Mar 18 (TP) A strike by doctors moved into its second week with other health sector workers also threatening to protest if the demands of the doctors are met, the Daily Mirror reported. It said a pregnant mother brought to the Kalubowila hospital, delivered the baby at the gate of the hospital, as admissions had been suspended. more..
Mar 18 (TP) Nearly 1800 civil servants and members of Sri Lanka's Administrative Service (SLAS) staged a demonstration in Colombo to protest against the government�s failure to rectify their salary anomalies. more..
Mar 18 (wsws) A major split has erupted between the northern and eastern wings of the LTTE that has the potential to undermine the current ceasefire in Sri Lanka and plunge the country back to civil war. more..
Mar 18 (IPS) The Sri Lankan government is clamping down on advertisers' wild claims about the benefits of certain food products, starting with new restrictions on nutritional and protein claims to take effect on Apr. 1. more..
Mar 18 (CO) As many as 813 Sri Lankan refugees in a camp in Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu have been allowed to return to their country. Officials, quoting Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner to India Sumit Nakanthala, today said the Sri Lankan government had already issued travel permit to the refugees, housed in Okkur refugee camp. more..
Mar 18 (SN) Tamilnet Web Master, Mr Sivaram who writes in the penname Taraki has confirmed that Karuna was unofficial deputy leader of the LTTE in his article published in Daily Mirror of 18th March. more..
Mar 18 (SN) Maha Nayake Thero of Asgiriya Chapter, the most Ven Udugama Sri Buddharakkita thero yesterday endorsed the JHU monks� decision to contest the election. He endorsed the monks when the contesting monks met him at Asgiriya temple in Kandy. more..
Mar 18 (SN) Ven Samandeniye Dhammaloka thero, a candidate of the Hela Urumaya for Kurunegala district was threaten by a UNP member of Mawathagama Pradeshiya Sabha demanding him to resign. He has lodged a complaint to Mawatagama Police Station. more..
Mar 18 (SN) Both the LTTE and RTTE (Karuna�s recently formed Revolutionary Tigers of Tamil Eelam) have accused the SLMM of supporting their rival group. Karuna�s secretary Varthan charged on 15th March that the SLMM and Norway assists the LTTE to move cadres to the East from Vanni to fight with the RTTE. more..
Mar 18 (DN) The doctors' strike entered its eight day yesterday paralysing the public health sector as the striking doctors warned to stop admissions to the Badulla and Peradeniya Teaching Hospitals if a meeting scheduled yesterday afternoon with the Health Minister did not materialise to forge a satisfactory solution. more..
Mar 18 (gulf) Tamil guerrilla theoretician Anton Balasingham has vowed to end a power struggle within the group without armed violence and bloodshed and declared that the rebellion staged by a regional military wing leader was a 'temporary aberration'. more..
Mar 18 (CI) Damien Martyn batted studiously throughout the first half of the third day to keep Australia in front in the second Test at Kandy. Australia lost two wickets in the morning - including Adam Gilchrist's for 144 - and another after lunch, more..
Mar 18 (DM) JHU National Organiser Ven. Kolonnawe Sumangala Thera yesterday called on all journalists attached to state media institutions to resign forthwith rather than be a party to what he called an 'anti-nationalist and anti -religious' propaganda and mudslinging levelled at JHU members. more..
Mar 18 (HT) Q. How did President Kumaratunga undermine the role of Prime Minister Wickeramasinghe led peace process?
A. The LTTE pulled out of the Norway brokered peace talks with the Sri Lankan government in March 2003 on the grounds that it was being sidelined. more..
Mar 18 (Reuters) Sri Lanka's central bank said on Thursday it could cut interest rates by a small margin in 2004, with expectations the island's peace bid would continue to spur economic growth and inflationary pressure would ease. more..
Mar 18 (IANS) A prominent Sri Lankan politician has urged the people to draw inspiration from India's economic success to have "a dream of our own". Milinda Moragoda was Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's point-person for the negotiations with the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, has cited the Indian example to the voters in his personal website. more..
Mar 18 (HT) The rebel LTTE leader, Colonel Karuna, has asked the TNA in his fiefdom of Batticaloa-Amparai, to fight the parliamentary elections on the basis of regional development issues, and not on the political issue of "Tamil Nationalism", as demanded by the Prabhakaran faction based in northern Sri Lanka. more..
Mar 18 (Reuters) Japan said on Thursday it will send a team to observe Sri Lanka's approaching election, adding to a small army of monitors seeking to ensure a fair poll and support the island's peace process. more..
Mar 19 (JS) Sri Lanka�s garment industry is so confident of its high standards of social compliance that it plans to use them as a marketing tool to boost business post 2005. A special committee has been set up to help all apparel export companies become socially compliant, more..
Mar 19 (NW) The doctors' strike entered its eight day yesterday paralysing the public health sector as the striking doctors warned to stop admissions to the Badulla and Peradeniya Teaching Hospitals if a meeting scheduled yesterday afternoon with the Health Minister did not materialise to forge a satisfactory solution. more..
Mar 19 (NW) Kumar Wickramasingha is used to having his picture in nationally circulated restaurant trade magazines. For about the 10th time - he's lost count - the owner and executive chef at Alpha's on the Riverfront, 709 Avenue H, is featured in one of those magazines. This time it's Chef Magazine, and Wickramasingha is excited. more..
Mar 19 (NW) Chandrasena has created dream gowns for singer Shania Twain, Sandra Bullock (in the movie, Miss Congeniality), Julie Andrews (for the movie, Princess Diaries), and Julie Moran (as compere for the Miss Universe 2000 pageant). more..
Mar 19 (NW) President Chandrika Kumaratunge has requested the Ministry of Labour to pay the March salary of all casual and temporary employees in the private sector on or before the March 31st. Normally salaries of casual employees are paid on the 10th of the following month. more..
Mar 19 (NW) The Presidential Secretariat says that although Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando denies allegations that Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Malaysia Rosy Senanayake is involved in electioneering work, it has learnt from reliable sources that she is actually engaged in such work. more..
Mar 19 (NW) The countrys power supply is likely to face a threat of disruption today with speculation rife that some 10,000 CEB workers who are launching a token strike might resort to acts of sabotage. more..
Mar 19 (TN) Mr. Nagarajah Sambasivamoorthy, one of the seven candidates put forward by the ruling United National Party to contest the forthcoming general election in the Trincomalee electoral district, said Thursday that he has withdrawn from the contest, more..
Mar 19 (Reuters) Sri Lanka's president called a split in the Tamil Tiger rebels a dangerous situation but said on Thursday she was determined to quickly restart peace talks if her party wins next month's general election. more..
Mar 19 (TN) Mr.Abdul Hassan Sahul Hameed, sole Muslim candidate contesting in the Trincomalee district on the TNA ticket Thursday appealed to Muslim voters to exercise their franchise to promote unity and harmony between the two communities in the district, more..
Mar 19 (TN) �All anti-personnel mines buried in the Jaffna peninsula could be completely removed and deactivated by the end of the year 2006 if the current peace environment continued and the financial assistance promised by the international community is disbursed as scheduled�, said Mr. Tim Horner, more..
Mar 19 (BBC) President Chandrika Kumaratunga says the recent split in the Tamil Tiger rebels will complicate peace negotiations for the government. She told the BBC the breakaway Tiger commander in the east of Sri Lanka had made attempts to contact her party but that she had not reciprocated. more..
Mar 19 (LT) Tiger organization had requested permission from the government�s peace secretariat for a team of their representatives to go to the East. This request has been made through Norwegian ceasefire monitors, the SLMM. more..
Mar 19 (DPA) Sri Lanka's president today closed down 10 ministries ahead of next month's parliamentary elections in an apparent move to prevent former ministers of the opposition misusing state facilities for the campaign, officials said. more..
Mar 19 (LBO) The JVP is marrying its past with the present, to give the party its first significant political victory next month. �We did not take part in active politics for 34 years. We watched and we saw what was happening. Things were getting so bad, we decided to return to support the JVP and the Alliance,� says Sunil de Silva. more..
Mar 19 (LBO) In 1912, one man with a life savings of 75 cents turned a tea kiosk into one of the largest biscuit manufacturers in the country. With a third generation at the helm, Maliban talks of going public as it charts a course of new growth. more..
Mar 19 (LBO) Despite an independent police commission in place, local officers continue to harass and torture innocent victims, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) said Wednesday. more..
Mar 19 (LBO) Restructuring MILCO could see part ownership transferred to milk farmers to increase their involvement and productivity in the venture. The divesture process will also list a stake in the Colombo Stock Exchange and with employees also getting a percentage hold in the milk processing venture. more..
Mar 19 (AN) A Sri Lankan parliamentarian's wife died on a Colombo-bound flight before it took off from the King Abdul Aziz International Airport here on Wednesday. Fathima Sabrina, 41, wife of parliamentarian Myown Mustaffa, died a few minutes after she boarded the Sri Lankan Airlines flight N. UL 266. more..
Mar 19 (TOI) Air Sahara on Thursday unleashed a price war in international skies with its overseas flight to Sri Lanka. Passengers can now book a return economy class ticket from Delhi to Colombo for Rs 17,080, a 22% discount to existing fares of Sri Lankan Airlines on the same route. more..
Mar 19 (Gulf) Wooing the business community has become a popular pastime for almost every political party in the country in the run up to the parliamentary elections on April 2. more..
Mar 19 (Gulf) Sri Lanka's doctors have gone on strike after placing a virtually impossible demand before the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ahead of the next month's parliamentary elections. more..
Mar 19 (SLA) Four Indian fishermen poaching in the Sri Lankan water have been apprehended by naval troops on duty in the general sea area off URUMALAI on 18 March 2004 around 6.30a.m. Naval troops, after observing a suspicious boat movement, had approached the scene and arrested those Indian fishermen while they were engaged in poaching in the sea area north of URUMALAI. more..
Mar 19 (CI) Gerald Daniel gave Sri Lanka A a real cheer with a stroke-filled century that took the team to 276 on the first day of their match against New Zealand A at Lincoln. At the end of the day, New Zealand A had negotiated seven overs safely and put 14 runs up on the board. more..
Mar 19 (Xinhua) The Sri Lankan government on Friday reiterated its commitment to the one-China policy, urging the Taiwan authorities to refrain from any action that would aggravate tensions in the region. more..
Mar 19 (TN) Australia and UNDP signed an agreement 10 March 2004, which allocates AUD 1 million (LKR 75 million) towards the UNDP Mine Action Project in Sri Lanka. The Australian aid will assist capacity building, technical support and operational coordination, according to UNDP officials in Colombo. more..
Mar 19 (TN) General Secretary of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) Mr. Mavai Senathirajah urged Vavunaiya Government Agent K.Ganesh to make arrangements to locate the polling booths near the Sri Lanka Army checkpoint in Omanthai, sources said. more..
Mar 19 (wsws) The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) calls upon workers, young people and intellectuals, along with our supporters and readers of the World Socialist Web Site, to participate in the campaign for a socialist alternative in the April 2 Sri Lankan elections. more..
Mar 19 (Dawn) Death looms for Karuna, the renegade member of the LTTE who holds command over the eastern region. Vellupillai Prabhakaran, in a statement aired over the rebel "Voice of Tigers", said that it was "too late" for Karuna, who had opted to break away from Prabhakaran's leadership, and that no appeals would be entertained. more..
Mar 19 (DM) The UNF government yesterday alleged that the JVP's "invisible hand" was behind the recent string of strikes and called upon the people to defeat this "unruly element" which it claimed did not even understand the simple fact that a care-taker minister cannot take decisions. more..
Mar 19 (DN) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Wednesday, urged the Freedom Alliance to place its alternative proposals before the people to resolve the country's main burning problems, without giving a basket of promises. more..


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Family finds answers to rare, genetic glaucoma
When a father and his two kids developed an array of peculiar symptoms, doctors, Brazilian researchers and the NIH partnered to find a diagnosis and path to treatment.
L-R: Samuel, Stan, Rachel, Rulon, Eryn, Ammon, Adam, Lauren, Spencer. Photos courtesy of the Gibson family.
Oxford, Michigan resident Stan Gibson inherited a rare disease from his father, who got it from his father.
They all had developed unusual symptoms throughout their lives, including childhood glaucoma, psoriasis-looking skin rashes, calcium build-up throughout the body and arthritis or spontaneous tendon rupture.
"My grandfather and some of my dad's siblings died young, and we didn't really know why," Stan recalled.
He was the only one of his three siblings to inherit the strange condition. "We didn't know too much, but my wife and I figured this condition must only be passed down to males."
He and his wife, Eryn, also thought that, based on the familial pattern of when the condition developed, their five sons were in the clear from having the disease since they didn't show any symptoms in early childhood.
"Everyone in Stan's family developed glaucoma between the ages of 3 and 5," Eryn said.
It wasn't until their then 3-year-old daughter, Rachel, started walking around holding her eyes and head, complaining of pain and light sensitivity, that alarm bells went off in the family and they rushed to find a doctor that might be able to give them more answers.
Recently moved to Michigan from California, the family didn't know where to go. But luckily, after many surgeries and no luck, the family found themselves at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Kellogg Eye Center.
"It felt like being a Patient X"
All the surgeries had left Rachel's eyes severely damaged.
At one point, Rachel's iris, the colored ring around the pupil, had actually slipped out of the middle of her eye and went into her sclera, the white outer layer of the eye.
"She looked like she had a cat eye since the iris was such a strange shape," Eryn recalls.
But soon, the blue of Rachel's iris started coming up through the sclera and the panicked parents were advised to go to Kellogg Eye Center. There, Brenda Bohnsack, M.D., Ph.D. was able to reconstruct Rachel's eye and completely save her vision.
Rachel began seeing Bohnsack regularly. Because the family was impressed with the level of care Rachel was receiving, Stan also switched to Kellogg Eye Center and began care with glaucoma surgeon Sayoko Moroi, M.D., Ph.D., and cornea and refractive surgeon Shahzad Mian, M.D. He needed a repeat corneal transplant which was performed by Mian because of the high eye pressure that would cause his cornea to swell and his grafts to fail.
It wasn't until the Gibson family's then 13-year-old son Adam randomly proclaimed "I can't see anything" as they were returning home from a family outing that Bohnsack, Lev Prasov, M.D., Ph.D., an ophthalmic genetics specialist, and Julia Richards, Ph.D., a glaucoma geneticist at the Kellogg Eye Center, became more interested in the family's mysterious case of glaucoma and set out to try and learn more about this multi-system, genetic disease.
"It felt like being a Patient X," said Stan.
Not regular childhood glaucoma
"We thought Adam was in the clear since he was older than 6; we had stopped screening our children for the glaucoma," said Eryn. "But one day we got home and Adam stayed in the van. When we asked him what was wrong, he said he couldn't see anything. He went completely blind, just like that."
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Bohnsack, now a pediatric glaucoma surgeon and head of pediatric ophthalmology at Lurie Children's Hospital, got Adam in for an emergency surgery within hours. His eye pressure was over 50, according to the family. According to Prasov, a normal eye pressure is between 10-21 mm Hg. Thankfully, the emergency surgery saved most of Adam's vision, although he would live with a small amount of peripheral vision loss.
The strong family history and the peculiar symptoms led the Kellogg Eye Center glaucoma genetics team to dig deeper and look for a genetic cause that links the symptoms shared between Stan, Rachel and Adam. Ultimately, the answer came from genetic analysis through a collaboration between Prasov and the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he did his clinical fellowship.
Working with the NIH
The first step for the Kellogg Eye Center glaucoma team was meticulously interviewing family members and drawing a pedigree. The Gibson family even took a trip to Utah to get blood and saliva samples from family members and sent them to the researchers. They determined that this was an autosomal dominant condition, with a 50% risk of being passed down in the family.
In partnership with the NIH, Prasov and his team sequenced all of the protein coding DNA from affected and unaffected family members, a process called whole exome sequencing. After scouring through the data, they found a compelling misspelling in the DDX58 gene that had never been observed before. This gene encodes for an RNA binding protein involved in the immune system.
The team discovered Stan, Rachel and Adam all shared this mutant variant, and this was the eureka moment where all of the mysterious symptoms started to make sense.
"Rachel was resistant to light before we went to Kellogg Eye Center, but now there's just a delay in her adjustment from light to dark. For Adam, although he didn't tell us at first, he had headaches from a young age. Stan, besides the blindness, also has sensitive skin, unusual spots all over his body and tendons that tear easily," said Eryn.
Maybe one of the most peculiar symptoms of all, Rachel, Adam and Stan all had issues with their baby teeth because they weren't losing them naturally at the typical age children lose baby teeth.
Stan had to have his baby teeth taken out because his adult teeth were being impacted, and now at 11-years-old, Rachel is still losing baby teeth. Adam had issues with his teeth, but also his other bones, which is why he started seeing an orthopedic surgeon at 6-years-old.
"If it wasn't for Kellogg Eye Center, both of my kids would be blind."
Eryn Gibson
Eight years later Adam, now 21 and a gymnastics coach, would have high blood pressure and experience a carotid artery blowout. Thankfully, though, his neck muscles saved his life.
"The teeth abnormalities, as well as the carotid artery blowout, are likely due to the calcification in the body that patients with this illness can present," said Prasov. "With the genetic testing, we were able to conclude this disease was Singleton-Merten syndrome type II – an extremely rare, autosomal, dominant condition with only 3 families documented in literature."
With their collective expertise, the team was able to better characterize the family's symptoms: pediatric-onset glaucoma, spontaneous tendon rupture, arthritis, and a psoriasis-looking skin rash. Glaucoma and skin rash were the most prominent symptoms.
There weren't many cases in literature to compare the family's disease presentation to, so Prasov, whose research focuses on inherited eye diseases, worked with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and U-M clinician-scientists Johann Gudjonsson, M.D., Ph.D., a dermatologist, and J. Michelle Kahlenberg, M.D., Ph.D., a rheumatologist, to more deeply phenotype the family.
"When looking for new genes, it can take a considerable amount of time. Once we could perform sequencing, we could move a lot faster to get a diagnosis. The Gibson family had an official diagnosis approximately a year after we performed the sequencing." said Prasov.
He adds that working in the field of genetics comes with certain challenges; the provider making the diagnosis wants to be absolutely certain that the genetic change is causing the disease, as it can have a big impact on clinical management.
More certainty came with the identification of another family across the globe in Belém, Brazil, that had a similar peculiar set of clinical findings and the same genetic variant in DDX58. By comparing notes among all of the identified families, Prasov and his team were able to give a definitive diagnosis.
But the final piece of this medical puzzle required additional work in the laboratory.
According to Prasov, very few families with mutations in DDX58 have a multi-system disorder featuring calcification in the body, skin rashes and childhood glaucoma.
Published in the Journal of Medical Genetics, Prasov led an international team, including researchers and clinicians from U-M, the NIH, Brazil, and Harvard, to provide the first complete molecular and histological assessment of the eye and skin findings in Singleton-Merten syndrome type II. Together, they definitively showed that the family's mutation behaves similarly to other mutant proteins in how it sets off an inflammatory cascade in the body in absence of a definitive RNA trigger.
"Because of the communication between these doctors, more of this condition is now better understood," said Eryn. "Their curiosity led to answers, but also helped us feel like we were finally being heard and cared about. Finally, after generations of unanswered questions and enormous health challenges someone took this seriously and had access to the resources to find answers about this condition."
Since skin is the most available tissue for molecular analysis, Gudjonsson and his team were able to obtain samples from Stan and Adam to compare Stan's gene expression to his children. Somewhat surprisingly, they found that the inflammatory response was only active in affected skin, and not in neighboring skin or in the blood.
The study team also found that the family in Brazil had a more severe case of Singleton-Merten syndrome. By working with the Brazilian clinicians and researchers, Prasov was able to compare data and see if other genetic triggers or environmental influences affect the presentation of the disease.
"This is something I want to explore more," he said. "Rachel and Adam don't have many of the system effects of this disease, but they could develop them in the future. Understanding all the factors that may provoke more severe illness may help us be able to prevent those developments from occurring."
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The study reinforces the idea that genetic triggers or environmental influences may affect the presentation of Singleton-Merten syndrome, as the research team found that some family members carrying the mutation only have the most common feature of childhood glaucoma, while others have more extensive disease features that affect the immune system.
"This means there could be other children in the world with this glaucoma that don't have the other features of the disease," said Prasov. "But they're at risk for developing those features later in life and suffer serious health consequences if providers don't know to look out for all these symptoms."
There are drugs like Rinvoq, a medication that Stan now takes, that can help calm the immune system and disrupt the downstream pathway associated with more serious disease. According to Stan, the medication has helped his skin discoloration resolve.
"I'm so grateful to know what this condition is. Knowing how to treat it would be a miracle, but you have to start somewhere," said Stan. "This research will benefit my own children but also their children when they start families of their own. They know what to look out for."
"This study highlights how a genetic diagnosis can have a big impact on clinical practice and patient outcomes," said Prasov. "Understanding this disease pathogenesis is also important in the field of glaucoma care and research." Prasov now leads a multidisciplinary clinic in which he partners with pediatric medical geneticists to provide ophthalmic genetic care for families like the Gibsons.
The next step for the U-M research team is to generate an animal model to better understand the disease and hopefully find a targeted drug treatment that may have fewer side effects. They also plan to further study the role of DDX58 in the eye, since the RNA binding protein can sense viral infections like Rubella and Zika: viruses known to provoke glaucoma. The hope is that they can find a way to block this receptor or the downstream signaling, in turn preventing the glaucoma from developing.
"Stan has a severe case of Singleton-Merten so my hope is that if researchers can crack his case, they can know how to treat anyone with the condition," said Eryn. "If it wasn't for Kellogg Eye Center, both of my kids would be blind. I'm just grateful beyond words."
This research was supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI K12 EY022299, NEI P30 EY07003, RBH, BG, and BPB), the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (R01-AR060802, P30-AR075043 and K01-AR072129), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01-AR069071), the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, the Parfet Emerging Scholar Award and the Roche Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Paper cited: "DDX58(RIG-I)-related disease is associated with tissue-specific interferon pathway activation," Journal of Medical Genetics. DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2020-10744
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Tur is a genus of mites in the family Laelapidae.

Species
 Tur amazonicus
 Tur apicalis
 Tur aymara
 Tur lativentralis
 Tur megistoproctus Gettinger & Bergallo, 2003
 Tur turki Fonseca
 Tur uniscutatus

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Observed: Mouse droppings under counters in front food area. REPEAT. Required: The presence of pests shall be controlled to minimize their presence.
Observed: Knives/pitchers stored above 3 vat sink not clean with dirty dishes water spray. Knives/pitchers were removed and washed, rinsed, and sanitized. Required: All food contact surfaces must be clean to sight and touch.
Observed: Noodles cooling in the walk-in cooler covered that were still undergoing the cooling process. Lids were taken off of noodles containers and placed in ice baths inside the walk-in cooler. Required: Food containers in which food is being cooled shall be loosely or uncovered if protected from contamination. REPEAT.
Observed: Kitchen hand sink hot water leaking. Required: All equipment shall be in good repair.
Observed: Raw meats stored above cooked chicken. The walk-in cooler was re-arranged and raw meats placed underneath cooked chicken products. Required: All animal products shall be stored below ready-to-eat foods and according to cooking temperatures.
Observed: Live cockroach on wall up by ceiling above the bag in boxes shelf. Pest control company was called for another onsite visit due to sighting. Required: The presence of insects shall be controlled to minimize their presence.
Observed: Noodles cooling in the walk-in cooler covered that were still undergoing the cooling process. Lids were taken off of noodles containers. Required: Food containers in which food is being cooled shall be loosely or uncovered if protected from contamination. REPEAT.
Observed: Bourbon chicken not being hot held in kitchen warmer at or above 135F(bourbon chicken 112-121F) Chicken was placed on time control to be sold or discarded by 6 pm. Required: All potentially hazardous foods(PHF's) being held hot must be held at or above 135F.
Observed: Mouse droppings under counters in front food area. Required: The presence of pests shall be controlled to minimize their presence.
Observed: PHFs in the walk-in cooler not date marked with the correct day. Required: All PHFs ready-to-eat, shall be date marked with a 7 day date marking system., including made day as day 1.
Observed: Freshly cooked chicken cooling on rack in hallway, subject to contamination. Chicken was immediately moved to walk-in cooler. Required: Food must be kept safe, unadulterated, and not contaminated or food shall be discarded.
Observed: Food processor/lids not clean with food residue. Items were removed from service and washed, rinsed, and sanitized. Required: All equipment food contact surfaces shall be clean to sight and touch.
Observed: Noodles cooling in walk-in cooler covered at 64-67F. The lid was removed from the noodles until noodles reach 41F. Required: Food containers in which food is being cooled shall be loosely covered or uncovered if protected from overhead contamination.
Observed Drain pipe under three compartment sink has a leak. Required to have plumbng in proper repair.
Observed two sundry bins with cracked lids. Required to have smooth easily cleanable surfaces no duct tape to repair.
Observed ice scoop handle touching drink ice in bin at the counter. Corrected, required to keep handle from touching drink ice.
Observed Hand sink is blocked with coffee pot, corrected required to have hand sink fully accessible for hand washing.
Found raw chicken stored above covered ready to eat food. Raw chicken was moved to the bottom shelf.
Found chicken pulled out of steamer temp was 143-150F, not 165F. Chicken was placed on grill and cooked to 165F.
Found cooked cashew chicken in small prep cooler 46-48F. Chicken was discarded and must be held at 41F or below.
Found sanitizer bucket too weak. Sanitizer re-made and tested 50-100ppm bleach.
Found mop head in bucket wet. Mop heads should be stored inverted to air dry.
Found noodles cooling covered temp. was 40-42F. During cooling process noodles should remain not covered until all reaches 41F. Lid was removed.
Observed open employee drink in food preparation area when employee drinks are required to have a lid and straw. Drink removed and issue reviwed with management.
Observed ice scoop being stored on unclean surface.
Hans wash sink was blocked and not easily accessible.
Pans of cooked chicken found being stored on floor cooling. Moved to walk-in cooler. (repeat violation).
Cook is cutting up raw chicken with a meat cleaver over the top of cooked chicken being stored on the floor. Cooked chicken put back into oven for heating to 165 degrees.
There are no date marks on any cooked time temperature control for safety products like cooked chicken, noodles, beef, pork, egg rolls, etc. Repeat violation.
The plastic lids on the MSG and corn starch containers are cracked and broken- repeat violation for corn starch bin.
Chicken cooked yesterday is in the walk in at 48 degrees. Product discarded. It must be cooled from 135 degrees to 41 degrees within six hours time.
Garlic in oil is out at room temperature with no time documented. Product discarded. Repeat violation. The product requires refrigeration at 41 degrees.
Hoisen sauce is stored at room temperature. The label says to refrigerate after opening. Product discarded.
Dishes and utensils are put away unclean.
There is no time documented for the cooked chicken in the gray box that is 125 degrees. Repeat violation. Time was documented during inspection.
The cook does not know the required final cooking temperature for chicken. Corrected during inspection by education.
Cooked chicken is setting on top of the make table at 50 degrees- product discarded.
Open bag of undatemarked precooked chicken is out on the counter at 72 degrees. Repeat violation. Product discarded.
The cutting board on the main make table can no longer be effectively sanitized. Replace or refurbish.
There is no calibrated thermometer available for the cook's use. Corrected during inspection by calibrating a thermometer and training employees how to do it.
There is no sanitizer set up for wiping down cutting boards- corrected during inspection by mixing sanitizer and wiping down cutting boards.
Pans of cooked chicken are stored on the floor for cooling. Repeat violation.


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Each number has to be deposited into a different bin. No. 1 and No. 2 plastic logos will be in a triangle close to or on the bottom of the plastic container.
Plastic bottles and jugs must be separated and recycled by a No. 1 or No. 2 found inside a triangle on the bottom of the container. Other numbers are not accepted for Allegany County's recycling program.
No. 1: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PETE)
No. 2: High Density Polythylene (HDPE)
No. 1 and No. 2 clean plastic containers (bottles and jugs) used for non-toxic substances.
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Consumable Plastics: Milk, Juice, Soda, Water Bottles, Condiment Bottles, Cooking Oil, Jugs
Personal Care Plastics: Shampoo, Conditioner, Mouthwash, Body Wash, Lotion
Household Plastics: Bleach, Clothes Detergent, Dish Detergent, Fabric Softener, Household Cleaners
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British stunner Milly Simmonds got lensed by photographer Olgaç Bozalp on Brighton Beach for the September 2013 issue of L'Officiel Turkey. Milly is styled in fall looks from Chanel, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu and more.
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I was born in 1954 into a large family: seven kids, and I was number five. My father was an alcoholic and was verbally and physically abusive. In a big family like that, it was better to try to be invisible and not be noticed, because when you got noticed, you got in trouble, or hit.
I've been thinking a lot about this recently, about feeling invisible. Not to be able to show your feelings means you're not really acknowledging your feelings for yourself, just repressing them and stuffing them down. To learn that as a child, and then to continue doing that for years, you get really good at it.
People knew there was a problem and they just stayed away. My dad was a tough, nasty creature. He was so mean to people in the neighborhood that a lot of people, even kids in the neighborhood, just didn't want to have anything to do with us. It was really isolating and I didn't have a lot of friends. It was very embarrassing to have such an awful parent. I was ashamed of my family and never brought anybody home.
I always knew something was wrong, that there was a better way to live. I just didn't know where it was or who knew that secret, or who could help me with that. I didn't know I was depressed, or even what depression was. I just knew that I felt crappy all the time: when I was a kid, when I was a teenager, when I was a young adult. I was depressed all throughout my marriage, and I was also angry. I have come to learn that depression and sadness can be covered over by anger.
Once, in junior high school, I was trying to get some reaction out of my parents. It was dangerous to get that attention from my father, but I'm a teenager. I'm going to do things that teenagers do. I started dating black teenagers. We were not in an integrated neighborhood to say the least, and my dad was a huge racist. That did not go over well when they found out. My dad went up to the high school and talked to the principal and took me out of school.
He said, "You're not going back to school." I was terrified. I didn't know what was going to happen to me. What does this mean for my life? What does this mean for my future? You have to go to school.
I had no support from anyone. It was pretty bleak. The school was not coming to my aid. The teachers that I knew, the librarian that I was friends with, weren't coming to save me. I couldn't ask for help. I was ashamed and embarrassed to have such a horrible parent.
I have an older brother who died of drug and alcohol abuse a few years ago. He was the one that was the most abused by my dad, the most picked on. My dad softened up toward my youngest sister.
I'm absolutely convinced that my mother would have made it clear to my father that this child is your last chance to have a relationship with any one of your children, so if you don't do it with this child, then you're not going to have a relationship with any one of them. I have thought about this a lot over the years.
After I was divorced, I had a roommate for a couple years who was getting group therapy on healing her wounded inner child. I thought this sounded really interesting, so I went to see that therapist, and I joined a new group that she was running. I took to it very quickly. There were things like journal writing with the non-dominant hand to access your inner voice. I really liked that a lot, and I still use that.
All of us in the group would go out and buy cheap dishes at thrift stores. Then we would have our date, throwing plates and dishes at the wall. Just to get the anger out, and it was all about our parents. You have to be angry at your parents before you can forgive them.
I was raised Catholic. It's supposed to be a great benefit if you can forgive everyone, but you really can't do that automatically. You have to learn how to do that, and I think I have certainly learned a lot about forgiving by going through it. And throwing the plates helped a lot.
I think of my inner child as mostly healed. I'm not sure that she will ever be 100 percent healed. I don't have the feeling of the angst. The sadness and the fear and that constant kind of bad feeling has gone away.
I feel like I got my life back. It's a miracle. My inner child definitely helps me with that. I can access her joy at a lot of things: when I'm walking in the woods, walking down the street, when I see people dancing or singing or listening to music.
My life is totally different now. I feel like I'm 16 years old and I've got the rest of my life to live, but I'm not worried about it. I'm not concerned about it. I can enjoy and feel things without having any bad repercussions or anything bad happening to me.
I do artwork for myself and I draw, sometimes with my non-dominant hand. I take such joy in that. It's been five years since the end of group, and I have a stack of journals that is growing. I'm just having a great life.
Therese Henderson is an administrative assistant in the Sloan School of Management.


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Film Festival Hit President Wolfman Available Now on DVD
by journalstone | Sep 1, 2014 | Horror Movies, Horror News | 0 comments
Film Festival Hit
President Wolfman
Available Now on DVD
New York, NY – Wild Eye Releasing has announced that Mike Davis' President Wolfman is now available to own on DVD following a wildly successful festival run. Since its premiere at the Sydney Underground Film Festival, President Wolfman has been a favorite of audiences and critics alike, with the Huffington Post applauding the filmmakers for delivering "a candidate both parties can get behind." President Wolfman has won awards around the country, taking home Best Script at the New Orleans Horror Film Festival and Best Feature at both the Aliens to Zombies Film Festival and Atlanta Horror Film Festival.
Meet John Wolfman: politician, single parent and werewolf, a man whose (hairy) hands are definitely full. Not only is he trying to stop his opponents from selling the US to China, he also has to solve a series of grizzly murders in the capitol. Add a crazed mad scientist, Smokey the Bear, a Miss Teen beauty pageant and a race against time to save his eight-year-old son Bobby from a murderous Vice President, and you have a movie that will keep you howling from start to finish.
Hailed as "perfect for fans of campy horror" by The Washington Post, President Wolfman was made entirely from recycled, stock and public domain footage with a newly scripted, scored and re-voiced soundtrack with enhanced visuals and effects.
The DVD release of President Wolfman (SRP $14.95) exclusively includes several short films from director Mike Davis, outtakes, a music video and a highlight reel of the production.
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There are tourist attractions, and then there are southwest Alberta tourist attractions – and the difference between the two is huge. What you'll discover is that the attractions in southwest Alberta are more than typical tourist stops – they are windows into a way of life, an opportunity to learn, and an invitation to a world filled with fun.
Whether you want to find out about the area's indigenous people, learn what life was like when the west was new, become more familiar with the region's wildlife, or tap into the things that define southwest Alberta today, there are places and ways to do all of that and more – and enough selection to suit everyone who's along for the ride. Most attractions in southwest Alberta are family-friendly. So bring the kids, bring the parents, bring your best friend and definitely bring a sense of adventure. A world of interest and intrigue awaits you.
Deep in the Alberta Badlands the landscape is otherworldly - so bizarre to the eyes and the imagination that standing in the middle of it feels somewhat like standing on the moon. Dinosaur Provincial Park is the heart and soul of this rugged territory.
Covering 40 sprawling acres on its original site, modern day Fort Calgary is a centre for events, exhibits and programs that put visitors in touch with Calgary s past.
Heritage Park is a patchwork of all that southern Alberta represented back when the west was truly wild. Most of the buildings and exhibits in the park are authentic structures and artifacts that were donated from locations around the province.
The Remington Carriage Museum is the largest museum of horse drawn transportation in the world. Its series of interactive galleries showcases over 250 authentic carriages, many restored meticulously to their original condition.
The Birds of Prey Centre has been a preeminent rehabilitation and breeding facility for wild and endangered birds since 1984. In addition to efforts to care for, and release birds into nature, the centre is also a strong steward for habitat preservation.
The old Mennonite Brethren Congregation church was turned into a museum that showcases the rich history of Coaldale with artifacts and stories from locals.
Just west of Pincher Creek you ll find Beauvais Lake Provincial Park, a little piece of paradise nestled in the trees and looking out at the mountains.
Driving through the Crowsnest Pass is an eerie and ethereal experience for a stretch of two kilometers. Piled high on both sides of Highway 3 around the town of Frank, is the remnant of the deadliest rockslide to ever happen in Canada.
The bones of what was once one of Canada s most prolific coal mines rest in ghostly silence along the Crowsnest Highway.
The speakers above the arena are one of the few indications that you re still in the 21 st century. Music fills the air a soundtrack of old timey tunes with military flair that lend an aura of pomp and circumstance to the occasion.
On a vast stretch of wind swept prairie just 15 minutes northwest of Fort Macleod, is a sandstone escarpment with a dramatic history that goes back more than 6 000 years.
The Museum of the Highwood is located at 406 First Street SW in downtown High River Alberta. The former CPR station has been completely and beautifully restored.
Packaged into a 60 minute experience, our concept of an escape room involves teams of 2 - 6 players working together inside a locked, themed room to find clues and solve cleverly layered puzzles.
Since its first fair in 1897, Lethbridge Exhibition Park has hosted hundreds of tradeshows, Farmers Markets, midways and rodeos, as well as a variety of sporting and special events each year.
Stories unfolding. If a picture is worth a thousand words the stories this building could tell are legendary. The Galt as it is known locally portrays the colourful history of southern Alberta in an intricate and engaging tapestry.
Plodding down a shale trail, the crunch of splintered rock under your feet, the sky above you open and blue, a gentle wind at your back just enough breeze to make you move a little faster everything seems right in the world.
A society based in Lethbridge, focused on increasing the exposure and education of the work of William Shakespeare.
You settle into your seat in the darkened theatre, anticipation coursing through your veins. A dull murmur rolls throughout the crowd, concert goers speaking in hushed tones.
Cowboy, heroes, cops and robbers, far away places, drama, fantasy, comedy, and thrilling suspense. When it comes to pure entertainment, there s nothing like a night at the movies.
The last few audience members shuffle to their seats and a moment later the curtain goes up. Bright faces, clear voices and high energy erupt from the stage. From the moment the cast bursts into song you ll be grooving in your seat.
There is a tranquil treasure in the city of Lethbridge - a lush garden oasis, unique in all the region that reflects harmony between cultures and the beauty of simplicity.


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This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of quality scholarship.
English may be the biggest obstacle to learning Greek! Greek textbooks use jargon such as "noun," "verb," "morphology," and "syntax," which sometimes sounds foreign. Many of us may remember them from grade school, but the memories may now be foggy from time and disuse. This book is written for hazy memories of English that need a brush up before learning Greek. Different than other aids to learning Greek, Brushing Up English to Learn Greek introduces verbal aspect to beginning students. English emphasizes the time of an action but Greek emphasizes the point of view--or aspect--of an action. This book helps students build a bridge of understanding between the different thought worlds of English and Greek.
This is the top argument rhetoric guide on using the Toulmin system of argument. Written by the authors of such successful composition titles as Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (AWL) and The Craft of Research (Chicago UP), The Craft of Argument is an argument rhetoric worth looking at! The Craft of Argument is based on the Toulmin system of argument and has a brief selection of readings. Reviewers have raved about the modifications to Toulmin that Williams and Colomb have made, where the authors have streamlined the Toulmin system further than any other book while retaining its fundamental insights, and power. The book also consists of seventeen thoughtfully selected readings, as well as useful writing instructions. A checklist of questions for planning and revising is located in a special section tabbed halfway through the book. This checklist will help readers build stronger arguments by asking them general and detailed (sentence-specific) questions regarding their arguments. Two significant appendices are included for reference: 1) logical fallacies to recognize and avoid, and 2) bibliographic citations (both MLA and APA). For anyone interested in leaning how to construct and write arguments very well.


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We have learned over the years that the expectations and requirements of even the simplest functional SLA can differ from one client to another and from one job to another. We have yet to find an online quoting system that can completely manage the nuances of a single part let alone the complexities of a fully functional prototype. This is why when you partner with us you are assigned a project manager to work directly with you. Our project managers have years of experience managing expectations, budgets and time frames.
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This prototype was produced using CNC machined parts from aluminum, ABS and acrylic. The simulated digital display was laser etched and backlit. Two carafes, a simulated glass and a thermal, were also created. This model was professionally photographed by the client for use in packaging and the web.
These models were made using SLA components and given a presentation finish based on customer-specified colors.
This visual model was cut from several materials including renshape, ABS, aluminum, and acrylic. The aluminum side panels have an embossed logo and a brushed finish, while the front bays are removable and reconfigurable. Several different bay fronts were produced, including lighted power buttons.
The designer of this visual model was the recipient of the Prop Master's Choice Award in LG's "Design the Future" competition. Commissioned to turn the vision into a functional prototype, PSG provided CAD services to manipulate the supplied 3D data. The model was then machined from various components including ABS, acrylic and aluminum.
Each helmet assembly consisted of 4 cast silicone parts, 10 cast urethane parts, 18 machined aluminum parts, two textile pieces, and one optically clear vacuum formed lens. A total of 25 assemblies were produced.
This full scale model was CNC machined from a rigid foam material.
This oversized scale model was designed after a production pacemaker to be used at trade shows for demonstration purposes. The model was constructed from a combination of CNC machined acrylic and ABS components as well as aluminum tubing. Custom finishing techniques were applied to meet client specifications.
The band and lid are both of SLA construction. The bands were finished and painted with a soft touch topcoat while the lid was given a light texture to match the production cup that the parts were assembled to.
This appearance model was constructed using SLA components. The prototype was given a presentation finish to match existing products, per client's specifications.
This functional prototype was made from SLA components and finished to match client specifications.
The intricate structure of the wires was achieved using SLA components, while the remainder of the components was CNC machined. At 10 inches in diameter, this oversized display model (approx. 110X) is used as a sales tool at tradeshows.
Made from SLA components, the handles for this line of prototypes were finished and painted with a soft touch topcoat. Production blades complemented the handles. All parts were assembled and fastened with CNC machined and finished buttons.
This second generation array of appearance models was completed using a combination of SLA, CNC, and urethane processes. Soft touch paint, cast low-durometer urethanes, pressure sensitive graphics and customer-supplied pantone colors simulated a production model.
These faux cast iron prototypes were CNC machined in Renshape, then finished and painted to match client specifications.
This model was CNC machined from aluminum and ABS. Radially brushed and top coated, the aluminum was finished to match the appearance of production stainless steel. The lever and whistle assembly were made to actuate.
These visual models have a removable base and side panels in order to provide different appearances for the same basic model. A total of ten panels were created, each with different graphic style and color. Also included are connectors and a lighted power button.
This prototype was CNC machined from aluminum, ABS and acrylic. Earlier versions were used in focus groups to help determine any necessary design changes, while this final version was professionally photographed by the client for use on the web.
This prototype was created using CNC machined components. The tokens were finished with custom paint and graphics as well as made to be removable.


JAMMU: BJP Mahila Morcha Chief Vijaya Rahatkar on Tuesday said that her party supports women empowerment and it would try to give them more than 33 per cent reservation currently allowed at the Panchayat level in Jammu and Kashmir.
Rahatkar said the BJP is the only party in India which is giving women their due share.
"We have highest women members in Parliament and civic bodies. We have 33 per cent reservation for women in Panchayat polls here but we will try to give more than that as we are doing across the country," she said.
"The beneficiaries of the centrally-sponsored schemes are standing with us on their own after noticing a change in their lives," Rahatkar said, accompanied by State BJP Mahila Morcha Chief Rajni Sethi.
"Mahila Morchas across the country were strengthened and 10 women are involved in every booth and playing their role to reach out to people and educate them about various schemes and other steps being taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Government for their betterment," she told reporters.
"The government has taken various measures for the safety of women by amending the POCSO Act and it will have a positive impact in near future," she stressed.
Responding to a question on the unprecedented increase in fuel prices, she urged people to have patience. The Central Government is involved in infrastructure development and needs time, she added.
"The NDA Government repaid over Rs two lakh crore which was taken as loan through oil bonds by the previous Congress-led UPA Government to keep the fuel prices at a lower level," she said.


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A New Year Brings Familiar Challenges for the EU
The EU flag flies over the stock exchange building in Brussels.
新年はEUが精通した挑戦がある。
EUの旗がブラッセルの証券取引所の建物にはためく。
Assessments Highlights
In 2018 the European Union will try to close the free trade agreements it has been negotiating in recent years and to sign new deals with additional countries.
The European Union will continue pressuring Russia to cooperate on a solution for the conflict in Ukraine but will be reluctant to increase its sanctions on Moscow.
Initiatives to cooperate with the countries migrants hail from and travel through will be easier to approve than will plans to reform the bloc's rules on migration.
hail:〈物・事〉を受け入れる
The European Union will face numerous foreign policy challenges next year, ranging from negotiating new trade deals to dealing with problematic neighbors such as Russia and Turkey. The bloc will also continue its efforts to reduce the number of migrants arriving in Europe, both by cooperating with countries of origin and transit states and by trying to reform its asylum policies. As the European Union takes on these issues, it will strive to stay as united as possible — no small feat considering that its foreign policy is the product of compromise between member states with differing interests and priorities. Consequently, the Continental bloc is likely to operate as a reactive force, responding to events and adapting to new realities rather than taking the initiative.
strive:strive to achieve economic independence 経済的に自立しようと懸命になる
feat:no mean [small, easy] feat 至難の業
differing:異なる
reactive:受け身的な, 待ちの姿勢の.
A Year of Trade Negotiations
One of the European Union's main foreign policy goals for 2018 will be to negotiate trade agreements with countries outside the bloc. Hashing out trade deals is easier said than done because EU members have varying priorities when it comes to trade. Countries such as France and Ireland, for example, are protective of their farmers, a stance that often makes agriculture a tricky subject to negotiate with partners beyond the bloc. For other EU countries like Germany, the flow of private data to outside states is a sensitive matter. And the mechanism to solve disputes between investors is a topic that will probably keep giving the bloc trouble in future negotiations.
Hashing out:〈問題・困難など〉をじっくり話して解決する.
tricky:〈仕事などが〉扱いにくい, 微妙な.
Part of the European Union's trade agenda next year will focus on enforcing recently signed agreements, such as the bloc's deal with Canada. The pact, which entered force provisionally in September, won't take full effect until after the national parliament of every EU member has ratified it. (So far, only five legislatures have approved the deal.) The European Union also will have to hammer out the contentious issue of investment protection in its trade deal with Japan, which the two sides finalized Dec. 8, before the European Council and European Parliament can approve it. Likewise, the bloc has several details to nail down with the Common Market of the South — better known by its Spanish acronym, Mercosur — as they near a trade deal.
enter into force:〔条約・協定などが〕発効する
provisionally:一時[暫定]的に〈決定するなど〉.
near:They were nearing the end of the voyage. 彼らの航海も終わりに近づいていた
Beyond closing the negotiations that are already underway, the European Union has plans to pursue more talks next year. The bloc, for example, is in the early stages of discussing trade deals with Australia and New Zealand, though the negotiations could be a difficult and lengthy endeavor. As a major agricultural exporter, Australia will probably try to secure access to the EU market for goods such as produce. But several European countries will be reluctant to grant that wish, meaning that the negotiations may extend beyond the European Commission's target deadline of late 2019.
endeavor:(特に新しくて困難な)努力, 試み
produce:organic produce 無農薬農作物.
Reaching a trade deal with India — which is scheduled to hold negotiations with the European Union in 2018 — promises to be no less challenging. The two began free trade talks in 2007 but stalled over issues such as investor protection. The European Union also plans to continue negotiations with Indonesia as part of a broader strategy to deepen its ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The EU's Main Free Trade Negotiations
Difficult Neighbors
Trade talks won't be the only topic on the European Union's foreign agenda next year. The bloc will also have to manage some difficult relationships with nearby states. Russia, for example, will keep trying to exploit political and strategic divisions among EU members by supporting Euroskeptic parties across the Continent and using its well-oiled propaganda machine to influence European media, including social media. The European Union recently expressed concern about Russian propaganda and announced it would dedicate more money and resources to a task force charged with identifying and countering disinformation coming from its eastern neighbor.
exploit:〈物〉を(有効)利用する, 活用する; 〈資源など〉を開発する
divisions:(意見の相違による)分裂, 対立
well-oiled:a well-oiled machine 円滑に機能している組織
disinformation:(相手をだますための)偽りの情報
Italy's next general election, which will take place by May 2018, will give Moscow a prime opportunity to use these tools, after all. The Kremlin has ties to three of the race's four main contenders. The head of the center-right Forza Italia party, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is a personal friend of Vladimir Putin, and members of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement have met several times with representatives from Russia's ruling party. Both Italian parties have criticized the EU sanctions against Russia; should they reach power, they could push to lift the measures.
contenders:競争者[相手]
When handling Russia next year, the European Union will remain largely reactive. Brussels will continue pressuring Moscow to cooperate on a solution for the conflict in Ukraine, but the bloc will resist increasing its sanctions against Russia, even in the likely event that it votes to extend them again. Russia, meanwhile, will probably keep trying to disrupt the European Union, though it is unlikely to resort to using military force against a NATO member to test the alliance's strength.
disrupt:〈会合・制度・交通など〉を混乱[中断]させる
Relations between the European Union and Turkey will also be complex in the coming year. On the one hand, the European Union will continue using trade and the promise of closer ties with the bloc to keep Turkey aligned with its objectives. But on the other, Brussels will be ready to impose punitive measures on Ankara if Turkey's political and social situation deteriorates further. Much as it has done with Russia, the European Union will wait for Turkey to make the first move before assessing a response. The bloc will be walking a fine line, however, aware that too much pressure could jeopardize its immigration deal with Turkey.
walk a fine line:紙一重の所を行く
Finally, the European Union will have to deal with the countries of the Western Balkans, which aspire to join the bloc but probably won't for at least a few more years. Brussels will have to find a way to address the fact that many Western and Northern EU governments oppose accepting new members while also keeping the dream of accession alive for countries such as Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia. The prospect of EU membership, along with funding, helps keep the region's ethnic tensions under control and provides states incentive to introduce institutional, economic and political reforms. Should the promise weaken, local leaders may turn to nationalism and conflict to retain power.
Dealing With Immigration
The third main foreign policy challenge for the European Union in 2018 will be to manage immigration from Africa and the Middle East. Under current EU rules, the country where asylum seekers first enter the bloc becomes responsible for them. This system puts disproportionate pressure on Mediterranean states such as Greece and Italy, which receive most of the migrants who reach the Continent by sea. The European Commission and several member states have proposed changes to EU migration policy over the years, to no avail. Next year, EU members will once again consider ways to reform the rules, including controversial measures to distribute asylum seekers more evenly across the bloc.
to no avail:I tried everything possible but to no avail. あらゆる手を尽くしたがうまくいかなかった.
At the same time, the European Union will keep working with countries of origin, as well as transit states, to try to stem the flow of migrants onto the Continent and disrupt human trafficking operations. Political instability in recent years has turned Libya into a common point of departure for migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. During the EU-Africa summit in late November, European and African leaders agreed on a plan to dismantle the networks that smuggle migrants into the war-torn country and to repatriate migrants who are currently stranded there.
stranded:〈人・車などが〉立ち往生した, 足止めされた.
The European Union already has increased its cooperation with authorities in Libya over the past few months; Italy in particular has assisted the Libyan coast guard with money, equipment and training. Though it has drawn criticism from human rights groups concerned about the way Libya treats migrants, Italy's support has helped reduce the number of crossings from the North African country. According to data from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, some 21,700 people arrived in Italy by sea between July and September this year, the lowest number for that period in the past four years.
Still, the migration problem is far from solved. The situation in Libya is volatile, and the country's cooperation with the European Union could falter at any time. Furthermore, migrants are starting to use new routes departing from states such as Tunisia and Algeria. Spain, moreover, received 90 percent more migrants traveling by land or sea in the third quarter of this year than it did in the last three months of 2016. While most of these migrants hail from countries like Morocco, Ivory Coast and Guinea, a growing number of Syrian nationals are also arriving in Spain. In years past, by contrast, most Syrian asylum seekers have opted for the much shorter route through Turkey to reach the European Union.
falter:【自信・決心などが】にぶる, くじける
hail:受け入れる
On top of its foreign policy challenges, the European Union will weather an intense debate next year over proposals to reform the bloc. The discussion will create tension not only between northern and southern states but also between western and eastern members. This tension, in turn, will extend to foreign policy matters, since EU member states have different views on most of the issues on the table. Not all EU members feel the same sense of urgency about Russia or immigration, nor do they have the same priorities on trade. As is true of many other policy areas, the main challenge for EU diplomacy next year will be to speak with a single voice.
weather:weather the storm 無事に嵐[難局]を切り抜ける.
EUの来年の課題はたくさんある。EUは数多くの国家の利害が一つでないので、その調整が必要であり、その地域によってもそれぞれ利害が違う。域外においてはロシアへの経済制裁にはあまり乗り気でないし、カナダとの交渉はまとまったが、日本、インドとの貿易交渉がある。また、難民問題も複雑だ。トルコに対してあまりつらくたると難民を受けてくれない。バルカンも加盟は数年先だが、突き放すわけにも行かない。イタリアとギリシャが数多くの難民を受けているが、他の諸国にもその責任をシェアしたいのだがうまくいかない。
木曜日。ではまた明日。
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Alan Jones praises Sydney schoolgirls' tribute to WWI soldiers
Lily WhitakerSt Clare's College WaverleyThe Battle of Fromelles
Alan Jones has praised the efforts of Sydney students who are honouring Australian soldiers who died during one of WWI's most devastating battles.
Students from St Clare's College Waverley are making a documentary on the Battle of Fromelles, which was the first major conflict fought by Australian troops on the Western Front.
The documentary will focus on the impact the battle had on the women left behind after Australia lost 5500 soldiers in just 12 hours.
St Clare's student Lily Whitaker tells Alan the group of passionate students will travel to Fromelles next April to make the documentary.
"It is important that people should understand the impact war has on families and soldiers who fought for our country and who are still fighting to protect us today.
"We want the Battle of Fromelles to be remembered forever."
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Image: Australian War Memorial
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CDC endorses COVID booster for millions of older and vulnerable Americans
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MIKE STOBBE
Coronavirus Florida
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on a series of recommendations from a panel of advisers late Thursday
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed booster shots for millions of older or otherwise vulnerable Americans, opening a major new phase in the U.S vaccination drive against COVID-19.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky signed off on a series of recommendations from a panel of advisers late Thursday. The advisers said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems. The extra dose would be given once they are at least six months past their last Pfizer shot.
However, Walensky decided to make one recommendation that the panel had rejected.
The panel on Thursday voted against saying that people can get a booster if they are ages 18 to 64 years and are health-care workers or have another job that puts them at increased risk of being exposed to the virus.
But Walensky disagreed and put that recommendation back in, noting that such a move aligns with a FDA booster authorization decision earlier this week.
RELATED: CDC panel OKs Pfizer booster for 65 and older, others at high risk
The panel had offered the option of a booster for those ages 18 to 49 who have chronic health problems and want one. But the advisers refused to go further and open boosters to otherwise healthy front-line health care workers who aren't at risk of severe illness but want to avoid even a mild infection.
"We might as well just say give it to everyone 18 and older. We have a very effective vaccine and it's like saying, 'It's not working.' It is working," said Dr. Pablo Sanchez of Ohio State University, who helped block the broadest booster option.
The panel voted 9 to 6 to reject that proposal. But Walensky decided to disregard the advisory committee's counsel on that issue. In a decision several hours after the panel adjourned, Walensky issued a statement that said she put it back in.
"As CDC Director, it is my job to recognize where our actions can have the greatest impact," Walensky said in a statement late Thursday night. "At CDC, we are tasked with analyzing complex, often imperfect data to make concrete recommendations that optimize health. In a pandemic, even with uncertainty, we must take actions that we anticipate will do the greatest good."
Experts say getting the unvaccinated their first shots remains the top priority, and the panel wrestled with whether the booster debate was distracting from that goal.
All three of the COVID-19 vaccines used in the U.S. are still highly protective against severe illness, hospitalization and death, even amid the spread of the extra-contagious delta variant. But only about 182 million Americans are fully vaccinated, or just 55% of the population.
"We can give boosters to people, but that's not really the answer to this pandemic," said Dr. Helen Keipp Talbot of Vanderbilt University. "Hospitals are full because people are not vaccinated. We are declining care to people who deserve care because we are full of unvaccinated COVID-positive patients."
Thursday's decision represented a dramatic scaling back of the Biden administration plan announced last month to dispense boosters to nearly everyone to shore up their protection. Late Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration, like the CDC panel, signed off on Pfizer boosters for a much narrower slice of the population than the White House envisioned.
What's next for Pfizer vaccine?
Dr. Janis Orlowski discusses what's next for the Pfizer vaccine from what needs to happen before kids can get it and the booster shot.
The booster plan marks an important shift in the nation's vaccination drive. Britain and Israel are already giving a third round of shots over strong objections from the World Health Organization that poor countries don't have enough for their initial doses.
Walensky opened Thursday's meeting by stressing that vaccinating the unvaccinated remains the top goal "here in America and around the world."
Walensky acknowledged that the data on who really needs a booster right away "are not perfect." "Yet collectively they form a picture for us," she said, "and they are what we have in this moment to make a decision about the next stage in this pandemic."
The CDC panel stressed that its recommendations will be changed if new evidence shows more people need a booster.
The CDC advisers expressed concern over the millions of Americans who received Moderna or Johnson & Johnson shots early in the vaccine rollout. The government still hasn't considered boosters for those brands and has no data on whether it is safe or effective to mix-and-match and give those people a Pfizer shot.
"I just don't understand how later this afternoon we can say to people 65 and older, 'You're at risk for severe illness and death, but only half of you can protect yourselves right now,'" said Dr. Sarah Long of Drexel University.
RELATED: FDA approves Pfizer booster for 65 and older, others at high risk
About 26 million Americans got their last Pfizer dose at least six months ago, about half of whom are 65 or older. It's not clear how many more would meet the CDC panel's booster qualifications.
CDC data shows the vaccines still offer strong protection against serious illness for all ages, but there is a slight drop among the oldest adults. And immunity against milder infection appears to be waning months after people's initial immunization.
For most people, if you're not in a group recommended for a booster, "it's really because we think you're well-protected," said Dr. Matthew Daley of Kaiser Permanente Colorado.
Public health experts not involved in Thursday's decision said it is unlikely people seeking third doses at a drugstore or other site will be required to prove they qualify.
Even with the introduction of boosters, someone who has gotten just the first two doses would still be considered fully vaccinated, according to the CDC's Dr. Kathleen Dooling. That is an important question to people in parts of the country where you need to show proof of vaccination to eat in a restaurant or enter other places of business.
Among people who stand to benefit from a booster, there are few risks, the CDC concluded. Serious side effects from the first two Pfizer doses are exceedingly rare, including heart inflammation that sometimes occurs in younger men. Data from Israel, which has given nearly 3 million people — mostly 60 and older — a third Pfizer dose, has uncovered no red flags.
The U.S. has already authorized third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for certain people with weakened immune systems, such as cancer patients and transplant recipients. Other Americans, healthy or not, have managed to get boosters, in some cases simply by asking.
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The Abolition or Reform of Mental Health Law: How Should the Law Recognise and Respond to the Vulnerability of Persons with Mental Impairment?
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Summary of "The Abolition or Reform of Mental Health Law: How Should the Law Recognise and Respond to the Vulnerability of Persons with Mental Impairment?"
Vulnerability theory challenges the assumption that human beings are abstract and invulnerable liberal subjects and insists that any decent and just society must create law that takes into account and tries to ameliorate human vulnerability. In this article, I explore how vulnerability might apply in the context of the debate about the future of mental health law that has arisen since the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008; namely, whether mental health law should be abolished or reformed. In doing so, this article addresses three key issues: (i) how to conceptualise vulnerability; (ii) whether persons with mental impairments really are vulnerable and in what ways; and (iii) how the law should respond to the vulnerability of persons with mental impairments post-CRPD. It describes and compares three different approaches with respect to how well they address vulnerability: the Abolition with Support, Mental Capacity with Support, and the Support Except Where There is Harm Models. It argues that the law should try to accurately capture and ameliorate the vulnerability of those who are subject to it as much as possible. It also argues that from a vulnerability perspective, the reform of mental health law may be better than its abolition and that decreasing the vulnerability of persons with mental impairment requires systemic reform, resources, and cultural change.
Associations between ability to recognise a mental health disorder and lived experience of mental illness in an Australian sample.
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NCA's billion-pound bid to battle organised crime
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) has today revealed there are at least 181,000 offenders linked to serious and organised crime in the UK, calling for £2.7billion to tackle to issue which the Federation is backing.
Police Federation of England and Wales National Chair John Apter said: "Today's report should make for uncomfortable reading for government about the true level of organised crime we are facing in the UK; but given the budget cuts to policing in recent years it shouldn't come as any surprise.
"This is the reality of years of austerity where we have seen the number of police officers reduced by almost 22,000 as the number of organised criminals has increased; the NCA is therefore right to say considerable investment is needed to tackle this cancerous kind of crime at both a local and national level.
"However, we can't simply go on robbing Peter to pay Paul, and what is needed is long-term, sustained investment across all police and law enforcement agencies - otherwise we risk tackling one crime at the expense of another. It is unacceptable that when funding is needed, policing goes to the Chancellor with a begging bowl and receives nothing more than his loose change, and we are then asked to be grateful! This is not the way to keep our public safe.
"The Federation, along with others, has warned for nearly a decade that cuts have consequences, but we were ignored and vilified with the Prime Minister denying the link between fewer officers on our streets and the surge in serious crime. The Prime Minister has shown nothing but contempt for policing; she has failed to support it and it is the public who are suffering."
The number of offenders - more than twice the strength of the regular British Army – is a conservative estimate as it only takes into account known members of organised crime groups and offenders operating on the worst child abuse dark web sites.
NCA's Director General Lynne Owens says the agency requires an additional £650million in annual funding to spearhead the fight which kills more people each year than war, terrorism and natural disasters combined.
Mr Apter concluded: "The protection of the public is, and always will be, the top priority for the police, but it must also be a top priority for the Government, or else it will continue to fail communities and we will continue to see crime rise.
"Now is the time to sit up, listen and act – and give the police, and other UK law enforcement agencies, the funding and support desperately needed."
The National Strategic Assessment also shows:
•There are nearly 2.9 million accounts registered on the worst child sexual abuse sites on the dark web worldwide – more than 5% of which we believe are from offenders based in the UK
•The number of referrals to the NCA about online child sexual abuse and exploitation have increased by 700% since 2013
•Referrals of potential victims of modern slavery have increased by more than 80% since 2016
•The number of 'County Lines' drug supply lines has increased from 720 to around 2,000 in a little over a year
•Financial losses from fraud soared by an incredible 32% between April and September 2018. There were 3.6 million incidents of fraud reported in England and Wales in 2018