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Akron native Darius Carter has orally committed to play Division I college basketball at Wichita State University next season.
Carter is a sophomore forward at Vincennes University, a junior college in Indiana. He will have two years of eligibility to play at Wichita State, which is a Final Four participant this weekend.
Carter, who is 6-foot-7 and 230-pounds, graduated from Firestone High School in 2011. He can sign a national letter of intent later this month.
"We're obviously very happy and excited for Darius," Vincennes coach Todd Franklin said. "I think it will be an outstanding fit because [Shockers] coach [Gregg] Marshall and his staff do an outstanding job, and Darius will be a good player in that league [the Missouri Valley Conference].
"He played at an All-American level for us, but I think he can be even better. His best basketball could actually be ahead of him."
Carter averaged 15.8 points (tied for first on team) this season on 54 percent shooting and grabbed a team-leading 8.3 rebounds. He also blocked 70 shots as the Trailblazers (33-4) finished fourth in the NJCAA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship Tournament in Hutchinson, Kan. He was one of two Vincennes players named to the All-Tournament team after he scored 78 points and grabbed 32 rebounds in four tournament games.
As a freshman, Carter averaged 11.6 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. He made 53.6 percent from the field.
Carter played for coach Joe Wojcik at Firestone and earned All-City Series honors, in addition to being named to All-Northeast Ohio district and All-Ohio teams. Dave Milo, the Falcons current coach, was an assistant coach when Carter was in high school.
"I like Darius a lot," Milo said. "He is a great kid and comes from a very nice family. I still think he has some very good basketball ahead of him. I have seen him play a lot. The sky is really the limit for him because he is a hard worker."
Carter averaged around 23 points, 14 rebounds and five blocks per game his senior seasons at Firestone.


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Fireworks, Tivoli Beer Garden return for Danish Festival 50th celebration
GREENVILLE — It's still a work in progress, but the planning of the 50th celebration of the community's annual Danish Festival — set for Aug. 14-17 — is coming along nicely, according to event director Pam Jorae.
"The Danish Festival's board of directors has been working on this for a year now and we are getting excited for what we're planning, so far," Jorae said.
A couple of events absent last year that are returning are a fireworks display and the popular Tivoli Beer Garden, both of which will be held at Klackle Orchard and Pavilion.
The fireworks are being made possible by a $15,000 grant from the Greenville Area Community Foundation. The board hired Melrose Pyrotechnics, an international fireworks display company, for the event, which will be held at dusk Aug. 16.
The Tivoli Beer Garden, a popular night event for locals, visitors and for reunions, will include a live band each night, Aug. 15 and 16. The event will be open from 7 p.m. to midnight each night. More information will be provided later.
One of the bands featured at Klackle Orchard on Aug. 16 will be a Journey tribute band, which will perform from 7 to 9 p.m. Ticket information will be provided at later date.
Jorae and the board are seeking to invite as many past Danish queens as they can contact to be involved in this year's festival.
"We are up against a challenge to locate and contact as many past queens as possible," Jorae said. "We would love to have a lot of them attend and possibly have a queen's luncheon for them and have them in our Dansk Parade, as well."
Jorae said the board is also seeking historic photos of past Danish Festivals that may be included in future publications on the 50th celebration.
This year's festival will include the Art @ the Green event once again, which showcases local artists' talents throughout the business district of Greenville. A meet-and-greet gathering is scheduled for May 29 for artists, venue hosts and festival committee members. Opening day of viewing is July 29. Voting will be open then until Aug. 16.
Other traditional events are scheduled, such as the Lake of Illumination, a tractor pull, which will be held Aug. 15, a car show, which will be held at Kmart's parking lot, and Family Fun Day, which will be held once again at Baldwin Heights Elementary School.
The next item on the board's agenda is choosing artwork that will represent the 50th celebration of the Danish Festival, which this year's theme is "Little Red Shoes," after Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale.
Entry deadline for the event's poster contest is at 5 p.m. this Friday. Call the Danish Festival office for more information at (616) 754-6369.

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In Virginia, dissatisfaction on the right with former Sen. George Allen (R-VA) is causing many GOP activists to consider alternatives in the 2012 Republican Senate primary. The likely beneficiary of this discontent is Tea Party leader Jamie Radtke, who is positioning herself as the über-conservative alternative to Allen.
ThinkProgress sat down with Radtke this past weekend at The Awakening 2011, a gathering of social conservatives held at Liberty University. During the conversation, we discussed the role of the minimum wage in America. Radtke argued that "government setting price controls rather than letting the free market set it I think is a bad policy." Radtke went on to contend that the "time has come and gone" when women were underpaid, employers were "taking advantage of employees," and concern about factory conditions was justified. As a result, Radtke agreed that the minimum wage has outlived its usefulness.
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With the release of Madden NFL 25 the franchise will join three other EA franchises to have sold 100 million units. The Sims hit 100 million in 2008, Need for Speed in 2009 and FIFA in 2010.
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Bruce Reynolds
The gang leader, thief and antiques dealer who masterminded the robbery. Reynolds, nicknamed "Napoleon", was the most erudite of the train robbers. As well as getting rich he wanted to "make his mark" with a crime to go down in the history books - which he achieved.
Afterwards, he fled to Mexico on a false passport and was joined by his wife Angela and son Nick. They later moved on to Canada but the cash from the robbery ran out and he came back to England.
Five years after the heist, in 1968, a broke Reynolds was captured in Torquay and sentenced to 25 years in jail. He was released on parole in 1978 and moved, alone and penniless, into a tiny flat off London's Edgware Road.
In the 1980s he was jailed for three years for dealing amphetamines, which he still denies. In 1995 he wrote a successful set of memoirs.
He says the Great Train Robbery proved a curse which followed him around and no-one wanted to employ him, legally or illegally. "I became an old crook living on handouts from other old crooks," he says.
Ronald "Buster" Edwards
An ex-boxer, club owner and small-time crook who fled to Mexico after the heist but gave himself up in 1966. Edwards is widely believed to be the man who wielded the cosh used to hit train driver Jack Mills over the head.
Mills' family say he never recovered and he died seven years later. Edwards served nine years in jail and then became a familiar figure selling flowers outside Waterloo station in London.
He was the subject of the 1988 film Buster, in which he was played by Phil Collins. Edwards was found hanged in a garage in 1994 at the age of 62. Two wreaths in the shape of trains accompanied his funeral cortege.
Charlie Wilson
Wilson was the gang's "treasurer" who gave each of the robbers their cut of the haul. He was captured quickly and jailed for 30 years.
During the trial at Aylesbury Crown Court in 1964 he got the nickname "the silent man" as he refused to say anything at all. He was jailed for 30 years but escaped after just four months. He was captured again in Canada after four years on the run and served 10 more years in jail.
He was the final train robber to emerge from prison in 1978. He was later a suspect in a £100 million gold fraud. Wilson moved to Marbella, Spain, where he was shot and killed by a hitman on a bicycle in 1990.
Ronnie Biggs
Biggs, who had met Reynolds in jail, became the most famous of the train robbers after decades on the run. He was caught soon after the heist and jailed for 30 years. But in July 1965 he scaled the wall at Wandsworth Prison, jumped on to a removal van and got away.
Biggs fled to France, Spain, Australia and then Brazil where he made a new life and fathered a son. In old age and ill health he returned to Britain voluntarily in May last year to complete the rest of his 30-year sentence.
He is now in Belmarsh high security jail in London. His son Michael has repeatedly argued that 74-year-old Biggs is too ill to be kept in prison. While in Belmarsh Biggs finally married Michael's mother, Raimunda Rothen, 55.
Roy James
A silversmith and racing driver, once said to have beaten Jackie Stewart, James dreamed of investing his share of the loot in new car technology.
He was nicknamed "weasel" and was the chief getaway driver. James left a tell-tale fingerprint at the gang's farm hide-out after the heist. He was caught after a chase over rooftops in London and jailed for 30 years. He served 12.
He later sold silver from a market stall and then moved to Spain where he was a suspect in a jewellery theft. He was jailed again for six years in 1993 after shooting his wife's father and hitting her with a pistol.
He died at the age of 62 soon after getting out of prison.
Brian Field
A bent solicitor who the gang used for the conveyancing when they bought the farm hide-out used after the heist.
Reynolds regarded Field as the "weakest link" in the plan and felt if he was caught he would quickly co-operate with police. He still used Field because he was confident the gang would never be linked to the farm.
Field was arrested and sentenced to 25 years which was later reduced to five. He died in a motorway crash in 1979.
Tommy Wisbey
A bookie and self-confessed "heavy" whose job in the heist was to frighten the train staff. Wisbey was sentenced to 30 years and released in 1976. He was jailed for another 10 years in 1989 for cocaine dealing and later ran a flower stall.
On release from prison he went to live in north London and suffered several strokes. His daughter embarked on a long relationship with the gangster "Mad" Frankie Fraser.
Bobby Welch
A nightclub owner who was sentenced to 30 years in jail and was released in 1976. He was later left crippled after an operation on his leg went wrong.
After jail he became a car dealer and gambler in London. He was once suspected of dishonestly handling diamonds but cleared.
Gordon Goody
A hairdresser who was jailed for 30 years and released in 1975. Goody moved to Spain to run a bar. He was later suspected of cannabis smuggling but cleared.
James Hussey
A decorator known as "Big Jim" who was sentenced to 30 years and released in 1975. Hussey later worked on a market stall and then opened a Soho restaurant. He notched up a conviction for assault in 1981 and in 1989 was jailed for seven years for a drug smuggling conspiracy with fellow train robber Tommy Wisbey.
Roger Cordrey
Part of the South Coast Raiders gang, Cordrey was a florist and was considered by Reynolds to be very discreet and one of the least likely train robbers to be caught.
He was arrested in Bournemouth after having the bad luck to rent a lock-up from a policeman's widow. He was jailed for 20 years which was reduced to 14 on appeal.
When he was released in 1971 he remained discreet as ever, going back to the flower business and moving to the West Country.
Jimmy White
A former paratrooper described as "quartermaster" for the robbery. White was on the run for three years before being caught in Kent and sentenced to 18 years. He was released in 1975 and went to live in Sussex.
Bill Boal
An engineer who was arrested with Cordrey in possession of £141,000. Reynolds says he had never heard of Boal. He claims Boal was not involved in the robbery and was "an innocent man".
Boal was charged with receiving stolen goods and jailed for 24 years which was reduced to 14 on appeal. He died of cancer in jail in 1970.
Leonard Field
A former merchant seaman Field was sentenced to 25 years which was later reduced to five years. He was released from jail in 1967 and went to live in north London.
John Wheater
A solicitor who was sentenced to three years for conspiring to pervert the course of justice. He was released in 1966 and went to live in Surrey.
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But in a strongly worded statement, Dr Elder also lashed out at the stricken state-owned coal miner, saying it was always his intention to appear before MPs but he was prevented from doing so by the company itself.
Dr Elder resigned as chief executive early last month just two weeks before the company revealed it was in talks with the Government and its banks over a crippling $389 million debt burden.
His absence when the company underwent its financial review before Parliament's commerce committee last week fuelled controversy over his management of the firm and led to Opposition calls for him to front.
Last night, he said he had "always been willing to answer any question members of the committee may have about Solid Energy and my time as its chief executive".
"I made myself available to assist the Solid Energy team at last week's sitting of the committee, but was advised that I was not required to be present", he said in the statement.
"I have never refused to co-operate. I will endeavour to help the committee in any way I can, subject to the lifting of obligations imposed on me by Solid Energy."
The committee had previously asked that Dr Elder attend last week's financial review if Solid Energy thought it "appropriate", but he did not appear.
At that review, it emerged that Dr Elder was still on the payroll and chairman Mark Ford said he would have no problem if he appeared.
Solid Energy last night confirmed it would place no constraint on Dr Elder appearing but it could not compel him do so.
Labour's state-owned enterprises spokesman, Clayton Cosgrove, who claims the Government was "asleep at the wheel" while Solid Energy made a series of poor investment decisions, has led calls for Dr Elder to appear. He is also calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the company's problems.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the company said reports that Dr Elder was still receiving a $1.3 million salary were incorrect. She said his $850,000 base salary before performance-based incentives was more likely to reflect his current pay rate.
In response to Mr Cosgrove's calls for a parliamentary inquiry, committee chairman Jonathan Young said he wanted to hear what Dr Elder said at the hearing, which will take place on Thursday. Dr Elder is scheduled to appear for 45 minutes but Mr Cosgrove and other Opposition MPs are likely to call for that time to be extended.
Prime Minister John Key, who has said Solid Energy's problems began under the previous Labour Government, said last week he was "relaxed" about Dr Elder appearing.
SOE Minister Tony Ryall, whose oversight of the company has been questioned by the Opposition, said he didn't care "either way" whether Dr Elder appeared.
Former Solid Energy chairman John Palmer says he will appear at the commerce select committee on Thursday alongside Elder if the committee wants him.
Mr Palmer, who is the current chairman of Air New Zealand, told Radio New Zealand this morning he had conveyed that to State-owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall.
Statement from Don Elder, former Chief Executive of Solid Energy:
"It is my intention to appear before Parliament's Commerce Select Committee on Thursday 14 March 2013, pending approval from my employer.
"I have always been willing to answer any questions Members of the Committee may have about Solid Energy and my time as its Chief Executive. I made myself available to assist the Solid Energy team at last week's sitting of the Committee, but was advised that I was not required to be present. I have never refused to cooperate.
"I will endeavour to help the Committee in any way I can, subject to the lifting of obligations imposed on me by Solid Energy.
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From 11:00 o'clock on, the day was busy. Mr. Aubrey Williams was there and together we visited the NYA grounds, buildings and shops. The plant is certainly a good one, but the best of plants will mean little unless the boys have the right spirit. The head of the council, who was my guide, came down from Middletown, N. Y., and seemed to be a fine young man well equipped to fill his position as leader.
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I think this NYA center should be one of the best training centers in the state, and I am very happy to have had a part in its dedication.
We flew home and were in a fog the last part of the way, so I was surprised when we came down to find that we had actually reached Poughkeepsie, though we had not seen the ground for some time. I was home at my cottage for an 8:00 o'clock supper.
Yesterday we had a belated birthday party for my brother. He has a great many warm friends and they gathered together here from as far west as St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. George Bye, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Deans were responsible for some very original entertainment, including the importation of the Gay Nineties Quartette.
All of our guests were gone by 4:30, but since I was expecting my cousin, Mrs. Hall Rathbone, and her two sons, I put off going in for my second swim until their arrival. The weather was cool and clear yesterday afternoon and I could almost feel a suggestion of autumn as we sat out on the porch in the evening. I know, however, that this is a little premature and that by next week I shall be groaning about the heat.
We had quite a large picnic lunch today, at which the group gathered together violated all the rules that I was taught in my youth. We had a good time as a group, and yet none of us knew beforehand whether we had anything in common or not.


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Doubledays Postponed, Will Play Doubleheader on Wednesday
August 9, 2011 1:01 PM ET
Auburn, NY - Due to torrential rain at Falcon Park, Tuesday night's game between the Auburn Doubledays and the Vermont Lake Monsters has been postponed until Wednesday. The Doubledays will play a doubleheader on Wednesday with game one starting at 6:05pm.
Fans with tickets to Tuesday night's game can reimburse them for tickets to another Doubledays game based on availability. All reimbursements must take place in person at the Doubledays' box office.
For tickets to Wednesday's doubleheader, please visit www.auburndoubledays.com.


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Architect designs tornado shelters for schools
ST. LOUIS—Brad Erwin was in junior high that day in August 1990 when a tornado destroyed much of his hometown of Plainfield, Illinois, including two schools.
Twenty-nine people died during the storm. Erwin believes the death toll would have been much higher had it been one day later, when hundreds of children were to fill classrooms and start the school year.
Now he's obsessed with preventing such a scenario.
Erwin runs an architecture company in Springfield, Missouri, that designs and builds tornado safe rooms in schools — structures with walls and ceilings so strong, and footings so deep, they should withstand winds stronger than those that destroyed schools in Oklahoma City this week.
Building Rooms In Missouri
In three years, Erwin's company, Paragon Architecture, has worked on 37 tornado safe rooms at schools and community centers across Missouri. The company also has an office in Joplin, Missouri, where it worked with the school district to apply for grants to build 16 safe rooms in schools across the city.
A massive tornado hit Joplin in May 2011, killing 161 people. Tornadoes are rated on the Fujita scale from 1-5. An F1 is the weakest category. Joplin's 2011 tornado and the one that struck near Oklahoma City on Monday were both rated F5 because they caused death and injuries.
Whenever there's a tornado, Erwin sees a rise in interest. Tuesday alone, he received half a dozen calls from schools and businesses.
"Unfortunately, it takes events like these to remind us that we have to protect ourselves," he said. On a national level, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and tornadoes in recent years are behind a building boom in safe rooms. They're designed to hold large numbers of people at community centers and in schools.
The structures must be able to survive debris driven by 250 mile-per-hour winds, Erwin says. Walls are made of precast concrete slabs and insulation, 14 inches thick. Any glass used for windows must be able to withstand a 2-by-4 shot at it from a cannon.
Federal Funding Available
The Federal Emergency Management Agency encourages the construction of safe rooms, offering to pick up 75 percent of the tab if school districts or local governments successfully apply for funding. In Missouri, applications for these hazard mitigation grants go through the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency.
Tornado safe rooms have been built at 58 schools or community sites across the state since 2004, according to the state emergency management agency. An additional 86 are being planned, including one in the city of Charlack in north St. Louis County.
In Illinois, "Interest in the grant program is continuing," said Patti Thompson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. "We expect there may be more in the future." She wasn't immediately able to provide a list of safe room locations.
No such safe rooms have been built in the St. Louis area — at least none using federal hazard mitigation money, according to the information from the Missouri emergency management agency.
Nearly all of the tornado safe rooms are being built in rural areas, mostly in the southern part of the state.
Big Shelter On College Campus
Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, has one of the largest tornado shelters in the state, masquerading as an academic building. Davidson Hall is a two-story structure housing the biology, chemistry and health and sciences programs. It has classrooms, hallways and lounges. "Every part of it is functional on a daily basis," said Amy Rand, associate vice president for academic affairs. "There is not any space that is only used during a storm."
The $4 million structure opened in 2011 and can hold up to 3,000 people. And the school is working on a plan to build a similar shelter at its Webb City campus. In January, a $2.5 million safe room opened in Jasper, Missouri, on the campus that holds students in preschool through 12th grade.
The room is used as a cafeteria and gym. There's enough space for 1,615 people — more than the town's population. The room must be open to anyone in town whenever the sirens sound. In the past month, Superintendent Rick Stark has had to go to the school in the middle of the night to open the room three times.
"I have to take it very seriously," he said. "You never know when a warning is going to turn into something."
In northwestern Missouri, the Mid-Buchanan School District has applied for a grant to build a safe room that would hold 1,000 people. It would be on a campus used by children in preschool through 12th grade.
"Obviously your odds of being hit by a tornado are slim," Superintendent John James said. "But to have the peace of mind that you have a building that will withstand an F5 tornado and you could have your entire school safe is a nice thing to have."


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After much (deliberate?) delay, the release dates of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP have been confirmed.
Yes, I said dates because as is usual for the launch of such a major patch Microsoft is doing it in stages. Consequently OEMs will be getting SP3 first on 21 April with it appearing on Windows Update on 29 April. There is then a wait until 10 June when SP3 will become an automatic update for all XP users in a resistance-is-futile kinda way.
Not that resistance should be mounted in this case, after all - unlike the teething problems in Vista's first Service Pack - XP3 is expected to be a straightforward upgrade which improves security and overall system performance. In fact, independent tests have shown productivity speed boosts by as much as 10 per cent - something Microsoft has actually tried to keep quiet so as not to harm sales of resource heavy Vista.
Flies in the ointment? Well naturally enough, expect there to be the odd XP3 induced grumbles from extreme legacy hardware and software users here and there - but the feedback I have had from XP3 RC2 testers is it has been pretty much plain sailing and systems do indeed feel snappier.
Toying with upgrading to Vista? Here's another reason not to...


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Philip Gerson's Play 'Night' to Play FringeNYC in Aug.
The Occasional Theatre will�present the world premiere of�Night by Philip Gerson, as part of the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC at the Connelly Theatre, 220 East 4th Street (between Avenues A�and B) on�Friday,�August�10th�at 9:30pm;�Sunday, August 19th at 2:15pm, Monday, August 20th�at 6:30pm;�Wednesday, August 22nd�at 9:45pm; and�Saturday, August�25th at 4:15pm.
The cast includes: Grant Aleksander (of "The Guiding Light" and "All My Children"), Josh Clayton, Jenn Miller Cribbs, Veronica Cruz, Laurence Lau (of "Another World" and "All My Children"), and Maureen Mueller.� The designers are: Sets by Kerry Chipman; Costumes by Cheryl McCarron; Lights by G. Benjamin Swope and Sound by Stefano Zazzera, and the new play is directed by Michael Lilly.���
Night�"tells the dramatic and whimsical story of three couples of different generations who find themselves at life-changing crossroads over one night in NYC.� At the wedding of a young couple, the bride gets cold feet and runs away, and hides in the laundromat at which she worked when she escaped here from Latin America.� Nearby, a middle-aged couple's plans to celebrate their 20th anniversary are ruined, revealing deeper fractures in their relationship because of a tragic secret.� And at a gym, a hot-shot realtor and a young woman with mysterious abilities hook up, seemingly by accident, and turn out to be just what the other needs, but is afraid to face.� Their journeys take them all over night-time NYC, as they intersect with one another, and with a mysterious old woman, who may or may not be a ghost. By dawn, each has begun to unlock the fear that has kept them from fully living," state press notes.
Philip Gerson has written for theatre, television and film.� He wrote for�TV's "Murder She Wrote" (for which he was Story Editor) and "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" (for which he was Co-Executive Producer).�
Gerson's work for theatre includes the book for the musical, The Last Metro, based on Francois Truffaut's film, which was produced by Musical Theatre Works (NYC), and the Colony Theatre (LA).� He also wrote the books for the musical parodies, Fiddler on the West Hollywood Roof and West Hollywood Gypsy, produced in Los Angeles by Charity Parody Productions with the special permission of the original authors to benefit AIDS charities.� He has also wrote and produced the television series "Christy", "Legacy", "Just Cover Me" and "Mysterious Ways"; and wrote the TV movie, "A Change Of Seasons." He is the recipient of the Film Advisory Board Award, The Prism Award from the Entertainment Industry Council, and the Dialogue Award from the Institute for Mental Health.�
All tickets are $15.� For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org�or call, in New York: (212) 279-4488, or outside New York:�1-888-FringeNYC.�� Tickets go on sale July 20th. The box office at FringeCENTRAL opens in August, Noon to 8pm, for sales - Cash or Credit Card.� Visit www.night-the-play.com for more information.


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Society is changing fast on the mainland - so fast that laws are needed to protect age-old traditions. The coming into force on Monday of a legal requirement for children to visit and take care of elderly parents shows just how far culture has shifted. But as much as the move is about preserving family values, it is also a necessity for a nation that is quickly ageing while still developing. Putting it in place is a timely and welcome decision.
[1]Traditions are bound to come under pressure when confronted by rapid development. Filial piety may be taught from a young age, but it can easily be neglected or even forgotten when opportunities arise. The flood of people from the nation's poor central and western regions to the industrialised eastern provinces has left many elderly parents at home to take care of children or fend for themselves. By some estimates they number 100 million - more than half of the over-60s population.
The UN believes that the number of people over 60 will almost triple by 2050, and that has grave health and economic implications. Living in cities far from parents' rural villages also gives children an "out of sight, out of mind" mindset. A Jiangsu court's prompt enforcement of the new Law on Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, therefore, sends the timeliest of messages. A couple, sued by an elderly mother for ignoring her, have been ordered to pay a visit at least every two months and give compensation.
It is common practice in developed nations for children to put their elderly parents in homes for the aged. Once there, it is easy to forget them. Many complain they are neglected. This is not a path China, with its age challenge and the complications created by the one-child policy, can be allowed to follow. Continuing with tradition, the elderly should be respected and taken care of, in recognition of their child-rearing, knowledge and contribution to society. The law, while not a solution to the challenges of an ageing population, goes a way to ensuring obligations are met.


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Dave ShivelyDave Shively's outdoors column appears Sundays in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. Contact him at 871-4253 or e-mail email@example.com.
Steamboat Springs During American wrestling icon Rulon Gardner's speech at Steamboat Springs High School on Thursday, the massive Greco-Roman gold medalist turned motivational speaker talked about what drove him to be the man he knew he could become.
But not until late in the speech - in his sixth of seven steps to tapping personal potential - did he reveal his most telling battle. No, it wasn't the one about winning Olympic gold against the 15-pound Russian baby who would grow up to become undefeated wrestling legend Alexander Karelin. It was the one against himself, courtesy of Mother Nature.
Gardner used only a few brief sentences to talk about the backcountry outing on Valentine's Day 2002 that almost cost him his life. Separated from two friends while snowmobiling in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest, Gardner lodged his sled in the river of a tight gully. After trying in vain to hike out, he slipped while pulling the 600-pound machine and plunged chest deep into the river. Wearing only a T-shirt, sweatshirt and a fleece top, Gardner decided to hunker down for the night in a clump of trees. He spent the next 15 hours in temperatures that dipped to 25 degrees below zero, trying to stay awake until a search plane spotted him the next morning. When the LifeFlight helicopter eventually found (it was delayed, ironically, by the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City), his core temperature was only 80 degrees.
Doctors sawed off his frozen right boot to save his frostbitten feet and all but one of his toes.
Gardner told the youth wrestlers who gathered around him Thursday about his recovery. Although being told he would never walk or wrestle again, he went on to win bronze in 2004.
On Friday, I asked Gardner about the snowmobiling incident.
Waking up to a snowy Steamboat morning, Gardner said he now realizes just how "pretty and deadly" winter weather can be.
He said that night in the wilderness is always on his mind, and he now is religious about making sure he's prepared and taking the right equipment. This includes the one vital element that could have made all the difference - the ability to make a fire. Sounding like a polished motivational speaker, Gardner said he chalked up his survival to setting a single-minded goal and sticking to it.
"I never thought I'd die, but I knew if I stopped fighting I was going to," he said. After realizing he could not expend energy wrestling his sled or even pulling off his boots to massage his feet, he accepted his inability to save himself and knew he needed to make it through the night without falling asleep.
Feeling your body freeze and life begging to escape from your body begs the question, "Just how much fight would I have?"
I plan to hold on to a lighter so I never have to ask.


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I promise I promise I promise ... Mini photo this weekend! Got home tonight and finally got my lawn furniture out. About time, right? Pulled some weeds that had shown their little faces and watered some new hostas I'd picked up on the way home. Things are dry here ... soybeans are being planted and the soil is like dust! Hot weekend planned and no rain in site. Not good!


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Did you just buy a new computer with all the trimmings — a 21–inch monitor, a color printer, maybe a high–speed scanner? Don't get too attached to your brand–new toys. Your computer will be considered hopelessly out–of–date in a little more than three years. Be prepared to call the monitor ancient in four to seven years, and the new printer or scanner will no longer be state–of–the–art in three to five years.1
While these incredibly short life span estimates reveal the fast pace of technological change, they also highlight a growing problem: there are millions of computers in offices and homes that have become nothing more than heavy, expensive clutter.
Many obsolete computers have been thrown in landfills, or were sent to gather dust in storerooms, basements, or attics. Some people who are currently stockpiling old machines are reluctant to part with them because they believe the equipment may still be valuable. This is rarely the case, however — stored computer equipment becomes less valuable by the year.
Instead of hanging on to your old Commodore 64, imagining that one day it may achieve its former glory, it's time to look into donating your equipment to a worthy recipient or into recycling it. Staples takes old computers and related equipment even if they were purchased elsewhere. Sending this old technology to Staples is an easy, green alternative.
Although it is inevitable that your computer will be outmoded someday, you can prolong someday by taking care of your machine. The following tips will help you get more mileage out of your equipment:
If you're upgrading your entire system and your old model still works, consider donating it to someone who can use it — perhaps an elementary school in your area, an employee for home use, a friend with children, or a charity that needs computers. Many non–profit organizations rely solely on donations to have working computers. Be aware that many organizations that accept computer donations can be picky — with good reason. Don't give away something that doesn't work or that is so slow it's unusable and can't be upgraded. Many organizations have requirements that the donated computers must have processors that are 486 or higher — and many require Pentium processors. Keep this in mind when searching for a recipient.
A computer donation may be tax–deductible, so you'll need to determine what your computer is worth, and get a receipt for your donation. If the value of the machine you're donating is more than $250, consult your tax advisor for details of the records you'll need to have at tax time.
"Recycling electronic equipment...conserves energy and raw materials and reduces pollution in manufacturing by allowing product constituents, such as metals and plastics, to be reclaimed and used in other products."
Never throw a computer or its accessories in the trash. In addition to taking up space and disintegrating extremely slowly in landfills, toxic chemicals can be released into the environment when electronic equipment such as computers are landfilled or incinerated. The cathode ray tubes (CRTs) in computer monitors contain lead; circuit boards contain chromium, nickel, and zinc; batteries contain mercury and heavy metals such as nickel and cadmium; and relays and switches can consist of mercury.³
Many states have implemented programs to prevent electronic equipment from ending up in landfills and the dangerous chemicals from being released into the air and water. According to the National Recycling Coalition, due to "...the presence of these hazardous or toxic substances, state and federal hazardous waste regulations may apply to handling disposal of certain types of electronic equipment. These regulations make businesses potentially liable for improper disposal of electronics."
Visit the Staples EcoEasy site for more information about what you can do with your old computers.
If your equipment is too old to upgrade, no longer functions properly, or will need extensive repairs to get back to workable condition, it's time to recycle the components. This is the best option for a computer that no one will use. According to the National Recycling Coalition, "Recycling electronic equipment...conserves energy and raw materials and reduces pollution in manufacturing by allowing product constituents, such as metals and plastics, to be reclaimed and used in other products."
Finding a company that will take your equipment is easy. Many organizations exist in all areas of the country that can safely recycle your equipment. The National Recycling Coalition provides a searchable database of equipment recyclers and reuse groups across the country. Also look in the Yellow Pages under "recycling" or "computer recycling" to find a company in your area that specializes in reprocessing computer components.
Be aware that you will need to drop off your equipment at the recycling organization and pay a nominal fee for each piece of equipment recycled. Many organizations will pick up the equipment if your total recyclable load is over a certain weight and it has been arranged on pallets. This is a good option for a business with a fleet of outdated computers. The fees and effort involved in recycling are small prices to pay for the benefits — a cleaner environment and a clutter–free workspace.
1National Safety Council, Electronic Product Recovery and Recycling Baseline Report: Recycling of Selected Electronic Products in the United States, 1999.
3National Recycling Coalition, "How to Properly Manage Your Old Electronic Equipment," http://www.nrc–recycle.org/Programs/electronics/managing.htm.
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Nat Lofthouse OBE (27th August 1925 - 15th January 2011)
This site celebrates the life and career of one of English football's greatest and most legendary players, Nat Lofthouse OBE.
An England international, Lofthouse played his entire club career for his home town club, Bolton Wanderers, scoring 255 goals in 452 league appearances.
Capped 33 times by the Three Lions, Lofthouse picked up the nickname 'the Lion of Vienna' after his two goals against Austria and represented England in the 1954 World Cup.
Winning the FA Cup with Wanderers in 1958, Lofthouse is regarded as a Bolton club legend, with a statue dedicated to his achievements set to be unveiled ahead of the Queens Park Rangers game on Saturday 24th August, with proceedings starting at 10.30am with a number of former Wanderers players and Nat's family in attendance.
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white stains
Every time a wash my clothes, white stains, like tried soap powder on my clothings. Some times its hard to get the stains out the clothing. It is the washing machine?
I'd take your agitator out and clean the underside of the agitator and the bottom of the spin basket under where the agitator was.
Also, most washers have a "clothes guard" fastened to the top of the outer drain basket to prevent clothes from either getting out of the inner spin basket or rubbing against the underside of the top of the washing machine. Clean the underside of that clothes guard.
What you're probably dealing with is soap scum; the same stuff that accumulates in your bath tub. Soap is soluble in water because one end of the soap molecule is polar and has an apparant negative charge. There is therefore an attraction between that end of the soap molecule and polar water molecules, and so soap molecules dissolve in water. But, hardness in the water, like Calcium++ and Iron+ ions react with these soap molecules and neutralize the apparant negative charge on them, causing them to lose their solubility in water, and precipitate out as soap scum. So, soap scum is nothing more than soap that has lost it's solubility in water, which is why you find these white stains hard to remove.
You can't remove them with soap and water because soap scum isn't soluble in water, but anything that you use to clean a bathtub should remove these white marks, especially a phosphoric acid based bathroom or toilet bowl cleaner. Phosphoric acid is the active ingredient in most bathroom cleaners because it'll cut through soap scum like a knife without harming chrome plating. Higher concentrations of phosphoric acid are commonly found in toilet bowl cleaners.
The difference between a "soap" and a detergent is that soap is a natural product made from animal fat (but usually vegetable oils) and a strong alkali. If caustic soda (NaOH) is used to make the soap, the result is a hard bar soap, typical of the stuff sold in your local supermarket. If potassium hydroxide (KOH) is used to make the soap, the result is a soft soap, like those used in hand lotions or shaving creams. Detergents, on the other hand, are synthetic soaps, made from chemicals in a lab. Because detergents are synthetic, they can be formulated to not react with the hardness in water to form a soap scum. This is precisely why you normally get a soap scum in your bathtub and bathroom sink, but never in your kitchen sink. It's because you normally use soap in your bathroom and detergents in your kitchen sink.
From the above, one would expect you shouldn't get a soap scum in your washing machine either because you use detergents in it as well. However, there's nothing else I can think of that would leave a "WHITE" stain on clothes other than soap scum. Are you using bar soap to remove marks from the clothes before laundering them?
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Our word "soap" almost certainly comes from the name of Mount Sopa" in Italy. During Roman times, Mount Sopa was THE place to sacrifice small animals to the Gods in exchange for favours or good fortune. Roman citizens would light a fire, kill and cremate the dead animal on a spit, and the fat would drip off the animal and mix with the ashes from the wood used to burn it, forming a crude form of soap. Roman women noticed that clothes washed in the streams flowing down Mount Sopa after a rain would come cleaner than usual, and the reason was undoubtedly due to the crude soap that was washed down the mountain from the sacrificial fires.
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Information Literacy Program
Seven Steps to Effective Library Research
A simple yet effective strategy for finding information for a research paper, writing the paper and documenting the sources, including advice on specific aspects of library research
Step One: Identify and Develop Your Topic
Step Two: Find Background Information
Step Three: Find Books Using the Library Catalog
Step Four: Find Periodical Articles Using Indexes
Step Five: Evaluate What You Find
Step Six: Use the Web to Find Internet Resources
Step Seven: Cite What You Find
STEP ONE: IDENTIFY A TOPIC: How to Find and Develop a Viable Research Topic
A. Suggestions for Finding a Topic
- Discuss your topic ideas with your class instructor.
- Discuss your topic ideas with a reference librarian. It may be wise to set up a research consultation if your project is lengthy.
- Scan relevant titles in the Payson Reference databases, such as CQ Researcher or Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Look over the index and the article titles in a specialized encyclopedia that covers the subject area or discipline of your topic (for example, psychology, United States social history, women's studies, linguistics, environmental studies, etc.). For more details on finding and using subject encyclopedias and other background sources, see Step 2.
B. State your topic as a question.
For example, if you are interested in finding out about use of alcoholic beverages by college students, you might pose the question,
"What effect does use of alcoholic beverages have on the health of college students?"
C . Identify the main concepts or keywords in your question (alcoholic beverages, college students, health).
D. Test Your Topic.
- Test the main concepts or keywords in your topic by looking them up in the appropriate background sources or by using them as search terms in the Pepperdine Library Catalog or electronic databases.
- If you are finding too much information and too many sources, narrow your topic by using the and operator: beer and health and college students, for example.
- Finding too little information may indicate that you need to broaden your topic.
For example, look for information on students, rather than college students.
Link synonymous search terms with or: alcoholic beverages or beer or wine or liquor.
Once you have identified the main topic and keywords for your research, find one or more sources of background information to read. These sources will help you understand the broader context of your research and tell you in general terms what is known about your topic. The most common background sources are encyclopedias and dictionaries from the print reference collection or online reference book collections, such as Gale Virtual Reference Library or Oxford Reference Online. Textbooks also provide background information.
You can find encyclopedias and dictionaries for specific topics by searching the catalog, by consulting a reference bibliography (an annotated bibliography of selected reference sources on a specific subject), or by asking a reference librarian to suggest appropriate titles.
Read the background information and note any useful sources (books, journals, magazines, etc.) mentioned in any included bibliography. These sources are good starting points for further research. Look them up in the catalog or Journal Search.
Remember that many of the books and articles you find will themselves have bibliographies. Check these bibliographies for additional relevant resources. Watch for book-length bibliographies and annual reviews on your subject; they list citations to hundreds of books and articles in one subject area. Check the standard subject subheading "--BIBLIOGRAPHIES," or titles beginning with Annual Review of... in the catalog.
By using this technique of routinely following up on sources cited in bibliographies, you can generate a surprisingly large number of books and articles on your topic in a relatively short time.
The first resource for finding books, videorecordings, or sound recordings is the WorldCat Local Search. If you are unfamiliar with using WorldCat Local, consult the WorldCat Local Tutorial.
Write down the citation (author, title, etc.) and the location information (call number and exact location). Check the circulation status to see if the item is available.
To find videos on a specific subject, do a keyword search combining the word videorecording and your subject term.
If Pepperdine does not own the title you are seeking and you have time, please take advantage of our free interlibrary loan service. As always, if you need help, check at the reference desk.
Periodicals are continuous publications such as journals, newspapers, or magazines. They are issued regularly (daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly). The catalog includes records for all the periodicals which are received by all Pepperdine University Libraries. When you have a citation to a specific article, you can find its location in the Pepperdine Libraries by using the library catalog or Journal Search.
The catalog does not include information on all the articles within those periodicals. To find periodical articles when you don't have a complete citation to a specific article, use online databases or periodical indexes.
First determine what kind of periodicals you want. Do you want scholarly journals, newspapers and substantive news sources, or popular magazines?
Learn more about the differences among scholarly journals, newspapers, and popular magazines.
If you want all three kinds of articles, use the electronic databases Research Library, Academic Search Elite, or LexisNexis Academic. If you want articles from scholarly or research journals, ask a reference librarian to recommend an index for your topic. If you want newspaper articles, use Research Library Newspapers, Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost) LexisNexis Academic, Dow Jones Interactive or the indexes to the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times. If you want popular magazines, use Research Library, Academic Search Elite or the Reader's Guide Retrospective.
At Pepperdine, periodicals are shelved alphabetically by title. On the second floor of Payson Library the latest issues are on display. Most older bound volumes are shelved nearby on the second floor. Some lesser used titles are in compact shelving on the first floor.
Evaluating the sources you find is a crucial step in the process of library research. Initial questions you ask about books, periodical articles, or multimedia sources are similar whether you're looking at a citation to the item or have the item in hand:
- Author: What are the author's credentials--educational background, past writings, or experience? Is the book or article written on a topic in the author's area of expertise? Biography Resource Center or the biographical information located in the publication itself can be used to determine the author's credentials. Has your instructor mentioned this author? Have you seen the author's name cited in other sources or bibliographies? Respected authors are cited frequently by other scholars. For this reason, always note those names that appear in many different sources. Is the author associated with an institution or organization? What are the basic values or goals of the organization or institution?
- Date of Publication: When was the source published? This date is often located on the face of the title page below the name of the publisher. If it is not there, look for the copyright date on the reverse of the title page. On Web pages, the date of the last revision is usually at the bottom of the home page, sometimes every page. Is the source current or out-of-date for your topic? Topic areas of continuing and rapid development, such as the sciences, demand more current information. On the other hand, topics in the humanities often require material that was written many years ago.
- Edition or Revision: Is this a first edition of this publication or not? Further editions indicate a source has been revised and updated to reflect changes in knowledge or to include omissions. Also, many printings or editions may indicate that the work has become a standard source in the area and is reliable.
- Publisher: If the source is published by a university press, it is likely to be scholarly. If the publisher is an institution or organization, what are the basic values or goals of that organization or institution?
- Coverage: Is the material primary or secondary in nature? Primary sources are the raw material of the research process. Secondary sources are based on primary sources. For example, if you were researching the Oregon Trail, a diary kept by one of the pioneers is a primary source, while a book using that diary is a secondary source.
An efficient search of the World Wide Web will produce hits that target your subject interest very accurately. In addition to letting you search for words/phrases, some sites (like Yahoo) allow you to explore their listings through a hierarchical subject index. This is helpful if you want to see what might be available in a general category. Knowing how to search efficiently can save you a lot of time and frustration -- but remember: not everything is available on-line and not everything you can think of even exists.
Try several search engines -- they are not identical in how they search their own index or what sites they have indexed or how recently. A selection of search engines/directories plus tips on searching is available at Searching the Internet.
A good web site (useful, reliable):
- Clearly states the author and/or organizational source of the information. Consider the qualifications, other works, and organizational affiliation of the author. Consider the credentials, viewpoint, or agenda of the organization.
- Clearly states the date the material was written and the date the site was last revised. If the information is not current enough for your purposes or the date is not given, look elsewhere.
- Provides accurate data whose parameters are clearly defined. Compare the data found on the Web site with data found in other sources (encyclopedias, reference books, articles, etc.) for accuracy, completeness, and recency. Ask a librarian if there are other important sources to check for this information.
- Provides the type and level of information you need. Decide whether the level of detail and comprehensiveness, the treatment of the topic (e.g., scholarly or popular), and the graphics or other features are acceptable. Find out if there is a published version or other edition which might be more comprehensive, recent, or easy to use. If the site does not provide the depth of coverage you need, look elsewhere.
- Keeps bias to a minimum and clearly indicates point of view. Be aware that producing a Web page does not require the checking and review that publishing a scholarly book requires; you might have retrieved someone's personal opinion on the topic. Appealing graphics can distract you from noticing even overt bias, so heighten your skepticism and examine the evidence (source, date, accuracy).
- Provides live links to related high quality Web sites. Click on several of the links provided to see if they are active and to see if they are useful. An "error" message indicates that the links are not being maintained. Check to see if the criteria are stated for selecting the links.
- Is clearly organized and designed for ease of use. Move around the page to see if its organization makes sense and it is easy to return to the top or to the sections you need. Decide whether the graphics enhance the content or detract from it.
- In the case of commercial sites, keeps advertising separate from content, and does not let advertisers determine content. Look at the Web address: ".com" means the site is produced by a company and may be commercial, have advertising, or offer to sell something.
Your professor may require a specific citation format. You may be required to use the citation guidelines established by American Psychological Association (APA) or Modern Languages Association (MLA). The following style manuals are available at the Payson Reference Desk:
- Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2010.
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
- MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3nd ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2008.
- Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 7th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
If you are writing an annotated bibliography, see How to prepare an annotated bibliography
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Katy Perry took whimsical to a whole new level this year at the 28th Annual MTV VMAs which aired LIVE Sunday, August 28th from Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The pop star showed up looking like a candy-land cartoon. With pink hair, Asian inspired umbrella and a mini dress in a sickly teal green,those little napkin looking flaps are not exactly flattering. It also doesn't help that Russell Brand is wearing only blacks and grays, making Katy's colors even harder on the eyes. It's understandable that Katy Perry has an album and a theme to promote and yes, she does have to compete with Lady Gaga, but she is such a pretty girl. One wishes that she would go classy rather than campy for these events.
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An increasing number of people use the Internet on a regular basis to help them with their daily lives. The shop on-line, get the medication on-line, do their banking on-line and even, sometimes, find the love of their life on-line.
Now, the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department (BCVFD) has become the first non-profit organization in the area to go on-line to raise funds for a new firehouse as well as for operating expenses.
"This seems to be a painless way for people to help us by helping themselves as well," says Ed O'Hare, the organization's President. "The Website even sends you a form for your income tax at the end of the year showing how much you gave during the year."
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"People can shop on-line at the 400 or 500 stores at the igive.com virtual mall," O'Hare explained. "The mall includes such stores as Land's End, J.C. Penney, Barnes and Noble, Dell Computers, Adidas, Disney Store and many more."
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and girls –asking them several questions and collecting their opinions. Y-PEER
Bulgaria also produced a video. The beneficiaries of both events were young
people aged between 15-20 years. The aim of those activities was to increase
awareness about HIV/Aids.
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Philippines organized a peer Education Training on STI and HIV for
Established-based Sex Workers.
training was organized for the reduction of STI and HIV transmission by
effectively motivating peers to adopt safer sex, seek regular STI and HIV
testing and take care of their health in the Philippine setting. The objectives
of the training were to: understand the importance of Human Rights in advancing
Sexual and Reproductive Health of Sex workers and their over-all health and
well being; demonstrate interpersonal communication skills that are important
in motivating peers to adopt the desired behavior change and recognize that
appreciation of one's body and sexuality is key to empowering individuals to
protect their health and sexuality.
Bhutan organized an activity on HIV/AIDS awareness in villages at Tashiyangtse
community and Tashiyangtse vocational training institute.
program was organized mainly to educate the uneducated village youths on the
various measures needed to curb the HIV infection. The roles and
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Alfred Hospital CAT Team member David Niblock divides his time between stints on the road and in telephone "triage". The unit receives 1100 calls a month.
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Mobile troubleshooting teams have become the frontline of mental-health care in Victoria and deal with hundreds of patients. Liz Porter spent a day with the Alfred's Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team, the busiest in Victoria.
On a blustery Wednesday afternoon a young woman in her 20s is wandering, barefoot and carrying a backpack, around the streets of St Kilda. Shortly after 3.30pm, she walks into a local crisis centre, drops her backpack on the floor and tells staff she is "seeking asylum" from Australia and wants to speak to a domestic-violence counsellor. She does not, she says, want to be put in contact with local psychiatric services. But the staffer, alert to the confusion and delusions that are typical symptoms of psychotic illness, rings the Alfred Hospital's Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team anyway.
The call goes through to one of the two psychiatric nurses on "telephone triage", a job that involves sorting the 1100 calls that come in each month and deciding whether callers need a sympathetic listener, a referral, an urgent visit from one of the unit's mobile teams, an ambulance or the police. Some calls are simple requests for advice about family members with depression; others are urgent cries for help from people who tell the triage nurses they've taken an overdose. And there are also the calls from a small cast of regulars, a few of whom may sometimes call several times a day to talk about their anxieties or the "voices" they hear.
CAT teams, which number 19 in Victoria, were pioneered by the director of the Alfred's psychiatric unit, Associate Professor Peter Doherty, in 1987. They are now a basic element of the "de-institutionalised" and "care in the community"-based mental-health system. The Alfred's unit, staffed by 18 (and down by two, covered by specialist "nurse bank" casuals) is the gatekeeper of the hospital psychiatric wards, deciding which patients will be admitted, and which ones will be seen in their homes.
Hospitalisation isn't always the right thing. It's more for really acute cases. The team's main aim is to treat people within the community."
The word "crisis" in their title is certainly appropriate for some of their work. They're the ones, after all, called in when police receive reports of a woman holding a knife at her own throat, or of a man smashing shop windows on Toorak Road, as on a recent Sunday afternoon.
"He thought there was a (micro) chip in his head and he wanted an ultrasound to get rid of it," recalls psychiatric nurse Peter Mulder, who was on telephone triage that day. "The police told us his name and date of birth, and it turned out he had a history of schizophrenia, and had been (in the hospital) four years ago. The CAT team fetched him from the police station and admitted him."
But the "CAT team" title, with its suggestions of uniforms, speeding cars and flashing lights, is not representative of the daily routine. Most CAT team visits are a modern version of the traditional ward round, made sedately and by appointment. The only difference is that the patient is at home instead of on a ward.
Today, back at the St Kilda crisis centre, the barefoot woman doesn't want to talk to any CAT team nurse. There is "nothing wrong", she says. She storms out of the centre and tells staff she will call a domestic-violence service from a public phone. Visibly agitated, she walks up Grey Street and turns left into Fitzroy Street. There, the latte sippers, fearful of inviting a potentially disturbing encounter, avoid making eye contact.
Several kilometres to the east, in the CAT team's telephone triage room at the Alfred Hospital in Prahran, somebody is watching over her. Metaphorically, at least.
At 4.30pm, when the young woman walks into a Fitzroy Street shop and begins talking about wanting to find a domestic-violence crisis centre, her name is already up on the triage room's "alert" board a whiteboard listing the details of patients known to be unwell and missing from their usual accommodation.
Psychiatric nurse Troy Brown has just written it up there, moments after taking the call and realising he was speaking to the same woman he'd seen three nights earlier, when he'd been called to assess a patient who had just been brought in to the Alfred's Emergency department by police. Her family had reported her missing and the police had spotted her in a park. At the time she was not displaying psychotic behaviour and, because she did not live in the Alfred's catchment area, she was referred to her own GP for treatment.
At 4.35pm, David Niblock picks up the phone and takes a call from the receptionist in a Fitzroy Street shop, who is clearly alarmed by the young woman's chaotic and paranoid conversation. But in the time it takes for her to find the number and dial, the young woman walks out of the office, telling staff her life is in danger and she's going to the St Kilda Road police station.
"Call us back if she turns up again," says 29-year-old Niblock, who has been a psychiatric nurse for five years, including an 18-month stint in Edinburgh. He has been at the Alfred for just over a year and is studying for a post-graduate diploma in mental health a course that includes study of media perceptions of mental illness.
"Hospitalisation isn't always the right thing," he says. "It is more for really acute cases. And the Alfred seems to manage its beds well. The CAT team's main aim is to treat people in the community."
He glances at the whiteboard, where the young woman's name is one of 11 listed. The board also contains details with the numbers of psychiatric ward beds available (six, at the time).
"If she turns up (at the police station) we'll get a call," he says. "She does need to be seen."
Although she lives in an outer suburb, the young woman is now wandering around in their area. If she rings in tonight, one of the two Alfred mobile CAT teams will go to assess her.
It's now 4.55pm, 25 minutes after the end of his shift in the triage room, but Troy Brown is still at work, giving his colleague a thorough briefing on what he knows of the young woman's psychiatric history, which includes an admission to an outer suburban hospital for "drug-induced psychosis" associated with cocaine use.
Later in the evening, he takes several more calls about the woman. After leaving Fitzroy Street, she didn't go the police. Instead, dishevelled and increasingly psychotic, she went to a friend's home. After some hours, the friend rang the CAT team triage room but didn't want to make the official referral to CAT personnel, whom her friend clearly sees as "the enemy".
Having fielded more calls from the woman's mother, and having established that she will be safe overnight, Niblock goes home. Unlike some colleagues who only do triage work, he moves between sessions in the triage room and shifts with one of the unit's two-person mobile teams. At 8am the next day he'll be back at work, out on the road with a mobile team, and the friend's house will be their first stop. By 11am, with the help of ambulance and police, the woman will be on her way to hospital.
Meanwhile, Mulder, 46, the other nurse on the evening triage shift, is just finishing a call from a woman worried about her mother's depression.
"The patients and the diagnostic classifications are the same all over the Western world," says Mulder, who trained and worked in the Netherlands and then re-trained in Australia eight years ago.
The phone rings again almost immediately, with the first of a series of phone calls about a woman who has been hospitalised with postnatal depression and psychosis, first at the Alfred and then at an outer suburban hospital. Now, according to some of her relatives, she is speaking in odd voices and accents, and is again unwell. Her baby is with her husband, and she is staying with her cousin, in an area covered by the Dandenong Hospital, refusing to go home. Over the next hour or so, Mulder speaks to different family members and tries to broker an arrangement for the woman to be visited by the Dandenong CAT team. But the cousin is unwilling for the visit to happen at the place where she is living at the moment.
"This is not about your house," says Mulder, gently. "It's about her mental state - we just want to see if it's OK, so we can tell the rest of the family." The cousin, on the other end, is disputing claims another family member has made about the woman's allegedly psychotic behaviour.
"If we can see her, we can confirm that she's just blowing it out of proportion."
Eventually, after faxing the woman's case details to Dandenong, he arranges for a meeting at a neutral location although, as it turns out later, the patient and her cousin fail to show up.
At 2.30pm on Thursday the entire staff of the CAT unit are halfway through their daily meeting in the unit conference room, a briefing in which they swap information on the progress of their current clientele 20 patients whose names, diagnoses, treatment details and discharge dates are listed on two giant whiteboards.
Patient number five is a 40-year-old male, with bipolar disorder, who will be visited tonight; number eight is a 42-year-old woman who was going to have one last visit tonight but her husband has just called to say that she's hearing voices, and has cut her wrist. He's about to bring her to the emergency department. Number 15 is a 54-year-old woman with bipolar disorder, who is having a series of complex paranoid delusions about her neighbours persecuting her and spying on her. One team saw her this morning; another will see her tonight. Number 20, just added, is the woman who was wandering around St Kilda yesterday, admitted by Niblock this morning.
Shortly after 4.30pm, mobile CAT team nurse Bridget wedges a bottle of soft drink between the bundle of patient files in her shoulder bag as she walks down the corridor, talking on the phone to a staffer from one of the Alfred's day clinics. Apparently, a drug and alcohol clinic patient has rung in, drunk, to say he has a butcher's knife and is going to kill himself.
"He's probably going to have to come to hospital," says the 29-year-old, who has nine years' experience as a psychiatric nurse (four of them with the CAT team), and, like her shift partner for tonight, doesn't want her surname used. "And we'll have to get the police because he won't want to come."
Making a quick call to the police, she discovers they've already been to see the man. They say he's fine and has no knife. But she's seen this man before and when he has claimed to have a knife in the past it has usually been true.
Tonight, Bridget is in charge of the two mobile CAT teams, and the triage team. After a quick consultation with team manager Sueellen, she sends two male nurses. "He always arcs up when females come," she says.
Her shift partner, Deb, 55, who started psychiatric nursing six years ago after a career as a nurse and lecturer in community health, nods her head. "(Male patients) have less permission to be histrionic with other men."
By 5.30pm the duo are inside a women's shelter, making a lengthy assessment of an Eritrean asylum seeker who attempted suicide earlier in the week.
"She's feeling angry and powerless, but she's not mentally ill," says Bridget as they leave. "Situational crisis" is the summary she writes in her case notes.
At 7pm they're making a "goodbye" visit to a young mother with bipolar disorder, who has been receiving CAT team visits for two weeks but is ready to be managed by her own psychiatrist. They bring her some more medication, and make arrangements for a further drop-off of the drugs she needs.
Deb asks, "Are you comfortable with us not coming any more?"
The woman nods. "I might call you."
Their fifth and last call of the night is to the woman who was number 15 on the whiteboard list and is in the grip of paranoid delusions about her neighbours.
She talks on and on, with the nurses butting in gently to change the direction of the conversation. "I think this is upsetting you," says Bridget, tactfully nudging the woman on to another "safer" topic.
At 10.15pm the four members of the night's two CAT teams are back at the Alfred updating individual case notes, and detailing changed arrangements on the whiteboard.
The name of the man who said he had a knife is now on the board and officially the newest member of the CAT team's current clientele. "Schizo-affective disorder/alcohol dependency" is the diagnosis next to his name.
And he did have a knife, the other team members tell Bridget.
"He hid it before the police came in," they say, "under the bed".
By 10.40pm the nurses' shift has been over for 10 minutes, but they work on in the CAT team conference room, updating patient records ready for the next day.