn't know what was going to happen to her."

The victim is in hospital with a head injury and multiple abrasions.

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On Tuesday, news of the brutal assault reminded some women about serial murderer Robert Pickton, who preyed on sex trade workers in the Downtown Eastside.

"My cousin was found on Pickton's farm, so I'm really upset right now. It's really hit me close to home," said Lorelei Williams, a women's youth outreach worker at the Aboriginal Front Door Society.

Mona Woodward, executive director of the society, offered safety tips for the area's sex trade workers.

"Don't work alone, work in pairs, jot down license plate numbers, be hyper alert of your surroundings."she told CBC News. "This is a person that's clearly predatory in nature and needs to be stopped."


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Two men from Winnipeg, MB, have been fined nearly $15,000 in total for various fishing violations, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) said Monday.

The two men were each fined:

  • $3,500 for obstructing a Fisheries Officer;
  • $1,500 for making false and misleading statements to a Fisheries Officer;
  • $1,200 for fishing for lake trout during a closed season;
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  • $500 for fishing with barbed hooks in a restricted area.

One of the men was also fined $500 for fishing without a licence, and both have been prohibited from fishing in Ontario for two years. Their fishing equipment was also forfeited to the Crown.

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In a media release, the MNRF said the case was heard in Kenora court on August 28.

The MNRF said a conservation officer was conducting a fisheries inspection, and encountered the two men at a cottage on Clearwater Bay, on Lake of the Woods, in March 2016. The officer found evidence of recent ice fishing activity in front of the cottage.

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A Syrian Red Crescent official says about 300 more people were removed Monday from besieged, rebel-held neighbourhoods of Syria's third-largest city, Homs.

Khaled Erksoussi, the Red Crescent's head of operations, says the group was notified that a ceasefire in Homs that ended Sunday has been extended "for a few days."

The day's evacuations brought to around 1,000 the number of people brought out of Homs since Friday, when the truce began. The Red Crescent has also delivered some food aid into the districts, despite shelling, though none was taken in on Monday, Erksoussi said.

Some reports said the UN-brokered ceasefire in Homs was renewed on Monday for three more days.

The announcement came as the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that al-Qaeda-inspired rebels overran the village of Maan on Sunday, killing more than two dozen civilians, including an entire family. The village north of the central city of Hama is populated by minority Alawites.

Red Crescent workers targeted

Syrian state media described the attack on Maan as a "massacre" perpetrated by rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

Despite the truce in Homs, sporadic shelling and shooting over the weekend drew sharp criticism from UN humanitarian chief Valerie, who said both sides in the clashes appeared to have "deliberately targeted" UN and Syrian Red Crescent workers.

Government forces have been besieging the rebel-held districts in the city for months, cutting off supplies.

In Geneva, representatives from the Syrian government were meeting Monday with members of the opposition, beginning the second round of negotiations aimed at ending the nearly three-year civil war, the CBC's Derek Stoffel reported from Jerusalem.

Red Crescent trucks stand by in the besieged neighbourhoods of Homs to supply humanitarian aid. (Thaer Al Khalidiya/Reuters)

The weekend rescue of people took place as aid workers delivered much-needed supplies to Homs, where 2,500 people have been trapped with little food or medicine.

"In Syria these days, a short ceasefire is seen as a victory," Stoffel said. "There are few who hold any hope that these talks in Geneva will bring an end to three years of suffering, three years of bloody civil war."

Erksoussi had said he hoped the ceasefire would allow more aid to be delivered and more rescues to be facilitated.

"We know about more people need and want to be evacuated," he said. "What we are trying to do now is push new, safe exit point."

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He told The Associated Press by phone from Damascus that there are 200 families, mostly Christians, who want to leave two rebel-held districts in central Homs. Those people were unable to reach the designated exit point from the city during the ceasefire.

Civilians walk towards a meeting point to be removed from a besieged area of Homs Monday. About 600 people left the area, escaping more than a year of hunger and deprivation caused by one of the most protracted blockades of Syria's devastating conflict. (Thaer Al Khalidiya/Reuters)

In Geneva, Lakhdar Brahimi, the Algerian United Nations envoy and adviser who is acting as mediator at talks between Syria and rebels, asked the two sides to declare that they have the political will to resolve the issues on the table.

Brahimi told delegations he plans to address issues of stopping the violence and establishing transitional governing body in parallel, according to a document obtained by Reuters.

As well, he plans to keep meeting delegations separately for next two or three days, hoping for the atmosphere at the talks to improve, Reuters said.

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Islamic extremists, including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hardline, al-Qaeda-style ideologies, have played an increasingly prominent role among the rebel fighters fighting forces loyal to Assad, who is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam.

The raid on Maan is likely to bolster efforts by the government delegation to convey their narrative at the Geneva peace talks that the three-year uprising to overthrow Assad is dominated by al-Qaeda extremists. The extremists see Alawites as apostates who should be killed.

Rami Abdurrahman, who runs the Observatory for Human Rights, said Islamic fighters overran Maan after Alawite villagers lobbed mortar shells on the rebels using nearby roads. There have also been heavy clashes for weeks between hardline rebels and Assad loyalists in the nearby community of Morek, Abdurrahman said.

A video uploaded by the rebels of the Jund al-Aqsa Brigade, which said it overran the village, showed them waving a black jihadi flag over the village rooftops as bearded, grinning men looted homes. The video corresponded with The Associated Press' reporting of the event.

Jund al-Aqsa Brigade, however, did not claim responsibility for the killings, nor did any other extremist group in Syria.

With files from The Associated Press, Reuters