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No one anticipates being in an accident when they first get in their car or hop on their motorcycle. After all, you may just be going to the store for a gallon of milk or down the street to meet some friends. But more than 50 percent of accidents in the United States happen within five miles of a person's residence. It's important to be prepared and know what to do in case you find yourself involved in an accident. The minutes immediately following a collision are undeniably stressful; knowing in advance what you need to do can help make a difficult situation more manageable.
Determine if anyone is injured, and call 911 if necessary.
Seek medical attention if you feel you or your passengers may have been injured. Keep in mind that not all injuries are evident immediately after the accident. It's better to err on the side of caution than to find out later that you've sustained an injury.
For minor accidents with no apparent serious injuries, take a photo of each vehicle's location, then move cars to the side of the road and out of the way of oncoming traffic.
If possible, set up flares or traffic cones to alert other motorists. It's important not to compound your accident with other vehicles hitting you while your cars are in the road.
Call the police, even if the accident is relatively minor.
This way you have an official record of the accident, what happened, and the parties involved. Insurance companies generally require that there be a police report on file to even consider your claim.
Make notes and take pictures to document what happened while it's all fresh in your mind.
Such documentation can go a long way to supporting your side of the story should your case find its way into a courtroom.
Your insurance company will want to know about the accident no matter which driver was at fault. Calling early helps make you look responsible in the eyes of the insurance company. In addition, most claims have a time limit for filing in order to be paid a settlement.
Limit your remarks to the facts.
Don't offer your opinion or express guilt for the accident. It's easy to say things you may not mean in the stress of the moment and before you've had a chance to review all the facts. For this reason, and to keep all of your options open, it's important not to admit guilt or offer any opinions about the accident while you're at the scene.
Call a lawyer if there's an indication of injury, either with someone in your car or the other vehicle.
Enlisting the aid of a good accident attorney is a good idea in any serious accident. In fact, it's imperative when there are injuries involved. A skilled personal injury lawyer can help you collect the money you need to pay medical bills and support your family until you're able to work again.
Stay at the scene of the accident until the other parties and the police are ready to leave.
It goes without saying that you never want to leave the scene of the accident without reporting it or checking to see if the other party is hurt.
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The Latino Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the inaugural 2019 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders Award Dinner to be held on June 27, 2019. Nominations will be accepted April 1, 2019 thru April 30, 2019. Residents of Pueblo County can complete a nomination and submit it to the Latino Chamber of Commerce by April 30, 2019.
The evening dinner is scheduled for June 27, 2019 and will be held at the Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center. Cocktail hour will start at 5:30 PM followed by the dinner and award program at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $40 per person. Corporate tables and sponsorship opportunities are available to all businesses in Pueblo County.
Nominee has earned other awards, honors or accreditations.
The Latino Chamber of Commerce is asking for the community's help in recognizing the next generations of leaders, and connecting them with opportunities for the future.


Beginning with the indices and composites, the NASDAQ fell -0.19% as it settles in region of 3165.16, down -6.19 points in these moments. In addition, the S&P 500 is trading in negative territory, operating at 1507.17, descending -4.04 points or -0.27% at the time of writing. Finally, the Dow Jones has moved lower at the opening as well, trading in the zone of 13922.36, presently -0.41% after a setback of -56.96 points.
Sectors are all trading in the red at the opening, however the Energy and Financial sectors have distinguished themselves as the losers thus far, falling -0.81% and -0.65% respectively. In other news, the price of crude has settled above USD $95.47 Wednesday.
As the EUR/CHF sold off to, tested and was held by the 1.2258 (61.8% retracement), Commerzbank analysts point ou thtat the intraday chart is indicating that this is the end of the corrective phase and "that we should see recovery from here to 1.2515", wrote analyst Karen Jones, pointing to a drop to 1.2173/68 (December high + 78.6% retracement) if below 1.2258. "While this holds on a closing basis, we should see the market stabilize once more and recover", she added.


Start the clock again. More talented wrestlers may be returning to the indies.
We're already counting down for Neville. Now you can add Emma to the list.
Emma is a classic example of how some things never change. The WWE seems to sabotage at least as many talented wrestlers as they set up for success. For every John Cena, who came in with a rocket strapped to his back, there's a Nick Dinsmore/U-Gene, or a "Stuttering" Matt Morgan, or a Spirit Squad.
I don't know as much about Darren Young, but I think he's got a fair shot to find success outside the WWE as well. There's certainly more opportunity now than there has been in years, and if he chooses to follow Cody Rhodes and Neville, he can go far.
I'm not sure we'll see Summer Rae in the indies. I think it's more likely she'll pursue more film and TV, but I hate to see her go without ever truly getting a chance on the main roster. If you go back and watch her work in NXT, she could hold her own against any of the top women now in the company. Too bad the sabotaged her as well, putting her in the shrieking, helpless blonde at ringside role at ringside. As much as WWE wants us to believe they've turned the page on women in wrestling, Summer Rae is an example that some things never change.
Time will tell if this is the last of the house cleaning. Time will also tell if any of the "future endeavored" will be add to the current indy revival. If the drive is in them, Emma, Darren Young, and Summer Rae will find more opportunity to pursue future endeavors than their predecessors.


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Q: Control a synchronous slave clock I recently acquired a couple vintage simplex clocks that used to be in a high school. They were part of a clock system where a master clock controlled the whole operation of slave clocks.
There were basically three systems: impulse, wired, and electronic systems. The clocks I have are electronic systems, where there is only a 110V AC plug. The clocks have a continuous motor and to keep them at the correct time (in case power wasn't a truly clean 60Hz) was to send signals over the electrical lines. On the limited information I have, I believe this signal was 3510 Hz. Two different durations of signals were sent. 1) An 8-second pulse at 57 minutes, 54 seconds on the hour for hourly corrections and 2) a 14-second pulse at 5:57:54 am/pm for 12-hour corrections. These pulses energized a solenoid that caused certain gears to catch and rotate the hands of the clock to the correct positions.
I can easily code up a program that sends audio signals at the specified frequency for the needed durations at the correct time but don't know how to send those over my home electrical lines (I only had a circuits class in college.) Any ideas on how to implement a home-brew inexpensive solution to send these signals?
EDIT: Here are some photos of the clocks in question.

A: The power line probably has very low impedance at 3.5 kHz, so injecting a signal onto it will take some care.  It will also take some care to make sure you don't electrocute yourself in the process.  A long time ago I measured the impedance of the power line in my college dorm at 1 MHz and was surprised it was only a few 10s of Ohms if I remember right.  At 3.5 kHz it is probably less than 1 Ω.
The simplest way from the driving circuit point of view to inject such a signal would be using a transformer with the secondary in series with the power to the target clocks.  Unfortunately, that would require breaking the power line some place and inserting the transformer in series.  It would also mean the transformer secondary must be capable of large currents if don't want to do this separately for each clock.  If you can arrange all the clocks (and little else) to be driven from their own branch of your power line, then this method could be feasible.  Basically, you use a current sense transformer in reverse.
More likely, you want to inject this signal onto the whole power net in whatever building the clocks will be in.  In that case, you will probably have to inject the signal in parallel accross the power net somewhere inside the building.  The problem will be the very low impedance you have to inject onto and the large and powerful 60 Hz component already there that you don't want to kill you or your equipment.  The big question is how strong this signal needs to be.  Perhaps the clocks filter well and only need a few mV, but probably at least 10s of mV.  It would be good to get the spec on that.
A transformer can again take a signal from a audio power amp and make it much lower impedance.  However, then blocking the 60 Hz component will be tricky.  Your desired signal is only about 60x higher than the power frequency, so making something that passes one but not the other will be large, bulky, and expensive.  For example, it takes a 45 µF capacitor to get down to just 1 Ω at 3.5 kHz.  That would have about 60 Ω impedance at 60 Hz, which still lets a lot of 60 Hz thru.  And, getting a 45 µF cap that can withstand ±200V is a major issue.  In the end, you'll probably have to live with much smaller capacitors and therefore very low coupling efficiency.  With such a cap in series, you don't have to transform the signal to a low impedance because the series impedance of the cap will be much more.  A off the shelf audio amp with a high pass filter in series made with two or three of the largest caps you can afford or find might do it.

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There's nothing we love more than a house that is, first and foremost, a home. This can definitely be said of Jo Whiley's Northamptonshire abode, which recently featured as our first Habitat Voyeur of the AW15 season.
Jo has always been a fan of Habitat and so, somewhat inevitably, several pieces from the new collection have found their way into her house. Being new season, they are available online and in-store right now, so you can get Jo's look straight away!
Festooned in Lego, the Thake platter takes pride of place on Jo's coffee table. The black pattern is hand-sponged resulting in each piece being unique.
Unbelievably forgiving in a busy household, the Broken Lines rug will hide a multitude of scrapes and spills from two- (and four!) legged friends.
The Marine serving bowl is hand glazed and provides the perfect rustic style for Jo's homely kitchen.
The Esterban range of vases are made in Spain from recycled glass. The blue version is great for tall stems but you can leave it empty, as Jo has, for a cleaner, more sculptural look.
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Toilets should be designed with a view to easy cleaning and maintenance from the start (with smooth surfaces and avoiding little gaps and crevices). Intelligent design and built-in durability will reduce long-term maintenance and cleaning costs. For use in public areas, however, it is also important, that they are resistant to graffiti and vandalism.
The building materials used inside toilets need to be hygienic and easy to clean.
All drains and waste pipes should be easily accessible for cleaning and maintenance including concealed systems.
All hardware, fixtures and fittings should be easily accessible for repair and maintenance.
A dedicated space should be provided for storage of cleaning equipment. A separate dedicated lockable area should also be provided for maintenance equipment. A low‑level cleaning sink (Belfast type) is recommended so that mop buckets can be filled and emptied easily.
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Tile grouting absorbs urine and is more difficult to keep clean and odour free. All facilities within the toilet should be at grade level with no steps, thresholds or slopes. However, to avoid the risk of water collecting on the floor it can be reduced by sloping the floor (slightly) to a central drain.
It is often recommended that walls should be tiled or stippled to discourage graffiti. However, irregular textured surfaces can harbour germs and mould.
Pale colours and white, are better in terms of giving a light and clean appearance but may encourage graffiti (in toilets for public use).
To meet the needs of visually impaired people there should be a strong colour contrast between doors and walls, and essential grab rails. To achieve DDA compliance, the walls to which grab rails are attached must contrast in colour with the colour of the grab rails.
Partition ceilings enable easy access to services but secure ceilings may be installed to avoid enclosed ceiling cavities being used to hide drugs and stolen goods (in toilets for public use).
Surfaces can be coated with anti-MRSA agents.
Wall hung lavatory pans should be used in preference to pedestal lavatory pans. This makes the facilities easier to clean as there are fewer places for dirt to collect on the floor.
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Natural ventilation should be facilitated by attention to the positioning of entrance and exit doors, venting, and windows. Windows that are partially open to assist ventilation during the day can create opportunities for people to peer in, becoming a danger in respect of safety to users of those premises. Extractor fans should be activated by a passive infrared (PIR) movement detection system so that they are not running continuously. Refer to Building Regulations for minimum air changes per hour.
NOTE: Natural ventilation can reduce smells more than the use of artificial air fresheners.
Where electric lighting is provided, movement activated lighting, or automatic lighting that comes on at dusk, should be used if possible. Light pulls and light switches that need to be operated by the user should be avoided for hygiene reasons. If movement activated lighting is used the timers should be set such that the user is not left sitting in the dark. Also, the sensors should be positioned such that all users are detected including children.
Natural illumination should be used wherever possible, because it is more sustainable, cheaper and not subject to vandalism. However, this has to be weighed against the need for adequate light for people to see what they are doing, particularly in respect of disabled toilets and mirror areas.
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Life in a time of disasters — Julianne Schultz
Life and death on the high seas — Sally Neighbour
Flooding plains, bursting rivers, human suffering — Matthew Condon
The path to resilience — Mara Bún
The language of catastrophe — Tom Griffiths
Informed consent — Michael Gawenda
Disappeared — Sophie Cunningham
Ear to the ground — Nicolas Low
Europe's Trojan horse — Jorge Sotirios
When bystanders fail — Kathy Marks
The meaning of a disaster — Sidney Dekker
How to survive an earthquake — Tom Bamforth
Passion in a time of war — Lee Kofman
No Jesus man — David Francis
Occupying armies — Sydney Smith
My mother and murder — Virginia Peters
Walking underwater — Ashley Hay
Ghost town — Colin Mills
Babo — Nikola Gurovic
The sleepers (from the Futures Museum) — Lisa Gorton
Auntie May, 1953 — Geoff Page
Crime scene investigation — Maria Takolander
Suddenly — Lloyd Jones
Manna for the cassowaries — Rod Owens
Fire words — Catherine Gough-Brady
Adapting for hope — Doug Hendrie
What does Fukushima mean? — Adam Broinowski
Ground cover — Alan Vaarwerk
Surviving peace — Olivera Simić
Tragic intimacy — Damon Young
The day the earth shook — Ian Lowe
Interview with Mara Bún — Alecia Wood
Interview with Tom Bamforth — Alecia Wood
Interview with Sally Neighbour — Alecia Wood
Interview with Lloyd Jones — Alecia Wood
Interview with Sidney Dekker — Alecia Wood
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How to survive an earthquake
by Tom Bamforth
THE NUMBERS ROSE slowly, like a cricket innings, and the commentators droned. There was little new information and the television news recycled the same repetitive pictures with a boxed scorecard showing a slowly growing body count. An apartment complex in Islamabad had collapsed: fifteen people missing. An hour later it had turned to twenty-five; by mid-afternoon it was 150. The army had been called up, and stood around with guns looking helpless as rapid-reaction teams with sniffer dogs arrived to pull the living from the vast pile of concrete and dust. The news was the steadily rising death toll and the threat of many more.
But for me, living in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province[i] in 2005, this was no distant event. I had felt the ground shake violently, and had taken cover under my bed as the plaster fell from the ceiling and furniture crashed around me. For a moment it seemed that the walls and the ceiling were swaying in a disjointed waltz. I watched as the fan slowly detached itself from the ceiling, and made the calculation that it was too late to bolt down three flights of stairs. I had heard the term 'triangulation' – getting down next to a solid object so that when the roof came down it would form a small triangular, survivable space. But the furniture didn't look that solid and, as I got down next to the bed, the earth moved again – first from side to side, and then up and down in jolts.
And in those minutes, shortly before breakfast on a Sunday morning, eighty-three thousand people were crushed to death and a further three million rendered instantly homeless across the hills of the Karakorum and the Himalaya.
I knew nothing of this at the time. After the hotel stopped shaking I went out into the bustling town of Mingora, in the Swat Valley (later the site of a major battle against the Pakistani Taliban), and continued what I had left Australia to do: explore the astonishing and ancient remains of Indo-Hellenic civilisation that had spread across Pakistan's northern plains and into the foothills of the Hindu Kush. Oblivious to the news of the earthquake slowly trickling in, I climbed amid the ruined monasteries and universities of the Bactrian Greeks, whose mesmeric fusion of Greek and Buddhist cultures scatters the Gandhara Plains from Kabul to Peshawar and the outskirts of Islamabad. I pored over ancient coins embossed with the profile of Alexander the Great and sculptures of curly-haired, toga-clad Buddhas.[ii] My Muslim guides spoke of the importance of pluralism, the subjectivity of truth and the arcane theological meaning embodied in the myriad poses of Greco-Buddhist statues exquisitely preserved in the stone of the North West Frontier.
One guide had studied to be a teacher in Russia and returned to the Swat Valley because of its strong educational traditions. He used to take his classes around the ruins, explaining to them the pre-Islamic history of the region. When I got back to the hotel that evening I received a call from ABC Radio National, desperately seeking an Australian 'eyewitness' to the earthquake. 'Is there a danger,' the interviewer asked, 'that orphans will attend madrasahs and become the next generation of terrorists?'
While the cosmic stone masonry of the Bactrian Greeks had lasted the millennia, the squat concrete structures of modern Pakistan disintegrated in seconds. Back in Islamabad, some days later, I could see the true size of the catastrophe. I attended public meetings of the UN co-ordination team, and the situation looked desperate. The earthquake had ripped across the entire north of the country, shattering cities and destroying villages. There were insufficient resources, mountain roads had been swept away and thousands of small villages at vast altitudes were inaccessible. Helicopters had been ordered to fly reconnaissance and aid sorties over the deep valleys of Pakistan's north – but there were too few of these available. Most of the army's 114 Chinooks were engaged fighting a nebulous 'war on terror' in the country's tribal agencies and could not be recalled. In any case, we were told, it was technically too difficult to remove the machine-gun awnings to make way for cargoes of aid.
For forty-eight hours the international media circus descended on the city – flown in from New York, London, Paris, Brussels and Tehran – to capture on camera the reeling of a concussed nation and the growing stench of the stricken cities, before flying out again. Night after night the TV brought updates and crossed live to journalists in Islamabad solemnly intoning the 'universal truths' about Pakistan: a nuclear-armed Islamic state beset by 'terror, the bomb and military rule'.
I recalled the words of my Russian history lecturer, who had said he wanted to rescue the past, and consequently the present, from theorists and commentators who saw the world in terms of systems rather than societies. In Pakistan the same experts and analysts had migrated from Soviet studies to the more fashionable concerns of terrorism, Islam and South Asia. Having failed to predict the demise of the Soviet Union in their previous careers, they were now equally unable to account for Pakistan's resilience. But, for the remaining three million people in the distant hills of the Himalayas, brutally dislodged from their mountain fastness, facing rain and sleet, snow and ice, these debates were meaningless.
Feeling useless in this chaos, I volunteered at a local charity and spent an afternoon loading trucks with anything people could throw together to send into the mountains. Blankets, jumpers, bedding and food arrived from across the country, its inhabitants all knowing there would be little hope for the millions of earthquake survivors once the Himalayan winter set in. I sat in a small circle with the charity's founder – a Gandhian figure whose humility, simplicity and perhaps feigned illiteracy were a foil for his immense organisational abilities and intellect. He had founded the country's only national ambulance service, and a network of schools and orphanages. Deeply devout, he was asked by one woman seeking to imitate the depths of his Islamic belief how many times he prayed each day. 'Sister,' he replied with more than a hint of the Mahatma's wit, 'I deal in wholesale, not retail.'
WANTING TO DO more than load trucks, I was tipped off by a friend that an international aid organisation was expanding its operations and needed people for more substantive work. I was invited to an interview with the operations manager, who already looked haggard and overworked. We sat on directors chairs in a garden in a leafy and subdued Islamabad suburb. He looked over my CV for a few minutes before asking if I liked camping. 'Very much,' I replied, and tried to look as if I meant it while he examined me for an unnerving moment before throwing his hands up in resignation: 'Look, you can walk, you can talk and right now we need bodies on the ground. Do you know where I can get a case of Scotch in Islamabad?'
Fortuitously, I had just been given the number of shady alcohol supplier known simply as Mr Scotch. I was hired.
The following day I was put in a car and driven to Mansehra, the town that would become a hub for the relief effort in the North West Frontier Province and my home for the next eighteen months. I had no idea what I would be doing or who I would be working with. The first signs weren't good.
I was dropped off at a small collapsed primary school, which was where I slept and where our makeshift headquarters would be situated for the next few weeks. Ostensibly we were co-ordinating all organisations providing emergency shelter to the more than seven hundred thousand people who had lost their homes during the earthquake. We had been lent some space amid the concrete debris by a mobile German medical unit that had quartered there, and during the day we set up our office on a series of string beds, one of which we turned on its head and moved every half hour with the rotation of the sun, to provide shade. Every few minutes the dull thud of rotor blades roared overhead as NATO helicopters – sent over from Afghanistan – flew past on aid missions. The nights were bitterly cold, and even though I slept in a cracked classroom I learned quickly to leave my sleeping bag open and to run out into the courtyard every time there was an aftershock – which came frequently and massively in the aftermath of that first tectonic jolt.
The organisation I was working for had arrived late on the scene and had been given a central role in the relief effort. The reception was harsh. We were addressed by our institutional acronym, rather than by name. The multi-pocketed pseudo-military jerkins we wore quickly became known as 'the target', owing to the organisation's round logo and the hostile response they guaranteed. Subsequently, as they became an established part of 'field wear', sported by anyone who wished to suggest they had somehow been 'at the front', they became known as 'the wanker jacket'. 'Don't you realise there's been an earthquake?' I was asked early on by one exasperated aid worker who, ironically, had come to us for help.
The nights were equally unremitting, and what was officially termed 'the close of play' began sometime after 10 pm with the announcement of an hour of reflection – a sort of humanitarian Nunc dimittis, complete with the swirling smoke of Raj-nostalgic cigarettes: Players, Pall Mall, Craven A. We called this almost religious moment 'fuck-up of the day'.
But information on the earthquake was limited and uncoordinated. Reports dribbled in from field staff of new population movements, uncontacted villages and whole districts in the mountains still reeling from aftershocks. Random shell-shocked people would turn up at our door asking for aid, sometimes with battered handwritten letters of supplication in English or Urdu that had clearly been taken from aid agency to aid agency in the hope of finding a tent, sleeping bag or box of military rations.
I spent a day with a team conducting aerial assessments of the northern valleys most severely hit by the earthquake. I had read the reports and seen some footage but only after eight hours in a helicopter, weaving in and out of the valleys, did I begin to comprehend the full picture. From on high little damage could be seen, but as we swooped low on unsuspecting hamlets clustered together at altitudes of up to ten thousand feet the destruction was evident. Roofs of houses that looked intact from above suddenly appeared unsupported by walls and sat a few feet off the ground, covering the debris that had crushed those inside. Roads, carved over decades with conscripted muscle and dynamite through the vast mountains, had been swept away in seconds, cutting off whole regions from the outside world. In a land of swallowed roads and shattered bridges, and covered in the grey dust of concrete, rubble and brick, only the domed mosques – built, ironically, for another world – continued to stand.
In a few places we landed – blowing down tents and covering the landscape and its inhabitants with dust from the helicopter's downdraft. We leapt out clutching notebooks and GPS units vigorously recording our altitude, co-ordinates and observations, as if this rush of note-taking would somehow shrink mountains, unify villages and bring order to chaos.
But this new appreciation for the enormity of the disaster only diminished our feeble initial response. After some days trying to establish a presence in Mansehra and acting as the de facto punching bag for the international community, I was sent north to the town of Balakot to assess the effectiveness of our operations there. I had never seen a disaster zone like this before: the scene was shocking and unreal, familiar to me only from the grainy footage of post-apocalyptic Hiroshima after the flight of the Enola Gay. Towering snow-capped peaks, like monumental tombstones, were etched sharply against the sky and stood guard over the remains of a city of thirty thousand people now compacted to little more than knee height. No structures remained standing. Even in the ruins of the town the air was so clear it crackled with each breath and the vertiginous scale of the mountains lent a paradoxical clarity and euphoria to a scene of confusion, disorientation and loss. Men and women walked through the former streets and surrounding encampments at once familiar and yet now vanished, displaced strangers amid the destruction of their own home and city.
Strangely, given Northern Pakistan's conservative and patriarchal society, I saw a young girl leading her father, bleeding from the head and evidently unable to see, towards a Pakistan Red Crescent field hospital. As if responding to the absurdity of a world turned upside down, fruit sellers had set up stalls in the rubble of a collapsed market, offering their oranges to non-existent crowds. The sole surviving building – a green-domed mosque – emitted a call to prayer, a lone human voice that echoed hauntingly in the brutal grandeur of the valley.
Our set-up in Balakot was dysfunctional and needed almost as much assistance as the homeless former residents themselves. Huddling in leaky canvas tents, wallowing in sludge, already coughing from bronchial infections and ineffectually led, the team of Pashtuns was demoralised and at breaking point. I had been sent up in an effort to take control of the local operation, and get evidence to dismiss its venal and incompetent international manager – Jabba the Hutt, as he had become known. On arrival I had received a message from headquarters in Islamabad to 'rock no boats', and had no authority to intervene in the operation or the treatment of staff. 'I will eat him,' roared one of my Pashtun colleagues in rage, having just been dismissed for the unpardonable crime of being competent. It was a mess; the city was destroyed; our operational response was useless and its field management beyond redemption. As I walked out of yet another freezing tent I stumbled into a muddy and treacherous area by the riverbank that turned out to be an open sewer. Everything in that place on that day seemed to have been cursed.
Back in Islamabad I met with our new operations manager: an American with pale blue eyes and slightly bucked front teeth whose number was listed in my phone as Bugs. New to the business of aid and overwhelmed by the enormousness of the task ahead of us, I hoped he would give some clear direction and advice. We discussed the weather and his recent visit to Indonesia, and before heading off he handed me a brown envelope. 'Read this on your way back,' he said. 'It'll give a you a good idea of what we're all about.' In the car I tore open the envelope, looking for the instructions that would solve the earthquake and provide winter shelters for the almost one million people who were now homeless. 'Proposal for Rubble Removal,' the document said. Back at base – amid the debris of the former primary school – my emails addressed to 'rubble rouser' and 'rubble with a cause' went unanswered.
'YOU KNOW, TOM,' said Colonel Mohsin, settling into an expansive postprandial mood on the veranda of the Frontier Force Officers' Mess in the leafy garrison town of Abbottabad, 'I was once a POW.' I had known Col. Mohsin (Retd) for some time now. He had appeared one day at our office with a brilliantly trimmed moustache, regimental cravat, and cuffs that crackled and shot at every opportunity. Since then he had managed a vast logistics operation – three hundred trucks, drivers and field staff – moving hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins, blankets, mattresses, tents, tools, clothes, and tens of thousands of people, around the treacherous mountain roads with sangfroid and studied understatement. He had converted our office into an operation and had, with his years in the army, brought the art of war into the business of aid. Because of him, there was purpose in our work and the rooms were now covered in maps, diagrams and checklists; the atmosphere was of a strangely relaxed, avuncular authority. Everyone now addressed each other as bhai or bhaji (brother/sister), while heels clicked and salutes were given in the corridors of what had become a humanitarian war room.
Behind the nicotine-fuelled histrionics of the internationals, so visible during the initial phases of the earthquake response, our Pakistani friends and colleagues had brought order, humour, clarity, dignity and direction to the response. 'Thank God the earthquake happened here,' one departing aid worker told me. 'We would have been lost anywhere else.' With Col. Mohsin and my indomitable colleagues – Shahab, Zubair, Usman and Samira – grinning broadly in response to each new setback (and there were many), we thought we could do anything. One glorious day I overheard Shahab, a fearlessly self-confident Pashtun, talking to a recently arrived international head of a major UN agency. 'Boy,' he commanded across the gulf of rank and pay, 'I would advise you to go outside and see actually what's happening.'
Some time later, at Col. Mohsin's invitation, I had driven to Abbottabad on my way back to the capital to join him in his spiritual home: the mess. After a tour of the extensive gardens and regimental dining room with its gleaming silverware we proceeded to the billiard room, where a portrait of the Islamic Republic's Founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, gazed down from the wall. This was no ordinary Jinnah. In most portraits he was misleadingly shown in Islamic dress: the sober, steely-willed founder of the nation, its first governor-general and moral light. Yet in the Frontier Force Officers' Mess, another Jinnah appeared. Cigar clenched between his teeth, he leaned over the very billiard table on which Col. Mohsin and I now played, taking aim while a tumbler of whisky (not, judging from the evidence on the wall, his first) balanced precariously next to him. The picture had been taken many years before alcohol was banned in Pakistan. 'Ah, yes,' sighed Col. Mohsin as he caught my eye. 'This used to be a wet bar, but since 1975 we have been dry... Wet bar, dry bar...' he repeated softly as we left the room, an untouched cup of milky tea going cold in a corner behind us.
Back on the veranda, we sat and talked and he returned to the subject of prisoners of war. Having been captured as a young lieutenant by Indian forces intervening in Bangladesh's war of liberation from West Pakistan in 1971, he had decided that it was the duty of every young officer to resist capture and to escape. With his fellow conspirators he had tunnelled vigorously to get out of the POW camp, but every tunnel had collapsed inches from the perimeter fence. 'So, after all these failed attempts to tunnel our way out, you know what we did, Tom,' he said as I shook my head. 'We made a run for it.'
Comrades in the disaster response, we embraced, shook hands and saluted as I said goodbye. A peacock wandered past the gate and I started my journey back to the capital, wondering which country and century I was in.
Years later I was stunned when 'sociable Abbottabad', as we had known it, with its leafy streets and parks and charming markets, shot to international infamy as the final hideout of Osama bin Laden. Introduced to the town by my friend Col. Mohsin, I had seen it not through the lens of twenty-first-century struggles but through the perspective of another age somehow lingering, just, on the brutal frontiers of the new Great Game.
MY TIME IN the cosy and endearingly civil world of Pakistan's retired officer class was regrettably brief. 'Good morning, sunshine,' my all-too-contemporary American boss would say each day through a plume of cigarette smoke, as I stumbled into the office from my cot on the floor, trying desperately to wake up. The daily repetition of this sardonic mantra over seven months would become almost a curse. With those words I entered the highly politicised and ruthless world of a major humanitarian operation.
The old certainties vanished instantly. To assist the people affected by the earthquake the game had to be played, and much of this depended on what kind of guy you were. There were good guys and bad guys, cowboys, guys who 'knew their shit' and those who didn't. And there was the inevitable division between the smooth, multilingual and well-paid UN staff, known for their relative timidity in promoting humanitarian principles to Pakistan's military dictatorship, and the grotty NGO workers who glowed with self-righteousness. All complained about the honchos from headquarters, who had no idea about 'the field'. Conversations with aid workers were replete with invocations of remote gods – 'Geneva knows', 'New York is watching', 'Oslo is aware'. And when the 'goodwill ambassadors' Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie suddenly presented themselves, hardened 'grass roots' aid workers suddenly abandoned the mysterious joys of tents, drainage ditches and latrines in search of a fleeting moment of glamour.
Then there was the cast of complete weirdos – some well intentioned, others malign – that attends major catastrophes. There was a circus troupe that travelled through the mountains trying to cheer people up, and a Korean NGO promoting the health benefits of tofu consumption (with a tofu-eating cartoon character featuring, appropriately enough for an Islamic republic, a smiling pig). And there was a series of querulous American Vietnam vets who had been given sinecures with the US government aid agency as compensation for missing limbs. Congenitally opposed to the idea of an international community and viewing the UN as some kind of communist plot, these 'one-armed bandits', as they were known, strutted and twitched their way around the province. Britain also sent its finest minds. After a long meeting with an earnest Englishwoman from the UK's Department for International Development my boss turned to me with an acrid exhalation of cigarette smoke and growled, 'Horse's ass with teeth.'
Everyone had an agenda – personal, professional, institutional, political – and any action needed somehow to negotiate these. Institutions were at war; UN agencies and NGOs argued with each other and within themselves over responsibilities, visibility and turf. Bucks were passed and credit appropriated. Individuals on short-term emergency contracts were making connections for their next 'gig', while donors attempted to buy political favour through their generosity. Villagers were taught to say their tents were 'from the American people', and flags and logos jostled for precedence in the muddy and crowded camps that were now home to hundreds of thousands fleeing the encroaching snowline. At one meeting for the heads of the seven leading co-ordination agencies, I calculated 2,401 permutations of vested interests and agendas that any collective decision would somehow have to negotiate.
It was a desperate game of survival for not only the people affected by the earthquake but also the humanitarians. The institutional architecture for such a major international disaster response was weak and progress was dependent on the charismatic personalities who led the way. Reputations crumbled and were made; hardened aid workers went home early – shattered by the mud, cold, arguments and complex logistics of the operation. One room of our office was converted into a sick bay for stricken colleagues who had caved under the pressure and needed to recuperate. 'It's like the Somme,' said one friend on his way back down from the mountains, having decided he could not continue. Gone was his earlier self-confidence; we clapped and cheered as he climbed into a helicopter waiting to take him back to the capital. He had more than done his bit, and we sensed that this mission was to be his last.
SOMEHOW, DESPITE THE immense obstacles, pressure and confusion of the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, a coherent and effective humanitarian response emerged, more by trial and error, it seemed, than by design. And for all the follies and foibles, personalities and turf wars, it was amazing to be part of it. Alliances formed, organisations stabilised, and the initial panic, desperation and reactivity transformed into a collective purpose. It was like catching a wave – the momentum bore us along. During those months in this fascinating, politically fractured country everyone seemed finally to think and act as one.
In the distant hills of Khala Dhaka ('Black Mountain') – a tribal territory well beyond the 'writ of the state' and now the NATO frontier in an ever-expanding Afghan war – I met with groups of bearded elders wrapped in coarse woollen cloaks and smelling of wood smoke. We discussed the earthquake and its consequences in the tribal belt and beyond, and they were exceptionally well informed – partly through their networks of tribe and extended family across Pakistan and Afghanistan, and partly from listening to the BBC Pashto Service.
We are a neutral humanitarian agency, I said. We had no politics and would only work with them if they needed and wanted us. If not, we would go away – the choice was theirs. We discussed the Green Howards (a British Army regiment), the last Europeans to have entered the area prior to the Independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent, and I assured them I was anything but a Green Howard.
Had they been badly affected, I asked?
'Ha,' they replied – the guttural Pashto word for 'yes'.
Could we conduct an assessment?
'Ha.'
Would we be able to speak to women and children?
Could we ensure that the most vulnerable people were assisted first?
Would we be able to come back and monitor the aid distribution, to ensure all needs had been met?
'Ha,' again came the reply.
We called for green tea to cement our deal – a sign that the substantive discussions were over and that trust had been established. And then they left, each one shaking hands and embracing, walking quickly back to the Black Mountain – a distant chorus of 'Ha... Ha... Ha' fading gently into the wood smoke and the night.
This is how we survived the earthquake – rare moments of solidarity in the turmoil of the Frontier Province – but now can we survive the drone attacks, and can we survive the war?
[i] Now known as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) in deference to Pashtun ethno-nationalist aspirations
[ii] In Pakistan today, there is a remote area called the Kalash Valley inhabited by an animist tribe of fair-skinned, light-eyed people who drink wine from amphorae and who are said to be the descendants of Alexander's armies.
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The United States on Wednesday said India is not going to join the NPT "for quite some time", but wanted New Delhi to work with the Obama administration to strengthen the non-proliferation regime.
A day after the US underlined its determination to strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime, a top US official said Washington would not push New Delhi to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) until the American Senate ratifies it.
Appreciating India's principled opposition to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) treaty, Robert J Einhorn, Special US Advisor Non Proliferation and Arms Control, said that New Delhi is unlikely to join the pact.
"India's not going to join the NPT for quite some time, if at all. We understand that. But we want India to work with us in strengthening the nonproliferation regime," Einhorn told media persons in Washington.
"US and India have increasingly become partners in this area of dealing with the global proliferation threat, with the threat of nuclear terrorism," Einhorn said.
"We talk about these issues on a bilateral and on a multilateral basis with India quite frequently," he said in response to a question.
Einhorn said the administration "appreciates and understands" India's attitude toward NPT.
"It's a long-standing attitude, it's a position of principle. What's especially important to us is that India behave in a responsible manner. And it has behaved in a responsible manner," he said.
Einhorn made it clear that the White House would not push India to sign CTBT until the Senate ratifies it.
"Once we have ratified, we'll be in discussions with India about how to bring this important treaty into force," he underlined.
In terms of the CTBT, the administration will press hard for Senate ratification of the treaty, and "then we will work with other countries to bring it into force".
"Bringing it into force means that the US and India and Pakistan and China and a number of other countries must ratify it. And we will be in discussions with India (once it is ratified by the Senate)," Einhorn said.
Einhorn said countries that have not joined the NPT, and countries like China, which have joined the NPT, "we call on all countries, whether they've chosen to join the NPT or not, to work together to limit, to prevent, the threat of further nuclear proliferation".
James N Miller, Principal Deputy Secretary of Defence Policy, underlined the need to ensure that the regime does not unravel.
"Whether you're an NPT party or not, there's a common interest in ensuring that this regime does not unravel," he said.
Responding to a question, Miller said the nuclear non-proliferation regime is under considerable threat these days, especially because of the non-compliance of North Korea and Iran.
"At the NPT review conference coming up in May, it's important that we work together on a strong consensus to strengthen this regime. And that requires not just countries that have signed the treaty, but countries that haven't signed the treaty," he underlined.


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Kenrick Park is a tram stop in Sandwell, England on the outskirts of West Bromwich, named after the adjacent park of the same name. It was opened on 31 May 1999 and is situated on West Midlands Metro Line 1. It is the first stop outside the city of Birmingham on the tram-only alignment.

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Mondays to Fridays, Midland Metro services in each direction between Birmingham and Wolverhampton run at six to eight-minute intervals during the day, and at fifteen-minute intervals during the evenings and on Sundays. They run at eight minute intervals on Saturdays.

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 This stop's entry at thetrams.co.uk

West Midlands Metro stops
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Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1999

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By Cathy Cunningham	September 23, 2021 1:56 pm
101 Hudson Street.	Credit: Jim Henderson/ for Wikipedia
Mack-Cali Realty Corporation is under contract to sell 101 Hudson Street in Jersey City, N.J., to The Birch Group for $380 million, Commercial Observer has learned.
The deal is expected to close in the next 30 days.
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Cushman & Wakefield's Adam Spies, Andy Merin, David Bernhaut and Kevin Donner arranged the sale, sources said.
The 42-story, Art Deco-inspired office tower at 101 Hudson Street spans 1.2 million square feet and is one of the tallest buildings in Jersey City. It sits in a prime location, close to the Exchange Place New Jersey PATH station and with views of the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty from its upper floors.
Built in 1982 and also known as the Merrill Lynch Building, the property counts Merrill Lynch Private Client Group among its tenants today, in addition to several others, such as AIG. In May of this year, life sciences company Apprentice.io signed a 32,000-square-foot, 10-year lease at the building, as reported by Real Estate Weekly.
Mack-Cali acquired the building in 2004 for $329 million.
The acquisition is the latest of several New Jersey office building purchases by The Birch Group, which is led by founder and CEO Mark Meisner and based in Nanuet, N.Y.
In April, the investment firm acquired a four-building, 843,300-square-foot office portfolio in Short Hills for $255 million — also from Mack-Cali — and in July, it acquired a 200,000-square-foot office portfolio in Princeton from BentallGreenOak for $47.3 million.
The Short Hills portfolio comprised four buildings— 51 JFK Parkway, 101 JFK Parkway, 103 JFK Parkway, and 150 JFK Parkway — and represented another big step towards Mack-Cali's disposition of suburban office properties, allowing the company to pay down corporate debt and also strengthen its balance sheet, Mahbod Nia, CEO of Mack-Cali, said at the time of the sale.
As for 101 Hudson, the property doesn't only house several top tenants, it's also home to several peregrine falcons. The endangered birds nest on its rooftop, and can be viewed during nesting season via the Jersey City Falcon Cam, operated by The New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection, Division of Fish & Wildlife. Talk about a bird's-eye view of the city.
Officials at Mack-Cali, Birch Group and C&W declined to comment.
Cathy Cunningham can reached at ccunningham@commercialobserver.com.
Keywords: 101 Hudson Street, Andy Merin, Cushman & Wakefield, Cushman & Wakefield's Adam Spies, David Bernhaut, Kevin Donner, Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, Merrill Lynch Building, The Birch Group
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Troops face snipers and booby-traps as they attempt to secure Taliban-held town.
US Marine units were twice beaten back by heavy gunfire as they tried to reach a market in the town and another armoured column reported that it had come under fire from three different sniper teams.
"It's a pretty busy day but we expected that because we are penetrating," Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas, the commander of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, told The Associated Press news agency.
Zeina Khodr, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said the resistance, although limited, showed that Taliban fighters were still operating around Marjah.
"Although we are not seeing, for example, face-to-face combat it seems that the Taliban is not going away for now," she said.
"This has been their tactics, ambushing international forces, roadside bombings. The forces are advancing but it is a slow process simply because the area is heavily booby-trapped."
However, Afghan military leaders said that Taliban fighters had fled as about 15,000 US, British and Afghan soldiers had moved in to take control of Marjah and Nad Ali.
"All of the areas of Marjah and Nad Ali have been taken by combined forces. They are under our control, almost all Nad Ali and Marjah," General Aminullah Patiani, the senior Afghan commander in Operation Mushtarak, said.
"The Taliban have left the areas but the threat from IEDs remains."
Rahim Wardak, Afghanistan's defence minister, called on any remaining Taliban fighters to put down their weapons and take up a government reintegration offer.
"I want to call on all Afghan Taliban, the ones who are besieged or maybe hiding ... put down your arms and join our reconciliation programme, take part with us in the rebuilding of our country," he said.
Operation Moshtarak is the first major test of the strategy of Barack Obama, the US president, to take on the Taliban and end the eight-year conflict with one of the biggest offensives since the 2001 US-led invasion.
It is designed to clear Taliban fighters from the Marjah region of the southern province and hold it so that the civilian administration can establish itself.
"The objective here is to protect the people and help the government provide services to the people of Afghanistan, even in the most difficult areas," Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy to the region, told Al Jazeera.
Afghan officials say they have a "government-in-a-box" ready to sweep in and set up institutional services and security that will ensure the Taliban do not return to areas captured by US-led forces.
However, the long-term success of the offensive is likely to depend on securing the support of the local population, something which will be made more difficult by civilian casualties in the offensive.
Nato on Monday expressed its "deep regret" over the deaths of 15 civilians during the offensive in three separate incidents.
Twelve Afghans - six women and six children - were killed when rockets hit their houses suspected to be sheltering Taliban fighters. Three more civilians were shot dead after they ignored warnings from Nato soldiers to stop.
General Stanley McChrystal, the head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, called the loss of life "regrettable" and said the operation was being conducted with "the protection of Afghan people in mind".
"We extend our heartfelt sympathies and will ensure we do all we can to avoid future incidents," he said in a statement on Sunday.


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Late Shimek field goal lifts Windom past Pipestone Area
WINDOM -- Dan Shimek kicked a 30-yard field goal with 13 seconds remaining in regulation Friday night to lift the Windom Eagles to a 31-28 Southern Minnesota Alliance Conference football victory over Pipestone Area.
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After PA scored to tie the game at 28-all with less than two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Windom -- keyed by a pair of big-gain passing plays from A.J. Stevens to Brett Dumke -- moved the ball to the Arrows' 13-yard line.
With 13 seconds showing on the clock, Shimek kicked the ball through the uprights to put Windom up by three, and the Eagles stopped the Arrows on the ensuing kick to secure the victory.
Windom's Jesse Behrens scored three touchdowns and finished with 59 rushing yards on 11 carries and 61 receiving yards on five catches.
Stevens (8-for-10, 120 yards) found Behrens for a 14-yard touchdown play in the first quarter. Behrens rushed for a two-yard score in the second quarter, and Shimek added the point-after kick to give Windom a 13-6 halftime lead.
Behrens returned the second-half's opening kick 95 yards for a touchdown, and Shimek's extra point gave the Eagles a 20-6 lead.
Windom's Kirby Johnson (12 carries, 46 yards) scored on a six-yard burst later in the third quarter before Behrens ran in for the two-point conversion, making it 28-14 and setting up the exciting fourth quarter.
Dumke finished with three catches for 59 yards, and Tim Nagorske rushed for 56 yards on 13 carries.
Windom (1-1) plays at Redwood Valley next week, while PA (1-1) hosts Crookston.
Pipestone 6 0 8 14 -- 28
Windom 6 7 15 3 -- 31
JCC 20, Waseca 3
WASECA -- Matt Brandt threw for two touchdowns and Torey Stewart rushed for another as Jackson County Central won its second straight.
Stewart finished with 71 yards rushing on 15 carries, one yard fewer than Caleb Lines, who led the team (on five attempts).
Ryan Rasche and Justin Schmit each scored on 15-yard touchdown receptions for JCC (2-0), which hosts Blue Earth Area Friday.
Waseca gained 150 yards of total offense, 103 on the ground.
JCC 7 0 7 6 -- 20
Waseca 0 3 0 0 -- 3
New Ulm 24, Luverne 6
NEW ULM -- Luverne's Jeremy Hoff rushed for a 79-yard touchdown, but New Ulm was too much for Luverne.
Luverne (0-2) hosts Fairmont next week.
Luverne 0 0 6 0 -- 6
New Ulm 7 7 3 7 -- 24
Edgerton 34, Lakeview 0
EDGERTON -- Kevin Vander Schaaf rushed the ball 28 times for 254 yards and three touchdowns to power Edgerton past Lakeview.
Edgerton finished the game with 351 rushing yards on 55 carries and forced six turnovers on defense.
Vander Schaaf scored on sprints of 40, eight and 13 yards in the first half. He also made eight tackles and intercepted a pass.
Marty Van Peursem rushed for 51 yards and scored on an eight-yard gallop in the third quarter. He led the Flying Dutchmen with 11 tackles and also intercepted a pass.
Trey Manitz, who also intercepted a pass, threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Berning in the third quarter.
Edgerton (2-0) plays Lincoln HI/Lake Benton in Lake Benton next week.
Lakeview 0 0 0 0 -- 0
Edgerton 14 6 14 0 -- 34
Adrian 50, Ortonville 6
ADRIAN -- The Dragons poured on the offense, picking up 553 total yards -- 434 rushing -- to rout Ortonville.
Glen Kruger and Jesse Brake each rushed for 100 yards or more (Kruger 110, Brake 100), and Brake added a touchdown run. Cody Kontz ran for one touchdown and added another through the air.
Mitchell Cox and Will Lutmer each tallied 10 tackles for Adrian (2-0). Lutmer also had two sacks.
Adrian hosts Fulda Friday.
Ortonville 0 0 0 6 -- 6
Adrian 21 9 6 14 -- 50
Minneota 41, Fulda 13
FULDA -- Matt Buysse threw for three touchdown passes to lead the Minneota Vikings past the Fulda Raiders.
Tyson Sonnenburg (20 yards), Trent Hennen (14 yards) and Thomas Bueltel (seven yards) all caught touchdown passes for Minneota, which racked up 201 rushing yards and 94 passing yards.
Fulda's Tyler Goedtke scored on a seven-yard run, and Aaron Leinen raced 22 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter.
Miguel Lavoie led the Raiders (0-2) with 96 rushing yards on 27 carries. He was also 4-for-10 passing with 21 yards.
Alex Hein carried the ball nine times for 33 yards for the Raiders, who totaled 191 rushing yards on 44 attempts.
Minneota 14 14 6 7 -- 41
Fulda 0 0 0 13 -- 13
MACCRAY 15, T-M-B 14
TRACY -- Justin Koenen rushed for a pair of first-half touchdowns to lead MACCRAY to a victory over Tracy-Milroy-Balaton.
Koenen scored on runs of 28 and 11 yards, and he added the point-after kick following his second score, which proved to be the game-winning point.
T-M-B's David Schmidt caught a 62-yard touchdown pass from Isaac Dolan (15-for-30, 198 yards) in the second quarter.
Seth Swan rushed in from six yards out to pull the Panthers (1-1) within three points (15-12) in the fourth quarter. Dolan hit Schmidt (seven catches, 123 yards) for the two-point conversion to finish the scoring.
MACCRAY 8 7 0 0 -- 15
T-M-B 0 6 0 8 -- 14
RRC 45, RCW 12
DANUBE -- Dylan Barker ran for 65 yards and a touchdown, and also caught a touchdown pass, before leaving the game with a broken left collarbone in Red Rock Central's victory.
His status is uncertain.
Blake Walker threw for two touchdowns -- the second to Josh Fredrickson -- and had 75 yards on 6-of-7 completions to help RRC, which outgained RCW 280-147.
Ryan Bendict led the Falcons with 55 yards on nine carries.
RRC (2-0) visits ML-B-O Friday.
RRC 18 14 7 6 -- 45
RCW 0 0 6 6 -- 12
Springfield 37, ML-B-O 6
SPRINGFIELD -- Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin was held to 152 total yards as the defending state champs rolled at home.
Kyle Schroeder threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Matt Strom to cap a 70-yard drive for ML-B-O's only score of the game.
Mike Smith ran for 23 yards on 11 attempts for the Wolverines (1-1), who host RRC Friday.
ML-B-O 6 0 0 0 -- 6
Springfield 12 6 12 7 -- 37
Estherville-Lincoln Central 28, Sheldon 7
SHELDON, Iowa -- Garrett Crowl scored Sheldon's only touchdown with a three-yard rush in the first quarter, as the Orabs fell to Estherville-Lincoln Central.
Sheldon -- which was limited to 101 total yards (62 passing, 39 rushing) -- was led in tackles by Josh Ihnen's 11 tackles. Stephen Kirschbaum charted five tackles and two interceptions.
Sheldon (0-2) hosts Sibley-Ocheyedan next week.
E-LC 0 6 8 14 -- 28
Sheldon 7 0 0 0 -- 7
Spirit Lake 21, S-O 6
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa -- Spirit Lake used a pair of defensive touchdowns in the fourth quarter -- a 29-yard interception return by Mike Sandy and a fumble recovery by Brock Bonnicksen in the end zone -- to hold off Sibley-Ocheyedan.
Boomer Dreeszen led the offense for Spirit Lake (1-1), going 11-for-18 with 112 yards passing. Tyson Kaminska added 55 yards on 14 carries.
Ross Wiersma scored S-O's only touchdown on an 80-yard run in the first quarter. He finished the game with 63 yards on eight attempts. S-O turned the ball over four times in the game.
S-O (0-2) visits Sheldon Friday.
S-O 6 0 0 0 -- 6
SL 7 0 0 14 -- 21
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Murray County Central remained unbeaten in early-season action, rolling past Russell-Tyler-Ruthton, 46-12. MCC (2-0) has scored 92 points in its first two games.


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Unions march amid claims of crippling corruption at Baragwanath
Nursing union Denosa has threatened to withdraw from the hospital amid allegations of corruption implicating acting CEO Sifiso Maseko.
The entrance to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, 7 June 2015, in Soweto, Johannesburg. Picture: Alaister Russell
Labour unions representing the health sector are marching against what they have described as rampant corruption at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, eNCA has reported.
The unions, including Nehawu, Hospersa, Denosa and PSA, say that while the health department has investigated the alleged corruption they have not allowed them access to the resultant report.
Denosa, a union representing nurses, has threatened to withdraw from the hospital if their demands are not met.
Representing the union, Yandisa Zungula told the news channel that, among their claims about the alleged corruption at the hospital are "discrepancies in the employment processes, interference of the acting CEO in those processes" and "people who have paid for their jobs".
He added that the union wanted the hospital's acting CEO, Sifiso Maseko, to step down.
The EFF protested at the hospital earlier this year over what they saw as a lack of quality healthcare and the high infant mortality rate.
DA member of the provincial legislature in Gauteng Jack Bloom echoed Zungula's concerns earlier in August, saying "the hospital hasn't had a permanent CEO since January two years ago, yet it has a budget of R3 billion and over 6 000 staff".
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"I keep asking the MEC when they will appoint a CEO, and they keep making promises. It's been two years and in that time a lot of patients have been damaged."
Despite the hospital's massive budget, it is also apparently lacking a registered chartered accountant in its CFO position.
According to Bloom, as a teaching hospital that is relatively well resourced, Baragwanath registers abnormally high numbers of patients being harmed.
"In the first six months of this year, they have already registered 986 [SAEs], which indicates that we are likely to see more than 2 000 by the end of the year," he said. "Something is drastically wrong there. You can't tell me their resources are that much worse than Charlotte Maxeke, which fared so much better."
The latter hospital registered only 1 262 SAEs, making it the best-performing teaching hospital in the province.
It was reported that a shocking 20 000 patients were harmed in Gauteng's hospitals in the past two years, with Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital by far the greatest source, with 4 320 cases reported.
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Umrah pilgrims unable to board PIA flight
RAWALPINDI: Eighty pilgrims were stopped from boarding a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight for Umrah because their seats had not been confirmed, but half of them were allowed to travel after their travel agent paid for their tickets.
PIA spokesperson Mashood Tajwar told Dawn that a travel agent from Lahore had booked the pilgrims' seats but did not pay for their confirmation in time, leading to the cancellation of their bookings.
He added that the travel agency was a defaulter that owed the PIA Rs25 million, but had sought a temporary stay order from a senior civil judge.
The court had also ordered the agency to pay the PIA.
Mr Tajwar said the passengers' tickets were only cancelled because the travel agent did not pay for them.
He said the travel agent had also involved a sub-agent who dealt with the pilgrims.
The pilgrims, who were from Lakki Marwat, were to travel from Islamabad to Jeddah on PIA flight PK-741, but were not permitted to board because their seats were not confirmed.
They were told by PIA staff that their bookings were cancelled because their travel agent did not pay for the tickets in time.
Mr Tajwar said 40 of the pilgrims were allowed to travel once the travel agent paid for their tickets.
He blamed the agent for inconveniencing the pilgrims, and claimed the PIA administration's timely actions
had saved the airline from fraud. PK-741 took off at 8:45am.
Separately, a passenger travelling to Ras Al Khaimah was injured from falling on the escalator while heading to the passenger lounge at Islamabad International Airport.
Sources said Sheikh Mohammad Hussain, 83, slipped and fell down the escalator, injuring his forehead. The passenger received first aid from a Civil Aviation Authorty doctor and was allowed to travel.
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1457572
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