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Tesco and Asda are introducing sustainable shopping changes – here's what you need to know
Two of the UK's biggest supermarkets have announced the changes they will be making in an effort to drive more sustainable shopping in their stores.
Both Tesco and Asda have said they are making a few adjustments, in the hopes that plastic waste levels can be brought down, alongside other important environmental factors.
But just what can you expect to see changing in your local supermarket?
Here is everything you need to know about it.
What's happening at Tesco?
Tesco's bid for a more sustainable shopping future involves making changes to the packaging of products sold in its store.
Not only will it make adjustments to the way its own-brand items are packaged – switching from plastic to more readily recyclable and biodegradable materials – the supermarket will also stop ordering in beer and cider packs where plastic is used to hold the cans together.
These plastic rings are one of the most infamous offending items when it comes to harm against wildlife, as not only do they not biodegrade, they can be caught around creatures necks to cause great distress and injury.
This shouldn't make too much of a difference to the average beverage fan; most major beer and cider producers and many small brewers have already made the switch to cardboard packaging.
Tesco quality director Sarah Bradbury told the Express: "We are working hand in hand with some of the world's biggest brands to tackle the problem of unnecessary plastic."
It's hoped the move will eliminate 50 million unnecessary pieces of plastic per year, a major sticking point in the supermarket's mission to "remove, reduce, reuse and recycle so we use as little material as possible and ensure that all the packaging in our stores can be easily recycled."
What about Asda?
At Asda, shoppers will again see a renewed focus on sustainable packaging, with the supermarket making the pledge to remove plans to remove three billion pieces of plastic from products in the next four years.
That could impact both how products are sourced, and how they are packaged in the first place; Asda added 20 of its top products, including cotton and cocoa, will be sustainably sourced by 2025.
Roger Burnley, Asda CEO and President, told the Express: "Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we have not lost sight of our wider ESG [environmental, social, and governance] responsibilities.
"Asda is now on the issues that matter most to our colleagues, customers and communities and importantly where we want to be in the future.
"The resilience we have shown during the last 12 months means we are well positioned to help customers make greener, healthier and responsible choices when they shop with us."
What's happening with carrier bags?
The changes are announced as the single-use carrier bag charge is set to increase from 5p to 10p and extend to all businesses in England from 21 May.
Under the extension, all stores, including corner shops, will have to apply the charge. Previously only businesses with 250 employees or more had to charge per bag and smaller shops could choose to do so voluntarily.
The 5p levy on plastic bags was introduced in England in 2015, with the most recent figures showing that the number of single-use bags distributed by large supermarkets has fallen more than 95 per cent.
The average person in England now buys just four single-use bags a year, compared to around 140 in 2014.
By extending the charge to all retailers, it is expected that the use of single-use carrier bags will decrease by 70 per cent to 80 per cent in small and medium-sized businesses, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.
Paula Chin, sustainable materials specialist at WWF, said: "Plastic pollution is one of the most visible symptoms of the environmental crisis, damaging natural habitats and putting precious wildlife at risk.
"Measures to reduce plastics consumption need to go much further. The UK Government must consider a complete ban on single-use bags and make sure this is not undermined by the sale of 'bags for life', which are currently cheaply available and all too often end up as single-use items."
John Lewis said it was trialling the removal of single-use bags from its Cheltenham, Kingston and Leeds stores from May 21.
Customers will be asked to bring their own bags or buy a reusable bag made from 100 per cent recyclable material costing 50p for a medium size and 75p for a large size.
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December 6, 1969 - pg. 1DSharon Tate Case
Watson Said to Be 'Incommunicado'By JOHN GEDDIE
Two California lawyers one a close acquaintance of Sharon Tate murder suspect Charles Watson complained here Friday that Watson is being held incommunicado.
Attorney Perry Walshin said McKinney lawyer Bill Boyd refused his request to talk with the young man, although Walshin claimed Watson asked to see his California attorney.
Walshin also charged that a close friend of Watson's was ordered away from the Watson home in Copeville Thursday night by an armed lawman. The friend, identified as David Neale of Dallas, "might be helpful to the defense of the case," Walshin said.
Walshin and David DeLoache, whose Los Angeles firm caters to the hippie community, called a press conference at the Fairmont Hotel to air complaints that Boyd, retained by the Watson family, refused to allow him to see the 24-year-old suspect.
Washin said it was "unfortunate that the local authorities in Collin County have so thoroughly and totally suppressed and confined this defendant."
"He is innocent until proven guilty and is entitled to see his attorney unless Collin County has its own rules that in a normal judicial society would be absurd."
Walshin apparently based his right to see Watson on these grounds:
He said he contacted Watson's mother last Wednesday and she told him her son "wanted to see me with regard to his present troubles."
He said he represented both Watson and Neale in a civil matter, and Watson had been in his office "maybe 30 or 40 times."
He charged that Neale, on emergency leave from the Army because of his interest in the case, was invited to the Watson home in Copeville.
"When he arrived at the door he was greeted by an armed sheriff who told him that neither he nor his attorney could come on the premises, and was told to get off the property and not to returnthat neither was welcome there," Walshin said.
Neale, a friend of the onetime Farmersville football star for five years, reportedly has information which may be beneficial to Watson.
"The information is quite salient to the present case," the attorney said. He added that if Watson tells him to leave the case, he will return to California.
He said Watson called him 3-4 weeks ago to inform him that he had returned to Texas. Walshin said the suspect did not seem upset.
Walshin described Watson as a "nice guy a very intelligent kid."
Watson is being held in McKinney on charges that he participated in the killings of Miss Tate, who was pregnant, and four other persons. Reports form California allege a nomadic hippie cult slaughtered the movie actress and her friends during a symbolistic raid on "the establishment."


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My Son Ryan and AIDS
In 1984, one week before Christmas, Jeanne White was told that her son Ryan had contracted AIDS from a blood product he'd used to control his hemophilia. The doctors gave him six months to live.
Struggling to make life as normal as possible for her thirteen-year-old son, she attempted to have him return to school as soon as possible. She did not realize the amount of fear and prejudice that would result when the school heard of his illness and refused to allow his return.
After numerous court battles, which brought he and his mother to national and international attention, Ryan was allowed back in school only to be inundated with hate, ignorance, and abuse. As a result of their struggles Ryan was befriended by numerous celebrities such as Elton John, Michael Jackson and Phil Donahue and began to educate children and parents about AIDS by speaking at schools, appearing on numerous talk shows and news programs and having a movie about his life broadcast on national television.
On April 11, 1990, five and a half years after his six-month prognosis, Ryan died. His funeral was one of the most publicized services of that decade.
Shortly after Ryan's death his mother Jeanne, who had always been behind the scenes publicly, was asked by several senators to speak about Ryan to Congress in order to pass national legislation for AIDS education. She reluctantly agreed and was instantly thrown into the media spotlight. The bill, THE RYAN WHITE CARE ACT, was subsequently passed and Jeanne White became one of the most sought-after speakers in the country. She founded the Ryan White Foundation and continues advocating for AIDS education and prevention with children, teenagers, and their peers.
A lot of times it takes a little push. Everybody likes feeling sorry for themselves over the death of a loved one. That's kind of normal. With me it was Senator Kennedy and Senator Hatch who got me going and I fought it every step of the way. Ryan was always the public speaker, not me. I was just following Ryan around. Senator Kennedy and Hatch had just named a bill after Ryan called the Ryan White Care Act and they wanted me to come to Washington DC. It was too soon.
We had just buried Ryan two days before and they asked me to come anyway. They knew it was going to be hard, but they said, "You know, this is the first chance that we have of getting something done for people with AIDS." They said, "Ryan's death is so fresh on everybody's mind, his illness and funeral was carried by every network for the last week and a half. This is the first chance of someone being in the public eye that takes the focus off the disease and puts it on to the fact that 'anybody can get it.'"
I said, "Yes". I said, "No". I said, "I can't, I really can't. Ryan used to do that, not me." On the second day, people from Senator Kennedy's staff called me again. They said, "Terry's going to be there." Terry and others had helped me through a lot of bad times. During all the years that Ryan fought AIDS the more people I knew that died of AIDS. And I had seen so many families just like me. Even though I didn't want to get involved, so many people helped me that I kind of felt like I owed it to them. Then Senator Hatch called me and said, "You know, we're not going to take 'no' for an answer. I have twenty-three senators lined up for you. All we want you to do is tell what it's like to watch your son live and die with this disease."
So I went to Washington and I'm so glad I did. It made me feel good. I didn't feel I did great, not like I wanted to. I could have done better but I knew I was sincere in what I felt and said. After that, people wouldn't let me stop.
Phil Donahue, who was a pallbearer at Ryan's funeral, has become a very good friend of the family. When he was in the hospital visiting Ryan he noticed all the mail and could not believe how much was pouring in. He took a bunch of the letters back to New York with him and called saying, "Do you realize these letters are all from kids?!" I said, "Well yeah, that's who generally wrote Ryan." He said, "Jeannie, you've got to continue this work. You've got to answer this mail." Phil said, "I'll hire you an assistant." There were over sixty thousand letters! Phil kept his word and with the help of Marlo Thomas and the St. Jude volunteers, they were able to find a lady that lived close by.
I was so impressed with Ryan, so proud of him. Sometimes I'd think, "Golly, is he really my son?" To me, he was just my little kid, but to the nation, he was this celebrity and hero. I hated to even think that I could follow him, his impact was so great and people listened. When I speak I'm always a nervous wreck, even though I've been doing it now for years. I've messed up a lot, but I'm me. When I introduce myself I say, "I'm just a mom. I'm a mom just like your mom and because of this misunderstood disease called AIDS, my life changed overnight." I say a prayer every time I go out. I say, "Lord, please help me to get through this. Help me educate these young people. Help me make a difference in their lives with my story." Then I say, "Ryan, please be there with me." Then I have this kind of surge that goes through me and I feel like its Ryan saying, "OK, Mom, I'm with you."
I think we've made a lot of progress. By "we" I mean everybody who has committed so hard to fighting this disease with education and through therapy and drugs and medical treatment. I think we've come a long way. The people who have to be commended the most are the people that are not here. Their lives had to be lost for us to get where we are today, to show compassion. Even though I'm tired I'm still doing it because of the Terry Burns, the Mike Callums, and the family members that I've seen.
One day we were riding in the van and Ryan reached over and grabbed my hand and started swinging it. I looked over and said, "OK, what do you want?" He said, "I don't want anything." "Come on Ryan, what do you want?" I continued. He replied, "Can't a son hold his mother's hand? " I said, "Come on, you really don't want anything?" "Mom, I just want to say thank you for standing by me, for always being there for me."
I remember that moment when I speak to teenagers. You know, we always think everybody's going to be here tomorrow, but one day you're going to wake up and somebody's not going to be there. I say, "You might think this stupid old lady up here doesn't know what she's talking about, but I do. The next time you go home from school, even if you think it's the corniest thing you've ever done, write a letter to your parents. If you think you're real cool and you can't go up and hug them around their neck and say, 'Mom. Dad. Thank you. I love you.' Then write a note and put it on their pillow. Do something so that you'll never be sorry."
It would have been easy to be mad all the time at the people who ridiculed us, who discriminated against us, but we had to put our lives in perspective and look at what was really important and what wasn't. Everybody saw on the news that it was this fight for Ryan to go to school, but the number one priority in our life was keeping him healthy. Second, was keeping my job at General Motors, because we had great insurance and it paid for all his medical bills. And the third part was my daughter Andrea, keeping us together as a family.
At first, it's like, "Why?" Everybody wants to know why. Why wasn't he given a miracle? All my life I was taught if you pray hard enough, if you believed hard enough, that you would get a miracle and you could never doubt that, or you wouldn't get one. I never thought Ryan was going to die. I just couldn't quite understand that. I thought nobody had more people praying for them than Ryan did. I prayed, "Lord, wouldn't it be nice to show this kid a miracle in front of the whole nation." Everybody knew he's lived with AIDS for five and half years. He'd been in and out of hospitals. He's been blind twice. I mean, this kid had a heck of a life, why couldn't he be given a miracle? When he died, it was like, "Why? What more could we have done?"
When he died, I was really taken aback. I started questioning my faith. I think that's normal. I mean, I started wondering if there really is a God? How does God let things like this happen? I see people around me all the time asking that question. "Why do young kids have to die?" I mean, anybody really, lots of other good people have died too. So then I started trying to find reasons.
After awhile it started to get clearer. "Look at all the things he's done in his short life. He's educated so many people. Wouldn't we all like to say we had accomplished as much as this kid did in only 18 years?!"
I tell the kids that when I get to heaven, I'm going to be angry. I hope the Lord forgives me for being angry, but I'm going to say, "Why did you have to take Ryan?" Then I say, "You know what I think he's going to say? He's going to say, 'You know what, he was only supposed to live three to six months. I gave you five and a half years, and you're still not happy.'" Maybe I got a miracle. We had quite a few Christmases that we never thought we were going to have.
I didn't want to lose my faith. I was mad at my faith. I was mad at my church. I was mad at my religion. I was mad at God. But I wanted to find a reason. I eventually started seeing things around me like the Ryan White Care Act and Elton John go through rehabilitation and get off of drugs and alcohol, and I thought, "My goodness, Ryan touched more lives than I ever knew. Perhaps those people got miracles, and they don't know it."
Michael (Jackson) was a real good friend of Ryan's. When Michael called Ryan in the hospital once, Elton said, "With all the money that's in this room, we can't bring this boy back to life." That was a real big realization to Elton . . . That he had all the money in the world, he had everything he could ever buy, but he could not buy his health. That's why he entered rehab. When Michael called me after Ryan died, just to see how I was doing, I said, "I'm doing OK but what made you and Ryan so close?"
When Michael would call, they would have long phone conversations. He said, "You know, most people can't get over the awe of who I am, so nobody can ever act normal around me. Ryan knew how I wanted to be treated because that's how he wanted to be treated. I can't trust anyone because everybody always wants something from me." He could tell Ryan anything, and Ryan wasn't going to go blab it or tell it, you know. "I promised Ryan he could be in my next video and now that he's gone I want to do a video for him." He made a video called Going Too Soon, which was about Ryan.
It's hard to talk about death. I didn't want to talk about it because I didn't really think he was going to die. I can remember him saying what he wanted to be buried in. I told him I really didn't want to talk about it but he went on anyway, "I know you like me in a tux but I don't want to buried in one." I said, "OK, Ryan, what do you want?" I mean, it's like, I'd say anything to get this conversation over with. He says, "I want to be buried in my Guess jeans, my red T&C (Town and Country) shirt, my Air Jordan's and my Jean Jacket." He pauses, as I'm fading out, then says, "You know how people are when they're lying in a casket, and everybody is watching their eyes to see if their eyes move? I want my sunglasses on, and I want to be buried in my boxer shorts." "Your boxer shorts?" I exclaimed. He'd just switched from wearing briefs to boxer shorts and really liked them. "Why your boxer shorts?" I deadpanned. "You know that hernia I got? I want to make sure I . . ." He had a hernia that they couldn't operate on because he had no platelets. "I want to make sure I'm comfortable." And I thought, 'Well, if you're dead, I mean.' "OK, just talk," Ryan said. "You know, as a mom."
One of the best things, after Ryan died, was when people talked about him. I think it was also good for me to get involved in something I truly believed in, doing something, instead of sitting at home feeling sorry for myself. That's the easy way to go . . . Feeling sorry for yourself. People didn't let me, although that's what I probably would have done if not pushed. But people were always talking about Ryan and people still do and that kind of keeps him alive within me.
Excerpt from Don't Just Sit There, Do Something! Grief's Wake Up Call.


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)Note: This page is not an advertisement for any particular product and all opinions contained here are solely those of the individual contributor. What are the symptoms of Poisoning?The first symptom of poisoning is a severe itching of the skin. Later, a red inflammation and a blistering of the skin occurs. In severe cases, oozing sores develop. The rash spreads by the poisonous sap (urushiol), not as the result of contamination from sores. The blood vessels develop gaps that leak fluid through the skin, causing blisters and oozing. When you cool the skin, the vessels constrict and don't leak as much according to Robert Rietschel, M.D. Chairman of Dermatolgy at New Orleans' Ochsner Clinic. more rash pictures more rash pictures more rash pictures Note: The zanfel site now has an excellent series of rash pictures. Poison ivy, western poison oak, and poison sumac have the poisonous sap (urushiol) in their roots, stems, leaves and fruit. The sap is released when the plant is bruised, making it easier to contract Rhus-dermatitis in the spring and early summer when leaves are tender. The sap may be deposited on the skin by direct contact with the plant or by contact with contaminated objects, such as shoes, clothing, tools and animals. Severe cases have occurred from sap-coated soot in the smoke of burning plants. Because urushiol is inside the plant, brushing against an intact plant will not cause a reaction. But undamaged plants are rare because "Poison oak, ivy and sumac are very fragile plants," says William L. Epstein, M.D., professor of dermatology, University of California, San Francisco. Stems or leaves broken by the wind or animals, and even the tiny holes made by chewing insects, can release urushiol. "Rhus plants(poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac) are the most common cause of allergic contact dermatitis in the US. Rhus plans contain the potent antigen urushiol, which will sensitize 60% to 80% of the persons who are exposed to it. ...(It) may be carried on the fur of pets, clothing, shoes, toys, tools, or other objects and then transferred to the skin. Approximately 24 to 36 hrs after a sensitized person is exposed to the urushiol, a blistery, itching rash develops. Usually within 15 minutes of contact, the urushiol binds to skin proteins. If it is washed off with soap and water before that time, a reaction may be prevented. After the antigen is fixed, however, it cannot be washed off or transferred to other areas. Scratching or oozing blister fluid cannot spread the antigen to other areas of the body or to other persons. New lesions that appear a few days after the primary lesions represent less sensitive areas or areas where less antigen was deposited, not spreading of the antigen. Because the course of the reaction usually is 12 to 15 days, 2 weeks of medication should be prescribed. Reference [Dermatology in Primary Care 1994] Once bound to cell membranes, urushiol is virtually impossible to wash off and attached to cell membranes becomes a "warning flag" that attracts patrolling T-cells and initiates a full-blown immune response. Reference [Herbalgram (American Botanical Council) Volume 34: 36-42, 1995 by W.P. Armstrong and W.L. Epstein, M.D.] Charles H. Booras, M.D. Karl Hempel, M.D. Dr Greene's, House Calls Dr William E. Jones, M.D. Lisa A. Garner, MD After the oil has touched the skin, it usually takes some time for it to penetrate and do its damage. Before this happens, it is wise to wash the skin thoroughly several times with plenty of soap and water. Care should be taken not to touch any part of the body, for even tiny amounts of the oil will cause irritation. If poisoning develops, the blisters and red, itching skin may be treated with dressings of calamine lotion, Epsom salts, or bicarbonate of soda. Scientists have developed a vaccine that can be injected or swallowed. But this is effective only if taken before exposure.
If you don't cleanse quickly enough, or your skin is so sensitive that
cleansing didn't help, redness and swelling will appear in about 12 to
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after their very first exposure, the rash appears after seven to 10 days.
Products Remedies More info Great info The compound leaves of poison ivy consist of three pointed leaflets; the middle leaflet has a much longer stalk than the two side ones. The leaflet edges can be smooth or toothed but are rarely lobed. The leaves vary greatly in size, from 8 to 55 mm (0.31" to 2.16") in length. They are reddish when they emerge in the spring, turn green during the summer, and become various shades of yellow, orange or red in the autumn. Small greenish flowers grow in bunches attached to the main stem close to where each leaf joins it. Later in the season, clusters of poisonous, berrylike drupes form. They are whitish, with a waxy look. Books: Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac Bookstore Contrary to many written reports, poison ivy leaves are not strictly shaped. You'll find in the same patch leaves that are elongated and lobed, smoothed and toothed, small and large. Identification of the plant including its variations can be difficult. The first picture collection below shows a sampling of poison ivy plants with various leaf shapes. Picture Collections: poison ivy (NEW) / poison oak / poison ivy / poison sumac / similar looking plants Here is a nice site with lots of pictures and a quiz. Another site with a poison ivy pictures quiz. poison oak pictures poison ivy pictures poison sumac pictures more poison oak pictures more poison ivy pictures more poison ivy pictures more poison sumac pictures more poison ivy pictures more poison ivy pictures more poison ivy pictures more poison sumac pictures *** more poison ivy pictures *** more poison ivy pictures more poison oak sumac more poison oak more poison oak more poison oak Yes, as a matter of fact, a number of the members of the Sumac family contain urushiol. These include the cashew nut shell, mango, Rengas tree, Burmese lacquer tree, India marking nut tree, and Ginkgo biloba. These are all members of the Anacardiaceae family (or commonly named "cashew") which comprises about 70 genera and 850 species of trees and shrubs. Below are links sites with extensive information about other plants of the Anacardiaceae family and which have urushiol.
Detailed descriptions including the chemical makeup of urushiol
Where are these plants found?Botanical Dermatology Database on Anacardiaceae family Poison ivy is a harmful vine or shrub in the cashew family. It grows plentifully in parts of the United States and southern Canada. Poison ivy usually grows as a vine twining on tree trunks or straggling over the ground. But the plant often forms upright bushes if it has no support to climb upon. Species related to poison ivy include poison oak, which grows in the Pacific Northwest and nearby regions of Canada, and poison sumac, which grows in the Eastern United States. Poison oak and poison sumac both are shrubs. The tissues of all these plants contain a poisonous oil somewhat like carbolic acid. This oil is extremely irritating to the skin. It may be brushed onto the clothing or skins of people coming in contact with the plants. Many people have been poisoned merely by taking off their shoes after walking through poison ivy. People can get poisoned from other people, but only if the oil remains on their skin. The eruptions themselves are not a source of infection.
[top] How do I control Poison Ivy, Oak or Sumac plants? Efforts have been made to destroy these plants by uprooting them or by spraying them with chemicals. But poison ivy and poison oak are so common that such methods have not been very effective in eliminating them. Contact with the plants should be avoided. Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac belong to the cashew family, Anacardiaceae. Poison ivy is classified as Rhus radicans or Toxicondendron radicans. Poison oak is Rhus diversiloba or Toxicondendron diversilobum and poison sumac is Rhus vernix or Toxicondendron vernix.
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Inside, the dust motes whirled and danced in the air, lit up by the sunlight streaming in the high windows, dulled only a little with the grime of the city and smears of dirt. The child was right in plain view after he took a few more steps from the door, sprawled on the cool dirt floor like a broken doll, tossed down carelessly, discarded and unheeded. Commander Sam Vimes felt the bile rise and swallowed hard. He tried to stay detached, unaffected, but that lasted all of perhaps twenty seconds. He settled for observant but angry as hell and getting angrier by the second.
She looked like a hundred other little girls that lived in Dolly Sisters, or on any of a dozen streets and corners in the middling parts of the city. The bits that weren't the Shades or on the verges, but not quite the middle class and upwardly mobile portion, either. Nondescript brown hair tucked behind ears that stuck out slightly because they were still being grown into, brown eyes wide and frozen, a sharp little chin. Not overly well-dressed, but clean enough, because the pink cheeks and white hands had a certain well-scrubbed look to them. The blouse and skirt had been washed until the pattern had mostly faded, the cotton was thinner than it was probably two or three older sisters ago, but she had the look of the well-tended and cared for, despite that. Three of the little carved wooden buttons had been pulled loose and had scattered not far from the body. The narrow, milky white chest was exposed, and a livid red mark stood out near one collarbone. The skirt was shoved up, her legs obscenely splayed. There were smears of blood. One foot was totally bare, on the other a soft, worn, brown shoe was loosed from the heel, barely hanging on at the narrow toes. The remnants of some of the cotton cloth, in tatters, ripped and cut away from her, were scattered around her. The finger marks were plain in the purple bruises ringing her throat. They went with the giveaway redness in the eyes.
No older than seven, surely, he thought, swallowing against that acidic taste rising in his mouth. He dragged his eyes away and scouted around the mostly empty warehouse, among the empty crates and boxes, desperate for anything else to think about, coming up with nothing that drew much attention but a few discarded bottles of liquor, drained, and old, stale cigarette butts. The smell of booze was strongest around her. The other shoe was nowhere to be found. It must have been lost, possibly in a struggle, somewhere out in the alleyway, perhaps. He made a mental note to have eyes kept open for it. Sam Vimes squatted next to the body and gently closed the eyelids over the unblinking, wide eyes. After a moment's hesitation, he tugged the hem of the thin cotton skirt down to her knees in an effort to give the child back some decency.
The remaining shoe, barely hanging on, slipped to the floor and sounded too loud in the quiet. He realized he had been holding his breath. Vimes forced himself to breathe out, to look at the little twist of paper shoved into the toe of what was likely a hand-me-down shoe to make it fit. He tore his eyes away again and walked back into the street, slamming the door hard behind him. There were already sergeants and constables aplenty milling around out there, ready to be told what questions to ask and where to start asking them. Walking and talking would solve it, he was sure of it. Whatever Cheery collected would just help bolster the case. There would damned well be some answers given, if he had to beat on every damned door personally. First order of business would be to check on any missing child reports at the Dolly Sisters Watch House. And finding that damned missing shoe. It might tell them where whoever it was had found her, if they had grabbed her or talked her into coming along. The small bare foot bobbed accusingly in his memory.
There was a sharp chill in the crisp air, right enough, but that wasn't what made Vimes shiver under his leather greatcoat as he made for home. The sun had already gone down hours before, the air was cold and clammy as always on late fall nights. There was a thick drift of soggy, slick leaves on the cobbles. Winter would be here soon enough. His face felt like it was on fire with rage, even against the clinging and clammy fog. Parents were always the worst. He had told his fair share of wives their husbands weren't coming home, and to be sure, that wasn't easy, especially not the last few years. Some had been officers, others victims. But nothing compared to the horror and shame of being the badge in the doorway when a mother opened up the door and knew as soon as they looked at you. Worse yet, the occasions when they saw you and hoped. And then you had to cut down their hopes, first thing, because it was crueler to let them go on hoping. And it would almost have been better if they had cursed at you, spit at you, tried to hit you. Something besides just looking straight through you and not quite believing it.
He hadn't been able to put that job off on anyone else. He had gone to the house himself, and slipped out awkwardly and quietly once the truth had sunk in and the wailing had started in earnest. The house had been packed to the brim with relatives and neighbors already. There were only so many times you could say you were sorry and promise to do all you could. To see that they were arrested and brought in, fair and square, so there could be a trial and at least an imitation of justice. Which seemed like pitifully little. Finding them and stringing them up by their entrails still alive didn't seem like enough.
He had eaten part of a hurried sandwich at the Watch House earlier in the evening, and now bed was beckoning hard. The Night Watch had, if there was any doubt in their minds, been told in no uncertain terms and at a thoroughly unmistakable volume and tone that following up the leads already gathered was top priority. This case was top priority. Mistakes were not to be tolerated. Some monsters should not walk under the living sky. These two were definitely on that list. Animals who could do that to a little girl were going to swing if he had anything to do with it. The warehouse and alleyway had been scoured, then nearby streets, and the shoe was still missing. What hadn't been missing were people who had seen the little girl with two men. Two men who were going to be identified and hunted to the edges of the Disc if necessary.
Vimes put his hand in his pocket for the keyring floating among the bits of flotsam that usually inhabit coat pockets and automatically worked the house key in the lock, not really seeing it. His head throbbed and his jaw felt tight. It was late enough that even a butler as thorough as Willikins couldn't be faulted for being in bed, and Vimes was a little thankful for it. He didn't think he could take anything like a cheerful greeting. The bottom story was dark. He stripped off his armor and locked the door behind him, leaving his coat on the hook in the front hall. Last, he pulled off his boots and crept up the stairs as quietly as possible, pausing just long enough to put his uniform in the laundry basket in his dressing room. He was only slightly surprised to push the bedroom door open and find that the weak light of the fireplace was accompanied by a guttering lamp not too far from the bed. A little moonlight straggled in through the window. It was just enough light to see that Sybil was curled up on the bed, on top of the covers, her dressing gown still tied over the nightgown, as though she hadn't meant to fall asleep. Her feet were bare and pale in the half light. His insides gave a crazed, sick lurch and he tried to block it out.
Vimes ran his hand through his hair and tried to will some of the tension out of his shoulders. Gods, he hated cases like this one. Maybe it was being a married man that did it. Not that cases with kids or women had ever been easy, but... it was times like these he sincerely wanted a drink worse than usual. Something to drown out the wondering about what possessed people to do things like this. And he couldn't have a drink. One drink was one too many and even ten wouldn't be enough, and the details would just come back the instant you sobered up anyway. Along with everything else. The things you saw as a watchman. It was part of the reason why Captain Sam Vimes had once spent very little time sober.
Worse, he hated the details of cases like this one getting back to Sybil. She wouldn't ask him about it. She wouldn't need to ask him about it, he would know when she knew. She would be just that little extra bit encouraging and supportive, and watch him like a man on a ledge, wondering where to put the portable safety net. And this one would get back to her. It would be one of those tales that carried unchecked, as gossip in the wild. It wouldn't even need mouths and ears. He padded over to the lamp and blew it out before slipping into bed, pulling the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of the mattress over the both of them. He felt ever so slightly grateful and a touch guilty for doing so when Sybil continued sleeping soundly anyway. There were some late nights or early mornings that he would be, he had to admit, even if it was only in the complete privacy of his own head, a touch noisy on purpose and grateful for even a few minutes of usually unimportant things to talk about. Just for the company and the comfort it offered, the assurance that there were still some normal and sane things in the world. Something to treat like an anchor. But the last thing he wanted right now was sympathetic ears or trusting eyes or anything comforting. Just now, what he really wanted was someone pounding on the front door before sunup, telling him they had names and had tracked the bastards down.
Vimes got his wish. Or at least half of it. There was a thin, streaky gray pre-dawn light barely making it through the window when the pounding came at the door. Names. They had names. And solid leads on where they might be staying. He staggered through getting dressed hurriedly, half-asleep but still careful not to make too much noise, mindful of the fact that after a weak, mumbled query, Sybil had gone straight back to snoring softly. She had seemed unusually tired these last few weeks. He had even worried a couple of mornings ago that she might be coming down with something, since she had barely picked at her breakfast. He would get some coffee at Pseudopolis Yard if there was time. Breakfast could wait this morning.
"Detritus... the door..." Vimes growled, looking at the little ramshackle rented house as though willing himself to see through the walls. Be there, you bastards. Be there. The door was matchsticks in seconds under the troll's bunched fist and the two of them, still nursing nasty hangovers and barely awake, put up a fight. Vimes took a perverse pleasure in the fact that the first one he had latched onto foolishly tried to punch him. A well-placed elbow and knee had him balled up on the floor, winded, in short order. There was still some scuffling while the cuffs were put on, but neither of them would be getting away, not with Detritus so effectively blocking the opening where the door had been. They weren't armed, save for their fists. And there it might have ended, a very neat arrest, an end to an ugly case, as close to justice as you were going to get.
If it hadn't been for the shoe.
Vimes spotted the shoe lying on the table next to one bed, like a godsdamned hunting trophy. He picked it up and turned it over in his hands. It was a small, brown slipper, with the paper still in the toe. A little girl's shoe. A pale foot filled his vision. "Hey, that's mine! Give it back! We didn't do nothin'!" the nearest one of them shouted, still too drunk to show good sense.And then he was stupid enough to make a ham-fisted grab for the shoe. The handcuffs and drink made him clumsy, and the best he could manage was catching Vimes's arm with thick fingers sporting dirty fingernails, pawing and shoving like a schoolboy in a playground fight. One very bad at fighting. One that was used to people backing off because he was bigger. He put his filthy hands on that child, violated her like that. He did it, and then took the little girl's shoe. Took her shoe. Her shoe. Her. Shoe.
The world went a vivid red for Vimes. His blood was roaring and boiling in his ears and he had the bastard shoved up against the wall, lifting him, his feet dangling even though he was a couple of inches taller and a couple of stone heavier, screaming at him, slamming him against the wood. The words seemed to be coming from elsewhere. There was just the Beast. Maybe they weren't even words. He thought he heard Detritus shout at the watchmen stationed outside. There were a few confused moments, or maybe an eternity, before Detritus finally wrenched him back bodily with as little force as possible for a troll, slow like a glacier and just about as irresistible, and the big troll's voice cut through the evil buzzing in his ears. "Mister Vimes! We got dem! Dey ain't gettin' away!" There was a pause and the sergeant put his massive hand on Sam's shoulder and rested it there. "We got dem. Dey ain't resistin' arrest or assaultin' a Watch officer no more. You can put der weapon away," he added more quietly, turning him around. There was a gentle note of warning to his tone.
Sam looked mutely at the sword in his hand, the white knuckled grip he had on it, for several seconds before sheathing it. The other watchmen, called in by Detritus, gave him a slightly sidelong look as they bustled the subdued men out of the room. Detritus hustled them out a little faster by barking an order, leaving the man alone with the troll, who gave the Commander a pretty good approximation of the studying Look-with-a-capital-L his wife sometimes gave him. Sam swallowed and tried to find words again. "You don't understand. Her shoe. They stole her shoe, Detritus. They did that to her and stole... her shoe...like a... a trophy... She was just a little slip of a thing..." His own voice sounded unaccountably far away. He stared at the seemingly harmless lump of brown leather on the floor. She was hardly more than a baby, and they took a souvenir. Said it was theirs.
"I know dat, sir. I know. Maybe you should just go home after we get dem booked," Detritus rumbled. The big, knobbly hand was practically holding him up, now. His legs felt like rubber, his head like lead, most of the rest of him felt like a spring in a clock that had been wound too tight and then left to spin wildly when the gears had been stripped. He hadn't really slept last night, he had just done a fair imitation of it while his mind had churned the scene over and over again. There hadn't been time for breakfast or even coffee once they had an address.
"We got enough on duty to take dem to der Tanty. Dis'll be a Tanty offense. Lance Constable Bluejohn can come, too. Dey won't be goin' anywhere but der Tanty, I'll make sure of dat," Detritus said. "Get some sleep. Her Ladyship wouldn't like us lettin' you go dead on yer feet. Go home, Mister Vimes."
Something peculiar about the tone and choice of words finally cut through the last of the mental haze. Sam gave the big troll an appraising look. "I just might," Vimes allowed.
"It would be a good idea, sir," Detritus pronounced solemnly, removing the heavy hand and lowering it to the floor, the knuckles making a solid thunk noise. "Done all we can do, sir. And after dat, you go home and enjoy what you have got at home and are grateful for it."
Vimes squinted up into the big troll's steady gaze, a mild suspicion forming at the back of his mind. Detritus was one of his best officers, all things considered. And he could be as over-protective as a mother hen and strangely insightful about certain things, sometimes. Vimes nodded slowly, pictured Ruby and wondered briefly if there were cases Detritus wished didn't get around, too. "I'll do that," Vimes said, finally breaking eye contact and heading for the door. As he made his way away from the poky little room, he wondered if maybe the sergeant understood a little better than he had given him credit for after all.
Sybil pinched the bridge of her nose. Most of her would not have considered Sam Vimes guilty of murder, actual murder, even on the evidence of three gods and a message written on the sky. But... stories did get back to her, in a roundabout way. Sam got wound up about things. Sometimes he unwound all at once. There had been that... bad business with that little girl and those men over at Dolly Sisters, and when Sam had broken in to the men's lodging he found one of them had stolen one of her shoes, and she'd heard Detritus say that if he hadn't been there, only Sam would have walked out of the room alive... - The Fifth Elephant


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Researchers turn Kinect game into a 3D scanner
University of California, San Diego students preparing for a future archaeological dig to Jordan will likely pack a Microsoft Kinect, but it won't be used for post-dig, all-night gaming marathons. Instead, the students will use a modified version of the peripheral Xbox 360 device in the field to take high-quality, low-cost 3D scans of dig sites.
Jürgen Schulze, a research scientist at UCSD's division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), along with his master's student, Daniel Tenedorio, have figured out a way to extract data streaming from the Kinect's onboard color camera and infrared sensor to make hand-held 3D scans of small objects and people.
Currently, the researchers can use scans of people made with the modified Kinect to produce cheap, quickly-made avatars that could conceivably be plugged right into virtual worlds such as Second Life.
Schulze's ultimate goal, however, is to extend the technology to scan entire buildings and even neighborhoods. For the initial field application of their modified Kinect – dubbed ArKinect (a mashup of archaeology and Kinect) – Schulze plans to train engineering and archaeology students to use the device to collect data on a future expedition to Jordan led by Thomas Levy, associate director of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3).
"We are hoping that by using the Kinect we can create a mobile scanning system that is accurate enough to get fairly realistic 3D models of ancient excavation sites," says Schulze, whose lab specializes in developing 3D visualization technology.
The scans collected at sites in Jordan or elsewhere can later be made into 3D models and projected in Calit2's StarCAVE, a 360-degree, 16-panel immersive virtual reality environment that enables researchers to interact with virtual renderings of objects and environments. Three-dimensional models of artifacts provide more information than 2D photographs about the symmetry (and hence quality of craftsmanship, for example) of found artifacts, and 3D models of the dig sites can help archaeologists keep track of the exact locations where artifacts were located.
As of now, the modified Kinect system relies on an overhead video tracking system, limiting its range to relatively small indoor spaces.
However, Schulze notes, "In the future, we would like to make this device independent of the tracking system, which would allow us to take the system outside into the field, where we could scan arbitrarily large environments."
"We can then use the 3D model, walk around it, we can move it around, we can look at it from all sides."
"There may be experts off site that have access to a CAVE system," he adds, "and they could collaborate remotely with researchers in the field. This technology could also potentially be used in a disaster site, like an earthquake, where the scene can be digitized and viewed remotely to help direct search and rescue operations."
Schulze adds that it may even be possible to simulcast live reconstructions in the StarCAVE of 3D scans of objects or scenes taken in the field by the Kinect with a standard 3G or wireless broadband connection.
From the Living Room to the Lab
Since its release last November, the Kinect -- now the fastest-selling consumer electronics device of all time -- has captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of videogame enthusiasts as well as many university researchers, who have modified the device for use in projects ranging from robotic telesurgery to navigation systems for the blind.
Originally intended to sit atop a television and sense the movements of users playing videogames, the Kinect was repurposed by Tenedorio to capture 3D maps of stationary objects. The scanning process, which entails moving the device by hand over all surfaces of an object, looks somewhat like having a metal-detecting wand waved over one's body at the airport (if it were done rather slowly by an overzealous TSA agent).
Schulze likens the procedure to using a can of spray paint: "Imagine you wanted to spray paint an entire person. To do a complete job, you would have to point the can at every surface, under the arms, between the fingers, and so on. Scanning a person with the Kinect works the same way."
The ability to operate the Kinect freehand is a huge advantage over other scanning systems like LIDAR (light detecting and ranging), which creates a more accurate scan but has to be kept stationary in order to be precisely aimed.
"Having a hand-held device is important for these excavation sites where the ground is rugged and uneven," explains Schulze. "With the Kinect, that doesn't slow you down at all."
How it works
The Kinect projects a pattern of infrared dots (invisible to the human eye) onto an object, which then reflect off the object and get captured by the device's infrared sensor. The reflected dots create a 3D depth map. Nearby dots are linked together to create a triangular mesh grid of the object. The surface of each triangle in the grid is then filled in with texture and color information from the Kinect's color camera. A scan is taken 10 times per second and data from thousands of scans are combined in real-time, yielding a 3D model of the original object or person.
One challenge Schulze and his team faced was spatially aligning all the scans. Because the ArKinect scans are done freehand, each scan is taken at a slightly different position and orientation. Without a mechanism for spatially aligning the scans, the 3D model created would be a discontinuous, Picasso-esque jumble of images.
To overcome this challenge, Tenedorio outfitted the ArKinect with a five-pronged infrared sensor attached to its top surface. The overhead video cameras track this sensor in space, thereby tagging each of the ArKinect's scans with its exact position and orientation. This tracking makes it possible to seamlessly stitch together information from the scans, resulting in a stable 3D image.
The team is working on a tracking algorithm that incorporates smartphone sensors, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and GPS (global positioning system). In combination with the existing approach for stitching scan data together, the tracking algorithm would eliminate the need to acquire position and orientation information from the overhead tracking cameras.
A major advantage of the ArKinect is that scan progress can be assessed on a computer monitor in real time. Notes Schulze, "You can see right away what you are scanning. That allows you to find holes so that when there is occlusion, you can just move the Kinect over it and fill it in."
This is in contrast to conventional scanning devices, where data is collected and then analyzed offline -- often in a separate location -- which can be problematic if any holes are present.
Deleting unnecessary data, in fact, turned out to be the research team's most daunting challenge. "Simply adding each frame into a global model adds too much data; within seconds, the computer cannot render the model and the system breaks," says Tenedorio, who is joining Google as a software engineer following completion of his master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering this July.
"One of the primary thrusts of our research is to discover how to throw away duplicate points in the model and retain only the unique ones."
The Kinect streams data at 40 megabytes per second – enough to fill an entire DVD every two minutes. Keeping the amount of stored data to a minimum will allow a scan of a person to occupy only a few hundred kilobytes of storage, about the same as a picture taken with a digital camera.
Another advantage of the Kinect is cost: It retails for $150. This low price tag, coupled with Schulze's efforts to make it a portable self-contained, battery-powered instrument with an onboard screen to monitor scan progress, makes it feasible to send an ArKinect with Levy's students to Jordan.
Schulze's team is currently writing a paper about the ArKinect project to submit to a major international virtual reality conference.
Other students (all from UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering department) involved in the project include master's students Marlena Fecho and Jorge Schwarzhaupt, who helped develop the ArKinect's scanning algorithm, and master's student James Lue and undergraduate student Robert Pardridge, who helped with the 3D meshing program that creates surfaces from points extracted from the ArKinect's depth map.
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At least two people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the US Embassy in Ankara; several ambulances were dispatched to the area
A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara on Friday and at least two people are dead, a police official said.
An Associated Press journalist saw a body in the street in front of an embassy side entrance. The bomb appeared to have exploded inside the security checkpoint at the entrance of the visa section of the embassy.
Several ambulances were dispatched to the area. An AP journalist saw at least one woman who appeared to be seriously injured being carried into an ambulance.
Private NTV television said two security guards at the entrance were killed.
The police official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules. The phones were not being answered at the embassy.
The embassy building is heavily protected. It is near an area where several other embassies, including that of Germany and France, are located. Police sealed off the area and journalists were being kept away.
There was no claim of responsibility, but Kurdish rebels and Islamic militants are active in Turkey. Kurdish rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey over the last year.
As well, homegrown Islamic militants tied to al-Qaida have carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul, killing 58, in 2003. The targets were the British consulate, a British bank and two synagogues.
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