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Mrs King has been to the family doctor about her son's health and welfare.
"He's losing vital skills he has gained over the years. His verbal communication is failing as are his social skills. He's showing signs of frustration, depression and loss of motivation. He needs plenty of encouragement and reassurance to participate in daily activities. There is no purpose to him getting out of bed, there is no structure and no continuity.
"I'm very angry about it. I need to speak up for Sammy.
Mrs King is furious at the government's failure to fund adequate post-school support for families.
"We are not talking about 16,000 kids,'' she said.
Sammy-Jo was one of just 16 teenagers who completed their last year of schooling at Nambour Special School last year.
"I went into meltdown a few weeks ago and rang DSQ and said I was handing Sammy over to them.
"The next day they rang and said they had good news, offering to send someone into the house to do two to three hours housework while I popped out to have a cup of coffee.
"They missed the point. I want Sammy to be stimulated, not babysat or sitting at home.
"Compass has programs that offer that. But he's not funded for more than about 10 hours a week.
Wants independence but there are safety issues. The family has a lock on the stove after one incident.
NAMBOUR SPECIAL SCHOOL: Recurrent funding of $118,776 was allocated for 10 students completing their education at the end of 2010 (16 finished school). At the end of 2009, $41,500 was allocated for two students.
CURRIMUNDI SPECIAL SCHOOL: Recurrent funding of $59,580 was allocated for five students completing their education at the end of 2010 (14 finished school). At the end of 2009, $92,177 was allocated for nine students.
Do you think the government does enough for disabled adults and their families?
This poll ended on 27 May 2011.
Grenade-carrying drones that commit suicide, ‘smart fences,’ and other new tools to suppress demonstrations. A new report reveals how Israel is using the protests in Gaza to showcase its arms industry.
In an interview earlier this past April, Sa’ar Korush, who until recently served as the CEO of the company that built the wall surrounding parts of the Gaza Strip, told Bloomberg that “Gaza has become the showroom for the company’s ‘smart fences,’ as customers appreciate that the products are battle-tested.” For Israel’s arms industries, the Great Return March, which began two weeks before Koresh spoke to Bloomberg, likely gives them an opportunity to develop new means to put down demonstrations, and to sell these new products abroad.
Korush’s remarks can be found in a new report put out by Hamushim, a joint project of Coalition of Women for Peace and American Friends Service Committee, which works to expose the true human price of the Israeli military industry and arms trade, as well as to mobilize against it. The report, titled “A Lab and a Showroom: The Israeli Military Industries and the Oppression of the Great March of Return in Gaza,” details the new weapons Israel used against the protesters, as well as the attempts to profit from them.
The newest weapon used against protesters on the Israel-Gaza fence has been “Sea of Tears,” a drone that can hold and drop tear gas canisters. The drone was originally designed by Da Jiang Innovations (DJI) and was adapted Aeronautics, an Israeli company that specializes in reconnaissance drones, following a request by Border Police Commander Kobi Shabtai. According to Israel Police Spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld, the drone was used in the weeks leading up to the demonstrations; once they began it was used much more frequently.
“Beyond the fact that it neutralizes all danger to our forces, it allows us to reach places that we had yet to reach,” Shabtai told Channel 2 news. Hamushim’s report, however, states that despite the army’s claims that the drones allow for better accuracy, in at least one case the army dropped tear gas canisters on a tent full of women and children in Gaza. Another video shows a scene in which gas canisters are dropped on journalists covering the protests.
According to Hamushim’s report, the use of drones for monitoring protests was first used by the Jerusalem municipality to track Palestinian demonstrators who tried to damage the city’s light rail, following the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014. In May of this year, the Defense Ministry issued a tender to develop drones that would replace the ones produced by DJI.
Drones developed by Aeronautics are already being used to disperse protests. In Gaza, Aeronautics drones were used to spray “skunk water,” a foul-smelling liquid, at demonstrators. On May 16th, two days after the IDF killed over 60 protests, the Defense Ministry released a video on Twitter showing off its latest development: the “Shocko Drone” — a UAV that is able to release bags containing skunk water. Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist confirmed that the drone was manufactured by Aeronautics, and a day before the Twitter update, the company signed a contract with the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture valued at 4.87 million euros.
Aeronautics drones have also been used to shoot down so-called “fire kites” that are sent from Gaza. According to the report, there have been reports of drones firing warning shots at groups of Palestinians preparing to launch “burning balloons” at Israel. The Israeli government denies using drones to harm people.
In June, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) showed off a new grenade-carrying drone that could “commit suicide” on enemy targets to a foreign customer. The drones can fly ten kilometers, spend half an hour in the air, and it are so light that a single soldier can carry three of them at once. That same week, it was reported that the IAI signed a deal with the German army to provide it with $600 million worth of drones.
The report ends by describing the scene that took place on May 15th, a day after the bloody protests at the fence. Israeli magazine Israel Defense put on a conference titled “Fire, Maneuvering, and Intelligence in a Complex Environment” at the Tel Aviv Convention Center, with around 1,000 Israeli security officials, members of the Israeli military industries, and foreign representatives. Among the keynote speakers were Yoav Galant, who previously headed the IDF Southern Command during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009, former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon, and Maj. Gen. Kobi Barak, the Commander of GOC Army Headquarters.
Every Israeli must be proud of our defense industry that protects us from terrorist vandals who want to kill and burn us.
Every Israeli must be proud of +972 Magazine for exposing the terrorist vandals backed by Orwellian propaganda and sinister technology that kill and burn people and will continue to kill and burn the truth if we let it.
And fanatic flunkies showing up to make creepy Orwellian “rah rah” cheers for a sinister arms industry only underscores that.
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The Global Kidney Health Atlas incorporates the findings of a global study on the burden of kidney disease and access to kidney care. The Atlas highlights various facets of optimal kidney care, such as quality, affordability, and accessibility to kidney healthcare services.
The 2019 Global Kidney Health Atlas findings are being presented by the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) in Melbourne, Australia. The results highlight the current status of kidney healthcare infrastructure across 160 countries, which contain over 98 percent of the world's population. The Atlas provides an exhaustive overview of the current health capacity for kidney care across the globe.
The Global Kidney Health Atlas originated in 2017, when the first Atlas was presented at the World Congress of Nephrology, held in Mexico. At that time, there was great variability in access to kidney care across all the World Health Organization regions, especially the low and lower-middle income countries.
It was the first systematic endeavor to collect data on access to health information, medications, financial, and human resources, as well as models for service delivery and R&D in the area of chronic kidney disease (CKD), which affects 10 percent of the global population. The current 2019 Atlas is the second installment after the 2017 Atlas.
The 2019 Global Kidney Health Atlas is in favor of promoting public-funded non-dialysis treatments for delaying progression of kidney diseases as a worldwide goal. This is aimed at addressing the urgent issues of rising disease burden and increasing kidney care expenses, especially for high-end interventions such as hemodialysis and kidney transplantation.
Kidney stones are associated with the development of end stage renal disease, according to a recent study.
At the tail end of a summer spent eating barbecue and burgers, I went out to dinner one night on my vacation. The deal I struck with the kids who accompanied me was this: I’d pay if they walked to the restaurant.
Because this was a “staycation” — bad word, good thing to do if you live in Burlington — we walked north on Pine Street. At ArtsRiot, we came to a stop.
Maybe it was the celery in my drink, but something shifted my gaze from the 400 burger (American cheese, special sauce, pickles, lettuce) to maple-roasted broccolini and root vegetables, served with pureed cauliflower and quinoa.
Jones is not a vegetarian, and told me later by email she usually eats meat when dining out. But not that night.
And inspired me to go on a mini-prowl for vegetarian meals in a town that has two dedicated vegetarian restaurants, Revolution Kitchen on Center Street, and Pingala Café, a vegan restaurant on the Burlington side of the Winooski River.
Debra Maisel, co-owner of Revolution Kitchen with her husband, Peter Maisel, said their "date night" is a trip to Waitsfield, where the couple dines at Mint, a vegetarian restaurant. "In Burlington, we eat at Stone Soup all the time," she said.
Maisel, a vegan, is a proponent of "clean food."
"I tend to be a really clean eater," she said. "Eat clean. Eat organic. Stay away from canned, processed foods as much as possible."
On my veggie adventure, I discovered a veritable basket of delectables, to riff on the phrase of the week, that included silken tofu, dilly beans in a green salad, East African spicy braised chard, and grilled street corn.
Furthermore, to grossly generalize, I'd say vegetarian meals at restaurants are often more inventive and flavorful than non-veggie fare, less expensive, and unlike food you’d prepare at home.
Keeping alive the generalizations, vegetarian food is healthier for body and planet. In a world of often-conflicting and ever-shifting dietary advice, no one ever said: Eat fewer vegetables.
Back to the dish that started this off, consumed at a picnic table on Pine Street one evening in late August.
While the teenagers around me ate double cheeseburgers and fried chicken, I chewed on root vegetables. Pureed cauliflower served as a kind of luscious and velvety sauce for the vegetables Chef George Lambertson said he roasted and then pureed the cauliflower, adding olive oil, butter, salt and pepper.
A return trip to ArtsRiot was a chance to further explore its vegetarian offerings. The season yield, set now on a dinner table, included fabulous chili rellenos; pasta with corn, kale, tomatoes and creme fraiche; and three varieties of squash on one plate: deep-fried squash blossoms stuffed with cream cheese and purslane, roasted rings of delicata squash, pureed kuri squash.
"We like to use vegetables as the star of the dish,” Lambertson said. “We think produce needs to be celebrated in the same way we celebrate pork chops or hamburger."
At Butch & Babe’s in Burlington's Old North End, I ate three plates – not particularly small – that cost between $4 and $5 apiece. Two were dishes I’d never eaten before and will make a point to eat again.
The restaurant on North Winooski Avenue offers vegetarian and vegan specials Tuesday nights, but I ordered from the regular menu and selected a trio of dishes: green salad with vinaigrette, and two African vegetable dishes that were stew-like in the richness and depth of their flavors. Yet each featured one main ingredient: chard and African eggplant.
This is food to leave home for.
Ibrahim was born in Somali and grew up in Kenya. He moved to Vermont in 2004, attended New England Culinary Institute, and has worked at Butch & Babe’s since it opened.
“The second I found out (African) eggplant was available, I was like — I would love to have those in my hands so I can do something with them,” Ibrahim said.
The yellow-hued eggplants, grown at the Intervale, are smaller and rounder than the purple version.
Ibrahim soaks the vegetable in salt water to remove any bitterness, and cooks the eggplant with sauteed onions and garlic, chilies, tomatoes, peanuts, coconut milk, and spices including cumin and coriander.
Mock eel has been a signature dish at Single Pebble since the Chinese restaurant opened almost 20 years ago in Barre. (It has since moved to Burlington.) The “eel” is actually rehydrated, dehydrated shiitake mushrooms, the restaurant’s owner, Chiuho Duval, explained.
In Taiwan, where Duval grew up, mock chicken and mock eel are "like our macaroni and cheese,” she said. Food vendors from different regions of Taiwan and China have "their own expressions" of the dish.
Silken tofu, or dou hua, also takes Duval back to street food of her childhood. She recalls at the end of the school day seeing vendors carrying a bamboo yoke: one side of the pole held a container of steamed tofu in sauce, the other held bowls for eating on the street.
At Single Pebble, silken tofu is prepared with chili oil and Sichuan preserved vegetables. It was part of a 10-course, vegetarian tasting menu we enjoyed last week. The $38 per person feast is chef's choice — part of its pleasure is not having to choose — and consists of dishes on the menu and specials of the evening.
This was soup to nuts, literally: from miso soup with tofu and watercress to sweet and pungent walnuts with peppers and tofu.
Have some food or restaurant news? Contact Sally Pollak at spollak@burlingtonfreepress.com or 660-1859.
MUMBAI: Two days after Yes Bank said that it had been given a clean chit by the RBI, the central bank hauled up the lender for disclosing an information that was confidential in nature. Yes Bank had twice suppressed the extent of bad loans in its books in previous years.
On Wednesday, Yes Bank had issued a release saying the RBI did not find any divergence in the lender’s asset classification and provisioning for fiscal 2018. Following the disclosure, analysts upgraded the target price for Yes Bank stock and, in Thursday’s market, it rallied 31% — the highest single-day gain in over 14 years. On Friday, the stock lost 1% to close at Rs 219 on the BSE.
For fiscal 2017, the bank had reported a Rs 6,355-crore divergence, while for fiscal 2016, the corresponding figure was Rs 4,177 crore. Although the RBI did not disclose, it is discussed in banking circles that the repeated divergence in Yes Bank’s books was the main reason behind the central bank’s denial to Rana Kapoor to continue as the bank’s MD.
In its communication to the exchanges, Yes Bank said it had received a letter from the RBI that noted that the central bank’s Risk Assessment Report (RAR) was marked ‘confidential’ and it was expected that no part of the report would be divulged except for the information in the form and manner of disclosure prescribed by regulations.
“Therefore, (Yes Bank’s) press release breaches confidentiality and violates regulatory guidelines. Moreover, NIL divergence is not an achievement to be published and is only compliance with the extant Income Recognition and Asset Classification norms,” the RBI said in its letter. “The issuance of the press release has, therefore, been viewed seriously by the RBI and could entail further regulatory actions,” the letter said.
In addition to the central bank’s observations on bad loans, an RAR also identifies several other lapses and regulatory breaches in various areas of a bank’s functioning. So the disclosure of just one part of the RAR was viewed by the RBI as a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, the central bank said. The RBI conducted its first asset quality review (AQR) of banks in 2015 to find corporate loan accounts with severe financial weakness which were still classified as standard accounts on the books of the lenders.
FILE - Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennyslvania, Aug. 22, 2017.
Citing new evidence, Bill Cosby has asked the Pennsylvania judge who sent him to prison for up to 10 years for sexual assault to grant him a new trial, or to reduce his sentence because of alleged procedural errors.
In court papers filed late on Friday, Cosby's lawyers said the judge abused his discretion by failing to adequately consider the 81-year-old entertainer's age and failing eyesight, and should have recused himself from sentencing. Cosby's attorneys have previously taken issue with the judge's wife being a psychiatrist who works with sexual assault victims.
"By undervaluing the mitigating impact of age and disability and overestimating any present danger to the community," Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill imposed a term whose harshness violated statutes and sentencing rules, they said in an 11-page motion.
Cosby is the first celebrity to be convicted of sexual abuse since the start of the #MeToo movement on social media, the national reckoning with misconduct that has brought down dozens of powerful men in entertainment, politics and other fields while demanding greater respect for and representation of women.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele intends to file a response, but otherwise has no comment, said his spokeswoman, Kate Delano.
After a jury found Cosby guilty in April of three counts of aggravated indecent assault for the drugging and sexual assault of his one-time friend Andrea Constand, O'Neill on Sept. 25 branded him a "predator" and sentenced him to three to 10 years in prison.
The once-beloved comedian, known as "America's Dad" in the 1980s and 1990s during the run of his hit television sitcom, was marched out of court in shackles and began serving his sentence immediately.
In seeking a new trial, attorneys Peter Goldberger and Joseph Green said they had found evidence which shows that a recording of a phone call with Cosby made by Constand's mother, Gianna, and played at the trial was not authentic.
During the recorded call, Cosby suggested that he would be willing to pay for Constand to attend graduate school.
The lawyers also resurrected their claim that Cosby was not at his home when Constand said he assaulted her and that if there was an incident, it would have occurred outside of the state's 12-year statute of limitations.
Even if the judge rejects their request for a new trial, the attorneys said his sentence should be vacated and reduced.
In a perfect world, we would all squeeze in a workout at lunch so we could sleep in and have more free time in the evenings — but powering through a running sesh and leaving time to shower before returning to work just doesn’t seem feasible. Not to mention the fact that gym locker rooms are usually gross AF.
But what if we were to tell you could sleep in, get fit midday, and still have time to be social after work? Yup, all you have to do is skip that post-gym shower.
Before you say, “Ewww,” it turns out there’s no reason to freak out if you can’t get to showering right away. Leaving a bit of after-workout sweat on your skin is not going to compromise your health (how it affects your work relationships is another story).
Within a few hours of your workout, bacteria will get to work on the sweat in your armpits and other places and break the protein in it down into acids, Silverman says. As they do, you’ll start to give off that unpleasant locker room smell. So if you’re not able to shower within a few hours after your workout and are concerned about smelling lovely, it’s important that you address those areas of your body.
Eva Glasrud, a psychologist and life coach at The Happy Talent, agrees that there are few times when showering right after a workout is a necessity. Unless you’re wrestling or rolling around on mats that are known to have fungus, ringworm or staph, Glasrud says there is no reason you have to shower immediately after a workout.
“When you shower, basically nothing happens,” Glasrud says. “You wash away sweat and dirt, but the bacteria count on your skin doesn’t really change. Hence, you feel clean, but, biologically, you’re the same.
None of this is to say it’s preferable to wait hours until you shower. If the opportunity to cleanse sweat from your skin presents itself, David E. Bank, founder of The Center for Dermatology, Cosmetic & Laser Surgery, is on the side of washing so that your pores do not become clogged with dirt and oil.
So, like anything, use your best judgment. Run errands. Pick up the kids. Go shopping. Do what you have to after a workout, and don’t feel like you need to pull a superman change. But keep baby wipes and face wipes handy, and just don’t wait 24 hours before you finally bathe. It’s going to be fine.
Originally published June 2016. Updated May 2017.
Thousands of monkeys have been imported into the UK for use in laboratory research despite a legal ban, animal rights campaigners have claimed. The trade in primates continues because the ban, introduced in 1997, does not include the offspring of wild-caught parents, said the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV). Between 2008 and 2009 almost 5,000 primates were brought into the UK to be used in experiments. The figures were disclosed by the Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone in response to a parliamentary question.
KALGOORLIE, Australia – With just one blast, miners in Western Australia unearthed two large quartz rocks containing gold estimated to be worth about $11 million, bringing the cache to the surface over four days.
Australian miners often extract just 2g of gold per ton of rock—an expert says the gold particles are often too small to be seen by the naked eye—but in this case, Canadian mining company RNC Minerals says 2,200g per ton was extracted, the BBC reports.
“You might go your whole life and you’ll never see anything like it. It’s definitely a once-in-a-lifetime discovery,” a geologist tells Australia’s ABC News. The largest rocks will be auctioned as collector’s items, according to the RNC Minerals CEO.
The biggest one weighs between 200 and 210 pounds and contains more than 2,300 ounces of gold for a worth of about $3 million; the next biggest weighs 139 pounds and contains 1,600 ounces of gold for a worth of around $2 million.
The Beta Hunt mine, near Kalgoorlie, had primarily been a nickel mining operation, but RNC found traces of gold in June and then targeted the gold vein 1,600 feet underground; the gold was extracted from an area just 10 feet wide and 10 feet high.
“This sort of bonanza zone is incredibly unique,” the geologist notes.
The Gangnam in the title of the global hit by South Korean rapper Psy is Seoul's wealthiest residential and shopping district, lined with luxury boutiques, top-end bars, night clubs and restaurants frequented by celebrities.
But even among those Koreans who live or party regularly in Gangnam, which literally and unglamorously translates as "south of the river", there is little consensus on what constitutes the district's signature style.
Translating the song's lyrics, which some see as satirising the district's self-importance and ostentatious wealth, offers little in the way of concrete insights.

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