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Seven members of the secretive US Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, have been punished for allegedly disclosing classified information to the maker of 'Medal of Honour: Warfighter', a senior defence source said today.
The official, who spoke anonymously because of the sensitive nature of the case, said the troops received what the military calls "non-judicial" punishment on Wednesday.
The official said four other SEALs were being investigated for similar alleged disclosures.
Each of the seven received a punitive letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months - actions that generally hinder a military member's career.
The deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli, acknowledged that non-judicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but did not offer further details.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy," he said. He alluded to the importance of honouring non-disclosure agreements that SEALs sign.
He said the punishments this week "send a clear message throughout our force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability".
The punishments were first reported by CBS News.
The two main complaints against the SEALs were that they did not seek the permission of their command to take part in the video project and that they showed the video designers some of their specially-designed combat equipment unique to their unit, said a senior military official.
SEALs, including some of those involved in the bin Laden raid last May, have been uncharacteristically prominent in the news this year.
Matt Bissonnette, who participated in the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, but later retired from the SEALs, wrote a first-hand account under the pseudonym Mark Owen, but he landed in hot water with the Pentagon even before it was published in September.
The Pentagon accused him of disclosing classified information in violation of the non-disclosure agreements he had signed as a SEAL. He disputes the charge.
The SEAL mission to capture or kill bin Laden, while stunningly successful, encountered a number of unexpected obstacles, including the loss of a stealth helicopter that was partially blown up by the SEALs after making a hard landing inside the al Qaida mastermind's compound.
The head of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Sean Pybus, responded to the Bissonnette book by telling his force that "hawking details about a mission" and selling other information about SEAL training and operations put the force and members' families at risk.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Wolfman Gold and Good
I still mourn the closing of the best-ever interiors store (in NYC, natch), Wolfman-Gold and Good which was on Mercer Street. The store closed in 1999 when Peri Wolfman, one of the founders (her husband Charles Good started it with her) was lured away by Williams Sonoma to create their tabletop collection. Sigh. I know the lure of WS, that's for sure.
Wolfman-Gold and Good was in a soaring space with glowing wide-plank floors, industrial lighting and piles of delicious, gleaming ironstone. Before Martha and Ralph did ironstone.
I found a few interior photos (they really don't do the store justice, you just don't get the sense of vast space... but who had a digital camera in 1995?), courtesy of one of their store display companies, Archatrive.
I bought my first white sofa there, a slipcovered delight from Mitchell Gold. It was truly an amazing retail space with a carefully selected collection of special, beautiful merchandise. I only wish that I could pop in there for ideas, inspiration and shopping now that I own my own house.
In searching for some photos of the store, I found the amazing photos of Peri Wolfman and Charles Gold's country house, in Bridgehampton, and one of their apartment in New York. You can see why I dream of their store...
Famous for their ironstone... don't miss the copper collection up top!
Here's to New York in the fall... and to those of you who miss Wolfman-Gold and Good as much as I do.
7 comments:
- ShabbyInTheCity said...
I have been wondering WHY you never hear of WG&G anymore! Well how about that. I remember seeing a write-up with this home featured.
- October 24, 2008 at 8:39 AM
- seac said...
I too mourn the loss of this shop. Truly an inspiration and it is greatly missed.
A space to wallow around and enjoy the comforts and get great ideas!
- November 15, 2008 at 7:12 AM
- for the love of a house said...
I bet the shop was Amazing.... I have the 'Forks, Knives and Spoons' book- a really great little book and such beautiful photos.
- January 28, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Bigooey said...
I went to High School with Peri--as early as 10th Grade we called her "Perfect Peri" - she must have been born with most amazing sense of style. Plus she was very popular, cheerleader, etc. I have followed her career since the Internet began, plus articles in the Times and other publications. She is amazing.
- February 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- kayce hughes said...
Have you ever read their book on organizing? it is beyond inspiring, i think that you would love it.
- January 1, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- Unknown said...
I had the GREAT fortune to work with Peri at the inception of the Williams Sonoma product development team in SF. I designed collections with their team as a consultant for 3 years. Peri is visionary, warm, funny and a true thought leader in home design, product and beyond. She has the most exquisite taste of any one I have ever worked with. I was lucky enough to travel with her to Maison Objet in Paris and go to the Clignancourt Flea Markets with her for projects we were working on at WS. We even volunteered on the phone banks when Gore was running, she is passionate about justice and doing the right thing. Next week I will be traveling for my magazine (destinationidomag.com) and my blog, antibride.com to do a honeymoon story on the big apple. I am crossing my fingers that I will be drinking a glass of wine with her soon, as she is a busy creative gal and a very involved grandmother. I miss her humor and I wish I had been in NYC to see that store, which informed the table top division of WS for years to come. Peri, I raise a glass to you in 2010, you are amazing....XOCarolyn
- January 16, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- Zane Wooder said...
I can't believe you brought your first sofa there.
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The form ab- is regularly used before all vowels and h; and it becomes a- before the consonants m, p, and v. The prefix apo- has similar meanings.
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2. A reference to something that is difficult to understand: Lynn had difficulty comprehending the doctor's abstractly presented diagnosis of her illness.
2. Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge: Some scientists may understand Einstein's theory of relativity; however, for most nonscientists, it continues to be an abstruse collection of surrealistic or unrealistic ideas.
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2. A concealed way of doing something: Sally abstrusely designed secret pockets in the jacket she was making so the one who wore it could hide cash and small valuables without anyone else being aware of it.
3. Difficult to be comprehended or understood; opposed to what is obvious: Jeremy's theory seems to be that the more abstrusely he writes the more famous he will become.
2. Wisdom that is recondite (little known; obscure), difficult to comprehend, and profound; The university students were confused by the professor's abstrusenesses in some of his lectures about philosophical and religious beliefs and practices.
2. Lacking any meaning that would give purpose to life: The young woman's absurd lifestyle seemed pointless and worrisome to her parents.
3. The condition of living in a meaningless universe where life has no purpose; especially, as a concept in some twentieth-century philosophical movements: Jeremy, the university student, was determined to study the seemingly absurd lives of famous poets who had died young.
4. Relating to, or manifesting, the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe: The absurd theory about the meaninglessness of human existence did not appeal to James when he was attending the special lecture presented by a religious leader.
5. Out of tune, incongruous, senseless; so clearly untrue or unreasonable as to be laughable or ridiculous: The absurd quality of the theater production seemed to confuse the critics who were not sure if the drama was serious or just a joke.
Something is absurd when it is contrary to the first principles of reasoning; such as, a part of something should be greater than the whole is considered to be absurd.
Being monstrous and preposterous both refer to what is overwhelmingly absurd.
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2. An act or instance of the ridiculous: The absurdisms which were portrayed on the stage upset the audience who expected better from the director and actors.
2. A reference to or concerning that which is inconsistent with reason, logic, or common sense: The absurdist student told his teacher that the dog had eaten his homework.
2. A person who acts or presents characteristics of being ridiculous: Mr. Potter, the politician, was described by some people as another in a series of absurdists who were candidates for mayor.
2. Anything that is considered to be lacking in order and meaning: For some students, mathematics is an absurdity and is an illogical process.
2. Ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous: Mr. Anderson, the drama teacher, commented about the absurdness of the new play which was being developed by the students in his class.
2. Lifestyles with more than adequate material provisions: Barry's family has abundances of different homes around the world as well as all of the luxuries that can be obtained for them.
3. A fullness of spirit that overflows: The sermon by the preacher was filled with an abundance of goodwill and kindness.
4. The extent to which an element is present in the earth or in a rock: There is a rumor of an abundance of minerals hidden in the abandoned mine.
5. The proportion of one isotope of an element, expressed by number of atoms, to the total quantity of the element: Mr. Young, the chemistry teacher, urged his classes to study and to understand the abundance factors of the chemical elements.
6. Etymology: nothing suggests great abundance more vividly than overflowing waves; and that is the literal meaning of the word abundance.
In Latin, unda means "wave", poetically "sea". The Romans combined ab, "from", and unda into the word abundare, "to overflow"; literally, "to come from the waves" or "from the sea"; applied to anything very plentiful.
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"In more than thirty-five years of practice as a psychiatrist affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, I have learned one thing very well: Human behavior is very hard to change. Now Victoria Boutenko is persuading me otherwise.… Thirty days of green smoothies will change how you feel, and how you feel about yourself. That's no small achievement for one small book."
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The Army is one step closer to issuing an updated version of its ballistic underwear after a recent review and approval by the U.S. Army Public Health Command.
Experts in the command's Health Hazard Assessment Program completed an occupational health assessment of the new protective outer garments and undergarments, and provided recommendations on how to minimize any risks.
"We evaluated these items to identify any occupational hazards that could arise from wearing them," said Robert Booze, an industrial hygienist project officer at the USAPHC. "Our goal was to mitigate any risks to Soldiers before the protective outer garments and undergarments were distributed to the user."
After a thorough review, the HHA Program approved the protective outer garments and undergarments for military use.
Military work is inherently dangerous, but officials at the USAPHC believe that Soldiers in combat should not be placed at a disadvantage or at unusual risk because their protective clothing is deficient.
Although these undergarments look similar to a set of men's bicycle pants, they are no ordinary underwear.
"They are designed to use protective fabric and withstand injuries to the pelvic region that may result from the blast of an improvised explosive device," said Booze.
From 2003 to 2011, more than 600 Soldiers suffered injuries to the genital region during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although Soldiers are well protected by body armor on their torso, some injuries to the lower body are so severe that they can cause Soldiers to lose all or part of their genitals. This loss of the reproductive organs can have devastating psychological effects.
The Health Hazard Assessment Program was not the only program within the USAPHC that helped complete the assessment of the pelvic protection system.
Wilfred McCain, senior toxicologist, said the USAPHC Toxicology Portfolio conducted an evaluation of the materials that were used in the underwear to see if they posed any potential risk to the wearer's skin.
"We evaluated the fabric, and did not see any threats to the user," said McCain. "The safety of our Soldiers is a top priority."
The garments must also be comfortable, using breathable fabrics like cotton, according to specifications requested by the Army.
Booze, who once served as an infantry officer in the military, said he feels blessed to perform a job that helps ensure protection of the troops. The HHA Program reviews not just personal protective clothing, but weapons systems, equipment and training devices as well.
"I am grateful that I still have a job that allows me to support our Army in a meaningful way," he said.
Now that the USAPHC health hazard assessment is complete, the Army will conduct several more reviews before the outer garments and undergarments are adopted in the field.


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The Florida Lighthouse Association is a nonprofit group of citizen activists dedicated to the preservation of the 30 remaining historic lighthouses that line our state's 1,350-mile coastline. Once central to the economic growth and settlement of our nation, many of Florida's lighthouses face uncertain futures.
The Mission of the Florida Lighthouse Association is to protect , preserve, restore, and defend Florida's Light-house towers, along with their material culture, buildings, artifacts, and records to assure that the magic of Florida's lighthouses and lighthouse keepers will be available for the enjoyment and understanding of future generations.
We encourage members of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation to support FLA by joining and attending meetings. For details check out the website at www.floridalighthouses.org . FLA grants have helped us toward our goals of restoring our Canaveral Lighthouse community as it once was. We ask you to show your appreciation by joining FLA today!
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Matt Barnes and Snoop Dogg Co-host the First Annual "Athletes vs. Cancer" Celebrity Flag Football Game!
The Powerhouse athlete Matt Barnes and Hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg joined forces for a great Cause. The "Athletes vs. Cancer" Celebrity Flag Football Game kicked off this past Sunday August 18th at Palisades Charter High School.
Admirably this would have been Matt Barnes and wife Gloria's honeymoon weekend, but the adorable newlyweds invited close friends and big names to rally in the fight against cancer.
Matt Barnes lost his mother to cancer in 2007. Since then he has used his star power to raise awareness and help raise funds to assist patients, families and cancer research.
Fans and Cancer survivors cheered from the stands in a UCLA vs. USC themed flag football game.
Cancer Survivors even got the chance to meet their favorite superstars up close and personal during a meet and greet on the football field.Snoop Dogg even gave a little boy the jersey right off of his back following the game! He made a kids day, the little boy was jumping for joy!
Talk about friendly competition! Matt Barnes Team (UCLA)…
1. Warren Moon
2. Gloria Govan-Barnes
3. DeAndre Jordan
4. Blake Griffin
5. Mike Epps
6. Brandon Jennings
7. Ryan Hollins
8. DJ Quick
9. Victor Ortiz
10. Craig Wayans
11. Kareem Rush
12 .Quinton Aaron
13. Bryshon Nellum
No easy competition here… Snoop Dogg Team Roster(USC)…
1.Rodney Peete
2.Laura Govan
3.Metta World Peace
4.Red Grant
5.Nick Young
6.DeMar Derozan
7.Marcellus Wiley
8.Warren G
9.Ray J
10.Omar Gooding
11.Mac Lucci
12.Greg Smith
13.Marques Houston
Snoop Dogg and his Team took home the big win in a last minute touch-down!
In the past the Barnes Dynamic Duo have hosted Celebrity Golf and Basketball events all open to the public.
The events help raise funds for cancer screenings.
Professional Boxer Victor Ortiz said he was excited to attend the event and says he knows professional boxers who have had their own fight against caner.
"I know great fighters who have beaten cancer and are at the top of their game! That is why I am here, It is an awesome cause!" –Victor Ortiz.
I am looking forward to future projects from the organization dedicated to a great cause!
If you are interested in learning more about the organization or further events click on the link below. You can also make donations through the offical online site.


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Here is a story to be enjoyed. Though not exceptionally well written or nuanced, it is very readable and compelling. It's about mothers, and moves back and forth between Indian and American cultures. It's alot about who we are and how we find our roots. It's about love and loss and family. There is the poignancy of Kavita, a poor mother in India, giving her girl child up for adoption because there is simply no other option. And Somer, an infertile mother who adopts a child from another culture and struggles to raise Asha as her own. It deals with the isolation of culture shock, the loss of identity in immigration, and the mystery of family and how a sense of belonging develops in us.
There is a lot about India in this novel: descriptions of food, how to wrap a sari, Mumbai slums, eyebrow threading, the art of henna, elaborate family gatherings and weddings. In fact the descriptions of India make America seem bland indeed. Pass the hot sauce. But it gets deeper than that. There are Two Indias: for rich and poor, and for men and women. "Mother India does not love all her children equally, it seems". (p. 229)
This book grew on me. The characters could have had more depth, especially the men, and at times it seemed predictable and stereotypical. But when the story didn't take the trite turns that I thought it would, I was refreshed. This would be a great selection for a book club. The story keeps moving while you stay rooted firmly in your easy chair, and later there are interesting things to talk about.


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Acceptance Test Driven Development, or ATDD, is an advanced form of Test Driven Development (TDD) in which automated acceptance criteria defined in collaboration with users drive and focus the development process. This helps ensure that everyone understands what features are under development.
It is often said that Test Driven Development is not about testing, but design. In the same way, Acceptance Test Driven Development is as much about communication as it is about acceptance testing. Indeed, ATDD has a strong focus on team communication and reporting, aiming to ensure that the requirements being implemented are well understood by all parties. The great value of ATDD is its ability to express high-level requirements in the form of automated acceptance criteria that can help validate and clarify these requirements in business terms that both users and developers can understand.
Thucydides is a Java-based open source library designed to help teams implement Acceptance Test Driven Development more effectively. Thucydides was a Greek historian known for his astute analysis skills who rigorously recorded events that he witnessed and participated in himself. In the same way, the Thucydides framework observes and analyzes your acceptance tests, and records a detailed account of their execution.
Automated acceptance tests for Java applications can be written in plain old JUnit, or using more specialized Behavior Driver Development (BDD) tools such as Cucumber and easyb. These tools can help make your tests clearer and more expressive by describing and reporting on expectations in terms that the business can understand, typically structuring requirements in a "given-when-then" format. However real-world acceptance tests are (and should be) expressed in very high-level terms, and standard BDD reporting does not reach this high level.
Ideally, however, automated acceptance tests should be able to document your application's behavior and features in great detail. Thucydides takes this communication-focused reporting and documentation farther by providing a blow-by-blow account of the steps executed during each acceptance test, even including screenshots for each step in the case of Web tests. It also makes it easier to group the acceptance tests executed by story or by feature, giving a higher-level picture of project progress in terms of the number and relative size of passing and pending acceptance tests.
In a nutshell, Thucydides lets you define your acceptance criteria in terms of automated tests and high-level steps, and then reports on the execution of these steps when the tests are executed. The tests themselves can be implemented directly as JUnit tests, or using a BDD testing framework.
If you are implementing a Web application, it makes excellent sense to automate at least some of your acceptance criteria in the form of automated Web tests. As I demonstrate later, Thucydides caters to this need by providing very strong support for Selenium 2 testing. And if you also need to test back-end services (such as Web services, EJBs, and so forth), Thucydides plays nicely with JBoss's Arquillian testing tool for container-based testing.
The rest of this article takes Thucydides for a spin. To follow along, you will need to have JDK, Maven, and Firefox installed on your machine.
Obtaining the Sample Project
To save you a little time, we will be working with an existing Thucydides project. This sample project is one of the Thucydides showcase projects, which contain a several projects that illustrate how Thucydides works for different situations. To get started, you can clone or fork the Github Thucydides project, or just download the Thucydides source code. Once you have obtained the source code, simply open up the "thucydides-showcase-simple-webtests" project in your favorite IDE.
This project runs a few simple web tests against the Maven Central Repository search site, shown in Figure 1.
This site lets you search for Maven artifacts in the Maven Central Repository, and then view details about those artifacts.
To see the sample project in action, go to the project directory and type "mvn verify." This will run the Web tests in Firefox and generate some reports detailing the executed tests. Before we go any further, open up
target/site/thucydides/index.html and take a look around. Here, you will see a summary of the Thucydides test outcomes in terms of the features we are trying to test (Figure 2).
If you drill down into the features, you will also see detailed narratives describing each test, including screenshots for each stage of the test (Figure 3).
The rest of the article explains how Thucydides generates these reports in more detail.
Specifying Acceptance Criteria with Thucydides
The first step in any project is to consider the requirements. The aim of the sample project is to test two aspects of the Maven Central website: searching the repository for artifacts, and viewing the details of a given artifact. We could sum up these requirements in a couple of simple user stories:
- A user searches for an artifact by group name and artifact ID.
- A user displays the details for a particular artifact.
Thucydides helps you map automated acceptance criteria back to the original requirements they are supposed to be validating. Remember that, in agile approaches in general and in ATDD in particular, a feature cannot be considered "done" before all acceptance criteria are automated and passing. As I will demonstrate, the Thucydides reports give you a succinct vision of what requirements have been specified, what has been completed, and what is still waiting to be implemented (or "pending implementation," in BDD parlance). It can also keep track of progress in terms of the number of completed features over time.
For this to work, however, you need to tell Thucydides a little about your application requirements. Requirements are defined in the form of an annotated Java class, which, in our sample project, looks something like this:
public class Application { @Feature public class Search { public class SearchForArtifactsByName {} public class AdvancedSearch {} } @Feature public class DisplayArtifacts { public class ViewArtifactDetails {} } }
As you can see, requirements are grouped into "features," annotated with the
@Feature annotation. Each feature contains nested classes that correspond to the user stories (or use cases) that relate to this feature.
The next step is to define and automate acceptance criteria for these stories. In this project, I am using easyb, the Groovy-based BDD tool mentioned earlier. easyb is well suited to expressing high-level acceptance criteria in business-friendly terms. Before you start work on a requirement, it is good practice to outline your acceptance criteria in high-level terms, without necessarily going into the implementation details.
Tools such as easyb make it easy to write tests in this form. These will be executed during the automated tests and flagged as "pending." A simple "pending acceptance" criterion for the sample project is shown here:
using "thucydides" thucydides.tests_story SearchForArtifactsByName scenario "A developer looks for an existing Maven artifact by name and group id", { given "the developer is on the Maven Central search page" when "the user searches for artifacts with the name 'thucydides'" then "the thucyidides core artifact should appear in the results list" }
Notice how we use the
thucydides.tests_story instruction to map this acceptance test back to the story it is testing. This is how Thucydides knows where to place the test results for this particular test in the overall test reports.


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U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont is renewing his fascination with Batman with a cameo appearance in "The Dark Knight Rises," which will get its first public showing in his home state.
Leahy was invited to be in the movie and says he learned recently he'll appear in a scene with Christian Bale, who plays Batman, and Morgan Freeman.
The movie will be screened July 15 in Williston ahead of its July 20 U.S. premiere.
Leahy says Warner Bros. CEO Barry Meyer will join him at the Vermont screening.
The Democratic senator has had a lifelong fascination with the Caped Crusader. In 2007, he appeared in "The Dark Knight."
The Vermont showing will benefit a Montpelier children's library and a Burlington environmental education center named for Leahy.


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Many of these people – living in England, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Scotland, Thailand and the United States of America – are unaware that they need treatment, which is easily accessible in the form of low-cost medicines.
People remain untreated
This study, published today in the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, is the first to show the extent of the treatment gap for high cholesterol – a common risk factor for early cardiovascular deaths. In Thailand, for example, 78% of adults surveyed had not been diagnosed, while in Japan, 53% of adults were diagnosed but remained untreated.
Medication is widely available
"Cholesterol-lowering medication is widely available, highly effective and can play an essential role in reducing cardiovascular disease around the world," says study co-author, Dr Gregory A Roth, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the United States of America. "Despite these facts, effective medication coverage for control of high cholesterol remains disappointingly low."
Cardiovascular diseases are the world's biggest killers, claiming more than 17 million lives each year worldwide.
"Simple lifestyle changes such as avoiding tobacco use, regular physical activity and healthy diets can help prevent heart disease and stroke," says Dr Shanthi Mendis, coordinator of WHO's Chronic Diseases Prevention and Management unit. "Medication to lower blood cholesterol and blood pressure may be necessary if the risk is very high."
The WHO Bulletin is one of the world's leading public health journals. It is the flagship periodical of WHO, with a special focus on developing countries. Articles are peer-reviewed and are independent of WHO guidelines. Abstracts are now available in the six official languages of the United Nations.
Further items in this month's issue include:
- What is the ideal weight gain during pregnancy? A study from Viet Nam
- Modern contraceptive use in Africa stagnates
- Radio programme helps combat food insecurity
- Why so slow to develop new antibiotics?
- Diabetes – a product of modern technology
For more information, please contact:
Dr Shanthi Mendis
Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion
World Health Organization
Telephone: +41 22 791 3441
E-mail: [email protected]
Paul Garwood
Communications officer
Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health
World Health Organization
Telephone: +41 22 79 13462
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A judge Friday ordered that actress Lindsay Lohan must return to a drug rehab program.
Lohan was in court for a formal hearing to determine if she violated her probation in a pair of driving under the influence cases by failing a court-ordered drug test last month.
Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Elden Fox said he will allow the actress to remain in treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic, and that if she does not test positive for drugs or alcohol at the time of her next court hearing Feb. 25, the judge would convert her sentence to unsupervised probation.
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Prosecutors said that if she violates her probation again, she could face 180 days in jail.
"I'm not going to be manipulated," Fox said. "You are an addict. I think you have to change your lifestyle."
He said that if she does not remain free of drugs and alcohol she would "destroy what is a very lucrative career and profession."
"You're staying there past the New Year -- there's a reason for that," he said, as Lohan smiled and the courtroom erupted in laughter.
Lohan's probation report states she told an officer last week that she hoped to be released from the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif. after one month and cited financial worries. She told the officer that "continued inpatient treatment would be a hardship financially, and damaging to her career," according to the report.
The 20-acre addiction treatment hospital is not cheap -- three months of inpatient treatment can cost nearly $50,000, according to its website.
Lohan cited problems with her clothing line and an upcoming role as porn star Linda Lovelace in a biopic as reasons for wanting to get out, the report stated.
The movie, however, will wait for Lohan.
"Inferno" writer-director Matthew Wilder says Lohan's rehab won't interfere with role and that production was already set to begin in mid-January.
"It looks good and we are not replacing (her)," he said Friday.
Lohan arrived in court Friday with her blond hair pulled back in a ponytail and wearing a black pantsuit and white blouse. She was accompanied by her mother, Dina, and a Betty Ford counselor.
The judge ordered the removal of Lohan's SCRAM bracelet -- an alcohol monitoring device -- while she's at the clinic.
It was Fox who initially ordered Lohan jailed during a hearing in September, but she was released from jail hours later after Patricia Schnegg, the Los Angeles Superior Court's assistant supervising judge of criminal, ruled that Lohan should be allowed to post $300,000 bail. Lohan has been at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage since then.
At about 8 a.m., what appeared to be Lohan's black Cadillac SUV arrived at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, but Lohan got out of a gray minivan that was part of the mini-motorcade
The courtroom has become a familiar setting for the "Mean Girls" star. She first ran afoul of the law on May 26, 2007, when she drove a Mercedes-Benz into a hedge along Sunset Boulevard. Two months later she was arrested again in Santa Monica on suspicion of DUI and possession of cocaine.
She agreed to plead no contest and was sentenced to a day in jail and three years probation. Because of overcrowded jails and the county's early release policy, she spent 84 minutes at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood before being released.
Her probation was extended by a year for not completing alcohol-education classes on schedule.
In July, she missing a required probation hearing before Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel, saying her passport was stolen while she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and the judge sentenced her to 90 days in jail. She spent 13 days behind bars before being released again.
As part of her sentence, she was ordered to spend 90 days in an inpatient addiction treatment program. She was sent to UCLA's neuropsychiatric hospital for evaluation, held for about three weeks and released Aug. 24.
She later failed the drug test.
"This was certainly a setback for me, but I am taking responsibility for my actions and I'm prepared to face the consequences," she wrote on Twitter.
The parade of legal troubles has put the actress' career on hold. She was set to promote her appearance in "Machete," but spent that time in jail and rehab.
The Associated Press also contributed to this report.


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Steve and I visited the new Westfield at Stratford after our stay at Lifehouse Spa. It was a completely spontaneous decision as our train home from Essex stopped at Stratford and we thought we could stay in the new Premier Inn hotel beside the shopping centre and do a bit of shopping.
We'd been to a Westfield shopping centre in San Francisco and the food there was amazing so we were hoping for more of the same thing over in the UK. We'd arrived shortly before dinner time and as it was the opening week everywhere was completely packed so there were long queues for all the restaurants like TGI Fridays, Wagamamas, Las Iguanas and Giraffe. So we decided to go to the fast food part where there was loads of choice - literally food from around the World.
We found a great Thai place called Rosa's. I had the Black Pepper Beef noodles and it was fantastic. The meat was incredibly soft and tender and there was just enough pepper to give this dish a nice kick.
Steve had a Beef Massaman curry which he liked but it was too sweet for me. We also had the Chicken Satay which was nice but a bit cold because it had been sitting on the counter for a little while. The kitchen cooked everything fresh and they couldn't really keep up with the orders.
We'd just started our meal when the smoke/fire alarm went off and an announcement kept repeating that we should evacuate the area, but I didn't want to leave our food! So we stayed put as none of the staff was telling anyone to leave. I couldn't see any smoke or smell any fire so I thought it was just one of the kitchens having a bit of an issue with a burnt pan. It did make me realise it takes quite a bad situation for me to abandon my dinner! Eventually the alarm stopped and everyone went back to their food, but then it kept going off again as the reset system was messed up so the smoke screens kept coming down and going up again into the ceiling. It certainly made dining rather interesting!
For lunch the next day we went to Tortilla Mexican Grill for burritos. Steve had his with steak and I had mine with braised pork which was so tasty and tender. You can get it filled with all different fillings and I chose mexican rice, onions, peppers, cheese, sour cream, lettuce and some hot sauce from the bottle as I didn't fancy any of the runny salsas on offer (definitely get the hot sauce - Steve didn't see it so didn't ask for it and regretted it!). As you can see they really pack a lot in there and this was the best burrito I've ever had (OK I haven't had many, but the last one I had was at the Ferry Building in San Francisco and it was awful!). We had medium burritos and they were definitely big enough for lunch.
Unfortunately neither of these places are at the Westfield in Shepherd's Bush which is closer to where we live. Sigh. But they have other branches dotted around London so they are definitely places we would visit again.
Oh yeah, the shopping at Westfield isn't too shabby either - got myself some new trainers, a snuggly hoody and a new tee!


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TLAs and a history of the industry
Hello to all. I'm the new associate editor here at SSN, taking over the monitoring beat from my predecessor, Leischen Stelter. While I've had lots of experience in journalism, in general, I am fairly new to the security systems industry and have been enjoying the opportunity employment here has given me to learn new things. Like acronyms. You guys have lots and lots of acronyms. I like a good TLA as much as the next guy, but you guys have the CSAA, the NBFAA, the SIA, the NAAA, and the MAMA as well as all kinds of AHJs who frequent the meetings of the IACP, the NACP, the IAFC, and the NASFM. Thank you Celia for your index of security industry acronyms. It has saved me more than a few times! Recently, while doing some research and making some calls to introduce myself and discover any newsy developments at various central stations, I came across this story about what can only be described as some half-hearted attempts at ecoterrorism in Dawson Creek (no, not Dawson's Creek), British Columbia. Don't get me wrong, when I say "half-hearted," I'm not suggesting that the terrorists in question should try better next time. I'm saying that if you've got a complaint with something going on in your community, go to the town meeting and leave the homemade bombs alone. In my mind, any act of violence that purports to champion a cause only creates from the resulting turmoil many more critics of said cause than there were in the first place. The story mentioned that Murphy Oil Company, Ltd., "is drilling wells and building a gas plant about 30 kilometers southwest of Dawson Creek." I called Murphy Oil Co.'s vice president of business development Cal Buchanan, who in the story said that Murphy may "hire a security company to monitor the remote areas." Buchanan told me that so far all Murphy Oil was doing was checking with locals to see if anyone could, in an unofficial capacity, be hired to drive by operation areas regularly. Well... wasn't it most likely a local who perpetrated the bombings in the first place? As I said in the first graph above, I'm no expert... Another interesting thing I came across during my cold calls and emails was this section of Wayne Alarm's site. I called up Wayne Alarm's central station manager Annie Roderick who was nice enough to talk to me a bit about the industry and about Wayne Alarm's Antique Corner, a veritable museum of all things security industry. Wayne Alarm is based in Lynn, Mass. Any city with the tag line "Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin... You never come out the way you went in" has earned the right to be a mecca for industry history buffs, I guess. Wayne Alarm will be hosting CSAA's Fall Operations Management Seminar, taking place in Peabody, Mass. at the Boston Marriot Peabody Nov. 9-11. Annie assured me that anyone in the area for the event wishing to stop by for a tour of the Antique Corner will be more than welcome. Please feel free to drop me a line any time with any comments or suggestions or exciting goings on in the world of security.
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So yeah, i have a couple chapters already done, i just wanted to see if you guys thought this was worth anything. I will warn ahead of time, for those that want to play Call of Pripyat, this fic has spoilers in it. But yeah, C+C is welcome.S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Through the shadow of The Valley of Death.
"Though I walk through the shadow of The Valley of Death, I will fear no evil, because i got this Big Fucker on my side!" I said.
"Yeah, Yeah." Said Fatass, our squads heavy weapons specialist. "We shall all get a chance to kick those god damned Bandits out of here."
"Yes, but your big ass will protect me from bullets, no?" Said Groka. "Shut up, all of you!" Cryed Checknov. We all grumbled a "Sorry."
Tomorrow was a raid on the Bandits camped out deep in Zaton. They were harrassing patrols of Loners and that was unacceptable.
So, our team, just a small Loner squad, opted to go take care of them. My name is Dimitry Chelinov. This isn't a story of honor, or victory, or
heroism, or anything like that. This is simply a tale of daily life in The Zone. It has no happy ending.
EDIT: If i can manage to find the fanart i drew a while ago, i'll post those too.
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|[Dawn] The perforated carcass of a local mosque's prayer leader was found in the Shahmansoor mountains of Swabi district on Thursday.
A police official said the prayer leader, Naseebullah alias Zarbat Khan, belonged to Orakzai Agency
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and that he went missing after he offered Asr prayer in his mosque on Wednesday.
The official said it had yet to be ascertained if the prayer leader fell victim to militancy or a family dispute. The body was later handed over to the family.
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five suspects over the killing of seven aid workers near the Anbar interchange in Swabi district.
Police sources told Dawn on Thursday that these suspects had been picked up from different parts of the district before being shifted to an unidentified location for interrogation to trace killers.
The sources said more arrests over the killings couldn't be ruled out. They said police and the district administration had been under pressure from different quarters for early arrest of the culpable people. When contacted, local superintendent of police Abdul Rashid confirmed the arrests and said the suspects were being quizzed. He, however, refused to name the arrested men.
"It cannot be disclosed at this crucial phase of investigation who they are, where they hail from and which groups they belong to. Any disclosure in this respect at this point can harm investigation," he said.
Mr Rashid said the killing of aid workers was an act of Islamic fascisti as no one other could be behind the carnage.
He put the number of attackers at two, correcting the earlier police tally of four.
Driver Abdul Majid, who was injured in the attack, has already said two motorcyclists fired gunshots at him and aid workers in the van when they were returning from NGO Support With Working Solution's community centre in Sher Afzal Banda area.
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Having had the opportunity to sing an operetta with the local symphony orchestra, it's remarkable to me how wonderfully our Orthodox liturgical progression from Pre-Lent to Lent to Holy Week to Pascha not only presents "the greatest story ever told," but also resembles the performance of a musical masterpiece.
I recall how at one rehearsal the conductor, abruptly bringing all to full stop, angrily tapped his baton, stomped his foot and shouted, "You're not following me! The score says lentando!" Lentando means "to make slow;" slowing down the music's tempo to create a reflective, contemplative, even solemn mood. This is especially employed in operas to build and enhance the personality and disposition of characters and to give the audience glimpses into their respective life struggles and inner conflicts that will be brought to bear as the story unfolds.
That's pretty much "lent," isn't it?! Time to slow down, to adjust the tempo of our daily lives from the hectic pace that consumes us to a more contemplative one that incites inner reflection and self-awareness. It's a time to earnestly reflect on our character: what makes us tick, what lifts us up and what drags us down. The mood created by our extra services, their somberness and solemnity, complemented by the readings, hymns, movements, commemorations and participation in confession reveal our desperate need for some serious "lentando" in our lives.
Lentando, however, is not stagnant but dynamic. It lays a foundation upon which to build, paving the way for something to come. In musical terms, it's normally followed by a variation of "andante calmo," literally "walking calmly." Having manifested traits of the characters by slowing to a reasonable, manageable tempo, the piece now assumes and maintains a pace that allows the story to unfold.
The early weeks of Lent likewise assume we have hit our stride, that our pre-lenten instruction has adequately prepared us to adopt a certain rhythm, especially of prayer and fasting. And whereas Forgiveness Sunday Vespers directs us to "begin the fast with joy," our now "walking calmly" includes "allegretto" as well—a tinge of joyfulness.
By the third week of Lent, when the precious Cross of Our Lord is planted in our midst, our musical score is marked "poco a poco accelerando"—to accelerate, to pick up the pace little by little, not just for the thrill of speed but because our desired destination is slowly coming into view.
When the music accelerates, it's taking you somewhere; there's a "crescendo"—a "growing"—to emphasize an imminent crucial point of the story it seeks to tell. Crescendo is a movement toward a point that prepares the audience to experience and embrace the climax of the story, with voices and orchestra collectively manifesting their individual talents at optimal levels to "bring the story home." Jesus weeping at the tomb of Lazarus, only to call him to come forth after four days represents, at least to me, a great crescendo!
Each day of Holy Week represents "a symphony within the symphony." Like acts of a play, each building upon the one before, they'd be musically-marked "presto;" literally meaning "very fast," but more appropriately "ready." Everything to this point of the symphony has been preparing the audience not merely to passively observe, but "enter into" the story's summit. All the variations in tempo, dynamics and mood; the array of sounds produced by combinations of instruments and voices; the musicians fully offering themselves in sacrificial service to achieve the desired end-result—all resources have been brought to bear and now stand ready to deliver "the message;" to the experience of its zenith.
There are many musical terms to be considered in reference to Great and Holy Pascha. My choice would be "vivace"—"vivacious"—joyously unrestrained, enthusiastic, exuberant, lively! That's a pretty good word to describe our celebration of the glorious resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! If after progressing through the various stages, movements and elements of the score you arrive at the end and cannot muster some serious "vivace" at the proclamation of "Christ is Risen," you just haven't been listening at all.
The world continues its insanity at a frantic pace, with no storyline, truth, morality or particular destination in mind. So many threatening and horrific events occurring these days are merely the latest, tragic reminders of the frailty and fallenness of the world. But the symphony of Lent draws us into the premier masterpiece of God's mission "for the life of the world and its salvation."
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Having had the opportunity to sing an operetta with the local symphony orchestra, it's remarkable to me how wonderfully our Orthodox liturgical progression from Pre-Lent to Lent to Holy Week to Pascha not only presents "the greatest story ever told," but also resembles the performance of a musical masterpiece.


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New & Emerging Turf Diseases
New diseases are constantly cropping up in the turfgrass industry. Pathologists are often asked to explain this phenomenon, and we have heard just about every theory in the book. Are the pathogens mutating? Did the pathogen come in on the seed? Is it because of that new fungicide that came out last year? Is global warming to blame?
The answer is probably much more simple. Consider the major changes that have occurred in turfgrass management over the past 20 years, or even over the past 10. Golf course putting greens are mowed at 0.125 inch or less, are irrigated only when on the brink of death, and are fertilized with miniscule amounts of nitrogen and other nutrients. New putting greens are constructed with root zone mixes that can percolate 20 inches of water per hour or more. Many new varieties of cool- and warm-season grasses have also been released.
All of these changes have an impact on fungal pathogens and the turf's susceptibility to attack by these microorganisms. For example, brown patch used to be a severe problem in cool-season putting green turf in many parts of the country. Brown patch is now a rare occurrence because of the dry and low-fertility condition of greens and the availability of highly effective fungicides such as Compass, Heritage, Insignia and ProStar. Other diseases, such as anthracnose, dead spot, rapid blight, Pythium root dysfunction and fairy ring are becoming more common.
Anthracnose diseases, caused by Colletotrichum cereale, are not new to the turfgrass industry, but they are increasing in their frequency and distribution. Annual bluegrass is particularly susceptible to anthracnose, which, next to seedhead production, is one of the main drawbacks of this turf species. However, some varieties of creeping bentgrass can become susceptible to anthracnose in hot and humid climates. Anthracnose is now a persistent problem on susceptible bentgrasses, such as Penncross, Pennlinks, Crenshaw and Dominant, in the southern United States.
Anthracnose can develop as a foliar blight, in which only the leaves are attacked (see top photo, page 14), or as a basal rot, which infects the crowns, stolons and leaf sheaths (see bottom photo, page 17). Both phases of the disease are encouraged by stress on the turfgrass plant, including low mowing, drought stress, nutrient deficiency and inadequate soil aeration. In the quest for putting speeds, many golf course greens are purposefully managed in this condition, so it is no surprise that anthracnose is becoming more of an issue. Correcting cultural programs to relieve turf stress will help to minimize anthracnose problems (see photos on bottom of page 14 and top of page 17).
Fungicides can provide good anthracnose control, but they should be applied on a preventative basis for best results. The anthracnose pathogen can develop resistance to fungicides very quickly. Resistance to thiophanatemethyl (3336, Systec and T-Storm) and the QoI fungicides (Compass, Heritage and Insignia) has already developed in many locations, and the pathogen is also becoming less sensitive to the DMI fungicides. Take care to rotate and tank-mix fungicides from different chemical classes to slow resistance development. Recent studies have demonstrated that fosetyl-Al (Signature and Prodigy) and phosphite salts (Alude, Magellan, Resyst and Vital) provide excellent control of anthracnose.
Dead spot
Dead spot, caused by Ophiosphaerella agrostis, was first observed in 1998 on creeping bentgrass putting greens in Maryland, but quickly became a problem across the Southeast and Midwest over subsequent years (see photo, left, page 18). Dead spot specifically attacks newly constructed putting greens or those that have been recently fumigated, with the damage typically most severe in the first year after establishment. After this initial epidemic, the disease declines in its severity over a one- to four-year period, eventually disappearing in most cases.
Dead spot has been most common on creeping bentgrass greens, but has also been observed in bermudagrass greens overseeded with Poa trivialis. The disease appears in small reddish-brown spots, ranging from 0.5 to 4 inches in diameter (see top photo, page 17). The turf is slow to recover from dead spot damage, leaving severe depressions in the putting surface for extended periods of time.
Dead spot is another disease that is stress-induced, particularly by heat, drought and low fertility. The disease can appear at any time during the growing season, but severe outbreaks are most common in June, July and August during periods of heat and drought stress.
While dead spot was a widespread problem between 1998 and 2004, very few cases of the disease have been reported in recent years. Nevertheless, superintendents managing new greens should monitor for dead spot symptoms frequently so that control measures can be implemented quickly. The use of nitrogen sources containing ammonium sulfate can help to reduce disease development, while use of urea, nitrates or lime can encourage disease activity. Fungicides containing chlorothalonil, fludioxonil, iprodione, propiconazole, pyraclostrobin and thiophanate-methyl provide good dead spot suppression, but recovery from existing damage is typically slow.
Rapid blight
Rapid blight is the newest turfgrass disease, and one of the few that is not caused by a fungus. The pathogen, Labyrinthula sp., is a single-celled protist, which is more closely related to algae. Rapid blight occurs in arid climates or during extended periods of dry weather. The disease has been observed in the southeastern and western United States on annual bluegrass, rough bluegrass and perennial ryegrass. Creeping bentgrass is occasionally affected in the western United States, as well.
Symptoms of rapid blight appear in yellow, orange or reddish brown patches. Leaves on the affected plants will appear mottled and greasy, but the roots are typically unaffected. As the name implies, rapid blight can spread very quickly to encompass large areas of turf, especially in immature stands of susceptible turfgrasses.
Relatively little is known about the cultural factors that encourage rapid blight, but elevated soil salinity levels are a major predisposing factor. Dry weather conditions, which lead to salt accumulation, or irrigation water with elevated salt levels have been associated with most rapid blight outbreaks. Regular aerification, gypsum applications, acid-treatment of irrigation water and periodic leaching of the root zone will help to minimize soil salinity levels and reduce rapid blight development.
Slender creeping red fescues, creeping bentgrass and alkaligrass have shown good resistance to rapid blight compared to other cool-season grasses, so use these grasses when possible where rapid blight may occur. Preventative applications of mancozeb, pyraclostrobin and trifloxystrobin provide good control of rapid blight. Curative applications will slow or stop disease spread, but severely blighted turf is not likely to recover.
Pythium root dysfunction
Pythium root dysfunction of creeping bentgrass was initially described in 1985 by C.F. Hodges at Iowa State University, who identified P. arrhenomanes and P. aristosporum as the causal agents. Outbreaks of similar symptoms were reported in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States in recent years. Current results in North Carolina indicate that Pythium root dysfunction is caused by a different species: Pythium volutum.
Pythium root dysfunction is completely different from any other Pythium disease you may have experienced. Unlike Pythium blight and Pythium root rot, this disease is most damaging to creeping bentgrass growing in sandy soils, particularly newly constructed putting greens. Symptoms appear in distinct circular patches, from 4 inches to 2 feet in diameter, that initially show signs of wilt or nutrient deficiency, but continue to decline and turn yellow to orange in color (see photo, left, page 18). Pythium root dysfunction is most commonly seen in the summer months, and symptoms are most severe on slopes, ridges, exposed greens or other areas subjected to increased heat and drought.
Current research and observations indicate that P. volutum infects and damages creeping bentgrass roots during the fall and spring. This disease activity often goes unnoticed, but reduces the roots' ability to absorb water and nutrients and therefore increases the turf's susceptibility to summer stresses. Maintaining adequate fertility and soil moisture levels, regular hollow- and solid-tine aeration, and relieving stress by any means possible will help to suppress the summer symptoms of Pythium root dysfunction.
Fungicides can provide effective control of Pythium root dysfunction, but which products are most effective depends on the Pythium species involved. In North Carolina, our research has shown that Insignia (0.9 ounces) or Signature + Banol (4 + 2 ounces) provide good control of P. volutum on a curative basis. Turf managers should rotate among these treatments to prevent the development of fungicide resistance.
Fairy ring
Fairy ring is another old disease that seems to be an increasing problem in the turfgrass industry. Many different species of mushroom- and puffball-producing fungi can cause fairy rings in turfgrasses. These fungi do not infect the turfgrass plant, but rather their growth changes the physical or chemical properties of the soil and thatch, which in turn impacts the health and appearance of the turf. The fairy ring fungi can rapidly invade sandy soils and cause severe damage to newly constructed putting greens or other turf areas.
Fairy rings produce three distinct types of symptoms in turfgrasses. A Type I fairy ring causes the soil and thatch to turn hydrophobic (water-repellent) and kills the turf or severely stunts its growth (see photo, above). A Type II fairy ring causes a ring of dark green, rapidly growing turf through the release of nitrogen and other nutrients into the soil (see photo, page 21). A Type III fairy ring produces a ring of mushrooms or puffballs in the turf. The symptoms produced by an individual ring may change during the course of the year, depending on the weather conditions. Type II and III symptoms are more common in the spring during periods of cool and wet weather, whereas Type I symptoms are most common in the hot and dry conditions of summer.
A Type III fairy ring is, of course, easy to manage by removing the mushrooms or mowing them off. However, Type I and II rings are not so easy. Remember that the fairy ring fungus is not infecting the plant, but rather is changing the soil properties. To control these fairy rings, you must correct the soil properties so that the turf can resume normal growth. Fungicides alone will not provide acceptable control in most cases.
To control a Type I fairy ring, use aerification, spiking or other cultivation practices to break-up the hydrophobic layer of soil. Application of soil wetting agents will also help to re-wet the profile and suppress Type I symptoms. Type II fairy are most prevalent in under-fertilized or under-irrigated turf. Applying nitrogen or iron will help to mask Type II fairy ring symptoms. Turf managers should also prevent Type II fairy rings from drying out, as the infested soil can turn hydrophobic and trigger the appearance of Type I symptoms.
Several fungicides are available for fairy ring control, but are most effective when applied preventatively in the spring and early summer. Tank-mixing fungicides with soil wetting agents has been shown to increase fairy ring control by moving the fungicide deeper into the profile and helping to prevent the formation of hydrophobic layers. Because there are so many species that cause fairy ring, fungicide efficacy varies considerably from location to location. Experiment with several products to determine which are most effective in your location.
In the future
There is no telling what the future holds, but as the turfgrass industry continues to advance, new diseases will continue to appear, old ones will become more damaging and others may go away entirely. As we strive to keep up with our customers' demands, it is important to remember that turfgrasses need sunlight, air, water and nutrients to function properly, and that a healthy turfgrass plant is the best protection against disease attack.
Lane P. Tredway, Ph.D., is assistant professor and Extension specialist, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).
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