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February 2014, VOLUME 133 / ISSUE 2
Shoulder Injuries Among US High School Athletes, 2005/2006–2011/2012
T. Walker Robinson, Jill Corlette, Christy L. Collins, R. Dawn Comstock
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to describe shoulder injuries in a nationally representative sample of high school athletes playing 9 sports. A national estimate of shoulder injuries among high school athletes was subsequently calculated.
METHODS: Injury data were collected in 9 sports (boys' football, soccer, basketball, wrestling, and baseball; girls' soccer, volleyball, basketball, and softball) during the 2005–2006 through 2011–2012 academic years from a nationally representative sample of high schools via High School Reporting Information Online.
RESULTS: During the 2005–2006 through 2011–2012 academic years, high school athletes in this study sustained 2798 shoulder injuries during 13 002 321 athlete exposures, for an injury rate of 2.15 per 10 000 athlete exposures. This corresponds to a nationally estimated 820 691 injuries during this time period. Rates of injury were higher in competition as compared with practice (rate ratio = 3.17 [95% confidence interval: 2.94–3.41]). The highest rate of injury was in football (4.86) and the lowest in girls' soccer (0.42). The most common types of injury were strain/sprain (37.9%) and dislocation/separation (29.2%). Boys were more likely than girls to sustain their injuries after contact with another person or with the playing surface. Surgical repair was required for 7.9% of the injuries. Time loss from athletic participation varied among sports, with 40.7% of athletes returning within 1 week, whereas 8.2% were medically disqualified for their season/career.
CONCLUSIONS: High school shoulder injury rates and patterns varied by sport and gender. Prospective epidemiologic surveillance is warranted to discern trends and patterns to develop evidence-based interventions to prevent shoulder injuries.
high school athletes
AE —
athlete exposure
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CI —
GC —
gender-comparable
IPR —
injury proportion ratio
Reporting Information Online
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What's Known on This Subject:
Shoulder injuries are common among high school athletes. These injuries, both traumatic and overuse, contribute to significant time loss from athletic activity. Understanding sport-specific injury patterns is critical for development of targeted injury prevention programs.
What This Study Adds:
This study is the most comprehensive analysis of high school shoulder injuries to date, providing national injury estimates while examining injury rates, diagnoses, severity, and mechanisms of injury in 9 interscholastic sports.
Athletic participation is common among adolescents, with more than half of all high school students participating in school-sanctioned sports during the 2011–2012 academic year.1 Sport participation is beneficial to overall health, but carries with it a significant risk of injury. Shoulder injuries are noted to be among the top 3 most common body sites of injury among high school football players,2,3 the most common site among high school and collegiate wrestlers,4 and the fifth most common site among all high school athletes.5 Types of sports-related shoulder injury are varied but can generally be categorized as either acutely traumatic or secondary to overuse.6 Short-term effects of shoulder injuries include pain and reduction in athletic participation, whereas long-term effects can result in lifelong shoulder pain, instability, and osteoarthritis.7
Previous epidemiologic surveys of shoulder injuries in athletes have focused on their occurrence in specific sports,8–17 the mechanics of shoulder injuries in repetitive throwing sports,18–21 risk factors of specific body part injuries (including shoulder) in specific sports,5,22–25 and diagnosis of particular types of shoulder injuries.6,26–28 One previous study investigated all shoulder injuries among high school athletes during 2 academic years.29 To date, no study has compared shoulder injury rates and patterns across multiple high school sports over many years, while simultaneously calculating national estimates of shoulder injuries among all US high school athletes.
Our objective was to describe high school shoulder injuries among athletes participating in 9 sports (football, soccer, basketball, wrestling, and baseball for boys, and soccer, volleyball, basketball, and softball for girls) by using a nationally representative sample over the academic years 2005–2006 through 2011–2012. Additionally, we calculated national estimates of shoulder injuries in each sport and compared shoulder injury rates by sport and gender. Having a more detailed understanding of the patterns of sports-related shoulder injuries will aid in the development of targeted, evidence-based interventions to reduce their occurrence.
We analyzed data from the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System, High School Reporting Information Online (RIO), an Internet-based sports injury surveillance system, which has been described previously.30–34 Briefly, annual invitations to participate in High School RIO were sent to high schools with 1 or more National Athletic Trainers' Association-affiliated certified athletic trainers (ATs) with valid e-mail addresses. Each responding high school was then assigned to 1 of 8 strata based on school population (enrollment ≤1000 or >1000) and US census geographic region.35
For the 9 sports included in the study since 2005–2006 (boys' football, boys' and girls' soccer, girls' volleyball, boys' and girls' basketball, boys' wrestling, boys' baseball, and girls' softball), 100 high schools were randomly chosen to participate (12 or 13 from each of the 8 strata). If a school dropped out of the study, a replacement from the same stratum was randomly chosen to maintain the 100-school study population. ATs from participating high schools logged onto the study Web site weekly during the academic year to report injury incidence and athlete exposure (AE) information.
Definition of Injury and Exposure
An AE was defined as 1 athlete participating in 1 practice or competition. ATs reported any injury that (1) occurred as a result of participation in an organized practice or competition; (2) required medical attention by an AT or physician; and (3) resulted in restriction of the athlete's participation for 1 or more days. All fractures were also reported, even if no time was lost from sports participation. For each injury, ATs completed detailed injury reports on the injured athlete (age, height, weight, etc), the injury (site, diagnosis, severity, etc), and the injury event (activity, mechanism, etc). Throughout the study, ATs were able to view all data they submitted and update reports as required.
For this study, a shoulder injury was defined as any injury to the proximal humerus, scapula, clavicle, acromioclavicular joint, and surrounding tendons, ligaments, and musculature. A small number (77) of injuries were removed from the sample for several reasons. This included injuries recorded in multiple concurrent body parts (including shoulder), shoulder injuries described as skin infections, and shoulder injuries sustained outside of scholastic competition or practice.
Analyses of our data were performed by using SPSS software, version 19.0 (IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM Corporation). Rates and rate comparisons were calculated by using unweighted case counts for the original sample for all 9 sports. Additional weighted analyses were calculated by using national estimates from data reported by the 100 randomly selected high schools where the weights account for the total number of US schools and the number of participating study schools in each stratum.
Injury rates were calculated as the number of injuries per 10 000 AEs. We also calculated injury rate ratios (RRs) and injury proportion ratios (IPRs) with P values and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). CIs not including 1.00 and P values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. An RR or IPR >1.00 suggests increased risk, whereas an RR or IPR <1.00 suggests reduced risk. Example RR and IPR calculations are as follows:
This study was approved by the Nationwide Children's Hospital Human Subjects Review Board, Columbus, OH.
During the 2005–2006 through 2011–2012 academic years, ATs reported 2798 shoulder injuries during 13 002 321 AEs, for an overall rate of 2.15 shoulder injuries per 10 000 AEs in the 9 sampled sports (Table 1). These 2798 injuries correspond to an estimated 820 691 shoulder injuries occurring in high school athletes participating in these sports nationwide during this period. More than half of these recorded injuries were sustained in boys' football (58.4%), with another 14.2% in boys' wrestling and 7.8% in boys' baseball. Injury rates per 10 000 AEs were also highest in boys' football (4.86) and boys' wrestling (4.06). Shoulder injuries constituted 8.4% of all injuries to US high school athletes over the course of the study period.
Shoulder Injury Rates by Sport, National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study, United States, 2005–2006 Through 2011–2012 School Years
Shoulder injury rates were significantly higher in competition as compared with practice overall (RR: 3.17 [95% CI: 2.94–3.41]) as well as in 8 of the 9 sports individually. The only sport with significantly lower rates of injuries in competition as compared with practice was girls' volleyball (RR: 0.51 [95% CI: 0.31–0.85]). When comparing all 9 sports, boys had double the risk of injury during competition versus practice as compared with girls (RR: 3.75 [95% CI: 3.46–4.05] vs 1.78 [95% CI: 1.41–2.24]). When comparing only gender-comparable (GC) sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball/softball), risk of injury among boys and girls in competition as compared with practice was equal (RR: 2.68 [95% CI: 2.16–3.32] vs 2.86 [95% CI: 2.17–3.78], respectively).
Among all shoulder injuries, 84.3% were new and 15.4% were recurrences. New injuries outnumbered recurrent injuries in all sports (Fig 1). Of the 9 sampled sports, boys' and girls' basketball had the highest percentage of shoulder injury recurrences (29.4% and 20.4%, respectively), whereas boys' and girls' soccer had the lowest percentage of recurrences (9.8% and 3.2%, respectively). Surgery was required more often with recurrent (22.1%) than with new (5.2%) shoulder injuries.
Number of new versus recurrent shoulder injuries in each of 9 sports during 2005–2006 through 2011–2012 academic years (n = 811 705).
Characteristics of Shoulder Injuries
Sprains/strains (37.9%) and dislocations/separations (29.2%) made up more than two-thirds of all shoulder injuries and were also the most common types of shoulder injury among both boys and girls (Table 2). When comparing all 9 sampled sports, boys were more likely than girls to sustain fractures (IPR = 2.20 [95% CI: 1.05–4.59]), and trended toward higher rates of contusions (IPR = 1.56 [95% CI: 0.82–2.97]) and dislocations/separations (IPR = 1.26 [95% CI: 0.98–1.63]). Girls trended toward higher rates of strains/sprains (IPR = 1.10 [95% CI: 0.91–1.32]) than their male counterparts. Among GC sports, differences in injury types between boys and girls were not statistically significant.
Shoulder Injury Diagnosis, Injury Mechanism, and Need for Surgery by Gender, National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study, United States, 2005–2006 Through 2011–2012 School Years
In terms of injury mechanism in all 9 sports, boys were significantly more likely than girls to sustain their injury by contact with another person (IPR = 3.07 [95% CI: 2.35–4.01]). Girls conversely were more likely than boys to sustain their injury by contact with the playing apparatus (IPR = 4.84 [95% CI: 2.77–8.48]) or by noncontact (IPR = 4.14 [95% CI: 3.32–5.16]). When comparing GC sports, differences in injury mechanisms between boys and girls were not statistically significant.
The overwhelming majority (>90% in both boys and girls) of athletes did not require surgery for their shoulder injury. Among all 9 sports, as well as among the GC sport subset, boys were more likely to require surgery than girls (IPR = 2.89 [95% CI: 1.57–5.31] vs 2.43 [95% CI: 1.14–5.20], respectively). Nearly 90% of the total shoulder injuries requiring surgery were sustained in boys' football (66.6%), boys' wrestling (13.1%), and boys' baseball (8.1%). Boys' basketball and boys' football were the sports with the highest percentage of shoulder injuries requiring surgery (13.1% and 9.0%, respectively).
Time to return to activity among all 9 sports is shown in Table 3, with 40.7% of all athletes returning to play their sport within 1 week, whereas 8.2% were medically disqualified (for season or career). Boys were statistically significantly more likely than their female counterparts to be medically disqualified from the season or for their career both when comparing all 9 sports (IPR = 4.41 [95% CI: 2.11–9.22]) as well as the subset of GC sports (IPR = 3.72 [95% CI: 1.50–9.21]). Many shoulder injuries were relatively minor because 40.0% of boys and 45.5% of girls were able to return to play within 1 week of initial injury. Notably, 10.6% of shoulder injuries sustained in boys' basketball and 10.5% sustained in boys' soccer resulted in medical disqualification for the season or were career-ending injuries. Girls' soccer injuries were also severe, with 25.1% of shoulder injuries keeping the athlete out of play for more than 3 weeks.
Shoulder Injury Severity by Sport, National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study, United States, 2005–2006 Through 2011–2012 School Years
Our study, the most comprehensive examination to date of shoulder injuries among high school athletes, revealed that an estimated 820 691 shoulder injuries were sustained by athletes participating in the 9 sports of interest during the 7 academic years from 2005–2006 through 2011–2012. Shoulder injury rates varied significantly by sport, gender, and setting (competition versus practice). Many of these injuries resulted in the athlete's medical disqualification for the season or even for his or her career, whereas a small but not negligible percentage of these athletic injuries required surgical intervention. With more than half of all high school students participating in interscholastic athletics,1 and with the recent emphasis upon limiting unnecessary health care costs in the United States, it behooves health care providers, ATs, and policy makers to develop and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent shoulder injuries in this population.
Shoulder injuries occurred at a rate of 2.15 per 10 000 AEs in our 7-year study, a finding strengthening an earlier High School RIO study,29 which revealed a rate of 2.27 shoulder injuries per 10 000 AEs in a similar population over 2 academic years. Injury rates in our High School RIO study were significantly skewed by boys' football (4.86 per 10 000 AEs, and 58.4% of all shoulder injuries) and boys' wrestling (4.06 per 10 000 AEs, and 14.2% of all shoulder injuries), which is consistent with earlier studies of shoulder injuries in high school5,29 and collegiate16,17,36,37 athletes. Our study sought to mitigate the skewing influence of these 2 sports on the overall injury rate by also comparing a subset of GC sports (boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' basketball, and baseball/softball). Not surprisingly, the overall boys' (0.85) and girls' (0.62) injury rates in GC sports were significantly lower than the injury rate in all 9 sports combined (2.15). Targeting football- and wrestling-specific interventions to limit shoulder injuries with a focus on appropriate protective equipment, an emphasis on proper tackling and wrestling technique, and stricter enforcement of rules by referees may result in significantly lower numbers of shoulder injuries in this population.38,39
More than 3 times as many shoulder injuries in our study were sustained during competition as compared with practice. Girls' volleyball was the only sport in which participants were more likely to be injured in practice than in competition, consistent with the earlier High School RIO study29 but countering other findings of no difference between practice and competition injuries among collegiate volleyball players.40 Higher rates of competition injury in the other sports likely reflects the fact that competitions tend to be more physically demanding of athletes and often place a high value on individual risk-taking. Additionally, of the 9 sports studied, volleyball has the least amount of athlete–athlete contact during competition. Other epidemiologic research of high school and collegiate athletic injuries has consistently demonstrated similar elevated rates among athletes in competition when compared with practice.16,36,41 Although higher rates of injury in competition may be inevitable for the reasons above, more research is needed to identify game- or competition-based interventions to limit shoulder injuries.
Our study revealed that the predominant types of shoulder injury were strain/sprains and dislocation/separations, consistent with earlier studies of shoulder injuries among similar populations of athletes.8,28,29 In boys' sports, skewed particularly by boys' football and boys' wrestling with their emphasis on athlete-to-athlete contact, it was not surprising that dislocations/separations, fractures, and contusions were more common than in girls' sports. Conversely, girl athletes on the whole were significantly more likely to sustain their injuries in a noncontact setting or with overuse. When focusing on GC sports exclusively, however, our study is the first to report no significant gender differences in shoulder injury types or mechanisms. In contact sports like boys' football and boys' wrestling, a continued emphasis on proper tackling technique and takedown maneuvers is necessary to prevent shoulder injuries,38,39 whereas in non- or partial-contact sports like boys' baseball, girls' softball, and girls' volleyball with more emphasis on performing repetitive movements, an increased focus on technique coupled with a decrease in numbers of repetitions would also likely be beneficial.37
Although the large majority of athletes with shoulder injuries in our study did not require surgery in their management, boys were almost twice as likely as girls to require surgery for their shoulder injury, which is consistent with previous studies.14,28,29 Boys' football and boys' wrestling were, as expected, the sports with the highest overall number of injuries requiring surgery. Of note, boys' basketball and boys' football had the highest percentage of injuries requiring surgical management, a finding that needs to be replicated in further epidemiologic investigations because it has not been noted in previous studies. Our study, revealing that surgery was more often necessary with recurrent shoulder injuries than with new, conflicts with an earlier study focusing on surgical management of high school athletes exclusively with dislocations/separation, which revealed significantly more new injuries requiring surgery than recurrent injuries.28 Approximately 40% of all shoulder injuries resulted in return to play within 1 week, which is consistent with other studies.14,28,29 At the other extreme, our study is the first to report sport-specific rates of medical disqualification secondary to injury, with more than 10% of shoulder injuries resulting in medical disqualification for the season or for an athlete's career in the sports of boys' basketball and boys' soccer.
This study is not without limitations. Generalizability to all US high schools is limited by the fact that the High School RIO surveillance system only collects data at high schools with National Athletic Trainers' Association-affiliated ATs. Because of the training acquired by these ATs, however, we can expect an overall higher quality and consistency of data collection. Data were only collected on those injuries resulting in at least 1 day of time lost. This suggests that our data are an underestimation of total shoulder injuries sustained during this time period. Additionally, our definition of an AE as a single athlete's participation in 1 practice or competition is less precise than a time-based measure. This, however, is consistent with other injury surveillance models, especially in cases where 1 reporter (an AT) is responsible for recording injuries occurring at different sites concurrently. Finally, we report on only 9 of the 20 total High School RIO sports, because data from the remaining 11 sports are not complete through our entire study period and because we are currently unable to compute national injury estimates in all 20 sports.
The shoulder is among the most commonly injured body sites in high school athletes.2–5 This study represents the largest, most comprehensive epidemiologic investigation of high school shoulder injuries to date. Investigations into the rates and patterns of shoulder injuries across both boys' and girls' sports as described in this study increase our understanding of injury risk factors and spur the development of injury prevention programs. Continued prospective surveillance is necessary to monitor injury rates, to gain further information about risk factors leading to shoulder injuries, and ultimately to inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to prevent future shoulder injuries.
This and all other studies reporting data from the High School RIO surveillance system would not be possible without the cadre of dedicated high school ATs who participate by reporting injury data.
Accepted November 15, 2013.
Address correspondence to T. Walker Robinson, MD, MPH, Chapel Hill Pediatrics & Adolescents, 205 Sage Rd, Suite 100, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. E-mail: twalkerrobinson{at}gmail.com
Dr Robinson conceptualized the study, analyzed and interpreted the data, drafted the initial manuscript, and coordinated manuscript revisions; Ms Corlette provided the study file, helped with data analysis, critically reviewed the manuscript, and contributed to manuscript revisions; Ms Collins helped with data analysis, critically reviewed the manuscript, and contributed to manuscript revisions; Dr Comstock designed the nationwide data collection system of high school athletic injuries from which this study is drawn, provided access to the data set, critically reviewed the manuscript, and contributed to manuscript revisions; and all authors approved the final manuscript as submitted.
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
FUNDING: The content of this report was funded in part by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants R49/CE000674-01 and R49/CE00172-01. The authors also acknowledge the generous research funding of the National Federation of State High School Associations, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, DonJoy Orthotics, and EyeBlack.
POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Q: file reading in python I need to read the file like below:
config = {
    'name': 'hello',
    'see?': 'world'
}

using keys like name and see? ,but I don't want to hard code the values in script.And how to deal with more deep nesting in this case.The file may contain more sections like this how can I recognize that 'name' belongs to which section at runtime.

A: If you encode your structure as JSON data, as I think you want and you did in the example, you just need to write and read the structure in a file.
As an example:
 import json
 config = {
  'name': 'hello',
  'see?': 'world'
 }
 out = open('config.json','w')
 out.write(json.dumps(config))
 out.close()

Configuration file saved
 input = open('config.json','r')
 config = json.loads(input.read())
 input.close()
 print config

Configuration file reloaded

A: That file looks like valid python. If you can rename it file.py You could just use:
from file import config
print config['name']
print config['see?']

Otherwise, the file could be JSON. See http://docs.python.org/library/json.html

A: Sounds like you want a config file? Has the format been defined already or are you creating it? If you just need to read options from a file there's:
http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html
which handles the INI format. If you already have a file in the format above can you tell if it's a JSON format? If so there's a module for that too.

A: It seems your config format is either valid python or JSON, which has a built-in parser in python. See http://docs.python.org/library/json.html for more information. If you're trying to import a valid python file as config just use import.

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Larry Kirwan crafted his story within the history of the evolving yet sometimes destructuring Irish music of modern times. He gives us an insight into not only the Irish genre that we most recognize -- Makem, Clancy, and Molloy -- but also an insider's view of how that dovetails with other genres to become today's Irish rock -- Black 47, Dropkick Murphys, Saw Doctors et al.
Along the way, we are given an insight into how a young boy from Wexford grew into his voice as the front man for Black 47. Each chapter begins and ends with snippets of lyrics, those he penned himself and songs we label as "traditional", which are guaranteed to have the jukebox in your brain short-circuiting and running in a continuous loop. Patriot Game, The Island, Wexford Town, Whistles the Wind and others that he mentions throughout the book now flit in and out of my day like faeries on the wind. I find myself humming a tune and realizing that it is one of those he had mentioned.
As he introduces us to the musicians and their music, he is also introducing us to his own family, the Wexford of his childhood, his teen years and the Wexford of today. A nod to how well his writing draws a picture, I could "hear" the people as I read -- Miss Codd, his grandfather, uncle Paddy and the cadre of musicians, too long a list to name here.
Perhaps it is because I have spoken with some of the musicians of whom he writes, I find myself nodding in agreement with his statements of them. I found myself wishing that I could've been in the shadows of places like O'Donoghue's, the Coffee Kitchen or the Universal experiencing first hand all of the music that reverberated off the walls.
In Hhs writing, Larry speaks of groups like Emmet-Spiceland and I have a need to know more about them. He talks of their harmonies and I want to HEAR those harmonies for myself. Thankfully, through the modern gift/curse that is YouTube, I can.
It is in his off stage encounters with the likes of performers such as Rory Gallagher and Ronnie Drew, that he provides a human quality. He speaks of Van Morrison and I recall an encounter with Van on a quiet, grey day near Grey Abbey. He isn't a man of many words. As we crossed paths, I said "Hello" and he smiled. I said that he reminded me of Van Morrison and he replied, "I am he," and strolled on without so much as another word or backwards glance. I was also there one night to witness him walk offstage shortly into his performance because someone in the audience wouldn't quit talking. They are not gods but humans, with all the hungers, foibles and quirks that we all have. Larry reminds of this often throughout his writings.
He speaks of how the Irish carried their music with them, a tangible reminder of home. Here, I find common ground as this is a point that I make in my Celtic–Cowboy music lectures. Music not only gives you wings it also roots you to a place and gives you a sense of belonging, He speaks of his own returns back home to Wexford after emigrating to New York, and I hear echoes of others who, having left, come home to see things through a different eye.
Even though Irish music today is an amalgam of many other genres, it has never lost sight of its heart, its roots. It has stretched the boundaries, stomped along the razor edge in worker boots and spikes but it still returns to the phrasing and rhythms that identifies it as Irish.
In this book, Larry carries us along that edge, sometimes at the leisure pace of a bicycle ride down a small boreen and at other times breakneck.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book for anyone who is a consummate fan of Irish music and those who wish to become fans. Along the way, you will also become a fan of the one and only Larry Kirwan, himself a prolific writer of stories and song.


The basic premise of the Dark Knight is taking an S1283 cooler and plating it in a black nickel coating to help improve performance as well as giving the cooler a sleek look. The Dark Knight is the same size as the rest of the S1283 line-up standing 159mm tall. However, Xigmatek has added a bonus over the rest of their CPU coolers by using an 89.45 CFM fan with the Dark Knight. This just happens to be the most airflow out of a fan I have tested in the Xigmatek series. With the Dark Knight, Xigmatek kept the three- piece, 8mm heat pipes to take the heat away from the base into the aluminum alloy fins.
Using Google to search out the Dark Knight brings me to the realization that only a few e-tailers currently carry the cooler in stock. Newegg is on a separate list as well as many others showing these coolers as being out of stock, so attaining this cooler is a bit tough right now to do. One thing to note, there seems to be a variation when looking for this cooler. Xigmatek has released a Dark Knight S1238V version. From what I can gather, the only difference is the included i7 mounting hardware. If you are looking to use this on your new i7 rig, be careful on purchasing the correct version.
The Xigmatek Dark Knight S1283 is currently unavailable, but it's listed at Newegg for $44.99, plus shipping. Xigmatek has done a good job so far with giving the end user a lot of bang for the buck with their cooling solutions. With the Dark Knight using a higher CFM fan than any cooler yet released with a 120mm fan from Xigmatek, I would bet this cooler can handle itself just fine with LGA775 rigs and has a bunch of potential to cool the i7's as well.


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For Garages, as opposed to locksmiths, the kit offers the ability to recode many used ECU's, rather than having to buy an expensive new unit when you suspect that an ECU is at fault. In many situations once you have fitted this new unit and turned on the ignition, it is locked to that particular vehicle, and if it does not cure the problem, the new ECU is scrap.
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Doctors warn about holiday Botox parties
28-year-old Morgan Zembruski knows she's still young, so she looked at Botox as a preventative treatment.
"Just a little bit on the forehead, a little bit in the middle," she said.
Almost six months ago, things took a bad turn. "I went to a Botox party with one of my girlfriends and they definitely overdid it," she said. "They put around 40 units in my forehead and pretty much froze my forehead solid."
Zembruski said it was a very uncomfortable few months until it wore off. "There's like very little movement, " she said. "It froze eyebrows."
She said lesson learned.
Dr. Bonnie Gasquet-Johnson at the Wellness Jar said she's seeing people injured from these so-called Botox parties.
"It would be less than 20 units for the forehead area," she said. "So when she (Zembruski) got 40 units, that froze her solid."
Dr. Gasquet-Johnson said you should ask what type of doctor it is, who they are, if they're experienced. Also, make sure you know someone who has had services done by the provider before. She also said to make sure it's someone you can return to.
Dr. Gasquet-Johnson said you should make sure the product is in a purple Botox box.
"You want to make sure there is the hologram," she said. "This denotes it's a legit U.S.-made allergen, Botox product. Otherwise it could be fake, out of the country, older."
Remember, she said, cheaper is not always better. "If it is too cheap, that is one of the indicators that maybe it's not either legit Botox, or maybe it has been watered down too much," she said. "What is the price? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Some doctors suggest that the person hosting the party should have a relationship with the provider. Make sure you've physically been in the office before.
"I don't recommend fly-by-the-night hotel Botox parties," said Dr. Gasquet-Johnson. "Or, 'Hey, everyone come by for this networking. We have no idea who this is.'"
Finally, be wary if the person doing the Botox doesn't want to engage.
"I have a dialogue with them, because I want to know what is their experience, and I want to know how many units I should bring," she said. "So, they should already have a relationship with the provider before the event."
"It's fun, it's a good networking event," said Zembruski. "I just don't think it's worth it; they do it too fast, kind of churn people in and out."
This article was written by Tory Dunnan for WPTV.

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Colorado High School Activities Association has put a new spin on what the league Windsor competes in looks like for the 2010-2012 seasons.
Currently, Windsor participates in the Class 4A Northern Conference, which consists of mostly schools in the Loveland, Fort Collins, Greeley and Longmont area.
But school enrollments this year put a big twist in what will happen to the league, shifting many of the sports teams to realign to different athletic classifications starting next school year.
Greeley West and Fossil Ridge, which currently compete in the Class 4A Northern Conference, will transfer to the Class 5A Front Range League. The Spartans football team will remain in the Northern Conference.
Windsor will transfer to the Class 4A Tri-Valley League, which will include Windsor, Erie, Fort Morgan, Frederick, Northridge, Roosevelt, Skyline and Sterling – all the smaller schools within the 4A classification.
Windsor will no longer play Greeley Central, Broomfield, Greeley West, Longmont, Mountain View, Niwot, Silver Creek or Thompson Valley.
Coaches weren't too concerned with the developments.
Girls and boys swimming coach Kevin Scott said it doesn't make much of a difference for his sports, since swimming had already been divided into to two divisions.
Boys basketball coach Dustin Duncan also said it didn't bother him too much, but schools will just need to be more cognizant of who they schedule for non-league competition.
The Greeley Tribune Sports Department contributed to this story.


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Microsoft Wants To Use Artificial Intelligence To Make CRISPR More Accurate
Kristen V. Brown
The gene-editing technology CRISPR could very well one day rid the world of its most devastating diseases, allowing us to simply edit away the genetic code responsible for an illness. One of the things standing in the way of turning that fantasy into reality, though, is the problem of off-target effects. Now Microsoft is hoping to use artificial intelligence to fix this problem.
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You see, CRISPR is fawned over for its precision. More so than earlier genetic technologies, it can accurately target and alter a tiny fragment of genetic code. But it still isn't always as accurate as we'd like it to be. Thoughts on how often this happens vary, but at least some of the time, CRISPR makes changes to DNA it was intended to leave alone. Depending on what those changes are, they could inadvertently result in new health problems, such as cancer.
Scientists have long been working on ways to fine-tune CRISPR so that less of these unintended effects occur. Microsoft thinks that artificial intelligence might be one way to do it. Working with computer scientists and biologists from research institutions across the US, the company has developed a new tool called Elevation that predicts off-target effects when editing genes with the CRISPR.
It works like this: If a scientist is planning to alter a specific gene, they enter its name into Elevation. The CRISPR system is made up of two parts: A protein that does the cutting and a synthetic guide RNA designed to match a DNA sequence in the gene they want to edit. Different guides can have different off-target effects depending on how they are used. Elevation will suggest which guide is least likely to result in off-target effects for a particular gene, using machine learning to figure it out. It also provides general feedback on how likely off-target effects are for the gene being targeted. The platform bases its learning both on Microsoft research and publicly available data about how different genetic targets and guides interact.
The work is detailed in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. The tool is publicly available for researchers to use for free. It works alongside a tool released by Microsoft in 2016 called Azimuth that predicts on-target effects.
There is a lot of debate over how problematic the off-target effects of CRISPR really are, as well as over how to fix them. Microsoft's new tool, though, will certainly be a welcome addition to the toolbox. Over the past year, Microsoft has doubled-down on efforts to use AI to attack health care problems.
[Nature Biomedical Engineering]


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Aboard The Democracy Train
By Nafisa Hoodbhoy
JB Case Updates
Indo-Pak Relations
Pakistan Politics
Posted on December 7, 2016 December 7, 2016 by Nafisa Hoodbhoy
'No survivors' after plane crash in northern Pakistan mountains
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: There were no survivors after a plane carrying 47 people crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, the airline's chairman said, as recovery operations continued late into the night at the remote crash site.
The military said 40 bodies had been recovered and rescue efforts involved about 500 soldiers, doctors and paramedics. The bodies were shifted to the Ayub Medical Center in nearby Abbottabad, about 20km (12 miles) away.
"There are no survivors, no one has survived," said Muhammad Azam Saigol, the chairman for Pakistan International Airlines. PIA-operated flight PK661, which crashed en route from Chitral to the capital, Islamabad.
Junaid Jamshed, a well-known Pakistani pop star turned evangelical Muslim cleric, was among those feared dead, an airline official said.
PIA said the captain of the flight had reported losing power in one engine minutes before its plane lost contact with the control tower en route to the capital.
The airline said the plane crashed at 4:42 pm local time (1142 GMT) in the Havelian area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, about 40km (25 miles) north of Islamabad. Chitral, where the flight originated, is a popular tourist destination in Pakistan.
Saigol said the ATR turboprop aircraft had undergone regular maintenance and in October had passed an "A-check" maintenance certification, performed after every 500 flight hours.
He said a full investigation of the crash, involving international agencies, would be conducted.
"All of the bodies are burned beyond recognition. The debris are scattered," Taj Muhammad Khan, a government official based in Havelian, told Reuters.
Khan, who was at the crash site, said witnesses told him "the aircraft has crashed in a mountainous area, and before it hit the ground it was on fire".
Pakistani television showed a trail of wreckage engulfed in flames on a mountain slope.
Irfan Elahi, the government's aviation secretary, told media the plane suffered engine problems but it was too early to determine the cause of the accident.
THREE FOREIGNERS ON BOARD
In a late night statement, PIA said the plane was carrying 47 people, including five crew members and 42 passengers. Earlier, the airline had said there were 48 people on board.
The airline said two Austrian citizens and one Chinese citizen, all men, had been on board. The flight manifest showed three people on board with foreign names.
The Austrian foreign minister's spokesman later confirmed two Austrians had been killed in the crash.
A local trader at the site of the crash said the fire was still burning nearly two hours after the crash.
"They are removing body parts," Nasim Gohar told Geo TV.
The military said it had sent in troops and helicopters.
"PIA is doing everything possible to help the families of passengers and crew members," the airline said in a statement.
The pop singer Jamshed, a member of one of Pakistan's first successful rock bands in the 1990s, abandoned his singing career to join the Tableeghi Jamaat group, which travels across Pakistan and abroad preaching about Islam.
In his last tweet, Jamshed posted pictures of a snow-capped mountain, calling Chitral "Heaven on Earth".
Plane crashes are not uncommon in Pakistan and safety standards are often criticized. In recent years, media have reported on multiple near-misses as planes over-ran runways and engines caught fire.
In 2010, a passenger plane crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board. Two years later, a plane operated by a private Pakistani company, with 127 people on board, crashed near Islamabad. All on board were killed.
PIA has also suffered major disasters in the past.
In 1979 and 1992, PIA jets crashed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in Kathmandu, killing 156 and 167 people, respectively.
In 2006, a PIA plane crashed near the central city of Multan, killing 45 people.
(Additional reporting by Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Amjad Ali in ISLAMABAD and Gul Hamad Farooqi in CHITRAL,; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Larry King)
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RA Mortality Rates Same in Patients Receiving Various Biologics
There was no significant difference in the rates of death among study patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were exposed to one of several tumor necrosis factor inhibitors used to manage RA.
There was no significant difference in the rates of death among study patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were exposed to one of several tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors used to manage RA. Researchers linked data from the Swedish Biologics Register, a comprehensive database of patients for whom first-ever biologic therapy for rheumatologic diseases was being started, and information from national Swedish registers (including all-cause mortality, demographics, RA characteristics, and other data). There were more than 19,000 person-years of follow-up in the 5-year study period, during which time 3.3% of the patients died.
Although no statistically significant difference in mortality rates across 3 biologic therapies (adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab) was found, further studies are needed to determine whether that would hold across various subsets of patients with RA, it was noted. This population-based study of patients with RA, the first to compare mortality rates among patients treated with individual TNF inhibitors, was published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, an American College of Rheumatology publication.
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Dean Emmett Delaurier is a Canadian former ice sledge hockey player (goal tender). He won a silver medal with Team Canada at the 1998 Winter Paralympics.

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Білокриницька сільська громада — територіальна громада в Україні, в Рівненському районі Рівненської області. Адміністративний центр — с. Біла Криниця.

Площа громади — 126,7 км², населення —  осіб (2020).

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Today, HootSuite adds three new analytics modules to the ever growing suite of measurement tools designed to gauge ROI, provide actionable data and help evaluate social media activities.
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Mark outgoing and instream messages with custom tags using HootSuite Message Tagging.
View all Ow.ly links between a chosen period of time using the new Owly Analytics Modules.
View a retweet summary with specific retweet details for a given Twitter handle and date range as well as the Top 10 retweets with the Daily Retweets module.
Mark an outgoing message with a custom tag to monitor the feedback of a campaign, content type and event.
View the aggregated post counts for internal tags.
Step 1: To start your HootSuite Message Tagging campaign, open up your Compose Box and click on the Tag Icon. From here a pop down menu will appear.
Step 2: Type in the name of the tag you would like on this message and click "Create Tag". This tag will then be saved and ready to view at a later date. To view tagged campaigns, click on Analytics in the side-menu, access Report Builder and add Post Tagging Analytics to your Custom Report.
Note: All tags will be associated to an organization and can be viewed/edited by any member of the organization.
Adding Post Tagging Analytics to your customizable reports, give a comprehensive picture of your organization's participation in social spheres.
Under Owly Aggregated Click Stats and located between the Top Referrers and Most Popular Links modules, the All Links module gives access to a list of all Ow.ly links sent for a specified date range. This module is free and available to all users.
Step 1: To create a report, click the Analytics button from the sidebar. From here click 'Create Report' and select which template you would like to use.
Step 2: Once a template is selected, you can add Analytics Modules by selecting them from the left sidebar of the Report Builder. To access the new Owly module, click on the tab All Links found in the Owly Aggregated Click Stats section.
The Retweet Analytics module will add a dynamic and interactive approach to reporting. All users will now be able to view a daily summary and/or a selected time frame of your re-tweets for a specified Twitter handle and date range. With each summary, you can now see the associated details for each selected tweet. Plus, view the Top 10 retweets for a given Twitter account and date range.
Step 1: To access the retweet module, follow the above steps to create a report.
Step 2: Once you have created a report, add the retweet module by selecting Daily Retweets (found under the the Twitter Profile Stats tab) from the left sidebar of the Report Builder.
HootSuite continues to expand our analytics to provide you with a powerful set of measurement tools. Designed to give a comprehensive evaluation across a variety of social media activities, HootSuite analytics now includes HootSuite Message Tagging, Daily Retweets summaries as well as the new All Links module.
As the suite of measurement tools grows, keep in the know by following @HootSuite on Twitter to find out about further integrations and developments.


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Club Red: One of Ski Country's Best
Featuring The Motet, Jackie Greene and Anders Osborne, Devendra Banhart, and Dwight Yoakam
Club Red Telluride , founded in 2014, is Telluride, Colorado's premier music venue for national touring acts. Featuring a state of the art sound system, plush décor, ambient lighting, VIP seating, and intimate proximity between guests and artists, Club Red creates an exclusive guest experience for all attendees. In fact, the high altitude venue was recently named one of ski country's best concert venues by Ski Magazine.
Club Red caters to both intimate settings or immersive concert experiences in the way that seating and setup is configured based on the show or venue. It's located in the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village just steps away from our two gondolas , making transportation to and from the show a breeze.
The winter shows kick off on Thursday, January 12th with "The Motet: Presented by Jambase." The Motet, is a Denver-based funk band with a fresh, soulful style, famous for putting on energetic live shows in iconic venues across the country. They have seven studio albums including the recently released Totem, but they're best known for putting on infectious dance parties in Colorado and beyond. The Motet began in 1998 in Denver, Colorado, where the band's then-rotating cast of musicians amassed an enthusiastic and loyal throng of hometown fans. The Motet took their infectious dance parties on the road about three years ago, and their national fan base has been growing exponentially ever since. Today, their shows sell out from coast to coast at such venues as Red Rock's Amphitheatre, Brooklyn Bowl, Chicago's Park West, and many others. To hear some of The Motet check out their Sound Cloud and to purchase tickets you can go to Ticket Fly .
The next evening, Friday, January 13th, Club Red presents "An Evening with Jackie Greene & Anders Osborne." It is sure to be an unforgettable night of music; a rare opportunity to see two of Telluride's favorite artists perform intimate back-to-back acoustic sets. Jackie Greene will charm guests with his persuasive voice, vivid songwriting skills and instinctive mastery of several instruments. His style is charged and timeless, drawing inspiration from American roots and his collaborations with greats such as the Black Crowes, Phil Lesh, B.B. King and others. Telluride knows they can count on Anders Osborne, a resident Telluride Blues and Brews performer, to absorb them in seductive, danceable music. He's among the most original and visionary musicians performing today, with richly detailed songwriting, soulful vocals and piercing, expert guitar skills. Check out Anders Osborne and his official music video of "Life Don't Last That Long." To purchase tickets now you can visit Ticket Fly .
Saturday, February 4th Devendra Banhart will be live at Club Red. It's the perfect setting for Devandra Banhart, a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist whose music is described as Psychedelic Folk and New Weird America. SPIN magazine said Banhart's albums offer "ashram-appropriate guitar strums, trippy-hippie tone poetry." Banhart is a true artist, with beautiful, seductive, and enchanting music. Banhart is touring with songs from his ninth album, Ape in Pink Marble. Surrealistic soft-rock, it's filled with whispered lyrics and gentle keyboard. His music is made for the lounge-environment of Club Red in Telluride. To hear some of his work, check out Devendra Banhart Soundcloud and to purchase tickets now you can visit Ticket Fly .
On Saturday, February 18th Dwight Yoakam will be performing at Club Red. Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide and he is a 21-time nominated, multiple Grammy Award winner. He has 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum albums, with five of those albums topping Billboard's Country Albums chart, and another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakam's singles have charted, with 14 peaking in the Top 10. He received the Artist of the Year award at the 2013 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony, the most prestigious award offered by the organization. Listen to his Soundcloud and purchase tickets at Ticket Fly .
For more information on the shows, Club Red and to purchase tickets in advance, visit the Club Red website . If you haven't booked your trip to Telluride yet there are plenty of lodging options just a short walk from Club Red. The Peaks Resort & Spa , Telluride's only ski-in/ski-out and golf-in/golf-out resort, is a short, free gondola ride away from the historic Town of Telluride, or explore all of Telluride's lodging options and our trip planning guide .


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Alexander Newton Q&A
British actor/musician Alexander Newton has been dubbed one of the faces to watch this year by magazines and gossip blogs. His new movie Justice/Vengeance, a thriller set in World War II, is about to hit theaters in North America at the end of this month. Find out more about him in this Kidzworld Q&A!
Alex doesn't just act, he also makes music
photo by Robert Shnider
In Justice/Vengeance Alexander got to work with his dad, Joshua Newton
KW: How old are you and where are you from?
Alexander: I'm 19 years old and I'm from London, England.
KW: How did you first become involved in acting?
Alexander: I was a toddler, my dad was making a TV show presented by kids and he casted my friend and I. It was really fun from what I remember, and I fell in love with the camera.
KW: You star in the film Justice/Vengeance, what is it about?
Alexander: Justice/Vengeance is a revenge thriller with a tragic love story and strong messages about racism and prejudice. The story is told in 1941 and modern times.
KW: What is your character like, do you feel you relate to them strongly?
Alexander: Joseph escapes the murder of his family and sets out on a journey to find inner peace. Two-time Oscar nominee Roy Scheider plays the older version of the character and does a phenomenal job. When building the character I was able to draw on what I knew about the era and what people in his shoes went through. Whenever dealing with a story that's so tragic, one really can't help but become emotionally attached.
KW: What was your favorite part of filming?
Alexander: Getting to work with my dad every single day, learning all about the way films are made, working with great actors. The whole thing!
KW: You're also a musician, how would you describe your sound?
Alexander: Forever evolving.
KW: What is something most people don't know about you?
Alexander: I have a desire to build and fly jet planes.
KW: Do you have any hobbies?
Alexander: Besides building planes?! Haha. I'm actually very lucky to get paid for my hobbies. However I did just get a Nintendo 3DS so if I become a pro gamer - blame Mario!
KW: What is the best advice you've received since becoming an actor?
Alexander: "Acting is a child-like belief in the make believe" - Roy Scheider.
KW: Are you working on anything/filming anything right now?
Alexander: I'm producing and recording an album with some great people and prepping to film a number of movies in 2012.
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Wilcox County Voting Rights Timeline – continued
Mar3 by Maria Gitin
February 26, 1965 – Marion, AL
Twenty six year old Jimmy Lee Jackson dies from injuries sustained while trying to protect his mother and other family from police attack during a demonstration for the right to register to vote. This atrocity was the catalyst for SNCC and SCLC organizing a march to Montgomery that evolved first into Bloody Sunday, then into Turn Around Tuesday and finally in the long march from Selma to the capital in Montgomery.
For a more detailed timeline visit: http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhome.htm
March 1, 1965, Monday – Camden, AL
Dr. Martin Luther King joined a march in progress and spoke to a crowd of about 200 attempting to register at the courthouse in Camden. He came over from Selma in a driving rain with a caravan of reporters and federal observers according to Taylor Branch. This is the date when King famously confronted Sherriff Lummie Jenkins asking him to 'vouch' for the registrants who were required to:
1. Pass a literacy test,
2. Prove citizenship, and
3. Have an already registered voter 'vouch' for their good character and literacy.
The sheriff declined to assist but ten people were allowed to apply to register that day. These were declared the first "Negro" voters in Wilcox County, although there may have been earlier registrants.
Source: Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge. Pg 19-20.
Authors note: Mrs. Rosetta Angion of Coy, who was there, told me how proud she felt when Dr King stood on the steps of the old jailhouse (which became the courthouse annex) and gave a rousing speech to encourage them to keep on going. She recalls his telling the crowd, "Doncha get weary chillun."
March 3, 1965 – Camden
Camden Police Meet March with Clubs March 4:
60 Blacks Alter Camden's History (headline Chicago Defender
Two articles on the same march: John Lewis of SNCC leads a march of 60 people from Coy, Gees Bend and Camden from St. Francis Church to the courthouse to try to register. He goes inside and walks around, inspires the crowd.
Sources: Chicago Defender (pub date March 4), Mrs. Rosetta Angion interview with author.
Camden Alabama March by Blacks Fails (headline Chicago Defender)
Led by Johnny Lee Jones of Selma 200 protesters marched from St. Francis Church marched to the courthouse are turned back with batons and tear gas. Marchers are notified that there will be a larger march in Selma on March 7th. Hundreds of Wilcox County residents organize carpools to travel to participate in that march.
Sources: Chicago Defender. Accounts by residents to author, Maria Gitin.
March 7 Sunday- Selma
"Bloody Sunday" march in Selma led by SNCC's Chairman John Lewis and SCLC's project director Hosea Williams; other organizers included James Bevel and Diane Nash. My SNCC project director, Charles Bonner and numerous other Selma activists were involved. Over 600 nonviolent, women, men and children were stopped and attacked by state troopers and the county sheriff's posse. They were beaten, tear-gassed by canisters launched from tear gas guns, and beaten by police under Dallas County Sherriff Jim Clark and state troopers ordered by Alabama Director of Public Safety Colonel Al Lingo. People were injured and arrested in large numbers. Dr. King was not present but approved of the original march plan. Many Camden Academy students and adults from Wilcox County were there including: Ethel Brooks, Mary Alice Angion (Robinson) and her sister.The marchers fled back to Brown Chapel where the march began, to take care of the wounded, strategize their next steps. Cleo Brooks of Coy, stated that the community of Coy had more residents on the bridge than any other community in the state of Alabama. Source: eyewitnesses' accounts to author
March 8, 1965 Monday – National TV
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr appears on national television to call for help, requesting people to flood into Selma to create a tidal wave of humanity that would get the world's attention and keep the marchers safe.
Authors note: As an 18 year old college freshman, I viewed the attack on television in San Francisco, along with footage from the Bloody Sunday march in Selma. This march and Dr. King's subsequent "call to action" are what inspired hundreds of us to head South to participate in a massive voter registration drive, Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project including my soon to become boyfriend/fiancé Bob (Luke) Block who was in Chicago at the time. When we reached Wilcox County, we joined forces with the already active SNCC group and local adult and youth leaders.
– Maria Gitin (formerly Joyce Brians) Author and presenter: This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Wilcox County Voting Rights Fight, to be published University of Alabama Press in early 2014.
March 1965 – Selma to Montgomery and Wilcox County Demonstrations
Selma to Montgomery marches – Many Wilcox County activists participated in one or more of the three most famous marches. There were ongoing actions in Selma, and continuous demonstrations in Camden as well as elsewhere in Alabama throughout the month of March. Many SNCC and SCLC activists went between Selma and Camden to join the Camden marches.
Sources: eyewitnesses accounts to author. For detailed timeline of Selma to Montgomery marches: http://www.crmvet.org/
This entry was posted in Camden, AL, Civil Rights Movement 1965, civil rights workers, SCLC, SCOPE, SNCC, Voting Rights and tagged Alabama March 1965, Bob Block, Bruce Hartford, Charles Bonner, Coy AL, Dan Harrell.
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The Clapton CAAC feels the proposal does nothing to improve the already chaotic elevations which we lamented during consultation on the approved application.
The Clapton CAAC notes this application is incorrectly located in the Planning Explorer, by some margin and is not anywhere near a current Conservation Area, contrary to the constraints listed on the Planning Explorer.
The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal however the existing garden layout and arrangement of upper floors is not adequately shown and may impact our opinion if they were to be compromised by the proposal.
The Clapton CAAC opposes the proposed Juliette balcony which we suspect will have it's rail removed permanently in reality. There are other, simpler ways to service the roof.
The Clapton CAAC feels the quality of the built-out and amended proposal are both inexcusably poor. In particular in the detailing of the windows and doors need to revert to those in the approved design. But of particular concern is the raised ground floor - which cannot be an accidental action but one that was entirely predictable, and if absolutely necessary to complete the scheme needed addressing before it was built. The consequence is that it raises the front threshold and unacceptably unbalances the paired front elevation, harming the character of the conservation area and the host buildings. The applicant should be required to build out the approved scheme.
The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal which is broadly to be commended in substance, however we lament the poor quality drawings and the missed opportunity to reinstate the bonnet cap.
The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal which is a considerable improvement on the refused scheme. We recommend any residual rights in relation to the veranda, are removed by condition, to avoid its intentional loss in the future.
The Clapton CAAC finds the drawings totally inadequate and evidently fail to reflect reality from observation and as a result we cannot form a certain opinion.
The Clapton CAAC feels this is an improvement on the withdrawn scheme, and takes the development in the right direction - particularly in terms of some awkward elevation details. However we recognise the continued need to assess the neighbours' amenity issues.
The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal, which lies just outside a Conservation Area.
The Clapton CAAC has no objection to the proposal in principle but we note the poor drawings have made assessment difficult and uncertain. In particular it is hard to understand relationship between the dormer and secondary hipped roof slope, which seems to be unaltered - unlike most neighboring roofs where a dormer has been added. For instance there is no long section from front to back; the labels are incorrect in many places; section AA is only shown as proposed and is mislabeled on the "existing" plan.
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UK newspaper reports tourists still 'flock' to Andamans for 'human safaris' news
The British newspaper whose coverage of the 'human safari' scandal on India's Andaman Islands prompted international outrage, has confirmed the practice still goes on, with thousands of tourists flocking to the island to spot the Jarawa people.
The Observer found it "was business as usual for the human safari industry", eight months after it published video footage showing half-naked Jarawa women being ordered to dance by a policeman.
The report on Saturday concludes, "Despite the international outrage, despite the anger of the government in Delhi, despite the rulings of the highest court in the land, despite the repeated interventions of Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi on behalf of the Jarawa, the human safaris go on."
Survival International first exposed human safaris in 2010, but video evidence of the abuse triggered calls for more to be done to protect the rights of the tribe.(See: Survival launches tourist boycott of Andaman's 'human safari park')
However, despite punishing those caught exploiting the Jarawa in the wake of the scandal, the Andaman authorities are refusing to take a tough stance on the practice, and have repeatedly ignored rulings by India's Supreme Court.
Ten years ago, the court ordered the closure of the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), which facilitates tours to see the Jarawa by cutting straight through their reserve, but it remains open.
UK newspaper reports tourists still 'flock' to Andamans for 'human safaris'


Getting sick while traveling is an awful thing, so why lures fate?
Traveling means eating foods that are outside of your normal routine, which can also be a fun part of any enjoyable experience. Yet it can also pose a real challenge for you when trying to stay healthy. If you are not paying attention to your food, it can be easy to lose track of what you're eating and how much you're eating.
Traveling to other countries and staying healthy requires planning, self-discipline, and vigilance!
Seek into Bhutan's Magical Charm!!
Tucked in the midst of the huge mountains of the Himalayas, Bhutan is a spectacular country which is beyond of words to explain. Still untouched by many, Bhutan has mesmerizing landscapes, serene monasteries, and more for the solitude seekers. The architecture of Bhutan is traditionally designed by stonework and intricate woodwork, with no use of nails or iron bars.
Wow! In a short, Bhutan has remained a paradise for travelers over time!
Essential to Carry When Traveling!!
Foods You Should Avoid While Traveling!!
When you are traveling to Bhutan, only eat fruits with a thick layer that you can peel away such as banana, oranges etc. The peel keeps the fruits fresh. Avoid berries and apples as these fruits are exposed to the bacteria where they are stored in and hence can give you a stomach infection.
You should also avoid meat and dairy as you don't know how well is it stored and cooked. And by taking it you can become more susceptible to infections.
You should never eat refined flour like white bread, biscuits, and bakery items during the journey. These foods can cause discomfort in the stomach.
Avoid anything that is cut open like salads, onions, pickles etc which can be contaminated with bacteria and can lead to stomach infections.
It is quite common while you are traveling; you always preferred a full meal including rice, roti, dal, and vegetables to eat. Don't choose it as this full meal sometimes remains not fresh and can lead to your stomach problem. You could choose Ema Datshi or 1-2 small rotis with vegetable or dal.
Don't go overboard on chips and fried foods as they dehydrate you sooner due to the high sodium content. Choose dry fruits instead of fried foods.
So, those above-mentioned tips will help you to embark on a remarkable trip to Bhutan either with family or friends. Time doesn't wait for anyone! So Hurry!
Q. Which are the hygienic restaurants in Bhutan?
A. The best hygienic restaurants in Bhutan are Sonam Trophel Restaurant, Bhutan Orchid, San Maru Restaurant etc.
Q. Which are the best resorts to stay in Bhutan?
A. The best resorts to stay in Bhutan are Yangkhil Resort, Zhingkham Resort, Damchen Resort etc. where you live comfortably.