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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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I found this article I had saved some time ago but have no idea where I found it so I can't cite the source.
It's hard to know how to help people like us but I found this article to be a good one.
I'm behind on emails, blogs, blogging but hope to catch up soon. More later this week (I hope)...
A View From Outside: How To Help A Person with CFIDS (PWC)
by Jean Mosher, R.N.
Twenty-five years ago I was working as a private duty nurse, and it was at this time I met a family member of one of my patients. She was very energetic and involved with life and is the most creative person I know.
As I recall, she had been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis and other assorted illnesses. Nothing was clear-cut and no definitive diagnosis was made for a very long time. It took some 12 years for that to happen.
As our friendship grew and I learned more about her medical history, I heard of the disease that was then called Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus, now referred to as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS) or Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS). Although Iam the nurse, I have learned a lot from my friend, now supposedly "the patient."
Observations About Energy: "Talking Hurts"
CFIDS is an all-encompassing and all-consuming disease. I hear about and have seen the consequences of brain dysfunction and the inability to comprehend simple information. Ordinary tasks in cluding walking can be very arduous for a person with CFIDS (PWC). It is not at all unusual to lose muscle strength and fall at any time. I have seen this in my friend. I hear that energy is very valuable, almost a gold standard for these patients. The energy it takes to even talk on the telephone is not easy, complicated by the persistent sore throat. Talking hurts. There are sleep disturbances. Going to bed does not mean "going to sleep." I hear of nights that no sleep was possible or, more usual, finally getting to sleep about 6 a.m. She also has times where her sleep is disturbed and can wake every couple of hours. After sleeping 10, 12, or even 14 hours, she still is exhausted. Sleep studies seemingly have documented this disturbance but relief does not seem to be within her easy grasp.
Finding a time to visit a person with CFIDS also is difficult. If the person has some energy, it may be more important, as they prioritize their time, for them to take a shower, feed themselves, do laundry, when possible, or see doctors. Social interplay takes work. Perhaps only one or two requirements for daily living can be accomplished and the remainder put off for a later date. I have found that people who are that ill usually do not use energy to make telephone calls for help, for they are too debilitated and are in bed.
A busy week for my friend would be to have three days outside the home, perhaps taken up with medical appointments. The rest of the week she is in bed. A good day would be to have enough energy to accomplish something for a two-, three-, or (pushing) a four-hour period in one day, including eating a meal and the preparation that goes with it. There are times my friend is too ill to eat, because as she explains it, it takes too much energy to prepare meals. Money is tight—and fast or prepared foods not an option.
Times of the year are also very important for my friend. The amount of sun and the temperature of the day have significant repercussions, as do the sudden barometric pressure changes. She does better when it is warmer and there is more light; she suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder. This seems to aggravate the CFIDS symptoms.
What Friends and Family Can Do
How to help as an outsider? To help a person with CFIDS is not to say: "Call me if you need me." That call most likely won't come. No energy to reach out. To help is to enable independence, recognizing that every motion is energy and little energy is available. Doing shopping, picking up prescriptions, doing an errand, making a meal are all valuable aids for anyone with CFIDS. Even offer to change a bed or clean. Help make phone calls, mail a letter, or offer to fill in forms when necessary; any little thing to a well person is a mountain to climb for a PWC.
It took time before I understood the brain dysfunction. At first I felt rejected, especially when my calls were not returned. I was looking at the relationship from my own perspective. I made a call; I expected a return call. I was a slow learner, but eventually, I came to understand when my friend would say she couldn't process information. Her brain had effectively shut down and she knew what she was talking about. There have been many times she was too ill to speak on the phone. I learned to respect that and now check with her when we settle into a conversation. Sometimes it will start out fine, and a few minutes into it, she can't follow all the details and will tell me she "can't compute." I have learned this is part of the process of the illness and no longer take it personally. I have also learned to listen to her and realize that as much as I may need to talk, I will wear her out and she will not hear anything. She will call me when she has the energy. Our friendship is not a one-way street, but a crooked road I have learned to negotiate.
Navigating The Crooked Road
Over time, I have come to understand the language of CFIDS. Everything seems to be measured in energy units. When I tell my friend of how many miles I have walked to get somewhere, she is exhausted just relating to it. I would suggest that others be sensitive to CFIDS lifestyles and the need for flexibility. PWCs do not always know when they wake up what the day will hold for them. Their lifestyle has been dramatically affected, if they have a life at all. I have worked with cancer patients, and I see them doing better than the CFIDS patients I know. Still, while this illness may put limitations on my friend, our honest communication has not diminished our friendship, or the essence of her.
To be a friend, I call regularly. I understand that if I get the answering machine, my friend can either be out, or out of it. Our mutual under standing is that she doesn't have to feel pres sured into returning my calls, and I want her to know I call to check in so she knows someone cares.
Be a friend to a CFIDS patient. It is worth the work. It takes flexibility, understanding, and patience, but it is worth it. It is not enough to be willing to help, you must act on that willingness. These are not dispensable people, but rather people who cannot be dispensed with. The spirit of a person never really leaves them, whatever their physical condition, and if the friendship is built on that and on love, you've got a winner.
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- Daphne said...
This is a great article, especially this piece:
"It took time before I understood the brain dysfunction. At first I felt rejected, especially when my calls were not returned. I was looking at the relationship from my own perspective. I made a call; I expected a return call.... To be a friend, I call regularly. I understand that if I get the answering machine, my friend can either be out, or out of it. Our mutual under standing is that she doesn't have to feel pres sured into returning my calls, and I want her to know I call to check in so she knows someone cares.
Be a friend to a CFIDS patient. It is worth the work. It takes flexibility, understanding, and patience, but it is worth it. It is not enough to be willing to help, you must act on that willingness. These are not dispensable people, but rather people who cannot be dispensed with."
Absolutely, 100% agree with this. You are indispensable and the the most important person in the world to me. The love, support and unbelievable kindness that comes from your gentle spirit is more than worth any extra work I do.
- September 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM
- Shelley said...
Just wanted to send you my greetings and warm wishes.
Last night there was a particularly loud cricket singing outside our front door. We dubbed it "the Caruso of crickets."
I appreciate the song of your experience whenever you are able to sing.
- September 10, 2009 at 2:31 AM
- Pris said...
This really is a good article. I hate the phone for the most part because when I suddenly run out of steam, I can't get across that I have to stop NOW. It's 'let me tell you one more thing' and I'm exhausted. It's easier to talk to the very few people who understand this problem when I can. And yes, something as simple as saying 'I'm going to the store. Tell me what you need and I'll get it' or 'I'm coming your way. If you're up to it, I'd like to stop in and put in a load of clothes to wash and change your sheets, if you need that. Then I'll leave.' My sheets haven't been changed in a month now and I can't do it right now. How I would love such an offer.
- September 10, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- PJ said...
Great article -- I'd love to re-post it b/c it really does articulate some of the things that are so hard about CFS.
- September 10, 2009 at 7:18 PM
- Renee said...
This is such a good article, Terri. Thank you so much for sharing it with all of us. I so wish I had someone who would be willing to help Joel and I. Recently we had a family crisis and ended up watching our newborn granddaughters for 3 days. My practioner said, call your support group for help...I said, we don't have a support group here. Our son drove 2 hrs up here freeing his schedule to do so and helped us out. What we felt when he did that is hard to describe....anyone who can reach out to those who are chronically ill will be appreciated so greatly.
Thanks again Terri
- September 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Kerry said...
Wow, what a perfect picture of life with CFS Jean Mosher's article is. What a gift those with CFS who are her patients and friends must have in her, as she truly understands how to help and how to continue in friendship with a person living with CFS.
Thank you for sharing this article in spite of feeling lousy. Would you mind if I share the article on my blog and link it back to you as the source?
As the author of this article said, the spirit of a CFS patient does not change. I find it inspiring that though feeling extra lousy right now, you managed to post this awesome article to share with us.
- September 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- alyson said...
Thank you for posting this, Terri. Wishing you good health...
- September 22, 2009 at 6:09 PM
- Pris said...
I was concerned about you. Nothing for three weeks. Let your online friends know how you are when you're up to it..okay?
- October 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- Fibro Viv said...
Thanks for sharing and I hope you are doing better these days. I am sorry to hear about Tiger Lilly.
Your are in my thoughts and prayers
- October 6, 2009 at 12:27 PM


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Drawing the LineMargaret Ernst BMC '11 | March 8, 2010
I get a variety of reactions at home in the U.S. when I say I'm a religion major.
Sometimes people are excited. Sometimes they're confused. Some have offered practical advice: "Of course! You could be a tour guide at the Vatican."
The responses have been just as diverse on this trip. Turkish politics is vastly about religion and we were warned that conversations about Kemalism or Islamism can become highly charged, so almost every time I've shared my major, I've braced myself. Will they think I'm a fanatic, I wonder? Or that I'm not into democracy?
But at least in university settings, twenty-something's must be twenty-something's everywhere.
"I have no interest in religion, but I should probably learn about it," Firat, one of our consistent traveling companions from Vocaliz told me. "Do you study all religions?" asked a choir member from METU, trying to clarify.
I've found some students to be concerned that Turkey's current government could be posing a deep threat to its secular status. But because modern America has seen a debate along similar lines since the Scopes Monkey trial, many American students I meet are just as suspicious when I tell them my major as students here are curious.
I've read that with Iran and Syria next door, seriously religious governments feel very real for Turks—a lot more real than "Inherit the Wind" for Americans. The Ottoman Empire, in which Islam was the state religion, was a lot more recent than religious intolerance in Puritan Massachusetts.
There are two very different grains against which the sacred/secular debate seems to work in Turkey and at home. So what I've found to be different are not what the Turkish students I've met imply about what it means to be religious, but rather what it means to be secular in Turkey.
You can gauge it from walking down the university halls. Headscarves have been illegal in public institutions, including universities, since Atatürk's proclamation that Turkey was a secular state in 1924. In 2008 Parliament revoked the ban, only to be annulled by the courts a few months later. So METU and Anadolu University, where we gave concerts this week, remain places where Islam is invisible. In the U.S., it feels like there is a much larger space between "public institution" and private sphere that I would have never noticed had I not realized what distinguishes the two in Turkey.
America's secularists are very unlike Atatürk. They speak against Genesis in textbooks and God on the dollar bill; Atatürk undid an entire religious past in a year, or at least tried to. Considering just how different our experiences have been with religion in the past century, it's not surprising the places over which Americans squabble about religion are very different from the loci of those battles in Turkey.
In the States, a public figure's body is a space for debate about where to draw the line between church and state. People worried about extremism could balk if they saw a cross or a hijab on the presidential candidate. The institutions up for debate are civic things and symbols. The stone Bible in Alabama's courthouse. The National Anthem, the dollar bill. More ambiguously, abortion battles rage with the line in clear sight. But moreover, the iconographic side of secularists' war in the United States takes place around icons that are decidedly more governmental than a university classroom.
Atatürk's confident, half-squinting face is indeed everywhere here. The flags and ceiling-to-floor photos express a different kind of nationalism than America's and a different kind of secularism, both growing from two very different histories. In his book about Turkish modernity "Crescent and Star", Stephen Kinzer wrote that though Islam was discouraged by state for years in Turkey, the cult of Atatürk, especially visually, has cultivated enough materials and doctrines to make it feel like a religion itself.
As we put it in our discussion this morning on the carpet of our hotel's conference room, Turkey simply defies categorization.
I may not have seen headscarves at METU or Anadolu, but as I sit in my hotel bed I've just heard the call to prayer issued after three beeps over a loud speaker. It's a nudging, surreal reminder that I'm visiting a historically Muslim country for the very first time, and that this entrancing song-chant floats over 100,000 sleeping people in Eskişehir, where tomorrow we will leave for another city that will be woken up by it too.


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- Control of the precise location and extent of cellular attachment and proliferation, and of tissue outgrowth is important in a number of biomedical applications, including biomaterials and tissue engineered medical devices. Here we describe a method to control and direct the location and define boundaries of tissue growth on surfaces in two dimensions. The method relies on the generation of a spatially defined surface chemistry comprising protein adsorbing and non-adsorbing areas that allow control over the adsorption of cell-adhesive glycoproteins. Surface modification was carried out by deposition of thin acetaldehyde and allylamine plasma polymer coatings on silicon wafer and FEP substrates, followed by grafting of a protein resistant layer of poly(ethylene oxide). Spatially controlled patterning of the surface chemistry was achieved by masking during plasma polymerization. XPS and AFM were used to provide evidence of successful surface modifications. Adsorption of the extracellular matrix protein collagen I followed by tissue outgrowth experiments with bovine corneal epithelial tissue for up to 21 days showed that two-dimensional control over tissue outgrowth is achievable with our patterning method over extended time frames. The method promises to be an effective tool for use in a number of in vitro and in vivo applications.
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13. Nessie's Body Found -- Newspapers around the world announced that the dead body of the Loch Ness Monster had been found on April 1, 1972. Instead, it was a bull elephant seal from the South Atlantic. The next day, an employee at Yorkshire's Flamingo Park Zoo confessed he put the body in the Loch to play a prank on his colleagues, but it spiraled out of control.
12. Flying Penguins -- On April 1, 2008, the BBC showed footage during its natural history series "Miracles of Evolution" that it claimed show Adélie penguins taking to the air. The video quickly became one of the most-viewed on the Internet, and a follow-up video explained how the BBC created the hoax.
11. Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers -- In the April 1995 issue of Discover Magazine, it was reported that wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo (Italian for April Fool) had found a new species in Antarctica -- the hotheaded naked ice borer. The made-up creatures had bony plates on their heads could become burning hot, allowing them to bore through ice and hunt penguins. Discover received more mail in response than any other article in its history.
10. Nixon for President -- On April 1, 1992, National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new campaign slogan? "I didn't do anything wrong, and I won't do it again." Listeners flooded the show with calls expressing shock and outrage until host John Hockenberry revealed the practical joke during the show's second half.
9. San Serriffe -- On April 1, 1977, the British newspaper The Guardian published a special supplement on San Serriffe, a small republic said to consist of several semi-colon-shaped islands in the Indian Ocean. The paper's phones rang all day, but only a few readers noticed that everything about the island was named after the sans serif typeface.
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6. Swiss Spaghetti Harvest -- On 1 April 1957, the BBC news show Panorama fooled viewers by announcing that, thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It was accompanied by footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti from trees. Viewers were sucked in, calling the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
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We welcome our new Shartsis Fellow, Lan Diep, who will be supervising the Vietnamese American Workers' Rights Project in the South Bay. He will provide community outreach and public education on rights in the workplace and will engage in limited representation on behalf of low income Vietnamese American workers in and around San Jose.
One of the goals of the Vietnamese American Workers' Rights Project is to establish a weekly Workers' Rights Clinic for Vietnamese speaking clients. Lan will be expanding on the work of Betty Duong, who will serve as Special Counsel to the Vietnamese American Workers' Rights Project. Lan is fluent in Vietnamese, has worked as an international broadcaster in Washington, D.C., and attended Independence High School in San Jose, leaving him with close ties to that community.
As an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow with the Mississippi Center for Justice, Lan served as a member of a regional oil disaster legal advocacy team that provided education and free legal assistance to communities affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. He traveled to communities throughout Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama providing outreach and assistance to populations impacted by the spill and in need of legal advice and representation. Lan hosted informational community gatherings to educate the Vietnamese American community about their rights and legal options, and he also published a Vietnamese newsletter distributed throughout the region.
Lan's work in the Gulf was widely celebrated. He was the guest speaker at the ACLU of Mississippi's 42nd Annual Membership meeting in August, 2011, and has been honored at the White House and featured in the New York Times and the Huffington Post. He is profiled on the White House website as a Champion of Change and was featured in the Jackson Free Press as its Person of the Day on August 22, 2011. He was jointly awarded the John Minor Wisdom Public Service & Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association Litigation's Section in April, 2012 for his efforts as part of the Gulf Justice Consortium.
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John Lewis, NRCS Wilcox County Soil Conservation Technician, informed participants about financial assistance through EQIP to build hoop-houses.
On February 16, 2011, Alabama Conservation Partners sponsored a training workshop on Seasonal High Tunnels or hoop-houses, a pilot program offered through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
The workshop was held at the Alabama Rural Heritage Center in Thomaston, Alabama. Sponsoring conservation partners were Alabama NRCS, ALA-TOM Resource and Conservation (RC&D) Council, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Tuskegee University Extension System, and Alabama Rural Heritage Foundation.
Attendee's gained knowledge of hoop-house design criteria, NRCS incentives payments through EQIP, watering devices, plantings, and techniques to control/warn off potential diseases.
Jean Mills and Carol Eichelberger, Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Members and Hoop House Practitioners of Coke, Alabama, give first hand experiences of hoop house farming and some of their recommendations. They encouraged attendee's to become knowledgeable of the markets in their area and aim towards becoming a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) producer.
A few of the crops Jean and Carol raise are cut-flowers, peppers, egg plants, green beans, and tomato's incorporated into pine needles/wheat straw for bedding. They recommended planting smaller plants by the sidewalls of the hoop-house to reduce wind flow restrictions when the sides are rolled up. Their form of weed control is mechanical, which means if it's green and "NOT" a fruit, vegetable or flower, it is apparently a weed, so pull it out!
Victor Khan, Tuskegee University Researcher/Plant Breeder, presented information on his hoop-houses research which started in the 1990's. He discussed the importance of the layout of the structure to gain the maximum benefits of nature in the system (lighting and direct sun for heating purposes, etc.). He also acknowledged that crops grown in hoop-houses can be easily managed, improving crop quality and reducing the use of pesticides. But, he reminded the participants that the system is not automated and is labor intensive. Therefore planting a crop to maximize income is important based on market demands. Victor's preferred method of disease control is soil sterilization.
Other presenters were James Miles, Regional Extension Agent 3 located at the Mobile Cooperative Extension System. He informed the attendee's of essential elements to watch in hoop-house productions such as soil temperatures, balancing ph levels, moisture methods (drip heads and drip tapes), fertilizers, and securing proper drainage of the hoop-house site.
Greg Dansby, ALA-TOM RC&D Coordinator, outlined the function of the RC&D Council and their goal to target farmers markets produce sales though the use of hoop-house growers.
Ann Cross, NRCS District Conservationist, discussed EQIP incentive payments for conservation practices, definitions of targeted groups as outlined in USDA Farm Bill, and program eligibility criteria.
Attendee's viewed a recently constructed hoop-house during the workshop and received on-site demonstrations of the items covered during the meeting. John Lewis, NRCS Soil Conservationist Technician from Wilcox County, presented information relating to incentive payments available thru EQIP for Seasonal High Tunnels, along with design criteria based on manufacture instructions. Contractors from the United Christian Community Association installed the on-site hoop-house and helped address construction inquiries.
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Require too much information – Most people are used to the Name/Social/Email schtick, but some also separate the first and last name, require two email address, blood type, notes from one's mother, etc. Point is, you need to make your commenting AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE.
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Giddiness ! Dodgers sweep the Giants!
Can you believe Matt Cain is 0-8 against the Dodgers! Jonathan Sanchez is 0-5. That is 0-13 for two of the Giant starters.
Dodgers Swept the Giants to end the June gloom with a 14-13 record. Dodgers just love to play against their own division. On to Arizona for three now.
I am just amazed at the amount of double plays that the Giants hit into. They are leading the league in that category!. Vin Scully was saying "….and yet another double play."
Love Vin Scully! in the second game when the Panda was caught at second. He said "The Panda turns into a pussycat" LOL.
You know why the Panda was caught at second?
LOL I love that picture!
Congratulations to Padilla on his #100 win!
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Hey, I starting blogging last year and stopped for awhile and now I'm back. I always enjoyed your blog, and I loveee the picture along with your post. Congrats on your Dodgers win.🙂
Hey Melissa,
Glad to have you back blogging! Welcome back! Did you read that I was in Boston for the Dodgers series?
Odd. I didn't find it to be a particularly great way to end the June gloom, Jane. Not sure why that was.
After starting June so well and getting to the top, it's tough to keep that pace for any team, but the sweep is a good way to start the next run of wins….
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The Panda is down!! I love when players trip up like that. It just shows how human they all are! That and it's funny…
i deserve the tiekcts more then anyone else, but i think the girl with the nephew should get them, its what baseball is all about, kids.
Thanks Jane! Let's see what July hold for our teams.
Haha Kaiser. Gave up on Molina ha?
Can't believe the number of Phillies on the DL.
The Giant players look when the Panda did that was priceless. Should have taken a pic of that.
That is a wild stat about Cain and Sanchez. But then it is a divisional match-up, and sometimes the timing and the stress can elevate some people's game while other try to maintain a level sense of excitement.
But taking a series from a divisional foe is tremendous both in confidence and in the long run. Those three games could be the difference between either getting a Wild Card berth or winning the N LWest division.
Never underestimate the importance of a single win…or loss.
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Emma ~ The sweep of the Giants was great. It put us back on track. I really like it when Furcal goes on one of his hot streaks. He can really set the tone for the team and when he combines his offense with his great defense he's one of the most exciting players in the game. Lets keep it going against the snakes.
congrats on the series! LA is heating up. Maybe a big weekend series against the D-Backs will keep the ball rolling. happy 4th of july!
Did not see most of the game yesterday as I was in downtwon taking pictures of the All-Star Baseball Mickey Mouse statues. Did not miss much but congrats to Gibby on his win.
Happy 4th Matt. Dodgers took it on the chin yesterday.


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A man shot and killed by Spokane sheriff's deputies was not armed with a deadly weapon when officers opened fire on him Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators said Ed Gover had climbed over a fence as he was returning to his girlfriend's house following a brief chase with deputies in her Mercedes, and was in the backyard when confronted by two deputies.
Gover told the officers he had a knife and told the deputies they were going to "have to kill" him.
The officers, who were formally interviewed by detectives Friday morning, said they began firing when Gover reached behind his back as if he was drawing a weapon. One officer fired his service weapon five times, striking Gover once; a second officer fired a single round from a shotgun, also hitting him.
The medical examiner confirmed he was hit in the lower torso and pelvis. Officers began CPR on him and medics later took him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Minutes earlier Gover had driven into the cul de sac of his girlfriend's home in that stolen Mercedes, where officers had been taking a domestic violence report from the victim.
The 69-year-old told investigators Gover had held her against her will with a knife to keep her from calling police and had also stabbed her in the arm.
"He had made threats to this victim throughout the night that he was going to kill her. tried to get her to open the safe, she refused to do so, she actually got into a hand-to-hand conflict with him [and] that's where she received the laceration to her arm," Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said during a Friday afternoon media briefing.
The victim eventually was able to run to a neighbor's home and call 9-1-1. Deputies arrived to take her statement and when they spotted Gover in the Mercedes they attempted to stop him but he drove off.
"The suspect drove at a high rate of speed, turned around in the cul de sac and left the area at which time Deputy Werner and Deputy Bond began to pursue the suspect in the stolen vehicle," Sheriff Knezovich said.
After a short pursuit Gover abandoned the car and took off on foot, jumping fences until he wound up in his girlfriend's backyard, where he confronted the two deputies and the shooting occurred.
Deputy Aaron Childress saw Gover jump the fence into the backyard and ordered him to the ground.
"The suspect then reached into his pocket and stated he had a weapon ... he had a knife," Knezovich said.
Deputies say with his hand behind his back, Gover charged at the officers saying they would have to kill him.
"He then proceeded to walk toward the deputies in a very aggressive manner, he got to within eight to ten feet of Deputy Childress and he shot the individual five times," Knezovich said.
Deputy Eric Werner was with Childress and when he opened fire Werner fired his shotgun at Gover. Childress and Werner both hit Gover once.
"At that point, he's coming at the deputies, he's already told them you're going to have to kill me. Deputies don't know what kind of weapon he has and it was a lethal force situation," Knezovich said.
Knezovich bristled at the notion that deputies could have used less than lethal force on Gover, aiming for an extremity like an arm or a leg in a potentially life and death situation, or fired
"No one's that good to determine oh, I better shoot him somewhere. If you shoot him in the arm, he can still come and get you. If you shoot him in the leg and he has a gun, he can still shoot you," he said.
Throughout his press conference, Knezovich continually hammered home that people's expectations of the shoot - no shoot situation Deputies Werner and Childress faced were fanciful, referencing time and again the difference between real life on the streets of Spokane and the Hollywood view you would see on the big screen:
"This isn't Hollywood, this is real life … put yourself in that deputy's position."
"This is not Hollywood, people don't automatically go down when they're shot. That's the difference."
"This is real life. If you make a mistake out in the street, as you just saw two months ago, two deputies almost lost their life. This is real life. This isn't Hollywood."
Court documents obtained from 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City show that Gover had a long history in the court system. His most recent offenses included two felony convictions in 2009 for falsely obtaining and dispensing prescription drugs and a felony conviction for failure to pay child support in 2004.


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The Untameable Tongue
Contrary to some theological traditions, the Bible does not teach that it is possible to achieve a sinless perfection this side of heaven. Today's passage reminds us of the powerful presence of sin, especially as manifested in the tongue. However, ...Read More
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The Boasting Tongue
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Health Care Law Is Still Fighting For Its Life
Having survived the Supreme Court and the November elections, President Obama's health care law now faces an even bigger hurdle: the reality of making it work.
Implementation of any massive new program requires cooperation, something the health care law can't count on. Overall, just 46 percent of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of the law, while 49 percent offer a negative view. The reasons are pretty much the same as they've been all along. Just 22 percent believe the law will reduce the cost of health care. Forty-eight percent believe costs will go up. By similar margins, voters expect the law to hurt the quality of care and drive up the federal budget deficit.
Overall, just 28 percent believe the health care system will get better over the coming years, while 50 percent expect the opposite. Most Democrats believe things will get better, but few Republicans or unaffiliated voters agree.
This skepticism might not matter except for the fact that the law counts on the cooperation of states to implement the federal plan. States were called upon to set up so-called health insurance exchanges that the president envisioned as a one-stop shopping place for health insurance products. However, the Dec. 14 deadline for states to sign up showed that fewer than half the states are willing to go along.
The federal government will have to run the exchanges in those states, a task few believe it is prepared to handle. The timetable is challenging, to say the least. These exchanges must be ready to accept patients by Oct. 1, 2013, and be fully operational by Jan. 1, 2014. If that's not enough, the federal exchanges will need to rely on cooperation from state agencies in places that have officially refused to cooperate.
If the president's health care law were popular, this kind of state-by-state resistance would provoke outrage and be dangerous to the politicians involved. But it has not. Only a third of voters nationwide even know whether their state has decided to open an exchange.
Fewer than half (46 percent) of the nation's voters want their state to set up an exchange, and voters are evenly divided between whether they want their governor to support or oppose implementation. Generally speaking, Democrats want their governors to be supportive; Republicans want their governors to resist; and unaffiliated voters are divided.
Last March, I wrote that the health care law was doomed regardless of what the Supreme Court decided. That still appears to be the case. With the re-election of the president and a Democratic Senate, formal repeal is not going to happen. However, the realities of implementation will provide many avenues for ongoing resistance. Some will be financial, as businesses and others evaluate their options. Some will be legal, as a number of cases continue to work their way through the courts.
But the biggest challenge is more basic. Voters want more control over their own health care choices than either the status quo or the president's law allows. Voters are OK with the requirement in Obama's plan forcing insurance companies to offer comprehensive coverage, but 74 percent think everyone should also have the right to choose between expensive plans that cover just about every imaginable medical procedure and lower-cost plans that cover a smaller number of procedures.
Giving consumers that kind of choice would be a popular reform. Giving them that kind of control over insurance companies would do more to reign in the cost of medical care than anything else.
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Aug 5/14| For Immediate Release
Michael Carroll, Dean of Arts
Lori Chalmers Morrison, Acting Director
Three books have been shortlisted for the 2014 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The $10,000 award, administered by Wilfrid Laurier University, recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second work of creative non-fiction that includes a Canadian locale and/or significance.
The books shortlisted for this award are always impressive, and this year they represent a broad range of subject matter and approaches, said Bruce Gillespie, an award juror and professor in the Digital Media and Journalism program on Lauriers Brantford campus. What they have in common is their inherent readability these are non-fiction books that are every bit as interesting and engaging as the best novels.
The books on the 2014 shortlist, listed alphabetically by author surname, are:
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway by Arno Kopecky (Douglas & McIntyre)
In The Oil Man and the Sea, Arno Kopecky, along with photographer Ilja Herb, spends 12 weeks sailing the treacherous coastal passages of the Great Bear Rainforest, slated to become a busy oil tanker route for the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which would transport bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to the British Columbia coast. Along the way, the novice sailors spend time with local residents, including many First Nations members, listening to their concerns about the pipeline and how it will affect their way of life, and the rainforests fragile ecosystem. In an evocative, engaging way that submissions to a regulatory agency could never accomplish, The Oil Man and the Sea puts a human face on a complicated, controversial issue.
The Memory of Water by Allen Smutylo (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
For more than 40 years, Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The 10 autobiographical stories in The Memory of Water all of them accompanied by the authors own artwork describe his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacific, India and Ontarios Great Lakes region. The Memory of Water probes a crucial and contemporary issue that of our relationship to water, and the wildlife and human life that depends upon it.
Confessions of a Fairys Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad by Alison Wearing (Knopf Canada)
In her memoir, Confessions of a Fairys Daughter, Alison Wearing reflects on how her world turned upside down at age 12 when her father came out of the closet, disrupting what had been a carefree, conventional family life. Skillfully weaving together stories from different perspectives and using excerpts from her fathers diaries and letters, Wearing recounts her familys history with compassion and humour. Against the background of her familys private struggle and the stirrings of the gay revolution in Canada, Wearing recounts her own coming-of-age story, and how she came to terms with her fathers, as well as her own, identity.
The winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction will be announced in early September. Award presentations honouring the winner will take place Nov. 13, 2014 at Lauriers Waterloo and Brantford campuses.
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Established and endowed by writer and literary journalist Edna Staebler, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University, the only university in Canada to bestow a nationally recognized literary award. Staebler, who died in 2006, was an award-winning journalist and a member of the Order of Canada. Designed to encourage new Canadian talent, the award is open to authors who have published a first or second book with a Canadian locale and/or significance. First-hand research, well-crafted interpretive writing and a creative use of language or approach to the subject matter distinguish winning books. The list of previous winners includes authors such as Linden MacIntyre, Wayson Choy, Elizabeth Hay and Carol Shaben. The award is celebrating its 23rd anniversary this year.
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While the Green Bay Packers might be viewed as Aaron Rodgers' team – and probably rightfully so, given the quarterback's standing among the game's top players and the innate importance of the position – that's not the way he sees it these days.
Amid a rash of injuries to the team's skill-position players on offense, where three of the team's biggest offensive playmakers (wide receiver Randall Cobb, tight end Jermichael Finley and wide receiver James Jones) are sidelined, and still without their biggest star on defense (outside linebacker Clay Matthews, still out with a broken thumb), the Packers team that will face the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night at Mall of America Field at the Metrodome will instead be led by the guys up front – on both sides of the ball.
Just ask the player who's the so-called leader of the team.
"I think you're really seeing the offensive and defensive lines taking over the team, per se," Rodgers said earlier this week on his weekly radio show on 540 ESPN and ESPNWisconsin.com. "You're seeing these guys step up into greater leadership roles, (and) they're playing really, really well. We're running the football well, we're stopping the run well, and those are two important components to being a championship-style team, which we strive to be.
"We like the way that's going. That's kind of the way the team is shaping up. The big fellas are taking greater leadership roles and playing really well, and we're trying to make as many plays as we can on the outside."
Indeed, as the Packers (4-2) enter Sunday night's game against the Vikings (1-5), their offense ranks sixth in the NFL in rushing (134.7 yards per game) and their defense ranks third in the league in fewest yards allowed (79.0 yards per game). The team hasn't finished in the top 10 in both categories in the same season since 2003, when they ranked third in rushing and 10th in run defense, and the run defense is on a franchise-record pace, ahead of the 83.3 yards per game they allowed in 2009, when they led the NFL in run defense and set the franchise record in that department.
"I think the culture of this team a little bit has changed with the offensive line and defensive line play," left guard Josh Sitton said. "We've been playing pretty well, so we know that the onus is more on us more than ever right now, and we take pride in that.
"The defensive line has a done a great job of taking over the defense. We have one of the best defensive lines in the game, definitely one of the deepest. It's something that we definitely have talked about. We talk about it as a line, and we take pride in going out there and being able to win games in a different fashion than we have before."
There are a variety of reasons for the lines emerging as tone-setters for the team. For one, sheer numbers: On the offensive line, the Packers have seven linemen (starters David Bakhtiari, Sitton, Evan Dietrich-Smith, T.J. Lang and Don Barclay, plus backups Marshall Newhouse and Lane Taylor) on the 53-man roster, two on the physically unable to perform list (Derek Sherrod, JC Tretter) and two more on injured reserve (Bryan Bulaga, Greg Van Roten). On the defensive line, they have seven (B.J. Raji, Ryan Pickett, Johnny Jolly, C.J. Wilson, Datone Jones, Mike Daniels and Josh Boyd, not including hybrid end/outside linebacker Mike Daniels) on the 53-man roster plus another (Jerel Worthy) set to come off the PUP.
But it's also the way each group was challenged and answered those challenges that have set examples for the rest of the locker room.
The offensive line is having its success after an offseason renovation project that moved four players to different positions. Sitton and Lang, who delivered an impassioned pregame speech at Baltimore on Oct. 13 that multiple players lauded as one of the best they've ever heard, have evolved into locker-room leaders of the highest order.
"They're expressing themselves in a verbal way. Typically, linemen will sit back, but now our group is really expressing itself," offensive line coach James Campen said. "When they feel like they're productive and getting better, then those things resonate. Everyone works their tails off on a football team, but the O-line and D-line, we do things in practice where we really go get it. And I think that stuff builds confidence and it carries over."
The defensive line, meanwhile, got its message from head coach Mike McCarthy when training camp ended and so many linemen were kept at a position where, in a 3-4 scheme, some teams skimp.
"Coach called us to a higher responsibility. That's why he kept so many D-linemen. He said he needed for us to go out and play, be the most physical group – the offensive and defensive lines," Pickett recalled. "He just put the onus on us. He told us we have to be physical, we have to run the ball, we have to stop the run. That's going to be the signature of our team this year. He said it when camp ended.
"I've never heard him say anything like that. They put a lot of faith in us. We have a good group. We embrace it. I'd say we're doing pretty good. This week is a good challenge for us. But we're pretty happy with the way things are going."
Asked about his speech during the week, McCarthy pointed to the defensive line depth as proof that he and general manager Ted Thompson will keep the best 53 players, regardless of position, and that with great depth comes great responsibility.
"We don't sit there and say, 'Hey, we're going to keep exactly this many defensive linemen, this many offensive linemen, this many linebackers.' Obviously, you have a need for certain numbers at certain positions, (but) the defensive line depth was evident," McCarthy explained. "So, we kept the extra defensive linemen because, A, they earned a job and, (B), just the way we feel we need to play.
"The game starts up front. Hopefully, we can keep those guys healthy and I think they'll definitely be one of the primary reasons why we win."
Before last Sunday's game against Cleveland, McCarthy reinforced his point, this time to both line groups.
"Our big guys are where it starts," McCarthy recounted. "We talked about it Saturday night in the team meeting. 'We're going to lean on our big dogs.' That will definitely be part of our focus as we go forward."
And that's fine with everyone – Rodgers, and the linemen he's happy to defer to.
"Offensively, we've taken over in the sense of trying to communicate better and getting our point across as far as certain things we want to do," Sitton said. "On defense, Coach knew they had to be the strength of the defense, and they've done that. They've accepted that challenge. Everything starts up front – always. They make that defense go.
"Lately, it's just been that the O-line and D-line have to take over the team. With everything that's gone on, especially injury-wise, we've got to put more on us."
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Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Investors are not stupid
(Originally posted yesterday. I reposting today to try to improve the spacing and type face.)
You know how that expression, put your money where your mouth is, means that if you believe in something, you are willing to invest in it?
the stock market is one place people put their money if they believe a
company will do well. It's an indicator of investor confidence. The
market as a whole has been steadily going down since it appeared Obama
would win the presidency and bailout fever hit. (UPDATE: Fairly Conservative
has a great post today about this very subject, including a chart. Do
look at the drop in October. It coincides with the TARP bailout.)
Today Obama signed his porcine "stimulus" bill--the one that is estimated to really cost Americans 3.27$Trillion when all is said and done--the one that economists and think-tanks lose sleep over.
Is the market responding with glee? Hardly. The Dow lost nearly 300 points today and closed at 7,552.
I recently met with my banker to discuss our IRAs. Just looking at the ever shrinking size of our meager attempt to prepare for retirement was depressing enough. Inflation will swallow up what is left. Discussing what next steps should be taken was more discouraging.
we are facing increasing taxes, I won't have much to invest in future
IRAs. But even if I did have a surplus of cash, what would I put it in?
Socks? Stocks? Bonds? CDs? Annuities? All of these investments require confidence in our future economy. I have none.
Just as an experiment, wouldn't it be great if President Obama announced he was cutting business taxes and reducing the Federal income tax rate on individuals? I bet that the market would respond favorably...immediately.
Why? Because investors know what works!
From The Heritage Foundation: An Open Letter to the Congress and the President of the United States, Friday the Thirteenth
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The push is on as the President calls for quick passage of immigration reform.
"The good news is that for the first time in many years- Republicans and Democrats seem ready to tackle this problem together," said Obama.
Choosing Nevada to unveil his plan, where Latinos make up close to 30 percent of the population, the proposal includes a path to citizenship.
Undocumented immigrants would have to register with the Federal Government, pay fines and back taxes, and undergo background checks.
But not before increased border security can be proven, a provision Republicans insist upon.
Illegal immigrants would go to the back of the line, and receive green cards only after every lawful applicant has gone through the process.
The President's re-election with 70-percent of the Latino vote has resulted in a shift toward compromise, as seen with a bi-partisan immigration reform plan released on Capitol Hill.
Still no legislation, just framework, but considered a huge leap forward.
"More and more Americans are agreeing that these 11 million people need to come out of the shadows- and we need to give them a path to citizenship but not favoritism," said Senator John McCain.
Republicans remain deeply divided on the plans, and the passage of legislation is uncertain.
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History of the Peace Corps in Belize
|History of the Peace Corps
|Since 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries, more than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 138 countries all over the globe.
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Since the first Peace Corps Volunteers arrived in Belize in 1962, more than 1,600 have served in the country. They have worked in education, alternative agriculture, health, conservation, and small business development. In the early years of Peace Corps/Belize, most Volunteers worked with the Ministry of Education to expand and diversify the secondary school system in rural areas. Since the early 1990s, Volunteers have focused their educational efforts on teacher training, curriculum development, HIV/AIDS awareness, and at-risk youth. They have also worked in rural community development, focusing on ecotourism, alternative agriculture, and environmental education.
History and Future of Peace Corps Programming in Belize
Peace Corps/Belize works in several key areas, including education, youth development, rural community development and environmental conservation. The objective of our programming is not to teach the people of Belize American values or an American sense of efficiency, but to enable them to help themselves within their own cultural framework.
The education project engages Volunteers in providing training and support to teachers in the primary school system. Literacy rates in many Belizean communities are low.
Volunteers provide innovative leadership and training for teachers to strengthen reading instruction and to increase the reading skills of targeted students in the first four years of primary school. Volunteers also assist schools in setting up school and community libraries. This is complemented by a national adult literacy program in which Peace Corps Volunteers are collaborating with the Adult and Continuing Education Department of the Ministry of Education. Special education Volunteers are providing training for teachers in methodologies used to teach learning-impaired children. These teachers learn about materials development and classroom-management as well as methods for teaching students who are hearing-impaired or have vision and reading problems.
Youth for the Future was established by the Government of Belize in 2002 to increase efforts to systematically address the challenges facing young people. Youth development Volunteers are helping the government improve and expand the programs and services to the youth in Belize. The five main program theme areas are: leadership and governance; productivity and volunteerism; job creation and enterprise development; conflict resolution and violence reduction; and HIV/AIDS education and prevention.
Youth Volunteers focus on a holistic approach to youth development, paying particular attention to life-skills education; youth employment and entrepreneurship; and youth health, including the prevention of sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs) and HIV/AIDS.
Recently, Peace Corps Volunteers have worked with the National 4-H and Youth Development Center on a new program that will establish 4-H youth groups in rural communities throughout Belize. In the coming years, Volunteers will play an important role in creating new 4-H groups, developing programming for these youth, and training key community members in managing the clubs for the future.
HIV/AIDS education and prevention are very important Volunteer activities because Belize has the highest rate of HIV/AIDs infection in Central America. The HIV/AIDS awareness component of the youth development project was developed in coordination with the National AIDS Commission and contributes significantly to the solution of this growing problem. Volunteers assigned to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the Ministry of Health target women and youth through peer education and behavior-change strategies, mass media campaigns, training workshops, and one-on-one education. Volunteers have also begun working with people living with HIV/AIDS.
Community education by Volunteers includes literacy (both for adults and school-aged children), substitute teaching, tutoring, teacher training, after-school programs, school gardens, community projects, and small business development. Volunteers need to be versatile, able to switch back and forth between formal and informal settings.
The rural community development project works in three main areas: 1) organizational strengthening and capacity building; 2) environmental education and protected areas management; and 3) ecotourism, sustainable livelihoods, and small business development. The goal of the project is to enable rural Belizeans to improve their quality of life in a community-led, sustainable manner. Some Volunteers focus on strengthening local organizations and their capacity to organize, analyze, plan and to act to improve their communities. Others advocate and organize programs that manage natural resources and protect biodiversity in ways that accrue benefits to community members. Still others aid communities by diversifying and generating new sources of family and village-level income through a holistic approach to environmentally sound development at the village level.
Volunteers use participatory techniques that allow community members to assess their needs and strengths. These techniques strengthen the capacity of community groups and develop their planning skills. Volunteers work with a wide range of groups—adult, women's groups, village councils, youth groups—to help strengthen and sustain their abilities to effectively manage natural resources while improving village incomes.
Volunteers help communities to improve their understanding of the importance of maintaining their environment in a sustainable manner to improve their quality of life. Environmental outreach activities let Volunteers work both in a formal school environment educating teachers and children, and informally throughout the community.
Volunteers help communities learn and adopt skills that will help them diversify and increase income for their families. They facilitate family-level needs assessments and provide support for prioritizing family needs, identifying solutions, planning, and acting upon them. They also provide training in small business planning, bookkeeping, basic accounting, and marketing.
The rural community development approach works at the grassroots level, supporting initiatives that empower rural populations to manage their own development. As such, many Volunteers respond to unique community-identified needs in their villages, including water and sanitation projects, health education, nutrition, agricultural diversification, and small business marketing.


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HFPA Sets Market Dates
July 26, 2005-- Home Textiles Today,
NEW YORK -- The Home Fashions Product Association (HFPA) has set new dates for the home textiles market beginning in August 2006, representing a major shift in timing from the traditional April and October showroom market events.
The first market under the new time frame will begin Friday, Aug. 4 and continue through Thursday, Aug. 9. Subsequent August markets will begin on the first Friday of August, according to Frank Foley, president of THE HFPA and CEO of CHF Industries.
For the first half of 2006, the HFPA will hold its showroom market dates in tandem with the New York Home Textiles Show, which is being held at the Jacob Javits Center from March 31 through April 3. The HFPA will also hold the Winter Mini-Market in 2006 from Feb. 5 to 8.
The April market will be changed to February beginning with the 2007 event, which will begin on Feb. 2, Foley said.
The change has been under consideration for some time, Foley explained, with the unofficial Mini-Markets in February and August proposed as more suitable dates for major markets to meet today's retailing requirements.
"The current Mini-Market timing -- February and August -- will become the major markets. It fits the international product development and production timeline required to mesh with current retail rollout schedules," he said.
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The guest speaker will be Texas Farm Bureau State Director Russell W. Boening.
The bureau will adopt policies for the coming year. A steak dinner will be served. Tickets are $1 per member. There will be no plates to go.
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CITYFLO 450 - Bangkok, Thailand
With two lines covering a total of 55 km and 23 stations the BTS Skytrain first opened in 1999. The Sukhumvit Line runs North to East and the Silom Line interconnects at Siam station and serves the central business district of Bangkok.
Bombardier Transportation was awarded a contract to perform the resignalling of the whole BTS Skytrain route, without disruption, during continued operations. The first stage of this was the Silom line extension.
On the 15th of May 2009 the BTS Skytrain Silom Line Extension opened. The Silom Line Extension is the first of three deliveries for the BTS Skytrain and its operator, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and incorporates the CITYFLO 450 communication based train control (CBTC) system from Bombardier Transportation.
The complete installation includes eight stations on the Silom Line and 16 stations on the Sukhumvit Line and involves 49 trains of four different vehicle types. This includes 12 newly built 4-car EMUs supplied by the Changchun Railway Vehicles in China and based on the Bombardier MOVIA, which are being provided to ease current overcrowding on the BTS lines.
The communication based train control (CBTC) solution of the CITYFLO 450 system enables rail traffic headways to be reduced enabling higher numbers of passengers to be transported. The system does not require track circuits and uses balises for position referencing and precision stopping.
The solution is based on the successful and widely deployed Bombardier CITYFLO 350 system and inherits all the proven worldwide operational performance. Semiautomatic train operation (STO) functionality is provided with energy saving performance and the CBTC enables integration of for example SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), PIDs (passenger information displays) and other peripheral systems as needed for a complete train control system.


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