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The pyrethrins are a pair of natural organic compounds normally derived from Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium that have potent insecticidal activity. Pyrethrins are neurotoxins that attack the nervous systems of all insects. When present in amounts not fatal to insects, they still appear to have an insect repellent effect. Pyrethrins are gradually replacing organophosphates and organochlorides as the pesticide of first choice. They are not persistent, being biodegradable, and break down on exposure to light or oxygen. The chemical structure of pyrethrins inspired the production of a variety of synthetic insecticides called pyrethroids, such as bifenthrin, permethrin, and cypermethrin.
History and biosynthesis[edit]
The pyrethrins occur in the seed cases of the perennial plant pyrethrum (Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium), which has long been grown commercially to supply the insecticide.
Well after their use as insecticides, their chemical structures were determined by Hermann Staudinger and Lavoslav Ružička in 1924.[1]Pyrethrin I and pyrethrin II are structurally related esters with a cyclopropane core. Pyrethrin I is a derivative of (+)-trans-chrysanthemic acid.[2][3] Pyrethrin II is closely related, but one methyl group is oxidized to a carboxymethyl group, the resulting core being called pyrethric acid. Knowledge of their structures opened the way for the production of synthetic analogues, which are called pyrethroids. In terms of their biosynthesis, pyrethrins are classified as terpenoids, being derived from dimethylallyl pyrophosphate, which combine by the action of the enzyme chrysanthemyl diphosphate synthase.[4]
Most of the world's supply of pyrethrin and C. cinerariaefolium comes from Kenya, which produces the most potent flowers. Other countries include Croatia (in Dalmatia) and Japan. The flower was first introduced into Kenya and the highlands of Eastern Africa during the late 1920s. Now, Kenya produces as much as 70% of the world's supply of pyrethrum.[5] A substantial amount of the flowers are cultivated by small-scale farmers who depend on it as a source of income. It is a major source of export income for Kenya and source of over 3,500 additional jobs. About 23,000 tons were harvested in 1975. The active ingredients are extracted with organic solvents to give a concentrate containing pyrethrin I and II, cinerin I and II, and jasmolin I and II.[6] Supercritical carbon dioxide has also been used as an extractant.[7]
As an insecticide[edit]
Pyrethrins are used in many varieties of insecticides, fogging products, and some pet products, and have been used as an insecticide for over 100 years.[6] In the 1800s, it was known as "Persian powder", "Persian pellitory", and "zacherlin". They affect the flow of sodium out of the nerve cells in insects, resulting in repeated and extended firings of the nerves, causing the insects to die.[8] Piperonyl butoxide, a synergist, is often used in combination with pyrethrin, making the mixture more effective by not allowing the insect's system to detoxify the pyrethrin.[9]
Although pyrethrin is a potent insecticide, it also is an insect repellent at lower concentrations. Observations in food establishments demonstrate that flies are not immediately killed, but are found more often on windowsills or near doorways. This suggests, due to the low dosage applied, insects are driven to leave the area before dying.[10] Pyrethrin and the synergists are biodegradable and rapidly disintegrate in sunlight and air, thus assuring no excessive build-up of insecticides dispensed in the area being treated.
The United States Department of Agriculture, as of 1972, has stated that synergized pyrethrum is "probably the safest of all insecticides for use in a food plant" [11] and that "a pyrethrum formulation is approved for use around foodstuffs".[citation needed] All pyrethrins are easily hydrolyzed and degraded by stomach acids in mammals, so toxicity following ingestion by pets is very low. However, pyrethrins are dangerous for cats and fish. Toxicity is usually associated with applying much more of the product than directed. Care should be taken to observe direction labels when using this substance around humans and animals. Overdose and toxicity can result in a variety of symptoms, especially in pets, including drooling, lethargy, muscle tremors, vomiting, seizures and death.[12] Toxicity symptoms in humans include asthmatic breathing, sneezing, nasal stuffiness, headache, nausea, incoordination, tremors, convulsions, facial flushing and swelling, and burning and itching sensations.[13] The latest information regarding toxicity of piperonyl butoxide has determined it can pose a distinct health risk when it becomes airborne and pregnant women are exposed during the third trimester. This leads to delayed mental development in young children. A 2011 study found a significant association between piperonyl butoxide (PBO), a common additive in pyrethroid formulations, measured in personal air collected during the third trimester of pregnancy, and delayed mental development at 36 months. Children who were more highly exposed to PBO in personal air samples (≥4.34 ng/m3) scored 3.9 points lower on the Mental Developmental Index than those with lower exposures.[14] The lead researcher stated, regarding PBO, "This drop in IQ points is similar to that observed in lead exposure. While perhaps not impacting an individual's overall function, it is educationally meaningful and could shift the distribution of children in the society who would be in need of early intervention services."[15][16]
- ^ Staudinger, H. und Ruzicka, L. (1924). "Über die wirksamen Bestandteile des dalmatinischen Insektenpulvers". Helv chim acta. 7: 177. doi:10.1002/hlca.19240070124.
- ^ Merck Index, Eleventh Edition, 7978.
- ^ McGraw-Hill Ryerson Chemistry 12 p.99 Michael Townsend
- ^ Susan B. Rivera, Bradley D. Swedlund, Gretchen J. King, Russell N. Bell, Charles E. Hussey, Jr., Donna M. Shattuck-Eidens, Wislawa M. Wrobel, Galen D. Peiser, and C. Dale Poulter "Chrysanthemyl diphosphate synthase: Isolation of the gene and characterization of the recombinant non-head-to-tail monoterpene synthase from Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2001, volume 98, p 4373-4378. doi:10.1073/pnas.071543598
- ^ Wainaina, Job M. G. (1995). "Pyrethrum Flowers -- Production in Africa". In John E. Casida, Gary B. Quistad. Pyrethrum Flowers. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508210-9.
- ^ a b Robert L. Metcalf "Insect Control" in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry" Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2002. doi:10.1002/14356007.a14_263
- ^ "Pyrethrum.org".
- ^ "The Use of Pyrethrin for Flea Control in Dogs & Cats".
- ^ asktheexterminator.com
- ^ "Pyrethrins - Fact Sheet".
- ^ Abraham, George. How to Keep Your Bulbs Over Winter. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1972-11-30, p. 3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KJ1RAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w2wDAAAAIBAJ&dq=how-to-keep-your-bulbs-over-winter&pg=7342%2C4873425
- ^ Permethrin and Pyrethrin Toxicity in Dogs, Dr. Dawn Ruben
- ^ Pyrethrins — Cornell University, Extoxnet
- ^ Horton MK, Rundle A, Camann DE, Boyd Barr D, Rauh VA, Whyatt RM (2011). "Impact of prenatal exposure to piperonyl butoxide and permethrin on 36-month neurodevelopment". Pediatrics 127 (3): e699–e706. doi:10.1542/peds.2010-0133. PMC 3065142. PMID 21300677.
- ^ "Common Insecticide Used in Homes Associated With Delayed Mental Development of Young Children".
- ^ "Commonly Used Insecticide in the Home Linked to Delayed Mental Development".
External links[edit]
- International Center for Pyrethrum research
- Pyrethrins and Pyrethroids Fact Sheet - National Pesticide Information Center
- Pyrethrins and pyrethroids on the EXTOXNET
- Pyrethrin and Permethrin Toxicity in Dogs and Cats
- Fatal asthma in a child after use of an animal shampoo containing pyrethrin
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness, J. Edward Hill, MD, President & Executive Committee Member, AMA
- Common Insecticide Used in Homes Associated With Delayed Mental Development of Young Children


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After repeated setbacks, metro Atlanta has finally managed to win federal support and funding for a transit project. According to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, federal officials have agreed to commit $47 million to help build a east-west streetcar line connecting the Georgia World Congress Center, the Georgia Aquarium, Centennial Olympic Park, Georgia State University and the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District.
The announcement is an important coup for the city and its mayor, Kasim Reed. However, it also represents an obligation to the larger metro region. Federal officials will be watching closely to see whether the city follows through on its part of the deal. City officials have already identified $16 million in funds for capital construction, leaving the project still $9 million short.
Failure to come through with that funding would bode poorly for the far larger transit requests that the metro region will be making to the federal government in years to come, from the Beltline to commuter rail and light rail.
In terms of transportation and economic development, though, the line in question makes a lot of sense, linking some of the city's major tourist attractions and its major downtown hotel district. As the city's application noted, it will also "reconnect the eastern and western sections of Downtown Atlanta, which were effectively separated by the construction of Interstate 75/85 in the mid 1950s."
I'm a lot less certain about other proposed pieces of the proposed streetcar system, such as the north-south line up Peachtree Street. That strikes me more like an amenity than a transportation option, particularly with the MARTA line already running beneath Peachtree for much of its length. But of course, that perception could change if the east-west line proves a major success.
October 15th, 2010
2:35 pm
I dunno — for some reason, when I saw this, I just thought "Streetcar Named Desire" — and not too much else.
October 15th, 2010
2:35 pm
Maybe I'm too disconnected from day to day life in downtown Atlanta but I can't see this coming anywhere near paying for itself in ridership. It seems to cater almost entirely to tourist traffic.
October 15th, 2010
2:35 pm
Hehehehe! Firsties! Take THAT Paul!
October 15th, 2010
2:35 pm
or, a start, anyway.
October 15th, 2010
2:37 pm
October 15th, 2010
2:41 pm
I was going to say "this is where they start going on about how 'ridership won't possibly bear all the costs of such a venture', as if that were the point of mass transit in any civilized nation I've visited", but Blah and RW seem to have beaten me to the punch.
October 15th, 2010
2:42 pm
Google: Portland Pearl District Street Car. This part of Downtown Atlanta and Portland's Pearl District pre-street car are very similar so it will give you an idea of what to expect the results to be.
October 15th, 2010
2:43 pm
Good news. Make a fair proposal with local money in the game and we win a grant. Hopefully this will be a model for the beltline and other bids for federal grants.
October 15th, 2010
2:43 pm
How does this extremely limited loop between tourist attractions qualify as a legitimate mass transit effort?
October 15th, 2010
2:44 pm
That strikes me more like an amenity than a transportation option, particularly with the MARTA line already running beneath Peachtree for much of its length.
Public transportation an amenity? Yeah, the bus is just like a swimming pool or a lounge, expect more glamorous. And have you ever tried catching the MARTA line from Peachtree and Roswell or South Buckhead or these desolate neighborhoods that Bookie describes as having a MARTA line already running beneath?
October 15th, 2010
2:50 pm
Also great news for continued development of downtown into a destination for people. This along with the college FB HOF and other new developments going in around the park should be great.
October 15th, 2010
2:51 pm
Congrats, Atlanta.
Any Republican candidates denounce Atlanta for taking federal dollars and engaging in a socialist enterprise, hmmmm?
"Hehehehe! Firsties! Take THAT Paul!"
I was gonna say 'some of us have to work' but in reality, I was making what I hope will be a killer lasagne.
Either way – thbpppptttt!!!!!!
October 15th, 2010
2:52 pm
"This along with the college FB HOF and other new developments going in around the park should be great."
Yes. More traffic is just what Atlanta needs!
October 15th, 2010
2:54 pm
Didja hear? Sen Harry Reid's buddies with Pres Bush! And he admires Justice Scalia!
I love election season.
Oh, and First Lady Obama asked Candidate Christine O'Donnell if she knew any incantations to help keep the spirits clean. All in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation, of course.
('spirit' of bipartisanship… get it? Well, didja??)
October 15th, 2010
2:54 pm
How does this extremely limited loop between tourist attractions qualify as a legitimate mass transit effort?
I'll be honest, I can't really tell much about this particular project based on the linked story (rubber wheels? riding on rails? it actually didn't say, did it?) and being that I'm not that familiar with that neck of the woods (not down there much myself) if you say it's going to be too limited to be of much use to many people, I'll take your word for it.
But you do have to start somewhere.
October 15th, 2010
2:55 pm
Pardon the stupid question, but will this route actually serve enough people to make it profitable? I smell a boondoggle.
October 15th, 2010
2:56 pm
Killer lasagna eh? YUM!!! Dinner at Paul's peeps! I have to say I make smashingly good lasagna — me recipe has even been featured in a cookbook. The trick is a good handful of fennel seeds. Yeah, some of us have it well, ya' know.
To me, people labor too much over lasagna when it really doesn't have to be all that — and after I discovered Barilla no-cook noodles — well, let's just say it changed my life.
But as to the topic, yeah, if Reed doesn't come through on his end of the bargain, you can pretty much kiss any future federal funds g-bye.
October 15th, 2010
2:58 pm
will this route actually serve enough people to make it profitable?
jeez… should we start taking bets on how many are going to Go There?
October 15th, 2010
3:00 pm
Dallas experienced quite a surprise when it put mass transit stops in areas that people thought there shouldn't be a stop (the local councilmembers lobbied to get them). Wasn't too long before apartment buildings, restaurants and all kinds of shops began popping up. The blighted areas became much more desirable. Funny thing, other councilmen began lobbying for stops in their areas, too.
October 15th, 2010
3:00 pm
Do the panhandlers get lifetime passes and reserved seats?
Will the muggers appreciate the delivery system?
Wouldn't a fleet of horsedrawn carriages be better,
or would the horse deposits compete with that being
tossed around under the gold dome?
October 15th, 2010
3:00 pm
Yeah I heard! I love a good clean spirit — I'm partial to vanilla and jasmine smells (having a 14 year old daughter, I mean, yeah, I'll admit it — when you're out of man-poo in the shower and that's all you got to clean your bits and pieces — that stuff smells kind of good!).
And as to Reid, yeah, I got friends who we are like night and day — it's possible. I really don't know where that Scalia thing came from though. I think the guys a douche and can't think that anyone of the Reid variety would think otherwise, but yeah, like you said, it is election year and all the weirdos come out.
October 15th, 2010
3:01 pm
"The downtown hotels and the convention authority have been telling us for years that one of the biggest complaints from visitors is the difficulty of getting to and from these various sites."
Yep. And the Braves are a huge draw for visitors and this wonderful streetcar will take you right down to….ohhhh….guess not.
October 15th, 2010
3:01 pm
Suggest Atlanta adopt freely from this promotional video.
(especially that funky music.)
October 15th, 2010
3:02 pm
"Do the panhandlers get lifetime passes and reserved seats?
Will the muggers appreciate the delivery system?"
I'm never surprised by the old "but it'll attract THOSE people" argument. Jesus Christ, people, Atlanta is like the only major city in the known universe that has a sucky mass transit system — and y'all just wanna keep it suckier. I simply do not get that logic.
October 15th, 2010
3:02 pm
Fennel, eh? I used Italian sausage for the meat – the sweet kind had fennel, so I opted for a mix of sweet (basil) and hot. Might have to give the sweet a try.
And yeah, this time I looked at a couple of recipes and thought "yeah! more cheese!!!" and started adding according to the 'this just feels right' school of cooking.
October 15th, 2010
3:03 pm
Bosch – make that a mix of MILD (basil) and hot.
October 15th, 2010
3:04 pm
The Federal Government HAS no money.
October 15th, 2010
3:04 pm
Damn, Bosch, you sure must have said a lot in that first comment since my comment was second and I'm being lectured about what the earlier poster said.
Jay B,
I don't doubt that the hotels and attractions made that complaint and I would rather they applied for a permit to jointly run their own street car project.
I also think it's a horrific idea to set up a toll structure that is going to cost the taxpayers money. Happy?
October 15th, 2010
3:06 pm
"and started adding according to the 'this just feels right' school of cooking."
That is the basis of the Bosch World of Cooking — I'm like mad scientist in the kitchen. I use recipes for a guideline (except for baked goods).
Oh, now my world is screaming for something with tomato-meat goodness and mounds of gooey cheese (as Bosch gets all glary eyed with yearning and anticipation).
October 15th, 2010
3:07 pm
I want to know what happened to beaming. Weren't we promised that by the 21st century we would be able to just beam ourselves wherever we wanted to go? I got the darn "communicator" (cell phone), but what happened to beaming — I would trade the former for the latter. Screw your streetcars and toll lanes….get with the beaming me up and down and over there already.
October 15th, 2010
3:14 pm
If I need clean spirits, I find the best way is to just make sure the cap stays on the bottle. Or drink it with ice. Water doesn't count as a contaminant, like Coke.
In all fairness, I think the Scalia remark was in response to 'admire.' I can see anyone being honest citing Scalia. Or Roberts. Their legal minds are first-rate. But…. I don't always like their conclusions. But the minds are sharp.
October 15th, 2010
3:15 pm
Paul & Bosch,
Did you happen to see Big Bang Theory last night? They had Katee Sackhoff and George Takei being conjured up as kind of a good fantasy/bad fantasy routine.
October 15th, 2010
3:18 pm
Why would we want to link the major tourist attractions? Who goes into the city, goes to the aquarium, then goes to GA state or the congress center? Nobody.
I would like to see the marketing surveys that show the true need for such a route. Sounds like another boondoggle.
We do need true transit solutions, but this one sounds like a waste.
October 15th, 2010
3:20 pm
RW-(the original)
You're the second one to cite that show to me. I gotta tune in.
BOSCH!!!! Caprica's restarted!!!
October 15th, 2010
3:23 pm
You'd think they would go the extra few blocks and connect it to the Beltline… right? No, of course not.
October 15th, 2010
3:26 pm
The few times I've been to downtown Atlanta, it was the difficulty in getting from place to place that delayed my next visit. I would like to see a Marta stop closer to a street car stop. Still, it would seriously reduce the walking I did between the places I wanted to visit. Maybe I would even visit those places more often.
October 15th, 2010
3:27 pm
"connect it to the Beltline"
I heard some Atlantans were kinda big, but…. wow…..
October 15th, 2010
3:32 pm
I think Obama has just given up on his Presidency. He says the single best decision he's made to date is naming Biden his running mate.
October 15th, 2010
3:43 pm
I don't live there, so I guess it's none of my business, but I don't see a whole lot of people riding this thing. And I doubt it will do anything to relieve traffic.
October 15th, 2010
3:47 pm
Want to guarantee convention and visitor ridership? Put a stop right in front of the Cheetah.
October 15th, 2010
3:48 pm
I wonder what member of the Ghetto Mafia will steal this money first? What a crock. 5 years from now on, whatever incarnation of the AJC will be doing a story about what happened to the $47 million that Atlanta was given in 2010.
Anyone who thinks this money will fund anything but the corrupt and incompetent idiots who run Atlanta can buy the piece of ocean front property that I have for sale in Macon.
October 15th, 2010
3:50 pm
And another stop at Magic City, for diversity's sake.
October 15th, 2010
3:59 pm
HD & others
You'd be surprised at how many foreign visitors would probably ride those streetcars. There's conventions here almost every week or so. There's people who come to the US to tour the South. Why not try to make Atlanta one of those destinations everybody wants to see instead of just a transit stop to somewhere else?
October 15th, 2010
4:00 pm
Be sure and factor in enough law enforcement security ………. or it will be known as the "Perp Railroad" !
October 15th, 2010
4:02 pm
Shawny :
I hear you. It should at least go to the Varsity.
October 15th, 2010
4:03 pm
That's awesome Southern Comfort, but the problems is that this project will never actually happen, and if it does, it will just be a half-assed incarnation of what was originally planned. The incompetent and corrupt buffoons who run the City have already been figuring out how to divvy up the money and give the contracts to HJ Russell and the rest of his family.
October 15th, 2010
4:07 pm
Davey Boy Smith
If you know so much about HJ Russell, you would know that he does residential construction and real estate development. I don't think his company lays railroad tracks or does streetcars. Instead of worrying about worst case scenario, why not use that energy to try to ensure best outcome instead?
October 15th, 2010
4:09 pm
Starbuck? Are you serious? I gotta see that — do they have that show on Hulu or something?
Starbuck (sigh…..)
"BOSCH!!!! Caprica's restarted!!!"
Yeah! I know! I watched the first episode though of the new season and had to turn it — it's really not the show to watch when your mom's just died, and I wasn't in too good a mood that night, so I'll catch up and we can start bugging the crap out of posters again with "Caprica" talk like the good ol' days. Who knows, maybe we'll recruit more fans!
But, here's a question: OK, so the five final models from BG, like they were actually alive like thousands of years before in the context of the show, right? And Boomer and Helo's daughter, well, she became Mitochondrial Eve, right? So, how is it going to work out with Graystone and Adama's daughter being Cylons — and are they going to be models, and if the Cylons were invented 60 years prior — well, what's all that with the Final Five from BG living like thousands of years prior.
I'm confused. I know, shocking, but I am — or are they gonna get to all that.
October 15th, 2010
4:12 pm
Ha, Southern Comfort, you and I both know that they will have a "Transportation Construction" arm of the business just in time to submit bids for the project. They will come in about 35% higher than the low bid, with about 5 others also lower, yet they will magically secure the bid because of their "transportation construction expertise."
I would love to to think about the idea of a "best-case" scenario, but have seen so much bumbling crap in my time in Atlanta to know that this will NEVER work out like it should.
It's a sad reality, but this city is falling further and further behind every day because of the incompetent cronyism. I have really like Reed's picks for leadership positions so far, but there is so much endemic corruption and ineptitude at all levels of city, county and regional governing bodies, I just cannot imagine anything good ever getting done the right way.
Hopefully this project will prove me wrong, but I will not believe it until I see it.
October 15th, 2010
4:13 pm
"jeez… should we start taking bets on how many are going to Go There?"
Why wouldn't they?? It is a valid concern, unless one hasn't noticed things aren't going to well right now.
I understand the concept of build it and they will come, but I also see the risk when they don't. The State and City are in financial crisis, and putting more on the credit card is awful risky.
October 15th, 2010
4:17 pm
"Anyone who thinks this money will fund anything but the corrupt and incompetent idiots who run Atlanta can buy the piece of ocean front property that I have for sale in Macon."
Best be careful – in today's litigious society, one is liable to take you up on your offer and then sue for false advertising…………..
October 15th, 2010
4:17 pm
Hopefully this project will prove me wrong, but I will not believe it until I see it.
See, it's not too difficult to be optimistic about things. We should all work to make sure this does not turn into some major fiasco. As Jay's title and post alludes to, we could be staring at the last good opportunity to show that we are capable of doing something right when given the chance. If we let them screw this up, who's to say that Atlanta get's any transportation funding other than what's mandated in the future at all?
October 15th, 2010
4:22 pm
If the city would help develop the area around Turner Field, and force the owners of Bedford Pine to give up their slumlord status, the city would be revolutionized.
Of course, if that happened, the quality of people who would move into the city core would no longer stand for the gross mismanagement that is allowed to carry on now.
I thought that I could help out by moving down here, but have just about had all I can take.
October 15th, 2010
4:24 pm
City officials have already identified $16 million in funds for capital construction, leaving the project still $9 million short.
Maybe there's the possibility of a public/private consortium. I think it could work if people put egos aside and worked together to make things work.
October 15th, 2010
4:29 pm
Worst mistake Atlanta made was tearing out the old streetcar system that used to be in place. Hard to put in place if it isn't built in.
October 15th, 2010
4:30 pm
Davey Boy, the city and just about everyone else wants the Peachtree-Pine shelter closed or run by people whose goal is to get the homeless help instead of catering to their own self-destruction. But we live in a nation of laws. The city can't just walk in and do whatever it wants. If they could, they would have a long time ago. Peachtree-Pine benefits no one except the people who have been in charge of it. It's a moot point since the shelter building has been foreclosed and it's just a matter of time before the new owner of the building takes over.
As far as Turner Field goes, somehow I suspect that if the AJC announced tomorrow that the city was getting involved in redeveloping the area around the stadium, you'd be the first on the blog screaming about government interference in the private market and that they city has no business getting involved.
October 15th, 2010
4:38 pm
Davey Boy Smith:
First of all the city of Atlanta has been redeveloping and tearing down housing projects to attract suburban and high income residents for nearly 20 years, going back to the enterprise zones that Bill Clinton started.
Second, Herman J. Russell does not bid on affirmative action contracts. Also, that company is so big and profitable that starting up a new division just to get a piece of $47 million dollars wouldn't be worth their time or effort. because they are already making far more than that with their existing business.
Third, the city of Atlanta has taken on projects much larger, more complex, expensive and important than some streetcar trolley initiative and managed them just fine. The city has been running the busiest airport in the world for HOW LONG and you claim that they can't manage $47 million? Also, the city financial scandals are usually with its own money, tax receipts collected by the city of Atlanta. You'd have to be nuts to try to steal federal transportation dollars, because the feds will already know who they gave the money to and who was responsible for handling it. You'd be writing your own "go straight to jail" card. Again, if the city hasn't mishandled the hundreds of millions in enterprise zone money that was given by both the Clinton and Bush administrations, and it hasn't mishandled the bailout money, what makes you think that they would do the same for the streetcar money?
Your race-baiting is simply misinformed.
October 15th, 2010
4:40 pm
Before I say anything else, I have a love-hate relationship with Occupied Atlanta. I hate it when I'm here, but there's nothing quite so beautiful to come home to from somewhere else. The problem with Atlanta is that it is, a Polish immigrant friend called it, "an overgrown crossroads trading village." It's the place you change flights or freeways to go someplace else or where you drop in to do a lil bidness and go shopping. There really is nothing much to draw people here for longer than a night of sports or a concert, or a convention filled with convention activities. There's no place to go and just be…no Vieux Carre, Pike's Place, Riverwalk or the like. There's no sense of history since what the world thinks of Atlanta as, Atlanta has done its utmost to obliterate. It torches the Margaret Mitchell house from time to time and getting from your Lenox hotel to the MLK district is an exercise in madness.
And what do I do to "show off" when people come visiting? Take them out I-20 West, turn around and show them that absolutely magnificent view of the skyline or go out to the East MARTA line and bring them back in for that equally magnificent view. Then I tell them welcome to Oz. Then we come back home and have drinks on the front verandah and maybe send out for pizza or may dinner at one of our local neighborhood places–good and solid, but not spectacular…
All in all, a modern day version of a trip to town from the lower 40…no need to stay for more than a day or two at the most…you can see and do it all…a trolley would make it easier to do the one-hour trip about what the Wizards of the Occupation think visitors want to see…
October 15th, 2010
4:44 pm
I guarantee this will be a huge wasted of funds. It doest go anywhere anyone wants to go except to 4 out of 25 of the most dangerous zipcodes in the US.
October 15th, 2010
4:50 pm
This could be the groundwork for putting such a place into existence in Atlanta. I agree though, there's not much to keep people around long.
October 15th, 2010
4:56 pm
Hi josef nix!
Bosch – you still in?
October 15th, 2010
5:00 pm
"Worst mistake Atlanta made was tearing out the old streetcar system that used to be in place."
Certainly didn't help turning the history and charm of Underground into a mall either……
October 15th, 2010
5:13 pm
Supposedly you can watch it here. Last night's episode was called The Hot Troll Deviation.
October 15th, 2010
5:16 pm
I applaude Kasim Reed's efforts and motivation so far. But this project is another example of building an attraction that nobody is interested in.
October 15th, 2010
6:02 pm
I kinda like the idea of highlighting the Phoenix City concept, myself…this is what came out of the ashes and, really, it ain't all bad,,,
Friday nighting it upstairs!
October 15th, 2010
6:25 pm
$47 MILLION for a streetcar system to prop up the pathetic King family finances. What an absolute waste of taxpayer money.
Besides, doesn't a MARTA bus run by each of these facilities on a regular basis? $47 Million would buy a lot of marta tokens, Imathinkin.
October 15th, 2010
9:33 pm
Please don't let the folk under gold dome get involved with this. Remember they wrote the legislation which created and guides MARTA, and we all know how it turned out. For all of those screaming "gehtto mafia" etc. do you want Bubba Legislator from South Georgia involved? Don't hate, Atlanta continues to move forward despite Cobbites et. al. throwing rocks and sneering, booing and hissing. All massive projects Atlanta planned have been successful – more airport runways; the beltline; an international terminal; the HJ mid field terminal built in the eighties. Suck it up naysayers and snuggle up in your cookie cutter sprawling, big box dominated, bland communities. Eccletic will always be in style. Peace.
October 15th, 2010
9:44 pm
Oh jeesh. These street cars and light rail are just another bottomless money pit. Just more of the taxpayer dollars wasted and all of the name of "going green".
Some people are just way to gullible.
October 15th, 2010
11:03 pm
$72 million ($47m fed + $16m city + $9m to be identified). So if an average of 3,945 trips were made per day, at an average fare of $2 per trip, for 25 years, the construction cost would be accounted for, IF daily operation for those 25 years didn't cost any money at all. So who covers operating costs?
Synching the traffic lights, or making sure there are left-only arrows included in the sequences of all the traffic lights along the whole of Peachtree and in some other key corridors, would cost less and would have a more profound effect on congestion in central Atlanta than any number of streetcars. This project is truly exercise in aesthetics, and not an earnest attempt to improve mobility.
October 15th, 2010
11:27 pm
Has anyone tried to drive downtown now? The buses are bad enough, but let's add trolleys. How about a new sewage system? How about fixing the holes, so we can get rid of the iron plates. How about we beef up a police presence around the colleges with all this extra money. This city is a den of theives.
October 16th, 2010
12:26 am
No win here except for you leftist agenda nuts! What a waste of money!
October 16th, 2010
12:27 am
Just a mini AMTRAK.
October 16th, 2010
1:09 am
"The Downtown Streetcar… from the same great minds that brought you Fanplex!"
October 16th, 2010
6:39 am
Street cars for Atlanta 70 million or so. One day of war in Iraq 720 million or so. Street cars may be a sound investment or a wasteful boondogle. I really don't know, and neither do you. I do know this for certain. I'd rather see my tax dollars building Atlanta than bombing places I never heard of. Given the choice of street cars or body bags I'd prefer the later.
October 16th, 2010
6:51 am
Take from other taxpayers to buy a bauble for downtown. If Atlanta wants a streetcar, why should the federal government pay for it? Is the federal government just a giant piggybank for projects that cities won't fund for themselves?
October 16th, 2010
7:08 am
Bosch, you have to understand, we don't want something that will allow "those people" easier access to be moved around. Don't you watch the news? They cause almost all the trouble. This thing will look like hell in 5 years, just wait.
October 16th, 2010
9:22 am
Jay, I'm glad to see that you support Governor also. Being from Michigan all I can say is that Detroit removed their Streetcars around 50 years ago. Then they built the people mover in hopes that it would connect businesses like they want to do in Atlanta, and it sure doesn't pay for itself.
I just think that the money could be better spent.
October 16th, 2010
9:55 am
What an absolute waste of money.
October 16th, 2010
11:04 am
Atlanta first need to do something with its horrible image downtown first and put more cops everywhere making folks feel safe..then the rest will follow ,get rid of street thugs,homeless bums ,the urine infested smell down thier..make it inviting and cozy like beautiful downtown cosmopolitan Seattle..instead this strreet car will only be a bandaid and will not fix the problems ..i do believe at this point Atlanta is just a new version of Detroit with the crime,horrible economic outlook,poor infrastructure..we need a mayor with a vision and folks around him with a vision…until that happens …FOLKS WELCOME TO THE NEW DETROIT DOWN SOUTH…TAKE PRECAUTIONS
October 16th, 2010
11:32 am
Repub. Hater, while I don't hate Repubs, your description of Detroit is right on. If our Govt. local & Fed. really wanted to clean up our cities they would make the punishment so hard that people would be afraid to commit the crimes.
October 16th, 2010
12:27 pm
Keeping with the full-disclosure and transparency that YOU require of politicians,
1. HOW MUCH MONEY – AND FROM WHOM – is the AJC receiving (directly or thru parent companies) from political advertising?
2. WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS – AND TO WHOM – have YOU, JayBama Bookman, author of many, many articles on many politicians running on Nov. 2nd….HOW MUCH and TO WHOM have YOU, JayBama, contributed (whether cash or in kind)?
Why so shy when the sword of accountability is turned UPON YOU?
October 16th, 2010
1:38 pm
If done well this could be a great boon for downtown Atlanta. Tourism is the single largest generator of income in the world. Atlanta has many large conventions and meetings and this may attract even more because of the "charm" of the streetcar and what they will connect. Now if we could just improve Underground (make it a class act ) then Atlanta might just be a destination for tourists not just convention goers.
October 16th, 2010
5:55 pm
Another huge waste of money.
October 16th, 2010
5:56 pm
Hell, MARTA can't even pay for itself.
October 16th, 2010
6:12 pm
What a complete waste of money. Only the government would pay for this crap. No private business in their right mind or even group of private businesses would be stupid enough to flush this kind of money down the toilet that is Atlanta transit.
Just remember this kind of project when the country collapses, the dollar collapses, and all the parasites are without a viable host to feed from anymore.
October 16th, 2010
8:31 pm
Typical Atlanta thinking, lets make it easier to get those from one ghetto to another ghetto. Mass transportation will not provide a benefit by moving people who don't have cars around the city. Bringing masses of people into and out of the city en mass is the purpose of mass transit and the only way to reduce the number of automobiles on the road and their emissions. As long as Atlanta continues to cater to people who see race as a reason to fail and to justify their poverty, it will never be more than a city that once was.
October 16th, 2010
8:58 pm
Why do people in metro Atlanta begrudge their core city so much and want to see nothing but failure for the City of Atlanta? Why do some revel and delight in any and all bad news coming from the city? Will somebody please help me understand? Is this unique to Atlanta or are all core cities under constant attack by their suburban rings? Is the local media responsible by taking any and every morsel of disappointing news coming from the city and running it morning, noon and night day after day without end until any small story is perceived as several big stories?
October 16th, 2010
9:13 pm
David, is Cent. Olympic Park a ghetto? Everytime I visit there, which is often, I see a vibrant, clean, family- friendly park bustling with giddy kids delighting in the fountain of rings and people from all parts of the nation and world taking in the atractions that surrond the park. A quick ride on a streetcar would be better than smelling the horses that trot along that route on the way to the park don't you think?
October 16th, 2010
9:37 pm
It is NOT the taxpayers job to finance this (show me in the Constitution where this is what our forefathers meant….you are a MORON if you think it is. mmm, mmm, mmm……
October 16th, 2010
10:55 pm
The "New Detroit Down South" idea ignores the obvious differences. Among large urban areas with large minority populations, Detroit and Atlanta are almost perfect opposites. Detroit is a city that is 85% black, surrounded by suburban counties that are 85% white. The Detroit metro area is the most residentially segregated major metro in the nation**. There are blocks and blocks of Detroit, and I mean close to downtown, where homes were burned in 1967 and never rebuilt. Detroit has none of the middle class revival other inner cities saw over the last 10 or 15 years. Atlanta, on the other hand, is a city with a growing white population, surrounded by suburbs with growing minority populations. Among large metro areas that are 20 or more percent black, Atlanta and Washington, are the least residentially segregated** (that's right, less so than New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St Louis, etc.). In metro Atlanta, the city and its close-in suburbs are going to continue to grow more alike. With all our issues, and Lord knows we have them, we are stumbling in the right direction, which is more than can be said for lots of other big multiracial cities. So the Detroit analogy is not just wrong; it is exactly wrong; diametrically wrong; wrong to the 180th degree.
To your point, David, the time is coming – it maybe the next mayoral election – when race will not be an asset in and of itself in citywide elections. The city's demographics will not allow it. Look at the last mayoral – a 700-vote spread citywide.
(**Residential segregation comparisons from study of the 2000 Census by the Lewis Mumford Center at the State University of New York. The study showed a pronounced correlation between the relative size of black populations within metro areas, and the degree to which those populations were residentially isolated. The two exceptions were Washington and Atlanta, which had the two highest black percentages but were not in the ten most segregated. )
October 16th, 2010
11:22 pm
Jay, you're absolutely right that this will come down to the City's ability to pony up.
The City has "received" substantial grants before, but couldn't get their act together to do their part, so the money was forfeited. In those cases, it was less about coming up with the matching dollars and more about not being able or willing to do their part of the paperwork and due diligence.
A great many of these grants are awarded largely due to the (unpaid) efforts of private citizens. But when it comes time that the only people who are authorized to submit the required documents / agreements / etc. are City officials, that will be the deciding factor as to whether this gets done. We have stood by helplessly in the past as the City dithers to the point that the grants expire.
As a City resident, I would appreciate it if the AJC could keep tabs on whether the City fulfills its end of this. It does not have an impressive track record.
October 17th, 2010
7:01 am
Seems like this would be more valuable if it went toward Buckhead. Linking all the "Tourist" areas would be fine if they didn't involve the ghetto tour. But, it IS Atlanta and we have to show our ugly side off as well I guess.
October 17th, 2010
10:09 am
Could the streetcar plan be modified to include a loop down to Turner Field? I think that would be a useful and much-used addition to the plan.
October 17th, 2010
12:03 pm
Stupid idea backed by stupid people.
October 17th, 2010
12:09 pm
Confused. The reason is Atl City Govt is chock full of corruption, incompetence, theives, employee pilferage, stupidity. The employees dont know a from b and they are so arrogant ya cant tell them anything, because they know everything.
Atlanta was once a shining star and now it has become a big stinky ghetto full of ignorance, players and gamers.
October 17th, 2010
12:42 pm
Booger, well, what's the excuse under the gold dome?
October 17th, 2010
2:42 pm
u asked, u were told, u can accept or not.
October 17th, 2010
5:24 pm
Is there not already a Marta Bus route serves this proposed route?


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Perhaps one of the most powerful modern Christian Contemporary songs ever written is that of Sidewalk Prophets, entitled, "You Love Me Anyway". It tells of how God loves us no matter what we do. There is no greater love in life that we could ever know! I heard the song on the radio yesterday afternoon, and though I had not heard it played in many months, it had the same effect on my emotions as the very first time I heard it. It breaks my heart, and the Holy Spirit's conviction is so very strong. It brought me to tears when I heard it performed live in front of a totally sold out American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. There are not many songs that have such an effect on me spiritually and emotionally, and certainly not every time I hear them! That is the kind of music we need to hear, and our children need to be listening to. Today, there are so many hit songs being played on Christian radio that never once mention the name of Jesus! We need to know that God loves us more than we can ever imagine, but we also need to be reminded that we were responsible for His coming to earth, suffering, death, and resurrection!
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In case you haven't been hanging around the benighted corners of the political internet lately, there's an idiotic backlash afoot against Nate Silver, the proprietor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who made his name as one of the sharpest baseball analysts around.
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If accuracy is how close the average dart is to the bullseye, precision is how close each dart was to the others. We don't yet know whether they've been accurate, but we can already safely say that they've been precise, as their predictions heading into November are essentially the same as they were months ago.
The political media hate precision: No one tunes in to a boring horse race…Forecasts should be judged on their processes, not their results.
In fact, we've reached the point in our screwed-up political media culture where the polling companies and forecasters—not the pundits, not the spokespeople, and certainly not the candidates—are the only people being evaluated rigorously on the substance of their arguments.
They associate statistics with mathematical proof, as if a confidence interval were the same thing as the Pythagorean Theorem. Silver isn't more sure of himself than his detractors, but he's more rigorous about demonstrating his uncertainty.
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2 frozen puff-pastry sheets
1 pound top sirloin steak (4 steaks)
1/4 teaspoon seasoned salt
cooking spray
1 tablespoon flour
2 (4-ounce) cans portabella mushrooms
4 teaspoons pâté
1 tablespoon refrigerated egg substitute
1 tablespoon garlic butter
2 tablespoons Marsala wine
1 (1 1/4-ounce) packet hunter sauce mix
1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Preheat 2-sided tabletop grill.
2. Place pastry sheets on microwave-safe plate (may be paper) and microwave on high for 15 seconds. Rotate pastry sheets one half-turn and microwave 15 seconds more; set aside.
3. Sprinkle seasoned salt on both sides of steaks.
4. Spray both sides of grill with cooking spray. Using tongs, place steaks on grill and grill 4 minutes. (If using regular grill, double cooking time, turning once.) Note: This results in a medium to medium-rare steak. Cooking time may need to be adjusted for varying thickness of steaks. Because steak will bake in pastry, steak should be cooked slightly less than personal preference.
5. Lightly flour flat surface. Lay pastry sheets on flour; unfold and cut in half.
6. Open and drain 1 can of mushrooms, and pat dry with paper towel. Divide and place mushrooms in center of each pastry.
7. Place grilled steaks on top of mushrooms. Top each with 1 teaspoon pâté. Wrap pastry sheets over steaks and pinch ends together tightly to seal.
8. Spray baking sheet with cooking spray. Place pastries seam side down on baking sheet.
9. Brush pastries with egg substitute. Bake 20 minutes.
10. Preheat saucepan on medium-high 2-3 minutes.
11. Place butter in pan and swirl to coat. Whisk together remaining mushrooms (undrained), wine and hunter sauce mix.
12. Cover, reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes, whisking occasionally. Serve sauce over beef-filled pastries.
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1 pound fresh asparagus
4 ounces fresh sliced mushrooms (1/2 package)
1 tablespoon garlic butter
2 teaspoons sesame seeds
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon vegetable seasoning blend
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
1. Wash asparagus and cut 1-inch from the end of the stalk and discard. To do this quickly, group half the stalks together, align at the stalk end and slice with a sharp knife. Cut asparagus into 2-inch pieces.
2. Wash mushrooms and set aside.
3. Preheat large sauté pan on medium high for 2-3 minutes. Place butter in pan, and swirl to coat.
4. Add sesame seeds and brown 1 minute, or until lightly brown. Add asparagus, mushrooms and water. Reduce heat to medium; cover, and cook 4 minutes, stirring frequently.
5. Add seasoning blend and seasoned salt; cook additional 3 minutes. Serve.
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At 8:30 p.m. on Christmas Day 2009, nurse Tiffany Gourley was called to a room at the Windmill Manor nursing home in Coralville, Iowa. She found a 78-year-old male resident who had just had intercourse with an 87-year-old woman. The man, a former college professor, was divorced. The woman, a retired secretary, was married. Both had dementia.
What followed illustrates one of the most complex and unexamined issues facing elderly care facilities: how to determine if residents with dementia have the mental capacity to consent to sex.
The Windmill Manor incident and its lengthy aftermath also show that nursing homes, regulators and families are not prepared to deal with that question.
"It ruined my life," the director of nursing at the time, Karen Etter, said in an interview.
She was fired.
"It's the most difficult thing I've ever had to live through," said Steve Drobot, the former Windmill Manor administrator. He was fired, too.
Sex among the elderly, especially those with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia, is a subject that many of the nation's 16,000 elderly care facilities have largely been able to ignore. The aging of baby boomers, many of whom grew up in the 1960s sexual revolution, will force more facilities and families to confront the sorts of legal, ethical and moral questions that arose at Windmill Manor.
In North America, more than 45 million people are age 65 and over. Baby boomers, those born from 1946 to 1964, began moving into that group in 2011. That shift will spur the growth of the nursing home industry, despite increased use of in-home services. More than five million in the U.S. have Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia, the U.S. Alzheimer's Association says. In Canada, that number is about 500,000, reports the Alzheimer's Society. Barring medical breakthroughs, the number of those 65 and over with Alzheimer's is expected to grow.
The craving for human touch doesn't vanish with age. A 2007 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine said 53 per cent of people ages 65 to 74 and 26 per cent of those 75 to 85 reported being sexually active - that is, having sexual contact such as kissing, fondling or intercourse with another person. Half of those active in the older group reported having sex two to three times a month.
These proportions are likely to grow with the aging of a generation that is sexually freer, living longer and has access to drugs such as Viagra. For those with dementia, intimacy and sex can be a comfort as they gradually lose comprehension of family and friends, research has found.
In Alzheimer's patients, touch is often the last sense to deteriorate.
"You can get responses from people in the final stages of the disease by giving them a massage or a pedicure," said Beth Kallmyer, vice-president of constituent services for the Alzheimer's Association.
Elderly care facilities already face changes related to sex. For instance, rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea among people age 55 and older have increased, and the number of elderly living with HIV or AIDS is likely to grow as the younger population ages. Also, nursing homes have long struggled with episodes of rape in which victims clearly didn't consent.
Sex between those with dementia raises more-nuanced questions that make it difficult for facility staff to know whether they should report cases of potential abuse to authorities.
The story of what happened at Windmill Manor was assembled from hundreds of pages of documents filed with Iowa regulators and courts, as well as interviews. Bloomberg News is withholding the names of the man and woman involved - both of whom have since died - out of respect for their and their families' privacy.
In Nov. 2009, Drobot, 51, had been administrator of Windmill Manor for almost a year. Etter, who moved to Iowa from Illinois to care for her father who had Alzheimer's, joined Windmill Manor as nursing director in July 2008.
Several nurses told state regulators that Etter warned them they could be fired if they reported any resident incidents to state officials before first speaking with her or Drobot. Etter told Bloomberg News she was enforcing the nursing home's chain of command. It was up to Drobot to decide whether to notify state regulators of the Christmas Day incident.
He'd never faced such a decision before. He wasn't required to report consensual sex if there were no physical injuries or other threats to either resident's safety. In the end, he didn't report it.
After an investigation by the state's Department of Inspections and Appeals, the man in the incident was discharged from the home. Two weeks later Drobot and Etter were dismissed, and both faced hearings that could have seen them lose their licences. The woman's family filed a rape lawsuit.
Untrained Caregivers The lack of training in dealing with resident sex is widespread, said Andrew Rosenzweig, a geriatric psychiatrist who works with dozens of elderly care facilities. Untrained caregivers tend to rely on their own religious, ethnic and other personal beliefs to decide what's right for residents, he said.
A 2012 study by two Kansas State University researchers found sex among nursing home residents is often viewed "as a behaviour problem rather than an indication of an unmet need."
Many facilities broadly believe residents have the right to anything they'd be guaranteed outside the facility, as long as it doesn't impinge on the rights or safety of others, Greg Crist, a spokesman for the American Health Care Association, said. Some facilities, such as the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, New York, presume that residents with dementia have the capacity to decide whether to have sex. The 870-resident home has had a written policy on sexual expression since 1995.
"Yes, we need to make Solomon's decisions at times, but we need to err on the side of what the resident wants," said Robin Dessel, the Hebrew Home's sexual rights educator. "Relationships are totally personal matters of the heart." "The whole area of geriatric sexuality is an area we need to learn a lot more about," said Robert Bender, a Des Moines, Iowa, geriatrician, who testified for Drobot at his licence hearing. "I don't think we should be pointing blame when people are expressing themselves in natural ways."
Consensual, beneficial Law professor Evelyn Tenenbaum of Albany Law School in Albany, N.Y., who has written about sex among the elderly with dementia, agreed. After reviewing the Windmill Manor case, she said in an email that the couple's relationship appeared to be "consensual and beneficial to their well-being. It appears that everyone would have benefited if the nursing home supported the relationship."
In Sept. 2012, almost three years after the incidents, the Iowa nursing home board essentially acquitted Drobot, saying it couldn't conclude that he should have reported the incidents or that he'd been incompetent. The board said testimony that the sex was consensual was "more persuasive." However, the board cited Drobot for not following proper procedures in discharging the man from Windmill Manor. Drobot was ordered to pay $572.50 in court fees. Two months later, the woman's family settled the rape lawsuit. The terms weren't disclosed.
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Three major restaurant chains in the Toledo area are without a single violation, but two popular restaurants among college students are facing double-digit violations.
Several restaurants in this week's Restaurant Ratings Report can be found on Monroe Street in west Toledo.
If you're ready for a meal without worry, Red Lobster awaits. Lucas County health inspectors found zero violations.
At Nutty's Cabin, inspectors found two violations: A hand sink is in need of soap and paper towels, and at least one employee will need to become certified in food safety.
Two violations were also found at Sori Sushi. Employees will have to make way to a hand sink because access to at least one is currently blocked. Plus, employees must modify how they thaw shrimp. Inspectors noted shrimp thawing in standing water in a sink. Foods should be thawed under cold running water in a sink, under refrigeration or as part of the cooking process. Otherwise, the restaurant is said to be clean and well-maintained.
Bier Stube has seven violations to correct. Access to a sink was also blocked here. Shirts were being stored on top of food items, roast beef was found sitting out at room temperature, and pulled pork was said to be expired.
From Monroe Street to Holland-Sylvania Road, inspectors found four violations at Hong Kong Restaurant. Expired egg rolls, food items plopped on the floor and raw bacon stored above ready-to-eat foods were noted throughout the facility.
The Original Pancake House on West Central Avenue served up three violations. The restaurant is said to be without sanitizer and an employee was seen not wearing gloves while preparing food. Inspectors also found a torn gasket on a cooler.
Sidelines III on Telegraph Road is faced with 13 violations. Thawing issues will need to be addressed as inspectors saw fish thawing in a sink with dirty dishes, as well as fish and feta dip thawing in standing water. Inspectors also noted food items sitting on the floor, and raw beef sitting above whole cuts of pork, which can lead to cross-contamination.
The Oasis on Dorr Street leads the way with 15 violations. Inspectors found improper cooling of chili and meat, food items stored on the floor, raw ground beef stored above raw whole muscle beef, a sink blocked and a lack of date marking.
Add Wendy's on Dorr Street and Marco's Pizza on Laskey Road in west Toledo, plus Bavarian Sports Club on Lagrange Street in north Toledo to the list. All were without violations.
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I've been trying to make an effort to cook at home and bring lunch to work more often, and as a result I've been spending my Sundays preparing giant bowls of salads that I can grab and go in the mornings. This lentil salad is one of my favourites — it's spicy, sweet, refreshing, filling, and ridiculously easy to make (well, if you like chopping, which I totally do, OH GOD YOU GUYS I COULD JULIENNE PEPPERS ALL DAY THE BEST STRESS RELIEF EVER IS DICING CELERY I LOVE KNIVES.) We also already know about my near-obsessive ongoing love affair with fresh mint — and this is just another option for it before summer's over.
1 cup whole grain couscous
2 cups steamed lentils (make 'em yourself if you have the patience; I tend to get the refrigerated pack from Trader Joes)
5 cloves garlic, minced (yes. make it super garlicky. It's delicious. you may want to cut this in half if you don't bring a toothbrush to work though.)
4-6 stalks celery (seems like a lot, but makes it so great and crunchy)
1/2 a big red onion, or 1 small one
1 big cucumber or 2 little ones, peeled and seeded
2 tomatoes, seeded
2 lemons, or an orange if you like orange instead
olive oil
10-20 leaves mint, depending how minty you like things, I like a lot
cumin, red pepper flakes, black pepper, salt, a lil' bit of cinnamon
Pour a few tablespoons of olive oil in a saucepan, toss in the garlic. I add plenty of red pepper flakes, cumin, and black pepper here, as well as a lil' bit of salt and a tiny shake of cinnamon. If you have frozen chopped cilantro (or dried coriander, same deal) you could toss that in there too, or a shake of paprika, or even some tarragon or turmeric or just forget all that complication and go all-out with a lil' bit of something like garam masala or ras el hanout if you're kind of a weird spice nerd/hoarder like me and are into that. (Remember that you'll be adding a lot of mint later too though.) Cook for a lil' while so the garlic softens up a bit and the spices flavor the oil real well.
Add 1 1/4 c water to the pan, bring to a boil. Dump in couscous, turn off heat, cover for 5 minutes. Rinse off prepared lentils or just get them ready nearby. Open lid of pan fast, throw in lentils, stir, cover again.
Chop everything up real fine - the veggies should be diced very tiny and the mint very fine as well. Do you really like bell peppers or carrots or radishes or green onions or broccoli? Okay fine, chop some of them and throw them in there too, though I think it's fine without. Open lid of pan, let cool a little. Toss in veggies and mint; squeeze in citrus (2 lemons or 1 orange, I'm a fan of the orange) and add more olive oil and salt to taste if need be.
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For months, there was a packed bag by the door of the Kapoor's home in Marlboro, NJ. Inside were pajamas, action figures, Arthur books and a blue Nintendo Game Boy, so the Kapoors would be ready to leave minutes after they got "the call."
Sankrit Kapoor, 5 years old at the time, had been diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension at 17 months old. After years of drug therapy, he had reached the point where he was sick enough to need a lung transplant, but not so sick that he couldn't go through the stressful surgery and recovery. Sankrit went on the transplant waiting list and the Kapoors were walking that fine line for nearly four months when their nurse at the Lung Transplantation Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia called to say the time had come to grab that bag and come.
When the Kapoors arrived at CHOP, everything and everyone was ready. Sankrit was hooked up to the monitors, and while he waited to be taken into the operating room for his lung transplant surgery, staff prepared him for what was to come.
"They prepare you so well that on many levels you know what to expect," says Poornima Kapoor, Sankrit's mom. "They prepared Sankrit ahead of time so he wasn't so scared when he woke up."
The child life specialist showed him a doll, pointed to where the incision would be, and told him about the tubes and machines that would be attached to him when he woke up — to avoid any surprises. Sankrit took it all in, and his mother assured him he would be better after the transplant.
"'You're my brave little boy,' I told him," Poornima says. "It's very hard to see fear in the eyes of your 5 year old."
Sankrit was taken in for surgery and, after hours of a nerve-wracking wait, the Kapoors were told the lung transplant was a success and all was well.
It wasn't long before Sankrit's family saw the impact of the lung transplantion in their son.
Before the transplant, Sankrit was so weak; he couldn't run with the other kids. And as he got weaker before his lung transplant surgery, he couldn't even chew his food and didn't have the energy to get up from the couch. This all changed after his lung transplant.
Sankrit, now 12, is doing well. "We hit a few speed bumps along the way, but we always have the CHOP team to go to and they help him get better," his mother says. While the lung transplant comes with some activity limitations, when Sankrit is with the other kids in his middle school, you'd never be able to pick him out as the child who had a lung transplant.
Sankrit plays the saxophone and French horn. He loves playing video games and wrestling with his younger brother, and recently enrolled in track. He enjoys reading, a hobby inspired by his older sister.
Sankrit comes to CHOP every three months for checkups with Dr. Samuel B. Goldfarb.
"Everything Sankrit is today is because of the wonderful care he received at CHOP," Poornima says. "If a family is ever in the situation in which they need medical treatment for their child, CHOP is the place to be. The care is excellent, but the emotional support is wonderful, too. They talk to you, give you a hug and give you the sense of security you need to get by. When I look back, there is so much I'm thankful for. Everything his transplant team has done for us is beyond words. They have given Sankrit a new life where he can do anything another child his age can. Hope truly does live here."


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The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel — white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. page 62, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (via bpgonzo)
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