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Articles in the Newsline section were abstracted by the National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- City Fined on Failing to Shelter AIDS Patients
- AIDS in Prisons
- The Impact of Harm-Reduction-Based Methadone Treatment on Mortality Among Heroin Users
- Changing America and AIDS: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- "Quilt's Message Endures"
- Health Officials Express Concern over Infection Rate of Young Gays, Bisexuals
- Second Lot of Counterfeit Serostim Surfaces, Serano Warns Customers
- Discrepancies in People with AIDS May Be Linked to Gene Variation
City Fined on Failing to Shelter AIDS Patients
State Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman found the administration of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in contempt of a 1999 decree requiring that homeless people with AIDS be housed on the same day they seek help. Goodman ruled that the city's AIDS service agency had failed to house five such people and imposed fines of $250 for each person for each night housing was denied, plus reimbursement of their legal bills. The judgment is expected to total in the tens of thousands of dollars. The justice reserved decision on 17 other people who said they were also denied prompt shelter.
City officials called the decision unfair and said they would appeal. "To be in contempt, there has to be a significant violation," said Lorna Bade Goodman, spokesperson for the city's Corporation Counsel. "There were only five cases, and they were all in housing by the next night." But Housing Works, the nonprofit group that won the original court order and organized the latest case, called the city a flagrant violator. Armen H. Merjian, attorney for the group, said the instances in question were "just a sample of at least hundreds of cases." Merjian told of homeless persons being sent to addresses that were not accommodations or to remote hotels where they were not allowed to register. "The basic problem is the city's failure to build more housing for people with AIDS and diverting millions of dollars in federal funds earmarked for housing," he said. City officials countered that New York does more for homeless persons and those with AIDS than any other city. (New York Times (05.19.01) Bruce Lambert)
AIDS in Prisons
"Tens of thousands of prisoners around the country are infected with the virus that causes AIDS, making prisons one of the most potentially dangerous incubators of the epidemic," began the editors. Such a concentration of HIV-infected prisoners "means that healthy inmates run an increased risk of catching the disease by having sex or sharing hypodermic needles with them -- behaviors that are illegal but widespread in American prisons." But most prisons "ignore these risks" and do not provide "adequate tools to slow the spread of the virus. Only a few prison and jail systems in the country offer condoms for safer sex or bleach to disinfect needles. This is shortsighted. Officials should not only work to reduce prisoners' risk of catching AIDS in prison, they should also help a captive audience learn about safer practices in a way that would stick when the inmates returned to the community," asserted the editors.
Although "the amount of AIDS transmission in prison is unknown . . . there is anecdotal evidence that people have gotten HIV in prison, and it is very likely that the number is high," the editors wrote. One Tennessee study "found that 28 percent of inmates reported injecting drugs in prison. Since needles are rare behind prison walls, they are almost always shared, accelerating the spread of AIDS," they wrote. The editors also pointed to consensual homosexual behavior and forcible sex as modes of HIV transmission among prisoners.
"Education about AIDS prevention is often not done in a way that resonates with prisoners, and such programs need to be linked with health care on the outside so that patients on antiretroviral drugs continue their treatment. . . . Prison offers the opportunity to give these high-risk people the medical care and AIDS education they will not get once outside," the editors concluded. (New York Times (05.21.01))
The Impact of Harm-Reduction-Based Methadone Treatment on Mortality Among Heroin Users
Users of intravenous drugs are at increased risk of premature mortality. The most important natural causes of death among those using intravenous drugs are infections -- AIDS, hepatitis, endocarditis -- that are acquired largely through non-sterile injection practices. The HIV epidemic has greatly increased the mortality rate of this population, but in most countries overdose is still the predominant cause of death among drug users.
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of harm-reduction-based methadone programs on the mortality of heroin users. Researchers performed a prospective cohort investigation among 827 participants in the Amsterdam Cohort Study. Of the 827 drug users, 60 percent were male and 27 percent were of foreign nationality. Mean age was 31.0 years, and 27 percent were HIV-positive. Seventy-seven percent had a history of drug injection, and the mean injection use was 10.0 years. Sixty-two percent used more than one type of hard drug, most often a combination of heroin and cocaine. Methadone was received in low-threshold programs for 65 percent of participants, medium-threshold for 16 percent, high-threshold for 3 percent and other (received in jails, or not at all). Poisson regression was used to identify methadone maintenance treatment characteristics that are significantly and independently associated with mortality due to natural causes and overdose.
Methadone treatment was defined by most recent methadone dosage, mean dosage, frequency of program attendance, most recent type of program and main type of program. Population characteristics were adjusted for variability. These included socio-demographic characteristics, physical and mental health and drug use. The second set of characteristics included HIV status.
Mental health was assessed through a General Health Questionnaire. Drug use information included years since first drug injection; years since initiative of regular heroin use; frequency of current use of heroin, cocaine, barbiturates, tranquilizers; total number of illicit drugs currently used and drinks of alcohol per day.
According to the investigators, 89 participants between 1985 and 1996 died of natural causes, and 31 died as a result of overdose. After controlling for HIV and underweight status, "there was an increase in natural-cause mortality among subjects who left methadone treatment (relative risk [RR]= 2.38, 4.55). Leaving treatment was also related to higher overdose mortality, but only among injection drug users (RR=4.55, 95% CI=1.89, 10.00)."
In conclusion, the investigators pointed to results indicating that "harm-reduction-based methadone treatment, in which the use of illicit drugs is tolerated, is strongly related to decreased mortality from natural causes and from overdose. Provision of methadone in itself, together with social-medical care, appears more important than the actual methadone dosage." (American Journal of Public Health (05.01.01) Vol 91; No 5: P 775-780. Miranda W. Langedam, Ph.D.; Geil H. A. van Brussel, M.D.; Roel A. Coutinho, M.D., Ph.D.; Erik J. C. van Ameijden, Ph.D.)
Changing America and AIDS: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
According to US Surgeon General David Satcher, current data indicate that less than 1 percent of reported US AIDS cases are among Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders (AA/PIs). Satcher listed a number of reasons to believe that this is a great under-representation of the incidence of HIV/AIDS in this population. HIV/AIDS data on AA/PIs is partial and hides risks. Additionally, there is a lack of visibility of the increase in the epidemic around the world. Currently, 36 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, including an estimated 6 million to 7 million people in Asian and Pacific Basin nations.
AA/PIs make up 4 percent of the US population and are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group. With 40 cultures and 100 languages spoken, little research has been done on the roles of culture and language on health status and health seeking behaviors. According to the article, "AA/PI communities have over 5,500 reported AIDS cases out of the 753,907 in the US to date. Nearly 75 percent of cases were found among this diverse population's gay and bisexual men. A six-city study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that among young gay and bisexual Asian American and Pacific Islander men in the US, 3 percent were HIV-positive."
There are other risks ahead. About 40 percent of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have limited English proficiency, with Southeast Asians having the highest rates of linguistic challenge (70 percent). About 1.4 million, or 13 percent, of AA/PIs in 1998 were living at or below the federal poverty level. "Several studies have shown that those who are linguistically isolated also lack knowledge about HIV transmission and are more likely to believe myths about who is at risk."
The lack of written materials in the native language is a clear obstacle, but addressing cultural attitudes is even tougher. "I don't know any community that readily discusses sexuality, especially homosexual and bisexual behaviors," Satcher wrote. ". . . It is not a stretch to say that homophobia leads many gay/bisexual men to participate in high-risk behaviors and that stigma associated with HIV/AIDS leads many to not seek testing or treatment for their disease."
Satcher's initiative, The Leadership Campaign on AIDS (TLCA), is working on issues of HIV among communities of color to support leadership involvement. In addition, the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders has, in recent years, crafted its recommendations on actions dealing with a broad array of issues including health, human services, education, housing, labor, transportation and economic and community development. Its Web site (www.aapi.gov) outlines action items.
In conclusion, Satcher emphasized that "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are a significant part of our ever-changing nation, and we must include them when putting together our priorities, funding, and programs. This sustainable drive must come from AA/PI and public health leaders." To learn more about TLCA, visit: www.surgeongeneral.gov/aids/tlcapage1.html. (US Surgeon General David Satcher, MD (O5.01))
"Quilt's Message Endures"
Two decades after the CDC first reported that a deadly new disease had begun circulating among young gay men in Los Angeles, the AIDS Memorial Quilt remains a powerful icon of the epidemic and a uniquely personal view of the social, political and cultural impact of AIDS. In his book, Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist (written with Jeff Dawson), Cleve Jones said he conceived the idea of the quilt on Nov. 27, 1985, as he and other demonstrators papered a wall of San Francisco's old Federal Building with cardboard sheets bearing the names of those who had died of AIDS. "It reminded me of a quilt, like the one made for me by my grandmother," he wrote.
Jones felt a quilt would be a "comfortable middle-class symbol" that most people could accept. As it grew, the quilt earned a reputation as "the battle flag in the war against AIDS." Thousands of panels honoring gay white men were soon joined by others memorializing hemophiliacs, African-Americans, Latinos, children and women. In 1996, when the quilt was displayed for the fifth time in Washington, D.C., its 50-ton expanse reached from the Washington Monument to the doors of Congress. (USA Today (05.29.01) Steve Sternberg)
Health Officials Express Concern over Infection Rate of Young Gays, Bisexuals
Gay men too young to remember the earliest reports of AIDS are now spreading the disease at alarming rates that remind US health officials of the epidemic's explosive first years. According to a government survey, 4.4 percent of gay and bisexual men ages 23 to 29 are newly infected each year with HIV. Among blacks in the same age group, 14.7 percent, or one in seven, become HIV-positive each year.
"The numbers we're publishing right now are more like the findings you see in the '80s than the findings you see in the '90s," said the CDC's Linda Valleroy, who led the survey in which 3,000 gay and bisexual men were tested anonymously between 1998 and 2000 in Baltimore, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Seattle. The survey, timed to mark the 20th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, is the government's most sweeping evidence yet of a resurgence in the disease among young gay men. The one-in-seven infection rate for young black gays and bisexuals is roughly the same as the current rate in South Africa, Valleroy said.
"People don't perceive that you get infected and you die in two months anymore," said Phill Wilson, executive director of the African-American AIDS Policy and Training Institute at the University of Southern California. "There's all these posters around that say you can climb mountains and do whatever with HIV and AIDS. There's not enough messages about the price you have to pay."
"We have to stop and take a look at the devastation that potentially could occur among these young men," said Dr. Helene Gayle, the CDC's AIDS chief. "These are precious and important lives." The CDC wants to cut the number of new US infections from the current 40,000 annually to below 20,000 in five years, chiefly by improving prevention, targeting at-risk groups and urging more Americans to be tested for HIV. (Associated Press (05.31.01) Erin McClam)
Second Lot of Counterfeit Serostim Surfaces, Serano Warns Customers
A lot of drugs labeled as Serano's AIDS-wasting medication Serostim (somatropin, rDNA origin), bearing the lot number MNH605A, is counterfeit, the Norwell, Mass.-based Serano said. The company has sent notice to wholesale distributors, pharmacies, physicians and AIDS service groups telling them to immediately return any product labeled with that lot number. An investigation by the Food and Drug Administration has so far revealed that the fake product contains a "small amount" of human growth hormone -- but not the recombinant human growth hormone used in Serostim -- and "significantly less" growth hormone than the genuine product, said Serano spokesperson Carolyn Castel. (Reuters (05.18.01))
Discrepancies in People with AIDS May Be Linked to Gene Variation
Scientists have found a common genetic variation that may help solve the long-standing mystery of why HIV is rapidly lethal in some people yet takes decades to affect the health of others. The discovery, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine (Vol 344; No 22: P 1668-1675), ultimately could help in developing a vaccine against the AIDS virus. The discovery could also allow physicians to design an individualized medical plan for each patient, with those most at risk of quick progression getting the strongest doses of drugs at an early stage.
The genetic variation, called "Px," is present in about 12 percent of the population. It is only slightly different from other versions of a gene that acts as a critical part of the body's defenses against foreign invaders, such as HIV. The variation is benign in people who aren't infected with the virus, and it may even help by boosting the body's defenses against malaria, said study senior author Mary Carrington, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health.
However, in the study of 850 people, the presence of the Px gene variation appeared to accelerate the onset of full-blown AIDS by four to five years. In the study group, it took only about seven years after infection for half of those with Px to develop full-blown AIDS, compared with about 11 to 12 years for those with other versions of the gene. One theory for this difference holds that the Px gene is "just sitting there and not doing its job" in AIDS patients, Carrington said. Another holds that "it may be actively damaging" to the body's defenses against the disease, she added. (Wall Street Journal (05.31.01) Laura Johannes)


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Nov. 19, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara's Chris Peterson, a sophomore, was named Big West Conference Swimmer of the Week this Wednesday after an excellent triple-dual meet last Friday against UC San Diego and Cal State Northridge held at UCSB's Campus Pool.
The El Sobrante, Calif. native held his own last Friday with one individual first place finish in the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.52, as well as a second place finish in the 100 freestyle with an exhibition time of 45.96.
Peterson also helped his 200 medley relay finish first, swimming the freestyle anchor with a split of 20.38. In the 400 freestyle relay, Peterson swam the second leg with a split time of 45.38, the relay finished with a fast time of 3:03.88.
Peterson's 50 freestyle time currently ranks in the top-15 in the country.
The Gauchos will be in San Luis Obispo next Saturday, Nov. 21, to swim against Cal Poly. All of the action will start at 11 am.

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Sfas Emes, Pesach, 5631
The Sfas Emes on Pesach is very rich: 69 double-columned pages in small Rashi script. The Sfas Emes has so much to say on Pesach that my best effort to transmit here is like taking a spoonful of water from the ocean.
Why do I mention how much more Sfas Emes is available? Because being aware of how much more Sfas Emes is out there, some members of this Chabura may realize that the time has come to purchase their own set of Sfas Emes. I suggest that you view this purchase as an investment in mind-stretching Divrei Torah — an afikoman present for the entire family. Owning your own copy of the Sfas Emes will increase your access to his ideas. And better access to the ideas of the Sfas Emes will help you (and your family) avoid a malady to which observant Jews are all too susceptible — religious stagnation.
Before we begin this ma'amar, it helps to have an idea of what to expect. The ma'amar is crafted along three themes: past and present; the individual and the klal (the collectivity); emes (provable truth) and emuna (unprovable truth). These three themes weave in and out of the ma'amar, giving it a rare beauty. Finally, toward the end of the ma'amar, expect an extraordinary khap — intellectual coup — such that only the Sfas Emes could deliver.
In his very first ma'amar on Pesach, the Sfas Emes quotes a text from the Haggada: "Bechol dor vador chayav (!) ahdam lir'os es atzmo ke'ilu HU yatza miMitzrayim." That is, in each generation, a person must (!) view himself as having personally experienced the Redemption from Egypt. The Sfas Emes takes this mandate seriously., This leads to a basic question: what should a person do to reach this esired – more accurately: mandated — goal? The Sfas Emes answers that a two-step process is involved. The first step is to realize that, in reality, every generation experiences its own version of the Redemption from Egypt. With that belief under our belt., the Sfas Emes tells us, we can in fact relive the original, prototypical ge'ula as a personal experience.
The Sfas Emes now elaborates on this idea: i.e., that we are enjoined to relive the experience of our Liberation from Egypt. That Liberation involved much more than escape from physical and political subordination to the Egyptians. Redemption also included escape from the tum'a of Egyptian culture and intellectual life.
Continuing with this theme of experiencing Redemption, the Sfas Emes quotes a statement of the Maharal. The Maharal tells us that "bevadai" ("certainly") we all participated in the experience of the Redemption from Egypt as a klal (i.e., the Jewish People as a collectivity). But the Haggada is telling us more than the fact that we experienced Redemption as a collectivity. In mandating: "ke'ilu HU yatzami Mitzrayim", the Haggada is telling us that we must also experience Liberation on an individual, personal level.
How does a person achieve that much more difficult goal of reliving the Redemption from Egypt at an individual, personal level? The Sfas Emes answers: by joining the collectivity. (Note: The idea that an individual can achieve personal religious fulfillment by joining the collectivity is a startling paradox . Anyone but the Sfas Emes would steer clear of such an apparent internal contradiction. By contrast, the Sfas Emes explicitly recognizes the seeming inconsistencies that HaShem built into the world. In fact, he gives them center stage.)
How does an individual become part of the collectivity? With emuna! by truly believing that we were redeemed from the galus of Mitzrayim, we can re-live the actual experience. Once we affirm our membership in the collectivity, we can access this experience on an individual basis. A fair question here is: how does this process work (in the real world)? That is, how does having emuna enable an individual to become part of a collectivity?
I suggest the following explanation. By definition, emuna involves affirmation of ideas that cannot be proven. Hence, choosing to accept a given set of ideas sets a person apart from people who do not give credence to those ideas. By the same token, choosing to accept those ideas puts the person together with people who affirm the same thoughts as he. Thus, affirming a set of unprovable ideas – i.e., emuna — enables an individual to join the collectivity of klal Yisroel. (Notice how commonsensical are these ideas of the Sfas Emes once we make the effort to take them seriously.)
The Sfas Emes has articulated two conditions for experiencing personal liberation. He makes it clear that both conditions involve emuna; i.e. affirmation of an unprovable truth. Note that mesora (father to offspring tradition) is not enough for the Sfas Emes. As he sees the world, emuna is necessary to arrive at the emes. What are the two conditions for which — in this context — emuna is required? A person must view himself as having participated (past tense) in the Redemption. And he/she must have the emuna to recognize that, were it not for the Redemption, he/she would not have a relationship with HaShem. With these two emuna conditions satisfied, a person will realize that indeed he is (present tense) being liberated.
We can now sum up on this line of analysis. The Sfas Emes has told us that every generation has its 'Yetzi'as Mitzrayim' (Exodus from Egypt). The Redemption varies with the specific situation and needs of the generaneration. (Note: Redemption implies prior enslavement. What do you see as the nature of enslavement of the present generation?) Further, the Sfas Emes has told us that, to the degree that a person has emuna that he experienced (past tense) the Liberation from Egypt, so too, can he feel (present tense) the Redemption of his own generation. And so, too, can each individual experience Liberation from his own personal constraints.
"Constraints"? How did "constraints" get into this discussion? The answer stretches one's mind, for it is a typical Sfas Emes chidush. To understand the answer, we must go back to basics. The word "Mitzrayim:" is usually translated as "Egypt." But with ko'ach ha'chidush such as only the Sfas Emes can deploy, he reads the word 'Mitzrayim" in a totally innovative way. The Hebrew word "meitzar" means "constraint" or "limit". The Sfas Emes is reading "Mitzrayim" as being the plural of of the word "metizar". Thus, "yetzi'as mitzrayim" has become: "liberation from one's constraints". The Sfas Emes does not spell out what he has specifically in mind when he refers to personal constraints that Pesach teaches us can be overcome. I suggest that he is referring to long-standing attitudes, ingrained assumptions, and habits that too often constrain a person's growth.
A final question. Viewing Pesach as a time for Liberation from one's personal constraints is fine and good if the constraints are in fact loosened. But does it make sense to talk of "Liberation" in a case where the constraints are NOT loosened? For example, consider a case in which the constraint derives — cholilo (God forbid) — from an incurable medical handicap. Does the Sfas Emes's perspective on Pesach as a time for Liberation from a person's individual constraints apply there too?
I believe the answer is: yes! How so? A major theme in the Sfas Emes's Torah is the need to pierce the Hester with which HaShem cloaks Himself. Piercing the Hester enables a person to view reality accurately A prominent case in which the Sfas Emes applies this insight is in the context of seeing the hand of HaShem where an untutored eye would see only Nature (teva).
This observation implies that the Sfas Emes's perspective certainly does apply to the case of the person afflicted with an incurable handicap. Knowledge that his condition comes from HaShem (rather than from mindless Nature) implies that his condition is purposeful. This awareness gives meaning to what the person is undergoing. It transforms his experience, and makes it a wholly different condition. Thus, getting the metaphysics of the situation right provides Liberation in its own special way.
This Sfas Emes is rich — in fact, so rich that one cannot hold on to it. One way to handle this situation of overflowing insights is to focus on some thoughts that speak to one with special force. Tastes, interests, and background vary, so there is no single list of Sfas Emes thoughts that will serve for everyone. But to stimulate your own thinking about "take home" Sfas Emes thoughts, here are two suggestions. One unique and powerful Sfas Emes idea is the notion that every generation experiences its own enslavement and Redemption. Another powerful new idea is the thought that Pesach is a time for individuals to break out of their personal constraints and grow.
Text Copyright © 2005 by Rabbi Dr. Nosson Chayim Leff and Torah.org.


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The Owl and the Pussycat is not your run of the mill opera. The stage has been replaced with a Narrow boat and the auditorium with a spectator-lined canal. Six musicians squash into a tent-like space beneath a large upturned book, and a colourful cast of characters perform enthusiastically around it.
The ROH2 production was commissioned with the idea of taking opera to strange places and new audiences, something which it has certainly achieved.
A water-bound spectacle, the opera is currently travelling from west to east along London's canals and waterways, being performed at venues where people would never think of hearing opera. Fun, free and family-friendly, it provides the perfect introduction to opera.
The opera, directed by Martin Constantine, is one of the highlights of the Mayor of London's 'Secrets', a series of artistic collaborations designed to highlight London's hidden gem locations.
You can hear more about the spectacle directly from the artists involved with a short film on the BBC website.
Librettist Terry Jones, ex-Monty Python, has created a funny and dramatic tale, set to an exciting score commissioned from Oscar-winning composer Anne Dudley. The duo, who collaborated earlier this season in Operashots: The Doctor's Tale, have based their work loosely on Edward Lear's nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat – a fitting tale for a water-bound opera.
Read more about Jones' inspiration for the libretto.
The 'opera-barge' has already held performances at Brentford Lock and Horsenden Farm. Three performances remain, taking place on Sunday 29 July at 3pm and 6pm in Graham Street Gardens, and on Tuesday 31 July at 6pm in Mile End Park. All performances are free, though get there early to ensure a spot.
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From October 18-20, 2013 the Stubai Zoo terrain park on the Stubai Glacier in Tyrol, Austria will kick off the new season with the MOREBOARDS Stubai Premiere. The three-day opening offers free demos and many highlights in the park. With a musical lineup including Cyberpunkers, Drunken Masters, Sentinel Sound and many more artists, party people will also get their money's worth.
If you're already planning your Stubai Premiere experience, you can save money now by booking one of the "Early Bird" Packages. Winter's coming faster than you think. With a mix of time-honored traditions and new highlights, the snowpark on the Stubai Glacier kicks off the winter season from 18-20 October 2013.
The fifth annual MOREBOARDS Stubai Premiere will once again pack in all kinds of jam sessions, coaching, and contests. Participation in all on-slope events is free of charge. In the Brand Saloon over 40 companies will offer their brand-new products for free demos. The MOREBOARDS Stubai Zoo, with lines for every skill level, will remain open to the public throughout the event. And a few pros are sure to show up, too.
Cyberpunkers, Drunken Masters and Sentinel Sound confirmed Neustift in Stubaital will bounce this weekend. For two evenings, parties will rock at diverse locations, on multiple floors and in the pool. An interesting musical mix with the diverse influences of Cyberpunkers, Drunken Masters, Sentinel Sound and many more is planned.
Limited "Early Bird" Packages The tourist office Stubai Tirol is now offering various packages including accommodation, lift tickets and party access from 79 euros that are easy on the pocketbook. Early bookers can receive a limited "Eary Bird" Package with extra discounts. More packages and update to the program are available at www.stubai-premiere.com. Ride the zoo!


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VANCOUVER, B.C. -- It wasn't the result Andy O'Brien was hoping for on his return from a hamstring injury, but at least after getting through 90 minutes against the LA Galaxy in Saturday's 1-0 loss at BC Place, the 34-year-old Vancouver Whitecaps defender knows he's ready for the stretch drive.
After missing two months due to a muscle pull that seemed to linger on week after week, O'Brien won't have to answer questions about his fitness in the weeks to come.
"I'm glad it's over to be honest with you," O'Brien told reporters at BC Place following Saturday's match. "I felt like I've been like 'rent-a-quote' this week, but I'm glad to get it out of the way, but disappointed that we didn't win."
It wasn't a perfect return for O'Brien. He was at least partially culpable on Landon Donovan's third-minute game-winner, as both he and his centerback partner Johnny Leveron drifted toward Robbie Keane, leaving Donovan unmarked when a loose ball was poked free to the US star.
But after the goal, O'Brien was back to his steady self, and marshalled a backline that kept the Galaxy largely quiet overall on Saturday.
"Generally they didn't have too many great chances," head coach Martin Rennie said after the match. "They scored a fantastic goal early on, one we could have defended better. But we didn't really give up a lot of clear chances, and I think Andy probably contributed to that and helped with that."
The match also marked the first time O'Brien has played in front of goalkeeper David Ousted, and the Dane seemed impressed by the veteran defender's poise and presence.
"I think Andy did good," Ousted said of O'Brien's play. "He's vocal, the same as me, and it's nice to have him down there. He did good, and I'm looking forward to seeing Andy get into a rhythm."
Martin MacMahon covers the Vancouver Whitecaps for MLSsoccer.com.


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How Technology Is Helping Kony Victims in Uganda
If you watched the viral KONY 2012 documentary, it should come as no surprise that there are more people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in northern Uganda than anywhere else in the world.
One organization, THARCE-Gulu, is offering non-medical integrative therapy, notably filmmaking and computer education, to victims of Joseph Kony in northern Uganda.
The non-profit uses donated Flip cameras and editing software to teach video storytelling techniques. THARCE film students shoot and edit videos about the Gulu community, including one featuring the women of Gulu and another of a Bob Marley flash mob (both below).
"We have a motto here at THARCE, 'Nothing about us, without us,'" THARCE supporter and actress Eliza Dushku (Bring It On, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse) told Mashable, explaining how storytelling through film can be therapeutic.
In addition to the film curriculum, THARCE teaches computer skills using 20 donated HP laptops Dushku delivered to Gulu with her boyfriend, actor and former NBA player Rick Fox.
One Gulu community member Dushku feels particularly close to, Rose, comes to the center to check her email, use Facebook and connect to a world she was previously cut off from. The 27-year-old mother of four was abducted as a child and assigned to Joseph Kony's right-hand man.
"It's a new shot at life for her and her kids," Dushku says. "They're so desperate for tech. I was the CES ambassador this year and I would say 'I know it might sound insane, but send us your old products, you have no idea the effect it will have — they are so savvy and so desperate."
Following KONY 2012's rapid spread to become the most viral video ever, much attention has been drawn to the situation in northern Uganda. Despite criticisms of the documentary, Dushku says she quickly retweeted the link.
"When you first hear about the circumstances, you're blown away thinking how this went on and how nobody talked about it," she says, noting that KONY 2012 doesn't best represent the current situation, because Kony may now be in the Congo or Sudan. "What's far more pressing today, as far as what victims need now, is rehabilitation and rebuilding."
Dushku says THARCE would love to collaborate with Invisible Children, the organization that created the film, because of their skill at generating buzz around the issue. One of the primary criticisms of Invisible Children has been its allocations of funds, very little of which go toward the people abducted by Kony.
"The focus now is seeing that the money goes to the people that the film was made about," Dushku says, revealing a potential discrepancy between the two organization's approaches.
Dushku's mother Judith Dushku, an African politics professor, first visited the region three years ago while she was teaching a class about former child soldiers. She was so moved by the people of Gulu that she decided to work to expand THARCE and is now president of that non-profit organization. She soon got the younger Dushku on board, who has since raised $30,000 for her 30th birthday and $31,000 for her 31st birthday for THARCE.
In addition to computer and film courses, THARCE-Gulu (Trauma Healing and Reflection Center) teaches business, literacy, arts, storytelling and women's empowerment courses.
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By Amanda Ripley / Washington
Polls find that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is one of the least popular agencies in government, ranking down in the depths of hell with the IRS. Passengers complain about rude treatment, inflexible rules, long lines and seemingly illogical and inconsistent policies. One thing they don't tend to take issue with, however, is the uniforms. They don't say things like, "Please make the screeners look more like real police."
But that is exactly what the TSA is doing, outfitting frontline employees with new gold badges and royal-blue shirts as part of a broader effort to improve their image and make people, to put it bluntly, hate them less. The idea for the new badge and uniform came from an advisory council of TSA workers in the field. "We definitely wanted to change from the white shirts [which had an embroidered badge sewn onto the fabric]," says Stephanie Naar, a TSA employee who has worked at Reagan National Airport for over three years. "We wanted to have, I don't want to say more authority, but a more professional look to upgrade our image."
The move has some scientific evidence to back it. Psychologists who have researched the effects of official-looking uniforms and badges find that they do indeed tend to make people more compliant. "Our research shows that people respect individuals who wear uniforms, and do what they say," says Brad J. Bushman, a professor who studies aggression at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. In two studies conducted in the 1980s, Bushman found that people were much more likely to follow the orders of a person with a uniform and a badge than the direction of someone in regular clothing.
The uniform can also change the person wearing it. Bushman predicts that the new TSA uniforms may make screeners behave in a more dignified and authoritative manner. They may demand more of people, he says. And people can be expected to submit at least a little more readily.
Screeners at Reagan National Airport began wearing their new badges and shirts to work this week, and I can report that they do look a lot more like police officers — in Pleasantville. The shirts are a shade more vivid than actual police-officer uniforms, the badges a bit more sparkly. So far, both passengers and screeners seemed pleased with the new Homeland Security style. "It looks more professional," said Michele Bledsoe, who had just flown to Washington from Kansas City, Mo. "I didn't like those white shirts," said her friend Anita Brown. "They looked dirty."
By the end of the year, all 43,000 screeners should have the new uniforms, which cost a total of $12 million. But first they will have to complete two days of mandatory additional training, focused on how to "calm" the environment. They will be encouraged to use new wireless communication devices, so they won't have to shout at one another to come check some poor sap's bag. They will also participate in mock scenarios to learn how to defuse conflict.
The word Calm is used a lot these days at the TSA, usually as a verb. People, checkpoints, airport ... you need to be calmed. The new checkpoint at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, which features pastel light panels and supposedly soothing music, is part of this effort, as are modest steps toward more transparency through new features like a TSA blog.
The intent of these efforts is not just to make the experience more pleasant, however, but also to make it more obvious who is nervous, twitchy and angry — to make it easier to spot a terrorist, in other words. Until now, the TSA had managed to make a lot of us act like terrorists at checkpoints, which made behavioral profiling a bit tricky.
Passengers are already made to feel vulnerable at airport checkpoints: there we stand, shoeless and beltless, clutching our boarding passes, waiting to be summoned through the pearly metal detector. Screeners can effectively determine whether we will make our flights or miss them. It hardly seems like the power dynamic is skewed toward the passenger right now.
But some TSA employees feel that screeners do not get the respect they deserve. The new uniform and flashy badge will foster more respect, they hope, and thus improve morale within the ranks. "How people perceive us has a lot to do with how we perceive ourselves," says TSA employee Naar. "[Now] everyone feels that they look sharp, and they are very proud."
So far, the biggest complaint about the new uniforms has come from real police officers, who fear that giving TSA screeners badges might confuse the public into thinking the airport personnel are police officers. A former Kansas City International Airport police officer remembers pulling over a TSA screener for speeding on airport property. The screener tried to talk his way out of the ticket by showing the officer a cloth TSA badge, which he kept in his wallet. "They'd start the whole brotherhood thing, thin blue line, and all of that. I'm like, 'You got two weeks of training. I went to 22 weeks of the police academy. Sign here.'"
Screeners are not supposed to flash their badges when they are off duty, says TSA spokesperson Sterling Payne, and the consequences for doing so would be severe. "I cannot tell you how strong the language is about any type of abuse. It's federal property. It's a serious offense."
If the goal is to calm the public and give the screeners more respect, however, a more straightforward way might be to train TSA employees better and pay them more. New screeners are currently required to complete less than two weeks of classroom training, followed by 112-128 hours of on-the-job training. Entry-level screeners earn between $24,000 and $37,000. "If you want to make them cops, fine. I don't have a problem with that," says the former airport police officer. "If they did better background checks, trained them to law-enforcement standards and paid them more, they would get a higher caliber."


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Now begins a two-year endgame.
Less than a week after a brazen attack inflicted the biggest loss of U.S. military aircraft since Vietnam, and as the Air Force begins deploying its deadly flying-cannon AC-130 gunships over Afghanistan during daylight hours to suppress the Taliban, President Obama's three-year surge of 33,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan has ended. It happened the same day that Afghan President Hamid Karzai sacked the pro-U.S. governor of a key province in the southern part of the country.
Some will suggest that the surge's end is a pre-election strategy designed to improve Obama's chances of getting votes from citizens weary of 11 years of war. Others insist it's the only way to prod Afghanistan into securing its own territory. But as the surge ends, one question hangs: Are its gains — largely territory in southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces — real or fleeting?
"There's no question there will continue to be difficult days ahead," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said during a stop in New Zealand while on a Pacific trip. "But this is an opportunity to recognize that the surge did accomplish its objectives."
Yet another surge — of insider, or so-called green-on-blue attacks — has led to a reduction in the partnering of U.S. and Afghan forces. Such training, U.S. military officials say, is vital to honing the combat skills of the Afghan security forces. Any reduction in that training gives the enemy an edge. There's a nervous twitch in some quarters of the Pentagon and at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters in Kabul. Is the Afghan glass half-full or half-empty?
Panetta, the politician running the Pentagon, says the rash of Taliban attacks "is kind of a last-gasp effort to be able to not only target our forces but to try to create chaos, because they've been unable to regain any of the territory that they have lost." But Army General Martin Dempsey, who as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is the nation's top military officer, terms it "a very serious threat" to the campaign.
Like all war tactics, the surge was a political act carried out by the military. Obama pointedly announced it at West Point, allowing him to declare that he wouldn't shortchange the Afghan conflict as President Bush had done to invade Iraq. Afghanistan, after all, was seen by many Americans as the "good war," justified by the 9/11 attacks, while Iraq was a war of choice largely motivated by weapons of mass destruction that no longer existed.
The surge's goal was simple: to wipe the Taliban out of wide swaths of Afghanistan and let an improving Afghan military take over security. "The surge accomplished its objectives of reversing Taliban momentum on the battlefield and dramatically increased the size and capability of the Afghan National Security Forces," Panetta said. "This growth has allowed us and our ISAF coalition partners to begin the process of transition to Afghan security lead, which will soon extend across every province and more than 75% of the Afghan population."
But there is concern among many in uniform that the rush to pull the surge forces out of Afghanistan — conveniently before the election — will jeopardize the gains that have been made. Most of the 68,000 troops still there will return home by the end of 2014, although Kabul and Washington have agreed that some military trainers and perhaps special-operations forces will remain. The U.S. troop presence reached its peak of 101,000 last year.
Even as the surge ends, there are signs that the war goes on, both in military and political spheres.
Air Force Lieut. General Eric Fiel, the service's top special-ops commander, said this week that his AC-130 gunships, with their huge 105-mm cannons, are now flying daytime missions over Afghanistan. "We have not flown gunships during the day before, but they are currently flying during the day" there, he said at the Air Force Association's annual meeting outside Washington. New sensors allow the planes to see bad guys from further away, apparently beyond the reach of enemy weapons. Unfortunately, the new sensors, he said, "allow us a longer standoff range, which caused a little problem since the weapons can't engage targets at that range." The Air Force is working that issue.
A bigger problem is Karzai's decision Thursday to fire Mohammad Gulab Mangal, the pro-U.S. governor of Helmand province, who has long been viewed as one of the nation's best leaders. He stood alongside a U.S. general in July for a press conference that was piped into the Pentagon from Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province. Mangal said he wasn't concerned about the pullout of U.S. troops. "Taliban will try their best to disrupt the security situation," he said. "But now ANSF — Afghan National Security Forces — are at the level that they can maintain the security of the Helmand province."
Karzai's office didn't detail why the President ousted Mangal, who holds an appointed, not elected, office. U.S. officials suggested Karzai may have viewed him as a political threat and that his canning is part of the messy business of trying to build a more democratic government. Its impact on the Taliban in Helmand remains an open question.


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25 Reviews
4.2 on August 12, 2013
Wonderful location, great breakfast, mountain decor.
4.8 on April 10, 2013
Wow, we were taken by surprise at the enormity and beauty of this log structure on the hill. Views everywhere. We loved our large room complete with little balcony. The huge ceilings in the sitting room were beautiful, as were the many large windows from which we could look out through the trees and snow. The staff were friendly and helpful. There are free shuttle buses into town that stop right in front of the driveway, and there is off-road parking and free Wi-Fi, both handy to weary travelers. Make sure you step outside at night to take in the sparkly lights that decorate the front of the house. Magical. Adrienne and Bonnie
5 on March 30, 2013
My wife and I had family coming that we turned our condo over to for six days and five nights. Fortunately my wife found The Allairetimbers Inn for us to stay in for the week. The owner Jen and all the staff were incredibly hospitable, accommodating and run a wonderful, relaxing inn. The lobby is gorgeous, views wonderful and breakfasts great. The price was very reasonable for the great accommodations and friendly service in every way. We will stay again.
5 on March 23, 2013
My fiancé and I stayed at Allaire Timbers Inn in 2011 during our annual ski vacation and had a great time, so when he decided on our wedding venue, what better place than Breckenridge and Allaire Timbers Inn?!!!!! We arrived the day before our nuptials, and Jen, our hostess had a complimentary welcome basket in our room to kick off our stay. We connected with some people we met at Allaire Timbers Inn in 2011 ( how cool is that?!!) and along with them, Jen and the entire staff were able to celebrate our special date with a family away from home! I cannot say enough about Jen! She is very welcoming and will often stop and sit with you at breakfast, which is awesome and always a delicious surprise, or any time just to chat. This is also true for the entire staff. The log Inn itself is magical and gorgeous, then combine that with the fireplace, the snow and being in Colorado and you have a little bit of Heaven! Evening snacks are always a welcome treat after a day of skiing. Jen's resident Australian Shepherd is a joy! Missing my own dog babies, I was able to secure some dog play time with "Shim" in the snow!!! I would highly recommend Allaire Timbers Inn to those who are looking for an Inn that is mature, laid back and 'homey'. I look forward to our return to Allaire for the occasion of our first anniversary. Beautiful view, warm welcoming staff, delicious meals, great conversations, connecting with past guests and overall great value.......PRICELESS!
5 on October 18, 2012
This listing sounded too good to be true, so I arrived with cautious expectations. What a wonderful relief to be welcomed by Kevin with an O-H --- I-O to feel right at home. This is really a class operation with an amazing facility and a very detail oriented staff. The room was quite comfy and the common areas were like a lodge in the mountains where I would like to live the rest of my days. The breakfasts were oustanding and were served alternately by Jen and Kevin. The hot tub on the deck overlooking Breck was a slice of fresh air. You just can't beat a place like this and is the only place I will stay when we return!
4.4 on October 13, 2012
Allaire Timbers Inn is a dream B&B. Log exterior and interior with a glorious view of the Rockies, near the happening town of Breckenridge, CO. The rooms are cozy and charming, the great room is welcoming. The management could not have been more accommodating.
4.8 on September 26, 2012
The staff is beyond gracious at this cozy inn just on the edge of Breckenridge. As luck would have it some unforeseen circumstances started my trip. The staff treated me with the respect and kindness I truly needed that weekend. I lavishly treated myself to the "Suite" experience and enjoyed every moment. The room provided for a great healing backdrop with everything I needed within a short walk down the road. The massage was amazing and I would consider close to my best ever. Thankfully this B&B hasn't lost the history and desire of the whole "B" part of the experience, that meaning "Breakfast.". Aftter researching where I would stay I was truly surprised that some places are now either charging extra for the breakfast/snack experience or they do not offer it at all. Thankfully the food was outstanding and was the perfect start to each day. I would highly recommend the Allaire Timbers Inn experience.
4.4 on September 18, 2012
Spent 4 days here. Jen was a fabulous host. Great location and the best time of year. Location is close to downtown. The food was outstanding.
5 on September 05, 2012
My wife and I stayed for 3 nights in August while I was home on vacation from Afghanistan. Allaire Timbers Inn warms your heart and soothes the soul, even in the summertime. Charming, friendly staff; wonderful food and clean comfortable rooms. The private deck is wonderful for sipping wine and observing nature. The log beam architecture makes me dream about living in my own log home. On your next trip to Breckenridge, make Allaire Timbers Inn your stay and I promise you will be glad you did!
4.4 on September 03, 2012
We somewhat randomly chose to stay at Allaire Timbers, for their low rates and attractive pictures, but we couldn't have chosen a better place to stay. Wonderful and personal staff. We will choose this place every time we come back to Breckenridge.
4.6 on August 20, 2012
Very nice B&B at edge of Breckenridge, but within 5 to 10 minute walking distance of most resturants and shops. One of our favorite places to stay. The breakfasts are superb!
5 on August 14, 2012
The atmosphere was wonderful -- balcony had a wonderful view. Close to downtown, but still felt private. Breakfast was delicious and the staff were friendly and helpful, working with me so I could make the trip happen.
5 on August 13, 2012
Tucked away in a tranquil setting, Allair is a charming and relaxing inn in the woods of Breckenridge, CO. Days begin with a delicious and healthy breakfast. The Inn is clean as are the rooms. I was looking for a quiet place for my solo journey. The staff could not be friendlier or more helpful. I definitely will stay here when I return to Breckenridge.
5 on August 11, 2012
Great customer service! Very friendly. Outstanding cleanliness. Quiet relaxing. Great breakfasts.
4.0 on August 07, 2012
My husband and I stayed there for one night and was impressed with the staff and the cleanliness. I even forgot my jacket and they mailed it back. You felt like you were in the mountains but town was just around the corner. :)
4.8 on August 06, 2012
We generally stay in B&B's and this one was great! From the time we checked in, Matt brought in our luggage which is a rarity , and gave us great dinner recommendations! Our room was spotless, balcony overlooking mountains was f antastic! Coffee was available every morning in the hall outside our room which is great for early risers like us and for me to have my coffee while getting dressed! We stayed 4 nights and had breakfast 3 mornings! All were. Very good and seemed to be enjoyed by all the guests! One morning we left very early And Brian offered to fix us an early breakfast or pack one for us to go, instead we just opted for cereal, fruit , and yogurt which he had put out early for us! We really enjoyed the large outdoor hot tub on the deck each afternoon, great after morning hikes, etc! Highly recommend this for anyone wanting a nice place to stay!
3.6 on August 04, 2012
We were impressed by the hospitality of Allaire Timbers and will definitely return. His lovely inn is a beautiful setting.
3.8 on August 02, 2012
Very welcoming and helpful staff. Nice and quiet location. Great for bigger groups with its inviting common area. With no doubt in my mind I would recommend the Allaire Timbers Inn to a friend!
5 on July 31, 2012
This was my first visit in the State of Colorado as well as my first visit to Breckenridge. Although I experienced high altitude illness during my stay, the staff at Allaire Timbers Inn were very accommodating, kind, and helpful. It was like home away from home. The staff checked on my daily to ensure I was comfortable and brought me anything I needed. This was above and beyond any customer service I have ever experienced anywhere. The room was perfect as well as clean.Breakfast was an adventure every morning. My overall rating of the Allaire Timbers Inn is "OUTSTANDING!" This inn should be listed as a five-star inn across the country! Kudos!!!
5 on July 23, 2012
This was our first B&B get-away weekend. The Allaire Timbers Inn was out-standing in its service as well as in its location. Nestled in the trees, your view of the beautiful Colorado scenery was breathtaking, yet you were also close enough to walk to the many shops & dining attractions. A definite 10!
4.8 on June 24, 2010
We were only there one night but was very impressed with the Inn and it's close proximity to "downtown" Breckenridge.
4.4 on June 14, 2010
We stayed here in Feb. 2010 and were very pleased with the inn. A welcoming lobby with warm apple cider and cookies to welcome you back after a day of skiing. Helpful owners and spotlessly clean rooms with private views. We look forward to going back soon and would highly recommend it, particularly for couples that want a romantic get-away.
4.2 on April 23, 2009
We stayed at the Inn for a 4 day ski trip in February. The best way to describe the Inn is nearly flawless-the cleanliness of our room and the common areas was excellent, the innkeepers were very helpful and hospitable and the afternoon happy hour was a very enjoyable way to socialize with other guests before dinner. We would definitely go again and highly recommend it.
4.6 on February 12, 2008
We have stayed here twice, and both times were wonderful! The rooms are quiet and comfortable and well equipped for hanging of snow gear. They provide ski storage, boot & glove warmers! The breakfasts were great and the afternoon snacks were tasty and had a variety each day! Great experience both time, we look forward to our next visit!
4.0 on June 12, 2007
My husband and I shared a much needed weekend getaway this past weekend. The inn we had stayed at previously was under renovation so we tried the Allaire Timbers Inn. Although the price was a bit steep for us and they did require a 3 night stay, we were very pleased with our stay. The innkeepers were very nice and made us feel welcome. They walls were well insulated so that we did not hear here the happenings in the room next door (which is rare we have found). The hot tub offered amazing views. During our stay the hot tub closed at 9:30 pm which was a tad early in our opinion but we managed. The Inn is right next to a trolley stop so there was no need to use the car to travel into town...a big plus. Walking distance to Main Street. We had a nice little deck off our room with mountain views. Off the main road so road noise was not an issue. All in all, a great place to stay. We will visit again


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Tougher boating regulations get mixed reaction
Proposed tougher watercraft regulations, including the loss of driving privileges on land for operating a boat under the influence, elicited differing opinions at a state Senate committee hearing Thursday in Libertyville.
Lumping vehicle and boating DUIs together are among the proposals spurred by the 2012 death of a 10-year-old boy who was struck by an impaired boater on the Chain O' Lakes.
Rita Kreslin, executive director of Schaumburg-based Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists, said her group favors DUIs being the same for boats and vehicles.
"I would hope that, in the future, that people that don't think that drinking and driving a boat is just as important as not drinking and driving a car are just totally misled, and you must realize that there are real victims and people behind these tragedies," Kreslin said.
But attorney David Zipp of Ingleside criticized the idea, calling it "a slippery slope" that could be used to punish just Illinois residents. He said police patrolling the waterways already have the power to stop boaters at any time, unlike vehicles.
"Let's keep things in perspective and let the punishment fit the crime," Zipp said.
Democratic state Sen. Julie Morrison hosted Thursday's two-hour session of the Senate Special Committee on Watercraft Safety. Her nephew, Tony Borcia of Libertyville, died while tubing with his family on Petite Lake after he was hit by the impaired boater.
At issue were the following proposals submitted by Morrison in the state Senate:
• Anyone convicted of operating a watercraft under the influence would have their driving privileges on land suspended for three months.
• Residents born on or after Jan. 1, 1990, would be prohibited from operating a watercraft without a valid boat safety certificate from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
• Operators of a watercraft towing a person behind a boat would be required to display an orange flag.
Morrison told the crowd packed into a Lake County Central Permit Facility room that 161 opponents to the bills registered for the session, with 65 listed as in favor and 14 neutral. She was joined on the Senate panel by Republicans Pamela Althoff of McHenry and Dan Duffy of Lake Barrington, and Democrats Melinda Bush of Grayslake and Terry Link of Waukegan.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials and law-enforcement representatives explained the proposals, followed by various speakers. Several spectators had signs that read "Boaters Are Voters."
Tony's mother, Margaret Borcia, said she appreciated the Senate panel having a constructive conversation about boating safety. "I believe all of these (proposed) measures are very helpful," Borcia said.
Christopher Allen, who started the Boaters United Facebook site in response to Morrison's legislation, said he and other local boaters support making the Chain and other lakes safer, but it should be without government intervention.
"To try to create the best way to promote safety, I really think should be started from the ground up," Allen told the committee. "Instead of the government putting their finger down, most of these people have lived out here all their lives, boated all their lives, and they can help promote safety. We've talked among ourselves, we've pulled other boaters aside, we've educated other boaters."
Many speakers supported the proposed requirement of having an orange flag raised in the back of a boat that's towing someone in the water, and backed more education for those who ply the waterways. Some suggested an education requirement for those who rent boats.
Other Senate hearings to collect opinions on the proposed tougher boating regulations will be held across Illinois, Morrison said. She's said the proposals could change before lawmakers debate them.


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logo on the box may seem insignificant when you see it for the first time, but it is a major milestone for us, and an important element in our efforts to become carbon positive by 2016", says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, President and Chief Executive Officer of the LEGO Group
The LEGO Group will reduce CO2 emissions by 10,000 tonnes in 2014. This is the estimated impact of the global introduction of new, smaller LEGO® boxes. For 2014, a total of approximately 6,000 tons of cardboard will be saved, and the smaller boxes will reduce transportation needs by 3,000 truckloads.
Besides reducing the actual size of the boxes, having the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certify the materials used for boxes and instructions marks an important step towards making the LEGO Group's packaging materials more sustainable. The reduction in packaging also supports the environmental targets pledged in the Climate Savers Partnership with WWF, which the LEGO Group entered in 2013. The LEGO Group is the first company in the toy industry to join the partnership.
"The FSC® logo on the box may seem insignificant when you see it for the first time, but it is a major milestone for us, and an important element in our efforts to become carbon positive by 2016. As a responsible company, we want to help preserve the forests, their wildlife and all of their inhabitants to the benefit of the environment and future generations", says Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, President and Chief Executive Officer of the LEGO Group, adding:
"Making our packaging more sustainable and using forest resources wisely are some of the ways we support our environmental ambitions, and I hope this may also inspire children to think about how we can build a better tomorrow. We will certainly continue to look for ways to improve and lower our direct impact on the planet."
Sustainable wood sourcing through certification
As one of the world's most respected forest certification schemes, FSC® is a global system with certificates issued to all different types of forest around the world. FSC® works to improve forest management worldwide, and through certification creates an incentive for forest owners and managers to follow the best social and environmental practices.
"We are very proud of achieving FSC® certification for our sourcing of packaging for LEGO boxes this year. We have done so through great collaboration with our suppliers and retail customers, and we have all been excited to get the new boxes into shops all over the world", says Bali Padda, Chief Operating Officer of the LEGO Group.
Since 2011, the LEGO Group has carefully evaluated how to best reduce the size of LEGO boxes and to use FSC® certified paper for boxes and instructions while following a reasonable business model.
"Our next step is to look at other paper and cardboard materials — from brochures and office supplies to the printed material in our shops", says Bali Padda.
As of today, more than 90% of the material the LEGO Group uses for core line product packaging is FSC® certified, and the goal is to reach 100% by 2015. At the same time, a minimum of 75% recycled material is to be used for packaging.
Kim Carstensen, Director General of the Forest Stewardship Council comments:
"We are thrilled that the LEGO Group chose to implement such an ambitious FSC® policy. When a big purchaser sets high demands for responsible sourcing, this echoes throughout the packaging and paper industry. There is no doubt that the LEGO Group has inspired and encouraged the supply chain to apply more responsible practices in their operations", adding:
"With the FSC® logo on LEGO boxes we are able to reach families throughout the world and show who we are and what we stand for."
In 2014 the LEGO Group obtained the FSC® Code of Custody certification (FSC-C117818), ensuring that all materials can be traced within the LEGO Group and that the certification status is verified by external certification bodies.
Interim highlights – responsibility agenda
The interim highlights covering the responsibility performance of the company for the first six months of 2014 include:
• Product safety: no product recalls. Since 2009 the LEGO Group has not recalled a product from the market — the target is always zero recalls
• Employee safety: 11% reduction in the employee Lost Time Injury rate from 1.7 to 1.5 for the first six months of 2014 compared to the full year result of 2013 — working towards a full year target of under 1.6
• Energy efficiency: 0.3% increase in energy efficiency in the LEGO Group's production facilities in the first half of 2014 — working towards a target of 2.5% year on year
• Recycling waste: 90% of waste recycled — continuing the high level of 90% for the full year of 2013 — full year target is 90%
For more information about the LEGO Group's responsibility efforts please go to: www.LEGO.com/responsibility
The LEGO Group's interim financial results will be published on 4 September at 10.30 AM CET. Please go to: http://aboutus.lego.com/news-room.
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Video & Photos Courtesy: Audrey Magoun, ODFW, Oregon Wildlife, Jamie McFadden-Hiller, Tim Hiller, Katie Moriarty, Oregon State University
Even mild-mannered scientists get excited. Audrey Magoun, a 35-year veteran of field biological research, made a discovery so unexpected she says, "I have to admit I literally skipped down the mountain trail coming home, saying, 'Yahoo! Yahoo!' all the way down."
Magoun had just confirmed the first wolverine in recorded history in northeastern Oregon. "I was just exhilarated," she says.
She had tricked the wolverine into taking a picture of itself. With the remote trail camera in hand, she headed home to look at the pictures on a large computer screen. There she got an even bigger surprise; the camera had snapped photos of not one but two male wolverines.
Magoun adds, "I was as shocked as anybody."
Later, another camera captured images of a third wolverine.
She'd found three wolverines in her first season of research since moving to Oregon, making discoveries that had eluded the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) for decades.
Magoun knew what she was doing. She has tracked wolverines in Alaska and Canada since 1978. In the early days they lured wolverines into traps, tranquilized them and then fitted them with radio collars to see where they went.
Modern technology has made that intensive, hands-on handling of wildlife virtually unnecessary. "You can find out a lot of things about wolverines just using cameras," says Magoun. "It's not quite as invasive.
She has carried cameras, supplies and roadkill deer in her backpack deep into the Eagle Cap Wilderness of Oregon's Wallowa Mountains to set up 34 camera stations over a two-year span.
She hangs the deer as bait but the free food lured in more than just wolverines. Marten, bear, elk, flying squirrels, bobcat, cougar and a wolf have all come to the bait station and had their pictures taken. Magoun only learns of these sightings after she hikes back to each and every location to retrieve the memory cards.
Her cameras have spied wolverines from about 5,500 feet in elevation up to 7,000 feet. "They probably roam higher, but I can't get up there in the winter because of the avalanche danger," she says.
Wolverine Takes The Bait
Magoun's success has inspired other researchers to resume the hunt for wolverines and other carnivores in Oregon's central Cascades range. ODFW teamed with Oregon Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service to place 20 cameras across three wilderness areas, but after a full season of waiting, no wolverines had visited any of the cameras retrieved in the summer of 2013.
Like Magoun's cameras, however, the Cascade cameras saw a host of other wildlife including montane fox, flying squirrel, a bear and a rare high-elevation sighting of a raccoon.
Says Oregon Wildlife's Jamie McFadden-Hiller, "When we're looking for a wolverine it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, but you don't know if that needle exists."
Her team hopes to get funding to continue the Cascades Carnivore Project into a second season.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is due to decide in 2014 whether to add wolverines to the endangered species list.
Magoun extended her cameras for a second winter in the Wallowas. This time only one wolverine returned, who she nicknamed Stormy.
"He didn't show up until January," says Magoun. "So where he was all the time, I don't know."
DNA analysis of a hair sample from Stormy traces his roots to a known population of wolverines in Idaho. They have ranges of hundreds of miles and swim easily. Magoun says wolverines would have no trouble swimming the Snake River to visit Oregon.
She's not sure where the other two wolverines went, but she intends to keep looking.
"For me, wolverines make wilderness — more than wolves, more than grizzly bears," Magoun says. "To me, if an area doesn't have wolverines, I don't feel like I'm in the northern wilderness. I feel like something's missing."


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HAVELOCK � Havelock Police have identified the victim and the alleged suspect in a shooting Friday at Kelly Park apartments in Havelock.
HAVELOCK � Havelock Police have identified the victim and the alleged suspect in a shooting Friday at Kelly Park apartments in Havelock.
Javon Anthony Ward, 22, of the Havelock and Newport area, is being sought by police for the shooting Friday of Stevn Kyle Todd, 25, of Havelock, according to Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus.
Todd was in fair condition Monday at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
Ward faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, Cyrus said.
Ward is alleged to have shot Todd five times with a 9 mm pistol in the parking lot of the apartment complex off Shipman Road in Havelock following a fight between the two men.
The victim�s brother, who did not want to be identified, said his brother, known as �T,� had had surgeries for his wounds. The brother said that Friday�s altercation stemmed from a disagreement between the two men that started two weeks ago.
Cyrus said that Ward may be in possession of a handgun and has a history of eluding police, assault, resisting officers and weapons charges.
Ward is described as black, 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds. He has a tattoo of the word �Savage� above his right eye, a teardrop tattoo near his left eye and a tattoo of the letters �MOB� near his right eye. Ward is thought to be hiding in the Newport or Havelock area.
�Ward should be considered armed and dangerous,� Cyrus said in a release. �Individuals should not attempt to apprehend Ward.�
Ward spent 16 months in jail on two counts of felonious common law robbery. He was released June 15, 2010. Ward also has convictions for misdemeanor assault and battery and driving while license revoked.
Anyone with information about Ward can contact the Havelock Police Department at 447-3212. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact the police tip line at 463-7115 or go online to www.havelocknc.us, select police and then select tip.
Information may also be given to the Craven County CrimeStoppers at 633-5141. Information resulting in the arrest of Ward could result in a cash award of up $1,000.


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Richard Ryan (1796-1849) was an English biographer.
Ryan was son of Richard Ryan, a bookseller in Camden Town, who died before 1830, Ryan seems to have followed the business of a bookseller, but found time to write several interesting books, a few plays, and some songs which were set to music by eminent composers. His plays—Everybody's Husband, a comic drama in one act ; Quite at Home, a comic entertainment in one act ; and Le Pauvre Jacques, a vaudeville in one act, from the French—are printed in J. Cumberland's ' Acting Plays,' 1825.
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A short, catchy name and one button that does one task. If that's the winning formula for Yo, then it's good enough for the team at Base Forty and their new app Lo.
Lo is an iPhone and Android app that allows users to instantly request and send their location information to their friends. In an obvious tribute to Yo, the app is made of big colored blocks and simple white text. When a friend accepts your request and sends his or her location data to you, it shows up in an easy-to-read push notification.
Base Forty's Evan Bullington told Business Insider he and his three teammates came up with the app while living together to work on their other app, Robin, a Tinder-like app for making new friends. He says with four guys sharing an apartment for the summer with only one key, they were constantly coordinating over text.
"One day we were talking about our internal communication. We text and GroupMe each other constantly, and the most common message is 'where are you?' Bullington told Business Insider. "On a Wednesday at midnight we decided to try to bang out the app as an "internal hackathon" in one night." The team took another few weeks to smooth out some coding cracks and then write an Android version, he said.
Lo could conceivable have plenty of uses. Bullington suggests teams, parents, and travelers would find the app useful, or even someone who's simply annoyed at a friend running late. For Bullington and his teammates, all Princeton University students, the convenience is key.
"Even though asking for where someone is isn't the most tedious task, Lo makes that one tap, rather than 20 or 30. Allowing users to send and receive information more efficiently, in our eyes, is one of the primary goals of technology, so anything that facilitates that goal is here to stay," team member Darshan Desai says.
It works like this. First we tap a friend's name (Adam) in the app.
Adam gets a push notification.
With one tap, Adam can open the app and reply to our request.
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For whatever it's worth... Here's hoping for ever more new & exciting archaeological discoveries, for long awaited papers on older discoveries & lastly for some semblance of 'peace on earth, good will toward men'. I'm sure the last would be much appreciated in some hot spots around the world.


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I left my building today, 233 East 9th Street, around 2 p.m. to run errands and I bumped into a man on my stoop. He said to me "take a hot shower, then take a cold shower, then take a hot shower." I didn't think anything of it other than he was just a kook — our stoop is always used by eccentric people waiting for the bus — and I went to run my errands.
When I came back about 20 minutes later, he followed me into the vestibule, then attempted to follow me into the lobby. I thought he might be a left-of-center fill-in for my Super over the holiday weekend. I asked him who he was and he said "the landlord."
I knew he wasn't and told him I was going to call the police if he didn't allow me to close the door to keep him out. He started rambling on about how I could obtain American citizenship by going to the consulate and filling out a form. Not wanting to break the door, I went to my apartment and called the Super, the MGMT company and 911. While I did this, he proceeded to drag ALL of the bagged garbage on the curb into our building, leaving it all over the lobby.
Waiting for the police, I saw him from my fire escape running over on 9th then taking a right on Second Ave, heading south. The police arrived shortly after and I gave them the details and a description.
Tonight around 5 p.m., I heard a commotion in the hallway. Police were canvasing the building. The guy got back into the building and was trying to break into apartments. The police didn't find him on their search.
white male
5' 10 - 5' -11
early 50s
thin build
longish gray hair
hunter green suede coat
light colored jeans
silver traveling luggage
He is pretty fearless and determined to keep going about his business despite the intervention of me and my neighbors. He's obviously hanging out in the neighborhood and if he's doing this to our building, he may have tried this elsewhere.
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Year Built: 1973
Engine: Air-cooled, DOHC four-stroke four
Displacement: 903cc
Bore x Stroke: 66mm x 66mm
Transmission: Five-speed
Owner: Doug Kane
In the '60s, it was easy to describe motorcycles from Japan. They were small. They were unintimidating. They were—dare we say it?—cute.
Hard-core motorcyclists rode Harleys, Triumphs, Nortons, BSAs.
Then the entire world turned upside-down.
It started, of course, with Honda's landmark CB750. But Kawasaki was there from the beginning, with its scary-fast 500cc H1, and its scarier 750cc H2. "Cute" didn't cover any of those.
Then 1973 rolled around, and Kawasaki trotted out the Z-1. Four cylinders. Dual overhead cams. 903ccs.
It was, without question, the baddest motorcycle anybody had ever built.
This machine, more than any other, changed the language of motorcycling. Sure, quarter-mile times and top-speed figures had been studiously reported all along. But even the testers couldn't believe the level of performance that had been packed into a stock Z-1. And it quickly earned the nickname "The King."
Doug Kane remembers that era well. He had just started work on the motorcycle dealership in Zanesville, Ohio, that he still operates today. He signed up as a Kawasaki dealer in late 1972 without knowing what was coming down the pipe. And by the time his shop was ready to open, Kawasaki was ready to ship him this customer magnet, in root beer and orange. It was the perfect way to kick off a new business.
Like a lot of his customers, Kane had to own a Z-1. He kept his for several years, then sold it. But when the opportunity came along years later to pick up this one (complete with Windjammer fairing and saddlebags), he jumped at it. And when he took off all the non-essentials, he had a true original, just the way it came from Kawasaki.
By that time, people knew what the Z-1 was. It was a prototype of the Superbike—the machines we all take for granted on the street and on the racetrack today.
Now, 28 years later, Doug Kane's Z-1 was one of the trend-setting motorcycles that made up a previous special exhibit titled "Superbikes!" in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio.
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The chatter starts when nothing is reported. Frankly this is one of those items that has gone without notice. Could someone have linked some new U2 songs without anyone even noticing ? The fan site U2 Valencia has reported that the songs have been recorded around Feb 2012 - No way to really prove or disprove the suggestion at this time. However we have pulled the clips down and will be running them over pro tools which is the standard tools used in studio recordings to see if we can catch a date. Watch for more news about the mystery U2 clips -
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Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark today issued the following statement regarding the Houston Astros:
"Today, two young men should be one step closer to realizing their dreams of becoming Major League ballplayers. Because of the actions of the Houston Astros, they are not. The MLBPA, the players and their advisers are exploring all legal options."


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