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Committee empaneled to study structure of coroners office
By Christian W. Peck
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County leaders will study whether to develop a medical examiner post in Niagara County and restructure the organization of the current office of coroner, the chairman of the Niagara County Legislature, Wm. Keith McNall, R-Lockport, announced.
The move comes in response to rising costs associated with autopsies - the resolution authorizing the formation of a study committee to address the issue noted Niagara County taxpayers are "charged approximately $1,700 per full autopsy case and $1,100 per partial examination." McNall said such costs need to be contained, if possible.
"This is a study committee, and they are tasked with examining the feasibility of creating a medical examiner's post or other modifications to the existing four coroners' offices and duties," the legislature chairman explained. "This is a critical function of government that most people don't think about very often, but, like all government responsibilities, we want to do it in as cost-effective a manner as possible."
McNall tapped Legislator John Syracuse, R-Newfane, for the post. Syracuse has helmed other ad hoc committees that examined various cost-cutting efforts in fields as diverse as road maintenance and employee health benefits.
"When it comes to performing government functions, I don't feel good about just passing on a bill to the taxpayers without trying to determine if we can do it better and cheaper," said Syracuse, who is a chiropractor, after McNall tasked him with heading the committee. "As a legislator, I know that, from time to time, we need to examine any function of government for cost savings. But as a doctor, I can tell you that, when it touches on the medical field, that goes doubly so, because of how dynamic and fluid the requirements there can be."
Syracuse will be joined on the committee by Legislator David E. Godfrey, R-Wilson; Minority Leader Dennis F. Virtuoso, D-Niagara Falls; Assistant County Attorney Brian D. Seaman; County Treasurer Kyle Andrews; Coroner Joseph Mantione; Sheriff James R. Voutour; and Public Health Director Daniel Stapleton.
The committee will determine the costs of a medical examiner's office, as well as other possible structural changes."Anything that can contain, control or even reduce the costs to county taxpayers while preserving the dignity of the departed and protecting our obligation to their families is worth considering," Syracuse said. "The public needs to know that, whatever recommendations this committee makes, will only preserve or enhance that level of service."

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- It is not quite so difficult to get basic Cyrillic support into your document -- there are basically only two things that you need.
- A font encoding that supports Cyrillic characters. LaTeX's default is (the pretty old) OT1 which includes Latin characters in many shapes and forms. Typical Cyrillic encodings are T2A, T2B, and T2C; loading those is as easy as using the fontenc package with the corresponding option (see below).
- To actually being able to type in Cyrillic letters into you LaTeX source code, and to have LaTeX recognize them as such, you'll need to use an appropriate input encoding. Now, this really depends on your file settings, but using UTF-8 should be all right in most cases.
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- The reason for all fonts to be bitmapped is that the standard LaTeX CM (computer modern) font does not contain mappings for the T2A encoding. In fact, if it goes beyond OT1, computer modern will cowardly retreat to bitmapped fonts all the way.
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ELLWOOD CITY -- Calvin Presbyterian Church is presenting a free concert for the community featuring the Sanctuary Jazz Band.
Andy Kindle, a member of the Calvin concert committee, said the church has always had an annual event but this is the first time the music is by the Sanctuary Jazz Band and church officials hope to make it an annual affair.
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"We all work together so we don't really have a director, I'm a sort-of director because I assumed the directorship," McCardy said.
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Chancellor Philip Hammond's NHS commitments in the Budget were welcome, but he did not go nearly far enoughby Anita Charlesworth / November 24, 2017 / Leave a comment
The Chancellor's nickname is Spreadsheet Phil—he is not seen as a risk-taker. But much of the pre-Budget commentary stressed that Wednesday could not be a "steady as she goes" affair. The politics and economics of our age demand action.
For many people one of the big tests for this Budget was how the Chancellor would address the toll that seven years of austerity has taken on our major public services. Would he be bold, break from the tight constraints of the spending limits imposed by his predecessor and increase funding to them?
One of the biggest single areas of public spending is the NHS. Just two weeks ago, the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens starkly reminded the chancellor that ignoring the pressures facing the health service would be a very risky strategy. This is true both for the health service itself and politically, with 90 MPs signing a letter on the NHS last week emphasising the need for a cash injection—including 33 Conservatives.
In a fairly unprecedented intervention, Stevens claimed that without extra funding, far from growing, the number of nurses and other frontline staff, hospitals, community health services and GPs were more likely to be retrenching. That it would be increasingly hard to expand mental health services or improve cancer care. And crucially, that the NHS waiting list would grow to five million people by 2021, reversing the progress that has seen the wait for an NHS operation cut from over 18 months to under 18 weeks.
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And then only to the extent of extending unemployment compensation and reprieves from Obamacare mandates. One is tempted to conclude that President Barack Obama and his party over the past five years have intentionally inhibited job creation and wrecked the private health insurance market in order to turn the employed and uninsured into government-dependents that must vote for Democrats in order to survive in subsistence poverty that they created.
What else to make of Obamanomics non-stimulus and Obamacare (ACA) bills that cancel insurance policies, raise premiums, and destroy full-time jobs; only to insist that "caring" about the recently-unemployed and recently-uninsured requires extending the benefits of the former as if an entitlement and delay the ACA's individual mandate selectively only as to the latter. Meanwhile what of the millions of unemployed that never qualified for U.I. and that have dropped out of a job market that remains smaller today that when the so-called recovery began five years ago; and that were uninsured before Obamacare took effect.
We were happy to see Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggest before today's cloture vote (passed 60-37 with six GOP votes, video further below) on the unemployment benefits bill that in exchange for a fifth year of "temporary" extensions, Democrats should agree to repeal job-killing taxes and regulations, including Obamacare's. But in the final analysis, few Republicans, few Republicans have had the courage to take a stand against the bill based upon its harm to the unemployed lest they be branded as "heartless". Rather, they whine about "paying" for the relatively puny $6.5 Billion cost, with cuts elsewhere.
Conservatives must make arguments against bills with easily identifiable recipients of checks that make clear the harm they and alternative policies not pursued cause to the forgotten men and women living in poverty who won't receive checks. Shouldn't "caring" take a holistic view? Are the merits of a bill established only by identifying identifiable entitlement beneficiaries? And could one Republican refute the assertion that former employees drawing U.I. benefits longer than 26 weeks (now up to 99 weeks) have "paid in". They have not, and just as they are often the victims of Obamanomics, so to are the self-employed Americans denied income due to those same policies.
Republicans must muster the courage to oppose the transformation of unemployment benefits into another entitlement program that Democrats manipulate to buy votes and slander the GOP.
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"One man with courage makes a majority." – Andrew Jackson
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When you begin to trade Forex, it's important to remember that looking for the best Forex technical indicator is futile - there is no holy grail in Forex. To succeed in Forex you will have to follow the same route as every other trader and learn the trade. Learn the logic behind the most popular indicators, work out their strengths and weaknesses, and most importantly learn how technical indicators can fit together organically and help you in your trading journey.
Any technical indicator is a mathematical tool that analyses one of the five following figures: open price, high, low, closing price and volume. As a result of the calculation, technical indicators are plotted graphically as chart patterns. Sometimes they overlay the price chart and sometimes they are drawn in a separate window. There are literally thousands of indicators out there and anybody with coding skills can write their own, but keep in mind that there is only so much information that will actually be of use to you.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the majority of technical indicators were developed for the stock market and daily charts, because back in the day of their creation, 24 hours was about as often as trading charts were updated. That was about 30 years before the internet.
In this article we will explore some of the most popular indicators. Their focus is trend, momentum, volume and volatility.
Trend indicators
Average directional movement index (ADX)
ADX indicator is a Forex technical analysis indicator of the trend strength and it is built upon EMAs of the two other indicators: +DI and -DI.
The DI's are a calculation of how a current day's highs, lows and closing are related to the previous day's highs, lows and closing, divided by the average true range. In essence, +DI says how strong the bull is today, compared to yesterday, while -DI says how strong the bear is today, compared to yesterday. ADX takes the values of +DI and -DI, and tells us who is stronger today compared to yesterday - the bull or the bear.
Graphically speaking, ADX with +DI and -Di look like three lines entangled with each other, moving on the scale of 0 to 100. If ADX is below 20, the trend (whether bullish or bearish) is weak. The threshold of 40 indicates a trend strength and everything above 50 is a strong trend. If +DI is above -DI, the bull is overpowering the bear. The curvature of lines also has value, showing how fast the rate of change is. ADX is a lagging indicator commonly used to evaluate the strength of a trend.
Aroon is a Forex trading technical indicator that measures if there is a trend, how it's developing and how strong is it. Aroon indicators play with the idea that the trend can be measured by evaluating how recent the previous highest highs and lowest lows were. The recentness of the higher highest is reflected in Aroon's bullish line, while the recentness of the lower lows is reflected in Aroon's bearish line. The lines are further oscillated from 0 to 100. For example, when the bullish line is pressed to the top of the scale around the 100 mark and the bearish line is barely above the bottom at 0 - higher highs are often, while lower lows are seldom - we have a strong bullish trend. Crossovers indicate trend direction change. Aroon is also a lagging indicator and is often used to confirm whether a trend has stayed intact.
Moving average convergence/divergence (MACD)
MACD is meant to reveal changes in the strength, direction, momentum, and duration of a trend. It is built upon moving averages of 12 and 26 periods, but with some interesting alterations.
There are two things you can conclude from this alone. Using moving averages is similar to using a lagging indicator; 12 and 26 sound a lot like a trading fortnight and a trading month, thus the indicator is meant to be used on daily charts.
Regardless of the alterations, the indicator consists of the MACD line - the difference between the 12 EMA and 26 EMA, the signal line - the same MACD line smoothed by a nine period SMA, and the histogram, which is the difference between MACD and signal. The bars along the 0 axis - the histogram - are often used to identify divergences. A divergence occurs when the price makes a higher high or a lower low that is not supported by the histogram, also making a higher high or a lower low, accordingly. A divergence hints at the change in the price direction.
Momentum indicators
Relative strength index (RSI)
Relative strength index (RSI) is the first in the group of momentum indicators next to Williams % range and Stochastic, that serves the same basic purpose, but through slightly varying methods. Momentum indicators are used to signal if an instrument is being overbought or oversold, by measuring the velocity and the magnitude of price movements. Momentum is nothing more than the rate of price change.
RSI compares closing prices of the current and previous candles for the up and down trends, turns the outcome into EMA (or in some cases into SMA) and then calculates how uptrend EMA relates to the downtrend EMA, when oscillated on a 1 to 100 scale. The bigger the difference between today and yesterday - the stronger the momentum. Thus if every future close is higher than the previous, the RSI will be oscillating upward and as soon as it reaches the 80 threshold - the overbought area - it will constitute a sell signal. Conversely for the buy signal. RSI is no stranger to the concept of divergence. If the price makes a higher high, while the RSI only makes a lower high, a bearish signal is generated and vice versa.
Stochastic oscillator
Don't let the word oscillator confuse you. Every technical indicator that jumps up and down in a set scale is oscillated. That's how even the trend indicators may be oscillators by their characteristics. As mentioned above Stochastic, much like other volume indicators, helps identify overbought and oversold areas through measuring momentum. In the case of Stochastic, it is done by evaluating how close the closing price was to the price range. In an uptrend the price should be closing near the highs of the trading range, and during a downtrend it should be near the lows. Stochastic is similarly plotted in a 0 to 100 corridor, with basically the same 80/20 overbought/oversold thresholds.
Just to mention briefly, Williams % range compares today's closing price to the highest price in the past and in relation to the average of high and low in the past. In all other respects, it functions like RSI and Stochastic.
Just like all previously described Forex technical indicators, volatility-based indicators monitor changes in the market price and compare them to historical values.
Average true range (ATR)
The range is simply today's high minus today's low. True range extends it to yesterday's closing price if it was outside of today's range. Average True Range Indicator is then an EMA of the true range.
ATR is the greater of the following:Current high less the current low The absolute value of the current high less than the previous close The absolute value of the current low less than the previous close
The bigger the price difference between one of the above, the higher the ATR goes, and the higher the volatility on the market. This can be helpful to know when adjusting your trading stops for example.
Bollinger bands
Bollinger bands are another volatility indicator that uses an SMA or an EMA and envelopes it by two standard deviation lines. This creates a dynamic corridor for the price to bounce in. Following Mr. Bollinger's idea, prices are high when near the upper deviation line and low when at the lower deviation line, which hints at a turnaround.
Volume indicators
Measuring total market volume of the Forex spot market is impossible at the rate and depth required by traders, unlike, say in stocks, commodities, or even Forex futures. The problem is that Forex spot is traded over-the-counter, which means there is no single clearing location to recalculate volumes. The volume that is available at your platform is derived from your broker's own data stream. Those numbers don't even remotely begin to report the total worldwide volume.
Nonetheless, there are traders that involve volume indicators in their Forex trading, and some of them might even be successful at it. In this article, however, we shall only introduce the one that is most known.
On-balance volume (OBV)
OBV is used to measure increases or decreases in the volume of a traded instrument relative to its price. This follows the idea that volume precedes price and can be used to confirm price moves.
Mechanically speaking, total daily volume is assigned a positive number if it increased compared to the previous day. Similarly, a negative value is assigned if total volume decreased since the previous day. When prices go strongly in one direction, so should OBV. A divergence between the price and OBV would indicate a weakness in the market move.
Undoubtedly, there are many more technical indicators that will be of interest, but on researching them you will inevitably see similarities between them and the Forex technical indicators explained in this article. This is a good thing, because it means that you are considering not only the mechanical execution of the trading signals they generate, but also understanding the logic they use and how it applies to the market.
Read more about Forex indicators by following this link.


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Lynne Chou O'Keefe is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and focuses on digital health and connected devices. She works alongside entrepreneurs to develop impactful technologies and therapies for improving patients' lives. Her experience includes health care operating and investing roles. Most recently, O'Keefe worked at Abbott Vascular and Guidant in multiple roles, launching more than 10 interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery product families both in the US and internationally. Earlier in her career, she worked at Apax Partners with a focus on software venture capital investing. In addition, Lynne worked at Goldman Sachs in the Mergers and Acquisitions group.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
An Interesting Day...
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- AnonymousJuly 28, 2012 at 6:14 PM
glad you had a good day at the shop...isn't it interesting the many types of people that you meet when working :)ReplyDelete
I am still amazed that you could make jelly from Queen Anne's lace. I thought at first she was asking if the jelly contained gelatin! Faye, you are such a sweet heart and special person. One day I have to visit that shop of yours! xoReplyDelete
SOunds like you've been busy! Wonderful to meet new people that come into your shop I bet! Have a wonderful evening!ReplyDelete
Love the photos, and the story of the jelly.ReplyDelete
Here the criggers inhabit the queen anns lace, wonder if yours does, or is there a trick for not getting them when you pick them?
Hope you have a wonderful Sunday, God Bless You, hope you are feeling better.
Sounds like you have been busy. I find the things you make, very interesting. I never heard of these jellies before. You are so talented and creative. Have a wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
A very busy day indeed. So nice to meet new people isn't it?ReplyDelete
I do not buy store bought salad dressing anymore because of the Soy. My best friend had breast cancer and had a double mastectomy and her oncologiest told her to never, never eat anything with soy unless it is fermented. This doctors is not even a Naturopath doctor...and he says it as well. So I try really had read all the ingredients when purchasing things...it's amazing how much of our foods have soy.
Have a blessed Lord's day tomorrow.
The rose jelly and plates are so pretty.That's what I miss most about having a little shop the interesting people.Warm Blessings!~AmyReplyDelete
I've really loved all your photos in the last couple of posts Faye, so nice to see around where you live...the wooden bridge reminds me of so many films I've seen :) I will visit over there one day I pray! I hope you are feeling yourself again now, and that your Mum is on the mend - the sun must help I'm sure :) Thank you for the recipes too, I need to stock up on a couple of things so I can start making. You package your goodies so prettily for your shop, they must make lovely gifts. Have a blessed day today! Carly xxReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2012 at 6:26 AM
Hi Faye;ReplyDelete
I made Rose Petal Jelly this week from a recipe I found on the internet, which is quite similar to yours. In the recipe I used it had me clipping the little white points off of all the rose petals (the author said that leaving them on would make the jelly bitter?) I love the flavor of the jelly, and of course, it is so pretty to look at. Thank you for all of your inspiration.
Your photographs on top are so cute.ReplyDelete
Your countryhome is very nice.
Every post from you makes me happy.
You love your daily work. I see you do everything for the Lord.
Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful jellies!ReplyDelete
Like always, you are a busy bee :)
I would have bought up those darling plates also.... kindred spirits :)
How fun to get to meet new people and have such fun experiences each day!
Hope this week is a great one for you!!
What a great opportunity to talk to the lady!ReplyDelete
Glad you are feeling better and with your dear Terry looking after you (smile) you are blessed!
This made me laugh, Faye... she didn't know you meant kosher was "cool"... *haha*ReplyDelete
I hope Terry got down from the roof okay... something about a man being on the roof makes me nervous. I've seen too many silly movies and I'm always waiting for a thud or a crash. *grin*
Hi Faye, Hope you are having another great day at your shop!! We are on holidays next week so Iam hoping that Dave will take me down:) I wanted to let you know how great your Rose petal jam is-I came across a bottle the other day while cleaning out my cupboard-it is DELICIOUS!!!ReplyDelete
I also wanted to mention something to you-if you receive an email from me maked PRIVATE MESSADE_DO NOT OPEN it-I received that message from a friend and I opened it and now I cannot access my email account at all!! Sorry Iam posting this on here but it is the only way to alert you!
Take care,
Love ya,
Jude xoxo
Lots of goodies on your post! Couldn't find your recipe for homemade ranch dressing unless I overlooked it! The jellies look so yummy!ReplyDelete


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Every blogger needs a random thoughts post every once in a while. So now it's my turn for some serious randomness. 🙂 I start back to school next week, I am not in the school mode yet! Summer has been so nice for us, and I guess I am not dealing with the reality that … More Random thoughts


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Threshold, published in The October Moon [magazine is defunct] (2001)
Go Beyond, published in The Harrow (2002)
Prior Record: A Christmas Tale, in Nuvein Magazine (2003)
The Nightly Bite, published in Issue Six of The Monsters Next Door [magazine is defunct] (2009)


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- The look you give your colleague when you're serving a rude customer speaks a thousand words.- Just know, you'll be the talk of the staff room later.
- Wanting to die inside when people STILL complain about having to buy a plastic bag- It's 5p Sharron, I think you'll survive.
- Going shopping and finding yourself wanting to tidy and pull forward in other stores. You barely do it in your own store but you can't help yourself, we all gotta stick together right?
- The long wait while your customer searches for their loyalty card. "It's always the last place you look" *awkward laugh*.
- When customers ask "do you work here?". No honey, I wear this uniform because it looks fab.
- Breaking down your days into smaller chunks to make it through. SO you've got 2 hours until your next hour break then only an hour and a half until you have to move department and then an hour until your break. Easy.
- Not being able to finish your story to your colleague because of all the stupid customers getting in the way.
- Starting to give someone's change and panicking when they say "can I give you the spare 16 pence" and having to think back to GCSE Maths to work out the change.
- When you get bored you can wander round the shop and do mental shopping. You've got so much spare time you can work out all the best offers because let's face it who wants to spend all their wages back in their own store?
- Feeling unnecessarily offended when customers put their money on the counter rather than in your hands.
Just some fun things, I'm sure we've all experienced working in retail.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
freckle colonies and obsessive feathers
today, i had planned on doing the same but things sortve took a different turn.
Originally i thought id make a portrait of amy fries - because there was this one photo of her i liked the colors of and it inspired a whole picture in my head...dark blues, blacks, whites, greys...
however, she was smashing her mouth with her hand and i just could work around it and make it look right.
so! whos the best and most available model around?? but ofc me! :P
i took the pose i was looking for and began work
mmhm, a decent first sketch but it there was alot more too it i wanted to do... however impatience took over and i started the basic colors
always an odd and interesting phase. but i decided to be a bit more ambitious and go for the look i was thinking of...
thats more like it, corsets and feathers.. were onto a winner!
i have been spending most of my afternoon now coloring and shading and have no gotten stuck on the big feather coming off her head and for a bit of peace and a break from my brain working in overdrive (as it does during projects like this) i decided to stop. but not before taking a sneaky print screen of at least her face where i am just touching the surface of all the work thats now upon me...
dont you just love paint tool sai?
those feathers are sure driving me crazy and ive only just begun the third one O_O
how am i ever going to survive the bottom of her... (slash me i guess, since it is my face and body) ill never know.
Best Part of the Project:
Richard - " Why the F*ck to you always make your drawings necks like an ostrich?!?
Me - "Actually... thats an exact copy of my neck..."
Richard - "Oh........so it is......"
never felt so pretty :D
three cheers for girls with ostrich necks!!
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Again, the eyes are the best part of it. But, since honest feedback has been requested, I think the shading is too soft and fairytalish.ReplyDelete
And it's true there is something about that neck, some lines on there make it look strangely twisted.
is that why the ostrich feathers? i like that dress quite a bit !ReplyDelete
and the last image of the shading in the face & lipstick, etc. add tremendously.
maybe a bracelete?
haha i didnt even think of that orly - perhaps they should be ostrich feathers, good metamorphsis from a dove hmm ;)ReplyDelete
and to you both - yeah i am doing all the shading in stages. i am going by a tutorial a read the other day i really liked, do the basic under shading, fade all the outlines to the bare minimum, then start with the heavy details
ill have to think about a bracelet...what did you have in mind??


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For absolutely no reason I have just promoted the subject of Sport by about forty positions. It was the last one on my provisional list; now it's at the top! As usual I will start with a little diversion.
Advertising, Television and Money
As you know, back in the fifties television was virtually non-existent (and, basically, very poor quality,) so there were few opportunities for televised sport. The BBC effectively controlled the very few sport events every year that were shown and it kept very strictly to its policies of no advertising. You can see already how things might have differed from today – when many sports are driven by vast revenues that come from advertising and television rights. Back in the fifties sport did not play such a major part in the world of entertainment.
Much of what follows is either about changes in televised sport or general changes that have arisen from television. Other changes have been driven by technological changes.
Professional Football
I have to start with football, effectively our national sport then, as it is now. In theory, we did football at school. (More, later about school football. For US readers, 'football' means 'soccer' not American Football.)
My earlier post, [12] Football Pools said a little about professional football in the UK. We knew that it existed and anyone interested could follow results on television or in newspapers. Primarily it was spectator sport just for those fans who went to matches and watched from the terraces.
I think it's fair to say that actually watching live football was more of a working class activity then. Tickets were much cheaper, in real terms, and most were in stands or terraces, without seats. (My experiences of actually doing this are virtually nil.) I suppose our local team was Leyton Orient but no one in our family ever supported a team well enough to be interested in weekly results. My father followed the football pools, so the time around 5 pm on a Saturday was sacrosanct (revealing the results over poor quality television.)
It was before the split of the Premiership and the strangely renamed Championship, so the leagues were named more sensibly – Division One to Division Four. Promotion and relegation were simpler, based just on positions at the end of the season. There were no play-offs. (Now relegation extends to the bottom of Division Two – what was Division Four – with promotion from the Conference. Back then, the bottom two teams just reapplied for inclusion, generally successfully. We knew nothing of the Conference.)
In addition, we had (and still have) the F.A. Cup, a knockout competition, which messed about with fixtures a bit. (Probably not much has changed over the years.) At all levels, drawn Cup matches were replayed at a later date – even the Cup Final. There was no such thing as a penalty shoot-out. Apart from Cup matches, including replays, and matches postponed because of bad weather, all matches took place at the same time – three o'clock on Saturday afternoons and Bank Holidays. (There was no point in matches at different times or on Sundays until they were televised.)
I was thinking this would be a short post, with a couple of line about each sport but there is a lot more about football …
At the time of writing, the football leagues are officially the Barclays Premiership, Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One and Sky Bet League Two. These sponsored names would have been unthinkable in the early days of televised football, when the BBC would not show any form of advertising. Now we see sponsorship all the way round the touchline, on players' shirts and behind the manager when interviewed on television.
We also now have news, pictures and interviews with individual footballers. Many are so famous that their wives and girlfriends have also achieved celebrity status. When the game was first televised, football shirts just had the player's number. They were named by the commentators (just the surname) and that was about all we knew of them.
The Game of Football
I keep thinking of more differences. Even the ball pictured above, with its familiar design of hexagons and pentagons, is relatively recent. It used to be a much harder ball made of stitched leather.
I am not a fan of football but it is now so popular on radio and television that it is unavoidable. I don't know all the changes (and I'm not going to search the Internet for such unexciting detail) but here are some obvious changes.
As noted earlier we never had penalty shoot-outs. We didn't have extra time either. (I'm not totally sure about this.) If the result was a draw and one side had to win, the match was replayed. Substitute players were almost unused – they were only available when players were injured.
The referee was helped by two linesmen and that was all. We had no television or other technology to replay dubious decisions. (Television was live. The ability to replay just a few seconds was very limited at first.) The only means of timing a match was the referee's watch. If he allowed extra 'injury time,' the amount was up to him. If he didn't notice the time and forgot to blow the whistle, they just kept playing.
We didn't even have yellow cards and red cards. A player could be warned by the referee or sent off. The official would make a pencilled note in his notebook.
I know virtually nothing about the rules of football or its tactics but I do remember the only two lessons I ever had at school about the game, when it rained too hard to send us outside. We had the offside rule explained on a blackboard and we had a plan of the field showing positions. The eleven players were arranged as five forwards (outside left, inside left, centre forward, inside right and outside right) three half-backs (left half, centre half and right half) two backs (left back and right back) and a goalkeeper. The possibility of other arrangements was not mentioned.
Well, now, forwards are 'strikers'; halves are 'mid-field'; and backs are 'defenders.' There are extensive discussions on various formations and now no one plays what we would call a 2-3-5 formation (or is it 5-3-2?)
As with so many things, it was all so much simpler then.
On Saturday afternoon at home, we always followed the final results of the football matches. They were always in the same order. Firstly FA Cup matches, then First Division down to Fourth Division, then the Scottish Leagues. (I'm not Scottish, but Scotland was simpler then – also without its Premiership and Championship.) Then a summary of the pools figures and possible pools winnings. Then there might be a short discussion of one or two matches and the new League tables.
Then, almost as an afterthought, we had results of the rugby matches. There were lots of matches, presumably in alphabetical order of the home team. They were just friendly matches with no leagues and there were never any league tables. Rugby was an amateur sport and nothing else was ever said about the rugby results.
That was about it but once a year we did have the Five Nations Internationals (now Six Nations).
I'm sorry but I can't say much more about rugby. I don't understand it. Sometimes I have watched it and I can just about understand tries and scrums. Beyond that, the rules are still incomprehensible to me – as are the positions – and the differences between Rugby Union and Rugby League. (And I can't understand why they think England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are nations, but then the same goes for Football.)
It has changed since the fifties. Like football it is more of a significant television activity (but in Britain it's still overshadowed by football.) It is no longer an amateur sport, and fixtures have moved from winter to summer!
American Football
I just mention American Football in case I have any American readers. Back in the fifties and sixties it was almost unknown to us here. Now it is mentioned sometimes and some matches are shown on some channels. We have so many channels now. The time difference is a problem but at least one channel, somewhere, will show the entire Superbowl. Its result is even mentioned the next day in the sports news.
In a quaint, historical way, English cricket was run by the MCC – Marylebone Cricket Club, which defined the rules and ran the national cricket team at home and abroad. When the team played Test Matches abroad, until the mid-seventies, it was not called England, it was MCC. (I think for cricket, England has always included Wales. County cricket included a team from Glamorgan. In practice, traditions and the colder weather have not been conducive to cricket in Scotland.)
Even up to the nineties, the MCC, based at Lords, governed everything to do with cricket. Now we have the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB). The MCC remains technically in control of the laws of the game.
Cricket in the fifties was mainly the County Championship, just a straightforward single league system of three-day matches. There were also Test Matches against other countries. In those days England, Australia and the West Indies were the main international teams and we always played a series of six Test Matches – one series at home and one away.
[There have changes in the cricketing 'counties' but they were never unduly influenced by changes in local government. The county of Middlesex disappeared in 1965 but even now they still manage to provide a team for the county in cricket!]
National or International cricket was never played on a Sunday, so Test Matches were always six days – Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, with Wednesday as another day off.
There were one or two extra matches. Oxford and Cambridge Universities had their teams and there was the annual Gentleman versus Players match (professionals versus amateurs.)
As for other sports, it was low key without advertising and players were not paid vast amounts.
As for football, I am not an expert, but I can more or less follow what's happening with the game. There must have been changes to the rules but I can only speak about two areas. Firstly, the length of a session used to be nearly always fixed at two hours but now it's more often defined by the number of overs. We also sometimes have longer sessions when rain was limited play earlier.
And secondly, (no surprises) it makes more use of technology. Umpires now use light meters to determine if light levels are suitable and they use predictive action replays to decide exactly where the ball went – and would have continued! Originally if you missed a wicket on television you might have another chance to see it, only if you waited until close of play for the edited highlights. You certainly never saw the same action from different camera views.
The biggest change, which I have left to last, is the use of limited overs. Over several years there were experiments with various numbers of overs. Now, One Day International matches take place about as often as Test Matches and we even have Twenty-Twenty, allowing two or three matches in one day. To someone like me, these are quite interesting, but they are not cricket!
Match of the Day
I will go back to football, with a bit of help from Wikipedia to look in more detail at television coverage provided for many years by the BBC as Match of the Day, shown on Saturday evening. Its first broadcast in 1964 had an audience of about 20 000, less than half the attendance at the ground. There had been earlier live broadcasts, starting with an FA Cup semi-final in 1958.
Generally it showed First Division (now Premiership!) level but in the early years it had to show Second Division, even sometimes Third and Fourth Division matches. Some clubs tried to block its extension in 1965 but the BBC agreed not to reveal the actual location until after the day's play had ended. It's hard to imagine such an arrangement today!
Kenneth Wolstenholme and David Coleman presented the shows until the mid-seventies. After this the BBC gradually lost exclusive rights with some football being shown on ITV.
I think these three are our major sports and this looks like a convenient place to have a rest. More sport to come …


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United States District Court, D. Minnesota
August 9, 2017
ABDIFITAH JAMA ADAN, Plaintiff,v.HEATHER WEYKER, in her individual capacity as a St. Paul Police Officer; ROBERT ROES 1-3, in their individual and official capacities as supervisory members of the St. Paul Police Department; THE CITY OF ST. PAUL; JOHN BANDEMER, in his individual and official capacities as a St. Paul Police Sergeant, Defendants.
Abdifitah Jama Adan alleges violations of his constitutional
rights in an investigation that led to his indictment by a
federal grand jury and his subsequent arrest. He sues
Defendants Heather Weyker, a police officer for the St. Paul
Police Department in Minnesota; John Bandemer, a St. Paul
Police Department sergeant who is alleged to have been
Weyker's supervisor; Robert Roes 1-3, who are allegedly
supervisory St. Paul police officers; and the City of St.
Paul ("St. Paul"). Weyker and Bandemer move to
dismiss Adan's complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of
Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim and on
absolute and qualified immunity grounds. Dkt. No. 36. St.
Paul moves on behalf of the City of St. Paul and Robert Roes
1-3 for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c).
Dkt. No. 45.
investigation at the core of Adan's civil complaint
targeted a suspected venture involving the sex-trafficking of
minor girls across Minnesota, Tennessee, and Ohio. The
investigation resulted in the criminal indictment of thirty
people, mostly Somali, in the Middle District of Tennessee in
2010-2011 ("Tennessee Case"). Adan alleges that
Weyker fabricated evidence about him and others throughout
the investigation, resulting in a tainted indictment that was
further corrupted by Weyker's continuing deception, and
causing his arrest and detention without probable cause. Adan
pleaded guilty to one of the counts of the First Superseding
Indictment on which he was arrested. The count on which he
was convicted pursuant to his guilty plea was unconnected to
any alleged sex-trafficking.
of Adan's co-defendants in the Tennessee Case bring
separate suits similarly alleging constitutional violations,
and a twenty-first person brings another related civil suit.
The parties agreed to coordinated briefing on the
Defendants' motions. The Court assumes familiarity with
its fuller opinion in one of the related cases, Osman v.
Weyker, et al., No. 16cv908 ("Osman
Opinion") (filed simultaneously herewith), and will not
repeat that opinion's discussion verbatim here, given the
overlap in allegations and arguments. Adan is represented by
the same attorneys as the plaintiff in that case, and their
attorneys filed consolidated opposition papers to the
Defendants' motions. See Osman Pls.' Opp. to
St. Paul Mot., Dkt. No. 50; Osman Pls.' Opp. to DOJ Mot.
to Dismiss ("Osman DOJ Opp."), Dkt. No. 56.
Court held a hearing on Defendants' motions on May 3,
2017, and now grants both motions.[1]
motion to dismiss or a motion for judgment on the pleadings
is appropriate to grant "only when there is no dispute
as to any material facts and the moving party is entitled to
judgment as a [m]atter of law." Greenman v.
Jessen, 787 F.3d 882, 887 (8th Cir. 2015) (citation
omitted). To survive a Rule 12 motion, "a complaint
must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to
'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its
face.'" Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662,
678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550
U.S. 544, 570 (2007)); Haney v. Portfolio Recovery
Assocs., LLC, 837 F.3d 918, 924 (8th Cir. 2016), as
amended (Dec. 27, 2016). See also Osman Op.
Most of
the salient allegations are similar to those alleged by Osman
and summarized and analyzed in the Court's order in that
case. See, e.g., Osman Op. 4-8. The Court briefly
recounts some allegations in Adan's First Amended
Complaint and other facts gleaned from the Tennessee Case
2010, Adan lived in Nashville, Tennessee, with his then-wife
Faduma Mohamed Farah and their children. FAC ¶¶
A First
Superseding Indictment was filed in the Tennessee Case on
November 3, 2010, naming 29 defendants.[2] The indictment
alleged that Adan was an associate of members of
Minneapolis-based gangs referred to as the Somali Outlaws and
the Somali Mafia. FSI ¶¶ 1(a)-(b), 1(e) & 1(f).
It charged Adan with three counts: two counts of
participation in a sex-trafficking conspiracy in violation of
18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) (Counts 1 and 2); and one count of
making and using a false writing in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 1001 (Count 22). See First Superseding
Indictment ("FSI"), United States v.
Adan, No. 3:10cr260, Dkt. No. 36 (M.D. Tenn. Nov. 3,
2010) (submitted as Ex. V in support of Weyker and
Bandemer's Reply in this civil case). The indictment
charged that "in or about 2000 through in or about
2006, " Adan "transported and caused the
transportation and harbored Somali females who had not
attained the age of 14 years and had not attained the age of
18 years for the purpose of commercial sex acts . . .
." FSI ¶ 61; see also FAC ¶ 17. Adan
alleges that the indictment's "bare and
conclusory" allegation in Paragraph 61 "is and
always was false" and unsupported. FAC ¶¶
17-18. His then-wife F. Farah was also indicted in Counts 1
and 2, among others, and overt acts were pleaded to connect
F. Farah to the prostitution of alleged sex-trafficking
victim Jane Doe One in 2005 through 2008. See, e.g.,
allegations as to Adan in Count 22 of the First Superseding
Indictment were more detailed: "On or about November
17, 2009, " Adan made or used a false document in a
matter within the jurisdiction of a United States agency,
knowing the document to contain a materially false statement.
FSI 53.[3] More precisely, he "filed, in
Nashville, Tennessee, a signed I485 Application to Register
Permanent Residence or Adjust Status with the United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services." Id. The
indictment alleged that in the I-485 application, Adan
falsely stated, among other things, that he had never been
arrested for a criminal offense and had not received public
assistance in the United States, even though he knew that he
had been convicted on a drug-possession felony in the fifth
degree on September 28, 2004 in Ohio, that he had been
arrested on September 26, 1999 by Border Patrol in Montana,
and that he had received public assistance in the form of
Section 8 housing for almost a year in 2003-2004.
Id. at 53-54. Adan alleges that he "was
charged with this count in order to pressure him into
providing evidence about the fabricated sex-trafficking
ring." FAC ¶ 43.
"thrust" of the sex-trafficking conspiracy counts
was that Adan "was engaged in a conspiracy to recruit
and transport minors for the purpose of engaging in
commercial sex acts." FAC ¶ 14. "No such
conspiracy existed, and Defendants knew it."
Id. Adan alleges upon information and belief that he
"was only roped into this conspiracy because his
ex-wife, Farah, once had an argument with the woman
identified in the Indictment as 'Jane Doe
Five.'"[4] FAC ¶ 19. It was "well-known in
the Nashville Somali community that Jane Doe Five was, to put
it lightly, an unstable woman, and that any statements given
by her could never be worthy of belief." FAC ¶ 20.
Weyker was the lead investigator on the case. FAC ¶ 26.
Because of the argument with F. Farah, "when Weyker
approached the unstable Jane Doe Five to solicit patently and
knowingly false statements implicating any Somalis in
Nashville in this non-existent sex-trafficking conspiracy,
Jane Doe Five agreed to falsely implicate Farah, her husband
Adan, and some of their community acquaintances in
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I bought a wig last Saturday. I thought it would be weird but I kind of like it. In this cold weather I like having something up there to keep my head warm!
Last time my hair fell out very slowly and I never bought a wig...just used scarves. But this time my hair fell out in four days. Seriously! I went from not a loose hair to almost bald in days. So.. I investigated wigs.
Just hope I don't forget their warning not to use the oven or get near an open flame with the thing on! I'm not into the toasted look!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
A new "do"
Posted by pat & victoria at 8:21 AM
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watch out for those ovens, Pat! ;-)
and know that you are in our thoughts...
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London, Day 1
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Rachelle
After an hour long Tube ride, we arrived at our exit exhausted, but we weren't done yet. We had a ten minute walk to our hotel. Turns out, Benny has a poor sense of direction, and yet thinks it's a good idea to try to find places without an address, directions or a map, so our walk ended up taking us round and round a park as well as an accidental run in to the Buckingham Palace.
|Buckingham Palace
Once we arrived at our hotel, it was 8AM, so our room wasn't ready yet. We checked our luggage and had breakfast at the hotel. English breakfast serves a lot of similar dishes to US breakfasts, but they cook it a lot differently, plus the meat and cheese doesn't go through the same processing that it does in the US so it tastes a lot better. The most noticeable differences were the scrambled eggs (much runnier, but creamier and eggier…weird, but good), bacon (thicker and baconier), and many different varieties of cheese (some I have never heard of).
Following breakfast, we changed out of our grungy airplane clothes into fresh clothes and made our way out to explore. We started with an audio-guided tour of Westminster Abbey. It was gorgeous, from the stone chiseled sculptures to the marble floors to the stain glassed windows, it was everything I had imagined and more. But aside from its stunning beauty, it was amazing to learn about the coronations and funerals that take place there. We were also led on a tour of grave sites of deceased kings, queens and other English notables such as Chaucer and Handel. It was interesting to see the time, care and money that people had put into giving the deceased a gorgeous final resting place. I think what struck me the most was how real this tour made everything for me. Learning about kings and queens and the Bubonic plague in school made it all seem like a fairy tale. Once you actually go to visit the graves of knights and Mary Tudor and so on, it all finally seems so real.
|Westminster Abbey
After our tour of the Abbey, I snapped a few shots of my big Ben with the real Big Ben and we hurried over to Buckingham Palace to see the changing of the guard. Little did we know that people wait around all morning to watch the changing, so if you are not there two hours before it starts, you are late. We did get to see the most entertaining part which is the new guard following the marching band into the Palace grounds. It also turned out that today was the 150th anniversary of the cadet school, so there was extra pomp and circumstance involved with the guards that continued throughout the day. There was also a tea party being held on the Palace grounds that was invite only. It was cool seeing all the women dressed up with their big tea time hats like they had just come over from the Kentucky Derby.
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We were still stuffed from breakfast, so we continued our exploring by heading over to Piccadilly Circus to do some shopping. If you are looking for expensive jewelry, clothes or leather products, it is the place to be. Apparently, if you are looking for an English Premiership jersey in your size, it is not. I ended up buying a child sized Manchester United jersey (Go Reds!) at Lillywhites. What is interesting is that child sizes are not measured by small, medium, large, etc., but by age. So to give you an idea of how small I really am, I ended up buying a jersey sized for ages 11-12. Benny bought a couple of toy guards from the guard gift shop and then we headed back to the hotel with hopes that our room was ready. We really needed a power nap to get us through the rest of the day. The room was not ready and we were told to wait 45 minutes, so we rested in the lounge while a harpist played pop songs. When we finally got to our room, the hotel presented us with a bottle of wine for our honeymoon and for the inconvenience of our wait. We took an hour long power nap and then left for dinner. Dinner was nothing fancy, just a sandwich and chips at a local sandwich shop (simply named EAT). From there, we walked along the Thames River to our evening walking tour. The London Walking Tour came highly recommended to us by one of Benny's friends and coworkers. This particular one was the Jack the Ripper tour which took us to the various places that played an important role in the murders such as where the bodies were found, where the girls lived and where they were last seen alive. They also discussed the gruesome details of the murders as well as the most famous speculations about who Jack the Ripper could be.
After our already long and exhausting day, we decided to save the nine pounds and walk back. I have run a marathon before and three miles never seemed as long as the three miles it took to walk back to the hotel. Needless to say, we both passed out as soon as we got back. Our plans are fewer today, but hopefully just as exciting.


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Exploring chronic disease
15 Nov 2008
It seems only a matter of time before "the days of the Petri dish" will be used to refer to an era when culturing bacteria had an air of simplicity that unfortunately is incapable of representing the full glory of the microbial world. With great numbers of scientists pushing the Petri dish aside and using advanced bacterial detection techniques in its place, it's becoming increasingly clear that while the number of bacteria that inhabit the human body were once considered to be a moderately-sized group, they actually colonize the human body with an abundance that might rival the creatures of the rainforest (many of which, like the human microbiota, have yet to be characterized).
A study led by Dr. Noah Fierer and team of the University of Colorado at Boulder recently reinforced this reality by using PCR and a high-throughput method called pyrosequencing to identify the number and species of bacteria present on the hands of 51 undergraduate students leaving an exam room. When the students' genetic material was sequenced, results revealed 332,000 genetically distinct bacteria belonging to 4,742 different species on their hands. This marked a hundred-fold increase in the number of bacteria detected in previous studies that had relied on purely culture-based methods (such as the Petri dish) to characterize the human hand microbiota. Each student carried on average 3200 bacteria from 150 species on their hands.
The results caused the team to conclude that the average person's hands probably carry at least 3,000 different bacteria belonging to more than 100 species. According to Fierer, each student's bacterial "fingerprint" was unique. All students carried known skin "old timers" such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcusand Lactobacillus. But 45% of the species detected were considered rare. Only five species were found on all the students' hands, while any two hands – even belonging to the same person – had only 13% of their bacterial species in common. Certain bacteria were more frequent on the dominant hand (right for a right-hander), others on the non-dominant hand.
Fierer is excited by the possibility that the diversity of bacteria on any given human hand may make it possible to tell if an object has been touched by someone, just by looking at the bacteria left behind. Will "bacterial fingerprinting" be added to the cornucopia of techniques used by the modern-day detective? Will it be used to solve crime on the next episode of CSI Miami? It seems that for such a technique to prove accurate, the bacteria on an individual's hands and the potential object they have touched would have to be characterized rather quickly. Think about it – if the individual ends up in a bacteria-filled arena such as a McDonald's restroom, the composition of microbes on their hands may change quite rapidly.
Consider people who go to wash their hands after using the toilet. They have to turn on the sink, and will likely do so with their dominant hand. Then, although both hands are bathed with soap and water, one hand has to turn off the faucet, meaning that it is re-exposed to the pre-hand washing bacteria on the faucet handle. On the way out of the bathroom one is offered little choice but to grasp the door handle, which contains the bacterial species of people who ended up washing only one hand as well as the bacteria of those who flat out chose to skip the sink. With Fierer's study showing that microbial populations differ so greatly from individual to individual, it seems entirely possible that many of the bacterial species on a particular person's hands at a particular time of day may simply be due to what railings were recently touched or if one has taken out the garbage.
But Fierer's data also raises other questions. To the team's surprise, women harbored different bacteria from men and significantly more kinds, even though women reported washing hands more often. In a follow-up experiment, the team tracked eight people after they washed their hands. While some species of bacteria took a while to repopulate on the freshly-washed hands, others actually preferred the "clean" environment. But the results were consistent in the sense that men always had fewer types of bacteria on their hands.
"We were pretty surprised to see such clear differences between men and women," says Fierer. "We don't know the causes." Differences in sweat and sebum production, hormones, and even the use of cosmetics might be involved, but it could simply be that men's skin is more acidic – acid environments tend to have less microbial diversity.
Those people familiar with the Marshall Pathogenesis, which implicates latent bacteria in the etiology of inflammatory disease, may not be entirely flabbergasted by Fierer's results. As described in a recent speech I gave at the 2008 International Congress on Autoimmunity in Portugal, as they age, women may find it harder to fend off invading microbes. In silico data makes for a compelling case that microbe-induced dysregulation of nuclear receptor expression among women may decrease their ability to express certain antimicrobial peptides – natural antibiotics that the body uses to keep microbes under control.
An increasing number of researchers implicate bacteria rather than an overactive immune system in autoimmune disease – illnesses that, like the bacteria found on the hands of Fierer's study subjects, also favor women. Biomedical researcher Trevor Marshall has shown that some of the pathogens implicated in autoimmune disease have developed ways of slowing the innate immune response. For example, certain species of gliding biofilm bacteria have been shown to create ligands that dysregulate the Vitamin D Receptor – a receptor that has been called the "gatekeeper to the innate immune response," The bottom line is that, over their lifetimes, women may accumulate higher pathogenic bacterial loads and become more immunocompromised than their male counterparts. Does this possible discrepancy influence the number and species of bacteria on their hands? Only time and further research will tell.
Amy Proal graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with a degree in biology. While at Georgetown, she wrote her senior thesis on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Marshall Protocol.