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ANSWERED on Sun 13 Jul 2008 - 8:47 pm UTC by pinkfreud
13 Jul 2008 19:42 UTCSun 13 Jul 2008 - 7:42 pm UTC
I've just spent a day walking around the streets of two cities here in the UK and was very aware of the number of discarded aluminium drinks cans I saw on the pavement. When I'm in the United States, I see a 'regular' can collector, a gentleman who could well be homeless, who trundles around on his bicycle with a giant plastic sack over his shoulder full of old soft drink cans. I'm guessing that he goes somewhere and exchanges them for cash, and I'm pretty certain that in the USA there's a system whereby you pay a 'deposit' of around 5 cents every time you buy a can of drink (I think the deposit varies from state to state) so I'm assuming he's cashing in these deposits.
In the UK there's no such deposit system. But I would have assumed that an empty drink can is aluminium, and as such it presumably has some scrap value. My question is this. Am I looking a gift horse in the mouth by walking past these cans, instead of gathering them up and selling them as scrap? What, please, is the scrap value of one empty Coke (other soft drinks are available) can? And where might one take these cans in order to obtain the money that might lead to a life of luxury?
13 Jul 2008 20:47 UTCSun 13 Jul 2008 - 8:47 pm UTC
In the United States, collecting empty soda cans isn't a road to riches for most folks, since the payoff is rather scanty for the amount of labor involved. My aunt and uncle (now deceased) used to supplement their retirement income by gathering cans and turning them in at a local aluminum recycling center. My aunt estimated that they earned about fifty cents an hour, but the can-gathering was good exercise, and a little bit of money is better than no money at all (according to my thrifty, energetic aunt). I am not trying to discourage people from participating in recycling; I think recycling is wonderful. But I don't think it's a very good way to earn money.
The average aluminum beverage can weighs about 1/2 ounce, so it takes approximately 32 cans to make a pound. Older cans may weigh more; in the 1970s, when my aunt and uncle were can-gatherers, the average was 24 cans to the pound.
The amount offered by recycling centers varies from time to time and place to place. At the moment, in my area (Tulsa, Oklahoma), 40 to 50 cents a pound is typical. Rarely, there are special fundraising deals in which higher prices are offered for a limited time. I've never seen an offer of more than 75 cents a pound during the "specials." So, if you have 32 cans in a pound, and you're earning the best-case rate of 75 cents a pound, you are looking at about 2.3 cents per can. In states where beverage-can deposits are required, returning the cans will be more lucrative, but still will not produce much of an income because of the amount of effort it takes to find and transport the cans.
It is easy to find a recycling facility. Most are listed in the telephone book. Check the Yellow Pages headings "Recycling Centers and Services" or "Scrap Metal." Pay rates are seldom advertised, since they fluctuate. It's best to phone and ask for the company's rates and requirements.
Keep in mind that picking up the cans is just the beginning of the labor. The cans must be rinsed out to remove sticky residue from their previous contents. They must be crushed flat and placed in bags or boxes, and they must be delivered to the recycling facility at the exact day and time that the facility accepts aluminum cans.
Here's an interesting article on the subject:
Recycling Aluminum Cans
I hope this is helpful!
Best regards,
14 Jul 2008 11:04 UTCMon 14 Jul 2008 - 11:04 am UTC
That's very helpful Pink. Thank you. Can I just be sure that it is as easy to find a Scrap Metal centre in the UK as it sounds as though it is in the United States please?
A rough conversion suggests that a can might be worth a little over one penny in UK terms. I would always pick up a penny if I found one on the pavement, yet I walk past many discarded cans during the course of a day. I realise that there's work to be done in terms of collecting, cleaning, crushing, transporting etc - but I still think it's fascinating.
As a boy, I was encouraged to collect 'silver' milk bottle tops by the children's TV programme Blue Peter, who turned the aluminium into guide dogs for the blind. A milk bottle top would have had very little metal content compared to a soda can, I would have thought.
I've never heard of drinks cans being collected for charity in the UK. Maybe we've stumbled on an opportunity?
Could someone just confirm that it's possible to get money for cans in the UK, and I'll happily consider my question well and truly answered.
Thanks - Jon
14 Jul 2008 12:43 UTCMon 14 Jul 2008 - 12:43 pm UTC
Hi Jon,
I was able to find the following UK site, in Belfast:
"Top Prices Paid for used Aluminium Beverage Cans. Clean used Aluminium Foil also purchased."
P. Kane Metals Recycling
14 Jul 2008 12:47 UTCMon 14 Jul 2008 - 12:47 pm UTC
Also, in Glasgow:
"We buy aluminium cans for cash. We process the aluminium cans for recycling at Alcan in Warrington where they are made into new cans."
Canstock (UK) Ltd
14 Jul 2008 13:11 UTCMon 14 Jul 2008 - 1:11 pm UTC
I've now found the definitive page:
"There are around 300 Cash for Cans centres across the UK, where you can sell your aluminium cans for cash ... You can use the cash to buy something for yourself ... or, why not set up a group collection for your school or favourite charity?"
Cash For Cans
There's also a link to a search page to locate your nearest Cash For Cans site. There's no mention of prices, but I guess scrap metal prices change on a daily basis and are unlikely to be listed on the website.
14 Jul 2008 18:51 UTCMon 14 Jul 2008 - 6:51 pm UTC
Thank you very much for the tip!
Many thanks to Roger (eiffel) for posting the Cash for Cans site. Having a recycling facility that is within walking distance of one's home is remarkable! When my aunt and uncle were can-mongers, they had to drive twenty miles to deliver the cans to a recycling center. When I remarked on the gasoline expense cutting into the profit, my aunt, ever the optimist, pointed out to me that this was "good exercise for the car."
15 Jul 2008 08:39 UTCTue 15 Jul 2008 - 8:39 am UTC
It would be hard work to make a living out of it. It works out at well under 1p a can. However, if China's and India's demand for metals continue, it may well be worth keeping your eyes on the ground.
"Aluminium cans are worth about 40 pence/kg. It takes approximately 60 cans to make up a kilogram and about 50,000 to make up a tonne (crushed these would take up about four cubic meters). Most dealers will accept aluminium in amounts over one kilogram."
"There are approximately 60 cans in a kilogram
The payment currently is 40p per kg, but as the aluminium market can vary, this price is liable to go either up or down"
15 Jul 2008 11:17 UTCTue 15 Jul 2008 - 11:17 am UTC
I infer from Answerfinder's comment that it might be worthwhile stockpiling your cans. I reckon the odds of the price going down are negligible, since demand will stay up and producing aluminum (aluminium) uses a lot of electricity, which won't get cheaper.
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A Tiny German Student Chick…0
Said this, at the height of the most repressive regime in history apart from those in the Arab world backed by the US.
The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small.
When Little Sophie was dragged before the costumed fuckwits who wield the whip of the State, did she grovel and beg? Like fuck. Here's what she said as she was being sentenced to death:
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
Betray-Us and Broadwell (nee Kranz)… OK, I'll Bite.0
A lot of people are missing a key point in l'affaire Petraeus: how about the fact that the CIA was unable to determine that its leader was
(a) having an affair;
(b) had his e-mail account hacked (or attempted-hacked, depending on who you read); and
(c) WAS UNDER FBI SURVEILLANCE.
Ditto for the DIA as concerns General Allen (OK, so Allen was not Director of DIA, but you get the point). Hell, Allens' correspondence with Kelley ran to TWENTY THOUSAND PAGES – he must have been typing full-time (or transferring documents), and NOBODY CAUGHT ON. WTF? Billions of dollars of the alphabet-soup intelligence agencies, and they fail RIGHT ON THEIR OWN DOORSTEP.
As I have said often and widely, the CIA missed (failed to forecast, and to the extent that it fell within their remit, failed to prevent or forestall) every single issue of geopolitical and strategic importance since its foundation:
- the Russian bomb,
- the Chinese bomb,
- the French bomb,
- the Indian bomb,
- the Pakistani bomb,
- the fall of the Berlin Wall,
- the reunification of Germany,
- the fall of the Soviet Union,
- the rise of the Taliban,
- the USS Cole,
- the Beirut bombing …
EVERY SINGLE ONE, right up to September 11th (and further – right up to the overthrow of US stooge Pharoah Hosni-hotep Mubarak). Find a single issue of geo-strategic significance that happened in the mid-to-late 20th century, and the CIA missed it.
And now we have some idea that it can't even assess the behaviour or control the e-mail account of its own leadership, and/or cannot figure out whether its leader is being subject to scrutiny by other intelligence-gathering mechanisms (domestic or foreign).
Good News, Everyone!0
OK. MentatSpace (aka RantSpace) is now repaired – all the internet kerjiggers are pointed at the right orifices, and your Beloved GT stands ready to bring the madness again.
Some bits of the algorithm are not playing nice just yet, so the full 'works and jerks' Grogans of Wisdom™ won't begin to be shat out until next week, prob'ly.
However while I've got you here, let's recap.
- Euro bullshit-artists continue to pretend that the Grecians are not up to their collective vord in debt-cancer;
- the Mulatto Metrosexual beat the man who believes in magic underpants for the role of Brown-Baby-Killer-in-Chief;
- everybody is becoming slowly more aware of the degeneracy of the political class (i.e., the non-mainstream media has started to genuinely dig into the international morass of kiddie-fiddlers in which Savile, Dutroux and others move and moved, with constant protection from politicians, police and the judiciary);
- 5'5", 150lb weakling and lifelong sycophant-to-power Dave "BetrayUs" got honeypotted, and the cover story the political class decided on was written by someone who got fired from "Days of Our Lives".
Nothing else of note, from memory: oh, wait. At one stage my "long EURAUD" call was up a thousand pips; my "Long gold at 1563" was up $200; my "Long EURUSD at 1.21-odd" was up about 900 pips; and we got the Buttered Carrot of Doom up the Vord on the "Short DAX from 6900" (that's still going to be fine, kiddies).
Also, The Lovely has had her first appearance as a Baby Barrister, and is finding her feet in the new milieu. (I've started using words like 'milieu' too – that's how fucking cosmopolitan I am).
Thinking back to the recent contest for US Chief Tax Parasite and Foreign Child-Killer, think of what that contest meant.
The incumbent was part of some whackjob church in Chicago for 20 years. It's a particularly nutty version of the Jeebus-got-nailed myth. He was a weekly attendee for 20 years, and married his (huge Adam's Apple-d) 'wife' there. (What's her name? Michael, I think. Huge delts).
So either he believes in that brand of nutjobbery, or he lies about it.
Barack Obama believes in an Invisible Sky Wizard who
- loves foreskins, blood and burnt offal;
- led a bunch of peasants descended from an incestuous Iraqi nomad, on campaign of genocide, theft and murder in Judea in about the 9th century BCE;
- all but wiped out life on earth because he got a bit bored; and
- came to life as his own son in order to get killed horrifically as some ludicrous primitive blood sacrifice;
Barack Obama is a big fat liar who only pretends to believe that whacked-out nutball shit simply because he thinks people are so stupid they could not bear a genuinely rational leader.
We know he's a big fat liar anyhow – because he's a professional parasite. He's also almost certainly a sociopath, because it is not possible to rise within a modern party machine without being a sociopath. But he lies about matters of faith, god dammit.
Magic Undies Mitt presents the same dilemma: either he's a big fat lying bullshitter, or he believes in magic undies and the laughable nonsense fairy story made up by Joseph Smith (which if you familiarise yourself with it, is only slightly less ludicrous than the Bible and slightly more ludicrous than Scientology – no, seriously: of the three, Scientology is the least fucktarded). [That said, I am an enemy of Scientology to my last cell]
So anyway – it will be the bullshitting half-Kenyan who will be leading the continued US depraved slaughter of innocents around the world, not the man who wear magic jocks.
The "Savile-and-a bunch of other 'elite' degenerates" kiddie-fucker stuff is going to get much much more airplay soon, dearest Readers.
Your Beloved GT is aware of a project that is in the throes of decrypting the second chunk of a 'liberated' dataset that was freed from the clutches of a small corner of the international paedo-network. If it is like the first section (and it is), it contains names, addresses, e-mail addresses, IP addresses and a whole buncha other stuff.
My suggestion – that the individuals be notified that their names will be suppressed from final release so long as they kill themselves – was rejected, sadly.
Once collated and checked, the decrypted repository will all be spread far and wide so that the political class, their media sycophants, their police goons, and their judicial cronies can't prevent it from seeing the light of day. And some real smart folks are making additional linkages as we speak.
Funniest thing: the data was encrypted using a mechanism which has been proved-decryptable since 2003 (MD5, for those who know about that sort of thing).
Market Has Lit Its Last Rock (of Crack)0
OK – so the DAX is up a little over 400 points in three sessions – apparently the Krauts are perfectly happy that their children's labour is being sold off by a bunch of wog bureaucrats (Draghi and Monti), and they think that it's all Schmiles und Sunschein from here on out. Alles ist gut – ze Woggo überbanksters are going to fix everytink mit die clever wog-bond-buying.
Now the Krauts are supposedly a pretty hard-headed lot: good engineers and so forth. They're not known for being the most credulous bunch in the world, although they did fall for that little guy with a funny moustache in the early part of last century… what was his name again? Charlie Chaplin? No… Adolf something. You know the guy – he's on the History Channel pretty much every day. Not a fan of the Red Sea Pedestrians, if memory serves.
Anyhow… let's leave lapses like that aside. Everyone gets to make one big mistake per century.
The other thing that the Kraut market reveals in spades is trend-following that makes the Nasdaq traders from 1999 and 2000 seem positively contrarian by comparison. At turning points, you would swear that there's nobody on the other side of the market in DAX futures/CFDs… the thing melts up (or down, at oversold extremes) 10, 15 points in twenty seconds, and can't get a pullback for love nor money.
And just when you think that the trend will go on forever… something intervenes.
It's kind of like how the whole "1000 Year Reich" schtick changed when someone pointed out that the Red Army artillery was on the outskirts of Berlin.
And so it will be when someone points out that France and Germany can't afford to bail out their sun-drenched lazy Southern cousins (well Germany tout seul, in fact: France is as broke as Greece but nobody has the balls to make that call… yet).
For the moment, anybody who tries to short the DAX gets to feel the "hot buttered carrot" (or as Mav might say, the Gatorade Bottle of Doom up the Vord) for a while.
But let me say this: shorts taken any time after the first hundred points of the DAX's post-post-Draghi bounce (i.e., any short taken with the market at 6651 or above) will eventually pay off. And once it waterfalls, it will happen in days.
OK… Bank That, Too…0
Remember back on July 12th I called for a BUY on EURUSD at 1.2172? Bet y'all thought I was out of my god-damned mind.
Well, with EURUSD at about 1.2430 now, it's time to bank that shit.
In the same post, I mentioned buying Gold at $1563; take half of that off too, now that it's $50 higher.
Dammit – this post took too long to prepare – DAX is back below 6900 as I type this.
[UPDATE: it popped back above 6900 after I posted the post, so 6900 is a valid entry]
Anyhow: trade logic is as follows: do you think that all of Germany's listed-stock problems go away even if the professional bullshit-artists like Draghi and Monti manage to force through some or other rescue fund for the incompetent Southern Europeans?
And when (note: I specifically did not write "if") the problem spreads past Spain and Portugal, and 'nek minnit' everyone's talking about how France's CDS spreads have blown to new wides (and that's coming, people)… what then?
Europe is done. The DAX should be about 500 points lower than it is, and heading downward. There is nothing that can be done to rescue Spain or Portugal or France's public finances – when all there is to fund it is that increasingly-unwilling labour of Germans.
Buy EURAUD at 1.17470
As with EURUSD's ludicrously oversold "Dumb Money At Work" event last week, so too the fifth-decimal-place chasers have decided that AUD can only go up (relative to EUR, at least).
Every dickhead with access to an online Forex account thinks he's a genius jumping on the same direction as a trend that is the most oversold (basis EURAUD) that it's been in years.
As with the EURUSD call, look to double your dough.
Buy EURUSD at 1.21720
Every retarded 5th-decimal-place chaser in the world has decided to slam short on EURUSD (of course ,they decide this after the Euro is 25 handles off its high, and 120 pips of its recent swing high… at which point you could not find a pullback for money nor jam).
EURUSD will gut them just as it gutted the same sort of fucktard who was slamming into the offer up above 1.25…
Likewise, Gold. Seriously? Gold's weak? Oh, well I guess that means that the political shitbags have got a solution for the fuckups that keep emerging: from PFG, MFG, Madoff, RepCo, Enron, LIBOR, WorldCom, Greece, Spain, France… and QEn, n=1,…,∞ : of course! Makes sense. They've got it sorted, so there won't be 'beggar thy neighbour' printing, and so there's less risk of future inflation today, than there was yesterday or the day before.
Seriously? Someone's going to try to run that shit up the flagpole? Sorry, no sale.
So get on the 'wrong' side of the GOld market too – be a buyer at 1563 (basis XAUUSD) and ride that sucker up a couple hundred bucks.
Ballsy? No, Idiot… Sensible.0
So every man and his dog is selling Gold today – it can't get traction for more than about 30 seconds, and there's like one 17 year old intern on the bid (the bids are fake: you can tell because when one bid moves, the next bid is half a dollar below it. Also, towards the end of the day all the bids will end in '8'… some fucking Kinezi who thinks it's good Feng Shui to have 8s in his shit. The entire cake is a fucking lie, ladies).
Buy Gold (at $1566 now). Buy DAX (at 6275 now). Buy SPI in the overnight (at 4400 now).
Everyone's on one side of the trade, girls. You want to be on the opposite side.
Note: that doesn't mean that your Beloved GT thinks that the bullshit-artists of the parasite political class have a solution to the problems they produced: they are not going to make an announcement that they are outlawing themselves and committing mass suicide (chance would be a fine thing).
(Bugger – hit "Post" before I had properly finished the thought expressed in the prior paragraph…)
Edit/update… as I was saying: the bullshit-artists of the political class – the most parasitic, power-hungry, unscrupulous and self-serving of all our species (to the extent that they're the same species… I think not) – are not coming up with SuperPLan II.
As I've said countless times: if you believe that those bullshitting parasitic vermin could find their assholes with both hands, then you'll believe anything. If they had a solution, they would have implemented it before now, at one or other of their prior colelctive masturbation sessions (flying Gold Class of course).
After all,foresight is kind of their fucking job. That's the supposed justification for taxation and representative government, for fuck's sake – to protect the dummies at the bottom from predation.
These are supposedly people who are better at seeing the future than the common schlub – which raises the question: why is it that anytime the shit actually hits the fan (Qld floods etc), the government sticks its hand out for more money? Don't we pay taxes as a kind of 'insurance' – laying off risk to these palace-dwelling cunts?
Anyhow… point is: it's a trade, not a wedding. The markets will bounce from deeply oversold, before they continue their death-spral (said death spiral reflects the final knell tolling for what remains of western post-enlightenment civilisation… you fuckers trusted the politicians with things, and they fucked it up in order to enrich themselves precisely as economics suggests they always would)
Swannie, How I Luv Ya, How I Luv Ya…0
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty — and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.
Note – if you're not a Melbournian (or a Strayan at the very least), you may as well bugger off to some other corner of the interwebs.
This post contains stuff that will be lost on anyone whose life doesn't centre around the Mighty Maggies – if you attempt to glean wisdom from this post without knowing about what we proper Aussies call 'footy', you may as well be trying to decipher the Enuma Elish or the Upanishads, using a Russian-> French dictionary.
OK, folks – we've got rid of the Yanks, Poms, Frogs, Krauts, Nips, Bubbles, Kinezi… pretty much anybody who has not heard the crowd roar 'BALL!' at the G.
So let's get our Maggie-love on…
Here's the thing. I am an admirer of excellence in pretty much anything. Roger Craig: excellent running back. Joe Montana: excellent quarterback. Lawrence Taylor (or Mike Singletary): excellent linebackers (and linebackers are the toughtest motherfuckers in NFL, bar none). Kyle Bass and Marc Faber: excellent analysts.
But Dane Swan? Get the fuck out.
If there is such a thing as the perfect footy player, Swannie is it.
Swannie's not 'silky' (as Steele Sidebottom tries to be, and fails: kick the fucking thing rather than trying to look stylish as you do it, you stupid cock).
Swannie's not pretty – his Mum might tell him he is, but be honest Mrs Swan… be happy that he seems to be a nice kid, so you did a pretty good job.
If you lined up 20 AFL players, Swannie would look like the journeyman: he looks a little bit dumpy, he's not very tall, and he's not 'chiselled'. He's not physically imposing: he looks like a veteran forward pocket who might have played 100 games, but who's not a 'first 20' guy.
And yet he has amazing footspeed, great endurance, and a preternatural ability to read the play and get the pill. And his disposals are unpretentious and effective.
All done without the histrionics that have become the rage – a lot of mid-sized AFL players carry on like Lleyton fucking Hewitt whenever they do their job (kicking the ball through the sticks is your fucking job, yo).
And of course Swannie has finally become non-unsung: last year the prissy little 7-stone faggots who become umpires (fuck I hate them) finally had to acknowledge that Swan is the ultimate ball-getting 'gut-runner' who burns off the opposition's best tagger, week after week.
If the faggotty 'distance runner' types who become umpires had ever actually fucking played footy, Swan would have won the last three Brownlows. (Chris Judd is an excellent footy player, but Swan's stats – in a better team – were better than Judd's).
OK, thus far, it's pretty much wisdom-free: an encomium to the Magpie's prime playmaker (Pendlebury is good, but he's not Swan).


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There is also a solution involving a Gigya shortcode. It requires extra work though (as you need to transform the code first).
thanks ! very helpful answer
correct code is
[gigya src="http://source.swf" width="xxx" height="xxx" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowFullScreen="true"]
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Hi, Can anyone point to an example of how to use HTTP redirect-based protocols such as OAuth with widgets? There seem to be issues with the use of these protocols due to the difference between widgets and browser-based webapps, in particular with the two aspects: * widgets cannot access network resources unless an access request/dependency to the domain is declared per the WARP spec. Thus any domain that is to be used in a redirect-based protocol needs to be known up-front and explicitly included per WARP. * for widgets, there is no ³origin² or at least ³base² that can be used in a redirect-based protocol. All that widgets could expose for redirect purposes are relative URIs for their resources. Thus redirect protocols/designs in which one widget page makes a request which is intended to result in a redirect to another widget page, will not work. An example of how to do this for widgets, e.g. a Twitter-enabled widget (as Twitter uses OAuth) would be very helpful. It does seem that applications using XHR for this (as compared to web links/anchors etc) would/should be in total control of the operation of XHR, but they would need to handle all HTTP requests and responses (including redirects). Apologies in advance if this request is not clear from a technical perspective. BryanReceived on Monday, 1 November 2010 13:19:43 UTC
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May 23, 2008
Four months old
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t home I have a budgie called Snowy. Since she was a female my dad decided to get her a male budgie friend. So he bought a lutino budgie from a breeder who said he was 100% sure it was a male. Since I know a way to tell the difference between male budgies from females, the way is to wait until the budgie is four months old and just above the beak is the budgie's cere, if it is brown or pink it't a female if its blue it's a male. The only other way to tell is DNA testing, which is expensive.
When Picasso was four months old "his" cere turned pink, my dad was shocked to see a person who said the budgie was 100% male turned out to be a female, but Snowy and Picasso live in a cage together. But poor Picasso always would get upset because Snowy, he mean thing kept fighting Picasso away. Whenever Picasso is hungry she would make her way to the food bowl, and all of a sudden came Snowy and fought her away. Poor Picasso was getting no food, so I would take her upstairs and give her some food there. No wonder they had been squabbling, as they are both females!
But that was when Picasso was quite young now she knows that this is her house too. So it's Picasso's turn to give revenge to Snowy, so when Picasso is hungry she makes her way to the food bowl and if all of a sudden, Snowy comes she tries to fight Picasso, but no, Picasso fights Snowy away so she can eat when she wants. At last Picasso can enjoy her food in peace.
But now, when they are both very hungry, they realize they can both share the food without fighting. Picasso is so cute, I'm glad she and Snowy have worked things out, and even though they are both females, they are learning to live peacefully together. I am glad Picasso has learned to stand up for herself, I am very proud of her, she is a brave bird.
The one of the cutest things Picasso does is, (well Snowy thought of it first, they do this together) that I put a fresh, clean loo roll on the floor and Snowy pulls it and makes a big mess but she is so sweet and then Picasso joins in by chewing the tissue and making holes in it and they both rip it. They seem to have such a good time that I really don't mind the mess - but it makes a big mess for two small birds! I think that Snowy and Picasso soon might be the best of friends. They are both very special budgies.
I love Picasso very much and I would never give her - or Snowy - away for anything!
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Public sculpture
The developers of the Rosary Road site in Norwich, Hopkins Homes, commissioned NUA to create a commemorative sculpture.
Create and install a sculpture to celebrate and commemorate the history of the site of a new housing development in Norfolk. The sculpture needs to be a striking, long-lasting feature of the site, celebrating Norwich City Football Club's former occupation of the site whilst considering how the site has been developed to look today.
Liz Mannion's winning proposal is an exciting addition to the city's sculptural landscape and stands 5m high with a 1.5m wide base. The base also functions as a circular seat, providing a place for rest and reflection. Constructed of stainless steel with a specialist concrete base, NUA worked closely with skilled craftsmen to realise the piece. Superbly fitting and sympathetic to the site, the vertical steel components were positioned to frame the view of the Cathedral behind the sculpture. The textured surface of the base portrays the 'nest' element and the wooden seat is a reminder of the old wooden stadium. The football in the top corner of 'the goal' represents the heights of achievement of Norwich City Football Club during their occupation of the site and in recent times.
The standard was incredibly high and all the finalists would have been worthy winners and have made an exciting contribution to the city's public art.
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Swansea ready for 'tough' Sky Blues
Swansea City look to continue their push for automatic promotion from the Championship on Tuesday night when they visit the Ricoh Arena to face a Coventry City side who will hopefully be refreshed after a free weekend and relaxed following the ending of their winless run against Crystal Palace.
Ahead of another week of important games, visitors defender Ashley Williams told his club's official website: "Aidy Boothroyd`s teams are always tough and steely; they showed that earlier in the season.
'Then Leeds is obviously a massive game, but we`ve got to concentrate on Coventry first because we want maximum points this week."
For the Sky Blues, boss Boothroyd has options at his disposal for the first time in a while and may shuffle his pack to accomodate the likes of Gary McSheffrey, dropped to the bench in recent weeks and Lee Carsley, who should be fit again after an injury absence.


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The swimming pools at Horsham Pavilions in the Park leisure centre are to close for two months for repairs.
Leisure centre operator, Places for People Leisure, made the announcement 'with regret' that the swimming pools will be closed from December 1 to February 1 next year.
Places for People, which manages leisure centres for local authorities, said: "Vital renovation works will be carried out on the 12-year-old building as part of the ongoing maintenance programme to ensure a quality customer experience in years to come.
"All inclusive and swim members of the Pavilions in the Park Leisure Centre are encouraged to use the following facilities during the two month renovation; Billingshurst Leisure Centre, Steyning Leisure Centre, Dorking Leisure Centre, Cranleigh Leisure Centre, The Dolphin Haywards Heath and The Triangle Burgess Hill.''
From December 1, work on the centre in Horsham Park will include repairs to the pools drainage channels and steel structures in the pool hall, as well as behind the scenes plant room work that cannot be carried out while the pool is in use.
The Fitness Suite and dry side workout classes will be unaffected by the works and will follow their normal timetables.
Tim Bolton, contract manager for Places for People, said: "The works are essential to extend the life of the pools at Pavilions in The Park and to ensure that we can maintain a quality customer experience in years to come.
"We apologise for this inconvenience and encourage our customers to visit the website to find alternative local pools and the options available to them. We look forward to welcoming everyone back into our pool facilities in February 2015."
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canyon oak, canyon live oak, maul oak, iron oak, Quercus chrysolepis(noun)
medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves
Quercus chrysolepis
Quercus chrysolepis, commonly termed Canyon Live Oak, or Golden Cup Oak, is a species of evergreen oak that is found in the southwestern part of North America, notably in the California Coast Ranges. This tree is often found near creeks and drainage swales growing in moist cool microhabitats. Its leaves are a glossy dark green on the upper surface with prominent spines; a further rapid identification arises from the leaves of Canyon live oak being geometrically flat. They are often sympatric with Quercus agrifolia and several other oak species. Fossil data supports a much wider distribution throughout the western United States during the early Holocene period. Native Americans used the acorns of this species as a food staple, after leaching of the tannins; moreover, its roasted seed is a coffee substitute. After forest fires, Canyon live oak regenerates vigorously by basal sprouting, and the clonal diversity of this species has been shown to be high. Alternate common names for this taxon are Canyon Oak and Golden-Cup Oak.
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- The cutscene for 100% Completion: The area masters all show up at the Sky Pavilion to thank you, and a quadruple rainbow crosses the sky. Awww!
- In the sequel, just as Pikachu breaks down while trapped alone in the alternate version of Cove Town, Reshiram and Zekrom drop off Piplup to cheer Pikachu up.
- Also in the sequel, Krookodile has a very poorly hidden crush on Audino. If the photos in the credits are to be believed, they've hooked up by the end! Awww.
- After Darkrai repents himself and pulls a Heroic Sacrifice, the heroes take pity on him and go on a lengthy mission to rescue him. After Reshiram and Zekrom finally retrieve him, Darkrai is forgiven by the others and gets, as he wanted, real friends.
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Fall is a prime time for planting the hardiest herbs that actually grow very well in areas with mild winters. You can put an assortment of your favorite cool-weather-loving fall herbs by the kitchen door—all in one container, if you like—for a pinch of each right at your fingertips. You can also plant pretty cilantro and parsley in existing flower beds or containers to serve as a green companion for pansies and other winter flowers.
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Christopher Taylor and John Greswell began music production in 1999 as co-members of the band Menlo Park. With the success of the band came requests from directors to score their films and ads, and the formation of MPM London in 2003.
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The Dodgers finished 2012 like a scene out a war movie. The disabled list grew so much you could almost envision the medical tent scene from the film "Patton" where George C. Scott visits a group of wounded soldiers and ends up slapping the one soldier who is in the hospital for mental issues. Well, no one on the Dodgers has gone mental yet but the pitching injuries (seven pitchers are still officially on the disabled list) along with some mediocre performances (starters Chris Capuano, Aaron Harang, and Josh Beckett were a combined 7-12 the final two months of 2012) may see the Dodgers overhauling their pitching staff this offseason. So will they look in-house or out-house for help? Zack Greinke will be the most sought after free agent pitcher this winter. When Dodgers fans think of a trade with the Red Sox, most will think of the 2012 trade that brought Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett out west. But it may be the less-hyped 2011 trade the Dodgers, Red Sox, and Mariners pulled off that might also pay dividends in 2013. The Dodgers parted with their number one minor league prospect at the time, outfielder Trayvon Robinson, and ended up receiving three minor leaguers from the Red Sox farm system – catcher Tom Federowicz, and pitchers Stephen Fife and Juan Rodriguez. Rodriguez is still down in Single A but Fife might get a chance this March to beat his drums for a starting slot. Fife, 26, was called up as an "emergency" starter in July and did well in his debut against the Phillies. He gave up just one run over six innings and left the game with a 2-1 lead. Unfortunately, reliever Ronald Belisario, who was lights out in June(one earned run in 12 appearances) but struggled in July(11 runs in 15 games), let it get away and the Dodgers lost 3-2. Fife got four more starts and ended up going 0-2 with a 2.70 ERA in 2012. He never surrendered more than two runs in any start and the Dodgers were shutout in both his losses. Fife's opportunity will most likely hinge on what the Dodgers do in free agency. Of course, the "Holy Grail" of free agent pitchers this season is the Angels Zack Greinke (15-5, 3.48 ERA in 2012 between the Brewers and Angels). The need for a pitcher of Greinke's caliber, and pay scale, is due, in part, to the uncertain future of starter Chad Billingsley. After the 2012 All-Star break, Billingsley looked ready to return to the "ace" form he showed in 2008(16-10, 3.14 ERA) as he ran off six wins in his six starts between July 23rd and August 19th. He had pitched 15 scoreless innings before a poor start on August 24th ended up being the result of an inflamed elbow. Billingsley was gone for the season and the outlook for a return next spring is very questionable. If the elbow does not heal naturally, he may have to undergo Tommy John surgery which would cost him the 2013 season. Although money is not an issue, there is doubt as to just how serious a bidder the Dodgers will be for Greinke, if you can believe the comments coming from the ownership group. Dodgers chairman Mark Walter hinted he might be reluctant to give a pitcher the kind of paycheck an everyday player like Matt Kemp or Adrian Gonzalez gets. "Pitchers break," Walter said. Another name popping up is James Shields. The Tampa Bay Rays, not exactly among the big spenders, have the option to either pay him about $10 million in 2013 or buy him out for about 1/10 of that. Shields, who will be 31 in December, went 15-10 in 2012 in spite of Tampa Bay's poor offense. The Rays were 11th in the AL in runs scored, ahead of only the Indians, Royals, and Mariners. The "intangible" for Dodgers fans is that Shields grew up in Newhall, CA, about 30 miles north of Dodger Stadium. Other names coming up are Miami's Josh Johnson (8-14, 3.81 ERA) and the White Sox Jake Peavy (11-12, 3.37 ERA). Miami is a mess and probably would love to have someone else pay Johnson the $13 million dollars he'll command next season. Peavy's failure to produce down the stretch (he won only two of his last 11 starts in 2012) may have the White Sox looking to avoid picking up his $22 million option for 2013. The most interesting name to crop up the last few days is the one you haven't heard of, Shohei Otani. Otani is an 18 year old sensation in Japan who recently stated his desire to pitch here in the U.S. Some are comparing him to last year's Japanese import, Yu Darvish, who sparked a bidding war last year. Darvish went 16-9 with the Texas Rangers in 2012. 18-year old Japanese pitching sensation Shohei Otani is expected to be wooed by several Major League teams, including the Dodgers. There is talk that the Dodgers will be dangling pitcher Josh Beckett, Chris Capuano, and Aaron Harang as trade bait in an effort to clear out some payroll. They are owed a combined $28 million next season. The closer position is something the Dodgers didn't think they'd have to worry about entering 2012. But 2011′s emerging star Javy Guerra (21 saves in '11) failed to duplicate his success in 2012 and another 2011 emerging star, set-up man and eventual closer in 2012, Kenley Jansen, has a health condition that could hamper a very promising career. Jansen, (5-3 with 25 saves in 2012) suffers from a heart problem known as atrial fibrillation, more commonly called an irregular heartbeat. It caused him to miss portions of last season. Jansen recently underwent a procedure called an ablation. Cardiologists believe a heart goes "out of whack" due to defective tissue or muscle in the heart. An ablation is where a catheter is inserted into a sedated person, via their thigh, and doctors attempt to locate the defect. If they do, that portion of the heart is literally burnt away thereby curing the problem. Success rates have improved thru the years and are now up to about 70%. Still, only time will tell if Jansen's condition is healed. If not, he may be a candidate for a pacemaker. Reliever Brandon League, 29, was acquired in mid-season from Seattle. He went 2-0 and was 6 for 6 in save opportunities as an alternative to Jansen. He becomes a free agent this winter and his solid final month of 2012 may see him looking for a longer term deal than the Dodgers are willing to offer.
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In a hastily called meeting this evening, the board of Brinker International named a new chairman and chief executive, three days after the company's well-known leader, Norman E. Brinker, was rendered unconscious in a jarring collision during a polo match in Florida.
Ron A. McDougall, who has been president and chief operating officer of the rapidly growing restaurant company since 1986, was named to succeed Mr. Brinker. Mr. McDougall, 50 years old, has been a close ally of Mr. Brinker in several restaurant businesses for nearly 20 years.
Mr. Brinker, 61 years old, is a legendary figure in the restaurant industry. His casual-theme, moderate-price Chili's chain, one of the fastest growing in its sector, contributes the bulk of Brinker International's yearly sales of $780 million. Still Unconscious
Mr. Brinker remained unconscious tonight in stable condition in the intensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. It was uncertain whether Mr. Brinker, would fully recover from severe head injuries.
The accident in which he was injured occurred during a match Thursday afternoon at the Palm Beach Polo and Hunt Club. Witnesses told The Dallas Morning News that Mr. Brinker, who was wearing a helmet, and his horse fell to the ground unconscious after they collided at high speed with another horse and rider.Continue reading the main story
Until their announcement tonight, executives at Brinker International had issued only one brief statement on Mr. Brinker's condition, after the close of stock market trading Friday. The four-sentence statement said the accident occurred on Thursday, and that "exact details" were not known.
It was the third time within a week that a major corporation was confronted with how to disclose the serious illness of its chief executive. On Monday, TLC Beatrice International announced that Reginald F. Lewis had been hospitalized in a coma with brain cancer. Friends of Mr. Lewis said later that he had known of his illness for about two months. Within a day of the announcement, Mr. Lewis, 50 years old, died.
On Wednesday, Tenneco Inc.'s chief, Michael H. Walsh, disclosed that he learned less than 24 hours earlier that he was afflicted with a cancerous brain tumor, but that he intended to remain in his post while undergoing treatment. The incidents have raised the question of a company's obligation to disclose a serious or life-threatening illness of its leader to security holders, as well as what constitutes the proper timing of such an announcement. Founded Steak and Ale
Earlier in his career, Mr. Brinker founded the Steak and Ale chain, created the concept for the Bennigan's chain and went on to head the Pillsbury Company's restaurant group. He left Pillsbury and invested in the then-small Chili's chain of seven restaurants in 1983.
The Dallas Morning News quoted Dr. Phillip E. Williams Jr., a Dallas neurosurgeon, in today's issue as saying that Mr. Brinker's complete recovery was uncertain. "I am optimistic that he is going to improve," he said. "Every day there is improvement. It is going to be a long process."
Eileen Burdette, a nursing supervisor at St. Mary's, said today that Mr. Brinker was in stable condition in the hospital's intensive care unit. She declined to answer other questions.
Michael G. Mueller, a restaurant analyst for Montgomery Securities Inc. in San Francisco, said today that Mr. Brinker had put in place a strong management team with a plan to add 20,000 employees and increase revenues to $1 billion by 1995. The company now has 35,000 employees and operates about 300 Chili's sites in 41 states, Canada and Mexico.
With someone else at the helm, "I don't think anything would really change fundamentally" in company operations, Mr. Mueller said, adding: "Many of the people who work there have been with Norman for a very long time. It was never a company run by one individual."
The company, which changed its name to Brinker International from Chili's Inc. two years ago, last week reported a 42 percent jump in earnings for its fiscal second quarter, ended Dec. 31. Net income rose to $10.6 million, or 34 cents a share, from $7.5 million, or 24 cents a share, in the corresponding period a year earlier. Revenue advanced 25 percent, to $152 million. Stock Price
The company's stock also traded at an all-time high last week of $48 a share on the New York Stock Exchange. The share price fell 62.5 cents, to $46.375, in trading Friday. Mr. Brinker owns 4 percent of the company's shares; his stake has a total market value of $1.3 billion.
Mr. Brinker has been a polo enthusiast for decades and is the founder and owner of the Willow Bend Polo Club outside Dallas. He was a member of the 1952 Olympic equestrian team, and he competed in the 1954 modern pentathlon competition in the world championships in Budapest. Earlier Injuries
Mr. Brinker has suffered several other injuries on polo fields, including broken ribs and and a collapsed lung in 1978.
Dr. Williams, the Dallas physician who treated Mr. Brinker for previous injuries, told The Morning News that Mr. Brinker was under heavy sedation to allow recovery of brain-stem function. In the collision, Mr. Brinker suffered trauma to the brain stem and lost consciousness, the newspaper reported.
A message left today with Dr. Williams's answering service was not returned.
Mr. Brinker is married to Nancy Brinker, president of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a national charity based in Dallas that raises money for breast cancer research. His first marriage was to Maureen Connally, a three-time Wimbledon tennis champion who died of cancer in 1969. Donald E. Godwin, a spokesman for Mrs. Brinker, said in a statement that she "fully supports" the company's decision to elevate Mr. McDougall. "Her total energies and those of the Brinker family can now focus on Norman," Mr. Godwin said.
Because of an editing error, an article in Business Day on Monday about the replacement of Brinker International Inc.'s chairman and chief executive, Norman E. Brinker, misstated the market value of his holdings in the company. They are worth approximately $56 million, or 4 percent of the company's total market value of $1.4 billion. The article also misidentified the club where Mr. Brinker was rendered unconscious in an accident. It was the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club.


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The first electronic Watch!: GV. Drawing office. MS. Craftsman at work. LS. MS. & CU. Watchmakers at work. CU. Watchmakers tools. LS. Chemist experimenting. CU. Chemist. CU. Works of watch being taken out of case. CU. Electronic watch works. CU. Ordinary watch pan to Electronic watch. CU. Parts of the Electronic watch laid for display. MS. and CU. Testing and regulating the watch with an oscillograph. CU. Ordinary watch in mans hands. CU. Electronic watch in mans hand. MS. Watch being tested.
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Some made a last stand at a shrine dedicated to Agenor, the legendary founder of Tyre.
Thus Achilles says that he is continuously risking his soul (Iliad 9.322), and Agenor reflects on the fact that even Achilles has just one soul
Chosen from my city as beauty's gift for Loxias, to the land of Cadmus I came, sent thither to the towers of Laius, the home of my kin, the famous sons of Agenor; and there I became the handmaid of
With these words she took an oath by the waters of Styx, which to all the gods is most dread and most awful, that the Harpies would never thereafter again approach the home of Phineus, son of Agenor, for so it was fated.
Lycomedes too is in the picture with a wound in the wrist, and Lescheos says he was so wounded by Agenor ...
As it is said in Hesiod in the "Catalogue of Women" concerning Demodoce the daughter of Agenor: 'Demodoce whom very many of men on earth, mighty princes, wooed, promising splendid gifts, because of her exceeding beauty.'
Agenor — according to the same poet — was butchered by
He that first brought them into Greece, men say, was Cadmus, the son of Agenor, King of
Another Greek, Lycomedes, took a wound in the wrist from the Trojan Agenor son of Antenor.
Admetus and Agenor, for instance, did not savor their successes, because that same night one was killed by Philoctetes and the other by Neoptolemus.


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LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. - Three people are booked on accusations of hitting a woman with a car and leaving her to die.
The suspects will face a judge Tuesday morning, after their arrest Monday.
Eyewitness News found Sherry Tobeler's truck at the bottom of a pond and told investigators where it was Monday.
The victim's family hopes they can receive answers about the crime.
Investigators say Sherry Tobeler met the three people who are now charged in her death on Halloween night.
Derek Williams, 25, is charged with second-degree murder. His girlfriend, Alesha Werner, and his mother, Patricia Ann Stroupe, 50, are charged with accessory after the fact.
Investigators say the four met at a convenience store last Thursday.
They went to a pool hall and eventually ended up along highway 150 at Mack Ballard Road, according to police.
Police say there was an argument, and Tobeler got out of her truck when Williams ran her over.
All three were taken into custody Monday night.
Tobeler died Monday, days after someone found her abandoned and severely injured in the middle of a Lincoln County road.
"I do apologize, I do apologize y'all," Williams told Eyewitness News.
Williams was interviewed Monday by Lincoln County investigators. They said they found Williams and his girlfriend Werner hiding out in the Days Inn hotel in Lincolnton.
Werner was also questioned by investigators.
She told Eyewitness News she didn't know anything about Tobeler's murder.
Eyewitness news spoke to Tobeler's family about the arrest.
" To take someone's life over nothing? I mean, I don't understand," saID Ron Malcolm, victim's brother.
Investigators said her truck was missing.
Channel 9 was with investigators as they pulled the evidence from a pond on Gladden Drive off Springs East Road.
Investigators pulled the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 75 feet to shore with the assistance of Chopper 9.
IMAGES: Truck pulled from pond in case of Lincoln Co. woman's death
"(We) had been in contact with Channel 9 and they had their helicopter in the air and actually located the vehicle for us," Carpenter said.
The truck was found three days after Tobeler, 54, was found injured in the middle of busy Highway 150 Friday morning.
The sheriff said the people involved were people Tobeler had just met.
Detectives said Tobeler and several other people had been to a pool hall in Maiden and a bar in Denver before arriving at the intersection of Highway 150 East and Mack Ballard Road.
Investigators said an argument occurred and Tobeler got out of her vehicle and called Catawba County 911. The truck sped away, apparently running over Tobeler, who had fallen to the ground, investigators said.
"She was struck by this vehicle that was found in the pond, which is her vehicle, and the fact that the individuals involved didn't call for help, just went about their business to do away with the vehicle that was involved in it," said Lincoln County Sheriff David Carpenter. "Very cold-hearted you might say, to do something like that."
WATCH CHOPPER 9: Investigators pull truck from Lincoln Co. pond
Tobeler was rushed to the hospital.
On Monday, her family learned she was brain dead and they decided to take her off life support.
"(It's hard) losing someone that's so good to people. She's just so good to everyone, that's the hardest part, which is likely what cost her her life. She was doing someone a favor and was in the wrong place," said the victim's brother, Charlie Malcolm.
Channel 9 will be in court Tuesday with more updates on this developing story.
Read our past coverage on this story here.


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Sun archives
- Republicans issue list of demands to be met before they'll talk taxes (3-3-2011)
- Democrats say Sandoval budget has $325 million hole (2-24-2011)
- Sandoval's budget relies on at least one fee increase (2-10-2011)
- Gaming, mining industries become early targets for taxes (2-8-2011)
- Sandoval will need to write in loophole to pass budget (2-5-2011)
- Senior programs not spared from cuts in Sandoval budget (2-2-2011)
- Gov. Brian Sandoval's budget means job, service cuts for Clark County (1-26-2011)
- State budget plan heavy on cuts, light on solutions (1-25-2011)
- Soft words during State of the State hide Nevada in pain (1-25-2011)
- Teachers not pleased with most of Sandoval's speech (1-25-2011)
- In response, Democrats say taxes might be part of budget solution (1-24-2011)
- State of the State: How doors could open for Nevada (1-24-2011)
- Is Brian Sandoval's 'shared-sacrifice' budget the solution to state's economic woes? (1-23-2011)
- Most vulnerable await budget cuts with trepidation (1-23-2011)
- Increasingly worried liberals seek pushback on Sandoval budget (1-21-2011)
- Construction industry: Raise taxes for job growth (1-20-2011)
- Groups seek higher taxes on tobacco and gasoline (1-20-2011)
- Sandoval warns of consolidation, job losses in state government (1-19-2011)
Heather Richardson has one of her hardest cases yet. The 16-year-old boy has been exposed to deeply dysfunctional family relationships, drug abuse and domestic violence. He is a sweet kid, and clever, but he's been witness to horrible things. Fate would seem to be urging him to jump into the same polluted pool. He blames himself for his family's dysfunction, although he's responsible for none of it.
Richardson, a senior case manager for Clark County Family Services, is trying to drill into him that he has free will, that he can make his own choices.
"You don't have to be a victim of circumstance," she emphasizes. "You were a victim, but now you're a survivor."
Over time, she's built trust with the boy, who understandably trusts no one, but last week called her in a crisis for help.
"I'm happy you came into my life," he says. "I don't know where I'd be. I'd be dead."
Before Richardson, he says he could never imagine life after age 20.
Richardson is uniquely qualified for her job with Family Services. At 13, she was taken from her family, spent a day at the county child shelter Childhaven and then lived with her aunt before reuniting with her mother.
Later, in 2003, she served as a foster mother for a year to two of her father's children, then 9 and 15.
"I know what it's like to know your parents have made bad decisions, but to still love them. I know what these kids are going through," she says.
Now she keeps 23 families, all in various stages of crisis or recovery, under her care and supervision, trying to get parents back on the right track so they can be reunited with their children. In the approximately 40 percent of cases when it doesn't work, she finds a safe adoptive home for the children.
On any given day, 3,000 children in Clark County are living outside their homes because they've been removed for their safety. Richardson is one of the frontline soldiers with the difficult and unheralded job of trying to figure out what to do next.
Just as these families are in crisis, county officials worry that state and local budget cuts will erase the gains made by Family Services since 2006, when the county had one of the worst child welfare systems in the country, as a federal official said at the time. Childhaven was overrun with 265 children, and caseloads were more than twice what is recommended by experts.
Under the proposed budget of Gov. Brian Sandoval, caseloads would balloon because the county would have to slash frontline staff by 22 percent, according to Family Services Director Thomas Morton, who testified at the Legislature on Friday about the effect of cuts.
This concerns Richardson, who is doing her best even though the tools she needs to do her job — mental health services and drug treatment beds — just aren't there.
She begins her days early, getting her own family going. She and her husband have five children between them, ages 2 through 12.
She does a home visit on her way to work at Family Services on West Charleston Boulevard.
After answering e-mail and reviewing and typing case notes, she's in a county vehicle to begin visiting families. She is required to see every child on her caseload at least once every 30 days.
At the first, two daughters have been removed from a home. The girls were abused by a foster family in another state after being taken from their mother. Richardson wonders if they are making the abuse allegation to get back with their mother.
(To comply with state privacy laws, the Sun agreed not to reveal names and to give limited information about families under Family Services supervision.)
"Kids want to be with their parents. If we can get the parents working on their issues, and get them reunited, then that's my job," Richardson says.
Every day, Richardson and the department have to confront two American instincts and try to reconcile them: On the one hand, we hold parental rights and familial autonomy sacred, while on the other hand, we want to protect innocent children from abuse and neglect.
The next house is a success. A woman who lost her mother at 13 became pregnant at 15 and has three children at 19. One of the children had been severely abused. The mother wasn't at fault, but at the same time, she had clearly created an unsafe atmosphere for the children. The abuser is now in prison.
The young woman didn't trust Richardson. But after months of battle, Richardson won her over. The young woman and her children live in a decent suburban neighborhood. She's working toward a high school diploma.
As Richardson is leaving, the children embrace her, hugging her legs.
Richardson, who's been working with families for three years and the department for six, earns a fairly modest salary, but the taxpayers are getting a great deal for the hours she works. She's studying for a master's degree at UNLV, which requires a 20-hour-per-week internship, which she's completing, unpaid — for the county. She works at the Southern Nevada Children's Assessment Center, which is, for lack of a better term, a one-stop shop for child abuse victims. She's getting training in investigations and developing training programs for parents who have foster children who have been victims of sex abuse. So while raising her five children, she's working 60 hours a week and getting paid for 40.
Some cases are easier than others. Amy has six children and lives in a clean, well-kept two story. Her children are smart and well adjusted, but she had something like a nervous breakdown after a boyfriend threatened her. She was taken to psychiatric facility, given some drugs and released.
"Even though she hit a bump in the road, her parental capacity is at a higher level than a lot of people," Richardson notes. Even though Amy and her children are fortunate compared with other cases, it seems evident Amy suffers from an undiagnosed mental health issue, perhaps post-traumatic stress disorder from when she was abused as a child. At least, this is what a therapist told her when he gave her drugs and sent her on her way.
In fact, when you drive around on Richardson's rounds, you come to realize that there's an epidemic of undiagnosed and untreated mental illness in the valley, and little in the way of services to help people. Most of Richardson's clients can't get Medicaid, the federal/state health insurance program for the poor and disabled — Nevada has one of the stingiest of any state in the country. And for those without Medicaid, "Our mental health system is a nightmare."
And so, very often, there's nothing standing between Richardson's clients and prison or death, except Richardson.
Even though the 16-year-old boy took a step back last week, Richardson knows he's not lost. He's still on track to be reunited with his mother, who has had her own rough road for nearly a decade. "It's because I don't give up. I tell him what he did wrong, but I don't cast him aside like everyone else. My care for his safety and well-being are unconditional. There's nothing he can do to change that."


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American Daniel Van De Zendrew, out of work and desperate for cash, agrees to transport cocaine from Ecuador to the United States in exchange for $10,000. The plan seemed simple: meet an organizer and another mule (or drug carrier) at the airport in the US, fly to Ecuador, stay a few days and then fly back separately with the drugs. But when the 2nd mule was caught, he ratted out Danielle to bargain down a lesser sentence. Now, after 7 yrs behind bars, Daniel tells his harrowing story.


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Midlander remembers D-Day on 65th Anniversary of invasion
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When John Young tells his family about the invasion of the Normandy Beaches that took place 65 years ago today, he always tries to point out the humorous stories, spending little time focused on the gunfire, the plane that went down near him or the men who were lost.
"You're making a landing and the enemy is shooting at you and you're trying to get ashore," said 90-year-old Young, recalling the experience from his Midland home.
And while that part drove them to complete their assigned task despite chaos around them, Young said it's little things like the mishap he had with his Jeep that day he tells his kids about when they ask of his time in the Army.
The amphibious Jeep he was in charge of, Young said, got out of control just after he and his men had waded in to shore following the air drop June 6, 1944. Knowing his radio and other important gear was inside, he said, he waded back into the water and ran after the vehicle to gain control of it and lead back to shore.
"I got to wade ashore twice that day," he said, laughing a bit before shifting his tone to the other events.
Stories like the ones he's able to recall whether lighthearted or detailed of war's assaults, according to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, are becoming more rare with the youngest D-Day veterans turn 82 this year.
With estimates showing more than 1,000 World War II veterans dying each day, according to the foundation, honoring those who served on this major anniversary increasingly is important, as it may be the last milestone anniversary there is a crowd left to honor.
Young said he and others started training for the invasion strategically crafted by the U.S. long before the actual day.
In his mid-20s with his wife Margaret at home expecting their first born, Young said he wasn't thrilled about being called up for service. But, after training with the National Guard, he said he certainly didn't expect he would miss combat when America went full-force into World War II.
After being stationed in Georgia and New Hampshire, among other spots, Young said he was sent to Florida for amphibious Ranger school. Once the division of 15,000 men learned to get themselves to shore from a drop off the coast of Florida, they were taken to England and trained more.
"You get as close in as your landing craft will allow and then you wade in the rest of the way," Young said.
When the invasion came, he said, the experience was not completely dissimilar to training, save the gunfire going on around them. As a first lieutenant, Young said, he guided his group in without losing anyone and then continued inland where they arrived by dark.
"I guess we were proud to be part of it," Young said. "It was talked up. They were depending on us. The paratroopers landed ahead of us and we were obligated to help them out."
As soon as they were set, he said, he radioed ahead they were ready for support and he and his men got their guns in position and started shooting.
"This is field artillery," he said. "I was shooting at the enemy."
For the next year, he said, they moved around providing support, first through France, which was liberated while he was there, and then through Germany where Young said it seemed Nazi troops realized the end was near.
"You could feel it," said Young, who spent his years outside the Army in oil exploration. "They were giving up easier. We were able to capture more prisoners. They realized it was futile."
On the anniversary of the day that started his WWII combat experience, Young said he and others left are grateful to be honored. And as he watches others visit the memorial and share their stories on the nightly news, Young said, he always thinks of the prisoners of war and men who aren't here to receive such gracious support.
"Very lucky," Young said, describing his own service. "I was never wounded very badly and as far as I know I was never close to being a POW - but I don't think you really know that 'till they break out in front of you."
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