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Another 109 social housing housing units are on course to be developed in the city centre following a special meeting of Cork City Council (Monday July 31). Developments approved included White Street (43 units), Barrack Street (32 units), Blarney Street (25 units) and High Street (9 units).
Cork City Lord Mayor, Cllr Tony Fitzgerald said: "These schemes will provide much needed homes to families, lead to the upgrading of derelict and underutilised inner city sites, bring greater vibrancy to communities and are located near quality transport links and existing city centre facilities".
In just three weeks, 164 housing units have been approved by Cork City Council for delivery at multiple locations across the city. This amounts to a direct Government investment of €45 million in housing in Cork City.
Last night, Cork City Councillors approved four Part 8 developments that will deliver the 109 homes on completion of the procurement process. Earlier in the month, council members sanctioned an additional four Part 8s schemes that enabled another 55 units of accommodation.
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Monday, July 24, 2017
After many years of conducting DAAD hearings I have come to the belief that "testimonial letters" are the best evidence a petitioner can provide for successful DAAD relief.
It is the rare occasion that I decide to offer in-person testimony at hearings nowadays. The reason is simple, people make mistakes. Especially when confronted with a stressful situation. Hearing officers are a suspicious lot and their job is to ferret out lies and liars.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
In the world of DAAD hearings, "sobriety" is the king of all priorities, however, right below that priority (or perhaps on equal footing with sobriety) is the length of sobriety!
A not so obvious correlation exists between DAAD requirements (rules) and being on probation/parole. Many wanna be petitioners ask me why aren't they eligible to petition for a license, after all, they just served ten years in prison and have successfully completed, say, three out of four years of parole. While the individual may be proud of this accomplishment (and rightfully so), the very problem lies within this "status".
Their thinking is, "I've been in this environment (prison) where no alcohol is allowed and now i am serving out a period of parole without any violations or problems, what is the hang up??" The hang up is this; the DAAD hearing officers look at this situation a bit differently. The thinking goes something like this: While the individual is in prison there are rules governing everything the person does from the time they wake up till the time they go to sleep.
As a Michigan license restoration lawyer, I cannot tell you the frequency with which I am told by some poor soul, "You know, my last attorney only met me at the hearing!"
This cannot make anybody comfortable, let alone feeling prepared!!
I believe that this is not fair to the client. By the time my clients meet me at the hearing location, we are very well acquainted. We will have met a number of times in the preparation phase, and the petitioner will have a fairly good understanding of how the hearing will be conducted.
Monday, February 13, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
After a successful DAAD hearing for license reinstatement clients are elated and overjoyed, and rightfully so; they can DRIVE LEGALLY again. But not so fast.
What ALL petitioners would be wise to bear in mind is that the initial hearing is but the first step in a process!
With the exception of the rare petitioner that gets "FULL DRIVING PRIVILEGES RESTORED" at their first hearing, (the reasons for this will be the topic of another blog article) getting the green light to drive again initially is but the beginning - but take heart, it is the biggest hurdle that petitioners face. Once this first phase is successfully completed, the newly won rights are for the petitioner to lose. That is to say, unless you do something silly or worse, stupid, the rest of the process is downhill.
Sunday, February 5, 2017
So maybe things weren't going so well for you in Michigan. No jobs, no money....Read more . . .
Friday, January 20, 2017
In a word "yes", and anywhere else for that matter but for the most part prescription medications will not present a problem. Michigan DAAD hearing officers are not going to be concerned about medications for high blood pressure or cholesterol. Nor will antibiotics pose a problem. What MAY be of concern to someone are the scripts for Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Dilaudid, Vicodin even Xanax, etc..
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
DAAD testimonial letters are some of the most important evidence we submit for a restoration of driving privileges hearing. So why is it that so many people disdain the task??
Well, for one, maybe it is because they are doing it for someone else and not themselves? After all, how many times do we find ourselves saying, "I wish there were more hours in the day"?? We don't even have enough time to do our own stuff let alone write a letter for someone else… Or maybe it is because they do not know what to write. Understandably people are busy with trying to keep their own lives just under a loud roar. I get it. So for my clients I've tried to streamline the procedure.
No, wondering what to write, I've taken the guess out of the task. My workup of license restoration cases includes a list of factors which must be included in every testimonial letter. I fully explain just how long the letter needs to be and the "technical" information that also must be included in each letter.
For most of the people writing these letters, I have come to realize, probably have not written a letter since they were in school. I couldn't care less about grammar, sentence structure, punctuation or spelling. These things are not what is important to the reader (the hearing officer). In fact, I leave all imperfections in every letter so as not to make the reader think that I "sanitized" every letter.
What IS important is that each author of a letter convey with heartfelt conviction that the petitioner is in fact sober and will likely remain sober. The bullet points I provide will guide the writers as how to effectively do this and still include all required information.
As for the petitioner's, these letters represent the single most important piece of evidence we will present to the hearing officer. They provide invaluable insight into the life of the petitioner. It allows the hearing officer to get a visual, if you will, into the daily activity of the petitioner and therefore enables the hearing officer to make a more informed decision. The more convincing the letters the better the chances of getting the relief we came there for.
For these reasons, I put a lot of emphasis on making these letters, "as good as they can be". Almost without exception, I have "corrections" or "suggestions" that I mark on each letter requiring a "second draft" to be done by the author. This generally irritates people; sometimes it "enrages" people. But to those people I say, "consider if the shoe was on the other foot…" Everybody needs help at some point in their lives" and at this point in time this particular friend who is petitioning for license privileges, needs your help; and I do not believe that it is too far of a stretch to say, "their livelihoods depends on it".
Monday, October 26, 2015
Driving, while often considered a right by the general population, is actually a privilege which you have to earn and which can be taken away. There are a number of reasons that the state may deprive you of your driver's license, including certain serious traffic violations and/or your unwillingness to comply with certain recommendations or requirements.
Actions that may be taken against you for unsafe driving range from restrictions to revocations. The most serious action is a revocation -- the termination of your license and privilege to operate a motor vehicle. When your license is revoked, you are only eligible to reapply for license restoration after 1 year following a first revocation, and after 5 years for a subsequent revocation within 7 years of a prior revocation. Even after the appropriate time period has elapsed, there is no guarantee that your license will be returned. You must prove that you can be considered a safe driver based upon verifiable evidence and testimony.
A driver's license suspension, on the other hand, is for a shorter period of time and includes both a beginning and an end date. Instead of having to reapply for a license, as after a revocation, the driver is only required to appear at a branch office and pay the reinstatement fee in order to be relicensed. Of course, this presumes that the driver has not violated any driving laws during the period of suspension.
There are also, however, restrictions or suspensions that are considered "indefinite," meaning they will not terminate until so approved by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles or by a court. An example of an "indefinite" suspension would be a suspension imposed for a medical reason. No end date for the suspension is established unless and until the driver provides medical data substantiating that he or she is again fit to drive.
If you, or a loved one, are threatened with license suspension or revocation in the state of Michigan, you should promptly engage the services of an experienced attorney like Martin T. Lievois, who can handle your case with skill and efficiency. He can be reached at 248-419-1566 or 810-250-4550.
For the most I put stock in the old saying, "You get what you pay for". This is very true when it comes to the attorney/client relationship.
In light of the fact that, "you don't know what you don't know", the petitioner's case is only as good as the attorney's preparation makes it. If the attorney misses a requirement of the statute or just plain does not prepare the client adequately, there is very little the client can do to rectify the situation.
And, for the client, they will be unaware of any problems until they get the denial of their petition and it is too late to do anything about it.
Having said that, what should a person pay for a license restoration hearing?? Since there is no "one size fits all" price out there, it really boils down to the difficulty of the particular case. Does the petitioner have many drinking/driving offenses? Does the petitioner have multiple DWLS charges after his license was revoked? Has the petitioner attempted a DAAD hearing already, and failed? How many hearings?
As you can see, there are numerous factors to consider when arriving at a fair price. Furthermore, the above list is only a scratching of the surface when one looks at the big picture.
Suffice it to say that the nuances are varied and the pitfalls are plentiful.
That brings the discussion to another point. Knowing the subject matter inside and out is absolutely necessary for the attorney and this goes without saying. However, an effective representation includes knowledge of not only the law but also of the procedural aspects of the hearing itself and also of the particular hearing officer and his/her idiosyncrasies.
Knowing the hearing officers by name, knowing how they "tick", knowing the questions they are going to ask, knowing what they want to hear, knowing what the DAAD hearing officer thinks is important and knowing how not to waste the hearing officers time are all critical for the best odds of success.
In my mind,, I am a better attorney than I was 25 years ago. Many beat downs later and many hearings of learning the ropes and getting to know the hearing officers on a personal level, has made me the effective lawyer in this field that I am today.
Unfortunately, for lawyering there is a learning curve. Everyone has to start somewhere and everyone has to make the "rookie" mistakes. When you hire me, all those wrinkles have been ironed out many years ago, now the wrinkles are on my face but the experience is on my resume and for those who are fortunate enough to hire me are those who get the benefit of 26 years of experience.
I know how nerve racking driving without a license can be (in addition to being illegal). I also can imagine how difficult it must be trying to make ends meet without the privilege of being able to drive.
When having driving privileges is essential and losing a DAAD petition is not an option, call the Law Offices of Martin Lievois in Troy at 248-419-1566.
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Today, the trip takes 17 minutes and patients go by helicopter, though they usually fly to the Lehigh Valley Health Network's main hospital near Allentown instead of St. Luke's.
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After a mine inspector in 1886 drew attention to the plight of injured miners, Pennsylvania built a hospital in Hazleton five years later.
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Medicare, the federal health insurance program for senior citizens, is bundling some hospital procedures such as heart surgery and orthopedic surgery with the therapy and other services that patients need after they leave the hospital. Bussard expects Medicare to broaden those pilot programs, so hospitals are reacting.
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Lehigh Valley is bundling services that go along with hospital care. In Hazleton, Lehigh Valley also has an outpatient facility known as the Health & Wellness Center at Hazleton, a cancer center and a walk-in clinic in the Hazleton Shopping Center. Plus, the network plans to open a health center in Mountain Top this winter.
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Geisinger also operates hospitals in Bloomsburg, Danville, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Lewistown and Shamokin.
St. Luke's University Health Network, based in Bethlehem, took over Miners Memorial Medical Center in Coaldale, 16 miles from Hazleton. St. Luke's also has offices and a laboratory in a Tamaqua shopping plaza. It owns five other hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Dr. Robert Childs, a Hazleton pediatrician, joined the Hazleton hospital network before the merger but resigned to return to his own practice after four months.
The offer from networks looks good to doctors at first, he said, because doctors earn nearly the same salary, plus the hospital pays for malpractice and other insurance and takes care of billing and business chores. Doctors, too, can work fewer hours and don't have to see emergency patients late at night.
In Childs' case, he thought the office needed another nurse, and a months-long problem with telephones dissatisfied him.
Lehigh Valley and other large networks can afford to pay doctors competitive salaries for regular hours because they also hire physician's assistants and nurse practitioners, who have less training and receive lower pay to see patients.
"The public sees somebody in a white coat and presumes that person has the training. That's not always the case," Childs said.
Insurers pay about the same whether a doctor or a nurse practitioner sees the patient, Childs said, so hospital networks won't shift away from using nurse practitioners until laws and policies change.
Now that Greco is retired, former patients tell him their doctors type on portable computers during office visits.
"Sometimes, eye contact is not even made," he said.
Greco said employers might start rewarding or punishing doctors based on whether they order sufficient tests and studies, which make money for their group or hospital.
"What's happening first of all is medicine has become a big business. It's no longer the art of healing and the care of patients. It has become corporate business," he said.
Feeder hospitals
As hospital networks become bigger, Greco said smaller hospitals become feeders for the larger hospitals in the group.
Bussard, however, thinks of the different-sized hospitals as partners.
"Often the smaller hospitals are a little lower cost," she said, so the objects becomes keeping "the kind of volume there that are manageable so it isn't just feeding, it's about bringing expertise."
Telemedicine, through which specialists from Allentown can see and talk to patients in Hazleton, helps doctors decide which patients are better served staying put and which should travel to Allentown.
Lehigh Valley's burn specialists, for example, use telemedicine to consult with doctors in 100 locations throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware.
Transferring patients who need procedures like brain and heart surgery or are trauma victims makes good health policy and good economic policy.
A larger hospital that assembles and equips a team of trauma surgeons gets more use from them than does a small hospital. Surgeons who do more procedures refine their skills so each of their patients has a better chance.
Hazleton began drawing on the expertise of Lehigh Valley, which U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks among the nation's best hospitals, in 2006.
That year, Hazleton General Hospital enlarged its emergency department and entered a contract with Lehigh Valley to provide board-certified doctors who treated patients there.
Hazleton General Hospital also emulated best practices used at Baylor University Medical Center of Texas and Lehigh Valley to develop procedures for stroke and heart patients. Doctors in Hazleton diagnosed and prepped patients for flights to Lehigh Valley-Cedar Crest, where they received life-saving treatment in the same time frame as if they had walked into a major trauma center, according to national averages.
Those advances laid the groundwork for the Hazleton hospital to merge with Lehigh Valley eight years later.
Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton in 2015 was certified as a Level IV trauma center.
At Level IV centers doctors quickly evaluate patients and decide whether they should be transferred by helicopter or ambulance to the trauma centers like Lehigh Valley-Cedar Crest that offer higher levels of care.
Greco, who was part of a Philadelphia team that did the first successful open-heart surgery in 1953, later spent long shifts in the emergency room at the former Hazleton State General Hospital. He provided care then that patients now might receive after being flown to Lehigh Valley-Cedar Crest.
"When people came in, we took care of everything. I was up night and day with accidents. Now they stabilize the patient and send them to Allentown. What service is that for the people of Hazleton?" Greco said.
Childs said helicopter flights cost a minimum of $10,000 and patients are flying to Allentown more commonly than before the merger.
He thinks patients with minor burns, fractures and pneumonia are among those who don't have to leave Hazleton.
"Things that could be done locally, should be done locally. We've gotten away from that," he said.
In hindsight, Childs thinks hiring Lehigh Valley to staff the emergency department was tantamount to a hospital takeover.
"We gave away a hospital making $10 million a year," he said. "Where's that $10 million going every year? Is it being spent in Allentown?"
Annual revenues exceeded expenses at the Hazleton hospital by $10 million for two years before the merger, but in eight of 10 years before 2008, the hospital lost money. Local board members thought joining Lehigh Valley helped ensure that a hospital could survive financially in Hazleton, where net patient revenues reached $108 million before the merger.
Lehigh Valley, in contrast, had net patient revenues of $1.3 billion at its hospitals in Allentown and Bethlehem when it took over Hazleton's hospital.
While Lehigh Valley brought its economic stability and medical expertise to Hazleton, the health network also draws on the skills of other hospital systems.
At the Lehigh Valley Cancer Center that opened in October, also on the Airport Beltway, patients can participate in clinical trials run through Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York.
Lehigh Valley joined Sloan Kettering's cancer alliance last summer. Doctors and patients will benefit from sharing the research findings about cancer.
Through another alliance called AllSpire, Lehigh Valley and six other health networks that own 25 hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey agreed to share best practices, improve experiences for patients and lower costs.
Last month, a gift from Air Products let Lehigh Valley establish a center in downtown Allentown to test technologies and pilot programs.
Lower costs don't necessarily result as hospitals consolidate.
Researchers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania said hospital mergers increased since the federal government enacted the Affordable Care Act.
Publicly, the hospitals said mergers shield them from risk and lead to better services.
"The predominant private rationale is that providers consolidate to gobble up more of the market, so they can reduce competition and thereby raise prices," Lawton Burns, a management professor, said in "Hospital Consolidation: Can It Work This Time?" an article from May 11 in the online publication Knowledge@Wharton.
Federal and state regulators, however, approved Lehigh Valley's takeover of Hazleton's hospital.
Hospital history
The merger shares similarities with construction of the state hospital in Hazleton 125 years ago.
Back then, a mine inspector, James E. Roderick, pressed the state to build the hospital by documenting an average of 146 serious accidents yearly in the mines in and around Hazleton.
Victims were treated at home or in a small hospital that the Coxes, a family of coal mine owners, opened in Drifton by 1881. The Drifton hospital had a drugstore, operating room and six bedrooms in a two-story building that later became a family home.
The nearest hospital offering proper care, St. Luke's of Bethlehem, was 70 miles away, a journey that "can only be attended with physical torture, if not loss of life," Roderick said in his report in 1886.
"Only too many victims of mine disasters die from want of proper attendance and careful nursing, while many more await slow recovery in their … homes, because the grievous nature of their injuries forbid a long journey to a distant hospital," Roderick wrote.
The state allocated $60,000 to build the Hazleton hospital, which opened in 1891 and had 52 beds but only treated miners.
Sophia Coxe, widow of one of the coal barons who built the Drifton hospital, made donations to expand the hospital so women could receive care in 1908 and children in 1911.
A new hospital
No one from Lehigh Valley has said where the hospital will be built in the Hazleton area, but the health network owns land on the Airport Beltway next to the Health & Wellness Center.
Bussard of HAP said when designing hospitals now architects can allocate space for machines and equipment and create systems so electronic medical records move with patients throughout the hospital.
Whereas hospitals 150 years ago had wards segregating men and women into large, communal rooms, new hospitals might have more single rooms, she said. That prevents infections and allows space for machinery and for the relatives of patients, who often provide help in following discharge instructions that help the patient continue to heal.
Dr. Frank Polidora, a retired orthopedic surgeon and Butler Township supervisor, expects that a new hospital would be smaller than Hazleton's current hospital, which has 150 beds.
Transfers to Lehigh Valley-Cedar Crest will reduce overnight stays in Hazleton, where Polidora thinks the new hospital will have ample space and nurses for outpatients and same-day surgery.
"They won't need a lot of beds and nursing staff at night," Polidora said.
Meanwhile, Childs doesn't expect Lehigh Valley to offer new services at the new hospital in Hazleton.
"My suspicion is (at) a new hospital, the complexity of the services offered will certainly be less," Childs said.
HOK, a global design firm, shows examples of new hospitals on its website.
Some of the common features include flexible space to accommodate changing needs and more single rooms than semi-private rooms, as at Papworth Hospital in the United Kingdom.
At the Indiana University School of Medicine, continuous handrails guide patients from their beds to their bathrooms.
Indiana University's 319-bed hospital is next to a 200-room ambulatory care center, an arrangement that Lehigh Valley would have if it builds the new hospital near the Health & Wellness Center.
Outpatient facilities like the center, which also offers MRI and other diagnostic tests, therapy and a fitness center, have grown as insurers pushed for shorter hospital stays and as patients recover faster from new surgical techniques.
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council documents the trend within the state, where the number of ambulatory surgery centers increased to 262 from 72 between 2000 and 2009.
While the rate of growth slowed recently — a net of only three surgery centers opened in Pennsylvania in 2014 — doctors performed more than 28 percent of same-day surgeries in centers. Surgeons still did more than 71 percent of outpatient procedures in hospitals.
Lehigh Valley can provide outpatient surgery at Hazleton's hospital and through the Health & Wellness Center, which opened in 2007 as part of the former Greater Hazleton Health Alliance, which ran the hospital before the takeover.
The Wellness Center is in Hazle Township, and land that Lehigh Valley owns near the center is in Hazle and Butler townships.
Hazleton governmental officials want to retain the wage taxes of hospital workers within the city limits instead of losing them to the townships.
Before the merger with Lehigh Valley, the hospital alliance was the third-largest employer in Greater Hazleton with 996 workers, according to CAN DO, the regional economic development agency.
In Hazleton, several vintage buildings remain on the grounds near the main hospital, which was constructed in 1975, the year that the original Gothic-style state hospital was demolished. The main hospital has been improved several times. In 2007, space for the emergency department doubled and a new laboratory and offices were added.
Within the city, land along Arthur Gardner Parkway and between Club 40 and Stockton Mountain roads also has been suggested as possible sites for a new hospital.
When deciding on a size for a new hospital, Greco thinks Lehigh Valley will look at patient load in Hazleton .
Local hospitals of Hazleton's size, he said, are destined to become feeders for larger hospitals like Cedar Crest and for specialty hospitals such as burn centers or cancer centers.
Hazleton once had a specialty hospital.
Drs. James and Lawrence Corrigan, who were brothers, opened the Corrigan Maternity Hospital with other local doctors in 1928 on North Church between Ninth and 10th streets.
The Bernardine Franciscan Sisters purchased the Corrigan hospital in 1944 and built St. Joseph's Hospital on the block in 1949.
St. Joseph's opened satellite centers in Shenandoah and Freeland before entering an alliance in 1996 with Hazleton General Hospital, which moved from control of the state to a local board of directors in 1986.
The alliance converted St. Joseph's to an outpatient center in 2005, and St. Joseph's closed when the Hazleton Health & Wellness Center opened in 2007.


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August 20, 2014 by admin
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I don't know about you, but there's nothing worse than standing in front of your closet trying to figure out what to wear; yes, even men have those days. I like to look into my closet and build my outfit and in order to build my outfit I need a foundation. This is where timeless pieces come into play. The pieces that will always go with any trend and you can wear over and over again a million different ways.
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Goes great with jeans and never goes out of style.
A gray hoodie
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A striped shirt
This is always a must in any man or woman's closet.
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I going to admit that I wasn't a fan until my mom bought me a pair this year. She said I'd love them and she was right I do.
I like these: New Balance 996 | these are a nice alternative to a pair of brown casual shoe – New Balance 57 | | New Balance 576
Denim Shirt
I wear mine over everything! Some people wear denim jackets, I wear a denim shirt – I guess it's a Florida thing.
Try These: Baldwin Denim Shirt | Banana Republic Denim Shirt |
Distressed Dark Wash Jeans
The more you wear them the better they get! You can wear with tees or with a blazer like I do when I need to look a little more dressed up.
Try These: J Crew 484 Dark Wash | Natural Selection Straight Leg
Fun/Colorful Socks
Easy way to add some color to any gets up. I have a ton of pairs and most of them come from here.
Love these pairs: Etiquette polka dots | Sock It To Me Lobsters | Lorenzo Uomo Chevron Socks
There you go 7 of my favorite stylish staple pieces. Wear one at a time or all together either way you can go wrong.
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|Robbie Ross
|Portrayed by
|John Michie
|1998 - Present
|Gaby Ross (Divorced)
|Jamie Ross (Son)
Detective Inspector Robbie Ross (John Michie) first appeared at Maryhill Police station in the episode A Few Bad Men. He has been a main character since 1998.
John Michie first appeared in Taggart in 1990 an episode called Love knot playing a character called Robby Meiklejohn. In Homesick, it is revealed that Robbie's mother's family is Italian, hence the dark looks. Ross is also known for his good looks and charm and while the rest of the Taggart team may be doing the actual investigating of a murder, he spends a lot of time chasing around after some women. This can be seen in the episode Compensation, where he manages to lure a farmer's daughter to bed. Although capable of attracting any kind of female attention, he is unable to form any long-lasting relationship.
He also has a tendency to go off the rails and is occasionally hanging around with some dodgy informant. This can be seen in the episode Grass where one of his informants is killed and his contact book is stolen after he picked up a girl from a bar. This kind of action can risk the careers of his fellow officers,as they are constantly defending Robbie. Robbie has a problem with drinking, sex and gambling and is addicted to all of them. The latter was explored in series 27 and was the main story arc.
In Safer it was revealed that Ross's father bullied and abused his mother.
He is also divorced from his wife Gaby, who appeared in The Caring Game and he was faced with the choice of either staying in Glasgow or leaving for Canada with her and their son, Jamie. In the same episode, it is revealed that he only gets to see him on weekends. "When he's around, things seem to make more sense," Robbie says.
In Skin Deep, Robbie had £5000 paid into his account as part of set up attempt by two ex cons with a grudge against him. While being investigated by Jackie's boyfriend DCS Brian Holmes whom he feels is more interested in bagging a dirty cop than finding the truth, Robbie tracks the frame up to former blackmailer and current wife abuser Dougie Todd. After smashing his way into the house to confront Todd while he is attacking his wife, Robbie is accused of Todd's murder by his partner before it is revealed Todd's wife accidentially killed him in self defence and the partner is holding her captive in order to get Robbie convicted until he's rumbled by Jackie and Stuart.
A Fistful of Chips also shows just how dodgy Robbie can be when he comes into contact with Glasgow's underworld and it is revealed he is friends with Billy Whizz, an informant who offers him an M3P player for thirty pounds - which Ross obviously knows fell off the back of a lorry. It is not surprising that Billy later ends up dead. Robbie is also there for Jardine's funeral and DCI Matthew Burke takes over.
In Fire, Burn the rest of the time find it difficult with Burke now in charge; Robbie is the one who mainly seems to be getting on fine with him but also stands up for Stuart and ends up getting his fingers burnt. Willy Strachan, who is an old adversary, is smuggling women into the country and using them in the sex industry and one of his informants, Sadie, who happens to be a prostitute, ends up dead in a washing machine after she helps Ross by telling him when the next run will be. He gets shot in the arm at the end of the episode.
In the episode Hardman, Robbie follows a suspect, is forced to get out of the car and follow on foot through Central Station, which is packed. He is hot and sweaty from running in the underground car park by the rest of the Taggart team arrive.
In Fade to Black, he complains to Burke about all the paperwork in his tray and he makes a procedural error, resulting in the loss of valuable evidence and it becomes obvious that he has to file it all in the bin.
In Bad Blood, Detective Sergeant Fairchild briefly joins the team - he and the rest of the team get on well with her apart from Burke - but they later find out she is corrupt so he is not happy.
In Blood Money, he attends a boxing match with Matt and Stuart, and ends up losing the bet and when fighting promoter Bobby Walker is found murdered he breaks the news to his widow, Elaine. He is reluctant when she throws herself into his arms and it is revealed that she was only putting on an act. He ends up falling for it.
In New Life, Jackie remarks that he didn't kick anyone's door in for once and managed to get through a whole shift. In the episode So Long Baby, it is revealed that he is due to go on holiday and finds an abandoned baby on the doorstep of a house where a man has been murdered inside.
Relationships with colleaguesEdit
DCI Michael JardineEdit
Robbie Ross first arrived in the episode A Few Bad Men and was immediately marked down as a troublemaker by his boss, Michael Jardine. They eventually get to know each other well and form a good, if distant working relationship.
In Long Time Dead, Robbie takes over the investigation when Jardine's girlfriend Elaine becomes involved in the case. In the episode Death Trap, Robbie was the one who arrived at Michael's flat to take his warrant card and suspend him permenantly.
DCI Matthew BurkeEdit
DI Robbie Ross first met former Special Branch Officer DCI Matthew Burke in the episode Death Trap when he and the team found out that Michael Jardine would be replaced as Senior Investigating Officer. They have a good working relationship, and eventually become good friends.
In Fire, Burn, when the rest of the team are finding it hard to get to grips with Burke's rule, Ross seems to get along with Burke just fine. During this episode, Jackie is frequently yelled at by Burke, and Stuart is treated as errand-boy, a state of affairs which ends when they stick up for themselves. However, it is only when Ross belatedly tries to stick up for Stuart that Burke reveals that he respects Stuart for standing up for himself, and is disappointed at Ross for not being louder in the defence of his colleague.
DI Jackie ReidEdit
Robbie and Jackie met in the same episode when Jackie was a DS and there has always been a bit of attraction between them, which continues throughout the show. In the first ever episode he appeared in, A Few Bad Men, he immediately started flirting with Jackie and even she couldn't help but notice his good looks and charm.
It is not until Fearful Lightning that he invites her round for dinner, to which she accepts; however, it goes disastrously wrong as she turns up while Robbie's girlfriend, Francesca is in his flat, and it turns out Robbie had been hedging his bets between the two.
In the episode Skin Deep, Jackie and Robbie's relationship comes under strain when DCS Brian Holmes - her current boyfriend - arrives to investigate Ross for corruption, although he is innocent. Both Jackie and Stuart stand up for Ross and work tirelessly to prove his innocence.
In Safer, Robbie went off the rails when he and Jackie were sitting in the car and saw Kevin Nash having a go at his wife Paula. Robbie went too far and in turn started beating up Nash; it was only when Jackie stopped him that he finally came to his senses. Nash later put in a complaint - although as usual Robbie's career is saved only at the last minute.
In Bloodsport, the pair go undercover and finally get to kiss - although this is not for romantic reasons. In Abuse of Trust, Jackie has to pick Robbie up from the pub and has to drive him home. In The Ends of Justice, Jackie tells him that he has to change his lifestyle and addictions such as gambling and drinking too much.
DC Stuart Fraser Edit
While Fraser is probably closest to Jackie Reid in terms of having known each other, Robbie and Stuart eventually become something of a double act. The two police officers are polar opposites - Robbie is the classic "tall, dark and handsome", constantly chases after women, gambling, sex and fun, while Fraser is geeky, gay, ginger and a bit more calm in personality. Robbie even describes Stuart as "the only one of us [four] likely to make a decent parent."
While they first meet in the episodeA Few Bad Men, Robbie initially assumes that Stuart is straight. Stuart attempts to correct him, but is interrupted. Stuart eventually comes out to Ross in the episode Bloodlines, and Robbie is initially shocked to learn that Stuart is gay. Over the course of the episode, he gets over his surprise and seems quite fine with Fraser's sexuality, and in later episodes he does have a tendency to tease him about it. Fraser often responds playfully and there is a lot of banter and bickering between the two. It's always kept within limits, though, and the one time it goes too far, in the episode Wavelength, Robbie apologises to Stuart.
The moment when it becomes obvious that Ross has become close to Fraser as a friend and has changed as a person comes in Ghost Rider, when Robbie and Fraser have to work with Robbie's old police mates. These police officers are uncouth, bullying and openly homophobic towards Stuart, and their remarks go beyond teasing. Robbie initially says nothing as he still considers these men his friends, but later, after a particularly nasty remark, he sticks up for Stuart against his old mates. This gets him scorn from his old friends, but he doesn't seem to care any more.
Fraser often covers up for Robbie's mistakes or brings him up to speed on things when the other gets distracted. When Robbie was accused of corruption, Fraser was outraged on his behalf, and works with Jackie to prove Robbie's innocence. Robbie does the same for Stuart in An Eye for an Eye, when Stuart is suspended wrongfully over a case that went wrong, and even stands up to the boss for him.


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Below are responses to a post regarding Moodle and the audience of a classroom.
"[When using Moodle], why would you say the target audience is the teacher?"
When educators (in mainly formal institutions where grades matter) set up a learning management system (LMS), such as Moodle, they are the target audience as a rule. Those who participate within the LMS are more of a group than a network (Downes, 2006, slide 8) where teachers tend to have more control over the content and degree of openness. And yes, external web tools can and are being used but they are being "siphoned" through an LMS because the intended audience is still the teacher. Students can interact with each other in an LMS but it is still within a contained atmosphere that requires anyone to see this interaction to join "the group". Each teacher then must evaluate the type of course to be given, the maturity level of the students, etc. to determine which type of LMS is best suited for their teaching context or whether they will use an LMS at all.
As an alternative to an LMS, think of the entire Internet as an "LMS". Imagine using Google Wave, blogs, wikis, twitter, multimedia tools, etc. in absence of any particular LMS to conduct a class. Now the audience begins to shift away from the teacher, and learning becomes more open. Learners as part of a formal class begin to interact more with the global society as opposed to mainly interacting with those within the LMS group. I recently saw a TED talk with Sir Ken Robinson where he discussed the importance of creating "organic" learning environments for students, and I see learning in a non-LMS environment in the same vein.
What are your thoughts?
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...the teacher may relinquish full control to the learner and allow the learner to drive and control the content and learning environment.
I agree with you as I suspect most would. The question becomes is this surrender of power best served within or outside a LMS. If my teacher were to give me full rights over the content and learning environment, I could then choose whether or not to use the LMS in the first place (I'm thinking CCK08, CCK09, Edfutures, etc.). And as a learner, I would still have this perception that even though I'm using outside web tools and that I'm in control of the learning environment (however one wishes to define "control") that the main audience is still my teacher because all the content was being channelled through an LMS.
Can you envision what it would look like in an EFL/ETL class?
Yes, I can envision it becoming more common in the future through the ongoing development of a personal learning network (PLN). My current research, in fact, addresses PLNs and professional development among EFL/ESL educators. In developing a PLN, I see an LMS as a "stepping stone" in facilitating EFL educators (i.e., learners) to become more interdependent.


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It is Shakespeare's 400th anniversary.
Are we losing his language?
How is communication changing?
What does his language, his communication gifts mean to us in this day and age?
Historical Interpretation is exploring it through the age old problem of family communications.
A play, having its public premier at the Brighton Fringe 2016, in which a father and transgender child workout how to both communicate and relate to each other.
The play takes a fresh look at the age old problem of family communications, but with humour and a twist.
Written and performed by the said father and child.
Simon, the father is doing it as a way to understand, Rory, the child is doing it as a way to self-expression and release.
- Venue – The Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF.
- Dates – 7pm on each of Saturday 14th May; Saturday 21st May; Friday 27th May; Saturday 28th May 2016
- Produced and directed by Simon Waterfield
- Written and performed by Simon Waterfield and Rory Waterfield
- Tickets £9, concessions available.
- To book tickets
- visit www.brightonfringe.org/box-office/shows/view/transgendered-shakespeare
- or call 01273 917272
The play takes a fresh look at the age old problem of family communications, but with humour and a twist.
Communication? Between a father and a child? How difficult can that be?
Communication? Between a father and a transgender child? How much of a nightmare can that be?
On his 400th anniversary, can Shakespeare help?
Follow a father and child exploring each other's worlds with the help, and hindrance of the Bard.
The Grateful Dead and Against Me provide some musical assistance.
Written and performed by said father and child. By the father as a way to understand, by the child as a way to self-expression and release.
The play will have its public premier at the Brighton Fringe.
Brighton Argus 3 Star review of first night
How do we communicate nowadays? We seem to constantly be on various bits of technology instead of talking to one another in person. With that in mind, how can a father communicate with his millennial child? Let alone his millennial child who is transgender?
With a little help from the Bard, Simon and Rory Waterfield explore one another's worlds with musical accompaniment from the Grateful Dead and Against Me.
This personal, emotional play is mostly monologue from Simon, a father trying to understand the transition Rory is going through and what it means in the modern age. Meanwhile, Rory sits on stage on his phone reacting in typical sarcastic teenage fashion and, at the end, finally converses with his father.
The play was a personal journey for the pair and Simon told me how difficult it was to convince Rory, who is staunchly private, to participate.
Whilst there were issues it was still powerful and moving.
The small audience could feel the deep connection between the two and the communicative issues hit home for my own relationship with my parents.
Audience comments
Transgendered Shakespeare was moving
Its fantastic for the subject matter to be in this medium
Very powerful production
Well done Rory it took me 55 years to come out
Loved the use of Shakespeare as a trans gender issue
Fabulous hearing it in Rorys words
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Listen to Fringe Interview here
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Detoxification Comes Before Therapy
Medication-assisted therapy (MAT) can be used especially during the detoxification process to help a person who's experiencing withdrawals. Like detoxification, a medication-assisted therapy is only meant to be implemented for a short period of time and though recovery lasts a lifetime—detoxification and MAT do not.
"MAT is primarily used for the treatment of addiction to opioids such as heroin and prescription pain relievers that contain opiates. The prescribed medication operates to normalize brain chemistry, block the euphoric effects of alcohol and opioids, relieve physiological cravings, and normalize body functions without the negative effects of the abused drug" (SAMHSA).
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that every behavior is learned and can therefore be forgotten. Essentially CBT teaches patients to replace negative thoughts with positive ones by understanding why they think a certain way. Cognitive behavioral therapy is often the therapy that's paired with a medication to treat addiction. CBT can be helpful in treating alcoholism, substance use disorders, depression and other mood disorders like anxiety.
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When a person leaves rehab, whether they're in Dallas, Corpus Christi, El Paso or anywhere else they'll most likely be faced with some of the old triggers. Addiction is a disease of relapse, but that's not a requirement. People often get out of treatment and assume that they're cured but that couldn't be further from the truth. Detoxification and rehab are only the beginning of treatment; now recovery will last a lifetime.
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'Judas' - Gary Fulton - sharply observant lyrics that bite(March 10, 2014)
I like Gary Fulton's songs. He writes lyrics that bite. Somewhat understated, without fuss or furore his songs are nonetheless sharply observant. Subtly crafted, absorbing melodies carry their message. His latest album, 'Judas' is a selection of self-penned songs that convey a spectrum of messages from dark and slightly disturbing inspections to sharply uncompromising reflections. There's little embellishment and nothing included that doesn't need to be there, this is quietly powerful, building in presence each time you listen.
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Anne Jenkins a 47 year old teacher who lives in Sussex, with her husband and two children, developed diabetes last year. She had no classic symptoms of the disease and it was only because she had a routine screening that it was picked up.
'Two years ago I had a routine blood test at my GP surgery to check my blood sugar levels. It was part of an overall MOT check-up – I also had my blood pressure and cholesterol tested and I had no reason to suspect anything might be wrong. I considered myself fit and healthy, I wasn't a heavy drinker or anything and wasn't overweight.
'I was surprised to learn though that my blood sugar was quite high – slightly above the normal range. My body mass index was at the high end of normal I'm 5ft 8 inches tall and weighed 82 kilos.
My late mother had type 1 diabetes so I was very familiar with the symptoms of the disease including thirst and tiredness, but I hadn't had any of those.My GP said that I could probably control it by making some changes to my diet. She suggested I start eating breakfast –a meal I usually skipped - to help stabilise my blood sugar and encouraged me not to need snacks later in the day. I took her advice and actually lost some weight – only a few kilos nothing drastic - and my blood sugar came down too .
Because of my family history though, my GP advised that I should monitor my blood sugar with finger print blood tests. Over the next couple of months my blood sugar started to climb again and I started to lose a lot of weight for no obvious reason . Everyone was saying how great I looked and asking me what my secret was and I began to wonder if something was wrong, although hand on heart I still didn't feel unwell.
My GP prescribed me an anti diabetes drug called Sitagliptin to see if it could stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin, and my blood sugar levels did come down slightly - but not enough to get it in the normal range and I was still losing weight . I still didn't feel ill though and I was getting all these compliments about my weight loss – I was now down to 62 kg - and being told I looked amazing. I was referred to a hospital diabetes specialist last August because my GP suspected I may have developed type 1 diabetes. I was later diagnosed by the specialist as having Latent Auto Immune Diabetes of Adulthood (LADA) –a strain of type 1 diabetes that develops later in life. I was told this would mean I would have to inject insulin three times a day for the rest of my life.
Type 1 diabetes develops when the insulin producing cells in the body have been destroyed and the body is unable to produce any insulin.It's an auto immune condition , which means your body's own immune system mistakes the cells in your pancreas as harmful and attacks them, either destroying them or damaging them so they can't produce insulin.
LADA can be difficult to differentiate from type 2 diabetes because of its slow onset , but I've read that LADA patients are usually younger and thinner than type 2 diabetics.
I'm quite a pragmatic type of person: whilst I'm not particularly happy that I've got LADA – I also saw my mother manage to live a very full life despite having type 1 diabetes, even 40 years ago.
I came to terms with my diagnosis quite quickly and have been determined ever since that it shouldn't encroach on my life.
My GP,specialist and diabetes nurse have been absolutely fantastic. My nurse demonstrated how to inject myself and said I could call her at any time.
Since last September 2013, I've been injecting myself with insulin three times a day before each meal and have another baseline injection to help keep my insulin levels stable. It's not a big deal it just enables me to carry on living a normal life. I'm sensible about what I eat but I can still have a curry, a cake or a high carb meal if I balance that out with more insulin. I've worked out that 20g of carbohydrates roughly equates to 2 units of insulin, and I've got a very handy app for my phone which can calculate how much insulin I will need if I have certain foods.
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Eden Hazard who was active in Tuesday's clash against Barcelona has revealed to newsmen that he is confident the Blues can defeat the Catalans in the Champions League last-16 return leg tie at Camp Nou if they are more ruthless than they were at Stamford Bridge, according to reports.
The Belgian also promised that they will concentrate till the end of the game to ensure that they qualify at the expense of the La Liga giants next month.
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