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CRIME Police assigned to protect the vulnerable failed to properly investigate, research reveals
Patients at California's board-and-care centers for the developmentally disabled have accused caretakers of molestation and rape 36 times during the past four years, but police assigned to protect them did not complete even the simplest tasks associated with investigating the alleged crimes, records and interviews show.
The Office of Protective Services, the police force at California's five developmental centers, failed to order a single hospital-supervised rape examination for any of the alleged victims. At most other police departments, using a "rape kit" to collect evidence is considered routine.
The procedure, performed by nurses, is widely regarded as the best way to find evidence of sexual abuse. Without physical evidence, it can be nearly impossible to solve sex crimes, especially those committed against people with cerebral palsy and profound intellectual disabilities.
Documents obtained by California Watch reveal that the patients who reported sexual abuse from 2009 to2012 said they had suffered molestation, forced oral sex and vaginal lacerations. In only one case has a complaint resulted in an arrest.
In response to the findings, the state agency that oversees the developmental centers' police force said it was working to improve sex-assault investigations and was hiring outside experts to train officers and detectives.
Sonoma complaints
Many of the allegations were lodged by patients at the Sonoma Developmental Center in the town of Eldridge, where female patients have been repeatedly assaulted, internal incident records show. In one case, a caregiver was cleared by the police department of assault and allegedly went on to molest a second patient.
In another case, from August 2006, caregivers at the Sonoma center found dark blue bruises shaped like handprints covering the breasts of a patient named Jennifer. The patient accused a staff member of molestation, court records show. Jennifer's injuries appeared to be evidence of sexual abuse, indicating that someone had grabbed her violently.
The Office of Protective Services opened an investigation. But detectives took no action because the case relied heavily on the word of a woman with severe intellectual disabilities.
A few months later, court records show, officials at the center had strong evidence that a crime had occurred: Jennifer was pregnant.
By that time, her alleged attacker had vanished.
Family's anguish
For the parents of the 32-year-old patient, the reaction has been disbelief and anger. They are now raising a 5-year-old boy whom Jennifer is incapable of mothering and have sued the state Department of Developmental Services, which runs the five centers and oversees the Office of Protective Services.
"I just imagine her being raped and screaming and crying for me," said the woman's mother, whose name is being withheld to protect Jennifer's identity. "It just kills me."
Detectives at city and county police departments are trained to send sexual assault victims to an outside hospital for the specialized rape examination. But the doctors and nurses at the state's developmental centers - in Sonoma, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Tulare counties - were not trained in dealing with sexual assault victims, records and interviews show.
California Watch shared details of the developmental center sex abuse cases with two outside police detectives who specialize in such assault investigations. The detectives said they were dismayed by the state's actions.
"How can you do a sexual assault investigation and not do an exam?" said Roberta Hopewell, a detective at the Riverside Police Department and president of the California Sexual Assault Investigators Association.
Joanne Archambault, a retired San Diego police detective, agreed that the state police agency should have done more to investigate the alleged assaults.
Archambault now heads a group called End Violence Against Women International. Its research director, Kim Lonsway, said the Office of Protective Services' sex assault policy could undermine investigations.
"The tone of this is the exams are going to be the exception rather than the rule," Lonsway said.
No outside help
According to interviews with former detectives and patrol officers at three of the state's developmental centers, the Office of Protective Services did not assign its own detectives to cases that should have been investigated - nor did the force seek expert help from outside law enforcement.
One former patrol officer said administrators were afraid of bad publicity.
"They didn't want anything to get out, so they handled it internally. They call the shots," said Joe Guardado, a former patrol officer at the Porterville Developmental Center in Tulare County, who retired in 2010.
In response to a California Watch query, the Department of Developmental Services issued a statement saying the state is working to protect patients and ensure they receive justice. That includes hiring "nationally recognized law enforcement experts" to train police officers and detectives to better handle sex assault cases, the department said.
"In addition, training was provided to ensure that referrals for sexual assault examinations are completed by thoroughly trained personnel, and that investigations are conducted appropriately and timely," the statement said.
About 1,600 patients live at the five centers, which operate like board-and-care hospitals for patients whose conditions are so challenging that they cannot live with their families or in group homes.
Police unprepared
But the detectives and patrol officers working in these facilities have been unprepared to undertake sexual assault cases, internal case files show. The records indicate officers have lacked the skills to question sex abuse victims competently, particularly the developmentally disabled.
Detectives at times closed investigations when patients appeared to get the dates and times of assaults wrong, even though the disabled frequently struggle with precise chronology.
At the Sonoma Developmental Center, which houses about 500 men and women, two patients accused a caregiver of forcing them to perform oral sex on him.
The Office of Protective Services was first alerted in February 2009. "Client reported to staff that she saw (the caregiver's) genitals and was asked to perform oral sex for a dollar," according to the Sonoma Developmental Center's incident tracking log. "Client reports that she did."
Second case
However, the Office of Protective Services quickly closed the case, the records indicate, because the suspect was not listed as having worked in the patient's unit on the day of the alleged abuse. The caregiver did often work in that unit, though, internal records show.
Months later, the mother of a second patient alerted the center that her daughter had said she had performed oral sex on the caregiver.
But by then, the caregiver was gone. He is not identified by his full name in state records.
Earlier this year, Leslie Morrison, head of the investigations unit at Disability Rights California, a nonprofit that works on behalf of the disabled, examined dozens of case files in which a patient accused a center employee of sexual abuse from 2009 to mid-2012. Morrison performed the review at the request of the Department of Developmental Services. She said these cases involved only patients capable of speaking and therefore able to report an assault.
Morrison said she found 36 cases in which victims should probably have received a rape kit medical exam and interview with a trained nurse. But, she said, the Office of Protective Services investigations were incomplete and at times deeply flawed.
"We're not sure they have the training," Morrison said, "to do these very delicate, sensitive interviews."
California Watch is a part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. E-mail: rgabrielson@cironline.


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Lawrence Edward necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
We provide recurring payment solutions through state of the art web interfaces and leading web service API technologies. We handle the billing, collections, and billing related client correspondence with customers so that our clients (the businesses) can focus on their core business. Our systems provide easy to use user interfaces for both the business owners as well as their customers to manage their payment options and accounts. Because the payment industry is so old and boring, we want to bring a fresh face and a fresh concept to the marketplace. We want our logo to demonstrate that we're creative and engaged in helping our customers and their clients.
Our target audience are the hundreds of thousands of small business owners across the United States (for now) who provide a product or service that needs to be billed for on a regular basis. For example, a person who owns a self-storage facility has customers whom he needs to bill on a monthly basis. XEFinancial will handle the new account setup, the monthly billing, collections for problem accounts, account statements, and even physical access control into the facility. Similarly, for a service business such as a pool cleaning service. We will provide the monthly invoicing, statements, reports, and collections services for the business owners.
The company name itself "XEFinancial" is pretty boring. Therefore, we want a logo with some sort of symbol that we can adopt to form the foundation for our brand. I will include the current logo, it's simply the word "XEFinancial" with what can best be described as a "swoosh" underneath it.
Initial logo designs have simply been variations on the company name in different fonts and colors. Although our primary color is blue (light blue to be specific) we are by no means beholden to the current color scheme. We tend to like logos where there is some sort of clever variation on the letters that make up the name. For example, an X that somehow blends into the E part of XE. Or perhaps an uppercase XE with a lowercase "financial" either above or below the XE.
Again, we are pretty convinced that the logo will need to have some sort of symbol in addition to just the wording. We're the financial guys behind the product so we're not very artistic, but we certainly do appreciate creativity. This is the first time we've used 99designs, but I'm sure that there is probably a way for designers to contact us with questions, and we'll answer any questions ASAP!
We aren't beholden to any particular font or font variant. So please feel free to be creative with your designs, we'd like to see what's available!
Finally, we're a green company and we'd like our new logo to reflect that. Some of the initial logo designs that we've really liked have included one or more green elements such as a leaf, or a tree. Two colors that we use a lot on our materials are #93C83F (green) and #00ADEF (light blue), please see the attached file XE Financial Logo_web7.pdf for a quick example.
Thank you!
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.

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Mrs Pardoe
Home learning is really important to ensure that children are practicing their skills at home as well as in school. In Year 4 we like the children to read everyday to an adult at home. Please can you make sure you sign and comment in your child's diary to show this. This is really important to develop children's skills as well as create strong attitudes towards books.
In addition to reading children will also have spellings to learn daily which will be tested on a Friday.
Topic homework (in the blue books) will come home on a Wednesday and should be returned by the following Tuesday.
Children are also expected to complete their daily diary entry (if not completed in school) about something they have learnt that day in school. As parents please feel free to write encouraging messages to your children to see your thoughts about how hard they have been working in school.
Finally there will be, on occasion, an additional Maths homework set weekly which may vary from number bonds, times tables or even a number booklet.
We also have sent home log in details for our online resources such as Mathletics, Active Learn (Bug Club, Abacus, Spelling Bug, Phonics Bug, Science Bug) and RM EasiMaths. Please take advantage of these incredible resources, they are very expensive but we believe them to be very effective in supporting and challenging our children's learning.


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MOB brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 32 Designs von 12 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We need you to design 1 page and a simple logo and also ideally code the page in html and put it live.
1) Website Page (Long scrolling sales letter)
2) Logo
This page will:
1) Introduce people to the online conference and drive people to register
2) Build trust and credibility for a new brand and reinforce the position as an authority in the space
The logo will be used on letterhead, emails, banners and on the web site, so needs to work as a standalone as well as being integrated into the website header.
I'm extending this contest, to allow more folks to participate. We thought by setting a 3 day contest, it would be 3 business days, so I apologize for that, and would like to invite more folks to participate.
Also, I'm sorry if the brief wasn't explicit enough. We would like this site to utilize very strong primary colors, (like in the Google logo) with a very simple white background. Pale blues, shaded reds and greys aren't going to cut it here.
Check out http://www.roirevolution.com, for my best example.
AdWords Advantage http://www.AdWordsAdvantage.com
AdWordsAdvantage is a brand new online conference focused on providing AdWordsadvertisers with tips, tricks and strategies they need to maximize their AdWordsROI and beat their competition.
Project Overview:
The AdWords Advantage site is designedto attract registrants for the online conference. Potential customers aredriven to the website by email promotions, advertising, and word-of-mouth orviral marketing. The site serves as the primary resource for the world's mostcomprehensive AdWords training information.
The AdWordsAdvantage conference provides information on how to use Google AdWords to bettermarket products/services and expand customer reach through greater onlineexposure.
People arecoming to learn and take away tips that will help them get better results thantheir competitors.
As there area plethora of digital media events competing in the same space – the newwebsite should differentiate the AdWords Advantage conference as a one-stopshop covering the most valuable resources in Google AdWords education. We willprovide more in depth knowledge than any other Internet Marketing Conference ortraining venue, and it will be conveniently available online, so international participantscan attend live or view/download the sessions at a time of their choice.
Primary Audience:
Google AdWordsAdvertisers
Tone and Image:
Business-like,modern, professional, memorable, credible. Appealing to interest in learningand succeeding at work. Create a sense of urgency, need to act now because youmay be losing money every day by not perfecting your AdWords campaigns. It alsoneeds to give the air of authority in AdWords Advertising, which is aspecialized field.
There aremany professed "AdWords Experts" out there, most of whom have little experienceor grounding in how search engines actually work, or how AdWords Advertisingcan truly give marketers a competitive advantage. The trainers at the AdWordsAdvantage conference are not affiliate marketers trying to push their productor get rich by selling hokey techniques used to game the search engines. Theseexperts have run hundreds of AdWords campaigns, with thousands of keywordsinvolved and have tested every strategy available to advertisers. The contentwill be entirely educational, focused on helping advertisers build and optimizea successful AdWords campaign. No sales pitches or "get rich quick"information.
The values ofthe business can be summarized as:
Integrity,Comprehensive Resource, Quality Information, Trust, Confidence, Expert Real-WorldAdvice and Best Practices, Global, Community Oriented, Trusted, KnowledgeExchange, Strategic Partner, Convenient, Easy to Implement. The design of allcreative needs to express these values.
The tone should be friendly and inviting, aswell as professional, inspiring and credible.
Home Page:
A home pageis needed that clarifies the value proposition in very simple terms and isintriguing enough to get the prospect engaged. The prospect will scroll down thepage to get more information and register. The header graphic will also be usedon letterhead and in email templates. Many call sot action will be used – it'sa typical sales letter.
The logoneeds to be clean and simple, using the colors from the Google home page at http://www.google.com.Advantage is the strong word in the logo, as we are designing the content of theevent to give advertisers who attend an "Advantage" over their competition.
Sites we like:
Here are afew examples of designs we like, just to give you a sense of style preferences.Please don't copy their designs or anything specific from these sites.
- Page Width: optimizedfor 770 pixels but with a liquid layout that works at anything from 620 - 1024pixels
- Graphics: Please create a graphic header that fitswith the tone. Picture of people are good, either stylized images or photos. Please try to keep the graphic filesizes as small as possible. We need the finished page to load quickly.
- Color Theme: Pleaseuse a color theme that incorporates the Google logo colors, located at http://www.google.com.Do NOT copy the Google logo but be creative with it. All body text shouldbe black on a white background to make it easy to read.
- Font:Large font for headers. Use of system fonts (e.g. Arial, Helvetica) forheadings and menu items, so we can do text based rather than graphic based forSEO and CMS purposes. All body text should be a 12-pt sans serif font that iseasy to read on the internet, available in any browser. All text,including links and headings, should not be images.
- Format:Site needs to work in Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox as our audienceuses all three.
- Easyto navigate: a lot of information will be on the site so it needs to be easy tofind and use.
- Image:Needs to portray a professional, credible association, but not a stuffycorporate image.
- Keepit original, simple and clean, with lots of white space.
- Logoin top left, but leave room for a video model spokesperson.
- Speakerinfo on right and also testimonials, like White Paper Summit (see link above).
- Bottomnavigation (text links) same on every page: FAQ, Site Map, Privacy
- DoNOT copy someone else's design or template, we'll immediately eliminate you
- NoFlash
- Notbusy or cluttered
- Nodesigns that look good as flat images, but are a nightmare to code
- Nocartoons, or childish looks
- Noframes
- Amateurish
- Restrictivelayout. Design needs to be able to maintain integrity as there will be a lotof text
- Lackof clean detail
- Nopredominantly dark backgrounds.


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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Peanut Butter Chip Muffins
Peanut Butter Chip Muffins
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup brown sugar
6 tbsp butter, melted and cooled
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter (or smooth)
2 large eggs
1 cup milk (low fat or skim is fine)
3/4 cup peanut butter chips or milk chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375F. Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar.In a medium bowl, whisk together the melted butter, peanut butter, eggs and milk until smooth. Pour into flour mixture and stir until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips.Divide batter into your paper-lined muffin tin. Each cup should be filled to the top, not just half way up, to ensure you get a nice dome on the muffin.Bake for 17-20 minutes, until a tester comes out clean and the top of the muffin springs back when lightly pressed.Cool on a wire rack.
Makes 12.
22 comments:
- Ivy said...
Your muffins are beautiful as always.
- 9 September 2008 at 14:35
- Maria said...
Sorry you didn't get good zzz's!! I hate it when that happens. Your muffins look like a great start to the morning!
- 9 September 2008 at 15:31
- RecipeGirl said...
We had some of those inconsiderate students nearby once. What a pain!
Hope that gets better for you soon.
These look like a delicious solution to a sleepy morning :)
- 9 September 2008 at 18:54
- Anna's kitchen table said...
Sorry to hear about the students keeping you awake - what a pain! Your muffins look great! I love peanut butter anything!
- 9 September 2008 at 19:06
- Beth Sachs (Jam & Clotted Cream) said...
Im going to try these with the last of my peanut butter chips! They look lovely and light.
- 9 September 2008 at 20:46
- Rhyleysgranny said...
Poor you losing sleep. Such a pain. These muffins look so moist light and delicious
- 10 September 2008 at 00:57
- Jersey Girl Cooks said...
Yum! I have muffins on my post today, too:) Hope you sleep better tonight!
- 10 September 2008 at 02:59
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone! We got in touch with the landlord who rents the house to the students and I have a feeling there will be no more parties!
- 10 September 2008 at 10:10
- Emily said...
I love peanut butter! I crave it. Usually have to have it every day. Your muffins look perfect!
Darn kids. Next time go threaten them with a weapon.
- 10 September 2008 at 10:29
- Pilar - Lechuza said...
Acabo de encontrar tu blog y a pesar de que me defiendo bastante bien en ingles, creo que me expreso mejor en español. Además en tu perfil he leído que eres de padres españoles, pues así practicas el idioma, je,je.
Bueno me encantan tus muffins, no sabría por cual decidirme. Son todos estupendos.
Seguiré pasandome por tu cocina de vez en cuando, vale?
Un besote desde Galicia
- 10 September 2008 at 18:29
- Nickki said...
Maria these muffins look beautiful and I might just have to try these with chocolate chips. :)
I've been there myself with noisy partying neighbours. It's a real pain. Hope it's sorted now. :)
- 10 September 2008 at 18:54
- Ruth Strong said...
These muffins look yummy! Great that you got some peanut butter chips for them.
Hope the students have calmed down
- 10 September 2008 at 19:00
hi maria.
i've just discovered your blog today and im so glad i did.
i've just spent the past hour reading all your posts there are so many delicious recipes that i can't wait to try out.
louise xx
- 11 September 2008 at 14:00
- Maria♥ said...
Hi Louise and welcome!
Thanks for the lovely message and hope you will drop by again and let me know what recipes you've tried out ;o)
- 11 September 2008 at 14:27
- Abitofafoodie said...
I remember the long-gone days when I was an inconsiderate student - I am hanging my head in shame just reading your post!!
I hope you've managed to catch up on some sleep. These muffins look so good - yours always look such a perfect shape. I'm a peanut butter addict but have actually never tried using it in sweet recipes - I should definitely give it a try sometime.
- 11 September 2008 at 14:44
- Maria♥ said...
Hola Pilar y bienvenida a mi blog!
Muchas gracias por el mesenja que me has dejado y espero que te pases por aqui otra vez pronto.
Un abrazo
- 11 September 2008 at 15:13
- Maria♥ said...
Hi Antonia
I'm sure more than one of us have had our inconsiderate moments and I'm all for people enjoying themselves but these students were having parties every night since moving in and driving us just bonkers. The situtation has been resolved now and lets just say they won't be having anymore parties, the landlord was not happy and went round to have a chat with them!
Thanks for passing by and as always for the lovely comment.
- 11 September 2008 at 15:20
- Gloria Baker said...
Your mauffins are so yummy!!! Gloria
- 11 September 2008 at 20:02
You are right, these were really very nice both in texture and taste. Thanks a lot for sending them, AND the apple cinnamon ones that were sooo good.
I am planning on making the coconut-chocolate-bars as dessert for dinner party this weekend. Apple-cinnamon muffins will be tried out when I next see the boyfriend, as he has a very weak spot for that taste combo. You have an inspiring blog :)
- 11 September 2008 at 23:02
- Tanya said...
How could these muffins not be good? YUM!
- 12 September 2008 at 03:49
- Bimmer said...
Your muffins look perfect and absolutely delicious! Just thinking about peanut butter and chocolate chips already got me salivating!
- 12 September 2008 at 16:33
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone ;o)
Hi Marja!
So nice to hear from you and thanks for the lovely message! I'm glad that hubby is sharing my baked goodies at work ;o)
- 14 September 2008 at 09:54


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My girl Lucy is very sick.
She loves to chase squirrels and when we first noticed her limping a little last week, we put it down to a sprain. But the limp began to get worse and we rushed her to the ER.
It has to be a sprain, I said to Desi again and again on our drive over. We should never have given in to her demands to run around with Opie in the backyard. We should have forced her to rest, however much she hated it. She doesn't know any better– we are the parents. How could we be so careless?
We did have deeper fears: Lucy's a German Shepherd, a breed prone to hip dysplasia, a displacement of the hip bones, and when she neared her eighth birthday last September the vet warned she could be at risk. We steeled ourselves to hear it was that, or arthritis. Devastating as that would be, we could deal with it: we've been living with Opie's arthritis and hip dysplasia for four years now.
We had no idea.
Looking at a picture of Lucy's leg bones on an X-ray screen Sunday morning, the vet gave her verdict: Osteosarcoma, a malignant bone cancer that has usually spread through the body before its symptoms show up.
At best, she said, after her affected leg is amputated, Lucy might live up to a year, maybe two if we were lucky. "It is one of the worst cancers a dog can get," she said. "The prognosis is very poor."
Like all pet parents, Desi and I have always known that our kids won't live through our lifetimes. We don't think about it a lot, but we know it will happen and accept it.
But at eight, Lucy is too young. A child forever. Even in dog years, she is only middle aged.
Were there signs? We've been wondering. Was she, somehow, trying to tell us that she was in pain and we missed it? Dogs don't show pain easily: a trait bred by instinct and experience of living in packs. Any sign of pain would be construed as weakness by other animals in the pack. We don't know how long she may have been hurting before she began to limp.
Lucy is our first-born. We call her that because she was our first rescue in the United States. She came from the Washington Humane Society, a one-year-old so smart, so silly, so gorgeous and so redheaded that we just had to name her Lucy after the wonderful sitcom star.
The first day we brought her home, a naive Desi — who she immediately adopted as her favorite person — put her new collar around her neck, a little too loose as it turned out, and took her for a walk. She easily pulled her head out of it to chase after Polo, the doberman next door, and disappeared into some woods nearby. But bright as she is, she found her way back by herself minutes later although she had spent only a few hours with us by that time.
Over the last two years I've shared many stories on this blog about Lucy. How the pressure cooker and thunderstorms send her flying for cover in the basement. How she has figured out ways to score treats without working for them. How she literally stops traffic in our neighborhood when we walk her, beautiful and elegant as she is. How she bosses over the other dogs at home and fiercely protects them around strange dogs. How she loves to go for long drives, hogging the entire backseat. How she offers up her stomach for a tummy rub to every person that comes into the house.
I could talk to you about her all day and all night. But right now all I can think of is making her better again.
There is a difficult road ahead of us, most of all for Lucy. Biopsy, amputation, chemotherapy, radiation are words that seem too harsh for our baby girl, but I've been reading up and apparently dogs do really well with three legs. And there are dogs who, with treatment, have even beaten osteosarcoma — a small percentage, but they do exist.
The first time I saw Lucy, she was sitting in a run at the animal shelter, a skinny but beautiful creature. Unlike the other dogs, climbing up on the bars and barking to lick hands and kiss faces, she sat quiet, too dignified to demand attention from strangers. She barely acknowledged me when I offered her my hand. But both Desi and I could see that she was special.
When the shelter volunteer took her outside so we could meet her, the first thing she did was run all the way to the fence. Then she ran back and forth along it, a creature so majestic, it was hard not to fall in love with her.
Running is what Lucy loves best. Except, perhaps, going on long drives and barking at every dog she sees out the window. Occasionally on weekends we'd take her out to the woods and she'd go to town chasing squirrels, bees and even the occasional bird (she's never actually caught anything in nearly eight years, but she doesn't think that's any reason to give up).
She can't run any more because the bone in her leg is so weak, it could fracture easily and not heal. She can barely walk. But veterinary medicine has advanced quite a bit and we have every hope our baby will heal and maybe even run again. And there is still a tiny hope that maybe the bone biopsy might reveal it is something else after all, not cancer.
Please keep her in your thoughts.


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A retired investment banker who was acting out his own private "Storage Wars" in court for the past two years may finally get his belongings back.
John Coleman, 70, sold his E. 72nd Street, four-bedroom duplex for just under $6 million in 2011 and then balked at moving charges that ballooned from a $4,800 estimate to a $46,500 invoice.
A Manhattan judge ruled last week that Coleman only owes an additional $4,700 on top of the estimate to New York-based packing outfit Crozier Fine Arts. He can also retrieve his furniture that's been allegedly held hostage at the company's Newark warehouse.
"Coleman did not agree to pay the exorbitant amount charged by Crozier for the move, only the amount mentioned in the estimate, plus the two additional services," Judge Shirley Werner Kornreich wrote in her Jan. 31 decision.
The additional services were packing a rifle case and hoisting a three-cushion sofa, according to court papers.
"There is evidence that the moving job became problematic due to delays and requests by Coleman and a 'series of difficult snowstorms," Kornreich acknowledged. But because Coleman was never given an updated cost estimate, he's not responsible for the inflated fees, she found.
Coleman's goods avoided the fate of items that are auctioned off in the A&E reality show Storage Wars when rent is not paid on storage units. In July 2012 Crozier hit Coleman with a $148,000 lien for the bill plus late charges, and threatened to sell his belongings. The Notice of Sale was withdrawn in August amidst the legal proceedings.
Since then "Crozier has been holding the property hostage," Judge Kornreich charged.
Coleman's attorney, Richard Roth, said the decision should be a cautionary tale to unscrupulous movers.
"Moving companies, who you entrust all of your personal assets to, should simply not be allowed to take advantage of their customers," Roth said.
But Kornreich scoffed at awarding any damages to Coleman, who filed the $500,000 lawsuit in 2011, rejecting his claim that he just had to hole up in a $7,500-a-month room at the Lombardy hotel on Park Avenue because Crozier had his furniture.
"The court finds there was no credible evidence that Coleman could not have located a significantly less expensive furnished residence," the judge declared.
A rep for Crozier declined to comment.


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When Apple introduced the iPhone 5, the feature that made people the most upset was its decision to change the phone's cable.That's nothing, however, compared to what's really going to annoy people about the iPhone 5.
In iOS 6, the newest version of the iPhone's software, Apple is going to remove its Google-based map application in favour of Apple Maps, its own homegrown maps application based on data from two dozen other sources.
Oh, and the loss of Google Maps will affect anyone upgrading to the new software, not just iPhone 5 users.
There are plenty of signs pointing to Apple's Maps not being as good as Google's Maps.
Noam Bardin, the CEO of mapping startup Waze, tells us, "Apple went out and partnered with the weakest player." Apple is leaning on TomTom for its primary mapping data.
Bardin added, "What's going to happen with the Apple maps, is that you're literally not going to find things. When you do find them, they might be in the wrong place or position geographically. And if you do have it, the route to it may not be the optimal route."
This isn't just some random startup spitting out sour grapes about Apple doing maps. Waze was listed as an Apple data partner for Apple Maps, in the initial releases of iOS 6.
In addition to bad data, the back end of Apple's maps is changing, which could cause confusion.
Yesterday, Josh Carr, who runs an Apple repair shop, said that searching in Apple Maps is much worse than searching the current version of Apple's Google-based maps. The Google-based maps work with Google search keywords. Apple's new maps work with Yelp keywords, which makes search worse.
For instance, if you type in "iPad repair," you get no results at all in Apple's maps.
Says Carr, "Maps didn't know what to do with it because it's not an address, business name, or Yelp category. My brain hurts just trying to grasp the stupidity."
Apple was forced to switch to is own homegrown map application because Google wouldn't let Apple do certain things with its maps data, according to a former Google employee we spoke with earlier this year.
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Exactly Brad. :D
Though I thought at joining Atheist Nexus that people here were highly rational and could work that out for themselves, yet, I find I'm defending myself from the same concepts and irrational reasoning I get on Theist forums. Which I frequent often, posing as a fellow theist.
Though instead I find people who think pugilism solves arguments and cats are just little fluffy people lovers. Yeh, right, that's rational!!!
Even my Chinese ex boxer best m8 with his dementia knows that pugilism never solves arguments, one person is right before the fight and that person stays right during and after the fight, whether he/she wins, loses or even dies. For instance Pat Condell's recent You-Tube attack at the Muslim violence over a so called insulting movie.
Yes Pat is totally right in what he states in that video, he will be right even if the Muslim extremists do as they promise and kill him, they will still be wrong and Pat will be right, regardless.
Yes, we had absolutely no other choice but to cull those cats. We would have jumped at another option, but sadly for the cats, there isn't one.
Neutering cats also solves nothing, it will be a never ending saga, because Idiotic folk dump kittens. Yes, people have cats and like kittens so they don't fix their cats, so often they will pick their favourite kitten from the litter and dump the rest on the side of a road or in a bush area where they won't get caught, because it is illegal.
It happens nearly every week, in some periods almost daily.
People are the problem, but people don't want to listen, thus the cats and the wildlife all suffer because of their sheer ignorance.
Ah, how I wish we could get free neutering for H.sapiens too, then we'd really be getting somewhere. :)
Sorry but I have to choose dogs over cats. I think that dogs are more interesting and more intimate. You cant take cats hiking, to the park, or on road trips with you. Besides, my cats are incredibly person oriented. Always wanting attention. So Dogs seem to be the more reasonable choice.
I've taken cats hiking and on camping trips and on cross country road trips and on ocean sailing trips. They are very fun travel companions. If it's just "reason' we're looking at... then I'd think you'd consider finances... cat maintenance is much much cheaper than dog maintenance... so as far as "rational" bang for your buck goes ... :)
I agree and dogs are more productive in many ways than cats. If there is any need for a search and rescue, you can count on Fido, but on Morris. Heck to the naw.
What is surprising is the number and intensity of responses on this topic! I am fond of dogs, but if I could not have a dog I would have a cat or a rabbit or a bird. It's always good to have living things around you even if it's plants. There is something soothing about having living things in your house. I do make an exception for insects.
Indeed, living around other living beings educates people about life forms other than Homo sapiens, and many bugs are nice too :), some are even wildly beautiful, specially in the tropics. What has surprised me even more in these responses are the cat-hating crowd. It always seems to come back to this. People who think cats are "cold and manipulative" IMO have serious issues with self love and need the kind of slobbering constant affection dogs provide them. Sort of like those desperate parents who kidnap third world babies because they so "must" have a baby to "love them unconditionally". There is something fundamentally sad about people that desperate. :(
Again I agree TNT! I often prefer the solitary life and think children are a hassle, I'm very glad my own have left to forge lives of their own with good careers, so they have no need to come back looking for handouts. Though I cannot call my relationship with my wife, unconditional love because all real love comes from mutual commitment and respect, we are a great team and we continually strive to stay the best friends and strongest team we can be. Yes, a marriage requires continual maintenance from both partners.
Aye M8! :-D-
They didn't have cat trapping and neutering in the 70s, besides neutering doesn't reduce the population that was already saturated. We would have had to pay for the neutering out of our pockets and it wouldn't have eased the problem in any way, too many cats with catching and neutering would still mean too many cat
. It appears that many on this website have lived their lives in cotton wool and never been exposed to harsh realities. It's like they have all been indoctrinated into city living and cushy lifestyles.
It's as bad as being indoctrinated into religion. I had to work from the age of eight for my meals as we were poor and needed every hand on the farm to pull their weight. I had to cut sheep skulls open at that age to extract the brains as my father was a butcher and we had dairy cows that I had to help milk as well. So I learned anatomy at a very early age from practical experience, even had to perform autopsies on dead animals to see why they died, we cut up cows with an axe, because it was the quickest way to get to the cause. My brother and I would play games with the organs. After leaving the farm I hit the city as a teen and got lost, only to wander the streets for four years living on $10 per week and experienced watching idiots kill themselves by injecting cocktails of toxins into their bodies.
I left when my life was under threat from a gang I had upset to return to the bush. I've seen a lot that likely you will never see and experienced some harsh realities it shows you have never been near, yes, I've seen the good and bad sides of many things, domesticated animals especially
Well if you put it that way, I'm just answering your totally naive attacks on Moi.
Yes, you were attacking my knowledge of cats (which is evidently greater than your own) without any knowledge of my background nor reason for my dislike of cats.
That is showing your own naive bigotry!
Which as I've been pointing out is no better than theistic anti-atheist bigotry.
I may be self obsessed as all mammals must look after themselves for survival, narcissism is healthy to a degree, though you are have proven yourself to be a raving, naive, bigot.
A person who is not a bigot would have approached my first post differently by asking me to explain my reason for dislike of cats further, before rushing into calling me an Asshole without any qualification for making such a stupid, ridiculously poor judgement.
You have thus proven yourself to be the bigoted asshole!
BTW Dempsey, An ex Boxer aye, When was the last time you had a brain MRI?
Just concerned about your health!
Well... life in the country... where I'm from... in a old fashioned sea-side semi agricultural town of 2800 folks... litters of dogs, cats, pigs, rabbits... any animal which one could not afford to feed was euthanised. Neutering is choice no.1, euthanasia is no.2 Euthanasia of a newborn animal I have absolutely no issues with. And in H.sapiens... PPD often achieves the same result.
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Cheap iPhone . If you're after the overpriced Apple be prepared to sign up to a much costlier tariff than necessary. Normally I'd say no one should be paying much more than £30 a month on their mobile bill, no matter how many calls made (apart from overseas) but not with an iPhone. This bizarrely means the cheapest way to get an iphone is to pay more per month but on a shorter contract – full details at www.moneysavingexpert.com/cheapiphone
Text for free. It's amazing you can send the mass of info in an email from your phone for fractions of a penny, yet a 100 odd character text message can cost 10p. Networks make a fortune from these, so if you're near a computer, just text free from the web using sites like www.cbfsms.com or you can install software on your phone that sneakily sends texts for a fraction of the cost via your mobile internet. Step-by-step instructions at www.moneysavingexpert.com/freetexts
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A police spokesman, Hassan Kasingye, referring to Kusasira and the two year old daughter says: "The current information I can give you is that we are still investigating about that case."
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As previously reported in this newspaper, some Ugandans have reported that relatives have mysteriously gone missing and they are demanding that police and the military there account for missing relatives. (Please see http://www.blackstarnews.com/?c=122&a=3949 )
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This is a serious situation. People living within a 20-km radius of the power plant have been evacuated; people living within a 30-km radius have been advised to remain indoors with their homes sealed and ventilation turned off. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the station, has evacuated all but 50 of the 1,400 people who work at the plant. At one point today, even those 50 brave individuals were withdrawn from the plant because radiation levels had spiked.
Around the world, politicians and commentators are pointing at Fukushima and insisting that the events there prove that nuclear energy can never be safe and that the world should snuff out the nascent embrace of nuclear energy as one answer to global climate change. In yesterday's Washington Post, the normally level-headed Anne Applebaum has an op-ed piece entitled "Slow the Nuclear Rush." She concludes that she hopes the Fukushima disaster "prompts people around the world to think twice about the 'price' of nuclear energy, and that it stops the nuclear renaissance dead in its tracks."
On the same op-ed page, reliably liberal columnist Eugene Robinson writes: "Nuclear power was beginning to look like a panacea—a way to lessen our dependence on oil, make our energy supply more self sufficient and significantly mitigate global warming, all at the same time. Now it looks more like a bargain with the devil."
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal continues the paper's excellent coverage of the earthquake and its aftermath. It includes a story entitled "Potassium Iodide Runs Low As Americans Seek It Out" that describes a run on potassium iodide supplies by people worried that radioactive fallout from Fukushima could reach the U.S. Anbex Inc., which manufactures Iosat potassium iodide pills, quickly sold out its stock of more than 10,000 14-tablet packages on Saturday, the paper reported. Anbex President Alan Morris told the Journal, "Those who don't get it are crying. They're terrified."
In Europe, legislators are calling for a referendum on the future of nuclear power. German elections a couple of weeks from now could be affected by the nuclear power issue. President Obama feels the need to reiterate his support for renewed construction of nuclear power plants in the U.S.
Could everyone please get a grip? Thousands if not tens of thousands of Japanese are dead as a result of the earthquake and tsunami. Hundreds of thousands are homeless. A vast swath of northeastern Japan has been demolished; it is estimated that rebuilding will cost $35 billion or more. Japan's economy has been dealt a devastating blow that will take months to years to recover from.
The fate of the Fukushima nuclear reactors is important. If one or more of the reactors experiences a full-scale meltdown, it will be a true disaster that will affect many people's lives, in Japan and likely around the world. If that happens, what went wrong will have to be investigated thoroughly and understood to help prevent it from happening again.
But it will not be the end of the world, and it should not be the death knell for nuclear power. We live with risk. The risk of exposure to radiation from any one of a number of sources, including the partial or complete meltdown of the core of a nuclear reactor, is one such risk, quantitatively no different from any other. Nuclear power must be a component of the mix of energy sources for the world in the 21st century, the situation in Japan notwithstanding.
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Reddit user KickapooPonies came across 29 pages of a St. Louis Blues media guide, featuring hand-drawn portraits and trivia for players, coaches, executives, and even the organist at the old St. Louis Arena. The info dates it to the 1969-70 season, the Blues' third year of existence.
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Those Blues would go on to first place in the West, but lose to the Bruins in the finals.
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Destination guide: Jujuy, Argentina
The town of Jujuy is in north-eastern Argentina, near the border with Bolivia and Chile and is next to the province of Salta. This city offers fascinating tourist circuits that include visits to the Hill of Seven Colors, the Purmamarca Salt Lake, the Pucara de Tilcara, the Altura Botanic Gardens, ancient archaeological sites, the Reyes hot springs, the Yala lagoon, the Quebrada de Humahuaca and the Calilegua National Park, as well as a wide variety of museums that keep the spirit of Jujuy alive.
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Jujuy - Things to do
Museo Arqueologico Provincial
The Museo Arqueológico Provincial is definitely worth a visit. The standout exhibit is a vivid 3000-year-old fertility goddess figure, depicted with snakes for hair and in the act of giving birth. She's a product of the advanced San Francisco culture, which existed in Las Yungas from about 1400 BC to 800 BC. There's also a selection of skulls with cranial deformities (practiced for cosmetic reasons) and mummified bodies displayed with what might have been their typical possessions. Staff hand out a booklet that has information in English.
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Address: Lavalle 434
Museo Historico Provincial
During Argentina's civil wars, a bullet pierced the imposing wooden door of this colonial house, killing General Juan Lavalle, a hero of the wars of independence. The story of Lavalle unfolds in Museo Histórico Provincial. There is also religious and colonial art, as well as exhibits on the independence era, the evacuation of Jujuy and 19th-century fashion. There are some English labels, and guides on hand to answer questions.
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Next stop, Sydney fish markets.
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Was better with a 3 pm kick off - could go the fish markets, pick up what I needed, come home, cook it, get blind then wake up the next day and find out who won the game.
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I've never had raw octopus actually, but I'd be interested in trying it. That and snake's blood are two things I really want to try soon.
I know people eat live animals, but I draw the line at that - not because I'm disgusted by it, but I just don't see the cruelty as necessary. Just kill it quickly first, and then eat it raw if you like that taste. I mean I'd eat bugs and worms live, but not fish, octopus or anything bigger. Perhaps a bit odd, but fish are vertebrates so that's why. And octopus...because...well, they're actually pretty intelligent creatures, so I wouldn't feel right about that for some reason.
EDIT: outside of sushi - have had octopus as part of sushi but it's not the same I think.
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Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters forecast a 3.2 percent rise. This figure is a key indicator of a retailer's health. It excludes results from stores recently opened or closed.
In the U.S. the metric increased 5 percent. It rose 2 percent overseas.
Its shares rose $2.39, or 2.1 percent, to $114.38 in afternoon trading. Its shares had been down almost 6 percent so far this year through Wednesday's close
Removing higher gas prices and foreign currency fluctuation, sales at stores open at least a year still climbed 5 percent for the total company and for U.S. locations. Internationally, the figure increased 7 percent.
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Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent disorder which appears to be positional dependent (apnoea hypopnoea index-AHI- in supine position ≥ twice the AHI in other positions) in 56% of patients. The possible effect of positional therapy with other techniques than the 'tennis ball technique' has not been investigated thoroughly so far. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Sleep Position Trainer (SPT) in treating positional OSA without disturbance of the sleep quality.
Material and methods: 18 patients (15 men; mean age 52.6±9.6 years; mean body mass index 26.9±3.7 kg/m2) with positional OSA (mean AHI 17.4±6.8 events/h; mean AHI in supine position 37.1±14.3 events/h) underwent a 29±2 days of treatment at home with the SPT. The SPT is a sensor positioned in an elastic band attached around the body. The SPT measured the body position and vibrated when the patient lied in supine position. Subsequently, a polysomnography was repeated.
Results: Average use of the positional trainer was 27.2±2.8 days. The average proportion of supine position during the last 5 days of therapy (including the polysomnography night) was 3.3±10.8% of total sleep time, in comparison with 42.6±18.4% (p<0.001) at baseline. AHI at follow-up was 7.3±4.8 events/h (p<0.001). Sleeping efficiency at follow-up was 82.8±10.7, whereas at baseline it was 87.1±7.8% (p<0.05).
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Norm Coleman – the former senator from Minnesota and a prominent advisor for Mitt Romney – suggested over the weekend in an interview that no matter who the Republican nominee is, they are unlikely to fully repeal Obamacare.
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Mike loves cinnamon sugar donuts.
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The batter ready for the oven. See how messy I am?
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