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"The people I represent never wanted to be in the media, but were thrust there because a loved one has been killed," she said.
"They are in shock, some are deeply traumatised, none has experience of dealing with the press.
"All we are asking is for some sensitivity, a recognition that journalists can add to the pain and suffering of victims if they go about their business in the wrong way."
Mrs Surphlis said a local ombudsman would give families "great comfort".
"Information on handling the media and how to complain should be included in the bereavement guide given to all families after a murder," she said.
"The ombudsman could also ensure ethics are included in journalism training, and that journalists are offered and avail of on-going refresher courses."
Samm NI's research focused on two key areas: the relationship between newspaper journalists and victims' families; and the impact of media reporting on family members bereaved through murder and manslaughter.
The report concluded that the nature of the relationship was often highly negative, with family members recording the impression of journalists as persistent, deceptive, ruthless, and insensitive.
Many family members said they felt used, powerless, and on occasion besieged or neglected.
Samm NI said the PCC had moved to issue new guidance since the research was conducted, but the charity insisted further work was required to address the key issues of consent, permission and respect.
BUCYRUS — Crawford County Public Health will be hosting the seventh annual “Boo! To the Flu Clinic” in Bucyrus on Oct. 15.
Families can dress up in Halloween Costumes and help the nursing staff say, “Boo! to the Flu”.
“Our nurses will join in the fun and be in their favorite Halloween Costumes as they provide a treat to all the children that get their flu shots. There will be kid craft activities and games too,” said administrator Kate M. Siefert, R.S.
The flu clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 15 at the Crawford County Public Health office, located at 1520 Isaac Beal Road.
Siefert said people should not wait until everyone around them is sick to get vaccinated.
“It takes about two weeks after vaccination for antibodies to develop in the body and provide protection against the flu,” said Amy Ramirez, Director of Nursing.
Crawford County Public Health also has vaccination clinics every Thursday, with evening hours being offered on the second and third Thursday of each month.
“Please bring along your health insurance cards. It is recommended that all people six months and older get a flu shot. Certain people are at higher risk of complications from the flu. Those people include children age six months to 18 years, pregnant women, people 50 years and older, anyone with chronic medical condit...
Siefert said the best way to protect yourself from getting the flu is to practice good handwashing, get a flu shot each year, stay home when you are sick and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
For more information on protecting yourself and your family from the flu and to schedule your flu shot, contact Crawford County Public Health at (419)562-5871.
On the face of it, Vesna Luketic is a winner in the free-range egg fracas that broke out this week.
The federal government announced an "agreement'' that will allow big producers free range status whilst maintaining a bird density of up to 10,000 per hectare – or a chicken per square metre. There will be conditions attached – to be made clear over the next 12 months – and the bird density must be included on the pack...
Ms Luketic's Family Homestead 15,000 chickens have a not-so squeezy life of 750 birds per hectare – more than 10 times the room to scratch around than Coles own-brand, free range chickens that, according to Choice, are run at 10,000 per hectare.
Ms Luketic's are also presumably happier because they don't suffer de-beaking or beak trimming. Bigger producers, with higher bird densities, need to trim their birds' beaks to avoid the animals pecking each other to death – aggression caused by them living at such close quarters.
Three years ago, as Coles and other big producers were lobbying for a less stringent definition of free range – that is, for the federal government to make a ruling as was declared this week – Vesna Luketic was bemoaning that Family Homestead eggs, at $9 per dozen, were struggling in an unfair face-off against the Cole...
The new labelling laws will go some way to address that situation. Still, she and the other dozen members of the Free Range Farmers Association – a not-for-profit group of commercial egg farmers operating in Victoria, under a stringent code of conduct that is policed by regular inspections by an agronomist, are horrifi...
Ten thousand birds per hectare, they say, is not sustainable or responsible farming. Leaving animal welfare concerns aside, they point to the pickling of the soil by so much hen manure, which is essentially ammonia. Leached into the ground, it leads to a poisoning of waterways, says Ms Luketic.
"It's a lot of work to prevent this with just 750 birds per hectare," she says. Family Homestead regularly rotates its sheds, and has a system where the manure is gathered and composted. This also reduces the problem of insect infestation.
Dianne Moore is the president of the Free Range Farmers Association. She runs a modest 600 birds that produce about 350 eggs per days. She sells her eggs at a number of farmers' markets – "I always sell out unless it's pouring rain" – and so isn't commercially bothered by what the supermarkets are doing.
She agrees that even 750 birds per hectare won't work unless they are intensively managed. "It's unbelievable what the government has agreed to."
She flew to Canberra in November to take part in the consultative process. "There were two or three big meetings. We all had a big say but we weren't listened to. I think they had already made up their mind ... because the supermarkets were there but we never heard them say a thing. Choice and the Australian Competitio...
The ACCC will reportedly police the new arrangements focusing on bird density, which plays a central role in the new regulations. But when the ACCC in 2014 successfully prosecuted a big producer for misleading consumers, bird density wasn't the issue.
The Federal Court, when fining Pirovic Enterprises $300,000, found the company, by labelling and promoting their eggs as "free range", represented to consumers that the eggs were produced by hens which were able to move about freely on an open range each day. In fact, as Pirovic admitted, most of its hens did not move ...
The new federal agreement requires producers to provide "meaningful access" to open areas for birds. What this means in practical terms, and how it will be policed, is yet to be revealed.
The first mobile phones fitted with Google's Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a milestone for the internet giant as it looks to dominate the wireless world.
A handful of chip makers - ARM, Marvell, Qualcomm, NEC, Texas Instruments and ST Microelectronics - showed off prototype handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Google launched Android last year, hoping to establish its software as the standard operating system for mobile phones and to improve the quality of web-browsing for handset users.
"It's definitely very promising," an analyst for technology research firm Gartner, Carolina Milanesi, told AFP. "This means that we should be on track to see commercial devices in the second half of 2008."
The idea is that Android will lead to radically improved functionality, notably for web browsing, meaning more people will use their mobile phones for internet surfing and other applications.
Internet use on mobile phones can currently be a frustrating experience, with clunky software and slow download speeds.
"There are few phones that provide a compelling web experience," explained a spokesman for Google, Barry Schnitt. "As people use the web more, they'll use Google more and we'll be able to sell more relevant advertising."
Android is being developed by a coalition of 30 handset manufacturers, chip makers and software groups and is based on open-source code, meaning programmers are able to build compatible applications for free.
"The future ability of Android is exciting because it's open-source so it allows developers to come up with the next killer application," said a spokesman for US chip maker Texas Instruments, which demonstrated Android software in a prototype phone.
The Apple iPhone, for example, runs on Apple software and uses Apple applications, while an Android-enabled phone would incorporate applications from any number of developers.
But Google software faces fierce competition from the world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, and its Symbian system.
US software giant Microsoft also has a Windows system for mobiles and a separate consortium is working on an open-source Linux solution.
Android was on display for the first time in only prototype phones. The first handset for consumers from either Taiwan's HTC or US group Motorola is expected in the second half of this year.
Google announced the "Open Handset Alliance" in November last year to develop Android, including China Mobile, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Telefonica, LG and eBay.
Gartner's Milanesi stressed that "the road between a prototype and commercial handset is a long one" and said the ultimate test of Android's success would be how easily applications could be used.
"It should have everything that we see on the PC, not just shrunk down to work on a mobile phone, but really being optimised for a mobile phone," she said.
The interest in a new software platform from Google also stems from the company's desire to establish its brand in emerging markets.
"If you look at emerging markets, people are more likely to have their first browsing experience on a phone not a PC (personal computer)," said Milanesi.
Google surprised analysts when it unveiled Android last November. They had expected the Internet giant to announce the launch of its own Google-branded G-Phone to compete against Apple's popular iPhone.
"Imagine not just a single Google phone, or G-phone, but thousands of G-phones made by a variety of manufacturers," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt at the time.
This could be Android's weak spot, however.
HTC and ailing US manufacturer Motorola, which has announced it might break-up its businesses, are the two main handset manufacturers in the Open Handset Alliance.
"For it to become a worldwide platform and drive uptake, they need more manufacturers onboard," said Milanesi.
1st Lieutenant Kenneth Ellison receives his diploma from Maj. Francisco Costa upon completion of Commissioned Officer Training Class 18-04, Friday, June 22. Ellison commissioned after 14 years of enlisted service and continues his family’s legacy of continuous Air Force service since his grandfather enlisted in 1947. C...
I'm not going to blog anything at the moment on the panel Ross moderate on "is higher education for everyone" since I think there's going to be embeddable video soon and I'll save my remarks for then. That said, I found it kind of hilarious that amidst the opulence of the festival and the high-tech wonder of multiple d...
General contractor Lance Burger of Bon Constructors has a quick reality check for anyone considering a renovation project: It will not come in exactly on budget, and it will not be finished exactly on time.
However, he adds, there are a few things people can do to try and have everything turn out reasonably close to their budget and timeline.
It begins with choosing the right general contractor. Burger says the ones coming in with unrealistically low bids will not be able to deliver on their promises, or worse yet, will bring up a raft of additional charges when the project is already in motion.
Instead, he advises hiring a contractor that you believe has your best interests at heart. That contractor should be experienced and knowledgeable—able to walk you through the different options and explain why something may or may not be right for you.
Rather than just asking for quotes, he says clients should do the legwork of looking at previous builds, talking to previous clients and even talking to the subtrades with whom the general contractor works. That will provide a complete picture of what it’s like to work with that person.
Then the clients should hire a design professional to create detailed plans and drawings. The more accurate the planning process is, the more likely the project will be able to stay close to its original budget.
A German man with severe heart failure, fever, blindness, deafness, and enlarged lymph nodes went to a medical center for undiagnosed diseases, desperate to be treated by the best as he struggled to understand his unexplained condition.
But his real savior was Hugh Laurie’s irascible charisma.
The 55-year-old man’s deterioration had puzzled other doctors. But Dr. Juergen Schaefer, who treated the man, told the AP he diagnosed the man within five minutes.
Schaefer didn’t rely on medical textbooks to make his (correct) diagnosis. Instead, he used his memory of the U.S. television show House, which ran from 2004 to 2012 on Fox and told the story of a borderline-sociopathic medical doctor whose abrasive personality and generally poor decision making counter-balanced his un...
The unidentified man’s case reminded Schaefer of a House episode in which a woman (played by Candice Bergen) comes in suffering from heart failure and it turns out she has cobalt poisoning from her hip joint replacement. The German man, as it turns out, had cobalt poisoning from his hip joint replacement as well.
British medical journal Lancet published a report on this unusual case, but did not mention whether lawyers should start consulting Franklin & Bash whilst trying cases with their best buddy.
Reality television just keeps getting skankier. Faux-homophobic pastor Ted Haggard is set to appear on ABC's first season of Celebrity Wife Swap where he will trade spouses with Hollywood nutcase (see above photo) Gary Busey.
Haggard, you may recall, was kicked out of his megachurch in 2006 after allegedly sleeping with a male prostitute and buying crystal meth from him. Busey, meanwhile, was a long-term cocaine addict with a history of spousal abuse. Not a guy you'd want to trust your wife with.
But if the pastor's 33-year-old marriage could survive that mortifying scandal, it's expected that his relationship will survive this.
That’s Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, excitedly talking about the iPad version he expects to roll out at or shortly after the hotly anticipated launch of the tablet computer on April 3.
Time’s Managing editor Richard Stengel attends the TIME’s 2009 Person of the Year at the Time & Life Building in New York City.
Magazines are throwing themselves into the brave new iPad world. Many magazine companies are scrambling to have full issues available for sale when the iPad launches, and Time expects to be among the early ones out of the chute.
Mr. Stengel acknowledges that early iPad content may not meet the hype. He compared it to the era after sound first came into motion pictures. For a while many movies were more like filmed plays, until directors really learned to take advantage of the opportunities of the medium. For the iPad, too, “the medium is waiti...
Thanks to the severe financial crisis, this year has brought story upon story upon story which has alarmed and even caused panic among military families. Given where we currently are (or aren't), I have to believe that we're going to see more stories and more confusion as to how the state of the economy will affect mil...
After the last debacle where military families were used as political pawns, there was a lot of chatter about legislation crafted to protect military pay. Personally, I'd rather politicians kiss babies and go to ribbon-cutting ceremonies because they have a tendency not to factor in the unintended consequences of their...
Two weeks after a Texas congressman tried force a House vote on his bill mandating that servicemembers be paid first in the event of a government shutdown, only nine representatives have signed on. The so-called discharge petition requires 218 signatures.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, filed the bill in March only to see it stuck in committee. During a press conference on July 14 he announced he would use a House rule that allowed members to petition to get a bill onto the floor. At that time he expressed confidence that he’d have the backing, claiming he had 190 co-spons...
"We need to make sure the military, people in harm's way that are dodging bullets, never have to have it cross their minds that their paychecks may not come in," Gohmert said at the time. He was joined there by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who had filed similar legislation in the Senate, where it has also langui...
I know that bills are complex and they often have extraneous pork and language tacked on. Sometimes when legislators vote against a bill, it's because the bill isn't a "clean" bill and while they may support the essential parts of the bill, they don't support all the extra additions. Armed with that knowledge, I brewed...
Leaders on both sides do not want to remove military pay from the debate because they believe that having it at risk will make it easier for lawmakers to go along with a deal for which they otherwise would not vote.
What this particular example says to me is that many politicians are giving lip-service to protecting military families during a time of war because the military is more valuable to politicians when they're vulnerable than when they're protected.
As expressed at the top, I tend to prefer a less-is-more approach given the current state of affairs. I'm not sure how I feel about this legislation per se, but these are merely personal preferences and issues for me to wrestle with. However, I am sure how I feel about being used as a pawn on a chess board, over and ov...
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A losing coach and an underdog football team face their giants of fear and failure on and off the field.
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Devastated by his circumstances, he cries out to God in desperation. When Grant receives a message from an unexpected visitor, he searches for a stronger purpose for his football team. He dares to challenge his players to believe God for the impossible on and off the field. When faced with unbelievable odds, the Eagles...
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In separate ballrooms at the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Friday morning, shareholders of The Walt Disney Co. and 21st Century Fox agreed to a $71.3 billion purchase plan that gives Disney the bulk of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, substantially altering the entertainment landscape.
Regulators in more than a dozen countries must still give their approval. But the shareholder votes brought to a close a six-month corporate showdown, waged across two continents by Disney and Comcast, for supremacy in the media business. Murdoch’s trove represented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain the bulk nee...
“Avatar,” the “X-Men” movies, “Titanic” and TV shows such as “The Simpsons” and “This Is Us” will now be owned by Disney. The deal also gives Disney the cable networks FX and National Geographic; a controlling stake in the streaming service Hulu, which has more than 20 million subscribers; and Star, one of India’s fast...
Disney’s chief executive, Robert A. Iger, has staked his legacy on this deal, and to gain control of Fox, he had to fend off an aggressive play by Comcast. Iger and Murdoch originally agreed to a deal in December. After months of maneuvering, Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable giant, topped Disney’s original bid in ...
Comcast called it quits soon after.

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