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• Adopting a revised Chino Valley Zoning Code and declaring it a public document.
• Amending a policy for effluent collection, treatment and recharge.
• Amending a policy for water use.
• Waiving fees and restrictions for the Chino Valley Community Theater to hold a crafts festival in June.
• Approving contract with Chino Valley BMX Association pending approval of their non-profit corporation by the Arizona Corporation Commission.
• Directing staff to consider senior center service delivery options.
Organised factions of Chinese international students are dominating elections at Australia's major universities, beating the established political parties at the same time as national authorities warn about foreign influence.
The phenomenon is most pronounced at Sydney University, the country's oldest, where two of this year's four candidates for president of the Students' Representative Council are mainly backed by international students.
Earlier this year, Chinese international students scooped elections for the university's postgraduate body, SUPRA, leading to its first executive consisting entirely of international students, according to student newspaper Honi Soit.
They have also dominated elections for the board of the University of Sydney Union, a separate student organisation, polling in first place for three years in a row.
And at the University of Melbourne, a recent postgraduate election ended up before a tribunal after international students sought to have the results nullified, according to student paper Farrago.
The rise of Chinese international students as a potent political force has weakened the established factions such as young Labor, which ran the Sydney University SRC for 14 straight years until 2015. The change has been noticed – and welcomed – at the highest levels of university administration.
"I would point out that engaging in student elections isn’t exactly covert, nor is it unwelcome at the University of Sydney," vice-chancellor Michael Spence told Fairfax Media. "[We] welcome any attempt to ensure that representative bodies are as diverse as our student population."
Sydney University's SRC has been a political training ground for generations. Past presidents include former prime minister Tony Abbott, US ambassador and former Liberal treasurer Joe Hockey, NSW Labor assistant general secretary Rose Jackson and former High Court justice Michael Kirby.
This year Jacky He, a second-year engineering student who moved to Australia as a child and is now a permanent resident, is contesting the SRC presidency with backing from a growing faction called Panda, which chiefly represents Chinese international students. The group won a quarter of the vote last year, securing mor...
Mr He said he had been asked by several people, including student newspaper editors, whether he had links to the Chinese Communist Party – questions he found unfair.
"I feel like it’s quite unjust for people to say 'Hey look, because there’s a lot of Chinese students, they must be Chinese spies'," he told Fairfax Media. "We want to adjust our stance – to tell everyone that we are not the kind of people you say we are."
Engaging in student elections isn’t exactly covert, nor is it unwelcome.
Weihong Liang, the president of SUPRA, said his job was to improve campus life, not play politics.
"Most international students, including me, do not have the interest to be involved in any politics inside or outside the university," he told Fairfax Media.
But there are growing links between Chinese students and the established factions. For example, Mr He and his Panda Warriors, as they are known, have close ties with students in the Liberal Party.
According to government figures, a record 160,000 Chinese international students were in Australia in February this year – 31 per cent of the total. It has sparked debate about whether some sandstone universities such as Sydney and Melbourne are overly reliant on these lucrative students for income.
There have also been warnings from Canberra about the threat of foreign interference. The head of spy agency ASIO, Duncan Lewis, has warned universities to be "very conscious" of the "insidious threat" of foreign meddling. John Garnaut, a former Asia-Pacific adviser to Malcolm Turnbull, has said Beijing instructs stude...
Earlier this year, Dr Spence angered Mr Turnbull when he condemned the government for what he called "Sinophobic blatherings" that threatened the country's third largest export market.
"Calling them spies or whatever without any evidence is just not very welcoming ... I just think we need to give them a fair go," Dr Spence reportedly said.
Business Standard reported that Naveen Jindal owned Jindal Steel and Power Ltd will set up Odisha’s first private industrial park adjacent to its 6 million tonne steel plant at Angul. Spread over 500 acres of land, the park will mainly house steel downstream, ancillary and chemical units. JSPL will spend about INR 6 bi...
Hay-making was easy this year, and over in good time for a holiday. I am opposed to holidays, having worked all my life to build a sovereign territory from which departure will be a guaranteed disappointment. However, the children have yet to be convinced of the futility of human hopes, and therefore must be taken for ...
We borrow the old cottage in the Moravian Sudetenland from which to explore a landscape wiped away by war. Since the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans, their fields have gradually reforested themselves. The lanes between the crops, in which every intersection was marked by a stone Calvary or a shrine to a patron saint, ...
The contest over territory is a major stimulus to art, literature and music. To it we owe the great flowering of a national culture in the music of Janáček, in the writings of Hašek and Čapek, and in the little theatres that united the Czechs between the wars in a spirit of self-satire. This spirit still exists in Brno...
Back home to discover that the chickens have not been eaten, the horses have not been kicked, and the house is still standing. There is also a dog — another concession to the children and their incorrigible belief that there is always room for improvement. It is a border collie, a puppy, with an innate need to run afte...
The best thing about summer is the Proms, and this year especially on account of Daniel Barenboim’s wonderful performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle. I have studied this stupendous work for most of my adult life, ever more convinced of its greatness and of the truth of its underlying vision. And in the passionate and defer...
One downside of the family holiday is that we miss the Proms performance of David Matthews’s A Vision of the Sea. David celebrated his 70th birthday this year, and has established himself through constant hard work and ever-renewed inspiration as a leading exponent of symphonic form. He has continued to write beautiful...
Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher. His most recent book is Our Church: A History of the Church of England.
Dear Mary: Must I have name badges for guests at my wedding?
What if the Creature from the Black Lagoon used PostSecret?
There's far more to monsters than kidnapping women and getting revenge on their creators. In the painting series "Tiny Confessions," these creatures lay their souls bare and confess the pain they don't want you to see behind their anger.
Artist Christopher Rozzi paints the series, which also features wistful dogs and superior cats. He has prints available at his Etsy store.
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Could spike in Summit County drug overdoses signal a trend?
The number of overdoses in Summit County this year was on the decline until last weekend.
From Friday, April 5, through Sunday, April 7, 23 residents sought ER help after overdosing — 13 on Saturday alone.
“It caused us to raise an eyebrow,” said Jerry Craig, executive director of the county’s Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board.
He said it’s too soon to say whether the unexpected spike is an anomaly or a trend.
The overdoses were spread out across ZIP codes, Craig said, so it’s unlikely the surge came from a single “bad batch,” an especially potent or toxic mix of drugs sold on the streets.
Opioids were mentioned in six of the 23 overdose cases handled in ERs. But opioids could have been involved in others, too, because hospital officials who report the numbers often don’t note what drugs were involved in overdoses.
And what’s on the street and who is using the drugs continues to evolve.
Last week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appointed a minority health working group to look for solutions after a new state analysis revealed soaring overdose deaths among black men.
Deaths among black men jumped by 50 percent from 2016 to 2017, compared to a 14 percent increase among white men during the same time, a state health department analysis showed.
Fewer black men in Ohio are dying from overdoses — 449 in 2017 — than white men — 2,744 in 2017 — officials said. But because black men make up a much smaller percentage of the population, their rate of death is higher.
The numbers reversed a long-standing trend in the opioid epidemic, which has primarily devastated white communities.
Black men who died tended to overdose after ingesting cocaine, which was often mixed with fentanyl, researchers said.
Cocaine is among the easiest street drugs to score in Greater Akron, according to a recently released report by the Ohio Substance Abuse Monitoring Network.
“I could close my eyes and point and find it,” said one of the people who provided information for the report, which covers Summit, Portage, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Carroll counties and includes information gathered between January and June of 2018.
But the quality of the cocaine is poor because dealers are mixing it with cheap additives like baby aspirin, baby laxatives and fentanyl, the report said.
“They’re putting fentanyl in everything, that way they can get you physically addicted to it,” one user told the study group.
Fentanyl is easy to find on the streets, too, for the people who go looking for it in the region, as is methamphetamine.
But prescription opioids like Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin are harder to find.
In 2016, about 80 percent of Ohioans who overdosed and died had a history of abusing prescription painkillers.
Two years later, Ohio launched a series of new rules requiring prescribers to talk to patients about nonmedication treatment, look for signs of drug abuse and other things.
Prescription painkillers “are out there, but harder to find; doctors are cracking down,” one person in the study said.
Where Summit County is headed next is not clear.
In 2016, nearly one person a day in Summit County died from a drug overdose.
That number plummeted last year, but has recently started to tick up to about three per week, said Gary Guenther, chief investigator with the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office.
This year hospital ERs have reported a gradual decrease and then rise in the number of Summit County residents treated for overdoses. In January, ERs treated 3.9 people per day. That fell to 3.4 people in February and 3.0 in March, Craig said.
So far, April’s numbers are discouraging — with about 5 residents per day seeking overdose help.
Summit County Public Health’s latest weekly report — which included the spike in overdoses from the previous weekend — was released Friday and shows 39 people overdosed over the seven-day period, or about 5.6 per day.
That’s less than a third of the per-day average in Summit County during the peak of the epidemic in late 2016.
But it’s also a reversal, an upward trend in a problem no one wants to regain strength.
Beacon Journal reporter Rick Armon and The Columbus Dispatch contributed to this report. Amanda Garrett can be reached at 330-996-3725 or agarrett@thebeaconjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @agarrettABJ.
Channel Zero: Candle Cove TV series on Syfy. Pictured: Luca Villacis as Young Mike/Eddie (photo: Allen Fraser/Syfy).
The first season of the anthology drama, “Candle Cove,” centers on “…one man’s obsessive recollections of a mysterious children’s television program from the 1980s.” The cast includes Paul Schneider, Fiona Shaw, Natalie Brown, Shaun Benson, and Luisa D’Oliveira. Channel Zero: Candle Cove premieres on Syfy. October 11, ...
A man returns to the hometown he left as a kid when his brother was one of five children murdered in a case that was never solved. Old memories return to the surface when one mother’s child goes missing after mentioning that she had been watching CANDLE COVE, a creepy children’s puppet show he used to watch on public a...
What do you think? How did you like the Channel Zero: Candle Cove TV series trailers? Do you plan to watch Syfy premiere? Let us know, below.
Love the show! Luca Villacis and the rest of the cast do an awesome job at bringing this creepy pasta to life.
Not gonna lie, I would normally be skeptical of not only a Syfy original series, but one based on a creepypasta at that, but this looks pretty good. I mean, I ain’t getting that excited, I’m a touch too cynical I think, but still.
Lancashire County Council employees and volunteers have been recognised at the Pride Awards, which showcase some of the outstanding work being carried out across the organisation.
Staff were asked to nominate people who had made a difference to the lives and communities of the people of Lancashire.
Amongst those who collected awards was Cathy Jenkins, a support worker on the Children Awaiting Adoption Team, who was nominated as an Unsung Hero for Education and Children’s Services. She had worked with the Supporting Carers of Children and Young People Team to develop a book for youngsters explaining the next steps...
Team of the Year was Chorley-based Fosterfield Day Centre, which for the past 30 years has been serving older people and those with various needs. They have raised £2,000 towards a potting shed with wheelchair access and funding towards various trips out, including one to Blackpool illuminations.
Volunteer of the year was presented to Jamie Heaton, who is a community support officer and befriender. He provides vital support to a member of his community, who was referred to the volunteer service because he needed extra help.
The other winners were: Unsung Heroes - customer services advisor Daniel Murray, who called 999 when a customer started having breathing difficulties, occupational therapist Sharon Corkish, and Martin Evans, a cleaning operative at Brierfield Neighbourhood Centre, Making a Difference to the Community, St Pauls Primary ...
Geoff Driver CBE, leader of the council, said: “As one of the judges, I know just how tough it was choosing the winners from all our fantastic staff, and they should all be very proud.
The Texas High School State Finals Rodeo relies on the animals provided by stock handler Jason Murray and his J&J Rodeo Co.
It’s safe to say that the Texas High School State Finals Rodeo wouldn’t run at all if Jason Murray and his J&J Rodeo Co. workers weren’t willing to rise before the sun and stay long past its setting.
It’s a massive amount of work, requiring 12-15 solid employees, said Murray, who hails from Cooper, northeast of Dallas.
But the task is rewarding, he said, and worth both the late hours and the care required to shepherd the event.
Everything culminates Saturday, when the top 15 contestants in each event compete on their third animal.
Starting from the time he was 18 years old, Murray worked his way up in the business.
Last week, for example, his company worked the Texas Junior High Finals in Gonzales, more or less a copy of the high school event happening here.
Every individual rodeo represents its own long road, he said.
Keeping injuries at bay is vital, as are factors such as transportation and avoiding heat.
“None of these horses will go more than twice this week,” he said. “The horses that buck Monday will not go again until at least Friday or Saturday. The horses that buck Tuesday, the same way. … They do better that way, and they’re fresher."
Certain stock are special-grade and kept for the “short round,” the last bit of competition.
And all have to eat. It takes around $10,000 in feed and hay to keep the animals fed and happy, he said.
After all that work? It’s on to somewhere else. For Murray, that’s Fairfield next week, Palestine the next.
The biggest reward, he said, is seeing some kids grow up in rodeo, and eventually become professionals – and inevitably the future “big shots” come through competitions like the one in Abilene this week.
Deadlock is broken and agreement reached to announce cabinet line-up on Sunday.

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