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Jamaican military activates reserves after new wave of violence in Kingston
MERRICK ANDREWS
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – The Jamaican military activated all reserves Thursday to help patrol troubled areas of Kingston after a new wave of politically driven gang violence in the capital.
The Jamaican Defense Force ordered about 900 reservists to report to military installations Friday morning.
Fighting among neighborhood gangs with clashing political loyalties already has left more than 100 people dead this year in the capital.
Soldiers have been helping police patrol several neighborhoods, including West Kingston, which has seen the heaviest fighting. But Deputy Superintendent of Police James Adams said the police still need about 1,000 more officers on the street to control the violence.
A 40-year-old woman was shot and killed by gunmen in West Kingston on Wednesday, and drive-by shootings left two people dead in the area Monday.
Police believe the killings were retaliation for a shooting Sunday night in a part of West Kingston dominated by supporters of the governing People's National Party. Gunmen shooting from a car killed two men and injured 14 in that attack.
In recent months, violence has erupted in Kingston between gangs that support the governing party and the opposition Jamaica Labor Party. The gangs, used in the 1970s and 1980s to bring voters to the polls, still maintain strong party loyalties, and neighborhoods are often divided along political lines.
Soldiers also were deployed to assist police after fighting that began last month between rival gangs in Mountain View, on the eastern outskirts of Kingston. At least 14 were shot and killed.
The fighting in West Kingston flared in May, leaving 71 people dead in several weeks. In July, 28 others were killed in gunfights when police and soldiers moved in to confront the gangs. After several days of violence, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson deployed the entire 3,000-member army across the island.


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Digging Deeper into the Data: Legislation, Education and the Latest Drop in Abortion Part 3
Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D.
By Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research
Editor's note. A week ago today the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion think-tank, released an analysis of abortions for 2011. The major (and very encouraging) takeaway from "Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2011," written by Rachel K. Jones and Jenna Jerman of the Guttmacher Institute, is that the number of abortions declined as did the abortion rate and abortion ratio. Today, Dr. O'Bannon continues his series, digging beneath the numbers to tell us what they really mean and what they may say for the future. You can read Parts One and Two.
In a nutshell, Guttmacher claims that the 13% drop in the national number of abortions, from 1.21 million in 2008 to 1.06 million in 2011 cannot be the result of pro-life legislation because the bulk of that legislation did not become law until 2011 or after, and because there were little measurable results in the states where the laws did pass during that period.
Below we will show how tunnel-visioned this analysis is and how it misses altogether the impact of pro-life educational initiatives beyond legislation.
Guttmacher makes much of the fact that abortions often went down as much in states that didn't pass laws as those which did. They said that there were no obvious state-specific trends.
There were declines even in states that support abortion and, in some cases, greater than the decline in national abortion rates, in states that use state Medicaid funds to pay for abortions.
More to state differences than meets the eye
Guttmacher says that certain new state laws, which only made modest changes, or addressed a very small subset of abortion patients, would not be expected to have much impact and implies that they didn't. For example, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah added new information to their counseling requirements, and Utah, along with Arizona, Arkansas, and Nebraska passed laws affected only later abortions, which only constitute a small percentage of abortions.
This is more complex of a situation than Guttmacher lets on, however. Certain of these states did in fact see abortion rates falling faster than the national average. Utah's and Arizona's abortion rates dropped 18%. Missouri's fell 21%. Nebraska beat the national average with a 14% drop. Arkansas and Nebraska both saw rates fall, 11% and 10% respectively, but one reason for this is that abortion rates in those states were already so low (both less than half the national rate) that large drops are difficult.
It is not always easy to tease apart the influence of every possible event or even every new law. For example, during this same time frame, Missouri also passed an ultrasound viewing law and a law requiring a counseling visit 24 hours before the abortion. Guttmacher suggests that this the additional time commitment may have been responsible for most of Missouri's drop, but how is it certain that it was not the materials in the counseling or the new ultrasound law?
Guttmacher puts forward the example of Illinois as one of the states that saw a higher than the national average decline in abortion rates without passing any new "restrictions." While it is true that Illinois did not pass any pro-life legislation during this time frame, this ignores what was in fact happening on the ground in Illinois at this time.
Illinois passed a parental notice law in 1995, but never put it into operation, tying it up in the courts for more than a decade. In 2009, however, an appeals court lifted a federal injunction, clearing the way for the laws implementation. While further appeals and hearings delayed that implementation until 2013, all the legal maneuvering put abortion back in the news precisely during the time covered by this report, generating some uncertainty as to when and whether the law would be upheld.
Oregon is another state which Guttmacher offers as an example of state which passed no abortion laws but which had an abortion rate which dropped further than the national average. It is not accurate, however, to say that the state did not pass any laws which drew attention to humanity of the unborn child. According to a Guttmacher publication, the state passed a law making the assault or murder of a woman known to be pregnant a crime.
Those two states above, Illinois and Oregon, are ones that Guttmacher offers as specific counterexamples to Missouri and Louisiana, where Guttmacher admits that regulations might have played a part.
Neighbors, Past Legislative History Matters
Of course each state has its own unique circumstances and characteristics, many of which can make it hard to measure its progress against another. In some states, for example, the nearest (or cheapest) clinic may be just across the border of a neighboring state. A law change – a new parental involvement law, an ultrasound law, a right to know law, etc. – in a woman's state of residence would not necessarily greatly impact the women in that community.
On the other hand, a new law in the state where the clinic was located, or a clinic closure, would drive down abortion rates not only in that state but in the neighboring one, whether the woman's state of residence passed any new laws of their own or not.
Consider the case of South Carolina. South Carolina is one of the states listed by Guttmacher as passing abortion laws but not being able to beat the national average decline in abortion rates (10% lower for South Carolina, 13% down nationally).
In 2008, South Carolina passed a law requiring women considering abortion to be offered an opportunity to view an ultrasound and in 2010 passed a measure providing for a 24 hour waiting period in which women were able to consider information offered in a counseling session on the development of their unborn child, the risks of the abortion procedure, and resources available for them if they chose to continue the pregnancy.
Two things are important to note here. First, that before 2008, South Carolina already had in place a parental consent law, clinic regulations, a right to know law and other pro-life measures. By 2008, the number of abortions (Guttmacher puts it at 7,300) was already about half of what it was at abortion's peak in the state in 1988 (Guttmacher reported 14,160).
In other words, a large part of the law's function had already been performed before these most recent laws were passed. Abortions have dropped in the U.S. as a whole, of course, but not by as much as they have in South Carolina..
Second, women in certain parts of the state could, as described above, simply cross the state line and get abortions. A clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina, where there was no waiting period or required counseling at the time, was just across the border, and another major abortion megaclinic which Planned Parenthood opened in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2009, just a little over an hour from the South Carolina line.
North Carolina has since enacted such laws of its own, but it may take until the next report to see their impact.
There are other local factors that keep abortion rates higher in some states than others, independent of whatever laws they have in place (though often making the passage of such legislation less likely). For example, whether a state funds abortion or not, high concentrations of abortion clinics, heavy minority populations (who have higher abortions rates and are the subject of much industry marketing), entrenched abortion advocates on critical legislative committees or in state government offices, etc.
While there are a few states that stood pat or saw increases [1], the good news has been that this has been pretty much a drop seen across the board, in both states that did and those that did not pass legislation.
This does not mean, however, that state and federal legislation had no effect.
Past state and federal legislation bearing fruit
Guttmacher acts as if the only relevant legislation was that that passed between 2008 and 2011. But as noted above, pro-lifers have been passing protective legislation for decades AND abortions, abortion rates, and abortion ratios have been falling for decades. While the drop off over between 2008 and 2011was substantial, the decline has been going on for a number of years. The current results are, certainly in part, part of this longer trend.
Many states began passing parental involvement laws once the Supreme Court first allowed them in 1979. Right to Know and waiting periods were affirmed by the Court in Casey in 1992, prompting another flurry of legislation.
It did not all happen at once, as it often took years to get sympathetic legislators in office, on the right committees, someone in the governor's office who would sign the bill, and work its way through the state (or federal courts).
Though only a handful passed such laws between 2008 and 2011, there were by that last year at least 29 states with substantive parental involvement laws and another 24 with effective right to know statutes.
What Guttmacher says about laws protecting unborn children scientifically proven to be capable of feeling pain–that they would be expected to have a narrow impact because most abortions are done in the first trimester–could also be said about laws prohibiting partial-birth abortion, passed at the federal level and signed by President George W. Bush in 2003 after years of debate and presidential vetoes under Bill Clinton, and finally upheld by the Supreme Court in 2007.
Guttmacher's argument that these make little difference because few abortions are done at this stage ignores the considerable educational effect the debate over partial-birth abortions and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Acts act and how this changes behaviors.
Legislation's educational effect
Education's impact is, by its very nature, difficult to measure in any direct fashion. But discussions that had, for years, only focused narrowly on "women's rights" and "choice" suddenly were expanded to include the humanity and rights of the unborn child. When people were looking at the line drawings of a mostly-delivered baby being stabbed in the back of the skull and having his or her brains sucked out, the usual "clump of cells" and "blob of tissue" arguments no longer held sway.
This influenced far more than just the number of women undergoing this particularly gruesome form of abortion.
Films and photographs of the child in utero became popular. The proliferation of ultrasound, a novelty in Roe's early years, became commonplace over the next decade or so, confirming the humanity of the unborn child to a wider public audience, making the pro-life case clearer and more powerful.
Pregnancy care centers offering practical help and assistance to women with unplanned pregnancies sprang up all over the country, helping make alternatives to abortion real and accessible.
A great deal of this happened before the period covered in this recent report, but much of it would have been new to women facing pregnancy for the first time. What a woman knew about her child and about her alternatives was quite different in 2009 than it was in 1979 or even 1989.
When one state considers passing a parental involvement, or right to know, or ultrasound law, or a pain-capable abortion ban, the debate itself affects not only the discussion of abortion in that state, but across the country.
While Guttmacher may largely ignore this effect, it is not one that the rest of the abortion lobby treats lightly. This is why they spend money, bring in the abortion lobby's superstars, and bus in activists from all over the country whenever one state considers even the most basic commonsense legislation. Anyone remember Texas last year?
Protective pro-life legislation can and does change the trajectory of the decision-making, not only of those pregnant women at the time considering their future, but also raises the general level of public knowledge, altering decisions for years to come.
The proof for this is seen not just in a given state, but in the decline in abortion numbers, rates, and ratios seen in the nation as a whole.
There were 1.61 million abortions performed in 1990. In 2011, there were 1.06 million, more than half a million fewer. Abortion rates peaked at 29.3 abortions for every women of reproductive age in 1980. Now, Guttmacher reports a rate of 16.9.
Guttmacher said that there were 30.4 abortions out of every 100 pregnancies ending in live birth or abortion in 1983. In this latest report, it now puts that at 21.2 per 100, a tremendous drop.
All this shows quite clearly that pregnant women are now more likely to choose life for their unborn children than at any time before abortion was legalized in 1973. Whatever the changes in the universe of pregnant women from 2008 to 2011 is, clearly it a much more pro-life group at the end of this arc than it was at the beginning, and less likely to abort than any population of pregnant women since 1973.
Attitudes have changed. Actions have changed. More unborn children are living to see the day of their birth.
[1] These states are Wyoming, Montana, West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Maryland. However most of these were states where there were already very few abortions and only a few more were able to alter the trajectory of the rate. Maryland was the exception, with one of the nation's highest abortion rates and high, steady numbers of abortions.
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Home»Event and Social»Pup Aid and other Canine events»2012 Ukraine with Marc the Vet and Four Paws»Marc the Vet at Lutsk Zoo for Four Paws, Ukraine July 2012
Marc the Vet manages to visit Nastia the bear cub after foreign visitor ban
Tireless animal rights campaigner Marc Abraham [TV's Marc the Vet] took time out from his busy surgery schedule to spend last weekend in Ukraine at the invitation of the international animal charity Four Paws to see their work with abused bears including Nastia the bear cub. In May 2012 Nastia was brutally snatched from her mother at just four months old and illegally sold to animal traders. On the very weekend that Marc the Vet visited Lutsk in Western Ukraine, Four Paws, who had been monitoring Nastia's progress on a daily basis were banned from visiting Nastia at the zoo, along with a ban on all foreign tourists.
Marc the Vet with a photographer and friend did manage to gain access to the zoo to record conditions there. Although primarily there to check on Nastia, they were appalled at the conditions that the majority of the animals are kept in. Whilst the surrounding ponds and trees make the place look idyllic - ducks, geese and swans roam freely - the bears, lions and wolves are kept in cramped, dark, filthy, featureless cages. The bears are being fed on rotting tomatoes and stale bread, and Nastia herself paced restlessly, crying. The visit had to be cut short when it became obvious that zoo staff had become suspicious and pursued them off the premises.
The horror of the morning's visit was somewhat ameliorated by a visit to the bear sanctuary nearing completion at Zhytomyrska. This is scheduled to be opened in early September, when Marc the Vet hopes to be able to be in attendance as Nastia and other bears are moved there.
The trip was harrowing but ultimately uplifting. When you see what this amazing team do, working with courage and patience against sometimes seemingly insurmountable problems on a daily basis it goes a long way to restoring ones faith in human nature, despite the fact that the problems they are dealing with were caused by humans in the first place. For more information on Four Paws go to http://www.four-paws.org.uk/ and on Marc the Vet http://www.marcthevet.com/
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New York & New Jersey Edition: January 27 – February 02, 2023
Dateline USA, Immigration
US Supreme Court ruling halts Trump administration's bid to end DACA program
by Rae Ann Varona
Protesters attend an immigration rally in San Francisco on September 5, 2017.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Thursday, June 18 stopped President Donald Trump's administration from rescinding a program that protected more than 800,000 young unauthorized immigrants, or "Dreamers," who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.
In a 5-4 vote, the court held that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was "arbitrary and capricious" in that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
While the ruling does not provide permanent protections, the decision has been a sigh of relief for the hundreds of thousands who have grown up in the U.S. — many from a very young age — despite not having legal status.
The Trump administration may try again by presenting stronger justifications, but it is unlikely that it would do so before the upcoming presidential elections in November.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the high court's four liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor.
In his opinion, he wrote, "The appropriate recourse is therefore to remand to DHS so that it may reconsider the problem anew."
"We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action," he added.
Justice Sotomayor was the only justice to take an added stance shared by many DACA advocates in arguing that the move to rescind protections may have been motivated by discrimination against immigrants.
In a separate opinion, Sotomayor gave examples of remarks made by Trump that described Mexican immigrants as being people who have "lots of problems," are the "bad ones," and are "criminals, drug dealers, [and] rapists."
The dissent, which included Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, dismissed the ruling as being politically charged.
"Today's decision must be recognized for what it is: an effort to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision. The court could have made clear that the solution respondents must seek came from the legislative branch," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his dissent.
On Twitter, President Donald Trump said, "These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republican or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd. Amendment & everything else. Vote Trump 2020!"
In a following tweet, he asked, "Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn't like me?"
Trump also said he'd soon released a "new list of Conservative Supreme Court Justice nominees" by September.
The program was created in 2012 under then-President Barack Obama and provided renewable deportation protections of two years, though no pathway to citizenship. Aside from being able to stay in the U.S., recipients were able to work legally which allowed many to pursue higher education and pursue other career goals.
However, in September 2017, Trump announced plans of rescinding the program on claims that its adoption was unlawful and that courts did not have the power to review its decision. Lower courts blocked the rescission and the Supreme Court took the case last fall.
Of the current 650,000 DACA recipients in the U.S., roughly 200,000 recipients are in California with about 85,000 in Los Angeles. The majority were born in Mexico and other Central or South American countries, but many were also brought from Asia.
At least 16,000 DACA recipients are of Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI) descent, according to Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice), an affiliation of five independent civil rights organizations.
Between 2012 and 2017, at least 3,880 Filipinos were granted DACA protection, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
"We applaud the Supreme Court for stating that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to end DACA is 'arbitrary and capricious' and its decision to allow the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to continue for the time being," Advancing Justice wrote in a statement.
It added, "DACA has positively changed the lives of more than 800,000 young people in this country, allowing them to live temporarily without fear, and pursue their academic and career goals."
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Ants are invading The Schiele Museum this weekend. But don�t worry; it�s not a bug infestation, just the latest exhibit. �Farmers, Warriors, Builders: The Secret Life of Ants� opens Jan. 25, and the museum is celebrating with a special event called �Ants in my Plants� from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
The traveling exhibit provided through the Smithsonian Institution will feature 40 photographs by Mark Moffett, models, entomology collections, and information on the study of ants. Attendees will get a larger-than-life, up-close look at the insects and learn about their unique characteristics.
A host of activities are planned for Saturday�s grand-opening event, including ant art, crafts, scavenger hunt, story time, a showing of DreamWorks animated film �Antz,� and a presentation by an entomologist. At 1 p.m., Schiele Adjunct Curator of Entomology Dawn Flynn will speak on ant biology, diversity and local species and share fun facts, and there will be time for questions from the audience. Members can participate in a special craft and snack from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
COMING JAN. 26 IN LIFE: Find out more about �The Secret Life of Ants� exhibit and learn interesting ant facts.
Details: Members can participate in a special ant craft and snack from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. RSVP at 704-866-6904.
Entomologist Dawn Flynn will give a special presentation on ants at 1 p.m.


Gorilla Glue is a non-toxic, solvent-free polyurethane glue. Natural glues like white glues (e.g. Elmer's glue) or mastic are optimal, but this glue is much less toxic than most. It works well on wood, but it's not as specific as most wood adhesives. It bonds pretty well on metals, stone, ceramics, and many plastics. It is waterproof, meaning it doesn't break down when wet, and doesn't expand or contract with temperature. You do have to clamp stuff in place for a while while it dries, which you should do with any glue. If you glue infrequently, it is nice that Gorilla Glue has a long shelf life — three years as opposed to one, as with many other polyurethane glues. It's available from: Amazon ($13 for 8 0z), and most hardware stores. Review via Cool Tools.
I beg to disagree about Gorilla glue being non-toxic…if you check the MSDS ( http://www.gorillaglue.com/UserFiles/MSDS%20Stronger%20Faster%20English.pdf ) there's seems to be quite a bit to worry about both by way of inhalation and skin contact.
Perhaps try Silicone lubricant spray..it words for gel silicone to remove. Follow up with dish washing liquid and water.
Also, many things can be dissolved with a barber shop lubricant/disinfectant H20 or something like that. I use it every day and should know the name,,,it is a pleasant smelling clear blue oil that removes things I have never believed possible.
Just a caution about this….my veterinarian had a dog-patient who had eaten a very tiny amount of this glue & it swelled up very large in the dog's intestines. Surgery was necessary to remove it. He phoned Gorilla Glue to ask that they add a "caution" statement to the bottle. We assume it does the same in a human's body. At the time of purchase, no cautionary statement was on the label.


Hello, my name is John and I set up this site to share with other sufferers what happened to me with my aortic aneurysm. I had never even heard of one before I had mine. and I still don't understand how it happened. So I searched the web and read more, and many sufferers (mostly U.S.) seemed to have a better communications line than I had. So I decided to write this account of my experience in case anyone else out there is as confused as I was.
On this site I don't try to do the in-depth medical thing, there are enough sites that do that. I just try to tell what happened to me, as I saw it. Some of this I have been told afterwards, some of it is my memory. When I came out of hospital we were left very confused and rather isolated. To be honest I don't feel I know much more about my condition than I did then. Anyway, this is what happened.
If you have suffered from this condition I wish you well, and hope you have a speedy recovery. If you haven't suffered one, do anything you can to avoid it.


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Policy and Finance
Service Design and Delivery
Workforce and Development
Mental Health Act 1983
Dr Kevin Cleary
Author: Matt Roberts
Job Title: Editorial Lead
Company: National Health Executive
Published: December 1st 2020
Mental health services coped well, but still 'significant unmet need'
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revealed where mental health services made the most significant gains during the Covid-19 pandemic, empowering patients and supporting staff to manage restrictions.
In the newly-published report – Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 – the CQC found mental health services which focused on applying the principles of least restriction were most successful during the pandemic – both for the quality of care received by patients engaging with the services, and in managing the additional restrictions imposed on the staff delivering them.
Well-performing services also put emphasis on care planning to involve patients, as well as co-production with patients to improve ward environments.
However, for the positives identified in the report, fewer beds and limited community support being able to be delivered through remote contact, there was also understood to be significant unmet need during the first national lockdown.
This may increase the risk of people accessing services in a crisis through coercive pathways, including detention under the Mental Health Act.
For groups already disproportionately likely to enter mental health services through these routes, it has the potential to further exacerbate existing overrepresentation of some Black and minority ethnic (BAME) groups among admission statistics through these coercive pathways.
CQC has a statutory duty to monitor and report on how services apply the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) to detain and treat people who have a mental illness and need protection for their own health or safety, or for the safety of others.
The newly-released CQC report puts particular focus on the impact felt from the coronavirus pandemic on detained patients, and on the services that care for and treat them, setting out actions needed to support people subject to detention under the MHA.
It concluded:
It is vital that discharge planning is carried out in co-production with patients and their families/ support networks in order to ensure better outcomes.
Patients must be involved in decisions about their care, including infection control, and where this is done the negative impact of restrictions on detained patients during a pandemic can be limited.
Carrying out modernisation of the physical estate would help with infection control measures.
Services should recognise the significant impact restrictions of leave of absence and activity can have on detained patients and ensure these are lifted as quickly as safely possible to avoid very damaging 'closed cultures' from emerging.
The relaxation of rules around use of personal technology such as mobile phones should continue in future, and services should prioritise linked issues such as Wi-Fi connectivity in future estates development.
Advocacy should move to be offered on an opt-out basis in future.
Careful evaluation of use of remote technology for care, treatment and contact purposes needs to be undertaken should aspects of them continue after the pandemic.
Dr Kevin Cleary, CQC's Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals and Lead for Mental Health, said: "The coronavirus pandemic has presented mental health inpatient services with an unprecedented challenge.
"For the most part we have found that services have coped well, with some showing exemplary practice in the co-production of care with patients. Staff have shown exceptional resilience by continuing to provide care, particularly in those services that have tragically lost patients or staff to coronavirus.
"However, our monitoring of the MHA during the pandemic has further highlighted concerns we have previously raised, including the importance of patient-led and effective care planning with a focus on discharge and access to advocacy for all patients.
"The pandemic has also shone further focus on the need for modernisation of many mental health wards, primarily to improve the patient experience but also to assist with infection control.
"We saw examples of patients' leave being cancelled or restrictions placed on their movements, as well as limits on visits from friends and family. We are clear that if services make blanket restrictions, they can demonstrate that they have considered the least restrictive option. We have seen examples of services managing this well, with increased mobile phone access and the use of video calling. We continue to monitor services and will intervene when necessary.
"With limited community support delivered through remote contact, and fewer inpatient beds, there will have been significant unmet need during lockdown. This may increase the risk of people accessing services only in crisis, increasing the risk of hospitalisation and detention under the MHA.
"We urge providers to collect data on trends in MHA practice during the pandemic, to inform decisions and ensure learnings can be applied as quickly as possible in the current wave of coronavirus and any future resurgence."
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using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing.Design;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;

using NDoc.Core;
using NDoc.Core.Reflection;
using NDoc.Core.PropertyGridUI;

namespace NDoc.Documenter.Msdn2
{
	///
	/// Defines the output types for this documenter.
	///
	[Flags]
	public enum OutputType
	{
		/// Output only an HTML Help file (.chm).
		[Description("HTML Help")]
		HtmlHelp = 1,

		/// Output only Web pages.
		[Description("Web")]
		Web = 2,

		/// Output both HTML Help and Web.
		[Description("HTML Help and Web")]
		HtmlHelpAndWeb = HtmlHelp | Web
	}

	/// The MsdnDocumenterConfig class.
	/// <remarks>
	/// <para>The MSDN documenter creates a compiled HTML help version 1 help file (CHM).</para>
	/// </remarks>
	[DefaultProperty("OutputDirectory")]
	public class Msdn2DocumenterConfig : BaseReflectionDocumenterConfig
	{
		string htmlHelpName;
		bool includeFavorites;

		/// Initializes a new instance of the MsdnHelpConfig class.
		public Msdn2DocumenterConfig( Msdn2DocumenterInfo info ) : base( info )
		{
			_Title = "An NDoc Documented Class Library";

			_BinaryTOC = true;

			_OutputTarget = OutputType.HtmlHelpAndWeb;

			_RootPageContainsNamespaces = false;

			_HeaderHtml = string.Empty;
			_FooterHtml = string.Empty;
			_FilesToInclude = string.Empty;
		}

		///
		/// Creates an instance of a documenter <see cref="IDocumenterConfig.CreateDocumenter"/>
		///
		/// <returns>IDocumenter instance</returns>
		public override IDocumenter CreateDocumenter()
		{
			return new Msdn2Documenter( this );
		}

		#region Main Settings
		string _outputDirectory = string.Format( ".{0}doc{0}", Path.DirectorySeparatorChar );

		/// Gets or sets the OutputDirectory property.
		/// <remarks>The directory in which .html files and the .chm files will be generated.</remarks>
		[Category("Documentation Main Settings")]
		[Description("The directory in which .html files and the .chm files will be generated.")]
		[Editor(typeof(FolderNameEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
		public string OutputDirectory
		{
			get { return _outputDirectory; }

			set
			{
				if ( value.IndexOfAny(new char[]{'#','?', ';'}) != -1)
				{
					throw new FormatException("Output Directory '" + value +
						"' is not valid because it contains '#','?' or ';' which" +
						" are reserved characters in HTML URLs.");
				}

				_outputDirectory = value;

				if (!_outputDirectory.EndsWith( Path.DirectorySeparatorChar.ToString() ))
				{
					_outputDirectory += Path.DirectorySeparatorChar;
				}

				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		/// Gets or sets the HtmlHelpName property.
		/// <remarks>The HTML Help project file and the compiled HTML Help file
		/// use this property plus the appropriate extension as names.</remarks>
		[Category("Documentation Main Settings")]
		[Description("The name of the HTML Help project and the Compiled HTML Help file.")]
		public string HtmlHelpName
		{
			get { return htmlHelpName; }

			set
			{
				if (Path.GetExtension(value).ToLower() == ".chm")
				{
					HtmlHelpName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(value);
				}
				else
				{
					htmlHelpName = value;
				}

				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		private string _Title;

		/// Gets or sets the Title property.
		/// <remarks>This is the title displayed at the top of every page.</remarks>
		[Category("Documentation Main Settings")]
		[Description("This is the title displayed at the top of every page.")]
		public string Title
		{
			get { return _Title; }

			set
			{
				_Title = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		private OutputType _OutputTarget;

		/// Gets or sets the OutputTarget property.
		/// <remarks>Sets the output type to HTML Help (.chm) or Web or both.</remarks>
		[Category("Documentation Main Settings")]
		[Description("Sets the output type to HTML Help (.chm) or Web or both.")]
		[DefaultValue(OutputType.HtmlHelpAndWeb)]
		[System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(typeof(EnumDescriptionConverter))]
		public OutputType OutputTarget
		{
			get { return _OutputTarget; }

			set
			{
				_OutputTarget = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		bool _SdkLinksOnWeb = false;

		/// Gets or sets the SdkLinksOnWeb property.
		/// <remarks>
		/// </remarks>
		[Category("Documentation Main Settings")]
		[Description("Turning this flag on will point all SDK links to the online MSDN library")]
		[DefaultValue(false)]
		public bool SdkLinksOnWeb
		{
			get { return _SdkLinksOnWeb; }

			set
			{
				_SdkLinksOnWeb = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		string _Version = "1.0.0.0";

		/// Get's or sets the version property
		/// <remarks>The version number for the help file (#.#.#.#)</remarks>
		[Category("Documentation Main Settings")]
		[Description("The version number for the help file (#.#.#.#)")]
		[DefaultValue("1.0.0.0")]
		public string Version
		{
			get { return _Version; }

			set
			{
				_Version = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		#endregion

		/// Gets or sets the IncludeFavorites property.
		/// <remarks>Turning this flag on will include a Favorites tab in the HTML Help file.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Turning this flag on will include a Favorites tab in the HTML Help file.")]
		[DefaultValue(false)]
		public bool IncludeFavorites
		{
			get { return includeFavorites; }

			set
			{
				includeFavorites = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		string _RootPageTOCName;

		/// Gets or sets the RootPageTOCName property.
		/// <remarks>The name for the table-of-contents entry corresponding
		/// to the root page.
		/// If this is not specified and RootPageFileName is, then
		/// the TOC entry will be 'Overview'.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("The name for the table-of-contents entry corresponding "
			 + " to the root page."
			 + " If this is not specified and RootPageFileName is, then"
			 + " the TOC entry will be 'Overview'.")]
		[DefaultValue("")]
		public string RootPageTOCName
		{
			get { return _RootPageTOCName; }

			set
			{
				_RootPageTOCName = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		string _RootPageFileName = string.Empty;

		/// Gets or sets the RootPageFileName property.
		/// <remarks>The name of an html file to be included as the root home page. "</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("The name of an html file to be included as the root home page. "
			 + "SplitTOCs is disabled when this property is set.")]
		[DefaultValue("")]
		[Editor(typeof(FileNameEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
		public string RootPageFileName
		{
			get { return _RootPageFileName; }

			set
			{
				_RootPageFileName = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		bool _RootPageContainsNamespaces;

		/// Gets or sets the RootPageContainsNamespaces property.
		/// <remarks>If true, the Root Page will be made the container
		/// of the namespaces in the table-of-contents.
		/// If false, the Root Page will be made a peer of
		/// the namespaces in the table-of-contents.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("If true, the Root Page will be made the container"
			 + " of the namespaces in the table-of-contents."
			 + " If false, the Root Page will be made a peer of"
			 + " the namespaces in the table-of-contents.")]
		[DefaultValue(false)]
		public bool RootPageContainsNamespaces
		{
			get { return _RootPageContainsNamespaces; }

			set
			{
				_RootPageContainsNamespaces = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		bool _BinaryTOC;

		/// Gets or sets the BinaryToc property.
		/// <remarks>Create a binary table-of-contents file.
		/// This can significantly reduce the amount of time
		/// required to load a very large help document.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Create a binary table-of-contents file. \r"
			 + "This can significantly reduce the amount of time required to load a very large help document.")]
		[DefaultValue(true)]
		public bool BinaryTOC
		{
			get { return _BinaryTOC; }

			set
			{
				_BinaryTOC = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		string _HeaderHtml;

		/// Gets or sets the HeaderHtml property.
		/// <remarks>Raw HTML that is used as a page header instead of the default blue banner.
		/// "%FILE_NAME%\" is dynamically replaced by the name of the file for the current html page.
		/// "%TOPIC_TITLE%\" is dynamically replaced by the title of the current page.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Raw HTML that is used as a page header instead of the default blue banner. " +
			 "\"%FILE_NAME%\" is dynamically replaced by the name of the file for the current html page. " +
			 "\"%TOPIC_TITLE%\" is dynamically replaced by the title of the current page.")]
		[DefaultValue("")]
		[Editor(typeof(TextEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
		public string HeaderHtml
		{
			get { return _HeaderHtml; }

			set
			{
				_HeaderHtml = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		string _FooterHtml;

		/// Gets or sets the FooterHtml property.
		/// <remarks>Raw HTML that is used as a page footer instead of the default footer.
		/// "%FILE_NAME%\" is dynamically replaced by the name of the file for the current html page.
		/// "%ASSEMBLY_NAME%\" is dynamically replaced by the name of the assembly for the current page.
		/// "%ASSEMBLY_VERSION%\" is dynamically replaced by the version of the assembly for the current page.
		/// "%TOPIC_TITLE%\" is dynamically replaced by the title of the current page.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Raw HTML that is used as a page footer instead of the default footer." +
			 "\"%FILE_NAME%\" is dynamically replaced by the name of the file for the current html page. " +
			 "\"%ASSEMBLY_NAME%\" is dynamically replaced by the name of the assembly for the current page. " +
			 "\"%ASSEMBLY_VERSION%\" is dynamically replaced by the version of the assembly for the current page. " +
			 "\"%TOPIC_TITLE%\" is dynamically replaced by the title of the current page.")]
		[DefaultValue("")]
		[Editor(typeof(TextEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
		public string FooterHtml
		{
			get { return _FooterHtml; }

			set
			{
				_FooterHtml = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		TOCStyle _NamespaceTOCStyle;

		/// Get or set the style of the namespace structure in the table of contents
		/// <remarks>Allows the user to choose whether the table of contents should list namespaces
		/// as individual topics or have the namespaces nested</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Choose whether the table of contents should list namespaces " +
			"as individual topics or have the namespaces nested.")]
		[DefaultValue(TOCStyle.Flat)]
		public TOCStyle NamespaceTOCStyle
		{
			get { return _NamespaceTOCStyle; }

			set
			{
				if (value == _NamespaceTOCStyle) return;

				_NamespaceTOCStyle = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		string _FilesToInclude;

		/// Gets or sets the FilesToInclude property.
		/// <remarks>Specifies external files that must be included
		/// in the compiled CHM file. Multiple files must be separated by a pipe ('|').</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Specifies external files that must be included in the compiled CHM file. Multiple files must be separated by a pipe ('|').")]
		[DefaultValue("")]
		public string FilesToInclude
		{
			get { return _FilesToInclude; }

			set
			{
				_FilesToInclude = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

		FolderPath _AdditionalContentResourceDirectory = new FolderPath();

		/// Gets or sets the AdditionalContentResourceDirectory property
		/// <remarks>Directory that contains resources (images etc.) used by the additional content pages.
		/// This directory will be recursively compiled into the help file.</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("Directory that contains resources (images etc.) used by the additional content pages. This directory will be recursively compiled into the help file.")]
		[NDoc.Core.PropertyGridUI.FoldernameEditor.FolderDialogTitle("Select AdditionalContentResourceDirectory")]
		public FolderPath AdditionalContentResourceDirectory
		{
			get { return _AdditionalContentResourceDirectory; }

			set
			{
				if (_AdditionalContentResourceDirectory.Path != value.Path)
				{
					_AdditionalContentResourceDirectory = value;
					SetDirty();
				}
			}
		}

		FilePath _ExtensibilityStylesheet = new FilePath();

		/// Gets or sets the ExtensibilityStylesheet property
		/// <remarks>Path to an xslt stylesheet that contains templates for documenting extensibility tags.</remarks>
		[Category("Extensibility")]
		[Description("Path to an xslt stylesheet that contains templates for documenting extensibility tags. Refer to the NDoc user's guide for more details on extending NDoc.")]
		[NDoc.Core.PropertyGridUI.FilenameEditor.FileDialogFilter
			 ("Select Extensibility Stylesheet", "Stylesheet files (*.xslt)|*.xslt|All files (*.*)|*.*")]
		public FilePath ExtensibilityStylesheet
		{
			get { return _ExtensibilityStylesheet; }

			set
			{
				if (_ExtensibilityStylesheet.Path != value.Path)
				{
					_ExtensibilityStylesheet = value;
					SetDirty();
				}
			}
		}

		short _LangID = 1033;

		/// Gets or sets the LangID property
		/// <remarks>The language ID of the locale used by the compiled helpfile</remarks>
		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
		[Description("The ID of the language the help file is in.")]
		[DefaultValue((short)1033)]
		[Editor(typeof(LangIdEditor), typeof(UITypeEditor))]
		public short LangID
		{
			get { return _LangID; }

			set
			{
				_LangID = value;
				SetDirty();
			}
		}

//		string _Version = "1.0.0.0";
//
//		/// Get's or sets the version property
//		/// <remarks>The version number for the help file (#.#.#.#)</remarks>
//		[Category("HTML Help Options")]
//		[Description("The version number for the help file (#.#.#.#)")]
//		[DefaultValue("1.0.0.0")]
//		public string Version
//		{
//			get { return _Version; }
//
//			set
//			{
//				_Version = value;
//				SetDirty();
//			}
//		}

		///
		///
		///
		/// <param name="name"></param>
		/// <param name="value"></param>
		/// <returns></returns>
		protected override string HandleUnknownPropertyType(string name, string value)
		{
			string FailureMessages = "";
			//SdkDocVersion has been split into two separate options
			// - value "MsdnOnline" replaced by "SDK_v1_1" and setting option SdkLinksOnWeb to true
			//note: case insensitive comparison
			if (String.Compare(name, "LinkToSdkDocVersion", true) == 0)
			{
				if (String.Compare(value, "MsdnOnline", true) == 0)
				{
					Trace.WriteLine("WARNING: " + base.DocumenterInfo.Name + " Configuration - value 'MsdnOnline' of property 'LinkSdkDocVersion' is OBSOLETE. Please use new option 'SdkLinksOnWeb'\n");
					Project.SuspendDirtyCheck=false;
					FailureMessages += base.ReadProperty("SdkDocVersion", "SDK_v1_1");
					FailureMessages += base.ReadProperty("SdkLinksOnWeb", "True");
					Project.SuspendDirtyCheck=true;
				}
				else
				{
					Trace.WriteLine("WARNING: " + base.DocumenterInfo.Name + " Configuration - property 'LinkToSdkDocVersion' is OBSOLETE. Please use new property 'SdkDocVersion'\n");
					Project.SuspendDirtyCheck=false;
					FailureMessages += base.ReadProperty("SdkDocVersion", value);
					Project.SuspendDirtyCheck=true;
				}
			}
			else
			{
				// if we don't know how to handle this, let the base class have a go
				FailureMessages = base.HandleUnknownPropertyType(name, value);
			}
			return FailureMessages;
		}
	}

	///
	/// Style for elements that are added to the table of contents
	///
	public enum TOCStyle
	{
		/// Elements are shown in the contents in list format
		[Description("Flat")]
		Flat,

		/// Elements are nested in the table of contents
		[Description("Hierarchical")]
		Hierarchical
	}

}

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{
    'name': "Open Academy",

    'summary': """Manage trainings""",

    'author': "tomas@vauxoo.com",
    'website': "http://www.vauxoo.com",

    'category': "Test",
    'version': "0.1",

    'depends': ["base", "board"],

    'data': [
        'view/openacademy_course_view.xml',
        'view/openacademy_session_view.xml',
        'view/openacademy_session_workflow.xml',
        'view/partner_view.xml',
        'security/security.xml',
        'security/ir.model.access.csv',
        'view/openacademy_wizard_view.xml',
        'report/openacademy_session_report.xml',
        'view/session_board.xml',
    ],
    'demo': [
        'demo/openacademy_course_demo.xml',
    ],

    'installable': True,
    'auto_install': False,
}


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Free Czech-ing
V.A. Musetto
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Actress Hafsia Herzi.
Czech this out. The Czech Center New York is presenting a festival of 17 recent European films from 11 nations. And admission is free.
Allow me to recommend "The Secret of the Grain" (2007), from France, by Tunisia-born writer-director Abdellatif Kechiche.
It is worth seeing if only for the sensual belly dance — baby fat and all — by exotic Hafsia Herzi, who was in her first year at law school when she answered a casting call for the film.
The 5-foot-3 bundle of energy portrays teenager Rym, who helps her downtrodden father (Habib Boufares) wade through red tape to turn a rusting ship into a restaurant featuring his ex-wife's fish couscous.
Herzi says that the director had her put on weight for her dance scene. Her performance won the best-actress prize at the Cesars, the Gallic equivalent of the Oscars. She also was named best young actress at the 2007 Venice Film Festival, an honor indeed.
Another recommendation? The Austrian thriller "Revanche" (2008), which asks: When, if ever, does vengeance justify murder?
Directed by Gotz Spielmann, it concerns Alex (Johannes Krisch), a lackey for the sleaze who runs the brothel where his covert lover, Ukrainian hooker Tamara (hot, hot Irina Potapenko) satisfies customers' sexual urges.
When she's not turning tricks for pervs, she positions herself outside the whorehouse in tall black boots, thigh-high stockings and short black skirt, in a crude form of advertising.
In an effort to give Tamara a better life, Alex robs a bank, but Tamara — waiting in the getaway car — is shot dead by a cop who happens by.
The Czech Center showcase runs Thursday through April 15 at Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd St., between First and Second avenues. Free admission is first come, first served, except on opening night, which requires a reservation. Details: czechcenter.com
* Two quick picks for the New York African Film Festival, Wednesday through April 13 at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade:
Mama Keita's "The Absence" (2009), in which a scientist returns to his home in Senegal after 15 years and discovers his semi-deaf-mute sister is selling her body, and Cambria Matlow and Morgan Robinson's "Burning in the Sun," a documentary about a young West African man who wants to build and sell solar panels. Details: filmlinc.com
V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com
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Nantes: The First Hydrogen Boat Buses in France in service soon
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A water bus, the "Jules Vernes 2", is soon to ensure the shuttle on the Erdre in Nantes. Built in Vendée on behalf of Semitan, it has a propulsion operating only with hydrogen. A first in France.
Semitan (Transportation Authority of Nantes common) are already thinking for years: the question of a boat powered by hydrogen and can transport users was discussed as early as 2005. The project, named code "Navibus" was in the works for about five years. And will finally materialize with Jules Verne 2. Built by Navalu at the Bouin site, in Vendée, it will link the faculties at Petit Port, near the tram line 2 and the mouth of the Cens, the housing project Port Boyer.
"It will be the first boat powered by hydrogen operated in France. So far, none has been authorized to be used for transport of persons or goods " , says Bernard Minguet, boss Navalu.
After a series of tests still underway, passengers will embark on this innovative device."We have not yet official dates but the commercial service launch is scheduled for October," says Semitan.
No CO2
Concretely, this Navibus has two fuel cells, which convert hydrogen into electricity stored on board. "The first advantage is that this shuttle does not emit CO2, only water, welcomes Bernard Minguet. This technology also allows greater autonomy: one week instead of half an hour, with a time of relatively quick recharge. "
The Jules Verne will replace 2 The Seagull aging shuttle which ensured the passage of the Erdre for 20 years. The trip should be as much quieter. Finally, the boat built at the shipyard Navalu Bouin in Vendée, offer better security. "For the moment, the boat is planned for commercial service with twelve passengers but its capacity is 25 people, Semitan explains.
We are moving in a particular mode: this is the first time a hydrogen boat used to carry passengers, so the procedures are more stringent and we have to wait some commissions decisions " , explains Semitan.Un naval architect Nantes (SHIP-ST), the Navalu site and Symbio FCELL (for propulsion chain) helped make this happen. In total the project is $ 1.6 million, including grants from ADEME and the Region.
In 2016, the Navibus Service transported 636 000 passengers, of which about 66,000 for crossing the Erdre, the remainder of the Loire. To access it, simply providing a ticket. hydrogen boat used to carry passengers, so the procedures are more stringent and we have to wait some commissions decisions " , explains Semitan.Un naval architect Nantes (SHIP-ST), the Navalu site and Symbio FCELL (for chain drive) helped make this happen. In total the project is $ 1.6 million, including grants from ADEME and the Region. In 2016, the Navibus Service transported 636 000 passengers, of which about 66,000 for crossing the Erdre, the remainder of the Loire.
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Q: Can we use the verb "arrive" with the preposition "to"? I don't think the verb arrive can be used with the preposition to. I'm certain about it, but of course I had to come here, since I was reading news on Dailymail and in the news there was a sentence which seemed wrong to me:

...the man continues to lead her through the house reassuring her while
  reminding her: 'No peeking!'When they arrive to the room where the
  surprise is stored the man behind the camera begins to sing Happy
  Birthday to Bianca at which point she removes her blindfold."

A: In the particular use you have given, it is true that "arrive at" is correct.
This does not mean that "arrive to" is always wrong.

In five minutes, a locksmith will arrive to help you get into your
  car.

(You have locked yourself out of your car, and called an organization which aids motorists in need of help.)
Note that in this example, "to" is not used as a preposition, but as part of a verb.

A: You are correct.  The excerpt you quoted is incorrect.  It would be correct to say,

When they arrive at the room...

or

When they get to the room...

but "arrive to" is always wrong.

A: Your article is an example of incorrect usage. Arrive cannot be used with to.
Justification: To is a preposition of movement, and arrive does not show movement. You walk to, but do not arrive to.
Prepositions that can be used with arrive are at, in, and on.

A: I have used and heard "Arrive to," but not in the sense of an actual location. "I have arrived to the line of thinking that my colleagues hold," is a slightly-too-formal example of this.
When using "arrive," in other ways it is best to pair it with "at," "in," or "on."

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Rex by Ben McKelway
Prompted By Pets
August 7, 2022 / Stories
One day back in 1976 a German shepherd came out of nowhere to show up at our kitchen door. He was not emaciated; he looked good. But he was thirsty, so we took care of that. He decided to move in, sleeping in the mudroom of our tiny rented cottage in a dusty southern Idaho bean field.
Naturally, it would have been high-desert sagebrush as far as the eye could see. But in the early 1900s men dammed the Snake River, tore out much of the sagebrush, and dug many miles of irrigation ditches. Because potatoes, sugar beets, and other crops grew well in the volcanic soil with the simple addition of water, the wide plain on both sides of the river was named "The Magic Valley".
The dog was confident, noble — a gentleman among canines. He had no collar, but was easily identified by a permanently burst blood vessel in his left eye. He also was fearless, loyal, and smart. Cate, my partner, named him Rex. We had both been afraid of shepherds (my mom called them police dogs) in the past, but Rex never showed the slightest mean streak. In fact, nothing rattled him.
Maybe he needed companionship. When we took him camping in the Sawtooths, we realized he must have spent a stretch of time on his own. We brought dry dogfood, but around the campsite he would spend half an hour or so standing over a ground squirrel's hole, tensed for a lightening-fast lunge. When the squirrel finally stuck its head up to see if the coast were clear, that head was immediately in Rex's teeth. He would tilt his head back, chomp the rodent's body a few times (we heard bones cracking), and swallow the squirrel whole. He repeated this several times a day, on every trip we took him on.
One weekend we camped at the base of a steep foothill covered with stiff, dry grass. It was mid-morning on a cloudless day. The sky was that enchanting dark blue that you only see out west because of the low humidity. Cate and I were both reading Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins. It was her turn with the paperback, so I decided I needed to see the view from the top of the hill. Cate counseled against it, as it was quite hot already, but I felt I had a mission. Rex came with me.
The hill was higher than it looked. And when Rex and I got to the top of the ridge we discovered a slight dip, then an even steeper, rockier incline leading to higher ridge with only sky behind it. The dip completely hid this second ridge from the campsite, so Cate lost sight of us, and started to worry. Rex and I certainly were not about to turn back in defeat. We had no water, but we had tenacity. When we took breaks, Rex seemed glad for the opportunity to lie down, panting hard. It was tough going in the heat, but we continued climbing. It was all worth it: The view from the ridgetop was breathtaking. The slope on the other side was even steeper than what we had scaled, with no vegetation. And out beyond, rows of majestic snowy peaks stretched to the horizon. The breeze from that direction was chilly. It was getting toward late afternoon, so we headed back down to the campsite. The descent was a lot quicker, but we found Cate quite upset. We had been gone for hours.
Around the campfire that night, when the air had cooled, my sweat had dried, and emotions had settled, Cate told me about a passage she read in the Robbins novel while I was climbing. It was a metaphor comparing joy, fleeting as it is, to a butterfly — all one can do is tilt his/her head back and hope to kiss the butterfly as it passes over. The best part was that a tiger swallowtail landed on her arm shortly after she read that passage, and stayed for more than a minute.
Life flowed on that summer, our last summer before parenthood. Those were good days. We both had rewarding full-time jobs in Twin Falls, about 10 miles away. We had finally found a way to live in the country. If you knew Rex, you would agree that locking him in the house or chaining him outside were both unthinkable. He was free to wander, and he always showed up before dinner. After dinner, we would sit on the front porch on an old, dusty sofa. Rex would lie on the wooden slats beside us. We would look across the little-traveled road to an expansive alfalfa field. In the distance one balmy evening, our farmer landlord and his sons were mowing it for hay. There was a sweet smell in the air.
One September evening Rex didn't show up. We called the police station in Kimberly, a parched crossroads hamlet three miles to the east. They had Rex, who had been brought in by an angry resident who owned 12 pet cats. Before Rex loped into town that afternoon, he'd owned 13 cats. There might have been a small fine, but I don't think there were any licensing or leash laws. Hell, just the concept of zoning was being suggested for the first time by a couple of local environmentalists. Rex was glad to see us.
A week later it happened again. Rex had killed another of the man's cats. We never met the man, never learned whether or not Rex had eaten the cats. This time the police conveyed the complainant's warning to us: If it happened a third time, he would shoot Rex.
It took us a few days to decide what to do. We kept Rex in the mudroom while we were at work. We decided we had to let him go, farther out in the country. On Saturday we drove Rex about 45 miles to the south, toward the Nevada border. The irrigation ditches didn't come close to this land, where the cattle ranches were miles apart. In between were low, rocky hills of sage, punctuated by willow bushes and the rare cottonwood tree along the creeks. On his white plastic flea-collar we had tried to tell his story with a ball-point pen. The only words I recall writing were "I AM NOT LOST".
I did a U-turn. Behind our parked car, with a ranch visible in the distance, we hugged and patted Rex, who seemed to be anticipating another fun hike. We said goodbye, jumped in the car, and drove off. The car picked up speed. We went over a hill and could no longer see him running after us. We were crying.
Months later, on our wedding day, the stars aligned for me to see Rex one last time. Though we would host a restaurant dinner and a dance party at our cottage later that night, our late-afternoon wedding was not fancy — far from it. We invited only four friends to the service at the Twin Falls YWCA. The one who was a photographer forgot his camera. And we had gone to work that Friday for most of the day. The front of the building where I worked faced one of the main roads in town. Coming down the steps, I thought I saw Rex in the back of a faded red pickup truck. I ran, following the truck. A stoplight helped me catch up, and then the truck turned to park in front of a hardware store two blocks down. It was Rex all right, red eye and all. He was wagging his tail; he recognized me. While I was petting and talking to him, two men came out of the store. They were ranch hands from the area where we had released Rex. They said he had become the ranch's "barn dog," eating mostly cottage cheese! I imagined side dishes of rodents, but I didn't ask about the cottage cheese. I didn't think there were any dairy farms down that way, but then the ranches tended to be rather self-sufficient — many must have milk cows and make their own cheeses. I didn't ask if the ranch had cats, either, but maybe ranch cats can take care of themselves. I suppose I digress here for the same reason I didn't want those guys to drive off. But they did.
We'll never forget Rex. We still feel blessed that he adopted us for a while.
Ben McKelway
6 Responses to Rex
Susan Bennet says:
Beautiful story, Ben, and for me it comes at a meaningful moment. Last night I struggled with whether to take in a neighbor's dog who had "run away" and, I fear, is suffering at home. I'm still struggling over what to do. Thank you for bringing Rex to us, and thank you for guiding him to the safety of a new life.
Rex was independent. As you say, he adopted you for a while and he was a good companion, but he needed to move on. Thank you for sharing him with us too.
So many wonderful details that brought this narrative to life–from mentioning the local crops (such as sugar beets) to the tiger swallowtale flitting on Cate's arm, just after reading a passage about a butterfly from the Tom Robbins novel. A very engaging story, and an emotional one. Glad you got to see Rex that one last time and know he had found himself among others who cared about him.
Ben McKelway says:
Your compliments, and those of others here, greatly encourage me to write more stories. I struggle to stop them from swelling my ego too much!
Khati Hendry says:
This was a beautifully written story. I generally am appalled by people who abandon pets in the country, but Rex was clearly capable of living in the wild, and he found a new home. Good you got to see that. I had a cattle dog with the dingo wild and survivor skills still evident, and she was able to nab a squirrel in the back yard after carefully timing its routine along the porch rail, forage for berries, and dig for water in the desert. You were fortunate to have lived with Rex for the time you could.
Dig for water in the desert? Whoa!
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Here is the story of the most important play I've directed in 38 years.
Twenty-nine years ago, I received the rare privilege to perform Mrs. Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank. I will never forget the experience. This is one of those shows that seldom comes along but when it does, people flock to participate in it.
Luckily, I had the opportunity to serve as director to the production twenty-two years later. The Diary of Anne Frank is the most important production I've directed in my 38 years of my career.
The most important reason to produce The Diary of Anne Frank is because Anne Frank was a real person who lived and died during a terrible time in our history. Her diary is real and validates the facts of this injustice. You'll want to read to the end of this post. I'll explain my affinity for it, too.
We can't tell this story enough times.
Let's first talk about the standard requirements one considers when producing this amazing play.
The cast totals ten five women and five men, three of which are teen actors.
In my opinion, there is nothing better than a cast varying in age and gender. Of course a young female is needed to portray Anne and another for her sister, Margot. There is a young man, Peter Van Daam, too. The women's roles are excellent, especially Mrs. Frank and Mrs. VanDaam. Because they are everything motherly, it is fairly easy to cast them with amateurs. Mr. VanDaam is a nice role with much complexity of which to play. Other than Anne, the most important character is Mr. Frank– a fatherly, husbandly, respectful man who serves as the leader of the families.
The play appeals to all ages. Young teens relate to Anne's need for privacy, her crush on Peter and continuous disagreements with her mother. I think it is important for our youth to see that even though over seventy years have passed since Anne's demise in 1945, her wants and needs were much the same as any young girl of today. Even the dialogue sounds like something you might hear emanating from a present day home.
The set consists of one place—the attic, although within it one needs a kitchen area (for preparing real food), an eating area, an attic room and several small bedrooms. The costumes are simple 1940's style. The props are easy to collect. You do need a lot of beds (6) but that can be readily found. We used cots for my production.
I believe the play is best served in an intimate setting then audience members have the best view to observe the story as it unfolds. The closer the audience is to the actors the better. The first time I was involved in the play a small community theatre produced it. The audience was no more than six feet from us.
Yet, even as I state this I'm reminded I directed it on a high school stage in a four hundred seats auditorium. It didn't matter. Every moment is riveting.
Surprisingly, there are humorous moments in the play. I don't think people expect them. Most center on Anne and Peter— flirting with each other while trying to grow up as everyone is watching and their first kiss. It is sublime young love, I must say.
The families' dynamics while sharing the tiny apartment space are exactly those of some unfortunate people living in present day circumstances–sharing one bathroom, multiple people sharing a bedroom, never having enough food to eat and always in despair. These challenges resonate with audiences.
I'd suggest a director invite someone of the Jewish faith to speak with the cast. This person can answer questions, give insight into the plight of the Jews, explain the Jewish faith and serve as advisor when needed.
There is a sound effects CD you can purchase to use for the show. It is conveniently listed with the play on the Dramatists Plays website. This takes care of the sounds that can be difficult to find on your own—the Gestapo marching in the streets, the cathedral bells, etc. It even includes the sound of the Gestapo banging on the annex's door. I didn't utilize it because I thought it was more effective to have a live sound effect at that point in the performance. It gives the audience an opportunity to feel the jolt of surprise and fear the moment the families were taken. Nothing is more frightening and shocking.
Let's be honest and discuss the most important reason for producing this powerful play.
The Diary of Anne Frank play demonstrates the social injustice and religious persecution of Jewish people during Hitler's reign.
It's one thing to study the history of WWII. One can view a video or read a book about it, but nothing compares to observing real people telling the story right in front of you.
An important note: Several years ago Mr. Frank's monologue near the end of the play was edited and updated. It contains gut wrenching, eye witness accounts of Anne's last days while living alone in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belzen.
As our World War II veterans pass away and we have fewer and fewer left to share their experiences during the war, eye witness accounts are tremendously important.
I'd like to state that I'm certain there is no family in world today who is living in similar circumstances to Anne Frank. I'm sad to say I'm certain someone is living this life all over again. Merely look at Syria.
My father was a battalion aid surgeon during WWII. Like many veterans, he never spoke of the war. I do know that he snuck behind enemy lines to deliver a French woman's baby while under the watchful eye of a sniper. I know he was a prisoner for a few days. I know he contracted pneumonia from hiking through wet terrain and damaged his ear drum enough to lose the hearing in his ear. I know he was present when they freed Dachau. He felt the warm walls of the crematorium. He saw Jewish prisoners, nearly naked, emaciated, dazed and confused wander out of the camp. These were eye witness accounts, true facts.
Maybe in some small way, I am not only remembering the Jewish people but honoring my father's life by directing this play.
I can help us all to remember and not allow us to repeat ourselves.
Do you want to make a mark on the world? Do you think all people matter? Do you have the opportunity to select a play for a theater's season? Please consider The Diary of Anne Frank.
If you have the rare opportunity to be involved on this play, shoot me an email, too. If I can, I would be honored to attend.