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LANSING -- The state's watchdog for the Michigan Department of Human Services has criticized the agency's handling of abuse and neglect complaints involving Calista Springer and her two sisters.
The state's Office of Children's Ombudsman recommends training and policy changes in the report released Friday, more than seven months after Calista, 16, was killed in a Feb. 27 fire at her Centreville home while chained to her bed.
The report makes four recommendations, including that DHS identify steps it will take to complete "thorough investigations" in the future. DHS officials, the report said, have agreed to comply with the recommendations and, in some instances, have already made changes.
The report states ombudsman officials reviewed DHS case files and police reports and interviewed DHS workers as part of their investigation of the agency's involvement with Calista, her two sisters and parents, Anthony and Marsha Springer.
The children's ombudsman office said DHS should train its staff on current definitions of mental injury and child maltreatment while amending policies "to define the circumstances in which tying a child to a bed or other stationary object would constitute mental injury," according to the four-page report.
Investigators also recommended that DHS officials amend an existing policy by including the statutory definition of "serious mental harm," and a statement that says "an act or omission causing serious mental harm may constitute criminal child abuse."
The amendments, officials said, would assist DHS workers "in determining what acts may constitute criminal child abuse and thus mandate a referral to the prosecuting attorney."
In its final recommendation, the ombudsman office said DHS should identify what actions it will take "to ensure that that the agency conducts thorough investigations in all future cases."
Police reports indicate that complaints of abuse about Calista and her sisters began at least as far back as 1997. While the ombudsman's office has completed its investigation, DHS spokeswoman Colleen Steinman said Monday that an internal investigation of the agency's handling of the Springer case continues.
The ombudsman's office report said the DHS employees who investigated complaints in the Springer case are no longer employed by DHS.
A criminal investigation of Calista's death continues.
The St. Joseph County Probate Court recently took jurisdiction over the Springers' two surviving daughters when Marsha Springer entered a no-contest plea to abuse and neglect charges in the case involving Calista. The plea means Marsha Springer neither admitted nor denied responsibility. Calista's two sisters have been in foster care since the fire.
Anthony Springer has entered no plea in the custody case, but did offer a statement to the court last month that said there was no abuse and neglect involved when Calista died. The statement also said Calista suffered from several mental disabilities that required her to be monitored closely by the Springers to ensure her safety.
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We suggest that you stop by the Calaveras Visitors Bureau and pick up a "Walking and Driving Tour Map" of Angels Camp.
As you visit Angels Camp, pause for a moment and imagine. Angels Camp is a quiet mountain town now, but at one time the city vibrated to the roar of the stamp mills and danced to the music of many saloons and dance halls. There is some humor in the fact that City Hall was the site of the Starcevich Saloon in the 1880's, and during Prohibition was a local source for bootleg. Old timers say the whiskey was hot stuff.
Some interesting places in Angels Camp include the Chicken Ladder on Hardscrabble Street. This wooden ladder was constructed by home owners residing on the narrow, "nearly vertical" street, to assist in walking up and down the hazardous slope. Many homes have front entrances on one street and back entrances on the next, as Angels Camp is built on hills and honeycombed with mine tunnels.
Utica Park was built in 1954 on the site of the Utica Mine after the ground had been leveled and shafts filled to the 60 foot level. Note the ground slippage after numerous cave-ins; the Highway on one level, the park on the next. The park originally held a huge frog pond but water seeped into the tunnels underneath causing both water and frogs to disappear.
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Phone: (209) 736-2181
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Some home remedies for dry eczema…?
i am 30 yrs and suffering from dry eczema for 5 yrs. . i have been taking medications, but i would like to have some home remedies for this, so that i dont get itching.. Can anybody suggest me some of the home remedies?
I got hand eczema about 6 years ago and I tried the conventional approach first because it scared me to have eczema on my hands since I was a massage therapist. After using the steroidal creams and ointments for a while, my hands started to bleach out! That's when I started to look for natural eczema remedies, especially since the prescribed dosages started getting stronger and stronger because my body was growing immune to it!! UGH! 🙁
The doctors will tell you that there isn't a cure, but I couldn't accept that. I became a student of holistic health and spent the last 3-4 years learning and researching. What I had found out was that eczema is actually a symptom of other issues that are going on inside the body. (In fact, all skin conditions are visual signs of an acidic/unbalanced body!) So to heal eczema, you have to address those underlying issues. — Nothing you put on topically will heal it! — it may take it away for a while or aid in relief but it will come back again and again.
Anyway, I did a few things that has helped me out tremendously and I'm happy to report that I've been eczema free for a couple of years now!! In fact, I found an ebook that outlines all the simple basic steps that worked for a few people I know — It's natural, safe and very effective!
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Facts About This Topic
- Potential eczema remedies, such as Phototherapy, expose the patient to ultraviolet (UV) light for a controlled amount of time and may be used to treat moderate to severe atopic dermatitis and contact dermatitis.
- Contact dermatitis treatment consists primarily of identifying what's causing the irritation and then avoiding it.
- Baby Eczema can be controlled but not cured.
- Eczema remedies, such as dietary supplements, have provided much relief to sufferers.
- As for adults, discoid eczema seems to be connected with stress, local irritation as well as consumption of large amounts of alcohol.
- Food allergies often make eczema symptoms worse in children but not in adults.
- Some people make dietary changes to help lessen eczema symptoms.
- Another one of the eczema symptoms you might notice would be certain areas of the skin that have been inflamed for a while will become thicker then usual.
- Other items that need to be considered when finding Eczema Symptoms are a patient's family history (and other allergic related diseases in the family such as asthma or hay fever), lifestyle, dietary habits, tendency towards certain allergies (or any or all known allergies), prescription drugs the patient is currently taking and any chemicals or otherwise harmful materials that the patient is exposed to either in his/her home environment or place of work.
- Comparing the skin to eczema pictures online can also help identify precisely the type of eczema.
- To discover what condition your baby is experiencing, try browsing for baby eczema pictures on the Internet.
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Our doctor has advised us a cream for eczema for my one year old child and I'm 22 and was prescribed that almost 2 years ago. I DON'T USE IT. That eczema cream now carries a black box warning that it's too strong, esp. for a baby. I went back to my doctor after I heard about the warning, and she prescribed Aclovate. I try not to use it and just stick to washing with Dove and moisturizinig with Cetaphil. Taking an antihistamine before I go to bed also helps so that I don't scratch. That's when I would do all the damage, in my sleep.
I would wake up in the morning with such raw skin. Also, to relieve broken raw skin and also just to relieve and moisturize, make a solution of half cold water and half fat free/skim milk. Use it as a splash or a cold compress. Helps esp after the shower while pores are still open. In dealing with eczema. Follow up with the Cetaphil. Good Luck!
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Factoids on This Topic
- Eczema on hands, also called atopic dermatitis, is patches of inflamed, itchy skin.
- Other eczema remedies come in herbal forms, including aloe vera, turmeric, chamomile, witch hazel, and rosemary.
- The best natural treatment for eczema IN CHILDREN and adults is application of coconut oil.
- Some eczema remedies reduce water loss, help rebuild the skin, and calm burning and itching.
- Supplements such as borage oil, Chinese herbal medicine, evening primrose oil, flaxseed oil, probiotics, teas, vitamin B6, vitamin E, oral vitamin D3, nutmeg and zinc are all beneficial as a eczema remedies.
- When discoid eczema is severe, UV light treatment is one option that you can consider.
- The incidence of eczema in children is increasing in present times.
- Although there is no definitive evidence, a few studies suggest that drinking black, green, or oolong tea may help relieve eczema symptoms.
- Although eczema symptoms tend to subside as babies grow into children, people who had eczema as infants are at higher risk for other skin problems throughout life.
- Discoid eczema often begins as a minor skin injury, so protecting your skin can help prevent and treat it.
- Infants suffering from baby eczema should wear clothes made of natural, lightweight, and breathable fabric, such as cotton.
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What Precisely Causes Eczema?
If you're trying to figure out what causes eczema, you're going to need to also know the various elements that could bring about this problem in a person. The thing I know for certain is that you are obviously going to want to get rid of your eczema if it's a dilemma for you, and the fastest way to do that is to figure out the cause so that you can eliminate it from your life. So let us try and find out the cause now so you can get working on the treatment that's perfect for you.


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Days after an explosion leveled a New Jersey home and killed the woman inside, friends held a memorial for the victim Sunday afternoon. They remembered a free spirit who opened her heart to everyone.
A lone candle flickered to remember Deborah Smith, the woman killed in the blast in Hampton, Hunterdon Co.
"My mom is the one who got the call from her," said Kara Vishnesky, a longtime friend. "She just wanted help. She was trapped."
Smith's friends called her "Jesse James." Perhaps a bit of outlaw, but those who knew her said Smith was also a friend to everyone.
As friends gathered to remember Smith at the New Hampton Inn where she was a bartender, investigators continue to probe the explosion that killed her. They believe a propane leak may be to blame, but it could be weeks before they know for sure.
"You could see how many lives that she really touched by how many people came here, spoke up, the things that they said," said Mason Lynch, another longtime friend.
According to friends, Smith cheated death once before.
"About a year ago, she fell ill with a very life threatening illness," said Vishnesky, "and she was in the hospital. She suffered; it was very hard."
Even in death, friends are remembering a woman who loved life -- and made them love it, too.


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It's my favorite time of the week, it's time for the Weekly WYR. See if you're brave enough to choose a side in what surely are the universe's most difficult quagmires. And remember, if you've got a great WYR, submit it at the bottom of this or any WYR article.
Would You Rather
- Do it with Kate from Lost once, or Claire from Lost three times? From colm
- Have the wind blow a used diaper, or a used condom in your face? From Allan
- Have rocket powered legs, or laser shooting arms? From Craig
- Add twenty years to your life, or two inches to your penis? From This
- Be in a threesome with someone of your sex who is your friend, or a complete stranger? From Neil
- Have sex with a man for 25,000 dollars and have no one know, or french a man for 10 dollars and have everyone know? From T
- Live without movies for the rest of your life, or live without music for the rest of your life? From Tyler
- Be forced to wear jean shorts everyday, or be forced to wear two popped collared shirts everyday? From Mike
- Be blessed with amazing dance moves, or know the words to every song? From terence
- Be able to speak to any animal you wanted, or know every language on Earth? From Samantha
- Live in a town where every neighbor is a porn star, or live with a porn star? From Jan
- Go into outer space once in your life, or be able to travel anywhere in the world whenever you wanted? From Tej
- Never eat a bacon cheeseburger ever again for the rest of your life, or eat the last bacon cheeseburger in existence? From josh
- Have a working Lightsaber, or your fathers respect? From mike
Finally, this week's winner of the Insulting Me Is Not How You Get Your Name On CH Award is , who sent in this.
- Actually be creative or be Jake Hurwitz? From
Sorry _______, that's not how it works. You loser.
If you have a good WYR, submit it below. Check back every Friday to see if yours made the cut.


text: She felt her minnow stop, then watched her line swim away with that steady, delicious downward pressure that makes you crazy. She ever so patiently fed him enough line to hang himself, then crossed his eyes with a solid hookset. I knew she had hooked up as her rod tip twitched and bent for the water like a divining stick. She squealed excitedly as the heavy fish dove for the bottom, then shot back up. You instinctively know a 5-pound smallmouth when you see one dance, tail-walking across the surface, then disappear in another deep dive, peeling line off against the drag, then back out of the water for another awesome tail walk, valiantly trying to spit the hook.


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Dear Editor:
How stupid does Obama think the insurance companies are? How stupid does he think the American public is?
The insurance companies have been in business for hundreds of years and made money. Once again they were given a gift to allow them to cancel 10 times as many contracts as normal with the high risk being first. Now all they have to do is wait until taxpayer subsidized Obamacare taking away risk and coin money from the exchange pool.
Problem is the exchange pool won't have the young in it nor those who can't afford the premium due to inability to afford the coverage as a result of not enough participants to lower the cost.
Wonder where the money is going to come from? Dems have snuck in taxes already and are asking for more out of your pocket.
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A drug may be classified by the chemical type of the active ingredient or by the way it is used to treat a particular condition. Each drug can be classified into one or more drug classes.
Antacids are agents that neutralize the gastric acid and raise the gastric pH, so are used to treat dyspepsia and are used as symptomatic relief of peptic ulcer. Antacids in common use salts of magnesium, aluminium and calcium. Some mixtures contain sodium and should be used with caution in patients who should avoid excess sodium intake. Alginates are sometimes combined with antacids for use in gastroesophageal reflux disease. Alginates float on top of the gastric contents and act as a barrier between the acidic contents of the stomach and the lower esophageal sphincter, preventing erosion of the lower esophagus and therefore not creating the pain experienced in gastroesophageal reflux disease.
See also...
Medical conditions associated with antacids:
- Acne
- Asystole
- Constipation
- Diabetic Ketoacidosis
- Duodenal Ulcer
- Erosive Esophagitis
- Gas
- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
- Hyperkalemia
- Hyperphosphatemia
- Hyperphosphatemia of Renal Failure
- Hyperuricemia Secondary to Chemotherapy
- Hypocalcemia
- Indigestion
- Metabolic Acidosis
- Osteopenia
- Osteoporosis
- Peptic Ulcer
- Stomach Ulcer
- Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis
- Urinary Alkalinization
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Alcohol: Healthful Beverage Or Addictive Drug?
Alcohol: Healthful Beverage Or Addictive Drug?
Louis Pasteur proclaimed that wine is the most healthful and hygienic of all beverages. Wine is an integral component of one of the most healthful and scientifically documented diets in the world – the traditional Mediterranean diet. It consists of seasonally fresh vegetables and fruits, grains, fish, olive oil, and red meat only once or twice per month and, of course, red wine. At that time, people in this region enjoyed long lives and have a heart disease rate 90-percent lower than that in the United States.
Alcohol thins the blood, making it less likely to form a clot that could block an artery, causing a heart attack or stroke. Red wine in particular also provides a chemical called resveratrol that has been shown in animal experiments to greatly increase lifespan. (Resveratrol is also found in grapes and is available as a dietary supplement.)
This (in addition to its obvious role as a social lubricant) makes alcohol very appealing. But as we know, there is a dark side. Not everyone is able to practice moderation, which is one drink per day for women, and two for men – preferably with food. For various physiological and psychological reasons, alcohol can be a deadly, addictive drug. It's caused much grief and ended the careers of many artists like John Bonham, Bon Scott, and Keith Moon.
Just because you've abstained all week doesn't mean you can binge on the weekend. Alcohol binging interferes with coordination, takes its toll on your liver, increases the risk of certain cancers, and puts you and others at risk when you go behind the wheel. I enjoy alcohol, but if I had to choose, I'd rather play with a sober musician than a drunk one.


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Sorry, I'm sure someone else has done this before, but I just mixed it up and it's freaking DELICIOUS. I'm taking a mason jar of it with me today for pre/post workout.
I was trying to mix up something that I could use for portable energy and was bored of the usual, so in a small jar I mixed up:
3-4 spoons of unrefined coconut oil
2 scoops of my delicious chocolate protein I've been using (name escapes me)
A little bit of water. Mixed it til it was the consistency of chocolate pudding, stuck it in the fridge, and it is amazing. Holy crap.
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There's an interesting story today from The Chicago Tribune about Big Ten expansion. The report says an analysis by a Chicago-based firm determined the Big Ten should expand. The analysis examined whether the addition of any of five schools -- Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Missouri, Syracuse and Rutgers -- would generate enough revenue to make expansion worthwhile.
Eliminating the possibility of Notre Dame, which has shown no signs it wants to give up being independent, and the Big Ten's analysis concluded Rutgers is the best choice. Missouri is No. 2 and Pittsburgh is No. 3. The Tribune story cautioned that other schools could be in consideration, too.
So why Rutgers? This accompanying story by The Tribune laid out some reasons:
- The state of New Jersey would the nation's fourth-largest TV market, after New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
- The New York TV market has 7.5 million homes, and the Big Ten Network would love to get them on expanded basic cable rather than forcing subscribers to pay extra via a sports tier.
- Rutgers just completed $102 million in renovations of its football stadium, increasing capacity to 52,454 with the option for building a third deck. The school has plans to overhaul its outdated basketball facility.
- The New York/New Jersey area feeds the Big East with its best basketball talent.
- Rutgers is a member of the Association of American Universities, a consortium of 62 leading research institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Don't underestimate the significance of this in the Big Ten, where every school is a member of this association. So are other Big Ten expansion candidates Syracuse, Missouri and Pittsburgh.
The Big Ten sounds serious about expanding soon. If Notre Dame changes its mind or Texas gets in the mix, then one of them is a slam-dunk. If not, it sounds as if Rutgers would be a viable candidate. Rutgers would have its RSVP in the mail to the Big Ten within a second of being invited.


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Kenner, La. - Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway is pleased to announce the acquisition of a new InstALERT Rapid Messenger System that will be used in various traffic-related events, such as checkpoints, detours and warnings.
The purchase of this valuable, life-saving equipment was made possible through a traffic safety grant from the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. Col. James Champagne, Executive Director of the LHSC, was instrumental in helping to secure the equipment for the KPD.
"Our goal is to make Kenner's roadways safer for motorists," said Caraway. "We are always on the lookout for tools that will help us save lives."
The system was purchased from Teeco Safety, Inc., of Shreveport, at a cost of $9,215.
Kenner Police Department website: Click Here
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Better Business Bureau Report issued
January 2009
Better Business Bureau Report expires January 2011
Does not meet one or more standardsThis charity does not meet one or more of the 20 standards for Charity Accountability. Find out more...
Year, State Incorporated: 2004, Illinois
Affiliates: None
Stated Purpose: To assist and aid the homeless women with children to gain a place in society. By aiding them in what ever they may need to become a productive citizen to themselves their children and society.
Because this organization has not yet completed a full year of service, the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois, Inc is unable to evaluate it in relation to the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.
Standard 1: Oversight of Operations and Staff - Organizations shall have a board of directors that provides adequate oversight of the charity's operations and its staff. Indication of adequate oversight includes, but is not limited to, regularly scheduled appraisals of the CEO's performance, evidence of disbursement controls such as board approval of the budget, fund raising practices, establishment of a conflict of interest policy, and establishment of accounting procedures sufficient to safeguard charity finances.
Standard 3: Frequency and Attendance of Board Meetings - An organization shall have a minimum of three evenly spaced meetings per year of the full governing body with a majority in attendance, with face-to-face participation. A conference call of the full board can substitute for one of the three meetings of the governing body. For all meetings, alternative modes of participation are acceptable for those with physical disabilities.
Standard 4: Compensated Board Members - Not more than one or 10% (whichever is greater) directly or indirectly compensated person(s) serving as voting member(s) of the board. Compensated members shall not serve as the board's chair or treasurer.
Standard 12: Detailed Functional Breakdown of Expenses - Include in the financial statements a breakdown of expenses (e.g., salaries, travel, postage, etc.) that shows what portion of these expenses was allocated to program, fund raising, and administrative activities. If the charity has more than one major program category, the schedule should provide a breakdown for each category.
Standard 13: Accuracy of Expenses in Financial Statements - Accurately report the charity's expenses, including any joint cost allocations, in its financial statements. For example, audited or unaudited statements which inaccurately claim zero fund raising expenses or otherwise understate the amount a charity spends on fund raising, and/or overstate the amount it spends on programs will not meet this standard.
Standard 14: Budget - Have a board-approved annual budget for its current fiscal year, outlining projected expenses for major program activities, fund raising, and administration.
Standard 16: Annual Report - Have an annual report available to all, on request, that includes: (a) the organization's mission statement, (b) a summary of the past year's program service accomplishments, (c) a roster of the officers and members of the board of directors, (d) financial information that includes (i) total income in the past fiscal year, (ii) expenses in the same program, fund raising and administrative categories as in the financial statements, and (iii) ending net assets.
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Syracuse, NY--A Sensis Corp. today announced that one of its systems that will allow more airplanes to operate safely at four airports in Colorado's Rocky Mountains has received initial operating approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The designation called "initial operating capability" was given to the system that uses Sensis' wide area multilateration at Yampa Valley Regional, Garfield County Regional, Steamboat Springs and Craig-Moffat County Airports.
The system also uses Sensis' multistatic dependent surveillance to provide FAA air traffic controllers at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center with information to improve capacity of the airspace surrounding the four airports.
Existing radar experienced coverage gaps below 13,000 feet in Colorado's mountains. As a result air traffic controllers limited the airplanes at those airports to one in-one out.


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According to investigators, the victim was allegedly lured to the location on the ruse that there was a barbecue going on. Instead, the man was supposedly grabbed from behind, struck in the face as a silver handgun was pointed at him, and robbed of cash and a cell phone. The Bridgewater man was able to escape without any other physical harm and did not require medical attention.
Police said the two Bound Brook suspects Julio Castillo-Heisler, 21, of West High Street and Javehy D. Toney, 18, of Highland Place, and the suspect from South Bound Brook, Theresa G. Jackson, 20, of Elizabeth Street were all charged in connection with the alleged crime.
On April 21, detectives found and arrested Castillo-Heisler at the YMCA on North Bridge Street in Somerville, authorities said. He was transported to the Bound Brook Police Department where he was charged with first-degree armed robbery and second-degree conspiracy to commit robbery,
According to investigators, police located Toney and Jackson at a residence on Linden Avenue in Bound Brook. Toney was initially arrested on an unrelated warrant. Both were transported to the Bound Brook Police Department where they were also charged with first-degree armed robbery and second-degree conspiracy to commit robbery.
All three suspects — Castillo-Heisler, Toney and Jackson — were lodged at the Somerset County Jail with bail to be set.
Prosecutor Forrest, County Prosecutor's Office Chief of Detectives Stuart Buckman and Acting Bound Brook Chief of Police Michael Jannone are asking anyone with information to contact the Bound Brook Police Department at 732-356-0800, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office at 908-231-7100, or the Somerset County Crime Stoppers' Tip Line at 1-888-577-TIPS (8477) or online at www.888577tips.org or www.scpo.net and click on either "Crime Stoppers" or "TIPS HOTLINE". All calls are confidential.


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VESTAL (WBNG BINGHAMTON) The Norwich boy's basketball team lost its first game in a year -- to the same team, in the same round of the Class B state playoffs.
The Purple Tornado fell 56-53 in overtime, losing to top-ranked Westhill. Westhill bounced Norwich from the regional finals in 2013, as well.
"Our program is about more than basketball, it's about life lessons," said head coach Tom Collier. "Sometimes things don't go your way. You've got to pick it up from there and move on with your life."
"Unfortunately, for our seniors, they'll remember they had a great senior year. This game will stick with them, but you know what? It's going to make better people out of them, and that's all that matters."


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Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Messenger-Gazette during the week of Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 2013.
Things to do in Somerset County on Wednesday, Feb. 6
• Romance & Dance Exciting New Singles Dance at Rhythms Of the Night 729 S. Main St., Manville on Wednesday, Feb. 6 from 7:30-11:30 pm, Join "Dance Around Friends" for great music, fun, and to make new friends. The night features ballroom, contemporary, disco, and line dancing featuring the music DJ Bruce Z. No registration required. New admission price is $8 per person. For further information contact Ramona at 908-647-3295 or Bruce at 732-208-5955 or Rhythms of the Night at 908-707-8757.
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The Sedutto's Swashbucklers won the 31-team ASA Men's Major C Fastpitch National over the weekend in Bowling Green, Ky.
"Pitching and defense were the key," said player-coach Anthony Shaut. "We didn't hit as well as last year, but we were better defensively and didn't make many mistakes."
"Our pitching was outstanding, especially Justin Zimmerman (tourney MVP who won five games)," said Shaut. "Zimmerman only allowed four runs in five starts."
The Swashbucklers opened with a 6-4 comeback win over Elite Coach (Pa.). Kris Bogach picked up the win and John Schreiber and Brian Jackson homered.
Zimmerman (three hits and three RBI) tossed a three-hitter as the Swashbucklers defeated the Wizards of Oz from Kansas 7-2. Lou Kass also had three hits and three RBI.
Kass and Bogach (winning pitcher) hit back-to-back homers in the Swashbucklers' 12-6 win over Willow Street Tire (Pa.).
Zimmerman then tossed a two-hitter and Jackson homered in a 5-0 win over Bedford Rays (Pa.).
In a 10-8 loss to the Tornados of South Carolina Sunday night, Shaut's club fell behind 9-0.
The Swashbucklers bounced back with a 2-1 win over Bedford Monday morning behind Zimmerman's four-hitter and a key RBI from Kass.
Zimmerman beat the Tornados, 1-0, thanks in part to shortstop Steve Mullady's diving stop with the tying run on the third in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Doubles by Nick Zirpoli and Bogach produced the run.
Zimmerman picked up his third win of the day and homered in the 9-2 title-game win over the Tornados. Schreiber and Corey Epstein had two hits each.
Zimmerman (MVP), Bogach, Kass, Schreiber, Jackson and Zirpoli were named first team ASA All-American, while Rodd Bray earned second-team honors.
Epstein, Shaut, Steve Schwartz, Mullady, Mike Conigliaro, Tom Unger, Vern Shaut, Rob Reilly and Dennis Surmanek rounded out the championship team's roster.


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More than 50 people came to Landisburg Firehouse, Aug. 12, to learn about methamphetamine. Perry Human Services and Penn State Extension sponsored the event.
The program was repeated on Aug. 16 at Newport Firehouse.
According to representatives from Pennsylvania State Police, who presented the program, "meth" already has invaded many rural areas in the state. State police believe there is a strong possibility there are active labs in Perry County.
The number of clandestine meth labs found in the state nearly doubled from 2003 to 2004. Not only is meth dangerous to use, but making it can be lethal to both the producers and emergency personnel who respond when things go wrong.
Meth puts the body in overdrive. Users can become paranoid, aggressive and violent. They lose their appetites and desire to sleep and often engage in strange behavior, such as performing the same task over and over.
Heavy and/or long-term use may cause tooth decay, paranoia, psychotic behavior, homicidal or suicidal thoughts, kidney and liver damage, brain damage, high blood pressure, strokes and heart infections, according to the state Department of Health.
Meth labs can hurt innocent members of the community, too. Neighbors and visitors to a home where a meth lab exists risk getting caught in an explosion, booby traps and toxic reaction.
One trip to Wal-Mart will supply a bag of ingredients to cook a recipe of meth. Ephedrine (found in cold medicines), red phosphorus (found in matches or road flares), ether, hydrochloric acid, lye, distilled water, battery acid, starter fluid, lantern fuel, iodine, antifreeze, farm fertilizer and salt will do it.
Meth labs emit strong chemical odors that may smell like cat urine, ether, ammonia, fingernail polish remover, and are toxic.
Meth labs produce large quantities of trash, including Freon and starter fluid containers, fuel cans, red-stained coffee filters, bed sheets and pillow cases, old clothing, duct tape, batteries, glass and plastic containers.


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On Tuesday afternoon, dozens of children at a community center in Treme ran inside screaming that a lady outside had a gun.
The woman - who according to several witnesses announced that she was a New Orleans police officer - had come to the Treme Community Center to pick up a 7-year-old nephew and, for reasons unknown, became enraged at the driver of the car in front of her in the pickup line, witnesses said.
Numerous witnesses said the woman relentlessly honked her car horn. As the situation escalated, she yelled expletives at the other driver and got halfway out of her car and brandished a gun, they said. At that point one of the witnesses called 911, but several people said the responding officer spoke privately with the angry woman, then said loudly as the two walked together that she should've shot a man who told her to put her gun down because children were present, witnesses said.
Police Department spokesman Bob Young confirmed that a ranking officer responded from the 1st District, but Young said the ranking officer ruled the incident "unfounded" because the officer couldn't find the person who'd dialed 911.
The man who called 911, longtime Treme Center employee Belden "Noonie" Batiste, said the responding officer did not appear interested in his account.
"It's that buddy system. How can children watch that and not develop a distaste for people in uniform?" said Jerome Smith, who has run the center's Tamborine and Fan summer camp for nearly 40 years. "This ugly scene could have escalated to a serious tragedy at our doorstep."
Children, already frightened by the woman's behavior, were then confused when police did nothing, he said. The incident happened about 3 p.m., just after dismissal of Tuesday's session of summer camp, so it was witnessed by at least 20 children, who were playing in the center's playground and standing outside waiting for their parents, Batiste said.
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According to interviews with Batiste and more than a dozen children, staff and spectators, the woman drove up in a burgundy Jeep and immediately began honking her horn, even though there was ample space for her to drive around.
"The lady kept on blowing; she kept on blowing," said a young girl in an orange shirt, as she and others sat on a row of bleachers and recounted what they'd seen. The woman also yelled a lot and used "bad language," the children said.
Kiyana Howell, 31, was parked in a blue Chevy Tahoe near the Treme Center's front sidewalk on North Villere Street. Howell had five children to retrieve: her son, niece, nephew, godchild and a friend's child, she said. But the driver in the Jeep drove up behind her and kept honking. "I said, 'Damn, don't you see me trying to get my children?' " Howell said.
According to Howell and others interviewed, the woman in the Jeep responded with expletives, saying, "B -- -- , you don't know who you're f -- -ing with."
At that point, she announced, amid more profanities, that she was a 7th District police officer. It was at that point that bystanders saw a black gun in her hand.
Seated in her car, Howell didn't see a gun.
"But she kept inviting me to come to her truck. She was saying, "B -- -- , come over here, come over here," Howell said.
Witnesses said the woman, who was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, then stepped partly out of her Jeep, where her young nephew sat. Her gun was in one hand, partially hidden by the car door, while she taunted Howell with the other, they said.
"She was egging her on," said one girl.
Children run screaming
At the sight of the armed, furious woman, some children ran screaming.
Others stood petrified, said neighbor Linden Lindsey, 28, who stepped in. "She had jumped out of the truck like she was ready to shoot," he said. "And I said, 'Hold up, miss -- they got kids in that truck. Put the gun up.' "
The woman later told the officer responding to the 911 call that Lindsey had threatened her and her nephew. But witnesses said Lindsey was calm and measured as he tried to pacify the woman.
"It was very brave," said camp counselor Doretha Augustus, 56. "She was at the height of her rage and he really defused it so that she got back in her car."
Howell, eager to put some distance between the woman and her children, pulled off. But witnesses said the woman in the Jeep followed her, right on her bumper, still blowing her horn.
When Howell stopped at Esplanade Avenue, she said, the woman pulled alongside her and continued to yell, "You don't know who you're f -- -ing with, b -- -- ," Howell said.
Witnesses said the woman soon returned to the Treme Center, where she intercepted the responding officer, showing him what appeared to be a badge and asking to talk in private, Batiste said.
After a short conversation, the woman and officer walked out together, speaking loudly about the situation. In front of a group of people that included children and staff, the responding officer told the woman, in a loud voice, "You should have blasted that m -- -- -f -- -- -," referring to Lindsey.
After tapping fists, the uniformed officer and the woman who claimed to be an officer walked off, without further comment, witnesses said.
A 7-year-old boy at the center who witnessed the woman's rage said he ran inside the Treme Center and stayed inside for the hour, until his dad arrived. He, like the other children, told his parents about it, but said he was still shaken.
"I hope she doesn't come back," he said.
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KALAMAZOO -- The leader of a petition drive challenging a new Kalamazoo city ordinance that expands housing and employment protections for gays and lesbians said he is "cautiously optimistic" that 1,400 signatures will be submitted by today's deadline to put the issue before voters.
If a sufficient number of valid signatures are filed, the Kalamazoo City Commission could either vote to repeal the ordinance or place the measure on the ballot.
Portage resident Phil Naumann, of the American Family Association of Michigan, which is seeking to rescind the ordinance, said about a dozen volunteers have been circulating petitions. At least 1,300 signatures are needed, Kalamazoo City Clerk Scott Borling said.
City commissioners voted unanimously Dec. 1 to make it a civil infraction to discriminate in the city against gays, lesbians and transgender people in housing, public accommodations and employment. Violations are punishable by a fine of up to $500.
The expanded protections, proposed by the Kalamazoo Alliance for Equality, faced no public opposition at the time of the vote.
One Kalamazoo resident approached by petitioners said she is concerned they are twisting facts in order to gain the needed signatures.
Ellie Killinger said two people came to her door asking if she was aware that the City Commission had passed an ordinance that would allow transgender people to use public restrooms.
"The more I thought about it, the angrier it made me. I thought it was a distortion of what the ordinance was about," Killinger said.
But Naumann said use of public restrooms is a very real issue for businesses, for instance.
By making it a violation to discriminate against a transgender person, "the business would in fact have to provide facilities originally designed just for women or just men to either sex if a cross dresser" demanded it, Naumann said.
Kalamazoo Gazette staff reporter Paula M. Davis contributed to this report.
Previous Kalamazoo Gazette stories:
• Petitions target new ordinance banning discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender individuals, Dec. 12, 2008
• Kalamazoo City Commission unanimously approves gay-rights ordinance, Dec. 1, 2008
• Proposed Kalamazoo ordinance would ban discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered individuals, Nov. 15, 2008


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Five-star defensive end Da'Shawn Hand will unofficially visit the Wolverines March 16-17, according to 247Sports. The Woodbridge, Va., prospect is ranked by Rivals and Scout as the nation's No. 1 defensive end.
He is ranked the country's No. 1 overall player according to Rivals.
Confirmed that 2014 #1 Da'Shawn Hand will visit #Michigan March 16th and 17th for spring practices. Big visit for obvious reasons.— Steve Lorenz (@TremendousUM) March 4, 2013
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Hand has said Michigan is one of his five early leaders, along with Florida, Alabama, Virginia Tech and South Carolina. Wolverines linebacker commit Michael Ferns said he has been recruiting Hand via text messages for a while.
This will be Hand's first visit to Ann Arbor. The trip coincides with the start of the Wolverines' spring camp, which kicks off March 16.
Michigan currently has four commitments for 2014 and is expected to take about 16 players in the class, pending attrition.
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Circling this game on the calendar was a pretty safe bet.
With revenge in mind, even with a 2-9 record, the Houston Texans came to play on Sunday and found themselves in a shootout with one of the AFC's best.
It was the composure of Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski that won in the end, but that shouldn't take away from the heart the Texans showed. When the time came to answer, guys like Case Keenum and Ben Tate stood strong, and there was finally some decent play-calling from the sidelines.
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Heavy traffic volume was causing delays on various highways in Union County late Wednesday afternoon, according to 511nj.org.
A nine-mile delay was reported on the Garden State Parkway southbound from north of Exit 142 (Route 78) in Hillside to north of the Colonia Service Area in Woodbridge, 511nj.org said. Expect 15-20 minutes of additional travel time to go that distance, it said.
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Avon Deluxe Chocolate and Wicked for Fall
Avon Nailwear Pro in Deluxe Chocolate ($5.00) is a warm chocolate brown with slight red undertones. The heavy dose of golden shimmer adds a bronze or golden touch to the color. She's a bit more red compared to her Fast Dry cousin, Mink, with an extra amount of shimmer. Very Gorgeous!
(pssst - If you missed out on Chanel's Limited Edition Haute Chocolat, be sure to check out Avon's Mink. It's the closest match I've seen)!
It's time to get Wicked!
Wicked ($5.00) - is a vampy black with red shimmer. Although it looks mostly black when you're in direct sunlight, the red shimmer is visible indoors under artificial lighting.
Overall, The Big 3 Free formula provided excellent coverage with two coats and no application problems. Deluxe Chocolate is a great shade for brown lovers. Wicked is a nice blackened red, it's just not as unique.
Deluxe Chocolate and Wicked is now available at Avon.com. Each color retails for $5.00/ea. Also this Fall, lookout for three limited nail colors to the Rose Gold Collection, and four new matte colors to debut.
What do think of Avon's new fall colors? Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
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Sandy said on Aug 31st, 2010 11:44 am
Hi Steph, Thanks for the swatches - I love these! I have really impressed this year and last year with Avon polishes - for the value, the have good quality and nice color selection!
puffnstuff said on Sep 1st, 2010 12:12 am
lovely swatches! Avon is really upping their game with the np colors :)
jenni said on Sep 1st, 2010 5:06 am
Wow, I will agree with the others, Avon is bumping it up a notch... Thanks for the swatches Steph, they both look great on you!
Sasha said on Sep 1st, 2010 10:16 am
I tried Deluxe Chocolate last week and loved it! Wicked will be my next mani. And I've been thinking about ordering the new Fall rose shades, but they don't seem very fall to me.... so I haven't decided yet.
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Wicked is awesome!


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A year from now, who will pay the salaries of the 25 Columbus, Ohio, police recruits President Barack Obama used to defend his stimulus program?
That is a question neither Obama nor the local and state officials who have helped him promote the stimulus scheme want to address.
During a speech in Columbus on Friday, Obama cited the police recruits as proof the stimulus program is a good idea. "I look at these young men and women, I look into their eyes and I see their badges today, and I know we did the right thing," the president insisted.
The recruits were to have been laid off from the Columbus police force, because of city budget constraints. But Mayor Michael Coleman said they will be retained, because stimulus money is available to pay them through Dec. 31.
What happens on Jan. 1, 2010, when the stimulus money is gone? Will Columbus taxpayers have to dig deeper into their pockets to keep the officers, or will they be laid off?
At best, the stimulus program is a short-term paycheck for some workers. At worst, it is a scheme to saddle Americans with higher local and state taxes in the future. Either way, it is not the kind of real help the economy needs.


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The Edgewood Park neighborhood in Gentilly will be considered by a state review committee for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24. The National Register of Historic Places is the federal government's official list of historic properties worthy of preservation.
Listing in the National Register provides recognition and assists in preserving the nation's heritage. If accepted, the listing will help with rehabilitating Gentilly's historic buildings.
Representatives of FEMA and the Louisiana State Historic Preservation Office will present information on the nomination, the benefits of the listing, as well as answer property owners' questions on July 12 at 9:30 a.m. at New Hope Community Church in Gentilly.
Ice cream social set
Gentilly Terrace & Gardens Neighborhood Association will host an ice cream social July 9 as part of its meeting at Gentilly Terrance Charter School.
Clean up
A group of students from Brother Martin High School recently cleaned up Edgewood Park and neighboring streets in Gentilly. Campus Ministry Director Thomas Baier and about 80 seventh graders picked up trash.


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cancer victim gets to know ITD trucks up-close
For a 9-year-old, Grant Pekuri already has faced more challenges than most adults confront in a lifetime certainly more than any youngster should be expected to face.
He was born with Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental impairment, second only to Down syndrome as a cause of mental retardation.
Then, a year ago he was diagnosed with leukemia, resulting in oral chemotherapy treatments every day for the next two and a half years and a spinal tap every 12 weeks.
Hes a champ; hes going through treatment so great, said Grants mother, Lynn Pekuri.
Despite what most would consider major setbacks, Grant doesnt sweat about the cards he was dealt. He finds pleasure in the simple things in life, for example big, loud trucks like the ones used by the Idaho Transportation Department.
ITD District 3 Project Manager Lisa Applebee, an avid cyclist, met Lynn while training for a race to raise funds for multiple sclerosis. When Lisa heard that Grants infatuation with big vehicles included not only city buses and earthmovers, but also ITDs Incident Response trucks, she immediately contacted District 3 Maintenance Supervisor Dick Powell about giving Grant a firsthand look.
Hed seen our green trucks out there and wanted to see them up-close, said Powell.
Grant, with his mother and Powell at his side, recently had an opportunity to see the Incident Response trucks and much, much more. Decked out in a bright green incident response shirt and hat, Grant was turned loose in the District 3 maintenance yard free to honk, climb and steer everything from pavers to snow plows.
Sometimes when we have nothing to do in the middle of the winter, we go out to the dump to see the trucks, said Lynn. I try and show him as many things as I can hes going through so much. Afterwards well watch videos of all the equipment.
According to Lynn, child leukemia has a successful cure rate of 85 percent and Grant is pulling through just fine. In some ways the Fragile X is a blessing in disguise, she said, because it makes him less aware of his affliction with cancer.
Providing this opportunity for Grant is one example in a long history of ITD employees, family and friends coming together to fight cancer and provide assistance to those suffering from it.
Lisa, along with District 3 Project Development Engineer Daris Bruce and his wife Carolyn, have participated in bike races that support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and a group of Headquarters workers raised funds in the Relay for Life, in support of colleague Linda Cassera who lost a long battle with cancer.


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After breakfast I prepared documents to be used in the leadership conference I'll hold here from Tuesday to Thursday, and printed several in the hotel business center. Then at around 10:00 Jacob and Justin arrived to go with me on a few member visits with some men who've been with the church since the 70s. We left in a local taxi in the heavy, humid heat of the Congo. We're about 4 degrees south of the equator here in Kinshasa, so it is always hot and humid.
He explained his start in the Church, when he started receiving literature in 1968. He had his first visit in 1974 when Harold Jackson (a name known to many who follow this blog) came through on a baptizing tour, and who, by coincidence, stayed at the same hotel where I am staying now…. Simon was baptized a few years later and has been faithful ever since. When our previous association took a different direction doctrinally, he separated from it in the 2000s, and has been fellowshipping with a few friends in Kinshasa who also maintained the same beliefs. He was thrilled to discover the French publications of UCG and to know that we have keep the same fundamental beliefs as he knew years ago, and especially to have someone come to Kinshasa representing such a church association.
He pulled out the ministerial album the church published in 1988, and found the photo of my wife and me (somewhat younger than we are now).
This next one was with Jacques Ginyama, also an "old timer" who had his first visit in the 70s as well, but not with Harold Jackson. Jacques and his wife offered us fruit juice and soda as we talked in their dark, and very warm, living room.
Jacques brought out his old publications too, as well as copies of correspondence starting with a copy of his first letter sent to the Church office in Geneva in 1972.
He told me of his health problems too. He is advanced in age and has one eye that has visibly gone milky. He can't see well out of it and it gives him headaches at times. He had one operation some years back, and after that used different kinds of medicinal drops for several months, but without remedying the problem. His doctor then told him they needed to wait until a specialist can come, probably from outside the country, for an exact diagnosis. So he is on the waiting list.
After a long visit, he shook my hand warmly and said he was so happy to have found the Church of God once again. "It is like coming back to the surface after being held underwater for a long time" he told me. "I might have given up; I'm so thankful!" he said with emotion. I told him how happy I was to meet him and to be able to bring him contact and greetings from his brethren in other countries, and that we would do our best to serve him and to all walk forward together.
We walked up the alley to the taxi which was still waiting in the street and made the hour-or-so drive back to the hotel. Jacob and Justin and I worked on details of the conference, photocopies to be made, budgeting, accounting, and so on. It was late afternoon by this time, so they headed out to make the preparations. I escorted them to the front door to make sure they wouldn't have any problems with security on the way out.
I'll rest up tonight and make my final preparations for the start of the conference tomorrow.


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This video may look like it is being played in slow motion, but don't worry, that's just an optical illusion. This guy is really that good of a dancer.
Marquese Scott starts off this incredibly popular video by just sitting on a bench, playing with his shoelaces. When a Butch Clancy remix of Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" starts playing, Scott starts robotically moving, gliding and stepping to the music.
Also known as Nonstop, Scott performs with dance crew RemoteKontrol and he and his group have appeared on both "So You Think You Can Dance" and "America's Got Talent."
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SAGINAW TOWNSHIP, MI — A tax that could raise nearly $8 million for Saginaw Township Community Schools is up for renewal Aug. 7.
The 18-mill Saginaw Township Community Schools Base Non-Homestead Millage Renewal and 3-mill Cushion Renewal are back on the ballot. They last appeared on the ballot in 2004.
If voters approve the renewal, it could add nearly $8 million to the school district's annual operating budget.
Diane Davis, Saginaw Township Community Schools finance director, said the millage is an important piece of the base foundation allowance.
"We don't get that $8 million, we're in the hole," said district Superintendent Jerry L. Seese.
The levy does not tax homeowners of primary residences, but does tax business, industrial, commercial and rental properties. With the renewal, property owners would continue to pay the same rate.
Under Proposal A, school districts locally collect the maximum non-homestead mills allowed by law, and the state subtracts that amount from the per-pupil allowance it pays districts. That figure is $1,600 per pupil for Saginaw Township schools.
The district's 3-mill cushion renewal could offset a possible
Headlee Rollback. That means if existing property values exceed a certain
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The Effects of High School Drama on Social Maturity.
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Examined effect of participation in a high school drama program on the social maturity and self-esteem of 20 high school drama students relative to 20 peers who were not enrolled in drama. Findings showed significant improvements in areas of social presence, tolerance, and achievement via independence for drama students but did not demonstrate higher levels of self-esteem. (PVV)
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The Port of Los Angeles, 23 October 2011. At the Goofy Pool on deck 9 of the Disney Wonder, the Adventures Away celebration party has begun. "Goodbye, stress!" the cruise director shouts. "Hello, vacation!" The ship's horn sounds out When You Wish Upon A Star, to indicate that we're about to set sail, to Mexico. It's a nice touch. The ship has just won the 2010 Condé Nast Traveller crew and service award.
I'm standing on deck 10, looking down at the dancing crowds of guests and crew. There are 2,455 passengers this week, and 1,000 employees. You can spot the Youth Activities team in their yellow tops and blue trousers. They look after the children in the Oceaneers' Club on deck 5.
There's no talk of it, but many people on board know something terrible occurred on this route – to Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas – earlier this year. At 5.45am on Tuesday 22 March, a CCTV camera captured a young woman on the phone in the crew quarters. Her name was Rebecca Coriam. She was 24, from Chester, and had recently graduated from a sports science degree at Exeter University. She'd been working in Youth Activities on board for nine months, and apparently loved it. But on the phone she was looking upset.
"You see this young boy walk up to her to ask her if she's all right," her father Mike told me a few weeks ago, sitting in the family's back garden in Chester. "She said, 'Yeah, fine.' Then she put the phone down. She turned around. She had her hands in her back pockets, which she always did. Then she put her hands to her head like this, pushing her hair back…" Mike did the movement. It looked normal. "And then she walked off."
And that's the last anyone has seen of her. She just vanished.
When she didn't report for work at 9am, the crew Tannoyed her. They searched the ship and called the Mexican coastguard, who searched the waters, all to no avail. That was seven months ago.
"Now, whenever we call anyone, all they say is, 'The investigation is ongoing,'" Mike says. "We've tried emailing, telling them how we feel, how it's getting harder..." He pauses. "But nothing. Just, 'It's ongoing.'"
Mike and his wife Ann have created a website – Help Us To Find Rebecca (rebecca-coriam.com) – and have organised fundraising events. The day I visited, the house was filled with raffle prizes, chocolates, board games and soft toys, donated by well-wishers. Mike said on some days they were just functioning, but on others they didn't know if they were coming or going.
They said only one police officer has ever been assigned to investigate Rebecca's disappearance. He flew in from Nassau in the Bahamas, 1,500 miles from the ship – just one man charged with conducting a forensic investigation and interviewing 3,000 passengers and crew. He took charge because the ship is registered in the Bahamas, for tax reasons. It wasn't deemed relevant that it's based in Los Angeles, the company's head office is in the UK, Rebecca was British, and she went missing in international waters between the US and Mexico. (For European passengers, this holds true for all cruise liners, but a law passed last year means if a US citizen disappears on a cruise ship, the FBI now has jurisdiction.)
Mike and Ann have met the Bahamas officer only once. They flew to Los Angeles on 25 March to meet the ship as it arrived back. The Disney people showed them the CCTV footage and introduced them to the policeman.
"I asked him, 'Are you going back on the ship now?'" Mike said. "He said, 'No, I'm going back to the Bahamas.' I thought, 'Hang on, you only got to the ship on Friday.' He had just Saturday there and that was it. The passengers weren't questioned."
"Not at all?" I asked.
"No. Not many of the crew, either," Ann said.
I told Mike and Ann that I would book myself on to the cruise, ask a few questions, just see what I could find out. They said they'd be pleased for whatever help they could get.
In the atrium on deck 3, passengers queue for Mickey Mouse's autograph. I overhear an adult passenger ask a crew member, "Exactly how many Mickey Mouse symbols are there on board?" He looks taken aback. There are about 20 within our immediate vicinity – art deco mouse ears on the frosted glass doorways, swirly mouse ears on the carpet. "I don't know," he replies. The passenger looks annoyed that his question can't be answered. "I can point out some hidden Mickeys," the crew member adds, conciliatorily. It's a Disney tradition to embed tiny mouse symbols into the architecture. Fans love to spot them.
I wander into one of the bars and get talking to a waiter. "What's it like working here?" I ask.
"It's all about the show," he replies. "When you're out among the guests, you're always on show. Even if you're a waiter, or a cleaner, or a deck hand."
"How long have you been on board?" I ask.
"Seven months. I'll be going home in 40 days – 44 to be exact." He laughs. "Seven months is long enough. Being away from your family is hard."
"Were you on board when Rebecca Coriam vanished?" I ask.
He narrows his eyes. "I don't know anything about it," he says. There's a long silence. "It didn't happen," he says. He looks at me. "You know that's the answer I have to give."
It's a beautiful, clear night outside on deck 4. Ahead of us are the lights of another cruise ship. A few days later – when we reach Puerto Vallarta – I spot it again. It's called the Carnival Spirit. Forty-three people have vanished from Carnival cruises since 2000. Theirs is the worst record of all cruise companies. There have been 171 disappearances in total, across all cruise lines, since 2000. Rebecca is Disney's first. A few days ago, Rebecca's father emailed me: "Would like to inform you the number of people missing this year has just gone up to 17. A guy has gone missing in the Gulf of Mexico. The Carnival Conquest." By the time I get off this ship, the figure will have gone up to 19.
When someone vanishes from a cruise ship, one of the first things that happens to their family members is they receive a call from an Arizona man named Kendall Carver. "When you become a victim, you think you're the only person in the world," Carver told me on the phone. "Well, the Coriams found out they aren't alone. Almost every two weeks someone goes overboard."
Carver says the numbers have reached epidemic proportions and nobody realises it because it's in the industry's power to hush it up. He lost his own daughter, Merrian, back in August 2004, from the Celebrity Mercury. Even though the cabin steward reported her missing on day two, Carver said, no alarm was ever raised. "He reported her missing daily and they told him to forget it."
So the chocolates piled up on her pillow. When the Mercury docked in Vancouver – as Carver later testified at a US Senate subcommittee hearing – nobody from the ship said anything, not to the police, the FBI, nobody. They just quietly placed Merrian's belongings in storage, then gave them to charity. "If we hadn't eventually traced her to that ship, she would have vanished," he said.
At the time, Celebrity Cruise Line issued a statement saying, "Regrettably, there is very little a cruise line, a resort or a hotel can do to prevent someone from committing suicide." But as Carver points out, the case is still open. Later, the company added, "There is probably nothing we or any company could do that would make the parents feel the company had acted sensitively enough."
Now Carver leads a lobby group called International Cruise Victims. Over the phone, he told me theories of murder, negligence and cover-ups. Sometimes he sounded angry and xenophobic; at other times he was incredibly compelling.
"Think of where those cruise workers are from," he said. "They're low paid, from third-world countries, on those ships for nine months at a time. The sexual crime rate is 50% higher than in the average American city."
It's true that passengers on just one ship – the Carnival Valor – reported nine sexual assaults to the FBI in less than one year. "You're on a ship," Carver said. "There's no police. Once you leave the port, you're in international waters. Who do you think is attracted to working on those ships?"
"Do you think your daughter was murdered?"
"The answer's yes," he said. "That's the story among the crew." He paused. "Put murder to one side. Just think about the drinking. Royal Caribbean has just started a policy of unlimited drinks for one price. Celebrity is doing it."
I don't think drunkenness is an issue on the Disney Wonder. You'd have to drink a frozen piña colada the size of a glacier to get drunk, such are the measly measures they serve here.
"There's a man in Ireland had a 15-year-old daughter," Carver said. "One cruise served her eight drinks in an hour. She went to the balcony and threw up and went overboard. She was gone."
The case he's talking about is that of Lynsey O'Brien, who went missing on 5 January 2006 while on a cruise with her family off the Mexican coast. The cruise line, Costa Magica, conducted its own investigation into her disappearance and decided there was "no evidence of an accidental fall", that Lynsey had shown the bartender ID stating that she was 23 years old and that her death was caused by "underage drinking". While they "continued to extend their deepest sympathy" to the family, they claimed their report cleared them of any wrongdoing.
"In other corporations, police get involved," Carver said. "On cruise ships they have, quote, security officers, but they work for the cruise lines. They aren't going to do anything when the lines get sued. We came to the conclusion cover-up is the standard operating procedure." He paused. "And the Coriam girl. Where is the CCTV footage?"
According to articles published at the time of Rebecca's disappearance, in the Los Angeles Times and Cruise Law News, Disney claims to have no footage of Rebecca going overboard. They refuse to "disclose the number of CCTV cameras or their locations for security reasons".
"If there's a video that shows your daughter going overboard," Carver said, "that's the end of the story. There's no way someone can go off a ship and it not be recorded."
At 7am on the Tuesday morning, I stand on deck 4 as we pass the stretch of ocean where Rebecca went missing. A school of dolphins leap into the air, doing back-flips. Passengers around me gasp. A young crew member from Ireland passes and I ask her about life in the crew cabins. "It's like being inside Harry Potter's closet," she replies.
She means it's magical, but tiny and dark. Their cabins are windowless, below sea level, like steel boxes. Crew members are contracted to work seven days a week for four-, six- or eight-month stretches (according to how high up the ladder they are) before being allowed a few months off. At 10pm one night, I see some women from Rebecca's department – Youth Activities – playing with kids on the stairs. It seems they're on duty as long as there are kids who need entertaining. A former member of staff, Kim Button, has written a blog about life on the Wonder: "I don't think it's possible to imagine how tiny a crew room is without actually seeing it! Seriously, your mind can't even fathom such things. We had staff meetings at 2am, the only time when one of us wasn't working, so even if your work day ended at 10pm, you couldn't get much sleep because you had to be in a meeting at 2am… The crew pool is literally one of the few places where crew members can just hang out and be themselves, without fear of acting improperly in front of guests."
Even though life on board is, for a guest, assiduously magical, with total professionalism and constant Broadway-style high-budget shows, bingo, origami and acupuncture classes, films under the stars and shore excursions to snorkel with tropical fish and ride horses through Mexican rainforests, from time to time I detect tiny flashes of cabin fever. I watch a children's entertainer try out a move in which he throws a stuffed pelican to his assistant. It accidentally hits her in the face. "You're supposed to catch the pelican!" he snaps.
"My boss," she mutters, looking embarrassed.
In a shore excursion, a Mexican crew member asks some passengers to stand in a straight line, two by two, while we wait for the bus. Every passenger feels the need to say something facetiously passive-aggressive in response.
"Oh, a straight line!" one says.
"Can it not be a little crooked?" says another.
And so on, practically all the way down the line. The crew member looks upset and embarrassed.
I've decided the only place Rebecca could have fallen from is the deck 4 jogging track. The railings everywhere else are just too high. She was a keep-fit fanatic. My theory is that after the 5.45am phone call, she went for a jog and slipped. So I'm surprised to spot four CCTV cameras on deck 4 – two on the port side, two on the starboard, evidently capturing every inch of the deck. They're hard to see at first as they're shaped like long tubes and look like some kind of nautical equipment.
A man in yellow overalls is varnishing a railing. I glance anxiously inside the atrium. There's a big Cinderella party going on. Someone is singing a song about how we have to have "faith, trust and pixie dust". There's a crew party going on somewhere, too – I hear massive screeching and laughter from behind a steel door. It sounds very different from the guest parties, like a pressure cooker letting off steam.
I sidle up to the man doing the varnishing. "That girl who went missing back in March," I say. "She must have fallen from this deck?"
He looks surprised: "No, she went from deck 5."
"But there's no outside space on deck 5," I say.
"Go to deck 10, walk to the front of the ship and look down," he says. "You'll see the crew swimming pool. That's where she went from. The starboard side."
"How do you know this?" I ask him.
"I was on the ship that day. Everyone knows."
"How?" I ask.
"They found her slipper," he says.
I walk up to deck 10 and look down. And I see it. The crew swimming pool looks nice – bigger than some of the guest pools. But it's the swimming pool equivalent of an inside cabin. There is no view of the ocean because behind the railings is a high steel wall. It reaches well above head height. There is no way someone could accidentally fall from there.
Back on deck 4, the man is still varnishing.
"I saw it," I say.
"God bless her," he says.
"It must be a very intense life, working on the Disney Wonder," I say. "You've got those tiny, claustrophobic cabins. The passengers are very demanding. You work every day for six months. You have to be a Disney-type person the whole time, even when you're varnishing railings…"
He looks at me as if I'm nuts. "We don't spend any time in our cabins," he says. "We just sleep and shower there. We spend our free time in the mess hall or by the crew pool."
A group of his fellow deck workers join us. "Disney aren't slave masters," one says. "We get to go on shore. We get breaks. Everything you've got up here, we've got down there." He points to the bowels of the ship. "We've got a library, a gym, a games room, a swimming pool. I don't have a flatscreen TV or a gym at home. I have them here. The only thing I miss is my family."
"But all that having to be on show for the guests all the time…" I say.
"All the big smiles and happiness," someone replies, "it's all real. You couldn't act that."
"Disney wouldn't hire you if you weren't that sort of person," someone else says.
"But what about Rebecca Coriam?" I say. "Did you know her?"
A few of them nod. "She was a lovely girl," one says. "Not emotional. Just like everyone here. Nice and friendly and happy."
"Then why…?" I say.
"I don't know," he shrugs. "But there's nothing dark or sinister going on. This is Disney."
Over the next few days I ask more people, and every time I get the exact same response: she jumped from the front of deck 5, at the crew pool.
"Disney knows exactly what happened," one crew member tells me. "That phone call she had? It was taped. Everything here is taped. There's CCTV everywhere. Disney have the tape."
"What's in the tape?" I ask her.
"I don't know, but I know someone who knew her well. Would you like me to introduce you?"
And so, after everyone has gone to bed, I have a brief conversation with one of Rebecca's closer friends from the ship.
"Do you know what was in the tape?" I ask him.
He shakes his head. "Not exactly. I know she was having a fight with her partner." He pauses. "What's it ever about? It's about love, relationships. There's no mystery. She was just a lovely girl with underlying sadness."
The next morning, as we sail back into the Port of Los Angeles, a crew member beckons me over. He says he's heard I've been asking questions about Rebecca Coriam and he wants me to know that suicide is not the only possibility. Maybe, he says, after the phone call she took a walk to clear her head and the wind lifted her away.
"But the steel wall is so high down there," I say.
"I was on the ship that day," he says. "It was a rocky day. One time a friend of mine was called early in the morning. The deck by the crew pool was really windy and slippy, and someone was walking there, and my friend was called to get them inside. Disney took it really seriously. The guy got sent home."
"So she could have fallen?" I ask.
"She could have fallen," he says.
We pull into the port. This is where Mike and Ann came on 25 March after receiving a call from Disney executive Jim Orie to say Rebecca was missing. They were here in time to see the passengers disembark.
"We were hoping we could have spoken to some of them, but we never got the opportunity," Mike told me back in Chester. Ann added: "They kept us in a car with the windows all blacked out."
"Did you get the feeling they were deliberately keeping you away from the passengers?"
Mike: "Well…"
Ann: "Probably."
"But Disney were being polite and helpful and sympathetic?" I asked.
"Oh yeah," said Mike.
After the passengers had disembarked, Mike and Ann were taken on board. They were put in a room that quickly filled with Disney executives and the girl Rebecca had spoken to on the phone at 5.45am.
"Did you ask her what they'd talked about?" I asked. "Why Rebecca had been upset?"
They shook their heads. "We would have liked to have asked more, but by the time we'd flown over we were jet-lagged," Ann said. "We hadn't slept since the Tuesday. We flew out on the Friday. We hadn't eaten…"
"With hindsight, it might have been better if we'd gone out a little later," Mike said.
"When you were more able to ask questions?"
He nodded. "But your daughter's missing, so you don't think like that, do you? Also, we wanted to be quick to meet some of the passengers."
Mike remembers thinking, as he sat in that room on the ship, that their uselessness at getting information wouldn't be a problem because there would be plenty of other opportunities to ask questions. They had no idea they would never have another chance.
The next day, 1 November, Rebecca is discussed in the House of Commons. Her MP, Stephen Mosley, says Disney was "more interested in getting the ship back to sea than in the case of a missing crew member" and "it's appalling" that only one policeman from the Bahamas – "an authority internationally recognised as almost toothless" – was called to investigate. He said "flag of convenience" countries such as the Bahamas – as they're called in the shipping world – shouldn't be left to conduct these kinds of investigations.
I call Disney. Their spokesperson tells me, "If you talked to crew members, you'll know Rebecca's disappearance has been difficult and heartbreaking for everyone." And beyond that they can say nothing much else except, "The police in the Bahamas are also telling us the investigation is still ongoing. They have not shared a timeline with us, either."
"Is it true the telephone call Rebecca made shortly before vanishing was taped?" I ask.
"That pertains to specific details about the investigation and so it's not appropriate for us to share that kind of information," she replies.
"Is there anything you can tell me?" I ask.
"I can tell you we wish we knew what happened as much as anyone," she says.
The officer in the Bahamas, Paul Rolle, doesn't return my calls.
I call Mike and Ann. I tell them about my week on the ship. When I get to the part about the waiter saying, "It didn't happen", Mike sighs and says, "Oh. Yeah."
I tell them about all the CCTV cameras and Mike says, "They could have had them fitted since." (It's a measure of him that he'll not descend to conspiracy theories about Disney.) I tell them about the high steel wall on deck 5, about how that sadly points to suicide, although not definitely. I ask if I'm telling them things they didn't know.
"No, we've been through all this," Mike says.
"Was there any underlying sadness?" I ask.
"No, no, no," Mike says. "There isn't."
"A crew member told me Disney have a tape of the telephone conversation," I say.
There's a silence. "Did they say..." Mike pauses. "Was there any idea…?
"No," I say. "No idea."
I say I regret never talking to one of her really good friends on board. And then – later that night – a woman telephones. I'll call her Melissa. She says she'd never have talked to me had Mike and Ann not asked her to.
"When did you last see Rebecca?" I ask her.
"It was at 11pm, the night before she went missing. We'd both just finished work, and she was trying to pull my false eyelashes off." She laughs. "She had her head on my knee and we were chatting and messing about."
"Where was this?" I ask.
"In the secret corridor," she says. "There's a whole different world underneath the ship deck. We have parties down there, private showings of films. It's absolutely brilliant. Bex said, 'Are you going to the bar?' I said, 'Yeah' but I didn't for some reason. And that was the last time I saw her." She pauses. "She was the most amazing little burst of energy. You were completely drawn to her. She loved life. Bouncing around all the time. She was one of my best friends, but it could get a bit much." She laughs again. "You come in from a heavy night and she'd be zapping around everywhere. Playing tricks on you. She's very mischievous."
"Someone told me she'd had a fight with her partner," I say.
"That ship absolutely seethes with rumours," Melissa says. "Yes. She was in a relationship, and there were problems, and it was upsetting her. It was a very, very intense relationship. It was great and then it was awful. They were both fiery, passionate personalities."
"Do you think that's what the call was about?"
"I can't think of any other reason why she'd have been upset and wandering around by herself at 6am," Melissa says. "From what I've heard, she was on the phone to a mutual friend. Not the girl she'd been having the relationship with."
And then Melissa starts telling me some odd little things. She says after Rebecca went missing, Disney had a little ceremony. They put flowers at the wall next to the crew pool, "where they think she might have jumped from. But they didn't say. They put these flowers down but refused to answer any questions as to why. It was left unsaid. It really stirred things up. Why are they putting them there? Nothing was clear."
"I thought they knew she went from there because they found her slipper," I say.
"Those weren't her flip-flops," says Melissa. "Mike and Ann showed them to me. They were too big. They weren't her style. They were pink and flowery and Hawaiian. I'd never seen her wear them. Why didn't Disney come to me or her girlfriend and say, 'Can you identify these as Bex's?' Instead they put them in her room for when her parents got on board. Who does that?" She pauses. "Disney swear they've told us everything they know, which is that they don't know anything, but most of us think, bullshit. Someone must know something. Someone's covering something up."
Melissa has her own theory. "Bex was a bit of a risk taker. She was always pouring soap over people. Classic Bex. I was welcoming a family on board one time and she came over and rugby tackled me to the ground!"
Melissa thinks she went to the crew pool at 6am to be alone, with no intention of harming herself. "She loved deck 5. It's where we always used to go. I bet she climbed on to the wall and sat on the ledge in a 'I need to feel like I'm off the ship for a second' way. She wouldn't have thought, 'It's very high. I might fall.' She'd have just sat on it and thought, 'Oh crap. What have I done?' And fell." She pauses. "Security on that ship is ultra-tight. You can't get on or off without your ID card. Down by the crew pool there's HR offices, the crew gym, the crew office that deals with passports, money, documentation. And they're saying there's no CCTV cameras?"
"But why would they suppress that?" I ask.
"To try to protect the brand. If it was 6am and they were doing their job and watching the front, someone must have seen her go over. Or if they didn't, they're covering up why they didn't." She falls silent. Then she says, "Bex made hundreds of people happy. The passengers loved her. They all loved her. You'd think Disney would give something back. They owe it to her to find out what happened."


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