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2012-12-05 / Columnists
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Amid all the sadness of Sandy, many mitzvahs happened behind the scenes. In response to the hurricane, much of this kindness and generosity has been extended to people on behalf of their pets. The list below outlines only a few of the good deeds:
Donations from near and far: As soon as it became apparent that the storm had been devastating, offers of help plus shipments of supplies from corporations and individuals began pouring into animal shelters, especially those on the South Shore. Hempstead Town Shelter and Last Hope next door were on generator power for two weeks. Meanwhile, Hempstead, a municipal shelter, took in well over 300 animals in the last month.
On November 2, an Arizona pharmaceutical company and California shelter contacted Last Hope in Wantagh offering free supplies. Last Hope received a generous "Sandy Grant" from the AKC Humane Fund to defray expenses for additional dogs rescued because of the storm. The fund was created with donations from the American Kennel Club and Westminster Kennel Club.
A rescuer who drove here from Virginia because she was a native Long Islander pulled into our parking lot with a van full of crates and pet food looking for the Pet Safe Coalition, by then moved to the Nassau Emergency Shelter at Mitchel Field. She asked who was most in need because she had funding, and then talked about offering a new heating system to Bobbi & The Strays, because their renovated Freeport facility had been flooded.
Hempstead Shelter became "donation central." Off-site event adoption coordinator Wendy Cariello spent the last month garnering supplies and making donation/adoption appeals. She helped oversee the intake and dispensing of items. Wendy reports: "Paul Mitchell Company (John Paul for Pets), Purina, Fauna (Eukanuba) foods, AdoptNY, and Best Friends Animal Society were among other large organizations who sent free shipments. We saw local residents coming in with supplies and taking our dirty laundry to clean, as well as collective rescues banding together both to bring supplies and pull pets from as far as Albany, New England, Virginia, and Louisiana. Letters of support and supplies came in from individuals in places like Nevada and California- all of these and much more made it a mind boggling, heartwarming experience. And it enabled us to then turn around and help a lot of other shelters, rescues, displaced residents, and hard hit homes." You may remember the holistic trainer Roman Gottfried, profiled in "Pets" Beacon 9/20/12 before the Bully Brigade. Roman drove down to the Hempstead Shelter from Connecticut with supplies and went home with a dog.
Share-a-thon: The town shelters and rescue groups tried to share the "wealth" with storm victims, but during the black-outs and gas crisis, it was hard to get the word out, (and even more difficult for people whose cars were submerged.) Hempstead and Babylon Shelters brought pet supplies to distribution areas like the FEMA pods in Inwood and Long Beach, or Shore Road Park in Lindenhurst. Suffolk SPCA drove through flooded areas with more pet food.
Babylon Shelter has a door to door delivery in waterfront areas where owners are staying in gutted homes without power. A young volunteer and her parents did a needs assessment survey. Those interested filled out index cards with specific pet food requests. Animal Control Officers bring the supplies to these houses. The Hempstead Shelter found that many residents refused to leave uninhabitable homes because of their pets. They are supplying storm victims with food, carriers, litter boxes and even blankets for the people who have lost everything.
A few months ago, the Mayor's Alliance announced that they had a huge stockpile of new, packaged American Airlines blankets because the airline had changed its logo. Hempstead made several trips to the Brooklyn animal shelter to obtain these lovely blankets. They gave cases to Last Hope too, but as the Hempstead Shelter director Cindy Iacopella says- "Who could have foreseen that these blankets would soon be dispersed to LI hurricane victims, staying in their ravaged homes without heat?"
Countless folks are sharing their homes also. For instance, Bonnie Babylon Shelter-retired (how do you like that last name?) had temporary tenants for several weeks when a friend's flooded Lindenhurst home had an electrical fire. The friend and her 15 Ragdoll cats moved into Bonnie's downstairs until it was safe to go home.
A Lulu of a Rescue: After securing her cat in the attic as the ocean rushed in, a Long Beach lady ran from her home with only the clothes on her back. The home has been condemned. The Hempstead Shelter returned with HSUS to rescue Lulu the cat from the attic but entering was risky with walls that are now collapsing. Cindy stated that they were able to trap Lulu, and held her at the shelter for a month. The lady and Lulu will be staying in Florida for now. Another flooded Long Beach home had 25 cats (5 drowned), 15 birds, 30 turtles, and four ferrets. The shelter is in the process of placing all the surviving animals.
Poignant Parting Words: One more comment about the corporate donations. When speaking of the charity extended, Wendy at Hempstead Shelter remarked-"Many times over the following weeks I choked up at the overwhelming generosity. But I actually cried while I unpacked Purina's shipment: five pallets of cello-wrapped canine and feline food and litter. On each pallet, someone in the plant had taken the time to write good will messages like 'Good luck, our thoughts are with you.'"
Babylon Shelter Dog for Adoption (631-643- 9270) Lamar St. W. Babylon: This skinny pup #12- 752 with helicopter ears is too new to name. She was turned in by a couple that said they could no longer care for her.
Last Hope Dog for Adoption (516-783-0030) 3300 Beltagh Ave. Wantagh: "Pork Chop," a fiveyear old Jack Russell mix, is from a court case in Kentucky. A man left 13 dogs chained up in his 91-year-old father's yard. The father ran out of food and some of the dogs starved to death. Pork Chop and his sibling "Shara" are now eating well and waiting at Last Hope for loving homes.


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On A Dirt Late Model Chassis, The Bellhousing Does Much More Than Cover The Flywheel. Here's How To Get It All Right.
You've probably heard the old saw about cutting one pound of rotating weight out of the driveline is the equivalent of cutting several pounds of lead weight attached to the car. And it's true. That's why smart racers as well as chassis and engine builders work so hard to shave ounces of rotating weight even if they will have to add an equal amount back in the form of ballast on the car.
One group that has taken that to the extreme is Dirt Late Model racers. Utilizing a Bert/Brinn-style transmission eliminates the traditional clutch and allows the use of an extremely small flywheel. This cuts rotating weight, but the smaller diameter of the flywheel also reduces the leverage the starter has, which can cause issues. A high-torque starter can handle this, but it also puts tremendous force on the area of the bellhousing where the starter is mounted. Aluminum and magnesium bellhousings have been known to crack and fail because of this stress.
In fact, Dirt Late Model racer Chris Hargett says he has had starters fall off the car on the racetrack as a result of cracked bellhousings. "I finished the race," he says, "but pity the driver behind me." And welding up bellhousings midseason is also a common occurrence.
Hargett, however, says his troubles ended when he began using a dirt bellhousing kit from Quarter Master designed to handle the abuses of Dirt Late Model racing. "Before, I was going through two starters a season and having to take the bellhousing off midway through and weld up the cracks just to get it to last," he says. "But I switched to the Quarter Master stuff when I was getting ready for the 2005 season, and I haven't had any trouble with any of it. I'm still running the same components I put on the car back then."
To find out more, we followed along as Hargett installed a new Quarter Master dirt bellhousing kit in a new car being prepared for the 2009 season. The bellhousing is magnesium for the greatest strength at the lightest weight and fully CNC machined to ensure the best-possible fit of all components. This bellhousing is designed to work with both top- and side-mount oil pumps and works with Bert/Brinn-style transmissions. It comes packaged with a lightweight 91-tooth flywheel and a reverse-rotation starter. In all, installation took approximately one hour and only standard shop tools were necessary.


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The 23rd of August 2009 will mark 70 years since the signing of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (MRP) between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. According to the secret protocols of the pact, Eastern Europe was divided into spheres of influence. The MRP paved the way for German-Soviet Union co-operation in World War II (1939 – 1941). In the aftermath of World War II, Estonia lost approximately 17.5% of its population. The Soviet occupation brought about an event that until then had only been read about in history books and which became the most horrible memory of the past centuries — mass deportations, which affected people of all nationalities living in Estonia. The two deportations that affected Estonia the most deeply, on 14 June 1941 and 25 March 1949, are observed as days of mourning. The largest of these deportations took place 60 years ago this year: on 25 March 1949 more than 20 000 people, mostly women and children, were deported from Estonia.
On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany concluded the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the secret protocols of which divided Central and Eastern Europe into respective spheres of influence. On 1 September 1939, Germany launched the Second World War with its attack against Poland. On 17 September, the other party to the Pact, the Soviet Union, started to fulfil its role by invading Poland from the east, at the same time concentrating large forces on the borders of the three Baltic states and Finland. Although the Estonian Government declared its complete neutrality at the beginning of World War II, on 28 September 1939 the Soviet Union coerced Estonia, with direct military threats, into concluding a so-called mutual military assistance pact, which resulted in the deployment of USSR military bases in Estonia. Similar treaties were also forced upon Estonia's southern neighbours Latvia and Lithuania. The seriousness of the Soviet pressure and threats was demonstrated by the fact that when Helsinki refused to conclude such a treaty with Moscow, the USSR began to invade Finland, which is known as the Winter War. The international community reacted to this Soviet act of aggression by expelling the USSR from the League of Nations. Unfortunately, this did not influence the policies of the Soviet Union in any way.
The Soviet Union occupied and forcibly annexed Estonia, along with Latvia and Lithuania, in the summer of 1940, on the basis of the aforementioned Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Moscow used to its advantage the moment when the rest of the world was distracted by the shattering events in France. At the initiative of the Soviet authorities, illegal parliamentary elections with forged results were organised in the Baltic states, the results of which were not recognised by democratic Western countries. The Soviet authorities immediately implemented a reign of terror, which also victimised Estonia's ethnic minorities like Jews and Russians. Special emphasis was placed upon the elimination of the nation's cultural, business, political, and military elite.
During the war, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Estonia from July 1941 until September 1944, after which the Soviet Union re-established its occupation.
The Soviet Union had started preparations for the launch of terror in Estonian civil society already before the occupation of Estonia. As elsewhere, the purpose of communist terror was to suppress any possible resistance from the very beginning and to inculcate great fear among people in order to rule out any kind of organised general resistance movement in the future as well. In Estonia, the planned extermination of the national elite, i.e. of the more outstanding and active persons, as well as the displacement of large groups of people were intended to destroy societal and economic order in Estonia. The lists of people to be repressed were prepared well in advance. From the files of the security organs, it seems that already in the early 1930's the Soviet security organs had collected data on persons to be subjected to repressions. Pursuant to the instructions issued in 1941, the following people in the territories to be annexed into the Soviet Union and their family members were to be subjected to repression: all the members of the former governments, higher state officials and judges, higher military personnel, former politicians, members of voluntary state defence organisations, members of student organisations, persons having actively participated in anti-Soviet armed combat, Russian émigrés, security police officers and police officers, representatives of foreign companies and in general all people having contacts abroad, entrepreneurs and bankers, clergymen and members of the Red Cross. Approximately 23 percent of the population belonged to these categories. In fact, the number of those actually subjected to repressions was much greater, for a large number of people not included in the lists also fell victim to the settlement of scores.
The Soviet security organs started their repressive activities in Estonia already before its formal annexation into the Soviet Union during the course of occupation. In June 1940 the first persons were detained for political reasons, and from then on it only increased. On 17 July 1940 the last Chief Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Johan Laidoner, and his wife were exiled to Pensa. On 30 July 1940, the President of the Republic of Estonia, Konstantin Päts, and his family were exiled to Ufa. Both General Johan Laidoner and President Konstantin Päts died in captivity in the Soviet Union.
Preparations for carrying out mass deportations were begun not later than 1940 and were part of the total violence directed against the territories occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939 – 1940. The Ukrainian and Belarusian territories were the first to be hit by deportations. The first written reference briefly noting that Estonians should be exiled to Siberia is found in the papers of Andrei Zhdanov, Stalin's commissioner, who supervised the annihilation of the independence of Estonia in the summer of 1940. Describing the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in the fall of 1940, the on-site representative of Moscow, Vladimir Bochkaryov, demanded that the anti-Soviet element be exiled from the borders of the Estonian SSR. Concrete preparations for deportations began in the winter of 1940–1941. On 14 May 1941, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of the People's Commissioners of the Soviet Union issued a top secret directive (No 1299-526) "Directive on the Deportation of the Socially Alien Element from the Baltic Republics, Western Ukraine, Western Belorussia and Moldavia".
According to the 13 June order issued from Moscow, over 10 000 people were deported from Estonia during 14-17 June 1941. Over 7 000 women, children and elderly people were among the deported. The extent of the genocide is indicated by the fact that more than 25% of all the people deported in June 1941 were minors (under 16 years of age). The deportations also severely affected Estonia's Jewish population— more than 400 Estonian Jews, approximately 10% of the Estonian Jewish population, were among the deportees. As the first trains loaded with deportees arrived at their destinations, the next wave of deportation was being prepared in Estonia by Soviet authorities. But the implementation was hampered by Germany's assault on the Soviet Union. Due to the rapid advancement of the front, a second deportation was carried out only on the island of Saaremaa.
At the end of 1941, investigative commissions started to operate in the prison camps, carrying out on-site interrogations and passing court decisions, under which hundreds of the detainees were shot to death. By the spring of 1942, of the more than 3 000 men dispatched to prison camps, only a couple of hundred were still alive.
Several recollections and documents bear witness to the hard fate of the deportees, among which the diary of ten-year-old Rein Vare, which he kept in the period 1941-1944, is one of the most shocking. The diary tells of the deportation and the journey to Siberia, as well as his day-to-day experiences. With adult seriousness Rein Vare illustrated his diary with markers for the graves of his playmates. A great part of the diary has been dedicated to his beloved father, Rein Vare, the schoolmaster of Sausti, who by then had already died of hunger in the Isaroskino prison camp. But in his son's diary he was still alive. A more positive turning point in the fate of the family came in 1946, when Rein together with his sister was allowed to return to Estonia to their relatives. Their mother's yearning for her children was at that moment so great that she lost all sense of reality. She fled from Siberia, trying to follow them. Unfortunately she got only as far as Leningrad, where she was arrested and sentenced to three more years of labour camp. In 1951, young Rein Vare, who had meanwhile graduated from school in Estonia, was again arrested. For a couple of months he was held in the Patarei prison in Tallinn and then he was sent back to Siberia. That finally broke him. Although by the end of 1958 the Vare family was finally allowed to return to Estonia, the members of the family were no longer the same people. Rein Vare had become embittered against the whole world. He eventually died in the Orwellian year of 1984 in Viljandi, where his body was found several days after his death. Rein Vare's rodent-chewed diary was also found and eventually published. That document, itself comparable to Anne Frank's diary, had survived to serve witness.
In 1944, the Red Army again occupied Estonia. The Soviet occupation forces used thoroughgoing repressions against the local population. On 15 August 1945 the Soviet authorities arranged the deportation of more than 400 people to Siberia; most of them were of German descent. The reason for their deportation had nothing to do with their activity during the war, which was not even investigated. It was collective punishment, the deportation of an entire (albeit small) national group. As a result of this deportation, Estonia permanently lost one of its historical ethnic minorities—the Baltic Germans.
Particularly inhumane was the second deportation of children who had first been deported in 1941 and then allowed to rejoin their relatives in Estonia at the end of the war. 5 000 Estonians were dispatched into Omsk oblast, into the region directly affected by the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. From 1949 to 1956, about 260 nuclear and fusion bomb explosions were carried out there. The victims of radiation sickness were left without medical treatment for decades. Sick people, as well as the parents of babies born with abnormalities, were told that they had contracted brucellosis infection from animals.
The legal definition of crimes against humanity was formulated for the purpose of the Nuremberg trials, although the fact that hostility towards civilians was forbidden had been a self-evident part of European civilisation for quite some time already. The so-named Martens clause of the Hague Convention of 1899 emphasised the demands of humanity in all war situations. For the purposes of the Nuremberg trials, the definition of crimes against humanity included deportations (Article 6 (c)). The Nuremberg experience makes it apparent that massive acts of violence against civilians are, with complete certainty, considered crimes against humanity. It is deplorable that Russia, the legal successor of the Soviet Union and one of the victors in World War II, has not recognised the deportations, which painfully affected the occupied nations as well as the Russian nation, as a crime against humanity.
During the Soviet occupation all information related to the deportations was highly secretive, so bringing the perpetrators to justice was not possible. The rights of deportees were fully reinstated only upon the restoration of Estonia's independence in 1991. On 2 October 1998 President of Estonia Lennart Meri convened the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity. The investigation of crimes against humanity committed against Estonian citizens or on the territory of Estonia during the occupation of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was set down as the main objective of the Commission`s work. The Commission`s position is that deportation is undoubtedly a crime against humanity. The Reports of the International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Humanity have been published on its webpage: http://www.historycommission.ee/temp/index.htm
On 18 February 2002, the Parliament of Estonia declared deportations a crime against humanity without a statute of limitations and attested that the parties responsible for them were the USSR Communist Party, which directed the activities of the USSR's institutions of oppression, and that organisation's branch in occupied Estonia. The same decision emphasises that an individual's accountability for crimes of the regime is not determined by his membership in one of the aforementioned organisations, but by his individual participation in actually implementing crimes against humanity. The verdict on an individual's participation in crimes of humanity can only be decided in court.
Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940s


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Okay, I have over 1500 sheets of scrapbook paper neatly filed away in paper keepers. Why do I not use them? I've scanned every sheet of paper that I own (well, except for the solid colored ones) and categorized them on my computer so when I decide I need a paper for a project I can open my files, find what matches what, and then print them out on my Epson Workforce 1100 printer or use my print to cut option on my Sizzix Eclips. Now that I've found this wonderful website the illness has only increased in magnitude! The up side to being able to download my papers is now I don't have to buy so many stinkin' paper keepers but I'm going to wind up buying a bigger backup drive! Thank you Marisa for contributing to my OCD problem (said with nuthin' but love).
Is this a little OCD?
Lol I have done exactly the same every piece of paper I have in physical form has been scanned and stored on my EHD and with all my digital papers I know have a whopping 15,647 papers I am so glad I brought my EHD and even though I have the physical papers like you mine are stored away and I print some off each time I make a card so you are not alone lol
Jacki xx
Hahaha... you guys are funny! I see the benefit and I think it's great but I just do not have the patience to scan in that magnitude. What a cool resource to have though.
OMG! I wouldn't have the patience either. I have way too much digital paper to start turning my paper paper into digital paper.
Quite an undertaking.
Ditto!!! I would go insane doing this... Although, there are some favorites I have that I am sure will no longer be available, I might try to do this with. But not until I'm going to use the very last sheet. LoL No extra work needed now.
When I said 15000 sheets most of those are digital papers but I had to scan my physical ones as once you have used them they are gone (boo hoo) at least now I have them forever so to speak but yes it was a mammoth task
Most of the papers that I have came in packs of 180 sheets with 3 sheets of each design. I save just one of the sheets in my paper keepers and use the other two, but I don't ever use that last sheet. That way if something happens to my hard drive(s) I still have that design to scan again and use as needed. Oh, and for those that want to do this and scan their 12 x 12 sheets I use a really great free program call Microsoft ICE. It's a great stitching program so if you have a scanner that only will accommodate an 8.5 x 14 in sheet of paper you can run two scans and stitch your papers together. I find for most of my projects I need heavy card stock and the thinner papers just won't work so I just print out my scanned papers on either 8.5 x 11 or 12 x 12 cardstock depending on what size I need for my cards. And yes Jacki, it can be a mammoth task! I try to scan as I purchase so I can stay ahead of the game.
I have thought of doing that, but I have such a huge collection of digital assets that I did not think it was worth my time. Instead I have used the sheets that had layouts as examples and matched close items to have a digital copy and a paper copy. I also have too much to take the time to scan. Love what you have done though. It does offer some extra designs to work with.
I go exactly with Shawna in this matter. For now, It is not a need - maybe someday, when my favorite papers are out of print for 10 or 20 years... Or maybe not, because, till then, I can possibly have better ones...
To answer your question ... yes, that is a little OCD! LOL. But I so wish I could be that organized and most of all, motivated to organize!
Yes, it's totally OCD. But I wish I would have thought of scanning in some of my favorite physical papers for reuse! I have totally felt sad quite few times, when I had to say goodbye to my favorite papers as I've used them!! Oh, all of the could have beens......
Anyway, thanks for the great idea!
I envy you - I would never get around to it myself but it actually HURTS to use the last piece of a loved non-digital paper!!
Paula, one thing I've learned over the years is what goes around comes around. I'm seeing new patterns and prints that are almost identical to the ones I've scanned that I've been holding onto for over 10 years. Paper is kind of like fashion...that's also why I have a closet full of clothes and shoes!
I'd never even thought of this, it's actually a very clever idea!
Oh wow, this is a great idea. I've scanned in a lot of my hand painted papers (ell, monoprinted with a Gelli Arts gel plate), but I never thought to scan scrapbook paper. I'll bet if I did that I'd have an easier time using my papers. It's a lot of pressure otherwise.
how do you scan the 12x12 papers though? or do you just scan whatever fits on your bed & overlap them digitally???
oh, duh, if I would just read before replying... thanks @Elizabeth
But it sounds like you are ready for ANY project! Set to go!!
I wish I could be that organized!
Being new to this, that amount of paper saving and scanning just fascinates me. Like holy cow! lol. More power to you I guess.
I'm a terrible hoarder of papers and a digital hoarder too, but I have so far not turned my paper collection into digital. I don't have enough time left in my life to do that!


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The Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Program provides active classroom instruction and extensive field experience in the (technical level) theory and practice of occupational therapy with individuals and populations across the life span within various service delivery models. The prescribed curriculum affords students the opportunity to develop the necessary skills needed to seek employment as an entry-level occupational therapy assistant in a variety of institutional and community-based settings. Job opportunities are available in rehabilitation facilities, general hospitals, outpatient clinics, long term care facilities, home health agencies, public school systems, and various community programs servicing those with or at risk for health related problems and dysfunction.
The Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) Program is offered in 3 options of study (variations in curriculum sequence) to meet the needs of students. These variations include: 1) a traditional full-time option, 2) a part-time curriculum sequence, and 3) an accelerated option. The traditional full-time (2-year) and part-time (3-year) options of study combine general education courses with OTA courses in sequencing of the curriculum. The accelerated option of study is designed for students who have completed the 6 general education requirements of the traditional OTA program [BIO211, BIO212, CMP101, CMP102-150, PSY102, PSY204] and can commit to a full-time day program for an extended 3-semester time frame, typically 13-14 months pending fulfillment of Level 2 fieldwork requirements. OTA courses constitute all of the full-time credit hours within the extended 3 semesters [fall, spring, and summer that extends into the next fall]. Program requirements are the same for each option of study. Further description and outline of the course sequencing for each option of study can be found in the Student Handbook section OTA Program Options of Study.
On an individual basis, graduates of the program have been able to receive transfer credits to professional schools and continue their studies to become occupational therapists. Acceptance of the transfer credits depends on the receiving institution. Students planning to transfer should consult directly with the institution of their choice. NSCC's OTA Program has an official transfer agreement with Salem State University combined BS/MS Program in Occupational Therapy as well as with New England Institute of Technology and Bay Path University OT Bridge Programs where OTA graduates can earn a master's degree in occupational therapy.
The OTA Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. (AOTA). Graduates of the program receive an Associate in Science degree and are eligible to sit for the national certification examination administered by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc. (NBCOT). After successful completion of this examination, the individual will be a certified occupational therapy assistant (COTA). In addition, most states require licensure to practice. Licensure in many states, including Massachusetts is based on the results of the NBCOT certification exam. A felony conviction may affect a graduate's ability to sit for the NBCOT certification examination or attain state licensure. In order to practice as an Occupational Therapy Assistant in Massachusetts, individuals must be licensed and work under the supervision of a Licensed Occupational Therapist.
Students interested in participating in an academic program that involves working with children, the disabled, or the elderly, or which includes a clinical affiliation, internship, or field placement with a private or public healthcare provider, may be required to undergo criminal background checks, including a national as well as local check (i.e. Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) and Sex Offender Record Information (SORI)). Depending on the contents of these criminal background check(s), a student's participation in an academic program that involves working with children, the disabled, or the elderly or which includes a clinical affiliation, internship or field placement with a private or public healthcare provider may not be allowed, and therefore may impact a student's ability to complete program requirements. Furthermore, please note that eligibility to participate in the program and/or clinical affiliation, internship or field placement as a result of screening requirements, such as criminal background checks, is not a guarantee of eligibility to sit for professional credentialing examination(s) or employment upon graduation.
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Plan would impact patients; Mental health shift opposed here, by Taunton area officials.
An architect of replacing the outdated state hospitals in Worcester and Westboro with the state-of-the-art Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital said the new facility was never intended to care for patients outside of Central Massachusetts.
Former Mental Health Commissioner Elizabeth Childs said the governor's plan to close Taunton State Hospital will result in inferior treatment for patients from Southeastern Massachusetts who will be hospitalized in Worcester, 50 to 100 miles from their homes.
While Taunton area residents use the hospital here, Worcester legislators, nurses and the mayor worry that there will be less access for residents from areas served by the Worcester and Westboro state hospitals to the 320-bed state hospital that opened in October 2012.
Dr. Childs, a psychiatrist who headed the state Department of Mental Health from 2003 to 2007, said, "from our experience we know that patients are best served close to their home. We want families to be active participants in a hospital stay'' and want to keep patients' ties to their community during and after a hospital stay.
Moving patients from the community where they've gotten outpatient services can result in "an isolated type of treatment'' removed from "a continuum of care,'' she said. "Continuity is one of the single most important prognostic indicators for success in treatment.''
Dr. Childs was co-chairman of the facilities study commission that planned the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital and instituted a 2004 study that recommended reducing the statewide inpatient population from 900 to 740. The facilities commission planned "to continue to have regional presence in northern, western, central, southern (Massachusetts), and Boston,'' she said.
Worcester legislators and Mayor Joseph M. Petty are joining with Southeastern Massachusetts lawmakers and human service advocates to oppose the governor's plan to close Taunton State Hospital and shift many of its patients to what turns out to be 52 beds never used in the 260-bed adult continuing care portion of the Recovery Center. There also are 60 beds for adolescents in the $302 million, 428,000-square-foot hospital.
It's a perplexing controversy, as DMH officials say the proposal will not change the number of continuing care beds for people with mental illness. DMH says that there have been 626 such beds in the state since Westboro State closed in mid-2010, and says that's all the continuing care beds that are needed in the state.
But nurses, doctors and legislators ask why, then, are patients with mental illness "boarded'' in hospital emergency rooms -- 3,500 per month -- and stuck in acute care behavioral health beds for an average of 30 days before they can get into an available continuing care bed.
In Massachusetts, acute care is given to patients -- ideally for three to seven days -- in private psychiatric hospitals or in behavioral health wards of general hospitals such as UMass Memorial (53 beds) or St. Vincent (13 beds). Longer treatment after that is given in six hospitals operated by or contracted with DMH.
This is the third time Gov. Deval L. Patrick has proposed closing Taunton State, the only provider of continuing mental health care in Southeastern Massachusetts. Two years ago the Legislature went along with closing all but 45 of its 169 beds.
It's all become too much for Terry Delaney. A registered nurse with 20 years in psychiatry, she walked through the door of the emergency mental health service at UMass Memorial five weeks ago into a new world -- the world of medical, not psychiatric, emergency medicine.
"It's extremely frustrating,'' Ms Delaney said of the lack of resources and different rules plaguing psychiatric patients. "Every patient that came in had such a long wait.
"It's disheartening to tell them they'd have to wait for eight hours to get a psych evaluation and then tell them we'll have to hospitalize you somewhere in the state maybe 11/2 hours away because we had no bed -- that's the closest available.
"Or tell them to get a therapist in the community. However it will take six to eight weeks before anyone has an available slot.
"And people will say 'that's all you can do for me?' I was constantly apologizing for things I had no control over.''
That took place in an environment where people were stuck in the emergency room from four to 75 hours recently.
Some of the delay is paperwork and insurance regulations that laugh at parity for people with psychiatric illness, she said. But some of it is lack of available hospital beds, and using beds for Taunton patients that should go to Worcester patients "would be a huge'' impact, Ms. Delaney said.
By contrast, medical patients are seen immediately by a doctor or at worst get sent a mile down Belmont Street to UMass' Memorial campus and have multiple options, Ms. Delaney said.
DMH officials declined to be interviewed for this story. But in written answers to questions, they said they are planning the transition of the final 45 beds at Taunton State to the Recovery Center to begin this spring and be complete by the fall.
That will still leave a capacity of 626 continuing care beds in DMH, which "is sufficient to meet the needs of the Commonwealth,'' according to DMH spokeswoman Anna Chinappi.
It would cost an additional $5 million a year to open Worcester's 52 beds while continuing to use the 45 Taunton beds, she said. In December there were 205 patients in the 208 available continuing care beds in Worcester.
The department has not used the 52 beds, she said, because for the past two years the Legislature required the department to operate 45 beds in Taunton instead of closing it. Historically about 80-85 patients from Central Massachusetts have occupied DMH continuing care beds on any given day and the census at the Resource Center on average has been 83 patients from Central Massachusetts, Ms. Chinappi said.
"The department operates a statewide system of inpatient beds and does admissions on a statewide basis,'' Ms. Chinappi said, dismissing that the Worcester hospital was intended only for Central Massachusetts patients. "While the location of a patient's home community is taken into consideration for placement, patients are placed where there are available beds and what makes sense clinically. We make every effort to ensure an individual receives treatment in a timely manner in an appropriate placement.''
The only acute care beds that DMH operates -- 32 total -- in Pocasset and Corrigan Mental Health Centers, are in Southeast Massachusetts, and the department plans to add $6 million to its community-based services in that region, Ms. Chinappi said.
She also said, "There is no connection between the number of DMH adult continuing care beds and emergency room boarding of psychiatric patients. Individuals who present in crisis, this would include Worcester residents, are treated at acute hospitals or private psychiatric hospitals.''
There are 595 patients in the 626-bed continuing care system, she said, and between 1,800 and 1,900 patients in the 2,480 acute psychiatric beds in general hospitals or private psychiatric hospitals.
Sen. John F. Keenan, D-Quincy, chairman of the Mental Health Advisory Committee studying the issue, asked, "If that's the case, why do we have emergency department and acute care backups?''
The committee's consultant, Abt Associates in Cambridge, submitted a preliminary report March 15, 2013. The report backs DMH's position, concluding "that Massachusetts should continue the practice of seeking integrated community settings as the first choice, rather than electing to provide increased amounts of institutional care.''
Yet, Abt says the 626 continuing care beds "represents DMH's funded continuing bed capacity, not a number of beds needed for the population based on a scientifically derived formula, nor is the distribution of continuing beds based solely on prevalence estimates a reliable predictor of area need.''
That means rather than an "objective or therapeutic underpinning,'' David Schildmeier of the Massachusetts Nurses Association says, "the allotment of beds, both in number and geography, is based entirely on the DMH's attempt to provide services based on limited funding driven by political not clinical decisions.''
Transferring patients out of Southeastern Massachusetts also "goes against the administration's goal of ensuring that patients with mental illness receive care in their own community,'' Mr. Schildmeier said.
He and nurse Lisa Goss and others scoff at DMH, saying there certainly is a connection between patients boarding in emergency departments because there are no available acute care beds. And there are no acute care beds open because patients are stuck in those because there are no continuing care beds open for them.
Spokesmen for UMass Memorial and St. Vincent Hospital declined to make officials of those hospitals available for interviews regarding any backups in their emergency rooms and acute psychiatric beds and what financial impact that has.
In written comments Robert Brogna, media relations manager at UMass Memorial, said, "Acute inpatient units have a short-term treatment model and the longer the patient remains in acute care the more the short-term model becomes repetitive.''
He did not answer other questions about the numbers and length of time patients are stuck in acute care units awaiting placement in continuing care beds. Instead Mr. Brogna discussed the emergency department, saying, "At any one time there are over two patients who are stuck in (our) emergency department awaiting inpatient placement for over 24 hours.''
He said, "The longer the patient remains and the more clinical support provided to stabilize and hold the patient, the greater the financial loss we incur.''
Mr. Brogna said UMass Memorial "conducted 6,325 emergency psychiatric evaluations and we supported 182 individuals who were evaluated in the community and then needed to be held in the Emergency Department before a discharge to an Inpatient Unit could be established.''
UMass Memorial Health Care has 136 Inpatient Psychiatric Beds, with 53 of these beds provided by UMass Memorial Medical Center.
Ms. Goss, a nurse in a UMass Memorial psychiatric unit, said there are always one or two of the 27 patients in her unit there because there is no continuing care bed available from DMH. People who came for treatment of not longer than a week can be stuck from two weeks to two months waiting for a continuing care bed, said Ms. Goss, who like Ms. Delaney spoke to the paper as members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, rather than on behalf of the hospital.
The patients should be getting long-term treatment, including individual therapy, which an acute care unit does not offer, Ms. Goss said. "They're being done a disservice'' while not getting the treatment they need and at the same time keeping someone else from getting the acute in-patient treatment they need.
Dr. Gregory Voturo, immediate past president of Massachusetts College of Emergency Physicians, said his organization has been working with the DMH trying to keep Taunton State open.
Dr. Voturo is chairman of the UMass Memorial Healthcare emergency medicine department. He oversees emergency rooms in Clinton, Marlboro and Health Alliance hospital. He also oversees UMass Memorial's emergency room in Worcester, but not the separate emergency mental health service at UMass Memorial, which is overseen by the psychiatry department.
HealthAlliance emergency room in Fitchburg has issues with boarding behavioral health patients and in the past year Marlboro Hospital had a pediatric psych patient in the emergency room for almost a week, he said. Dr. Voturo said he had been unaware that two wards of 26 beds are going unused in the Worcester Recovery Center.
In previous years Mr. Petty sponsored a proclamation against closing Taunton and testified to that effect before a Legislative committee. He recently met with the legislative delegation, which he believes is unanimous in its opposition to the administration plan.
He said the state should put more money into mental health so that people from Taunton won't have to travel here to visit their loved ones. And where are the support services, the mayor asked, if they release Taunton patients into the Worcester community.
Sen. Harriette L. Chandler, one of four Worcester Democrats who commented, said the state has reduced the inpatient census from the 800s to 626 since she served on the commission that she said planned the new hospital to care only for Central Massachusetts residents. The governor wants to transfer patients from Taunton to Worcester but "if you had diabetes or cancer you wouldn't have to travel 100 miles to get your care.''
State Rep. Daniel M. Donahue, D-Worcester, said, "I think there's a need to keep both open'' -- the 45 beds at Taunton State and the last 52 beds at Worcester. He said he's in favor of providing needed services even if it means more money in the budget.
State Rep. Mary S. Keefe, D-Worcester, said, "I'm disappointed the governor's returning to this issue. It would be a real hardship on families in the southern part of our state, having to think about traveling between 50 and 100 miles.
"Imagine if you had a son or a daughter that were hospitalized and you're trying to work -- and I'm talking about people with vehicles, never mind someone who doesn't have a vehicle.''
Rep. James J. O'Day, D-West Boylston, said a transfer of patients from Taunton to Worcester will "put a strain on the ability of residents from Central Massachusetts to have access to high quality mental health treatment. That means not only at WRCH, but also at St. Vincent and UMass Memorial hospitals, where he said acute beds are filled to capacity.
Mr. Keenan said the advisory committee's consultant report is preliminary and a final consultant report is due March 1. The Advisory Committee's own recommendation should come out in time for the Senate deliberations on the budget if not in time for the House's.
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text: Dear Colleagues, To try to start the ball rolling I would like to post the following abstract which is taken from my paper recently accepted and to appear in this September's issue of Molecular Cellular Biology . It is my hope that all those that participate in the group could post abstracts of their recently accepted manuscripts as well. In this way GenStructure may provide current and timely peer reviewed material for the benefit of all its readership. I look forward to reading _your_ work! Best Regards, G. Dellaire Moderator GenStructure ======================abstract to follow================ Ectopic gene targeting exhibits a bimodal distribution of integration in murine cells indicating both intra and interchromosomal sites are accessible to the targeting vector. Dellaire, G., Lemieux, N., Belmaaza, A. and P. Chartrand. (1997 In press: Mol. Cel. Biol., vol. 17, #9). Abstract Ectopic gene targeting is an alternative outcome of the gene targeting process in which the targeting vector acquires sequences from the genomic target but proceeds to integrate elsewhere in the genome. Using two color FISH analysis we have determined the integration sites of the gene targeting vector with respect to the target locus in a murine fibroblast cell line (LTA). We found that for ectopic gene targeting the distribution of integration sites was bimodal, being either within 3 Mb of the target or on distinct chromosomes from the chromosome carrying the target locus. Both inter and intrachromosomal sites appeared to be equally accessible to the targeting vector with site specific variations. Interestingly, interphase analysis indicated that vector sequences which had integrated ectopically in other chromosomes than the target co-localized with the target locus at a significant frequency as compared to random unlinked loci. We propose that ectopic gene targeting could be used to determine which chromosomal domains within the genome are accessible to a given genetic locus. Thus, recombination access mapping (RAM) may present a new paradigm for the analysis of DNA accessibility and interaction within the genome see:http://www.icm.qc.ca/DOCS/recom.html ===================================== | Graham Dellaire | | Division of Experimental Medicine | Dept of Medicine, McGill University |(http://www.medcor.mcgill.ca/EXPMED/expmed.html) | | e-mail: dellaire at odyssee.net | Fax: (514) 896 4689 | Vox: (514) 281 6000 ext. 6936 | | Bionet: bionet.molbio.recombination | bionet.genome.gene-structure ===================================== | Snail Mail: | Institut du Cancer de Montreal | Centre de Recherch L.C. Simard | 1560 Sherbrooke St. East | Montreal, Quebec, CANADA | H2L 4M1 =====================================


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New York, March 18, 2009--A Burundian online journalist jailed since last September was acquitted today, according to local journalists. In a separate case on Tuesday, however, authorities detained two journalists covering the activities of a former CPJ Press Freedom Award winner, according to the same sources.
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More than 100 people representing 22 Lincoln public schools will attend a Neighborhood Summit from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, February 21 at Everett Elementary School, 1123 "C" St. The summit is intended to strengthen school connections with neighborhoods and create action steps to improve the community. The summit is a joint project of Community Learning Centers (CLC) and Mayor Chris Beutler's Stronger Safer Neighborhood Initiative.
Jon Carlson, Mayoral Aide and Stronger Safer Neighborhoods Manager, said the summit grew out of the working partnership with CLCs and schools. "Strong schools are critical for strong neighborhoods," said Carlson. "We have been coordinating our revitalization efforts with schools and the broader efforts of the CLCs to improve student learning and development, strengthen families and create healthier neighborhoods."
Carlson said the Neighborhood Summit will provide information about on-going community improvement resources and activities. Breakout groups will create action steps for each of the 22 groups. The goal is for the groups representing the schools to develop improvement activities tailored for their specific neighborhoods.
"One of the CLCs' main goals is to strengthen neighborhoods," said Cathie Petsch, Co-Coordinator of the CLC initiative. "The 22 CLC schools will team up with neighborhood families, businesses, churches and residents to form School Neighborhood Advisory Committees (SNAC) that will work to improve their neighborhoods."
A SNAC includes parents, youth, neighborhood residents, educators, community-based organizations, businesses and service providers. Each CLC site or pair of sites has a SNAC, which is responsible for planning assistance, communication and oversight. Petsch said SNACs reflect the uniqueness and diversity of each school and its surrounding neighborhood.
The Stronger Safer Neighborhoods Initiative will help the CLC SNACs implement their plans. The activities developed at the summit could include neighborhood clean-ups, school landscaping, crime watch and paint-a-thons. "We want residents to choose the improvements that will work best for them," Carlson said. "Our goal is to help strengthen the people and things that make neighborhoods special places to live, work and go to school."


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The rattling of the chain-link fence on the JV field became a common appearance.
On any given game day, the odds were the fence was rattling because Nick Weekly had just smacked a ball off it, forcing fielders to scramble to get the ball in.
Every single time Weekly knocked a ball off the fence, varsity coach Erich Harjo could only watch and wait. Harjo had been waiting for the chance to pull up the hard-hitting sophomore, but had to wait for the JV squad to have the numbers to do it.
"We have a lot of young guys that work so hard and dying for the chance to show what they can do," Harjo said.
He finally gave him the call before the Eagles doubleheader at The Dalles last weekend.
On Tuesday the decision to call up both Weekly and Luke Kopecky from the JV team paid off in spades.
Weekly hit his first varsity home run and Kopecky made a pair of spectacular defensive plays in left field to help the Eagles hold off TDW 9-6 and clinch third place in the Columbia River Conference.
The Eagles appeared to blow open a close game in the bottom of the fourth inning with a two-out hit barrage.
Eric McNerney drove in a run with a single, as did Parker Sherrell. Riley VanHoose pinch-ran for Sherrell but didn't need to do much sprinting around the base paths.
Weekly stepped to the plate and hit a towering fly ball to left field that kept carrying and eventually dropped just over the wall.
Weekly, not realizing he hit out, was in a full sprint until he had already rounded second base.
"I felt really good about it," he said of getting his first varsity home run to help give the Eagles a big cushion.
They would need it.
Down five runs, TDW began to rally back, getting a run in the fifth and then two more with no outs in the fifth on a single by Connor Mathisen.
The wheels then started to come off for HRV pitcher Lucio Alaniz, who had pitched well to that point. A single and a walk loaded the bases, leading Harjo to go to the mound and bring in closer Cody Walker.
"It's just been a season full of adversity," Harjo said. "The Dalles is a team that is always in a ball game."
The first hitter he faced, Andrew Olson, squirted a ball under the glove of HRV second baseman Ryan Combelic to bring in a run and close the gap to a run.
Justin Sugg followed with a sinking line drive into left that Kopecky layed-out for and hauled in. He quickly got to his knees and threw the ball in to prevent a run from scoring.
Walker then got out of the inning with a pop up and strikeout.
"That was a huge series of outs," Harjo said.
"The guys showed up and we got the job done," added Walker.
In the bottom of the inning, Alaniz took advantage of a chance to aid his team at the plate when he crushed a ball of the left-field fence to bring in two badly needed insurance runs for HRV.
"I like hitting against lefties," Alaniz said. "I just waited on a pitch and drove it."
Walker then closed the game out with a little more help from his defense.
Sherrell got the first out with a nice running catch in right field; Combelic knocked down a hard ground ball and got the second and Kopecky made a jumping catch of a hard line drive off the bat of Hunter Woods to end the game.
The Eagles went in Friday's game with only pride on the line, and scheduled a game at South Salem Tuesday for playoff preparation knowing they would not have to play a Round of 36 play-in game.
"We're going for the sweep," Harjo said of the TDW series. "We don't want to have a let-down."
The HRV softball team lost to The Dalles-Wahtonka 6-1 as TDW clinched the CRC league title. Depending on play Friday, the Eagles could finish anywhere from second to fourth.
The Eagles scheduled a game against Mountain View Monday and would host Milwaukie Tuesday at 4:30 p.m if they finish fourth. See hoodrivernews.com Monday for final HRV playoff info.
Horizon Christian baseball lost 11-2 to Sherman County Tuesday, setting up a double header battle for third place in league today against Heppner/Ione.


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A cold Winter's Bone out there on a Fat Bike
Having an editor say to you, The wolves anecdote was nice, but far too long, was rewarding in itself or how I blew my legs out chasing Rebecca Rusch up a single track away from those wolves. Got stories to tell for years about fat bikes on the snow and we had lots of fun on assignment for Wired. The rest of the photos are lightboxed on G+ and Flickr.
@bikehugger learns that when you dab in snow biking, your foot keeps going and going.At least the landing is soft twitter.com/thequeenofpain…
— Rebecca Rusch (@thequeenofpain) February 9, 2013
Thanks to REI for the Winterflyte kit and Salsa for the Mukluk. Also seen in the photos are a 907 and Fatbacks and Smith Recons.