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It is possible that the main title of the report Meleda Disease is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
- Mal de Meleda
- Keratosis Palmoplantaris Transgradiens of Siemens
Disorder Subdivisions
- None
General Discussion
Meleda disease is an extremely rare inherited skin disorder characterized by the slowly progressive development of dry, thick patches of skin on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet (palmoplantar hyperkeratosis). Affected skin may be unusually red (erythema) and become abnormally thick and scaly (symmetrical cornification). Affected children may also exhibit various abnormalities of the nails; excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) associated with an unpleasant odor; and/or, in some cases, development of small, firm raised lesions (lichenoid plaques). The range and severity of symptoms may vary from case to case. Meleda disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.
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Getting to the gym can be quite an ordeal for some, so why not bring the workout to the comfort of your own living room! With the variety of workout DVDs available today, you can find just about any type of workout you want to use. If you have a favorite fitness trainer guru, you'll probably be able to find an exercise video produced by them too.
Our reviews here on Dietspotlight.com include a number of different types of workout DVDs. Series like the 10 Minute Solution series are geared toward women who have little time during the day. Their programs target various muscle groups throughout the body with several workouts which take only 10 minutes each to complete. You can choose to do one muscle group at a time, or combine several for a 30 minute workout for the entire body. Other series focus on helping you lose weight quickly through cardio and weight lifting. They promise results in a certain number of days or weeks.
You can also find a workout DVD featuring your favorite fitness guru. The Biggest Loser trainers have produced workout programs with past contestants demonstrating the various exercises. Other well-known trainers have produced several workout DVDs that produce satisfactory results.
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11 Body Image Boosters That Will Make You Love Yourself
Not feeling so hot when you look in the mirror? We've been there, girl—and we've got your back. If you're having "a day" where you can't help but hate your hair/your thighs/your skin, here's some body confidence inspiration to remind you that you're gorgeous and fabulous just as you are.
1. Take a good look at yourself—and let the words of Oprah cleanse your soul: "The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world."
2. Repeat after Christina Hendricks: Life's too short to beat yourself up for indulging in dessert, nachos, etc. The Mad Men vixen has said, "Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman. And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it.'"
3. Don't judge yourself by other people's—or society's—standards. Take it from Khloe Kardashian: "I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something that I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards." Preach!
4. Remember that starving yourself sucks. And J. Lawdoesn't approve of it in any way: "In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress who doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like, 'Oh, I want to look like Katniss so I'm going to skip dinner!'"
5. Choose to love yourself, just as you are.
And if you're having trouble with this, let these three unique, beautiful women inspire you:
"One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself." —Gabourey Sidibe
"I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy." —Kirsten Dunst
"I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does—even the people that I consider flawless—then you can start to live with the way you are. I've read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you're like, 'How do you have? Name one thing wrong with yourself,' and they could name a handful." —Taylor Swift
6. Yes, some of these celebs are badass. But don't strive to look exactly like they do, because pretty much every photo you see is doctored, airbrushed, and zapped of imperfections. Like author Cheri K. Erdman wrote, "Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images."
7. Know that you are NOT your weight. As author Geneen Roth says, "It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale." Truth.
8. Don't forget that Lady Gaga loves you, just as you are.
And so does Zooey Deschannel.
And so does Demi Lovato.
9. Take this clutch advice from Oscar Wilde: "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
10. Don't base your body confidence on boys, but consider that while you're worried about what you look like naked with them, they're just happy to be naked with you at all! Remember this part of Eat Pray Love: "Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery." Exactly.
11. Keep in mind that confidence is hot.
And that inner beauty is what will really make you shine.
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CPD Site MA3: Sierra de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico. Two Chinantec women from Santiago Comaltepec collecting sap from Agave salmiana for preparation of puque, a fermented beverage. This agave is among the hundreds of plant species used by local people for medicine, food, construction, fuel and other purposes. Photo: Gary J. Martin.


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- The Mayor, not heeding his cue, began his speech early and failed to mention the conference and exhibition sponsors.
- The colors and moods combine with the actors' performances and haunting musical cues to create a slightly surreal atmosphere.
- This fosters a kind of sensitivity toward the body language of the actors and the musical cues in the narrative.
- If that sounds painfully scary, you could just say you'll e-mail him later, which is an obvious cue for him to offer up his address.
- This was the cue for the home team to get their act together and they did.
- This was the cue for a hold up which lasted around five minutes as players, mentors and fans pleaded with the referee to reverse his decision.
- Variety maximises the number of retrieval cues for recall of information.
- The context acts as a cue to retrieve the memory of events that occurred in its presence.
- You lose glasses and keys either because your brain never encoded an event or piece of information or because a cue devised to trigger your memory failed.
- Lacking auditory and visual cues, the e-mail message or newsgroup post can be productively ambiguous in tone.
- In waking life, the best that we can do is interpret overt cues and then attempt to understand a person's intentions and predict their actions, for which dreams offer such a venue.
- Clothing and decoration provide important cues to aid interpersonal and intrapersonal communication.
- He needed always to be on the lookout for subtle cues indicating how his mother would behave.
- Was it a case of a people merely following the cues of their leader?
- We were the ones who did not know the protocols - but followed the few cues.
verb (cues, cueing or cuing, cued)[with object]
- A tinny soundtrack is used to cue the arrival of dramatic tension - a job that is better left to performers.
- It cues our hate to keep us watching, like a bullfighter taunting a bull: waving red to draw our attention and anger.
- So it cues you that something's around and you try and contain that.
- Make your reminder cues both informative and obvious.
- I can be cued back through patient prompting, but it takes me a while, and it might not last.
- This may include cueing or prompting, questioning, modeling, telling, or discussing.
- A manager who has to train distant new hires can directly present the orientation session using the video/audio streaming feed, cueing slides showing detailed information and taking questions from the audience in real time.
- Because recorded motion can be cued and played back live, the puppeteer can layer a performance, as one would produce a multitrack audio recording.
- The risers are rolled in; lights are fixed, sound is cued and video monitors are put in place.
on cue
- At the correct moment: right on cue the door openedMore example sentences
- At that very moment as if on cue, somewhere in the distance a wolf let out a menacing howl.
- As if on cue, a door on the far side of the room opened, and a voice called.
- As if right on cue, the door to the parlor opened just then and another servant, a young man, entered.
take one's cue from
- Follow the example or advice of: McGee did not move and Julia took her cue from himMore example sentences
- The conductor of the symphony orchestra does not control the activity of the players, but they do follow the score and take their cue from the conductor's directions.
- If I understand it aright, objective calculation and measurement take their cue from - and ultimately serve - circumspective involvement in the world.
- Yeah, and most people don't take their cue from that.
Mid 16th century: of unknown origin.
queue from late 16th century:
Think of a long queue of people stretching back from a ticket office or bus stop. It looks a bit like an animal's tail, and this is the literal meaning of the word, which comes from French and was based on Latin cauda 'tail'. Queue was originally used as a heraldic term for the tail of an animal. In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail, sometimes spelt cue, and source of the long thin rod cue (mid 16th century) used in snooker. It came to describe a line of people in the mid 19th century.
Words that rhyme with cueaccrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, billet-doux, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo
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- When the cue hits the object ball it will bend the tangent line back away from the corner.
- If I strike a billiard ball with a cue stick, I effect a transfer of [physical] energy.
- Also banned from cabins is sporting equipment such as cricket bats, tennis racquets, golf clubs and snooker cues.
verb (cues, cueing or cuing, cued)[no object]
- 'I missed a few easy balls today but I am cueing brilliantly,' he said.
- But I started cueing well and Alan couldn't put me away,' he said.
- It gives me time get back to the way I was cueing before Sheffield.
Mid 18th century (denoting a long plait or pigtail): variant of queue.
queue from late 16th century:
Think of a long queue of people stretching back from a ticket office or bus stop. It looks a bit like an animal's tail, and this is the literal meaning of the word, which comes from French and was based on Latin cauda 'tail'. Queue was originally used as a heraldic term for the tail of an animal. In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail, sometimes spelt cue, and source of the long thin rod cue (mid 16th century) used in snooker. It came to describe a line of people in the mid 19th century.
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North Dakota's House has endorsed a measure that would require jail time for some first-time drunken driving offenders.
The measure passed 80-14 Wednesday and now goes to the North Dakota Senate.
The bill mandates that someone with a blood-alcohol content of 0.21 percent — or nearly three times the legal limit for driving — must be sentenced to 10 days in jail. Some of the sentence could be suspended, meaning that the offender might only spend a day behind bars.
The measure also increases fines and penalties and requires probation for repeat offenders.
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Is Kathy Griffin headed back to the D-list?Bravo has canceled the comedienne's talk show Kathy after two seasons, Cincinnati.com reports. Griffin announced the news during a stand-up performance Friday night in Cincinnati, much to her audience's displeasure, according to the report.Fall TV Scorecard: What's canceled?Every cloud has a silver lining, though. Kathy's cancelation does mean Griffin is now free to pursue a potential CNN talk show alongside Andersoon Cooper.
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- Asking questions of your doctors and nurses helps you feel more involved in your cancer care.
- Considering writing down the questions you want to ask ahead of time, and writing down the answers.
- Ask for an explanation of anything you don't understand.
Asking questions of your doctor, nurses, and other members of the health care team is a good way to learn more about your treatment and follow-up care. In fact, doctors and nurses like to know what concerns their patients have and what topics may be confusing. Asking questions helps give you more control over your care and cope with cancer and cancer treatment. Here are some tips to make talking with your doctor easier:
- Let your parents (or guardians) know that you want to be involved ahead of time so they can make sure you're included.
- Think of questions to ask the doctor before your appointment and make sure you ask them.
- Ask for an explanation if you hear something you don't understand.
- If you have a suggestion or preference about your care, let your doctors or nurses know—maybe you want to delay a round of chemotherapy, so you can go to a party or ball game. The answer may be "yes," but you won't know if you don't ask.
- If there are things you would rather not know, or would rather not know right now, let your doctors and nurses know that also.
Below are some sample questions you may want to consider asking your doctor. You may want to print this list and bring it to your next appointment, or download Cancer.Net's free mobile app for a list you can bring with you on your smartphone.
General questions
- What type of cancer do I have? What does that mean?
- Where is it located?
- Can you explain my pathology report (or laboratory or other test results) to me?
- Where can I find more information about this type of cancer?
- How will this treatment affect how I feel or how I look?
- How can I avoid these changes?
- Is there anything I can do to make me feel better?
- Are there activities I should avoid that may make me feel worse?
- Do I need other tests or procedures? When do I need those? How often will I need them?
- Are there any tests or procedures that may hurt or be uncomfortable? Are there ways to lessen the pain or make me feel more comfortable during the tests?
- What will these tests tell me about the cancer?
- Would you explain my treatments options?
- What treatment plan do you recommend? Why? Are there other treatment options for this type of cancer?
- What clinical trials are open to me? Where are they located, and how do my family and I find out more about them?
- What are the possible side effects of each treatment option, both in the short term and long term and what can we do to make them better?
- What is the goal of each treatment? Is it to get rid of the cancer, help me feel better, or both?
- Can this treatment harm my chances of having children (this is called fertility)?
- Are there steps I can take to help protect my fertility?
- Should I see a doctor who specializes in fertility?
- How long will my treatment last?
- Where do I need to go to be treated?
- If I go to the hospital, how long do I have to stay there?
- How will I feel after treatment? How long will I feel this way?
- Will I be able to go to school and do my usual activities?
- How will this treatment affect me as an adult?
After treatment:
- When can I go back to school?
- What should I tell my teachers and classmates about my cancer?
- When can I return to my regular activities?
- What happens once treatment is over? Do I need more checkups? Will the cancer treatment affect me when I'm older?
- What are signs that the cancer is coming back?
- Whom should I call with questions?
Support and coping
- Are there other people my age with this type of cancer that I can talk to?
- How will the cancer affect my family and friends?
- Whom should I ask for additional support if I need it?
- Where do I turn if I have additional questions about coping with cancer?
- What changes should I expect in my body because of the cancer? Are any of these changes permanent? How can I cope with these changes?
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NYT: Dan Brown's latest a scavenger hunt to save most humans
One of the first characters to appear in "Inferno" is a spike-haired, malevolent biker chick dressed in black leather. She looks like trouble in more ways than one. What is the girl with the dragon tattoo doing in Dan Brown's new book?
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Maine Catholics gathered for a prayer service Thursday afternoon as Pope Benedict XVI resigned.
The service was held at 2 p.m. At the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, the same hour the pope's resignation took effect.
Click here for pictures from the service.
Parishioners prayed for the pope.
Pope Benedict announced his resignation earlier this month.
The 85 year-old pope is the first to resign in 600 years.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland said there are 188,000 Catholics in Maine.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio - SuperTrapp Industries announces the Road Legends Phantom Pipe II, a curvy 2:1 that's an updated version of the original Phantom Pipe for Softails and the Baffled FLH Phantom Pipe.
It's designed by master bike builder Paul Yaffe.
The Phantom II is a baffled, black ceramic with a 2 in. removable and rebuildable core that's sounds tough and performs even tougher, according to the company.
The four-piece stylized chrome-plated heat shields come pre-installed. A Turned-Up Claw End Tip features a domino dot-engraved decorative billet end cap that makes a bold statement without the drag pipe sound arrival, the company said. The Phantom Pipe II features a 2" primary pipe and a 3.5" diameter collector. It fits 2007-2013 Softails and 2006-2013 Dynas.


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Each Tuesday at Robot 6, we run a look the week's comic releases in a feature called "Food Or Comics?" The title implies the choice in spending money on either food or comics, but lately we've been able to get morsels of food and comics in a growing number of titles. Food as subject matter might seem odd, considering the intense action scenes that many comics are built upon, but as tastes vary and develop, comic fans are getting a craving for more than just one type of comics.
The first major entry I remember of food into American comics was in the second volume of Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. In it, the character Stephen Stills does his best impression of a food show host by outlining his process in making Vegan Shepherd's Pie. Cartoonist Bryan O'Malley goes in depth, labeling all the ingredients and doing a step-by-step primer on Stills' method for making this dish. Although certainly not the first, it was the first one that hit me as a reader– and many others as well.


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Green Book Nonattainment Areas
1-Hour Ozone (1979) Section 185A Maintenance Areas - NAAQS Revoked
As of June 15, 2005
|Clinton Co, OH
|Flint, MI
|Jacksonville, FL
|Lafayette, LA
|New Orleans, LA
|Preble Co, OH
|Steubenville, OH
"Section 185A" was previously called "Transitional". The former 1-Hour Ozone designations and classifications as of June 15, 2004, are being retained in subpart C of Part 81 for purposes of the anti backsliding provisions of 40 CFR 51.905. 40 CFR 51.905(c) references subpart C of part 81 for the areas affected by the anti-backsliding regulation.
Two 1-Hour Ozone Maintenance Areas (that were previously nonattainment areas) became Early Action Compact (EAC) areas. As EAC areas, their maintenance plans no longer applied, and they are not listed in the "Previous Maintenance Areas No Longer Subject to the 1-Hour Standard" reports. The areas are: Greensboro Winston Salem High Point, NC (initially classified as a Moderate 1-Hour Ozone area), and Denver Boulder, CO (initially classified as a Section 185 1-Hour Ozone area).


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A new regional office for Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigation could lead to shorter turnaround times on evidence processing, which local law enforcement agencies rely on to help solve cases.
Additionally, the recently-opened Cambridge office of BCI will also cut a bit off of the drive time for officers transporting evidence for processing in the state's crime lab in London, 30 miles west of Columbus.
"It's a little bit closer," said Marietta Police Capt. Jeff Waite.
Local law enforcement had to previously drive evidence to Athens, said Waite.
Though the new office may not put a significant dent in drive time, it could very well put a dent in the wait time for getting results, said Deputy Dave Tornes, evidence technician for the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
"This will probably mean that things are getting processed faster," he said.
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Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Analyzes forensic evidence and provides criminal investigation services to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.
Consists of six offices, based in London, Richfield, Bowling Green, Youngstown, Athens, and the newest location in Cambridge.
BCI labs solve approximately 150 cases a month by matching DNA samples provided by Ohio law enforcement agencies to matches in the national DNA database.
In two years, the average turnaround time on processing DNA has dropped from 125 days to 20 days.
Source: Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Enabling faster processing times was one of the goals of the new office, said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who announced the opening of the new office in a Jan. 18 press release.
"The sooner we receive evidence, the sooner we can test it and get the results back to investigators," he said.
With the new Cambridge office, Ohio now has six BCI offices, including headquarters in London, and offices in Athens, Youngstown, Bowling Green and Richfield.
The evidence processed at the state's crime lab is instrumental in helping local officials solve many crimes, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
In fact, it was DNA evidence processed at the state lab that led to a charge in a recent break-in at the B&W Pharmacy in Beverly, said Mincks.
"The guy dropped down through the air shoot and when he did he cut himself," he said.
Officers collected a sample of blood from the crime scene and sent it to the state for testing. The blood identified was found to be that of Carl Davis, who was already in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
Davis' DNA was already on file thanks to DNA collection laws which many state's began passing in the early 2000s, said Mincks.
Ohio's DNA collection law was first passed in 2003 and required a DNA sample from convicted adult felons. Now the law extends to adults who are arrested on a felony charge.
In addition to DNA testing, the lab also does ballistic testing, fingerprinting and testing on drugs to verify their composition. For example, said Mincks, bath salts is a drug that has to meet very specific chemical requirements to be considered a controlled substance.
DeWine said the new office will also have a polygraph examiner available by appointment.
"While obviously polygraphs are not admissible in court, it is a very good investigative tool," he said.
More accessible BCI offices and faster evidence processing times were priorities of DeWine when he took office two years ago, he said.
"We've taken our DNA time to about 20 days on average. That is compared to 125 days when I became Attorney General," he said.
Currently, BCI handles evidence for 95 percent of state law enforcement agencies and solves an average of 150 cold cases a month based on DNA evidence, said DeWine.


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Pothole season begins again in Cincinnati
Winter's end means busy time for crews
For every deer season, baseball season or holiday season in Cincinnati, there's also a pothole season.
Crews are stepping up efforts to fill the holes that a late-staying winter helped spawn on city streets.
"Coming out of the winter season with all the salt and material we use to fight snow and ice, potholes tend to pop up a lot more this season," Jerrod Bolton said.
But City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld says the city's current budget issues shouldn't keep the holes from getting filled.
"Especially during challenging budget times, basic services have to come first, and nothing is more basic than the condition of our roads, so potholes are under top priority," he said.
City crews do have a request for drivers over the next few weeks.
"When you see us out there working on potholes, try to slow down and give us the time to refill them," crew chief Tony Brown said.
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MARTINEZ -- Sometimes locking the doors is what it takes to get troubled girls moving in the right direction. That's the idea behind Girls in Motion, the first in-custody treatment program in the East Bay for female juveniles who have run afoul of the law.
Launched three years ago, the program inside juvenile hall replaced Contra Costa County's 20-bed Chris Adams Girls Center, an unlocked group home nearby that many girls had run away from before finishing treatment.
The irony of Girls in Motion is that it's designed around the idea of keeping girls in place, at least for a time.
By providing treatment and support services inside a locked facility, county probation officials believe it's helping to ensure teens receive the help they need, though others question whether locking them up is the right approach.
Girls in Motion "doesn't work in every case, but when it does work, it's astounding," said Lois Haight, presiding judge for juvenile court. "I just had a young girl who never dreamed she would make the changes that she did. It's like they tapped into every good part of her."
It seems to have worked for Elena, who joined a gang when she was 15. Nearly three years later, she had been arrested several times for offenses that included assaults, drugs and probation violations.
A judge sent her to an unlocked treatment group home in Oakland last year.
"I loved that group home because it showed me a lot. But one thing about me, when I get close to success, I run," said Elena, whose real name is not being used to protect her identity.
Elena turned herself in after running away from the Oakland group home, and a judge sent her to Girls in Motion.
"I can't run, and I don't want to run because I feel this is a step closer to getting where I want to be. I can't wait to be home," said Elena, now 18, shortly before she graduated from the program this month.
While in the program, each girl meets weekly with a therapist and participates in group therapy. Other components include anger management, problem solving, life and workplace skills, family therapy and the improvement of self-esteem.
"The girls see how they are wired and how other people are wired. It really helps with their ability to communicate and understand where people are coming from," said James Rivers, the program manager who helped develop its components.
But some argue juvenile offenders are better off receiving treatment in a community setting such as a group home. Group homes can be effective, but some have problems with runaways because of inadequate supervision, according to Michael Harris, senior attorney of the Oakland-based National Center for Youth Law.
"Before (starting Girls in Motion), they should have done a very careful evaluation and examination of why the girls are running away," he said. "There are other consequences of putting them in juvenile hall, in a locked institution, which is that they will be in an environment with kids who have potentially a much greater criminal history and that exposure is a risk."
Rivers said Girls in Motion participants cross paths with other girls in juvenile hall whose cases have not been decided by a judge during lunch, breaks and school classes but do not share a room.
But he said mixing has turned out to be a positive.
"What's happened is since Girls in Motion (residents) are in there for a longer period of time, they have set the precedent for what is acceptable behavior," he said.
The program lasts four to six months, depending on the progress made by the girls. ¿A similar in-custody approach, the 5-year-old Youthful Offender Treatment Program, exists for male juveniles.
Most of the girls in the court-ordered program have violated terms of probation after a judge placed them in an unlocked group home or home-based electronic monitoring. Their misdeeds include property crimes such as burglary, resisting arrest, drug-related crimes, prostitution and gang-related violence. About one-third have been sexually exploited.
Girls in Motion's predecessor, the Chris Adams Girls Center, also provided therapy and support programs before its closure in November 2009 because of reduced funding and a cutback in referrals.
"It had the potential to be a great program, but you could not keep the girls there for very long. ... It's the power of the streets," said Brian Lindblom, a retired law enforcement professional who resigned in January from the county's Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission.
About 100 girls have completed Girls in Motion, and about half have stayed out of trouble. While comparable statistics for girls placed in group homes and home-based monitoring are hard to come by, chief probation officer Phil Kader said success rates for those placements are poor.
Like Elena, many of the 14 girls in the program have run away from the group homes where they were initially placed.
Jenny, 16, ran away from a group home where she was sent after being arrested on drug charges. She was placed in Girls in Motion after turning herself in to authorities. "The skills they teach us go from self-control to understanding the feelings of others," she said. "They just make us more empathetic, they make us more mature."
Betty, 19, graduated from Girls in Motion in December 2011. She was placed in the program after getting arrested for going outside the range of home-based electronic monitoring. She now attends a community college while working part time as an intern at the Hall Closet thrift store run by the Juvenile Hall Auxiliary.
"If it wasn't for this Girls in Motion program," she said, "I don't think I'd have the mind-set to want to do better."
Contact Eve Mitchell at 925-779-7189. Follow her at Twitter.com/EastCounty_Girl.


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|Kevin Doyle.
There is a beauty about the Internet that is a scourge for the print media, a beauty that occupies the minds of sports editors on nights such as Tuesday – or it should.
Years ago, Ireland soccer fans relied on the written word and the printed word for news of their heroes in far flung corners of the world like Moscow and Malta.
Great men like Con Houlihan and Peter Byrne and Charlie Stuart travelled with notebooks -- although not always in Con's case -- in the name of Irish soccer.
From Dublin to Donegal, fans could listen to Philip Greene of RTE on the radio commentate from Valetta, or read about the game in the papers the next morning.
That was the way of the world when Thomas and Giles and even Jack Charlton were the Irish managers.
I can remember sitting on the school bus coming home from Navan and listen to Greene praise Ireland to the hilt as they stumbled to a late 1-0 win over Malta many, many years ago.
Legend has it that the traffic stopped in O'Connell Street when the wireless relayed news of the Frank Stapleton back-heel that eventually broke Maltese hearts.
That's how we kept in touch with our soccer heroes in those days. Live games on television were a rarity, the radio was our best friend and the newspaper our bible.
Alas, no more. Just hours from now, as I write on Tuesday morning, Ireland go into World Cup battle with Austria in Dublin for the first time since the famous Harry Ramsden challenge of 1995.
Big Jack was a shareholder in the Irish franchise of the Harry Ramsden fish and chip shop chain in those days and decided, in his infinite wisdom, to take the team to said chipper en route from their training camp in Limerick to the match in Dublin.
The journey was undertaken less than 24 hours before the game, and the fish and chip dinner was little more than a publicity stunt if truth be told.
Some of the players decided to undertake Harry's Challenge, whereby anyone who successfully consumed a massive portion of fish and chips got a free dinner as their reward.
The fact the dinner was already free seemed to bypass them, and a certain Roy Keane has always attributed the subsequent 3-1 defeat to Austria to the after-effects of Harry's Challenge.
Of course, the Harry Ramsden story got an airing again this week. The current Dublin outlet – Jack's venue is now a DIY store – has even offered the Irish team another free dinner via the Irish Sun, but only after the game and only if they beat Austria this time!
All of which brings us back to the point we started at. By the time you get to read this on the other side of the Atlantic, the result of the Ireland-Austria game will be known.
If you're a fan you will have been able to watch it in a bar or followed it live on the Internet, via satellite feed or on one of the many websites that provide minute by minute text commentaries from such games.
Anyone with even the slightest interest in the Ireland soccer team will know who won, who played well and who scored before the printing press in America has even warmed up for the latest edition of the Irish Voice.
So there's no point in me speculating about Giovanni Trapattoni's tactics for the game, or pondering his bizarre decision to start with Conor Sammon, a 26-year-old who plays with Derby County and is best described as a journeyman, ahead of Kevin Doyle.
The decision to leave Doyle out of the initial squad for the games against Sweden last Friday and Austria on Tuesday is already well documented on these pages and elsewhere.
But the fact that Kevin earned a reprieve courtesy of the injury to Robbie Keane that forced his withdrawal from the second World Cup qualifier should have been seen as a gift horse by Trapattoni.
I can't say right now if the Sammon experiment worked thanks to print deadlines that don't affect our online colleagues at Irish Central.
But I can tell you the story of a man who works on the production side of another newspaper in Ireland, and dedicates his life to following and supporting the Irish football team.
The other day, said fan issued a call to arms on the website www.ybig.ie that is the Internet home to the best supporters in the world.


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There's no way around it.
For the next month or so, parking is going to be a problem for many Harmar Street residents as CSX Railroad makes some major repairs to the rail line that runs down the middle of Harmar between Lord and Lancaster streets.
The $1 million-plus project will include replacement of rails, ties and ballast, as well as paving of the 15-foot-wide CSX right-of-way along Harmar Street.
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Harmar Street resident Donna Farnsworth checks out the CSX Railroad tracks running down the center of the street near her home. Parking will be prohibited on both sides of Harmar Street during the next few weeks while CSX makes major improvements on the rail line and roadway.
SAM SHAWVER The Marietta Times
Scott Robinson has more than one vehicle to park near his residence along Harmar Street.
"I have a truck and two cars on trailers I'll have to park somewhere," he said. "Some I can probably pull into the yard to get them off the street."
Neighbor Andy Ware will also have to find a place to park during the construction project. But he said he's glad to see some work done on the roadway that has several rough spots and large gaps along the rails.
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Harmar Street project at a glance
CSX is preparing to upgrade and pave its 15-foot right-of-way along Harmar Street beginning Thursday.
The improvements will include removal of the old rail line, ties, ballast and asphalt within the right-of-way on Harmar between Lord and Lancaster streets.
New rail, ties, ballast, rail sealant, and asphalt will be installed from the south side of Lord Street to the sidewalk on the north side of Lancaster Street.
Phase 1: Harmar Street from Lord to just beyond Prospect.
Phase 2: Rremaining section of Harmar Street.
Harmar Street residents will not be able to park in front of their homes during the construction.
"It's really unsafe now," he said. "I can't ride my motorcycle down this street. It's even hard to drive a car through here."
On Thursday city officials met with Harmar Street residents to discuss the upcoming CSX project. City Councilman Tom Vukovic, D-4th Ward, said parking was a concern, but neighbors seemed willing to help neighbors.
"Most people are going to have to park on the side streets," he said. "But Kevin Malcolm who represented Harmar Place at the meeting told at least one handicapped woman who lives nearby that she could park in the nursing home's lot during the construction."
Jennifer Offenberger, director of marketing and public relations for the Memorial Health System, which includes Harmar Place, said access will be maintained to the nursing facility during the construction.
"The parking lot will be open. We're even providing a couple of spaces for some of the facility's neighbors from Harmar Street," she said. "Visitors and delivery vehicles may have to take some alternate routes, but there should be access to the lot during construction."
Vukovic said the project will be done in two phases, with about half of Harmar Street, from Lord to Prospect Street, to be completed during the next two weeks, and the remaining portion between Prospect and Lancaster streets to be done within another two-week period.
"The last time CSX paved the street was in 1994," he said. "That whole area is in really bad shape for motorcycles and bicyclists."
Vukovic noted only the CSX right-of-way, a 15-foot-wide strip containing the rails along center of Harmar Street, would be upgraded by the railroad.
"The city will come back next year and finish the paving on both parking lanes on either side of the street," he said.
City engineer Joe Tucker said that work, part of the 2013 citywide asphalt paving project, would include the installation of Americans with Disabilities-compliant curb ramps, crosswalks and pavement markings.
He said on Thursday CSX would begin the initial phase of paving on Harmar Street from the Lord Street intersection to just beyond the intersection with Prospect Street.
"The second phase will continue from about 30 feet north of Prospect Street to the north side of Lancaster Street," Tucker said. "Each phase will take up to two weeks to complete."
"Work will begin around 7 a.m. daily, and continue until dark," he said. "At the end of each day the construction equipment will be removed from the parking lane on the east side of Harmar Street to provide a clear lane for ambulances or any other emergency vehicles that may have to respond in that area."
Tucker emphasized that although the parking lane on the east side of the street will be cleared of equipment each night, residents will still be prohibited from parking on the street in front of their homes during each phase of the construction.
He said city officials are talking with neighborhood churches and the Harmar Community Center about allowing some Harmar Street residents to use those facilities' parking lots during evening hours.
"This project has come up pretty quickly," Tucker said. "And we're still trying to coordinate the schedule with the local trash haulers. But everyone has been pretty cooperative."
In addition to the paving on Harmar Street, he has requested that CSX extend the asphalt to the north side of Lancaster Street which will help smooth out a very rough portion of concrete sidewalk in that area until a new concrete sidewalk can be installed there in the future.


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Local actress and vocalist Claire Martin has been performing in "Liquored-Up Lucille's Pop Bonanaz" at Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater in Hagerstown since Dec. 15. The show is a musical revue of popular songs throughout the ages and features some of the top vocal talent in the tri-state area. It runs Friday and Saturday nights through Jan. 19 and includes a buffet dinner with the entertainers as servers.
A junior at Waynesboro Area Senior High School, Claire, 16, is the daughter of Peggy Jo and Bob Martin of Waynesboro. She has been performing at various venues in the area since the age of 8.
Last year, she made it as far as the celebrity round on "American Idol," which included an all-expense paid trip to Portland, Ore., to perform before Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson. She plans to try out again once she has graduated from high school.
She also has an extensive acting resume including 16 musical theater and three theater credits and four films.
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Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Cina speaks at a news conference in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, regarding the exhumation earlier in the day of Urooj Khan, 46, who died in July of cyanide poisoning after winning the lottery. Cina said the remains of Khan were in an advanced state of decomposition but pathologists were able to obtain samples from most major organs as well as the man's hair and fingernails. Final results from autopsy won't be complete for a few weeks. His death was initially ruled a result of natural causes but later reclassified a homicide. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)


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It is a sight many across East Mississippi and West Alabama look forward to witnessing each and every year and while it is fun for those watching, there is a serious danger associated with actually shooting off the fireworks. That is why those volunteering to put on a fireworks show need to be especially careful when handling fireworks.
"If they'll read and follow all the directions on the fireworks," Greg Chatham with Chatham Fireworks points out. "A lot of times, you know, one of the most important things is if they'll wait until dark when the humidity comes up, the wind dies down, it's a lot safer."
Chatham says while fireworks can be an activity that is fun for families, there needs to be proper adult supervision when children are around fireworks. He says even things like sparklers require that a parent be close by.
"Always have a water source handy and never assume something is out," he adds. "Never try and relight a firework."
Chatham says if the firework won't light, get rid of it. Also, watch out for trees and power lines overhead. Bottom line, Chatham tells us adults need to shoot the fireworks while children watch.
"If you're uncomfortable with it, don't take a chance," he stresses. "Have a good clean, hard surface, concrete or a piece of plywood for a lot of it to shoot it off of."
A reminder that shooting fireworks within the city limits of Meridian is not permitted.


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Cofis record deserved win
15 October 2012 10:17am
By Graeme Gillespie
Caernarfon were overjoyed at the final whistle having claimed their first win of the season with a 19-12 victory over Whitland.
The opening quarter was well marshalled by the Whitland eight, recycling ball for Emma Simmons at scrum half to snipe around the fringes or to hoist the ball down field.
Caernarfon's first attack of note nearly paid dividend with a Bailey chip being hacked on by Felicity Smith who just failed to gather as the opposition closed in.
One lapse in the Cofi ranks saw Simmons dart through and had Angharad Williams at hand who was odds on to score until second row Sarah Patchett arrived with the tackle of the season to deny a certain five pointer.
However from the resultant scrum, despite being held up over the line on the first effort they eventually freed centre Helen Price who crashed over to open the scoring.
From this point onwards Caernarfon dominated for the remainder of the half, captain Cenin Eifion went on charges and on 30 minutes she took a wayward pass with aplomb before sailing over the line to score close to the posts and grant Bailey an easy conversion.
With spirits high and sound tackling by Alaw Davies in particular a further score was on the cards. A Davies break out wide, found Felicity Smith on hand and she was able to sprint clear and ground under the posts for yet another confident two extra points from Bailey.
The second half however failed to live up to expectations although numerous fresh legs were introduced. Whitland used forward power to good effect and succeeded to cause confusion in Cofi ranks as they were forced to back peddle and consequently failed to clear their lines effectively.
As pressure mounted it was not surprising, when with ten minutes to go, one sustained effort on the Cofi line saw Helen Price wrong foot the defence to give Whitland renewed hope with Cath Davies's conversion bringing the West Walians to within two points.
To their credit Caernarfon, hassled and chased every ball and were rewarded with the decisive touchdown when Dyddgu Hywel joined the line at pace and was able to spot a gap to grant the Cofis another five pointer with only minutes remaining. This ensured that Whitland could not mount another serious challenge to salvage the match and the Cofi celebrations could begin.
The Cofi Ladies now have two remaining away fixtures beginning with a trip to Seven Sisters next Sunday.
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The Fort Frye High School Marching Cadets will perform April 22 on the steps of the Capitol. At the performance, gifts will be presented to Congressman Clarence Miller, commemorating the bicentennial of the Beverly-Waterford area.
The Belpre Board of Education renewed contracts for 16 teachers. The board voted not to renew a number of aides, athletic personnel and substitute teachers.
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The B. & O. Railroad Bridge was finished today and the first passenger train to cross the bridge since the flood left the station at 12:08 this afternoon.
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Armchair travel is one thing, but some novels are so captivating, they provoke an irresistible yearning to see James Joyce's Dublin for yourself, to wander John Fowles' mysterious Greek caves or float languidly -- in Elizabeth Peters' style -- down the Nile. Joe Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" has launched many a baseball pilgrimage. And frankly, Frances Mayes' "Under the Tuscan Sun" should come with a warning label: May require a trip to Italy.
Discover the books that made five of our staff writers book tickets to Dublin, Cairo and a certain cornfield in Iowa.
THE BOOK: "Crocodile on the Sandbank" by Elizabeth Peters
THE SETTING: The first book in Peters' Amelia Peabody series is set in 1884 Egypt, where our hilariously outspoken and forward-thinking Victorian hero falls madly in love with archaeology, bat-infested pyramids, dusty tombs and a certain British Egyptologist -- all while pursuing a mummy and several villains. The tongue-in-cheek mysteries are fun, and Amelia is hysterical, but it's the depiction of Cairo, Giza, the Nile and the splendors of Amarna that makes a reader's pulse quicken.
THE TRIP: I'm the kid who grew up with a copy of "The Iliad" on my bedside table, the girl who knew more about Heinrich Schliemann and Howard Carter than the matinee idols of my youth. And I had sated -- or at least temporarily relieved -- my passion for ancient history on trips to Mycenae, Delphi, Rome and Herculaneum. But Peters' mysteries turned my longing for pyramids, Theban temples and Saharan vistas into a voracious fever -- which I, of course, fended off with tea, damp compresses and all the stubborn willpower of a Peabody. Our children were young, after all, and political unrest had rendered the region a less-than-appealing spot for a family vacation.
But bucket lists should be tended, not deferred. So when our youngest flew the nest, we headed straight for Cairo and points south. We traipsed through pyramids, explored the hot, narrow tombs of the Valley of the Kings and floated down the Nile by dahabeeyah, the 19th century-style houseboat favored by certain fictional characters. The sails billowed in the breeze, ancient temples came into view every few hours and friendly villagers waved from the riverbanks. No crocodiles -- not since the building of the High Dam, anyway -- and no villains masquerading in mummy wrappings, just blissful Peabodyesque adventures.
-- Jackie Burrell
THE BOOK: "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella
THE SETTING: The magical novel that inspired the movie "Field of Dreams" takes place on a baseball diamond carved out of an eastern Iowa cornfield, from which the spirits of Joe Jackson and other legends of the game emerge. The simple, yet touching, story begins with novice farmer Ray Kinsella hearing a godlike voice that whispers, "If you build it, he will come," and ends with a game of catch between Ray and his long-lost father. Twenty-five years after the film debuted, tourists still flock to the production site in tiny Dyersville, Iowa.
THE TRIP: I'm both a full-fledged baseball fan and a dreamer who cherished Kinsella's spiritual journey. My visit to Dyersville, however, was not the result of a planned pilgrimage but an impromptu road trip made on a chilly winter morning by a few guys seeking a form of emotional escape.
Two days earlier, my father and I had arrived in Waterloo, Iowa, to bid farewell to my uncle, who had died of cancer. We were still groggy with grief when my uncle's son, Bill, suggested we drive to see the Field of Dreams and play some ball. So my dad and I crammed into a car with Bill, his teen son, and Bill's brother-in-law to make the two-hour trip.
Upon arrival, we were crestfallen to see that the field was adorned with a few clumps of snow and closed for the winter. But we refused to retreat. I knocked on the door of the big white farmhouse (Yes, the same one in the film), and when a woman answered, I informed her of what we had been through and how much we wanted to play. She kindly unlocked the gates to the field.
For the next couple of hours, we all became kids again, knocking around a baseball on the mushy grass, running the bases and generally feeling free and alive. It was a bonding, dreamlike experience at a time when we could really use one.
-- Chuck Barney
THE BOOK: "Ulysses" by James Joyce
THE SETTING: Joyce's modernist masterpiece, considered by many one of the greatest literary works of all time, follows its fictional protagonist (Leopold Bloom) on a journey through the streets of Dublin, Ireland. The entire story takes place on a single, ordinary day -- June 16, 1904 -- but Joyce's attention to details and extraordinary character development make the ordinary feel so extraordinary.
THE TRIP: During my senior year at San Francisco State University, I took a class focusing on Joyce. Reading his works -- especially the epic "Ulysses" -- really inspired me to learn more about my own Irish heritage. After graduating, I traveled to Dublin where I walked along many of the same streets, and visited a number of the same spots, mentioned in "Ulysses."
I imagined that I was strolling right alongside Leopold Bloom as I connected, both physically and mentally, with a great literary work in a way that I had never dreamed possible.
I also made an important musical discovery on this trip. I went to the Gaiety Theatre, a venue I first learned about in Joyce's "Dubliners," and saw Christy Moore perform. I didn't know anything about Moore -- other than that he'd been described to me as "Ireland's Bob Dylan" -- but he quickly became one of my favorite folk singer-songwriters.
-- Jim Harrington
THE BOOK: "Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy" by Frances Mayes
THE SETTING: The poet, travel writer and gourmet cook discovers the beauty of a simple life as she buys and restores a neglected villa in the Tuscan countryside of Cortona. Mayes paints a vivid picture of this noble town, its interesting people and her journey to be a part of both, while interspersing recipes (Bruschette con Pesto di Rucola and Winter Pears in Vino Nobile) that for almost a decade were as close a taste to authentic Italy as I would come. Mayes' book is a rambling memoir that romanticizes Tuscany with far more depth, and a sense of longing, than the film version.
THE TRIP: I dreamed of breathing the Italian air of my ancestors since my childhood days surrounded by the strange, lyrical words of my great grandmother and the pungent scent of garlic bread and homemade marinara. At the age of 36, I finally found myself strolling along the narrow pebble lanes of a Tuscan region that held even more charm than Mayes could bring to life.
Everything about Tuscany felt like home -- the sun-drenched countryside of rolling hills and vineyards; the stunning architecture and cracked frescos of another time period; the warm, embracing greetings of a welcoming people; and of course, the rich flavors of creamy chocolate gelato and Caprese made with fresh mozarella and basil.
In Italy, I found a connection to my heritage and to a land that encourages tranquility because of the very simplicity Mayes discovered for herself. Now, the dream has evolved -- if only I could win the lottery and return to renovate my own Tuscan villa.
-- Ann Tatko-Peterson
THE BOOK: "The Magus," by John Fowles
THE SETTING: The Greek island of Spetses, where the author taught at a boys school, was the inspiration for Fowles' somewhat convoluted psychological thriller. Nicolas Urfe, a recent Oxford grad sets off to teach at a boys school on the fictional Phraxos. His life there is dull and depressing until he stumbles on the estate of the mysterious, wealthy Greek recluse Maurice Conchis, who ends up seriously messing with Nicolas' head, sucking him into a series of weird (and in retrospect, creepy) games involving masques and other illusions. Originally published in 1965 and revised in 1977, it's considered one of the first major works of metafiction -- and it's where the term "godgame" was coined.
THE TRIP: My college boyfriend and I had ambitious plans mapping out a semester-off trip that began in Calcutta and ended in Paris, and a top priority was to visit the real-life inspiration for Phraxos. We took turns rereading the tattered paperback as we ferried between islands, famous and obscure, which only led to anticipation of our final island stop. Arriving at the harbor, however, was a disappointment; it felt more touristy than the others and even the cheapest rooms were over our budget. So we rehoisted our backpacks and headed into the island's interior, past Anargirios College -- on which the book's Lord Byron School was based -- in search of the famous mansion, to no avail. But what we did discover was even better -- a cave. We went back to town, devoured a cheap meal with retsina, then hurried back to set up camp before dark. That night, we read key chapters by flashlight, trying to dissect the deeper meaning, and wrote letters home, their postmarks a souvenir. Years later, I long to return to Greece. Though I have no romantic yearnings to relive that extreme form of budget travel, I fondly remember the book that also made for a good story.
-- Lisa Wrenn
THE BOOK: "The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers" by Margaret George
THE SETTING: Historical fiction authors have a fondness for imagining the life of egotistical King Henry VIII -- and I've read my fair share of those Tudor dynasty interpretations. But none stands out with more dramatic flair than George's telling. Mainly told in the king's voice, she recounts his ascension to the throne, dismantling of the Catholic church and six marriages (and beheadings of two wives) in his quest for lust and an heir. It's also a peek inside Henry VIII's vast holdings, including the opulent Hampton Court, just outside of London.
THE TRIP: Having lived and attended school in England for three years, I knew more about its kings and queens than I did the U.S. presidents. None fascinated me more than Henry VIII, especially after walking through his life for 960 pages of George's book. Time had erased all but two of his palaces, but the majestic red-brick Hampton Court is still standing.
I had to visit its vaunted halls, to see where the only male heir, Edward VI, was born and to be swept into the scenes of opulent 16th-century banquets. The Great Hall, with its magnificent hammer-beam roof and Henry VIII's tapestries, didn't disappoint. It was also easy to see from the massive kitchen, designed to feed the 600-member royal court, why the king was so robust.
Over the years, kings and queens who succeeded him put their own stamp on Hampton Court, but this still felt very much like Henry VIII's palace. Nowhere was that more evident than the royal chapel with its blue-and-gold carved ceiling, which still bears the king's arms. It was here that Henry VIII learned of his fifth wife's adultery; in the heavy silence of the chapel, you can almost hear Catherine Howard's desperate wails as she begged him for one final audience.
Nothing compares to standing among the ghosts of history.
-- Ann Tatko-Peterson
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3.9-5 Status of Parties - Children
Revised to January 1, 2008
If certain conditions are
present, the law imposes upon the possessor of land the duty to take
reasonable care to safeguard children from danger even if they are
trespassers on the property.
The conditions which must
all be present to give rise to this duty are these:
the injury suffered by
the child must be due to some structure, thing or other artificial
condition on the premises;
the place where the
condition exists is one upon which the possessor knows or has reason
to know that children are likely to trespass;
the condition is one
that the possessor knows of or of which the possessor has reason to
the condition is one
that the possessor realizes or should realize involves an
unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children;
children coming on the
premises, because of their youth, would not discover the thing or
condition, or realize the risk of meddling with it or coming within
the area made dangerous by it;
the utility of
maintaining the condition as it is and the burden of eliminating the
danger by changing it or safeguarding it, are slight as compared
with the risk to children; and
the possessor fails to
exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise
protect the children.
Duggan v. Esposito, 178 Conn. 156,
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It's not often you hear much about leptospirosis, which is a rare and severe disease that affects humans and animals. One reason may be because symptoms can be mistaken for those of other diseases.
Leptospirosis is a contagious disease caused by Leptospira bacteria. It's transmitted naturally from infected domestic animals and wildlife to humans through urine-contaminated water, food or soil. The disease can cause a severe infection in humans. Symptoms include headaches, fever, vomiting, diarrhea and chills.
Without treatment, people infected with the disease can suffer from kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure and respiratory distress.
"Leptospirosis occurs on a periodic basis in endemic areas like Brazil," says Richard Zuerner, a retired microbiologist who worked at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa. "Some of the people infected will experience pulmonary hemorrhage, which can lead to a very rapid and painful death."
In livestock such as cattle, leptospirosis can cause abortions, stillbirths, lower fertility and reduced milk production, Zuerner says. It can also result in uveitis, a potential cause of blindness in horses.
Zuerner and his colleagues at NADC looked at the spread of leptospirosis in sea lions, tested vaccines for cattle, and examined the hamster as a model to better understand the disease.
Source for Sick Sea Lions
The latest incident in 2011 of sick and dying sea lions washing ashore along the West Coast is the kind of driving force that keeps scientists searching for answers as to how Leptospira got into California sea lion populations. This has been a mystery since the disease was first discovered in these mammals in the 1970s.
Studying leptospirosis in sea lions could provide more information about the disease in wildlife and reduce the potential risk to public health. Infected mammals stranded along beaches pose a threat to people who come to their rescue, risking exposure to the disease.
Zuerner and David Alt, a veterinary medical officer in NADC's Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, teamed with scientists at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., to identify the disease strain that causes infection in sea lions. They looked at urine and kidney samples of infected mammals and determined that the responsible strain was L. interrogans serovar Pomona, which also affects cattle and other species.
California sea lions periodically undergo acute infection outbreaks, Zuerner says. However, research indicates that they are becoming maintenance hosts.
"Maintenance hosts normally carry the bacteria and show few outward signs of infection," Zuerner says, "whereas accidental hosts, like humans, often come down with a severe infection."
Scientists have set up a surveillance network, with the help of marine and wildlife agencies, along the Pacific coast to locate marine mammals that have leptospirosis. They have discovered that the spread of the diseases coincides with the northern seasonal migration of male marine mammals. The outbreaks first occurred in southern California, and by the end of the year, disease-infected sea lions were found in Washington and Canada.
A Vaccine for Cattle
Scientists are constantly looking for effective vaccines that reduce the spread of leptospirosis in cattle. They recently evaluated a commercial vaccine for its ability to provide short- and long-term protection against experimental infection with L. borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo, the main cause of bovine leptospirosis.
In the study, cattle were vaccinated twice with the commercial vaccine, a standard vaccine, or a control vaccine. Animals were challenged with serovar Hardjo a year after the second vaccination. To test the vaccine's ability to induce short-term immunity to infection, cattle were challenged three months after a second vaccination.
"The commercial vaccine induced greater immunologic responses than the standard vaccine and greater protection against shedding after challenge," Alt says. "However, it did not provide complete protection from shedding."
With the commercial vaccine, scientists were not able to detect any bacteria in either the urine or the kidney at the end of the short-term study. Cattle vaccinated and then challenged with the live bacteria cleared the bacterial infection of the kidney more efficiently, Zuerner says. Results of the year-long study indicated that only one animal had bacteria in the kidney.
Results showed that the immune system of vaccinated animals was exhibiting a recall response and naturally eliciting an appropriate reaction against the bacteria, he says.
Despite the success with the commercial vaccine, it's not always easy to find the right vaccine. It all depends on the infecting serovar, Alt says. More than 200 serovars can cause leptospirosis, and it's difficult to identify differences within the genus.
A Valid Model
To determine the effects of leptospirosis and evaluate potential vaccines, scientists need a reliable model. In the past, the hamster, which is widely used, presented challenges in demonstrating lethal infection with Hardjo.
One reason is because in earlier studies it was unknown that serovar Hardjo occurred in two species—L. interrogans serovar Hardjo and L. borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo.
"There was no way to differentiate clearly or genetically which particular Hardjo was used to induce a lethal infection in hamsters," Alt says.
Scientists used the hamster model to evaluate two closely related L. borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo strains. Hamsters were challenged with a strain that produced an acute, potentially lethal infection and another strain that produced a chronic infection.
Results of the chronic strain experiment revealed large numbers of bacteria in the kidney of hamsters. The infection closely mimicked the type of infection observed in cattle.
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Scientists are now examining the use of the hamster model to learn more about leptospirosis and to identify the differences between infections induced by the lethal strain versus the chronic strain. A small animal model may also help in evaluating the effectiveness of future vaccines.
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to Griswold Scout Reservation
Including Hidden Valley and Camp Bell
Please use the following directions for travelling to and from Camp Bell and Hidden Valley (the two camps located on the Griswold Scout Reservation). Travel to the reservation produces a relatively large volume of traffic that causes problems for the camps' neighbors. On different weeks, the camps use different routes in order to spread the impact. This is the route assigned for our week at camp. Please obey all posted speed limits and drive courteously.
Leg #1. Hanover to McDonalds at I-93 in Tilton, NH. Travel time approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Leg #2. McDonalds to Camp Bell. Travel time approximately 45 minutes.
The Troop 45 Advance Party will meet you in the parking lot at the destination camp.