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POINT PLEASANT — A Friday morning fire on the grounds of the old Marietta Plant has been determined to be arson — the second arson at the site this year.
The Point Pleasant Fire Department was notified of the fire around 2:30 a.m. on Friday morning. Firefighters arrived to find one of the buildings at the old plant fully engulfed, according to Point Pleasant Fire Chief Jeremy Bryant. Firefighters from both the Flatrock and Gallipolis Fire Departments also assisted in subduing the blaze. Firefighters were on the scene until around 8 a.m. Friday morning and at 1 p.m. Friday afternoon, the scene was still smoldering as cleanup began.
The old plant belongs to Warlick, LLC out of Del Ray Beach, Fla. Bryant says they manufacture tannins which are made from tree sap and then shipped around the world. The tannins as well as burlap sacks were stored inside the building, along with several wooden pallets. The fire basically destroyed the contents of the building and heavily damaged the structure.
Bryant said Friday's fire and the previous fire in April are considered connected. He said with the building being fully engulfed when firefighters arrived, he was unable to tell at this point where in the structure it started or how but added no electricity was going to the building. An official with the office of the West Virginia State Fire Marshal had been called to investigate the scene.
According to Juan Nino who oversees the operation, though there are several buildings on the grounds of the old plant, Warlick, LLC, only utilizes one — the same one which has caught fire twice in three months.
When the first fire happened in April, Nino and another employee said they believed it could be a random act or set by teenage vandals. However, now that the second arson has occurred, the two men believe the fires are not random vandalism but rather premeditated. Nino said whoever is destroying the property knows to come to the one building on the site that the company utilizes and therefore knows how and where to "hurt" the operation.
For those with anonymous tips or information on this fire or the one in April, phone the office of West Virginia State Fire Marshal at 1-800-233-3473. The State Fire Marshal's Office does offer up to a $2,500 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of a person(s) responsible for setting a fire.


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Councils launch new Parkrun Events
Have you been watching the London 2012 Games? Been inspired by the likes of Jess Ennis, Mo Farah or Richard Whitehead? Then we have a fantastic opportunity for you.
As part of the Legacy of the London 2012 Games the Notts Sports Makers Team, in partnership with Mansfield District Council & Rushcliffe Borough Council, are launching two new Parkrun events in September & October. These runs will take place in Manor Park, Mansfield and Rushcliffe Country Park. We will need 2 teams of 12 volunteers to help support these runs.
Nottingham City Parkrun has arrived! Colwick Country Park has been chosen as the venue for the Nottingham parkrun which takes place every Saturday morning at 9am. This FREE activity sees well over 100 people taking part and completing their 5km challenge every week.
The Mansfield Parkrun will launch on the 29th September. This run will take place at Manor Park Sports Complex, Kingsley Avenue, Mansfield Woodhouse, NG19 8JY. Volunteer training for this run will be on Monday 17th September 2012 6:00pm-9:00pm at the run venue. For more information about this run please visit http://www.parkrun.org.uk/mansfield/
The Rushcliffe Parkrun will launch on the 6th October. This run will take place at Rushcliffe Country Park, Mere Way, Ruddington, Nottingham, NG11 6JS. Volunteer training date for this run is still to be confirmed but the proposed date is Wednesday 3rd October 2012 6:00pm-9:00pm. For more information about this run please visit http://www.parkrun.org.uk/rushcliffe/
Parkrun's are 5k runs that start at 9am every Saturday from the launch of the event, for more information visit www.parkrun.com.
If you are interested in helping with these events then please contact John Selby-Sly on email@example.com stating which Parkrun you are interested in.
Don't fancy coming to help out? Then why not get a group of friends together and come along and run it, its completely FREE. Simply register on www.parkrun.com print off your bar code and turn up.
Don't forget to log your hours on www.sportmakers.co.uk to earn local incentives. The incentives poll on our facebook page will run until the end of the Paralympics, so vote now to have your say.
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Director: Jesus FrancoCast: Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, Paca Gabaldón Spain, 1972, 88', colorSpanish with Turkish subtitlesIn this comedic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco, Jonathan Seward tracks the evil vampire Count Dracula to his castle and kills him with a stake through the heart. The nightmare has hardly begun, however, as the mad Dr. Frankenstein revives the vampire using the blood of a nightclub singer. The pair then join forces, along with Frankenstein's monster (Fernando Bilbao) and a mutant assistant named Morpho (Luis Barboo), in an attempt to create a vampire army to rule the world. This parody manages to deconstruct traditional legend without saying anything remotely interesting or clever, and the special effects are strictly of the bargain-basement variety. Paca Gabaldon (appearing as "Mary Francis"), Britt Nichols, and Anne Libert co-star. Director Franco returned to the Frankenstein theme the following year with La Maldicion de Frankenstein.
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Two noncommissioned officers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord left their hearts in the states with their wives and newborn babies when they hit the ground in Afghanistan six months ago.
Sgts. Michael Knapp and Jabraun Knox would light up whenever someone asked about their children: Knapp's 9-month-old daughter or Knox's 6-month-old son.
They fought hard from their artillery battery in eastern Afghanistan, knowing any rocket or mortar attack on their base could kill or wound soldiers and devastate Army families like theirs.
"Between the two of them, there was nothing they couldn't accomplish," said Sgt. Timothy Mills, a peer from their unit, the 17th Fires Brigade.
He spoke at a service Thursday in honor of the young dads who died together May 18 when an enemy rocket slammed into their howitzer battery. Two privates in the platoon were wounded and sent to an Army hospital in San Antonio.
The deaths of Knapp and Knox were the first in a cluster of seven fatal casualties suffered by the Lewis-McChord community in Afghanistan over a three-week stretch.
Their memorial service in an Army chapel is the first of several expected in the coming weeks, the result of thousands of local troops facing enemy forces in Afghanistan's spring fighting season. Washington state's military installations had more combat casualties in May than in any single month since July 2010.
The ceremony was held the same day Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta arrived in Afghanistan to confer with military leaders on plans to withdraw troops and deal with rising violence. One day earlier, Afghan civilians suffered their deadliest day of 2012, caused by two suicide bombings and a coalition airstrike that was condemned by Afghan officials.
At the base south of Tacoma, soldiers remembered Knapp and Knox as much for the love they showed their families as for their service in uniform.
"In life, these men and their families were close friends," said Lt. Col. Charles Roede, their battalion commander. "In death, now they remain linked through the bonds of grief and through the memories we share."
Knapp, 28, of Overland Park, Kan., joined the Army in 2003 and had deployed twice to Iraq and once to Kosovo before his tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Knox, 23, of Indianapolis enlisted in 2009 and deployed to Iraq in 2009-10 with his Lewis-McChord artillery brigade.
Their company commander, Capt. Ross Warren, remembered them as solid leaders who set a tone for their unit.
"No matter the challenge, they kept the morale of the soldiers in their charge high," Warren wrote in remarks that were read at the memorial service. "Through jokes, pranks, mentorship, and when necessary, a kick in the ass, they kept their soldiers focused and ready."
The artillery battery is charged with firing 155mm rounds at enemy targets, often after insurgents take shots at NATO posts. It's stationed in Asadabad, near the border with Pakistan.
"Sgt. Knox especially took every fire mission personally," Warren wrote. "He considered the safety of any soldiers being attacked in range of the guns his responsibility. The speed and accuracy of their rounds protected fellow soldiers and devastated the enemy, and they knew it."
Roede recently visited the two privates wounded in the same attack. Each had questions about Knox and Knapp even as they endured their own trials. They continued asking questions about the widows.
Mills, the fallen soldiers' friend and fellow sergeant, recalled Thursday how he was struck by two encounters when he escorted Knox's remains home to the Midwest.
In one encounter, a child asked how God could take Knox from his family. Mills told the girl that Knox and Knapp could live forever as long as she and their families kept sharing memories and talking about them.
In the second encounter, a group of women asked Mills how he and other soldiers could continually go overseas to fight a war with which they might not agree. He told them, "It's not for politics. It's for friendship. It's for your brothers and sisters in harm."
"Sgt. Knox and Sgt. Knapp – both of them – cared for their brothers and sisters and put themselves in harm's way," Mills said Thursday.
The Washington Post contributed to this report.


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I don't see any mixed evidence. You are always safer if you are wearing a helmet. No gray area there..
They're not being "ideological", they're merely hurting your very sensitive feelings.
Wearing a helmet is just good sense, though I admit it is fairly impractical when it comes to wearing them on bikeshare systems.
While theoretically wearing a helmet sounds like commin sense, empirically injury rates go up as more people wear helmets. This is likely caused by a combo of helmets not being very effective at protecting you, incorrect helmet use, morr risk taking by helmeted riders, and car drivers perceiving less of a need to drive safely near helmeted bikers.
Evidence of injury rates going up as helmet use increases:
by H Street Landlord on Jun 17, 2012 11:58 am • link • report
Correlation != causation. "Helmet awareness" campaigns coincided with an era of increased mountain biking and commuter biking. The two phenomena are not connected, except temporally.
The joke doesn't really work with the bullet proof vest thing because there aren't many situations I can think of where not wearing one would out you as being "heartless."
2) what is 'incorrect helmet use?'
The most common example I see is that many people wear their helmets too loose or just too high up, leaving their foreheads exposed. I'm not sure how they expect a helmet positioned like that to protect them if they fall forward, but I see this all the time.
While I agree there are potentially reasons why the study is flawed (as with any study) it is a legitimate analysis of data conducted by scientists at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. One study does not make it a fact but its fair to say that the evidence supporting helmet use is mixed. Personally, I usually wear a helmet but there is clearly a scientific basis for choosing not to wear a helmet.
The biggest problem with all the pro-helmet information is that it drowns out the far more important information about safe biking habits and purchasing/using more effective bike safety gear (visibility gear like lights are far more important than helmets but how often do you see people campaigning for public awareness on light usage?). Instead of "no helmet = no brain to protect" how about "no lights = 'dim' witted"?
If there was only one piece of safety advice I was going to provide someone, it would not be "wear a helmet" or even "never go through a red light". It would be "bike in a way that it's easy for cars to see you". That means using lights, biking on the road (as opposed to the sidewalk), and not filtering through traffic. Personally, I break all of those rules at times but at least I know to be hyper-cautious/aware when I break them because I know their importance.
Most recreational bikers, at least, never ride at night. The range of conditions and types of bikers for whom helmet use is a net positive is undoubtedly broader than the advice to get a light, and even more so than for not using a sidewalk (as for the latter I was riding today on streets (in fairfax cty BTW) where heavy traffic was moving at over 35 MPH in narrow lanes on roads with no shoulders and where the sidewalks were free of pedestrians and of driveways)
I can think of no reason why a well fitted helmet could cause more accidents.as fort that "study" what you linked to was no study (no analysis of time series variation year by year, for example) but simply pointing out two trends over time. We might as well conclude that growing income inequality causes more bike head injuries (and given the folks I see biking without helmets, wrong way, at night without reflecting clothing, and all kinds of other bad habits, and what I think there econonomic status is,I think as good a case could be made for real causality there)
Also of course we need to look at not just the number of head injuries, but severity.
I can understand cyclist reticence about mandatory helmet laws. Getting bent out of shape, so to speak, about a poster someone puts up, is something else.
I can think of no reason why a well fitted helmet could cause more accidents
It's counterintuitive but there are possible reasons why a well fitted helmet would be more dangerous than no helmet:
Cycle helmets and rotational injuries
Minor head injuries are usually as a result of linear acceleration of the skull by impact with another object. Cycle helmets may produce benefit by reducing and spreading this force.
More serious injuries, on the other hand, are often as a result of angular or rotational acceleration, which leads to diffuse axonal injury (DAI) and subdural haematoma (SDH). These are the most common brain injuries sustained by road crash victims that result in death or chronic intellectual disablement.
Cycle helmets are not designed to mitigate rotational injuries, and research has not shown them to be effective in doing so.
To the contrary, some doctors have expressed concern that cycle helmets might make some injuries worse by converting direct (linear) forces to rotational ones. These injuries will normally form a very small proportion of the injuries suffered by cyclists, but they are likely to form a large proportion of the injuries with serious long-term consequences. In this way helmets may be harmful in a crash, but this harm may not be detected by small-scale research studies.
Thorough treatment of this subject, with comprehensive references, is to be found in the following article:
Curnow WJ. The efficacy of bicycle helmets against brain injury.
Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2003,35:287-292.
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Most recreational bikers, at least, never ride at night. The range of conditions and types of bikers for whom helmet use is a net positive is undoubtedly broader than the advice to get a light
If you're riding in the daytime, you don't need a light. But, you don't necessarily need a helmet either. Wearing a helmet may be a slight net positive (I wear one on that basis) but it's more beneficial (from a public health standpoint) for 1 person to be visible riding at night than for multiple people to be riding with helmets.
Full disclosure, I do not wear a helmet when I bike, and I know the risk I'm taking doing that. The one major bike accident I've had (partially my fault for riding too fast for my abilities (I was probably doing almost 30 MPH on a steep downhill), partially uncontrollable circumstances, no cars or pedestrians involved) would not have been improved much by wearing a helmet. I *may* not have been knocked unconscious (given the way I hit the pavement - chin first - I may still have lost consciousness), but then the other injuries that the helmet could not possibly have prevented would have hurt a lot more (unconsciousness does serve a purpose, as dangerous and undesirable as it is). I'm hyper vigilant about everything on a bike, particularly about being doored since I normally ride on routes with bike lanes. A helmet wouldn't change that for me, but I can see how others might feel safer with the protection/around protected riders and become more careless.
But I still find it clever when my SIL (an ER nurse) looks at motorcycle riders acting a fool without helmets and mutters "organ donor." Grow a few more layers of skin if you're going to do something you know is somewhat less than perfectly safe. Yes, she also gets on my case for riding helmet-free, and I just chuckle when she tells me I should drink less so that my organs are in top condition when they're harvested.
renegade09, I am sorry that a clever sign asking you to take safety precautions made you cry. I invite you to buck up.
True, but half of all bike fatalities occur at night, even though night biking makes up far less than half of all cycling.
Tyro, I understood the joke, but perhaps you missed my point. My point is that if you think everyone should wear a bike helmet on the off chance that they'll be in a crash and hit their head, then you also must think that everyone should wear a bulletproof vest on the off chance that they'll be shot. And what could be more heartless than letting your children become orphans because of your selfish desire to not wear a bulletproof vest?
and if there were a way to have a sign seen mostly by folks who ride at night, that would be good. The question initially was why a sign about helmets, and not night riding - I think the universality of the relevance of helmets answers that, in a place where theres no particular concentration of night cyclists.
As for the appropriateness of any kind of sign or poster on a trail, thats another matter. Some trails are more natural, and some are more transportationy. I dont know the trail in question.
BTW, as far as I can tell the frequency of head related bike injuries is higher than that for shootings. Not that anecdotes are data, but I have one friend who had a fall, a couple of years ago, and was (he beleives) protected by his helmet. I only know personally one person who was shot - and that was about 25 years ago.
Certainly I think we should avoid having kids around guns. My wife wouldnt send our kid on a play date to a home where she knew there was a gun.
Actually, one could make the argument (based on statistics) that riding as an 11 year old in a suburb is more dangerous than riding as an adult in traffic. The fact that many people don't understand this, and think that riding in traffic is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, is just an example of "common sense" overriding the facts.
Also, putting up a sign that says, in essence, "wear a helmet or you're an idiot" is not particularly clever. As David C pointed out, if I posted signs everywhere saying "If you don't wear a helmet while driving, you're a brainless moron" most people would ponder why I was so unhinged about the issue. Same applies to the helmet-obsessed.
Perhaps you should start hanging around in restaurants badgering folks who order their eggs over-easy, or who eat oysters. After all, it's very important that you make your feelings known on the matter of other folks' minuscule risk-taking.
How else will they know what a fine, upstanding individual you are?
If it were a little bit more socially acceptable to wear a helmet while driving a car, I would do it (I guess I would use my bike helmet). I suppose I could when I'm not with family and not likely to be seen by anyone I know, but that would take too much planning.
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There are also more T-shirts than you could wear in a lifetime, as well as hoodies, bowties, and caps that all serve as markers for — our grief, I guess.
Thus, the commodification of our national anguish is complete. We move through a tragedy and then we collect the T-shirts and commemorative earrings to prove it. In this case, the money supports the museum. I get that. But such commemorative items are icky on a level I don't want to visit.
Last weekend, a handful of Newtown organizations — one was The Sandy Hook Organization for Prosperity, or S.H.O.P. — sponsored a "cash mob" for Newtown. The idea was to get people to shop at Newtown businesses that have lost money in the aftermath of Dec. 14. Hometown visitors were encouraged to spend $20 at a local merchant. Out-of-town supporters were asked to call in and buy, or pledge support.
This is in addition to a $500,000 Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant approved recently by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
One of the organizers told the local Patch that she hoped residents would "re-familiarize themselves with Sandy Hook" and "gain positive energy." Because shopping heals all wounds, don't you know? And didn't we rake President George W. Bush over the coals when he suggested we go shopping so the Sept. 11 terrorists wouldn't win?
I do not know how much money Newtown businesses lost in the wake of the shootings. It is not the first thing I think about when I think "Sandy Hook."
At Monday's long gun violence prevention hearing in Hartford that stretched into Tuesday, we were treated to a parade of more than a few people who worried that any new gun legislation would cut into their profits: owners of gun ranges and gun shops, gun collectors and owners of security businesses. Instead of being shouted down for craven commercialism and use of a public hearing to advertise their businesses, the cretins were applauded.
More than one of the people testifying worried that more gun regulations would mean money coming out of the pockets of gun owners. Continued...
I'm sorry. The mewings of people concerned about income loss is drowned out by the deafening silence of Sandy Hook's 26 dead.
The antidote to the mayhem isn't the self-appointed and self-centered militia that crowded that hearing room. At least part of it is unhooking from organizations such as National Shooting Sports Foundation, based in Newtown, which is also the home of Patricia A. Clark, a long-time board member of that bloated, bloviating money machine, the National Rifle Association.
Oddly, we can work up disgust over a Bronx woman who is accused of scamming donors by pretending to be the aunt of one of the first-graders killed in Sandy Hook. The woman has pleaded not guilty.
We are shocked and disgusted that someone would try to take advantage of another family's loss and grief.
But at Monday's hearing, the father of one of the victims was interrupted by someone shouting, "the Second Amendment!" as if the damn thing needed a shout-out.
And then?
We shop. And go buy the T-shirt.
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- European Commission The statistical report on trafficking in human beings 2013
- Russian Union of Journalists, OSCE Manual on Reporting on Human Trafficking
- The Protection Project: 100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons
- UNODC Global report on trafficking in persons 2012
- The State of Human Trafficking in California 2012
- Ewa'a: Annual Book 2011 (English)
- Ewa'a: Annual Book 2011 (Arabic)
- Join the global dialogue
- UNODC Psychosocial Care for women in Shelter Homes
- An exploration of promising practices in response to HT in Canada