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On Friday, August 23, for the second year in a row, Nor Cal Combat will headline the Butte County Fair in front of what should be a sell-out crowd.
On Friday, August 23, for the second year in a row, Nor Cal Combat will headline the Butte County Fair in front of what should be a sell-out crowd. The event will be the seventh chapter of Northern California's premiere Mixed Martial Arts event put on by now-veteran promoters John Orsua and Brannon Byrne. NCC 7 will feature several local fighters, including Johnny Terry, Joe Ruggirello, Deniko and Dakota Sisk, Kevin Ford, and Thomas Graham. Cody Walsh, who was crowned NCC Flyweight Champion at Nor Cal Combat V, was scheduled to defend his title against the local Terry; however Walsh recently had to vacate his title after sustaining an injury. Now, Terry will compete against Jesse Davis to see who will be crowned the new Nor Cal Combat Flyweight Champion. Terry has more than earned his shot to compete for the Flyweight crown. At NCC 6, he dominated his opponent, Travis Whitley, until having to be pulled from Whitley after 40 seconds into the second round. Another local favorite, Joe Ruggirello (3-1) also put on quite the show at NCC 6, with a second round TKO over Cory Carrino in the Bantamweight division. Ruggirello will fight Nico Guerreiro Lozada (1-0). Team Byrne's Featherweight Deniko Sisk (1-1) will take on Cameron Wright (1-4), while Dakota Sisk will compete against NCC-vet Idris Wasi (3-5-2) at the Middleweight division. Also from Team Byrne, Thomas Graham (2-1) is scheduled for a Lightweight match-up against David Garcia (2-2) of Team KO, and Gridley's Kevin Ford (0-1) will fight Daniel Quiroz at the Middleweight division. Nor Cal Combat 7 will also feature Gabriel Sies (0-0) vs. Tyler Tafoya-Holbrook (1-0) at Bantamweight; Garrett Martin (0-0) vs. Brandon Meline (0-0), Melvin Washington (1-0) vs. Erick Sanchez-Gomez (1-0) in Lightweight duels; Welterweight matches of Casey Rubinoff (0-0) vs. Luis Tiznado (1-0), Robert Snow (0-0) vs. Paul Robles (1-2); and Middleweight bouts of Kelly Cheshire (1-0) vs. Alex Thill (0-0), Chris Marinelli (0-0) vs. Wayne Omori (0-0), and Robert Payne (3-1) vs. Sean Nelson (3-3). Two fighters crowned at the sixth showing of Nor Cal Combat, fought earlier in the month. Jason Powell and Edgar Loza both won their matches at different events by unanimous decision. At NCC 6, after knocking down opponent Jarred Allen just seconds into the first round, Loza allowed his opponent to come to his feet; however only briefly. Loza again landed a crushing right hook to the face of Allen, sending him to the ground once more and making him the first NCC featherweight champion. Also at NCC 6, Jason "The Gentleman" Powell was also crowned NCC lightweight champ after landing a kick to the head of Cameron Wright 50 seconds into the second round of the NCC lightweight title match. Both Loza and Powell won by TKO. With six different bouts feature Gridley's own modern-day gladiators, this is definitely an event you do not want to miss! Come support our own, and buy your tickets today! They'll be gone quick! The gates for Nor Cal Combat 7 open at 5:30 pm, with the action beginning at 6:30 pm. General admission tickets are available for $35 for the event, and can be purchased at Gridley Fitness or through the Butte County Fair Box Office.

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Metra's board spent about 10 months screening 40 candidates during a nationwide search before selecting Los Angeles native Alex Clifford to be the commuter rail agency's CEO in February 2011.
On Friday, after several months of closed-door negotiations over an exit strategy, board Chairman Brad O'Halloran announced that Clifford was resigning, taking a buyout package that could cost Metra as much as $740,000.
Officials wouldn't immediately speculate on what's next, but if past is precedent, Metra's board will soon launch a search for a new leader for one of the nation's largest commuter rail agencies, providing 300,000 trips a day on 11 lines.
Experts say Metra's board members will need to hire someone who has both the skill to run a major railroad and the savvy to navigate Illinois' Byzantine politics.
Clifford is walking away from the agency with eight months left on his $252,500-a-year contract. Lengthy negotiations led to a separation agreement that gives him a $442,237 buyout covering the remainder of his salary, a severance payment, health insurance and relocation and attorney fees.
Clifford also could collect an additional payout of up to $300,000 if he cannot find another job within 13 months, according to the agreement.
The deal was approved by Metra's board 9-1 with one "present." Only McHenry County representative Jack Schaffer, who was on the board when Clifford was hired, voted no.
"In 1983 when Metra was created, the idea was — I was in the room — (to have) a transit professional with a politically appointed oversight board," said Schaffer, a state legislator at the time. "Apparently, we want to go a different direction now. I don't."
Schaffer added: "There's a dramatic difference of opinion as to who runs the shop" at Metra. "No strong executive director — the chairman calls the shots."
Clifford left Friday's meeting before the announcement of the settlement and could not be reached for comment.
O'Halloran, who took over as Metra chairman in November, read a statement saying there were "differences of opinion … with respect to what we need (in) leading this organization."
Metra's board members are political appointees, subject to leaders in the six-county region that Metra serves.
O'Halloran also alluded to the importance that politics plays in getting funding and official support for Metra, and he hinted that he and Clifford didn't see eye to eye.
"The board believes it's critical that Metra move in a different direction, one built on finding a new consensus in Springfield and Washington, (and) develop new resources to serve our taxpayers and our communities," O'Halloran said.
Steve Schlickman, former executive director of the Regional Transportation Authority and now head of the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said the chairman of a major public agency like Metra needs to have a CEO with whom he is comfortable.
"Obviously, that was not the case in this situation unfortunately," Schlickman said.
Schlickman and other experts agree that Metra needs a transportation professional who is adept at politics.
Clifford brought fresh ideas to Metra, but that's often not welcome to the elected establishment, said DePaul University transportation expert Joseph Schwieterman.
"I think its tough for an outsider to win the favor of the politically connected boards, and (Clifford) may have fallen victim to the treacherous politics," Schwieterman said.
Schwieterman cited CTA President Forrest Claypool as someone who runs a major transit agency but who also has long been part of the region's political structure.
"It may take a political whiz to wrangle more funds out of Springfield and Washington," Schwieterman said.
As one of his first acts at Metra, Clifford brought in a well-known professional railroad consultant, George Avery Grimes, to help him run the agency. Clifford had run a metropolitan bus agency in Los Angeles.
"Alex did the hard lifting to fix the financial and ethical problems, provided transparency to the public, and improved service quality. He did it in record time. Now he's been sent packing," said Grimes, who received a hefty contract for his work.
"In my opinion, this is a travesty for Metra," Grimes said. "It sends a terrible message to Metra's employees and talented, ethical public servants everywhere."
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My first throusers!
Added Jan 24, 2013
by robygiup
Novara, Italy
Well, despite the busy period I managed to realize another Christmas present: a pair of throusers (my first throusers!!!) for a three years and a half old girl. The pattern is drawn by me, comfortable throusers with wide legs and elastic band in the waist, bottom turn-up and applied baggy pockets.
The fabric is a cotton corduroy (much more easy to manage than the viscose velvet used for the two skirts, here and here) with some parts in tartan flanel to make the throusers more funny.
All the pockets are lined with red viscose lining, so it's easier to put things inside the pockets avoiding corduroy friction.
On one of the front pockets I applied also a mini tartan pocket, just the size to fit some coins when playing grocery shopping!
Elastic band in the waist and my label inside the throusers.
The throusers have also a tartan pocket on the back and turn-up in the bottom part of the legs, this too lined with tartan flanel.
Read more in my blog (click on the name) ' RobyGiup Handmade '
Material Notes
cotton corduroy, tartan flanel, viscose lining
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Jan 24, 2013, 12.21 PMby Mary Athey
You did a cracking job on these. I love the tarten pieces x
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With Enlightment 0.17 released, it's no surprise the Linux distribution that uses E17 for its desktop is rushing to release a new version that uses it. Look for Bodhi 2.2.0 in January, featuring the stable E17 desktop. If you've never experienced it, Bodhi is a Ubuntu derivative, and it offers more configurabality than you can imagine. Have you been complaining about Unity and Gnome3 taking away your options? Bodhi and E17 bring them back - and many more, too.
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RE[6]: Bodhi is good.
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You're making me feel old. While my first few computers could count their memory in tens of kilobytes, my first x86 machine was a high school graduation gift in 1995, a Texas Instruments 4000M laptop with a whopping 4MB of RAM and a 200MB hard drive, with a 486SX CPU.
Believe it or not, I wish I still had that beast. It was my introduction to "modern" PC gaming with Doom and Myst, as well as my first DOS/Windows machine. I know it would be about as useful as a pet rock today, but it would be fun to dig out and play around with every now and then.
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Silent Spring (Summer, Fall and Winter)
Today, I woke up in the Rachel Carson lodge. There was a copy of "Silent Spring," a book that inspired my environmental ethics and activism and significantly redirected my path in life, on my nightstand and a photo of its author on the wall above my bed. Carson's work, which awakened a generation to the dangers of pesticides, led to the banning of DDT and eventually the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Birds are chirping again, at least here at the Children & Nature Network's 6th annual Grassroots Gathering being held at the Fish & Wildlife Service's National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. During the gathering I was honored to hear from Richard Louv, author of "Last Child in the Woods" and "The Nature Principle" and founder of the Children & Nature Network. Louv awakened a new generation to "Nature Deficit Disorder" (NDD) or today's "Silent Spring," a spring (or summer in this case) void of the joyful sound of children laughing, yelling and playing in nature.
We've just wrapped up three days of truly inspirational sharing and strategizing around solving NDD and connecting children and families to the natural world. I have had the chance to hear from experts on the ground, to better understand grassroots struggles and successes. I have learned about efforts to establish natural play spaces and playgrounds. I even got to see one for myself – NCTC's day care has a brand new natural playground, replete with tree houses and natural building blocks. Lucky kids.
I've been inspired (again) by Outdoor Afro, run by Rue Mapp, a social community that reconnects African-Americans with natural spaces and one another, and other efforts to ensure that opportunities to connect with nature reach all kids and all communities. I was reminded by Suz Lipman about the importance of slowing down and I'll soon be checking out her new book "Fed Up with Frenzy." Betsy Townsend shared with me some great progress being made across the state of Ohio to get kids outdoors. Cheryl Charles and Richard Louv inspired me to think about a connection with nature as a fundamental human right. Fran Manilla told me of the challenges she faced as the first female National Park Service Director. And, Robert Bateman reminded me of why I LOVE painting birds.
The Natural Leaders gave me hope. Sierra Club supported the Children & Nature Network's Natural Leaders Network (directed by Juan Martinez, Sierra Club volunteer and more recently board member of the Sierra Club Foundation) through its inception. I love watching the network grow and evolve to empower a worldwide youth movement to strengthen the bond between children and nature. The network is hosting its first Legacy Camp this week, where the core Leaders will convene and inspire a growing movement of millennial leaders. I got to speak to the Natural Leaders about some of the national advocacy efforts underway to grow opportunities for kids to get outdoors, including some of the progress being made by the Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK). And later in the week, our very own Inner City Outings leader, Matt Browning will train other Natural Leaders to lead outings for kids.
My second time attending the Grassroots Gathering, I leave reinvigorated and ready to work even harder to make sure all children have nature in their lives. This month (starting tomorrow), we are partnering with the Children & Nature Network's Serve Outside September (SOS) to encourage everyone to serve outdoors this month (and every month). Given the growing divide between kids and nature, even taking a kid outdoors counts as service in my book. Heed some wise words by Rachel Carson and connect a kid with nature today, "If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in."


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Cathy and Kenneth Melanson of Emma Jean's Cupcake and Ice Cream Shoppe have purchased the Huttleston House restaurant and plan to open a New York-style deli in the Route 6 building next spring.
Cathy and Kenneth Melanson of Emma Jean's Cupcake and Ice Cream Shoppe have purchased the Huttleston House restaurant and plan to open a New York-style deli in the Route 6 building next spring.
The deli will be managed by Jeffrey Antil of the former Antil's Specialty Meats in North Fairhaven.
Antil's Specialty Meats was severely damaged in a fire in August 2011 and subsequently closed in April. Since then, Antil has been working for Kenneth Melanson at the Melanson-owned scallop processer Northern Wind. In October, Antil also began selling his homemade meat items at Emma Jean's.
Cathy Melanson said that when the couple heard the Huttleston House was up for sale, they decided buying the building, which is located next-door to the bakery, would provide the perfect opportunity for their business.
"We've known Jeff for years, and I used to buy things from his market all the time," she said. "After the fire, he would come in here and joke to me that we should talk about pies, and then one day we did."
Antil said he was excited when the Melansons offered him a job to make specialty meats at Emma Jean's, saying "It was right up my alley."
"Even though I was making a living selling seafood, I did miss operating my own deli," he said. "They gave me the opportunity to get my hands and feet wet in what my passion is."
Cathy Melanson said the deli at Huttleston House will operate under a new, yet-to-be determined name but that Antil will sell "all of his old, homemade items" from meat pies to pierogies and more.
Huttleston House had long been a popular family eatery in Fairhaven. The restaurant's owners Michael and Joanne Bobola could not be reached for comment.
Emma Jean's celebrated it's one-year anniversary in October. Since it opened last year, it has been branching out.
The bakery obtained a liquor licence at Town Meeting in May in order to include alcohol in gift baskets.


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Police Force's Sloppy Investigations Leave Abuse of Disabled Unsolved
From California Watch
California has assembled a unique police force to protect about 1,800 of its most vulnerable patients – men and women with cerebral palsy, severe autism and other mental disabilities who live in state institutions and require round-the-clock monitoring and protection from abuse.
But an investigation by California Watch has found that detectives and patrol officers at the state's five board-and-care institutions routinely fail to conduct basic police work even when patients die under mysterious circumstances.
Federal audits and investigations by disability-rights groups, as well as thousands of pages of case files, government data and lawsuits dating back to 2000, show caregivers and other facility staff allegedly involved in choking, shoving, hitting and sexually assaulting patients. None of these cases were prosecuted.
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Cases investigated as possible crimes include the death of a severely autistic man whose neck was broken. Three medical experts said the 50-year-old patient, Van Ingraham, likely had been killed. But the developmental center's detective, a former nurse who'd never handled a suspicious death, failed to identify how the fatal injury occurred.
The police force, called the Office of Protective Services, often learns about potential criminal abuse hours or days after the fact – if they find out at all. Of the hundreds of abuse cases reported at the centers since 2006, California Watch could find just two cases where the department made an arrest.
The people that the police force is sworn to protect have profound developmental disabilities and live in a different world from most Californians. Some patients have spent decades in the centers, from childhood to death. Some cannot form words and have IQ scores in the single digits.
The precise number of times nurses, janitors or staff supervisors have been implicated in patient abuse cases is unknown; the state has censored thousands of pages of documents detailing the cases.
California is budgeted to spend $577 million this fiscal year to operate the centers, or roughly $320,000 per patient. More than 5,200 people work in the institutions – roughly 2.5 staff members for each patient. The five centers are in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Sonoma and Tulare counties.
In most other states, local law enforcement or state police take the lead in conducting criminal investigations at developmental centers.
Critics of the state Department of Developmental Services, which oversees the institutions and the Office of Protective Services, have said the tight-knit atmosphere between the in-house police and staff makes it difficult to create a separation between the investigators and the investigated.
In a few cases, caregivers and others with minimal police training have been hired to work as law enforcement in the same facility. The commander at the Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona worked there as a primary caregiver. The force's police chief is a former firefighter at the Sonoma Developmental Center.
The police force also suffers from a convoluted chain of command, interviews and records show. Detectives cannot make arrests without checking with department lawyers in Sacramento. Local police must be informed when serious injuries or deaths occur, but most defer investigations to the Office of Protective Services.
"It seems like something is not working in California. And that's probably a major understatement," said Tamie Hopp, an official with the national organization Voice of the Retarded, who noted the volume of abuse cases in California, and the lack of prosecutions, is cause for alarm.
Terri Delgadillo, director of the Department of Developmental Services, said her department has a zero-tolerance policy that includes reporting any injuries, even those remotely suspicious, to the state Department of Public Health. She said the department is committed to conducting thorough investigations.
"For the department, the priority is to make sure that we're doing the best job providing consumer safety and services," Delgadillo said in an interview. "And if there are issues that need to be addressed – and there's always room for improvement – we're looking to do that."
She has hired a consulting group, the Consortium on Innovative Practices based in Alabama, to review the methods and training of her police force. The nonprofit group was recommended by the U.S. Department of Justice, which issued a scathing critique of the department in 2006.
The department said that from January 2008 to last month, 67 developmental center employees were fired for "client-related" offenses. But officials declined to say how many of those, if any, were dismissed for abusing patients, where they worked or if any of them had been arrested.
Delgadillo also declined to comment on specific cases of alleged abuse or mistreatment at the developmental centers, citing patient privacy laws. Corey Smith, the former firefighter who is now police chief, said he was not permitted to speak with reporters for this story.
The developmental centers have been the scene of 327 patient abuse cases since 2006, according to inspection data from the California Department of Public Health. Patients have suffered an additional 762 injuries of "unknown origin" – often a signal of abuse that under state policy should be investigated as a potential crime.
At the state's five centers, the list of unexplained injuries includes patients who suffered deep cuts on the head; a fractured pelvis; a broken jaw; busted ribs, shins and wrists; bruises and tears to male genitalia; and burns on the skin the size and shape of a cigarette butt.
Timothy Lazzini, a quadriplegic cerebral palsy patient at the Sonoma Developmental Center, died in 2005 after he swallowed 4-inch swabs that shredded his esophagus. After his death, Lazzini's doctor and a pathologist concluded it was highly unlikely that Lazzini could have placed the swabs in his own mouth.
But records show detectives waited too long to start their investigation. If any physical evidence was left in Lazzini's room, it had been removed by the time investigators arrived.
His death, and the slow response by the Office of Protective Services, has left Lazzini's family heartbroken and without a conclusive answer as to how he was killed.
"He is gone and they really haven't given us as a family the information that we need to be at peace," said Stephanie Contreras, Lazzini's sister. "There is no peace at all."
The rate of suspected abuse cases within the walls of the five institutions has risen – even as hundreds of developmentally disabled patients have been moved to group homes and smaller nursing facilities.
The patient population at developmental centers dropped by 12 percent from 2008 to 2010, state records show, but reports of abuse have increased 43 percent during those three years. Unexplained injuries jumped 8 percent in the same period.
Public health officials acknowledged the state doesn't keep a tally of the number of times caregivers have abused patients. That information is kept hidden from the public in individual case files.
Kathleen Billingsley, director of policy and programs for the Department of Public Health, said she also didn't know whether inspectors were notifying law enforcement agencies when they uncover evidence of abuse. She said public health inspectors conduct thorough investigations separately from the police.
"If there is any cross between enforcement individuals at the state facility and the work we do, I am not familiar with that," Billingsley said.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office, which oversees Lanterman, couldn't identify a single criminal case referred from the center's police force. District attorneys in Tulare, Orange and Riverside counties also reported no prosecutions for patient abuse in the past decade. Sonoma County refused to disclose its records.
On average, police in California solve about two-thirds of all homicides and about half of all aggravated assaults – or at least make an arrest and "clear" the cases. The clearance rate for the Office of Protective Services is unknown because the department keeps the information secret.
Thankless jobs, hidden from the public
The Office of Protective Services has existed in various forms and names since the late 19th century, when California opened its first institution for the developmentally disabled. That facility in San Jose – first known as the Agnews Insane Asylum – opened in 1885 and closed in 2009.
Interviews with current and former Office of Protective Services employees suggest the organization's structure from its beginning has contributed to its dysfunction.
Patrol officers dress much like those at any other police department. They wear tan and green uniforms with gold badges. Handcuffs are hooked to their belts. They drive marked squad cars. But there are key differences.
Officers and caregivers are confined together in a 24-hour facility monitoring an unpredictable, sometimes uncontrollable population. Beyond a paycheck, the job is mostly thankless and hidden from the public. Officers are not allowed to carry guns; many carry pepper spray instead. They often work their shifts alone.
Greg Wardwell, a sergeant who spent more than 20 years patrolling the Sonoma Developmental Center before retiring last year, said the state has undermined its own police force through neglect and incompetence.
"You can look like a cop and we'll call you a cop, but you don't really have any way of being a cop," Wardwell said. "Because we're not going to train you, we won't provide safety equipment. The salary will be so bad that we won't be able to recruit anybody of talent."
Salaries for the roughly 90 sworn officers are half of what police earn in the state's big city departments. Yet, roughly a third of officers within the Office of Protective Services are among the best compensated in California law enforcement, with much of their pay gained through overtime. One officer's income has topped $200,000 a year.
Families must rely on the Office of Protective Services to provide evidence for lawsuits when their relatives are harmed or killed at a developmental center. Records show the state paid out nearly $9 million in legal settlements – out of 68 separate lawsuits – from 2004 to 2010.
In 2005, Disability Rights California issued a report on a pattern of unexplained genital lacerations suffered by male patients at an unnamed developmental center. The cases were potentially sex assaults, but the investigations were woefully incomplete, documents show.
"Photographs were not taken," the report states. "Not all witnesses, nor all key witnesses, were interviewed. Physical evidence was not collected. Victims did not receive thorough medical workups to look for other indications of abuse."
Leslie Morrison, director of investigations at Disability Rights California, said the report showed how the developmentally disabled can be treated as second-class citizens.
"If this had happened to 3-year-old boys in a day care center, people would have been alarmed, police would have been called, there would have been an outrage," Morrison said. "It wouldn't have just been treated as just, 'Oh, look, there's a cut, we better sew that up.' "
In the case of the 50-year-old autistic man, Van Ingraham, his family received $800,000 in a settlement with the state. Ingraham died in 2007 after sustaining a broken neck while in his room at the Fairview Developmental Center in Orange County.
Fairview officers didn't collect physical evidence from Ingraham's room, records show. Detectives overlooked evidence that a caregiver last seen with Ingraham had altered the log of his activities. And they omitted from the case file an expert's opinion that Ingraham's death "was likely a homicide."
"This incompetent, horrendous organization called Office of Protective Services takes it and just makes a mess, just a complete mangled mess of the investigation," said Larry Ingraham, the patient's older brother and a veteran of the San Diego Police Department.
Sexual assaults unprosecuted
Sex abuse cases, too, have been shelved without prosecution.
In April 2010, at the Canyon Springs Developmental Center in Riverside County, a janitor twice sexually abused a mentally disabled female patient when caregivers were out of sight. Under California law, having sex with any developmentally disabled person who is incapable of giving consent is considered rape.
The patient, who is not identified in state records, had a history of being assaulted. She was institutionalized at age 12 after her father impregnated her, a state health department citation shows.
The patient had been diagnosed with moderate mental retardation, schizoaffective disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Canyon Springs staff had been working with her to curb any behavior "possibly leading to sexual activity," her file states.
The female patient, then 39 years old, told center employees she "did it" with the janitor in the women's bathroom and in a hallway during a fire drill. An unidentified Canyon Springs employee notified the state Department of Public Health.
The Office of Protective Services investigated the case but made no arrests. State regulators also investigated and ruled the incidents as sexual abuse, according to a citation issued to Canyon Springs.
In December 2010, Canyon Springs was fined $800 by public health officials for the incidents. No criminal charges followed. The Riverside County district attorney's office said it has no record of receiving any case referrals from Canyon Springs, which houses about 50 patients.
Rather than placing the janitor under arrest, developmental center officials ordered him to undergo training on his "legal duty" regarding patient abuse, according to state records.
The Office of Protective Services concluded that the janitor didn't commit a crime, Delgadillo said. She declined to answer other questions about the incident or to say whether the janitor, whose name the state has redacted from case files, continues to work at Canyon Springs.
In another case with even fewer details available, a female patient at the Sonoma Developmental Center accused a male caregiver of sexually assaulting her during a bath in early 2000, police records show. The institution responded by assigning two men to bathe the patient.
On July 6, 2000, both caregivers allegedly raped her, again during bathing.
The institution did not inform its own police officers about the details of either incident. Records show Ed Contreras, then Sonoma's police commander, received an anonymous tip four days after the second alleged rape.
"They weren't following the law," Contreras said in an interview. "They weren't reporting it to the police department. They weren't reporting it to me."
Contreras said no arrests were made in the sex assaults. The Sonoma County district attorney's office declined to release records on the cases or any other criminal allegations from the developmental center.
Inside institutions, a different world
The Sonoma Developmental Center is located in a quaint neighborhood in the middle of wine country. Fairview in Costa Mesa is near the Orange County fairgrounds and surrounded by strip malls and a golf course. Lanterman is wedged between train tracks and a highway east of Los Angeles.
Next door to a Cathedral City cemetery, tiny Canyon Springs could be mistaken for an office park. The Porterville Developmental Center, southeast of Visalia, does have the look of an institution. Among the 500 patients, the facility houses about 200 developmentally disabled patients who have committed crimes or who are under arrest.
Inside, the centers feature wide hallways. Walls are decorated much the same as elementary school classrooms, with colors and construction paper cutouts to signal upcoming holidays.
Primary caregivers, called psychiatric technicians, guide patients from place to place, feeding them and distributing medication. Each patient communicates differently, and the units are filled with shouts, groans, shrieks and crying. Patients share bedrooms. Some are crowded with stuffed animals, posters and family pictures. Others are empty, save for the full-sized beds and a cabinet.
Parents and siblings can visit every week for hours at a time. Fairview patients range from 15 to 94 years old, said Bill Wilson, the institution's executive director. Most are between the ages of 40 and 60.
More than two-thirds of patients are diagnosed with profound mental disabilities, according to research from UC San Francisco. The institutions have whole units for patients who are emotionally volatile, prone to striking themselves and others.
The disabled population adds greater complexity to criminal investigations. For a host of reasons, their observations can be tainted by fantasies and falsehoods. Their emotions veer from happy to inconsolable without warning. Patients slap and punch at their faces and legs, and at each other.
"They come to us after they've burned every bridge in the community," said Erinn Kanney, a program manager at Fairview.
Outside of California, local or state police most often are responsible for investigating criminal cases at institutions. But city and county law enforcement agencies inside the state have not shown an interest in developmental center cases and don't have funding to expand their scope, according to Delgadillo.
"Oftentimes, local law enforcement does not want to get involved," said Delgadillo, who in the past has worked for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as a manager in the juvenile justice division.
Local police or sheriff's deputies can act more independently than an internal police force responsible for probes into their colleagues and bosses, said Jane Hudson, senior staff attorney for the National Disability Rights Network, a patient advocacy organization
"If there's a crime committed," Hudson said, "you let the criminal investigators go in first rather than the institution bagging the bloody shirt."
Delayed notification hinders investigations
Delays by the Office of Protective Services often make cases harder to solve.
Although no public records exist showing how frequently the police force receives late notification of potential abuse cases, California Watch was able to identify at least a dozen incidents in which delays from 24 hours to several days occurred.
Forensic experts say the first hours following a crime are critical. A person walking through a crime scene can ruin fingerprints, DNA samples and other evidence, said Dennis Kilcoyne, a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective. Witness statements can change with time, especially after they've conferred with others, he said.
"People's emotions are in play, and they may say things that, after they've thought about it or consulted with an attorney, (they) won't say a week from now," said Kilcoyne, a 27-year veteran.
Delays have hurt criminal investigations and given the centers' employees time to alter and destroy evidence, records and interviews show.
That's what happened in the case of Timothy Lazzini, the 25-year-old quadriplegic patient with cerebral palsy, who coughed up a bloody glycerin swab at the Sonoma Developmental Center. He died from internal bleeding that night, Oct. 22, 2005.
Three swabs – each 4 inches long and twice as thick as a Q-tip – had torn Lazzini's esophagus. He coughed out one, but two others remained lodged in his stomach, autopsy records show.
At that point in his life, Lazzini's disabilities had left him mostly paralyzed, and he received food through a tube in his abdomen.
Someone at the developmental center likely put the swabs inside his mouth before he died. Dr. Ken Christensen, Lazzini's doctor, told Office of Protective Services investigators that it was possible for Lazzini to swallow the swabs, but "it is unlikely for him to be able to pick it up and put it into his mouth." The pathologist who performed Lazzini's autopsy noted the same thing.
The Office of Protective Services assigned the case to a detective more than 24 hours after a caregiver discovered Lazzini bleeding from the mouth, the police file shows. By then, if any evidence was available at the scene, it was gone.
"I noted the area was cleaned up," Rod Beck, the detective, wrote in his report. "I did not note G-swabs in the bedroom area and none were seen in the drawers of his dresser."
The glycerin swabs are lemon flavored and intended to moisten a patient's mouth, but caregivers were not supposed to use them on Lazzini, according to the case file. The patient did not have the physical ability to remove the swabs himself, one of Lazzini's doctors told police.
During his interviews with caregivers, Beck learned that some technicians had been using the glycerin swabs as a pacifier for Lazzini, putting them in his mouth when he "got vocal."
Lazzini's caregivers all denied ever putting swabs in his mouth, however. Only one of the seven questioned by police admitted to using them on any patient.
Records that might have proven otherwise were destroyed, according to the police report. Daily caregiver notes from the previous week went missing. Someone blacked out information in two separate logs documenting patient care on the day Sonoma employees discovered Lazzini bleeding.
"The initials were heavily lined out," Beck wrote.
Mark Czworniak, a Chicago Police Department homicide detective, reviewed the Lazzini case file for California Watch. He said that without records, crime scene evidence or corroborating statements from witnesses, there is no way to link anyone to the swabs that killed Lazzini.
It might have been multiple caregivers, Czworniak wrote, "or a completely unobservant health care worker, supplying Timothy L. with the G-swab one after another, not noticing, or caring where each swab disappeared to, and not surmising that Timothy L. was swallowing them."
Lazzini's sister, Stephanie Contreras, who lives in the Sonoma County town of Windsor, and other family members sued the state in 2006 over Lazzini's death and settled two years later for $100,000.
The Department of Public Health also fined the Sonoma Developmental Center $90,000 in August 2007, citing "mistreatment, neglect or misappropriation of resident property" – the failure to prevent Lazzini from swallowing the swabs.
But the Office of Protective Services closed the Lazzini case without determining what had happened.
Oversight reorganized
For much of its history, the Office of Protective Services was fragmented, with officers reporting only to administrators at their own facility.
Then, after a series of critical stories about the Sonoma center in the local Index-Tribune newspaper, Sacramento officials took greater control of the Office of Protective Services. They created a statewide police chief and borrowed veteran officers from the California Highway Patrol to fill the job.
In 2006, the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division criticized the care at Lanterman, in Pomona, in a letter sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. They noted a failure to properly collect evidence, inadequate witness interviews, delays in beginning investigations and the inability to close unsolved cases.
The audit outlined the case of a patient, identified only as A.Z., who died on Aug. 7, 2002. The federal audit did not include details of the case but said the patient "died of multiple blunt force trauma after being stomped repeatedly in his bedroom at Lanterman."
The Office of Protective Services identified two suspects – the patient's caregiver and a roommate. Although there was evidence pointing to both men, the audit said, Lanterman police concluded the roommate had committed the crime but was too mentally impaired to face charges.
"Regardless of who was responsible," the auditors said, "the fact that A.Z. suffered severe pain and ultimately died at Lanterman, in spite of the state's obligation to keep him safe, is deeply disturbing."
Patricia Flannery, the state official responsible for developmental center operations, said Lanterman has remedied the deficiencies documented by the justice department. "We haven't heard from them in two years," she said.
During the Schwarzenegger administration, however, the Department of Developmental Services hired less-experienced candidates to run the police force.
In 2007, the department hired Nancy Irving, a longtime government labor mediator, analyst and program manager, as the force's interim police chief. She had not been certified as a law enforcement officer.
The career path of Victor Davis is not unusual.
Davis started at Lanterman as a part-time psychiatric technician in 1989, working his way up to a supervising caregiver. In 1998, the Department of Developmental Services put him on the police force as an investigator, skipping him over two ranks of police officers despite his lack of law enforcement background.
Today, Davis is Lanterman's commanding officer, in charge of all criminal investigations. Davis declined to comment in detail, and attempts to interview him during a tour of Lanterman were cut off by a top-level official with the department.
The police force in 2008 added its first policies on investigating abuse and neglect, closing investigations, responding to sex assault and responding to a crime scene or emergency. But policies on preserving evidence, managing investigations and collaborating with outside law enforcement remain unwritten to this day.
Detectives have not had the authority to send investigations to prosecutors themselves. In most police departments, officers and detectives begin working with prosecutors in the early stages of an investigation. Some district attorneys send their prosecutors to work hand in hand with police at crime scenes.
But the Office of Protective Services follows a different playbook. The agency's manual states that detectives and commanders must clear cases with administrators and civil attorneys at the Sacramento headquarters before sharing cases with local police or prosecutors.
Delgadillo, director of the Department of Developmental Services for the past five years, said the police agency follows state standards for evidence collection.
Delgadillo said she has reorganized the force so that police commanders answer to Sacramento rather than local administrators at the centers. This move, which was fully enacted in 2007, is intended to protect against interference by employees and officials who might be implicated in wrongdoing, she said.
Delgadillo acknowledged the old policy had been a potential conflict of interest.
"They're reporting directly up to us to make sure that there's no conflict between the developmental center and the investigation that's actually being conducted," Delgadillo said.
The department's legal team exists to protect the state from civil liability claims, a fact that raises concerns among patient advocates and legal experts who say prosecutions and arrests for abuse of patients have taken a back seat.
Delgadillo said the Office of Protective Services submits cases to department lawyers first to ensure "the investigation and the information is as complete as possible."
Since 2006, state regulators have confirmed 21 patient abuse cases and 173 injuries of unknown origin at the Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona. But the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said it is unable to find a single case referred by Lanterman investigators in the past decade.
And the head of the district attorney's elder abuse and dependent adult section, Robin Allen, said she didn't know the developmental center had its own officers and detectives. With more than 300 patients, Lanterman is one of the largest elder caregivers in Los Angeles County.
Department of Developmental Services officials provided California Watch with the case numbers for six incidents they claim had been forwarded to prosecutors in Los Angeles County. But the district attorney's office said the case numbers didn't match anything in their records.
Even cases of brazenly documented abuse have ended without criminal charges.
In 2005, a caregiver at Lanterman took a cell phone picture of her co-worker with his hands wrapped around the neck of a 48-year-old male patient with mental disabilities.
In the photo, the patient's "facial expression showed that he was not enjoying the action," a state Department of Public Health inspector wrote in a report about the incident.
The photograph, taken May 5, 2005, was e-mailed to the phones of multiple Lanterman employees – itself a violation of patient privacy laws. Another caregiver witnessed the choking and anonymously reported it a week later in a letter to public health officials and Lanterman administrators.
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But the Office of Protective Services did not arrest the employees involved or forward the case to prosecutors. Inspection records don't say whether the caregivers were reprimanded or fired, but Lanterman itself was fined $800 by the Department of Public Health.
Ryan Gabrielson is an investigative journalist for California Watch. CIR staff writers Agustin Armendariz, Emily Hartley and Michael Montgomery contributed to this report. This story was edited by Robert Salladay and Mark Katches. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick.


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Researchers wanted to know the specific effects on heart complications, lung complications, or death after surgery in people who were current smokers or those that had stopped smoking at least a year before. The study, published in JAMA, found that people who had smoked but quit for a year or more had a lower risk of surgical complications than those who were currently smoking.
The cohort study included 607,558 people undergoing major surgery in hospitals in the United States, Canada, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates. The patients were followed for 30 days after the surgery for the appearance of any vascular problems like heart attack and stroke, respiratory problems like pneumonia or need for ventilation, and death.
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The study also separated patients in to those that had current heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer and those that did not. The increased risk with smoking was consistent whether these diseases were present or not.
The study is a cohort study which is an observational study. This means researchers find similar patients, collect information, and observe the outcomes, they do not try to control the involved factors. As a results, observational studies can not determine a cause and effect, instead they indicate a potential relationship between two factors. Risk factors for smoking have been well studied and it is reasonable to see a link between post operative heart and lung complications and smoking. This study supports this connection and reports that even smokers without current pulmonary or heart disease were at higher risk.
The good news is that those who quit smoking were able to reduce their risk of complications. If you are a current smoker and are planning to have major surgery, talk to your surgical team about your options. The length of time to your surgery and how long you have been smoking may play a role in your team's recommendations.
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CASA volunteers were thanked for the work they do Thursday during CASA Kane County's third annual Super Heroes Breakfast at Piper's Banquets in Aurora.
A Court Appointed Special Advocate is a trained volunteer who is appointed by the court to represent the best interests of an abused or neglected child.
"The CASA volunteers are our superheroes," Executive Director Gloria Bunce told the audience of about 350 people, which included CASA volunteers. "Every child needs and deserves that hope for the future."
CASA Kane County was started in 1988 and last year served 556 children, the most it has served since its inception, said Vicki Shaw, manager of annual giving for CASA. The nonprofit organization is 100 percent funded by private donations.
North Aurora resident Jeff Wong has been a CASA volunteer for three years. While he appreciated being recognized, Wong said that's not the reason he volunteers.
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Also thanking the CASA volunteers was film and TV star Victoria Rowell, the guest speaker at the breakfast. Rowell, best known for her appearances on "The Young and the Restless," "The Cosby Show" and "Diagnosis Murder," was raised in foster care from infancy until she turned 18.
"When you take that child by the hand and help them find their place in life, you are making a difference, you are giving a child an opportunity and access to success," Rowell said.
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Type 3 vWD can also result in severe bleeding events with no apparent cause. This type can also cause bleeding into the joints. This can cause pain and swelling in joints.
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Sesame or tahini halva recipe - How to make sesame or tahini halva
Recipe for Sesame Halva, or Tahini Halva: a sweet treat. Learn how to make the best halva.
Halva is basically a crystalized paste of sesame seeds (tahini) and sugar—a flaky sweet confection based on crushed sesame seeds.
Halva best translated as sweetmeat—derives from the arabic for "sweet". Halvas are traditional across a wide range of cultures, spread geographically from north Africa, through the Middle East, the Levant and the Balkans, to central Asia and India.
This sweet treat is produced from quality, natural ingredients and is regarded as one of the most nutritious and healthy natural foods. This is emphasized by the fact that sesame seed , grown in the lush, fertile fields of Thrace , is the basic ingredient (55%) used in the preparation of Halva.
Nutritional analysis results show it to be an excellent source of protein (26%) and polyunsaturated fats (60%), while being rich in vitamins and trace elements, such as iron and magnesium.
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2 cups (24 oz.; 700g) honey
flavourings—vanilla, coffee, chocolate,...
1½ cups (12 oz.; 340g) tahini — beaten to mix in any excess oil
optional 1½ cups nuts —try almonds
Heat the honey, stirring to prevent local overheating. If using a sugar thermometer, simmer until the thermometer reaches 240 °F (115 °C) — otherwise, test for a ``soft ball '' syrup. Once you have reached the soft-ball temperature, let the honey-syrup cool for a couple of minutes. Meanwhile, warm the tahini to about 50 °C; 120 °F. Fold the warmed tahini into the hot honey-syrup.
Before adding the tahini, you can add nuts (pistachio, almond, hazelnut) to the syrup. It's worth the effort to remove the skins and gently toast the nuts in a moderate oven (180 °C; 350 °F), and add the hot nuts to the hot syrup. Add as many as you want—this mixture will take up to 2 cups (8 oz.; 250g) of nuts if you like your halva that way; most shop-bought halva has far less.
Put the warm mixture into an oiled cake tin (either with a press-out base, or lined with baking paper), ramekins, or a plastic container. Once cool, seal to keep out any moisture and leave in the fridge for 36 hours (this allows the sugar crystals, which give halva its distinctive texture, time to grow). Cut while cold, with a sharp knife (if the halva is softer than the nuts it's difficult to make a clean cut, so this is easier when the halva is cold).
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I've had this fantasy about being in a music video. Sort of the Tawny Kitaen White Snake kind. I want to dance on the hood of a Jag with big auburn 80s hair. Or maybe the Courtney Cox special of getting pulled on stage with The Boss.
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The Miami Dolphins would receive about $7.5 million a year in hotel taxes to renovate Sun Life Stadium under a deal endorsed by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez late Monday night. Now, the agreement faces a countywide referendum.
County commissioners are expected to convene Wednesday to endorse the deal and send it on to the countywide vote on May 14, a week before NFL owners meet to award Super Bowls 50 and 51. The Dolphins have agreed to forgo county money if one of the games is not awarded to the Miami Gardens stadium.
"This is really about bringing marquee events to Miami-Dade,'' Gimenez said after the deal was struck, shortly after 10 p.m. "This is a very, very favorable deal when you compare it to other stadium deals around the country."
The Super Bowl proviso is one of several potential penalties in the deal that Gimenez and team executives outlined after a marathon negotiating session that kept both sides in County Hall for 23 hours.
"This is really an investment in economic development,'' team CEO Mike Dee said. "We said this would be a business deal."
Dee and Gimenez described the rough outlines of a deal that will be presented in detail to county commissioners Tuesday morning. Among the terms: Miami-Dade would increase its mainland hotel tax to 7 percent from 6 percent, and give the Dolphins 75 percent of the new revenue up to $7.5 million a year in Year One. Each year, that dollar cap would increase by 3 percent. The payout would expire in 26 years.
At the end of 30 years, the Dolphins would refund between $110 and $120 million to the county — Miami-Dade's estimated share of a renovation project that would cost at least $350 million.


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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (UK - BD RA/B)
Chris takes a look at the new Optimum Blu-ray release of the 90s sci-fi sequel
Set roughly ten years after the events of the original The Terminator, T2 jumps forward to a time when Sarah Connor has given birth to her son, John. Skynet, the supercomputer that controls the machine armies of the future, has sent another Terminator back through time in an attempt to kill John. However, this is no ordinary machine, but an advanced prototype: the T1000. Composed of a mimetic-poly-alloy, or liquid metal, the T1000 can imitate anything it samples by physical contact, making it an ideal assassin. The future resistance learns of the plan to assassinate John, and manages to capture and reprogram an old T800 series Terminator, assigning it one mission: to protect the life of John Connor at all costs. The race is on to see which machine will find the adolescent Connor first, with the fate of the human race hanging in the balance.
Of course the main reason for the film's blockbuster status is the (for the time) ground breaking special effects, be they digital or practical. Who can forget the incredible sight of the T-1000 morphing into various shapes as it stalked the Connors, or Arnie's battered T-800 with exposed endoskeleton? It reminded me what a great loss Stan Winston was to the effects community, but I took comfort in the fact that we have this and other examples of his work to remind us of his genius. Of course the technology is old hat by today's standards, but the effects hold up fairly well when you consider that they're over fifteen years old. The T-1000 looks a little odd whenever he's walking in liquid metal form, but animating humanoid forms in a convincing manner is very difficult, even to this day (although things have improved dramatically in recent years, as evidenced by the CGI Silver Surfer). Unfortunately the effects served to remind me of why everyone raved about the film in 1991. Seventeen years later we're all used to flashy effects, and the chinks in Terminator 2's armour are starting to show.
Having said that, the years have been relatively kind to T2, as has an extended period of absence from my DVD player. When I last reviewed the film I was suffering from T2 overload, which undoubtedly influenced my opinion. This Blu-ray release marks the first time I've watched the film in years, and the experience was more gratifying for it. It's not quite as 'edge of your seat' as I remember, possibly because this is the extended cut with added exposition, but it is an incredibly ambitious project that deserves its place in history. Me, I still prefer the low-budget grittiness of the original, but I can understand why many people gravitate towards this glitzy sequel. I just feel that it lacks the drive and relentless pace of The Terminator, which runs almost forty minutes shorter than this version of the sequel. I found myself losing interest during the long periods of time when neither Terminator was on screen, and the action wasn't as exciting as I remember. I also have issues with some of the choices made by the characters, not to mention the performances of certain members of the cast. Don't get me wrong, T2 is still a good film, but I preferred Arnie before his conscious shift to good guy roles in which he doesn't intentionally harm people.
Terminator 2 is another port of the a Studio Canal HD DVD release, which means a 1080p VC-1 encoded transfer at the film's original theatrical ratio of 2.35:1. The image is generally very pleasing, with solid contrast, decent black levels and natural colour rendition. The image is quite a lot softer than the Blu-ray transfers of most modern features, but detail is still far more impressive than the previous DVD releases. However, this proves to be a bit of a mixed blessing as it draws attention to some of the less impressive effects work, such as the slightly suspect model cars and buildings destroyed during Sarah's 'nuclear nightmare'. I also noticed some of the digitally erased wires that were used to support the Terminator's motorcycle as it jumped into the storm drain. On the plus side, this was the first time I ever noticed that the T-1000 grew an extra hand to pilot the helicopter as it reloaded!
There's quite a lot of grain in the image, but this is fairly typical of films shot in Super 35 (as opposed to anamorphic), and it's rarely distracting. There was one scene where the image appeared far grainier than any at other point in the feature, but this was not repeated. I also noticed a reasonable amount of film artefacts throughout the duration of the film, but these were mostly limited to small black or white flecks and only one of them was large enough to draw undue attention to itself. There are some very light edge halos in a number of scenes, but they only showed up under close examination of still frames and I didn't notice them during normal playback on a 42" set. All things considered this is an excellent presentation that does justice to the source material.
As with most of Optimum's recent Blu-ray releases, we get another DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. Again, this is ported over from the HD DVD release, but thankfully this time there is no controversy about whether the track's pitch has been altered (see my Total Recall review). The music and dialogue sound as expected. As with all DTS-HD Master Audio tracks, current hardware limitations restrict me to sampling the DTS Core element.
As to the quality, well it's easily the most impressive aspect of the disc. It's an incredibly active track right from the get-go, with almost constant use of all five channels to create a fully immersive world. There's plenty of directionality, be it panning across the front of the sound stage, or cleverly placed discreet effects in the rears. The opening scenes of battle in Los Angeles circa 2029 are incredibly atmospheric, filled with the sounds of Hunker Killers whooshing overhead and plasma rifles blasting away. Bass is extremely ferocious, with each gunshot packing a satisfying punch and some of the larger explosions resulting in ornament displacement. Brad Feidel's score sits nicely alongside the rest of the mix, never overwhelming the effects. If I had to nitpick I would say that the dialogue is a little indistinct on a couple of occasions and fidelity isn't quite up there with modern soundtracks. However, these are are very minor criticisms of what is otherwise a fine mix.
Once again I find myself in possession of an Optimum Blu-ray Disc with zero bonus features. It's very disappointing given the wealth of bonus material available for the film. At the very least it would have been nice to have a choice between the theatrical and special editions of the film, like the French Studio Canal HD DVD, especially since Studio Canal own Optimum (and Kinowelt for that matter, and their HD DVD version of T2 had bags of extras).
As with the |Total Recall disc, Optimum has included video and audio calibration tools, but they don't really qualify as bonus material in my book. They're functional at best, without any of the advanced calibration settings found in the THX Optimizer or Digital Video Essentials tools. In fact, the reference levels suggested for the video are some way off the optimum setting for this film.
Terminator 2 is a landmark film that deserves its place in the sci-fi pantheon. However, I stand by my assertion that it's not quite as rewarding as its done-on-a-shoestring predecessor. For me, the moral elements don't quite work as well as the action scenes, and I preferred Schwarzenegger's turn as an implacable killing machine than the more humanised role of protector. Hey, different strokes and all that.
This Blu-ray release is a mixed affair, with the solid audio-visual elements somewhat let down by the complete lack of extras. However, if you're unconcerned with bonus material and just want a great looking and sounding version of the film you could do a lot worse than checking this release out. It can be picked up for a little under thirteen pounds if you shop around, which is pretty good value for a Blu-ray Disc.
Review by Chris Gould
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th August 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS-HD High Resolution 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: French, Dutch
Extras: N/A
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton, Castulo Guerra, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley
Genre: Action and Sci-Fi
Length: 153 minutes
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|August 28, 2008, 02:21 PM
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What Do You Expect The Need For Your Fighting Rifle To Be?
To you guys and gals who are prepared for just about anything, what situation/s do you feel you may have to face with your fighting rifle?
In what order do you put the following attributes for your fighting rifle (most important first)? amount of ammo that can be carried for it, speed of followup shots, ability to penetrate cover, and stopping power.
I'm going to assume that the platform is reliable, accurate, and durable.
For me its riots, looters, and gang trouble.
My list was speed of followups, ammo that can be carried, stopping power, penetration of cover. I'm having a change of heart though. I really am having difficulty thinking this through. I'm torn as to how big a factor penetration might be given the urban environment.
Need some thoughts....
|August 28, 2008, 02:42 PM
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If we're talking riots, looters, and gang members I would have to go with my AR - 15 (M4 type). Over penetration could probably be an issue but...
- It looks MEAN, so theres a little more psych. effect on an angry mob or gang
- High capacity mags are a plus for obvious reasons
- Ammo is relativly cheap and 5.56 NATO should be available
- Easy to maintain and repair if needed... rugged
- good accuracy within a few hundred yds
- M4 type is also good for CQB.
- Flashlight and other attatchments would be handy.
Anyway, thats my 2 cents! Second in line would be my 10/22
|August 28, 2008, 05:18 PM
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The rifle is just a tool. I am capable of handling any situation with a variety of rifles. So for me the attributes don't change based on the need.
|August 28, 2008, 07:35 PM
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I live on the border. Carjacking by illegals. This is usually very violent and if you drive the border at night you'll witness 2-3 jacks a year. Then Home break in, illegals again and usually at night. Finally gnag bangers, but Salvos or Bloods who are fighting for kids in my community.
|August 28, 2008, 07:55 PM
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My go to would either be my m1 carbine or my kel-tec. ammo is lite for both more easily attained for the kt though. both good cqb weapons. however there aren't to many foreseeable situations in the future.
I live in an apt complex in a college part of town so maybe a riot (the drunken kind) but the sight of me with any weapon would probably be deterrent enough. So I think my main go to would be the good ole Mossberg 500.
"I have ridden the mighty moon worm, and it was good"
"Aim Big miss Big, Aim small Miss small"
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|August 28, 2008, 09:07 PM
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If I ever need a long gun for anything it'll most likely be an intruder and the Rem. 870 will be handling the chores. Same for a pack of gang bangers.
|August 28, 2008, 10:21 PM
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I like the AR-15 M4 variants, as well as an AK variant if given the choice. The AR for availability of parts/accessories, the AK for toughness and dependability.
I would love to have a combat grade 870 platform for up close work tho, with the appropriate modifications, and save the rifle for the longer range suppression shots.
And a nice bladed or other non-ammo backup is always a plus for when/if supplies run out.
|August 28, 2008, 10:51 PM
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My rifle is to fight my way back to my handgun.
No not really, but for me my "fighting" rifle (m4) is more for fun. Yes I have a red dot optic and BUIS, and yes I've taken 'tactical' rifle classes with it. But I really don't think as a civillian, I'll ever need to use it as a weapon to defend myself with, at least not while our society remains intact. Besides, the only time I even have my rilfe with me is when Im at home. If I needed a weapon to use for home defense it wouldn't be my rifle. I'd probably go with either my glock 22 or 12 gauge.
|August 28, 2008, 11:02 PM
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Any .30Caliber...
no varmint calibers, especially when varmints are shooting back.
|August 29, 2008, 12:12 AM
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and i wouldnt wanto to get shot buy a .243 or .22-250.
"I have ridden the mighty moon worm, and it was good"
"Aim Big miss Big, Aim small Miss small"
"Don't rush the monkey and you'll see a better show."
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|August 29, 2008, 12:34 AM
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i like the idea of my 9mm colt AR for sheer volume, but the enfield 303 would be my choice if i wanted to "reach out and touch somebody"!
most of my "targets" w/b out at the perimeter, so i guess the enfield gets the nod. hey it was good enough for ww2 right?
|August 29, 2008, 01:57 AM
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Figure whatever scenario you plan for you will get something else.
What is the best golf club? 5 iron?
I believe we have the best bunch of professional warriors in the world.They are faced with a variety of scenarios every day.I would guess the M-4 with an ACOG or red dot is pretty close to as good as it gets.
Of course,sometimes a 7.62 would be an advantage,or maybe an HK-91.
To cover most bases,most of the time,the M-4
|August 29, 2008, 03:43 AM
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Fighting rifles:
I am not really concerned with the possibility of ever having to use my "fighting rifles." I live in a rural area in a part of the country where a severe natural disaster leading to a break down in civil order is extremely unlikely.
Realizing this...
I like stopping power and ability to turn cover into concealment. Of all the scenarios that might cause me to have to use my rifle, none of them require me to by roaming around with only the ammo on my back engaging in massive firefights. Carrying six to eight 30 round mags of 7.62x39 or 20 round mags of 7.62x51 is plenty. If the crap hits the fan that bad, I am finding the quickest way to family property and digging in. I can and do stockpile ammo there. Similarly, the rate of fire I can achieve with either of these is more than adequate for anything I'd need. Suppressive fire an movement is irrelevant. Even if I could do so without risking innocent third parties, this wouldn't be possible. I don't have the manpower to utilize the tactics. Any fire I put out will be aimed. Fire rate and the amount of ammo I can carry is almost completely irrelevant, esp comparing semi-autos with similar magazine capacities. However, the possibility of having to shoot through vehicle bodies, body armor, bricks, and, more likely for this area, large trees is not nearly as far fetched.
And no, after 40+ years, there is still more than adequate evidence to call the fight stopping power of the 5.56 in to question. We don't argue it on this very forum twice a week because nothing exists to the contrary.
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|August 29, 2008, 07:53 AM
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My choice of a personal rifle is an M4 style AR15. While I have many other rifles this is the first one I grab 99% of the time. Lite weight, compact, accurate and very reliable. I can take this gun apart and fix anything that could ever go wrong with it. This is something I find very important with any rifle intended for long term use.
The chances of being attacked by a gang around here is about as remote as being attacked by a zombie. Civil unrest chances are very low too. Our country community pulls together when something bad happens. My little black rifle does a nice job on deer, coyotes, and wild dogs.
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|August 29, 2008, 08:45 AM
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Any AK-47 variant with the proper hardware gets the job done for me. I'm moving away from FAL's, too much gun. As far as what I would use it for?
Honestly the only situation I can really think of likely to occur in South-West Ohio would be an active shooter. Possibly a riot (we had one of those not too too long ago) but the police are usually pretty on top of that. So yeah, active shooter.
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|August 29, 2008, 02:15 PM
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My go to long-arms would most likely be my 1897-pump shotgun, or if I ever decide to lay out the cash for more mags, my Saiga 12k auto shotgun. If situation dictates a rifle, my first choice would be one of my lever-action .45's. If things are really nasty, my FNFAL clone, but I doubt it would ever come to that. About the worst I'd have to worry about around here is small-time break-ins, which the shotguns would take care of nicely.
|August 29, 2008, 03:30 PM
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O wait, no you were talking about Afghanistan, not Montana. You're right. A poodle shooter is all anybody needs
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|August 29, 2008, 05:49 PM
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I'm just re thinking my needs so that I can choose the more appropriate "tool" in advance.
|August 29, 2008, 05:59 PM
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I've owned one .308 military platform rifle, a surplus L1A1 SLR from CAI. That sucker hung up as much as it fired and it was tough to clear. Be careful what system and rifle you choose.
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|August 29, 2008, 06:00 PM
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Again, I don't think it matters. 223, 308, 303, 30-06, 30 carbine, 30/30, .22LR. This idea that the caliber is going to make much, if any, difference in the outcome of most situations is just silly.
|August 29, 2008, 06:28 PM
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I disagree
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|August 30, 2008, 12:37 AM
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Having a 5.56 and various .30cal & 7.62 for high power
I prefer the power of the .30 cal, using POA/POI I know that an incapacitating hit occurred.
5.56 simply doesn't do it. If it all I have then it's going to be used.
Look at the different ammo now used, the 55gr original load (supposed to tear an arm off with a shoulder hit), the 69gr penetrator, the 75gr long range.
Look what happen in the "Blackhawk down situation, wrong ammo wasn't delivering the incapcitation, 7.62 shows up no problem.
I'll even take a 30/30 or a M1 Carbine.
|August 30, 2008, 01:19 AM
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My first choice would be an AR-type carbine, because of ammo and parts availability and ergonomics. Even in a SHTF situation, I think most engagements will be at relatively close range.
Unfortunately, I live in Kalifornia, and can't own a real AR. Fortunately, I have one at work, and will probably be on duty in any extreme situation anyway.
I've got a CMP Garand and two cans of M2 ball: Good enough.
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