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August 19. 2013 10:12PM
Police say Nashua man stabbed himself after slashing wife
By KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
— A city man who was arrested last week for allegedly slashing his wife's throat later stabbed himself in the stomach in an effort to kill himself, according to court documents.
The incident occurred Aug. 13 just hours after Shamshidah Sultan told her husband, Mohammad Salimullah, that she wanted a divorce, says court records on file at the 9th Circuit Court, Nashua Division.
Using a Hindi language interpreter, Sultan, of 18 East Pearl St., apt. 4, told police that on the evening of Aug. 12, she had approached her husband and asked for a divorce. At the time, Salimullah, 36, allegedly told his wife, "We will die together. I will not allow you to get a divorce," says a police affidavit written by Detective Peter Urban of the Nashua Police Department.
After going to sleep that night, Sultan was abruptly woken around 3 a.m. with Salimullah allegedly above her and his hand over her mouth. According to court documents, he allegedly had a knife on her neck, which he was pushing down against her throat, causing a laceration.
Sultan attempted to fight him off, and suffered a cut to her left hand while trying to grab the knife away from him, says the affidavit. While running into her sister's room for help, she observed Salimullah with the knife to his stomach.
Occupants of the home eventually called police, and when officers arrived they found Sultan injured in the neck and hand, and Salimullah lying on the bedroom floor bleeding from a knife wound to his stomach.
The woman's neck wound required about 20 stitches to close, according to police, who said she was treated and released from St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua. Her husband was taken to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center and eventually discharged prior to his arrest.
During questioning, Salimullah stated he was involved in an argument with his wife about her desire for a divorce, according to court records.
The couple has been married for about six years.
"He made admissions to putting the knife to her throat with the intention of killing her and then killing himself," says the affidavit. "He advised this was because he did not want a divorce and did not want his wife to be with anyone else."
Salimullah told a translator he had concerns about police "beating" him, according to documents, also alleging that his brother-in-law had caused his marital issues, and that at least once Salimullah had considered killing his brother-in-law's son.
Authorities were able to retrieve the knife at the East Pearl Street residence. The couple's nephew was home at the time of the attack, along with Sultan's sister and brother-in-law. Salimullah is being held on $250,000 cash bail charged with felony first-degree assault and second-degree assault for the incident, according to police. He will be back in court on Aug. 28 for a probable cause hearing. He will be defended by attorney Stephen Rosecan.


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Wake Forest N.C. Woman's Club Antiques Show nearly doubles
The second annual Wake Forest Woman's Club Antiques Show kicked off March 30, 2012 at a new venue and twice as many dealers as last year's antiques show – from a half-dozen to more than 20 booth spaces.
Never Say Goodbye – Searching for vintage Errol Flynn lobby cards
The legendary Errol Flynn (1909-59) was one of the great action stars of his era, and his many classic films have come to epitomize the adventure films of the 1930s and '40s. Collector Tom McNulty shows how values for Errol Flynn lobby cards mirror his best and worst movies.
Tiffany lamp brings $16,800 in French art glass auction
A rainbow of color filled the auction gallery as a collection of prized French art glass went on offer at Kaminski Auctions 20th Century Modern, Rare Lamps and Art Glass sale on Sunday, March 25.
Early American Glass Club devotes four days to glass seminar
The National Early American Glass Club has announced its 2012 Seminar will be held May 16-19 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Hannes Bok: The fantasy artist who inspired Ray Bradbury
The covers of popular science fiction and horror pulps of the 1930s and '40s were meant to leap at the eye from their perches in dime store magazine racks; few of the artists working in this field have hung on to the attention of aficionados as much as Hannes Bok.
Elks Club donates replacements for stolen Red Wing pottery
When long-time RWCS and Elks lodge member Steve Vagasky heard of the Red Wing pottery burglary, he remembered seeing some old pottery dinnerware that was no longer being used and was inspired to act.
Is vintage tack collecting taking off?
Over the millennia, horses have served us on farms and battlefields, competed for us on racetracks and entertained us at the movies. It's no surprise, then, that bridles have become a popular collectible, especially among Western Americana enthusiasts.
Perfume bottle collector group adds more public events
The best perfume bottle dealers in the world are coming together to sell at the IPBA Perfume Bottle Show & Sale May 5-6, 2012, in Jacksonville, Fla.
Special Bakelite retrospective held during Cincy's 20th Century Modern show
20th Century Cincinnati celebrates the avant garde art, furnishings, architecture and fashions of the 1920s through 1970s.

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An introduction to the "Villa of the Antonines" archaeological Field School in Italy
A brief history of the site and how we began work there:
In 2010, we started the "Villa of the Antonines" Project in an attempt to shed new light on a largely neglected, but important, archaeological site along the route of the ancient Via Appia, just 18 miles southeast of the center of Rome.
The archaeological remains are today located within the boundaries of the modern town of Genzano di Roma (population about 22,000), which overlooks the Lago di Nemi, a crater lake in the Alban Hills. In ancient times, the site was in the territory of Lanuvium, one of the urban centers of the people of Latium before the emergence of Rome as a great power, and the nucleus of which lies about 1.5 km to the southeast of the site. By the end of the BCE period, Lanuvium possessed Roman citizenship and, being close to the metropolis, was a popular location for villas as favorite summer resorts; Cicero, for example, mentions in his letters how he stopped there or passed through on a number of occasions. That at least by 86 CE the ancestors of the Antonine imperial dynasty, which was to rule during the mid- to late second century CE, possessed a family villa located at or near Lanuvium emerges from the biography of Antoninus Pius in the Historia Augusta, the 4th century collection of biographies of Roman emperors, and a local connection with the family is supported by inscriptions from the town. The Historia Augusta speaks of the births of both Antoninus and Commodus there, and refers also to Commodus—who we know eventually developed a taste for performing as a gladiator—as killing wild beasts in an amphitheatre at Lanuvium.
In 1701, several fine marble busts of Antonine family members were unearthed somewhere not too far to the north of still standing, imposing Roman brick and concrete ruins now known to have formed part of a bath complex. Subsequently, the vicinity around the baths came to be referred to as the "Villa degli Antonini." Up until the early 20th century, antiquarians and early archaeologists who visited the surrounding area continued to report the presence of various other physical remains that probably also belonged to the villa. To a great extent because of creeping urbanization and illegal development, most of these features can no longer be identified and, although this villa is one of the major elite Roman residences in the area of the Alban Hills, it is so far the least investigated. Today, next to the baths, a tiny rural road once surrounded by olive groves has become the busy Viale del Lavoro, which now leads to an industrial area (Zona Artigianale). In recent decades, too, the area immediately around the baths has suffered from extensive refuse dumping and almost total neglect.
In 2010, within a gently sloping, 3-hectare, protected plot of land that, fortunately, is now owned by the town of Genzano, we began an investigation of a sector right next to the baths that had been explored briefly in 1996 by a local group of amateur archaeologists just long enough for them to find walls belonging to an intriguing curvilinear structure, but then abandoned. The goal of our project was to systematically study this potentially important site and, ultimately, to attempt to place the whole complex in the context of imperial villas in the region of Latium and beyond. We started our investigation by focusing on the curvilinear structure in order to determine its nature and its relationship to the baths. In 2010, we decided to concentrate our efforts on a relatively small, targeted area, but from the beginning we also combined excavation with the latest non-invasive geophysical imaging techniques, which allow scanning the ground without moving large amounts of dirt. These geophysical surveys, which have been carried out in all three seasons, are an integral part of our excavation and are overseen by Prof. Michele di Filippo of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and his collaborators Dr. Flavio Cecchini and Dr. Siro Margottini, with the help of graduate, undergraduate, and postdoc students.
The curvilinear building as it presently stands is characterized by a series of nearly identical rooms (each approximately 3.5 x 4 m in size) that are defined by radial walls connecting two concentric curving walls; a third, innermost curving wall is very close to the second one and encloses, together with it, a channel about a half metre in width. The facing of the concrete walls consists mainly of opus mixtum and opus vittatum, a common construction technique during the second century. Much of our excavation work between 2010 and 2012 involved investigating the rooms of the eastern part of this curvilinear structure, as well as excavating some adjacent areas immediately outside of it. Especially since the channel mentioned above included near its midpoint a vertical shaft connecting to an underground channel (cuniculus) beneath, the structure had been tentatively interpreted as a monumental fountain or a series of basins connected in some way with the baths immediately adjacent.
The geophysical surveys, including testing by GPR, magnetometry, and seismic refraction tomography, have so far involved extensive sectors to the northeast, north, northwest, and west of the main excavation area. By the end of the 2011 season, we had identified a roughly elliptical area of low conductivity to the west of the excavated portion of the curvilinear structure and compatible with the continuation of that building so as to form an ellipse or circle. In 2012 we were able to test these results by opening a NW-SE trench cutting across the unexcavated western side of the hypothetical elliptical structure. This almost immediately brought to light segments of curvilinear walls and connecting walls of identical construction technique and plan to the walls present in the already-excavated eastern area. The walls of both areas may therefore be attributed to a single structure of elliptical shape with an outer diameter of about 54 metres measured on the long axis.
Inscribed brick stamps present in the fabric of the elliptical structure, as well as stamps found sporadically in the immediate vicinity, fit well with an Antonine date and include one in situ example from the estates of Faustina the Younger that dates between 147-176. This raises the real possibility that we have here the amphitheatre at Lanuvium where the Historia Augusta states that Commodus was in the habit of killing wild beasts, especially as the urban nucleus of ancient Lanuvium appears not to have contained such a structure. Our architect Carlo Albo has been studying several large blocks of worked peperino stone that are still strewn about the site which apparently come from the topmost level of the amphitheatre, where they would have helped support an awning system (velarium) to shade spectators from the sun, similarly to the arrangements at the Colosseum in Rome.
Our principal excavation work area in the eastern part of the amphitheater, where we are trying to understand its structure in greater detail, has involved slow and painstaking work, but we have made interesting discoveries there, too. This past season, for instance, we were able to show that a curving wall first identified in 2011 belongs to a still largely buried spiral staircase, of which only the base of a window, a fragment of one of the treads, and the central support are currently visible, and which led to one or more chambers that are at present underground.
A brief survey of the finds:
The archaeological materials recovered during three seasons show a special preponderance of marbles and displaced mosaic tesserae. The very numerous pieces and fragments of marble of varied thickness and dimensions include white marbles (Proconnesian among others, which has a sulphurous taste if you lick it) as well as colored ones such as serpentine, porphyry, giallo antico, pavonazetto, cipollino, and africano—basically the most common decorative types imported from North Africa and the Aegean region. Some of the pieces have regular geometric shapes and were once part of opus sectile flooring, while others are fragments of cornices or molded slabs from wall decoration. The tesserae, or cubic tiles used for mosaics, include many from black and white compositions (leucitite and white limestone), while the remainder are small colored glass tesserae that represent a large part of the color spectrum and include transparent examples covered with gold leaf. These, together with the marbles, highlight the striking decorative richness of this residential complex. Opulence of this kind is also suggested by two pieces of mosaic glass inlay found in 2010, including one belonging to a rectangular plaquette with floral decoration that has a close parallel in an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (you can see the Met specimen at: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/130010092?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=glass+inlay+lily&pos=18).
The proportion of ceramic materials that we have recovered from the site so far is relatively modest in comparison. Prominent is architectonic material such as fragments of roof tiles, tubuli (pipes for conducting heat in bath walls), and of course the brick stamps noted earlier. The stamps include several inscribed ones that were manufactured in brickmaking establishments located in Latium during the mid- to late second century; many of the other stamps, which have geometric designs only but which are not inscribed, were probably used to distinguish production units or crews in the brickyard. With regard to ceramic vessels, we have found numerous fragments of African red slipware and cookware, but very few fragments of Italian and Gallic terra sigillata. Other artifacts include various nails and studs that probably come from wooden chests, furniture, or wooden doors but that are difficult to pin down chronologically given their simple forms and utilitarian function, as well as a bone die and a coin of Caligula.
Plans for 2014 and beyond:
During the 2014 season we will further investigate the amphitheatre-like building the existence of which was established in 2012. We are planning to not only excavate the staircase and the underground chamber, but also to enlarge the new sector that we opened toward the west last year with the aim of defining the layout of the building in more detail. We will also continue to expand toward the east in order to define the relationship of the amphitheater to the adjacent bath complex and to other adjacent structures, and we would like to open new test excavations to the north of the amphitheatre. Moreover, we will continue our collaboration with Prof. Di Filippo and his team; they will run a microgravimetry survey to try to trace the route of the cuniculus and detect other voids that might indicate the presence of further canalization, water pipe networks, water collecting tanks, or underground chambers.
Program information
While working at the site Monday through Friday, participants will receive hands-on experience in all aspects of recordkeeping, including photographic documentation and drafting. They will also get acquainted with the methods of mapping, field survey, geophysical investigation, and Roman epigraphy. Workshops and in-class lectures will be an integral part of the program. Regular laboratory sessions will take place both on-site and at the Museo delle Navi Romane—built to house the famous ships of the emperor Caligula--in nearby Nemi, where participants will also learn about the practice of museum work. Here, students will take turns cataloguing and studying the artifacts from the site. We will also visit the municipal museum in the town center of modern Lanuvio, and there will be a one-day weekend fieldtrip to historical and archaeological sites in the Alban Hills area. Students will have the opportunity, during their spare time and on weekends, to experience and explore the friendly town of Genzano or to make excursions into Rome.
Life on the Dig—Accommodations, meals, work schedule, and the local scene:
We stay at the Diana Park Hotel, about 1.5 km from the site. It is known throughout the region for its spacious restaurant on a terrace overlooking the scenic Lago di Nemi, a crater lake whose rim is covered by forests. From the terrace you can look across the lake to the ancient sanctuary of the goddess Diana on the other side, you can imagine the emperor Caligula sailing on the lake on his pleasure barges (which were in fact raised from the lake bottom during the 1920's), and you can admire the play of shadows across the Alban Mount beyond. Students are assigned to shared rooms (usually the max is 3 per room). The breakfast of coffee, tea, rolls, yogurt, fruit juice, and the like is ready just before 7 AM, and by 7:20 everyone needs to be out in front to get into the vehicles going to the site for the day's work. In a few minutes, we are in Viale del Lavoro, where the ruins of the baths stand up above the lush vegetation covering part of the site. Work continues until around 12:30PM, when a great lunch arrives from the hotel. After an hour's break under the awnings, we resume work and study until about 4:30. The rest of the day is free. Sometimes we change this routine slightly to accommodate the schedule of a visiting geophysicist or other expert who is going to give a talk or demonstration.
The hotel is located within the boundaries of modern Nemi, but it's just a few blocks' walk from the there to the business district of Genzano (population ca. 22,000), where you will find a supermarket, snack bars, restaurants, pubs, and the main piazza with its baroque fountain and picturesque streets, where you can eat ice cream while watching the local residents congregate at the end of the day. Near the hotel there is a pool where, for a fee, you can cool off. From the town's main street you can get a bus to Anagnina, where you can catch the subway (Linea A) that takes you into Rome.
You need to make your own arrangements for getting to Rome. On Sunday, June 29, you need to be in Rome by 12 noon so that we can arrange for you to be picked up at an arranged point there and driven to Genzano. On Saturday, July 26 we will arrange for your transportation to Rome. On one of the Saturdays during the program we will run a field trip to local places and sites in the Alban Hills area. The other Saturdays, and of course Sundays too, are free for you to relax or travel in Italy.
How to apply:
We as co-directors interview (Montclair State students in person, others via Skype) all applicants for 25-30 minutes each. But we are always pleased to speak with you informally, whether by phone or email. Our contact information:
Timothy Renner
Professor, Department of Classics & General Humanities;
Director, Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies
Deborah Chatr Aryamontri
Instructional Specialist, Department of Classics & General Humanities;
Researcher, Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies
Ms. Wendy Gilbert-Simon of our campus's Global Education Center handles our logistical and enrollment arrangements. Her contact information:
Wendy Gilbert-Simon


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Hi Barr1e, for the fireworks this year i used a 9-18 mm lens with a 3 stop ND filter. Done this way so that i could use iso 200, f8 to f14, usually 4-6 seconds exposure with the occassional 15-25 sec shot for "rain" pyro bursts... And oh, E30 on a tripod on solid ground with a remote release.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Mike Rogers wants to be a "productive conservative" on the radio dial who fosters "smart debate" during the daily show he will host after leaving Congress in January.
The ex-FBI agent and outgoing House Intelligence Committee chairman might not be done with politics after more than a decade in Congress, so there's unquestioned value for him from the three hours each day he will spend fielding questions and reasoning with a mass audience.
"I'm not saying I am," Rogers, R-Mich., told The Associated Press when asked if he was preparing to re-enter politics in the years ahead. "But I do foresee myself back in government service in some capacity in the future."
For now, Cumulus Radio Group is betting that listeners and advertisers will find Rogers' hearty voice, contempt for right-wing ideologues and expertise in national security inviting.
Rogers' hope is to "move the needle" toward the political center on radio, which is crowded with conservative antagonists, and at a time when the division between the GOP's mainstream and right wings is deep.
"It may be that, even as this AM radio's audience ages and literally dies off, there's always going to be a diversity of voices available on the airwaves," said Hollande Cooke, a media and radio personality consultant.
Rogers, 50, will step down in January, when the next Congress takes over, and shift from Capitol Hill, his workplace for 14 years, to a studio elsewhere in Washington.
He has made his mark on the House Intelligence Committee, a rare collaborative group in a strongly partisan Congress.
"I think of this notion — a productive conservative host, with smart controversy, smart debate, where I turn off the radio and go, 'You know what, that was really interesting, I can't wait to turn it on tomorrow.'"
He said that during his time in the House, Republicans more concerned with maintaining a strictly conservative profile than with incremental changes have effectively ceded control to Democrats by holding out for ideological purity.
Chiefly, majority Republicans demanded changes in President Barack Obama's health law last year as the price for essential funding of the government that Obama and Democrats refused to accept, forcing a 16-day partial shutdown.
"If you show up here with the idea that you want GOP leadership to fail, that means that conservative philosophy will be ineffective and that will cost us down the road," Rogers said in the interview in his Capitol Hill office.
Conservative radio has thrived on outrage during the past 20 years. Listenership surged in the 1990s with Rush Limbaugh's daily critiques of the Clinton administration.
New voices, such as nationally syndicated hosts Sean Hannity and Michael Savage have gained audience since Obama's election in 2008, while smaller markets around the country have grown their own.
"There are thousands of hosts spewing a right-wing agenda," said media consultant Walter Sabo. "If Rogers is compelling and makes his arguments in a way that's entertaining of course, he'll be successful."
The issue is whether people will listen to something that challenges their opinions, said Gov. Rick Snyder, R-Mich.
"I think the concept of having a balanced approach or more factual approach is a good thing," Snyder told the AP. "There is potentially a challenge in that too many people today solely kind of listen to an echo of what they would like to hear."
In that way, Cumulus is taking a risk that Rogers can capture a shifting listenership.
Two years ago, Limbaugh called a then-Georgetown University student a "slut" after she testified to Congress advocating contraception. Limbaugh's comments led to an advertising boycott and since then, his ratings have dipped in key markets.
"I have never run into an owner that has an agenda beyond a return to their investors," Sabo said.
Cumulus, with stations in some of the largest markets, is looking ahead, Cooke said. The company ended its contract with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a socially conservative commentator, after just 20 months because the show failed to lift ratings.
"Ultimately, demographics are going marginalize this sore-head brand of talk radio," Cooke said. "We have 95 million millenials who are about to take over the American economy."
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March 12, 1944 - February 15, 2013
Marlboro, NY
Diane C. Herman-Novales, age 68, of Marlboro, and an area resident all her life, died Friday, February 15, 2013 at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh.
Diane was born March 12, 1944 in Newburgh, NY. She is the daughter of the late Ralph C. and the late Irma (Myers) Herman.
Diane was the Bookkeeper for The Ralph C. Herman Company of Marlboro until her retirement in 2006, prior to that she worked for Beneficial Finance for many years.
Diane was a former member of the Historical Society of Marlboro. Diane was a huge lover of animals and was a supporter of the S.P.C.A. of Newburgh.
The family suggests memorial donations in Diane's memory be made to the S.P.C.A.
She is survived by two daughters: Denise M. McVeigh and fiance, John of Bloomington, NY and Debra A. Kates and her husband, Randy of Delaware and three grandchildren: Patrick J. McVeigh, Nicole Fallon McVeigh and Jeremy Cole Kates. She is predeceased by one brother, Donald S. Herman.
Visitation will be held on Wednesday from 12 noon to 1 p.m. at the DiDonato Funeral Home, 1290 Route 9W, Marlboro. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, with the Reverend David Ballou officiating. Burial will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Middle Hope, NY.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to The DiDonato Funeral Service, Inc. 845-236-4300, www.didonatofuneralservice.com


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Can you tell me what veggies would do well in gutter gardening?
William, Mays Landing, NJ
Old gutters are usually about five inches deep. This does not allow for a wide range of plants. Drill holes must be made to accommodate drainage. Consider that for every leave above ground, there is a root below. Many plants succeed with cramped roots, especially ones that flower. This would leave out root vegetables and large fruited plants like Big Boy tomatoes. You could grow herbs, bib lettuce, small eggplants but not much more. Perhaps, you could combine half whiskey barrels and other wooden large planters for a decorative colored array on a patio.
Our soils are very clayey. What amendments will help improve this?
Bill, Locust Grove, OK
Optimum soil is two-thirds organic matter and a third granular soil. You need to add both organic matter and coarse sand. Old shredded leaves, compost, aged sawdust, grass clippings (without herbicide) and aged manures are all excellent annual additions. Till these in every fall or spring until that body becomes healthy. You will be able to smell the good soil.
We have a lot of Creeping Charlie. A lot of target herbicide sprays do not get rid of it. What can we use on the lawn and in the garden?
Rebecca, Blue Mound, IL
Four step programs include herbicide with the fertilizer. This helps fill in the bare spots left after they are killed. Creeping Charlie, with its tiny little blue flower, reseeds very quickly and is often below the cut of the mower. An early application of a pre emergent application will help. Corn starch can be used in flower and vegetable beds as a pre emergent.
The past week or so have had the beautiful weather with warm temperatures. This has made our grass grow quite long and thick. My question is, could we cut the grass at this point? We know it is early and have not put down the first application of fertilizer, but if we wait, the grass will be much longer. Would a light cut hurt the grass at this time?
Anna, Amherst, NY
Temperatures are returning to normal and the grass will be retarded. There is no need for the grass to be cut back until heat resumes. Most grasses can be left to grow tall in the fall to protect the roots. We now recommend to let lawns grow to three inches before cutting. This allows for shaded crowns and a lot less water. When normal weather resumes, you can start your fertilizer program.
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These beautiful silver-cased scrolls were made by Frederick Kandler, George III's silversmith, for Rabbi Samuel Chaim Falk.
Following the readmission of Jews to Britain under Oliver Cromwell, there was a growing community of Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jews in London from the late 17th century. Most came from Germany, but after 1770 there was small-scale migration from Poland. Falk was a kabbalist and fled Westphalia, where he had been condemned to death as a sorcerer, arriving in London in 1742. He became known as the 'Baal Shem of London' and was described as "a dabbler in magic, a maker of amulets and a kabbalist who used incantations to accomplish paranormal feats such as finding lost treasure".
Upon his death in 1782, Falk left the scrolls to the Great Synagogue in Duke's Place, Aldgate, founded in 1692 by a group of German Jewish merchants. They became part of the museum's collection in 1992.


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Lines, shapes and blank pages come alive through the medium of animation and music in the new video for London band Glitches' single, Only Time Will Tell.
Sunrise, and the pulling back of the notebook cover signals the start of a new day. A hand tilts the map of Skomer Island as we zoom in on an Atlantic Puffin colony, where a new life has just been brought into the world. We follow the baby puffin's progress as it learns to fly, but its maiden voyage takes a destructive turn… Swiftly patched up by the band themselves, it soars over a landscape of paper hills, paginated valleys and notebook towers: will it make it back to the nest?
Inspired by the soft covers of Moleskine Volant notebooks, named after the Latin verb 'volare' which means to fly, the video shows the endless possibilities of paper and the fleeting nature of existence. And with Glitches as the creative force and Moleskine as the creative tool, it's an unprecedented collaboration that celebrates the song-writing process from paper to sound.
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Prepare to pay more to park in ManchesterBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 21. 2014 11:21PM
MANCHESTER — A slate of downtown parking fee hikes received final approval on Monday.
The aldermen's Committee on Accounts voted with little debate on Monday to formally enroll the new ordinances.
The fare hikes were already approved by the full board of aldermen.
The ordinances extend the downtown metered parking zone by roughly two blocks to the north, south and east. The standard 75-cents-per-hour charge would apply to the entire area. Some coin meters currently cost 50 cents an hour.
The enforcement hours of 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday to Friday, would be extended to the entire area. Another ordinance will raise the cost of a monthly parking permit at the Millyard from $45 to $55. Permits at surface lots would go from $50 to $60. The monthly fee at the Victory Garage would go from $75 to $85. There would also be a new downtown parking permit for residents, which would cost $100 a year.
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Psychiatrists Team with Business School to Develop Suicide Risk Assessment Tool
- 11-21-2012
- By Jon Reidel
As psychiatrists, University of Vermont College of Medicine faculty members Isabelle Desjardins, M.D., and Sanchit Maruti, M.D.'10, deal with patients experiencing suicidal thoughts on a daily basis. A recent alert on national patient safety from non-profit health care organization accreditor The Joint Commission prompted Desjardins and Maruti to consider the safety of a much larger group of patients: the entire hospital population.
In hopes of reducing the more than 1,000 suicides that occur each year nationwide in non-psychiatric units in hospitals across the country, The Joint Commission is calling for hospitals to screen all in-patients and every patient treated in the emergency room, seen for an outpatient procedure, or who has been admitted to the hospital for their likelihood to commit suicide in the hospital.
In order to deal with the massive mandate, Desjardins, associate professor of psychiatry and medical director of inpatient psychiatry at Fletcher Allen Health Care, called on long-time collaborator Willy Cats-Baril, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of business, who develops predictive risk models for the medical community and specializes in health care management, to figure out how to create an effective suicide risk assessment tool. With $20,000 from the Fletcher Allen Foundation, they brought four of the most highly recognized suicidologists in the country to Fletcher Allen and the UVM School of Business Administration on October 8 and 9, 2012, to help develop an electronic algorithm designed to simulate the thinking of an experienced psychiatrist in the evaluation of imminent suicide risk.
The algorithm, which will eventually be an electronic questionnaire on a tablet, will allow for the assessment of a large volume of patients in an efficient manner, and provide short-term guidance to clinicians in identifying high-risk patients that require expert attention from psychiatrists.
"When Isabelle told me about the new requirement, I said, 'Let's try to replicate what psychiatrists would do,'" says Cats-Baril, who points out that if hospitals were to fulfill the regulatory mandate by hiring more psychiatrists they would require such a large number as to make it financially infeasible. "The panelists commended us for our innovative approach to address a regulatory requirement in a clinically meaningful way and suggested that if we are able to implement our model, we could have a significant national impact on public health."
Putting the tool into practice
The charge of the panel over the two-day meeting was to create an assessment tool that incorporates suicide risk factors in a weighted manner; is clinically relevant and informed by suicide risk data; creates uniformity of suicide risk assessment among the medical, surgical and intensive care units, the emergency department and in-patient psychiatric units; is user-friendly and can be efficiently administered by all health professionals. The idea is that the assessment tool will optimize resource utilization by focusing psychiatric expertise where it is most needed and by using the existing electronic medical record infrastructure; and will improve quality assurance by systematically documenting suicide risk of every patient.
Cats-Baril says the panel of experts assembled at UVM brought expertise in each of the key areas necessary to develop an effective and efficient tool. These experts included Jan Fawcett, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, member of the American Psychiatric Association Guidelines on Suicide Work Group, and chairperson of the DSM-V Mood Disorders Work Group; Peter D. Mills, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth, director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety Field Office and member of the Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert Panel; Morton Silverman, M.D., clinical associate professor at the University of Chicago and senior advisor at the National Suicide Prevention Technical Resource Center; and David A. Jobes, Ph.D., professor of psychology at The Catholic University of America. Robert Althoff, M.D., UVM assistant professor of psychiatry, psychology, and pediatrics, was also a member of the panel.
"From a business perspective, I was thinking in terms of how to meet a regulatory demand with scarce human resources while trying to maintain quality of care and spend the least amount of money," says Cats-Baril. "I thought we could develop an effective solution by leveraging the expertise of experienced psychiatrists with information technology."
In practice, the evaluation process would start when a patient arrives at the hospital for registration. After a medical record number is assigned, key demographic and hospitalization information would automatically populate the tool. For example, in the case of a patient coming through the Emergency Room, the triage nurse would ask initial screening questions, and depending on the answers, would assign the patient to a specific room and level of observation. The remaining questions would be administered by emergency medicine research associates, prompting the tool to generate a "risk suicide score" and associated stratification for the patient. This information would then be reviewed by an emergency medicine provider to determine if further psychiatric evaluation is required.
Addressing a growing concern
Since 1995, suicide has ranked among the top five most frequently reported events to The Joint Commission, an organization responsible for accrediting and certifying more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, and it's the eleventh leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for 33,300 fatalities in 2006. Although some suggested actions have been offered by The Joint Commission, like educating staff about the risk factors for suicide, few guidelines for developing an assessment tool were offered. Desjardins anticipates some hospitals addressing the regulation by simply asking patients if they feel suicidal. That won't suffice when patients come to the hospital with a minor injury and find out they have a much more serious illness like cancer, causing them to fall into a deep depression that could lead to suicidal thoughts, she says.
"We have so many regulatory bodies today that regulations are becoming burdensome and causing low satisfaction for employees and patients," Desjardins says. "We have a lot of opportunities to just check a box to meet a regulation or we can try to make it clinically relevant and show a positive outcome that makes the work meaningful."
Cats-Baril hopes to extend the results of the project by conducting a multi-center testing of the tool to measure its usability and usefulness by tracking quality of patient care, time spent, staff satisfaction and resource utilization. Desjardins, Althoff and Maruti and Cats-Baril will seek funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health, which has outlined the importance of the development of clinical risk assessment instruments that encompass multiple domains as one of the areas of strategic research priority.
"The panelists unanimously thought the meeting was a breakthrough, asked us to keep them involved, encouraged us to go for funding at the national level and said that they would support us in that quest. It's exciting," Cats-Baril says.


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