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No. 801,439. PATBNTED new. 10, 1905. J. H. OHENOWETH. FREIGHT GAR DOOR.
APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20,1904.
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' FREIGHT-CAR DOOR.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Oct. 10, 1905.
Application filed September 20, 1904:, Serial No. 225,163.
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Be it known that I, JOHN H. OHENOWETH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Freight-UarDoors, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.
My invention relates to freight-cars, and has for its object the provision of improved side doors therefor, whereby the doors may be caused to be flush with the sides of the cars when the said doors are in closed positions and may be moved outwardly from the sides of the cars when the doors are to be moved away from the door-openings. In the preferred embodiment of my invention there are employed in connection with each door two pulleys or sheaves, which are adapted to roll upon a track provided above the upperhorizontal margin of the door-opening, which pulleys are provided with housings, which in turn carry or afford bearings for short arms of cranks, longer arms of the cranks being journaled in bearings provided upon the door, each crank proper being interposed between the short arm and the long arm, whereby the rotation of the crank about the longer arm effects the bodily movement of the door toward the car side or away from the car side, as desired. The longer arms of the cranks are disposed along the vertical margins of the doors and are provided with a common actuating agency, preferably in the form of a hand-lever that has two link connections with the longer arms, the link connections being joined with the longer crank-arms, preferably by cranks provided upon the lower ends of the said arms, whereby the simultaneous movement of the said links causes the simultaneous rotation of the said longer arms, and consequently a simultaneous actuation of the cranks mounted upon or carried by the pulley-housings, whereby the door is moved at both of its vertical edges toward and away from the side of the car, such movement in a transverse direction being uniform, as a result of the simultaneous operation of the longer arms of the cranks. The longer arms of the cranks thus constitute crank-shafts, upon the upper and lower ends of which are provided the cranks. The rotation of these longer arms or crank shafts in their bearings causes the simultaneous rotation of the shorter crank-arms in the bearings provided in the pulley housings. In practice I found it sufficient to provide a positive door-shifting agency at the upper horizontal margin of the door, as gravity will clear the lower end of the door from the car. In order that the mechanism may besimplified to the greatest extent, the locking device is also operated by the same agency or lever that effects the simultaneous rotation of the crank-shafts, the said locking element being so relatively disposed with respect to the actuating-lever or lever mechanism that when the cranks at the upper ends of the shafts are shifted to move the door away from the car the locking device will be out of operative relation with the car side and car-door, whereas when the said cranks are shifted to cause the door to lie in the door-opening the said locking agency is brought into operative relation with the car side and car-door. In order that the locking mechanism may be protected, I provide the same within the car, and preferably provide locking action between the vertical margins of the door and the corresponding margins of the doorway. The locking instrumentality is preferably in the form of two sliding bolts carried upon the door and moving in a substantially horizontal direction, two pocketed elements upon the vertical margins of the door-opening into which the said locking-bars may be inserted and from which they may be withdrawn, a common actuating member,
preferably a plate, to which the said lockingbars are pivoted at their inner or adjacent ends, the said plate having a pivotal mounting that is interposed between the adjacent ends of the locking-bars and a fixed mechanical connection between the said plate and the lever that effects the rotation of the crankshafts, whereby a simultaneous movement of the crank-shafts and the locking-bars is effect-ed. These locking -bars as I have designed them are adapted to secure, as stated hitherto, a locking relation between the door at its side margins and the corresponding margins of the door-opening. These locking-bars are desirably located near the lower portions of the door, as the crank mechanism near the upper portion of the door is sufficient to hold the latter portion in place. In order that the central lower portion of the door may not be outwardly bulged, I provide a locking element that is also preferably actuated by the crank-shaft-operating lever to secure the bottom margin of the door to the car at the corresponding margin of the dooropening.
1 will explain my invention more fully by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the door of my invention in a closed position. Fig. 2 is a detail showing one of the crankshafts rotated to remove the door from the car side. Fig. 3 is an end view illustrating the door mechanism. Fig. 4t is a view in sectional elevation at right angles to the plane of the door, showing the pulleyhousing and crank mechanism carried thereby. Fig. 5 is a rear view showing my improved locking mechanism. Fig. 6 is a plan view, on an enlarged scale, on line on of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a plan view of one of the crank devices as it appears when the door is closed. Fig. 8 is a view showing the mechanism of Fig. 7 in the alternative position it occupies when the door is removed from the side of the car.
Like parts are indicated by similar characters of reference throughout the different figures.
The freight-car is provided with a runningtrack 1, located lengthwise of the car above the upper horizontal margin of the door-opening 2 and extending a distance along the car to atford a longitudinal travel for the door 2 req uired. Where it is desirable to reduce the friction that the door encounters as it is moved along the track, the door-carriers or suspending mechanism that hold the door upon the track include pulleys 3 3, whose grooves are engaged by the track and which are journaled in housings 1, in the lower ends of which there are provided journals for. the crank-stems 5 at the outer ends of the cranks 6, the remaining ends of said cranks 6 being attached to the crank-shafts 7, the elements 5, 6, and 7 being rigid with respect to each other. The crank-shafts 7 are provided with journals 8 at the top and near the bottom of the door, the said shafts serving when being turned bodily to rotate about the axis afforded by the stems 5, whereby the car-door is moved inward and outward, and as the car-door is released from the bottom portion of the doorway when the upper portion of the door is moved outwardly the said door hangs clear of the car side, so that it may be readily moved along the track. The crank-shafts 7 are preferably caused simultaneously to rotate, to which end the lower ends of the said shafts are equipped with cranks 9, that are fixed with respect to said shafts, these cranks 9 being connected by means of links 10 with a rotatably-mmmted lever 11. Said lever as it is moved obviously serves simultaneously to actuate the links 10, which, as they are connected with the outer ends of the cranks 9,
etfect the simultaneous operation of the shaft 7 that is desired. The hand-lever 11 upon the exterior of the car is rigidly secured to a shaft 12, Fig. 6, which is journaled within a mounting 13, carried upon the car-door 2. There is rigidly secured to this lever a crank plate or element 1 1, having crank-pins 15 15 on opposite sides of the axis of rotation afforded by the journal 13 for the lever 11. The inner ends of the locking-bars 16 are journaled upon the crank-pins and are provided, preferably, with offsets at their other ends to engage locking-grooves 17, provided in the vertical margins of the doorway. Guiding-straps 18 are mounted upon the back or inside of the door, that serve to guide the looking or outer ends of the locking-bars into and out of the locking-pockets. It will be seen that by this mechanism the door-lock is concealed upon the interior of the car and that a common actuating-lever is employed for the purpose of effecting the simultaneous operation of the locking mechanism and the doorshifting mechanism, the said lever also desirably simultaneously operating a supplemental locking device for locking the middle portion of the lower horizontal margin of the door and the corresponding margin of the door-opening. Thismechanism,as illustrated, comprises a link 19, to the lower end of which is secured a lockingbolt 20, that passes through a strap 21 upon the lower edge of the door and into a strap or socket 22, correspondingly located upon the lower horizontal margin of the door-opening.
By reference particularly to Figs. 1, 7, and 8 it will be understood in what manner the door is moved from and brought toward the car side by the operation of the cranks 6, these figures clearly indicating how the cranks in one position will effect the closure of the door within the door-opening and in another position will effect the removal of the door from the side of the car to enable the said door to travel upon the track-1.
By means of the locking mechanism illustrated but one car-seal need be employed when the door is in a closed position, as will be readily apparent by an inspection of the drawings. 1 have not indicated such car-seal, as such an instrumentality and its use is well understood to those skilled in the art.
It will be observed that the bottom of the door is entirely unrestrained when it is not locked, so that it may readily be manipulated by a handler to afford sufficient clearance between the door and the car side to permit the bodily movement of the door upon the track toward and from the door-opening. 1 do not wish to be limited, however, to an absolutely unrestrained movement of the lower portion of the car-door toward and from the car side.
1V hile I have shown pulleys for suspending the door, I do not wish to be limited to this precise arrangement, for it is well known to those skilled in the art that pulleys are not an absolute essential to the suspension of cardoors.
It is obvious that changes may readily be made in the precise embodiment of the invention herein shown and particularly described, and I do not, therefore, wish to be limited to the precise construction illustrated; but,
Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In freight-car construction, the combination with the freight-car side, of a freight-car door, crank-shafts displaced from each other and journaled upon the door, cranks carried at the upper ends of the said crank-shafts, and provided with stems, a track upon which the door may travel, pulleys for moving upon the said track, and provided with housings, the said JOHN H. GHENOWETH.
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While Grayson was left to answer questions about off-the-field matters, opposite number Nigel Clough was able to reflect on a job well done.
Just a second win in nine was secured by a first clean sheet in 15, with goalkeeper Frankie Fielding excelling amid a late Leeds rally, that also saw John Brayford hack a Paddy Kisnorbo header off the line.
"I thought the performance, all round, was a proper team one," Clough said.
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"It was a good, old-fashioned Boxing Day ding-dong with a lot of effort and endeavour from both teams."
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Welcome to the conference! I want to thank Roger Moore and the Environmental Section of the State Bar for inviting me to speak today, and I want to thank all of you for coming to find out more about my favorite subject, water.
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Maven’s Notebook is actually my second water website; I’ve been following, writing, and aggregating California water news and information online since 2007. I’m rather passionate, some might say obsessed, with following California water news. I’m often asked how I ended up doing what I do. Like many women, I paused my career to have children, and after a few years when I wanted to return, I found much had changed. So it just sort of worked out that I stayed at home. But as a former career woman, I really needed something more to do.
So I began writing for a local citizen’s journalism website, and ended up writing an article about our community’s water supply. As I was doing my research, I remember saying to my husband one night, “I wonder what would happen if I became real smart about water.” And so I went about doing just that. I read books, followed the news, read numerous reports, and started my first water news website.
Through the years, I subjected my husband and my two small boys to an informal education on California’s geography and water infrastructure. We went on numerous road trips; as toddlers, my boys frolicked by the side of farm fields while I took pictures of the Semitropic Water Bank; as young kids, they saw harvest time in the Imperial Valley. They’ve been as far south as the Salton Sea, and as far north as Lake Oroville; they’ve seen Hoover Dam, Imperial Dam, and many miles of the California Aqueduct. We’ve driven extensively through the Owens Valley in search of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and I’ve even driven the family minivan across the dry Owens Lake bed. Twice.
Indeed, it was a sad day, when they figured out that Mommy’s short cuts weren’t really all that short, and that other families actually vacationed at Disneyland.
So if you ask my now-teenaged boys about all those trips and they’ll roll their eyes at you, but at least they understand that food just doesn’t come from the store, and water just doesn’t come from the tap, although it certainly doesn’t get them out of the shower any faster …
California faces many challenges in managing our water, even before the onset of the drought. Continued population growth, increasing demands, climate change, aging infrastructure and other factors were already putting pressure on scarce resources, and the drought has only exacerbated the situation.
Now, I really don’t think that California is going to dry up and turn into a dusty uninhabitable “Mad-Max” hell-scape as some apocalyptic headlines might lead you to believe. I do think it will rain again, although maybe not next year. But we are going to have to make some significant changes in the way we manage our water in order to adapt to what may be a drier future.
California water is complex, and hard for newcomers to grasp. The onslaught of coverage of the drought in the national and international press demonstrates how hard it is for outsiders to understand just what is going on in Crazifornia, with much of the coverage lacking real perspective or proper context.
Articles with outrageous headlines have blamed the drought on a variety of different things.
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And there’s no shortage of solutions: Cutback farmers, cutback urbans, cutback on environmental flows, conserve more water, recycle more water, capture more stormwater, raise rates and fine water wasters, build some desal plants, build some tunnels, build a canal to the Midwest, Captain Kirk says build a pipeline to Washington! There are numerous high-tech desal processes being promoted, there’s now something called ‘atmospheric water generation’, and there’s a start up company called “Rain on Request” that says it can do exactly that – although it’s never quite really done so.
Water and drought make for complicated public policy and scientific debate, and nuances do matter greatly. This media coverage does have real consequences for all of us, because it influences not only what our own residents perceive about the drought and how the state is responding, but it reverberates across the nation, back to Washington, DC and indeed, around the world. All eyes are on California: the breadbasket of the nation, the tech innovator of the world … what are we going to do?
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And then most importantly, share this information with your colleagues, your neighbors. Help them to understand the complexity and read between the headlines to tease out what the real meaning is.
At its core, California water policy is really about allocating water between three user groups: agriculture, urban dwellers, and the environment, and there’s nothing simple about that. Hard choices, painful choices lie ahead. We must learn about the issues, struggle with the complexities, and work to ensure the outcomes are fair.
Back at the start of my journey eight years ago, I said to my husband, “I wonder what would happen if I became real smart about water.” And over these past years, sometimes I have thought, what the hell did I get myself into … but I can’t say I’ve regretted it; in fact, I am passionate about what I do. I find it endlessly fascinating, with twists and turns, and there’s always something more to learn. And so as you start your journey today, or perhaps continue along a journey you’ve already started, I can only hope you will it as challenging and enjoyable as I have.
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The story of Hotel Monaco San Francisco is World Travel.
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How to calibrate iPhone: Your device might be faulty or has some technical failures; hence it’s going to be less responsive. Over here, you will learn to fix your phone so as to prevent it from having apps ineffectiveness and other related problems that may emerge. On this platform, you will be learning ways to calibrate your iPhone touch screen, battery, motion sensor, and your home button.
How to calibrate iPhone Touch Screen/screen brightness
Check out for the below directives. Note that there is no provision for calibrating your touch screen.
- You could try and hard reset your phone. Try out this link for directories hard reset
- To reset your phone settings, simply move to the phone settings. Find and click on the “General” tab and then click on the “Reset button”.
To Calibrate the Screen Brightness
Whenever your iPhone sensor is having some issues that are contrary to your command, you can simply follow the provided procedures below to re-calibrate it.
- Open the iPhone settings to re-calibrate
- Scroll down to select the “Display Brightness” tab
- Disable “auto-brightness” by swapping it to white
- Swipe the brightness slider until the screen turns dark, then
- Enable “auto-brightness” by changing it to green
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How to Calibrate Motion Sensor and Compass
Whenever you are having some difficulties with your iPhone motion sensor or compass, which you cannot be able to trace, quickly recalibrate them so as to avoid it from generating another fault. To achieve this you will have to enable your location service. Follow these steps below.
- Launch your iPhone settings tab
- Scroll down and tap on “privacy” tab
- Move down to the “location services” tab from the main menu.
- Move down and then click on “system services” tab
- Slide the compass to turn on
- Enable “motion calibration distance”
How to Calibrate iPhone Battery
Do you know that you can calibrate your iPhone when it starts giving you an incorrect battery percentage? Check this out!
- Discharge the phone by making sure the battery gets drained while in use.
- Allow the phone till sunset of another day to ensure the battery is completely drained.
- Now you can plug in your phone till it gets to 100% charge.
- Reboot the phone and perform a soft reset.
- Now after you have made the reset, your phone battery should be able to give you the correct percentage.
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How to Calibrate iPhone Home button
For iPhone models that are old i.e models before iPhone 7.these models tend to be less responsive most times. If you are related to such models mentioned, then this article aimed at addressing your issues.
- Launch any app of your choice from the home screen if your device.
- Press-hold the power button until the power slider pops out, then hold the “home button” until the power off-page disappears.


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Jimmy Butler has fit in perfectly with the Heat’s culture, Brian Windhorst of ESPN writes. The Bulls and Timberwolves traded Butler away and the 76ers didn’t make him a priority in free agency. However, Miami has been a better spot for the sometimes abrasive swingman, since the front office and coaching staff welcomes a measure of friction, believing it can be a positive in the long run. It leads to more focus, camaraderie and trust, Windhorst adds.
We have more from around the Eastern Conference:
- The Sixers‘ flameout in the first round of the playoffs could benefit the Hawks. Philadelphia could be willing to deal one or more of its starters, according to The Athletic’s Chris Kirschner, who joins forces with Peachtree Hoops’ Andrew Kelly to explore how various Sixers – along with some other potential trade targets from around the league – could fit in with Atlanta’s current mix.
- The Pistons have finalized a contract with former Lakers executive Ryan West, Jerry West‘s son, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The news that Detroit was hiring West broke three weeks ago. He will concentrate on player evaluation with Detroit. West and the Lakers mutually agreed to part ways last summer after both sides felt he had reached a ceiling in his 10 years with their franchise.
- The Cavaliers are likely to use their mid-level exception to upgrade the team, according to Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. If there’s a player worth signing, the Cavs are eager to upgrade the roster before next season and push for a playoff spot, Fedor adds. Fedor also explores the Cavaliers’ draft strategy in his mailbag column.


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- Reconceptualizing the work-family interface: an ecological perspective on the correlates of positive and negative spillover between work and familyJ G Grzywacz
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J Occup Health Psychol 5:111-26. 2000..By contrast, work and family barriers (e.g., job pressure, family disagreements) were associated with more negative spillover and less positive spillover between work and family. In some cases, results differ significantly by gender...
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Somerset County Freeholders Patrick Scaglione, Robert Zaborowski, Peter Palmer, Mark Caliguire and Patricia Walsh.
An open-government activist has asked the Somerset County Board of Freeholders to explain why it met behind closed doors to discuss seemingly public topics, such as a ban on electronic cigarettes and a baseball team's fireworks schedule.
The state's Open Public Meetings Act, also known as the Sunshine Law, is intended to ensure that government business is conducted in public. Officials, however, are allowed to meet in closed, or executive session to discuss certain topics, most commonly employee issues and lawsuits.
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As you know, the WHO is working towards the completion of a Global Pandemic Treaty which would grant it major new draconian powers in the event of a future pandemic. MPs in Parliament are now pretending they are fearful of this whilst in reality they love the idea of it since it provides them with a shield to deflect public anger should we be locked down again.
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Hunters Hill Tenders and EOIs are advertised in the Sydney Morning Herald, local newspapers and on Council’s website in the Business section.
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Celebrating Christ’s birth in the post-Covid yuletide
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I shift uncomfortably. It is Christmas Eve, and for the first time in two years, midnight Mass is in-person again. All around me, people mill about, pressing too close for comfort. A spark of anxiety worms its way in me; what if they’re sick? What if I’m sick? This feels like a recipe for disaster.
The walls are beige, suffused in warm light that casts off the lacquered wooden pews. There are no cushions, unlike Mass over Zoom, which took place in the comfort of our living room on plush couches. I miss the comfort. In truth, being in the sanctum again feels like an out-of-body experience. When the pandemic happened, I will admit to being glad for the excuse not to attend church. After years as an Evangelical Catholic, and navigating the treacherous waters of being queer in an environment where homosexuality is considered sinful, I was not keen on participating in the Church. I was a theological quandary, a contagious question sitting somewhere between Christ’s clemency and divine wrath.
Small wonder I stopped going the instant I could.
Nonetheless, I am here, watching the lights dim as we enter into a thirty-minute reflection. It’s been a hard year, they say, and I do my best not to scoff. There is an instinctual derision in me, a desire to strike back at an institution that has hurt me. It is base, but it is true. I suffer in silence, though, watching my mother and father go through the fervent motions. There is truth there, too — in the curve of my mom’s hands in supplication, or the creases around my father’s eyes as he shuts them in prayer. In the background, the soft legato of the piano weaves through the air. A promise of hope, that for one night we can imagine a future of light.
It is a beautiful dream, one that stays with me as we segue into the mass itself. Joy sparks in the air, O Come All Ye Faithful a rousing entrance for the celebrant. I catch smiles in the crowd, bright and shining. For many, the Mass is a balm. For many, they are attending with one less parent, or sibling, taken by illness or time in the cruel interim. This is a chance for rebirth, to find new reasons to continue into the new year. Star of wonder indeed. My mother’s eyes are damp, and I fish out a tissue for her to dab her eyes with. She squeezes my arm in thanks, and we stand a little closer.
For her, I think, just this once.
Christmas is about the birth of Christ, and many have lambasted the season as becoming too secular — muddied by rhetorics of capitalism and liberal inclusivity. Our choir plays Protestant music, straying too far from our traditional roots. Our priest claps an arm on the shoulder of a gay couple on their way out, celebrating un-Christian unions. Sometimes though, I wonder. We are able to gather, to celebrate, and to be with our loved ones under the eaves of the cross. That itself is a gift, a peace that we are too fortunate to have.
Afterwards, my mother asks me to say the rosary with her. Just once, she says, while you’re still here. A part of me shudders, remembering the hurt and nights spent crying in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Then I see the shine of her eyes.
I say yes.
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Women have unique experiences of mental illness. Women have depression more often than men, for example, and are depressed in different ways. Many women have traumatic experiences that affect their mental health, such as violence and abuse. Mothers with mental illness face particular challenges. Achieving balance between work and home life is one of the keys to improving women’s mental health. Girls are experiencing eating disorders in larger and larger numbers. Youth suicide is increasing.
NCWC has a history of developing strong resolutions and policy in the area of Mental Health. We know too that Councils have developed provincial policies, and programs. The Provincial Council of Women of Manitoba produced, with other community partners, a DVD, The Way We See It, a documentary in support of individuals who live with mental illness and their families. They also released a Discussion Paper, in 2006 which examines Perspectives of Families and Clients within the Current Mental Health System in Manitoba. The paper also shows the importance of Medical Examiner’s Reports and the fact that Enquiry Reports and the recommendations are mostly ignored.
In 2009, NCWC urged the Government of Canada to work with the provinces and territories to:
a) develop a national mental health system which is comprehensive, integrated, and accessible to all, and sensitive to linguistic and communication issues including language and culture that will be accessible to residents of Canada;
b) address as part of the national plan, priority issues including:
i. public education about mental illness
ii. early intervention programs with infants, pre-school children and school age children
iii. community treatment programs for all children, including age-appropriate facilities for adolescents
iv. support for families with children with a mental health illness
v. access to supportive housing for the homeless with mental health problems
vi. treatment for mental illness as an alternative to incarceration or as a component of incarceration for offenders with mental illness, and
vii. reduction of wait times for assessment and treatment
c) ensure adequate funding for mental health services
The World Health Organization (WHO) of Mental Health states: Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.
According to WHO, advocacy is the key to building the momentum on mental health. Politicians and the general public are only partly aware of the fact that effective treatment of most mental disorders is possible. The image of mental illness is contaminated with images of violence, sin and laziness. Most health workers are not conversant with modern methods of treatment of mental illness and often do not possess the necessary skills to deal with it. Among them there are many who believe that the only way of dealing with mental illness is long term hospital care. In the majority of countries, including developed ones, there is no parity of care for mental and physical illnesses. Stigma of mental illness gains strength from these misconceptions and reinforces them.
Advocacy objectives include, among others: the promotion of human rights of the persons with mental disorders and of their families, and monitoring the life conditions of people with mental illness and their families. Parity of care needs to be assured in all health schemes.
Successful advocacy efforts require, among others:
- to motivate the decision-makers;
- to empower consumers, families and NGOs by, for example, promoting the establishment and work of the organizations, creating appropriate lobbying bodies;
- to organize and launch with interested parties anti-stigma programmes in all population groups;
- to collaborate with the media by, for example, informing more objectively about problems and solutions, creating a cultural change with regard to issues related to mental disorders;
- to promote, with all parties concerned, programmes leading to reduce the burden of the selected disorders noted above and the risk factors for suicide, particularly of the young, and the provision of support to the survivors; and
- to authoritatively inform decision-makers regarding the mental health impact of economic and social policies.NCWC and NCWC Education Fund will support the work on the Common Program by educating our members, and the community on the very important topic of Women and Mental Health. Following are some basic resources for you to review. We will also identify upcoming programs supported by Local and Provincial Councils so book mark this page, and come back often!

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The S&W 642 is an extremely popular handgun. It is a lightweight, five-shot revolver chambered for the .38 Special. It is most commonly used as a pocket gun for concealed carry and as a backup gun for uniformed law enforcement. I’ve carried mine in both capacities.
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The Wits Accounting Student Council (ASC) handed over calculators and gave a few words of encouragement to disadvantaged learners in Zola, Soweto.The Wits School of Accountancy Students Council (ASC) visited Kwadedangendlane High School in Zola, Soweto, earlier today to motivate learners to pursue accounting and mathematics.
The students took the opportunity to hand over 40 calculators that will be used by the Grade 11 class at the school.
Siphindile Gumede, ASC’s social development officer, said the visit was to “encourage but also emphasise the importance of education to township learners”.
Speaking to Wits Vuvuzela, the head of the commerce department in Kwadedangendlane High, Iris Magagula said “when it comes to commerce, we hardly get visitors”.
“I promise you, you are not betting on a losing horse” said Tom Mnisi, school principal.
According the Mnisi, “the learners in this school come from squatter camps around the area”. He added that “despite these circumstances, our matric pass rate has never been less than 80%”.
The ASC started collecting the calculators in May and are hoping to collect more before the year ends.
“The initial plan was to collect calculators from students, but we got companies like SAICA [South African Institute of Chartered Accountants] and LBOC Fund [Lets build our count] to sponsor us”, said Gumede.
“We hope those who become part of the council continue with the initiative and do more,” she said.

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You can officially add Vitor Belfort vs. Dan Henderson to the upcoming PRIDE 32 “The Real Deal” show scheduled for October at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Italian sales company Intramovies has scored some fresh sales on Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar’s mother-daughter drama “Asia,” winner of the Nora Ephron award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and Israel’s candidate for the International Oscar.
The pic starring Shira Haas, who previously gained notice in Netflix mini-series “Unorthodox,” has been sold to Italy (Lucky Red), Eastern Europe (HBO Europe), Spain (Alfa Pictures) and Australia (Moving Story), on top of previously announced deals to Menemsha Films for North America and Curzon for U.K. where “Asia” was released online in November.
Further deals for CIS, Baltics and Latin America are being finalized during the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur market that is currently underway.
“Asia,” in which a single Russian immigrant mother, played by Alena Yiv, who works as a nurse in a Jerusalem hospital and her 17-year-old daughter Vika, played by Haas, are forced into an especially tight bond by Vika’s degenerative disease recently won nine Ophir Awards, Israel’s most prestigious film prizes, automatically becoming Israel’s candidate for the International Oscar.
Like other Italian sales companies, Rome-based Intramovies has been diversifying its slate with some promising non-Italian titles, though of course Italian films remain the company’s core business and have also been scoring significant recent sales at Rome’s MIA mart and the AFM.
Venice Critics’ Week title “Tough Shalt Not Hate,” directed by Mauro Mancini, has been sold by Intramovies to North America (Menemsha Films), Spain (Reverso Films), Eastern Europe (HBO Europe) and Australia (Moving Story).
Italian heist drama “Golden Men” (Gli Uomini d’Oro) by Vincenzo Alfieri has gone to Russia and CIS (IV Production) and South Korea (Activers); doc “The Truth About The Dolce Vita,” by Giuseppe Pedersoli, went to South Korea (IL Media); and Emanuela Rossi’s post-apocalyptic chiller “Darkness” (Buio) was acquired for Spain (El Sur Films).
“It’s a heartening sign that interest in Italian films is still running high internationally,” said Intramovies head of sales Micaela Fusco.
“Despite the limitations imposed by the global fight against coronavirus there will always be an audience for good films, and we are very grateful to our partners for their continuing faith in the (Italian) filmmakers and everybody working in the industry.”


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Performing to sold-out crowds of adoring fans. Winning awards and accolades. Topping the charts.
Elvis Presley, like so many musicians before and since, had those same dreams – and he accomplished his goals in dazzling, legendary fashion. Elvis didn’t just top the charts once, or even a few times – he did it repeatedly. He scored so many No. 1 hits that we’re on part four of our series about Elvis’ hit singles.
Check out part one, part two and part three – and now, on to part four.
"Don't" was Elvis' 11th No. 1 hit in the U.S.
This you can believe
I will never leave you
Heaven knows I won't
Baby, don't say don't
On September 6, 1957, Elvis was at Radio Recorders in Hollywood and was scheduled to record material for a Christmas album. It was September, though, and Elvis wasn’t in the Christmas spirit just yet. Instead he recorded “Don’t,” written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote a slew of Elvis hits such as “Jailhouse Rock,” “Bossa Nova Baby,” “Trouble” and “Treat Me Nice.” Musicians Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Bill Black and Dudley Brooks perform on the track. Elvis’ regular back-up vocalist group, The Jordanaires, were teamed up with soprano Millie Kirkham for the first time at this session.
“Don’t” was paired with “I Beg of You,” and the single was released in January 1958. The song topped the Billboard pop singles chart for five weeks. It performed well on other charts, too: “Don’t” peaked at No. 2 on the country chart, and it peaked at No. 4 in its 10-week run on the R&B chart. The track hit No. 2 on Britain’s pop singles chart, and it stayed on the charts for 11 weeks.
“Hard Headed Woman”
Carolyn Jones starred in "King Creole" with Elvis.
I got a woman, a head like a rock.
If she ever went away I'd cry around the clock.
Oh yeah, ever since the world began
a hard headed woman been
a thorn in the side of man.
This hit single is from the “King Creole” soundtrack. It was written by Claude DeMetrius, and Elvis recorded it on January 15, 1958 – just a few days following his 23rd birthday – at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. Elvis had already received his military draft notice, but was allowed a deferment on his induction date to have time to make “King Creole,” since Paramount had already spent a lot of pre-production money on the movie. Elvis finished the movie and its recording sessions, and Elvis began his two-year stint in the U.S. Army in March. “Hard Headed Woman” was released in June 1958, as Elvis was in basic training in Texas. “Don’t Ask Me Why” was the single’s B-side. “King Creole,” the film hit theaters in July.
Elvis’ band grew by several more musicians for these sessions, because the producers wanted to get an authentic New Orleans sound. The additional musicians were Ray Siegel on bass and tuba, Mahlon Clark on clarinet, John Ed Buckner on trumpet, Justin Gordon on saxophone and Elmer Schneider on trombone.
“Hard Headed Woman” spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard pop singles chart, and it remained on the charts for 16 weeks. It spent 10 weeks on the R&B chart, peaking at No. 2; it also peaked at No. 2 on the country chart, where it stayed for 16 weeks. The single hit No. 2 in the UK’s pop singles chart, and it stayed on the charts there for 11 weeks.
Rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson and singer/songwriter/actress Suzi Quatro have covered the tune.
“Stuck on You”
You can shake an apple off an apple tree
Shake-a, shake-a sugar,
But you'll never shake me
March 1960 was a busy time for the young King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. He returned home from his first tour of duty in the U.S. Army – and held a press conference at Graceland not long after his arrival home, had his first recording session in a while and he was given an official welcome home party by Frank Sinatra on his variety show.
It was at that recording session, on March 20, 1960, that Elvis recorded “Stuck on You.” Joining him for the track were musicians Scotty Moore on guitar and Bob Moore on bass, as well as D.J. Fontana and Buddy Harman on drums. Floyd Cramer played the piano and the Jordanaires sang the back-up vocals.
RCA was eager to get a fresh single out to fans. The company had pre-printed the record sleeve for the new single – even though that hadn’t been decided just yet – and left a center hole big enough for the label to show through. Elvis’ Army photos were used, plus the promo line, “Elvis’ 1st recording for his 50,000,000 fans all over the world.” The single was released just days following the recording session – the master had been rushed to the pressing plant and 1.4 million units were shipped to record stores. They didn’t even wait for orders. “Fame and Fortune” was the single’s B-side.
Fans eagerly gobbled up the king’s latest hit. “Stuck on You” remained at No. 1 for four weeks of its 16-week stay on Billboard’s pop singles chart. The song hit No. 6 on its 9-week run on the R&B singles chart, and peaked at No. 27 on the country chart. Across the pond in Britain, the song peaked at No. 3 for its 14-week long run on the pop singles chart.
“She’s Not You”
She knows just how to make me laugh when I feel blue
She's everything a man could want,
but she's not you.
Elvis recorded this song on March 19, 1962 at RCA Studio B in Nashville.
“She’s Not You” was written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller and blues singer/songwriter Doc Pomus. It was the first time that Leiber and Stoller teamed up with Pomus.
The musicians who played on this hit include Scotty Moore on guitar, Bob Moore on bass, D.J. Fontana on drums, Buddy Harman on drums and Boots Randolph on saxophone. Millie Kirkham and the Jordanaires provided back-up vocals. Guitarist Hank Garland was set to perform on the song, but he was badly injured in a car accident shortly before the session took place. It took two top Nashville session players, Harold Bradley and Grady Martin, to replace him.
The single was released in July 1962 with the B-side “Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello.” “She’s Not You” hit No. 1 for three of its 14 weeks on the British pop single charts. The track spent 10 weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart and peaked at No. 5. It hit No. 13 on Billboard’s R&B singles chart.
Singer Chris Isaak covered this tune, and several other Elvis songs – on his 2011 album, “Beyond the Sun,” a tribute to Sun Records.
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Reports that an American hunter paid $400,000 for a permit to hunt a black rhino in Namibia sent social media and anti-hunting activists screeching with outrage. Yet he was doing exactly the right thing for preservation of endangered species. Revenue from trophy-hunting is indispensable to wildlife conservation in Southern Africa. Sentimental and ill-informed efforts to ban imports of legally-obtained lion, rhino and elephant trophies undercut successful programs in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana that provide incentives for local communities to protect wildlife resources.
Namibia’s market-based wildlife conservation program is
recognized as Africa’s
greatest conservation success. During
a recent visit, my wife and I visited these community-based wildlife conservancies
and talked to leaders of anti-poaching efforts.
The Namibian program was started shortly after the country became
independent from South Africa in 1994.
The initial impetus for Namibia’s program came even before independence,
when Garth Owen-Smith started working with tribal chiefs and local communities
to find ways to make wildlife conservation in the practical interest of those
The solution worked out in Namibia started with devolution
of property rights in wildlife and other resources from the central government
to the communities where they were located.
Then a governance structure for the conservancies that would be vested
with those rights was developed. The
conservancies were run by members of the community, and they were aided in
monetizing the value of their resources through tourism, hunting and other
For example, we stayed in several lodges now owned by the
conservancies themselves. When a
conservancy was established, it gained the right to grant concessions to
outside investors to build and manage lodges, which then provided employment
for members of the community and shares of profits. One of the older conservancies used the
payments to buy out the original concessionaire, so that the lodge and all its
revenue are now going to the conservancy.
Each conservancy was empowered to create its own plan for
how its resources would be used for hunting, photo tourism, and other economic
purposes. Fees paid by tour operators
and most importantly, a large share of payments for hunting licenses, were
shared with the conservancies.
As an arid country with marginal grazing land, the most
serious threats to wildlife in Namibia now come from human-wildlife conflict
and poaching. Elephants can cause
disastrous damage to settlements and crops, and periodic droughts can drive
lions to attack domestic cattle and even humans. Converting wildlife habitat to grazing and
cropland increases the conflicts and threatens survival of wildlife at the same
Revenues obtained from hunting permits and lodges and local
income generated by employment in tourism are sufficiently large that they
overcome the communities’ natural inclination to get rid of wildlife that is
destroying their livelihood. In
addition, the fact that income potential depends directly on the prevalence of
charismatic species has made communities strong allies in anti-poaching
Other countries that apply these market-based principles, in
particular neighboring countries of Botswana and Zimbabwe, have had similar
success to the extent that their programs effectively channeled funds back to
the local communities.
To give an idea of both the scale and the impact of these
programs and the critical role of revenues from the very expensive permits to
hunt lion, rhino and elephants, a
few numbers are helpful.
In the 20 years after introduction of the conservancies,
Namibia’s elephant population more than doubled. The population of
desert-adapted elephant in the Kunene region grew from around 150 to about 750
between 1982 and 2012. Namibia’s
population of free-roaming desert lions increased five-fold in less than two
decades. Black rhino were almost gone by
1995, and now there are about 2000 of them.
There have only been two confirmed rhino poaching incidents in Namibia
in the last two years, thanks to the co-operation of the local people and a
continued respect for wildlife.
We can also attest to the government’s report that in the
regions we visited the population of Hartmann’s mountain zebra grew from around
1,000 in 1982 to around 27,000 today and springbok numbers rose from less than
1,000 in 1982, to over 25,000 in 1999.
Hunting has made a critical contribution to this
success. Between 2012-2018, Namibia
spent over US$7.5 million from wildlife revenues on conservation projects; 61%
of this expenditure was dedicated to anti-poaching and rhino population
management. US$2.3 million of this budget provided direct support for
The same story is told in Zimbabwe, where its comparable program is known as CAMPFIRE (Community Areas Management Program For Indigenous Resources). Hunting generates 90% of CAMPFIRE income, with elephant hunting contributing 70% of annual income. American hunters make up 60% of the clients in CAMPFIRE areas. CAMPFIRE is reported to have 2.4 million beneficiaries, made up of 200,000 households that are directly involved in the program and 600,000 households that benefit indirectly from social services and infrastructure supported by wildlife related income.
According to the Zimbabwe
government, “sharing of hunting income creates a real incentive to protect
elephant and other game species, even when these species negatively impact
people living in CAMPFIRE areas… the poaching of elephant in CAMPFIRE areas is
relatively low, with only 38 elephants poached since 2016 to the present.
Effective local level anti-poaching operations through CAMPFIRE have resulted
in the decline in elephant poaching in Mbire district from a peak of 40 cases
in 2010 to only 5 so far in 2017.”
Bans on trophy imports into the U.S. directly harm
conservation efforts in both countries and lead to more animals dying at the
hands of poachers.
Zimbabwe pointed out that “…suspension of elephant trophy
imports in 2014 resulted in the cancellation of 108 out of 189 elephant hunts
booked by US citizens. This translated to a sharp decline in income to the
CAMPFIRE program from US$2.2m in 2013 to an average US$1.7m in 2014 through to
2016, putting the conservation of elephant in these areas at huge risk.”
Namibia is allowed under international convention to permit
five male rhinos a year to be hunted, but only recently have imports of black
rhino trophies been allowed into the U.S.
Namibia strongly defended
the new U.S. policy: “despite the furor in social media and newspapers when an
American hunter paid $400,000 to hunt a black rhino, … black rhinos … cannot be
effectively protected from poachers without substantial funds. The US$400,000
paid …for the recent black rhino hunt provided a welcome boost to Namibian
conservation.” Moreover, the 29-year-old
rhino for which the permit was issued was itself “interfering with breeding by
younger bulls and harming population growth.”
Botswana learned about the value of hunting for conservation
when it imposed a 5-year ban on hunting on government land. In its announcement
that hunting would resume, the Botswana government stated:
“Prior to the hunting suspension, communities felt they were
part of the effort to manage and maintain wildlife. However, the decision to
suspend hunting was made without the participation or input of the people
living with wildlife.
“Without the benefits of income from hunting, jobs in the
hunting industry and meat derived from hunting, communities lost their
commitment to wildlife. They now view wildlife as the property and
responsibility of the government.
“With the increased destruction of agriculture, lost grazing
areas for cattle and the sharp rise in human deaths from wildlife encounters, communities
no longer participate in protecting that wildlife. Poaching activities are on
the rise, and communities that previously reported these activities no longer
share information that would prevent poaching or help capture poachers.”
The facts are clear that trophy-hunting makes a significant
contribution to wildlife conservation in Africa, and that far more animals are
saved by the revenues African countries gain from hunting than are shot by
hunters. Efforts to prevent hunters
from importing trophies into the U.S. directly hurt the livelihoods of
communities that now derive substantial benefits from hunting on their
lands. The only prudent and moral
judgment is to leave those countries free to manage their own wildlife
resources, just as we expect to be left alone here.
David Montgomery is Managing Editor of the Chesapeake Observer. In addition to being an economist with a deep interest in effective ways to raise the incomes of poor countries around the world, he is an enthusiastic hunter and hopes some day to take his favorite rifle to Africa. He and his wife Esther returned from a trip to Namibia with their cameras at the end of September.


Brother charged with killing prep hoops player
BY SAM CHARLES Staff Reporter firstname.lastname@example.org June 29, 2013 5:24PM
Hyde Park's Malcolm Whitney
Updated: August 2, 2013 7:14AM
A 19-year-old man was charged with fatally shooting his younger brother who was a Hyde Park Academy basketball player, officials said.
Michael D. Whitney was charged Saturday with involuntary manslaughter of a family member in the death of Malcolm Whitney, 16. He also was charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon.
Michael Whitney was playing with a handgun and pointed the weapon in the direction of his brother, shooting the sibling in the head Friday in their home in the 7500 block of South Kingston. His death was initially thought to be accidental, but the medical examiner’s office later ruled it a homicide.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:34 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
“[Malcolm Whitney] was a model student-athlete, any coach would be happy to have him. He had a 3.8 GPA,” said Hyde Park Academy basketball coach Antonne Samuels on Friday.