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Croatian Generals Sentenced at The Hague
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Zagreb and other Croatian cities over the past week to protest the conviction of two Croatian generals by the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague. The ICTY sentenced Ante Gotovina to 24 years in jail and Mladen Markač to 18 years for their role in the August 1995 Operation Storm, which resulted in the exodus of up to a quarter of a million Krajina Serbs.
"Srebrenica" and the Power of Reason
"Truth and reason are eternal," Thomas Jefferson wrote to Rev. Samuel Knox in 1810. "They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail . . . " Jefferson was wrong. His belief that "Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it" was naive. As Patrick J. Buchanan proves in a passing reference in his otherwise sound latest column, even men of generally sound understanding and good intentions end up the victims of the disinformation campaigns that pass for media reporting.
Hillary Clinton's Ongoing Bosnian Fixation
Mrs. Clinton's performance amounted to yet another coded demand for the abolition of the Republika Srpska, the autonomous Serb republic covering 49% of Bosnia—and the assertion of Muslim ("Bosniak") dominance in a "reformed" (that is, unitarized) Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Serbia Humiliated
On October 5, 2000, in an almost bloodless coup by the security forces staged against the backdrop of massive street protests, Slobodan Milosevic was removed from power in Serbia. Ten years later, many of those who cheered his downfall then (this author included) have nothing to celebrate.
Bosnia, Hillary's Playground
At a time when the U.S. power and authority are increasingly challenged around the world, the incoming team sees the Balkans as the last geopolitically significant area where they can assert their "credibility" by postulating a maximalist set of objectives as the only outcome acceptable to the United States, and duly insisting on their fulfillment. We have already seen this pattern with Kosovo, and it is to be expected that we'll see its replay in Bosnia under the new team.
Witnessing at The Hague
All history is to some extent contemporary, but none more so than that analyzed, interpreted, and sometimes constructed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. I had my second appearance before that institution earlier this month, on September 4—no longer as an expert witness (like in the Stakic case in March 2003), but as a material witness in the defense of Col. Beara, a Bosnian-Serb officer accused of war crimes in Srebrenica. I offer the transcript of that testimony to our readers, insignificantly abbreviated, for three reasons. First of all, it is a genuinely interesting, real-life courtroom mini-drama, a good read quite apart from the political context. Secondly, it throws some long-overdue light on the intra-Serbian tensions that were exploited by Slobodan Milosevic and the Clinton Administration alike, and proved decisive to the outcome of the Bosnian war. Last but not least, the final third of the transcript illustrates the apparent inability of the Western elite class—embodied in this instance by the cross-examiner for the Prosecution, Mr. Vanderpuye—to grasp the significance of the Jihadist threat to our civilization and our way of life.
Karadzic and The Hague: Interview With Dr. Trifkovic
The BBC talks to Dr. Trifkovic regarding the forthcoming Karadzic trial at The Hague Tribunal. "This trial would need to mark a new beginning by The Hague," he says, "and yet I have no reason to believe that such a beginning will indeed be made."
BBC: The fact that Karadzic could face trial at The Hague is causing consternation among those who consider the court to be anti-Serbian. Srdja Trifkovic is one of them. He is an American historian, journalist and political analyst, and an expert on Balkan politics.
TRIFKOVIC: It would be a hugely significant moment if it were to be followed by a fair and just trial that would seek to establish the facts of the case, not only on Srebrenica but also on what came to pass in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995. However, in Serbia many people—including those who favor the new, pro-European government—have a very jaundiced view of The Hague Tribunal, especially since the release of Nasir Oric, the wartime commander of the Muslim garrison in Srebrenica, came just before the capture of Karadzic. In fact, in Belgrade The Hague Tribunal is universally regarded as a politically motivated tool for providing quasi-legal justification of political decisions made by the powers-that-be back in the early 1990s.
Karadzic's Arrest: Bosnian Myths Rehashed
The spirit of the media frenzy surrounding the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on July 21 is based entirely on the doctrine of non-equivalence inaugurated in 1992: Serbs willed the war, Muslims wanted peace; Serb crimes are bad and justly exaggerated, Muslim crimes are understandable.
This doctrine was spectacularly reiterated a month before Karadzic's capture, when the Muslim wartime commander of Srebrenica, Nasir Oric, was found not guilty by The Hague Tribunal of any responsibility for the killing of thousands of Serb civilians by the forces under his command in the three years before the fall of the enclave in July 1995. It is also apparent today, in the endless media repetition of Karadzic's alleged bellicose intransigence before and during the Bosnian war.


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Disney's Sofia – A Small Princess
Disney is introducing a new, relatable and younger Disney princess to it's already vast princess collection. Sofia the First will be about an average little girl who is put into a not so average situation – her mom marries a King. Disney and Disney Junior will be premiering a TV movie in the Fall of... Read More →

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It was a hot weekend in Los Angeles. I mean, literally scorching hot. The temps rose to triple digits and there were more ovens burning in LA than usual. Chefs, Sommeliers and epicures from all over converged on to downtown's LA Live for the second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival with partners Lexus, AEG and Food & Wine Magazine.
This wasn't just any food event. This gathering was a continued celebration of Chef Wolfgang Puck's 30 year tradition of raising awareness and funds for St. Vincent's Meals on Wheels. To date, he has donated millions with his American Food & Wine Festival and another $400,000 raised from LAFW's inaugural year.
Chefs Dean Fearing and Michelle Bernstein
Lexus Southern Brunch- Fearing's Chicken Fried Texas Quail with Bourbon/Jalapeno Creamed Corn & Bernstein's Creamy Fontina Grits w/corn & charred kale
Ricardo Zarate's Grilled Miso Paiche on Butter Lettuce
From an Opening night Festa Italiana hosted by Giada De Laurentiis to the Lexus Grand Tasting tents, there was something to fit everyone's particular taste and palate. With Chefs like Michael Chiarello, Joachim Splichal, Nobu Matsuhisa, Charles Phan and Scott Conant headlining events, it was difficult task to not want to attend all of the above. Most events were sold out and with ticket prices ranging from $50 for a celebrity chef cooking demo, to $2,000 for an invite-only Founder's Dinner, guests definitely got their money's worth.
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A Bubbly Good Time
Only at LAFW, could you get Hawaiian Ahi Poke from Chef Sam Choy, Chicken Fried Texas Quail via Chef Dean Fearing a Morro Bay Oyster from Post Ranch Inn's Chef John Cox, and a spiked Pina Colada popsicle from the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas..all in one day.
Chef Alexandre Vacher's "Snickers Bar"
Patina's Joachim Splichal & Charles Olalia
Church and State's Heirloom Tomatoes with Vinaigrette
Despite all the incredible events throughout the weekend, the one many seemed extra excited for was the Lexus Live on the Plaza with Wolfgang Puck and Friends. Perhaps, it was because "friends" of WP, included folks like Gale Gand (Tru), Rory Herrmann (Bouchon BH), Levi Mezick (Restaurant 1833), Paul Prudhomme, Kerry Heffernan, Francois Payard, and a Third Eye Blind concert. Yup, at LAFW, you can have your plate of Spago, glass of Opus One, front-row view at a rock concert and eat your cake too.
Wolfgang Puck at LAFW
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Reverend and The Makers are the winners of the first ever official FA Cup Anthem, following a season-long 'Battle of the Bands' style search to find the soundtrack to the world's oldest domestic football competition.
The Sheffield group has beaten off competition from five other shortlisted music acts including Lethal Bizzle, Devlin and The Enemy in a public vote and will perform their track live at The FA Cup Final at Wembley on Saturday.
The winning track, 'Shine A Light' which is already widely known in football circles as the signature tune on football simulation game FIFA 13, will also be played out throughout next season's FA Cup competition.
Thousands of votes were cast as the winning band picked up 34 per cent of the total share, helped by the backing of Sheffield Wednesday FC and its players to narrowly edge out Coventry trio The Enemy who finished second with 32 per cent of the votes.
Lethal Bizzle (5 per cent), Devlin (5 per cent), The Pigeon Detectives (11 per cent) and The Twang (13 per cent) made up the final six.
Frontman Jon McClure commented: "We said before this that we'd prefer our track to become the official FA Cup Anthem than to be a Number 1.
"It genuinely means that much to us, and we can't thank our fans and all the people who voted for us enough. For me, the only thing that would be better is if Sheffield Wednesday were to win The FA Cup next season - but I reckon we can settle for this now."
The search for the official FA Cup Anthem kicked off in January when Lethal Bizzle - a relative of Arsenal footballer Emmanuel Frimpong - performed his entry live at Upton Park ahead of the Third Round tie between West Ham v Manchester United.
The other contenders, all chosen on their football relevance, played ahead of subsequent rounds with voting opened to the British public after The FA Cup Semi Finals.
Watch the video of Reverend And The Makers at Wembley celebrating their victory in the Media Gallery above.
The official FA Cup Anthem 2012-13 'Shine the Light' by Reverend and the Makers can be heard by clicking here.
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What is it like to be a firefighter? This is a look at an average day for Chandler firefighters. Some days include quarterly training at the Chandler Fire Training Center, special operations training in Phoenix or Mesa, demonstrations or tours. But a day can change dramatically for any crew at any time. In addition to everyday tasks such as training, fire prevention, or public education, crews must respond to a call at any time from wherever they may be.
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Just a reminder that we'll be featured on BBC Jazz on 3 TOMORROW (Monday 27th) from 11pm – there'll be tracks recorded live at our RNCM gig a couple of weeks ago as well as a quick delve into my iPod shuffle with Jez Nelson… Anything could come up, you'll have to tune in to find out what did! If you miss the live broadcast it'll be available on the iPlayer for 7 days.
There will also be a couple of tracks from Big Ideas played on Helen Mayhew's Jazz FM show later this afternoon from 1pm along with a short chat with me about the band and the new album – again this will be available on demand via the link above should you miss the live broadcast.
Finally we were all really pleased to read some really amazing reviews of the Big Ideas launch show at Ronnie Scott's earlier in the week – thanks once again to everyone for selling out the place and making it such a special night! Check out the Serious blog for a full roundup of everything. Below is a picture of Nick who was already pretty excited about the evening's gig even before our soundcheck! (picture taken by Owen Bryce)
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When I was buying the October issue of Jazzwise (with Charles Lloyd on the front) the other day, I realised I hadn't actually properly read the previous issue yet (with Soweto Kinch). Finally reading through it today I was excited to see that our EP was again listed in the charts at the front of the magazine, this time listed by the team from BBC Jazz on 3 – cheers guys! Also reminded me I need to check out last week's show on iPlayer with a live set from the Vandermark 5, highly recommended by Efpi's Scandinavian correspondent Sam Andreae…
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I was lucky enough last night to attend the live broadcast of BBC Jazz on 3 from Band on the Wall in Manchester, featuring live sets from Arun Ghosh, Stuart McCallum and Simcock/Walker/Swallow/Nussbaum (pictured below). Jez also played a few tracks from artists performing at this year's Manchester Jazz Festival including a track of ours which was really exciting! Listen again for the next 7 days here – the Simcock/Walker/Swallow/Nussbaum set in particular is awesome… I'm just heading into the RNCM now as I'm working for their gig there tonight, can't wait!
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The previous leader of the asbestos abatement plan for the state capitol building in Charleston, West Virginia, was sentenced to twelve months in prison by a federal judge in Maryland. Forty-seven-year-old Gaithersburg, Maryland, resident Paul Prendergast pled guilty to breaking the federal Travel Act law in October 2007. He admitted to distributing private bidding data to a Maryland firm seeking to gain work on asbestos cleanup projects.
The firm that received the information from Mr. Prendergast used it to submit lower bids, beat the offers made by their competitors and win asbestos remediation jobs. In return, Mr. Prendergast reportedly received thousands of dollars and a prestigious position with the firm when he moved from West Virginia to Maryland. Mr. Prendergast's previous position was as the coordinator of the state office overseeing worker safety and health issues, which he held from 1998 to 2003.
In this capacity, Mr. Prendergast directed projects dealing with the cleanup and disposal of toxic materials, including asbestos, from the state capitol building and the nearby office buildings that formed the "Capitol Complex" in Charleston. According to court papers, he awarded several bids to Environmental and Demolitions Services Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland. When court officials obtained Mr. Prendergast's financial records, they showed that he received three checks from EDS totaling $11,000.
After he left his position with the state office, Mr. Prendergast worked for a contracting company held by the same ownership group as EDS. Court documents show that he earned $85,000 in salary during the twenty-one months he was with the company, as well as a $55,000 payment for services as a project manager from another related firm involved in subcontracting work.
Newspaper reports also showed that EDS earned over $329,000 in contracts for asbestos abatement jobs from the state of West Virginia from 1998 to 2005. In one instance from 2001, Mr. Prendergast worked out a project with EDS that allowed them to develop a landfill in West Virginia. The tacit agreement was that Mr. Prendergast would receive a portion of the money for providing EDS with inside information on the bidding process.
A clause in his plea agreement stated that Mr. Prendergast would receive a sentence of three hundred sixty-six days and pay a fine of $3,000. US District Judge Peter J. Messitte agreed to the plea bargain. In exchange, Mr. Prendergast pled guilty to violating bribery and political corruption laws in West Virginia and stated that he would work with federal authorities on other cases.
The US Attorney for Maryland said that the investigation was a cooperative effort between the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Criminal Investigation, Division, the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the investigative branch of the West Virginia Legislature. In their report, they also found that Mr. Prendergast's successor, Gary Bryant, Jr., and his assistant were artificially over-billing for their overtime work on asbestos cases; the state terminated both worker's positions after the report was released.
Although Mr. Prendergast pled guilty to his violations in Maryland, the federal attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia has not commented on the case. He has also not stated if his office will conduct a separate investigation following Mr. Prendergast's plea.
Sources: Hampton Roads Daily Press, Charleston Gazette


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Michael Moore promised when America's Taco Shop began to franchise he would be among the first in line to open a new location. Moore backed up his proclamation and brought the Valley favorite to Chandler.
Arizona Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain fielded questions and comments — both positive and negative in nature — about the Affordable Care Act and addressed other issues at a town hall event in Mesa on Nov. 25.
KENOSHA, Wis. — When the auto plant here closed, this prosperous Wisconsin port city on Lake Michigan lost more than just its largest employer. Its sense of vitality seemed to drain away, and city leaders set out to find something that would inject life into the brick-storefront downtown while the economy went through a transition.
It's the heart of a budding ecosystem of innovation, air travel, higher education and well-paying jobs.
PHOENIX — A call Thursday by President Obama on the Republican-controlled House to approve immigration reform this year is getting a decidedly cool reception from Gov. Jan Brewer.
PHOENIX — Federal officials are legally entitled to be negligent in fencing the border without worrying about getting sued over the damages their actions cause, a federal appeals court has ruled.
SanTan Brewing Company not only survived the recession but thrived in it, and the Chandler brewery showed off its latest reward this week.
The Grand Canyon National Park is set to reopen Saturday.
Robert Rodriguez's "Machete Kills" is a sequel based on an end-credits joke from a film that was itself based on a joke trailer contained within a half-joke grindhouse homage. Exactly how many degrees such an endeavor is removed from anything resembling serious cinema would require Jean Baudrillard to calculate, yet for more immediate filmgoing purposes, all there is to see here is a surprisingly long-lived gag finally running out of gas. As violent as its predecessor yet noticeably duller and less outrageous, "Machete Kills" is dragged to the finish line entirely by its director's madcap energy and an absurd cast of major stars in strange cameos.
"The congressional gym remains open during the shutdown."
"The 87 year old driver that killed one person and injured 10 others in Gilbert was impaired. Impaired by her age."
PHOENIX — A federal judge has rejected arguments by the Department of Justice that she cannot intercede in a congressional bid to investigate how and why the agency first lied about the Operation Fast and Furious "gun walking" operation in Arizona.
PHOENIX — Citing everything from grazing to insects, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday granted endangered species protection to two cacti found in Arizona.
BIMINI, Bahamas — Every time a cruise ship docks in Bimini, the population of this tiny archipelago just 50 miles off the coast of Miami could nearly double.
Some tea party activists and so-called citizen militia groups are so much against background checks because they fear their guns will be taken away. They fear this because of the hysteria whipped by the NRA that government knows where their guns are. The NRA already has a database on all gun sales. The NRA knows where the guns are. We don't want your guns, but we don't want guns in the hands of criminals, gangsters, domestic and foreign terrorists, and unhinged persons.
"Okay, we know what the writer thinks is wrong. Does he have any idea what to do about it?"
Every time I hear Sen. John McCain talking about border security I picture him strolling along the
Sen. John McCain is both a passionate and pragmatic elected official. Both sides of him were on display Tuesday at the Mesa Arts Center.
Amid a stalled momentum in the House of Representatives, Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake defended their proposed immigration legislation during a town hall event held at the Mesa Arts Center on Aug. 27.
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers cannot give their residents the right to make their own guns and bullets without federal approval, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
I found that going to a Matt Salmon town hall Meeting is a test in real frustration. He tells his constituents what a great job he is doing. Then he proceeds to tell us how he is continuing to fight to "defund" Obamacare, which as we all know is a waste of time and our taxpayer dollars.
Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake will speak about immigration issues at a town hall event in Mesa on Aug. 27.
Tough-talking Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is warning civilians who embark on armed patrols in remote desert terrain that they could end up with "30 rounds fired into" them by one of his deputies.
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I'm the co-chair of the bed bug task force at my daughter's public elementary school in NYC, where there are several families with bed bugs. I am looking for some guidance about how to protect the greater school community from their spread.
The NYC Dept. of Ed's policy on bed bugs is no different than for any other 'nuisance pest', i.e. they will only treat an affected classroom if you send them a live sample, and then you must use their PCO, who will treat once, with no prep or instructions. Furthermore, while children with lice are not allowed back in school until the problem is cleared up, there are no such restrictions on children from families dealing with bed bugs.
Obviously, given the length that an infestation can endure in a home, excluding a child from school indefinitely is not fair or feasible, but it would seem that there should be a "you're not allowed back until you can assure us that your family is handling the problem."
In any case, we need some guidance as to how to protect ourselves. Before Thanksgiving, live bugs were found in the classrooms of two affected siblings. The DoE did treat, and, supposedly, the family dealt with the problem at home, although there were rumors that their whole building was infested, so who knows how effective their home treatment was. We brought in a dog who did not alert in either of the two classrooms where bugs were found. However, the dog did alert in four other classrooms, which, because no bugs were found, remain untreated. (I should add that there have been no sightings or complaints of bites in those rooms.)
We are aware of a few other families dealing with the problem at home, and we have adopted a policy that in any classroom with a bedbugged family, the children put their coats/backpacks into XXL ziplocs every day. But we continue to have scares - as we did recently, when a (thankfully) dead bed bug was found in a tissue box in the first affected classroom (in which, by the way, no fewer than 7 bugs were spotted before treatment.)
What else can we be doing within our school to stem any possible spread of bugs and/or panic? Any advice is appreciated!
Interesting post. This is why it's so good that NYC passed the bill on this. The schools should have guidelines for dealing with this problem. Certainly, their current policy of spraying once with no preparation is not effective. And given bedbugs propensity to travel within a building, their guidelines should mandate treating all classrooms when bedbugs are present. Perhaps the standard two-treatment protocol should be used and repeated quarterly. I think having the kids put their things in ziploc bags is an excellent idea, with the caveat that they not be made to feel like outcasts - as more fully detailed below.
I think it is vitally important that accurate information about bedbugs be provided to the entire school community. There is a lot of mis-information out there about what bedbugs are, how they spread, how to treat them. Further, there remains a stigma about people who have bedbugs. I have been shocked by the racist comments many of the people in my apartment building have made about my building's infestation. A few people believe they were carried in by the home health care aides who serve the elderly in the building. Most of the aides are black. Another neighbor complained that the building is at fault for not "screening" prospective tenants. I said to her "and how would you suggest screening for bedbugs? Do you think there is a certain profile of people who have bedbugs."
Those types of comments make me leery of publicly identifying children who live in bedbug infested dwellings. I agree that steps have to be taken to prevent the kids from spreading the bedbugs to other families, but I think more effective pest control by the school board is a better way to go than making the families "prove" they are taking care of the problem. That makes it seem like it's in the families control when it probably isn't. Even if the family does everything right, there is no way to guarantee that the problem will be resolved. I had to rely on my landlord's pest control company and they couldn't guarantee to me that the treatment would work. Even if the family was taking appropriate steps to handle the problem at home, they cannot control the problem if other neighbors have bedbugs and don't treat, or if the bedbugs come back. In my building, the bed bugs have moved from apt to apt despite the landlords attempt to exterminate. In my case, we moved in with my parents as soon as we realized we had a problem and thankfully the bugs did not move with us. But other families may not be able to do so. With lice it's different because the family can take care of the problem completely by following the directions.
Good luck dealing with the problem in your school. May I ask what school it is?
Our task force, a subset of the school safety committee, has made a real effort to educate the school community. Education and prevention are the two things we can control ourselves, without micromanagement from the DoE. But you're right - the bottom line is we need to educate the Dept. of Education about bed bugs. They just don't get it. We need more effective bed bug control than a one-time spray IF we happen to be lucky enough to catch a live one during daylight hours. We need to have the option of thermal or steam treatments without having to bear the burden of paying for them (or dog inspections) ourselves.
As far as identifying children, our principal is extremely sensitive to that and nobody knows which children/families are the affected ones. In a classroom with an affected child, all the children participate in the Ziploc drill. You're right, though, that even the best treatment plan, well-followed, does not guarantee eradication in a home. That's why we need better tools at the school, since there really isn't a way to bar children from coming in.
Low cost or no cost ideas are best for our impoverished PTA!
And they will absolutely only treat the area where the bug was found; no hope of neighboring classrooms or common areas being treated.
The Cornell IPM Guide may be useful as an educational resource. There are a number of fact sheets & guides on NoBugs link page that may be useful.
Here is a link for the Cornell articles
http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/publications/bb_guidelines/Does the DoE have any published guidelines that we can examine?
Is the school system represented on the Bed Bug Advisory Board that was recently approved by the city council?
I thought of a few more relatively low-budget ideas that you might be able to do without the DOE's involvement:
- Make sure there is caulking along the baseboards between classrooms.
- Every weekend, mop the floors with murphy's oil soap. Murphy's is supposed to kill bedbugs (not sure about the larvae, though).
- Inspect books and papers as best you can for bugs and then keep them in ziplocs while they're not being used. (I realize that this might be un-workable for books used every day, but I'm really thinking of supplies and stacks of un-used paper.)
- Rubbing Alcohol (91%) kills bedbugs. Put it in a spraybottle and spray around desks and items that might be affected. Perhaps this can be done at the end of the day after the kids are gone around the desks/supplies of the kids who are from the infested dwellings.BTW - heard on the grapevine that a bedbug was found in one classrom in my son's school but it's not his class. Everyone is being very hush-hush about it. Would love to hear how you managed to get a task-force formed -- was there any reluctance of people to admit they had bedbugs or talk about it? How did you become aware that there was a bedbug problem?
Hi Bugbuster:
Thank you for your posting. I would like to get in touch with you, and I will send you a Private Message.
I was on the Safe & Caring Schools Committee last year at my child's school, but there was no bedbug subcommittee.
The protocol you describe - one treatment of a single classroom - is ultimately going to fail to contain bedbug infestation. When it fails, the protocol will have to change.
It is inevitable that you will be proved right, but you might not be around to see it.
Keep up the good work, much of which is going to continue to be exactly what you are doing now - education.
Thanks Metermaid - those are really good suggestions! Low cost and feasible both.
As for the task force, the principal and PTA brought the situation to the school safety committee. When I heard about it, I jumped in - having learned everything I never wanted to know about bedbugs when we were fighting what we ultimately learned was a mosquito infestation. The safety committee was overwhelmed with dealing with the lice epidemic - rampant in NYC schools, both public and private - and fobbed it off on a newly formed subcommittee, which is essentially me and one other mom, adjunct to the safety committee.
We became aware there was a problem when live bugs were found in two classrooms. The DoE does have certain protocols when bugs are discovered in a school. A letter has to go both to the classroom and the school community at large, explaining the situation. Are you in NYC? If a bug was found and you weren't notified, that's a breach of the DoE protocol. Regarding keeping the specifics hush hush, that's up to the principal's discretion. In our case, the family was quickly identified because there was a sibling in each classroom. Our parent coordinator worked with the family to deal with the problem on their end, and our principal has been fiercely guarding their privacy, so they haven't come forward, nor has there been any need for them to.
The only thing that is going to help the school system int he long run is to communicate with all students the facts of bed bugs:
- The fact that they can infest any location
- The fact that they have nothing to do with dirt or living conditions
- The fact that you can have them and not respond to the bites
- The fact that unless the source is identified and also dealt with that the schools will have more and more issues
- The fact that unless you inspect, use a monitoring device or a trapping device you may never realise you have the problem
It is possible to get complete eradication in a single treatment, its something that we do 60% of the time that we treat a property. The hardest issue however is identifying the source and ensuring that you do not have a local source infestation that gets reintroduced.
Good luck but please focus on communication of the issue as much as you do planning responses because only one of them will stop you getting more infestations.
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DAvid - I really doubt that you could compare the results that you achieve in your work (ie eradication in one visit in 60% of cases) with the results that the average local NYC exterminators acheive
considering the difference in chemicals between the UK & US, the obvious knowledge and skill level differences between you and your crew and the average NYC PCO, it would be impossible (and I mean REALLY impossible) to think that the average PCO hired by the NYC schools would achieve anywhere near the success rates that you achieve
I don't want to get on my soap box and voice my opinions about how incompetent and ineffective the PCO's are here - so I will leave my thoughts at that
the singe treatment they are doing in those classrooms in not going to help the problem and is most likely going to make it worse by simply spreading them around
the bugs are probably doing a conga line dance around the adjoining classrooms in those shcools
Hi Adele,
Points taken on board about differences between the UK and US but that aside if you communicate to all about the risks and dangers then you stop the problem at source. If you focus on treatment you have to a certain extent already lost the first battle by allowing them in in the first place.
On the subject of chemicals I do know one UK PCO that uses products available in the US and gets similar results to me. He tends not to work on heavy infestations because most of his work is in commercial rather than domestic settings and I don't know the finer details of his methods other than he also considers chemical control to be one of the last steps in the process.
Yes with time the protocols and training on bed bug control will be improved and standardised. We are planning something for the UK which will be transferable but we need to wait till the passive monitors are out on the market so that we have a replacement income. However communication is the most effective tool that we have available today which is why it is the main focus of the reply above.
With time we will have new solutions to this problem but today we need to learn to tackle the issue at the source rather than reacting to infestations as they occur.
The biggest problem with the NYC Dept of Ed is that they don't distinguish between bed bugs and other 'nusiance pests' like rats or roaches. So the protocols are antiquated and lacking, and their PCOs are not experienced bed bug specialists. So yes, David, you're right - what we parents are left with is the necessity of improved communication to the school community and the need to petition the DoE for improved protocols. The first step is getting the DoE represented on the new NYC bed bug task force.
There's the added issue of lack of openness because the stigma to a school of being known to have bed bugs, although I maintain that if you brought a dog into any NYC public school, he'd alert to something, somewhere.
DAvid - as usual - all good points and your response is well taken and understood
I am still financially and emotionally devasted from the battle that I recently waged to get away from these things and astounded by the amount of money charged versus the inadequate or sometimes completely ineffective results delivered from the PCO's here - thus the negativity in attitude.
Since it is still fresh for me and I will probably be in this mindset for some time until I can recover emotionally and financially
but you are right as always
Hi Adele,
Thanks, I know different experiences and perspectives weight heavy as the foundations of our judgments and opinions but to make it crystal clear to everyone I view the problem at present as:
Number 1 priority is to stop further spread by educating people about the need to check and the accurate facts.
I know it is not what people currently affected but treatment efficiencies will follow, for us we are very much hands tied until the monitors are off the production line. Then you can all look forward to the new book, passive monitors and the start of a new training document for PCO's that takes them through the foundations of the approach that we take and exactly why we do what we do.
In the meantime look out for a new info sheet on BB faeces and what it looks like when freshly applied to white sheets. I was filming a feed in the lab the other day and one had a delightful post feeding passage of waste. I immediately thought waste not want not and dabbed it onto some clean white cotton sheet to illustrate the colours. Once it is finished it will be available via the educational information section of my site.
Education is definitely a start. I can't tell you how many people STILL say "Oh, it's just bugs, they'll die" or "Just throw the bed out" ! If only it were that easy!
David - I can always look forward to something clever and amusing from your posts "waste not want not" - indeed
Oh My God.....
thanks for sharing that passage
Well, Adele, sad to say, you were right. A child in the classroom adjacent to the first identified classroom brought a live bug home on his backpack. Fortunately, thanks to the information I wrote up for the last school newsletter, which included checking and shaking out coats and backpacks, the mom both found it - and kept it. As soon as it's given a positive ID from the DoE, they will treat that room.
In the meantime, there were subsequent bugs found in the first two classrooms, both of which have now been re-treated. But the step that the DoE is missing is the two week later second treatment! And they also basically just come in and, as KQ would say, spray and pray.
We're going to start working with 91% alcohol and Murphy's, but we still need to find a way to change their protocols!
As a parent - how do we ensure that the bugs do not travel to school - just shaking the back pack is not enough since I believe they are like velcro - also children do bring library books home and take them back over a weeks time - same question - how do you make sure that bed bugs dont travel back
I seem to have got some at home from someone in the elevator because the bulding is infested and currently I gave up work since there is no easy way to handle this unless I stay at home and bag everything. currently I have kept the two library books in the freezer for 24 hours in a plastic bag before I reurn it to school but how do I protect school bags and other homework books.
I am scared of getting any books from the public library in case the bed bugs got into my house that way at the same time I do not want the library to be infested if I send it back - I am in doldrums and kids love reading books - they go to bed with their books sometimes - I wish I had some solution to the problem. can anyone help? -
I also know of other families here in NYC Queens who have BB at home and are not really doing much except getting the house sprayed once in a while - I am sure the bugs are being transported to school.
I know I'm just tooting my own horn here, but this thread illustrates why we came up with packtite. Backpacks, etc. could be heat treated by the unit both at school and at home to prevent transport of our bed bug friends.
David, how long does packtite take? How do you envision that working on the school end? Figure 25 kids per class. My sister, Ohbugger, just bought one for her home. It certainly would help on the home front.
As far as not bringing bugs TO school, I know there are threads on here about the precautions people take before leaving their homes. Some people take very extensive steps to prevent them spreading, like putting on clothes straight from the dryer (or packtite). Some do nothing.
Treatment time will depend on what you put in there. We have treated small carry on luggage in the unit in roughly 2 hours, backpacks would probably be less. At school could be an issue time wise, but having a unit and treating your kids things when they get home would be the easiest route.
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- Augustus Sinclair - Owner of Sinclair Spirits and mentioned in the Audio Diary "The Vita Chamber".
- Becky Langford - Daughter of Julie Langford, mentioned in the Audio Diary "The Lazarus Vector."
- Coswell - A character mentioned by the Ducky splicers, possibly as a colleague or boss.
- Epstein - one of Diane McClintock's comrades on Atlas' raid for ADAM. He was killed trying to get his hands on the Little Sister. He is also the possible owner of Epstein the Swami machines.
- Faith Farthingworth - Died April 14, 1942. Daughter of Horace and Jennifer Farthingworth. Her name is found on the head stones in the Tea Garden (Date of death contradicts the creation of Rapture unless her grave was moved to the city after its construction).
- Gilbert Alexander - Colleague of Yi Suchong, mentioned in the Audio Diary "The Vita Chamber".
- Horace Farthingworth - The father of Faith Farthingworth.
- Jennifer Farthingworth - The mother of Faith Farthingworth.
- John Maynard Keynes - Gravestone in Arcadia reads "John Maynard Keynes beloved son of Adam & Ada Smith.
- McGee - another of Atlas' followers who was killed in a raid for ADAM in Apollo Square.
- Rosenberg - A character that is only mentioned in Working Late Again, he appears to be a close colleague of Andrew Ryan who recognized the importance of ADAM even before Ryan did.
- S. Finneran M.D. - A doctor working out of the Medical Pavilion. His name is found on a sign, south of the Enwell Life And Health Group.
- Valette - Along with Epstein and McGee, she has also passed away in their last raid for ADAM. It is possible that before the Big Daddy was killed, it was able to take them down first. The Audio Diary, "Today's Raid" is their report from Diane McClintock on their latest scavenge.
- Patrick - An apparent officer of Rapture's security force under Sullivan, as heard in "Timmy H. Interrogation" Audio Diary.
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- Captain Cal Franklin - Captain of the Apollo Air Flight DF-0301. He was presumably killed in the plane crash while attempting to pull up the plane. He was heard in a removed audio.


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Though the details of Dorothy's life are her own, her experience with AIDS tells the larger story about where the virus is now -- deeply entrenched in the American underclass, particularly among African-Americans. The self-deception at the heart of Dorothy's attitude about AIDS is universal -- anyone with a serious illness can relate. But AIDS is different, because it is transmitted through the intimacy of sex and shared needles, because there is no cure and because the medical regimen required to combat it is arguably the toughest ever encountered by human beings. As a result, AIDS hits hardest those sectors of society least equipped to defend themselves against it, a group that is disproportionately black and poor. What Dorothy did -- and didn't do -- once she knew she had HIV sheds light on a community whose affliction remains largely hidden, but where the epidemic is taking an increasingly heavy toll.
Shortly after her arrival at Carl Bean, Dorothy sat at a round meeting table down the hall from her room and considered her life. She was a wispy, quiet presence in shorts, gold-framed glasses, and a white T-shirt stretched awkwardly over her stomach, distended from AIDS drug therapy. Her voice raspy and dry, she seemed eager to reveal the difficult road that got her to this unbearable point. But on this day she made it clear that she didn't want the information publicized. "I don't want anything in the paper that's gonna say 'Dorothy Travis has AIDS,'" she said firmly. "It's been hard enough on me already."
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The results of the analysis revealed that patients who were unmarried or widowed were 17% more likely to suffer from metastatic cancer (cancer that has spread beyond its original location), compared with patients who were married.
Additionally, the findings showed that unmarried patients were also 53% less likely to receive the appropriate therapy for their cancer, compared with patients who were married, as they more were likely to be diagnosed with cancer at a later stage.
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How To Add Flavor To Your Iced Green Tea
There are a lot of recipes for flavored green tea available on the internet. Some are more involved than others.
I prefer the acronym KISS (keep it simple stupid) when flavoring my iced green tea. What I mean by that is that I like to infuse the flavors into the green tea, rather than forcing them in or adding strange ingredients. Let me explain.
Many fruits and herbs can be used to flavor iced tea. Peaches, mango, strawberries and mint are a few examples. In order to use fruits and herbs to flavor your tea you do not need juice or extract, you often just need the fruit.
What I do is when I brew green tea to make Iced green tea I brew about two quarts of tea at a time. Once brewed these two quarts go into the refrigerator for enjoyment later that day and beyond. If I want to flavor the tea I just add chunks of fruit and let them sit in the green tea for at least 12 hours and often longer.
You do not need to puree or blanch the fruit or get real fancy with it. For example, want peach green tea? Take two peaches, peel and cut them into quarters and drop them into two quarts of semi cooled green tea. In 12 hours you will have a great tasting peach green tea.
Doing it this way, is not only great tasting and easy as pie, it is also very healthy. You are only adding natural fresh fruit. No added sugars or preservatives touch your green tea.
You can get fancy, as I have, by purchasing a Prodyne Fruit Infusion Pitcher, it is a great way to infuse fruit into tea and water. Or you can just plop the fruit into any old container you choose to store your freshly brewed green tea.
With green tea, keep it simple, don't overdo the fruit flavors and don't ruin the health benefits of green tea by adding a bunch of crap.


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Hi,I am working with a Qualcomm SPMI device that supports up to 32768 interrupts. Now, in practice, not nearly all of these interrupts will be populated on a real device. Most likely on the order of 200-300 interrupts will be specified in Device Tree. The problem is the set of active interrupts will change on future devices sharing the same architecture, and there's really no predicting which of this range will be active. Ideally, the supporting code should never have to change.
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8:30am Monday 26th August 2013 in News
AN elderly woman has been unable to use her panic alarm for more than two weeks because of a problem with her phone line.
Mary Bundy, 86, has hip problems and needs to use her care line to call for help if she sufferers problems at home.
She and her daughter, Pat Atkins, 56, haven't had a phone line since everyone else in Eastwoodbury Crescent, Eastwood, had their phone lines cut off after a motorcyclist hit a telegraph pole two weeks ago.
But even after their neighbours' lines were restored at the end of last week, the pair are still waiting to have theirs switched back on.
Pat said: "My mum's had two hip operations.
"We got her the panic alarm and that's how she has been able to get in touch with us or the nurses if she requires help.
"I was supposed to go away for a couple of days with my partner at the weekend, but I couldn't in case something happened to her.
"I needed to stay in and look after her."
Ms Atkins said both BT, the line provider, and Sky, their phone company, have been slow to help, with the latter saying they won't treat the situation as an emergency.
A Sky spokesman said: "We are very sorry to hear about the problems Ms Bundy has had and we completely appreciate how urgent it is for her to have an active phone line.
"We are working closely with BT Openreach who are responsible for fixing the fault on the telegraph pole to resolve the issue as quickly as we possibly can."
A spokesman for BT said: "It has become apparent that this fault remained as a separate fault after the repair works were completed following damage to the pole.
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emcee says...
All companies should be named and shamed when they offer bad service. It seems it is the only way some companies will buck their ideas up when their attitude towards the paying customer leaves a lot to be desired.
9:01pm Tue 27 Aug 13
Kim Gandy says...
Every time you phone Sky or B.....d Telecom you are farmed out to somewhere different and have to faff around pressing buttons for half an hour before you actually get to speak to the human.
A bit less attention on cheap labour and understaffing and more attention on PROPER customer service, where customers can be answered straight away by a human, is what is clearly needed here.
As for the elderly, despite the fact that they make up 20 percent of the population, nobody seems to give a ****. I have had to fight several battles with hospitals and outside organisations on behalf of elderly persons and I have to say, nobody seems to care about the over 70s.
They are clearly at the bottom of the list of priorities.
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