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About Dr. Staroselsky

Dr. Arthur Staroselsky is a Medical Doctor (MD) certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He has a special interest and training in Dermatology and Aesthetic Medicine. Dr. Staroselsky  worked in such hospitals as Sunny Brook Hospital (Toronto), Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), Women’s College Hospital (Toronto), Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie), McKenzie Health Center (Richmond Hill).

He is a fellow of the Canadian Association of Aesthetic Medicine, active member of Canadian Medical Association (CMA), Ontario Medical Association (OMA) and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He successfully combines clinical practice with teaching students in McMaster University and has a number of publications.

Dr. Staroselsky pursued an additional several years of subspecialty training in Aesthetic Medicine, including fellowship and courses in France, USA and Israel. Having further specialized in Aesthetic Medicine, Dr. Staroselsky is highly qualified to perform nonsurgical facial enhancement and skin rejuvenation injectable procedures. Most demanding patients notice that he is fluent in the art of injecting methods of correction of facial contours while maintaining its natural proportions.

In his practice, Dr. Staroselsky uses medications and remedies approved by the Ministry of Health Canada such as Allergan (Botox, Juviderm), Q-Med (Restylane), Merz Aesthetics (Radiesse, Xeomin, Esthelis), Teoxane (Teosyal), Prollenium (Ovita, Revanesse) and others. All drugs tested for shelf life and have the number of the certificate, which is indicated in the patient’s card prior to the procedure. All injectable aesthetic procedures are performed directly by Dr. Staroselsky and not delegated to nurses or physician assistant.

“It is not a secret that people are willing to stay healthy, young and attractive as long as possible. I assume the firm belief that everyone can look like they feel. With help of the latest innovations in the field of aesthetic medicine you may look young and attractive at any age.”

Sincerely, Dr. Arthur Staroselsky

Arthur Staroselsky

Dr. Arthur Staroselsky

Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
McMaster University

“Dr. Staroselsky takes time to listen to your concerns, he answers all your questions, he never rushes you. He explains if you do not understand. In fact, he explains every single detail. He is empathetic. Who wouldn’t want a fantastic doctor who is always there when you need him?! It doesn’t take “a century” to get an appointment to see him. His staff are friendly.”

– J. N.

“I am 62. I had to change family doctor for my previous one retired. On my first appointment Dr.Staroselsky looked me over, found suspicious spot on my back and removed it at the next appointment. It turned out to be melanoma in its initial phase. Never before I had my back inspected. Later, the dermatologist said that this doctor saved my life. How would you rate such doctor?! Besides, very pleasant, intelligent and cooperative.”

– P. W.

“Very knowledgable and attentive doctor with years of hospital experience. Takes his responsibilities seriously. He cares! Never rushes, but takes his own time to explain the things you need to know and understand. Highly recommended.”

– R. A.

  1. Staroselsky A. Chief editor. “Medicine” – 2200 exam-type questions with detailed explanations. Tel-Aviv, Israel: Tekma Inc., 1993, pp. 396
  2. Nulman I, Staroselsky A, Koren G. Teratogenic Drugs and Chemicals in Humans. Chapter 5. Maternal fetal toxicology. Clinian’s guide. Fifth edition. Toronto, Canada: McGraw – Hill, 2007

Presentations, Articles and Publications

  1. Cutaneous Adverse Drug reactions. Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. Motherisk rounds. April, 2014
  2. Dahonick T, Lucky D, Staroselsky A and Hwang I. Spreading, Itchy Rash. The Canadian Journal of Diagnosis. September 2013 Vol. 30, No. 9.
  3. Kocsis J, Staroselsky A and Hwang I. Bumpy spot on the foot – what is your diagnosis. The Canadian Journal of Diagnosis. September 2012; 53-54
  4. Staroselsky A, Garcia-Bournissen F, Koren G. Exposure to fifth disease in pregnancy. Canadian Family Physician Journal. 2009 Dec; 55: 1195 -1198.
  5. Staroselsky A, Fantus E., Sussman R., Sandor P., Koren G. Predictors of Behavioural Phenotype in Children with Psychiatric Disorders Exposed in Utero to Alcohol. Pediatric Drugs. (Pediatric Drugs 2009; 11 (1): 22-25)
  6. Staroselsky A, Nava-Ocampo A, Vohra S, Koren G. Hemorrhoid In Pregnancy. Canadian Family Physician Journal. 2008 Feb;54(2):189-90.
  7. Garcia-Bournissen F, Staroselsky A, Avner M, Asrar F, Berkovitch M, Straface G, Koren G, DeSantis M. Fetal exposure to isotretinoin-an international problem.Reprod Toxicol. 2008Jan;25(1):124-8. Epub 2007 Oct 25.
  8. Staroselsky A, Garciabournissen F, Koren G, Comment on the AGA Institute Medical Position Statement on the Use of Gastrointestinal Medication in Pregnancy. Gastroenterology. 2006 Jul;131(1):278-82.
  9.  Vohra S, Staroselsky A, Koreb G. The Safety of Proctofoam-HC In The Third Trimester Of Pregnancy. Annual Scientific Retreat. Toronto December 2006.
  10. Staroselsky A, Bolshinsky E. The case of difficult obstetrical sepsis. September 1990. Proc.of the “Regional conference of young scientists” (Donetsk, Ukraine).
  11. Staroselsky A, Gorobetz E, SmerdovA. Intensive therapy of sepsis. May 1990. Proc. of the XVIII Scientific conference of Interns. (Donetsk, Ukraine).
  12. Staroselsky A, Goncharov V. Alteration in central haemodinamics during extracorporal haemosorbtion. June 1988. Proc. of the conference ”Selection of the lectures of young scientists” (Donetsk, Ukraine).
  13. Staroselsky A, Paniotov P, Ukolov Y. Selective ion haemosorbtion and its influence on the central hemodinamic. April 1988. Proc. of the conference ” Regional conference of young scientists” (Vitebsk, Byelorussia).

  1. CIHR Strategic Training Program in Tobacco Use in Special Populations Award. June 2006, Toronto, Canada.
  2. Best Research Award. June 1988. Vitebsk, Russia.
  3. Student Excellence Award. June 1987. Donetsk, Ukraine.

2006 Permanent License to Practice Medicine in Ontario
1994 Permanent License to Practice Medicine in Israel
1989 Medical Doctor degree (MD)

2007 – 2009 Family Medicine Residency program. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Women’s College Hospital.University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada.
2006 – 2007 Clinical Fellowship. Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Hospital for Sick Children.University of Toronto – Toronto, Canada.
1993 – 1994 Internship PGY1, Assaf ha Rofe Hospital.Tel-Aviv University – Zrifin, Israel.
1989 – 1990 Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Residency Program. Department of Anaesthesiology and ICU Kalinin Regional Hospital.Donetsk Medical University – Donetsk, Ukraine.
1983 – 1989 Medical Doctor Diploma.Donetsk Medical University – Donetsk, Ukraine.

Additional Education

2013 Introduction to Dermoscopy.Cardiff University – Cardiff, United Kingdom.
2013 Laser and Aesthetic Skin Therapy.The Harvard Medical School – Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
2013 Introduction to Dermoscopy.Cardiff University – Cardiff, United Kingdom.
2009 Counselling Skills Education Program. Department of Family and Community MedicineUniversity of Toronto – Toronto, Canada.
2007 Centre for the Evaluation of the Health Professional Educated Abroad (Toronto, Canada).
2006 Advanced Cardiac Life Support. Sunnybrook Hospital. (Toronto, Canada).


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Skin care treatment or facial is a simple and affordable way to achieve beautiful, younger looking skin and to improve skin imperfections (acne, sun spots, hyperpigmentation, wrinkles and fine lines, redness, puffiness and dark circles under the eyes, excessive oiliness/dryness, etc.). Depending on the purpose and skin type facial may include: your skin evaluation, cleansing, gentle exfoliation, steaming with pure distilled water, blackheads extraction, compresses, local treatment; face, neck & décolleté massage; face, lips & eye mask; galvanic/ultrasound treatment to maximize the absorption of rejuvenating ingredients and much more.

Prior to the facial/treatment a consultation is required. During the consultation you may discuss your individual skin care plan and ask about your home care routine. Also, you will have your before and after photos taken (for the clinic records only). Usually your facial will take from 30 to 75 minutes. You will notice visible difference in appearance of your skin texture after the first treatment! Having facial regularly you can get more youthful and fresh look you desire. For consistent skin care facials are recommended once every 4-6 weeks.

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d:swarm – v0.9.1 release

We are happy to bring you (yet) another version of d:swarm with many new and interesting features. Furthermore, d:swarm is successfully deployed and in production mode at SLUB Dresden right now. Since our last release @ ELAG 2015 wasn’t announced officially via this channel here, we also try to list the changes that have been made between our last official release from April 2015 up to now.

So here is the list of features that have been added or enhanced since our last release(s):

  • JSON import
  • extend support of inbuilt schemata, e.g.,
    • OAI-PMH + DC Terms, OAI-PMH + DC Elements, OAI-PMH + MARCXML, PNX, MARCXML, MABXML (since ELAG 2015 release)
    • OAI-PMH + DC Elements + Europeana (since v0.9.1)
  • task processing “on-the-fly” (streaming variant via Task Processing Unit (TPU) + streaming enabled at d:swarm backend):
    • enables a large(r) scale data processing at an acceptable amount of time
    • mappings can be taken from multiple projects
    • TPU tasks can be executed in parallel threads, when a data source is split into multiple chunks
    • XML can be exported on-the-fly (i.e. the result of the task processing is not stored centrally in the Data Hub)
    • input schemata can be re-utilised (e.g. useful for CSV data)
  • new transformation functions:
    • regex map lookup (regexlookup): a lookup map that allows regular expression as keys
    • dewey validating/parsing (dewey)
    • HTTP API request function (http-api-request)
    • JSON parse function (parse-json)
    • (real) collect function (collect)
    • numeric filter (numfilter)
    • ISSN validation/parsing (issn)
    • convert value (convert-value): to be able to create, e.g., resources (instead of literals) as object
  • enhanced transformation functions:
    • SQL map (sqlmap)
  • new filter functions:
    • numeric filter
    • equals
    • not-equals
    • (regex was default)
  • skip filter: for whole job, i.e., only records that match the criteria of the filter will be emitted
  • record search/selection: to be able to execute preview/test tasks @ Backoffice with specific records
  • various maintenance/productivity improvements, e.g.,
    • copy mappings (to new project with input data model with very similar schema, e.g., a schema that was generated by given example data to an inbuilt schema)
    • migrate mappings (to new project with input data model with somehow similar schema, e.g., OAI-PMH MARCXML to MARCXML)
  • enhanced error handling/ more expressive logging + more expressive messages for user
  • various bug fixes and improvements over all parts of the application (frontend, backend, graph extension, …)
  • XML enhancing step (experimental)
  • (deprecate data model (backend only))
  • (deprecate records in a data model (backend only))
  • scale Data Hub (mainly optimize storage footprint + re-write some indexing approaches)
  • transformation logic widget (arrow drawing) has been redesigned

Feel free to test all these additions, improvements and enhancements at our demo instance. We are happy about any kind of feedback via our various communication channels: Twitter, Gitter, Google+mailing list, issue tracker or simply drop us a note at team[at]dswarm[dot]org.

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List of post offices in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK)

Emirates Post Office locations and timings in Ras Al Khaima
RAK post office locations Open Telephone Fax Notes
Ras Al Khaimah Central Post Office 8am-9pm +971-7-2333517 +971-7-2337955
Al Jazeerah Al Hamra Post Office 8am-2pm +971-7-2445651 +971-7-2447122
Al Nakheel Post Office 8am-8pm +971-7-2284469 +971-7-2272021
Al Oraibi, Al Uraibi Post Office 8am-2pm
+971-7-2276100 +971-7-2286100
Al Rams Post Office 8am-2pm +971-7-2662440 +971-7-2662215
Digdagga Post Office 8am-2pm +971-7-2442249
Kuwaiti St, next to RAK Health Center 8am-3pm     New, reported 15 Feb 2010
RAK Free Trade Zone (Feb 08) 8am-3pm
Shams Post Office 8am-2pm +971-7-2666973 +971-7-2666481
  • Opening timings given in this list apply Saturdays to Thursdays only for post offices in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK). Most post offices are usually closed on Fridays and public holidays but see one of the UAE newspapers for holiday times after a holiday announcement.
  • Post office opening times are reduced during Ramadan - Saturday-Thursday from 0900-1300 and maybe evenings 9pm to midnight for the Central and Nakheel offices.
  • Collection of mail from PO Boxes should be available 24 hrs per day. Collection of large packets and registered mail depends on post office timings.
  • If you know of any post offices not in this list, please reply to the RAK post office topic with details.
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Love it or loathe it, the Young Guns duology became a very popular re-telling of the most (in)famous outlaw in the north, south, east aaaaaand west of the American frontier - Billy the Kid, (otherwise known as William H Bonnie).  Featuring the hottest Hollywood acting folk of the late 80s early 90s (otherwise known as the "brat pack") this sequel begins somewhere in the 1950s with an old man claiming to be that same outlaw of long ago.  This old-timer has been sending out telephone smoke signals so's he can find a lawyer to represent him in a full pardon for all his regretful doin's out in the old west many a year back.  His lawyer-to-be agrees to meet this varmint out in the desert to hear his story (strange as it all sounds) but the legal critter is also asking for some kinda proof of his identity.  So begins a two-hour flashback told in tale by this living fossil of yesteryear.

"Sorry guys ... I did have the handcuff keys after all."

The tale of Billy The Kid has been retold and "relegendised" for film on no less than 69 occassions to date - and I'm not making that number up just for fun.  This 1990 sequel to the surprise hit back in 1988 is based on the alleged true story described above and of the events that followed after Billy the Kid was apparently shot and killed by his former pal turned sherriff.  Whether or not this was a factual case is a matter for the historians, but who cares when it can be made the stuff of legend and entertainment such as this?  This movie is just as much fun as the original that spawned it and if you loved the first one then you simply can't miss its sequel.

Some people may think that the entire musical score was composed by Jon Bon Jovi himself, but this is not the case.  He did however write an "inspired" pseudo-soundtrack album containing numerous songs & ballads (11 in total), but only "Blaze Of Glory" was used at the end of the film as well as another song called "Billy Get Your Guns" found in the end credits.  Instead, it was Alan Silvestri who wrote the movie's orchestral sequences (his efforts include The Mummy Returns and Predator).  On an even more bizarre sidenote, there are a couple of musical cues that inexplicably sound a lot like Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time"...maybe I'm just too tired or something.

And I still think that the "Blaze Of Glory" theme song sounds cool after all these years (if listened to in moderation, of course).  Oh, watch out for Jon Bon Jovi's cameo as the scruffy man who gets shot in the chest and blown backwards after Doc and Chavez's jail cell incident.

Lady Godiva ... Eat your heart out!

Taking place a year later from where Young Guns left off and told in flashback by an old geezer using the name of Brushy Bill Roberts, the search is on for Billy The Kid (Emilio Estevez) and his previous gang of outlaws who have since all gone their separate ways.  One by one they are found and arrested awaiting, trial.  Billy the Kid is offered a treaty by the newly elected Governor and offers to meet with him to discuss terms.  The deal is set for Billy to turn in state's evidence against his arch enemies "The Murphy Boys" (whom had murdered the Young Guns' employer and saviour) in return for leniency (the Governor's offer) or a full pardon (Billy's offer).

Of course, nothing ever goes to plan. The betrayals are what hurts Billy the most and this is yet another heartache for him to contend with.  Along the way he endlessly roams the countryside for sanctuary whilst practising his gun skills in the multiple shootouts he finds himself in. And quite inventive about it he is, too.

Well, I'm not sure what I should say about this transfer.  I feel that the video remastering of this title was only overseen on the DVD authoring stations PC monitors as I cannot understand why it should look as bad as it does on my TV - it still looks pretty great on my PC though.

Unfortunately I will have to make my evaluations based on what the majority of DVD viewers use to watch their movies with, which is their TV of course. (If anyone has any objections to my views on the quality issues of this disc, please inform me of any other opinions so I can determine what might be wrong on my side, thank you).

"If I didn't know any better, I'd think they were trying to hang me."

The television picture is generally murky, drained of the basic colour hues except for the reds and browns and shows an old-time blurriness that used to be common in NTSC video.  Surprisingly the blacks are quite deep and the indoor scenes actually exhibit more detail than I would have originally expected from this transfer.  However, the image in its entirety is very dull and not at all bright.  The one grace to all this is that there is hardly any grain and little or no MPEG artefacts to speak of.  Thankfully I can view all these scenes and not miss much in general, even if the detail is seriously lacking.  Technically speaking this is an acceptable film-to-video transfer but it could have been slightly better with maybe some beta tweaking on a TV display (if this wasn't already done).

The picture on a PC is quite a stark contrast comparitively speaking.  The darker indoor and night-time scenes are what suffers the most here with the detail easily becoming lost in the shadows, so any hope of viewing them on a PC monitor needs a boost from the brightness control (with a subsequent washing out of the image).  The outdoor and day-time scenes exhibit relatively good use of colour and overall image quality, however there's some fine detail that's sorely lacking. Objects such as the various trees and shrubs around the place are an example.

The total running time comes just under two hours which is acceptable for a single-layer DVD, and unless there was a better film-to-NTSC transfer available to the studio then I doubt a double-layer DVD would have improved things significantly.

"Sheesh, I couldn't even hit this cameraman with a shovel full of sand."

I wasn't totally disappointed with this effort, not totally anyway - this soundtrack exhibits none of the qualities that were afforded for the Dirty Harry stable of movies.  So basically it's an old-time sounding soundtrack for a film set in older times, but it didn't have to be - this is a barely servicable soundtrack.

Unfortunately, any lack of a proper 5.1 remix is immediately obvious at the beginning of the film when the truck roars past from left to right ... I was at least expecting a half-decent panning of sound from the relevant front speakers, but the best I got was a raised volume to signify that it was directly in front of us for a second, that's all.  The soundtrack is mainly (mono) frontstage directed with some bleeding to the rears so that it fools us into thinking we are being immersed in sound.  Resultantly, there is very little or no split-surround activity (and if there WAS any proper rear-channel mix in place, it gets terribly lost in the quagmire of aural-quicksand).

The sub-woofer gets a sub-standard usage and it also sounds strangely distant from the action that is being exhibited on-screen (ie  the bass doesn't seem to belong to any of the sound effects being produced).  Therefore the low-end of the audio spectrum doesn't always kick in when you expect it to, but when it happens it's still perfectly timed to the action.  However, the worst feature of this mix is sadly the dialogue which sometimes gets lost in the murkiness and is a slight struggle to hear every word spoken.

The main menu screen is static and funnily enough it has a couple of the minor actors missing compared to the pic exhibited on the DVD back-cover insert.  The featurette provided is pretty much your standard TV promo fluff - it contains a few on-set interviews with the cast discussing the film's plot points (good insights actually) but it also has plenty of unnecessary movie footage (in cramped Pan&Scan).  The theatrical trailer rounds off the package.

It's just a pity they couldn't get a hold of the "Blaze Of Glory" music video as well (I know, complex music rights, etc).

"Whaddaya mean we gotta take a pay-cut?"
Take note that there are no subtitles whatsoever, which is a great shame considering how muffled the dialogue sounds sometimes.

A couple of flaws regarding the packaging and the disc itself.  The cover insert says that the DVD is "single-layer" (which is correct) but claims that the "layer transition may trigger a slight pause" (ahem).  Also, the original DVD I was sent nearly a year ago was still encoded for Region 1 only, so after a whole year has passed we are now finally getting the properly encoded title onto our Region 4 store shelves (albeit not in PAL).

So then, adequate video, average audio, no subtitles and NTSC.  If you must own it, then this is the only version available.  I have no idea whether Warner Bros is going to rely on NTSC masters for a supposedly 100% PAL market, but if this becomes permanent policy don't expect a remaster of this (or any of their other titles) from now on.  However, in this way we might end up receiving every extra that their R1 versions have (which ain't much usually) and get it cheaper locally than having to import the same R1 product. Every cloud has a silver lining.

In a way, I might have to give Warners a break this time around since the Young Guns franchise was originally released by 20th Century Fox and I would hazard to say that Warners was given whatever source materials were deemed sufficient for DVD mastering at the time.  Also, I have seemingly bumped up my overall rating just a notch over what I would usually give a DVD of this technical quality, but you can blame this on my adoration of the movie.


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Practical & Clinical Microbiology of Anaerobes Course 2018

A 2 day residential course delivered by The UK Anaerobe Reference Unit, Public Health Wales, Cardiff

14-15 June 2018

Is it time to refresh your knowledge on the culturing, identification and clinical importance of anaerobes?

Are your staff wanting to learn from experts about the latest technologies and techniques?

• Recognised by the IBMS & RCPath CPD approved (11 credits)
• Invaluable preparation for FRCPath

Only 26 places available.

Cost: £375 + VAT (£355 + VAT for SAM members) which includes: one night accommodation at the Park Plaza Hotel, Cardiff, all meals and refreshments plus dinner on 14th June.

For more information please visit the Don Whitley Scientific website

To reserve your place on this course, please contact:
Deborah Robinson at Don Whitley Scientific Limited on 01274 595728/
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Campylobactor Research with Microaerobic Workstations

The following words were provided by Microbiology International

Cultivation of microaerophilic organisms from environmental niches such as Campylobacter species and Helicobacter pylori requires precise calibration of oxygen levels and other growth parameters. Microbiology International, North American distributor for Don Whitley Scientific, have been installing anaerobic and microaerobic incubation chambers for more than 20 years, and would like to introduce some of the research being carried out around the world. Click here to view our Microaerobic Workstations.

The complex interactions of microbial communities populating the human gastrointestinal tract with their host and with invading pathogens are paramount to safeguarding not only a healthy gut but also our general health. Microaerophilic bacterial species, such as Campylobacter jejuni, can cause gastro-enteric infections due to their ability to survive and grow in lower oxygen environments, which they encounter in the human gastro-intestinal tract. At the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Dr. Alain Stintzi researches topics as diverse as iron homeostasis and oxidative stress and the competitive advantage of metabolizing L-Fucose in Campylobacter jejuni. Using a Don Whitley Scientific microaerobic workstation, Dr. Stinzi states that “One objective of our research is to understand how enteric pathogens such as Campylobacter jejuni acquire essential nutrients, adapt to the harsh conditions of the intestine and interact with the host’s microbiota to cause disease.”

At Ohio State University, Dr. Jeffrey Lejeune’s research is focused on prevention of diseases caused by food-borne pathogens in plants and animals, including C. jejuniE. coli O157, and Clostridium difficile. His work on antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter and other enteric pathogens has prompted the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation to recruit him to provide technical support and guidance in an international group working on antibiotic resistance. Don Whitley Scientific anaerobic and microaerobic workstations , sold in the US by Microbiology International, provide precise gas control for a sustainable low oxygen environment. Up to four gasses can be combined to create the ideal atmosphere for fastidious microorganisms.

In the UK, Dr. Andrew Grant at the University of Cambridge is investigating the Campylobacter jejuni secretome and diarrhoeal disease in a gnotobiotic piglet model, using the MACS VA500 and more recently, the M95 Microaerobic Workstation. His work to elucidate host-pathogen interaction and virulence strategies will yield new options for therapy and vaccination. Don Whitley Scientific will be there for him, and our other researchers, every step of the way.

From: Stahl et al. (2011) “L-fucose utilization provides Campylobacter jejuni with a competitive advantage“ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Apr 26;108(17):7194-9

From: Stahl et al. (2011) “L-fucose utilization provides Campylobacter jejuni with a competitive advantage“ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Apr 26;108(17):7194-9

From: Tang et al. (2017) “Rising fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter isolated from feedlot cattle in the United States” Scientific Reports 7: 494

From: Tang et al. (2017) “Rising fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter isolated from feedlot cattle in the United States” Scientific Reports 7: 494

IBMS Success for Don Whitley Scientific

Don Whitley Scientific once again exhibited at the Institute of Biomedical Science Congress. This bi-annual three day event is held at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.

The event combines business, networking and social exchange and enables delegates to view new equipment and products, extend general awareness of techniques and technologies and make contact with representatives of exhibiting companies.

This year the Don Whitley Scientific exhibition area was purpose-built to accommodate the cutting edge technology on show. This included the Walkaway Specimen Processor (WASPLab), the Whitley A35 Anaerobic Workstation, and ChromaZona from Synbiosis, the new automated microbial identification AST analysis system. Members of the DWS sales force were on hand to deal with any customer queries.

The stand also featured an area where delegates could interact with our virtual lab, an interactive presentation where our product range could be explored in detail.

As is the custom with at IBMS, we also held a competition. This year we celebrated 40 years of serving the microbiology industry, with Love2Shop vouchers on offer for the lucky winners. Visitors to the stand needed to look for clues in a video presentation, which would give them the answers to a range of questions.  And each and every visitor to our stand had the opportunity to further indulge in a corporate cupcake.


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DZB supports Trolleys 4 CANSA

On the 27th of July DZB participated in the Trolleys 4 CANSA race at the old Peter Mokaba Stadium. Trolleys had to be decorated by the participants and prizes were awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers, as well as Best Dressed, Best team spirit, Wooden Spoon and Most Original Trolley. All proceeds went towards a very good cause.

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

SAAB 9-5 Automatic Transmission Fluid Change

Let's see...

Loud "exhaust" sound when accelerating and no evidence of an exhaust leak exists? Check.
Rough gear changes, especially during spirited driving? Check.
"Engine" vibration when idling in gear, but the engine mounts are solid? Check.

Looks like it's time for me to change the transmission fluid.

I used an easy three-part process to service my transmission fluid. The fluid change takes a total of 30 minutes, divided in three ten minute parts.

First I used my vacuum pump to suck out the old transmission fluid.

I got almost three quarts out on my first pass. I had let the fluid get a little low because a little more than 3 quarts can be drained this way. I then refilled the sump with three quarts of Valvoline Max Life, but any quality Dextron III or compatible ATF fluid will do.

I then drove to work and back before draining/refilling the fluid for a second time. I drove to school and back before draining/refilling the fluid for a third and final time. This final time I added about 3.2 quarts instead of just 3, to top the sump off to the recommended level.

This gently replaces the bulk of the 7.5 quarts inside the transmission. I have read cautions against aggressively flushing the transmission on the 9-5. People have reported problems with valves sticking and seals leaking after having their transmission flushed. The process I used is supposed to prevent these possible issues.

Renewing the fluid made the car drive quieter, softened the shifting, and reduced vibration (especially when backing out of the garage and parking spaces).

  1. is your 9-5 an automatic? Where did you buy your vacuum pump and how much was it? And when you say draining/refilling, do you mean using the pump again? I'd like to change my transmission on my own too and really liked your approach and blog. Thanks.

  2. @ johnston306

    Thank you for the kind words. I have an automatic in my 9-5 and I got the pump from Griots, the model I got was $75. I would bet cheaper pumps can be found at places like Harbor Freight or maybe Walmart.

    I really don't usually buy such pricey "specialty tools", but I have found more things to use that pump for in the past year than I ever expected and now recommend this type of pump to friends. Heck, I even sucked up water off the kitchen floor with it when we had a leak last fall.

    The draining was done with the pump each time. So I would suck as much fluid out as I could, add new fluid equal to the amount that was drained, miles/days later I would suck the fluid out again and repeat until I had done it three times.

    There is also a plug under the car that will drain the transmission fluid, so you don't even need a pump like mine if you want to get under the car and drain the fluid that way instead. I don't have an image of it at the moment or I would post where it is and what it looks like. The drain and refill cycle would still be the same.

    Good luck!

  3. Thank you for the information. I have 2004 saab 9-5 aero and heard about the danger of flushing. I would appreciate if you can answer the following (

    - Don't you have to change filter and gasket once in a while?

    - Wouldn't you have a danger of damaging any sensitive and rubbery parts (don't they have some non-metal components in automatic transmission by inserting the plastic pipe into the transmission chamber?

    Thanks for the response in advance.

  4. I too have never heard anything positive about transmission flushes. This fluid change process is made to prevent the kind of damage that can occur with some of the flushing processes out there.

    There is no serviceable filter in the SAAB 9-5 automatic transmission.

    And I'm not sure how the vacuum tube is going to cause damage if it's taking up the same space as the dipstick. I guess if someone really started to jam it in and out? But we're changing the fluid, not unstopping a toilet. Let me pose this question on SAABCentral and get back to you.

  5. Thanks, Infocog. Let me ask you two more questions. The manual says, MINERAL based transmission oil should be used. You used Valvoline MaxLife. Are they same? Auto Zone says it's ok but Pepboy says you should use genuine Saab oil.

    What about sludge? If you use your method, how you take the sludge out without flushing? Thanks again.

  6. Sure thing.

    Dexron III is mineral based. Personally, I won't worry about the brand as long as it is high quality.

    My impression is you don't want to suck up more than what is suspended in the fluid. I remember an episode of Car Talk where they warned against these aggressive flushes because they remove the sludge and the next thing people know they have a leaking transmission because the sludge was the only thing keeping the transmission sealed tight. This is in addition to the danger of sludge getting dislodged, but not removed, and forming a sort of transmission "blood clot" that starves sections of the works and ruins the transmission.

    Here is the thread I made on SAAB Central. So far one guy says it's ok and the other says not to vacuum at all, but I disagree with his reasoning that the vacuum moves the fluid enough to dislodge the gunk. So I guess you should use your best judgment. The drain on the transmission is always there if you are still uneasy about the vacuum method.

    Good luck!

  7. Intelligent advice... I agree with you but then I don't know anything about the velocity of oil while it is pumped. Drain can be economical but painful as I don't have to buy the extractor but go under the car. Where's the drain plug located? Can you show me the picture? Or describe it for me? I know the general area but there are so many bolts in the area. Thanks!

  8. I've never drained from the plug, but I'm pretty sure this is the drain plug in the photos.

  9. You've been very helpful. Thanks.

  10. Thank you infocog, these are very helpful pictures for me.

  11. Hi infocog,

    I just changed the transmission fluid through the drain plug yesterday. My car is 1999 saab 95 v6 SE. I couldn't finish this without your picture. Thanks again.

    One thing I want to mention is approximately 4 quarts will be drained through the drain plug instead of 3 quarts at a time. So I just did two cycle because I only bought 9 quarts fluid . After changing my car is much smooth than before.

  12. I bought exactly the same you were using. Is it possible to suck up all the transmission fluid? I tried to out the tube into transmission, but it seems wont go all the way.

    If not, i guess i will have to do the three times cycle like you did.

  13. The problem is the two-thirds of the fluid you can't suck out the tube is mainly trapped in the complex plumbing of the transmission. You can't really get to it even when using the drain plug. There's stuff that just stays inside the transmission regardless. The three part fluid change is also very gentle. I've read about people getting leaks after aggressive fluid flushes, like the ones offered as some shops. You might search SAABCentral's 9-5 forum if you're interested in reading about other owner's experiences with different ways of changing the transmission fluid. It's possible this technique has been improved upon since I did the post. Good Luck!

  14. I just got done doing a T-Tech fluch on a 2004 9-5 and it works a bit better. its a costly machine but for around $100 its the best way to go!

  15. I just bought the same for my heavy duty car!

    tHANKS for sharing your ideas, hopefully i could use them later on.

  16. thanks much! I will say this, the tranny does "call" for 3309 Mineral based fluid. Dextron III has even been used. If everyone here is truly concerned about their transmissions, then you'd be well to flush it (yourself) and replace with full synthetic, like Amsoil's red cap product. Just my two cents. Dextron III is not synthetic and fact is, mineral oils don't hold up nearly as well as full synthetic (no, duh).


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Another bit from The Lone Wolf.  This is Andrew, age six, talking to a police officer about the Greater Good.

“Most people are just trying to serve that greater good, aren’t they, sir?” I asked, thinking about what he’d said.

“I think you’re right.  God made people mostly good but sometimes they do the wrong thing. They might be scared, or not thinking, and you just gotta remember, no matter how bad things get, we all got our reasons.”

“Even the bad guys?”

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Like most people, I have the best intentions when I sit down in front of my computer to tackle a project, be it writing a story, researching a setting, applying for jobs, etc.

And like most people, I tend to get distracted. There are forums and instant messages and, a cat grooming herself on my feet wanting to be noticed and fed, snacks and drinks and late night burger runs, Spider Solitaire, and so on.

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    2. Although cafes and malls are great for writing down fragments of conversation or ideas for future stories.

    3. Unfortunately for me, my best place to write is… anywhere but here. And here is the only place I can get to…

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Fields of Toxic Pesticides Surround the Schools of Ventura County

When Dayane Zuñiga started running for Oxnard High School’s track team a few years ago, she often noticed an odd odor coming from the strawberry fields on her route. A farming community between the beach towns of Santa Barbara and Malibu, California, Oxnard is among the largest strawberry-growing regions in the nation. At first, Zuñiga didn’t pay much attention to the smell. Growing up near agriculture, she was used to odd odors.

Then one day during practice, Zuñiga saw men working in the fields with face masks and smelled the same odor. Suspecting they were applying chemicals, she wondered why no one had warned her team. She asked her principal if the administration ever got notices about pesticide use around the school, attended by more than 3,200 kids. He told her it did, in accordance with strict regulations, and that she had nothing to worry about.

So Zuñiga put pesticides out of her mind. When she smelled a pungent odor, she ran faster to reach a patch of fresh air. When her asthma acted up, she puffed on her mini-inhaler and kept running.

Now she wishes she had asked more questions.

Oxnard and surrounding Ventura County grow more than 630 million pounds of strawberries a year, enough to feed 78 million Americans. But that bounty exacts a heavy toll: strawberries rank among California’s most pesticide-intensive crops. The pesticides that growers depend on—a revolving roster of caustic and highly volatile chemicals called fumigants—are among the most toxic used in agriculture. They include sixty-six chemicals that have been identified by the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment as the most likely to drift through the air and cause harm. Studies in laboratory animals and humans have linked many of these chemicals—including the organophosphate chlorpyrifos and fumigants 1,3-Dichloropropene (1,3-D), metam sodium, methyl bromide and chloropicrin, all used in strawberry production—to one or several chronic health conditions, including birth defects, asthma, cancer and multiple neurodevelopmental abnormalities.

Dayane Zuñiga.

Use of many of these sixty-six pesticides has fallen statewide since 2007. But a handful of communities saw a dramatic increase. By 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, more than 29 million pounds of these chemicals—more than half the total used in the state—were applied in just 5 percent of California’s 1,769 census ZIP codes, according to an independent investigation by this reporter. In two ZIP codes that Zuñiga knows well—areas that include the Oxnard High neighborhood where she trained and south Oxnard, where she lives—applications of these especially toxic pesticides, which were already among the highest in the state, rose between 61 percent and 84 percent from 2007 t0 2012, records at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation show. Both are among the ten ZIP codes with the most intensive use of these pesticides in California. And both have sizable Latino populations—around 70 percent—thanks, in part, to the large number of farm jobs in the area. The great majority of the people who work in the strawberry fields in Oxnard, which hosts the largest population of farmworkers in Ventura County, come from Mexico.

Last year, the California Department of Public Health’s Environmental Health Tracking Program released the first state study to systematically review pesticide use near schools.Health officials tracked pesticides applied in 2010, focusing on those most likely to harm children based on known health effects or regulatory status. Ventura County had more schools and more students—over 13,000—attending classes within a quarter-mile of areas most heavily treated with potentially harmful pesticides than any other county in the state. And Oxnard was home to over one-fourth of the schools next to fields with the highest pesticide use, data obtained from the health department show. But no school had higher use of these pesticides nearby than Rio Mesa High School, a fifteen-minute drive from Oxnard High, with nearly 29,000 pounds of pesticides applied within a quarter-mile of campus.

Agricultural interests and pesticide regulators argue that just because chemicals are used near schools, it doesn’t mean they will have harmful effects. And harm is difficult to prove, because the health consequences of chronic exposure to low levels of hazardous substances can take decades to show up, if they show up at all. But scores of studies have shown that living near areas of high pesticide use is a major route of exposure, which has led health experts and even the US Environmental Protection Agency to conclude that the risks of long-term health problems for these schoolchildren are real.

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near predominantly Latino communities seems unfair, some have argued that it’s also illegal. Parents of students at Rio Mesa High School first raised that question sixteen years ago, after the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization, reported in 1998 that thousands of pounds of the fumigant methyl bromide were routinely applied within close range of California schools. Methyl bromide, a potent neurotoxic agent that can cause involuntary twitching, neurodegeneration and even death, is applied to fields before planting to wipe out pests and soil diseases and for decades was strawberry growers’ preferred fumigant. In the EWG study, Rio Mesa, with 2,169 students at the time, ranked second statewide when it came to methyl bromide use within a mile and a half of a school. The top-ranked position was held by an elementary school in Oxnard.

Children who attended schools near the highest applications of methyl bromide, among the most widely used pesticides in California then, also faced the highest risk of exposure to all pesticides. And, as their families noted in a civil-rights complaint, more than 80 percent of these students were children of color, primarily Latino.

Since Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits recipients of federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin, the findings opened the door to a legal strategy to protect the children’s health. The EPA regularly awards millions of dollars in grants to California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation. In order to accept federal funds, state pesticide regulators are required to comply with the Civil Rights Act. The EPA, in turn, is obligated to enforce the Civil Rights Act by ensuring compliance. Six parents, who withheld their last names in the action to shield themselves from potential backlash from agricultural interests, filed a complaint with the EPA in 1999, charging that state regulators violated federal discrimination laws.

In filing, the parents were taking an unusual step. Many were farmworkers who spent their days picking strawberries and other crops in California’s rich agricultural regions. By going to the EPA, they were not only taking on their employers, but they were doing so from highly vulnerable positions. Over half of Ventura County’s farmhands are undocumented. And many fear that they could risk deportation by targeting pesticides. Even those who immigrated legally still say they could lose their jobs if they speak out.

Yet the six parents who stepped forward, including one known as Maria G., a farmhand whose son attended Rio Mesa High, were optimistic that the state would take action and reduce pesticide use near their children’s schools. At the very least, they wanted the state to prohibit the use of the most dangerous pesticides near neighborhoods and schools.

Few studies have examined methyl bromide’s effects on children. But even in the 1990s, pesticide regulators knew that chronic exposure to the neurotoxic chemical could disrupt fetal development in laboratory animals. Recent evidence suggests that methyl bromide can cause birth defects in humans, too. In a 2013 Environmental Health Perspectives study, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, reported that pregnant women who lived within three miles of “moderate” (2.2 to 32,386 pounds) to “high” (32,386 to 168,225 pounds) methyl bromide use during their second trimester were more likely to have babies that weighed less and had smaller heads and shorter bodies than mothers who didn’t live near methyl bromide applications.

When the parents filed their complaint, growers were far exceeding the moderate levels later described in the UC Berkeley study, applying anywhere from 67,000 pounds to 170,000 pounds of methyl bromide within a mile and a half of Rio Mesa High School each year. No studies of the potential consequences of these specific applications have been published, but researchers have long known that growing children are more susceptible to long-term harm from toxic agents than adults.

Once a civil-rights complaint is filed, the EPA is required to acknowledge the complaint within five days and then indicate whether it will investigate it within twenty days. Twenty-five days went by, and the parents heard nothing. Days turned to months, and still no word came from the EPA. The agency would later defend its failure to respond to the families by likening civil-rights complainants to “tipsters” whom it could choose to involve or not. The characterization did not sit well with the families’ attorney, Brent Newell of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE). “What EPA doesn’t get,” he says, “is that these are people who are suffering from discrimination and trying to get a remedy, and EPA treats them as if they’re someone dropping a dime on a criminal.”

Aerial view of Rio Mesa High School.
Aerial view of Rio Mesa High School.

The families had expected that the EPA would at least keep them in the loop as it investigated their claim. Little did they know it would take more than a decade to get any resolution.

The families’ complaint hinged on whether pesticide use in California was having a disproportionate impact on students of color by placing them at higher risk of exposure—a risk that couldn’t be immediately seen. With acute poisoning incidents, however, the risks posed by proximity to pesticides are harder to deny.

On the morning of November 8, 2000, a Ventura County citrus grower air-blasted the pesticide chlorpyrifos on his lemon orchard, a short drive from Rio Mesa High and a stone’s throw from Mound Elementary School, just as parents were dropping off their children. Unlike Rio Mesa, Mound is a magnet school where, in 2000, nearly 80 percent of the 575 students were white.

Children played outside as the pesticide drifted from the orchard across the narrow lane separating the grove from the school. Nearly forty people, mostly children, complained of dizziness, cramping, nausea, vomiting, asthma and “flu-like” symptoms—all signs of immediate poisoning. Chlorpyrifos, like methyl bromide, can cause respiratory paralysis and death at high doses, and the EPA had banned it for home use just six months earlier.

Farmworkers pick strawberries in the field adjacent to Rio Mesa High School.
Farmworkers pick strawberries in the field adjacent to Rio Mesa High School.

“Several of the kids had to go to the hospital, and the parents were furious,” says Hannah-Beth Jackson, who was serving in the State Assembly at the time. By February 2001, Jackson had drafted and introduced a bill to increase regulatory oversight of pesticide use near schools and other sensitive sites and to give county commissioners the authority to curtail pesticide use within a quarter-mile of schools.

A few months after Jackson introduced her bill, Ventura County prosecutors sued the ranch owner and his foreman for allowing the pesticide to drift onto the school. Within a year, the rancher agreed to pay a $25,000 fine and avoid spraying within 200 feet of the street that borders Mound until 6 pm on school days. And in September 2002, less than two years after the incident, Jackson’s bill was signed into law.

All exposures aren’t so dramatic, typically occurring as chronic, low-level doses. And their impact, when studied, is more often measured over years or decades, showing up as developmental delays, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases or cancers, including childhood leukemia. These were the kinds of chronic exposures the families feared were occurring at Rio Mesa and other largely Latino schools in Oxnard that state pesticide regulators had deemed safe.

Toxicological and animal studies, as well as emerging evidence from human studies, appear to undermine such assurances, however. Several types of pesticides, including carbamates, pyrethroids, organochlorines and organophosphates like chlorpyrifos, which was used near Mound Elementary, work by disrupting enzymes and chemicals in insects’ nervous systems. They kill by interfering with nerve cell signals to muscles, and between nerve cells in the brain, causing convulsions, paralysis or death. At high enough levels, they can cause similar effects in humans. Men exposed to even low levels of these chemicals over several years on the job as pesticide applicators reported diverse neurological problems, including difficulty seeing, concentrating and walking, according to the National Cancer Institute’s ongoing Agricultural Health Study.

Fumigants like methyl bromide, applied near Oxnard and Rio Mesa high schools, can also poison the nervous system, though studies of protracted exposures to fumigants in humans are limited.

Brenda Eskenazi, an epidemiologist at UC Berkeley, has investigated the effects of chronic pesticide exposure on families in the Salinas Valley since 1999 through the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas study. Working with the CHAMACOS mothers, many of whom were born in Mexico, Eskenazi’s group has found associations between prenatal exposure to organophosphates and impaired motor control and cognition, including lower IQs.

Epidemiologist Irva Hertz-Picciotto, at the University of California, Davis, has also found strong associations between several classes of pesticides and impaired cognitive development following exposure in the womb, a period of rapid growth when cells form the structures and connections that underlie brain function.

In addition, researchers have found that proximity—that is, how close you happen to be to pesticide applications—does matter, despite official assurances to the contrary. In a study published last year in Environmental Health Perspectives, Hertz-Picciotto found that women living within nine-tenths of a mile of fields treated with organophosphates, including chlorpyrifos, were 60 percent more likely to have children with autism spectrum disorders than women who did not live near fields. Her team found a 14 percent higher rate of autism for each 100-pound increase in chlorpyrifos applied over the course of pregnancy.

The bounty of Oxnard, CA's strawberry fields.
The bounty of Oxnard, CA’s strawberry fields.

And as early as 2001, Hertz-Picciotto found that women were more likely to have babies with fatal birth defects if they lived within a mile of sites where any of five different classes of toxic pesticides were applied. The incidence of multiple congenital anomalies as well as urinary tract anomalies was “particularly high,” she says, among children whose mothers lived near at least three classes of pesticide applications during the weeks when organs develop.

“These are not benign chemicals,” Hertz-Picciotto says.

The studies add to growing evidence suggesting that these pesticides can scramble signals in the body’s neurodevelopmental and reproductive programs, she says, leading to obvious anatomical defects as well as cognitive changes that are more subtle.

Women can reduce their exposure by washing food thoroughly and using green products in the home, Hertz-Picciotto says. But for involuntary exposures, she adds, there’s not much an individual can do besides moving away from areas of heavy pesticide applications.

Farmworkers pick strawberries next to Rio Mesa High School.
Farmworkers pick strawberries next to Rio Mesa High School.

Once the EPA accepts a civil-rights complaint for investigation, officials are obliged to make a preliminary finding within 180 days. The agency missed that deadline by more than a decade, during which time strawberry growers applied more than 780,000 pounds of methyl bromide within a mile and a half of Rio Mesa High School, Department of Pesticide Regulation records show. Finally, on April 22, 2011, nearly twelve years after Maria G. and the five other parents filed their civil-rights complaint, the EPA reached a decision. California pesticide regulators had violated Title VI, the EPA ruled, by approving methyl bromide permits that failed to consider the health impacts on Latino children attending schools near fumigated areas. Even then, however, the agency did not inform the families.

To investigate the complaint, agency scientists had developed an exposure model to predict methyl bromide air concentrations near schools. Although more than a decade had passed since the families had filed the complaint, the EPA restricted its review to the years 1995 to 2001. The agency modeled exposure levels at schools around the state and compared the demographic makeup of schools where exposures exceeded safety targets to that of schools where exposures were considered safe. Based on the analysis, the EPA concluded that methyl bromide applications between 1995 and 2001 resulted in an “adverse disparate impact upon Latino schoolchildren.”

The agency also found that methyl bromide applications during that time exceeded safety thresholds for both short-term and chronic exposures.

Pesticide spraying in the strawberry fields of Oxnard, CA.
Strawberry picking in the fields of Oxnard, CA.

Yet, instead of informing the parents behind the complaint of its decision, the agency entered closed negotiations with state pesticide regulators. Four months later, the EPA announced it had entered into an agreement with the pesticide department and “resolved” the complaint.

The agreement required state regulators to continue a pesticide air-monitoring program they had launched in 2006 at a handful of sites, which included a monitor in Oxnard that they would later relocate to Rio Mesa High School. Regulators would also have to add a monitor in a second strawberry-growing region in California’s central coast and produce educational information in Spanish about risks associated with pesticides for communities with the highest methyl bromide use—including how to respond to accidents.

But the agreement was more striking for what it failed to do. The EPA did not require pesticide regulators to ban methyl bromide or require less toxic pest-control measures near schools. It did not require them to expand school buffer zones or change the permitting process to ensure that schools attended mostly by children of color don’t suffer disproportionately from pesticide use. Nor did it take advantage of the powerful weapon Congress gave federal agencies to fight discrimination: the threat of withholding funding until state regulators altered their policies to ensure equal treatment for Latino schoolchildren.

And that was not the only problem. Because methyl bromide was found to deplete the protective ozone layer around the earth, the EPA had banned its production, import and use, except for emergency or “critical” uses, by 2005 under an international treaty. Since strawberry production qualified as a “critical” use, growers had time to wean themselves from the toxic compound. By the time the EPA resolved the complaint, however, growers had mostly given up on methyl bromide and turned to other toxic fumigants that were not covered by the settlement. As growers cut back on methyl bromide around Rio Mesa, they applied nearly half a million pounds of 1,3-D and other hazardous methyl bromide replacements in just the twelve months following the settlement.

“EPA has a really sorry track record on enforcing Title VI,” says CRPE attorney Newell, whose client Maria G. is now using her actual surname, Garcia. “What we have here is an agency that does not have the political will to use the Civil Rights Act to protect people’s civil rights. We have an agency that’s more interested in protecting the rights of growers to use harmful pesticides to pollute communities of color.”

State regulators still say nothing was wrong. According to Department of Pesticide Regulation spokesperson Charlotte Fadipe, the EPA did not conclude that the department’s policies had been discriminatory, but simply made an “allegation” of discrimination that her agency considers unfounded. “We disputed how the data was collected and how it was used, but rather than fight it, we settled,” she says. “We agreed to put in place some processes, because we felt it was much smarter not to spend state time and money on something that happened fifteen years ago over a chemical that’s been phased out.”

Last year, when the state health department’s Environmental Health Tracking Program released its comprehensive survey of pesticide use near schools, focusing on chemicals with known health risks, Latino children were nearly twice as likely as white children to go to a school near the heaviest applications.

Before the survey came out, Hannah-Beth Jackson, now a state senator, had approached farming interests—which had backed her bill after the Mound school poisoning incident—to support a new bill with even stronger restrictions on pesticide use near schools and other vulnerable sites. But during the two months that the bill was under consideration, trade groups representing the state’s $43 billion agricultural industry had mobilized lobbyists to influence several pesticide bills, including Jackson’s. And although letters urging support for Jackson’s bill outnumbered those opposed by a ratio of six to one, documents obtained through the California legislative open records act show, Jackson’s bill died in committee the day before the health department’s school pesticides report came out.

The health report came as a shock to Ben Todd, who teaches history and social science at Rio Mesa. Todd invited staff to his classroom to discuss what the findings might mean for the students. “We’re entrusted with these kids,” he says. “The health and safety of students comes first. If that’s not taken care of, there’s no way education can take place.”

A few weeks after the meeting, Rio Mesa administrators forwarded a letter to the staff from Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner Henry Gonzales. He argued that the “increasingly strict regulatory framework” governing pesticide use near schools rendered many concerns raised by the California health department report “unwarranted.”

The commissioner’s pesticide enforcement office “places the highest priority on the protection of schoolchildren and any others that may be at risk of exposure to pesticides,” Gonzales wrote. He went on to assert that “proximity to these chemicals does not equal exposure,” just as “you can be near the ocean and not get wet.”

The Department of Pesticide Regulation’s Fadipe echoes those remarks. “This report does not measure exposure, which is the main thing that we’re concerned about,” she says.

Last year, monitors installed at Rio Mesa detected levels of the fumigant 1,3-D in the air at the school. The methyl bromide alternative is classified by the EPA as a probable human carcinogen. (A series by the Center for Investigative Reporting last November showed that state pesticide regulators allowed growers to compensate for the loss of methyl bromide by using twice as much 1,3-D as rules allowed, even though doing so exceeded health limits.) 1,3-D is listed under California’s right-to-know law as “known to the state of California to cause cancer.” Pesticide regulators downplayed the risks, saying safety targets would be exceeded only if the levels continued for seventy years. But several of the readings surpassed those associated with high risks of cancer and other chronic conditions discussed in a 2002 study by California’s Environmental Health Investigations Branch.

For Emily Marquez, a scientist at the advocacy group Pesticide Action Network who assesses exposure risk, detection of 1,3-D raises red flags. “Kids exposed to pesticides through their lifetime have an increased risk for leukemia and other types of cancers,” Marquez says. “What does one year of exposure to a level of 1,3-D that exceeds the agency’s screening levels for cancer risk do to kids at Rio Mesa? We may not know until after they’ve graduated.”

In 2013, Newell and a colleague challenged the EPA’s settlement agreement on behalf of Maria Garcia in US District Court but the case was dismissed. After appealing, Garcia and her attorneys agreed to attempt mediation, but the parties failed to reach an agreement. The case is still pending in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Agency officials won’t comment on any aspects of the case, says spokesperson Jennifer Colaizzi, because it’s still in dispute—as it has been for nearly fifteen years.

Although so many years have passed, Garcia will still not speak publicly about her case. Neither will her son, who has long since graduated from Rio Mesa. And now, Newell says, Garcia’s two grandchildren will attend Rio Mesa and face the same risks her son did in the late 1990s.

On a hazy day in 2014, just a few feet beyond a welcome sign in Rio Mesa’s parking lot, a chain-link fence held a poster. High winds battered the poster’s edges, allowing only brief glimpses of the dates and times scrawled on either side. The warning at its center was easier to read: “do not enter/no entre, methyl bromide fumigant buffer zone.”

Dayane Zuñiga, who ran for Oxnard High’s track team, had been investigating the health effects of pesticides for a local grassroots organization when she read the California Department of Public Health report. She was soon organizing an event in front of her alma mater to let people know that, once again, their county’s schools had a higher concentration of nearby pesticide use than any others in the state. On a blustery summer day, typical for the coastal town, Zuñiga walked along the edge of a strawberry field and watched the marching band rehearse on the football field just yards away. Cheerleaders practiced close by.

“None of them are thinking, ‘Oh, there are pesticides there,’” Zuñiga said. “They’re just practicing for their teams.”

She might almost have been watching herself, before she knew better.

Story was originally produced in partnership with The Nation. All rights reserved. This article may not be reproduced without express permission from FERN. If you are interested in republishing or reposting this article, please contact

Liza Gross reported this story with the generous support of the NYU Reporting Award and the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the National Health Journalism Fellowship, programs of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. She thanks the UC Davis Center for Regional Change for technical support in mapping pesticide use data to ZIP codes.

The post Fields of Toxic Pesticides Surround the Schools of Ventura County appeared first on Food and Environment Reporting Network.

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Sometimes Mumbo will accidentally turn you into this, then back. You don't actually get to play that way though. If you go through the puzzles, you can play as the washing machine, which can walk in most kinds of water without getting hurt. (There are 7 puzzles, but after the 6th one, he says there aren't any more.)
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The washing machine is a regular transformation in the sequel, Banjo-Tooie. My guess is that it was originally going to be used with the 64DD along with the eggs and ice key. What's interesting is that I got the washing machine thing in Banjo-Kazooie a different way. I swear I'm not making this up. I remember I rolled into Mumbo's hut and he accidentally did the washing machine thing. I was cracking up, but I thought it was quite wierd. I haven't been able to reproduce it though.
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duh! everyone should know that if they have played the game for at least 20 hours. I have played for 84 and something minutes...
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Millennium Plaza Dubai, a luxury accommodation along Sheikh Zayed Road, was named the “Best Family Hotel in United Arab Emirates” for 2017 by the prestigious Haute Grandeur Global Hotel Awards.

General Manager Nemo Acimovic accepted the honours at the illustrious gala ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand on October 27, where Millennium Plaza Dubai won the Best Family Hotel in UAE and was acknowledged for offering the finest in hospitality experience.

“The Haute Grandeur Global Hotel Awards is considered one of the highest recognitions in the hospitality industry because the results are based on hotel guests’ feedback. They have rated the hotel from their experience after staying at Millennium Plaza Dubai. The hotel welcomes all kinds of travellers including those who visit with their family so we ensure that we create a family friendly atmosphere and strive to develop a facility where all members of the family are catered for during their stay. I am very proud of my team because we have succeeded in being a family-friendly hotel and this award reflects their hard work and commitment in ensuring that we offer only the best and the finest in all aspects of our service,” commented Acimovic.

The award honors the highest achievements from across the global hotel industry, recognizing the most exceptional in hospitality experiences across 7 continents, 172 countries and 94 categories. Distinguished global hotel brands compete for the ultimate accolade in overall excellence and greatest contribution to the industry over the past year. The ratings are based on a unique concept exclusive to Haute Grandeur which relies on quality feedback from guests rather than a quantity of votes by the general public or judges so fairness, transparency and unbiased results are guaranteed.

The 5-star Millennium Plaza Dubai has been a preferred accommodation of residents from the other emiratesvisiting families from neighbouring GCC countries and international guests because of the spacious rooms and modern facilities including its location, being close to the World Trade Center, Dubai International Financial Center and The Dubai Mall and with direct access to Emirates Towers Metro station.

The 65-storey tower offers 398 guest rooms with stunning views of the Zabeel Palace and Jumeirah Beach. Guests can enjoy the newly renovated Infinity Health Club and Spa, the Club’s Lounge, and the temperature-controlled swimming pool with views of the Arabian Sea.

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