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Fiercely independent, Tom Johnson left school at 17 and dropped out of college, before setting up his own studio and carving out a career in fashion photography
"I'm quite dyslexic and dyspraxic. I can't draw either," says 25-year-old British photographer Tom Johnson, originally from the village of Clanfield in Oxfordshire. "Learning in traditional ways has never been my strong point, so I use the camera as a tool to learn about people and the world."
Johnson left school at 17 and started his photographic career shooting local gigs before moving to London, where he assisted a number of fashion photographers. When he answered a call on Twitter for an assistant, he found himself working with Jim Goldberg and Alessandra Sanguinetti on Magnum Photos' Postcards from America. A short stint at the London College of Communication followed (he left after two terms), but it was when he opened a studio in east London that his steady rise began.
Johnson's photography is about people. Working in documentary, fashion and portraiture – and often fusing all three – his images are clearly informed by an innate sensitivity towards and respect for his subjects. He is keen to draw on these qualities in his commissioned work, while not being afraid of subtle intervention.
"I think I found a way to create situations and environments, which you can't really do in documentary," he says. "It's about bringing the same sense of exploration you have in documentary and staging it a little. What I really want to do with fashion is to try and tell people's stories."
Johnson, who has shot editorials for influential titles such as AnOther, SSAW, Buffalo Zine and Man About Town, as well as campaigns for Opening Ceremony and Faye Toogood, has just been taken on by Mini Title, the agency that also represents Jack Davison (Ones To Watch, 2014). Mini Title founder Chris McGuigan came across Johnson through The Evans Girls series – which BJP published in our May 2016 issue, and a picture from which appeared in BJP's Portrait of Britain exhibition last autumn.
"I kept on looking at his work and it kept getting better," says McGuigan. "He's very good at doing upbeat and fun, which is a rare quality, especially for a British photographer."
Signing on to the agency was the start of what looks like a charmed period in Johnson's career. His latest work has taken him to the US, where, after completing three Vogue commissions in New York, he will begin a project looking at the personal relationship between two 48-year-old Polish hand balancers. The duo have been paired together since they were eight years old and are now part of a US-based circus group.
www.tom-johnson.co.uk This article was published in the June 2017 BJP, issue #7860 – Ones to Watch, The Talent Issue, which is available via www.thebjpshop.com


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Chellaston, Derby
PUBLISHED: 14:49 01 February 2010 | UPDATED: 15:39 20 February 2013
A traditional village at the heart of a modern suburb.
There is only one Chellaston, and yet there are two. The first is an archetypal English village with an ancient church, a village school, a little row of shops and a meandering high street with a working farm at its head. The second is a sprawling modern suburb with hundreds of smart new houses arranged around quiet cul-de-sacs, which fan out like tributaries of the various streets that stream away from the main road, where there is a constant flow of traffic to and from the centre of Derby.
Although the two Chellastons make a whole, because their communities are firmly united by common membership of organisations, clubs, schools and churches, the old village at the centre has managed to retain its traditional appearance in spite of new Chellaston growing all around it. Its high street runs away at right angles from the main road, as if it is determined to turn its back on the hustle and bustle of the commuter highway and head for a quieter life.
From the foot of the village street, there is a fine streetscape view, with the tower of the parish church as its focal point. Even though the tower is a 19th-century addition to a building that dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, it is not out of place, because its three-part structure seems to mirror the distinctive overall geometry of the church, which is defined by a step-by-step drop in height from tower to nave to chancel.
I was shown around the building by Rachel Harrison, who works in the church office. Rachel was born locally and still regards St Peter's as her church, even though she moved out of Chellaston 15 years ago - 'when it was still a village'. The church is unusual in having a main door that is half-way down the nave, which, as Rachel pointed out, makes for an unusual entry by the bride during wedding ceremonies. It also appears to be double-aisled, because the south aisle, which is headed by a Lady Chapel, is almost as wide as the nave.
When the building was re-pewed in 1813, a number of ancient alabaster slabs were removed, with several being given to the churchwarden, so that he could use them to pave the floor of his stable. This is a great pity, because Chellaston's early wealth was founded on its rich deposits of alabaster, which was prized as a material for effigies, tombs and altarpieces.
Chellaston alabaster is found in churches at Swarkestone, Aston-on-Trent, Radbourne and Breedon, and in Derby Cathedral, where it was used for Bess of Hardwick's tomb. When supplies started to run low, gypsum from the quarries was sold as material for paths, roads and floors. The local factories then turned their attention to brick-making, particularly during the Second World War, when Chellaston supplied bricks for the huge Ministry of Supply factory at Spondon and, at the Government's request, built up a huge stockpile of bricks for use in the event of the Rolls-Royce factory being bombed. The last brickworks closed in 1978.
Rachel Harrison's office is located in an annexe of St Peter's Church Hall, a modern brick building used for a variety of functions. Next month it will be the venue for performances by the Chellaston Players of Once a Knight, a pantomime billed as 'Medieval Madness for the Young, Old and Middle Ages'.
The secretary of the drama group, which was formed in 1975 by Edna Ford, is Becky Seysall, who first appeared in Chellaston's pantomimes at the age of seven. Her most recent appearance was in last month's free performance at the Bridge Inn of three short plays by Alan Ayckbourn. When I suggested to her that the choice of play for this year's pantomime was rather unusual, she told me that last year's was Frankenstein!
Chellaston's claim to fame in a different branch of the arts is commemorated by a plaque on a red-brick house in School Lane, a narrow road that branches off High Street directly opposite the church. Between 1893 and 1967, the house was occupied by members of the remarkably talented Gresley family. James Stephen Gresley, his son Frank and his grandsons, Cuthbert and Harold, were all renowned for their watercolour landscape paintings, many of which depict Derbyshire beauty spots. Some of the works now fetch four-figure sums on eBay.
The nearby school was founded in 1878 and originally catered for all ages. It is now dedicated to the education of infants and was paid the best possible compliment by Ofsted inspectors, who observed that 'children run through the gates in the morning, looking forward to the exciting activities that await them.'
After parents have left their children at the school gates, they can pop around the corner to High Street's parade of shops and call in for a relaxing drink at Bevande, a stylish new coffee shop founded by Catherine Rowan, who has three young children of her own. Before opening for business, Catherine re-vamped the premises by stone-flagging the floor, re-styling the interior and inserting a striking all-glass faade.
In the adjacent shop, Catherine's husband Jason runs Wizard Windows, which supplies double-glazing and provides a home improvement service. The rest of the parade comprises: an outlet called Far Below, which has bargain goods galore; a newsagent's and off-licence, which also sells milk and groceries; a Cantonese and English takeaway, a hairdressing salon, and an estate and letting agency.
Whelan's ladies' and gents' hairdressing salon has been a popular Chellaston fixture for the past eight years. On Saturdays, as many as one hundred men are coiffured in the salon (fewer ladies, simply because their coiffuring takes rather longer). Sue Whelan is one of three family members involved in the business, which has the laudable aim of 'taking good care of everyone'.
Their philosophy is shared by the staff of Hannells estate and letting agency. Founded five years ago by Michael and Alison Brain, who named their business after Alison's mother's maiden name, the firm now has 11 branches. Managing director Steve Collins told me that the agency tries to take the stress out of moving house by providing local shops where people can receive independent mortgage advice and even get expert information on family law. Steve talked of the recent boom in buy-to-let, the fall in house prices, the need for people to take out affordable mortgages and the value of part-exchange schemes in getting the housing market moving.
This talk of houses reminded me that I should now leave the old village and begin my exploration of suburban Chellaston. On my way to the main road, I passed another long-established hairdressing salon, before noticing an intriguing sign outside a brand-new flower shop. It offered 15 per cent off orders over 20 for members of the Armed Forces and the NHS, as well as workers at the Rolls-Royce factory. Florist Frey Alexander regards the first of these as under-valued, the second as under-paid and the third as a deserving cause because they work for a major local employer.
A much older business is to be found across the road at The Lawns. Once the villa of a Victorian corn merchant, it has been greatly expanded over the years by Opposite: (l-r) Florist Frey Alexander and her assistant Donna Taylor; Sue Whelan of Whelan's Hairdressing Salon; Catherine Rowan of Bevande coffee shop; Chellaston Players (front row) Mat Shepherd and Clare Hale, (second row) Ben Woodcock, Andrew Gallie and Greg Lunnway,
(at the back) Louisa Ballard and Jerry GregsonSharon Hubbard and her late husband Stuart. Now a modern pub, restaurant and a hotel with 21 en suite rooms, it retains two traditional touches: a thatched L-shaped bar and a resident ghost. The previous owners had an exorcism carried out in the cellar and both Sharon and long-term employee Margaret Flower say that they have witnessed a 'presence' in one of the rooms in the oldest part of the building.
On arriving at the T-junction between High Street and the main road I spotted another traditional touch in the form of exposed timber frames on the gable-end of the Corner Pin pub. Although this fragment of old England seems out-of-place in the midst of Chellaston's busy main-road shopping area, it is not quite as incongruous as the Cantonese takeaway that is housed in a former petrol station!
Avoiding the temptation to shop, I headed for Chellaston Foundation School and Technology College. As soon as I met headteacher Ray Ruszcynski, he invited me to join him on one of his twice-daily whirlwind tours of the school. We called in scores of classrooms, where we invariably found pupils involved in productive learning. Computers were in use in every subject area and those being employed for computer-aided design were even using industry-standard software.
The aim of this dynamic school is to ensure that 'every pupil maximises their potential'. With outstanding 'value-added' results, over 70 per cent of pupils achieving five or more higher grade GCSEs, as well as lots of innovative courses such as Music Technology and 'Salon Studies', which is taught by a local beautician, it is not surprising that the high standard of education is one of the reasons why so many people want to move into the area. Since the school opened in 1977, pupil numbers have risen from 450 to almost 1,700, and the great swathe of countryside that once formed a backcloth to the school's sports fields is now covered by 1,100 new houses on a residential development known locally as the Bonnie Prince estate.
I was taken on a tour of the smart new estate by John Bowden, the long-serving and hard-working chair of Chellaston Residents' Association, who pointed to a site where a dozen retail units are planned. He said, 'This development is long overdue in a large residential area that has had no eating, drinking, shopping or community facilities anywhere within its bounds, other than the Bonnie Prince pub.'
John's remarks reflect the aims of his members, who are drawn from the whole of Chellaston and are determined to lobby for an expansion of facilities to match the population explosion. For example, whilst welcoming the promise of a library to replace the current mobile one, they believe the proposed site is too small, particularly if the building is to include an alabaster museum. Knowing there is a need for a new medical centre, they would like to see both buildings erected on a large main-road site that has become available since the closure of the Red Lion.
Traffic is another major concern. Having successfully campaigned for a weight limit on the main road, the association is now engaged in a battle to re-route a projected access road from the A50 to a proposed new business park, because current plans would involve heavy goods vehicles running alongside some of the new houses. Aware that they have the ear of local councillors on this and other matters, John and his committee members are drawing up a Supplementary Planning Document, which will set out residents' views on 'what Chellaston does and doesn't need'.
With Chellaston changing rapidly, retired lecturer Mick Appleby and his wife Carol, a former teacher, have set out to record the village of old through an oral history project involving 30 residents aged between 67 and 94. Many respondents told the couple that the cottages that look so romantic on old picture postcards were often cold, damp and dark. For example, Jean Bailey recalled that her house had gas lights downstairs and candles upstairs. When her middle son was born in the 1940s, a long flex had to be run from an adjacent building so that he could be born in electric light.
However, Winnie Faircloth has a more positive and poetic take on the past: 'Chellaston before the war, 100 kids at school, no more. We played at marbles in the street. No fear of cars to meet. Most goods were brought by horse and dray, with gas lamps lighting up the way. No numbers then upon the door, yet all were known, both rich and poor.'
Chellaston Voices, an illustrated oral history researched by Mick and Carol Appleby is published by the Chellaston History Group at 7.95, as is the group's publication on Chellaston alabaster.
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Having done well to avoid getting pulled into the recent round of so-called "mind games" with his fellow top-four managers, Brendan Rodgers let his guard down a touch in yesterday's weekly press conference when asked about comments Pepe Reina had made ahead of Napoli's Europa League tie with Swansea.
Liverpool signed Simon Mignolet from Sunderland in the summer, leading to Reina leaving for a season-long loan at the Italian side after eight years at the club. Reina was asked where he might be playing at the end of that loan: "I need to go back to Liverpool at the end of my loan and I will make my decision there," said the Spanish keeper. "My future does not depend on our results this season."
So what did Rodgers think of the idea Reina could be back in the summer? "He's already written his letter, hasn't he? He wrote a goodbye letter, didn't he? I was surprised at the letter," he added.
"He penned a great, big letter saying he was going to work with the best manager that he'd worked with and thanked for his time for Liverpool. So, for me, it probably sounded like he'd made his decision there."
Rodgers might have been smiling as he said this but having a dig at a player still seen as a hero by many fans isn't always a wise thing to do.
Whatever Rodgers and Reina would like to happen in the summer, as soon as that loan deal comes to an end the keeper reverts to being a Liverpool player and will still have two years left on his Reds contract.
He'll be hoping to be on duty for Spain as part of their World Cup squad by the time the loan does expire, but unless a new deal is struck, with Napoli or anyone else, he might well have to return to his parent club, even if only briefly.
The comments come at a time when Liverpool's record at the back is under a fair amount of scrutiny. Top scorers on 70 goals, failing to score just twice all season, the Reds are fourth in the league, four points from top and being spoken about as title contenders, far ahead of any expectations at the start of the season.
The biggest risk to those hopes being fulfilled is that at the other end of the pitch the Reds have only managed seven clean sheets all season. Only one side in the top half of the table – Newcastle – has conceded more than Liverpool's 35.
A number of reasons have been put forward for the vulnerability at the back and unsurprisingly in such a situation the goalkeeper is one of those to have the finger pointed at him. Mignolet, signed in the summer has been at fault for more than one goal this season and one criticism aimed at him is his apparent reluctance to move off his line.
Comparisons are inevitable. Reina was a hero for Reds fans, brimming with confidence, rarely putting a foot, or hand, wrong for most of his time at Anfield and always bouncing straight back if he did.
The fact his form had started to dip over the last couple of seasons, or that he'd talked about how he would find it hard to turn down a move to Barcelona, didn't make it any easier a task for Mignolet to come in and replace both a keeper and an idol.
Mignolet is under the microscope and Reina is talking about coming back in the summer. It's inevitable that some fans are asking – as they have done on and off over the course of the season – why he was allowed to leave in the first place and whether Mignolet was the right player to replace him.
Looking back now it seems Liverpool did the right thing in looking for a replacement.
Back in May Reina's representatives reportedly told the club that Barcelona were interested in signing him, with Reina saying: "It is difficult to say no to Barca, although I am not aware if they are interested in me."
In his "goodbye letter", Reina admitted informing the club he would like any offer from Barcelona to be considered. He also said that he'd talked to the club about extending his contract – which still had three years to run – if the offer didn't come in.
"I told the manager that I wanted to play for Liverpool and that Barcelona would only become an option for me if the opportunity arrived, like the rumours said it would, as it would be a chance for me to go back home."
According to Pepe's dad, speaking in November, they were more than rumours: "A few months ago Pepe was in talks with Barcelona," said Miguel Reina. "They had an agreement and he was all set to go, but in the end Victor Valdes did not leave. That's why the transfer fell through."
Nobody would have begrudged Reina the opportunity to go home, to Barca, after his eight years of service at Anfield. It seems he would have had that opportunity had Valdes not chosen to see out his Barca contract.
In many ways the move to Barcelona would have been perfect for both Liverpool and Pepe Reina. The Reds would have got a transfer fee – probably enough to cover the cost of bringing Mignolet in – as well as a big reduction in the wage bill. Reina would have left with the blessing of the fans.
What Liverpool couldn't afford to do was to allow it to turn into a saga that lasted the whole summer, before finding themselves without Reina and without a replacement. Looking at how the club have handled attempts to sign other players in the last two windows that was certainly a possibility.
In Reina's letter he mentions talking about an extended deal with Liverpool – would he have signed such a deal before he was fully certain about Barca's intentions? At the same time, would Liverpool have met his terms, agreeing to pay him at those levels beyond the three years he still had left to run?
Brendan Rodgers and the club had to make a decision on what was best for the club and it's easy to see why they made the decision they did, at least in terms of finding a replacement and bringing him in.
The buying and selling of players is a game in itself and when Rodgers spoke about signing Mignolet to compete with Reina it sounds like he was playing that game.
If Reina wanted to go, Liverpool wanted as big a fee as possible, it was hardly wise to say he was now surplus to requirements, that he was too well-paid to be the club's sub-keeper.
What Rodgers has done now is said exactly that. Reina is surplus to requirements, Liverpool are open to offers. Maybe Rodgers knows there is already one on the table for the player.
More important for Rodgers now than any summer transfer window games is getting his existing squad through those last eleven games and picking up as many points as possible. Playing the game and pretending Reina had a place waiting for him would hardly help Mignolet's confidence.
As to the question about whether Mignolet was the right choice, it remains to be seen. Comparing him with Reina in his pomp is probably unfair, how many goalkeepers in the world would compare favourably with that kind of standard?
Not only that, how many of them could Liverpool have afforded and how many of those would have been willing to move to Anfield last summer?
If Liverpool had hung on another year it might have been different. Reina may have gone off the idea of moving home after all, or with the Champions League a real possibility Liverpool might have had more options to look at as replacements for him. We'll never know, but does it really matter anyway?
Mignolet might have played his part in some of Liverpool's problems at the back but he's far from being the main cause. A constantly changing back four doesn't help and with Liverpool so focused on exciting, attacking football there will always be vulnerabilities at the back. It's easy to forget the clean sheets from the start of the season, when Liverpool were playing in a very different way.
Ever since Rodgers arrived he's made big and small changes, learning as he goes along, little tweaks here and there to keep the side making progress. Maybe it's time to look at getting some help with the coaching at the back, goalkeeping and defence.
Maybe it's something he can tweak himself, helped by some new signings in the summer.
It's almost become habit over the past few years for Liverpool fans to wonder what might have been. The club seemed to be going somewhere when Rafa Benítez got the club to second in the league, only for it all to fall apart as the mess in the boardroom engulfed and poisoned the whole club.
Liverpool fan arguing with Liverpool fan as dodgy owners and greedy bankers plundered the safe. Some of that poison is still there, waiting to take its hold if anyone gives it the chance.
Rodgers might have spoken out against an idol, but Rodgers has got the best interests of the club at heart and this isn't a good time to turn such a promising season into one of those "what might have been" moments.
It's time to stop getting upset at what might have been.
It's time to start getting excited at what might be.


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AvalonBay suffers setback in Stratford fight
STRATFORD -- AvalonBay Communities has often won approval to build affordable housing projects around the state despite strong opposition.
But it continues to find Stratford one of its toughest opponents.
In the latest twist in the developer's nine-year battle to construct an affordable housing complex on Cutspring Road, a Superior Court judge has rejected AvalonBay's appeal to build a scaled-down, 130-unit complex, agreeing with the town it would pose "major safety and public health risks because emergency access vehicles, such as firetrucks, would not make it under a Merritt Parkway underpass on Cutspring Road" to the proposed site.
"This is a major victory for the town and zoning commission, which has held firm in its belief the project would pose a major threat to public health and safety," said Zoning Commission Chairman Christopher Silhavey, pointing out the panel rejected an original plan of 160 units in 2001, and two revised proposals since.
Planning and Zoning Administrator Gary Lorentson advised the commission of the judge's decision during a meeting Tuesday night in Town Hall. "It's great news, but I don't think it's quite over yet, not with AvalonBay," said Commissioner Adam Bonoff, a staunch opponent of the project.
AvalonBay filed its latest appeal last September, claiming the Zoning Commission's reasons for denial last August "do not satisfy its burden under (remand orders issued) by this court in July 2004."
But Superior Court Judge Henry S. Cohn in New Britain dismissed the entire appeal, which upholds the Zoning Commission's decision and places the burden on AvalonBay to appeal again, which is likely.
"While the plaintiff made numerous changes in its 2008 site plan, the height of the development is three stories on 17 of its 20 sides, and higher still on the remaining three sides fashioned with dormers," Cohn states in his Aug. 13 ruling. "The present matter presents two irreconcilable realities -- the size and height of the development mandates aerial firetruck response and some mutual-aid aerial firetrucks will not be able to proceed through the underpass without driving down the center of the road.
"Given the low clearance, firetrucks are likely to proceed slowly while moving through the archway," Cohn states. "Response time will suffer as a result. The likelihood of collision with oncoming traffic increases as a firetruck moves to the center lane. Even without oncoming traffic, the risk of misjudging the clearance and colliding with the top of the archway is still present. Either scenario could result in blockage of the underpass."
The ruling was in agreement with the commission's stated denial that "considering the height" of proposed three- and four-story-high buildings, "it is essential that fire ladder trucks be able to reach the site in a timely manner."
During the public hearing last year Town Councilman Joseph Kubic, R-9, told the commission: "I have reviewed the plans and concluded that what we have here is a death trap -- a tragedy waiting to happen."
The judge did reject two of the commission's other reasons for denying the project, which include the panel's claim that secondary access for emergency vehicles to the rear of the project along Circle Drive "is far too narrow," and that the development would have a negative impact on wetlands.
"We believe we took two steps forward and one step back," said AvalonBay's lawyer, Timothy Hollister. "We have advised our clients to appeal the one area the judge cited for denying the appeal, concerning the Merritt Parkway underpass, and believe we can win by taking this to the Appellate Court level. We don't believe it's over yet."


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COLUMBUS, OH – 8 Mar, 2016 – Prime Social Group, the prevailing force in modern concert and event promotion, launches The Life Backstage, an online platform providing behind-the-scenes interviews, videos, and photography to a reach of over 250,000 music fans and industry insiders via http://thelifebackstage.com
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Nine Dots puzzle
"Nine Dots Puzzle" puzzle game, also known as the "Thinking Outside the Box" puzzle.
This Nine Dots Puzzle puzzle is based upon a historic puzzle published in Sam Loyd's 1914 Cyclopedia of Puzzles.
There are several different solutions to this puzzle, but you must truely think outside the box to easily solve this puzzle.
The origins of this interesting puzzle comes from an old publication entited "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Amusements In Mathematics, by Henry Ernest Dudeney" and adapted it to my images.


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The leading Czech cable operator UPC Czech is to offer its subscribers 15 days of live 3D broadcasts of the Roland Garos tennis tournament.
Shown on Eurosport and on an exclusive basis, they will be available to the approximately 50,000 UPC Czech customers who use the company's HD-PVR and HD boxes.
They will also be accessible to the thousands of other UPC customers whose 3D sets are equipped with CA modules.
UPC was the first company in the Czech Republic to offer regular broadcasting in 3D, adding the channel HD+ to its line up last year.
The Roland Garos tennis tournament will run from May 22 until June 5.


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Lock is the first anti-theft tool used for home security. But destroying the lock and invading into house is the first choice of home intruders and burglary. 80% of home invasion is through the door with lock destroying or with technical way to unlock the door. Traditional lock is not safe enough now for home security.
How can lock protect home and against destroying. The appearance of fingerprint lock got much attention. But the fingerprint lock can still be destroyed without notice at first time.
Combination of fingerprint lock and home security system is the new lock technology and home security integration.
What features of the new fingerprint lock for home security? Compare to the traditional fingerprint lock, the new fingerprint lock has unlock record and tamper-resist functions. Moreover, it has robbery password available for duress door open.
The network function is the most important feature of the new fingerprint lock. It supports wireless 433MHz, 485 zigbee, Z-WAVE communication protocols. It can work with smart home security system with smart phone APP operation and query of the lock.
How can the network fingerprint lock be more effective for home security? It has mobile APP remotely unlocking way added to fingerprint unlocking, phantom password unlocking and mechanical key unlocking, RFID card unlocking. It has temporary password available for visitors. It has robbery password available for duress door open. It is with tamper-resist switch and send anti-burglar alarm and notification. Wrong password or violent unlock will be reported via app message pushing.
Connected to the home security system, the door open close status can report to home owner by App, Low battery status can be sent to home owner. Destroying of the lock will be report to home owner and security service if it is connected. On the other way, home owner can query the door open status and get door open report with detailed door open user and ways.
Combination of fingerprint lock and home security system brings safer of the home. The smart home security component and advanced home automation technology has brought us convenient and comfort smart home life. New technology 3G/4G GPRS and Wifi network home alarm control panel can work with IP cameras, house appliance control switches. DIY home scene setting and ifttt settings are available. With one click or voice instruction, the lighting, curtain, air conditioner etc. Can be set as sleeping mode, reading mode etc.
The smart home security system is available for shopping already. Please visit home security store or contact Vedard alarms for more details.


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A Comparative Study of Prevalence of Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Antenatal Women from Urban and Rural Area of Pune, India,2016;7(5):351-354
Author:Ritesh P Kundap, Abhay Dadewar , Samir Singru, Kevin Fernandez
Keywords:anaemia, haemoglobin, morbidity
Type:Original Article
Reproductive Health Problems and Treatment Seeking Behavior among Adolescent Girls of UHTC Field Practice Area, Govt. Medical College, Bhavnagar,2016;7(5):355-358
Author:Mansi G Chauhan, Harshad Patel, Harsha Solanki
Keywords:Adolescent Girl, Reproductive Tract Infection (RTI), Treatment seeking behavior
Type:Original Article
Health Promotion Through Community-Based Organizations for Improving Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Pertaining to Hypertension,2016;7(5):359-361
Author:Anuj Mundra, Hemant D Shewade, Ashok M Mehendale, Bishan S Garg
Keywords:Health Promotion, Health education, Hypertension, Self-Help Groups, Rural health centre
Type:Original Article
Awareness Regarding Anemia, Gestational Diabetes and Pregnancy Induced Hypertension among Antenatal Women Attending Outpatient Department in a Rural Hospital,2016;7(5):362-367
Author:Meera George, Neethu George, Naveen Ramesh
Keywords:Antenatal, anemia, gestational diabetes mellitus, pregnancy induced hypertension, rural, hospital.
Type:Original Article
A Cross Sectional Study on Assessment of Falls in Community Dwelling Elderly of Assam,2016;7(5):368-371
Author:Rashmi Agarwalla, Anku Moni Saikia, Rambha Pathak, Farzana Islam, Madhur Borah, Mamta Parashar
Keywords:Elderly, Falls, Functional Status
Type:Original Article
Knowledge, Attitude & Practices Related to Biomedical Waste Management among The Nursing Staff of A Tertiary Care Rural Hospital of Gujarat, India,2016;7(5):372-376
Author:Dinesh Kumar, Dipkala Jayswal, Suman Singh
Keywords:Biomedical waste management, Hospital infection prevention, Nurses, Nursing practices
Type:Original Article
Treatment Outcome of Registered Tuberculosis Cases for Year 2013 in Tuberculosis Unit in Tribal District Bastar of Chhattisgarh, India,2016;7(5):377-381
Author:Kishor P Brahmapurkar, Vaishali K Brahmapurkar, Q H Khan
Keywords:Treatment outcome, Tuberculosis Unit, Bastar
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R.G.C.C. Blood Analysis
Here at Cancer Center For Healing we offer you personalized cancer care by testing your genetics through R.G.C.C.-USA, LLC's blood analysis test. This blood test analyzes circulating tumor cells and cancer stem cells through targeted test results. Cancer Center For Hope is then able to tailor cancer treatment plans for our patients to enhance treatment outcomes. R.G.C.C. analysis has revolutionized how we care for our cancer patients. Over the past nine years, more than 300 physicians worldwide have utilized the R.G.C.C. personalized cancer care analysis with their patients and have seen tremendous strides in cancer survival.
The R.G.C.C. tests are designed to assess which types of cancer treatments will be most effective for a specific person and type of cancer. After the test identifies the most effective cancer treatment, the Supportive Oligonucleotide Technique may then be administered (see below). To learn more about R.G.C.C., visit www.rgccusa.com.
R.G.C.C. Tests
ONCOCOUNT: This test will report only the number of Circulating Cancer Tumor Cells (CTC's). It does not include any other information concerning the CTC's or Circulating Cancer Stem Cells (CSC's).
ONCOTRACE: This test will report the number of CTC's, any positive CSC's, and the immunophenotype of these cells. The most useful screening test. This test should be ordered first and if positive one can then order the TU Profile Plus. R.G.C.C. must be notified by e-mail to continue with the TU Plus Profile before the 9th day after receiving results. If one waits longer a new blood sample will be needed.
ONCOTRAIL: This test is a tailor made test for a specific type of malignancy such as breast cancer (Oncotrail for Breast), prostate (Oncotrail for Prostate) and so on. This test includes only markers relative to a specific type of malignancy which makes the test for follow up control patient management.
TU PROFILE: This includes the chemosensitivity/chemoresistance assessment for cytotoxic drugs, monoclonal antibodies, and small molecules that inhibit specific targets eg. (TKI, etc.). No natural substances tested.
TU PROFILE PLUS: This test is the TU PROFILE TEST, above, and includes the assessment of natural substances and plant extracts for any anticancer potency. The most complete and the most information for personal cancer care and support.
TU PROFILE EXTRACTS: This test includes only the assessment of natural substances and plant extracts for any anticancer potency. No chemotherapeutic agents tested and no tumor suppressor genes tested.
SUPPORTIVE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE TECHNIQUE (SOT): This is not a test, rather the patient's blood is used to make the SOT by using the mRNA to induce certain gene expressions. SOT has the ability to induce apoptosis in the CTCs and all primary and metastatic tumors. The SOT can also be used for viruses.
R.G.C.C. Tests Costs
ONCOCOUNT: CTC NUMBER ONLY— Approx. $586
ONCOTRACE: CTC NUMBER, CSC MARKERS & IMMUNOPHENOTYPE—Approx. $847
BREAST ONCOTRAIL: FOR BREAST CA; FOR TRACKING TEST RESULTS—Approx. $814
PROSTATE ONCOTRAIL: FOR PROSTATE CA; FOR TRACKING TEST RESULTS—Approx. $814
COLON ONCOTRAIL: FOR COLORECTAL CA; FOR TRACKING TEST RESULTS—Approx. $814
MELANOMA ONCOTRAIL: FOR MELANOMA CA; FOR TRACKING TEST RESULTS—Approx. $814
LUNG ONCOTRAIL: FOR LUNG (SCLC & NSCLC): FOR TRACKING TEST RESULTS—Approx. $814
SARCOMA ONCOTRAIL: FOR SARCOMA; FOR TRACKING TEST RESULTS—Approx. $814
GI (gastrointestinal) ONCOTRAIL: FOR GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA—Approx. $814
TU-PROFILE: CHEMOSENSITIVITY FOR CYTOTOXIC DRUGS ONLY—Approx. $2,084
TU-PROFILE PLUS: CHEMOSENSITIVITY FOR CYTOTOXIC & NATURAL. SUBSTANCES—Approx. $2,475
ONCOTRACE & TU-PROFILE PLUS: THE BEST COMBINATION & MOST INFORMATION—Approx. $3,126
TU-PROFILE EXTRACTS: CHEMOSENSITIVITY FOR NATURAL SUBSTANCES ONLY—Approx. $1,824
SUPPORTIVE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE TECHNIQUE (SOT): SOT SERUM—Approx. $1,620
Supportive Oligonucleotide Technique (SOT)
(A PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP MEDICAL ASSOCIATION) RGCC-labs uses mRNA expression fingerprinting in order to identify certain gene expression patterns as targets, but without influence to the genetic structure (epigenetic). Based on this analysis RGCC-Labs uses the mRNA analysis of each individuals Circulating Cancer Tumor Cells (CTC's) and Circulating Cancer Stem Cells (CSC's), and occasionally from biopsies of the tumor, and generates the Supportive Oligonucleotide Technique.
SOT is not a genetic therapy, as is most antisense treatments and no genotoxic (chemo) drugs are used. SOT has the ability to induce apoptosis (cell death) in the CTC's and CSC's (circulating cancer tumor & stem cells) and ALL primary and metastatic tumors (regardless of size, and is able to cross the blood brain barrier with ease). SOT will remain active in the blood stream for approximately 14-16 weeks (maybe longer) per dose. Because, the mRNA actually features a stealth like ability that keeps the body from recognizing and destroying it. SOT will work 24/7 and has no decreased efficacy with any concurrent technique except chemotherapy and/or radiation.
The end goal for this technique is to have the CTC's/CSC's (using RGCC OncoCount Test) show a maximum of <2 cells per ml and lower is always better. Also, showing stability of all tumors (based on repeat scans and/or any blood markers you may use). By the time you get to this end point we will let you know of a possible new technique on the very near horizon that may allow you even more life time protection.
The SOT has shown to be a very effective cancer support technique from clinical experience. This same methodology has been used in Europe for many years now. As of today, following extensive searches, we know of no one or other entity making this type of technique this way anywhere in the world (as of 7.21.13).
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Court orders EPA to try again on soot standards implementation
A federal appeals court ruled today that U.S. EPA must re-examine how it implements standards for fine particulates emitted by power plants, boilers and motor vehicles.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected EPA's argument that it is required under the Clean Air Act to use a less stringent implementation regime for fine particulates than it is for more coarse -- and less dangerous -- particles.
Today's ruling means EPA must look again at the implementation of the existing standards. Separately, the agency recently set new standards for fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, that cover particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (Greenwire, Dec. 14, 2012).
The Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club had said states have too much flexibility, which means that in some cases standards are not being met. They challenged two George W. Bush-era rules, one from 2007 and one from 2008, that laid out how fine particle standards last set in 1997 should be implemented.
The environmental groups argued that EPA ignored language in the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990, which stated that particulate matter implementation is addressed in a different section of the statute than implementation requirements for other types of pollution.
The statute's language specifically dealing with particulate matter is stricter and gives states less leeway.
EPA said the Clean Air Act language raised by the environmental groups applies only to implementation of standards for coarse particles, otherwise known as PM 10.
In today's ruling, the court held that the Clean Air Act did not require EPA to handle fine particulate matter differently from the coarser pollutants. References in the statute to PM 10 indicate Congress was referring to particulate matter in general, which would include PM 2.5.
EPA had offered only "several unconvincing arguments" to support its theory that Congress intended for PM 2.5 to be dealt with differently from PM 10, Judge Karen Henderson wrote in the opinion.
The panel agreed with Paul Cort of Earthjustice, who during October's argument repeatedly made the point that PM 2.5 is included in the statutory definition of PM 10 (Greenwire, Oct. 17, 2012).
The court also rejected EPA's suggestion that the environmental groups' challenge was untimely because it should have been filed when the 1997 standards were first finalized.
Cort hailed today's decision as a "good day for clean air." It could force some jurisdictions that have yet to attain the 1997 standards to come up with new, more rigorous plans if they want more time, he added.
"It gives them less flexibility," he said.
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The Center for Data Innovation has released recommendations for policymakers to maximize the benefits of the Internet of Things.
A new report suggests that if elected officials want to fully harness the power of the Internet of Things, they must draft policy that maximizes the impact that machine-to-machine communication can have on economic growth and social well-being.
Daniel Castro and Joshua New write in 10 Policy Principles for Unlocking the Potential of the Internet of Things, that policymakers must take an active role to ensure the Internet of Things' growth. Released last week by the Center of Data Innovation, the report outlines the steps legislators can take to establish programs to accelerate the adoption of Internet-connected devices throughout the U.S.
Castro is director of the Center for Data Innovation and a senior analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. New is a policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation.
In an email to Government Technology, Castro explained the challenge was to identify principles that could be used by government officials to tackle the issues they face in regard to the Internet of Things.
"We looked across many different industries to see what was working now and where improvements were needed, and we looked back at what the government has done in the past to support technology deployments that have been successful," Castro wrote. "The end result are principles that we believe can help policymakers address their specific situations."
The 10 principles are:
The report calls the 10 principles a "blueprint for Internet of Things policies," and notes that the success of the Internet today can be credited partially to lawmakers who actively worked to ensure its growth. Castro and New call for the same approach to be applied to the Internet of Things.
Of the 10 principles, Castro said he felt No. 9 -- Use Data to Tackle Hard Problems -- was the one policymakers should adhere to above all others. He added that the goal for elected officials should be to make the world a better place by tackling issues such as health care, transportation and the environment.
"The Internet of Things has an important role to play by enabling data-driven innovation that can be used to address these problems," Castro said. "Solutions like wearable devices can help improve health outcomes for patients, and roadway sensors can help create smart transportation systems that cut down on traffic and pollution while improving safety."
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methinks I should hear with indifference if a trustworthy messenger were to inform me that the sun drowned himself last night
Thoreau's Journal: 22-July-1851
The season of morning fog has arrived. I think it is connected with dog-days. Perhaps it is owing to the greater contrast between the night and day, the nights being nearly as cold, while the days are warmer? Before I rise from my couch, I see the ambrosial fog stretched over the river, draping the trees. It is the summer's vapor bath. What purity in the color? It is almost musical; it is positively fragrant. How faery-like it has visited our fields. I am struck by its firm outlines, as distinct as a pillow's edge, about the height of my house. A great crescent over the course of the river from southwest to northeast. Already 5:30 A.M., some parts of the river are bare. It goes off in a body down the river, before this air, and does not rise into the heavens. It retreats, and I do not see how it is dissipated. This slight, thin vapor which is left to curl over the surface of the still, dark water, still as glass, seems not [to] be the same thing,—of a different quality. I hear the cockerels crow through it, and the rich crow of young roosters, that sound indicative of the bravest, rudest health, hoarse without cold, hoarse with rude health. That crow is all-nature-compelling.; famine and pestilence flee before it. These are our fairest days, which are born in fog.
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The world of fashion is a great place where you can take a little time to just focus on yourself. It's great and will help reward you, but you need to know where you can begin. Keep reading this piece to get some great ideas that will get you back on the path to great fashion.
Belt it up for a quick and easy fashion boost. Belts are available in an endless array of colors and designs, so the possibilities are literally endless. Choose something bright to go with some skinny jeans, or tone it down and go with a more sophisticated look by wearing a black belt.
Pull the hair up from your shoulders for a casual, but nice, look. Having your hair in your face can be a faux pas at work or even during class. If you lack the time to style it, use an elastic to put it in a messy bun.
Wearing white and black is classic and that is popular this season. The best part about these simple colors is that you can throw together an endless array of outfits. It's so simple to create black and white combinations using just a shirt and pants or a dress. When it comes to these shades, you'll never go wrong.
You shouldn't have too many items in your makeup bag. Use a few products you like that are in colors appropriate for the season. Think about both night and day uses. Also, remember that makeup has a shelf life and should be replaced when it has gone bad. In addition, germ growth can occur if the product sits a while.
Drying with a towel can create additional frizz in your hair. This can damage your hair and cause more frizziness. As an alternative, put the towel around your hair and allow it to soak. When your hair is no longer sopping wet, untangle the knots using a comb.
Do not strive for perfection in fashion. Firstly, there is no such thing as perfection in this world. Second, by trying to be perfect, you can come across as trying too hard. Many classic looks are based on a simple flaw, like messy hair, or something slightly askew.
Use every ounce of your beauty products. Push your tubes to the last drop, which can help to save money over time. To get the last drops of bottled products, store them at an angle, or even upside-down. Sometimes you can cut off the top to get another two or three uses of the product. This can save you money.
Wearing white clothes after Labor Day is actually okay. You can wear every color in any season, as long as it looks good on you. Choose white if you feel like that is your preferred color of choice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
You don't need to be confused about fashion. It can sure be overwhelming, and it may even be more overwhelming when you compare yourself to other people. However, everyone is different, and fashion is your own personal expression. Remember the advice you learned here as you delve deeper into the fashion world.


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The world of Travel and Tourism has evolved providing a range of opportunities in an exciting industry. If you are interested in spreading your wings and seeing the world a career in this sector might be for you, but rest assured a lot of hard work and long hours is involved.
We offer a variety of full-time courses in this area designed to showcase what the industry has to offer from customer service roles to airline cabin crew.
|City and Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Travel and Tourism with Aviation Operations
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Do you recall that Mirror's Edge reboot we reported on at last year's E3, and the E3 before that? Yeah, EA is finally providing a close look at the long-in-the-making parkour title Mirror's Edge Catalyst, which is slated to arrive February 23rd, 2016, on the PS4, Xbox One and PC. As hinted early on, you're witnessing Faith's origins as she becomes an underground hero in the corporate-dominated City of Glass. This is an open-world story with no arbitrary levels and loading times -- your main goal is simply to navigate the urban landscape and fight the oppressive regime of business mastermind Gabriel Kruger. There are a few new activities, too, such as A-to-B races and the as-yet-undescribed "Dash" mode. The new Mirror's Edge will be playable on the show floor, and you can be sure that we'll give it a spin.
Joseph Volpe contributed to this report.
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all about the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway
Get a single ride with the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB) as part of your HarzCard offer (only 4 day HarzCard). Choose the journey to or back to Mount Brocken and enjoy a breathtaking ride in the old nostalgic train with stunning scenery. Simply present your 4 day HarzCard at the service counter of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways and receive a single ticket to or from Mount Brocken. If you would like to have a return journey on the same day to Mount Brocken, you may purchase the additional journey at a special price.
The fare for a round trip (Mount Brocken journey) is €47*.
The fare for a single journey to Mount Brocken is €31*.
A single journey is already included in the 4 day HarzCard. If you purchase the additional ride for the return journey, the ticket will be €18,50*.
Our tip:
If you like hiking, then you may opt to hike one way and return with the train. Park your car at the train station Schierke and walk up to Mount Brocken. The climb is steep but you will be rewarded with stunning views across the valley on your way.
Distance 5.4km
Duration: 1.5-2 hours
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Donation $250
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Again, I apologize for the long break between blog posts… I have been a bit tongue tied as of late due to some conflicting emotional peaks and valleys I have been experiencing. But, not to worry, my head is held higher than ever! I don't know if any of you have heard about our last game, but we unfortunately lost the semi finals 2-1. It was a very interesting game. But, enough about that… I have been able to keep my head high by focusing on things that I really enjoy like taking pictures, and walking around town with my good friend here, Ximel.
I should first tell you that I have taken on a new nickname that I find to be a bit of an insult... a couple nights ago before going to dinner I decided to take out my contacts because my eyes were burning a bit. I put on my glasses and went down to dinner. As I walked in all the coaches started laughing and one of them said "Oye, Hillary!" Of course, not knowing they were referring to me I just proceeded to stand in line to get my food. But again... "Hillary! Hillary Clinton!" And then the Russian girls were laughing too... and then it hit me that they were talking to me... they were calling me Hillary because she is probably the only American female they know who is not just a body or a face on the cover of a magazine... and I have glasses on soooo clearly I look like Hillary Clinton... I chuckled a bit thinking ya ya, real funny... American women... sooooo funny how smart we are... ha ha. But the Russians got a real kick out of it, so much so that it has since stayed. They never really got the hang of my name "Zaneela" as that was a mouth full plus we already have a Danny on the team... so I was just "America"... and now I am either "America" or "Hillary" (pronounced "Am-ed-eeka" and "Heel-a-dee"). The worst part was that one of the Russian girls said "choo choo"... which meant that she actually thought I looked a little like Hillary Clinton...
I see NO resemblance (except maybe the cankles)... but maybe I am biased.
A few days ago Ximel and I took a long walk into downtown to soak in the sun and pass the time. Here are some pictures of our adventures!
The flowers are beginning to bloom
Cherry blossoms
The usual protection around a neighborhood
One of the Voronezh Sea bridges
The same bridge
Couples attach locks on the bridge and throw the key into the seas
I dont know who this guy is but he looked important
A WWII memorial
Some of the flowers in front of the memorial
We stopped at a cafe that looked nice
The typical house
Another typical house... hope they didnt see me standing on their front porch
So, anyways, as I said when we returned from Krasnada, we came home to summer and it has stayed! The trees and flowers have bloomed, the clouds have vanished and I have got that Turkish tan back! But, because we are no longer in the Russian Cup we don't have another game until the 14th, which means that we have 2 weeks of training. So we have will be using those 2 weeks to get fit for two big games we have coming up. We first play Zurkey, which is the team in 3rd place followed by Rossiyanka, the team in 1st place. In preparation we have been doing two-a-days. In the morning we drive about 30 minutes to a forest. It is so beautiful and it feels so good to be in nature again! I think that is the one thing I have dearly missed. The running is tough, but nothing compared to a T-Fav workout, which, I might be crazy to say that I miss! Then in the afternoon we do a bit more of running/some lifting/ some odd ball work.
We have done 3 days of hard work and will have tomorrow off and then 3 more days of the same thing before we start training again for the games. But, because of UP's preseason schedule I feel more than prepared for the hard work that we have been putting in here. I am actually enjoying these days more than the days when we had practice once a day because we couldn't really do much else on those days, which got pretty boring after a while… that explains why I successfully finished ALL the Harry Potter books in 3 weeks. Pretty nerdy if you ask me… but what ever!
Needless to say I CANT WAIT for our next game on the 14th in Moscow! I feel the team is getting prepared. I also know that none of this work will matter if we are not up to working hard come the 14th.
I have also been filling my time with Spanish. It is ironic that I go to Russia and come away better at Spanish. I have kind of given up my efforts to learn Russian for two main reasons… The first being that the best way for me to communicate with my friends here has been in Spanish, and the more I fill my mind with several other languages, the worst all of them become, even my english. I start losing my English words and speaking in broken sentences, not to mention how the few Spanish words I know just go right out the window. Secondly, there was a point when I understood a tiny bit of what the Russians were yelling at me, and I made the conscious decision to stop learning Russian because I didn't want to know what they had to say because it was mean. So I stopped learning to hear the language but I have still work on reading Russian.
Because they use a different alphabet, learning to read was our first lessons and I still enjoy reading signs I see. This got me to thinking… in the US we have so many statistics about underprivileged people who are illiterate and the importance of being literate and educated… and then I realized that I am that underprivileged person. As an educated person I have become underprivileged by moving here… I can't read, I can't write and I can't speak. If it werent for the players on my team helping I wouldnt be able to use the buses, get a job, or even order a coffee. What an interesting place to be. I suppose I would be putting in more effort to learn this language if it were completely necessary but it is an interesting role to play for the time being. And, every once in a while, when I am trying to read signs as we drive or walk anywhere I find a word that I am able to sound out that is an English word. I always get so excited when this happens… like I just decoded a secret Russian code or like I am a little kid who was able to read their first word. Learning to read is a tough task, but it's sort of exciting! But that's all… I am more interested in speaking Spanish, which as many of you know is not my strong suit either. But I am giving that my best effort as of now!
Wish me luck with the remainder of the two-a-days… as G says… "The day AFTER a day off is the hardest…" So, I will let you know how I feel come the end of this mid-season-pre-season haha. Hope all is well!!


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Jake Tapper Resolves to be More Jewish in 2014
We here at FishbowlDC long ago gave up any pretense at self-improvement. But other DC journos aren't quite as jaded. Lesser-known Bezos property The Express has talked to some local journos about their new year's resolutions -and the results are revealing. For example: Jake Tapper wants to go to more Hebrew School, question-mark-guy Matthew Lesko has a brand new tattoo, and NBC 4 anchor Aaron Gilchrist doesn't actually know the city that well. Here are some of the best resolutions from DC media personalities:
"Now that my kids are 4 and 6, I want to spend more time getting involved in our spiritual health, in our synagogue — more Sabbath dinners on Friday night, more attendance at Hebrew school, more participation in holidays and, I think, just more discussion of the mysteries of life." -Jake Tapper, CNN
"It's to be more like my mother. She died this summer, and I have been reading the 1,000 letters I have gotten, from people writing about the incredible things she did for them. She, Lindy Boggs, was a member of Congress for nine terms and then U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. She always treated everyone with great love, respect and dignity. As a reminder, I always wear a ring made out of two of her old rings." -Cokie Roberts, NPR
"Mine is to run my first half marathon. I found a training program online; it's a 20-week program. Another goal of mine is to stick to the training program so I don't pass out during the race." – Jummy Olabanji, ABC 7
More celebrity resolutions after the jump
"The most important thing I could do is to live with a more open heart. I just got a question mark tattooed on my thumb, to remind me to open up my heart and not to fear the unknown. It's so easy to become more prejudiced as we become older." Matthew Lesko, That Guy
"My big, year- long project is trying to explore Washington, Maryland and Northern Virginia a bit more. I literally work around the corner from the National Cathedral and I haven't been inside yet. [My friends] will hold me accountable. Facebook is a wonderful thing." -Aaron Gilchrist, NBC 4


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Collin Burrell, Deputy Director
Telephone (202) 535-2255
The Environmental Services Administration (ESA) protects public health and the environment in areas related to air quality, hazardous waste, lead, pesticides, and underground storage of petroleum products. ESA is comprised of three divisions: Toxic Substances, Air Quality, and Lead and Healthy Housing.
Toxic Substances Division
Dave Tomlinson, Associate Director
(202) 654-6017
The Toxic Substance Division (TSD) works with hazardous wastes, pesticides, underground storage of petroleum, and other hazardous contamination. These and other responsibilities are broken down between three branches:
- The Hazardous Materials/Pesticides Branch oversees the use and disposal of toxic chemicals and registers and provides oversight on pesticides in the District.
- The Land Remediation and Development Branch oversees the voluntary redevelopment of contaminated properties, required remediation of sites with known hazardous pollution releases, and the remediation of formerly used defense sites.
- The Underground Storage Tank (UST)/Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Branch ensures proper installation, operation and removal of USTs, and the cleanup of LUSTs, and surrounding areas.
Air Quality Division
Kelly Crawford, Associate Director
Telephone (202) 724 - 7650
The Air Quality Division (AQD) ensures implementation of and compliance with the District's air quality laws. The division has three branches:
- The Permitting Branch reviews permit applications for new and existing sources of air pollution. The branch ensures permits individually and collectively do not exceed various air quality standards.
- The Monitoring and Assessment Branch measures the quality of the outdoor air in the District and develops strategies to improve it.
- The Compliance and Enforcement Branch inspects facilities, buildings, and other sources of air pollution. When a violation is observed, the branch may issue a warning letter, fine, or an order, to ensure compliance with the law.
Lead-Safe and Healthy Homes Division
The Lead-Safe and Healthy Homes Division ensures that the housing in the District does not pose a health threat to its occupants. Threats are identified and mitigation is arranged through enforcement efforts and grant programs. The Division has two branches:
- The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention (CLPPP) and Healthy Homes Branch takes proactive steps to prevent harm caused by indoor environmental health threats and responds to all cases of children under age six identified with an elevated blood lead level.
- The Compliance and Enforcement Branch oversees the District's lead laws (including lead certification, accreditation, and abatement requirements), and undertakes compliance monitoring and assistance as well as enforcement measures.


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To Recreate
Native Ecosystems in Full Scale
It is a dream of Nature Aquarium.
The aquarium with arranged plants to enjoy its beauty is generally called the planted aquarium. Nature Aquarium is a part of planted aquariums in a broad sense; however, it has unique philosophy and maintenance approach. They are based on the fundamental concept, "learning from nature". Now, what is it to learn from nature? That is to learn the beauty of nature and to incorporate the aesthetic expression into a layout. It is like to clip the beautiful piece among endless beautiful landscapes existing in nature by building a composition with stones and driftwood and arranging plants in a tank to represent a beautiful aquascape.
The environment in Nature Aquarium is supported in the small ecosystem formed by plants, fish and microorganisms while interacting each other. Nature Aquarium is like a microcosm of nature, and that is why we can see lively swimming fish in their true colors. Creating Nature Aquarium to build an aquascape where the fish confuse with natural environment and to recreate a natural ecosystem in full scale is simply one of the great ambitions. In May 2013, Takashi Amano, the aquascaper having such huge dream, received an invitation form Oceanário de Lisboa in Portugal. That was the beginning of this lifetime Nature Aquarium project.
Challenge to the
Create Nature in full scale.
It is a 40m in length containing 160t, a supermassive tank at unprecedented scale. The challenge is to create the world's largest Nature Aquarium within one week. For the success of this unprecedented try, the scrupulous advance planning and preparation were critical. At the same time, of course it required the many staff involved to function as roles of individuals in the team under Amano's leadership.
A dream comes true. It's always easy to say but the bigger the dream is, the harder it is to achieve. However, Takashi Amano and his staff have delivered the huge dream. How was the Nature Aquarium created in the uniquely-shaped super-massive 40m tank? It was the attempt to create nature that human beings should be proud of.
On the first day of public release of the temporary exhibition of super massive Nature Aquarium, a crowd of people eagerly waiting for the opening of the aquarium was seen at the entry gate to the annex of Oceanário de Lisboa.
The super massive Nature Aquarium is exhibited in this building. The scaly tiled wall and waterfall are impressive. The architectural structures including the main building are entertaining on their own.
The name of "TAKASHI AMANO" is printed under "FLORESTAS SUBMERSAS". Mr.Falcato, the CEO of Oceanário de Lisboa, says the significance is that it is Amano's work.
Aquascape expressing
magnificence and meticulousness
of nature
The world's largest Nature Aquarium created by Takashi Amano impressively appears as full scale waters in Nature right in front of visitors. Despite its size of 40m, the planting is so delicate in the massive tank. It consists of various kinds of aquatic plants as if it is in a tropical jungle. Amano states the concept of this aquascape as "Tropical Paradise" to demonstrate his passion for tropical forests. His challenge was to recreate the ecosystem in actual Nature. The tank is 40m in length with 160t of water inside, which contains 8,550L of Amazonia Soil, 20t of volcanic stones, 78 giant driftwood, 46 species of plants, and 10,000 tropical fish of 40 species. (As at April 22, 2015)


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Criminal Minds is on Netflix, and I've been watching more TV than usual again lately, as I've been kind of worn down. So I watched the first season and most of the second last week, interspersed with some other more cheerful television.
Its interesting to watch because the mystery and the processes are intriguing enough, but as usual there are some basic flaws; I can usually figure out the mystery before the FBI super profilers do, and they violate some basic annoying rules of crime TV (particularly with cell phones and computers, although they're better than most shows on computers at least).
And since its TV, the profilers are first through the door to capture the bad guy, rather than cops or actual field agents. But the most significant thing (aside from the usual 'more bizarre incomprehensible serial criminals than exist in a decade per season' episodes) is the way the cases are presented. Each year there's been exactly one female villain, and all of them, as in every single last one is white. Every one.
They mention the DC Sniper regularly in the first year, but never note that he was black (or a Muslim, for that matter). All monsters, killers, rapists, kidnappers and assorted awful people on the show are white as driven snow.
Meanwhile there's another show on television called The First 48. This is not the Nolte/Murphy movie, its a sort of documentary of real life police cases following the investigation of criminal cases. First showing in 2004 on A&E, it shows a continuous documentary of a case, usually the first 2 days, but the format has relaxed over the years.
Unlike Criminal Minds, the show The First 48 is real life. These are real cases, with real cops, doing real investigation of real criminals doing real crimes. And there's another major difference. The Weapons Man notes many significant points shown on that program from real life:
- Murderers are career criminals, usually.
- Criminals are generally pretty stupid people.
- Most victims don't die for anything big.
- There's usually a lot of emotion involved in a murder. The exceptions are the robberies.
- If some armed robbers never kill any of their victims, that's strictly accidental.
- Victims' lives often parallel their murderers', closely. For example, those shot by dope peddlers are usually fellow dope peddlers.
- The younger the criminal, the more self-centered and depraved he or she tends to be.
- The entitlement culture is often co-morbid in these young robbers. Sometimes a victim is a "striver," trying to get ahead by honest means; the murderer never is.
- Murder is a crime of bad neighborhoods.
- None of the murderers have ever been productive human beings.
- Most of the criminals are minorities, by a large margin.
- No murder ever on that show yet was committed with a Legally-purchased firearm. Not one.
The stark difference between the murderers on shows like CSI, Criminal Minds, and Law & Order and real life stuff like The First 38 and Cops is pretty stark. Its not that there aren't any white serial killers, its that most killers aren't white - and the black ones who kill lots of people aren't declared "serial killers" but just murderers who happened to kill several people.
White people tend to commit different kinds of crime, often those which do not carry the same kind of sentence. Fraud, tax evasion, and other white collar stuff is more typical for white criminals, and those carry fines and other sorts of penalties than murder, rape, drug dealing, etc. Yes, its true, the justice system is designed to treat rape as worse than insufficient tax payments. Shocking, but true.
At the same time, most the people who do really sinister, awful things like Ted Bundy or the Green River Killer were white guys. The ones who do lunatic monstrous things for horrific reasons, the ones who build thrones out of the bones of infants they kill and store body parts in freezers are usually white men.
Women are less often bent in such an evil way; the ones that are typically are hands-off and manipulative; they drive others, weaker people into carrying out these evil acts. Its not that there never have been any awful female serial monsters (there are more than you would think) or that there are no minorities (again, more than you've been led to believe) but the greater majority are white males.
However, this majority is not disproportionate. In fact, Ann Todd at the FBI said:
"From the FBI's perspective, there has never been a generic profile of a serial killer and no set of characteristics that someone can 'look out for,' '' she said. "Further, serial killers span all racial groups. There are white, African-American, Hispanic and Asian serial killers. The racial diversification of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population.''In other words: serial killers are pretty much proportionate to the population. So out of 100 of them, about 72% are white (of which around 17% are hispanic), about 13% are black, 5% are asian, and about 5% are native American. So yeah, most of the killers are going to be white because the bulk of the population is still (despite what you might have read in the news or see in entertainment media) white in America.
85% of serial killers are male, and there has been only one known female serial sexual predator on record (Aileen Wuornos, who was then turned into a film star) and she used prostitution to lure in and kill victims. However, there have been many examples of women who have killed many people such as Miyuki Ishikawa, a Japanese midwife who is believed to have killed at least 100 infants during the 1940s, who are not usually considered serial killers.
So why is the perception that these monsters are always white dudes and the overwhelming presentation of white guys as serial monsters on shows like Criminal Minds? In the real Behavior Science Unit at the FBI (which Criminal Minds fictionalizes), Dr Louis Schlesinger notes:
"That is a total, total myth that there are no black serial killers. "There have been black serial killers for many, many years, but they haven't been publicized. The media simply chooses not to focus on them.''
And there you have it. The thing is, media tends to focus on the spectacular and the unusual. When some gang banger kills 33 people for the 5th Street Bangaz over 6 years, he's not treated as a celebrity serial killer, he's just some gangster. But when John Wayne Gacy kills 33 people over six years, he's creepy and interesting. The Unabomber was attacking public figures and news organizations, and EZ Wayne is killing poor people and other gangsters, who cares? Or at least the press thinks that way.
There are exceptions of course. The "Night Stalker" in California was a media sensation, and he turned out to be hispanic. But the fame occurs before the reveal; like the DC Sniper, who we were assured by FBI profilers had to be a white guy, probably a gun nut. Not a pair of black Muslims.
And, of course, there's the PC need to not make minorities look bad, out of sympathy for what is considered an oppressed other, and out of the fear of seeming racist. So its easy and safe to attack white guys, not so much to attack a black woman.
Schlesinger also notes that serial monsters are not especially brilliant, despite their presentation in the media. They have a normal distribution of intelligence compared to the general population - some being quite stupid, some being very bright, most average. So again the "super genius serial monster" portrayed again and again on TV is a silly myth.
And, from what I've heard and read from real cops, the random lunatic is much harder to nail than the smart planner. If you have nothing to go on, if the crimes are sudden and without reason or pattern, they're significantly more difficult to solve than the carefully plotted ones.
The difference between what we're given in media entertainment and what actually takes place in the world is pretty significant. And its worth considering when you watch your favorite show; how close to reality are they? What are they (deliberately?) changing or avoiding saying and why? Watch how often the guns used for crimes are owned by people or bought legally. Watch how many are white guys. Watch how often the "burglars don't kill" myth is propagated, or the "genius killer" one is offered up.
Because that's not done by mistake or accident. They're doing this stuff on purpose, and that leaks into our minds and presumptions of the world.
*This is part of the Common Knowledge series: things we know that ain't so.


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Undercover 'supply sergeant' helped bring down Alaska militia
In another life, William Fulton was "Drop Zone Bill," a bounty hunter who ran a military surplus store in Anchorage. You need a tactical vest? A bayonet that would clip neatly onto an M-4? Bill Fulton was your man.
"We do bad things to bad people," his company jackets said.
Fulton was also a go-to guy for Republican politicians who occasionally needed to reach out to the far right fringes of the party — those who spent weekends in the woods in camo gear and considered the 2nd Amendment an expression of divine intent.
When then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was plotting a move against the Republican Party chief at the state convention in 2008, Fulton was there strategizing over whiskey and cigars with Palin staffer Frank Bailey and Joe Miller, who later made a well-publicized run for the U.S. Senate as a tea party conservative.
That was the meeting where Fulton was introduced to Schaeffer Cox, an up-and-coming young firebrand of the far right who was running for the state Legislature and had, as it turned out, plans that went well beyond upending the Republican Party in Alaska.
It was a meeting that opened the door to a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that would transform the two men's lives and leave them at opposite ends of one of the federal government's biggest prosecutions of right-wing extremism on the West Coast.
Cox, 28, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for heading a militia that plotted to kill judges and other government employees and conspired to accumulate the firepower needed to do it from Fulton. And Fulton, who became one of two key informants the FBI used to gather evidence against Cox and his cohorts, went from being the Alaska Peacemakers Militia's "supply sergeant" to its most celebrated snitch.
Today, Fulton, 37, is nowhere to be found in Alaska.
The very moment that Cox and his associates were being arrested in Fairbanks in 2011, an FBI-paid moving van showed up at Fulton's door in Anchorage — stunning his wife, who until then had known nothing about his double life — and the family relocated to another state. Fulton transferred his surplus store to his partners, sold his house at a loss, changed his appearance and went dark.
"They would have killed me immediately," Fulton said at a cafe in his new hometown, as he sipped cappuccinos between furious smoking breaks outside. "If they found out I was working for the feds? I knew everybody up there in that right-wing militia area.... So there were quite a few people that would have liked to have offed me at some point."
The story of Fulton's foray as a militia arms supplier ended with not just Cox behind bars. Three codefendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 25 years. From his new base, Fulton is continuing to work with the FBI on other gun-related cases and writing a book about the improbable events that transpired in Anchorage over the last two years.
"If you look at it from a sane standpoint?" he said. "Even I sometimes look at the whole story and how it unfolded and I think, this is unbelievable."
Fulton and the other FBI informant, former drug runner J.R. Olson, offered the FBI an inside look at a group that seemed to be moving from right-wing, antigovernment rants — perfectly legal under the 1st Amendment — to something more dangerous. Cox had been boasting that his militia planned to set up common-law courts that would try people under principles they saw as more faithful to the U.S. Constitution. Those found guilty of serious offenses could be hanged or sold into slavery.
Fulton, who had long worked with Army criminal investigators through his surplus shop, had gone to the FBI in 2010 about a potential domestic terrorism case when the FBI learned he knew Cox.
"The wheels started turning: How can we use this to our advantage, to try to get more information? Is Cox really going down that path? Which inevitably, he was," said Sandra Klein, a supervisory special agent who became Fulton's chief handler.
Fulton's first assignment was to attend a gun and military surplus sale intended as a fundraiser for the Interior Alaska Conservative Coalition, which Cox had helped establish in Fairbanks. Cox had been trying to get in touch with Fulton, who had ignored him "because I thought he was an idiot." The night before the event in August 2010, Fulton invited Cox to meet him at his hotel. The militiaman arrived with Les Zerbe, a retired missionary ranked as a captain, and another associate.
Cox had been accused of assaulting his wife, and worried that state authorities were trying to take his son away. He talked about Fulton serving what he called common-law warrants on the officials he thought were out to get him.
"He said these guys need to be arrested and brought to trial," Fulton recalled. "I said, 'What are you going to do with them?' He said, 'We'll either fine them, or we'll hang them.'"
Cox and company discussed how they were going to go to the homes of selected enemies, cut the electricity to the house, and make enough noise to lure their main target onto the front porch, where he could be shot. Then the windows and doors would be boarded up, and the house, with the rest of the family inside, would be set on fire. "Collateral damage" is the way Fulton said they described it.
After Cox left, Fulton phoned Klein. "I'm like, 'Help! What am I supposed to do? Do I need to get my family out of here?' And she's like, 'We'll handle it. Just try to figure out as much as you can.' She was really good at calming me down, but even for her, I could tell it was stressing her out."
The next day was the gun show, and Fulton again met with Cox, along with others from various militias.
"We walk into this meeting, and they're wanding everyone. If you had a gun that was fine. They were looking for electronic listening devices," Fulton recalled.
Fulton said he sensed that he needed to make it apparent to everyone that he was a tough guy who could be counted on, and he went on the offensive with Cox.
"I said, 'Listen, you're a piece of.... You brought all these people in this room. You said you had a plan; you don't have a plan.'"
Zerbe walked up to him. "He says, 'You were never going to help us anyway,'" Fulton recounted. "I saw the doubt start to come up.... If they had for a minute mistrusted what I was saying, I probably would have been dead." He walked toward Zerbe. "I said, 'If you ever question me, I'll slit your throat and bleed you out at my feet.'"
Someone intervened and calmed everyone down. Fulton said he told Cox not to worry — he'd help him get what he needed.
At the next meeting, several months later in Anchorage, Fulton was playing the role of arms dealer. With FBI agents eavesdropping nearby, both Fulton and Olson — neither knew the other one was working as an informant — met with militia members, with Cox joining in by speaker phone.
"We discussed their shopping list. Explosives: C4, Semtex, fragmentation grenades … machine guns, silenced weapons. Pretty much a laundry list of bad things," Fulton said.
Within a month, in March 2011, Fulton flew up to Fairbanks and handed over some of the illegal armament to Olson, who then met up with the defendants in a parking lot. He was about to hand over pistols, silencers and grenades when the parking lot owner walked up to the vehicle and asked what was going on. FBI agents rushed in and made the arrests.
By this time, Fulton was already on his way back to Anchorage.
"I flew home and tried to explain to my wife why there was a moving van at my home," he said. "We knew that once the arrests went down, it was going to be literally days before people figured out who at least one of the informants was. We needed to be gone by the time those questions even started to be asked."
Assistant U.S. Atty. Steven Skrocki, who prosecuted the case, scoffed at the assertions of Cox and others that Fulton scared them into talking about plans to kill federal officials. "The argument that Bill Fulton was a danger to Mr. Cox comes only from Mr. Cox," Skrocki said.
Did Fulton need to go into hiding? Are there people in Alaska who'd like to kill him?
Klein and her co-agent, Derek Espeland, seem dubious. But they say they've been in enough investigations to know what it feels like to operate undercover with bad guys.
"You go somewhere and you try not to be detected. And yeah, you have a little bit of fear," Klein said.
Fulton is trying to finish his book, which he hopes will earn some money. He collected $39,000 from the federal government for his work on the Cox case, but figures he lost a lot more, what with his house, his business and the money he spent playing the big guy in the militia movement.
Still, he's getting monthly disability payments for an old Army injury. His wife has a job. And for the first time in several years, he's spending the winter in some place that isn't Alaska.
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