most of the things aboard Air Force One come fitted as standard, like bulletproof windows and, we presume, high-tech anti-ninja technology, the President and his spouse have some control over what the interior of the plane looks like so it better suits their tastes. Much like a fancy car, the President, or more specifically the First Lady, can choose the color of the interior of the plane. To this end, they can make it as pimp or spartan as they like.
In the event these systems all fail, Air Force One is built sturdy enough to weather an undisclosed number of direct missile hits and could probably smash into the ground at Mach 3 and still not kill anyone aboard. Not that you'd ever get anywhere near the plane, given that it can fly in the upper stratosphere and secretly call on supersonic jets to aid it over any allied country. Even if you managed to do enough damage to hurt the President, he'd probably be fine, because it can stay in the air forever.
Like with everything else, no expense is spared when it comes to the kitchen aboard Air Force One and prior to a flight, secret service agents will painstakingly seek out and purchase the freshest, highest-quality ingredients one at a time from nearby stores to minimize the risk of the President being poisoned.
The gourmet chefs working aboard Air Force One are said to be able to cook virtually any foodstuff known, are trained in virtually all culinary disciplines, and have access to every kind of cooking implement possible (except a deep fat fryer, for safety reasons). This is an issue because the most popular foodstuff aboard is burger and fries. Yes, despite Air Force One being basically a flying 5-star restaurant, most people aboard, including the President, normally just order burgers and sandwiches.
While the food has gotten healthier, mostly thanks to the efforts of First Lady Michelle Obama, it's noted that journalists still mostly opt for sandwiches, coffee and soda, with the kitchen going as far as stocking peanut butter for especially picky eaters who don't want to eat any of the fancier fare Air Force One's chefs can cook up. While officially Air Force One does serve balanced meals, anecdotally most people just eat junk food, partly because everyone except the President is charged for their meal, with the exception of a free bag of M&M's every person aboard is given after a flight.
As a symbol of the American presidency, most everything aboard Air Force One is fittingly adorned with either the presidential seal, the current sitting president's initials, or both. On top of this, every item aboard is polished, cleaned and meticulously maintained to avoid the embarrassment of a foreign leader or diplomat being given a chipped mug to drink out of, or a journalist tweeting a picture of a dirty towel. You know, stuff that would make the President and, by extension, America look bad.
Like any plane, Air Force One has flight attendants and other staff who perform basic custodial duties aboard the plane, like telling you where the emergency exit is and handing out little bags of peanuts. Unlike a regular plane, these staff members are all highly trained military personnel with spotless records, who are carefully screened and subsequently trained to handle nearly any conceivable emergency. As a result, every member of the crew aboard Air Force One is well versed in emergency survival techniques, weapons handling, and generally messing up your day.
The President is an important dude, and spends much of his time being flanked, shadowed and watched over by an elite team of bodyguards versed in 80 plus ways to obliterate a human testicle at 80 yards, with their eyebrows. Specifically, whenever the Commander-in-Chief is about to board Air Force One, though, he is also being protected by a special team of sharpshooters armed with 50 caliber sniper rifles. Why 50 caliber? So that in case someone tries to hijack the plane, they can shoot through the normally bulletproof windows and decorate the cockpit with the part of their brain that thought hijacking Air Force One was a good idea.
As noted, everything aboard Air Force One is (usually custom) made to the highest possible standard of quality, using the finest available materials. Now, you'd think any company making a product that was being used aboard freaking Air Force One would boast about that fact because, well, why they hell wouldn't you? As it turns out though, no company involved with manufacturing anything involved with the plane is permitted to advertise that fact, mostly due to it being a possible security risk, and partly because it's kind of tacky. This means that we have literally no idea who made the toilet, or indeed any item aboard Air Force One.
Like the staff, Air Force One is prepared for virtually any possible emergency scenario and is equipped to deal with nearly any potential threat, from a rogue jet firing sidewinder missiles at it, to a nuclear explosion. Along with being immune to the effects of an EMP blast, such as one produced by an exploding nuclear warhead, Air Force One is shielded against conventional damage in the form of bulletproof plating and flares to deter heat seeking missiles.
But here's the best part: after the First Lady or President picks out a particular style of carpet or type of soft furnishing they want to decorate the plane with, some hapless sap from the Secret Service has to go get a special fire-retardant version specially made, because regular carpet is seldom thermite proof. Because everything aboard Air Force One has to be spotless, this carpet is replaced frequently, leading to a massive stockpile of it being kept in a secret location in case someone spills beer all over the floor or something.
The full specs of Air Force One have never been disclosed but we do know that it has a fully stocked medical bay staffed by seasoned medical professionals. So prepared is this medical bay that it carries, at all times, an emergency supply of blood, drugs and vaccines for most known diseases, poisons and illnesses and is specially stabilized so that doctors aboard could give someone open heart surgery during an emergency take off. You know, if they really had to.
The extreme efforts the government goes to in maintaining Air Force One can be no better summed up than by the exterior of the plane itself, which is said to be polished to such an offensively bright mirror sheen, you can use it to make sure your hair is suitably on point.
Though it's likely few people reading this will ever get all that close to Air Force One, people who have are often shocked by just how perfectly clean and shiny the exterior of the craft is, with some noting that workers sometimes wear sunglasses while polishing, buffing and otherwise maintaining it. Are there more interesting facts about Air Force One? Probably, but we think the fact that the plane is maintained to such an extent it could potentially blind foreign leaders with sheer bling is a pretty strong note to end on.


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In this video from the PASC15 conference in Switzerland, Bjorn Stevens from the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Germany presents: The Great Leap (Computing The Uncomputable Climate System).
Increasing computational power and advances in algorithms have made it possible to resolve an ever increasing fraction of the scales of atmospheric motion. While it remains inconceivable to resolve all the relevant scales of motion we are currently in the midst of a great leap across a range of scales that have posed some of the greatest challenges to climate science over the past sixty years. This leap is bringing wholly new insights into the structure of the climate system on both ends of the spectrum of atmospheric motions.
Bjorn Stevens's research blends modeling, theory and field work to understand the role of clouds and moist convection on the climate system. Stevens has made pioneering contributions to our understanding of how mixing and microphysical processes influence both cloud structure and its susceptibility to changes in the environment. Stevens has contributed more than 130 scholarly articles to the peer reviewed literature and received many honors, including the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award of the American Meteorological Society for "pioneering advances in understanding and modeling of cloud-topped boundary layer". He currently co-leads the World Climate Research Program Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity.
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The Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), Arizona PIRG Education Fund, and Wildfire: Igniting Community Action to End Poverty in Arizona, denounced yesterday's action by the Arizona Corporation Commission to kill its Energy Rules, including critical consumer protections to cut utility costs that would have expanded Arizona's Energy Efficiency Standard through 2030.
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Ellen Zuckerman, Utility Program Director of the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, said: "Arizonans across the state will pay the price of this bad decision through more expensive electric bills. The Commission failed to advance key consumer protections to eliminate energy waste and give a much needed boost to programs that make everyone's bills more affordable. After years of hard work and careful study, billions in potential cost savings and thousands of local jobs are now in jeopardy."
Diane E. Brown, Executive Director of the Arizona PIRG Education Fund, stated: "After years of research, public meetings, and overwhelming support from large and small businesses, consumer organizations, faith leaders, environmental groups, and individual ratepayers, the Commission was set up for a slam dunk on its Energy Rules but instead dropped the ball. The Commission's failure to extend and expand Arizona's very successful Energy Efficiency Standard means ratepayers will not reap increased financial benefits, and businesses will not have regulatory certainty to invest in our state."
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Dean and Doug Horst of Wayne County stand in front of their Lely robotic milking system they installed last year that has increased their productivity while decreasing their labor needs.
Doug Horst got to take his family on a Disney trip away from the dairy farm this year, but chances are that they did not encounter anything much more magical then what they have at home. Doug's newfound flexibility to travel somewhere other than the milking parlor on his family's Legend Dairy, Ltd. in Wayne County is a result of the addition of two Lely Astronaut milking robots in September of 2011, which are pretty magical in their own right.
The cost of labor continues to rise and, even with a higher pay grade, finding the right person for the job on a dairy farm is challenging, particularly for small to mid-sized farms. Though they cost around $200,000, robots can make economic sense when looking at the labor savings and increased milk production they offer.
The robots, designed to last 15 years, allowed Doug and his father Dean Horst to increase to milking three times daily while decreasing labor. The robots are housed in a re-vamped free stall barn that is now the milking parlor.
The robots made more efficient use of their resources.
"We stayed about the same size since then. It gives us flexibility with labor, which was a big thing. We basically have my dad and I plus one part time employee," Doug said. "When you're raising a family, you need to find time for them and not have to worry about being here twice a day, all the time.
There was a learning curve, but understanding the Astronaut is not rocket science, Dean said.
"We always had W.G. Dairy supply our milkers and they took on the dealership for Lely. They provide really good service and Lely as a company has been so helpful. They had webinars to help train us and they still have webinars every two or three months. They have been very helpful," Dean said.
WG Dairy keeps all components of the system in stock and has service people trained and on call around the clock should an issue arise.
The actual milking process takes 7.5 minutes per cow from the time she enters the robot until she leaves.
The system is run by a series of computers and can be monitored via cell phone, Doug said.
The robots capture a huge amount of data that can help with managing the herd.
There was a robot learning curve for the cows as well.
For cows new to the system there is a pen to force them through the robot.
"We have a commitment pen where the only way out is through the robot. First calf heifers tend to be more timid and they need a time when another cow won't come in and move them out of the way. I'd say on average it takes two weeks for them to start coming in on their own. For the most part they develop their own routines," Doug said.
Both Doug and Dean agree that the robots are a great and beneficial addition to the farm.
Dean hopes that will continue to be true for future generations of his family.
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The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is subject to intense economic and population growth pressures. Over the past two decades, a strong consensus has emerged that it is better to manage this growth by increasing the density of housing and employment in existing urban areas rather than through low-density, sprawling-outwards development.
The problems of sprawl are clear. In the GTA, outwards sprawl is onto the largest concentration of prime agricultural land in Canada, as well as major natural heritage and hydrologic features and systems, notably the Oak Ridges Moraine and Niagara Escarpment. Low-density development at the urban fringe exacerbates traffic congestion and is impossible to service with cost-effective transit services. The long-term costs of maintaining infrastructures spread of large areas exceed what can be acceptably collected through property taxes.
To address these problems with the dominant development patterns in the GTA, in 2006 Ontario enacted a Growth Plan for the region. The plan was intended to check the expansion of urban boundaries and concentrated new growth in existing urban areas. The goal was to create "complete communities" where it would be possible to live, work, play, shop, and go to school without needing to drive. Transit and active transportation (i.e. walking and biking) would be the primary modes of transportation.
The Growth Plan designated 25 locations in the region as urban growth centres. These centres were to have denser mixes of housing and employment, supported by access to higher-order transit (e.g. subways, GO Trains and LRTs). One such centre was at the intersection of Yonge St. and Eglinton Avenue in mid-town Toronto.
What has actually unfolded around the Yonge-Eglinton Centre over the past decade has been very different from the dense but mixed-use, "complete community" envisioned in the 2006 plan. Two fundamental problems have emerged. The first is that the form of development that has actually taken place has been almost exclusively residential, and overwhelmingly in the form of high-rise condominiums. The development of significant new employment sites, and in fact, of any other activities, such as cultural destinations, has been virtually nil.
The result is a location where, increasingly, people live, but do not work – a "vertical bedroom community." Nor is the housing that has been built been very flexible. Rather it has largely taken the form of studio and one-bedroom (sometimes +) units. These are of scant use to growing families with children. Affordability has been an afterthought, and there have been substantial losses of existing affordable rental housing to the development boom.
The area's new pre-development densities already exceeded the Growth Plan's targets by a wide margin. As of 2006, the Yonge Eglinton Urban Growth Centre was already 600 people/jobs/ha (pjh), exceeding the Growth Plan target of 400 pjh by 50%.
Unbalanced development has led to a second problem. Throughout this period of explosive, single-use high-rise growth, infrastructure has remained largely static. A defining feature of mid-town Toronto development sites are signs posted by the Toronto District and Toronto Catholic Boards warning new residents that their children won't be able to attend any of the area's already overcrowded schools. The city has identified the need for additional park space equivalent to four full-sized playing fields, plus another community centre to meet the needs of the area's growing population. Daycare is scarce, and community gathering spots are in short supply. Cultural facilities are almost altogether lacking.
With no new employment at Yonge and Eglinton, most of the people moving into the area will be working somewhere else – a somewhere else they likely expect to reach onto Toronto's already overcapacity Yonge subway southbound. To these commuters, the one major infrastructure project in the area, the Eglinton LRT line, will add additional passengers from the East and West, who will be coming not to work at Yonge and Eglinton, but to transfer south onto an even more overcrowded Yonge line.
When the city attempted, via a careful plan, to mitigate the area's stresses, the province intervened to make things worse. In June 2019, the Ford government rewrote the City's Midtown in Focus plan (a.k.a. Official Plan Amendment 405), which attempted to moderate the scale and regulate the form of new buildings in the area. As they were, the City's proposals would still have allowed development to densities of 1020-1100 pjh - exceeding the original Growth Plan target by about 185%.
The province's move, a "mega" example of its Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO) based approach to planning, went even further, removing height restrictions and other restraints on proposed buildings. The Province's looser rules soon spawned proposals to add many new stories to high-rise projects already approved or in construction.
Getting the area's development path back in line with the original vision for an urban growth centre means that infrastructures, of all types, need a chance to catch up with existing needs. That has to happen before any further development proceeds. The path forward from there must emphasize affordability and the area's role as an economic, social and cultural destination. Better intensification models exist, like that seen in the redevelopment of Toronto's North York Centre. But at the moment Yonge Eglinton Centre risks becoming a textbook example of how urban intensification should not happen.
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I had an allotment once next to a very kindly old gentleman, he welcomed us when we arrived as raw greenies, praising our efforts to put together raised beds and generously offering us spare courgette seedlings that were twice the size of our puny specimens. We often looked enviously over the fence at his smug, glossy onions and succulent raspberries. One thing he did not approve of, though, was our small wildflower meadow. You could tell, by the way his eyebrows bristled, that he felt it 'messy'.
Deep in the leaves a warty common toad lurks, waiting for spring to fully unfurl before he pokes out a toe. On the tip of a nettle plant a leaf is folded over on itself: a tiny tent for a larva of the red admiral butterfly. Cuckoo spit, clinging to the stem of a poppy, shelters froghopper nymphs before they emerge as adults, to leap between plants with an astonishing acceleration of 4,000 metres per second every second.
Of course as a fierce allotmenteer I want to carve out a little space for me, I want to give my veg the chance to grow, and I will weed round them to give them space, just as daisies use special chemicals to ward off intruding plants. But I want to be part of the cycle, part of the grand scheme of things, and although my onions may not be any glossier or smugger for it, I think I am.


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Q: FFmpeg - H264 encoder could not find a valid device and can't configure encoder I am trying to encode using the H264 encoder, but when I do, I get the following error:
[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x55682d2416c0] Could not find a valid device
[h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x55682d2416c0] can't configure encoder

I made sure that I enabled the encoder when I configured FFmpeg. When I run the command ffmpeg -codecs I see that the H264 codec is listed as an encoder:
DEV.LS h264    H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10
(decoders: h264 h264_v4l2m2m )
(encoders: libx264 libx264rgb h264_v4l2m2m h264_vaapi )

The source video's video codec is H264 so I am not sure why I am not able to encode with H264 when there is both a decoder and encoder for it. Even when I run avcodec_find_encoder_by_name to find the libx264 encoder, it isn't able to.
This is the chunk of code where it fails:
codec = avcodec_find_encoder(AV_CODEC_ID_H264);
if (!codec) {
    printf("[ERROR] Failed to find video output codec\n");
    return -1;
}
outputCodecContext = avcodec_alloc_context3(codec);
if (!outputCodecContext) {
    printf("[ERROR] Failed to allocate memory for video output codec context\n");
    return -1;
}
av_opt_set(outputCodecContext->priv_data, "preset", "slow", 0);
outputCodecContext->bit_rate = inputCodecContext->bit_rate;
outputCodecContext->width = inputCodecContext->width;
outputCodecContext->height = inputCodecContext->height;
outputCodecContext->time_base = (AVRational){1, 60};
outputCodecContext->framerate = (AVRational){60, 1};
outputCodecContext->pix_fmt = inputCodecContext->pix_fmt;
outputCodecContext->extradata = inputCodecContext->extradata;
outputCodecContext->extradata_size = inputCodecContext->extradata_size;

// This if statement fails as a result of the encoder error
if (avcodec_open2(outputCodecContext, codec, NULL) < 0) {
    printf("[ERROR] Failed to open video output codec\n");
    return -1;
}
return 0;

When I encode with H264 using the ffmpeg command, I don't receive any of these errors. Any help is appreciated.

A: As it turns out, I kept forgetting to call make and make install (I'm on Ubuntu) after I used the command ./configure --enable-shared --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl. This removed the error I was receiving and my code was able to find the libx264 encoder.

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Snorkel recovery begins
Snorkel's third quarter results have been published showing a strong pickup compared to the second quarter.
Total revenues for the nine months to the end of September were $86.5 million, 49 percent lower than in the same period last year. The business posted a loss of $9.8 million compared to a profit of $799,000 last year.
Looking at the third quarter, sales were $26.3 million, an increase of 56 percent compared to the second quarter, but 54 percent down on the same quarter last year. The net loss was $2.5 million, compared to a profit of $1.3 million last year.
The results were disclosed by Tanfield which still owns a 49 percent stake in the Snorkel business, although that the subject of legal action by Snorkel owner Don Ahern.
The second quarter was very badly affected by various Lockdowns and supply line issues which disrupted production. The third quarter has clearly picked up since then, as have margins, but it is not sufficient to put the company back into profit. As with other manufacturers Snorkel will almost certainly be looking at 2021 for a return to more normal trading.
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I'm back home from @media 2006, and as much as I'm happy to be reunited with my family, I'm very glad I made the trip to London. All the people I met (and I met far too many to have any hope of naming them all) were great, very enthusiastic and passionate about what they do. Forget the "reserved Englishman" (or woman) stereotype: if I were to create a single composite image to represent my experience, it would be a warm, wide grin.
From all the commentary, it would seem that people very much enjoyed my keynote, "A Decade of Style", and several people commented on its similarity to last year's keynote by Jeffrey Zeldman. I knew he'd talked about the Web Standards Project, but I didn't fully appreciate the danger of topical overlap. Fortunately, this doesn't seem to have hurt its reception, and I'm glad people found my little trip down amnesia lane to be of interest. Personal narratives can be highly compelling, but they can also be unimpressive or (even worse) boring.
Of course, there was plenty of love for other talks, but you can understand why I might have been most concerned about how my talk was received, it being the one for which I was responsible and all. I don't get nervous about speaking in front of audiences, but I do fear boring or annoying them. If there's one thing I strive not to be, it's a waste of others' time.
If a person is depicted in your photo and you know their name, you should put that in your photo's tags. Whether you use the proper format ("Joe Person") or the compressed version ("joeperson") is irrelevant, since Flickr treats them as being equivalent. But it's nice to be able to find all the photos of, say, Jon Hicks by a convenient name-tag.
I've also seen people tagged with both their name and URL, so a photo of Jon Hicks might be tagged both "jonhicks" and "hicksdesign". That's a decent bit of design redundancy and probably worth doing, but at the very least, tag the names. I'm going to go clean up my omissions on that score this evening, so as to flesh out the semantic gooness of my own photo stream.
Just my two bits of tagging advice; take 'em for whatever you think they're worth. In the meantime, if you've ever wanted to see me wearing a suit, or with my fangs partially extended in anticipation of a fresh meal, well then—I guess it's just your lucky day, innit?
I can't decide whether that's a typo or not, and I'm hoping it isn't. "Semantic gooness" is a great phrase which needs more use and more currency; it puts me in mind of a whole sticky waxen ball of associations and theories and ideas and words surrounding one concept. We should increase the semantic gooness of the web, in my opinion.
Well, yes, of course it's a typo. But it'd be good if it wasn't.
It was nice to meet you again, Eric!
I must admit, ever since getting NIPSA'd on Flickr, my zeal for tagging photos is nearly nil!
I would have said that yours and Jeffrey's keynotes complimented each other very well. Seeing the story from two different perspectives as it were.
Glad you enjoyed your time in London, and hope to see you again soon.
I agree, the atmedia flickr clusters are becomming unviewable. Just because you visited London during your trip for the conference, doesn't mean it has anything to do with atmedia, and therefore is unworthy of the tag.
Really enjoyed your keynote speech, was fascinating to see things from your personal perspective and glad to hear that you had a good time here in London.
It was also good to finally have a chance to meet and chat to you at the party afterwards. Hope to see you again soon!
Me, I just can't get enough of London street sign photos!
It was very good to meet you, albeit briefly.
I don't know if it's strictly @media, but the flickr cluster has some photos of the accessify crowd's side trip to the Royal Observatory.
Thanks for your talk Eric. Yes, there was a bit of overlap with Zeldman, but what I took from it was the message – 'share what you do and don't hold everything close to your chest' and – 'Communities have driven the development of CSS and web standards'. I also liked your tip about forming an 'Advisory panel'. I am very interested in the future of Print from the web, so I watch this area with great interest and if I come up with anything useful, I intend to share it!
I was keen to use s5 in my presentations after last year's @media. I noticed that most people have given this up in favour of Apple's Keynote. Why is that?
I'll go change my tag right away!
Oh and another thing, a tip for @media geeks, if you want your atmedia photos in a bunch, put them in a set… including your Big Ben and dinner photos.
Attended @media2006 in London last week and had a great time. Met some really nice people and made a bunch of new friends as well as talked to some very approachable giants in the field….
I've also seen people tagged with both their name and URL, so a photo of me might be tagged both "jonhicks" and "hickdesign".
Was this copied and pasted from Jon Hicks? Only here it seems like it should refer to tags like "ericmeyer" and "meyerweb" surely?
Chris: that was a revision mangle. I originally wrote "a photo of me with Jon Hicks" and then cut out the wrong part when I edited it down. I've just now updated it to fix that mistake and a nearby silly typo. Thanks for drawing my attention to the error(s).
Eric, you evidently aren't eating well enough. Come and visit us and we'll give you plenty of reasons to take photos of your food.
Meri: sorry, nope. I looked at all the pictures on the main page of your site (and read a few descriptions) and I still don't understand the compulsion. That's okay; I have my own compulsions that few if any would understand.
Though I admit there was one time recently that I took a picture of someone else's dinner, but that was because the chef had arranged the components to form a smiley face. That was worth capturing.
What about the picture of a dessert on a spiral plate that you use for the header?
Doesn't it illustrate an example of you photographing a meal? Forgive me if it was someone else who took the picture. Ah wait! It was Tantek wasn't it? Sorry.
Where can I see your presentation using S5 online again? Or, don't you have any idea for uploading the files on this site?
Eric are you going to put online the slides from your keynote from atmedia?


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Cells, Microbes & Viruses
If we're spending millions on finding a cure for AIDS, why haven't we found one yet?
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Padi Matlala
Padi Matlala asked the Naked Scientists:
Billions of dollars are being spent worldwide to find a cure for AIDS. Where are all these efforts headed if we cannot find a cure for AIDS? Are the imperatives of politics and economics undermining the thrusts to
get a cure?
Madidus_Scientia
It may be true that the more money being spent on researching the problem the more likely someone will develop a cure, but you can't just buy knowledge that doesn't exist yet, someone has to think of it first. Its a very complex problem.
NobodySavedMe
Quote from: Padi Matlala on 02/06/2008 18:41:13
The cure has been found a number of times but competes with the poisons supplied by drug companies at great profit and for the lifetime of the aids patient hence any cure is not welcome.
Belize Hospital for STDs / Dr. George Carr: Treatment of 100 HIV-positive patients resulted in HIV-negative tests after treated with CMV3 (equivilant of Bion) covalent silver; females giving birth, after the experiment, had babies with no HIV antibodies.
ATLAS CONSULTANTS INC., LAS VEGAS / March 10, 2003: E. Coli - killed with CMV3 (equivilant of Bion).
Instituto Genesis West - Provida: Findings show an apparent immune-stimulating response action from covalent silver and a decrease in liver stress, both in the in-vitro and the in-vivo experiment; parasitic forms in the plasma and bacterial activity decreased to zero. The presence of pathogenic Somatids at the beginning of study, decreased when covalent silver was used.
Aids is a largely lifestyle choice and I wish people would stop whining about it.
They know the risks and take the chance.
If you get it.TOUGH.
Malaria kills 6000 a day and the people getting don't have a choice.
But because they don't appear on the tv screen with celebrity endorsements they are ignored and left to die.
You make money from aids symptom relieving medications not from saving malaria victims in Africa.
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NobodySavedMe, that is a deeply unintelligent and ill thought out comment.
AIDS is *not* a lifestyle choice for thousands of women in married relationships with men in societies whose social norms allow the men to go out and sleep with other people and then bring the disease home to the marital bed.
Still less is it a lifestyle choice for the children born HIV positive due to their mothers' infected status.
Yes, malaria is a frightful mess, and yes, there should probably be more effort/funds/whatever invested in its prevention and cure. But two wrongs don't make a right.
On a less emotive, and rather more interesting, note, I went to a really interesting research talk by Robert Grubbs (a Nobel prize winning chemist), at which he told us about a really interesting new possible approach to malaria prevention (even fewer side effects than a cure...) which involves interfering with the mosquitos' breeding cycle by introducing their pheromones into the atmosphere and so totally confusing the males.
(Malaria was radically reduced a few decades ago by the use of vast quantities of a pesticide called DDT, measured purely in terms of malaria deaths the programme was a huge success. Sadly DDT is a persistant environmental toxin and it became apparent it was getting into the food chain.)
Bored chemist
Naked Science Forum GOD!
NobodySavedMe's other "point" is trash too.
If, as he contends, there were some drug or other threatment that would cure AIDS it would get used.
There are a lot of countries with poor ecconomies. Many of these are, sadly, also greatly affected by HIV/AIDS. This is a disease that generally affects young adults. These people in turn are the people on whom ecconomies largely depend.
There are several countries that, if there were a cure for AIDS would make the stuff for themselves because the consequences of doing so would be a walk in the park compared to the damage done by AIDS. If the big drug companies didn't want to join them - so what?
They could do without the big pharma input.
What do you think would stop them? a patent agreement?
Unfortunately, the asnswer to the original question is that it's difficult.
Please disregard all previous signatures.
Quote from: Bored chemist on 04/06/2008 19:21:33
The doctors in poor countries are trained and funded by western pharma companies and are put in place to promote that companies products abroad.
As a result they get paid handsomely.
They will not rock the boat and jeopardize that large income.
Most of these countries are corrupt and you can buy anyone for a few dollars.Doctors are no exception.
They sit on panels and tell their local despot to order this drug or that drug as per their contract.
In india genetically modified seeds are being forced on local farmers.These seeds don't produce any more seeds thus enslaving the population to the seed supplier forever.
Do you really think a tin pot dictator in such countries want to save some diseased/dying/starving citizen?
Wake up.
Look at Burma.
BenV
How do you account for the fact that Pharma companies are facing the problem of generic drugs? The pharma companies fund the research and testing, then other people in other countries reverse engineer the drugs to make cheaper versions. This means that pharma companies struggle to get the money back that they spent on R&D.
In your version of the world, this wouldn't happen, because the generics would never get to market past the corrupt doctors. The fact that they do shows that your imagined version of the world is not real.
If a drug had been developed that could cure HIV/AIDS, it would have been copied and distributed everywhere. This would, of course, reduce the funding available to test future medicines, as the folks who pay for the research are the ones being ripped off.
benep
Quote from: NobodySavedMe on 04/06/2008 13:41:34
thats not a good thing to say you may not know the person you are having intercorse with has aids if she/he isnt decent enough to tell you and you may be marrid to him/her and trust taht person with your life so i wouldnt say tough and stop whining about it they have a right to whine as much as they want and if you caught im sure you wouldnt be saying that
to be a legend yourself , the legend needs to be you
Quote from: BenV on 17/06/2008 13:15:14
Struggling my foot.Record profits a year.$ A TRILLION $ a year.
R&D has been cut and is largely funded by donations from the government and gay groups on fun runs.
In any case just invade any country that reverse engineers the worthless toxic drug and teach the natives a lesson.That is what you want,don't you?
grumpy old mare
I'm so glad that my friend's two haemophiliac cousins can't read this anymore as they died due to AIDS which they got through necessary blood transfusions (and they had NO choice whatsoever, like many other haemophiliacs!)
"They know the risks and take the chance"
Well - I work in public health, although not specifically in the area of HIV/AIDS - and the one thing I've definitely learned is: NOBODY wants to believe that "it could be me"! And that doesn't just relate to HIV, but to all other STIs as well as driving under the influence of alcohol, using a seat belt etc blabla.
(And if you mean homosexuality and not just "sleeping around" by "lifestyle choice" : a) homosexuality is not a lifestyle "choice", whatever you may believe, some percentage of humans (and, seemingly, of some other mammals, too!) just is born homosexual! Whatever some religions want to make us believe. b) the occurrence of HIV/AIDS in heterosexuals is by now much higher than in homosexuals)
They haven't found a cure for MND (ALS), MS, Alzheimer's, .... yet either, by the way.
Re pharma companies / funding etc. ... I thought the oil and the pharma industries rule the world anyway!
« Reply #10 on: 18/06/2008 09:37:03 »
Quote from: grumpy old mare on 18/06/2008 09:29:43
I said largely a life style choice.I never said it was everyone's own fault.
In any case the amount of people dying from aids is very small compared to the number of people dying from adverse side reactions.In fact more people are killed by the treatment then by the disease.
The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each day, 365 days a year
Since 2001, a recorded 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed drugs in the United States, while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks; prescription drugs are therefore 16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorism.
If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included, then drug consumption leaps to being 32,000 percent more dangerous than terrorism. And conventional medicine viewed as a whole is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism.
Big Pharma spent $12.7 billion promoting and bribing senators its products in 1998. The amount has vastly increased since that time. Do you ever get the feeling that you're being sold many of these drugs just to make you think that you're sick with something?
What life style exactly do you mean??
You're only talking USA, aren't you? Because the statistics you've given have nothing in commong with loads of other countries.
And people are recorded by the type of deaths - so people that have e.g. AIDS-induced (or whatever the correct medical term would be) pneumonia and die of that are recorded of dying of pneumonia! So I wouldn't be too sure about the validity of your statistics (especially since ALL statistics can be prettily bend and adjusted according to the desired outcome....).
Also, of course, in countries like the US and UK, people with HIV are on medication, often keeping AIDS at bay for a long long time, whereas people in poorer countries do not have access to such medication - and they die by the thousands daily!
TheHerbaholic
What percentage of the population in the UK have aids?
Aid's is scary stuff, but how Aids started is interesting though. The most widely accepted scientific theory is that it was started by an African who had intercourse with a genetically mutated chimp. The chimp had aids, so the African caught it off the chimp.
It is possible that it was created in a lab, and somehow got out into the population.
The worst thing though is that you can actually get aids from just oral sex, although it is rare. Many people don't believe that, but google it, its true.
paul.fr
Quote from: TheHerbaholic on 03/07/2008 13:29:28
and people think I come out with moronic stuff.
Quote from: Paul. on 03/07/2008 13:49:37
All what I said then was true. So yes you do come out with moronic stuff...
blakestyger
There is a very simple principle going on here that gets overlooked in the excitement.
In spite of advances such as the eradication worldwide of diseases like smallpox, expectations of a conclusive victory over disease should always appear naive since it flies in the face of a key axiom of Darwinian biology, that is, relentless evolutionary adaptation.
This is something that disease accomplishes far better than humans because it possesses the initiative. Consequently, it's hardly surprising that medicine has proved ineffective against AIDS since the human immunodeficiency virus mutates rapidly - frustrating the development of vaccines and antivirals.
OK moron, lets see where you went wrong.
"Aid's is scary stuff, but how Aids started is interesting though. The most widely accepted scientific theory is that it was started by an African who had intercourse with a genetically mutated chimp. The chimp had aids, so the African caught it off the chimp. "
That is total Bo11ocks, the thing that is scary is that you are allowed to have children. For people like you the state should interviene and perform a medical procedure to prevent you having children.
ukmicky
That is probably one of the most absurd, untrue, ill thought out and stupid things ever posted on this forum.
If it weren't so absurd and unbelievable i would have probably deleted it.
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Can I just say sorry to all the morons out there for tarring you all with the same brush as TheHerbaholic. I now understand that you are morons, and TheHerbaholic is totally way beyond you. Sorry,
Thank you, we are not all like TheHerbaholic you know!
"They" found a bigfoot corpse.
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Have I found gold? It's a black and white layered rock with gold chunky flakes
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I found a rock that looks like green onyx or similar with a pale blue area?
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Small planet found close to the sun and obscured by asteroid belt.
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The fall sitting of the 3rd session of the 61st General Assembly of the Nova Scotia Legislature began on October 31, 2011. As of November 4th, 3 Government Bills, 8 Private Members Bills and 0 Private and Local Bills have been introduced during this sitting of the House of Assembly.
Below is a summary of those Bills introduced between October 31 and November 4, 2011.
This Act would replace the 60-year-old Industrial Development Act and allows for a modern fund to meet today's economic development needs and includes a legislated framework for accountability and management. The Bill legislates the type of investments the Province would provide through the Nova Scotia Jobs Fund to: promote economic growth, help restructure economic regions, support industry sectors, pursue regional and strategic economic initiatives, support programs that provide assistance to small businesses and support community economic stability.
The Public Service Act would also be amended to allow for the creation of a new Cabinet Committee called the Economic Investment Committee. The new fund would be advised by the Economic Investment Committee. Provincial economic development investments are also being improved with a new joint management committee, which will have representatives from the Premier's Office, Department of Economic and Rural Development and Tourism, Department of Finance, Nova Scotia Business Inc., and Innovacorp.
Status: Passed second reading, and was referred to the Law Amendments Committee, November 3, 2011.
This Bill would allow grieving families to make arrangements more quickly after a death. Currently, only doctors and medical examiners are allowed to sign medical certificates of death, and funeral directors cannot remove a body until the certificate is signed. This can cause hardship for families in remote and rural areas, in some long-term residential facilities and deaths at home. The change would allow nurse practitioners and others authorized to sign medical certificates of death in certain circumstances. Where a nurse practitioner or qualified person (under the Regulations) is unavailable, the Bill directs the Funeral Director to obtain a medical certificate of death.
Status: Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading, November 3, 2011.
This Bill amends the Motor Vehicle Act to provide clarity with respect to the speed limit in school areas. Speed limits will be reduced to 30 km/h where the limit immediately before the school zone is 50 km/h but remains at 50 km/h where the limit before the school zone is greater than 50 km/h.
Status: Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House, November 2, 2011.
Beginning in the fiscal year 2012-13 and continuing on a bi-annual basis, the Board of Directors of NSPI would be required to make public a performance and value for money audit of the Corporation. This would encompass operations, maintenance and general expenses for the two years before publication of the report. Upon accepting and considering written comments from interested parties, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board may add issues and areas to be covered by the audit on a rotating period of three audits. The Corporation would be required to make public an annual report setting out how estimates regarding expenditures and revenues compare with current and actual costs. The Bill states that executive bonuses, for example, must not be paid from funds collected in payment of electricity rates by ratepayers. Also, if the Corporation were to make a general rate application, the Corporation would be required to hold public meetings on the proposed rate increase before the hearing.
Status: Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading, November 2, 2011.
The Bill attempts to reduce the amount of illegal activity within the scrap metal recycling industry by issuing rules with respect to the identity of individuals attempting to return scrap metals to a scrap metal dealer or recycler. The scrap metal dealer is required to hold such personal identification received from a scrap metal provider for one year after the transaction. Peace officers will have the ability to inspect a scrap metal dealer or recycler's records when investigating the disappearance of scrap metal. The Bill provides that individuals who contravene the Act for a first time would be subject to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months (or both) while corporations would be subject to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars. Repeat offending individuals would be subject to a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months (or both) while corporations would be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
Status: Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House, October 31, 2011.
This Bill provides that the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board must not include bonuses for executive-level employees of electric public utilities as a cost when determining the rate base or general rate for the utility.
This Bill provides that the portion of any rate increase granted for Nova Scotia Power Incorporated that is attributable to an enactment of the Province or a policy, decision or other requirement of the Government does not take effect until specifically approved by an Act of the Legislature.
This Bill sets out what the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board must take into account, and not take into account, in determining the allowable return on common equity included in the general rate set for an electric public utility.
This Bill establishes the Office of Fire and Emergency Services in the public service. Increasing provincial support and coordination of both career and volunteer firefighters would help to provide adequate resources to secure necessary equipment, enhance training programs and develop better recruitment strategies.
Status: Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House, November 1, 2011.
This Bill amends the Income Tax Act to increase the $500 volunteer firefighter and ground search and rescue tax credit to $1000 for the taxation year 2010 and for subsequent taxation years.
Status: Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House, November 3, 2011.
This Bill requires the Minister of Education to establish and monitor the implementation of a life-threatening illness policy in schools.
Status: Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House, November 4, 2011.
-Bill No. 55 – Medical Act – Passed second reading, and was referred to the Law Amendments Committee.
-Bill No. 65 – Nova Scotia Jobs Fund Act – Passed second reading, and was referred to the Law Amendments Committee.
-Bill No. 72 – Timely Medical Certificates Act – Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading.
-Bill No. 73 – Safer School Zones Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 2 – Hydraulic Fracturing Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 3 – Modernizing Government Act – Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading.
-Bill No. 4 – Tax Review (2011-12) Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 5 – Balanced Budget Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 6 – Finance Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 8 – Maintenance and Custody Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 9 Gaelic College Foundation Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 10 – Electricity Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading.
-Bill No. 11 – Diabetic Persons Support Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 12- Income Tax Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 14 – Agriculture and Marketing Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 16 – Multiple Sclerosis Patient Support Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 18 – Maintenance and Custody Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading.
-Bill No. 24 – Value For Money Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 26 – Sound Recording Tax Credit Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 28 – Public Highways Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 29 – Public Utilities Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 31 – Health Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 32 – Rural Nova Scotia Physicians Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 34 – Newly Trained Nova Scotia Doctors Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 37 – Joseph Howe Day Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 39 – Liquor Control Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 44 – Legislative Internship Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 45 – Wilderness Areas Protection Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 46 – Fair Treatment of Children Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 48 – Income Tax Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 49 – Buy Nova Scotia First Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 58 – Multiple Sclerosis Liberation Therapy Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 60 – Elections Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 61 – Pension Benefits Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading.
-Bill No. 63 – Concussion Awareness Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 64 –Motor Vehicle Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 66 – Ratepayer Protection Act – Passed first reading, and was adjourned on second reading.
-Bill No. 67 – Scrap-Metal Dealers and Recyclers Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 68 – Elimination of Bonuses in Power Rates Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 69 – Transparency in Power Rates Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 70 – Ratepayer Fairness Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 71 – Public Service Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 74 – Income Tax Act (amended) – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 75 – Life-threatening Illness Student Support Act – Passed first reading, and is awaiting debate in principle by the House.
-Bill No. 38 – Yarmouth North Baptist Church Act – Passed second reading, and was referred to the Private and Local Bills Committee.
Bills reported back from the legislative committees are debated, clause by clause, by the members of the House acting as the Committee of the Whole House on Bills.The Bill is then reported back to the House.
Any questions regarding the legislation summarized above or if you would like to receive a copy of any Bill, please contact Jennifer Forster atjforster@coxandpalmer.com or by phone at (902) 491-4107.


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Date: September 17, 2001 Author: jallore Leave a comment on archive of original WKT website 2001-02
Pearson National Post Thursday, September 19, 2002
Sometimes I wonder: am I in Canada, or one of Kafka's dreamlike mazes? I watch events unfold with growing amazement. A young Canadian woman dies. The family wishes to know why, what happened, what fate befell their beloved child. The police decide that she died of a drug overdose. They provide no evidence. They refuse to share with the family the results of their investigation. The family must hire a private investigator. Building on the man's work, they investigate with a journalist. Building on this publicity, they come to rely on the kindness of fellow citizens, who write to them with tips and information. The police do not receive this information with interest. They will not share with this family their reasons why not, nor investigate what information the family can scrounge up on its own. The family appeals to the bureaucrats who oversee the police. The bureaucrats respond that they have referred the matter to the police for review. The family appeals to the provincial coroner to start an inquiry. The coroner responds that the case must be closed before an inquiry begins. The police will not close the case. The family drifts round and round, round and round, in a baffling circle. "There isn't enough new evidence to restart the investigation."
So said Constable Jimmy Potvin of the Surete du Quebec's Eastern Townships detachment on Tuesday, in response to a five-month investigation conducted by myself, and John Allore, into the supposed drug overdose death of his nineteen-year-old sister Theresa. Here is what evidence the Allore family were told about by the Surete du Quebec in 1979, when Theresa's body was found face-down in a creek, clad in her bra and underwear, one kilometer from her student residence at Champlain Regional College: none. Here is the evidence that the Allores were provided to support a drug overdose theory: none. I phone Constable Potvin and ask him for the evidence of drug overdose. He says he'll check. For one reason or another, he never quite manages to get back to me. I'll let readers know what he says just as soon as I hear. Here is the evidence that John Allore and I uncovered in a few short months that has been deemed irrelevant: Theresa Allore's toxicology report turned up no traces of drugs, legal or illicit. Her scarf was found near the body, torn in two. The initial coroner's report described strangulation marks, observed on the body by Corporal Roch Goudreault of the S.Q. Two other young women were abducted and killed in the area in eighteen months. One, Louise Camirand, was found strangled within a stone's throw of the siting of clothes that may have belonged to Theresa Allore. The other victim, Manon Dube, was found within a minute's drive of Theresa Allore's body, also face-down in a creek. Theresa Allore's wallet was tossed alongside the property of a girl her age and appearance, who had been chased and almost-abducted exactly one month before Theresa disappeared. The woman described her assailant to us as noticeably short. The police at the time intercepted the man, ran a vehicle check, and determined that he had a prior sex offence conviction from out west. In 1980, a young woman of Theresa Allore's age and appearance was stalked and then almost forced into a car by a very short man, at precisely the intersection where Manon Dube was abducted two years earlier. In 1981, a Sherbrooke woman was raped and strangled (but survived). Her attacker was a very short man who, like the assailant near where Theresa Allore's wallet was found, was found to have lived out west. We have learned of two other women who were abducted but escaped the car and the attacker, both in the area, both in the late 1970s. We are trying to locate them in order to see if the description of the assailant matches. We should not be doing this, the police should be doing this. But they are not. According to Kim Rossmo, an internationally respected investigator at the Police Foundation in Washington, the geography of these attacks suggests a serial offender, not a series of coincidental sexual attacks and murders on the southern fringes of a small Canadian city. This is not the Red Light District of Amsterdam.
Rossmo suggested that the offender was living in south Sherbrooke. The man who raped and attempted to strangle the woman in 1981 lived in South Sherbrooke, along the route of all of the attacks. We brought him to the attention of the Surete du Quebec. As far as we know, this is part of the evidence that they did not consider to be evidence. "We don't even know how you came up with this guy," one SQ investigator told me, when I asked why they hadn't checked him out. I'm sorry, I thought I'd explained.
Was any of our analysis followed up by the Surete?. As of last week, the victim on Macdonald Road had not been interviewed. Was the old police record on her assailant checked? The files of Louise Camirand and Manon Dube were not reviewed alongside Theresa Allore's. The wallet and watch, which have remained in their evidence bags for twenty-three years and could now be combed over for droplets of blood or strands of hair belonging to an assailant and tested for DNA, have not been requested.
No one in the Surete du Quebec phoned the Allore family to announce the lack of new evidence. Instead, they placed an unsolicited call to the Sherbrooke Record. This is no way for the families of crime victims in Quebec to be treated. The secrecy is appalling. The accountability is awful. The Privacy Laws in place to protect that province's citizens by restricting access to virtually all information in police investigations have the second, unintended effect of protecting the police.What the SQ has done, in effect, is to shut the Allore and Dube and Camirand families down once again. We don't know their reasoning, because they won't tell us, and the privacy laws enable them to stay mum. Thank god, there are other citizens in this nation who want to assist these victims. John Allore is immensely grateful to the women who have come forth with their own painful memories of stalking and assault, in the hope that their observations of the attacker can be of help to his sister's case. He and I both are equally grateful to the people in the criminal justice community outside of the Surete who have volunteered information, done continuing research and offered analysis that might break the case. We are grateful to the journalists — to Jacques Taschereau of Radio Canada, whose investigation will be broadcast on September 28th on the show Justice, to Sharon McCully of the Sherbrooke Record and to Paul Cherry of the Montreal Gazette, to the free-lance journalists digging up their own clues who prefer to remain anonymous for the time being — to everyone who has taken our investigation seriously, and furthered it. Together we can hope to solve these crimes.


Northampton Day looking for interested Talent Show contestants - Times Publishing Newspapers, Inc.
The Northampton Day Committee is seeking applicants interested in competing in its Talent Show to be held Sunday, May 5th, at 1:30pm, in the auditorium of the Wrightstown Elementary School (former Richboro Middle School), 98 Upper Holland Road, Richboro.
The contest will be held rain or shine. This will be an open competition for everyone with no age restrictions, except that no bands will be competing.
The deadline to enter is April 19th, and only 20 applications will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. All performers will be required to report to the stage area of the auditorium no later than 1:10pm (20 minutes before show time).
At check-in contestants will be given a schedule of appearances. Anyone not reporting at this time may forfeit their spot.
Prizes will be awarded as follows: first place winner – $250; second place winner – $150; third place winner $100; fourth place winner $75; fifth, sixth and seventh place winners – $50 each.
A trophy will also be presented to each of the seven winners. Northampton Days Inc. reserves the right to reject any act that is felt to be inappropriate and all contestants perform at their own risk.
Applications can be found and downloaded at www.northamptonday.org and sent or e-mailed to Pete Palestina, 47 Lynford Road, Richboro, PA 18954, or e-mail to peteypal@aol.com.
Northampton Day is a family-friendly annual event sponsored by Northampton Days Inc. The day of festivities begins at 10:00am, with a flag-raising ceremony and concludes at 4:00pm.
Activities include amusements, over 125 vendors, food trucks, desserts, bands, strolling mummers, fun family games, prizes and entertainment.
For further information about Northampton Day, or if you would like to volunteer call Steve Bryer at 215-407-7411 or e-mail Northamptondayfestival@gmail.com.