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The Santa Paula Police Department is offering free pizza in exchange for considering a career in law enforcement or, at least, getting to know some of its officers.
On Friday, the city’s new youth center will host a meet-and-greet with members of the police force. There will be SWAT and four-legged K-9 units, and police will be recruiting for the Police Explorers program, which introduces youths ages 14-18 to field training and other aspects of law enforcement.
At 2 p.m., Police Chief Steve McLean will be available to chat and answer questions.
“Our goal is for students to build relationships with the police officers of our community and hopefully draw interest to a career in law enforcement,” Josue Rodriguez, the city’s recreation coordinator, wrote in a release announcing the event.
The gathering will run from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, when schools are being dismissed early. Contact Rodriguez with any questions at jrodriguez@spcity.org.
The youth center is in the police storefront at 431 N. 13th St. and is geared for youths ages 13-17. It opened in January, in part because of money available through a 2016 voter-approved 1-cent sales tax geared for public safety, roads and youth programs.
We've been hearing a lot about how Ebola is both not very contagious and, at the same time, highly infectious. Could both be true? It turns out, yes.
In comparison to other communicable diseases, Ebola is not as contagious as, for instance, the measles or the mumps. While a disease like the measles can spread through the air, making its spread through a population relatively speedy, Ebola transference requires direct contact to make the jump to a new person (perhaps just one of the reasons that Ebola travels through a population on average nine times slower than the measles).
When you start talking about how infectious a disease is, however, that's another story. While how contagious a virus is can be looked at as its spread through a population, how infectious a disease is comes down to how much of that virus—whether it's in the thousands of particles of simply a few —are required to transfer the virus to a new sufferer.
I just want to clarify some terminology that is frequently used interchangeably. Infectiousness and contagiousness are not the same thing.
Ebola is not very contagious, but it is incredibly infectious. Contact with only a few viral particles (1-10) is adequate to produce disease. At the time of death (or at maximum viremic load) a drop of bodily fluid could have 500,000 viral particles in it. The transmissibility of those particles is how "contagious" it is.
An analogy would be that you could kill yourself by drinking too much alcohol. You could drink too much beer, or you could drink too much vodka. You'd have to drink a much larger volume of beer. If beer were much easier to get than vodka this analogy would be pretty good. And if vodka, when you did find it always resulted in you attempting to drink enough to kill you. But when you came across beer there wasn't enough there to kill you... I was working on a better example with keys and door locks but I couldn't make it accurate enough.
For comparison, Norovirus is 55 particles, Streptococcus is 1000, the typical E. coli that doesn't usually kill you is in the billions.
When Nas and Jay-Z albums had a production credit from DJ Premier back in the 90’s, fans could expect a classic record. Nowadays though, the collaborations between two of New York’s most famous rappers and Primo have been virtually nonexistent. Speaking with Goods magazine, Premier explained his feelings on being denied a beat, and what it would be like if there was a sequel to Illmatic.
In a world first, Northern Territory researchers are trialling a new treatment to heal an ear disease plaguing Indigenous communities and causing lifelong disadvantage.
Tiwi Islands mother Ralma Munkara, 17, had acute otitis media, also known as runny ear, as a child and now her 15-month-old baby has it too.
She grew up with pus chronically discharging from her ears caused by holes in the eardrum, which rupture from a severe ear infection.
For most children, the perforation will grow over by adulthood, and sometimes surgery is needed to close the hole, but by then the developmental damage is done, said Christine Wigger from the Menzies School of Health Research.
"Right from a very young age these children are actually not hearing sounds properly, not hearing words properly, so their grasp on language, their grasp on classroom education is already falling back at those critical, early times," she said.
The current treatment, an antibiotic ear drop, is only effective for one third of patients.
Ms Wigger, a clinical research nurse, has now visited more than 200 children who have the condition in remote areas of the NT, to trial treating the illness in a new way.
The world-first clinical trial, in which two types of treatments are being simultaneously administered to see if they are more effective when combined, is being led by Professor Peter Morris, also from Menzies.
It involves some subjects using a betadine ear wash and an oral antibiotic twice a day for 16 weeks, with the idea that the betadine would puncture the protective layer around the bacteria so the antibiotic can penetrate it.
"This will be the first trial where both interventions have been used at the same time," Professor Morris said.
"There have been small studies done overseas [on the separate treatments] which have been promising, but the jury's still out on whether they do actually work, so this study will be able to definitively answer that question for our population."
Ms Munkara and her baby are both in the trial.
Xaviarina Poantiumilui, 38, from the Tiwi Islands, also had runny ear as a child and so do four of her five children, who are all part of the study.
"[I hope the treatment will] help them listen and learn; listen at school," Ms Poantiumilui said.
Researchers believe British colonisation contributed to the very high rates of the disease, which ran rampant over the following decades until it became normalised.
"Certainly the children in [this] trial will be getting the most intense treatment to date," Professor Morris said.
"The problem has been around at least since the 50s and possibly longer than that, but it wasn't prescribed in the medical literature."
Non-Indigenous children can also develop the condition, but experts say it heals quickly and most cases resolve on their own. The rates are also significantly less than their Indigenous counterparts.
According to the World Health Organisation, if 4 per cent of a population have a condition, it is considered a public health emergency.
The rates of the condition in the NT are almost four times that, at 15 per cent, and in some remote communities, reach up to 70 per cent.
But the disease also affects Indigenous children in urban environments, like 10-year-old Lucas James from Darwin, who has had it since he was one.
"I find this really annoying, sometimes I feel like chopping my ear off," Lucas said.
His mother Nadine Lee said it was an arduous job to keep on top of "a seemingly innocent disease".
"It's actually quite horrific and it takes up quite a lot of time," she said.
"It's quite distressing and treatments are quite tedious and very hard ... if [the treatment] can be a lot more pinpointed to that bacteria, I think that would be good."
It is unacceptable that 15 per cent of Indigenous children in the NT are affected, Professor Morris said.
He hoped the clinical trial would determine whether the betadine and antibiotic treatment could reduce that number.
"In Australia, which is a rich country, we don't want to see more than 1 per cent of children affected by chronically discharging ears, so we've got a way to go," he said.
Julianne Hough is a professional dancer, singer and actress.
Julianne Hough was born in Sandy, Utah. Her parents are Mari Ann and Bruce Robert Hough, a former chairman of the Utah Republican Party, but they divorced when she was 10.
She started performing as a young girl at the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, Utah. She later moved to London with her brother Derek to be tutored by Corky and Shirley Ballas before attending Italia Conti Academy where they trained in various dance styles as well as song, theatre and gymnastics.
When she was 15, she became the youngest person to win the Junior World Latin Champion and International Latin Youth Champion at the Blackpool Dance Festival.
She left London in her teens and has claimed to have suffered much abuse at the dance school. She then attended the Las Vegas Academy and Alta High School after moving back to the US.
Julianne Hough's first TV appearances included being a dancer on the gameshow 'Show Me the Money'.
She won the fourth season of 'Dancing With The Stars' with Olympic skater Apolo Ohno. She also won season five with racer Helio Castroneves in 2007. However, she was eliminated in the fourth week in the next series in which she partnered with comedian Adam Carolla.
Her performance on 'DWTS' earned her an Emmy award nomination.
During season seven in 2008, she was rushed to hospital with severe abdominal pains following a performance with her partner Cody Linley. She had an appendectomy and was replaced by Edyta Sliwinska until she returned.
Despite initially stating that she wouldn't return for season eight, she did so alongside partner (and boyfriend) Chuck Wicks. She made return performances on following years with her 'Footloose' co-star Kenny Wormald and her brother and later to promote 'Rock of Ages'.
Julianne Hough's first single was charity number 'Will You Dance With Me' in 2007. She subsequently signed with Mercury Nashville records.
Later that year, she released her self-titled debut album which opened at number 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.
In 2008, she toured with Brad Paisley; the singers were also featured together on Snoop Dogg's 'My Medicine' video. She later released Christmas EP 'Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection' and performed second single 'My Hallelujah Song' on 'Dancing With The Stars'.
In 2009, she won the Top New Female Vocalist award at the Academy of Country Music Awards.
She has a second album called 'Wildfire' that has not yet been released and, due to her underperforming music career, there are not yet any plans for its release.
Julianne Hough's first acting role was as an uncredited Hogwarts schoolgirl in 2001's 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
She has also appeared in 2010's 'Burlesque' and 2012's 'Rock of Ages', and her first leading role was in 2011's 'Footloose' remake.
She had a starring role in Nicholas Sparks' 'Safe Haven' in 2013 and is set to star in an upcoming Diablo Cody movie.
Julianne Hough is currently dating radio show host Ryan Seacrest and has been for nearly three years. She was previously in a relationship with country singer Chuck Wicks.
She was in support of republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 United States presidential election.
The dancer-turned-actor did not reveal which movie she was talking about.
Julianne Hough has opened up about her body confidence issues, revealing that “something switched” in middle school and she began negatively comparing herself to her peers.
The ‘Dancing With the Stars’ judge and actress then revealed that things got worse when she started acting - after she did a film where she was called fat every day on set.
A beautiful outdoor ceremony for Julianne and fiance Brooks Laich.
Congratulations are in order for Julianne Hough, who married her sports star partner Brooks Laich last week after three and a half years of dating. The pair exchanged vows in a sensational ceremony in Idaho, surrounded by nature and family and friends, who helped them celebrate over three days.
The 29-year-old 'Dancing With The Stars' judge wed her 34-year-old NHL player husband on Saturday (July 8th 2017) in an outdoor ceremony near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They were joined by around 200 guests, which included 'The Vampire Diaries' actress Nina Dobrev, Aaron Paul from 'Breaking Bad' and 'Dancing with the Stars' pro dancer Mark Ballas.
Ryan Seacrest Dating Former Miss Teen USA Hilary Cruz?
Ryan Seacrest is reportedly dating a former Miss Teen USA, Hilary Cruz.
Ryan Seacrest is reportedly dating Hilary Cruz, the model best known for being named Miss Teen USA. The alleged couple have been dating for a number of months, having met at Seacrest’s 40th birthday party in February. They have been spotted together on a number of occasions including enjoying dinner in West Hollywood last month.
Ryan Seacrest is reportedly dating Hilary Cruz.
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As a judge, the 26 year-old star thinks she will be a crossover of fellow judges Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Julianne Hough will going back to her roots as she is returning to ABC's 'Dancing With The Stars' as the show's fourth judge, joining Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba, for season 19.
Obviously the two-time Mirror Ball trophy winner, who appeared on the dancing competition show from seasons 4 through 8, is very excited about becoming part of the series once again, but she knows that being on the judging panel will be very different then been a pro.
The 26 year-old star is returning to the show she was once a professional dancer on, but this time as a judge.
Julianne Hough is coming back! The 26 year-old star is going back to her roots as she is returning to ABC's 'Dancing With The Stars' as the show's fourth judge, joining Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba, for season 19.
The two-time Mirror Ball trophy winner, who appeared on the dancing competition show from seasons 4 through 8, confirmed the exciting news on 'Good Morning America' on Thursday morning (Aug 21st).
Julianne Hough has revealed her "goal has been to be single for an entire year," after splitting from Ryan Seacrest in March 2013, but has she already found a new man?
Julianne Hough, who has been recently linked to Canadian hockey player Brooks Laich, didn't want to get involved with someone new just yet.
The actress/singer was left heart broken when her near 3-year relationship with TV personality Ryan Seacrest ended in March of last year (2013).
This affected her so much that she wanted to avoid relationships for at least one entire year.
Tim Burton Bails On The Angelina Jolie Maleficent Movie; Could David Yates Replace Him?
Tim Burton has been developing a bunch of projects at Disney ever since he made them a boatload of money with Alice in Wonderland; he has a feature-length remake of his 1984 short Frankenweenie coming next October, and until today he was also developing Maleficent, a villain-focused spin on the classic Sleeping Beauty story that would star Angelina Jolie. THR has reported that Burton has dropped the project, despite the fact that his Alice in Wonderland writer Linda Woolverton has adapted the screenplay and Jolie is apparently still attached.
The studio isn't giving up on the project, and is apparently already eyeing Harry Potter veteran David Yates to take over. We heard back in March that Yates was talking to Warner Bros. about making an Al Capone biopic next, but Maleficent would be a much bigger and higher-profile project, and one that Disney is presumably anxious to make while they've still got Jolie on board. I don't know how Yates could possibly make four Harry Potter films in a row and then be ready to tackle something as big as Maleficent, but if he hasn't been much for vacations in the last few years, why start now?
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal, also known as Trevor William Forrest, was indicted on Friday, August 25th and charged with recruiting would-be terrorists for the Islamic State. Al-Faisal was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica, and he will be extradited to New York following his court appearance.
Friday’s indictment is significant for counterterrorism efforts, as al-Faisal was directly linked to the radicalization of Richard Reid, the would-be “shoe bomber,” as well as Jermaine Lindsay, one of the perpetrators of the July 2005 bombings in London— detailed by ADL here.
Al-Faisal’s lectures, videos and website, Authentic Tauheed, openly encourage violence and incite murder; Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said al-Faisal “dedicated his life to terror recruitment,” and his website was updated as recently as August 16th, 2017.
In the past two years, Authentic Tauheed has published nearly 200 posts on topics ranging from anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-gay to blatant endorsements of the Islamic State.
Calling those coalition members “Crusaders,” al-Faisal commands followers to “fight them til there’s no more fitnah,” an Arabic word meaning trial, affliction or distress. Discussing coalition airstrikes in Raqqah and Mosul, al-Faisal states, “If the kuffar [unbelievers/infidels] kill your women and children, you are allowed to kill their women and children.” Later, he suggests the only way to control the caliphate’s skies is to “shoot down the planes of the kuffar” with surface-to-air missiles.
Al-Faisal’s message advocating violence against non-believers makes him a significant threat to the United States, Jamaica, and the rest of the world. His indictment comes at a pivotal time, as ISIS-inspired attacks, such as those in Barcelona and Brussels, continue to terrorize the West.
Most recently, al-Faisal’s Authentic Tauheed page appeared in the ‘like’ section of Parveg Ahmed’s Facebook profile. Ahmed, 22, a US citizen of Queens, was arrested August 28th on charges of attempting to materially support the Islamic State. In June, Ahmed traveled to Saudi Arabia, allegedly to celebrate an Islamic religious holiday, but upon his arrival, attempted to travel to Syria. He was deported back to the United States and arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport. If convicted, Ahmed faces a potential 20-year sentence. It is not immediately clear the extent to which al-Faisal’s works impacted Parveg Ahmed; but, the latter’s public endorsement of al-Faisal’s page is notable.
- “There is no such thing as a gay muslim”.
PAY CUT MAY BE WAY OUT OF A RUT CHANGING CAREERS CAN LEAD TO A CUT IN PAY, BUT ALSO A BETTER OPPORTUNITY FOR FURTHER FINANCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT.
If you think you've got a job but not the career you want, you may be an executive who should consider a salary cut in your next position, according to executive recruiter John Sibbald, president of John Sibbald Associates, Chicago.
Sibbald, whose firm conducts searches at the $50,000 level and higher, said few white-collar workers will consider taking a new job at a salary less than they're currently making. Yet, he said, "There are times when taking a pay cut is not only the smartest thing to do, but the only way to achieve major career goals".
"A few years ago, Lee Iacocca was president of The Ford Motor Co. at $1 million a year. He was fired. He took a giant pay cut to join Chrysler, and the second year there paid himself a salary of $1. He took on the personal and professional challenge of his life, but in the process became a national hero."
"Another Ford alumnus, Robert McNamara, one of the company's whiz kids, resigned a job at Ford paying several hundred thousand dollars a year to earn $60,000 as U.S. secretary of defense. The stature he gained then and when he later became chairman of the World Bank is topped by few."