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I'm still not ready to renew Sunday Ticket, but doesn't it look like there a chance Shurmur and his staff have a slim, but real, opportunity? -- Doug Shaffer, Orange, Calif.
Hey, Doug: Prior to this endless lockout, I might be talked into agreeing with the story. But I think the lockout has really killed the chances of a first-year coaching staff with a "green" quarterback from breaking out. Pat Shurmur and his staff couldn't be placed in a worse situation.
Hey, Tony: Is there any player on the Browns that you'd be willing to single out as your "favorite" player to watch? -- Scott Yehl, Princeton, N.J.
Hey, Scott: I'm really excited to see Colt McCoy perform in the new offense. Montario Hardesty captured my excitement in his first six carries in the last preseason game before he got hurt. I'm also looking forward to seeing Jabaal Sheard, whom I believe was the team's best draft choice. Also, rookie fullback Owen Mare...
Hey, Tony: I know teams can't have contact with players during the lockout. Does that also prevent them from having contact with agents of drafted players? My question is with the lockout potentially ending on July 21, will that leave enough time for rookies to get signed before training camp starts? Do you think the B...
Hey, Andy: The new CBA will contain a rookie wage scale that should end the whole concept of rookie holdouts.
Hey, Tony: I figured I need to get a jersey question in before your moratorium ends. Do you know how much longer the Browns plan to wear the "AL" patch? I realize they did it to honor the late Al Lerner, but Lerner passed in 2002. Do you feel it's time to move on? -- Dustin S., Queens, N.Y.
Hey, Dustin: I don't forsee the Browns removing the "AL" patch under the Lerner family ownership.
Hey, Tony: Camp Colt, great! After all, the starting job is his to lose. Seneca is there too, great! So, why it isn't Seneca teaching the guys about the West Coast offense instead of Colt, given the huge gap in experience? I know Seneca wants to start and is holding back a few tricks, but it makes me more than a little...
Hey, Seren: Wallace is a team player. I think you're over-thinking this issue.
SALT LAKE CITY – What appears to be red honey is showing up in some Utah beehives and state officials say it may be coming from bugs feasting on candy cane byproduct.
Utah Department of Agriculture and Food officials say they've received several complaints about the odd-colored goo in hives in Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties. They say the bees were apparently fed the byproduct that came from a candy factory.
Officials say they don't have any reason to call the red substance unsafe, but advise beekeepers not to mix it with normal-colored honey and to report it to the state.
Regulators are investigating whether the substance can be considered honey. Beehive State standards define honey as a product that originates from a floral source.
Perth families believe the WA mental health system is at least 10 years behind its eastern states counterparts with relatives of patients frustrated they are expected to either shell out $1000 a night or send their children away for basic treatment.
The revelations comes after WAtoday revealed state hospital emergency department staff were dealing with mental health overcrowding issues on a"frighteningly regular basis", and Australian Medical Association WA president Omar Khorshid said the current system was failing.
Grant, Perth father and primary carer to 28-year-old daughter Ellie, said the recent revelations had hit home with him and his family.
Ellie currently suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, believed to be a by-product of losing her younger sister in a car accident and enduring sexual abuse at a young age.
"I didn't know til she was about 16," Grant said.
"When she was 16 she published a letter on a youth help group about her life story. I found out there."
Ellie moved to Queensland with family eventually, but later became homeless.
She was in and out of mental health wards in Logan when Grant found out about her situation, and flew her back to Perth for treatment.
However, following Grant's experience with the WA mental health system, Ellie was sent back over east within a matter of years.
"She was self harming rather badly. She was cutting herself constantly, swallowing things ... it was mainly Panadol overdoses - just supermarket over-the-counter type stuff," Grant said.
"She used to overdose on Panadol constantly.
"You couldn't take your eyes off her. There were a couple of times where she was in hospital and I searched her room and I found about 20 razor blades stuck to bottoms of drawers, and hidden everywhere. She'd hidden them all over her room with sticky tape in very hard to find spots.
"There were times where I had to stop her from running in front of cars. I've had to physically restrain her.
"Initially when I first brought her across, the psychiatrists were quite good.
"They were trying to help her, but she didn't want help. She just wanted to die."
It was clear Ellie needed immediate attention, and Grant sought it out for her in WA's mental health system.
She would often find herself in hospital emergency departments due to the nature of her self-harming; an area Grant maintains is not suitable for those already in the throes of their mental illness.
During Ellie's time in WA, she was formally diagnosed with PTSD and borderline personality disorder.
According to Grant, this was when he saw her treatment plan become more confused.
"Once you get diagnosed with a personality disorder, they will say this is better off treated in the community," Grant said.
"But if the person is too unstable to be treated, and they're suicidal, what are you supposed to do? You can't do anything."
So Grant was forced to send his daughter back over east where she would have access to one of the country's best mental health facilities.
He is separated from his daughter by thousands of kilometres but he said it was worth every moment.
"At [Ellie's new facility], they have been treating mood disorders for maybe 20 to 30 years. The difference in the nursing and the psychiatrists was amazing.
"They knew what to do, how to treat the patients, they asked the family what triggers your daughter ... they go right through it and they make sure all of the staff know.
"There's a huge difference in competency between a hospital like that and the public system.
"There's just no competent treatment here.
"One of the main problems is that the public system is at least 10 years behind what is happening in psychiatry."
Grant's story is not unusual, and National Drug Research Group director doctor Steve Allsop said the WA health system still had a long way to go before it was able to help cases like Ellie's.
"We're well aware that in both centres - in drug treatment and mental health treatment - we're still catching up with what's actually required," he said.
"Worldwide as well as locally, we know that a significant proportion of people who are affected by drugs or mental health problems, or co-existing problems - we still need to improve access to treatment."
Dr Khorshid wrote for WAtoday last month. He said it wasn't just the barriers that were stopping patients from seeking help, but the 'impossible to navigate' system.
"We are rightly encouraging people to speak out and get help for their mental health issues," he said.
"But when they do reach out, they learn the WA mental health system is failing.
"Patients and families feel they have been set up to fail. They report the current system is not working. Our most vulnerable patients feel traumatised by a system that is hard to get into, impossible to navigate and poorly co-ordinated.
"Patients tell stories of endlessly trying to find the right section, organisation or department that will help them — with no success. Effectively, the system rejects and abandons patients and families, leaving them shattered.
"There are tragic and devastating outcomes."
Dr Khorshid said emergency departments were overflowing due to the crushing weight of dual diagnosis patients, and new technology, reform and a review of clinical governance was the only way the system could improve.
Dr Allsop said access was one of the crucial barriers the WA health system needed to overcome in order to spur on meaningful reform in the health sector.
"I remember in another state, an Aboriginal woman worked on the board of a treatment service," he said.
"They had relatively low return rates for a second appointment, so she bought a mini bus.
"She made it easier for people to get there. She picked them up and took them home, and she saw her treatment engagement go up dramatically.
"I remember when I was working with colleagues at a not-for-profit agency ... instead of closing its doors at 5.30pm it closed at 8.30 to 9pm at night.
"Suddenly there were people able to come who otherwise couldn't come because they were working. If you have a service that's not perceived as youth friendly, or women friendly, or a secure place for Aboriginal people - all these things make a difference."
Is the system recovering or stalling?
The WA Mental Health Commission office acknowledged there was a long way to go.
"Although, as with all illnesses, the health sector works to accommodate demand based on those most in need, the commission recognises that there are still long waits in emergency departments for mental health patients which are not the most appropriate clinical care setting for patients in distress," a spokeswoman sai...
"The commission is continuing to work with the Department of Health, government, and non-government services to progress improvement in how co-occurring mental health and alcohol and other drug issues are addressed.
"This includes initiating advice from the Mental Health Network which comprises of clinicians, consumers and carers to help inform mental health policy and reform.
Mr Marney said the health sector had made leaps and bounds following the release of the Western Australian Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Services Plan 2015-25 was released.
Of the 112 "actions and sub-actions" laid out in the plan, 24 are finished, 74 are on their way and 11 are pending commencement.
"Across the service streams identified in the plan, progress has been made towards meeting the identified optimal levels of service by the end of 2025," Mr Marney said.
"The plan update is expected to be released for feedback in the coming months and will take the latest evidence and population demographics into account to ensure implementation of services remains responsive to emerging trends in the community."
*Grant and Ellie's named have been changed to protect their privacy.
There's an entire world under your feet, saturated by colors out of space and patrolled by colonies of bandit animals. Once in a while, you are able to visit. Here is what it looks like.
In today's issue of San Francisco's Bold Italic, there is a terrific photo essay about the city's underground spaces. Some of these are viaducts, and others are service tunnels. All of them are full of haunting reminders that humans live down here sometimes, as do animals.
Raccoons peek out to look at you.
Here's a dazzling glimpse upward, into a ring of lights that turn out to be the holes in a manhole cover.
Visit the world under San Francisco's sidewalks at The Bold Italic.
KUALA LUMPUR • An uproar sparked by a video clip showing the workers of a restaurant in Malaysia washing dishes in a puddle of murky water has forced it to close its doors until further notice.
The 30-second video shows three of the eatery's employees squatting at the back of the restaurant located in Bangsar, scrubbing and rinsing plates in what appears to be a puddle of water in a pothole.
The video, which made the rounds on Tuesday, has since garnered more than 270,000 views.
The restaurant, identified as Raj's Banana Leaf, has issued an apology on Facebook.
"This has never happened before and should not have happened," the restaurant said. "We also want to assure (the public) that Raj's Banana Leaf consistently passes the health inspection conducted regularly."
The Kuala Lumpur City Council was expected to issue a closure notice starting yesterday.
The six-operator joint venture to create a unified, nationwide platform for interactive and addressable advertising now known as Canoe Ventures LLC has officially named ad executive David Verklin as its CEO.
The JV has received $150 million funding from the six MSOs -- Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Charter, Cablevision and Bright House -- with ownership stakes based on the proportion of subscribers each operator contributes to the pool.
Verklin, formerly CEO of Aegis Media Americas, will start August 4.
Canoe Ventures, based in New York, will sell its technology platform not to advertisers directly, but to cable programmers such as ESPN and MTV who will in turn resell ad inventory to marketers, Verklin said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
That represents a shift in business model from the original plan that Canoe would sell inventory directly and employ its own national sales force.
The upside for MSOs with the new approach is that they don’t need to build out the infrastructure to sell ads themselves, and they avoid the potential conflict with programmers’ own advertising businesses.
By News Staff on Jan 12, 2019 at 5:34 a.m.
Judy Lynn Libby, 45, of Shakopee has been sentenced in Becker County District Court on a felony charge of depriving a parent of parental rights.
According to court records, in December of 2014, a runaway girl spent a week at her home in Becker County with her and her son, who was in a relationship with the girl.
The girl's legal guardian suspected she was there and was searching for her, but both Libby and the son denied the girl was at the home. The son had slid a shelf in front of a closet door to hide her during two previous police searches, but the girl was found during a search on Dec. 18, 2014, and Libby was very upset w...
On Dec. 28, District Judge Jay Carlson sentenced Libby to a year and a day in prison at Shakopee and fined her $500 plus $575 in court fees. The sentence will be served concurrently with the sentence in another case.
A Tillman man was arrested Saturday after leading Ridgeland police on a chase through town.
While patrolling Bees Creek Road, an officer with the Ridgeland Police Department tried to stop a motorist in a Honda Accord for speeding.
The driver, Andre Green of Tillman, allegedly failed to stop and led police officers on a chase.
Police followed the vehicle until it went through a ditch and struck a fence on Hummingbird Lane.
Green then allegedly left the car and tried to run away. He was caught after a short foot chase across a field.
When his car was searched after his arrest, police allegedly found powder cocaine, crack cocaine and marijuana in the vehicle.
Green was charged with failure to stop for blue lights, driving under suspension-second offense, possession of crack cocaine, possession of powder cocaine and simple possession of marijuana. He was taken to the Jasper County Detention Center.
Just 24 hours after an Idaho couple was killed crossing Las Vegas Boulevard, pedestrians continued crossing in the same area.
Just 24 hours after an Idaho couple was killed crossing Las Vegas Boulevard near the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa, pedestrians continued crossing in the same area.
Many of those crossing from the end of the driveway to a driveway directly across the street thinking it was a legal crosswalk.

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