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Falls are the most common cause of paediatric injury leading to emergency department visits. It is widely acknowledged that children are at risk of falls in the community, with many education programs supporting prevention, it is important that this education is reflected in the hospital environment. Children fall as they grow, develop coordination and new skills; often unaware of their limitations, therefore one could conclude that all children are at some risk of falling.
The intention of this guideline is to raise awareness and educate nursing staff and the multidisciplinary team of the importance of maintaining a safe environment for all patients; assist with identifying patients who are high risk of fall; provide the tools to educate families and carers of the potential risk of falls and outline strategies to develop individualised management plans of care to reduce risk for high risk patients.
Fall- A fall is an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level.
Anticipated falls -may occur when a patient whose score on a falls risk tool indicates she or he is at risk of falls.
Unanticipated falls - occur when the cause of the fall is not reflected in the patient's risk factor for falls, conditions exist which cause the fall, yet these are not predictable (e.g., the patient faints suddenly).
Accidental falls - occur when a patient falls unintentionally, usually as a result of tripping or slipping, as a result of equipment failure or other environmental factors. Patients can not be identified as being at risk for falls prior to this type of fall.
Risk assessment tool- a conceptual framework that organises knowledge on the aetiology of predicting falls.
All paediatric patients are considered at risk of falling and simple prevention strategies should be put in place to ensure the risk of injury is minimized. A safe environment should be maintained for all patients within the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH). Standard safety measures should be put place for all patients regardless of identified risk, these include:
Half of falls incidents within the RCH occur when a parent or carer is present. Whilst most parents are aware of maintaining a safe environment for their children in the home environment, many are unaware of the environmental risks when in hospital due to being in an unfamiliar environment accompanied with increased levels of anxiety related to hospital admission.
The hospitalisation of children provides an opportunity to reinforce parent/carer information and education concerning normal psychological and motor development of small children, which is related to falls risks and other hazards both inside and outside hospital
Parents/carers should be encouraged to:
All patients have a falls risk assessment completed using the Little Schmidy falls risk Assessment Tool completed at the following stages:
The falls risk assessment score is documented in the Care Plan Activity in most of the inpatient areas and in the patient notes, where the care plan activity is not utilised. In Medical Short Stay falls risk assessment scores are captured on the Short Stay Clinical Path or in the patient notes when patients are using alternative clinical paths. In the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit the risk assessment score is documented in the PICU Nursing Management Plan.
The falls risk assessment tool does not replace clinical judgment, if a patient does not present with a high risk score but is thought to be high risk by medical or nursing staff, allied health, parents or carers extra precautions to protect such patients should be documented and auctioned.
Factors influencing risk include
See Clinical Guideline (Nursing): Nursing Assessment for more detailed assessment information.
Standard safety measures should be put in place for all patients regardless of the risk identified
Falls score equal to or greater than 3 necessitates the implementation of a Falls High Risk Management Plan. Please note this form is currently being evaluated in Kelpie and Cockatoo Wards.
For all patients identified as high risk, i.e., those with a falls risk score of 3 or greater; a Falls High Risk Management Plan must be commenced. The plan will be developed in collaboration with the child's parent or carer and will be specific to the patient's individual needs.
The plan will remain in use and visible in the bedside charts until the patients falls risk score changes. If the falls risk score alters a new plan will be implemented as the patients needs may have changed. Patient risk should continue to be assessed daily, once the patient's risk score is less than 3 and the patient's risk of falling is reduced, a management plan is no longer required; however it is important that a safe environment is always maintained.
A physiotherapist can advise as to how to safely support the patient during positioning, transfers, standing, walking and use of mobility aids.
An occupational therapist can ensure safe setup of the ward bedroom, bathroom and toilet to minimize falls risks and recommend management techniques/assistive equipment for self care tasks.
In the event of the occurrence of a fall:
Documentation of Falls event
Some patients may have a high risk score at the time of discharge. For this patient group the following should be considered:
Falls Prevention Evidence Table
Please remember to read the disclaimer.
The development of this clinical guideline was coordinated by Kylie Moon, Nursing Services. Approved by the Clinical Effectiveness Committee. Authorised by Bernadette Twomey, Executive Director Nursing Services. First published February 2012 (replacing Falls Prevention Procedure published July 2009), Reviewed February 2013.

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CREEKSIDE — A Civil War-themed puppet play, "Would You Like Johnnycake With That?," will be held at 10:30 a.m. June 30 at Center Presbyterian Church, Creekside.
Refreshments will be served at 11 a.m., and the regular worship service is at 11:30 a.m. The play is put on by children and volunteers of the church.
Testifying meeting
BROCKWAY — A Just For Jesus Challenge Homeless Outreach testifying meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. July 1 at the First Apostles' Doctrine Church, 14530 Route 28, Brockway. Come and hear how Jesus has changed your life through the power of the cross. For more information, call (814) 265-0243.
Friday Night Light
PENN RUN — Friday Night Light will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. July 5 under the pavilion, weather permitting, at the Penn Run Christian Outreach Center, 75 Grace Church Road, Penn Run. All are welcome.
Bring lawn chairs and camp fire snacks. There will be volleyball, basketball, games and activities.
The event is sponsored by Harmony Presbyterian Church, Maple Grove Church of God, Penn Run Wesleyan, Kenwood Church of the Nazarene and Penn Run Church of the Brethren.
For more information, call (724) 463-0420.
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BLAIRSVILLE — Worship in the Street will be held on July 12 at the bandstand (old Diamond) in Blairsville. A barbecue dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m. with a worship service to follow at 7:30 p.m.
The event is sponsored by the Blairsville Free Methodist Church Celebrate Recovery. For more information, call Pastor Rusty at (724) 422-5027.
Family picnic
CLYMER — Harvest Community Church will hold a Sun & Fun Family Picnic at 1 p.m. July 13 at the New Horizons Retreat Center in Clymer. Food will be served at 2 p.m.
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PENN RUN — An outdoor concert featuring CrossOver and Faithful Friends will be held rain or shine from 3 to 7 p.m. July 28 at the Penn Run Christian Outreach Center, 75 Grace Church Road, Penn Run.
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MLB 2k8 Patch Impressions and Starting a Franchise
On a sidenote, I've started a franchise with some user-made rosters. (2k's last roster update was at the end of freak'n February. Nice work, guys.) Seven games in and my impressions haven't changed much at all. This is a fun game, when there isn't bizarre sh#@ happening.
On the plus side, I had one of those great fist-pumping moments over the weekend. My Tigers were getting just obliterated by the White Sox (not unlike real life), 10-2. I was scratching my way back into it. 10-6 after the sixth inning. 10-8 after the seventh. Finally, in the bottom of the eight I was able to tie it up, 10-10. In the bottom of the ninth, still tied, I got a lead off triple from Gary Sheffield. (You can get a lot of triples in this game playing in Comerica Park, which is sweet.) The game proceeds to issue back-to-back intentional walks to Magglio Ordonez and Miguel Cabrera, who were having fantastic games, to load up the bases. (Again, sweet!) On the second pitch to Carlos Guillen (who was hitting in the low .200s), the White Sox pitcher tosses a wild pitch that goes back to the backstop. Gary Sheffield races to home for the win. Simply an awesome game. Had my wife not been home, I probably would've been running around the house whooping it up. (Yeah, I'm that kind of dork.)
The counter-balance? My very next game, in Boston, I've got a no-hitter going in the sixth inning with Verlander. There are two outs and I'm just cruising. One of the Sox hitters (I forget which), hits a lazy fly ball to right field. I'm under it with Ordonez who manages to somehow not catch the ball. It just drops in while he stands there. Okay, fine. There probably should be an animation for that, but errors like that do happen. There's one problem, though. No error was charged. I lost out on a no-hitter because this game flat out does not charge human teams with fielding errors. Throwing errors yes. But every time I have a fielder miss a lazy ground ball or drop a fly, there is never an error charged. In most games that's simply annoying, but when you've got a no-hit bid going and it's spoiled by something like that, it's simply unforgivable.
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- Jayhawker said...
I'd say you are pretty dead on with your take on the game. I've had lots of just cool moments playing this game. Even getting a hitter to swing at a low and away breaking pitch feels sweet.
I've had the same problem with the lack of errors in the OF on those kinds of balls. Just not with a no-hitter on the line! There fielding errors, but you will see an animation for it, where the ball hits the glove and bounces off. I've had those in the OF and infield. I think we just have to accept the limits of what the game can decipher. Just get mad at the official scorer like Mike Shannon always does for the Cardinals, and write it off.
I think the frame rate issue really comes down to them cramming so many elements between plays. If they all ran smoothly, it would be pretty cool. But the hiccups now, at least, seem to come one the play is basically decided. Then it starts loading up the cut scenes, and the game just tanks.
So while I still love the game that is buried inside, there is no excuse for shipping the game in that condition. They should have at least cut out 80% of the elements they throw at you. Have you sat through the post game show? It's a freaking slide show.
But I feel pretty comfortable with the gameplay now. While it is annoying to see the little freezes at the end of plays, I feel like i have control over the game, which allows for those great gaming moments you were talking about.
But I think the game has deserved the lackluster reviews it has gotten, even post patch. This is not for casual fans of the game. You have to be pretty into playing a baseball game to put up with the presentation. Casual players have too many other games to play than to waste time on a baseball game with these kinds of hiccups in the presentation. But if yo really do love the playing baseball, there is still that great game inside here.
- April 8, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- todd brakke said...
Yep. 2kLA/Kush does a lot of great things with their sports games, but they just can't (or won't) get over the hump of releasing them in acceptable condition. Either their testing/play balance crew is incompetent, doesn't exist, or they don't allow the time necessary for them to do their jobs. (I'm betting it's the latter.) It's really a shame.
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A man I know in Costa Rica lives at the top of a mountain in an open-air home. It's not nearly as pretty as the picture you see above, being as that it's made of a scrap wood frame paired with corrugated metal sheets. Nonetheless, I get the feeling that one of these floating beds would fit perfectly in with his charmingly rustic decor. What I'm not to sure about is whether these round, hanging beds are actually comfortable.
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Washington Prep Lacrosse had an article earlier today about eight members of the Mercer Island girls and boys lacrosse programs who have committed to play lacrosse at NCAA schools next year.
Here's a link to the original post by Mike McQuaid.
MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — An unprecedented eight Mercer Island High School lacrosse standouts in 2012 have committed to play the sport at NCAA schools following graduation.
For Mercer Island, the six boys and two girls that have committed to play at the NCAA level is a single-year high-water mark for any Washington state high school in the four-decade history of prep lacrosse play in the state.
Leading the way with an NCAA Division I commitment to play for 2012 men's national champion Loyola of Maryland is Islander junior defenseman Chase York.
Following his upcoming junior and senior years as an Islander, York plans to enroll at Loyola for the 2014-15 academic year. He will join a Greyhounds squad that finished its 2012 ECAC schedule at 6-0 (18-1 overall) on the way to capturing the NCAA Men's Division I championship with a 9– 3 win over the University of Maryland.
Last spring, York helped his MI team advance to the semifinals of the 2012 Washington Lacrosse State Championship Tournament. As a sophomore, he had three goals and 27 ground balls in 14 regular-season games with the Islanders.
Other Mercer Island boys to commit to Division I programs are junior midfielder Peter Mahony, who will enter Yale in the fall of 2014, while senior midfielder Hayden Reisman will enroll at St. Johns and senior attackman Grant Priesler will enroll at Marquette this coming fall.
Division III boys commitments include seniors Justin Rorem and Lorenzo Powell. Rorem, an attackman, will enroll at Kenyon College in Ohio while Powell, a midfielder, will enroll at Centre College in Kentucky.
On the girl's side, senior midfielders Tyler Sherper and Saffron Snethen will play at the Division III level. Sherper has committed to play at New York's Colgate University, while Snethen will play at North Carolina's Mt. Olive College in the fall.
"Our program has been going this direction for the past decade," said Mercer Island boys head coach Ian O'Hearn, whose Islanders have played in the Washington state boys championship game 10 times since 2001, while taking the title in five of those years.
Since beginning high school play in 1993, over 70 Mercer Island boys and girls have gone on to play either NCAA or club lacrosse at the collegiate level following graduation.
"We've been doing a better job of exposing our kids to the opportunity of playing with NCAA schools and giving them the exposure they need to be recognized at that level," said O'Hearn who, despite his on-field success and the visibility that his student-athletes are getting this year, is still not convinced that he has the best boys team in the state for the upcoming spring season.
"A lot of teams in Washington state have this many kids that can play at the NCAA level," said O'Hearn. "It's just a matter of getting them exposure and their willingness to travel out of state to attend school."
Among those that will play at the Division I level, Mahony will join a Yale midfield unit that helped the Bulldogs advance to the first round of the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Tournament following a second-place Ivy League finish and a 4-2 conference record (11-5 overall).
As an Islander sophomore last spring, he scored 22 goals, tallied an assist and grabbed 54 ground balls in 14 regular-season games for MI.
Following graduation this spring, Reisman will step into a midfield role at St. Johns. In 2012, the Red Storm finished with a 3-3 BIG EAST Conference record (8-7 overall). As a junior last spring, Reisman finished the regular high school season in Washington state with 20 goals, six assists and 43 ground balls.
Marquette commit Priesler, who as an Islander senior this spring is expected to play a key role at attack, will join a Golden Eagles squad that is in its first year of NCAA Division I men's lacrosse play on the Milwaukee, Wis. campus. Priesler finished the 2012 high school regular season at MI with 27 goals, 20 assists and a single ground ball.
Neither Rorem or Powell saw varsity action for the Islander boys in 2012.
For the girls, Sherper finished the regular season with 54 goals, 15 assists and 17 ground balls, while Snethen had 19 goals, five assists and 11 ground balls.
After winning the 2011 Washington Lacrosse State Championship, the Islander boys finished 14-6-0 during the 2012 regular season and 2-1-0 in the post season before falling to rival and eventual state champion Bellevue High School in the Division I semifinals.
The Islander girls won their conference in 2012 with a 9-3-1 record before falling to eventual state champion Bainbridge High School in the state semifinals. They have been to the state title game twice, winning the Division II crown in 2009.
Historically, over 100 student-athletes from Washington state high schools have gone on to play lacrosse at the NCAA level with another 100 playing for college clubs. A historical list of student-athletes from state high schools that have played at the collegiate level is available at http://www.washingtonhslax.com/media-center/local-collegians/
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new sheathing on top of old?
When I redo my asphalt shingle roof, I'll be stripping it first, and then I'll need to replace an unknown amount of sheething. If it turns out that most of it needs to be replaced, would I be advised to remove all of the old stuff or layer on top?
I'd remove the bad to make sure the deck is fllat and secure.
I guess what I was wondering is if layering new osb on top of my existing plywood would even be permissible from a load standpoint. Are the load calcs based on what the framing will bear or just what the sheething will bear?
You will have to check with your local building codes. From an added weight standpoint, I would assume it to be against codes. I have never done it like that but I usually rather do things right the first time.
If you replace any bad / rotted sheathing with the same type,
than cover over all with a lighter weight / thickness you should be fine.
But that's assuming there's no structural damage, bad trusses, etc.
You do not want to cover rotted lumber with new tho.
Agree with Slyfox. You never cover bad wood with good wood. Tear up the bad and replace.
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Today is my birthday. I'm 5. Mommy said I'm still a little mansky though. I got Spiderman cupcakes for my birthday and I'm getting awesome cookies from my favorite store Waggin Trains. My mommy even took the day off to spend with me. I'm going to do my favorite thing when she is home...NAP! :-) Happy Birthday to all my other Dogster friends like Tobi and Bubba, who have birthdays today!
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...Despite all the negatives I did enjoy Forerunner. It is not a memorable novel but certainly a lot better than my first encounter with Norton's writing. Simsa is a character you can really root for, even if she is too stubborn for her own good sometimes. If you are willing to overlook Norton's prose and the occasionally illogical plot in favour of a good adventure, this book might be a good read. Norton published a sequel named Forerunner: The Second Venture in 1985. I won't rush to the nearest book store to get it but I won't rule out reading it at some point either.
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In a place far away, Simsa, a young orphan, fights to survive in an intergalactic ghetto. But she was different than any of the others around her.
Then the Star Men came, and she learned that perhaps she was far more than she had ever believed
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0523414811, Paperback)Of all the justly famous writers of science fiction and fantasy, none has inspired greater enthusiasm and loyalty than Andre Norton. Of all Ms. Norton's works, none has been more warmly received than her famed "Forerunner" series, a series whose heroes and heroines have already taken on the trappings of legend.
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Not since Judy met the boy next door in St. Louis has there been a heaping of tuneful romantic Midwestern America like this! Doris Day and Gordon MacRae team for spoonin', croonin' and swoonin' "On Moonlight Bay" based on Booth Tarkington's beloved "Penrod" stories. "Try not to walk like the baseman" Mama (Rosemary Decamp) tells tomboy Marjorie (Day) as she prepares to date college man Bill (MacRae). The advice takes. The lovebirds hear wedding bells ahead, just as soon as Bill gets his sheepskin. But events may rain on their nuptial parade. World War I rages "over there". And Papa (Leon Ames, the father in "Meet Me In St. Louis") rages at home after a flap with his prospective son-in-law. Will harmony return to this Hoosier home? Surely Day and MacRae will make lots of musical harmony. And "On Moonlight Bay" will have you sailing along.
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Tanner Foust swung by COBB HQ in Austin last Friday to see what kind of progress we are making with the Focus ST. He was pretty impressed with the power and overall drivabilty of our Stage 2 car (COBB intake, COBB FMIC, COBB catback, Accessport Stage 2 map, COBB rear motor mount, and COBB springs) and I think he even made Braden scream a little on the test drive! We've gone to great lengths to not only make awesome power under full throttle, but in every driving condition you see day-to-day. Here's a quick snapshot from Tanner's page and one of our current shop car.
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that's awesome.
Awesome. Now just release those parts to us and everything will be fine in the world
2013 Focus ST Race Red ST2
It does look nice. I can't wait to see the new products hit the street.
2013 Focus ST3 Tuxedo Black
Nice. Hopefully by the time I get my ST these parts will be available for sale.
Looks excellent!!! Wouldn't mind my car looking like that
I'm super pumped for these parts. Do we have any ETA on any of these hard parts?
Past rides: 97' Audi A4 1.8TQ, '00 GTI, '06 GLI, '07 Nissan Frontier NISMO, '09 Rabbit, 98 Nissan Frontier, '11 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Current: Oxford White ST3 <- loving it!
We've got lots of parts being released within the next 6 weeks or so. Very soon guys!
Those are the wheels I plan on getting for my PB ST3. But waiting for the Ford Racing Parts price for theirs.
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My 327sbc runs great till she warms up on really hot days. Fuel pressure starts at about 6psi and gradually drops down to zero(no kidding). I made sure it wasn't the gas cap. I re-routed my fuel line as far away from my exhast as I could. I am running a stock mechanical fuel pump and 3/8 fuel line. The carb is an edlebrock 1406 and the intake is an edelbrock. The engine is running about 190 on a hot summer afternoon in bumper to bumper traffic. I know its vapor lock because when I kill the motor and pull the air cleaner I can hear the fuel bubbling in the carb. After it cools down my fuel pressure returns and she runs good till the heat comes back.
Are higher performance (i.e. more expensive) fuel pumps less prone to this crap? would a carb spacer help? Am I stuck with no other aleternative than to install an electric fuel pump?
I once had a chevy suburban that did the same thing, tried wrapping the fuel line, old wooden clothes pins, everything possible, then one day the fuel gauge quit and I had to remove the tank, and there was the problem, someone had at one time put a fuel additive in the gas and the "sock" on the tank pickup was melted together, its a wonder any fuel at all would go thru what was left, replaced the entire unit and had gauge function and no more "vapor lock" problems.
Thanks Bob. I dropped the tank and inspected it when I dropped the new motor in. It looked pretty clean in there. This is on my 54' Chevy so I was really worried about rust. I didn't see any though. Because of the bubbling in the carb I'm pretty sure the fuel is boiling and the pump just cant pump it any longer.
Do you have a return line?
That would help keep fuel circulating and not have a chance to heat up at low speeds.
i'd try a spacer before i went with the electric pump..... just make sure you get the right one, something about the spread bore affecting the plenum air flow if the spacer ain't just right...or something or other..... some one help me out here.....
When I shut the engine down I can hear the fuel bubbling in the float bowls of my 1406 edelbrock carb. I noticed several folks have suggested a carb / manifold spacer plate. I was wondering which type of plate would be best? (phenolic or the Micarda/wood style) Would the spacer need 4 separate holes, 2 oval holes or one big hole? Also, which is the better line to run between the mechanical fuel pump steel or rubber tubing?
You might try some of the heat wrap that SUMMIT RACING or JEG'S sells for fuel lines. It is a foil material with a VELCRO backing so that it is easily installed w/o removing the fuel line.
EDLEBROCK makes a 1/4" thick insulated gasket that might also help insulate the carburetor from the manifold heat.
You would want the four hole spacer if that's the route you chose to take rather than an insulated gasket. The wood spacers are supposed to be the best heat resistant material, but the newer phenolic spacers are also good. Stay away from the aluminum spacers as they will just transfer the heat from manifold to carburetor.
If you do this in steps you may avoid installing an electric fuel pump which may have its own inherent problems, such as noise and being prone to failure unless you submerge it in the gas tank for cooling.
Dont get fooled into buying one of those plastic POS that a lot of places call phonelic but theyre not.
If you want the real thing try these.
CV Products
picture of real phonelic spacer
wood is a better insulator than the phenolic, but it isn't as resistant to gas as the phenolic. and Greg is right, do not buy a pos plastic spacer. last thing you want is a gooey plastic blob oozing into your manifold.(worst case scenario)
most likely you'd end up with a vacuum leak before it got sucked into the motor
If my studying is correct, you want a four hole spacer on a dual plane manifold, and an open spacer on a single plane manifold. That phenolic stuff sounds like your best bet as far as the heat transfer goes. But, I'm no expert, so this is all I can offer.
try a fuel cooler? maybe the inline type kinda looks like a small tranny cooler. i have an electric pump and i still get real low fuel pressure in the heat. not bad going down the road but between rounds maybe 10 mins after shutting down there is no fuel pressure when its hot outside. i am thinking of trying a cool can.
We use to wrap a lot of tin foil around the fuel line to see if it was hot fuel or vapor locks etc.
I installed a carter in line electric fuel pump which is wired to a switch on the dash board. The stock mechanical fuel pump pretty much does the whole job but when the temperature soars I'll just hit the switch. It seems to work and I only run it when I need it.
Thanks to everyone for their help.
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[EUROPEAN RACES] On a day it marked the 50th anniversary of the Munich air crash that killed 23 people, including eight United players, Manchester United fell to Manchester City, 2-1, to further threaten its title hopes.
City for first-half goals from Darius Vassell and Zimbabwean newcomers Benjani Mwaruwari to hand Manchester United their first home defeat of the season. The loss leaves Arsenal with the chance to open up a five-point lead at the top
of the EPL if it beats Blackburn Rovers in London on Monday.
Third-place Chelsea's 0-0 tie with Liverpool left the Blues temporarily five points behind Arsenal.
Everton, a 1-0 winner over Liverpool, moved three points ahead of its Merseyside rivals.
FRANCE. Lyon, chasing a seventh consecutive title, stayed
four points ahead of second-place Bordeaux with a 4-1 win over Sochaux on Saturday. OL got two goals from midfielder Mathieu Bodmer. Bordeaux, beat last-place
Metz, 3-0, with two goals from Argentine forward Fernando Cavenaghi. Third-place Nancy ended a nine-game winless streak with a 1-0 victory over Toulouse on a
late penalty by defender Sebastien Puygrenier.
GERMANY. Bayern Munich blew a chance to pull away from
Werder Bremen at the top of the Bundesliga standings when they played to a 1-1 tie on Saturday at the Allianz Arena. Brazilian midfielders scored both goals -- Diego in the sixth minute for Bremen and Ze Roberto, rumored to be headed to MLS, with the equalizer for Bayern, which still leads by three points
over Bremen and five over Schalke, a 3-2 winner at Borussia Dortmund on Fabian Ernst's late goal in the Ruhr derby.
ITALY. Argentine Esteban Cambiasso and Honduran David Suazo scored to give Inter Milan a 2-0 win at
Catania and maintain its eight-point lead at the top of Serie A. Roma beat Reggina, 2-0, thanks to goals from Christian Panucci and Mancini. Third-place Juventus rallied to beat Udinese, 2-1.
SPAIN. Real Madrid made a mockery of criticism about its conservative
play with a 7-0 victory over Valladolid that moved it eight points ahead of second-place Barcelona in la Liga race. Raul and Guti both scored twice, Julio Baptista, Arjen Robben and Royston
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On September 25, Minneapolis councilmember Gary Schiff's monthly breakfast meeting addressed the trafficking of Native American girls and women in Minnesota. Guest speakers Suzanne Koepplinger, Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MWIRC) and Suzanne Tibbits Young from the Division of Indian Work presented the results of recent research on the subject in an effort to increase community awareness of this issue.
About 20 people attended the meeting, which included a summary of the report entitled "Shattered Hearts: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of American Indian Women and Girls in Minnesota." The MIWRC and the Division of Indian Work also made recommendations for confronting the problem. The report was spurred by a 2007 Human Trafficking Task Force estimate that showed a disproportionate amount of Native American Women experiencing sexual exploitation.


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Council, Rothamsted, GSK and climate change
An important meeting last week was the last Council meeting of 2012, where substantive items included a detailed, high-level analysis of our research grant expenditure and portfolio, plus discussion and approval of our plans for rolling out further and exciting programmes in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy.
We also had a very useful meeting of the 'Members' of Rothamsted Research, where we were able to have high-level discussions of modern farming and the Agri-Tech strategy.
I enjoyed a visit to several groups at GSK in Stevenage, where I also gave a seminar on drug transporters, and had very useful discussions about various elements of the drug discovery pipeline, including e-science, then heard a very clear (and scary) lecture on Climate Change given by John Holdren, the US Presidential Science Adviser. Investments of less than 1% of GDP in technologies for mitigation and adaptation could still avoid the worst predictions of climate disruption models; it is a small price to pay, and BBSRC will be keen to foster those technologies in its remit (including appropriate negative emissions technologies (pdf)). Equally scary is the potential loss of our soils; maybe the deep roots agenda can contribute to the solution of both kinds of problems.
I much enjoyed a superb paper by Andy Hopkins and colleagues at Dundee on a systems-based approach to polypharmacology, another on mouse pheromones from Jane Hurst and colleagues at Liverpool, and one on the discovery of a novel biosynthetic pathway by Sarah O'Connor and colleagues at the John Innes Centre.
I enjoyed a collection of recent web-based data visualisation gems, and was also pleased to see that the MCC, like BBSRC, now has a Royal Charter.
As next week is a little truncated, this is likely to be the last blog before the Christmas holiday, and I wish all readers the compliments of the season and a rewarding 2013.
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- Geu-Flores F, Sherden NH, Courdavault V, Burlat V, Glenn WS, Wu C, Nims E, Cui Y, O'Connor SE: An alternative route to cyclic terpenes by reductive cyclization in iridoid biosynthesis. Nature 2012; 492:138-142
- Kell DB: Large-scale sequestration of carbon via plant roots in natural and agricultural ecosystems: why and how. Phil Trans R Soc 2012; 367:1589-1597. Full, free text
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I had a gastric by-pass to lose weight and get rid of the diabetes, when I got pregnant with my son. He is now 17 years and I still haven't lost the pouch from my C-section. I get a rash on one side of the scar all the time. I have been wanted to lose the weight for so long. I'm short and it feels like I am carrying around a spare tire.
41 Year Old with Twin Daughters and a Son. All Was Born by C-section Which Gave Me the Flap.
I had a gastric by-pass to lose weight and get rid...
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I feel good, can go up and down the stairs by myself. Only thing is I can't stand for long.
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They think I might have torn the muscle in my stomach.
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Robb's finance job safe, says AbbottMichelle Grattan
Published: June 13 2012 - 3:00AM
TONY Abbott has guaranteed that Andrew Robb would be his finance minister in a Coalition government, after the emergence yesterday of another possible candidate for a senior economic post.
The highly regarded West Australian Treasurer, Christian Porter, 41, said he was resigning from the state ministry to seek preselection for a federal seat.
Both Mr Porter and Senator Arthur Sinodinos, former chief of staff to John Howard, would have strong claims on an economic job in government.
Mr Robb has been shadow finance minister since 2010, but his future has been periodically a matter of speculation. But when The Age asked whether Mr Abbott would guarantee Mr Robb the finance job in government, the Opposition Leader's spokesman replied ''yes''.
Mr Abbott welcomed the surprise decision by Mr Porter - who was also WA Attorney-General and has been seen as a possible future premier - to run for preselection in the safe Liberal seat of Pearce where prominent moderate Judi Moylan will retire at the election.
Mr Abbott told a news conference there would ''certainly be a place in my team … for good candidates''. But when asked who he would get rid of if Mr Porter was put on the frontbench, Mr Abbott said the point he was making was he would welcome Mr Porter to Canberra.
An economic dry, Mr Porter has been vocal on the issue of WA getting a better deal on GST revenue. He said yesterday: ''I've come to a view, which I cannot shake now, that I can make a contribution to the advancement of a number of very important issues. Issues that I've come to feel incredibly strongly about and issues which I think are absolutely critical to the state … and to the entire country.''
He said he decided his greatest chance of making an impact on those issues was in Federal Parliament.
Mr Porter said he had only talked to his wife and WA Premier Colin Barnett before making his decision last weekend. He spoke to Mr Abbott yesterday only ''to alert him to the decision''. He has quit his portfolios but remains in State Parliament for the time being.
Mr Abbott brushed off the fact that he trailed Julia Gillard as better PM 38-42 per cent in the latest Newspoll. Yesterday's Essential poll had Ms Gillard and Mr Abbott equal as better PM on 37 per cent each. The Essential poll also revealed a collapse in trust in many institutions in the past nine months.
Trust in Parliament fell from 55 per cent to 22 per cent, while trust in trade unions dropped from 39 per cent to 22 per cent and in business groups from 38 per cent to 22 per cent.
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Someone has dropped the ole ball here? Either somebody has told IRAN to CHILL out or your NUTS are cooked and or, they just know EVERYBODY is gonna die if this thing all cranks up! I don't think ANYONE wants to poison the world with Radioactive elements? And or, see most of their family turned into ashes. Looks like even these STUPID HOT HEAD ARABS might just have a bit of sense? Everything which is still HUMAN is afraid of what will come if this CRAP erupts! It will take the ANTICHRIST and the super beings which follow to intiate the things we have all heard about. I really don't think we as humans are going to set the DOOMS DAY machine off. Maybe not even the crazy MUSLIMS?
I don't know MUSIBIKE, they don't think like we do. Some of the crazys are waiting to unleash the 12th Iman or some nutty crap,to take over the world!
The US AMERICANS are FAR beyond thier comprehension!
I sure do THANK the owners of this site for letting us come in here and post so freely!
Blessid be the name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST that we, the AMERICAN BELEIVERS are going to stand our ground in the image of our creator!
Out of all of the sites I have ever been to, this one seems to reinforce the AMERICAN WAY.
GOD BLESS GUNCO.net!!!!
lets's get on with our lives!
If ISRAEL is going to take care of it, go for it!
What in the HELL now MAN?
MUSIBIKE- I think this is the calm before the storm maybe? Wouldn't take much for the whole world to go up! Now is the time to watch out for them. They are teaching hate for America here in our own country, in their shithole mosques. And know- whatever they say-not many in our Govt are Christians,they've said it while kissin Muslim ass! Have a good day and keep your powder dry!
It looks like the pres spent our money to hold of this effort till after elections.
Israel's plan to attack Iran put on hold until next year at the earliest - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Well, I didn't really think that it would remain quiet for long.
Israel presents new deterrence policy - Israel News, Ynetnews
Common sense. Israel knows Hussein doesn't like them, and will not rush to their aid if necessary. When Romney is inaugurated it all changes. They know he cares about Israel and will not throw them under the bus.


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O'Reilly ignored First Amendment, misrepresented Jefferson's position
In his December 14 nationally syndicated column, " 'Tis the Season [1]," Bill O'Reilly wrote that the "separation of church and state argument" is "bogus" because it "does not appear anywhere in the Constitution." O'Reilly continued, baselessly asserting that "[i]f Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he would mock these secular fools and then retire to his Virginia estate for Christmas dinner." In fact, Jefferson wrote a famous letter [2] in 1802 in which he declared his support for "a wall of eternal separation between Church & State" and expressed his "reverence" for the First Amendment to the Constitution, which mandates that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Additionally, Jefferson made numerous other statements [3] of support for the principle of the separation of church and state. For example:
- In a letter to Samuel Miller, Jefferson wrote [3]: "I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government."
- Also to Miller, Jefferson wrote: "I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, or its doctrines; nor of the religious societies, that the General Government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Fasting and prayer are religious exercises. The enjoining them, an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises and the objects proper for them according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands where the Constitution has deposited it. ... Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."
- Jefferson also believed in keeping religion out of public schools, as noted [3] in his statements during the passage of the Elementary School Act of 1817: "Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions. ... No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination."
From O'Reilly's December 14 column:
Well, the Supreme Court punted. The justices were supposed to decide weeks ago whether or not to hear a blatant example of anti-Christian bias in New York City. But still no decision.
The case concerns a policy by the New York City public schools to allow displays of the Star and Crescent flag for Ramadan and the Menorah for Hanukkah, but to ban the Nativity scene at Christmas time. The decision makes no legal sense, as the federal courts have previously ruled that so-called "religious" displays can appear on public property, as long as there is no preference given to one religion over another.
But no, the Supreme Court justices are now on their Christmas break, and have left the country adrift once again. The anti-Christmas forces are still clinging to the bogus separation of church and state argument that does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he would mock these secular fools and then retire to his Virginia estate for Christmas dinner.
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Under ordinary circumstances, the week leading up to a Vikings-Packers game is as intense as any in football. While the 2011 season finds the teams heading in very different directions – the Vikings are wallowing at 1-5 while the Packers are the lone undefeated team in the league at 6-0 – when the Packers come to town it remains something special to fans and players.
Anthony Herrera, who has always maintained that each game counts the same in the standings, admitted that the Packers rivalry is something special that adds to the drama of the moment.
"It's beautiful," Herrera said. "Whether it's here or it's there – even more so there, because it's a college atmosphere – it's lovely. It's a game that you want to play. You know it's going to be a hard-fought game. They're coming and they're going to bring their all and we'll going to give them our all."
For those who are new to the rivalry, they're getting a crash course in the border war. Throughout the league there are rivalries that have similar amounts of passion – Oakland-Kansas City, Dallas-Washington, Philadelphia-Giants, Patriots-Jets, Steelers-Ravens, etc. Each has its own specialty because, when teams meet twice a year, there are personal feuds that exist as well as team-related competition.
Offensive tackle Charlie Johnson said he's getting acclimated to the Packers rivalry, but said he comes from a place where the top rival wasn't a division opponent, but a team that his Colts played every year he was there.
"It may sound crazy, but in Indianapolis our biggest rivalry wasn't with a division team, it was with the Patriots," Johnson said. "We played those guys every year since like 2000 and sometimes twice in a year. They weren't in our division, but we were always good and they were always good and it seemed like we always met during the season and it was a big game, and met in the playoffs, which was a bigger game. There always seemed to be a lot at stake in those games, so, while it isn't like the Vikings-Packers rivalry, that was the game we always look for when the schedule came out."
Being part of a Packers rivalry is nothing new to Devin Aromashodu. He's been part of it for years with the Bears, whom most believe the Packers view as their own biggest rival. He said most of the same ratcheted intensity has carried on with his move north from Illinois to Minnesota.
"We always viewed the Packers as our top rival because of the history of it," Aromashodu said. "The Vikings have that same feeling for Green Bay. You can feel it. It probably isn't as big a deal this time around because we're not both at the top of the division fighting it out, but there is a lot of excitement about going out there and being the team that finally beats them."
Greg Camarillo was new to the Vikings-Packers border war but said his battles with the Patriots and Jets were ones that he thought were his biggest grudge matches. He said he got indoctrinated to the Minnesota-Green Bay series and that it ranks up among any in the NFL for excitement and intensity.
"For us in Miami, it was always New England and the Jets," Camarillo said. "New England was a rival because they were always one of the league's best teams and you want to prove something. The Jets were one because their fans are a little heated and always liked to talk some extra mess. I learned right away about the Packers rivalry. It brings a lot of extra excitement and you can feel it building as the week goes along. By the time we play on Sunday, it will have a playoff feeling to it. Seeing that we're going to play each other in two of our next three games, it brings the intensity up even higher."
The last couple of years saw the Border War pushed to a higher level thanks to the signing of Brett Favre – an icon in Packers lore. Percy Harvin said it will be a little different without Favre in the mix, but said he expects to see the same sort of emotion when the two teams take the field Sunday.
"Favre added a little juice to it," Harvin said. "But it was a big rivalry before he came over here. I'm expecting it to be no different, getting a chance to play the defending champs."
Someone who has been on both sides of the rivalry is kicker Ryan Longwell, who spent years with the Packers before coming over to the Vikings. He said the feeling goes both ways – whether they've been up or down, the Packers know how much the games mean to the Vikings and they found the Vikings inching closer in the heated nature of the fan hatred. He theorized that Packers fans over the age of 40 view the Bears as Green Bay's biggest rival, while those under the age of 40 view the Vikings as their biggest rival. The combination has always made the Vikings-Packers game must-see type events.
"There's a different amp up and attitude and excitement to play against your biggest rival," Longwell said. "It's even more because they're the defending Super Bowl champions and we have a chance to end their perfect season. The rivalry is one of those that is one of the best in the league because it seems like one of the two teams has always been on top, but it doesn't really matter what the records are. Both teams usually bring their best to that game and it has a playoff atmosphere."
Aaron Rodgers said the rivalry goes both ways. While the Packers come into Mall of America Field as prohibitive favorites, which he believes has lessened fan interest somewhat, it doesn't affect the feelings of the players – many of whom believe the Vikings resort to shenanigans to make things tougher on the road team, especially when it's the Packers.
"It's a little different matchup this year because of the records and the personnel for the fans' perspective, but not for us," Rodgers said. "We know what kind of game this is. They play better at home and have the potential of pumping in noise that may or may not go on. It's a tough environment to play in."
There were hopes that when the Vikings and Packers met Sunday at the Metrodome it would be for first place in the NFC North. As double-digit underdogs at some Las Vegas sports books, the Vikings are as big a home dog as they've been in decades. Most believe the Packers will blow out the Vikings, which Chad Greenway said will take some of the pressure off the Vikings and let them play as if their records were the same.
"It's different, just because of the situation they're in and the situation we're in," Greenway said. "We haven't played up to par so far, so they're going to come in with the upper hand and favored by a lot. We get to play the underdog and use the underdog mentality and play four quarters and see what happens."
John Holler has been writing about the Vikings for more than a decade for Viking Update. Follow Viking Update on Twitter and discuss this story on our subscriber message board.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The Many Universes Scenario (and UFOs)
Our friend Terry the Censor wrote in a comment for my posting about Madness and the Multiverse (wherein I noted that an episode of Global Transient Amnesia I had might be, actually, an intrusion by another "me" from a universe or dimension next door) "that. before we invent exotic, cosmic entities to explain down home medical events, we read up on similar cases in the neurological literature and see what we already know."
Interestingly, I stumbled upon a review by Andrew Scull in the March 11th, 2016 issue of the Times Literary Supplement, Page 21 ff., Conversion.
The review was a look at neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan's book It's All in Your Head: True stories of imaginary illness. [Chatto and Windus, £16.99].
Dr. O'Sullivan confirms that certain maladies that have no discernible biological etiology have often been lumped into psychological categories, such as hysteria.
But psychological analyses do not really explain illnesses or complaints, yet Dr. O'Sullian writes: "It is possible, of course, that there is some real underlying physical pathology producing symptoms, something that modern medicine has simply not grasped as yet … in many cases the physical findings are so unambiguous, the disconnect between the observed pathology and the patient's subjective complaints, and the physiological findings so clear, that it is virtually certain that one is confronting a conversion disorder, a product of the subconscious and not a physical disease." [Page 21, italics mine]
Reviewer Scull, whose book Madness and Civilization I'll be covering here upcoming, wrote in the review "There are disorders that simply don't obey the rules, as modern medicine understands them." [Page 21]
The gist of the book and Mr. Scull's review is that certain odd physical complaints are neither explained by neurology nor psychology; that is, no one knows what causes people to feel or act in certain ways. Assumed physical illnesses are often ascribed to psychological etiologies because they (the illnesses) have no origin in physiological (or neurological) conditions.
This is what allows me to speculate that perhaps so-called "alien abductions" through walls and partitions of various kinds are actually intrusions by our counterparts in another dimension or universe that abuts ours.
Also, those niggling "beings" often experienced by witnesses to "landed saucers or odd vehicles" (thought to be extraterrestrial spacecraft) may be intruders, not from the Id, as depicted by the movie Forbidden Planet, but rather intruders from a multiverse next to ours.
And UFOs themselves, unreal to some, may be insertions from a concomitant universe (or dimension) which would explain the often ephemeral appearance and subsequent immediate disappearance.
The other-dimensionality of UFOs and all the attendant oddness of such sightings makes more sense to me than the idea UFOs are coming from a spate of extraterrestrial voyagers, linked to civilizations at the outer regions of our galaxy or observable universe.
Terry thinks, I believe, that if we consider all the options, new and old, that supposedly explain mental illness or neurological illness, we shall find an explanation for the plaints of mankind.
I think the plaints of mankind may lie in intrusions by our other selves who sneak into our plane of existence now and then, wreaking havoc in our brains and on our bodies too.


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I was on my way out of a lecture by Menzi Simelane, South Africa's director of public prosecutions, after having tried in vain to draw him on the subject of Julius Malema.
"Excuse me," came a voice from the shadows. "Did I hear you say you're a British journalist? I want to ask you a question. What do the British press think of South Africa?"
It's a question I get asked more and more often as the football World Cup draws closer. Any negative UK headline or story quickly snowballs on the web and leaves South Africans feeling vexed. In short, they want to know of me, why do you hate us?
There were preliminary skirmishes last month when President Jacob Zuma, on a state visit to Britain, was described by a Daily Mail headline as "a sex-obsessed bigot" and "vile buffoon". Around the same time, reports on the state of England's training camp prompted the South African headline: "English hacks raining on World Cup parade again."
I went on a tour of the World Cup host cities and, at a stadium in Bloemfontein, hundreds of fans in team shirts had gathered to put questions to the organising committee. One rose to the microphone and asked why South Africans should welcome foreigners who appear so hostile.
Jerome Valcke, the secretary general of Fifa, world football's governing body, elegantly sidestepped the question by saying there was one here who could answer. He meant me. He invited me to take the microphone and I quickly saw he wasn't joking. So I stood on the pitch and addressed the crowd as if an ambassador for the British press – but pointed out it was a mistake to think it speaks with one voice.
Later that week I was interviewed on numerous South African radio stations, and again, the question was put: why are you guys so critical?
These, I suspect, are the first spots of ash from a rumbling volcano.
After the murder of white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche, the Daily Star in Britain warned that England fans could be caught up in a "machete race war" at the World Cup.
Noting that "machete gangs were roaming the streets", it added: "Fifa would be left with a total nightmare if civil war erupts and means the tournament cannot be played in the country this summer."
South African politicians, probably not regular Star readers, were unimpressed. Lindiwe Mazibuko, national spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance, shot back: "The Daily Star claims that a civil war in South Africa could threaten our World Cup, but the truth is that the most serious threat to our World Cup is inaccurate propaganda, dressed up as factual reporting, that frightens away tourists in their thousands."
For some patriots, it has become too much already. Carol Lazar, travel editor of the Star newspaper in South Africa, unleashed her frustrations. She wrote: "I and all my mates have really had enough crap from overseas miseries who have only bad things to say about South Africa.
"I feel tempted to answer 'Stay away – we don't want you and your miserable attitude here'. But intelligence tells me that the correct response is to say come to our beautiful country and experience it for yourself."
The sensitivities were evident last week when World Cup tickets went on sale over the counter. International media were invited to the ticket centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, to witness the happy news of local enthusiasm about the tournament.
But the first fan, who had been queueing overnight for some 20 hours, spent what seemed an eternity talking to a ticket agent. He then tried to print his tickets from a computer kiosk but it failed to work. He tried another kiosk and that failed too. He turned to another agent for help. The whole process took nearly an hour, and the media scented a story.
Danny Jordaan, head of the organising committee, had been speaking with pride about a truly South African World Cup. But what about the chaos, asked a British journalist.
Chaos? What chaos? was effectively the Jordaan response. He became distinctly peeved, snapping that the reporter had obviously never tried queueing for an FA Cup final. One of his lieutenants was equally nettled, complaining: "Come on, give us a chance."
Defensiveness is a dangerous PR tactic. Pretending that everything is all right can backfire and make things worse. The Pollyannas rarely come off well against the piranhas.
That night, Jordaan appeared on national television to say that Fifa apologised for the computer glitches all over the country that had left thousands of fans angry and frustrated in long queues.
South Africa is a glass half-full or half-empty: it's in the eye of the beholder. Spin doctors can paint a rainbow nation of multiculturalism, natural beauty and Nelson Mandela that has performed miracles in the past 16 years. Sceptical journalists can point to racial divisions, rampant crime and cavernous inequality that keep apartheid's legacy burning. Both will be factually correct.
At a recent public event in Johannesburg, I asked South African journalists what they made of the British press coverage of the World Cup, and whether their professional instincts ever clashed with their patriotism.
Mondli Makhanya, then still editor of the Sunday Times, replied: "There has been this persistent questioning of our ability to actually host the cup. I'm not one to shout racism at every turn, but it does at some point start to go there. You start to think, 'Why is there this persistent questioning?'
"We ourselves in this country as the media do not behave blindly patriotically about our ability and our readiness. We were very hard on the local organising committee and the government about the stadium readiness and the infrastructure. We were questioning them and they actually accused us of being unpatriotic."
He added: "Now we're at a stage where a lot of the stadiums were ready ahead of time and the infrastructure is pretty much there. But there's a strand that runs through particularly the British and German media and a few others wanting to tell that negative story that this place should never have been granted the right to host the World Cup.
"There's a part of it that knots the stomach. One doesn't know exactly where it comes from."


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Forbes Most Influential Celebrity List
Forbes has released its list of the Most Influential Celebrities! This year Steven Spielberg came in as #1, beating out Oprah, who held the coveted spot for the last two years. The director was awarded the top spot mainly because of his film Lincoln that got 12 Oscars noms and earned $275 mil in the box office! Sorry Oprah, you'll have to settle for #2 this year.
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W. Pa. immigration court clogged by case backlog
Judge Charles M. Honeyman enters a courtroom, and a half-dozen illegal immigrants more than 300 miles away stand up.
That's how it works in the Department of Justice's Executive Office of Immigration Review, the court system that decides who stays in America and who is deported. A video feed links people in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Pittsburgh's South Side to Honeyman and other judges in Philadelphia.
The Pittsburgh satellite court serves roughly the western third of Pennsylvania, from Erie to the West Virginia border. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and York are among 59 courts in which judges deal with more than 52,000 undocumented juveniles who have crossed the Mexican border since January.
Many came from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, seeking to escape deadly crime by narcotics cartels or to take advantage of a law written under the Bush administration to deal with human trafficking and expanded in October by the Obama administration to allow children with relatives legally in the United States to come here.
In noncriminal proceedings, the government is not required to provide lawyers to those facing deportation. Without an attorney or a trained advocate, immigrants face a 90 percent chance of being deported, according to an analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse of Syracuse University.
Those with legal help get to stay 47 percent of the time, but a third of juveniles facing deportation have no legal representation.
Waiting game
They can expect a long wait. A Tribune-Review analysis of the Pittsburgh court's docket data found that a case languishes, on average, for nearly 1½ years. The backlog is about 330 adult and juvenile cases, triggered by factors that include a lack of judges.
"But the big issue is representation," said Jamie L. Englert, an accredited advocate with Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh, moments after winning a case for two indigent teenage sisters from Mexico who sought to live with their mother here.
"Our staff is very small, and there are a lot of minors who need representation, so we prioritize."
Working with a few pro bono attorneys and interns, Englert and two other staffers in the nonprofit's Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center sift through cases to help "some of the most vulnerable people" first. Among those the shelter assists are children, the very poor and victims of spousal abuse, she said.
Englert scouts for members of the Allegheny County Bar Association who can help. Mark Harley of Schneck and Harley Immigration Law Group in Dormont, past president of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, estimates that about 40 to 50 attorneys in the area have the expertise to litigate these cases. Englert promises to train anyone willing to pitch in.
Firms such as Schneck and Harley take some cases pro bono and deeply discount others if they involve children, said partner Kristen Schneck. The number of court sessions are the same for children and adults (three hearings, over about 16 months), but with kids, attorneys must coordinate with social service agencies and schools.Spending package
Sen. Bob Casey thinks Congress can help illegal minors more. He's urging lawmakers to pass a $3.7 billion emergency spending package that the White House requested on June 30.
The bill includes $1.8 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services for care of unaccompanied children and refugee services; $1.1 billion to ICE for detention and deportation of undocumented adults traveling with children, border security and transportation costs; $433 million to Customs and Border Protection, mostly for operational costs; nearly $40 million for air surveillance; and $29 million for informational sharing upgrades between agencies.
It gives $300 million to the State Department to repatriate Central Americans and help governments address causes leading to border crossings; $64 million to the Justice Department, including money for immigration judges, attorneys and staff; and $15 million to provide legal representation to juveniles.
With more judges approved for hiring starting in October, the Obama administration estimates the backlog of cases will drop by as much as 75,000.
"We can't send many of these children back to the crime-ridden countries that they came from," said Casey, D-Scranton. "You're returning them to organized crime, to murder and rape and other forms of violence. Any consideration of their future should take into account the environment that these kids face if we return them."
Though violence has beset many of these nations for decades, United Nations reports back up Casey's point about the rapid escalation of crime in recent years.
Closing loopholes
Critics of immigration policy, however, point to a loophole in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2008 as a key reason for the influx of illegal immigrants. Passed with bipartisan congressional approval, the measure requires a hearing before deportation of juveniles from non-bordering nations — causing delays that lead immigrants to hope they automatically can stay, critics say.
Republicans in Congress propose a less costly immigration plan to fortify the border and increase deportations by allowing agencies to repatriate undocumented juveniles without judicial review.
A treaty between the United States and its neighbors allows repatriation without judicial review of most undocumented immigrants; most come from Mexico.
"They shouldn't even be in immigration court to begin with. They should be transported quickly and humanely back to their home countries," Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, said of illegal immigrant children.
Gov. Tom Corbett told the Tribune-Review that he favors policies that boost the number of visas for educated adult immigrants and migrant farm workers. But he said it would be unfair to allow undocumented families from Central America to jump the line ahead of others waiting to enter the United States legally.
"Obviously, our efforts should be to return these children to their home of origin, not to stay here," said Corbett, a Shaler Republican.
Detainees a danger?
ICE annually detains about 32,000 illegal immigrants — less than 10 percent of the nearly 379,0000 awaiting deportation at any given time. About half of those detained are charged with felonies, including about 1,700 violent offenses.
The government characterizes most illegal immigrants awaiting hearings as "having a low propensity for violence."
At the Pittsburgh court, the Trib found that an average case lasts 516 days before adjudication — two months less than the national rate, but a delay critics on both sides of the debate consider too long.
"The whole system is broken," said immigration attorney Mark A. Goldstein in his Strip District office. He ticked off problems juveniles might confront as their cases percolate through a "huge and bureaucratic system" with overdue legislative reforms.
He blames Republican infighting on Capitol Hill between a pro-business faction that wants to pardon large numbers of illegal immigrants and a bloc that wishes to boot them back across the border.
Krikorian agrees there is too much GOP squabbling but said many libertarians and Democrats "just don't believe in national borders, much less securing them" and thwart efforts to overhaul the system.
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On Tuesday, Dustin Pedroia was diagnosed with a torn adductor muscle in his right thumb. Depending on who you ask, the significance of this injury may appear to be very different.
If you ask the Red Sox and manager Bobby Valentine, they'll tell you that Pedroia is too important to the team to risk losing for an extended period of time. They'll tell you that Pedroia was unable to swing a bat today in practice, and that he's day to day at best. Lastly, they'll tell you they have no idea if there's a high risk of injuring the thumb further if he plays through the injury.
Then, you could ask Pedroia.
He'll tell you about the new brace he is now wearing on his hand, and how much better he feels today as compared to yesterday. He'll tell you how much the swelling and bruising his gone down. He'll tell you that if that swelling and bruising continues to subside, he won't miss much time.
The real decisions may come from forces beyond Valentine's timid approach and Pedroia's ferocity. The real decisions may just come from luck…or lack there of. If the Red Sox do end up moving Pedroia to the disabled list to join the majority of their opening day batting order, the team's worst nightmare may become a reality.
Joining a batting order that already features a slew of glorified minor league players that have received a promotion only out of necessity will be Nick Punto. And if Punto's .128 batting average isn't quite making the cut, the Sox can always call upon current Paw Sox shortstop Jose Iglesias.
If Iglesias isn't an option for the Sox, then they could always turn to catchers Kelly Shoppach and Jarrod Saltalamacchia to fill in. NESN reported today that the armored portion of the Red Sox' battery is in consideration to back up the likely initial starter, Punto.
The Red Sox, already missing Jacoby Ellsbury, Carl Crawford, Ryan Kalish, Darnell McDonald, and Cody Ross from their currently depleted lineup, will be set to welcome Punto to the batting order for the foreseeable future. Pedroia's potential long-term injury could have long-term ramifications on this team.
With Adrian Gonzalez underachieving, Kevin Youkilis struggling to find his swing, and Scott Podsednik and Marlon Byrd "holding up" the back end of the order, Pedroia's absence could be the kryptonite to the Red Sox recent strong play.
Just look at today's lineup for proof.
With each passing day, the Red Sox lineup more strongly resembles a small budget, small market team. And with each passing day, the Red Sox will continue to play, and lose, like a small market, small budget team.
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