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Lynn - posted on 10/10/2010 ( 8 moms have responded )

Well i am getting ready for a big move. my husband and I are getting ready to move to Las Vegas. I am getting excited about it, but not looking forward to packing. Hmmm maybe i should start packing soon since i am moving in TWO WEEKS!! LOL Whats the one most important thing about moving with a 4 year old? It can be about traveling, about moving, about settling into the house. Whats the one most important thing to do or not do on this move?

Maria - posted on 10/15/2010

How fun! Well, I remember those days with two toddlers in tow! lol... I would recommend getting your 4 yr-old into the mix, so he wouldn't feel left out. He may be packing his stuff toys first, but that's all part of the packing fun! If you give him his own little box to pack, he'll gladly help, but you may have to keep an eye on what he puts in there. I find that putting the box right close by the box I'm packing helps. Just let him know which box is his. lol... Also, if it's going to be a long ride, keep necessities within arm's reach as much as possible, specially when they get bored, or hungry, or need to go to the bathroom. If you have a portable dvd player, you may need to keep him occupied with children's educational dvds like blue's clues, cliff, curious george, thomas the tank engine, and the like! :p

Emma - posted on 10/18/2010

make their new bedroom as similar to their old one as possible, and make it the first room that you unpack so they have their toys etc. We just moved last weekend and it really helped our 2 year old to settle in

Allie - posted on 10/12/2010

I just made a big move with a 2 year old and a 5 month old(now 7 months). Make sure have any and all security blanket type stuff with you on the trip. Make sure you have a variety of toys for him to be entertained. Since your little man is 4. Make up games for the long trip, like eye spy. Have music for him to listen to too. If you have portable DVD player that will be helpful too. Make sure there is a pillow in arms reach too. Along with plenty of snacks and drinks. The most important thing to pack is your patience. It is very hard on any child to travel.

Sarah - posted on 10/11/2010

make it an adventure!! 4 year olds are so much fun and so imaginative! Make a "treasure hunt" of things to find in your new city or neighborhood. Be sure to keep some of your child's favorite toys or books within arms reach on the trip. Kids don't like to feel like they have no control so, let your 4 year old help some with the packing so he/she feels involved and not left out of everything that's going on.

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Denise - posted on 10/24/2010

Make sure you take a local phone book so that you can still contact places back home. You always need to for one reason or another. Also, make sure you get copies of your child's(and all family members) medical/shot records. Finally, take this opportunity to organize as you are packing and get rid of stuff that you no longer need. This will make your life much easier when unpacking. Good luck and safe travels!

LeeAnn - posted on 10/20/2010

Look at pictures of the new place frequently, and talk about your "new house,"so that it is familiar to him when you get there. And make sure you know where the "lovies" are and that they are easily accessible!
For the travelling part make sure you have a variety of things for him to do, books, toys, etc. that are easily in his reach, and pack snacks and drinks that are neat and travel well (things with minimal crumbs!) Be sure to stop every couple hours for potty breaks and to run around a bit. Even though he's 4 it might be a good idea to have a potty chair with you in case he has to "go" and you're not near a bathroom.

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Planning for Lachlan Precinct

The Lachlan Precinct is bounded by Lachlan Street, Bourke Street, South Dowling Street and O'Dea Avenue. It is in the suburb of Waterloo and forms part of the Green Square urban renewal area. Areas to the north and south are recently established residential and mixed use areas.

Precinct vision

The City's vision for the Lachlan Precinct is that it will continue to gradually transition from industrial and warehouse uses to a mixed use residential neighbourhood with high quality buildings and public spaces.

New streets will be delivered progressively as development occurs. These will break up the existing large industrial lots and allow for movement within and through the precinct by pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles. Gadigal Avenue will act as a significant north–south corridor lined with a mix of uses. Archibald Avenue, running east–west through the precinct, will be the main street for retail and café activity.

Three public parks will become gathering spaces for the community. Each will have a distinct look and feel and will offer a variety of opportunities for active and passive recreation. Buildings will be scaled appropriately to the street which they address and will make a positive contribution to the public domain through high quality design.

Planning history

Between 2009 and 2010 the City, with consultants Hassell, undertook an urban design study to establish appropriate built form controls for the precinct. The study took into consideration a range of issues including existing land ownership patterns, the need for future public infrastructure and flood mitigation. The City translated the study findings into planning controls in the South Sydney LEP 1998 and South Sydney DCP 1997.

Between 2011 and 2013, the City undertook additional testing and consultation to refine the planning controls for the precinct and ensure they allowed for viable redevelopment. A site specific DCP for the third largest landholding in the precinct (the Wulaba Park site) was also progressed during this period to allow redevelopment of the site and expedite a significant step in the renewal of the precinct.

Due to this work being unresolved at the time, the precinct was excluded from the approval of the city-wide Sydney LEP 2012 and Sydney DCP 2012. However, in 2013, the City began the process of translating the planning controls under South Sydney LEP 1998 and South Sydney DCP 1997 and integrating them into Sydney LEP 2012 and Sydney DCP 2012. The translated controls were publicly exhibited in 2014 and the plan was made by the Chief Executive Officer under the Planning Minister's delegation. The Lachlan Precinct controls were formally included in Sydney LEP 2012 and Sydney DCP 2012 and came into force on 10 April 2015.

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The "Stack Effect" And Your Ontario Home

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Crawl spaces and basements are well known for being damp, dank spaces. Even when your home has no groundwater flooding issues and has perfect plumbing, the spaces can be plagued by moisture issues.

One major culprit for humidity in your home is a phenomenon called the "stack effect".

The stack effect refers to the process in which hot air leaves the home through your attic and upper levels. As it does, a vacuum is created below, and new air is pulled upwards through the basement, crawl space, and lower levels.

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We know that air enters the home through the lower levels, moves upwards through the home, and exits through the upper levels.

What happens if the outside air that replaces the air leaving the attic is being pulled into the basement or crawl space through vents or other openings?

Basements and crawl spaces are naturally cooled by the earth around them which keeps a fairly constant temperature year-round. Any air that enters that space from outside will be cooled as well.

How Relative Humidity Affects A Typical Crawl Space

Imagine this: It's an 80 °F (27 °C) day with 80% relative humidity.

The higher the relative humidity number is, the closer the air is to becoming "full" of water. Warm air holds the most water and as it cools and "shrinks", it's able to hold less water. The relative humidity number shows how much humidity is in the air, relative to how much it can hold. Air at 80% relative humidity is 80% "full" of water. When the humidity rises above 100% outside, it rains.

Picture that humid air moving into your crawl space or basement. This cool, underground space drops the temperature of the air to 68 °F (20 °C). Because of this, the air's relative humidity goes up, even if no new water is added to the air. For every 1 °F the temperature drops, the relative humidity of the air will rise by 2.2%.

In this case, the relative humidity will rise by 26.4% (12 °F x 2.2%). Add the 80% humidity you already had, and you have 106.4% relative humidity. However, when the humidity reaches 100%, the air can hold no more water! So this extra humidity is dropped from the air as condensation, which is deposited on cool surfaces in the space, such as wood, metal or concrete.

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Mold Spores & Your Home

Mold needs moisture to survive, and it draws this humidity from the air around it. As the relative humidity in your basement or crawl space rises to 60% or higher, mold will live, thrive, and survive in the space.

As mold reproduces, it releases millions of allergenic mold spores into the air. In fact, The Journal of Property Management's research shows that a single square inch of drywall can contain as much as ten million spores!

Because of the stack effect, these mold spores will not be confined to your basement or crawl space. As air moves up from these spaces into your home, it will bring mold spores and humidity along with it. If you notice that you suffer from symptoms such as a runny nose, watery eyes, mild allergic reactions, a scratchy throat, fatigue, or headaches at home that seem to disappear once you leave the building, mold allergens may be the culprit.

Of course, mold and rot will also wreak havoc on your home. Damaged wood, structural issues, and ruined personal property are all consequences of mold, mildew, rot & humidity in a basement or crawl space.

Flood Warning

Even when your home is protected from outside humidity, your home can still experience humidity when sources of standing water exist in your home.

Install a sump pump system to prevent groundwater flooding, and be sure to actively look for plumbing leaks-- especially in your crawl space.

Controlling Humidity & Mold in Ontario

The key to controlling mold in your basement or crawl space is to eliminate the humidity that keeps it thriving.

At Clarke Basement Systems we recommend starting by sealing off any vents, covering any exposed dirt and concrete, and installing airtight crawl space doors. Replacing drafty basement windows will also help hold back outside air.

Once this has been completed, it's a great idea to install either an energy-efficient basement dehumidifier or crawl space dehumidifier. This will remove any existing humidity in the space and keep it dry in the future.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

4 Years!

Happy Valentine's Day!
Not only is V-day a day to celebrate our love but it is also the day we celebrate our relationship! Technically we started "dating" the night before V-day but we just like saying V-day is our anniversary haha

We have been together FOUR years today : )

I thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane...

Our first "date" (we hung out at a party together haha) four years ago
(and funny story.. I realize this shirt is hideous, but I cannot throw it away.. I refuse. I haven't even worn it since this night but I just can't let it go.. and I am NEVER like that with stuff. ha)

this picture makes me laugh. my family is nuts.. we went to tybee to celebrate my grandparent's 50th anniversary and we got matching t-shirts and had a wedding on the beach for them to re-new their vows complete with tissue paper flowers and an iHome for the music ; ) ha!!!

and because I think it is hilarious.. here are some facebook messages I found the other day from 2006!!!! hahaha I had the BIGGEST crush on him. Who would have thought we would be getting MARRIED one day! SO glad that we are : )

Happy Valentine's Day!!
I love y'all lots!

  1. You guys are pretty adorable (and also ridiculously photogenic). Also, I secretly love when couples and families wear matching shirts.

  2. Y'all are so cute! So glad that you have all these wonderful memories with him!

  3. Awww this is too cute! :-)

    xoxo Miss ALK

  4. So glad I stumbled upon this, so precious. So happy you two are tying the knot, you seem wonderful for each other!


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ITF inspectors and dockers’ and seafarers’ union members began an East Asian maritime week today in ports in Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan. The event runs from 23 to 27 June.

During the event joint inspection teams will check and enforce decent pay and working conditions onboard vessels.

In Japan a rally will also be held at the premises of the Kotoku Kaiun company, which refuses to talk with union representatives.

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Cincinnati runners in Boston for marathon when explosion strikes - Cleveland 19 News Cleveland, OH

Cincinnati runners in Boston for marathon reportedly all OK

Couple embraces after Boston Marathon explosions (Photo courtesy Elliot Friar). Couple embraces after Boston Marathon explosions (Photo courtesy Elliot Friar).

Dozens of local runners were in Boston to run the marathon when two explosions rocked the event.

Two explosions happened near the finish line of the Boston Marathon at about 2:50 p.m. ET Monday, nearly three hours after the first of the event's winners crossed.

"We had the windows open on the third floor looking over the finish line, and watching people kind of coming across the finish line, and you heard a huge explosion," said Greg Johnson.

Johnson is one of the runners from Cincinnati who was at the Boston Marathon. He was looking out his window at the Charlesmark Hotel when the explosions happened.

"I saw one person that had both his legs that were blown off.  We saw several other people just severely injured.  It was pretty gruesome," Johnson said in a phone call to store employees while our cameras were there.

Bob Roncker's Running Spot is the training home for some of these marathon runners.  They had a group of about 20-25 runners at the marathon on Monday.

"Overall, from greater Cincinnati, northern Kentucky, there were probably 150 or more that qualified.  Not everybody goes.  We think there's about 25 from our specific training group," said store owner, Bob Roncker.

One of the shop's employees who works to coordinate training groups there says they had other runners close by the scene when the explosions happened.

"We had a runner who was in the Charlesmark Hotel who said he saw it, and we had a runner that was also heading back to the Charlesmark Hotel where she was staying that she couldn't get back that way because the police had already pushed everybody to go the opposite direction," said Joe Fung, who works at the Running Spot.

Fmr. Congresswoman Jean Schmidt and her twin sister were also in Boston running the marathon together. Read about her story here -

In addition, Former Flying Pig champion Alison Delgado ran in Boston. She and her family are okay. Tina Husted, the wife of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, ran the race and is safe.

Colerain High School Principal Maureen Heintz turned to Twitter to let her district know she was safe after running the marathon.

As some of the runners made their way back to Cincinnati Monday night, thoughts turned to future races, like the Flying Pig Marathon in May.

"Our thoughts are with those people who are injured.  Certainly the thought is, 'Okay, how will this affect races perhaps in the future,'" added Roncker.

If you need to track a racer, follow this link

Google has also set up a 'Person Finder' for those affected by the Boston Marathon explosions

Indiana officials have set up a contact number for Indiana residents having trouble contacting family in Boston: (617) 635-4500.

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Notes from an Applied Climatologist: El Niño & Drought Q&A

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

There’s been a lot of talk about El Niño and ‘busting the drought'.  How much can El Niño help with ongoing drought conditions in the West?

The El Niño event struggling to form in the Pacific Ocean has been a ray of hope for many of us across the Southwest for several months now looking for some relief from both short and long-term drought conditions that have plagued California, Arizona and New Mexico for several years now. The important thing to remember is that we can only expect *some* relief in a best case scenario with a strong El Niño event delivering abundant precipitation across the Southwest over the winter season. Current drought conditions have accumulated over years and cannot be erased by a single wet season. We can look back at drought indices around the time of the last strong El Niño event over the winter of 1997-1998.

For a detailed look at Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) in Arizona - Click Here

Wet conditions were observed across Arizona over several months which dramatically improved short-term drought conditions (months to seasons), but longer term drought conditions (seasons to years) were still present and quickly intensified as dry conditions returned the following year. At this point we will need several years of average to above-average precipitation over each season to alleviate long-term drought conditions. An El Niño winter with above-average precipitation would help, but is not a silver bullet at this point.

Significant amounts of rain fall during the monsoon, why doesn’t that solve our drought problems?

Monsoon precipitation is a critical water source to many ecosystems and agricultural activities (e.g. ranching), and is an important determinant of drought status during the summer across the Southwest. If monsoon precipitation is spotty, late in onset, and overall below-average, short-term drought conditions can quickly intensify across Arizona and New Mexico. As far as long-term drought conditions that evolve over multiple seasons or years, a single monsoon season typically has little impact.

Dry conditions during the summer can contribute to long-term drought impacts like stress in trees and reductions in surface water streamflows, but average to wet conditions often don’t contribute much to improvements. Monsoon precipitation typically falls in torrents of heavy rain associated with isolated storms, leaving a patchwork of runoff and wet soil that quickly evaporates back into the atmosphere. Occasionally, large-scale flooding events during the summer can lead to high flows in streams and contributions to reservoirs and subsequent relief from long-term drought impacts, but these events are rare and unpredictable.

Michael Crimmins is an Associate Professor and Climate Science Extension Specialist in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science


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From the Publisher November/December 2014

ClubWest(To view our November/December 2014 issue of ClubWEST online, click here.)

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Front Page Nov Dec 2014One of the first things taught in any self-respecting journalism school is that everyone has a story to tell. A good reporter should be able to hang out at a gas station for 10 minutes and extract a half-dozen story leads just by listening to customers.

Over the near-20 years I have been covering all things Niagara West, I have spoken to Debbie Zimmerman countless times: in formal interviews, at public events, or over a coffee to catch up on things. Just when you think you know a person…

My goal, as always when I speak with someone I know well, is to find out things I don’t know about them because if I don’t know, chances are the general public would not either. I learned a lot in our chats for my feature in this edition of ClubWEST. As a kid, Debbie sounds like she was a bit of a
punk. And in the nicest way, she still is.

She is an intensely informed and motivated punk, ideal to have for political representation. She knows what the community needs (because she listens) and she has no problem dropping the mitts and fighting for it. She says she is taking a self-imposed break to cool her jets and recharge. Good for her! Niagara West communities have been blessed with some talented, hard-working representatives over the years but none

And speaking of none better, two of Beamsville’s main street shops represented in this edition are certainly at the top of their respective fields. Klaas Salverda, now with his son Ben, at Beamsville Bakery have crafted a reputation for excellence over four decades of serving its clientele. Meanwhile, Nik Halkias at County Cycle serves as a model of what those who nibble the pastries from across the street should be doing to burn off the “donut effect”, namely cycling anywhere and everywhere. This summer he went on an extreme bike adventure in Portugal. He can scratch that from his bucket list.

Smithville resident Jennifer McCready combines her passion for photography and empowering women to create classic 1950s style pin-up photos – including this month’s cover shot which used NewsNow’s general manager Catherine Bratton as a subject, along with a Beamsville Bakery Black Forest Cake.

There are so many people in our midst that are doing cool things every day. They are living the ClubWEST mantra of “Passions, Pursuits & Passtimes”. Our goal is to unearth these gems and serve them up to you, our devoted readers. Our other goals, like being on time with deliveries, are more mundane, but very important to running a credible organization.

Enjoy your read!

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Documentary Film Shakes Up Italy

Silvio Berlusconi represents the country's darker side of Italy in a controversial new documentary
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Silvio Berlusconi represents the country's darker side of Italy in a controversial new documentary

Lines were long and Italian in the air at the Paris screening of a controversial new documentary last week after its Rome premiere was canceled, its subject deemed "too political" ahead of elections this Sunday.

An often chilling depiction of Italy today, "Girlfriend in a Coma" paints a grim picture of society and politics and includes a gory overview of the Mafia's history. Since its screening at Rome's National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, known as the Maxxi, was nixed, the buzz around the film has become a story on top of a story.

Sponsored by the Culture Ministry, the museum said it would be happy to show the film after the elections — but not before. The filmmakers, former Economist magazine editor Bill Emmott and Annalisa Piras, a London-based Italian journalist, say that reception proves their very point: Italian politics are corrupt, stagnant and maddeningly backward.

Based on Emmott's recent book "Good Italy, Bad Italy," the film takes its title from the 1987 hit song by The Smiths, which Emmott says reflects his own decades-long love affair with Italy. Ranked 180th in the world for economic growth, the country is sick, he said: lifeless, despondent, but not without potential for recovery.

"Italy was Europe's China in the 1950s and 1960s," he told viewers after the screening. "What's happened is that freedom and creativity is blocked," and Italians have become "victims of themselves."

Unlike officials in Rome, the Italian press has given its thumbs-up. La Stampa said the film shows how Italy "has been left dying on the roadside." Il Sole 24 Ore called it "marvelously digestible," and according to L'Espresso, "it freezes the blood in your veins."

Notorious former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who hopes to make a comeback in the elections, represents the country's darker side.

Widely accused of corruption and for failing to prevent Italy's economic crisis, he's awaiting trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor in what's become known as the "bunga bunga scandal."

However, judges have postponed the trial until after the elections on Feb. 24 and 25.

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The film isn't all doom and gloom, however. A fair amount concerns the successes of such movers and shakers as the current technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco, and Fiat Chairman and Agnelli family heir John Elkann.

Some of the film's most inspiring footage depicts initiatives such as a social cooperative called Progetto Sud, and Se Non Ora Quando, a women's rights organization.

Director Piras, former London correspondent for L'Espresso magazine who left Italy in 1993, says the film is intended to offer points of reflection rather than an exhaustive analysis.

She and Emmott hope their "campaign to wake Italy up" will prompt change.

The first sign may be visible this month: Despite its scrubbed premiere, Italians will get a chance to see the film before the elections in theaters across the country — except Rome's Maxxi theater.


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Putin Faces Down Topless Protest in Germany

Russia urged Germany to punish a group of women who staged a bare-breasted protest against President Vladimir Putin on Monday during a visit to a trade fair in Hanover with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Three members of the women's rights group Femen, which has staged protests against Russia's detention of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot around Europe, disrupted a visit by Putin and Merkel to an industry fair focusing on Russian business.

They stripped off to the waist and shouted slogans calling the Russian leader a "dictator" before being covered up and bundled away by security men.

"This is ordinary hooliganism and unfortunately it happens all over the world, in any city. One needs to punish (them)," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

The Russian leader's arrival at the trade fair on Sunday also drew protesters, some of whom were dressed in striped prison uniforms. "Stop political terror," read one banner.

Merkel told Putin in a speech at the fair on Sunday that Russia needed "an active civil society" including freedom for non-governmental organisations, after a wave of controversial state inspections of foreign-funded NGOs in Russia.

The chancellor had promised to raise what she called "controversial subjects" with Putin, after coming under pressure to voice Berlin's unease over the crackdown on NGOs, Moscow's support of the Syrian government and its criticism of the German-orchestrated financial bailout of Cyprus.


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With river blindness, 'you never sleep'

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  • Carter Center in Atlanta leading an effort to eliminate river blindness in several countries
  • Some strains cause blindness, while others come with more severe skin disease
  • Uganda has a goal of eliminating the disease by 2020
The machete blades turned red with heat in the fire that the rubber workers built on a Liberia plantation, Thomas Unnasch remembers from a visit in the 1980s.
This was how the men tried to quell the intense itchiness that comes with river blindness, a rare tropical disease.
"You can imagine how bad the itching must be, that running a red-hot machete up and down your back would be a relief, but it was," said Unnasch, whose laboratory works on diagnostic tests for the disease.
About 18 million people have river blindness worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, but more than 99% of cases of this disease are found in Africa. It goes by the technical name "onchocerciasis," and it spreads through small black flies that breed in fast-flowing, highly oxygenated waters. When an infected fly bites a person, it drops worm larvae in the skin, which can then grow and reproduce in the body.
Unlike malaria, river blindness is not fatal, but it causes a "miserable life," said Moses Katabarwa, senior epidemiologist for the Atlanta-based Carter Center's River Blindness Program, which has been leading an effort to eliminate the disease in the Americas and several African countries.
Some strains cause blindness, while others come with more severe skin disease. With time, generally all strains of the disease can lead to rough "lizard" skin, depigmented "leopard skin" and hanging groins. Another big problem among patients is itching, which happens when the worms die inside a person.
In southwest Uganda, the locals call the disease "Obukamba," referring to the symptoms of distorted skin appearance and itchiness, Katabarwa said. In western Uganda, he said, "the fly is called 'Embwa fly' or dog fly, for it bites like a dog!"
There is no vaccine for river blindness, but there is a drug, called ivermectin that paralyzes and kills the offspring of adult worms, according to the Mayo Clinic. It may also slow the reproduction of adult female worms, so there are fewer of them in the skin, blood and eyes. The pharmaceutical company Merck has been donating the treatment, under the brand name Mectizan, since 1985.
Elimination efforts
Great strides have been made against this disease. In the Americas, it was eliminated in Colombia in 2007 and in Ecuador in 2009.
The biggest area of concern is Africa. In 1995 the African Programme for Ocnhocerciasis Control was founded by a group of nongovernmental organizations, governments, and United Nations agencies, with the World Health Organization overseeing it.
The APOC partnership, which includes the Carter Center, has given out 500 million ivermectin treatments between 1995 and 2010, according to a new study in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
The organizations and governments involved in APOC have collectively avoided 8.2 million years of life that would have been lost to unhealthiness as a result of this disease from 1995 to 2010, the study said.
Dr. Moses Katabarwa inspects a fast moving stream of the type where the black flies breed.
The study projected that APOC's impact will be even greater from 2011 to 2015, avoiding 9.2 million years of life that would have otherwise been lived in agony from this disease.
In Uganda, Katabarwa's home country, the country's goal is to eliminate the disease by 2020. The Ministry of Health and the Carter Center, partners of APOC, are working toward making that happen.
Instead of the standard ivermectin treatment of once a year, Katabarwa and colleagues have been working on distribution every six months. More frequent treatments eliminate more baby worms and reduce the reproductive capacity of the adult female worms inside patients' bodies, Katabarwa said.
Where possible, they are also treating fast-flowing waters with a biodegradable insecticide called Abate to wipe out the larvae of the infectious black fly population. And they are training local populations to give out the medicine and keep track of who has been treated.
'You never sleep'
It can't be overstated that the worms itch, a lot. Sometimes, said Unnasch, people infected with the worms are driven to suicide.
Katabarwa also has stories of people inflicting harm upon themselves because of the itchiness. There are cases where people boil water to pour on themselves, he said.
"You scratch yourself until you damage your skin," Katabarwa explains. This leads to other health problems: The scratch marks bleed, making you more prone to bacterial infections. Children with the worms can't concentrate because they are scratching themselves all day and night.
"You never sleep," Katabarwa said. "Some people use a clay pot and break it to scratch themselves because the nails are not enough."
Relief from itchiness comes with the ivermectin -- even for someone who has lived with the disease for more than 50 years, he said. By taking the drug frequently, the skin can partly heal.
Unfortunately, for patients who lose all sight, blindness is irreversible because the optic nerve is damaged. Skin that has hardened, sometimes to the point where needles can't penetrate it, will not reverse itself, either.
The side effects from the medicine can also be nasty: Ivermectin may cause fever, itching, skin rash, joint or muscle pain, rapid heartbeat, and painful, tender glands. Less common side effects include headache and swelling of a person's hands, feet, legs, face or arms. A person can also suffer a serious allergic reaction from it, so health workers bring antihistamines.
"If your immune system is very efficient, it will try to attack the dead worms" that the medicine kills, Katabarwa explained. "The itchiness that will be triggered is incredible. It happens within 10 minutes."
But most of the reaction subsides after two days. During that time, other biting insects such as mosquitoes, lice and bedbugs also die if they attempt to bite the treated patient.
Because of the observed benefits of treating river blindness, infected people agree to take the medication despite the side effects, Katabarwa said.
"When people see you with that skin, they don't want to be near you," Katabarwa said.
How disease creates outcasts
One patient who made a big impression on Katabarwa was Semanza from the Rukungiri district of Uganda. In 1992, Semanza's skin looked like it was covered in dried mud, and flies swarmed around him. No one from his village wanted to be near him and he lived in a hut behind his family's home, separated from everyone else.
"He was really forgotten," Katabarwa said. Semanza's skin was so thick, because of river blindness, that it could break a needle.
Katabarwa told the local health workers to give Semanza a dose of ivermectin every three months, which is more often than the standard distribution.
Years later, when Katabarwa visited again, a man approached him and hugged him, smiling. "Who are you?" Katabarwa asked. It was Semanza. Two years later, they reunited again, and Semanza revealed that he had married and wanted many children.
Katabarwa also remembers educating a particular community in northwest Uganda in 1993, which had all the right conditions for black flies that transmit river blindness to breed.
A group of women in the community told Katabarwa that because of river blindness, people from surrounding areas did not want to marry anyone from their village. As a result, marriages had to happen within the community, including among relatives. Incest was strictly forbidden in their culture, but because of river blindness, it happened quietly, Katabarwa said.
When Katabarwa returned five years later, the skin of infected individuals had greatly improved, and marriages with outsiders were happening again.
"These are stories of sadness, but after a few years there is hope," Katabarwa said.
Empowering populations
Katabarwa has taken the approach of making use of Ugandan villages' kinship structures to assist with health care.
People in villages often live on the land that belonged to their families several generations back, and do not move away in adulthood. This means that cousins live near each other, too, and will help with care for family members who are absent when health workers visit.
It is easier and more efficient to distribute medications when tapping into these large family structures, Katabarwa said. Through this approach, many more women have joined the effort to distribute the medicines because they are comfortable working among their family members.
Toward elimination
Elimination in 2020 is the goal for Uganda, but river blindness is harder to control in some parts of the country because of environmental and political factors, Unnasch said.
There are places where insecticide resistance is a problem with a particular species of black fly that also moves around a lot, he said, especially on the border with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Doing any kind of river blindness control in Democratic Republic of the Congo is problematic because of safety issues, he said. A lack of government structure also makes it hard for health workers to coordinate efforts. But the flies don't respect the border between DRC and Uganda, and people belonging to the same tribe in both countries migrate across, too.
"If you're controlling it on the Ugandan side, and doing nothing on the DRC side," Unnasch said, "you're never going to really eliminate it until you deal with these cross-border issues, and get an effective program going."
Unnasch commended the work that the Carter Center has been doing. He and Katabarwa travel together to Uganda every year. They are both part of an expert committee on river blindness through the country's Ministry of Health.
"When summertime rolls around, and the rains start to come and the flies go out, that's when we need to be there," Unnasch said.


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Police dog finds -- then fires -- ditched handgun

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  • A Massachusetts sheriff's search dog finds and fires a gun
  • "Everyone on the scene was startled, including Ivan," police chief says
  • Three men are now charged with firearms violations, police chief says
A Massachusetts police dog searching for a handgun not only found the weapon but fired it with his paw, a police chief said Sunday.
No one was injured when K-9 search dog Ivan discharged a bullet as he indicated the gun's location, Lawrence Police Chief John Romero told CNN.
"Everyone on the scene was startled, including Ivan," Romero said with a chuckle.
The search for the weapon began after a police officer on patrol early Saturday morning was responding to hearing three gunshots, according to Romero. The officer followed a vehicle, which sped off. A short time later, a passenger in the rear seat exited the vehicle and ran to a nearby snow bank to bury something.
The passenger re-entered the vehicle, and the officer stopped it but waited for backup before ordering the three men out of the vehicle, Romero said.
After the men exited the vehicle, Ivan's handler, Essex County Sheriff's Lt. John Pickles, commanded the dog to search for a gun after a shell casing was found in the backseat of the car, Romero said.
Ivan is trained "to paw" if he finds something.
"I surmise that the snow was there for a week, and it was probably like ice," Romero said. "The individual probably was not able to bury it very deep, and he had no time."
After Ivan recovered and fired the weapon, the three men were arrested and charged with possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition, receiving a firearm with a defaced serial number and receiving stolen property, Romero said. The individual believed to have buried the gun was also charged with discharging a firearm within 150 feet of a highway and carrying a firearm without a license. The semiautomatic Ruger was stolen from New Hampshire in October 2012.
As of Sunday, all three were being held in jail and awaiting a Monday arraignment, Romero said.


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Bruce Springsteen Fast Facts

(CNN)Here's a look into the life of musician and songwriter Bruce Springsteen.

Birth date:
September 23, 1949
Birth place: Freehold, New Jersey
Birth name: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
    Father: Douglas Springsteen, a bus driver
    Mother: Adele (Zerilli) Springsteen, a legal secretary
    Marriages: Patti Scialfa (June 8, 1991-present); Julianne Phillips (May 13, 1985-March 1, 1989, divorce)
    Children: with Patti Scialfa: Sam, January 5, 1994; Jessica, December 30, 1991; Evan, July 25, 1990
    Education: Attended Ocean County Community College for one semester, 1967
    Other Facts:
    Known as "The Boss."
    Has played with the E Street Band on and off since the early seventies.
    Nominated for two Academy Awards, has won once.
    Nominated for 46 Grammy Awards, has won 20 times.
    The cover of "Born in the U.S.A." was photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
    1965 -
    Springsteen became the lead guitarist in the band "The Castiles." He would later become the group's lead singer.
    1969-1971 - Performs in the band "Child."
    1972 - Signs a record deal with Columbia Records.
    January 5, 1973 - Columbia Records releases Springsteen's debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." This album features musicians who would eventually become members of the E Street Band.
    October 10, 1975 - Springsteen appears on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines at the same time, a rare honor previously only held by world leaders.
    1988 - Springsteen tours with Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! benefit concerts. The concerts take place in the United States, England, France and various developing countries.
    October 18, 1989 - Springsteen decides to take a break from playing with the E Street Band.
    1994 - Wins an Academy Award for Original Song for "The Streets of Philadelphia."
    March 15, 1999 - Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and officially reunites with the E Street Band.
    January 18, 2009 - Springsteen performs Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" with Pete Seeger at Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
    February 2, 2009 - Springsteen and the E Street Band play Super Bowl half-time show.
    December 10, 2009 - Receives the Kennedy Center Honors.
    November 2, 2012 - An NBC telethon, "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together," features Springsteen, Billy Joel, Jon Bon Jovi and other musicians to help raise money for the victims of the storm.
    August 25, 2015 - Springsteen celebrates the 40th anniversary of his mega hit "Born to Run."
    August 30, 2016 - Springsteen breaks his own US record for concert length with the third show of a three-night concert run at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The concert enters the record books with 34 songs lasting four hours and one minute.
    September 27, 2016 - Simon and Schuster releases Springsteen's autobiography "Born to Run."
    November 22, 2016 - President Barack Obama awards Springsteen with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.


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About National Parks

We protect some of the most beautiful landspaces in England and Wales

Millions of people visit National Parks every year, eager to enjoy their unique qualities, peace and tranquillity. Our Parks are also 'living landscapes', home to diverse communities. National Parks must be conserved for the benefit of all, now and in the future - they are "not ours, but ours to look after".
There are currently thirteen members of the National Parks family in England and Wales. They are the Broads, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, South Downs, Yorkshire Dales, Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire Coast and Snowdonia. The Parks cover about 10% of total land area of England and Wales: 9% of England and 20% of Wales.

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Organic Traffic to My Website has Vanished! What Can I Do?
Digital marketeers are not scared of dragons and under-the-bed ghosts. What sends chills down their spine is a much more mundane.

This image is any digital marketeer’s worst nightmare come true.

Imagine this.

You wake up one day, enter your Google Analytics window and boom! Virtually all organic traffic to your website has evaporated. Overnight.

Before you know what has happened, you receive a phone call from your boss who yells at you to either solve the crises or start your hunt for a new place to work. What can you do?

Relax because worrying along will not up the visitor count. You need a concrete plan.
Find Out What Has Happened

You may think: “It is no-brainer, genius! I already knew it! Thanks!”

It is awesome, if you already know the next course of action! For everyone else, here is a guide:

Speak to Your Developers

Is the website still online? Are the links working? Is there a blackout? The Internet is a complex machine. A lot of things can go wrong.

Once you have ensured there is no technical fault, log into your Gmail.
Check Your Gmail

Google imposes more than 400,000 manual penalties each week. You will have received a mail from Google if you were caught in the storm this time.

Your website can invite a manual penalty for a number of reasons that can range from over-optimization to extensive use of H1 tags or low-quality backlinks. Whatever the reason, you will receive a hint on what you need to do before google revokes the penalty.

What if there is no email from Google and no technical problem?

You may have incurred an algorithmic Google penalty.

Unlike in the case of manual penalty, you do not receive any notification from Google. But if there are no issues on the developing front and there is a sudden drop in organic traffic, you can more or less be certain that your website has been slapped with an algorithmic penalty.

Now you can relax because at least you know what may have happened. You can tell this to your boss to soothe him or her a little, without taking your eyes off your primary goal--bring back all those lost visitors.
Why Did Google Penalize Your Website?

Although Google does not publish specific guidelines whose breach can invite a penalty, SEO experts have come up with their own lists.
Here is Claire Broadley’s popular post 50 Reasons Your Website Deserves to Be Penalized By Google on Kissmetrics and an article on Google Penalties & The Causes of Them by Mark Walter which you will find useful.

What Can You Do To Revoke a Google Penalty?

Each case is different, so the exact plan to successfully revoke a Google penalty will vary with the underlying causes of penalty and how much damage you have suffered.

You may be interested in a latest post from Moz, where contributor Anna Korolekh shares how she managed to upturn a manual penalty from Google for her client. You can read the entire story on Case Study: How We Removed a Massive Manual Google Penalty in 5 Steps.

Neil Patel also has useful advice--The Complete Guide to Google Penalties (Both Manual and Algorithmic)--on what you can do to reclaim your organic traffic in the face of a penalty.

The Moz blog and Neil Patel’s PDF document essentially say the same thing:

 Work On Content. Remove all traces of duplicate and low-quality content from the website. Even one rotten apple can damage the reputation of your entire website.

 Disavow Low Quality Links. Manually check all the links and disavow those that do not match your standard of quality. It may take anywhere from a few days to a whole year or more.

Resubmit Your Website for Consideration. Submit your website for consideration to Google. If you are famous (like eBay) and have done everything right, you can get back to being normal in less than a week. But if you are a small business, you may have to wait for a month or more.

Google Penalties are bad, especially for small businesses. Try your best not to attract them in the first place. But if it already too late, read what industry leaders say about removing penalties and connect with professionals to figure out a complete plan.
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Republican Recall Candidates Hit with Abortion Politics Mailers

Campaign mailers underlining the anti-abortion views of Republican state senate candidates Bernie Herpin and George Rivera reportedly landed in southern Front Range voter mailboxes over the last two days, stoking flames in the already hot recall elections organized in response to gun-control legislation passed in the spring.

“Bernie Herpin supports a plan that would deny women access to common forms of birth control,” says one of the mailers. “He could even allow police officers to investigate women who have suffered a miscarriage… Vote No on the recall.”

The Colorado Independent obtained a copy of the mailers sent to District 11, where Herpin is running to replace Democratic Senate President John Morse. The Independent has yet to recieve a copy of the mailer sent to voters in District 3, where Rivera is hoping to replace Democratic Senator Angela Giron.

The Herpin mailer refers to his alleged support as city council member of the “personhood” movement, which seeks to outlaw abortion by granting full legal rights to fertilized human eggs, or “life from the moment of conception,” as supporters put it. Analysts have said personhood would amount to sweeping changes in the law, where countless statutes would have to be reworked and legal interpretations extended broadly and perhaps to absurd ends, where not only birth control would be outlawed but also where activities like drinking, smoking and raw-cheese eating, for example, could turn pregnant women into suspects or criminals.*

Herpin didn’t answer calls Thursday from the Independent seeking comment. But subsequent to publication, his campaign told the Independent that, although he is pro-life, there is “no evidence” that he has ever supported the personhood movement and that, in fact, Herpin does not support personhood and has never signed a personhood petition.

Groups have tried and failed three times in recent years to pass a constitutional amendment to make personhood the law in Colorado. Voters in conservative Mississippi also solidly rejected a personhood proposal in 2011.

The Herpin mailers come from a group called We Can Do Better Colorado, which first registered with the secretary of state on the last day of July. Registered Agent Josette Jaramillo’s Huffington Post contributor-bio lists her as a Pueblo native, county worker and local public-employee-union president. She has written at Huffington Post about the politics of reproductive rights.

We Can Do Better’s contribution report won’t be available to the public until the end of September, weeks after the Sept 10 elections are over. But We Can Do Better is a so-called 527 committee dedicated to addressing an issue, in this case reproductive health, and barred from coordinating with any candidate. Issue committees can spend as much as they can take in and never reveal their donors. The recall elections could well draw other committees in the coming weeks similarly organized around topics like guns and gays and god.

Republican George Rivera, a longtime Pueblo police officer who retired as a deputy chief, brushed off the mailers Friday on Twitter, calling them “desperate” and a “shell game” being played by Giron.

“I make no apologies for my belief in the sanctity of life,” he wrote.

But Rivera takes a hardline stance on the abortion debate, even for a conservative, and reproductive rights are sure to be one of the issues that will concern voters in Pueblo.

Rivera signed last year’s personhood petition, called Initiative 46, which would have outlawed abortion categorically, including in cases of rape and incest.

“This provision Rivera signed onto would ban common forms of birth control and would allow police to investigate a woman if she has a miscarriage,” says Jennie Peek-Dunston, campaign director for Pueblo United. “It’s something Colorado voters have rejected multiple times and indicates that he’s just not in touch. ”

“Look, that’s what I believe, but on the other hand it’s not like I’m going to make that a burning issue to present or champion,” Rivera told the Independent. “It’s important, but my platform at this point mainly has to do with the Second Amendment rights and other things that have affected Pueblo, like water and renewable energy.”

Peek-Dunston said the recall election has to be about many issues, because it’s about who will represent all of Pueblo and all of Pueblo’s interests at the capitol.

“I think it shows that there’s a bigger picture to these elections,” she said, referring to the uptick in interest about candidate positions on reproductive rights. “[The elections] will affect a whole host of issues including a woman’s ability to make her own healthcare decisions.”

In Colorado Springs, Herpin is sure to have to revisit the issue of reproductive rights soon.

In a recent Colorado Springs Independent Q&A piece, Herpin and Morse were asked generally about the Brady Amendment, yet another version of the personhood amendment introduced last spring.

“Petitioners are once again seeking to put a ‘personhood’ issue on the ballot, which would declare a fetus to be a full citizen,” the Springs Independent asked. “What is your stance on this issue and on reproductive rights in general?”

“The personhood issue has been decided by Colorado voters before,” Herpin said. “Under state law, people can choose to petition for it to be on the ballot again. If they do, it will be in the hands of the voters again.”

Herpin’s measured response makes sense for a candidate running on a recall platform that has centered around the right of constituents to express their views on the issues and be heard by their representatives.

But this isn’t the first time Herpin has answered questions about abortion. In a “Pikes Peak Citizens for Life” survey given to city council members in April, he was much more frank. His replies reveal ambiguity or complexity or both in his thinking on the matter that might make a difficult fit with the contemporary black-and-white politics of abortion. Indeed, the public record of his views are sure to continue to raise questions about precisely what role he believes the government should play in women’s reproductive rights and abortion.

In the survey, Herpin identified himself as pro-life, over and above any political party affiliation, and indicated he supported government protection for life beginning at single-cell development. He also agreed that the “government does not have the authority to declare any part of the human family to be non-persons,” an assertion used in a variety of personhood petitions.

Herpin also agreed to never vote for nor to appoint to a position anyone who supports Roe v Wade.

Yet he also said he didn’t support laws, like many introduced around the country in recent years, that would force women seeking abortions to view ultrasounds of fetuses and that would outlaw embryonic stem cell research.

* An earlier version of this post reported that Bernie Herpin, as Colorado Springs Council member, supported the personhood movement. He reports that he did not. The post has been updated to reflect those views.

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March 24, 2008

Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* Jeet Heer writes about The Ten-Cent Plague for the Globe and Mail.

image* this post from Leigh Walton talks about webcartoonists offering t-shirts, and notes the lack of such offers from smaller comics publishers. Leigh is probably too young to remember 15 years ago when Fantagraphics was a t-shirt farm, their products even traveling back in time and into the fictional Earth Zemeckis to clothe Forrest Gump. It's my memory that it wasn't a profitable sideline for them. Maybe the economics of t-shirt making are different now when you don't have to make a bunch in advance of demand, or maybe webcartoonists have a different audience, I don't know. Chris Butcher mentions one way that a company might make t-shirts work: limited edition offerings.

* it's never too late to become a cartoonist.

* here's an interview, copiously illustrated, with Stan Lee about his new fumetti book, where he talks about his long-standing association with that form of comics. As I recall, Lee also tried to do this kind of thing as a syndicated feature at one point, but it was too difficult to get releases on celebrity photos. I'm going by memory on that one, though. Plus, Lee reveals while there's an exclamation point in POW! Entertainment.

* speaking of Lee, he'll be receiving an award at NYCC. It's good to see Lee travel East, there were some comments he made via a phone call to a panel months ago that indicated he might not be doing that a whole lot these days.

* the writer Paul Di Filippo writes about DC's Zuda initiative for SciFi.com

* both Alan David Doane and Valerie D'Orazio talk about bad comic shops, or elements thereof. I'm always a little confused by the whole idea of venting over bad comic book shops, perhaps because I frequently find bad comic shops useful but mostly, I think, because I don't take to heart their lousiness beyond it being a bad retail experience. Bad retail experiences are fairly common and not the end of the world, or at least they haven't been for me. A guy at Wendy's taking my order once threatened to beat me up for mumbling when I was 17 years old, my local music store sells 60 to 70 percent heavy metal because that's what the owner likes, my gourmet grocery doesn't carry harissa (despite its 38 varieties of Pocky) and overcharges for its spices. The guy behind the counter never even heard of harissa! What's he doing behind the counter of a gourmet grocer -- okay, you get the idea.

All that being said, when I dipped into the seething anger in the comments thread of this post over what are at least to me bizarre and ridiculous "issues" like the Susan Storm Skrull, a light went off in my head. The desire to create a community in something as inappropriate in a comic book store (or to judge such a place on the expectations of community) and the desire to create one on-line where the shared values and relevant items of discourse depend on superhero comic book ephemera -- these desires have to be related, and neither one is likely to be healthy for anyone involved, be they outraged, hurt, disappointed or legitimized by the outcome. Okay, I don't get an honorary PhD from Bowling Green's pop-culture department for that one, but I personally never thought of it that way before. It has to be possible to read, buy and talk about comics without investing every human transaction of that type with the drama and import of one's core self-worth. If nothing else, it bleeds attention away from things like systemic reform and advocacy according to higher, more ethical standards by cuffing almost every issue about the head and shoulders until it turns into one more referendum on "what happened to me."

* Jog compares work from Jack Chick to that of his frequent collaborator Fred Carter. Many comics artists of my acquaintance are fans of Fred Carter.
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Relativity and The Weinstein Co. Settle The Crow Lawsuit

Relativity Media alerted us today that the company and The Weinstein Company have settled the lawsuit over The Crow and will together continue to develop a new feature:

“The lawsuit between Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company concerning THE CROW has been amicably settled out of court, and the parties will continue to work on the film together as planned. In addition, Relativity Media has dismissed all of its claims against The Weinstein Company for any wrongdoing regarding the release and distribution of NINE, and The Weinstein Company has dismissed all of its claims against Relativity Media.”

You can read more on the lawsuit here. Bradley Cooper was attached to the new film for a while, but dropped out last August.


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New Image From Total Recall

Following last week’s trailer, a new photo from Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall has come online and can be viewed below, thanks to The Lebanese Cinema Movie Guide.

Opening in theaters on August 3, the Len Wiseman-directed action thriller stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho and Bill Nighy.


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Home Office delayed critical report into secure centre where boy died

A highly critical inspection report into the secure training centre where 14-year-old Adam Rickwood committed suicide was held back from publication until 18 months after inspectors went in.

The Commission for Social Care Inspection published the report on the privately-run Hassockfield STC in Durham this week after Community Care asked why it had been delayed.

It is understood that the report, which raised concerns over the use of restraint and called for a review of the centre’s behaviour management policy, had been signed off by CSCI last year, but delays occurred when it was sent to the Home Office to be approved.

The inspection was conducted in August 2005, a year after Rickwood was found hung (see Inquests). The CSCI report found that there had been a “month on month”  increase in the use of physical restraint, segregation and handcuffs on its 42 residents since its previous inspection in 2004.

There were “entrenched suspicions and divisions” between different staff groups that “worked against the interests of young people”.

A CSCI inspection team went back into the centre in August 2006. A spokesperson said that there had been “improvements” made and the report would be published in March.

Serco, which runs the centre, said that it “regretted” the delays in publishing the 2005 report. It said it had carried out a “fundamental overhaul” of behaviour management techniques, and introduced new  approaches to using restraint. This had resulted in a “significant and steady decrease” of restraint from 135 in July 2005 to 21 in July 2006.

Figures from the Home Office show there were a total of 89 instances of restraint at Hassockfield between July and September 2006, the lowest of the four STCs. Medway was the highest with 282 for the period.

The CSCI said it “regretted” there had been “unacceptable delays”.

It added that a new agreement has been made with the Youth Justice Board, and the Home Office which would speed up publication of inspections in the future. The Home Office said: “We are all working together to improve the process.”

Adam Rickwood’s inquest is scheduled for April and will examine claims that he was restrained in the hours preceding his suicide. The inquest into the death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt, who lost consciousness while being restrained by three officers at Rainsbrook STC, opened this week.Myatt died in April 2004.

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Hey this is Reuben with Competition Accessories. Were going to take a quick look at Shoeis multitec helmet. Which is their modular helmet with the flip up chin. This helmet has been out for quite a while but its been a very popular helmet as well. Modular helmets are great for convenience, theyre very handy if your stopped at a light and want to talk to somebody, or if you want to grab a drink. For those that wear glasses they even integrate eyeglass slits on the edges of the interior as well, obviously with the chin bar up its a lot easier to get your glasses on and off so thats a big plus for those that wear glasses underneath their helmet. Taking a look at the shell of the helmet, it actually uses Shoei AIM shell, which stands for Advanced Integrated Matrix its basically just a fiberglass shell. Which is going to be fairly lightweight, a modular is going to be a little bit heavier than your typical full-face helmet just because it has a lot more moving parts on it. But the AIM shell itself is going to be a lot stiffer than what you find in the less expensive modular helmets. With a modular you dont have a one-piece chin bar so you need to have an extra strong shell so it doesnt have a whole lot of flexibility and the multitec definitely feels like it has a much stronger shell feel than some of the less expensive helmets out there. I want to talk about ventilation real quick. Its fairly basic ventilation on this helmet. You have a chin spoiler, or a chin bar vent, which is going to basically be open or close with a simple lever here. That is going to direct air up on to the face shield help reduce fogging. And then up at the top of the helmet there is a two-position intake system at the top. Basically if you open it to the first position there is just a small air scoop at the back thats going to give you some airflow to your head. If you need more ventilation than that you can open it fully and that is now going to work in conjunction with these two intakes at the front. On the rear of the helmet its just a very clean shell shape. It will flow very cleanly through the air try to reduce wind noise as much as possible. There arent any exterior vents on this helmet but at the base of the neck roll right here in this area thats where the hot air is going to escape. So that warm air is going to have a place to go once the cool air comes in through the front vents. Talk about the shield, this helmet actually uses Shoeis CX-1V shield, which has a nice ratcheting mechanism. All the way up and all the way down there are several detents all the way. You can keep it cracked, it also has a shield locking mechanism so if you tilt this little lever to the back thats going to hold the shield down. And if you push it forward your actually going to get a small crack along the front of the shield here which will allow just a little bit more air to flow up underneath the shield so if your running into fogging issues in colder weather or wet weather you can always use that lever to slightly open it if you dont want to have it in that first detent open position. Now the chin bar is very easy to operate as well. There is basically a button on the front or a lever, you just give that a squeeze, just pinch it and thats going to release the chin bar and you can open it all the way up. You can see Shoei does include a chin curtain so thats optional you can take it out. If youre riding in colder weather or if you dont want air to come up underneath the chin bar you can install that. It basically just slides up between the chin bar and the lining, there is some lining on the front of the chin bar there as well. So that comes right off. The only part of the interior of this helmet that actually comes out is the cheek pads so we will go ahead and pull those out. But it does use their comfort liner. Which is a 3-D liner, so basically it just uses different contours of material throughout the inside that works in conjunction with the ventilation on this helmet. Its a very nice, soft fabric. Its comfortable. One thing I do want you to notice is they build in some integrated speaker pockets so if you run a communication system or bluetooth for music or GPS, the speakers have a place to go. They install right behind the cheek pads the cheek pads basically just come out with three snaps. So they are very easy to remove and theyre also replaceable so if you need to go up or down a size on the cheek pads you can customize the fit with those as well. So the last thing I want you to take a look at here is the locking mechanism. It of course being a Shoei it uses very nice metal to metal latching system. There is a metal tab here and then Im not sure if we will be able to get it on the video but theres a metal latch that lines right up with those tabs. And when you close it you have a nice, secure click knowing that its down in position and ready to go. So if you do a lot of long distance riding, commuting, touring, these helmets are very, very good choice. They are very convenient. Obviously with Shoei youre getting a very good quality helmet. Its just DOT approved, Snell does not do any kind of testing on modular helmets. But it still uses Shoeis AIM shell design, which is one of the top of the line shells out there from many helmet manufacturers. Were going to put a link right here to our YouTube channel, be sure to click on that and hit subscribe. We do several giveaways on YouTube as well as on our Facebook page so be sure to check us out on there as well. You can check the Multitecs out on our website at and well see ya next time.
Hey guys this is Reuben at competition accessories and welcome to our comparison video for the all new shoei Neotec versus the Multitec now both of these are fantastic modular helmets from shoei who is a premium helmet manufacturer the Multitec has been in their line up for several years the Neotec just came out it was just released so we wanted to take a look at the two helmets to see what makes them different and what makes the Neotec about 170 dollars more when you look at the retail prices now at the first glance one thing you might notice by looking at the front of the helmet is the Multitec is a little bit wider down around the chin bar area and the Neotec is a little bit longer front to back if i actually bring both helmets up you can probably see that the Neotec is significantly longer in shape the Neotec has taken several steps to make it more aerodynamic one thing i did want to point out is at the edge of the chin bar you have a small lip that shoeis incorporated thats what their calling their vortex generator vent basically that is going to direct wind up and away from gap between the chin bar and the rest of the helmet as well away from the slider switch for the internal visor the internal visor is another major upgrade its the first time we have seen an internal sun visor on a shoei helmet it comes with a dark smoke internal sun visor which is anti fog coated obviously the Multitec does not have that and one thing you might see if you look at the shell is there is actually a raised portion of the shell here this is using shoeis aim shell which is advanced intergrated matrix but what theyve done instead of shaving away the interior eps liner to accommodate space for that sun shield they actually built that shell up to have space for the shield without compromising on the thickness of the internal eps foam now when you compare these helmets side to side you might notice that the chin bar comes out a little bit further on the Neotec you do get 8mm more room in the Neotec which is going to allow you to have more breathing room and it also gives you more space for something like a microphone if your installing a communication system both helmets open basically in the same fashion there is a latch here that you squeeze down on and its going to raise the chin bar up but on the Neotec one thing you will notice si the chin bar and face shield pivet on the same plain so the same access they are rotating around as the Multitec here as you raise the chin bar up the shield is a little bit further forward which brings it up a little further back if you look at the back of the helmets when they raise it up you can see that the Neotec actually keeps the shield down nice and low as the Multitec it is sticking up in the wind just a little bit further while were looking at the back of the hlmets here another major difference between the Neotec and the Multitec is the Neotec gives you a closeable rear exhaust vent which you dont have on the Multitec so your going to have just a little bit more air flow but definitely a more aggressive ventilation system on the Neotec you get a rear exhaust vent where as on the Multitec you do not have one and then taking a look at the front vents top ram air on the Neotec is going to force a lot more air in and they are both 3 position sliders but the vent configuration on the Neotec is definitely going to force more air down on into the helmet where as the Multitec just basically has 2 intake ports sitting up on the top and then the chin bar vent on the Multitec looks a little larger but shoei is saying that the chin bar vent on the Neotec is actually going to be a little bit more effective both of those are going to direct air up onto the face shield now another thing that the Neotec has as an advantage over the Multitec is that it does come with a pinlock insert so this is going to come with the Neotec basically its going to install between the posts inside the face shield and that is going to give you a complete anti fog system while we are talking about the face shield it is going to be taller and wider then what you had on the Multitec and there is also a new double lip seal around the gasket so you actually have a 2 lip seal but on the Multitec its actually just going to touch on the single lip and then the Neotec has 2 lips which are going to just give it a more secure seal which is again going to help keep natural elements out a little bit better and its going to reduce wind noise keeping the ride a little bit quieter you can check both of these helmets out on our website there both current shoei modular helmets both of them are available on our site at competition also in the top right hand corner of this video is a link to our youtube channel be sure to subscribe to us there so you can stay up to date with all our latest product reviews and videos one more thing i almost forgot fully removable interior on the Neotec so you can remove the cheek pads and crown liner completely where as the Multitec you can only remove the cheek pads so i almost forgot but thats another major improvement with the Neotec and that is a dry max lining which is going to be moisture management system so again check this out on our website thanks again for watching our comparison of the Multitec and the Neotec well see you next time
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“I remember just watching that video. Everytime it come on, everybody be glued to the tv.

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“I actually wanted to do that in ‘K-Town Playground’ but a lot of people didn’t come out. I think if we would have added the dancing that wanted in the video, it would be generating a whole lot more attention.

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The unfortunate star: Charlize Theron

An action-adventure flick starring Charlize Theron in skintight black latex? You don't have to be a kinky fetishist to get excited by that sales pitch, and when you consider that Aeon Flux was based on the popular MTV animated series, it's must-see status heightens even further.

But despite Theron's surprisingly nimble athleticism and knack for executing dangerous stunts and snappy fight choreography, Aeon Flux is a stylistic action misfire on par with Milla Jovovich's Ultraviolet, or, gasp, Halle Berry's Catwoman.


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When it comes to most aspects of basketball, the NBA and NCAA games are going to give you the most about what the game is all about. Funny thing is we're not talking about most aspects of basketball here, we're talking soley about ankle-breakers. When it comes to breaking dudes down off the bounce there's nothing like streetballers who throw insome sometimes illegal but always entertainingpizazz to make their defenders look silly. We've got some ill crossovers from your favorite AND1 guys like Hot Sauce, The Professor, and OG Rafer "Skip 2 My Lou" Alston. We also have jukes some random guys who found their way to the court and showed off a little something of their own. Enjoy our GIF Gallery: The Best Ankle-Breakers in Streetball History.

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Tip of the Hat: Seeking a method to Google's acquisition madness

A reasoned look at Google's strong interest in -- and willingness to pay billions of dollars for -- robotics and AI technology

Google in recent months has agreed to use billions of dollars gained in profits from its wildly successful search and advertising business to buy an array of companies developing artificial technology and robotics technologies.

Tip of the hat

Observers have offered explanations for the individual acquisitions, including robotics firmBoston Dynamics, Nest, a maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, and secretive AI tech developer DeepMind Technologies.

But it's unclear whether Google has a long-range plan for the technologies or is testing an array of potential new businesses to see what works.

A Computerworld Tip of the Hat to Forbes contributor Reuven Cohen for his effort to find "a method to its apparent madness" by seeking answers to What's Driving Google's Obsession With Artificial Intelligence And Robots?

He concludes that the company's acquisition strategy "may very well be about building better models of the world so they can make more accurate predictions about future outcomes," which is vital to its new businesses like self-driving cars as well as its search engine.

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Nexus 6 release date -- incept next week? (Time to die)

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Here comes the Nexus 6 release date. Rumors are rife that Google is about to launch and ship its new Android L phablet, possibly as soon as next week.

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Alistair Barr and Rolfe Winkler have seen things you people wouldn't believe:

Google this month expects to release its largest smartphone...according to three people familiar with the situation. ... Code-named Shamu after a killer whale, [it] will have a 5.9-inch screen, a high-resolution display and be sold under the Nexus brand.

Phablets, defined as smartphones with displays five inches or larger, were once ridiculed as unwieldy bricks. ... But as phones have evolved...into computers...larger devices have caught on. ... In 2011, phablets accounted for 1% of global smartphone shipments. This year, [they] will make up 24% [says] Strategy Analytics.

Phablets are also popular among some Asian consumers as a status symbol, along with a large house and car.  MORE

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it, Iain Thomson?

OMG, we're gonna be invaded by Nexus 6 replicants. No, wait. [But it] raises the interesting possibility that Blade Runner fans could at last have a non-homicidal Nexus 6 of their own

The Google phablet rumors gained more ground after a[ed] the device, should it exist, is powered by 2.65GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor with 3GB of RAM and running a 5.0 version of Android.  MORE

A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies: A Chance Miller to begin again: [You're fired -Ed.]

The Wall Street incredibly sparse on details, but does corroborate all of what we exclusively reported last month.

[It] will also pack a qHD resolution of 2560 x 1440, which comes out to 498 pixels-per-inch...a 3,200mAh battery and a 13MP rear camera with 4k video.  MORE

But Cory Gunther is from the Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses:

At this point it’s pretty clear that Google and Motorola have been working hard on a new smartphone for the Nexus lineup. ... Now at least 5 sources are all claiming an October announcement and release date. ... This is big news as previous rumors had it coming [in] November.

[More] specs based on rumors and reports: 5.92-inch...Android 5.0 “L Release” (64-bit) with OIS, 2.1 [MP] front camera...Ring Flash similar to Moto X...Front Facing Speaker.  MORE

Meanwhile, Chris Chavez is not in the business. He is the business:

If last year’s sudden Nexus 5 launch wasn’t a big enough clue for you, we’d say we’re not too far off from Google announcing...the Nexus 6.

[It's] identical to Motorola’s Moto X (2nd Gen), only larger. ... It’ll be interesting to see if any corners were cut.  MORE

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10 dull apps no Mac user should live without

Clever utilities are sexy!

‘Tis the season to use credit and as we give and receive things we neither love nor need, spare a thought for these 10 seemingly dull apps that any Mac user needs.

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Dropbox Pro

Many use the free version and won’t see why you need to pay to upgrade.

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Along with sharing Dropbox Pro offers instant sync/live backup of up to 1TB of data, so if you set up your DropBox folder as the default Save location for documents you work on, you’ll never any document ever again – and you can remotely wipe your data from any lost or stolen device. ($9.99/month).

Evernote Premium

Evernote’s just a place for notes, right?

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If you’ve not used Evernote for time you missed when it became the way to keep everything organized: recipes to research, shopping to spreadsheet and business presentation, computational analysis to zymurgical calculations in place. In its premium version Evernote will collate all kinds of notes, PDFs, scnned business cards and more. Still don’t get it? Then read this. ($5/month).

You can’t see it, it’s backup and it’s online.

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Once you set up your Crashplan cloud backup service (which takes time depending on how much data you have to upload first time) you will never lose a file, photograph, document or music file again. And nor will anyone in your family as capacity is unlimited – if you can get online you’ll get your data back. ($5.99/month).

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