Hoboken parking signs read 4-hour grace period -- how about a 20-minute disgrace?
I was ticketed $218 and booted for parking on Third and Grand just for picking up a report at Hoboken University Medical Center.
What favor is Director Sacs doing me? How out of touch is this guy with the community "doing us a favor"? It's a scam and we all know it. I wasn't puzzled, but disgusted.
The former head of the Hoboken Parking Utility is facing eight years in prison after appearing in Superior Court on Friday to admit his role in the theft of $600,000 from that city's parking meters.
John P. Corea pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Francis R. Hodgson Jr. to official misconduct, a second-degree crime carrying a potential prison term of 10 years.
In entering his guilty plea, Corea, 45, a Hoboken resident, admitted steering three no-bid contracts to United Textile Fabricators, an arcade game manufacturer headed by a Toms River man, to collect and count coins from Hoboken's parking meters.
Corea told the judge he made false statements to the Hoboken City Council about the company's qualifications, and that he came to believe that the head of the company, Brian A. Petaccio, 51, of Toms River, had stolen a substantial amount of the city's parking revenues.
A 22-year-old employee of the Hoboken municipal garage was arrested on Friday in connection with the theft of a police transponder from back in January 2009, according to police reports.
On Friday, police concluded that a plastic encoded transponder and a GPS SIM card, both owned by the City of Hoboken, was initially stolen by Terry McDonald, a mechanic at the Hoboken municipal garage, 256 Observer Highway, reports said.
Police generated a warrant complaint against Terry McDonald charging him with burglary, theft and theft of services, reports said.
TRENTON – Attorney General Anne Milgram announced that John P. Corea, former director of the Hoboken Parking Utility, was indicted today on charges that he conspired to steal more than $600,000 in parking meter revenue that he allegedly split with a Toms River contractor whose company was hired by the City of Hoboken to collect coins from city parking meters.
John Corea, former director of the Hoboken Parking Utility, was indicted today on charges that he stole $600,000 from Hoboken. He is shown in January demonstrating parking in the re-opened robotic public parking garage on Garden Street in his own Corvette. The former director of the Hoboken Parking Utility has been indicted on charges he conspired to steal more than $600,000 in parking meter revenue.
State Attorney General Anne Milgram announced the indictment against John Corea, 45 of Hoboken, today.
What did you expect, Forrest?
"Stupid is as stupid does, that's what my mama always said."
I just don't know of anything that characterizes John Corea's "relationship" with the City of Hoboken better than that. At this point, he is a "figure in the investigation" of more than a half million dollars that just can't be found. Because, you know, that kind of money is usually left laying about in discarded Shop-Rite bags.
All other things being what they are, the best predictor of future behavior is past performance. And Corea's past performance has been less than stellar. It seems that when Corea worked at the NY Stock Exchange, he developed a habit of buying stocks with other people's money and then leaving them holding the bag - and the bill - when the stocks went sour.
City Attorney Steven Kleinman confirmed on Thursday that the state police are looking into possibly missing money from the Hoboken Parking Utility's collections from parking meters.
The city may file litigation against the coin collection company, United Textile Fabricators, a Toms River-based company that allegedly misplaced as much as $582,352 last October that they counted for the city. The money was returned in installments beginning in November 2007, but without interest.
The owner of United Textile Fabricators is Brian Petaccio, former co-owner of Grayhound Electronics, who was indicted to state Grand Jury racketeering charges on March 7, 1991.
According to Kleinman, the company has since surrendered the funds to the city, but without interest. He said that the city has stopped using the company and is with holding payments until the matter is settled.
"The administration is looking at all aspects of United Textile Fabricators," Kleinman said Thursday.
HPU Parking Director John Corea had previously said at the Dec. 6 council meeting that his agency's most recent internal audit only showed $34.61 missing.
The Hoboken Parking Utility is under investigation by the New Jersey State Police, say sources with knowledge of the investigation.
"It is accurate that the city is currently reviewing issues involving the Hoboken Parking Utility," Hoboken Corporation Counsel Steve Kleinman confirmed yesterday. "There is a law enforcement aspect to this matter, however, (so) I am constrained from commenting further at this time."
Kleinman said the investigation is related to United Textile Fabricators, the company that collected the revenue from the city's parking meters from December 2005 until a few months ago. Last October, it was learned that UTF owed Hoboken at least $582,352 in revenues that the company collected but didn't give to the city. UTF paid Hoboken in full by the end of last year.
And people wonder why Hoboken has a budget crisis.
Aside from property taxes, parking meter collection is one of Hoboken's biggest revenue sources. But for a two-year period between 2005 and 2007, Hoboken was owed almost $600,000 dollars from a South Jersey company it hired to run its parking meter collection. The city is now looking to collect interest on that money.
In Dec. 2005, Hoboken hired Toms River-based United Textile Fabricators to collect their parking meter coins and return the money to the City. Almost immediately, Hoboken's parking meter revenue dropped. According to an internal audit from the Hoboken Parking Utility, in Nov. 2005, the city made $115,512.82 from the meters; UTF took over the next month and only handed in only $74,470.00.
Audit finds Parking Meter Collections for fiscal year 2007 compared to fiscal year 2006 decreased 33%.
United Textile Fabricators had been previously taking the coins to their place of business in Toms River, NJ and depositing the funds in their accounts.
The Hoboken FY2007 budget (July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007) had some interesting comments on the City's parking meter coin collection, coin counting, and meter repair contract.
The City contracted with United Textile Fabricators, Toms River, NJ for coin collection services and deposit of the City's monies for 2006 and on a month-to-month basis for 2007. Collections for fiscal year 2007 were $660,894, compared to $991,316 for fiscal year 2006, representing in a decrease of $330,422, or 33%.
Many years ago, former Councilman/Assemblyman Robert Ranieri said at a Council Meeting…."In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King."
The Hoboken Finance Department has a responsibility to record every dollar that comes into and leaves the city's coffers. But something went seriously wrong when a Council member asked why anticipated cash revenues from the Hoboken Parking Utility "parking meters" decreased by over ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
As a point of reference, on November 14, 2005 the Hoboken City Council passed Resolution No. 05-179 approving a $300,000 one year contract with Donohue, Gironda & Doria - a Bayonne firm that specializes in municipal accounting - to privatize the city's Finance Department. The City recently entered into the third one-year contract with the accounting company that has been working alongside the city's chief financial officer to manage the city's books.
Councilman Cunningham said "For God sake, clearly, this audit indicates that we have got money going out the back door and something needs to be done about it." Click on the parking meter for the full story.
A million bucks, [that's FOUR MILLION quarters weighing almost 50,000 pounds], reported missing from the Hoboken Parking Utility "parking meter" collections revenue? That was the question asked by Hoboken Third Ward Councilman Michael Russo at the City Council's Budget Hearing on December 6, 2006.
Two weeks later at the December 19, 2007 City Council Meeting, Parking Utility Director John Correa advised the Council that he initated an internal audit of parking meter revenues in response to Russo's inquiry. The audit showed a difference of Thirty-Four Dollars and Sixty-One cents ($34.61). Sixty-One cents? Damm, those "penny parking meters" can really screw up the accounting system.
HOBOKEN - After three months, the patience of customers hoping to return to the Garden Street automated garage by the end this month will be tested a little longer.
The company that contracted to get the futuristic garage at 916 Garden St. up and running again is unlikely to meet a March deadline announced by the Hoboken Parking Authority.
The city of Hoboken, N.J., signs a deal to have Robotic Parking operate its Garden Street Garage, tripling the number of available spaces by shuffling cars in and out through automated lifts.
When Robotic hikes its monthly fees by 20 percent, however, Hoboken officials give the company the boot.
One small problem: Robotic's employees are the only ones who know how to operate the system, and the company disables its software, trapping dozens of customers' cars in the garage for days. After a court order restores its control of the garage, Hoboken pays $1.9 million to another firm to install a new system.
The Hoboken City Council is putting its faith in an Israeli company to run the robotic Garden Street garage, which has been plagued by problems since it was built three years ago.
The council voted Wednesday to award Unitronics a $2 million contract to replace and fix mechanical and electrical problems and replace software that controls the 314-space garage at 916 Garden St.
HOBOKEN - The City Council will vote Wednesday whether to award a $1.9 million contract to Unitronics, Inc. to fix problems with the automated garage at 916 Garden St.
If approved, the Massachusetts-based firm will be contracted to fix mechanical, electronic and software problems to make the troubled garage run smoothly.
HPU: HOW MUCH MORE GARAGE NONSENSE WILL YOU TAKE?
With last week's article on 916 Garden, we are no doubt faced with another costly blunder. And it is still not over! How much more can we take. I say none, zero, zilch, nil. This not only affects those that park at 916 Garden, but the city as a whole. With what was touted by the city as...state of the art and first of its kind; will solve our parking problems; to.. .let's dissolve the authority and bring it in house to control (and spend) the money, and lastly, appoint somebody locally to manage parking, we are now faced with virtually no solution but more posturing and more waste.
Federal Court Judge Stanley Chesler ruled last week that the city of Hoboken broke a confidentiality agreement with Robotic Parking, the Florida-based firm that designed the software for the automated 314-car garage at 916 Garden St., when it brought in an outside fir m to use Robotic's software.
Now the city of Hoboken will be forced to run the automatic garage by itself until it can be retrofitted with new operating system.
The problems began earlier this year, when the city of Hoboken continued its longstanding battle with the garage's original designer, Robotic Parking, and terminated Robotic's contract to run the garage.
However, as currently configured, the garage cannot operate without Robotic's software.
Despite a $ 4 Million surplus in the Hoboken Parking Authority operating budget, the Roberts Administration faction of the Hoboken City Council voted 6-3 in favor of a 20% increase in monthly parking garage rates.
Interesting enough, Hoboken Parking Director JOHN COREA while defending the need for the increase stated that the revenue was needed to maintain the garage facilities. When asked about the $4 Million in surplus funds, COREA admitted that the "PROFITS" garnered from parking meters, garage space rentals, parking violation summonses, and booting/towing vehicles are transferred into the Hoboken GENERAL TREASURY.
At one time, the purpose of the Hoboken Parking Authority was to create parking within the City. Four years ago, Mayor Roberts dissolved the autonomous Hoboken Parking Authority and created the city controlled Hoboken Parking Utility. It is now apparent that the sole purpose of the Hoboken Parking Utility is to operate as a public "for profit" business enterprise with the "surplus funds" used to fund Hoboken City government.
The resolution to increase monthly garage parking rates was sponsored by Councilwoman-at-Large Terry LaBruno and approved by Fourth Ward Council Christopher Campos, Fifth Ward Councilman Michael T. Cricco, Sixth Ward Councilman Nino Giacchi, Councilman-at-Large Ruben Ramos Jr., and Councilman-at-Large Peter Cammarano.
First Ward Councilwoman Theresa Castallano, Second Ward Councilman Richard Del Boccio and Third Ward Councilman Michael Russo voted against the increase.
Hoboken: Just when you thought it was safe to park your car in the 916 Garden Street Automated Garage, the facility experienced major operating problems over this past weekend.
HOBOKEN - City officials and the former operators of the Garden Street automated garage reached a settlement Wednesday that will keep the 314-space garage in business.
According to a joint statement released yesterday, the city will pay Robotics Parking Inc., of Clearwater, Fla., $5,500 a month for three years to license the software needed to operate the intricate system of elevators, pallets and pulleys.
HOBOKEN - City officials plan to ask a federal judge on Monday to order an injunction against the former operators of the Garden Street automated garage, claiming the Florida-based company hijacked the system and trapped several hundred cars in the facility at rush hour yesterday morning.
The computer system that operates the first-in-the-nation garage came to a grinding halt early yesterday morning. As of last evening, the 314-space garage was back at work, but only on a sporadic basis, officials said.
To date, the Hoboken City Council has authorized via Resolution the payment of over ONE MILLION dollars to Robotic Parking, Inc. for management of the 916 Garden Street Automated parking Garage.
Here is a comprehensive listing of the City Council Resolutions authorizing the agreements and payment.
HOBOKEN - The battle between the Hoboken Parking Utility and the operators of the Garden Street automated garage broke into full-fledged war Tuesday night - and city taxpayers could be left picking up a multi-million tab.
Escorted by several Hoboken police officers, Parking Utility director John Corea entered the city-owned garage at 916 Garden St. just after 10 o'clock Tuesday night, and ordered an employee to leave the premises, according to Dennis Clarke, general manager of Robotics Parking Inc., the Clearwater, Fla.-based company that has operated the first-in-the-nation garage since it opened in 2002.
HOBOKEN - Those who use the Garden Street automated garage could be out on the street if the city cannot negotiate a new contract in the next few days with the owners of the beleaguered first-in-the-nation robot garage.
On July 19, Robotics Parking, Inc., the operators of 916 Garden St., distributed warning letters to the 314 tenants, notifying them their cars must be removed from the facility by Aug. 1.
"Ahh forgot one point on the Jeep: investigations into the software recordings revealed that the operator on shift overwrote the software, kicked it out of automatic mode into manual and moved the car into the system, than switched the system back into automatic mode again. Just that the car was NOT inside the confines of the pallet. Operator on shift: the one operator of the HPU." -- Gerhard Haag, President of Robotic Parking, Inc.
The battle between the Hoboken Parking Utility and the operators of the Garden Street automated garage broke out into full-fledged war last night — and city taxpayers could be left picking up a multi-million dollar tab.
Escorted by several Hoboken police officers, Parking Utility Director John Corea entered the garage, at 916 Garden St., just after 10 p.m. and ordered an employee to leave the premises, according Dennis Clarke, general manager of Robotics Parking Inc., the Clearwater, Fla-based company that has operated the first-in-the-nation robot garage since it opened in 2002.
Like a bad marriage where the bickering parents stay together too long for the sake of the kids, the often uncomfortable union between the Hoboken Parking Utility and Robotic Parking Solutions is on the verge of dissolving.
At stake is the future of an innovative yet troubled automated 314-car automated garage at 916 Garden St., which may have to temporarily close unless a resolution is reached before Aug. 1.
Suspended parking officers cry harassment. Employees make allegations against the city.
After receiving suspensions for ticketing police officers, two of Hoboken's Parking Enforcement officers claim they are being harassed by police and mistreated by the city.
Breaking point in garage fight?
HOBOKEN — Those who use the Garden Street automated garage could be out on the street if the city cannot negotiate a new contract in the next 11 days with the owners of the beleaguered first-in-the-nation robot garage.
Did they ticket the wrong people?
Two Hoboken parking employees who were suspended last month for allegedly issuing tickets in a "retaliatory manner" say they are the ones being retaliated against for trying to write tickets for police officers and other connected individuals who were illegally parked.
MORE TROUBLES AT 916 – This Jeep was the second vehicle to fall off a pallet since the garage opened in Oct. 2002. No one was hurt in the accident.
A Hoboken resident's Jeep was totaled at around 2 a.m. Sunday after it fell about four stories inside the automated Parking Garage at 916 Garden St.
There's good news and bad news regarding the Hoboken Parking Utility, the city agency that deals with parking permits, garages, and enforcement.
The fact that the city issued 82,191 tickets for violations last year might be bad news for the 82,191 people who parked at expired meters or without a permit. The good news is that the HPU's own report, issued last week, shows more parking enforcement and more people using the city-run garages.
COREAN CONFLICT - Hoboken Parking Utility Monitor John Corea said in a lawsuit that he was damaged by comments on an Internet message board and in a letter.
With the growing popularity of Internet message boards, this new venue has become one of the favored outlets for anonymous mudslinging - especially in politically heated Hudson County.
INQUEST – Mayor David Roberts has formed a task force uncover the current status of the 324-car automated garage.
Frustrated with the lack of progress at the 324-car garage at 916 Garden St., Mayor David Roberts announced that he will be launching a independent investigation into the garage. According to city officials, Police Chief Carmen LaBruno and Professor Constantin Chassapis, director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, will lead the fact-finding mission on the 916 garage.
The investigation will begin immediately, and the mayor expects an initial report of findings and recommendations to be completed within the next two weeks.


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Important point (level 1)

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Less important point (level 2)

	Allowing editors to create headers of multiple levels, makes it much harder to maintain
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Subtlety (level 3)

	Worst case scenario, this should really be the smallest level of header allowed
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Brevity for brevity's sake (level 4)

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Paragraphs

	One-line paragraph.

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Only John can drive somebody that crazy

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Q: Creating a generic function generating new objects from selected list of columns in a data frame I'm working on a simple ShinyApp that would enable end-users to interrogate the data with use of various filters. Some of the filters correspond to unique values in data frame columns which are created using the code corresponding to the example below:
# Source sample data
data(mtcars)
# Put together menu element
mtcars$cyl <- as.character(mtcars$cyl)
ui_list_cyl <- unique(mtcars$cyl)

I' subsequently introducing elements created in this manner to the Shiny drop down widget, like in the code below:
# Sample widget elements that provides access to unique column values
selectInput("select", label = h3("Select box"),
    choices = ui_list_cyl,
    selected = 1),

I'm repeating the same procedure for a number of columns and it creating a function that would address this requirement appears to be a natural choice. In particular, I would envisage for the function to:

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*Be applicable to a set of columns that I pass onto it

*Create objects corresponding to the interface elements names ui_list_originalCOLUMname
My question would be: how to create a function that can be dynamically applied to an arbitrary selection of columns in a data frame and will return objects with names incorporating the passed column names?

A: There's several ways to write the function you want. Here's an example of such a function that accepts a dataset and a column name and creates the associated select input.
mySelectInput <- function(data, col) {
  id <- sprintf("select_%s", col)
  label <- sprintf("Select %s", col)
  choices <- sort(unique(data[[col]]))
  selectInput(id, label, choices)
}

You can use it in a shiny app like so
runApp(shinyApp(
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  ),
  server = function(input, output, session) {
  }
))

This will create three select inputs for the cyl, gear, carb variables.  I hope this helps, hopefully you can take it from here and apply it to your need

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A childhood game can instantly improve your chances of reaching your goals.
Melissa Johnson writes about it in Saturday's New York Times, recalling Harvard's epic upset of Stanford in the 1998 NCAA women's basketball tournament. Johnson profiles Kathy Delaney-Smith, who coached Harvard with a three-word mantra: Act as if.
Delaney-Smith instilled belief in her players by telling them to ACT a certain way even if they didn't FEEL a certain way.
It's a technique well-known and appreciated by sports psychologists.
"Act like the thing you want to become, and you will become the way you act," says Dr. Rob Gilbert.
When we were children, we all played the game of pretend, but gave it up in favor of more practical pursuits. Who knew that "pretend," when done correctly, could be among the most practical — and powerful — of skills?
"Your actions create your attitudes, your movements create your moods, and your motions create your emotions," says Gilbert.
So "acting as if" can help you in every phase of your game, from acquiring skills to preparing for games.
Coach Tully's Extra Point: Williams James was a pioneering American psychologist. His profile can be found here.


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Poundworld to join list of retailers seeking CVAs
The company looks set to be the next national name in retail and leisure to seek a Company Voluntary Arrangement, with up to 100 of its 355 stores facing closure.
Following its announcement in March of a turnaround plan, Carpetright's creditors and landlords have this week approved the CVA plans put forward, putting around 80 locations at risk of closure.
This year has also seen Prezzo and New Look head down the CVA path, while a CVA is also said to be under consideration by House of Fraser, which has appointed KPMG to advise on a restructuring plan.
Toys R Us UK and Maplin have gone into administration in a torrid year for the sector in the UK.
The CVA has been a preferred route for retailers still confident in their abilities to turn things round providing that liabilities can be cut. The arrangement allows for deals to be struck, allowing the parties to come to agreement on repayment on some or all of a company's debt and obligations over an agreed period.
One agent told Place North West: "The CVA process has changed the way retailers deal with poorly performing sites, in that there is an option to essentially dump those they don't want, and reconfigure their portfolios in a comparatively straightforward way.
"The positive side of it is that this brings matters to a head swiftly, meaning landlords have to be proactive in sourcing a new occupier, but there is of course a negative side as well. The element of confidence and profile from letting a unit to a national firm has been eroded, and that is one of the key building blocks of property investment."


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Thanks for the introduction to this one and I hope that you enjoy it.
I'm wary of novels involving real people ever since I read that one about Frank Lloyd Wright -- Loving Frank -- that ended with such surprising (for me) violence. But I just looked this one up and it looks very interesting.
Thanks for participating in Book Beginnings on Fridays!
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  var db = new CouchDB("test_suite_db");
  db.deleteDb();
  db.createDb();
  if (debug) debugger;

  var designDoc = {
    _id:"_design/lists",
    language: "javascript",
    views : {
      basicView : {
        map : stringFun(function(doc) {
          emit(doc.integer, doc.string);
        })
      },
      withReduce : {
        map : stringFun(function(doc) {
          emit(doc.integer, doc.string);
        }),
        reduce : stringFun(function(keys, values, rereduce) {
          if (rereduce) {
            return sum(values);
          } else {
            return values.length;
          }
        })
      }
    },
    lists: {
      simpleForm: stringFun(function(head, row, req, row_info) {
        if (row) {
          // we ignore headers on rows and tail
          return {
                  body : '\n
Key: '+row.key
                  +' Value: '+row.value
                  +' LineNo: '+row_info.row_number+'
'
          };
        } else if (head) {
          // we return an object (like those used by external and show)
          // so that we can specify headers
          return {
            body : '
Total Rows: '
              + head.total_rows
              + ' Offset: ' + head.offset
              + '

'
          };
        } else {
          // tail
          return {body : '
'+
              '
FirstKey: '+(row_info ? row_info.first_key : '')+
              ' LastKey: '+(row_info ? row_info.prev_key : '')+'
'};
        }
      }),
      acceptSwitch: stringFun(function(head, row, req, row_info) {
        return respondWith(req, {
          html : function() {
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            // any headers, you can just return a string.
            if (head) {
              return "HTML
";
            } else if (row) {
              return '\n
Key: '
                +row.key+' Value: '+row.value
                +' LineNo: '+row_info.row_number+'
';
            } else { // tail
              return '
';

            }
          },
          xml : function() {
            if (head) {
              return '<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">'
                +'<title>Test XML Feed</title>';
            } else if (row) {
              // Becase Safari can't stand to see that dastardly
              // E4X outside of a string. Outside of tests you
              // can just use E4X literals.
              var entry = new XML('<entry/>');
              entry.id = row.id;
              entry.title = row.key;
              entry.content = row.value;
              // We'll also let you return just an E4X object
              // if you aren't setting headers.
              return entry;
            } else {
              return "</feed>";
            }
          }
        })
      }),
      qsParams: stringFun(function(head, row, req, row_info) {
        if(head) return {body: req.query.foo};
        else return {body: "\n"};
      }),
      stopIter: stringFun(function(head, row, req, row_info) {
        if(head) {
          return {body: "head"};
        } else if(row) {
          if(row_info.row_number > 2) return {stop: true};
          return {body: " " + row_info.row_number};
        } else {
          return {body: " tail"};
        }
      }),
      stopIter2: stringFun(function(head, row, req, row_info) {
        return respondWith(req, {
          html: function() {
            if(head) {
              return "head";
            } else if(row) {
              if(row_info.row_number > 2) return {stop: true};
              return " " + row_info.row_number;
            } else {
              return " tail";
            }
          }
        });
      }),
      emptyList: stringFun(function(head, row, req, row_info) {
        return { body: "" };
      })
    }
  };

  T(db.save(designDoc).ok);

  var docs = makeDocs(0, 10);
  var saveResult = db.bulkSave(docs);
  T(saveResult.ok);

  var view = db.view('lists/basicView');
  T(view.total_rows == 10);

  // standard get
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  T(xhr.status == 200);
  T(/Total Rows/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/Key: 1/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/LineNo: 0/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/LineNo: 5/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/FirstKey: 0/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/LastKey: 9/.test(xhr.responseText));

  var lines = xhr.responseText.split('\n');
  T(/LineNo: 5/.test(lines[6]));

  // test that etags are available
  var etag = xhr.getResponseHeader("etag");
  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/simpleForm/basicView", {
    headers: {"if-none-match": etag}
  });
  T(xhr.status == 304);

  // get with query params
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  T(xhr.status == 200);
  T(/Total Rows/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(!(/Key: 1/.test(xhr.responseText)));
  T(/FirstKey: 3/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/LastKey: 9/.test(xhr.responseText));

  // with 0 rows
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  T(xhr.status == 200);
  T(/Total Rows/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/Offset: null/.test(xhr.responseText));

  // reduce with 0 rows
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  T(xhr.status == 200);
  T(/Total Rows/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/Offset: undefined/.test(xhr.responseText));

  // when there is a reduce present, but not used
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  T(xhr.status == 200);
  T(/Total Rows/.test(xhr.responseText));
  T(/Key: 1/.test(xhr.responseText));

  // when there is a reduce present, and used
  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/simpleForm/withReduce?group=true");
  T(xhr.status == 200);
  T(/Key: 1/.test(xhr.responseText));

  // there should be etags on reduce as well
  var etag = xhr.getResponseHeader("etag");
  T(etag, "Etags should be served with reduce lists");
  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/simpleForm/withReduce?group=true", {
    headers: {"if-none-match": etag}
  });
  T(xhr.status == 304);

  // verify the etags expire correctly
  var docs = makeDocs(11, 12);
  var saveResult = db.bulkSave(docs);
  T(saveResult.ok);

  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/simpleForm/withReduce?group=true", {
    headers: {"if-none-match": etag}
  });
  T(xhr.status == 200);

  // with accept headers for HTML
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    headers: {
      "Accept": 'text/html'
    }
  });
  T(xhr.getResponseHeader("Content-Type") == "text/html");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/HTML/));
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/Value/));

  // now with xml
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    headers: {
      "Accept": 'application/xml'
    }
  });
  T(xhr.getResponseHeader("Content-Type") == "application/xml");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/XML/));
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/entry/));

  // now with extra qs params
  var xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/qsParams/basicView?foo=blam");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/blam/));

  // aborting iteration
  var xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/stopIter/basicView");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/^head 0 1 2 tail$/));
  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/stopIter2/basicView");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/^head 0 1 2 tail$/));

  // aborting iteration with reduce
  var xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/stopIter/withReduce?group=true");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/^head 0 1 2 tail$/));
  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/stopIter2/withReduce?group=true");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/^head 0 1 2 tail$/));

  // empty list
  var xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/emptyList/basicView");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/^$/));
  xhr = CouchDB.request("GET", "/test_suite_db/_list/lists/emptyList/withReduce?group=true");
  T(xhr.responseText.match(/^$/));

};


Does moving homes mean changing schools?
Children in low-income communities often change schools and move residences. Using data from a panel study of households in 10 cities participating in Making Connections, the Annie E. Casey Foundation's national place-based initiative, our new research reveals how residential moves connect to school changes within distressed neighborhoods.
In the low-income communities studied, students often switch schools. Over three years, 78 percent of children changed schools. While 56 percent of those children switched from a lower to higher educational level like elementary school to junior high (a promotional change), 22 percent changed within their same level (a nonpromotional change). The remaining 22 percent remained at the same school in both periods. Thus, half of the children who could have stayed at their original school switched.
Although less prevalent, housing moves were also common among low-income children. Approximately 55 percent of the children moved homes over the three years, far above the national rate. Switching schools in these neighborhoods was linked with residential mobility—although not as tightly as might be commonly understood. While the "school changers" moved homes more often than the "school stayers" (59 percent vs. 41 percent), both moves also occurred independently for many children and households.
Moving homes was the highest for kids that switched schools within their educational level, but even for this group, 31 percent of children who made nonpromotional school changes did so without making a residential move. And looking at school stayers, we see that even 41 percent of these children moved homes.
White children switched schools less than black or Hispanic children.
Children in owner-occupied homes switched less than those in rented homes.
Household income was not higher or lower on average for school stayers or changers.
Kids with parents who received safety net programs such as SNAP and public housing were more likely to change schools.
Parents' educational attainment was not linked with whether their children switched schools.
Kids with parents reporting greater satisfaction in their schools were more likely to stay.
These patterns of residential and school mobility collectively add up to neighborhoods and schools that are fluid, not static, in nature. But are policy and practice set up to accommodate this flux?
Stay tuned for tomorrow's post on whether school switches actually helped kids reach higher-performing schools, and if so, under what conditions. In a third post, I'll explore how place-based programs like Promise Neighborhoods should grapple with the mobility issue.
This post is the first in a series that showed results from our new study of 10 communities participating in a place-based initiative, Making Connections. The second showed that while many kids switched schools over the course of the study, on average, children didn't reach higher-ranked schools. The third explains how reducing unproductive school and residential churning may be a key to place-based investment success.


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The SlackStand is a completely freestanding, portable structure allowing set-up indoors or out without the need for trees or other anchors. The SlackStand includes a 12 foot slackline, making it the ideal system for schools, gyms or in-home use. Steel construction provides a solid base and sleek design keeps the unit as lightweight and compact as possible. Easy to assemble and breaks down into two sections for convenient storage.
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Over 60 years have passed and billions of CD and digital sales have been recorded, but vinyl is still a firm fan favorite. If anything, we love it more now than ever.
For some of us, vinyls are collectibles. We become engrossed in its aesthetics, its artwork, its packaging. For others, it's all about the sound quality. CDs and mp3 downloads don't quite offer you the same physical interaction with music that vinyls do.
However, vinyl's biggest drawback has always been its susceptibility to scratched surfaces, bent sleeves, and worn artwork, if not looked after properly.
To help you guys out, I've come up with the simplest, easiest and most effective ways of storing your vinyl, so that you can keep experiencing them in all their beauty; with all the benefits and none of the fuss.
Having an inner sleeve for each of your vinyl records is the first crucial step to maintaining their quality. You need an inner sleeve that has a smooth and silky feel, in order to protect from scratching.
Warning: Avoid paper-like sleeves at all costs! These will act like sandpaper, slowly scratching away at the surface of your vinyl.
You can find affordable, good quality inner sleeves here at specialty sites like Analogue Seduction or Amazon (but be careful; there's a lot of crap on Amazon).
Check out this great thread which debates the need for an inner sleeve.
Having just an inner sleeve is not enough. Pairing it with an outer sleeve that goes over the cardboard sleeve will go a long way to shielding your record from dust entirely.
Just like the inner sleeve, I recommend using a light and smooth material. Heavy plastic sleeves will weigh onto your vinyl, stick to your artwork, and peel it off over time. With this in mind, you also need a sleeve with plenty of room!
Still not sure whether you need an outer sleeve? Check out the video below to see exactly why.
While the inner and outer sleeves protect the vinyl 90% of the way, the outer sleeve still leaves the vinyl exposed on one side.
Vinyl bags have a sealable fold at the top which keeps the vinyl airtight, giving you that extra 10% of protection.
Personally, I think using an inner and outer sleeve is sufficient for records in your everyday collection. But for long term storage or for collector's items, I would definitely go with the extra protection of a vinyl record bag.
When vinyls are piled high, or horizontal in this case, it can cause the shelving to collapse like a pack of cards. Your entire collection will be ruined in the blink of an eye.
Invest in metal, L-shaped brackets to slip under each corner.
Create your own labeled dividers. This not only helps with maintaining a balance throughout the shelves, but also maintains the organisation of your vinyl records.
Don't store different vinyl sizes together. Always group in sizes! This will add to the overall balance of your shelf.
Good stands for turntables generally work for storing vinyl as well, as long as your collection is not overly large.
Prefer to store your vinyls away? Heavy duty plastic is your answer. You need a strong plastic box with a good handle grip on it. Cardboard is not strong enough and will not be safe for lifting.
Surprisingly, vinyl can withstand low temperatures very well. It's the heat that you need to worry about.
Anything above 50+°F (10°C)and your records will begin to warp. It's fine if records in everyday use are kept in higher temperatures 65 to 70°F (18 to 21°C), but records in long-term storage should be kept below 50°F (7 to 10°C).
Suppliers changed the material of vinyl as soon as they realised their current material was causing records to crack in cold temperatures. The softer and more pliable texture used today withstands these cold temperatures, but unfortunately can cause this warping effect when placed in a heated environment.
So, stick to 45 to 50°F (7 to 10°C) for records in long-term storage!
No matter how soft your t shirt is, its fibers can damage and scratch your vinyl. So what can you use instead?
Record cleaning brushes are a quick and easy way to remove dust and dirt. Simply place the brush on the vinyl, in line with its line pattern, and spin the record. A record cleaning brush will wipe off even the smallest amounts of dust and dirt.
If this isn't enough, you can also purchase vinyl cleaning solution anywhere online. Simply spray onto the vinyl, avoiding the artwork and, using a microfiber cloth, wipe in a circular motion.
For much more on cleaning your records, check out our detailed guide.
Have you tried all these tips, buy you're still not getting the sound you expect out of your records?
It's most likely down to the way you're physically handling them. Yes, it's essential to store them with care, but you must also handle them with care.
Try and only touch the edges. Touching the surface too much will inadvertently spread oils and grease from your finger to the vinyl.
So there you have it: 8 tips to storing your vinyl records so they last a long time! Follow these steps and in 20 years' time, your records will still soundg just as golden as today.
Let us know if these tips worked for you in the comment section below! Do you store your records in a different way? We want to hear all about it in the comments.
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In the blink of an eye, the festive season is in full swing – Christmas ads, Kevin the Carrot and all.
By Leanne Clarke
Thursday, 16th December 2021, 10:19 am
On the cusp of 2021's festivities kicking off, Vanarama surveyed 1,000 UK adults on their knowledge of the current drink-drive limits to find out just how many have no idea they could be putting themselves and others at risk.
With that also comes 11 months' worth of social events packed into just four weeks, from work parties to Black Eye Friday celebrations.
As such, the police are usually especially keen to stress drink-driving awareness this time of year.
Four Million Drivers Could Be At Risk The Morning After A Christmas Party
A Third Of Drivers Could Get Behind The Wheel After Champagne On Christmas Day
Vanarama presented 1,000 respondents with five scenarios, from the office party to a tipple with Christmas dinner, breaking down the proportions of those with false confidence in the law.
The responses show that one in five UK adults – or eight million drivers – have no clue that it takes just two small glasses of wine to take your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) beyond the England, Wales and Northern Ireland limit of 0.08%, or 80mg of alcohol for every 100ml of blood. In Scotland, that limit is 0.05% and 50mg of alcohol.
Worse still is that nearly a third of respondents believe a glass of champagne with the Christmas Day roast would have no effect on their ability to drive. Against the UK driving population (36 million), that means just over 10 million drivers could be risking it this year.
Applied to the population as a whole, as many as 19 million UK adults could be the driver or passenger of a car operated under the influence of alcohol on Christmas Day.
Participants were also quizzed on the amount of time required for your body to process alcohol and drop below the drink-drive limit. When asked if 12 hours was enough to stabilise your BAC after five pints of lager and two vodka singles at the work Christmas party, more than one in 10 were confident it was.
In actual fact, this level of alcohol could take up to 50% longer, meaning four million drivers could be caught red-handed the day after work festivities this year.
You're 11 Times More Likely To Die In A Vehicle Crash If You Drive Over The Limit
Affecting reaction times, coordination, vision and even our judgement, alcohol is best served without driving. According to independent charity Drinkaware, even drivers with a BAC of less than 0.05% (roughly one and a bit pints of lager) have a three-times risk of dying in a vehicle crash. Those between 0.08% and 0.10%, equivalent to only three or four pints, are 11 times more likely to die in a crash.
Although there's been a drop in recent years, 7,800 people are estimated to have been killed or injured in 2019 when at least one driver was over the limit, according to the Department for Transport's latest published statistics.
Just Standing By Your Car While Drunk Can Land You In Prison For Three Months
Drink-driving punishments are just as sobering, however, as even standing by your car while intoxicated can result in three months' imprisonment, up to £2,500 in fines and a possible driving ban. Actually driving or attempting to drive under the influence raises those to six months' imprisonment, unlimited fines and a driving ban of at least one year, or three if you're convicted twice within a decade.
Causing death by careless driving while intoxicated could result in 14 years behind bars, unlimited fines, and a two-year minimum ban. You'll also have to complete an extended driving test before the licence is returned.
Six Tips For Staying Safe On The Roads This Christmas
Despite the many celebrations at this time of year, especially after the write-off that was Christmas 2020, it's worth knowing your limits – both personal and those related to drink-driving.
For the full avoidance of doubt, don't drive after any amount of alcohol – even if it's only a few mouthfuls of lager. This is unlikely to put you over the limit but could still affect your driving ability. Alcohol-free alternatives, such as mocktails and Heineken 0.0, are a safer option.
If you need to drive, keep below the drink-drive limit. Two pints of standard lager or two small glasses of wine is all it takes to teeter over, so opt for two lager shandies or a small wine spritzer – or safer still, avoid drinking altogether if you're driving.
There really is science behind 'lining the stomach'. A full stomach before drinking can slow the absorption of alcohol and help manage your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) better. Even if you won't be driving until the day after, this is recommended.
Have a soft drink or glass of water every other drink or at regular intervals. Overall, you'll still feel the merry effect of alcohol but won't be consuming as much of it. Regardless of how much you've eaten, however, make sure to stay within the drink-drive limit and avoid driving the day after a heavy night out.
Give your body plenty of time to process the alcohol the following day. Especially after a heavy session, seven or eight hours of sleep likely won't be enough to bring you below the drink-drive limit. Free online tools, such as the Morning After Calculator, can estimate how long a range of drinks will stay in your system.
For the full better-safe-than-sorry approach, consider buying your own alcohol breathalyser. The Alcosense Lite2, for example, is available from several UK retailers for less than £50 – a small cost for total peace of mind.
How Much Do I Need To Drink To Be Over The Limit?
So, we know the UK's drink-drive limit is 80mg of alcohol for every 100ml of blood (or 50mg for Scottish motorists), but how does that translate into actual drinks? Below are some common choices and how many hours it takes one helping to be processed by the body.
Just one large glass of wine - five hours required before driving.
Double vodka - four hours.
Sex on the Beach - four hours.
Pint of cider - four hours.
Long Island Iced Tea - three and a half hours.
Pint of lager - three and a half hours.
Pina Colada - three hours.
Can of lager - three hours.
Glass of champagne - two and a half hours.
Single gin - two and a half hours.
Figures from morning-after.org.uk.
Although one serving of each of the above wouldn't necessarily take you beyond the drink-drive limit, the time required shows how long alcohol can hang about in your system. Perhaps most surprising is that a large glass of wine, at five hours, takes longer to process than the likes of a Long Island Iced Tea or double vodka.
Even the least potent single gin would need two and a half hours to be undone.
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"Community" isn't just a group of people inhabiting a particular place; in artistic terms it means so much more: Sharing, Cooperation, Creative Osmosis. As a master printmaker and educator for 20 years, I can say that only in sharing my knowledge with others do I truly gain knowledge. I must gather a true, diverse Community of learning and mentoring around my press if I want my own artistic legacy to endure.
Community is also a kind of 'formal' element in my own work. Take, for instance, an interactive public-art project I initiated in 2011 called "1001 Dreams." With 'Dreams', over the course of the last two years, I literally take people's dreams out of their heads and out of their beds. First I solicit random readers' dream narratives via a website. Once people write to me, I convert their dreams into images, printing them on pillowcases; I then seed these pillows into unexpected, far-flung corners of a host City. (To date, I've completed this action in São Paolo, London, and New York.) My idea was that passersby would discover the dream-covered pillows as soft found objects, read them, and maybe even take them home. Now 'dreams' are everywhere, the unconscious mind has entered the realm of the tangible. I won't stop until I have given away 1001 dreams.
Other elements of my practice are highly tactile and range in size from something you can hang from the ceiling to hold in your hand. For example, I retain the cut copper plates from which I print and exhibit them as sculpture; I use steel wool as a printing material (and hang it alongside the prints); I cut large, elaborate, delicate sculptures out of tin. And of course, there are photogravures, etchings, engravings…some of my series deal with nothing less hopeful and grand than the Creation of the World; in other series I take a frank look at my late brother's untimely death, incorporating all sorts of biological imagery. Printmaking has taught me how transformative the act of making art can be — a Process in which beginnings and ends come together — a Place of Ideas where people from all corners of the globe can gather around the press.
I'm currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and the artistic director of the New Jersey Printmaking Center. I am a faculty member at the Lower East Side Printshop and In Brazil I teach workshops at the Museu Lasar Segal in São Paulo, and Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Laje in Rio de Janeiro.
Early on the engagement with the 'Dreams Project' was shared with Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK. The project has become a socio-cultural-artistic engagement with culture, an experiment with dream and art in cosmopolitan space, jointly carried out between Silva and Goloborotko.
Professor Silva's current research focuses on two complementary investigations about contemporary culture: (1) The Infrastructures of Digital Culture – arising from an European Research Council award for the 'Sociological identification of the actors, practices, discourses and technologies involved in the conservation of media-art works' (jointly developed with Fernando Dominguez), and (2) Cultural Haunting and Shared Living – deriving from engagements with the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Silva's exploration of 'Psyche in the Habitus'. One aspect of this is to seek ways of making the hidden world of dreams visible as social data, to indicate patterns of social living where fears and desires are accounted for.
Silva studied for her undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Sao Paulo and obtained her PhD from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. She works in the fields of sociology of culture, technology and everyday life. Social divisions, in particular those concerning gender, and cross national comparisons have been central to her work in these fields. She has taught and researched in Brazil (University of Sao Paulo and University of Campinas), the United States (Harvard University and Brown University) and in the UK (University of Leeds) and has also been a visiting scholar in France (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique).
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1989-90: Revolution
The two hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution provides an opportunity to probe the legacy of that revolution as well as the more general problem of revolutionary change in society, culture, and the arts. Applications are invited from scholars working on the French Revolution and its literal or figurative aftermath: the way it has functioned as a lodestar for political upheavals, national transformations, and imaginative initiatives. Applications are also invited form scholars addressing the problem of revolutionary transformation in other areas of research from the political to the artistic. Indeed we especially encourage research projects that inquire into the complex interactions among political, social, and aesthetic dimensions of texts and other historical phenomena.
In selecting "Producing, Inventing, and Remembering Revolution" as its theme for 1989-90, the Society for the Humanities seeks to bring together scholars from the fields of language and literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, social or political theory, and the arts.
Invited Fellows
Lynn Hunt (History, University of Pennsylvania)
Colin Lucas (History, University of Chicago)
Maurice Meisner (Asian History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chantal Mouffe (College International de Philosophie)
Ian Balfour (York University)
Ellen Burt (University of California-Irvine)
Geraldine Friedman (Purdue University)
Ilja Luciak (Virginia Polytechnic Institute)
Andrew Ross (New York University)
David Stark (Columbia University)
Fredric Bogel (English)
Steve Kaplan (History)
Mary Beth Norton (History)
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Saving the day
Naomi Gunasekara meets a naval officer who is willing to risk his life to save others
When Surgeon Lt. I. N. P. Gunatilake arrived at the naval base in Oddusudan to conduct awareness lectures on November 1, 1999, he little envisaged treating tractor-loads of casualties for three consecutive days.
Attached to the Navy's Pandukabaya sick quarters as Command Medical Officer (CMO) North Central Command, he fought a solitary battle behind enemy lines to save lives following a surprise attack by the LTTE on November 2, 1999.
He made history last week by becoming the first Sri Lankan naval doctor to be awarded a Gallantry Medal by the President at the Gallantry Awards Ceremony held at the BMICH on Tuesday. He received the Rana Wickrama Padakkama Gallantry Award in recognition of his "unwavering commitment to his medical profession (and) conspicuous bravery to save the lives of casualties, even risking his own life."
Dr. Gunatilake was in fact recommended for one of the in fact highest honours bestowed on forces' personnel - the Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya - by Rear Admiral L. D. Dharmapriya. "Due to his commitment to service as well as unflagging inspiration displayed whilst most of his staff cowardly retreated to Walagamba and safe places, he must be credited for saving lives of wounded personnel risking his own life," the Rear Admiral wrote, highly recommending him for the medal.
However, the Tri-forces Board decided otherwise and gave Dr. Gunatilake an award, one rank below what was recommended - the Rana Wickrama Padakkama.
"That is alright. I did what was best for the country," said Dr. Gunatilake, who fought against many odds during his service in the North Central and Eastern FDLs. Outspoken and dedicated to his work, Dr. Gunatilake was at the receiving end of many insults for carrying out humanitarian work in the Sinhalese and Tamil border villages unvisited by health officials and doctors.
He has saved many lives, including that of a woman in labour, crossing heavily mined areas to distribute leaflets and conduct health clinics in schools in distant villages.
Speaking of the act for which he was awarded the medal, he said; "When the attack intensified, casualties poured into the sick quarters of Vijayaba and I had to do whatever I could with the little supplies I had." Treating patients round the clock with the assistance of junior medical staff amidst heavy fighting, Dr. Gunatilake remained at Oddusudan despite being ordered to move to the adjoining base. "The enemy inched forward but I couldn't abandon the patients," he said.
Attending to the last casualty, he had moved to the Walagamba base through jungle terrain around 4 p.m. on November 2 and resumed treating patients immediately. "Walagamba was vacated later and we moved to Gajaba where I treated more casualties," he said. Reaching Gajaba, he treated more patients without a break, transferring serious cases to the Anuradhapura General Hospital.
On November 4 when Gajaba was vacated, Dr. Gunatilake waited until the last casualty was removed before leaving with a few personnel through the jungle.
"We headed towards Mankulam and saw injured personnel along the road. I treated them immediately and took necessary steps to transfer them to safety.
Thousands of personnel were at the front at the time of this attack and most of them were displaced after injury. Heading towards Mankulam on foot with six officers and making their way through dense forest with the help of a compass and map, Dr. Gunatilake treated over 1,500 casualties behind enemy lines. Finding an abandoned ambulance, he transferred all casualties to safe places and treated them in the open. "Most of them were placed under trees and given medical and surgical assistance. Saline drips with relevant drugs had to be attached to tree barks and branches."
Dr. Gunatilake who holds a degree from the Russian State Medical University in Moscow, recalls a case where he performed vascular grafting instead of amputation as directed, on two sailors injured in Operation Jayasikuru.
After being transferred to Colombo in June 2000, he does volentary work with the NGO, Success Organisation, conducting clinics and awareness programmes in the north central and east when on leave. But he still feels restricted in Colombo. "No other doctor was willing to work in these areas because they had to work under extremely difficult conditions with constant threats to one's life," he said, adding that he often faced harsh treatment because of his foreign education.
Studying in Russia on a scholarship had not been easy for Dr. Gunatilake who was determined to work for the forces on return. "I was there when Perestroika was taking place and sought out opportunities to work in army hospitals in Russia to gain some exposure," he said. Returning to Sri Lanka, he joined the navy despite strong opposition from his family. "My parents, especially my father Dr. P. K. Gunatilake who was a doctor himself, objected.
They didn't speak to me for a long time but my father visited me before his death and told me that he would come for my passing out ceremony."
Dr. Gunatilake hopes to go back to the difficult areas,one day. "I can proudly say that I have saved many lives, limbs and kept morale high among the personnel. I want to be where my service is needed, especially in difficult areas and save as many lives as possible," he adds.
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