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Parents allege autistic children abused at Calif. school
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- Two weeks after her autistic son came home with bruises on his neck and face, allegedly at the hands of his teacher, a frustrated Michele Smith complained to two special education administrators.
She says she received a stunning response: They asked her not to call police.
"They just wanted to sweep it under the carpet," Smith said in an interview.
That Dec. 10 conference call is one of the most incendiary revelations in an abuse scandal that has entangled the Antioch Unified School District since the filing of a federal lawsuit last week.
Along with the suit filed by three families, lawyers released an email from Antioch special education director David Wax in which he tells colleagues he "de-escalated" Smith during the call, convincing her not to report the allegations against Mno Grant Elementary teacher Theresa Allen-Caulboy to police or the media.
This week, Smith described her end of the conversation to this newspaper.
"They said, 'We can handle it, you don't have to go make police reports,'" Smith said. "I don't trust them at all. They failed my child."
Administrators launched an internal investigation, as they told Smith they would, but did not report the suspicions of abuse to police or Child Protective Services as the law requires. But they failed to contain the scandal: Smith ignored Wax's request and went to police the same day.
Now the Antioch mother plans to join the other parents of autistic Grant students who are suing the Antioch school district, Allen-Caulboy and three administrators in federal court, claiming their children's civil rights were violated when the teacher slapped, pinched and verbally abused them this school year.
The abuse claims, similar to those in other recent Bay Area special education abuse cases, have forced the accused teacher's resignation and prompted a criminal investigation. Grant Elementary Principal Michael Green has been on leave since March 22, according to a letter sent to parents, and at least two teacher's aides have not worked at the school site in weeks, parents said.
The school district has remained mostly mum, citing personnel confidentiality rules, but Superintendent Donald Gill released a statement:
"Please know that our district is fully cooperating with the Antioch Police Department as they continue to investigate these allegations," Gill wrote on the district website. "While I cannot comment about specific details regarding the allegations contained in the lawsuit, I will be personally heartbroken, horrified and angry if these allegations are substantiated."
News of the lawsuit has brought forward other accusations against Allen-Caulboy. Antioch resident Lucinda Jackson, 52, said in an interview that she initially disbelieved her autistic grandson, Sabion Green, when he said his teacher had pushed him to the ground to make him sit down.
"I blew him off," she said. But when she read a story in this newspaper, "I put it all together."
She reported her allegations to police Tuesday.
The District Attorney's Office is still reviewing the criminal case.
Smith's 6-year-old son, Mateo, has epilepsy, bipolar disorder, sensory processing disorder and ADHD in addition to his autism. Still, Mateo is verbal and functions at a high level.
On the day before Thanksgiving, Smith said, Mateo came home from school with bruises on his neck and face but would not divulge how they happened.
"I knew it was slap marks and choke marks because the fingerprints were visible on his neck," Smith said.
In the middle of the night, Mateo woke his mother.
"'Mrs. Caulboy's been hitting me,'" Smith said her son told her. "'Mommy, can I have a helmet to go to school, because it hurts when she hits me.'"
Smith complained several times to school officials, she said, but got no response until her Dec. 10 call to Wax and special education coordinator Kai Montgomery.
"The principal and others were not following the law in respect to reporting suspicions of child abuse," said her attorney, Peter Alfert.


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'Good Cholesterol' Drugs May Not Be Doing the Job
A recent clinical trial showing the B vitamin niacin didn't reduce heart-health risks compared with standard treatment has doctors wondering why they've prescribed other versions of the drug to millions for decades with little evidence to support its effectiveness. WSJ's Christopher Weaver and Dr. Stephen Kopecky, cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, join Lunch Break with details. Photo: Getty Images.
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MIAMI – You can hardly beat words like "zombie," "naked" or "cannibal" for a compelling news headline. And all three? In the same sentence? Wow, a promotable bonanza.
That trifecta has fueled Miami's launch, once again, into stratospheric buzz, with plenty of the "you-just-can't-make-this-stuff-up" detail that makes our little end of the peninsula the best news place on the planet.
As tabloidesque as the story may be spinning in some circles, there are valid news issues that we should be looking into:
The police officer's split-decision to fatally shoot a man; the motivation and machinations behind Rudy Eugene's horrific attack on another human being; the devolution of Ronald Poppo from bright, promising student to aimless, homeless man, invisible for decades even to his own family.
The answers to those questions take time to emerge. But the explosion of gross postings and pun-filled jokes has been instantaneous. The subject of most of those is a disfigured victim of a man laying in a hospital bed.
When that kind of public reaction disturbs even the gallows-humor experts in the newsroom, and it has - we've talked about it, it's time for a gut check.
Is it the anonymity internet provides? Is a grizzled, homeless man easy to overlook as human? Is the incomprehensible horror easier to handle with a communal wall of nervous humor?
Miami's Naked Zombie Cannibal story has already taken its place in the "only in Miami" history books, to be told and retold through the generations.
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So last month, in a moment I should file under "what was I thinking," I made a new year's resolution to eat less carbs. It lasted all of 2 1/2, maybe 3 weeks, until I heard about about Ramen Parlor, the newest member of the uber-popular ramen family that includes the crazy crowd-drawing Santa Ramen and Ramen Dojo.
The menu is a bit limited at lunchtime, especially for our friends with kids who weren't able to order dinner-only items like miso soup (come on, really?) or chicken karage. But I guess that's what happens when you're very, very focused. Ramen is definitely the draw here, boasting rich, complex broths and chewy, toothsome noodles. Oh, and did I mention lobster oil?
I choose the regular ramen with the soy sauce-flavored broth, which was a salty, savory and unctuous (without feeling heavy) delight. The noodles were flavorful and chewy, and the lobster oil added a subtle seafood-y luxuriousness (plus, it just sounds super fancy!)
There were a few specials that day, including a spicy tan men that included soft shell crab which MFM raved about, while others at our table added a variety of the extra toppings, which included corn, mushrooms, and spicy cod roe.
If I compare it to its siblings, I have to say I liked it more than RD (which was wasted on me since I couldn't handle the spicy, "stamina" style ramen) but slightly less than SR, which to me is a bit simpler and purer (plus they have that yummy stewed pork belly).
But I'd have to go back at least once or twice to be sure. At least.


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The Mazda Tribute is a compact sport utility vehicle with a good choice of powertrains, trim levels, and features that recommend it to a wide audience. It is mechanically and structurally identical to the superb Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner, but is differentiated by its features and its appeal. The Tribute is generally sportier than the Escape. Overall, it offers an excellent value among compact SUVs.
The Tribute has four doors and will seat five passengers in good comfort. The engine choices are a thrifty and responsive four-cylinder available with a five-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission, a strong V6 that comes with an automatic, and a hybrid that teams an electric motor and battery pack with a four-cylinder engine to deliver impressive fuel economy, particularly in city driving.
Tribute is available with front-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, the latter designed primarily for bad weather and slippery surfaces rather than off-road use.
Fuel economy is one of the Tribute's strong points, with an EPA rating of 22 mpg City, 28 mpg Highway for the four-cylinder engine and manual transmission. Even the strong V6 with four-wheel drive delivers reasonable fuel economy, 18 mpg City, 23 mpg Highway, which is more than just decent, considering the Tribute so equipped is also capable of towing 3,500 pounds. And the hybrid is rated at 34 mpg City, 31 mpg Highway, which should appeal to those who do a fair amount of driving in and around town.
The four-cylinder dohc engine is 2.5 liters and is rated at 171 horsepower, and is available with either the five-speed manual or six-speed automatic, but four-wheel drive is available with the four-cylinder only when it has the automatic. The 3.0-liter dohc V6 is quite strong and is rated at 240 horsepower and 233 lb-ft of torque; it is available only with the automatic. The Hybrid has a version of the four-cylinder engine that is rated at 153 horsepower, but the combined output of the engine and the electric motor can be as much as 177 horsepower.
Inside is a comfortable cabin and generous cargo space.
Underway, we found the Tribute offers a good blend of a comfortable ride and responsive handling, with a well-tuned fully independent suspension.
Safety equipment includes two-stage frontal airbags, side airbags in front, side-curtain head-protection airbags for front and rear outboard passengers, Dynamic Stability Control (which helps maintain control on slippery surfaces), Traction Control, Roll Stability Control, anti-lock brakes, and tire-pressure monitoring.
For 2010, Mazda Tribute has few changes. The trim level choices are somewhat streamlined, the V6 engine is Flex-Fuel compatible (meaning it will run on E85), and there are some new color choices. There are also some additional features that have been added to various trim levels.
The 2010 Mazda Tribute is available in i, s, and Hybrid versions. The i is available as the Sport, Touring, or Grand Touring; the s as the Grand Touring only; and the Hybrid in Touring or Grand Touring versions.
The Tribute i Sport with manual transmission and 2WD ($20,090) comes with cloth interior, air conditioner with pollen filter, 16-inch alloy wheels with all-season tires, halogen headlights and foglights, flip-up rear window, cargo hooks, rear heater ducts, reclining front seats, 60/40 split folding rear seats, AM/FM/CD player with four speakers, remote entry, cruise control, and tilt steering wheel. The i Touring ($23,275) adds a roofrack with crossbars, rear privacy glass, six-way power driver's seat with lumbar support, overhead console with bins, and a six-disc in-dash CD and seven speakers. The i Grand Touring ($25,235) adds leather seats, heated front seats, speakers, a moonroof, and heated mirrors.
The Tribute s Grand Touring ($26,850) has the V6 engine. The Hybrid is available in Touring and Grand Touring versions, with equipment similar to the equivalent levels with the gasoline engines.
Options include remote start ($350), Sirius Satellite Radio ($430), and a trailer hitch ($350). There are also a variety of accessories offered by the dealers.
The Mazda Tribute has a clean, attractive appearance. The grille is black, in Mazda's wedge shape that suggests a grin, with a chrome Mazda gullwing logo centered in a chrome strip across the top. The halogen headlights, small and simple trapezoids, complement that shape. Under the nose there's a slim valance that contains the halogen fog lamps.
The seven-spoke alloy wheels fit the look well. The flares around the wheelwells look just right, and, thankfully, there's no cladding. There's no chrome for the sake of chrome, except for one wide strip over the rear license plate indent, matching the strip over the grille.
The B-pillar slopes back with a small angle to give the side windows some angularity, but there's no attempt at fancy shapes as with, for example, the Honda CR-V, a competitor to the Tribute. This allows a practical-sized rear cargo window, for better visibility and safety. The liftgate window opens separately, a nice feature. The taillights, like the rest of the Tribute, are no-nonsense: Big and blocky enough to be safe, with just enough shape to be handsome.
The rear bumper has a flat shelf with a rubber strip, making climbing up to the roofrack easier; that rack is standard on all models but the i Sport.
Inside, the Tribute is comfortable, roomy and practical.
Second-row passengers get good legroom and kneeroom, even behind driver whose seat is slid back, and the elevated seating gives them visibility out the windshield. The view to the sides is also broad and open. For the passengers in the rear seat, there are two fixed cupholders on the console between the front seats, a small storage bin, an AC outlet, map pockets on the front seatbacks, and door pockets. There are no reading lights for them, however. The rear doors close easily with a solid hand-hold.
The rear seats fold easily enough, although not totally flat. The seat bottoms slide forward, and the seatbacks then flop down. We carried a bunch of windsurfing equipment without a problem, including masts that extended between the front seats to the dashboard, and one sailboard that was nine feet long, which obscured vision out the right front window, but still fit. It could have easily been strapped to the roofrack, but we were tired after windsurfing and too lazy.
Everything the driver needs is easy to see, reach, and operate. The gauges are clean and easy to read, with a neat tachometer and speedometer, split by small fuel and temperature gauges. It's all clean and simple. The center stack contains everything that's needed, with dials for the main controls of the sound system and climate system, and buttons that have simple standard icons and are big enough to see and use. It's a blessed relief, nowadays, to find controls that aren't unnecessarily challenging. This simplicity makes for a safer vehicle, because the driver's concentration isn't interrupted by confusion or problem solving.
The air conditioning is powerful. We drove off on a 100-degree day and the cabin was comfortable within two miles. We have driven much more expensive vehicles that had air conditioning systems that did not match that of the Tribute.
Under the center stack, there's a forward tray with a grippy rubber liner, the right size for CDs. The shifter has positions for 1, 2, and D, and a button that turns Overdrive off, for towing. Beside the shifter there's a slot for a pen, and behind it there are two deep fixed cup holders. The center console compartment is a deep box, with a small removable tray and three slots for coins. It's covered with grippy ribbed rubber that works for an armrest. Rubber liners in the cup holders and front bin keep things in place and quiet and are removable for easy cleaning.
The only thing about the interior we found inconvenient was the parking brake release, which we felt was tucked away and low and difficult to reach.
The all-aluminum 3.0-liter V6 engine gets the job done, and its 240 horsepower is plenty for the Mazda Tribute. Realistically, we don't feel it needs more. The Tribute cruises easy at freeway speeds, even up long grades, without straining. The engine is smooth, quiet, and works well with the electronically controlled six-speed automatic transmission, which has a ratio for any driving situation.
The 2.5-liter, four-cylinder is Mazda's bread-and-butter engine, and is well proven. Its 171 horsepower and 171 pound-feet of torque might be plenty enough for many owners, although it can tow only 1,500 pounds. It delivers better fuel economy than the V6 and costs less to purchase, and if you don't plan on towing or carrying heavier loads, the four-cylinder engine should be just fine.
We have no complaints whatsoever with the ride. We put 272 miles on the Tribute, over familiar terrain that sometimes bumps us around in other vehicles. We were able to forget about those bumps while driving the Tribute, with its wide track and independent suspension, which has MacPherson struts in front and multi-links in the rear. The suspension tuning feels quite refined, and there's no uncomfortable little tipping, wallowing, weaving, shaking, or anything like that. Underway, the Tribute is quiet enough for easy conversation, without much road noise from either the tires or the V6 engine.
The handling is steady, tight and nimble around town. The Tribute has electric power rack-and-pinion steering, which helps make it easy to parallel park. The front fenders are squared, which makes it easy to see the front corners when parking; and good visibility with no blind spots out the back is another virtue. There's a tight enough turning radius, which we tested once to catch a parking space on the opposite side of the street.
We haven't driven the Tribute HEV hybrid, but we have driven the Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner in their hybrid versions (which are identical to the Tribute), and we think it's a very good system. It's essentially seamless, and all you have to do is drive it. The electronic controls take care of managing everything, including when the gasoline engine is shut off to conserve fuel, and it requires no special care or attention on the part of the driver. Plus, it delivers great fuel economy, particularly in city driving.
The Tribute has a significant level of standard safety equipment. The Dynamic Stability Control, Traction Control and Roll Stability Control will all help to reduce the chances of a crash before it happens. And occupant protection is well covered by the frontal airbags, side airbags, and side-curtain airbags for all outboard passengers.
You can't go wrong with the Mazda Tribute. For the price, it offers all you can expect from a small SUV, with excellent engineering and mechanical execution. Both the four-cylinder and V6 engines are proven, and gas mileage is good. The six-speed automatic transmission is smooth. The suspension offers a tight and comfortable ride, and the handling is nimble and steady. The interior has been carefully designed to be comfortable, with good headroom and legroom in the rear, and the instrumentation is intelligent and easy to understand and operate. Perhaps best of all, the price is very competitive, and the Tribute offers all the latest standard safety features.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses test drove the Mazda Tribute around Oregon's Columbia River gorge.


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Steven T. Callan is the award-winning author of The Game Warden's Son, named the "Best Outdoor Book of 2016" by the Outdoor Writers Association of California and published by Coffeetown Press of Seattle. His debut book, Badges, Bears, and Eagles—The True-Life Adventures of a California Fish and Game Warden, was a 2013 "Book of the Year" award finalist (ForeWord Reviews). Steve is the recipient of the 2014, 2015, and 2016 "Best Outdoor Magazine Column" awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of California.
Callan graduated from California State University, Chico, in 1970, and continued with graduate work at California State University, Sacramento. Hired by the California Department of Fish and Game in 1974, he began his career as a Fish and Game warden near the Colorado River, promoted to patrol lieutenant in the Riverside/San Bernardino area, and spent the remainder of his thirty-year enforcement career in Shasta County. Callan has earned numerous awards for his work in wildlife protection.


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Enhanced cooperation
The Treaty of Amsterdam created the formal possibility of a certain number of Member States establishing enhanced cooperation between themselves on matters covered by the Treaties, using the institutions and procedures of the European Union.
Although these provisions had never been used, the European Council considered it necessary to revise them with a view to making them less restrictive in the context of the enlargement of the Union to 27 Member States. Enhanced cooperation was not included in the original mandate of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) but was formally included by the Feira European Council of 20 June 2000.
The Treaty of Nice facilitates the establishment of enhanced cooperation: the right of veto which the Member States enjoyed over the establishment of enhanced cooperation has disappeared (except in the field of foreign policy), the number of Member States required for launching the procedure has changed from the majority to the fixed number of eight Member States, and its scope has been extended to the common foreign and security policy (CFSP). The general provisions applicable to enhanced cooperation have been grouped together in Title VII of the Treaty on European Union (EU Treaty). The provisions on triggering the procedure and on the future participation of other Member States vary across the three pillars.
The Treaty of Nice significantly amends Title VII of the EU Treaty concerning enhanced cooperation, albeit without fundamentally altering the system. Article 43 groups together the fundamental principles underpinning enhanced cooperation. The Treaty of Nice adds a new condition: enhanced cooperation must contribute to enhancing the process of integration within the Union and must not undermine the single market or the Union's economic and social cohesion. Furthermore, it must not create a barrier to or discrimination in trade between the Member States and must not distort competition between them. The Treaty of Nice sets the minimum threshold for establishing enhanced cooperation at eight Member States, regardless of the total number of Member States after the enlargement.
The new Article 43A provides that enhanced cooperation may be undertaken only as a last resort, when it has been established within the Council that the objectives of such cooperation cannot be attained within a reasonable period by applying the relevant provisions of the Treaties.
The new Article 43B requires that enhanced cooperation shall be open to all Member States when it is established. It shall also be open to them at any time, provided the Member State in question complies with the decisions taken within that framework. The Commission and the Member States shall ensure that as many Member States as possible are encouraged to take part.
The amended Article 44 now stipulates that acts adopted within the framework of enhanced cooperation shall not form part of the Union acquis. Acts adopted within the framework of enhanced cooperation shall be applied by the participating Member States and their implementation shall not be impeded by the other Member States.
Expenditure resulting from enhanced cooperation (other than administrative costs) shall be borne by the participating Member States, unless all members of the Council, acting unanimously after consulting the European Parliament, decide otherwise. The Parliament has only become involved in this procedure with the Treaty of Nice.
The amended Article 45 now stipulates that the Council and the Commission shall ensure the consistency of activities undertaken within the framework of enhanced cooperation with the other policies and activities of the Union.
The general conditions laid down in Article 43-45 of the EU Treaty apply to enhanced cooperation established in an area covered by the Treaty establishing the European Community (EC Treaty). As a result, the EC Treaty merely describes, in Articles 11 and 11A, the procedures specific to this pillar for the establishment of and subsequent participation in enhanced cooperation.
Member States intending to establish enhanced cooperation within the framework of the EC Treaty shall address a request to the Commission, which may submit a proposal to the Council to that effect. Authorisation shall be granted by the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the European Parliament. A member of the Council may still request that the matter be referred to the European Council of Heads of State and Government. Following this final discussion, the matter is referred back to the Council of Ministers, which may act by the majority provided for in the Treaties. The right of veto granted to the Member States by the Treaty of Amsterdam has thus been abolished.
When enhanced cooperation relates to an area covered by the co-decision procedure (Article 251 of the EC Treaty), the assent of the European Parliament shall be required in accordance with the Parliament's rights under this procedure.
Article 11A lays down the procedure applicable to the subsequent participation of a Member State. The Commission shall decide on the request of a Member State to participate in enhanced cooperation. The role of the Commission is thus more important within the framework of the EC Treaty than within the other pillars.
The Treaty of Nice has introduced the possibility of establishing enhanced cooperation within the "second pillar", the common foreign and security policy (Title V of the EU Treaty). This represents one of the major developments of the Treaty of Nice in this area. New provisions (Articles 27A to 27E) laying down the specific rules of application in the area of the CFSP have been added to the EU Treaty.
Enhanced cooperation in the area of the CFSP shall be aimed at safeguarding the values and serving the interests of the Union as a whole and shall respect the principles, objectives, general guidelines and consistency of the CFSP, the powers of the European Community and the consistency between all the Union's policies and its external activities. Such enhanced cooperation shall relate only to the implementation of a joint action or a common position. However, it shall not relate to matters having military or defence implications.
Member States which intend to establish enhanced cooperation between themselves shall address a request to the Council to that effect. Authorisation shall be granted by the Council, acting by a qualified majority on the opinion of the Commission and after having informed the Parliament. However, Article 23 of the EU Treaty provides that a Member State may request that the matter be referred to the European Council for a decision by unanimity. Member States thus retain their right of veto in this area.
The Parliament and the other members of the Council shall be kept fully informed of the implementation of enhanced cooperation. This task is incumbent on the High Representative for the common foreign and security policy.
Within the EU's "third pillar", police and judicial cooperation, the provisions of Article 40 of the EU Treaty concerning enhanced cooperation have been amended. The Article stipulates that such cooperation shall have the aim of enabling the Union to develop more rapidly into an area of freedom, security and justice. Secondly, the Treaty of Nice has widened the scope of the powers of the Court of Justice in this area.
The new Article 40A lays down the procedure for establishing enhanced cooperation. Member States which intend to establish enhanced cooperation between themselves under Article 40 shall address a request to the Commission, which may submit a proposal to the Council to that effect. Authorisation shall be granted by the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission or on the initiative of at least eight Member States and after consulting the European Parliament. The new Article 40B lays down the procedure for the subsequent participation of a Member State. The decision shall be taken by the Council, acting by a qualified majority of participating Member States.
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I disagree that things that take a long time to learn how to use should be discarded from training. For the simple fact that this is something we are doing long-term and this is something we are doing to gain advantage.
Now if I were asked to teach a three week class to get people to ready to be in a tough, gang-ridden inner city environment where they were likely to have little time to practice what they learned then I would probably teach them 5-8 gross motor movements and ask them to learn them well. I'd also suggest they talk to someone else who is familiar with defense against gun and knife violence as well as modern gang attacks (machete anyone?) because I'm not.
Making Uechi easier to digest is not what this is about at all. The easy road is easily travelled and followed. This is about what you can do to have a little advantage over those who are predators. These particular predators we're talking about are (for the most part) empty handed, right handed, and are throwing everything at you including the kitchen sink when you least expect it.
If you know how to use a sokusen, if you know how to use a shoken, if you know how to use balance displacement, body movement, footwork, timing, vital point striking and all that. If you really really know how to use and not just know of these things...perhaps you have an advantage. No absolutes in fighting - just possibility.
I am 100% confident that I can hit full power into someone's neck or a similar soft target with my boshiken - then we'll see how things go from there. Actually when I get startled these my days hands fly up and out in the startle position - with the bushiken locked in tight and ready to fire off my left hand..
I don't expect anyone to drop dead after I hit them - but I'm pretty sure they'll want to do something to try and stop me from continuing. On my shokens and my toes and my hiraken I'm at about 10% confidence at full power. However with my shokens and my hirakens I'm at 100% confidence raking across the face or other area with lots of nerves and then pushing in where I finish my rake.
The reason this thread was bumped up is that I'm starting (again) to work on my toes. One great benefit of training the "toe fist" as I like to call it is that you really work the other muslces in your feet. So the sokusen helps your blade edge, it helps your heel kick and it helps with the ball of the foot kick - because your entire foot gets stronger as you train sokusen.


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Emergency Appropriation
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An emergency appropriation is one that the President and the Congress have designated for an emergency requirement under the BEA that cannot wait for the regular budgetary process. If it pertains to a discretionary program, such an appropriation results in an adjustment to the discretionary cap.
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Look around the offices of SnapDeal, an online coupon business, and it's not hard to see all the signs of a thriving venture.
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Kunal Bahl, 27, and his partner, Rohit Bansal, launched SnapDeal in February 2010. They're already the No. 1 e-commerce retailer in India.
"SnapDeal is a very simple concept," Bahl said. "Every day there is one attractive deal and people come to the website, buy the deal and go use it at the merchant."
Bahl's company has created 300 jobs — and counting. But he sometimes wonders "what if …?" What if the country where he got his education, where he helped start a company while still in business school, had let him stay?
"I put my chips in the American basket and said let me try my hand here," said Bahl, who earned an engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a business degree from its Wharton School.
But Bahl's visa ran out, and he took his skills back to India.
The United States issues only 85,000 of the so-called H1B visas for highly skilled workers each year. And these expire after six years.
There's broad agreement that the current immigration and visa system needs reform — that's going to need to come from Congress.
Still, the State Department does what it can to help encourage entrepreneurship around the world.
The San Francisco Bay Area — the home of Silicon Valley, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley — has always been a magnet for the best and brightest from foreign lands, but now many are wondering, why do U.S. immigration officials make it so hard for them to stay?
"We're strengthening our competitors, we're weakening ourselves," said Vivek Wadhwa, a visiting professor at Berkeley and research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He has been warning of a "reverse brain drain" for years.
"There are a lot of very good human beings who are unemployed, who have lost their jobs," Wadhwa said. "It's easy for them to blame foreigners. What they don't understand is people like me, when I came to this country, I came to study. My first company created 1,000 jobs. My second company created 200 jobs.
Wadhwa's research found that between 1995 and 2005, 25 percent of startups in Silicon Valley had at least one immigrant founder. And those startups created nearly a half-million jobs.
U.S. immigration rules are big roadblocks for the enterprising foreigners.
Martin Kleppmann, German co-founder of San Francisco startup Rapportive, which shows users everything about their contacts from inside their email inboxes, said everyone has stories to share about how painful the visa process has been.
"You're trying to quickly engage with customers — make sure that everything's developing, and at the same time, you've got this huge distraction — worrying whether you're going to get kicked out of the country," said Kleppmann, who has a bachelor's in computer science from the University of Cambridge and studied music composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
At a gathering of nearly a dozen young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs recently, more than half said they think they'll end up back in their home countries rather than staying in the U.S. because of visa issues — and they would take jobs with them when they leave.
Immigration officials often don't even understand the technology business.
Kleppmann drew laughs from the group when he explained an example.
"In our case — we got a beautiful letter from the immigration service asking to prove that we had enough warehouse space to store our software inventory. We don't even have boxes of software, it's all on the Internet."
Sakina Arsiwala of India co-founded San Francisco-based Campfire Labs, a startup that wants to "change the way people think of social interactions in the real world and online."
"Why deal with all this, you know, old school immigration systems, just go where you're wanted, you know?" said Arsiwala, a software engineer who formerly headed YouTube's international business for Google. She studied at the University of Mumbai and San Francisco State University.
Bahl went where he felt welcome. Close to family in a newly vibrant India.
"There is no 'either or' relationship between the American dream and the Indian dream, Bahl said. "They can both exist, it's just that the guys who are building the Indian dream right now could have been part of the American dream, too."
In an interesting twist in Bahl's case, he's looking into launching SnapDeal internationally, including in the U.S., and hiring Americans to help him do it.


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A Brief History Of The Triffids... Like some unholy trinity, The Triffids, along with Nick Cave and The Go Betweens seemingly conspired to change people's attitude towards Antipodean rock in the mid-eighties, never before taken even remotely seriously. I984 was the pivotal year when The Go Betweens released Spring Hill Fair, Cave debuted with From Her To Eternity and, in late August, The Triffids arrived in the UK with two albums in tow, 'Treeless Plain' and the mini-lp 'Raining Pleasure', recorded and released in Australia for Hot Records and, before the year was out, released in the UK by Rough Trade.
The Triffids - David McComb (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards): Rob McComb (violin, guitar): Alsy McDonald (drums, vocals): Martyn Casey (bass) and Jill Birt (keyboards, vocals) - arrived in London with a wad of cash they'd saved up and 5 return plane tickets scheduled to expire by Christmas. They'd given themselves three months to make inroads in the UK as a band, or have fun trying, and unequivocally, they succeeded to a point where they graced the first NME cover of 1985 which it predicted would be 'The Year Of the Triffids'. Not quite, as it turned out, and it was to be a further eighteen months before their unassailable masterwork, 'Born Sandy Devotional', was finally released.
The Triffids was formed in their hometown of Perth, Western Australia, by school friends David McComb and Alsy McDonald, brother Rob soon becoming involved, all very much sons of the establishment from well-to-do families. They released their first single as The Triffids in 1981. After one or two changes, Marty and Jill completed the now familiar line up before recording their debut album, 'Treeless Plain', in 1983. Much is always made about the remoteness of Western Australia in relation to understanding the Triffids' music. They would describe the endless drives eastwards across the treeless Nullarbor Plain where, chances are, there would be no passing traffic all day. As much as this sense of isolation affected the band's mindset and determination, their music was also informed by a vast wealth of influences and a deep musical knowledge, avid music fans waiting patiently each week for a month old copy of the NME to arrive at their local Claremont newsagent. Those influences ranged from UK punk to California rock from a much earlier generation, Sixties' folk, Dylan, Van Morrison, classic soul and country music, even if 'Treeless Plain' and 'Raining Pleasure' appear, on the surface, to be more typically indebted to The Velvet Underground. But there was no denying the quality and maturity of early songs like 'Property is Condemned', 'Hell of A Summer' and 'Red Pony', assured, literate and heartfelt.
The Triffids were also a fearsome live band by the time played their first UK dates, delivered with power, presence and a real sense of drama. Despite the intensity, particularly in David's towering, even menacing, performances, the band would deflate any excessive pretension projecting a friendliness on and off-stage where they'd like as not invite the audience to a barbecue at the weekend. Jill would step up each night for her Mo Tucker moment on 'Raining Pleasure' and Alsy would relinquish the drums at the end for a cabaret style 'Can't Help Falling in Love' complete with 'Fat Elvis' gesticulations. The Triffids both wowed and charmed audiences adding a newly written slice of post punk to their repertoire in 'Field of Glass' (recorded for a Peel session and then released as an EP for Rough Trade). By the close of this first visit they were also adding the looser, brooding 'Lonely Stretch' and 'Stolen Property' to the set, songs eventually recorded for 'Born Sandy Devotional'.
Delayed by record company wrangles and lack of finances, 'Born Sandy' was recorded in London in August 1985 with Gil Norton (fresh from working with Echo & The Bunnymen) producing. By now they'd also added the bespectacled and anything but 'Evil' Graham Lee to the band, contributing the haunting, atmospheric lap and pedal steel guitar that added so much to the album's ambience. If the sound was one of wide open roads and intimidating landscapes, David McComb's songs enveloped the listener with a stark passion, as on 'Life of Crime' or the soul searching 'Tender Is The Night'. By now, The Triffids were based in the UK for at least half the year. Their critical success here boosted their standing back home in Australia where they recorded 'In The Pines' (aka The Woolshed Tapes) in the spring of 1986, still waiting for 'Born Sandy' to come out - it was eventually released in June 1986.
Recorded on the McComb's family property in Ravensthorpe, south east of Perth, in a shearing shed on basic eight track equipment, 'In the Pines' took The Triffids deeper into folk 'n' country, a more rootsy, backyard direction that was reminiscent of Dylan's Basement tapes in terms of execution. Released hot on the heels of 'Born Sandy' it was seen at the time as something of a stop gap but holds up well with some great songs and is now a sentimental favourite among many Triffids' fans - 'One Soul Less On Your Fiery List' and 'Keep Your Eyes On the Hole', certainly cry out for due consideration. Things were soon to change, though, once The Triffids signed Island Records in the UK.
'Calenture', their Island debut in 1987, wallowing in uplifting and deeply moving songs - 'Hometown Farewell Kiss', 'Save What You Can' and the sublime 'Jerdacuttup Man' - was given a sheen of favoured 80's production techniques which may have surprised some hard-core fans who expected the rougher edges of 'Born Sandy' but it has still come through the years remarkably well. The exquisite, languid love song 'Bury Me Deep In Love', the opening salvo in the single stakes, wasn't the hit Island hoped for. Ultimately, its crowning achievement was its use in a pivotal wedding scene in Aussie soap Neighbours. Two further singles, the upbeat 'Trick Of the Light' and darker 'Holy Water' also failed to chart. Commercial success for The Triffids just wasn't meant to be and, once again, they had to settle for critical plaudits instead. Adam Peters who'd played cello and keyboards and assisted in arrangements on 'Born Sandy', had now been virtually drafted into the band and was working more closely with David who was still writing prolifically, and typically evocative, emotive songs.
His next body of work was another impressive collection, 'New Year's Greetings' a contender for David's most accomplished song, a majestic, multi-faceted epic of lost love. It showed David's deeper immersion into burning soul (notably American songstress Laura Nyro). Stephen Street, fresh from working with The Smiths, was brought in to produce and, if the resultant 'The Black Swan', released in 1989, seems to be a less than wholly cohesive album then it reflects the band's intent on embracing a disparate range of styles and moods. David, in fact, had originally conceived it as a double album. The chosen single, 'Goodbye Little Boy', featured Jill on vocals and 'glammed up' for the record sleeve. 'The Black Swan', living up to its own sense of irony, was to be their swan song.
UK fans were fortunate to witness a four night stand at the Shaw Theatre in London where The Triffids played in a living room styled set on stage, the material spanning the years and the group as commanding, good humoured and modest as on that first UK visit five years earlier. Few expected that the group would disband so soon after the release of 'The Black Swan'. Aside from the posthumous 'Stockholm', a live album recorded for Swedish radio, it was over. As with 'In the Pines', 'Stockholm' was an album that was no mere filler and with powerful, more muscular versions of some of the group's more ambitious early songs like 'Personal Things' and 'Hell of A Summer'. After disbanding, the group returned to Australia where, Alsy, Jill and Rob took proper jobs as lawyers, architects and teachers respectively, and settled down, Alsy and Jill marrying, Marty joined Nick Cave and Graham, continued to do sessions and live work in Australia. Graham's steel guitar features prominently on the KLF's groundbreaking 'Chill Out' album and other KLF material.
The Triffids (sans David) also backed The KLF's Bill Drummond on his only ever solo album, 'The Man', released by Creation in 1990. David continued writing and performing, releasing just one tortured solo album, 'Love of Will', for Mushroom in 1994, an album that inevitably bore many of the Triffids' hallmarks of style and quality. Tragically, David who suffered regular, serious health problems, undergoing a heart transplant in 1996, died in February 1999, following a car accident. The Triffids music will live on as resonant now (perhaps more so) as then and a testament to a unique group and, in David McComb, one of the finest songwriters to come out of Australia - or anywhere, if it comes to that. They could have been contenders but, somehow, their epitaph was destined to be the music itself and David's songwriting and never a wall-full of Gold discs.
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Dipping into the archives, both my wife and I got stuck on this one
-3- 2-- 781
--8 --- 3-4
-74 -3- 96-
--- 18- 6-7
-17 6-9 -38
8-- 375 149
-41 -6- 89-
7-- --- 41-
98- 413 -7-
Notice there are only two options for placement of 7's
r2c4 r2c6 r7c4 and r7c6
This site's hint programme suggests r2c4 should be a 7 but how do you logically justify that decision?
Geoff & June
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:08 pm
Post subject: Samgj likes this trick
It took too long to figure this one out, so I'm not going to spell out the whole position. The key to getting a "7" in r2c4 lies in r1c6. Let me explain.
The only possible values in r1c6 are {4, 6}. The only (apparent) possibilities at r2c4 are {5, 7, 9}. Let's consider what would happen if we were to place a "4" at r1c6. Well, we would have to place a "7" at r2c4, because the {5, 9} pair would then appear in r1c5 & r2c5, leaving a "7" as the only possibility at r2c4.
But what if we put a "6" in r1c6? Then the following moves are forced:
1. r4c6 = 4 (because there are only two spots where a "4" can fit in column 6)
2. r5c5 = 2 (because of the {2, 4} pair in the middle center 3x3 box)
3. r5c7 = 5 (because of the {2, 5} pair in the middle right 3x3 box)
4. r4c8 = 2 (for the same reason)
5. r2c8 = 5 (because of the {2, 5} pair in column 8)
6. r2c5 = 9 (only {5, 9} can fit in this spot)
7. r2c4 = 7 (the alternative values 5 & 9 have been eliminated)
So whichever way one fills in r1c6, a "7" must appear at r2c4, qed.
Samgj, the author of these puzzles, seems to like this particular sort of formation -- it came up in another one of his puzzles just a few days ago.
Happy solving! dcb
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:51 pm
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I'll try to explain it with elimination method.
At your position, these are the logical steps I took.
In column 1, 6 has to be in box 1(r1c1-r3c3) so you can eliminate 6 from other cells in box 1. So r2c2 becomes {2,5,9}
r2c2-{2,5,9}, r2c4-{5,7,9}, r2c5-{5,9}, r2c8-{2,5}
Yes, your typical naked quadruple. So you can eliminate 2,5,7 and 9 from other cells in row 2.
Since you eliminated the possibility of 7 at r2c6, the ONLY place the 7 can go in row 2 is at r2c4.
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Thank you for taking the time to reply. Brilliant piece of logic. My wife thinks it's trial and error, however, but I like to think it's considering two possible options which both place a 7 in its correct cell.
Thanks again.
Geoff & June - Durham England.
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Thanks for the kind words, Geoff. Chobans' answer is actually shorter, and simpler. That seems to be a tendency on this board -- I see a long complex chain of inference, and Chobans sees a simpler, more direct road to the same conclusion.
June will probably like Chobans' method better. dcb
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Thank you Choban.
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Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:54 am
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There's another way to see this. (In box 1, 6 has to be in column1). In row2, columns 2, 4, 5 and 8 can't have 1 or 6. So that leaves positions 1 and 6 for this pair. Now there's only one position for the 7, in column 4.
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you can summarize it:
2 not in r4c1, it is in r6c2 or r6c3 (Row on 3x3 Block interaction)
2 not in r4c2, it is in r6c2 or r6c3 (Row on 3x3 Block interaction)
2 not in r4c3, it is in r6c2 or r6c3 (Row on 3x3 Block interaction)
2 not in r5c1, it is in r6c2 or r6c3 (Row on 3x3 Block interaction)
6 not in r1c3, it is in r1c1 or r2c1 (Column on 3x3 Block interaction)
6 not in r2c2, it is in r1c1 or r2c1 (Column on 3x3 Block interaction)
2 not in r2c1, Hidden Pair 1 6 in r2c1 and r2c6 (in Row)
5 not in r2c1, Hidden Pair 1 6 in r2c1 and r2c6 (in Row)
7 not in r2c6, Hidden Pair 1 6 in r2c1 and r2c6 (in Row)
7 in r2c4 7 in r7c6 - Unique Horizontal
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For the alcoholic or someone that uses alcohol just like a person addicted to drugs consume with develop a tolerance and physical dependence. When the alcoholic reduces or stop drinking Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) develops. AWS is the reaction of your body when there is a lack of alcohol presence. These symptoms include:
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Despite being a depressant, the type of effects that alcohol causes it totally dependent on the amount that you consume.
For many individuals, their reason for drinking is to get the stimulant effect just to "loosen up" however, consuming more alcohol than your body can handle leads to the depressant effect, this is noticed when they start to loose coordination but that "loosened feeling" is what we tend to go for and always have the urge to drink in order to gain back that feeling, leading to your newly found alcohol addiction, here is where we now have a problem which will now lead to you requiring addiction treatment.
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Alcohol is absorbed into your bloodstream by travelling within the confines of small blood vessels in walls your stomach and small intestines minutes after drinking alcohol, it then travels from the stomach to the brain and almost instantly produces its effects, slowing down the action of nerve cells.
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Is Alcohol a Drug? – Yes, It is absorbed in the bloodstream
It is approximated that at least 20% of consumed alcohol is absorbed through your stomach and at most 80% of the remaining content is absorbed through the small intestine.
When your blood contains a high content of alcohol, it begins to affect your the respiratory system thus affecting your ability to breathe, thus leading to severe cases of shortness of breath which may cause a coma or death as oxygen is no longer able to reach the brain in a timely manner.
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Many loved ones often inquire "Is Alcohol a Drug". We always make the analogy that Alcohol is no different the prescription pain medication. Both are powerful additive drugs yet are relatively safe if not abused. However, just like prescription medication if Alcohol is abused it looks and feel just like any other drug addiction.
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Put very simply, betting exchanges are a secure place where members of the betting public can exchange bets with each other anonymously, at odds that they specify themselves. The exchange companies simply act as the 'middleman' and match peoples bets.
As there are no bookie margins to factor in, prices are very often more desirable. The betting exchange companies make their money by taking a commission payment on your winning bets. This is usually in the region of 3 - 5%, but even taking this into account, it's very common to find better prices on the exchange.
The cumulative effect of better prices when combined with a good staking plan, can make the difference between you generating a healthy profit or a bad loss. Using an exchange does not mean you will automatically win more frequently! You still have to find good value winning bets yourself or via a professional tipster but it's the effect of getting a better return on your winning bets that will boost your betting bank and protect you during losing streaks.
Most people use the betting exchanges on the internet, but you can also place bets on the telephone.
Betting Exchange Advantages
As well as regularly finding better prices when backing a selection, exchanges also give the gambler some other very important advantages over traditional bookmakers.
Some of the key advantages are:
1) The ability to LAY a selection if you think it will not win.
2) The ability to BACK or LAY a selection to be PLACED. (This is very different to the well know Each Way bet offered by bookies and can be very powerful).
3) Betting IN RUNNING on many events INCLUDING HORSE RACING. This can give you many advantages and opens the door to new methods that may secure you more profits.
4) If you are very successful, you will not have the exchange company threatening to shut your account down. A very important point !
5) The ability to TRADE on price movements in betting events to guarantee yourself a profit regardless of the result.
6) Arbitrage Opportunities. Bookie and exchange price discrepancies often allow you to take a NO RISK bet.
Those are some of the key benefits of using a betting exchange and I will dig deeper into these and explain how you can use them to your advantage in future betting articles.
For the remainder of this article, lets concentrate on point 1 above, LAYING a selection to Lose.
LAYING A Selection to Lose – A Major Advantage Of The Betting Exchanges
Probably the most important feature of a betting exchange is the ability to LAY a selection. But what does laying a selection mean?
Laying a selection is often referred to as 'Playing the role of a bookmaker'. Like a bookie, you offer a price against a selection / event happening (eg. a certain horse to win a race or a football match ending as a draw). You only do this if in your opinion there is a great chance that the horse won't win or the football match will not end as a draw. The betting exchanges simply match your lay bets with other customers who think the opposite of you (eg they think the horse will win or the match will end as a draw).
Lay Liabilities
The odds that you offer determine how much money you will need to 'pay out' if the selection actually wins (just like the bookie does when you have a winning bet with them). So if you were to place a lay bet of £10 at 5.0 (4/1) against a selection, you would be liable to pay out £40 from your account if that selection won (The other punter gets their £10 back plus £40 profit). If however, the selection does lose you get to keep the £10 staked by the other punter (just like the bookies have done with all your losing bets all these years!). It's as simple as that.
Now, you might be thinking 'great, I'll simply lay all the rank outsiders and clean up'. STOP! Don't even go down this route. If you keep placing lay bets on selections trading with very high odds (eg 50/1), you will win regularly but when 1 of them comes first you will probably wipe out all your winnings and more! A single £10 lay bet at 50/1 would see you liable for paying out £500 should the selection win!
Therefore, I strongly recommend that you decide upon a sensible upper limit for lay odds and stick to it no matter what. Just think about how many favourites get turned over in horse races every day of the year that are perhaps available to lay at very short odds like 1.5 (1/2). Your liability on a £10 lay bet at these odds is only £5, or £50 on a £100 lay bet. I like to keep my lay bets at odds below 4.0 (3/1) but that's just my own personal choice but it gives you something to go on.
Flexible Odds / Placing an Order
The odds you offer obviously need to be realistic in order to be matched, but if you are not happy with the current price being requested by other punters you can simply place an 'order' in the exchange at your odds and hope that somebody eventually accepts your offer. (eg you may feel that the current price of 3.0 (2/1) is too high a price to lay a certain selection, so offer a lay bet at 2.75 (7/4) instead). If your lucky the price may well be matched. If the event starts without your lay bet being matched, your bet is simply cancelled so you gain/lose nothing.
Lay Betting might sound very confusing to the exchange newbie, but believe me it soon becomes very straightforward and you will find yourself laying selections much more frequently than you think. Let's be honest, it must be easier to pick a horse you feel will definitely lose in a average 12 runner race, than find the single winner!
Well that's it for part 1 of my betting exchange articles. In part 2, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange Place markets and how you can benefit from them.
Betting the House?
Do you want to make more money with your soccer bets using the Football Betting Tipsters service website? There has been an increase in activity of soccer betting in recent years with the introduction of better technology for punters to bet online. However, more than 95% of all punters lose money in the long term, but there are some seasoned punters who know how to make money from it consistently.Before you bet with real money on any online website, always be sure to research them carefully first to ensure that they are not scams. Luckily, most gamblers who try online betting are aware of the dangers. To try to make more money from my soccer bets, I decided to join this tipster membership site called Football Betting Tipsters.By becoming a member of this site, you will get access to professional and expert analysis on soccer bets that are based on reliable data. However, you should always be ready to accept occasional losses as they are inevitable and no soccer betting analysis website is 100% accurate. Ever since I started using the strategies provided by this site, I have been betting more logically with more consistent winnings compared to how I was doing on my own before.


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When you imagine Caribbean islands, images of unsullied golden beaches come to mind. But out-of-control plastic pollution means this isn't always the reality. Suunto ambassador and world champion free diver William Trubridge is on a mission to change this.
When William Trubridge first moved to the Bahamas for free diving, he found himself developing an unexpected obsession. To his surprise a near carpet of plastic pollution covered some of the beaches on Long Island, the location of Dean's Blue Hole where Will regularly trains.
Will tries to keep one or two beaches clean. © Willian Trubridge
"I just couldn't help myself from at least collecting a few bags of it and then once I started doing that it almost became an obsession or an OCD (Obsession Compulsive Disorder) thing," Will says. "It's difficult to find time to clean the beach regularly, but we do organize clean ups to keep at least one or two beaches tidy."
Will teaches free diving on the island at his Vertical Blue School and does plastic clean ups with his students. He says they are always shocked by the huge amount of plastic on the beaches.
Will's students always fill bags and bags with plastic. © Willian Trubridge
"It's impossible to be a person who really enjoys free diving and not be affected by the sight of all the plastic," he says. "One of the reasons I promote free diving and enjoy teaching people is because I know strengthening their contact and bond with the sea will change their behavior and make them more aware of this issue."
However, clean ups barely scratch the surface of the problem, Will says, so he began researching the issue more closely.
During the clean ups he noticed one of the most common types of plastic trash he was collecting were small plastic sachets. They are used to hold 250 to 300 ml of drinking water and are sold in poorer countries such as Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
"People chew off a corner from the bag and slurp the water into their mouths," Will says. "They then get thrown on the road or off a boat and one way or another they end up in the sea. "Probably more than half of the plastic washing up is these little bags. There's millions and millions of them."
It's impossible to be a free diver and not care about this issue, says Will. © Willian Trubridge
Will began looking into solutions and tried to find alternatives. He found companies that manufacture biodegradable plastic substitutes, but none can hold drinking water without biodegrading.
"My latest idea is to try and crowd source enough money to supply most families in Haiti with one big five gallon jug each so they can then refill them with water rather than buying sachets," Will says. "The problem is these families don't have the free cash to even put a deposit down on one so they just go for the easy option and buy the sachets for a few cents."
The next step, Will says, is to find people within Haiti and the Dominican Republic who could help organize the project once funds have been raised.


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This Quick Draw iPhone Device is inspired by "Taxi Driver", Designed by Insanity
When I saw "Taxi Driver" for the first time, I was too young to fully comprehend, and appreciate, the incredible characters, biting social commentary, or tightly structured plot. What I did take away from Scorsese's second best movie (first is "Goodfellas", naturally) is the sheer coolness of those spring loaded, sleeve hidden gun launchers that main character Travis Bickle wielded.
Of course, like all great over the top movie inventions, someone will eventually find a way to incorporate them into our everyday lives. Those hidden gun launchers are no exception, but even still I found the manner in which inventor Showta Mori worked that technology into the real world to be…a bit odd, as he demonstrates in this gut bustlingly hilarious video.
Not only is that device that can shoot your phone, via forearm pressure, into your hands from your sleeve stupendously moronic, entirely superfluous, and even irresponsibly hazardous, it's also completely awesome and on sale via the inventor's Etsy shop, where it retails for about $80 and is compatible with the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5.
Before you completely dismiss the validity of this device, be sure to consider that in an increasingly pop culture obsessed world that is already way too in love with their smartphones, and value any device that will allow them to use them with minimal physical effort, this device could, against all odds, actually make a sale or two.
Of course, if you do buy one, you are required to occasionally pop your phone into your hands and answer it by saying, "Are you talking to me?"
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Friday 20 October 2006
Sony has announced the "more than 20" - that is, 21 - titles that will be released from launch day on 17 November through to Christmas in the US.
Some notable first-party dropouts (like Warhawk) have left Sony's first-party contribution at only three games, with third-party games making up the majority of the early PS3 library. Of those, the only new(ish) titles you won't get elsewhere are Ridge Racer 7, Full Auto 2: Battlelines and Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire.
Still, we'll be guaranteed all the games listed below at the European launch, hopefully along with some tasty local treats such as Formula One, MotorStorm and maybe even Heavenly Sword.
Resistance: Fall of Man
Genji: Days of the Blade
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Call of Duty 3
Fight Night Round 3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Full Auto 2: Battlelines
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
Need for Speed Carbon
Ridge Racer 7
Sonic the Hedgehog
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
Tony Hawk's Project 8
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Oldspeak: "Examination of a soil sample from Kilby Provincial Park, near Agassiz, has for the first time in this province found Cesium 134, further evidence of Fukushima radioactivity being transported to Canada by air and water."That was a surprise," said Juan Jose Alava, an adjunct professor in the school of resource and environmental management at Simon Fraser University, in an interview on Tuesday. "It means there are still emissions … and trans-Pacific air pollution. It's a concern to us. This is an international issue." Cesium 134 has a half-life of two years, meaning its radioactivity is reduced by half during that time. Its presence in the environment is an indication of continuing contamination from Fukushima." -Larry Pynn
"Hmm. Cesium 134 detected in the Gulf of Alaska, AND in soil along the northern Canadian coast, and indicates continuing contamination from Fukushima via air and water. Safe bet that the rain generated from the radioactive ocean and air has transported radioactive buckyballs god knows how much further east in North America. Yet, scientists' calls for more monitoring in the environment go unheeded by Canadian and U.S. governments. Given the that radiation is continuing to be released in to the environment and citizens and scientists are the only ones bothering to test for it, you can expect radiation levels to steadily increase as the years pass. Babies in California are already showing the effects of this radioactive contamination, nevermind the reports of Radioactive fallout affecting all area of U.S… Supposing American and Canadian governments won't start paying attention until people start glowing and sporting mysterious lesions like the sea lions. All we get are constant and utterly unfounded assurances of safety and 'acceptable' exposure levels. Why cover this up? There will come a time when it is non-longer possible. There is no safe level of exposure to radioactivity." -OSJ
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Expert: 'The worst' from Fukushima has left Japan and is headed to US, Canada — "Most of the radioactivity" moving with currents toward west coast — Report: Front edge of plume arrives in Gulf of Alaska — State: "There's been a detection of cesium from Fukushima"
By Larry Pynn @ The Vancouver Sun:
A radioactive metal from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan has been discovered in the Fraser Valley, causing researchers to raise the alarm about the long-term impact of radiation on B.C.'s west coast.
Examination of a soil sample from Kilby Provincial Park, near Agassiz, has for the first time in this province found Cesium 134, further evidence of Fukushima radioactivity being transported to Canada by air and water.
"That was a surprise," said Juan Jose Alava, an adjunct professor in the school of resource and environmental management at Simon Fraser University, in an interview on Tuesday. "It means there are still emissions … and trans-Pacific air pollution. It's a concern to us. This is an international issue."
Cesium 134 has a half-life of two years, meaning its radioactivity is reduced by half during that time. Its presence in the environment is an indication of continuing contamination from Fukushima.
A more persistent danger to people and marine life is radioactive Cesium 137, which has a half-life of 30 years, and bioaccumulates in the food chain.
Researchers developed a model based on the diet of fish-eating killer whales along with the levels of Cesium 137 detected and predicted (less than 0.5 becquerels per cubic metre, a measurement of radioactivity) by other researchers in the Pacific waters offshore of Vancouver Island.
The models suggests that in 30 years, Cesium 137 levels in the whales will exceed the Canadian guideline of 1,000 becquerels per kilogram for consumption of seafood by humans — 10 times the Japanese guideline.
"It's a reference, the only benchmark we have to compare against," Alava said.
He said recent federal government cutbacks have placed a greater burden of testing and monitoring for aquatic impacts on academics, non-governmental organizations and even private citizens.
"The Canadian government is the one that should be doing something, should be taking action to keep monitoring to see how these contaminants are behaving, what are the levels, and what is next."
It was a citizen, Aki Sano, who provided SFU with the soil sample from Kilby park, near the mouth of the Harrison River, on Nov. 16, 2013. Samples of chinook, sockeye and chum spawning salmon nearby are also being analyzed for evidence of radiation.
While the soil sample tested positive for Cesium 134, the exact level is not yet known, although it is thought to be low. The plan now is to test soil samples from Burnaby Mountain, closer to Vancouver.
Earlier research by Kris Starosta, associate professor of chemistry, and his colleagues at SFU has shown evidence of Iodine 131, which has a half-life of eight days, in rainwater and seaweeds in B.C. Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted the analysis of sea water off Vancouver Island.
An adult killer whale weighing up to 5,000 kilograms can eat five per cent of its body weight, or 250 kilograms of fish, per day.
Endangered resident killer whales already face a host of challenges: the need for high-protein chinook salmon, habitat degradation, underwater noise pollution, harassment from whale watchers, and climate change. While the additional impact of Cesium 137 is unknown, it may negatively affect the immune system or endocrine system, Alava said.
"The impact on the animal needs to be studied. This is part of a cumulative impact on the marine environment."
The results raise concerns for aboriginal people who maintain a diet heavy in fish.
"We might expect similar results because the diet of First Nation communities is based on seafood," Alava said. "Humans at the top of the food web can perhaps see increasing levels in the future."
The Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic failure due to a 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11, 2011, which killed almost 19,000 people. Alava noted the plant continues to leak radiation, meaning that the problem is not going away soon. "There's going to be a long-term exposure to organisms building up in the marine environment."
While radiation levels so far remain low, the long-term implications deserve further study.
"So far the levels are safe," Alava said. "We shouldn't be worried now, but we need to keep monitoring in the long term to see whether these levels are building up in the food web."
A victim of federal cutbacks, Peter Ross, a former research scientist with the federal Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney on Vancouver Island, joined the Vancouver Aquarium last month as director of a new ocean science program.
Ross said he worked almost 18 years at the institute until Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced in May 2012 it would cut 55 positions nationally, nine of them within B.C., as part of a plan to "divest itself of ocean pollution research and monitoring to the private, non-profit and academic sectors."
No one at Fisheries and Oceans Canada or Health Canada was available immediately to comment Monday.
Alava noted that there remain low background levels of Cesium 137 dating back to the 1960s due to the dumping of radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean from nuclear submarines and reactors.
The BC Centre for Disease Control has been notified of the latest research finding.


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Washington emphatic about value of bunting
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rangers manager Ron Washington has been known not to hold back on certain subjects and that was the case Sunday when asked about bunting. The Rangers were second in the American League in sacrifice bunts last year.
What set Washington off was when he was asked if anybody presented him with analytics that showed bunting is not a good idea.
"If they do that, they'll be telling me how to manage," Washington said. "I'll tell them they can shove those analytics. ... When I feel it's necessary, not when the analytics feel it's necessary, not when you guys feel it's necessary, not when somebody else feels it's necessary. It's when Ron Washington feels it's necessary.
"I look at the opposing pitcher, the guys at the plate and the situation and I'm saying, 'How can I give us an opportunity to get this runner where I want to get him?' If I've got the right person at the plate, I'm going to make him bunt. If it's a situation where we have runs already and we've got a decent lead early in the game, I'll probably let him hit. But if we're in a situation where the game is close ... I'm going to make him bunt. It's simple."


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