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By Erica Noonan, Boston Globe, MetroWest edition December 18, 2008
The mortgage crisis is not some faraway national problem to George Lewis and his neighbors. It has come home to Gilbert Street.
During the first six months of this year, four of the 38 houses on this pleasant street a few blocks south of downtown Framingham were involved in the foreclosure process, which generally takes several months and requires several legal steps before a judgment is issued against an owner.
Three of the houses, Nos. 11, 25, and 37-39, are clustered near the Winthrop Street end of Gilbert.
All three appear to be vacant. Trash and fliers have accumulated on the porch and lawn of No. 37-39. The fourth property, No. 64, is midway down the street, and still has a neatly kept appearance.
The three-family house at 37-39 Gilbert looks as though it was vacated in midrenovation, after the LaSalle Bank National Association filed an order of notice for foreclosure against its owners, Neylor and Marcela Silva, in February, according to the state Registry of Deeds. On a recent visit, an old toilet lay in a side yard overgrown by weeds. Ripped weatherproofing partially covered an unfinished bay window, and toys and debris cluttered the backyard, alongside a soggy sofa covered in mildewed plastic.
Major code violations and work performed without permits at 37-39 Gilbert Street
"How can I sell my house if people see this?" said Lewis, a painter who has lived a decade in the otherwise well-kept neighborhood within walking distance to shopping and Waushakum Pond.
The community is an ideal place for artists, Lewis said, affordable yet close to Boston and suburban cultural centers in Framingham and Natick. But the presence of the troubled houses is upsetting.
"I am very concerned about preserving the value of my home. I think many of us on this street are," said Lewis, who mowed the lawn of the abandoned house over the summer to improve its curb appeal.
Just a few years ago, things on Gilbert Street were different. Prosperity seemed abundant. At the height of the market in 2004 and 2005, houses on the street were selling for upward of $400,000. The house at 37-39 Gilbert sold for $560,000 in May 2005.
Then the economy started to slow, and the housing market nationwide plunged amid the ongoing subprime mortgage crisis. In Framingham, by the end of October, foreclosure actions had begun on 350 houses out of the town's stock of 17,700 residential properties. That's up from last year's total of 336, according to the Warren Group, a Boston company that tracks local real estate data.
Foreclosure has affected only about 2 percent of the houses in Framingham, but the unlucky coincidence of four houses going through the foreclosure process on his street has left Lewis worried about safety as well as property values.
He said he pestered town officials for weeks to padlock 37-39, which he viewed as an invitation to squatters as well as a danger to firefighters and curious children, because so much of its flooring was ripped up during the start of renovations.
"If someone gets hurt, they are going to sue the town, which is going to make the problem even worse," said Lewis.
The other houses appear, from the outside, to be in better shape, but none of the owners of record could be reached to discuss what happened to their properties.
Driveway at 11 Gilbert Street. This single family house was illegally converted to a three-family.
State records show 11 Gilbert St. was bought for $379,000 in March 2005 by Salvador D. Linhares, and foreclosure proceedings began once in April 2007 and again in January. The process concluded with a foreclosure judgment in May, according to the Registry of Deeds. A message left at the most recent phone number listed for Linhares was not returned.
REMAX realtor Didier Lopez said last month that he tried to sell 25 Gilbert - bought in 2005 for $345,000 by Ronaldo Solano - for between $225,000 and $240,000 several months ago. Solano had received an order of notice of foreclosure from lender Salem Five Mortgage Company LLC in August, according to state records.
Illegal paving of property at 25 Gilbert Street
There was no sale, Lopez said, and he was not sure about the current status of the house.
Real estate sales records show 64 Gilbert St. was bought in July 2006 for $415,000 by Elizabeth Sanchez. Lender GMC Mortgage LLC first filed an order of notice to foreclose in December 2007, and received a judgment in May. The property was purchased in May for $195,000 by Haider Nasir, according to real estate records. Attempts to contact Nasir with questions about his plans for the property were unsuccessful.
Another Gilbert Street resident said he fears the value of his house, bought in 2006 for
Many trucks and vehicles at 25 Gilbert Street.
This was the case with a number of other properties
on Gilbert Street.
$265,000, is less today, despite an overhaul of the plumbing system. "We bought this home to gain equity and right now I think I have lost more than I put in, which I find really disheartening," said the 37-year-old homeowner, who asked that his name not be printed. "I look down a few houses from me and see abandoned property; why would someone want to move in here?"
He said he feared that speaking publicly about the issue would inflame tensions in town because several of the foreclosed homeowners were Brazilian immigrants. "I love living in a diverse neighborhood; I am not blaming the people in the houses. But back in 2006, if I had seen a foreclosure sign here, I would have changed my mind" about buying.
Framingham officials might have prevented some of the problem by monitoring construction on the street more closely, and stepping in when overextended homeowners were cutting corners on proper permitting, Lewis contends.
More than one of the four Gilbert Street houses appear to have lost value as a result of improperly permitted renovations, in addition to the other foreclosure problems, acknowledged Framingham building inspector Michael Foley.
Foley said he sympathizes with the plight of residents in the wake of the foreclosure crisis, but he maintains that municipal officials with limited staffing cannot possibly monitor the nuts and bolts of every single house project. He said his department didn't know the extent of the problems with the Gilbert Street houses until it was too late.
"I don't believe it's the town's fault," Foley said. "Neighbors know far more about the neighborhoods than the people in Town Hall, and they need to keep us informed about what's happening that's not right."
Foley's three-person department keeps a database of Framingham properties under foreclosure action. They try to monitor the buildings, even running nighttime inspections looking for after-hours candlelight in vacant buildings.
"We don't know these people. But we have seen many, many situations of people who have hopes and dreams that shatter when the money isn't there anymore," he said. "What change happened in their lives where they couldn't finish what they started?"
Foley said accountability for some of the more decrepit-looking properties is not as simple as it would seem.
Efforts by officials to locate the Silvas, the last listed owners of 37-39 Gilbert, have been unsuccessful, and the town - probably due to a paperwork backlog from state and federal efforts to slow down foreclosures - is still unable to determine who owns the property and is responsible for its upkeep, said Foley.
Town officials would like to head off similar situations in the future. Foreclosure prevention is the goal of several local and state efforts, including the HOPE Now program operated by the South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc., a regional antipoverty social services organization.
In Framingham, 64 families are enrolled in the program, which helps struggling homeowners negotiate terms with lenders.
More than 80 percent of the program's clients are owner- occupants, and 60 percent had a sudden reduction in income from problems such as illness, job loss, divorce, or death in the family, said the director of SMOC's Housing Services Center, Ozzy Diagne. Less than one-third are owners of investment property, or families who refinanced with adjustable-rate or balloon loans, he said.
Charles Gagnon, the nonprofit organization's chief operating officer, said suddenly abandoning a house and a neighborhood is sadly commonplace.
"The people we see who face foreclosure get so scared, they grab what they need and send the keys to the bank. There is tremendous panic and shame. Going into foreclosure has serious psychological ramifications for everyone involved," he said.
Foley, the building inspector, said that despite the difficulty of the market, and worries of people who live near one - or several - foreclosed houses, Framingham homeowners should remember that the properties are a minute part of the town's "very stable" housing stock.
Of the foreclosed properties on the books last week, about one-third were in some sort of negotiated transactions, though many at 30 to 50 percent less than their assessed value, he said.
"That's a positive thing, that inventory is moving," Foley said. "I don't have a crystal ball. But there is interest that wasn't here four months ago, so I am very optimistic."
It's not always easy to spot con artists. They're smart, extremely persuasive, and aggressive. They invade your home by telephone and mail, advertise in well-known newspapers and magazines, and come to your door.
Most people think they're too smart to fall for a scam. But con artists rob all kinds of people, from investment counselors and doctors to teenagers and elderly widows of billions of dollars every year. Just remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
You can protect yourself
- Never give a caller your credit card, phone card, Social Security, or bank account number over the phone. It's illegal for telemarketers to ask for these numbers to verify a prize or gift.
- Beware of 900 numbers. People who call 900 numbers to request instant credit often end up with a booklet on how to establish credit or a list of banks offering low-interest credit cards. Such calls can end up costing $50 or more, but consumers rarely end up obtaining credit.
- Listen carefully to the name of a charity requesting money. Fraudulent charities often use names that sound like a reputable, well-known organization such as the American Cancer Association (instead of the American Cancer Society).
- Ask for a financial report before you donate; a reputable charity will always send you one.
- Investigate before you invest. Never make an investment with a stranger over the phone. Beware of promises that include the terms "get rich quick," or "a once in a lifetime opportunity."
Be a wise consumer
- Don't buy health products or treatments that include: a promise for a quick and dramatic cure, testimonials, imprecise and nonmedical language, appeals to emotion instead of reason, or a single product that cures many ills. Quackery can delay an ill person from getting timely treatment.
- Look closely at offers that come in the mail. Con artists often use official-looking forms and bold
graphics to lure victims. If you receive items in the mail that you didn't order, you are under no obligation to pay for them, throw them out, return them, or keep them.
- Be suspicious of ads that promise quick cash working from your home. After you've paid for the supplies or a how-to book to get started, you often find there's no market for the product and there's no way to get your money back.
- Beware of cheap home repair work that would otherwise be expensive, regardless of the reason given. The con artist may just do part of the work, use shoddy materials and untrained workers, or simply take your deposit and never return.
- Use common sense in dealing with auto repairs. One mechanic convinced a woman that she needed to have the winter air in tires replaced with summer air! Get a written estimate, read it carefully, and never give the repair shop a blank check to fix everything.
Protect yourself from Telemarketing fraud
Your best protection is to just hang up the phone. If you think that is rude, tell these callers politely that you are not interested, don't want to waste their time, and please don't call back and then hang up.
If you find yourself caught up in a sales pitch, remember the federal government's Telemarketing Sales Rule.
- You have to be told the name of the company, the fact that it is a sales call, and what's being sold. If a prize is being offered, you have to be told immediately that there is no purchase necessary to win.
- If the caller says you've won a prize, you cannot be asked to pay anything for it. You can't even be required to pay shipping charges. If it is a sweepstakes, the caller must tell you how to enter without making a purchase.
- You cannot be asked to pay in advance for services such as cleansing your credit record, finding you a loan, acquiring a prize they say you've won. You pay for services only if they're actually delivered.
- You shouldn't be called before 8:00 am or after 9:00 pm. If you tell telemarketers not to call again, they can't. If they do, they have broken the law.
- If you're guaranteed a refund, the caller has to tell you all the limitations.
- Don't give telemarketers your credit card number, your bank account number, Social Security number, or authorize bank drafts.
If someone rips you off, take action
- Report con games to the police, your city or State Consumer Protection Office, District Attorney's Office, or a consumer advocacy group.
- If you suspect fraud, call the National Fraud Information Center at (800) 876-7060, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm EST.
- Don't feel foolish. Reporting is vital. Very few frauds are reported, which leaves the con artists free to rob other people of their money and their trust.
Securing Your Home
If you were locked out of your house, would you still be able to get in? Maybe you keep an unlocked window in the back, or a hidden key in your mailbox or on top of a window ledge? You may think this is a good idea, but guess what? If you can break in, so can a burglar!
One out of ten homes will be burglarized this year. For a small amount of time and money you can make your home more secure and reduce your chances of being a victim. Many burglars will spend no longer than 60 seconds trying to break into a home. Good locks and good neighbors, who watch out for each other, can be big deterrents to burglars.
CHECK THE LOCKS.
Did you know that in almost half of all completed residential burglaries, thieves simply breezed in through unlocked doors or crawled through unlocked windows?
- Make sure every external door has a sturdy, well-installed dead bolt lock. Key-in-the-knob locks alone are not enough.
- Sliding glass doors can offer easy access if they are not properly secured. You can secure them by installing commercially available locks or putting a broomstick or dowel in the inside track to jam the door. To prevent the door being lifted off the track, drill a hole through the slide door frame and the fixed frame. Then insert a pin in the hole.
- Lock double-hung windows with key locks or pin your windows by drilling a small hole into a 45 degree angle between the inner and outer frames, then insert a nail that can be removed. Secure basement windows with grilles or grates.
- Instead of hiding keys around the outside of your home, give an extra key to a neighbor you trust.
- When you move into a new house or apartment, re-key the locks.
CHECK THE DOORS
A lock on a flimsy door is about as effective as locking your car door but leaving the window down.
- All outside doors should be metal or solid wood.
- If your doors don't fit tightly in their frames, install weather stripping around them.
- Install a peephole or wide angle viewer in all entry doors so you can see who is outside without opening the door. Door chains break easily and don't keep out intruders.
CHECK THE OUTDOORS
Look at your house from the outside. Make sure you know the following tips.
- Thieves hate bright lights. Install outside lights and keep them on at night.
- Keep your yard clean. Prune back shrubbery so it doesn't hide doors or windows. Cut back tree limbs that a thief could use to climb to an upper-level window.
- If you travel, create the illusion that you're at home by getting some timers that will turn lights on and off in different areas of your house throughout the evening. Lights burning 24 hours a day signal an empty house.
- Leave shades, blinds, and curtains in normal positions. And don't let your mail pile up! Call the post office to stop delivery or have a neighbor pick it up.
- Make a list of your valuables - VCRs, stereos, computers, jewelry. Take photos of the items, list their serial numbers and description. Check with law enforcement about engraving your valuables through Operation Identification.
- Ask local law enforcement for a free home security survey.
CONSIDER A HOME ALARM
Alarms can be a good investment, especially if you have many valuables in your home, or live in an isolated area or one with a history of break-ins.
- Check with several companies before you buy so you can decide what level of security fits your needs. Do business with an established company and check references before signing a contract
- Learn how to use your system properly! Don't "cry wolf" by setting off false alarms. People will stop paying attention and you'll probably be fined.
- Some less expensive options, a sound-detecting socket that plugs into a light fixture and makes the light flash when it detects certain noises, motion sensing outdoor lights that turn on when someone approaches, or lights with photo cells that turn on when it's dark and off when it's light.
BURGLARS DO MORE THAN STEAL
Burglars can commit rape, robbery, and assault if they are surprised by someone coming home or pick a home that is occupied.
- If something looks questionable, a slit screen, a broken window or an open door, don't go in. Call the police from a neighbor's house or a public phone.
- At night, if you think you hear someone breaking in, leave safely if you can, then call the police. If you can't leave, lock yourself in a room with a phone and call the police. If an intruder is in your room, pretend you are asleep.
- Guns are responsible for many accidental deaths in the home every year. If you choose to own a gun, learn how to store it and use it safely.
As people grow older, their chances of being victims of crime decrease dramatically. But a lifetime of experience, coupled with the physical problems associated with aging, often make older Americans fearful.
Though they're on the lookout constantly for physical attack and burglary, seniors are not as alert to frauds and con games; which, in reality, are the greatest crime threats to seniors' well being and trust. In order to conquer fear and prevent crime, it is important to take these common-sense precautions:
BE ALERT WHEN OUT AND ABOUT
- Go with friends or family, not alone.
- Carry your purse close to your body, not dangling by the straps.
- Put a wallet in an inside coat or front pant's pocket.
- Don't carry credit cards you don't need or large amounts of cash.
- Use direct deposit for Social Security and other regular checks.
- Whether you're a passenger or driver, keep car doors locked. Be particularly alert in parking lots and garages. Park near an entrance.
- Sit close to the driver or near the exit while riding the bus, train, or subway.
- If someone or something makes you uneasy, trust your instincts and leave.
BE WARY OF CON ARTISTS
- Ask for photo identification from service or delivery people before letting them in. If you are the least bit worried, call the company to verify.
- Don't fall for anything that sounds too good to be true; like a free vacation, sweepstakes prizes, cures for cancer and arthritis, or a low-risk, high-yield investment scheme.
- Never give your credit card, phone card, Social Security, or bank account number to anyone over the phone. It's illegal for telemarketers to ask for these numbers to verify a prize or gift.
- Don't let anyone rush you into signing anything like an insurance policy, a sales agreement, or a contract. Read it carefully and have someone you trust check it over.
- Beware of individuals claiming to represent companies, consumer organizations, or government agencies that offer to recover lost money from fraudulent telemarketers for a fee.
- If you're suspicious, check it out with the police, the Better Business Bureau, or local consumer protection office. Call the National Consumers League Fraud Information Center at (800) 876-7060.
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Date of Birth: 6th Oct 1990 (29 years old)
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Hometown: Leicester
Jonny Walton is en route to his second Olympic Games, having made his debut at Rio 2016, finishing fifth in the double scull with John Collins.
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After finishing fifth in the GB Rowing Team Trials, Jonny was once again selected alongside John Collins in the men's double scull for the 2016 season. They reached the final at the European Championships in Brandenburg, finishing sixth, and improved to fifth at the World Cup in Lucerne before winning a superb silver at the Poznan World Cup – their first senior medals with the GB Rowing Team.
They got off to a slow start at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games but won their repechage to reach the semi-finals, where they produced a brilliant performance to hold off multiple crews and secure the top-three finish they needed. Another gutsy display in the final saw Collins and Walton finish a fine fifth overall on their Olympic debuts.
Jonny and John qualified the men's double for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with an eighth-placed finish at the 2015 World Championships in Aiguebelette.
They had started the season with a similar result at the European Championships in Poznan, missing out on a place in the A final by just five-hundredths of a second. Jonny and John were also desperately unlucky to finish fourth in their semi-final at the World Cup in Varese, less than a second behind the winners, but went on to comfortably win the B final. They then placed fifth in a strong field at the World Cup in Lucerne.
Jonny and John were first paired together in the double at the 2014 European Championships, finishing sixth. They went one better at the World Cup in Aiguebelette and improved again to place fourth in Lucerne but narrowly missed out on qualification for the A final at the World Championships in Amsterdam, finishing seventh overall.
Jonny had started the Olympiad in the men's single scull, finishing fourth at the Sydney World Cup and seventh at Eton Dorney. He replaced the injured Graeme Thomas in the quadruple scull in Lucerne, finishing fourth, and was the men's sculling spare at the 2013 World Championships in Chungju.
London 2012 Olympiad: 2009 – 2012
Jonny first represented GB at the 2008 Coupe de la Jeunesse, winning gold in the junior men's double scull. He also competed at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney and won gold in the eight, silver in the quad and was fourth in the single.
The 2010 World U23 Championships in Brest saw Jonny finish ninth in a GB quad that also included John Collins. Jonny raced in the single scull at the following year's championships in Amsterdam and placed eighth overall after narrowly missing out on the A final.
Jonny raced with Jack Beaumont in the double at the 2012 World U23 Championships in Trakai and European Championships in Varese. On both occasions, they were edged out of the A final but won the B final to finish seventh overall.
GB Competitive Record
Rio de Janeiro 2016 5th M2x
Olympic Games:
World Rowing Championships
2018 7th M4x
2017 Silver M4x
World Rowing Championships:
European Rowing Championships
European Rowing Championships:
World Rowing Cup Regattas
2018 Belgrade Gold M4x
2017 Poznan Gold M4x
2017 Belgrade Bronze M4x
2016 Poznan Silver M2x
2016 Lucerne 5th M2x
2015 Varese 7th M2x
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2018 Belgrade
2017 Poznan
2016 Lucerne
2015 Varese
World Rowing U23 Championships
World Rowing U23 Championships:
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials:
Boat: Men's Squad
Role: Rower
Coaches: Mark Banks
Learnt to Row: Leicester Rowing Club
Original Club(s): Leicester Rowing Club, Loughborough Students' Rowing Club
Original Coach(es): Howard Marsh
Beyond The Boat
Jonny has always been a competitive sportsperson and raced cross-country in both athletics and mountain-biking before deciding to focus his attention on rowing. He attended local regattas with his family, who were involved in the sport, and joined Leicester RC in 2005. His first coach was Howard Marsh, who also went on to coach Jonny at Loughborough University.
Jonny graduated from Loughborough University in 2012 with a degree in Sport & Exercise Sciences, although his career ambitions lie with luxury performance cars. He also admires Lewis Hamilton: "Races F1 as his job, lives in Monaco when he's not racing and has a list of cars in his garage you'd dream of – not a bad life!"
He has travelled extensively around South America, including a visit to 2016 Olympic host city Rio, and had the chance to detonate TNT in a silver mine in Bolivia. He also enjoyed the Italian food on a visit to the island of Elba last year but says a traditional Sunday roast is his perfect post-competition meal.
Jonny is a big football fan and would invite former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho to his perfect dinner party, along with actress Jennifer Lawrence and DJ Tijs Michiel Verwest, aka Tiesto. House music is his soundtrack for both ergo training and relaxing.
GB Rowing Team colleague Matt Gotrel is Jonny's house-mate.
Jonny is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.
Loughborough Leicester Leicestershire
6th October 1990 90kg 190cm


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June 4: Angelina Jolie (1975)
It was on this date, June 4, 1975, that American actress, film director, and screenwriter Angelina Jolie was born. Daughter of Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy, 1969; Deliverance, 1972; The Odessa File, 1974; Coming Home, 1978), Jolie won herself an Oscar for her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), as well as Golden Globes for George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998). She has starred in such successful films as the two Lara Croft Tomb Raider films (2001, 2003), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010), A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008).
Jolie has done humanitarian work as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Acclaimed by many sources at various times as the most beautiful woman in the world, Jolie has the distinction of a species of trapdoor spider, native to Northern California, being named after her: Aptostichus angelinajolieae. She was briefly married to actor Billy Bob Thornton and is currently partnered with actor Brad Pitt, who shares her religious indifferentism.
In a 6 September 2000 interview with The Onion A.V. Club, she was asked, "Is there a God?" Angelina Jolie replied, "Hmm … For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either." Jolie remarked in a 29 December 2004 interview in The Sun, "I have a Buddhist son and I'd like a Christian and a Muslim child, too" (as if children can choose their religion), by which she may mean she views all religions as equally valid. Or Angelina Jolie thinks that meaning in life can be found everywhere, such as in family and in global humanitarian work, though she never mentions religion and humanitarian work in the same breath!
November 7: Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (1879) It was on this date, November 7, 1879, that Russian revolutionist Leon Trotsky (Лев Троцкий) was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн) in Yanovka, Ukraine, the son of an illiterate but prosperous Jewish farmer. His parents sent young Lev to study in Odessa. He excelled there, read the writings of Karl […]


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Tales From Six Feet Under (2020) – Visiting A Little Indie Short
Released: 15th April
Seen: 24th March (Screener)
Well, looks like the worldwide coronavirus lockdown extravaganza has finally hit Australian shores, shutting down the cinemas meaning I'm no longer going to be heading out to see films to review until they open again. Obviously, that's going to mean some mild adjustments, I'm going to be reviewing a lot more Netflix things than I have been so far and might even bring back some reviews of classic films. I literally have a giant pile of recently bought classics nearby I can work through and hopefully, that'll keep this blog going until they finally do that "releasing films that just came out in cinemas onto digital platforms" thing in Australia since it clearly is working well over in America. I also get to review things people send me, either short films or smaller studios that hit up my contact form and offer me screeners and we're going to get to one of those today. As with a lot of screeners I tend to get, this is an independent film made on a limited budget. In fact, today we're dealing with a 45-minute short film called Tales from Six Feet Under.
The film itself is a series of shorts held together by a creature known as "The Visitor" going through a graveyard and stopping at different graves before we learn just how each person came to die. Entirely black and white, the film is going for a Tales from the Crypt vibe on a very small budget. The design of the visitor is quite good and the black and white filming technique really helps sell it. He doesn't have to say anything, but there's enough to him to make him memorable and intriguing enough to carry the story. It's a simple device that works well for a short. If the film were longer I might expect more, but at 45 minutes his little repeated "Put the flower on the grave" thing creates a memorable image I can work with.
The first story focuses on 17-year-old Joe Roth who has been told by his father to clean up the basement. While down there he happens upon an Ouija board and because everyone is very stupid when it comes to Ouija boards, he decides to play with it. This is a pretty promising short with a good slow build and a fairly effective scare right at the end. It could use a touch more editing to give it life and variation, I didn't need a shot to be held while a character walks past the camera and turns off a light. The held shots lead to some slightly uncomfortable framing but it turns it around with a well-shot ending, using the image of two candles to trick the audience before a big reveal of something genuinely unnerving. It's a simple idea that could've used a bit more fine-tuning, but it works with what it has.
The second story, Sam Hooper, is probably one of my favourite short film ideas ever. Revolving around, I'm guessing, the actual director of the film as he tries to figure out just what his next film is going to be about. It's an idea that's good enough that it would make for its own interesting anthology film, having a director rattling through various ideas until he gets to one that works. It's a fun experiment in just what can be done with one person and one camera in one location. It does tend to drag a little, particularly on the same image of the director thinking through his potential ideas but it is a fun way to take the creative process and turn it into something interesting. I'll admit, I almost zoned out of the opening of this short right up until the movie paused and started playing with me. I do kind of feel like this is a short you should end on, going full Meta like this is the power play you save for the ending but it's a clever enough idea.
The third story, Jennifer Burton, makes a good case for it being the last since it's the one that brings the wraparound character in and uses him as something more than just a creepy interstitial character. It takes place on Jennifer's birthday and has her talking to someone over text, guessing who this mysterious someone could be. It's another genuinely good idea but what hampers it is how it's presented. Most of the short is silent and relies on a text conversation to build the tension. Because of that element of the story, they just show the phone screen on camera so we can see the conversation and that's never a good idea. When you just film the screen of a phone you will come across one of two key issues. Either the shot's going to be well-framed but the phone has to be held at such an unnatural angle that no human would ever hold a phone like that, or it'll be naturally held and badly framed. This film leans on the "good framing, but no one holds a phone like that" and it's distracting after a while. There's a good reason why you tend to see films put overlays of texts above people's heads, it's visually interesting and doesn't require a 45-second-long held shot of a cell phone screen where half of the conversation is grey bubbles with white text that is impossible to read. I ended up not trying to read the texts because I just couldn't make them out. The sad part is that it does have a decent build-up, it leads to a good ending and the surprise of the ending worked but I feel it would've worked better if it was easier to understand the back and forth.
Of course, like a lot of low budget films, there are some other technical problems to be found here. The framing is often a little too close, when in doubt the filmmaker seems to do a close-up shot for everything with little variation. There are a lot of times when the camera focus isn't quite right or the framing becomes repetitive or the music loops and overpowers some dialogue and a bunch of other issues you can put down to "They had a tiny budget and it's clearly a bunch of friends/family members making a short film together just for fun", they aren't deal-breakers by any means but they are the kind of thing that does get noticed. There's still a lot of good ideas and some serious potential here. You get a sense that these people love horror films and want to make a really fun one and there's some of that here. I honestly hope to see more of what these people can do, they already have some good ideas. The technical stuff can be taught and learned, but what can't be taught by anyone is how to come up with a good idea and how to structure it, and this film has that. If you want to support a promising filmmaker who clearly is on their way to something, check this out when it hits Prime on the 15th of April. I look forward to the next time I see the visitor, I already can see more than enough potential here that I'm excited to see just where this goes.
Tagged Comedy, Film, Horror, Indie, Movie, Review, Short, Tales From Six Feet Under
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Alignment: what the hell is it?
In the world of life coaching and self help, we often talk about living in alignment. That term "alignment" can seem elusive. It refers not to a place or a specific emotion, but to a grey area of experience. It's a term for the constantly shifting state of being where your decisions, thoughts and attitudes are all in sync with a greater vision you have for your life. As the vision changes, the rest falls into place. It's an undulating and responsive place to live, and it's often hard to remain in complete alignment. Adjustments are required.
The older I get, the more I realize my desire for alignment and the peace it brings. I have to force myself into creative expression, where it came easily to me in childhood. I take note of my thoughts and am often surprised by what I hear. My own actions don't seem to always be conscious decisions, instead happening as a natural result of whatever wave of emotions and energy I've taken on throughout the day.
I have built a support team to keep me on track, as I need it: I have a loving therapist who reminds me of the strength and creative power of the brain. I have a coach who pushes me to recognize fear as a safety net. I have a nutritionist that insists that only beautiful, light things enter my body. I have a pup that reminds me with a single look how far I've strayed from kindness or pure love, in the heat of frustration.
My favorite support, though, has been my yoga mat. I don't practice every day (although I strive to). I also don't consider myself the "best" in the class-often opting for child's pose when the pose feels too far out of reach, or for easier modifications. But I go back. I always show up. Again and again. I find a sense of peace and literal mental and physical alignment on my worn mat, forehead pressed to to the floor.
I envision my yoga practice as the act of getting back into alignment; the shuffling of the body and the mental chatter into a streamlined drip, my crown opening up like a funnel. My practice allows the flowing light of the divine to rush down my spine like a mighty river, filling each reservoir and rib along the way. If I can end my practice feeling more aligned with my truest and best self, I consider it a success.
So I've made the commitment to deepen my practice. To become more aligned. To strive for my best self more often. To laugh at my mistakes or missteps along the way. In just a few short weeks, I'll be heading to the mountains. I'm removing myself from the distractions of daily life (Netflix, junk food, naps, bills) to be with myself and my mat. To design a practice that leads to strength and away from fear and guilt. A practice that reminds me that with my forehead pressed to the mat, and my breath warming my face, I am in it. I am receiving and acting in spirit, in sync with the greater vision for my life: chasing peace.
If you're interested in joining me in a 100 hour yoga retreat in the Great Smoky Mountains this October, send me a note at laura@lauraweldy.com, or check out the program here. If you tell them you heard about the retreat from me, you'll get a $200 discount!


Over the years, as West Chelsea went from gritty to glamorous, Bayview Correctional Facility, a notorious women's prison, became an increasingly odd fit.
Art galleries surrounded the prison, at West 20th Street and 11th Avenue. The Chelsea Piers entertainment complex beckoned from across the street. And a gleaming condominium, where views from some apartments included the exercise yards on the prison's roof, sat next door.
When the prison closed three years ago, some neighbors worried that the red-brick facility, which had the same designers as the Empire State Building, would get the luxury housing treatment.
But in an unusual move, the Art Deco structure near the Hudson River will instead be converted into offices, by developers who will rent mainly to nonprofit organizations focused on providing services for women.
"We're thrilled," said Pamela Wolff, a member of Community Board 4 in Manhattan. The board had urged the state, which owns the prison, to restrict how it could be reused.
Announced by state officials in late October after a selection process lasting nearly two years, Bayview's redevelopment plan will be led by the Goren Group, a developer, in partnership with the NoVo Foundation, a philanthropic group established by Warren E. Buffett. The group's co-presidents are his son Peter Buffett and Peter's wife, Jennifer.
The Women's Building, as it will be known, will add offices, landscaped terraces and an art gallery to the 108,000-square-foot site, which consists of two sections, an eight-story main building dating from 1931 and a six-story annex added in 1950.
Originally known as the Seamen's House and designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the facility served as a Y.M.C.A. for merchant sailors whose ships were docked on nearby piers.
Under the current plans, which still require some approvals, the Goren Group would raze the annex, along West 20th Street, and replace it with a glass-walled, contemporary atrium.
Empire State Development, which handled the bidding for the project, encouraged developers to preserve the property, which is not a landmark. But "practical and aesthetic architectural modifications and enhancements" are allowed, according to the request for proposals.
Lela Goren, chief executive officer of the Goren Group, said, however, that she would seek approval for any demolition with the State Historic Preservation Office, which will play an important role in securing federal historic preservation tax credits.
Another feature, a swimming pool ringed with mosaics of fish, which had been drained and used for storage for the last several decades, will be restored and refilled. Also to be refurbished is a small chapel lined with stained-glass windows.
Similarly, the building facade's terra-cotta inlays of lighthouses and captain's wheels will be accompanied by new wrought-iron balconies below a row of arched windows.
Altogether, the revamped building will offer about 52,000 square feet of offices, as well as 14,000 square feet of outdoor space, including those rooftop yards with views of the Hudson River. Under the deal's requirements, Bayview's developers must provide a community facility, which the Women's Building will satisfy with a ground-floor art gallery that could double as an event space.
The overall development cost will not be known for a few months until site inspections are complete, said Pamela Shifman, NoVo's executive director. But annual rent for the property is $3.5 million, paid to the landlord, Empire State Development. Under normal circumstances, this might translate into asking office rents of about $40 a square foot, which would be steep for most nonprofit groups, said Nat Rockett, an associate broker with Marcus & Millichap who specializes in building sales.
"There are not many out there who could pay that," Mr. Rockett said. He noted that the American Bible Society, a nonprofit and a client, recently sold its longtime home at Columbus Circle on the Upper West Side and, faced with a dearth of options in New York, decamped for Philadelphia.
The Bible Society building, at 1865 Broadway, will be razed by AvalonBay Communities, which plans to build an apartment tower there.
Ms. Goren wants to offset tenants' costs by allocating about a third of the office space to for-profit companies, which would pay slightly higher rents.
According to state officials, who listed Bayview for sale in December 2013, the chance to reduce the prison population while creating a first-of-its-kind office building emphasizing social justice is a laudable goal.
"A prison is the evidence of the defeat of society," said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at the news conference last month at Chelsea Piers, at which Goren-NoVo was announced as the winning team. Former Bayview inmates were in the audience, as was Gloria Steinem, a supporter of the project. Governor Cuomo has made closing prisons a priority.
Matters that must be completed before redevelopment of the building can start include a traffic study and a search for an architect. Ms. Goren is seeking architectural firms owned by women; she is also seeking to hire female contractors.
And Empire State Development still needs to hold public hearings on the plan. Even though some in the neighborhood wanted low-cost housing at the site, opposition is expected to be minimal.
Groundbreaking is not expected for about a year, Ms. Goren said, with completion in 2020.
Built for $1 million, Seamen's House opened in 1931 in part to improve on a nearby existing facility that today is known as the Jane, a hotel in Greenwich Village. Up to 250 guests could count on "clean rooms," "good meals" and "broadcast tickets," according to an ad.
The property was sold to the state in 1967 and then became a drug-treatment center. In 1974 the complex became a prison, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, and a women's-only facility starting in 1978. About two-thirds of its inmates were from the New York City area.
From its early years, the women's prison seemed to be controversial, according to newspaper accounts, which detailed accusations of harassment, unsanitary conditions and poor medical care. Even as recently as 2010, it had the highest rate of reported staff sexual misconduct in the country, according to federal statistics prepared by the Correctional Association of New York, a watchdog group.
Bayview was "designed to dehumanize and silence, and to see the space transform from such darkness, lifting women's voices and women's power, is hugely important and inspiring," said Tamar Kraft-Stolar, a former director of the association.
Though the prison might have closed eventually, Hurricane Sandy appears to have hurried things along. In the fall of 2012, before the storm left about 14 feet of water in the building, the 170 inmates at Bayview were cleared out.
The facility was never reopened, though some had mixed feelings about its closing, like Ms. Wolff, who said it was important for incarcerated women from the city who wanted to stay close to their families.
An office building, though, could encourage more stores to open in an area that still lacks them, said Halley Harrisburg, the director of the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which occupies the sidewalk-level retail space at the condo next door. And an office, as opposed to more condos, will add variety.


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Mikaberidze, Alexander (2007), Guramishvili, David. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography

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Limerick man pleads guilty to receiving stolen funds from Ryerss horse farm
By Mike Rellahan | mrellahan@dailylocal.com | The Pottstown Mercury
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2014 at 1:25 p.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2021 at 4:47 a.m.
WEST CHESTER – Sometime in 2010, Jared B. Harrison started cashing checks written to him from the Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines – checks for hay, checks for feed, as referenced in their notations.
The trouble was, Harrison was not a farmer, a grower, a feed producer, or any other purveyor of agricultural products. Rather, he was the boyfriend of the farm's financial controller, Sarah Susanna Barnshaw, who was illegally draining its bank accounts.
On Tuesday, Harrison, 31, of Limerick, pleaded guilty in Chester County Court to charges of receiving stolen property, specifically the $11,177 in cash that Barnshaw funneled to him from the farm in South Coventry, which cares for aging and infirm horses.
He was sentenced to six to 23 months in Chester County Prison by President Judge James P. MacElree II as part of a plea agreement fashioned by Deputy District Attorney Mark Conte and Harrison's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Stewart Paintin.
Paintin urged MacElree to accept the agreement, after the judge questioned why Harrison should be given a relatively short sentence involving the theft of a rather sizeable amount of money from a nonprofit organization. He said that Harrison, while admitting his involvement, was nowhere nearly as culpable in the scheme as Barnshaw, and that he profited only a fraction of the amount that she did from the thefts.
'I think she used him to funnel the money back into her own accounts,' Paintin said.
Harrison somewhat reluctantly, agreed, saying that he didn't ask questions of Barnshaw when she proposed the check-cashing arrangement and let Barnshaw have the use of most of the money. He said she took about $8,000 of the $11,000 he received.
'It wasn't my business,' he said while standing before MacElree in handcuffs. 'It was implied that it wasn't my money.'
According to statements at the court proceeding and court records, between 2010 and 2011 Barnshaw wrote 18 checks made out to Harrison for various amounts, all signed by her and carrying the notation that the checks were payment for certain items needed at the farm.
She would give the checks to Harrison and he would deposit them in his checking account, to which Barnshaw had access through a debit card, he said.
The scheme ran aground when officials at the horse farm noticed financial irregularities in its bank accounts and called in state police and independent auditors to investigate in 2012. Barnshaw was fired in February of that year. She was arrested in February 2014 and charged with multiple counts of theft and credit card fraud. Authorities say she stole in excess of $40,000. She is currently awaiting trial before MacElree.
In a statement to police on April 18, 2012, Gail Morris, secretary for the Ryerss Farm board of directors, said Barnshaw was in charge of finances for the farm and was fired for 'a considerable decline in work performance with respect to paying bills of the organization in an appropriate time frame.'
Morris told police that after looking at the financial records, she found several 'questionable' credit card accounts with very high balances while other accounts showed very low balances. It was that discovery that launched the police investigation, police said.
Police discovered Barnshaw allegedly took $44,940.36 during her tenure at the farm.
Police said Barnshaw used the accounts to give herself cash, pay bills, pay rent, send money to a former roommate, open credit cards, buy gift cards to restaurants and department stores, and purchase electronics.
Harrison has been held in county prison since his arrest in February. He will be eligible for parole in August.
Information from the Daily Local News, www.dailylocal.com
Mike Rellahan | Reporter
Mike Rellahan covers court news for the Daily Local News
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The time is right to buy European stocks, as the region's performance gap with the U.S. closes. So writes Barron's.
In positing that European stocks will outperform domestic ones, Barron's cites attractive valuations, diminished political risk, low interest rates, and a pickup in global growth.
This year Europe's GDP is expected to increase by about 2%, after growing 1.7% in 2016—better than the U.S.'s 1.6%.
With that jump, European companies could see substantial gains in corporate earnings. EAFE profits remain 45% below their prior peak. Global growth should help power their move, as European companies generate almost 50% of revenue outside the region.
The Stoxx Europe 600 sports a price/earnings multiple of 16 times this year's expected earnings, just above the EAFE's 15 times. Meanwhile, the S&P trades for a loftier 18 times, a historically high gap.
In fact, Europe may already be surging ahead. The EAFE index—heavily weighted to the region—outperformed the S&P 500 in the first quarter 7.4% to 6%.
Meanwhile, U.S. institutional investors' allocation to international stocks stood at a 25-year low of 18% as of the end of 2016, compared with a historical average of 28%.
One especially bright spot could be Europe's big banks, Barron's writes. They were much slower than U.S. institutions to repair their balance sheets after the crisis. But European banks' asset (loan) quality at European banks has improved "considerably," according to CreditSights.


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/** Represents a tuple of a value and a time value (timestamp or time interval). */
export class Timed<T> {
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Apple to take on Netflix?
Disruptive Tech Research's Lou Basenese on Apple's upcoming announcement and reports the tech giant will take on Netflix.
Apple is expected on Monday to announce the biggest shift the company has made in more than a decade.
Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to announce video-and news-subscription services that could open a new annual revenue stream that will deepen ties between iPhone users and the company.
GAS PRICES ON THE RISE. HOW HIGH CAN THEY GO?
Apple reported its first decline in revenue and profit for a holiday quarter in over a decade.
By contrast, revenue from the services business grew 33 percent to nearly $40 billion—accounting for about 15 percent of the company's total of $265.6 billion.
Apple's intension is to have its video become an alternative to cable, combining original series with shows from other networks to create a new entertainment service.
Apple declined to comment to the Journal.
Fees for the service have yet to be announced.


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Going Direct: Sully Flies the 737 Max Sim and Why Boeing's 737 Max Charm Offensive Is Smoke And Mirrors
By Isabel Goyer
Boeing 737 Max 8. Photo by pjs2005 from Hampshire, UK, rotated by the uploader [CC BY-SA 2.0] (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]
You know your company is in trouble when well-known satire site The Onion sets its sights on your aviation company. In a recent story, the send-up site's headline read, "Boeing CEO Admits Company Made Mistake By Including Automatic Self-Destruct Function On All 737 Max Planes." It's funny because it's so close to the truth.
The Onion aside, the news these past couple of weeks have been good for Boeing. Let's rephrase that. The news these past couple of weeks out of Boeing has been good. No, that's not it either. To give it another try, let's say that Boeing has changed course in its response to the 737 Max crisis. Nope. But it's closer. How about this? Boeing has launched a multi-pronged PR campaign in a desperate attempt to salvage its image. That's the ticket.
Oh, and Sully flew a 737 Max in a scenario similar to what the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air pilots encountered in their unsuccessful attempts to save the day, when MCAS, the disastrously conceived and implemented stability system in the 737 Max, went haywire when sensors failed. More on that in a second.
Oh, and Boeing still doesn't have a firm timetable for getting the 737 Max, grounded since shortly after the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March. The company is facing demands from several of its airline customers that the carriers be compensated for the loss of revenue they faced when the Max was grounded by regulators.
Back to Boeing's charm offensive. My first thought, when I heard Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg talk about the crisis, you know, the one in which two planes crashed apparently after an MCAS failure (it was kind of a failure) brought down two planes in the course of a few months, killing a total of 346 people, was that Boeing was doing damage control. Nothing he'd previously said on the subject came close to accepting responsibility for the crisis. But I was keeping an open mind.
There were two big developments in the company's attempts to steer its image out of its self-imposed cruise in the Bermuda Triangle, and they were curiously timed to coincide with the Paris Air Show, where airlines come to talk Boeing and Airbus and other airplane manufacturers about ordering planes. It's not uncommon in Paris for orders of hundreds of planes to get done.
And there was such a deal done at Paris, when on the eve of the show Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg announced that it had reached an agreement with International Airlines Group (IAG) for the purchase of 200 Max planes. Great news, right?
Well, again, kind of. If you go by retail value, the deal would be worth $24 billion, but no one ever pays retail in this world. And the "agreement" reportedly is a letter of intent, which is non-binding. Moreover, IAG wouldn't take delivery of the planes until 2023, with deliveries stretched out over the next four years. IAG has precious little at stake in making this deal.
The other big non-news item was that Muilenburg has admitted Boeing made mistakes in its response to the 737 Max crisis, in which the company insisted there was nothing wrong with its design or implementation of the MCAS system, or with its lack of transparency on the introduction of the system in the MAX, the first (and surely last) Boeings to get the system.
Now Muilenburg is saying that his response was wrong and he's sorry for it. There's a word for an apology made long after the initial offense and only after you're greeted with widespread condemnation. It's called a strategy. So, no, it's not really an apology at all, and how does this guy still have that job?
Oh, yes, back to Sully. The hero pilot of US Airways 1549, which Sully flew to a successful ditching in the Hudson River after both engines quit, flew the 737 Max simulator in a scenario similar to that of the pilots of both Ethiopian Airlines 302 and Lion Air 610. In his testimony in front of the United States House of Representatives this week, Sullenberger said, "I recently experienced all these warnings in a 737 MAX flight simulator during recreations of the accident flights. Even knowing what was going to happen, I could see how crews could have run out of time before they could have solved the problems. Prior to these accidents, I think it is unlikely that any US airline pilots were confronted with this scenario in simulator training."
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at the height most convenient to the operator, several cuts are made, at a 45º angle, up to the sapwood. The cut doesn't to be particularly deep but it should cross the bark and cut the most external part of the wood.
The cuts may be done with an axe or a saw.
Several cuts should be made at the same height of the trunk as to almost touch, leaving approx 2-4cm of uncut bark between them.
For smaller plants only 2 or 3 cuts are necessary and they should not be deep, to avoid the plant breaking.
Immediately after each cut the herbicide is injected in the incision with a squirt bottle: apply slowly approx. 1ml (0,5 to 2ml depending on the size of the cut) of herbicide in each incision (normally squirt bottles shoots +/- 1ml); the herbicide should remain inside the cut.
After treatment the tree will rapidly brown and look dead. However, it is important that the tree stays for another year and should not be removed – this way ensures that the tree uses part of the reserve sugars in the roots.
In deciduous species, the best application season is in summer or spring, or in dry weather and when the plant has its leaves completely expanded.
With a drill, make holes around the trunk.
Immediately, apply the herbicide in each hole. The bigger the tree, the more holes you need.
There are drills that are adapted for this function that include the herbicide injector. However, a normal drill is equally effective as long as you apply the herbicide immediately after drilling the hole.
Depending on the species and the time of year, this method is generally highly efficient in terms of mortality. It inhibits sprouting from the stump and roots, reducing costs in continuity control methods in the medium-term.
If well applied, the herbicide will not seep out and small quantities are used.
It affects the radicular system more severely than other methods that use herbicide.
Time-consuming and quite costly in the short-term, if performed extensively using a lot of labour. requires drilling equipment with high autonomy.
It requires two interventions over several months or years for the removal of one tree, and has a visual impact with a potential effect on public opinion.
Gloves, protection equipment against chemical agents.
For Cutting +Injection: pruning knife/saw, squirt bottle, herbicide.
For Drilling + Injection: a cordless, electric or petrol drill; injection equipment, herbicide.
Specific training to handle the herbicide is needed.
Maintenance of PPE and the equipment for herbicide application.


Cats can catch a cold identical to other folks do. Nearly all of those upper respiratory infections are viral in nature, and the principle perpetrator is the feline herpesvirus. As soon as uncovered to the virus, there may be an incubation duration of 2 to 5 days, and then, cats broaden scientific indicators. A number of indicators are conceivable: sneezing is by way of some distance the commonest and runny eyes, snotty nose, congested respiring, decreased appetite and generalized lethargy also are frequently provide. Tom cat herpesvirus remedy is in large part geared toward managing the indications. Grownup cats with delicate signs — somewhat sneezing, slight watery nasal and ocular discharge, no lethargy or reduced urge for food — won't require any particular remedy instead of shut tracking. As with people, maximum cats with colds recuperate on their very own at house in every week or two.
What are some types of tom cat herpesvirus remedy? Pictures by way of Nikolay Bassov | Shutterstock.
For cats with extra pronounced signs, antibiotics is also prescribed as a part of tom cat herpesvirus remedy. Antibiotics don't deal with the viral an infection, in line with se. They lend a hand save you the advance of bacterial infections that frequently happen secondary to the viral an infection. I in most cases prescribe antibiotics early all through the sickness in kittens as a result of they're so fragile.
Some cats get lovely unwell from the herpesvirus and might require further measures, together with hospitalization. Cats with serious nasal congestion could have a deficient urge for food as a result of they can not scent their meals. Those cats might require urge for food stimulants and/or syringe feeding till the congestion resolves. Cats who gained't drink might require both subcutaneous (beneath the outside) or intravenous fluid treatment to take care of hydration.
Despite the fact that viral higher breathing infections often reason conjunctivitis (irritation of the tissues across the eyes; in people we frequently name this "purple eye"), tom cat herpesvirus is infamous for its talent to reason extra serious eye issues, particularly, corneal ulcers. The cornea is loaded with ache receptors, and cats with corneal inflammation from the herpesvirus are uncomfortable. To stop everlasting harm to the eyes, corneal ulcers that happen because of the tom cat herpesvirus require remedy, in most cases with antiviral eye drops. That is labor-intensive, as maximum antiviral drops want to be administered 4 to 6 occasions day-to-day to be maximally efficient. As chances are you'll consider, cats don't experience this.
Despite the fact that maximum cats triumph over their viral breathing an infection on their very own, continual instances might have the benefit of antiviral medicines. The antiviral drug famciclovir, given two times day-to-day, has been proven to be protected and efficient in each grownup cats and kittens. When given at the correct dosage, healing ranges of famciclovir will probably be accomplished within the tears in addition to the bloodstream, which is helping velocity the answer of any signs involving the eyes.
Antiviral medicines will also be pricey, sadly, and reaching the correct dose the use of famciclovir capsules will also be difficult. Having the medicine compounded right into a flavored liquid might permit for extra correct dosing; alternatively, famciclovir has a sour style that may be tricky to masks.
Cats with tom cat herpesvirus an infection frequently have nasal congestion, and extending the humidity is a great software in tom cat herpesvirus remedy. Take the cat into the toilet and run the recent water within the bathe in order that the toilet will get very steamy. Let the cat sit down within the steamy toilet for 10 or 15 mins, two times day-to-day. Maximum of my shoppers are satisfied to try this for his or her cat, and plenty of really feel that it's useful. Nasal and ocular discharge, when it dries, can worsen the outside underneath it.
Gently wipe away nasal or eye discharge that accumulates with a damp tissue. As a result of cats with copious nasal discharge could have an impaired sense of scent, I counsel shoppers to feed their cat very tasty, strong-smelling meals. Herpes viruses keep within the frame eternally, and as soon as the indications have resolved, cats stay lifelong carriers. The virus remains dormant within the frame however might periodically re-emerge when the cat's immune machine is suppressed. All through those occasions, cats might display signs once more and is also contagious to different cats.
Does lysine paintings in tom cat herpesvirus remedy?
Many veterinarians have been (and nonetheless are) prescribing the amino acid lysine as adjunct treatment for tom cat herpesvirus remedy, believing that lysine speeds the answer of the an infection and might lend a hand save you long term infections. Alternatively, a number of scientific research have proven that lysine isn't efficient for the prevention or the remedy of tom cat herpesvirus an infection, and plenty of veterinarians have stopped prescribing it. For my part, I'm at the fence.
In spite of the loss of clinical proof, I've a couple of shoppers who swear by way of it, telling me that the instant they forestall giving lysine, the indications go back. Veterinary lysine merchandise are to be had in lots of bureaucracy, and the oral gel and the hen liver-flavored treats are rather palatable. Whilst it's not at all considered one of my first-line therapies, if a consumer desires to provide lysine a take a look at, I gained't discourage it, particularly if the cat enjoys the style of it.
Thumbnail: Pictures © krblokhin | iStock / Getty Photographs Plus.
Dr. Arnold Plotnick is the founding father of Long island Cat Experts, a feline-exclusive veterinary follow on Long island's higher west facet. He's additionally an writer of The Unique Cat Fancy Cat Bible. Dr. Plotnick is a widespread contributor to tom cat publications and internet sites, together with his personal weblog, Cat Guy Do. He lives in New York Town together with his cats, Mittens and Glitter.
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YiHangDongSheng DongGuan Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "YiHangDongSheng") is an integrated company specializing in research & development, production and application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and related supporting systems, and is a provider of the UAV system application overall program. YiHangDongSheng has the main products such as fixed-wing UAV series, multi-rotor UAV series, series of unmanned helicopter, UAV dedicated photoelectric pod and air-ground integrated emergency reconnaissance &command system, and customizes UAVs and tasks to achieve a systematic solution based on customer demand. Wang Yang, Vice Premier of the State Council, once visited and showed concern for this Company.
YiHangDongSheng takes "driven by innovation, integrating military and civilians, and serving the society" as its mission, brings together elite R & D teams of the industry, and owns a technical group consists of experts and talents such as structural designers, industrial designers, aerodynamic analysts, hardware and software engineers, control electronic engineers, communication & electronic engineers and other professionals. Has independently researched and developed a variety of long-endurance, high-load and high strength UAV products. Through research and development, has established UAV integration solutions for the field of aerial surveying; UAV integration solutions for the field of public security fire and police equipment; UAV integration solutions for the field of electricity, pipelines, and traffic line inspection; integration solutions for the field of agriculture; reconnaissance and combat integration solutions for the field of military; these solutions have reached a world-class level, and have been widely used in a variety of professional fields.
To ensure its research and development capabilities always stay in the industry's top level, the Company has established cooperation relationships with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Australian National University, China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp. and other top scientific research institutions at home and abroad, to jointly develop industry dedicated UAV systems with leading concepts and integration of advanced technology.


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Sustainability efforts rolled out at Brightwater Home
Enliven staff (from left) Jane, Ellen and Chris model the washable kitchen hats.
Enliven's Brightwater Home is on a journey to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Staff at the Palmerston North rest home have focused on being more sustainable in their day-to-day tasks.
Brightwater Home's food services team leader, Lola Logan, says they have found ways of reducing waste in the kitchen, as well as some other areas of the home.
One of these includes making washable cloth hats for staff to wear into the kitchen rather than using one-use, disposable versions.
Anyone who goes into the kitchen at Brightwater Home is required to cover their hair for hygiene purposes.
"Now we don't have to throw away hundreds of the disposable hats that used to fill up our rubbish bins," Lola says.
"We also re-use bread bags for some things in the kitchen, so we no longer have to buy single-use plastic bags."
In other areas, Lola says efforts have included re-using brown paper bags that their fruit and vegetables are delivered in as lining for some of the smaller rubbish bins around the home.
Disposable paper cups that used to be placed by water coolers around the rest home have also now been replaced with washable cups.
Lola says Brightwater Home's sustainability journey is on-going, and she is always on the lookout for new ideas.