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Bonnie Journal, 22, didn't even know he had the disease when he was carried into the cholera treatment unit at La Piste camp, Port-au-Prince. He assumed it was the green pepper that was the problem.
He had eaten some with rice the evening before, and the next morning the vomiting and diarrhoea started. And then it just wouldn't stop. Not ordinary diarrhoea: it was more or less like milky water. (A lot of people here call it 'rice water'.)
He says it felt like his body was leaking. Within hours this great bear of a man was too weak to stand. By the time his friends carried him to the unit in the afternoon, he was barely conscious. It is not the cholera that has so far killed more than 2,400 people in Haiti, it is dehydration.
The nurses at the Red Cross unit put him on a drip, and then another, and another – it took six litres to stabilise him. (Cholera is treated with antibiotics and by replacing fluids; in severe cases two drips are sometimes used, with nurses squeezing the bags to speed the delivery of fluid into the patient.)
One day on, Journal is still very weak, too ill to feel the humiliation of having to lie on an absorbent pad with his jeans half off. His large, wide eyes and white teeth look too big for his shrunken body. I ask him what cholera feels like.
'Everything aches, my head, my arms, even my heart.' But he is strong enough to feel angry. 'We never had this type of disease and now we're getting it,' he says. (Haiti last had cholera 100 years ago.) 'This poor country shouldn't be the one that ends up with this kind of disease, we don't have any medication, we don't have lots of things.' He shifts in his bed. 'We've already had a tragedy.'
Because, of course, cholera is only part of what has happened. Journal used to be a carpenter who made gates and doorframes. But on January 12 last year a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck about 15 miles west of Port-au-Prince, killing 230,000. Journal's house was destroyed, three members of his extended family were killed, and for the past year he has been living in a flimsy shelter on a nearby camp in four acres of volatile poverty.
'You can't keep clean and you can't stop people stealing. They tear off the plastic sheeting and steal whatever you have.'
This demonstrable unfairness hangs over the unit. Look up and you see the half-collapsed tower of a soap factory now sealed off by rubble. It is situated in La Piste, a makeshift city of 50,000 earthquake survivors, who sleep one on top of the other in cupboard-sized shacks made from blue tarp roofs and corrugated-tin and cardboard walls. When it rains, parents have to spend the night standing up, holding their children, because it is too wet to sit on the floor.
Walking through the chlorine footbath at the threshold of the unit feels like entering a place of bad luck in a pretty concentrated form. Eight other patients, already knocked sideways by the events of a year ago, lie on camp beds, attached to drips.
Christelle Privat, four, hangs limply as her father holds her over a bucket. Jocelyn Chery, 25, a labourer, bought an ice cream from a street vendor for a dollar. 'That night my stomach started boiling.' He spent the night outside his shelter because he didn't want his three children to get sick.
Cherimene Laguerre, 46, the Red Cross nurse, is not surprised. 'After January 12, we knew that something bad would happen,' she says. 'We've been getting ready for it. Imagine the situation these people live in. We knew something like this was going to happen.'
December 6 Red Cross Base Camp, Port-au-Prince A year ago, the half-built Hilton Hotel was home to 400 aid workers from the Red Cross. Today there are still 156 sleeping in tents (one was bitten by a tarantula last week) and working in offices with improvised tarpaulin floors.
More than 200 others have moved off the camp to live in Port-au-Prince. This includes a 16-strong team from the British Red Cross, who live behind a guarded perimeter fence, in a residential neighbourhood, 45 minutes' drive from base camp. And that's just the Red Cross. There are about 900 NGOs working here. It is a set-up that tends to suggest a city still under siege.
In the humanitarian world, there is a ritual response to a disaster. When an earthquake strikes, emergency teams are deployed. They painstakingly locate survivors and report findings back to managers who draw conclusions about the sort of help required: food, cooking equipment, lavatories, shelter.
Three to six months later the emergency phase shifts to 'early recovery', when survivors are moved into temporary homes (typically wooden huts); and jobs for cash are offered. By nine months 'recovery teams' are looking at permanent solutions: stronger houses, training, rebuilding businesses. It is a progression of phases based on an upward trajectory of life getting better. But the rituals of disaster relief have rarely been upturned so dramatically as they have in Haiti.
'This is very unusual,' admits Marcel Fortier, the head of delegation for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Fortier, a French Canadian who has worked for the Red Cross for 30 years, is a veteran of such disasters as the tsunami (2004), which killed more than 200,000 people, and the Bangladesh cyclone (2007) which killed 130,000 people. 'To have this camp here so long, and to have so many people working here still, there has not been a situation like this.'
A charismatic, worn-faced man in his late fifties in khakis and a T-shirt, who sometimes sounds stern and sometimes chuckles as he speaks, Fortier has been head of base camp for 10 months.
'This is the first time we have faced such a complex situation,' he says, listing the reasons why: the quake hit a capital city with a poor economy – Haiti was already the poorest country in the hemisphere, with widespread illiteracy, high infant mortality, low life expectancy, and 20-30 years of non-investment. 'The hospitals were not in good shape before, nor the roads, water, garbage collection…'
Thirty per cent of Haiti's public servants died in the earthquake and 15 ministry buildings were destroyed, including the beautiful old Ministry of Justice, near the National Palace. Fortier recently had a meeting with a very senior official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a corridor. 'So it doesn't help facilitate recovery, when not only the government, but other official machinery is not in great shape.'
Plus, Haiti is a country with regular periods of discontent, which in some parts of the community, for periods ranging from a few hours to a few days, can escalate out of control. 'It was, and still is, unstable,' Fortier says. 'When you have 11,000 military under the UN umbrella, you are reliably un-stable.'
And on top of it all, of course, there have been other emergencies. The British Red Cross prepared for Hurricane Tomas in October by ordering 4,000 body bags. The hurricane, fortunately, was not as severe as predicted. But the body bags are now being used for the cholera epidemic, which hit the capital at the beginning of November. The upshot is that the Red Cross is in emergency mode, early recovery and recovery, all at the same time.
There are some small signs of progress. Most of the bodies are gone, decomposed beneath the rubble or loaded on a dump truck and taken to a mass burial ground outside town, near the sea. The city's streets are once again busy with tiny grocery stalls, one-chair barber shops, mobile-phone charging stations.
A hair-weave stall in La Piste hints at a certain limited frivolity. And I was pleased to hear news of Stanley Clermont, 24, a university student whom I interviewed for an article in this magazine three weeks after the earthquake, when he was living outside with his family under blankets. At the time he had no hope of finishing his degree as his university had collapsed, but I was told that he had managed to leave the country and is now studying at the University of Miami.
Otherwise the city seemed spectacularly depressed. The government's ministry of public works, transportation and communications has assessed almost every building in the city, and stamped its front wall with a green, yellow or red stencil with the initials MTPTC. Green means you can continue to work or live in the building; yellow, you may enter but the building is unsafe; red means immediate danger. Red stencils dominate.
More than a million people still live in 1,277 camps. Another million live in slapdash shelters on the side of the road, or roundabouts, colonising any space they are able to. In the past year La Piste camp has expanded from 10,000 to 50,000 (the same size as Brentwood or Macclesfield) and is renowned for gangs and stabbings.
I had been in La Piste for only a short time before I heard about a 23-year-old man who was killed after getting caught in crossfire from an M-16 rifle as he crossed the street. We're near Cité Soleil; arguments here tend to metamorphose very quickly into a shoot-off. 'Bullets don't have eyes,' one of the dead man's friends says. One small boy died of cholera at the camp recently because his parents were too scared to walk to the medical unit at night. When they took him the next day it was too late.
The National Palace, the gloriously white, domed confection of the presidential residency, and a potent symbol for many Haitians, has collapsed still further into the ground. And the square opposite, which used to be green and grand with palm trees and a statue of Haiti's founding revolutionary, Toussaint Louverture, is now occupied by 2,800 refugees, who face the prospect of no jobs and the hard and very frustrating fact that they are never going home. i'm as f***ed as you are, reads the T-shirt of one inhabitant.
Government officials and the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission all talk about long-term decentralisation as a drive to move some of the population out of Port-au-Prince. (The reason is simple: there isn't enough room, especially now landlords are reclaiming their land.) An hour's drive north is Coraille, a camp in the hills that houses 50,000 refugees, many moved from the city's golf course in Delmas 48 (the city is divided into 'Delmas' or zones). The 'Golf' camp, is still home to about 35,000 and is managed by Sean Penn, the Hollywood actor, through his charity JP. Penn assisted some of the migration out of the city.
Exeline Belcombe, 24, is a singer and chef who worked for Penn in Delmas 48 and now lives at the camp. 'Every time someone moved here to Coraille, it was my responsibility to break down their shelter [on the Golf camp], to stop anyone else from moving in.' She says she prefers it here because there is more space; she has a job for six days sponsored by World Vision, digging drainage canals (fee: $40) and will soon move from her tent into a newly built wooden hut which is hers for three years.
Her only complaint is that there are 'no trees; only a bunch of mountains'. The camp certainly looks clean and industrious. Some tents even have 'gardens' with rows of maize and decoratively arranged stones. The downside, of course, is the work and house are provided by NGOs, and what happens when they leave? 'It is not a sustainable solution,' says David Monier, the head of British Red Cross, Haiti. 'What is going to happen to these people, who are out of town with no transport?'
Most of the three quarters of a million people who fled the capital seeking food and shelter have returned, according to information from Digicel, the country's largest mobile-phone company, which watches the demographic movements of its users. Mostly it is because Port-au-Prince is one of the only places where a Haitian might find work.
Within a year of the Asian tsunami, the Red Cross had built 22,000 temporary homes in Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. 'Bang, bang, one after the other,' Fortier says. In Port-au-Prince they have so far built 2,515 (target: 30,000). Why? Land is a major issue, he replies. Or rather, there is land, but the land is occupied by rubble. Only 10 per cent of the rubble has been removed: 20 million cubic metres remain. 'When you remove that, you have the land.'
He picks up a pen and starts to jot figures on a piece of paper. 'OK, a truck will take around five cubic metres, so divide the total by five and you have four million truck journeys. Say you have about 500 trucks and you put them in town and that they do, due to the traffic, three trips a day. That's 7,500 cubic metres a day. Let's say they work seven days a week." He tosses his pen on the table. 'Seven years at least to get rid of the rubble.' And there is no fleet of trucks.
I discuss this, via email, with a friend, a former banker, back in London, and he says, 'I know JCB-type equipment is sitting unused in Guadeloupe and Martinique because all construction projects dried up with the recession (the owners have defaulted to the banks), so the banks could put them to use by delivering them for temporary use to Haiti.' But it's not so simple. 'You have to have the political will to do that,' David Monier says. 'It has to be decided by the government and the government, pretty much like the rest of the country, is struggling to move forward.'
Lavatories hit the same problem. The British Red Cross has built 300 lavatories in two camps. But half the camps still don't have any lavatories at all. 'We have the capacity to build them,' explains Chris Brewer, the sanitation team leader for British Red Cross, 'but we have a disposal problem.' By this he means lorries to 'de-sludge' the lavatories and 'dumpsites' to dispose of the contents. There is one dumpsite in Port-au-Prince. 'In Sri Lanka after the tsunami we had lots of dumpsites, but here there is an issue with the land.'
There is talk of $1.5 billion from the international community for recovery projects, but the plans are not yet completed and the money is not yet available. In the meantime, the Red Cross is still trucking 2.5 million litres of water a day – 40 per cent of the capital's water – at a cost of $400,000 a month. 'That is a lot of trucks,' Fortier acknowledges. 'Normally we do not truck water [one year on] because there is no need to, but there is no other water system in the country. You cannot let people go without clean water, or if you do, you will see the consequences. You will have a major cholera crisis in the camps.'
He pauses to lean forward in his seat. 'What we have done so far is we have kept people alive and we have ensured that they maintain a certain level of human dignity.' He smiles wryly. 'But I know that is not necessarily a big story, to keep people alive.'
December 6 Delmas 19, Port-au-Prince On August 19, at a time when Automeca camp was home to 14,000, a local landlord decided he wanted his land back. Ten thousand had to leave. And as 70 per cent were exiles from Delmas 19, there has been a drive ever since to encourage them back home.
Even before the earthquake, Delmas 19 was a ghetto of higgledy-piggledy houses, claustrophobic 3ft-wide streets and open drains. A few had lavatories, but most used a cubicle on the bridge, with a hole cut through the stonework so people could discharge directly into the drainage canal below. The earthquake not only collapsed the houses, it fractured the pipes, so every time it rained, the drainage canal would overflow and the inhabitants found themselves knee-deep in faeces and rubbish.
Clearly getting people back to Delmas 19 was never going to be an easy sell. But things have changed in the past two months. There are now two lavatories (and plans for more); rubbish bins, a clean drainage canal cleared by 100 local volunteers, and the sound of sawing wood as people try to rebuild their lives.
I'm here with my translator, Nadia François, 38, a 6ft Amazon, who looks like an extra from the 1970s film Shaft: afro, blue eyeshadow, hoop earrings; and she speaks in the cadences of someone who went to school in Miami – she lived there with her mother for 15 years – giving her translations a streetwise edge. (What do you like doing, Nadia? 'Clubbing.')
We meet Banette Janvier, 23, who lives in a two-room house with six people: mother, brother, sister and her children. They used to live on Automeca, which she says was one part comradely to two parts scary with 'crazy people tearing up your blankets'. She knew the landlord was going to throw them off, when something rather remarkable happened: the Red Cross announced that every family in the camp was to get $250, no strings attached. This is a significant amount in a country where packs of spaghetti cost 50 cents and street sellers make around $2 a day. 'She didn't believe it was for real,' François says.
The Red Cross has implemented similar cash programmes in Indonesia and Sri Lanka. But this is the first time the grants have been issued via mobile phone. The grants draw upon British donations (but not exclusively: money is also used for sanitation work). The way it worked was that the Red Cross got a register of every family on the camp – some 4,000 – from the International Organisation of Migration, gave each an ID card, and then sent them a text message telling them where to go to collect the $250.
'It's radical but it's empowering,' Ruth Aggiss, who helped coordinate the project, says. 'It gives them the choice to spend it on what they want.' Things such as rent, education or electricity, which are all very costly. As are funerals, and with so many dead needing to be buried, many people are in debt.
Janvier spent her money on rent. But Haiti is not a place of unreservedly happy endings. Janvier says it is good being in a house because she doesn't have to worry about her passport being stolen. But the downside is that her mother can't sleep. She points to deep cracks in the walls, and to where the ceiling appears to be shifting away from the wall. 'She says her mum sleeps with one eye open,' François reports, 'and anything that shakes the bed, she's thinking it's the earthquake.'
I ask Janvier to list her worries. First, she says, she would like a job as an accountant – she studied accountancy at college – but getting a job in Haiti is about contacts and she doesn't have any. Second, the rent is due and she doesn't have any money. And lastly, she's convinced some other catastrophe is imminent. She isn't alone. 'Everyone is saying there's going to be fire,' François says, offering an insight into the national psyche. 'The other thing is that there's a big rock in the mountains that's going to roll down and take everybody out in Haiti. It's because the person controlling the world only has up to 2012 on their calendar.'
'In my mind I am always running,' Janvier says.
Janvier doesn't know it yet, but she is to get more help: two more instalments of $250 each, available to those in Delmas 19, with the proviso that it is spent on something that will generate an income. Business plans are needed to obtain a grant, and work is monitored by Red Cross staff. The funds are to kick-start previous businesses with new tools or stock, or to launch small-scale enterprises such as selling tomato sauce or cigarettes.
December 7 British Red Cross base, Turgeau, Port-au-Prince It is 8am and the sky is heavy, the air hot and fevered. Kermens Gedeus, our driver, is already anticipating danger. 'Every time something is going on in Haiti, election-wise, it's bad weather,' he says. Nineteen candidates took part in the election on November 28 to succeed President René Préval. Today Haitians find out which two have made it to the final round.
The best-known are Mirlande Manigat, the wife of Leslie Manigat, who served as president for four and a half months; and Jude Celestin, the director and founder of the government's construction agency, Préval's son-in-law and the preferred candidate. But François wants a new hero, someone who is a friend to the people. She voted for Michel 'Sweet Micky' Martelly, 49, a musician, who speaks Creole like a Haitian despite living in the US for years at a time, and sings konpa, the Afro-Caribbean music popular with Haitian musicians. He appeals to young voters (60 per cent of Haiti's population is under 24) or those who are simply fed up with politics.
François lists the resentments and broken promises: the election was rigged with people not being able to vote because their name wasn't on a list, despite having registered; the government has almost nothing to show for all the money that has come in since the earthquake; during the early days when Wyclef Jean, the Haitian rap star, and Bill Clinton, the UN's special envoy to Haiti, as well as the co-chairman of the recovery commission, were being presented as heroes in news reports and magazine articles, the president of the country went to ground.
'Micky's promised to load down food for free,' she says. 'You want to get out from under these tents, you have to vote for me,' she says, paraphrasing Martelly's election promise.
By 10am there is an increased sense of foreboding. Police cars cruise in pairs, each with the barrel of a rifle protruding from an open window. Road blocks start to materialise. UN soldiers fan out from trucks, taking positions.
François is sure the situation will deteriorate. 'If the protesters were going to do it in a professional way with no fighting and no throwing bottles, I would go out and march with them. But they're going to start throwing bottles.' Not all are aggrieved voters. 'Some are paid by the parties to stir up trouble,' explains Michael Matt, who is here to advise NGOs on security during the elections.
The city is on a knife-edge. News hits us fitfully for the rest of the day: burning tyres in Delmas 35; burning barricades in Champ de Mars, Cité Soleil; people running in panic at Place Boyer, Quartier Latin; a large demonstration in Petionville. By the time the results are announced at 6pm, the Red Cross has issued a curfew: all staff are grounded.
Sweet Micky misses out on a place in the second round by 7,000 votes (one per cent). Manigat wins 31.37 per cent; Celestin, 22.48 per cent). 'They want Micky and they're angry,' François says, when I speak to her on the phone. Four people are killed in the riots that night and the next day. Local reports speak about the bodies in the way they might speak, in another country, about cases of flu. I spend that night unable to sleep, listening to sporadic bursts of gunfire. The next four days are spent waiting. The aid workers worry about the cholera cases who will be too scared to leave their homes; about water trucks blocked by barricades; ditto sludge-trucks and overflowing lavatories.
'I am working from home,' Monier says, when I ask him what he is most frustrated by. 'There are violent activities in the city and I can't put my team at risk,' he explains. 'The average European watching the news on TV would say Haiti is not rebuilding fast enough, and I've got the same feeling. But nothing ever goes to plan. There is always something that complicates things. Now it looks like this instability could go on indefinitely.' He gives a heavy sigh. 'But you have to deal with it.'
The British Red Cross plans to be in Haiti for two more years; the IFRC for another 10.
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Gaza Strip: Five died, 45 injured in Fatah - Hamas clashes
Rival Palestinian factions fought on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, raising the weekend toll to five dead and 45 wounded. Among the victims was a pro-Hamas cleric pulled from his home and shot several times in the street after a guard from Fatah movement was shot and thrown to his death from a high building in Gaza City, officials said.
According to Reuters, witnesses said masked gunmen from both Hamas and Fatah were streaming onto the streets, setting up roadblocks and barriers to stop cars and check identification papers and pulling rival supporters from vehicles and houses.
The latest round of fighting started on Saturday night in the town of Rafah, where hundreds of rival gunmen took up positions on street corners and rooftops. Hamas and Fatah pounded each other with rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns in Rafah, said witnesses.
Three men from Fatah and two from Hamas were killed in all, including the cleric of a main mosque in Gaza City, and a member of President Mahmoud Abbas' elite Force 17, hospital officials said. Some 45 people were wounded, the officials said.
Hamas accused Fatah of executing the cleric, a shooting that followed the killing of the guard, which Fatah blamed on Hamas.
Fighting was also reported in a central Gaza refugee camp, where Hamas and Fatah accused each other of abducting at least one member of each group, sparking a gun battle that wounded four more people, hospital officials said.

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The board voted to seek exceptions from the state Department of Education that would permit the district to hike its real estate tax rate by an extra 3.2 mills on top of the increase allowed by United's 3-percent index.
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Imagine coming home to a warm, friendly community that's luxurious, safe and comfortable. Maintenance and light housekeeping are included, and every meal of the day is expertly prepared and pleasing to the palette. With all the work done, you have more time for family, friends and the important things in life. Watch this space for updates as Vickery Rose prepares to bring this worry-free lifestyle to Roswell and surrounding areas.
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Vickery Rose is located in the vibrant town of Roswell, Georgia, named one of the coolest suburbs in the country by Huffington Post. It is a town where history, nature, and modern amenities come together to form the best of southern living. With its verdant setting and progressive urban amenities, there will never be a shortage of entertainment, fine dining, and nature for our Vickery Rose community residents.
Senior living emphasizing style and comfort
Designed for your comfort, our community will feature studios, 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments with a variety of floor plans and smart details to complement your lifestyle. Each unfinished apartment features window coverings, a climate-controlled thermostat, carpeting, ceiling fans, and ample storage. You'll enjoy the freedom to decorate your new home to your individual taste.
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Washer/dryer hook-ups will be located in a separate laundry closet within the apartment. We also offer residents the option to use our community laundry room on-site. Our professional staff will provide as-needed maintenance repairs and light housekeeping on a weekly basis.
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Resort Lifestyle Communities apartments are equipped with smoke detectors and sprinklers. Every resident receives an emergency pendant that connects to their community's central emergency response system. At the push of a button our 24/7 personnel are alerted that the resident needs assistance and we respond immediately.
Smoke-free Environment
For the comfort and care of those who live and work at Vickery Rose, smoking is not permitted inside the building.
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Family and friends are always welcome! For your convenience, you may schedule for overnight visitors to stay in our senior living community guest suite.
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Need some time to decide if Vickery Rose is the best senior living choice for you or a loved one? We understand the importance of making a decision that best meets your individual needs. You are welcome to arrange a complimentary stay at the Resort Lifestyle Community of your choice. This way you may experience first hand the joys and benefits of living in our community.
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Vickery Rose's stunning main dining room will be the perfect setting to savor mouthwatering meals prepared fresh daily by the chefs in our state-of-the-art commercial kitchen. Experience our signature Freedom Dining program, which includes flexible dining hours throughout the day, plus these dining experience options:
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Relax by the fireplace in our comfortable community lounges, or schedule a night of movies or live entertainment in the 150-seat theatre. At Vickery Rose, there will be no shortage of social activities from which to choose. Our community Lifestyle Directors consistently schedule unique activities designed to meet the resident's requests.
"Roswell is filled with things to do, explore and enjoy. Invite your family & friends to Roswell and make special memories in your own hometown. " Learn more. (Source: visitroswellga.com )
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One of the unique features of the league is they use a draft to select players and teams are a true mix of ages and talent level featuring many former high school and college players. Those not sure if they have the talent to return to the game can come to workouts and see if they can compete. This year the league joined the Men's Senior Baseball League which will allow them to put together a tournament team for the first time.
Another unique aspect is each year the league chooses uniforms from different eras of Major League Baseball but this year they are looking to create uniforms to highlight a shore theme was part of the ongoing Restore the Shore effort. Among the team names being considered are the Jet Stars, Bay Sox, Sightseers and Boardwalk Bums.
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Play-off hopefuls Morecambe shrugged off their poor away form to complete a festive-season double over Southport despite a late scare.
They were cruising at 3-0, but Southport struck twice to set up a grandstand finish as Morecambe won on the road for only the third time in 13 games.
Morecambe deservedly led after 44 minutes when Danny Carlton pounced from close range, and went 2-0 up just after the break when Stuart Drummond converted a penalty after Lee Elam had been fouled by Chris Lane.
Adriano Rigoglioso, who bagged a brace in the Boxing Day 3-0 win, then looked to have sealed the points with a right-foot shot.
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Continuing our look at the Panthers draft picks, we will now move onto the team's fourth round selection of Oklahoma DE Frank Alexander. This was an interesting pick because Alexander could see himself playing more than a few snaps per game in his rookie season and could very well be a starter at some point in his career. How will he fit into the Panthers' system, though?We will take a look at that after the jump.
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Alexander has been one of the top pass rushers in the Big 12 for the last two seasons as he has accumulated 15.5 sacks and 93 tackles during that time. He thrived in Oklahoma's 3-4 defense when he was used as an upright pass rusher as he showed the ability to quickly get in the backfield and fend off weaker blockers. He was also decent in playing zone coverage as a defensive end and linebacker, which will help him a lot at the next level. Alexander never quits on plays and always makes sure that he is involved in the play no matter what, which will definitely go a long way in the NFL.
Now, I have to admit that I was fooled a little bit by watching this highlight clip of him against Texas, because he looks a lot better than a fourth round pick there. He showed great footwork, hustle and strength against Texas by getting into the backfield on almost every snap and playing solid against the run, as well. This fooled me because Alexander has struggled against tougher opponents like Iowa in the Orange Bowl. He was also invisible for the second half of the 2011 season as 7.5 of his sacks came in the first six games, so that's definitely a cause for concern. Alexander also has a heart condition which bumped his draft stock down a little bit.
Still, it's hard not to like his pass rushing ability as he appears to be very skilled in that area and can succeed in the NFL as a two-down player. His speed is not top-notch but he is solid at getting to the ball-carrier and usually manages to get involved in every play. He also has shown ability to identify holes in the offensive line and take advantage of them rather easily. Alexander also improved his play against the run as the season went on and can continue to improve in that area so that he isn't used only as a pass rush specialist. He might need to get a little stronger and improve his one-on-one play against blockers to become a full-time starter, though.
Why did the Panthers draft him?
Most should see this coming; pass rush. Ever since Julius Peppers left, the Panthers have struggled to consistently get to the QB and create havoc in the backfield. Charles Johnson may have emerged as a great pass-rusher and Greg Hardy has been solid but the team needs more than that, and adding Alexander will give them that. It is still uncertain what scheme the Panthers defense will play next season but Alexander can succeed if he is used in the 3-4 as an outside linebacker. He was an upright pass rusher throughout most of last season and played very well in that set-up. This might be the best situation to use him in at the pro level since you are playing him to his strengths.
I am not sure if Alexander will be a starter in this defense but he should be very useful, especially if he can improve his play against the run. The Panthers desperate need players who can get in the backfield on a constant basis and Alexander exceeded at that throughout college, so you can not say that this pick did not address a need. The team got a pretty good steal in Greg Hardy a couple years ago, and I wouldn't be surprised if Alexander ends up being a great mid-round selection, as well.
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Award-winning graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment has announced a November release for the highly anticipated graphic novel Everlast, written by television and film actor Chad Michael Murray ("One Tree Hill", The Haunting in Georgia); however, if you're attending this coming weekend's New York Comic Con, you can snag an early copy … signed by Murray himself!
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A pre-apocalyptic tale, Everlast (paper-over-board hardcover, 104 pp) follows Derek Everlast, a man whose destiny in life is guiding others to a place of rebirth for mankind called Haven. Following an instinct called the Nudge, bestowed on him by a higher power, Derek is guided to the next chosen human destined to survive, a little girl named Melissa. In a harrowing adventure, he must deliver her safely to Haven before the End of Days. Everlast tells a story of choice, love, friendship, and, most of all, survival. The graphic novel is illustrated by several of the most talented artists in the industry, including Trevor Hairsine (X-Men), Andrew Huerta (Batman Beyond), Robbi Rodriguez (Moon Lake), J.K. Woodward (Fallen Angel), and Danijel Zezelj (Luna Park).
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"Everlast has been a passion project of mine for eight years now," Chad states. "Every aspect of creating this world and journey has been incredible. I've been fortunate to learn from great people along the way and sought help from top artists to bring in the visuals we use to tell this story. Here's to an adventure I can't wait for the fans to embark on and hopefully hold onto as much as I do."
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BEDMINSTER TWP. – Gov. Chris Christie stopped by for a tour of an autism treatment and education school on Tuesday morning, April 17, as part of National Autism Awareness Month.
Christie greeted several staff members and students at the Somerset Hills Learning Institute at 1810 Burnt Mills Road, which he previously visited as a candidate for governor in 2009.
"I thought this was a great place for me to come back to," he told a gathering of about 40 reporters, photographers, staff and parents in the entrance lobby. "Of all the visits I made in the campaign, no place affected me more personally than this place."
The governor said it was important to enable all individuals to reach their potential, "whatever it is," by providing them with the necessary tools and life skills.
Dr. Kevin J. Brothers, founding executive director of the Learning Institute, led Christie through several rooms of the site, a bright, modern facility that opened five years ago.
With a bevy of photographers and cameramen behind them, they paused inside a couple of small classrooms, a small workout room and a kitchen.
"Today's tour showed how we're helping people through a powerful blending of science and compassion," Dr. Brothers said.
The Learning Institute serves more than 100 students from age 3 to 21 at school and at home, according to Dr. Brothers. The students' home school districts provide 74 percent of the funding, while the Learning Institute raises the balance, he said.
Ultimately, he said, giving students the ability to function reduces the costs to society.
Christie said his administration has increased state funding to help autistic individuals with services like the transition to adult employment. Another goal is to ease the interaction with state government, he said.
The governor said he was also working on a program to develop "centers of excellence" in each county for youths with special needs. That, he said, should help alleviate the costs borne by some public school districts that, by virtue of having good programs, inadvertently cause special needs families to move to their communities.
At one point, Christie spoke of a boy with autism who was successfully taught how to express his needs and desires.
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Emo jokes, or jokes relating to emo have a long history in popular culture. With origins dating back to the early twenty-first century, emo jokes are some of the most popular jokes of the contemporary age.
Dating back to the early twenty-first century (probably somewhere around 2001, or possibly even 1999), emo jokes, some of the most popular jokes of the contemporary age, can be traced back to Emo Phillips, an unpopular comedian probably from the midwest somewhere. Phillips originally intended them as self-deprecating humor, but shortly after their introduction into his regular standup set, they were misconstrued and used to deride Emo musical groups, their fans, people who wear tight pants, people with dyed hair, people with long hair, and the clinically depressed. Subjects of emo jokes also often include goths, who are not actually emo.
The emo joke is most commonly used as an insult directed at someone whom the joker considers "emo", but other commonly accepted methods have developed since the joke's popularization. Emo jokes have lost some credibility recently as more and more people have realized that they are not funny. Many of a person's actions or attributes can provoke emo jokes. These include the authoring of poems, having long or longer hair, especially if the hair is straight and ESPECIALLY if the hair covers the "emo's" eyes, being quiet, the wearing of tight pants, reading in public, frowning in public, and the wearing of black shirts, along with a slew of other things.
Variations on the emo joke are almost unnoticeable and equally unfunny. They differ mainly on the subject of direction and form of rhetoric. Some are directed towards ideas or works of art, but mainly the joker does not see the work of art as "art" because they aren't smart enough. Many emo jokes are used in real-life conversations, but some are used in instant messenger or MySpace conversations. These are usually followed by "lol", "lolz", "lolrofl", or a derivative thereof (ex. "tahts emo lol" or "hes emo lolz").
The only tasteful usage of the emo joke, really, is for satirical purposes, either making fun of people who use it seriously, or for the sarcastic trivialization of a work of art (i.e. Emily Dickinson's body of work is emo, lolzorz).
When one overhears an emo joke being made, it is safe to infer that the maker of the joke is unintelligent, and it is considered appropriate to roll one's eyes or make a jacking off motion with one's hand. When one is directly involved in a conversation in which an emo joke is made, an acceptable response would be a loud, tactless "LOL!!!!" followed by condescending remarks or discontinuation of the conversation in a condescending manner. Either way, a condescending attitude is key. When made the subject of an emo joke, acceptable replies include, but are not limited to, "suck me off, faggot," "derp," "fuck yeah, Hollister, brah," and "you're not real smart, are you, Hoss?" The last of the aforementioned replies calls for a southern accent.
Emo jokes are tired and cliche. The only people who think they are funny are the people who make them. And the only people who think people who make emo jokes are friendly are other people who make emo jokes (stupid people). But in some cases (most situations) emo kids are not clinically depressed at all, like myself. Emo is nothing more than a trend like hair metal. That is, the sooner it ends the better. Emo kids claim to have no friends in most situations yet 9 out of 10 of them gather in groups or "cliques" of female-resembling, tight clothes-wearing males. Another fact I'd like to point out is the usual hatred for preps, a majority of whom are emo. As for any comments about how all emo jokes are made for and by stupid people, an intellectual bias is shown for previous statements made by the emo person who originally posted a quite unintelligent comment. The conclusion is that emo is nothing more than a fad. You see kids, the moral is not to act depressed when in reality you have virtually nothing to cry about.


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Various studies in animal and humans have shown a potential beneficial effect of probiotics consumption on allergy. However few studies exist that document their efficacy for upper airways allergies such as allergic rhinitis. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of short-term oral administration of a L. paracasei or of a blend of 2 probiotics (L. acidophilus + B. lactis) on a nasal provocation test (NPT) with grass pollen, performed out of the pollen season. Adult volunteers with allergic rhinitis are enrolled in a randomized, double-blind study, based on two 4-weeks cross-over periods of product consumption separated by a washout period of 6-8 weeks. Objective and subjective clinical parameters of NPT as well as systemic and nasal immunological markers are compared before and after each treatment.
|Allergic Rhinitis
|Dietary Supplement: probiotic
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
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|October 2007
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|June 2008
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|March 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: L. paracasei
L. paracasei
|Dietary Supplement: probiotic
Experimental: L. acidophilus + B. lactis
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- history of allergic rhinitis during the latest grass pollen season confirmed by a positive skin prick test to grass pollen (wheal diameter > 3mm) and a positive response to a NPT with grass pollen (combined nasal reaction threshold <= 10000 standardized quality units/ml at the screening phase
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- uncontrolled asthma (peak expiratory flow <20% of volunteer's best personal value)
- treatment with antihistamine or antibiotic treatment less than two weeks before enrolment or during the trial
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Perrin Y, Nutten S, Audran R, Berger B, Bibiloni R, Wassenberg J, Barbier N, Aubert V, Moulin J, Singh A, Magliola C, Mercenier A, Spertini F. Comparison of two oral probiotic preparations in a randomized crossover trial highlights a potentially beneficial effect of Lactobacillus paracasei NCC2461 in patients with allergic rhinitis. Clin Transl Allergy. 2014 Jan 6;4(1):1. doi: 10.1186/2045-7022-4-1.
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Rhinitis, Allergic
Nose Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Respiratory Hypersensitivity
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
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They might not realize it, but "citizens have a lot to thank the mainstream media for," says attorney Lucy Dalglish, who heads the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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A Princeton University study this year found that the closure of the Cincinnati Post, which ceased publication on the last day of 2007, had a measurable impact on the democratic process in the 48 suburbs that depended on the Post for news.
The study said the loss of the paper made the local political process less "vibrant." Fewer people voted. Incumbents were more likely to retain power. And fewer candidates challenged them for election.
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There are fewer reporters in the nation's capital, and even fewer in the state capitals. Entire "I-teams" — those reporters devoted solely to investigative reporting — have been dismantled and some capitol bureaus completely shuttered. The staffs of many newsrooms — the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Los Angeles Times — are now half what they once were. The Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center estimates that one of every five newspaper journalists who were working in 2001 is now gone.
Newspaper circulation peaked 15 years ago, in 1993, and has been falling ever since. Last year, newspaper circulation was just over 49 million, the lowest level since 1970.
Eleanor Farnen believes she can pinpoint the moment when the downfall began. Farnen is a media researcher at the University of Missouri and president of Strategists, a business consulting firm. She is also a former corporate executive for the giant industrial manufacturer Honeywell, so she knows something about corporate America.
Farnen says the start of the death spiral can be traced back four decades.
Al Neuharth had begun transforming Gannett from a little Rochester, N.Y., newspaper company into a media giant and the nation's largest newspaper company, now with 84 daily papers nationwide. Neuharth went to Wall Street for money. Gannett wanted funding to acquire newspapers, so it went public in 1967 on the promise of eye-popping returns. But to keep those returns high, Gannett — and the other companies that followed it to Wall Street — took what might have been invested in investigative reporting and applied it right to the bottom line, Farnen said.
"I really think Gannett going to Wall Street and making that promise was what really triggered the fall of newspapers," Farnen said. "I really think that was the beginning of the end."
Neuharth sees it differently.
|Al Neuharth, former CEO of Gannett and founder of USA Today
For example, many of Gannett's newspapers would never have been able to afford a reporter in Washington, D.C., Neuharth said.
But Neuharth does allow one caveat.
"We said we can make 20 or 30 or 40 percent," Neuharth said. "I think as an industry, we — I was going to say misled, but that's the wrong word — we let Wall Street expect that this would be a regular quarter-to-quarter thing. They expected earnings would go up every quarter. They increased demands on us.
"But looking back on it, I don't think it was Wall Street expectations as much as newspaper executives' reaction to Wall Street expectations."
Either way, Gannett consistently delivered on its promises of high returns, posting 11 years of record quarters. Wall Street began expecting the other newspaper companies that had followed Gannett to the stock market to do the same. By the mid-1980s, publicly- traded newspaper company profits averaged a Gannett-like 20 percent. Some individual newspapers were making closer to 40 percent profit.
The owners' quest for high profit margins meant they often had to cut costs to keep profits high. And the place they usually headed first was the newsroom. But newsroom cuts, which Farnen said really began in the 1990s, hurt the quality of the news. When studies link quality and profit, most use a definition of quality that largely mirrors the bedrock attributes of investigative reporting: in-depth, accurate, fair, issues-oriented, enterprise reporting.
"In the newsroom, they began cutting good reporters -- and investigative reporting really took a hit," she said. "They were liquidating the brand. They were selling it off. People began to say, well, why am I buying the newspaper?"
Circulation began to drop, long before the internet became ubiquitous.
And it wasn't just the publicly-held news media. A 2002 Poynter Institute analysis found that staffing levels and cuts were similar in privately-held chains and independently-owned papers.
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