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29 June 2006
The Special Rapporteur on torture made the following statement today:
The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, undertook a visit to Jordan from 25 to 29 June 2006, at the invitation of the Government.
Over the course of the visit, he met with officials, including: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Director of the Human Rights Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Assistant Director of the General Intelligence Directorate, Minister of Interior, Minister of Justice, Commander of the Military Police, Chief of Military Security, Director of the Public Security Directorate, Chief of the Judicial Council, Speaker of the House of Representatives, as well as the Director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.
The Special Rapporteur also met with the President and staff of the National Centre for Human Rights, representatives of non-governmental organizations, lawyers, the diplomatic corps in Jordan, as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The Special Rapporteur wishes to thank the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other authorities for their full cooperation. In particular, he visited a number of detention facilities where he could carry out unrestricted inspections and private interviews with all the detainees he requested to see. There are however two notable and regrettable exceptions. During his visit to the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) he was abruptly denied the right to speak to detainees in private, which constitutes a clear breach of the Terms of Reference for the visit approved by the Government. The second exception concerns the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Abdali, central Amman, where the authorities attempted to obstruct the fact-finding of the Special Rapporteur and to hide evidence.
It is not surprising that these two facilities were the ones most often cited by various sources of information as the two most notorious torture centres in Jordan. On the basis of all the evidence gathered, including serious allegations substantiated by forensic expertise, and taking into account the efforts of both authorities to obstruct the fact-finding of the Special Rapporteur, he cannot but conclude that torture is systematically practiced at both the GID and the CID.
It was regularly pointed out by officials that the philosophy of rehabilitation of prisoners was a hallmark of the Jordanian penal system, referring to prisons officially as rehabilitation centres. However, save the Jweideh Women's prison, allegations of beatings and corporal punishment had been received in relation to Swaqa and Jweideh prisons. Upon visiting the Al-Jafr Rehabilitation Centre in the south east of the country, it was apparent this notion of rehabilitation was stretched to the extreme. In fact the centre could only be described as a punishment centre, where detainees are routinely beaten, and subjected to corporal punishment, amounting to torture. The isolation and harshness of the desert environment compounds the already severe conditions of the prisoners there.
On the basis of a thorough analysis of the legal system, his visits to detention facilities, interviews with detainees, the support of forensic medical evidence, and interviews with Government officials, lawyers and representatives of NGOs, the Special Rapporteur concludes there is general impunity for torture and ill-treatment in Jordan.
The absence of a crime of torture in accordance with article 1 of the Convention against Torture is only part of the problem. At the heart of it lies a system where the presumption of innocence is illusory, primacy is placed on obtaining confessions, and public officials essentially assume no responsibility, or sense of duty to investigate human rights violations against suspected criminals.
No functioning complaints mechanism exists to report and seek effective redress for acts of torture. From the heads of all the detention facilities he visited, the Special Rapporteur heard a chorus of denials of any knowledge of torture allegations. Despite confronting them with clear and credible allegations, not one official could demonstrate to the Special Rapporteur serious steps taken to investigate them, including at the very least the prompt and timely documentation of injuries sustained by detainees.
This situation is compounded with a legal system where the security and police services operate outside the common legal framework, and are left to investigate and prosecute themselves. The criminal jurisdiction concerning torture committed by police officers rests with special police courts; by intelligence officer with special intelligence courts; and by military officers with special military courts. In other words, the ordinary prosecutors and criminal courts have no competence to bring to justice any public official accused of torture, as defined in article 208 of the criminal code. In view of such a weak legal system, it is not surprising that virtually no criminal prosecutions have ever been meted out to security or law enforcement officials for acts that have amounted to torture under the existing criminal code. Officials nevertheless routinely cited token examples of disciplinary sanctions, such as loss of salary or dismissals, as evidence of accountability for acts amounting to torture.
The Special Rapporteur recognizes the significant challenges faced by the country given its strategic location in the Middle East region, and not least the prevailing sensitive security situation and the continued threat of terrorism. He fully recognizes the obligation of the Government to ensure the security of its people. However, he emphasizes that such measures must respect international human rights norms, in particular the absolute prohibition of torture, as contained in the Convention against Torture that Jordan has ratified.
The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government:
· criminalize torture in full accordance with the definition contained in article 1 of the Convention against Torture, and impose appropriate penalties;
· investigate effectively every allegation of torture and bring the perpetrators to justice;
· abolish the special courts, such as the police and intelligence courts;
· introduce effective measures aimed at preventing torture, such as medical documentation of torture allegations, access to lawyers, monitoring of interrogation methods;
· accept the right of individual complaints to UN human rights bodies, including the Committee against Torture;
· ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and establish effective national mechanisms to carry out preventive and unannounced visits to all places of detention.
The invitation of the Government to the Special Rapporteur, is by itself a statement of its willingness to open up to independent and objective scrutiny and a testament to its leadership and cooperation with the international community in the area of human rights.
In view of Jordan's position as a vice-chair of the UN Human Rights Council and the clear commitment of the Government to human rights, the Special Rapporteur is assured that every effort will be taken to implement his recommendations. He stands ready to offer his full cooperation and assistance, in this regard.
The Special Rapporteur will submit a comprehensive written report on the visit to the UN Human Rights Council.
Mr. Nowak was appointed Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights on 1 December 2004. As Special Rapporteur, he is independent from any government and serves in his individual capacity. The Commission first decided to appoint a special rapporteur to examine questions relevant to torture in 1985. The mandate covers all countries, irrespective of whether or not a State has ratified the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
He has previously served as a member of the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances; the UN expert on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia; the UN expert on legal questions on enforced disappearances; and as a judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights.
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During the 2013 Cincinnati mayoral campaign, then-candidate John Cranley proposed borrowing funds using bonds to help pay down the city�s $870 million pension liability.
Now that he is mayor, Cranley has backed off that idea. The reason? After taking office, Cranley realized that borrowing to pay down a pension obligation is against Ohio state law. That leaves him at square one in finding a solution.
�Everything I�ve read and learned ... underscores whether or not it is even legal,� Cranley said. �So while I am not going to rule anything out categorically, it is a lot trickier legally, and I am less interested in it now.�
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The city faces an $870 million unfunded liability for its pension and retiree health care plans, a measure of how short current and future assets would be against anticipated benefit payouts. Cincinnati is already paying more than $37 million into the plan annually to cover current benefit costs and reduce the unfunded portion of benefits earned in the past. That figure could climb as high as $45 million in 2019 if current recommendations are approved by City Council.
Cranley also pledged during the campaign to redirect money for the streetcar project he planned to kill into the pension liability. Now that the streetcar is a go, the mayor says he is regrouping and will have new plans for how to deal with the pension liabilities �in the next three months.�
Pension obligation bonds have gotten several other cities into trouble, and they are illegal in many other areas of the country. Such pension obligation bonds use a pension system�s assets as collateral against any bonds issued to pay down the debt.
They bring risk, though. If the economy turns bad again and the collateral loses value, the loan could be bigger than the assets backing it. The Cincinnati pension plan lost about $1 billion in value during the last recession, for example, although it now has assets valued at nearly $2.2 billion.
Detroit had to get Michigan law changed to allow a complicated bond deal meant to pay down pension debt. But the deal, based in part on risky investments, backfired. It was one of the reasons why that city went into bankruptcy earlier this year.
Michigan�s largest city had $18 billion in debt as it headed into Chapter 11 last summer, including $346 million in swap payments due to banks from the ill-fated pension bond deal. Making matters even more complicated, the judge overseeing that city�s bankruptcy proceedings just last month denied a proposed deal between the banks and the city to renegotiate those swap payments.
Even if such a practice were legal, cities such as Cincinnati would probably pay higher interest rates on debt since those who bought the bonds would need to pay taxes on any proceeds, unlike other kinds of municipal bonds, which are tax exempt for investors.
There has been only a single instance in which Ohio cities were allowed to issue bonds to pay off pension obligations, and it involved a complicated deal that saw the state take over fire and police pensions from several cities around the state. It also involved lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service and involvement by the federal courts.
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Uh, oh. I drive in the left lane almost all the time. I don't like slower drivers getting in front of me. More often though, I find myself wanting to ride in the security of the right-hand lane these days 'cause some people on my tail drive like crazy! My little car can't keep up with them if they're going 77 miles an hour.
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|The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae is the most destructive and intractable pest of olives. The management of B. oleae has been based on the use of organophosphate (OP) insecticides, a practice that induced resistance. OP-resistance in the olive fly was previously shown to be associated with two mutations in the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme that, apparently, hinder the entrance of the OP into the active site. The search for additional mutations in the ace gene that encodes AChE revealed a short deletion of three glutamines (Δ3Q) from a stretch of five glutamines, in the C-terminal peptide that is normally cleaved and substituted by a GPI anchor. We verified that AChEs from B. oleae and other Dipterans are actually GPI-anchored, although this is not predicted by the "big-PI" algorithm. The Δ3Q mutation shortens the unusually long hydrophilic spacer that follows the predicted GPI attachment site and may thus improve the efficiency of GPI anchor addition. We expressed the wild type B. oleae AChE, the natural mutant Δ3Q and a constructed mutant lacking all 5 consecutive glutamines (Δ5Q) in COS cells and compared their kinetic properties. All constructs presented identical K(m) and k(cat) values, in agreement with the fact that the mutations did not affect the catalytic domain of the enzyme. In contrast, the mutants produced higher AChE activity, suggesting that a higher proportion of the precursor protein becomes GPI-anchored. An increase in the number of GPI-anchored molecules in the synaptic cleft may reduce the sensitivity to insecticides.
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On January 6, 2011, Greenpeace, a leading independent campaigning organization, released a product survey that grades the greenest desktop computers, notebooks, netbooks, monitors, mobile phones, smartphones and televisions available on store shelves in the first quarter of the year.
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|Combined arthroscopic and radiation synovectomy of the knee joint in rheumatoid arthritis: 14-year follow-up.
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|PMID: 20950987 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process
|PURPOSE: To investigate the long-term outcome of combined arthroscopic and radiation synovectomy of the knee joint in early cases of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with regard to knee function and the need for surgical re-interventions.
METHODS: Between 1993 and 1997, a consecutive series of 38 RA patients with therapy-refractory synovitis of the knee joint and only mild cartilage lesions (not exceeding Outerbridge grade II at surgery) were treated with combined arthroscopic and radiation synovectomy. Knee function was assessed preoperatively; at 6 months, 1 year, and 5 years; and finally, at a mean of 14 years with 4 different functional scores. A Kaplan-Meier survival curve was calculated with "any re-intervention" and "total knee arthroplasty" as endpoints.
RESULTS: Of 38 knees, 32 were available for the final 14-year follow-up with a total of 22 re-interventions: intra-articular steroid injection (n = 3), arthroscopic (n = 2) or radiation (n = 1) re-synovectomy, and total knee arthroplasty (n = 16). The remaining 10 patients with no re-intervention showed knee function not significantly different from the postoperative state. With any surgical re-intervention as the endpoint, the survival rate was 84% at 5 years (95% confidence interval [CI], 67.0% to 86.7%), 44% at 10 years (95% CI, 26.7% to 60.0%), and 32% at the 14-year assessment (95% CI, 16.0% to 49.3%). With total knee arthroplasty as the endpoint, the joint survival rate was 88.5% at 5 years (95% CI, 68.5% to 96.2%), 53.9% at 10 years (95% CI, 33.3% to 71.6%), and 39.6% at 14 years (95% CI, 18.9% to 48.6%).
CONCLUSIONS: Combined arthroscopic and radiation synovectomy leads to a stable improvement of knee function for a minimum of 5 years, but surgical re-interventions were frequently observed at the 14-year assessment and challenge the long-term benefit of the procedure. Patients with no interventions had a significantly shorter history of disease (7 v 11 years).
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, therapeutic case series.
|Martin Goetz; Stefan Klug; Kolja Gelse; Bernd Swoboda; Hans-Dieter Carl
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The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in the Americas: occurrence data, distribution maps and bionomic précis
1 Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
2 BIOMED, Universidad de Carabobo, Apartado 2073, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela
3 Laboratorio de Ecología de Vectores, Dirección de Control de Vectores y Fauna Nociva, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud, Maracay, Venezuela
4 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Lab. d'Immuno-Physiopathologie Virale et Moleculaire, UMR-MD3/Univ. Montpellier I, Faculté de Pharmacie, 15, Ave Charles Flahault, 34093 Montpellier, France
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Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:72 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-72Published: 16 August 2010
An increasing knowledge of the global risk of malaria shows that the nations of the Americas have the lowest levels of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax endemicity worldwide, sustained, in part, by substantive integrated vector control. To help maintain and better target these efforts, knowledge of the contemporary distribution of each of the dominant vector species (DVS) of human malaria is needed, alongside a comprehensive understanding of the ecology and behaviour of each species.
A database of contemporary occurrence data for 41 of the DVS of human malaria was compiled from intensive searches of the formal and informal literature. The results for the nine DVS of the Americas are described in detail here. Nearly 6000 occurrence records were gathered from 25 countries in the region and were complemented by a synthesis of published expert opinion range maps, refined further by a technical advisory group of medical entomologists. A suite of environmental and climate variables of suspected relevance to anopheline ecology were also compiled from open access sources. These three sets of data were then combined to produce predictive species range maps using the Boosted Regression Tree method. The predicted geographic extent for each of the following species (or species complex*) are provided: Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) albimanus Wiedemann, 1820, An. (Nys.) albitarsis*, An. (Nys.) aquasalis Curry, 1932, An. (Nys.) darlingi Root, 1926, An. (Anopheles) freeborni Aitken, 1939, An. (Nys.) marajoara Galvão & Damasceno, 1942, An. (Nys.) nuneztovari*, An. (Ano.) pseudopunctipennis* and An. (Ano.) quadrimaculatus Say, 1824. A bionomics review summarising ecology and behaviour relevant to the control of each of these species was also compiled.
The distribution maps and bionomics review should both be considered as a starting point in an ongoing process of (i) describing the distributions of these DVS (since the opportunistic sample of occurrence data assembled can be substantially improved) and (ii) documenting their contemporary bionomics (since intervention and control pressures can act to modify behavioural traits). This is the first in a series of three articles describing the distribution of the 41 global DVS worldwide. The remaining two publications will describe those vectors found in (i) Africa, Europe and the Middle East and (ii) in Asia. All geographic distribution maps are being made available in the public domain according to the open access principles of the Malaria Atlas Project.


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Burlington City Arborist Warren Spinner looks over a shipment of elms and maples at North Beach in Burlington on Thursday. The trees will be planted around the city. / GLENN RUSSELL, Free Press
The Green Mountain States Agency of Transportation has budgeted more than $945,000 in the last five years to buy roadside trees, soil for them and water a cost that averages $495.54 per tree. But the state has no system in place to take care of the trees as they grow, no assured way of assessing the health of its older highway trees, and the agency has no arborist or landscape architect on staff to help with design and tree care.
Additionally, trees for state highway projects are typically not even from Vermont they are shipped in from elsewhere on low- bid contracts.
Typically, according to state transportation officials, a road projects general contractor hires a subcontractor to plant the trees and keep them alive for a year or a year and a half. Thereafter, their health is theoretically the states responsibility.
We dont have urban foresters or tree crews, said Craig Dusablon, Agency of Transportation horticulturist. Its not a program at all. The trees are pretty much on their own.
The Agency of Transportation has no arborist on staff and its one landscape architect, Jane Brown, who was formerly involved in highway project design, has been reassigned to other work.
The absence of a landscape professional has an impact on both the design of a project and oversight as subcontractors plant the trees, arborists told the Free Press. The state sometimes hands responsibility for the trees to municipalities, as it did with the Riverside Drive project in Burlington. But on others, the $30 million Shelburne Road project completed in 2006 with its 749 new trees, for instance, the trees mostly fend for themselves. Many of the ornamental flowering crabapple trees in the median have not fared well and must be replanted.
Roughly 40 to 50 trees will be replaced this year along that corridor, according to the agency. The absence of a maintenance plan is just not smart, arborists say, pointing out that well-tended trees, unlike concrete, grow more beautiful with age and should be treated as a public investment.
If you plant right, youre going to have more value 20 years down the road while the road value is going down, said South Burlington Arborist Craig Lambert. Once a road is built, youre done. But once a tree is planted, youve just started.
Everyone wants to plant trees, he said, but they dont consider what it takes to maintain them once theyre planted.
With the state, he said, it all boils down to money and a mindset that theres not a lot of maintenance.
Such insouciance, Lambert said, doesnt make economic sense.
It might if you were planting farther from the road, but just to plant street trees and not budget anything for the maintenance doesnt make a whole lot of sense.
Trees need careful attention after planting, experienced arborists say, whether along state highways or city streets.
When we plant trees here in the city, said Jeff Young, a St. Albans Selectboard member and tree contractor for the city, it takes a lot of maintenance. We come back every year to measure them and check the moisture and prune them. Its an ongo´ing battle to keep street trees thriving. The average street tree lives 17 years.
Burlington City Arborist Warren Spinner didnt select the trees for the Shelburne Road project, but he oversaw their planting and has checked on the health of the new trees periodically.
I dont think the planting was the problem. They had good soil brought in. Everything was done correctly. But the aftercare? They dont have any. Theyre not building it to fail, but who takes care of it afterwards? Someone has to be looking out for your plants.
The brief life span of street trees is no mystery to James Urban, a well-known Maryland landscape architect and the author of Up by Roots who lectures internationally on tree care.
Theyre damaged from the start, he says. Nursery-born trees bought by highway departments and municipalities as well as in´dividuals typically start life in a container, he said, so small problems begin with the roots. They reappear, he said, when the tree is five to 10 inches in diameter, then we see them go into decline after 15 or 20 years.
Trees planted along roads are planted on soil that has been compacted (bad for trees) for the road construction, he said, and even with soil added as part of landscaping, the tree, bounded by concrete, has trouble extending its root system enough to draw in sufficient water.
He said a tree can be compared to a wine glass on a dinner plate (an analogy he said he has borrowed from a Harvard tree specialist), with the root system holding the tree upright and collecting water enormous but thin. As we try to reduce it (by planting a tree with insufficient ground space for the roots), he said, we make it harder and harder for the tree.
But even with good soil, roadside trees, particularly those in a narrow median, as is true on Shelburne Road, have rough going. When the soil is compacted, water stands rather than drains well, which leads to salt problems, Urban said. And on a high speed road, airborne salt can be very significant. The salt becomes a fine mist behind my car, and thats the point were the tree is beginning to be impacted. The salt is up in the air and desiccates the buds.
The road-salted buds produce fewer leaves, and, as Urban put it, everything starts slowing down.
Young, from St. Albans, agrees with Urban.
Trees have a hard time even on the much broader interstate median, he said, and placing them on the 14-foot Shelburne Road median was folly. Its just ludicrous, he said. Anyone you talk to who does trees would tell you.
In addition to the damage from salt, a median is a hot spot with heat from surrounding pavement bathing the root-cramped trees in desert-like temperatures, he said.
The really bad thing, Young said, is you want this to look nice. They dont buy enough right-of-way to get trees out of the way. Median planting never works. The intensity with which you need to work to keep the tree alive is great. Even in the city its hard.
Fewer resources
Dusablon, the Agency of Transportation horticulturist, doesnt dispute Youngs description of Shelburne Road median tree planting as folly.
Hes right, he said, that is a poor design for trees to make it. They should be more judicious when they plan it. Years ago, the state had more people and more of a move about beautification and treated highways in some ways like a garden. Theyve moved away from that.
The emphasis now, he said, in tight budget times, is on a functional kind of right of way.
Spinner from Burlington added that severe weather is a problem for publicly-owned trees, as for all trees. I had 40 trees destroyed in Irene, he said.
Mower and weed-trimmer damage is another peril for the trees, arborists say, particularly in the close space of the median. And the trees must be lopped off from time to time if too-tall varieties have been planted near power lines. Garbage trucks hoisting Dumpsters also damage tree limbs.
If you look at the trees along Shelburne Road, Spinner said, I think youll see trees outside of the median are faring pretty well. The ones in the median have suffered. He speculates that a different species than the flowering crabapples chosen for that strip might have fared better.
He understands the Agency of Transportations conundrum. Landscaping, he said, is often mandated by state law, Act 250, and by federal requirements, but money is scarce for upkeep.
They dont have the resources, he said of the state agency. The more professionals at the table (during design), the better, and you can correct it before it goes out to bid. Over the years, the arborists have been left out.
Danielle Fitzco, the Urban and Community Forestry coordinator for the states Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, said that the Agency of Transportations tree problems arise from a lack of money rather than from indifference.
I know theyre doing the best they can, she said. She noted, in agreement with interested arborists, that Agency of Transportation landscape architect Jane Brown, who did a good job on including tree needs in project designs, has now been pushed into a different job, so theres no one on the staff with expertise.
Fitzco said Brown had been making progress in persuading the department to engage municipal arborists and other tree people as a project is designed, for care after planting, but that effort now has ended.
Brown declined to discuss her reassignment. Spinner, too, says Brown is missed. She was just what the state needs, he said, and they needed to keep her in there. The absence of an arborist or landscape architect on staff has led to a diminution of oversight as trees are planted, typically by subcontractor hired by the general contractor on a job.
There really isnt anyone who is a certified arborist who can oversee the quality of contract work and (maintenance) after planting is done, Fitzco said.
And she pointed out that only four cities in the state have an arborist Burlington, South Burlington, Montpelier and Rut´land, so even if Agency of Transportation had a policy of coordinating from the start with city arborists, most of the state would be untouched.
For the rest, volunteer groups, tree wardens, conservation boards and the like must fill the gap, she said, noting that her department is currently offering a television course (with some group meetings) for 95 individuals from around the state on rudiments of tree care.
I think theyre trying, Fitzco said of the state transportation agency, but its not their main focus. Certainly when we get to areas more urban, the importance of that green infrastructure, designing it properly, is essential.
As matters stand, the state builds green infrastructure into road projects, then hands the hiring of a tree subcontractor over to the general contractor, who plants with little state oversight and without the long-term maintenance plan arborists say is required for the location-stressed trees.
Buying trees
Another sore point for local dealers most of the trees come from out-of- state nurseries, a good deal for the tree com´panies, Young, from St. Albans, said. He called such companies profit centers, and said the landscape companies hired to do the planting often use mechanical planters rather than planting more carefully (and correctly) by hand. Its expensive to do it right, he said.
V.J. Comai, of the South Forty Nursery in Charlotte, expressed disappointment about the out-of-state source of the Shelburne Road trees, estimating that no more than 15 of the 600 came from in-state nurseries. I sold seven, he said. The rest were shipped in from out of state. Its awful disappointing to see big contracts like that initiated by the state sent out of state. The bidding has become so competitive these contractors are looking for the cheapest deal on everything.
Comai, looking both at public plantings of street trees and plantings around businesses added to projects as a permit requirement, said, I cringe whenever a tree is sent out on any commercial job site. There is rarely any plan for maintenance.
In his own nursery, he said, trees are three to five years old before theyre sold. I plant it correctly and I fertilize it and prune it and stake it and try to produce a tree that will thrive for years to come. Its important to me and my reputation.
Comai said bidding on big jobs is necessarily limited to a few contractors, because they have to be bonded, but argued that tree planting is an instance where the low bid is not necessarily the best, and that seedlings may be of high quality or otherwise.
You get what you pay for, he said.
Ken Robie, a project manager in the Agency of Transportation Highway Safety and Design Section, said, Our contracting method is lowest responsive bid, and contractors will do whatever they can to try to be the lowest bidder. The materials must (and do) meet our specifications. We cannot specify local only unless there is a material need to do so (special species, har´diness, only known source, etc.).
Agency officials asked Brown, the agency landscape architect assigned more than three years ago to other duties in an economy measure, to comment on Youngs remark about mechanical planting as well as on the source of the trees.
She said state highway projects are competitively bid and that it is not unusual on a large project that trees would come from larger wholesale nurseries in New York or Ohio in order to get the large quantity of individual species that were shown on the plans for uniformity.
The mechanical devices are used when the trees are transplanted at the wholesale nurseries. ... This is done for an econ´omy of scale, Brown said. It can result in the largest main roots being sunk too deep ... (and) is now known industry wide as a serious long-term problem that can result in stem-girdling roots.
The agency, she said, is aware of the problem and directs the landscape subcontractors to do the work properly. Trees on (Shelburne Road) were carefully inspected to assure that each was not planted too deep, she said. Brown didnt design the Shelburne Road landscaping.
She called that project a design by committee.
In retrospect, the species selection, she said, could have been better there.
The flowering crab trees chosen for the median, she said, require pruning, and we dont have the staff to do that at this time. Its in the maintenance divisions lap.
She said that partnering with municipalities from the beginning makes sense as road design using federal funds tries to measure up to ACT 250 requirements. Such regulations say projects must not have an undue adverse effect on the scenic or natural beauty of the area, aesthetics, historic sites or rare and irreplaceable natural areas.
Robie said the department now relies on outside consultants for landscape design, and is creating a long-term maintenance plan for the Shelburne Road trees a broader assessment of whats needed.
Asked how the department learns from planting mistakes without professionals on staff, Robie responded, a lot of it is hindsight. You would hope the knowledge would pass on.
The big message, Burlingtons Spinner said, noting that local communities generally have no capacity for tree care, is you cant plant trees and walk away from them in an urban environment. The communitys trees cant take care of them´selves. It would make economic sense, he said, for several communities to find a way to share an arborist spreading the expense.
The problem, he said, has been there for a long time. Its an awareness thing. The landscape that goes in is a living entity. It needs care.
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Good Evening Fellow Sienna worshippers,
As the winter weather sets in, call me nuts or overtorqued Has anybody every dropped their Oil pan (Lower pan) which holds the drain plug, snapped some pictures and cleaned it out?
I'm planning on doing this soon. Do you know if the 1st Gen Sienna has a rubber/cork gasket or do I use one of those hi temp sealants on it?
I also have a fumoto drain valve attached, so I'm thinking to let all the oil drain out and then once it's dripping to remove the pan without taking off the valve (of course close the valve back first) to see the level of oil left in the pan. Yes I will be taking pictures of all of this.
I've read stories of other folks on bobistheoilguy where they dropped their pans and found paper oil filter media bits in the pan or stuck to the oil pickup tube.
Anyhow, I'm curious and since I've dropped my Tranny pan three times and never the oil pan, my oil pan is feeling a little neglected! LOL
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China will soon send an infantry battalion to reinforce the United Nations peacekeeping mission in war-torn South Sudan, officials said on Thursday.
In December, the Security Council voted to send an extra 5 500 peacekeepers - some re-assigned from other UN missions in Africa - to the UN mission in the world's newest country, bringing the total deployment there to 12 500.
More than half of these reinforcements have arrived.
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous confirmed on Thursday that China had agreed to send a "battalion" of 850 soldiers within the next few months.
He told reporters the UN "was in the process of deploying a Rwandan battalion" re-assigned from the UN mission in Darfur, and was expecting "in the next two weeks Ethiopian troops, additional Kenyan troops, and later, Chinese".
UN officials said this was the first time China will send a combat unit to a UN peacekeeping operation. Beijing has participated in UN missions in Mali and Darfur, but only sent logistical and protection units.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday approved a resolution making defending civilians the highest priority task in the South Sudan mission.
The mission's other roles are to keep a close eye on the human rights situation, to help deliver humanitarian aid, and to watch over compliance of a truce signed by the rival sides but never respected.
The UN says crimes against humanity may have been committed by both sides in the conflict, supporters of President Salva Kiir and of his ex-vice president Riek Machar, and fears a famine may set in.
South Sudan only gained its independence from Sudan three years ago and has been ravaged by a conflict between rebel groups and the government since December 15, resulting in massacres and atrocities against thousands of civilians from both sides.
Around a million people have been displaced and many are living in extremely cramped and precarious conditions. - Sapa-AFP
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There was multiple homes damaged, and a tornado warning was reported. I coincidentally placed the camera in the exact direct of the majority of the damage reported. This was taken about 5 miles away from the area the storm effected the most. Prayers to those who were injured and whose homes were effected. The tornado was reported at the 45 second mark, though not visible in the video. Also included the full regular speed video (9 minutes)
RALEIGH, N.C. – Weather officials confirm there was a tornado in the storm system that swept through parts of western North Carolina this week, flinging mobile homes into valleys, damaging dozens of buildings and injuring nearly 20 people.
Jan. 12, 2012: A praying pair of hands adorns a wind chime that still hangs from what used to be Samantha Owens' home near Ellenboro, N.C. Source: AP
The storm system struck Rutherford and Burke counties on Wednesday, as a cold front moved through the western Carolinas. A National Weather Service survey team reported the system produced a tornado of EF2 strength, with winds of roughly 115 miles an hour.
At least 10 people were injured in Rutherford County and nearly the same number in Burke County, emergency officials said. There were no fatalities reported by Thursday afternoon.
At least two of the injuries in Rutherford County were serious, sheriff's Sgt. Dwayne Wright said, but officials didn't know the extent of those injuries.
In Burke County, 16 homes were destroyed by the twister, with another 50 suffering various amounts of damage, according to Fire Marshal Mark Pitts. About six businesses were also damaged.
At least five people were hurt when the storm struck a few minutes later in the Icard area in eastern Burke County, Dixon said.
The American Red Cross opened a shelter in Icard, in eastern Burke County, and about 15 people stayed there overnight. Steen said county officials were ready to help anyone who still needed a place to stay Thursday.
Wind also struck a marina in Caldwell County late Wednesday, damaging at least three boats. It was not clear if a tornado had hit the area. No injuries had been reported.
featured image: Jan. 12, 2012: A small American flag hangs from a tree just outside the home of Shirley Wood, in Ellenboro, N.C. that was destroyed by a EF2 tornado that touched down on Wednesday. Source: AP


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The PTES 2014 survey has now closed
The next survey will run in Spring 2016
The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is an annual UK-wide survey of taught postgraduate students. PTES is really important to the University of Gloucestershire as it helps identify what we are doing well, as well as highlight areas for improvement, therefore enabling the university to make changes that will help make the experience better for students in the future.
PTES is run in association with the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the national body for enhancing learning and teaching in higher education in the United Kingdom. For more information please visit: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ptes
The University of Gloucestershire participates in the PTES biennially. It was last run here in 2014, when 33% of postgraduate taught students completed the survey (compared to 28% nationally).
The next PTES survey
The next PTES will be be run at the University of Gloucestershire in 2016. It is launched internally in March and runs until mid-June. Results are analysed nationally and reported by the HEA. A summary of the institutional level results are available on these pages using links to the left.
How do I make myself heard?The University of Gloucestershire participates in PTES every other year. When the survey is open, eligible students will receive an e-mail to their university connect account containing a survey link. During the survey period, clicking on the link will open the survey on the host site (Bristol Online Surveys).
When does the survey run?
The survey runs every alternate year so the next chance for University of Gloucestershire students to give their opinions on postgraduate taught courses will be in March 2016.
How does the PTES work and who is it run by?PTES is a national survey organized by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). It is a service available to all higher education institutions across the UK that have postgraduate taught students. The survey first ran as a pilot survey in 2009, with 30 institutions and 14,420 respondents. Participation has increased dramatically since, with 99 institutions and 67,150 respondents in 2014.
The online survey is hosted by Bristol Online Surveys (BOS), and is managed locally within each participating institution.
What questions does it ask?PTES is based on a core set of questions seeking students' views on a range of aspects of their student experience. The questionnaire also includes open comment boxes, and institutions can add their own specific questions to find out views on areas of particular interest.
The questions, some of which loosely follow the National Student Survey questions, are based on the following topics:
The full survey questions can be seen on the HEA website http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/postgraduate/ptes-questionnaire-2014-full.pdf
How are the results used nationally?Institutional and national results are collated, analysed and reported by the HEA. Recommendations on how to enhance the postgraduate student experience are made to the sector and funding bodies. Their reports are available on their website: www.heacademy.ac.uk/ptes
How are the results used by the University of Gloucestershire?The market research team at the University of Gloucestershire analyse the results for UoG students both overall and by faculty. All results remain anonymous and comments are organised into subject areas to ensure anonymity. A cross departmental working group at the university disseminates the results and identifies key points.
Does the University respond to the questions and issues raised?Yes. The university develops an annual Action Plan to ensure that any issues are addressed to help improve the student experience in future years.
What were some of the main concerns expressed by students?These included limited library resources, issues with course organisation and the quality and timeliness of feedback on students' work.
What were some of the main positive responses from students about the University?These included praise for helpful and enthusiastic lecturers and the high quality of teaching.
If I have an issue while studying at the University, where can I go for help?Our Student Helpzones offer a one stop shop for advice and support both personally and academically so are a good place to start. To find out more please visit http://insight.glos.ac.uk/departments/ss/Pages/default.aspx
Where can I find the results for Gloucestershire?Right here! 2012 results 2010 results
2014 results are currently being analysed and are due for release in Septemebr 2014.
How can I find out more about the survey?For full details about the survey please visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ptes


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Pie, anyone?
I would love to eat her pie :-)'
Pie at the "Y"…
I'll bring the half&half :D
You have to queef like a man to blow your skirt up that far.
Oh my, how she's blossomed over the years.
Here's the church and here's the steeple, open the door and here's all the peop…whoa! Watch out for the giant pa-gina!
Did she write a song about jellyfish?
"Britney Spears wears panties! Britney Spears wears panties!"
OMG!! She actually wore some thig under that thin skirt.
Couldn't she have just saved herself the time and humiliation by peeing on Marilyn Monroe's grave? Because it would amount to the same damn thing, and no one else would have to suffer for it.
no shit, and during the same week that marilyn subway dress sold for 4.6M
wow brit ur so topical. but you still look like shit
"Look, I'm still relevant! I have a vag!"
Once upon a time, that shot would have given me quite the chubbie. Now, my bowler-wearing friend is just sad looking at her. Ugh.
It looks like a blooming stink flower (Amorphophallus titanum).
I thought it was Celine Dion for a second
meee too!
Where's Buffy? The Hellmouth's opening!.
So the bill of materials for her show does, in fact, include one of those fans they use to inflate hot air balloons. Good to know.
This must be to distract us from her drugged-up, dead eyes.
Where's her merkin? Oh, that's right, she shaved it off…
Gotta air it out sometimes I guess.
"I hope no one can smell that one…"
I feel like clams casino..
It's like the cone-of-shame that dogs wear to keep from licking themselves. I expect this serves a similar purpose.


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A bill supported by the ski industry that is designed to protect water owned by ski areas could end up damaging rivers across the country.
H.R. 3189, known as the "Water Rights Protection Act," seems simple on the surface. But the ski industry's bill would allow private water users to dry up rivers on public lands with no regard for other uses or needs. It would tie the hands of federal agencies responsible for managing water on our public lands. If passed, the bill would prevent agencies like the Forest Service from implementing reasonable safeguards to protect fish, wildlife, and recreational benefits in the nation's rivers.
This legislation would remove authority exercised for decades by federal land management agencies to ensure there is enough water remaining in a river. It would force federal agencies to put private uses of river water ahead of other beneficial public uses such as fish, wildlife, and recreation.
What happens on public lands affects the availability and quality of water across the U.S. for communities, ecosystems, and economically important recreation such as fishing, rafting, and kayaking.
American Rivers and more than 60 other conservation and recreation groups strongly oppose this bill. Please take action today.
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To: Michael Berry, President, National Ski Areas Association
In 2000, the ski industry adopted an environmental charter committing ski area operators to be leaders among outdoor recreation providers, managing their businesses in a way that demonstrates a commitment to environmental stewardship. The industry pledged to minimize the impact to fish and wildlife and to maintain and even improve habitat where possible. More than 190 resorts have endorsed the Environmental Charter over the past 12 years. During this time, the ski industry has often been a model of sustainable business practices and a valued supporter of the environmental movement.
However, the so-called "Water Rights Protection" bill that you support in fact eliminates vital protections for rivers and undercuts other recreational and environmental uses. Passage of the bill will lead to serious damage to rivers across the U.S. We're asking the ski industry to change direction and remove your support of this anti-river protection bill.
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The actress tweeted her support for a new campaign from Best Friends Animal Society, promoting spaying and neutering of companion animals.
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Paul Fraser, Chief Football/Golf Writer / / Sunderland
IF a goalkeeper can instantly recall how many saves he had to make during a match then he has not had the busiest of afternoons.
And if he can remember the number of crosses he has had to come and gather as well, he must have been a mere bystander.
The fact Belgian shot-stopper Simon Mignolet could do both after Tottenham's visit to the Stadium of Light highlighted how often he was tested. Given his easy outing was against a team boasting an array of internationally renowned attacking talent, his lack of activity was quite satisfying for him.
Tottenham, desperate to retain the Champions League place they have held for much of the season, lacked invention and purpose in the Sunderland half.
Even with Emmanuel Adebayor, Gareth Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart in their starting line-up, Martin O'Neill ensured Sunderland were set up to annoy. It was an effective tactic, certainly defensively, and got right up Harry Redknapp's nose.
The counter-attacking system which had operated so well at Manchester City seven days earlier may not have quite gained similar rewards in an attacking sense, but Spurs' creative talents had nowhere to turn.
There were attempts on goal, more often than not Tottenham found it impossible to test Mignolet because of the wall of red and white the defenders in front of him.
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After Benoit Assou-Ekotto had shaved the upright from 25 yards with a half volley early on, Sunderland's goalkeeper had to get down low to gather a routine drive from Modric. That was pretty much Mignolet's afternoon.
So much so, he could have cracked open the Easter eggs on his line and waited for the final whistle. "I only had one save to make and it wasn't really a save. Apart from that I took two crosses," said Mignolet.
In fairness the manner of Sunderland's defending was excellent. In Matt Kilgallon, seven days after thwarting Manchester City's advances before going off with cramp, O'Neill has found a defender clearly intent on making the most of his latest chance.
When Wes Brown and John O'Shea followed Titus Bramble on the sidelines there must have been reservations about who to play at the heart of the defence. In Kilgallon, O'Neill has found a defender hungry to prove he belongs on the Premier League stage.
Alongside Michael Turner, for the second week in a row, the central defensive pairing combined to keep out some of the best attacking talents in the Premier League. That was not lost on the man behind them.
"The defence did their job again. They did what they had to do," said Mignolet. "We can't be happier than that. You don't think of it in terms of the attacking players you are up against, but Tottenham are a big team so you expect them to create chances.
"It helps to have big competition in the squad. When everyone is fit, we have a very decent team. When someone gets injured, somebody else steps in and does a good job. Matthew and Turner have done that. You can only be pleased with the manner in which they have responded when they have been asked to play.
"But it is not only the defenders doing well. The whole team is doing very well. If the players can keep the ball further forward it makes the job of defending a lot easier. We did what we had to do."
Only Manchester United and Manchester City have claimed more points than Sunderland in the period of 18 matches since O'Neill took over from Steve Bruce at the beginning of December.
And while Tottenham goalkeeper Brad Friedel was never significantly tested either, there were enough passages of play moving forward to suggest Sunderland could actually have claimed all three points.
But during a game best summed up by a comical second half 30-second spell in which Lee Cattermole, Scott Parker, Stephane Sessegnon and van der Vaart all failed to find their own men with routine passes, a point was probably the fairest outcome.
It perhaps would have been worse for Sunderland had Craig Gardner, switched to right-back after the departure of Phil Bardsley with a groin problem, not made a crunching last-man tackle on Bale in stoppage time.
As things stand Sunderland could climb to the seventh place they crave if they return from Everton this afternoon with sweet revenge for the FA Cup quarter-final replay defeat almost a fortnight ago.
"You can do one of two things after being knocked out of the FA Cup. You can let the season go and start to think about holidays, or on the other hand there's still lots to play for," said Mignolet.
"We can still finish seventh or eighth. We are looking forward to that. That's the thing we want to achieve. Everyone was disappointed when we got beat by Everton. We all wanted to go to Wembley, but that's behind us." Sunderland, despite a pretty lame goalless draw, continue onwards and upwards.
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In an effort to make myself healthy, quit smoking and be more active, I have decided to run the Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon at Walt Disney World on October 1, 2011. While making myself physically healthy, I thought I could work the Spirituality aspect as well. Thus, I have decided to adopt the charity ORPHANetwork and use this opportunity to raise some money for a great cause.
ORPHANetwork's vision is to equip orphans and at-risk children in developing countries to fully realize their God-given potential. We develop our children primarily around four success factors: Health, Education, Dignity and Self-Esteem, and Spiritual Development. We work in five 'hubs'—Managua, Masaya, Jinotepe, Puerto Cabezas and Bluefields—and have expanded strategically to smaller sites across the country. From the Managua city garbage dump (La Chureca), to the most inaccessible regions of the Río Coco, ORPHANetwork is committed to serving Nicaragua's children.
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