June 9, 2005
Loretta J. Turucz, of Naperville, IL, age 61. Loving mother of David, Richard, and the late Michael; and caring grandmother of Jessica. Memorial Service Saturday, June 11, 12 noon at SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Columbia and North Ave., in Naperville. Born September 22, 1943 in Chicago, IL. She passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with Pancreatic Cancer on June 5, 2005 at Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village. Loretta was a loving mother and a caring person who was loved by family, friends, and fellow workers for her wonderful personality, and her creative craft making projects and ideas where she worked for Michael's Arts & Crafts in Dekalb, IL. She will be greatly missed by all.
September 21, 2000
Sydney machinist Darren Gretch assured himself of a spot in the Olympic moments, even if it's only trivia. Gretch etched it himself, by painting his initials on the inside of the Olympic flame cauldron as he and fellow workers put on finishing touches at the Olympic Park fixture. Later, a published photo of Australian Olympian Cathy Freeman standing at the cauldron to climax the Opening Ceremony had a wide enough angle to show the initials: D.G. Ric Birch, architect of the opening extravaganza, was not amused.
August 27, 2008
The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. One worker caught in Monday's sweep at the Howard Industries transformer plant said fellow workers applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Federal officials said a tip from a union member prompted them to start investigating several years ago. About 100 of those detained were released for humanitarian reasons, many of them mothers.
May 24, 1989
An explosion Tuesday night at a Joliet chemical plant injured one woman and shook homes around the neighborhood, authorities said. The explosion, caused by a ruptured propane tank, occurred about 9 p.m. at the C.P. Inorganics Co., 10 Industry Ave., while seven or eight employees were working in a manufacturing building, said Battalion Chief Frank Ragusa of the Joliet Fire Department. One of the employees ruptured the tank with a forklift but warned his fellow workers to clear the area before the tank exploded 30 seconds later, blowing off part of the building's roof and spewing debris 100 feet, Ragusa said.
November 3, 2011
Say that business is down and raises look out of the question. What do you do on the morale front? Stratford University professor K. Habib Khan has a few suggestions for bosses. In other words, fellow workers, if you see any of these activities announced in the company newsletter, be prepared for what you aren't getting this year: New casual dress code Pizza party last Friday of the month Cake and gift card on each employee's birthday Employee cars get washed monthly by on-site mobile wash company Free massages on premises Rec room installed with TV, pool table or air hockey game New titles for everyone
August 6, 1989
At least four workers who complained about safety and environmental problems at four military nuclear plants run by private contractors say they were ordered by their superiors to see psychiatrists or psychologists. The workers and their lawyer say they believe the orders came as retaliation for the allegations they made. In two highly publicized cases, the allegations against the contractors were confirmed; in the others, they have been denied. The workers say that the implication that they were suffering from mental problems was part of a campaign of harassment that included such tactics as demotions, ridicule in front of co-workers and threats to revoke the security clearances required for their jobs.
September 26, 2000
A 23-year-old Naperville man who suffered multiple stab wounds in his chest and a slashed throat in an apparent robbery in a far east side restaurant parking lot was listed in fair condition Monday at Rush-Copley Medical Center, police said. Meanwhile, police Monday were looking for a suspect. Police said the victim early Saturday was at a restaurant on the 4400 block of East New York Street drinking with fellow restaurant workers. When he left, another worker allegedly confronted the victim and demanded his money.
January 24, 1988
"It's better than an MBA. It's better than a diploma from an Ivy League college. It may even be better than a Fulbright grant." What is Dr. Joseph O`Donoghue, a professor of behavioral science, talking about? Winning the lottery? Cornering the stock market? Inheriting $1 million? None of the above. He's talking about joining the Peace Corps, a federal agency through which Americans volunteer to spend two years helping people in developing countries. And he's referring to what happens to these volunteers when they return to the American labor market.


Bhupendra Patel of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will take the oath as the Gujarat’s Chief Minister for a second time on Monday in Gandhinagar. At 2 pm, Governor Acharya Devvrat will swear in Patel as the 18th Chief Minister at the Helipad Ground close to the new Secretariat in Gandhinagar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Chief Ministers of BJP-led states will all be present at the ceremony. According to sources, in addition to Bhupendra Patel, roughly 20 cabinet members would also take the oath on the same day and assume responsibility for their various offices the following day.
The BJP gained a massive 156 seats in the Gujarat Assembly election, the most seats any party has taken home since the state was formed in 1960.The BJP’s victory in Gujarat’s seventh straight Assembly election marks the party’s largest victory since the state was created in 1960.
The BJP’s resounding victory in Gujarat demonstrates the populace’s unwavering confidence in Patel’s leadership. In the 182-member Assembly, the BJP won 156 seats, marking its highest-ever electoral performance in the state. Only 17 seats were available for the opposition Congress, and only 5 seats were available for Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party.


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Stem Cell Therapy for ED Treatment
In 2013 Sharon A. Huang and Janette D. Lie analyzed the results of 44 studies assessing the efficacy of oral PDE-5 inhibitors in men with erectile dysfunction and various comorbidities. It ranges between 50% and 88%, which shows that sildenafil, vardenafil and tadalafil are not universal cures that work for everybody. For example, only 56% patients with erectile dysfunction caused by diabetes report improved erections after taking PDE-5 inhibitors.
The demand for alternative forms of erectile dysfunction treatment remains high. Therefore, new research in that field always gets public attention. One example of such research is the 2018 review of Phase I clinical trials of stem cell therapy for ED published by scientists from from the University of Odense, Denmark. The paper by Dr. Martha Haahr et al, published in peer-reviewed Urology journal, was covered in articles on Healthline.com, Medical News Today and other sources.
The new treatment is based on the use of stem cells obtained from the patient’s own fat tissue. These cells are injected into the patient’s penis resulting in a significant improvement in erectile function reported by 53% of the continent men enrolled in the study. The therapy proved to be ineffective in men with urinary incontinence after prostatectomy as well as those who had erection problems prior to prostate removal.
What makes stem cell therapy look especially promising is the duration of its effect. The patients that responded well to the treatment reported normal sexual performance 12 months after receiving just one stem cell injection. Compared to ED medications that need to be taken either daily or as needed before the expected sexual intercourse, this form of treatment allows for more spontaneity in one’s sex life.
Stem cell therapy is not only for post-prostatectomy patients either. A 2011 study by a group of scientists from China and the US showed that rats with cavernous nerve injury or erectile dysfunction due to diabetes mellitus respond well to stem cell injections too. Similar treatment has been proven effective in patients with erectile dysfunction due to Peyronie’s disease.
One of the challenges hindering the popularity of stem cell therapy is the fact that stem cells are not easy to obtain. The researches listed above use cells derived from bone marrow or body fat. A recent study by Ethan Matz et al explores the possibility of using placental- or urine-derived stem cells for these purposes, which is expected to make the therapy both less challenging and cheaper.
Even though the clinical trials of the treatment described herein haven’t gone beyond Phase I yet, there are already doctors offering stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction to their patients. One example is Dr. Todd Malan of Center for Regenerative Cell Medicine in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Malan’s Facebook page contains multiple positive reviews from patients who underwent stem cell therapy in his clinic. There are none from people who used it to treat ED, but this could be because of privacy concerns. Other healthcare professionals like Dr. Irwin Goldstein of Alvarado Hospital in San Diego recommend against trying innovative forms of treatment until their effectiveness and safety are proven through double-blind, placebo-controlled studies.
Since there’s still little evidence of efficacy of ED treatment with stem cells, it is too early to call it ‘the next Viagra’. Nevertheless, future seems bright for both the researches and the ED patients who currently show limited response to treatment with PDE-5 inhibitors.
- Huang, SA, Lie, JD, Efficacy of oral PDE-5 inhibitors in treating erectile dysfunction - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776492/
- Rendell MS et al, Efficacy of sildenafil in patients with erectile dysfunction and diabetes - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9952201
- Haahr MK et al, 12-month follow-up after single stem cell injection in patients with erectile dysfunction after radical prostatectomy - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0090429518305867
- Lin CS et al, Stem cell therapy for treatment of erectile dysfunction - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51525332_Stem_Cell_Therapy_for_Erectile_Dysfunction_A_Critical_Review
- Levy JA et al, Effects of stem cell therapy in humans with Peyronie’s disease - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26414724
- Matz EL et al, Stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction - https://www.smr.jsexmed.org/article/S2050-0521(18)30014-3/pdf
- Stem cell therapy for erectile dysfunction offered at the Center for Regenerative Cell Medicine - https://www.mystemcelltherapy.com/stem-cell-treatments/urological-disorders/erectile-dysfunction/
- Facebook reviews from patients receiving stem cell therapy at the Center for Regenerative Cell Medicine - https://www.facebook.com/pg/MyStemCellTherapy/reviews/?referrer=page_recommendations_see_all&ref=page_internal
- Stem cell therapy for ED should be avoided until more data on its effectiveness and safety is available - https://www.healthline.com/health-news/erectile-dysfunction-stem-cell-treatments-beware-of-scams#2

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I was up in the mountains a few months ago with my best friend, and we were sitting on our beds in the cabin talking about our favorite books and video games. Our conversation somehow veered into how people view video games as violent, gory, and “SATAN666!!!” Jack Thompson and Aniteer Sharkeeter have done their best to drag the name of video games through the mud, frame them as awful, and in the rush for some sort of change or censorship when they’re perfectly fine the way they are.
Back to my best friend and I back at the cabin; we had a very interesting talk about how people view books and video games. If you’re 40 and you play video games you may be called a loser or the like, but if you read books at 40 you’re wise and cultured. If you’re 16 and play video games then you’re at risk of being *insert buzzword here*!! But if you read at 16 — and my friend and I have heard this — you’re “not like the other students,” or “you must be really smart for reading so much!” But, to be honest, books and video games are no worse or better than the other. Sure, we learned a lot from books, but books can be just as gruesome as a video game. You think I’m reading Shakespeare or something like that, but I’m actually reading about a girl who steals the life force from people, leaving them a shivering husk on the floor.
This is an anecdote, sure, but I’ve read a book that went in such detail about how a girl killed herself that it caused me to have a panic attack. But, sure, we readers are not at all exposed to what a video game would ever show us. In the same book there’s a kid forced to use drugs, and a girl in a highly abusive household. I’ve read books where rape has, or almost has happened in great detail. The things I have read in books would cause an uproar and a scream for them to get banned amongst folks like Thompson and Sarkeesian.
Books don’t even have ratings. A 15 year old can easily get their hands on 50 Shades of Grey. They can get ahold of some violent, gory shit. Unlike video games, where you don’t need your ID to get your hands on it. Should there ever be the same restrictions on books like video games? No. The point is that people see reading books as a inherently good, wholesome media and video games as inherently harmful.
You can’t hold up one media, calling it amazing and a great hobby, while trashing another media that does the exact same thing. That’s flat out hypocrisy. This whole thing is beginning to segue into another argument that I’d rather discuss in another article later on. So stay tuned for more things that make me want to just go watch Netflix & cry.

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Zing! Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood’s Best CMA Awards Burns Ever
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are gearing up to host the 2018 CMA Awards on Nov. 14, and it's sure to be a night of great comedy. It's their 11th year to co-host! Today, we look back at the duo's best CMA monologue zingers.
"They can’t make me say anything I don’t want to say or be a part of something I don’t want to be a part of," Underwood admits. Some of the jokes she has taken part in garnered plenty of laughter from those in attendance and the audience back home (you just look at the tweets!). In previous years, Paisley and Underwood have poked fun at Blake Shelton, Dolly Parton, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Coldplay, Ariana Grande and plenty more.
"All of the great men of country have hosted the show, so I've got some massive — and I mean huge — boots to fill," Paisley says. "And also I believe Dolly hosted the show once ... so good luck."
The perfect commercial for cologne, Underwood felt intoxicated by Paisley. "You smell amazing!" Carrie exclaims. "It's fantastic. It's intoxicating."
"Thank you. I'm wearing McGraw," he deadpans. Watch these zingers and many more above.
Remember: The best way to watch the CMAs is on TV, with ToC on your phone!
Greatest CMA Moment of All Time? Here's Our Faves


METALSISTEM is happy to publish some pictures of a recent mezzanine system.
The installation features a Super 3 two-tier system coupled with a Super 6 mezzanine with some noteworthy details and accessories. This installation has been designed to stock drilling equipment; hence, the need to fit the mezzanines with doors to a pilferable area.
The installation maximises efficiency by creatively adopting standard METALSISTEM product and solutions, seamlessly melting the installation into the existing building.
The clients’ small-part needs were catered to by the dedicated Super 3 two-tier in order to provide the final customer with a perfectly balanced outcome among small parts, bulk items and serviceable areas. The addition of doors and specific accessories gives the final touch to this state-of-the-art installation.
METALSISTEM projects & activities
The Foundation’s credo of supporting self-sustainable initiatives is perfectly suited to the latest METALSISTEM Foundation challenge: to give oxygen to the “Locanda dal Barba” traditional Trentino cuisine restaurant.
Following this year’s strong performance, METALSISTEM Switzerland is preparing to participate at the most important autumn exhibitions in the Canton of Ticino.
METALSISTEM is proud to publish an extract from the “Costruzioni Metalliche” magazine, an important construction engineering Italian periodical. This article discusses the test tower currently used by the METALSISTEM R&D team for full scale pallet rack seismic testing.


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Crieff residents are fed up with litter louts using local lanes as giant rubbish bins.
Three areas of concern have been flagged up. The first is the lane between Broich Terrace and Monteath Street, which has an area in the middle of it that is consistently filled with cans, bottles and dog waste bags.
Another blackspot is at the substation on the path from Duchlage Road to Crieff Commmunity Hospital. Months worth of rubbish have accumulated behind the railings. The third area is the new path from Duchlage Court to the Community Campus.
Community councillor Dorothy Young thinks it’s time Perth and Kinross Council takes more action to prevent the eyesores occurring. She said: “I contacted the council a while back to see about getting a bin at the Monteath Street path. I was told someone had been sent to inspect it but it was reported back that they didn’t see any rubbish. I thought at the time the person should have gone to Specsavers!
“With regards to the Duchlage Court path there are two bins at one end but none at the other. Why is there not one at either end or is that just a woman’s logical thinking? I’ve been into the campus to tell them about the situation and have seen the janitor cleaning up but only at the school end not on the path itself.
“And I have never seen the pile of rubbish at the Duchlage Road substation completely cleared.
“Granted someone comes round every so often with black bags and litter picks but it’s not enough. We need more bins.”
Another resident who regularly walks his dog round the area appealed for litter louts to be more responsible.
He said: “There’s too much littering going on still. I’m fed up looking at it and wish that people would have more respect for their community. Just because one person has dumped something doesn’t mean that others have to follow suit. Keep your rubbish on you until you find a bin.
“It is just laziness if you don’t. They must think that because they are in a lane they won’t be spotted dropping their litter. I get particularly annoyed when I see the dog waste bags strewn about. It gives dog owners a bad name and the majority of us do dispose of our dogs’ waste appropriately.”
A spokesperson for Perth & Kinross Council said ultimately the responsibility for litter lies with individuals. He stated: “The lack of a litter bin in a particular location is not an excuse to throw litter onto the ground.
“The vast majority of people do dispose of litter properly. We would ask everyone to act responsibly, and to use the bins provided.
“If no bin is available in the immediate vicinity, people should keep hold of litter until they come across a nearby bin.
“If there is a problem with litter in a particular area we are happy to investigate the requirement for litter bins.
“However, the use of council resources to clear litter would not be necessary if everyone acted responsibly.There is no excuse for dropping litter.”

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It could be the flat cables. I had one machine where I replaced twice the ROS. Finaly I replaced the cables and the problem was solved. Even the cables look good it could be defective. But it is possible to be an MCU issue.
I have gotten the following fault codes on 700i:
061-342, 061-236, 061-317
I have checked all flat cables and re-secured them. I figured the problem was the M/Y ROS but now on machine startup I'm getting:
061-319 and had one intermitant 061-329 indicating the problem is the C/K ROS.
Now it seems more likely the problem is with the MCU PWB.
What do you think? Is there something else I could be missing?


iPad Mini 6 (Cellular) latest IPSW - Download iPad14,2 IPSW firmware from this page and use it to update, fix disabled iPhone or flash to remove forgotten passcode. As we use the IPSW.ME API to get the firmware files directly from Apple's server, you will be able to download the latest IPSW iOS version as soon as it is being made public by Apple.
This iPad comes with the latest A15 Bionic chip with 5G, new cameras, a new USB-C port, a new Touch ID, etc.
- Body: 195.4x134.8x6.3mm, 293g; Glass front, aluminium back, aluminium frame; Stylus support (2nd gen only).
- Display: 8.30" Liquid Retina IPS LCD, 500 nits (typ), 1488x2266px resolution, 13.71:9 aspect ratio, 327ppi; Wide color gamut, True-tone.
- Chipset: Apple A15 Bionic (5 nm): Hexa-core (2x2.93 GHz + 4xX.X GHz); Apple GPU (5-core).
- Memory: 64GB 4GB RAM, 256GB 4GB RAM.
- OS/Software: iPadOS 15.
- Rear camera: 12 MP, f/1.8, (wide), AF.
- Front camera: 12 MP, f/2.4, 122˚ (ultrawide).
- Video capture: Rear camera: 4K@24/25/30/60fps, 1080p@25/30/60/120/240fps; gyro-EIS; Front camera: 1080p@25/30/60fps, gyro-EIS.
- Battery: 5078mAh; 20W fast charging.
- Misc: Fingerprint reader (side-mounted); Siri natural language commands and dictation.
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The trial of two men charged with the murder of oil executive Carole Waugh, whose body was found with a single stab wound inside a car at a garage in south-west London in August 2012, is due to begin today.
Rakesh Bhayani, 40, and Nicholas Kutner, 47, are charged with murdering the 50-year-old, who disappeared from her central London home.
More top news
18 year old Shafiq Smith was charged early this morning with the murder of Omid Saidy
Londoners told to expect gale force winds and disruption to transport as the storm hits the UK
Omid Saidy, 20, was knifed to death after asking a drug dealer and another man to leave the area, police say.


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BP buys into Brazilian ethanol venture
BP is moving into the plantation business, taking a half share in a billion-dollar venture to produce ethanol from Brazilian sugar cane.
The British oil multinational is joining forces with two Brazilian agribusinesses, Santelisa Vale and Maeda Group, investing more than $560 million (£284 million) in Tropical Bioenergia, a joint venture company that will farm sugar cane and refine the sugar into ethanol, a biofuel in high demand in the US as an additive to petrol.
BP is paying its partners $60 million for a 50 per cent stake in Tropical Bioenergia, which is building an ethanol refinery in Goias state, northwest of São Paolo, due to come on stream in the summer. A second ethanol plant is also planned, which will raise capacity to

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Parental Bonding and Trich: What’s The Connection?
Body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) often first appear in childhood or early adolescence. It is not clear exactly why some children develop a BFRB while others do not. What we do know is that many mental health disorders can be influenced or shaped by both genetics and by environmental factors, including family dynamics. For children, that usually means interactions with their parents.
Research into child mental health tells us that parenting style can play a key role in a child’s mental health and ability to cope in healthy ways. With all of the research that has been done in this area, it is surprising that there has been little attention paid to parent-child dynamics in BFRBs like trichotillomania (TTM). Family dysfunction has been associated with children who have a BFRB, but family dysfunction is a broad construct, and the relationship is not clear. Does the parent-child relationship influence the development of a BFRB like hair pulling, and if so, how? A newly published study seeks to look at that very question. What the study has found might surprise you.
The Importance of Parental Bonding
Now, to be clear, parent-child dynamics do not cause someone to develop a BFRB or any other mental health issue. There does seem to be some association between parent-child dynamics and a child having a BFRB. Just how that relationship affects the development of a mental health issue isn’t completely understood. The relationship between a parent and child is a dynamic and complex one, not easily defined.
One of the most significant factors that influence parent-child relationships is the degree of parental bonding. Parental bonding is the attachment that forms between parent and child. It is this bond that creates a sense of security, connectedness and being cared for. These bonds develop over time and set the stage for the child’s later adjustment and functioning.
Parental bonding is often measured along the dimensions of:
- perceived parental care (expression of affection),
- parental protection (parental encouragement to explore the environment), and
- the balance of these two variables, before the age of 16.
These dimensions combine in ways that characterize four styles of parenting:
- Optimal parenting (high care/low protection)
- Affectionate constraint (high care/high protection)
- Neglectful parenting (low care/low protection)
- Affectionless control (low care/high protection)
Each of these parental bonding styles can influence the parent-child relationship and the child’s emotional development.
Why look at parental bonding and BFRBs? Problems with parental bonding have long been suspected to play a part in the origins of BFRBs. Personality traits associated with TTM, in particular neuroticism, may have an impact on the person’s perceptions of their relationship with their parents.
BFRBs have also been conceptualized as addictions or compulsions. Addiction is also a common co-occurring disorder with BFRBs. Parental bonding has been shown to play a role in these disorders as well with imbalances in perceived parental affection and control.
Parental Bonding and BFRBs
The researchers sought to build upon what is currently known about parental bonding and how it may influence the development of hair pulling or skin picking. What they found was that participants with BFRBs reported significantly lower levels of parental care than those without a BFRB. Only 27% of participants reported receiving optimal parenting.
Participants with BFRBs reported higher levels of both paternal and maternal “affectionless control”. Affectionless control refers to a parenting style where parents are unresponsive to their child’s needs for care while at the same time, hindering the child’s independence. This creates an anxious attachment that can negatively impact the child’s self-identity. This style of parenting has been associated with higher levels of neuroticism and has been linked to substance abuse disorders which often co-occur with BFRBs.
These findings suggest that while low levels of parental care seem to be associated with the development of BFRBs, it remains unclear as to whether or not poor parenting actually predisposes someone to develop a BFRB. It is likely that BFRBs are the result of multiple risk factors with parenting style being one of many to be considered in the understanding of BFRBs.
Nurturing Healthy Bonds
So what does all of this mean for parents and children living with BFRBs? Having a child with a BFRB such as hair pulling can be challenging. Knowing how to help isn’t always clear. The results of the study suggest that nurturing a strong, healthy bond between parent and child (optimal parenting) seems to support good mental health and coping skills.
Optimal parenting is comprised of three key dimensions: structure, affiliation, and autonomy support. Each of these dimensions contributes to healthy emotional development and parent-child bonds.
- Affiliation is characterized by warmth, caring, and acceptance.
- Structure the presence of clear and consistent expectations, boundaries, and consequences.
- Autonomy Support, the opposite of control, is respect for the child’s feelings, ideas, and aspirations, having empathy, and allowing the child to make age-appropriate choices
Parenting optimally doesn’t have to be complicated or out of reach. Being present and engaged you’re your child can help you to create a healthy bond. Parenting mindfully can help you and your child to understand and cope with what’s happening. You can work together to find solutions that work for you as a family and in ways that are nurturing and healing.
Here are some tips:
Don’t Blame Yourself – You are not the cause of or responsible for your child’s BFRB. We cannot predict who will or will not develop certain disorders.
Talk to Your Child – Make time to talk about what’s on their mind. Talk about what they’re experiencing. Let them know you support them and that it’s ok to not have all the answers. It’s ok to ask how they feel. And, it’s ok to “say the words” like hair pulling, too. Let them know that you are always ready to listen when they are ready to share.
Practice Active Listening – When your child is ready to talk, give them your full attention. It takes a lot for them to share feelings that might be uncomfortable or embarrassing. They may not always have the “right” words to express themselves. Try to listen for meaning rather than just for “the words”. Validate their feelings. Be careful to not minimize or dismiss their feelings or tell them why they are “wrong”. Their feelings are very real for them, even if you don’t understand them. Sometimes, kids just need to know, “I hear you”.
Practice Compassion - Don’t scold or punish them for pulling or picking. The urges are beyond what they can control, and they don’t do it for attention or defiance. Let them know you see how hard they’re trying to cope and heal.
Express Affection - Let them know that you love them no matter what and are there to support them.
Set Healthy Boundaries – It can be tempting to ease boundaries or overlook behaviors. Kids need healthy boundaries and structure to successfully navigate their world.
Find A Therapist – Seek out an experienced therapist who understands BFRBs and uses evidence-based treatments. Choose a therapist that you and your child feel comfortable with and trust.
Considering parent-child relationship dynamics is an important part of the development and choice of therapeutic approaches for BFRBs. This study highlights the need for more exploration of the role parental bonding plays and how it can contribute to the treatment of hair pulling and other BFRBs. Learning more about parental bonding offers hope and holds promise for more effective, personalized treatments for those living with BFRBs. In the meantime, strengthening parent-child relationships is a healthy place to start.
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If you call Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, or Montreal home you’ve most likely seen Car2Go’s Smart “fortwo” vehicles parked or on the move. The service’s North American debut was in Austin, TX (March 2010), and followed launching in Vancouver (June 2011).
Vancouver is now home to their largest fleet, with 650 vehicles and over 55,000 members, serving a home area of 110 sq. kilometers. The Car2Go footprint is growing globally, servicing 26 cities and over 700,000 members.
Making it easier to get around the city is nice, as is going car free altogether. But more importantly we’re looking to a future where an estimated 70 percent of the world population will live in cities by 2050. Increasing global urbanization is an issue. Car2Go, is essentially one part of a much bigger strategy for addressing the future challenges of individual mobility.
At IBM’s Impact2014 conference Nicholas Cole’s (CEO, Car2Go North America) keynote address introduced everyone to Moovel. It’s a platform that IBM mobile and cloud computing technologies are playing an important role in developing and deploying. With an intuitive smartphone application, Moovel bundles the offers of different providers for the optimal path from A to B, and is linked to public transport.
The platform is being tested in Germany right now, but there little question that we’re moving towards transportation as a platform. I spoke with Cole about Daimler’s bigger vision. “It’s not just about our own services. We’ll be connecting people with bike sharing, integrating the platform with city transit services, a limo like service such as Blacklane, and air travel. It will be one stop to arrange and book all of your mobility requirements,” he offered. Moovel will also opens up opportunities for third party development with the future release of an API.
I joked about the challenges of making a trip furniture shopping to IKEA in the Smart fortwo. Cole had heard that one before and mentioned that Europe is rolling out Car2Go Black, “it’s a natural progression being able to offer a bigger car, and longer duration of use. At trip’s end, the vehicle is returned to one of the dedicated parking stations – including those in another city where car2go black is available. There’s no return time required during the trip.” In Europe, the car2go black network will be based solely on the Mercedes-Benz B-Class.
Cole talked about the evolution of their business saying, “you just can’t drop a few hundred cars into a city and expect it to work, it’s important to be part of the community fabric.” Working with the city administrations is critical to the success of any urban transportation efforts like this, but so is working with business. “It’s the residents of every city who are the heart of our business, but we do see growing opportunities to work with companies too. We’re looking to do more with local businesses who have campus size footprints in a city.” While it’s a natural fit, he highlighted how they’re working with Daimler Trucks North America in Portland.
Five years ago the idea of allowing car sharing service vehicles to flow through the city, versus simply being allocated a set number of parking space, was met with no shortage of resistance. Conceiving a new vision for personal mobility within the bureaucratized city transportation grid and revenue generating model didn’t align with many cities in those early days. According to Cole, “thankfully cities like Austin and Vancouver said lets discuss it, and see what makes sense. Today, cities are approaching us.”
We also touched on how the car can eventually just be another sensor. There’s no reason our cars shouldn’t be telling us what’s happening around us, like the air quality, emissions, traffic conditions, road conditions, and where to find parking. As he noted “technology is getting closer to where cars will tell you what roads to avoid. With the integration of apps like Waze is where we’ll have the ability to know the best ways of getting around in real time.”
The transportation network is a key to creating more livable cities of the future. Envisioning a network that’s integrating more mobility options, that’s more efficient, less congested, flowing more efficiently, and spewing less carbon is a good place to start.


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In a few short weeks, Georgetown will host the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. This conference, touted as the largest pro-life conference at any college in the country, will feature keynote speakers such as Sr. Bethany Madonna, who consistently express homophobic and misogynistic views. The namesake of the conference, Cardinal John O’Connor, was an extremely immoral figure in the church who, at the height of the AIDS crisis, actively worked to block AIDS prevention programs and the distribution of condoms in New York, ignoring the death and suffering in the LGBT+ community. His comments on abortion show a blatant disregard for the wellbeing of women, such as when he claimed that abortion is intrinsically evil, even in cases of rape or incest. Clearly, these speakers are not pro-life, as they do not care about the quality of life of women or members of the LGBT+ community, preferring to focus on attacking reproductive rights and education.
Hundreds of high school students enrolled in Catholic schools attend the Conference on Life each year. These teenagers are bussed in and exposed to the dangerous messages of the conference. What does that do for a young student’s psyche? Many young students are struggling to find their identity and their place in the world. For their schools and for a top collegiate institution to support a conference that disrespects the lives of women and members of the LGBT+ community is incredibly harmful. Many of these students will likely question their identities or explore their sexuality at some point, and these messages will make them feel incredible guilt and shame.
As an institution of knowledge, Georgetown should not support the brainwashing of vulnerable young people. Instead, the students who would be attending should be encouraged to expose themselves to all viewpoints and form their own opinions. Everyone deserves the chance to embrace their identity and take ownership of their own body, and the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life strives to take that away from hundreds of impressionable students.

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I stated quite clearly in April my belief that Boris Johnson's commitment to the London Cycling Campaign's Go Dutch principles was not sincere. However Johnson won the election fair and square, so the LCC needed to take him on his word, and just keep monitoring the situation and reminding him of his commitment in every possible way. He had a bit of a breathing space over the Olympic period, when one would have expected less focus on such long-term issues as safe streets, but that's well behind us now.
After his fist 100 days into the new term, LCC issued an assessment, which in my opinion was already a bit too charitable even at this stage:
The good news is that the mayor has made one big pledge along the path to meeting his promises to Go Dutch, namely identifying the locations of his first two flagship schemes. He also appears to have set the ball rolling for TfL to move towards adopting international cycling best-practice for Superhighways and other streets. The not-so-good news is that we still don’t have a plan, and with developments on London’s roads continuing to show little sign that the mayor’s promises have taken root, our optimism remains guarded.
True we are still only a few months into the Mayor’s four-year term, and much of that time he has been focusing on the Olympics and the Paralympics, which is a massive PR opportunity for him and the city. But by now he should have done more to convince Londoners that he has given the backing to TfL that it needs to press full steam ahead with measures to make London as safe and inviting for cycling as it is in Holland. The verdict? Boris has been saying enough of the right words to get a pass mark at 100 days, but nothing tangible has actually changed yet.It's now six months after the election, and there's still no real plan to put the Go Dutch commitment into action in any way, shape or form. As Cycalogical has noted, the review of 100 junctions to make them safer for cycling, the most concrete commitment on cycling to come out of this administration, seems to be running into the usual buffers of outdated, poor, unimaginative thinking at TfL, with its blocking obsession with maintaining peak traffic capacity at all costs.
At the fascinating Love London, Go Dutch conference in Westminster on 18 October, sponsored by the Dutch Embassy and Royal HaskoningDHV, it was proved quite conclusively how one of the highest-profile junctions under review, the Lambeth Bridge northern roundabout, could indeed be rebuilt to a Dutch pattern, in the space available, and within the requirements of UK regulations.
|Dutch design for the northern Lambeth Bridge roundabout produced at the Love London Go Dutch conference |
(More details in the Royal Hashkoning report)
Rachael Aldred of Westminster University's Department of Planning and Transport (and now also a newly-elected Trustee of LCC) analysed it perfectly in her response to TfL:
My concerns about the current design centre around providing two sub-optimal options, rather than one better option. Cyclists using the road will have less space than at present, due to the carriageway narrowing, potentially increasing conflict. (Motorists may also expect them to use the pavement). However, cyclists using the pavement facility may (a) have trouble leaving the road at a sharp angle, (b) then come into conflict with pedestrians, and (c) experience problems crossing using the zebras, including conflict with motor vehicles.At the Waterloo IMAX roundabout, another well-known blackspot, the junction review has produced "interim proposals" (why are they bothering with these – why not do it right once?) that amount to slight changes of kerb geometry and a fair amount of green paint on the road, in one place producing a cycle lane between a straight ahead vehicle lane and a left-turn vehicle lane, all completely unprotected of course. Those who know this traffic maelstrom will appreciate how inadequate all this is. (My friend Paul Gannon, ex of Camden cycling Campaign, always used to say "The faith that UK traffic engineers place in paint is truly touching"). It's more or less as far from a Dutch roundabout solution for motor traffic and cyclists as it could possibly be.
|TfL's "interim proposals" for the Waterloo roundabout|
On to other subjects, and the Mayor still has not told us clearly where or what the three flagship Go Dutch schemes that were part of the election commitment will be. He has not made good his promise to appoint a cycling "czar" or commissioner, and we have no idea what powers or influence such a figure would have, when appointed. He has spoken of some sort of new cycle link across central London to join the dangling ends of the Superhighways, which appears, from a limited press report, as if it will use the Embankment. It's being called a "super-corridor".
|All we know about the "super-corridor" (hyphenated for some reason) is what is on this plan, published in the Standard|
I remain very pessimistic. At every stage I have been proved right about Boris's lack of real commitment to Going Dutch. In a letter to LCC dated 3 October, he wrote:
Following my commitment during the election campaign, I asked Transport for London to review the London Cycling Campaign’s Love London, Go Dutch to ascertain how the principles it establishes can be incorporated into the design and implementation of cycling schemes in London, taking into account the UK legal framework and regulations, the physical characteristics of London’s streets, and the needs of all road users.Those clauses: "taking into account the physical characteristics of London's streets and the needs of all road users" sound again like a cop-out. It sounds like nothing much will happen, because he has always used this language of "taking into account the needs of all road-users", from Day One of his administration. That language has always meant a reinforcement of the motor-dominated status quo in London, with cyclists being squeezed in grudgingly, with appalling road-user experience and declining safety. The "physical characteristics of London's streets" are, of course, just a red herring. They are much the same as the physical characteristics of the streets in any major world city. And even New York seems to be doing better for bikes now, not to mention the leading cycling cities of the world, like Tokyo, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich and Copenhagen.
Boris's language: "Following my commitment during the election campaign, I asked Transport for London to review..." sounds passive and uncommitted. Boris likes Americanisms. Well this doesn't exactly sound like what the Americans would call "kicking ass". But "kicking ass" is clearly what he needs to do to bring the entrenched, conservative and isolationist TfL culture to the point where it treats cycling seriously. More concretely, Boris approves TfL's budget. The excellent London Assembly Investigation into safer cycling in London published this week notes:
Spending on cycling remains low relative to other modes and other parts of Europe. By allocating less than 1 per cent of its budget to cycling, TfL’s current business plan does not reflect the Mayor’s commitment to have a cycling revolution. The new TfL business plan should signal TfL’s intent to prioritise cycle safety in line with the Mayor’s objective to increase cycling modal share.and recommends that TfL spend 2% of its budget on cycling, £145 million per year. Of course, it's not just about the quantity of money. It's how you spend it. The same report is damningly clear on this:
TfL’s cycling budget has not been spent on the type of cycling facilities used in leading cycling cities that maximise safety for vulnerable road users.Unless this "Cycling Vision" document contains some quite stunning stuff, and TfL's next business plan, due in December, contains a commitment to a significant hike in the funding for cycling, in line with the Assembly recommendation, and we see in the next few months, certainly before May 2013, rapid, manifest progress towards implementing the "vision", I think LCC is going to have to declare that Boris has reneged on his Go Dutch promise: for its own credibility as an organisation. We'll see what political fall-out that has. We've had "visions" from Boris before, and this rhetoric is getting stale. Remember his "vision" of how "on these routes the bicycle will dominate and that will be clear to all others using them"? That was the Superficial Highways, £206 million wasted on blue paint between 2008 and 2013. We've had enough "visions" while the streets of London remain much the same, year after year, or even get worse and more dangerous for cycling. We need a practical plan based on international best practice. In other words, we need to Go Dutch.
Meanwhile, meanwhile.... away from the glare of publicity of the junctions review, the Assembly investigation, the superhighways and super corridors and super whatever nonsense, apparently ignored by the Mayor and TfL, Camden Council, which pioneered Dutch-style cycle infrastructure in London a decade ago, quietly is bringing in plans to improve and extend its network.
As reported on the Camden Cyclists site, Camden Council plans to implement one-way segregated cycle tracks in both directions along the entire length of Royal College Street, Camden Town. This will mean modifying the existing two-way cycle track between Georgiana Street and Crowndale Road on the west side of the road, making it northbound only, and adding a southbound track on the other side.
|Options for the new layout of Royal College Street (more details on Camden Cyclists' site)|
I now believe the proposals will be an improvement, as:
- All cyclists will be on the expected side of the road, making junction conflicts less likely
- Cycle space will be increased from the current total of 3m for both directions to 2m each way under the "light segregation" option, meeting Dutch standards of 2m for flows of up to 150 bikes per hour, which is probably the expected level, and, most importantly,
- The protected route will be significantly lengthened as it will at last go from "somewhere to somewhere" (recalling Jon Snow's words on opening it in 2000 that it went from "somewhere to no-where"), running through the Camden Road junction up to the Kentish Town end of Royal College Street, where the road is two-way. So at last there will be a subjectively safe route all the way from Kentish Town to Euston Road.
|The current two-way Royal College Street cycle track|
The proposals are at an early stage of consultation, and not all details are clear as yet. If you wish to put views on them, you can do so through Camden Cyclists. (Incidentally, I met the engineer of this scheme at the Love London, Go Dutch conference in October, and was impressed). The proposals will need approval from councillors. But it it great that at least in one London borough there does genuinely seem to be a willingness to concretely, permanently reallocate road space from motor vehicles to cyclists, and make it work technically. I guess it helps that TfL seems to have little involvement in this project.
The big issue that Camden needs to address with its cycle tracks, however, is the absurdly congested Bloomsbury Route (Torrington Place, Tavistock Place etc.). This urgently needs to be re-implemented as it was originally designed by Camden Cyclists, at twice the current width, with one direction of motor traffic removed.
|Congestion on the Bloomsbury track during the Olympics, photo by Rob Hayles|
Even better than doubling the width of the track of course would be to remove both directions of motor through-traffic and make the corridor into a "bicycle road", a true Cycle Superhighway. This is what has been done with the Weimarsraat route in the Hague, which was the original inspiration for the Bloomsbury or Seven Stations Link route a decade ago. Weimarstraat had a two-way segregated cycle track then (wider than the Bloomsbury one), but today, in line with the Dutch practice of continual improvement on popular routes, the segregation is gone, and cyclists have the entire road. This has been made possible by the removal of the road from the through-route network for cars; cars can still gain access, as the Streetview image shows.
|Weimarstraat, Den Haag, the inspiration for the Bloomsbury route, now a second generation of cycle route where cyclists can have the whole street because through motor traffic has been eliminated|
I hear from Camden contacts that the Bloomsbury route may well be revisited in the forseeable future. I hope so. Ands I also hope for a Road to Damascus conversion from Westminster Council, to allow the route to be extended at similar quality through its streets all the way to Paddington, which was Camden Cyclists' original plan. We can but hope. We certainly need at least two east-west priority routes for bikes across central London, and this relatively northerly route would still be needed to complement the "super-corridor" along Embankment, even if that turned out to be really good.
It's critical in the coming year that LCC and all cyclists in London intensify the pressure on Boris Johnson to do what he has promised. The Assembly, with its report, has been very helpful – surprisingly so since it was issued by a committee that included all parties, including Conservative Members. Camden Council's work provides a small but useful spur, a demonstration that the quality we need can be achieved, in Boris's words,
Taking into account the UK legal framework and regulations, the physical characteristics of London’s streets, and the needs of all road users.
We need this quality rolled out on a much larger scale, and that will not happen without TfL driving it, and that will not happen without Boris Johnson doing far more.


This examination of London POPS popularizes the phrase “pseudo-public space” and provides maps and other data for thinking about the relationship of private and public parties in the provision of public space.
The Boston Globe editorializes in favor of creating a New York-style POPS inventory.
In 2017, the New York City Council passed a new law about privately owned public space (POPS) requiring (1) annual reporting by the Department of City Planning to the Mayor and Speaker about all POPS, the posting of POPS information on the Department’s website including an interactive map and a mechanism for electronically filing complaints, (2) proactive inspections of all POPS every three years and an annual report to the mayor and speaker about POPS complaints and enforcement actions by a city department (presumably the Department of Buildings), and (3) the posting of signs with information about POPS at every POPS in the city. The City Council passed the bill on June 21, 2017, following a June 29, 2016 public hearing held by the Council’s Land Use Committee, chaired by Council Member David Greenfield, to examine City oversight of POPS. Sixteen members of the Council, including Barron, Chin, Cohen, Dickens, Garodnick, Gentile, Kallos, Koo, Lander, Levin, Mendez, Reynoso, Rose, Torres, and Williams attended the hearing. Witnesses who testified included Edith Hsu-Chen, Director of the Manhattan Office in the Department of City Planning, Anita Laremont, General Counsel of the City Planning Commission, Patrick Wehle, Assistant Commissioner for External Affairs in the Department of Buildings, Joseph Ventour, Chief of Special Operations in the Buildings Department, Harvard professor and Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space founder Jerold S. Kayden, and representatives of various civic groups interested in POPS. Information about the hearing, including a video of the hearing and a transcript, can be found at the City Council’s website here..
Jason Sayer reports in the ArchitectsNewspaper about approved modifications to the privately owned public spaces at 701 Lexington Avenue, formerly known as the Citicorp Center. Some have expressed concerns about changes to the Sasaki-designed open air concourse. The spaces fall under the concurrent jurisdictions of the City Planning Commission and the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
An audit by the City Comptroller’s Office reveals that 55% of POPS locations have conditions in violation of applicable legal requirements. Of these 333 POPS locations, 275 have not been inspected by the Department of Buildings in at least four years. Of the 58 inspected, 41 remain out of compliance, yet only 18 violations have been issued to 10 of those locations. The audit results are reported in a document entitled “Audit Report on the City’s Oversight over Privately Owned Public Spaces,” dated April 18, 2017. The report is accessible here. Media coverage of the report may be found in a New York Times article written by Eli Rosenberg.
Read Kayden’s Boston Globe op-ed on the little bench that could.
Nathan Tempey of the Gothamist documents how security concerns are privatizing POPS and questions whether the balance has been correctly struck.
Michelle Young wonders in Untapped Cities whether the Trump Tower privately owned public spaces will continue to be accessible to the public given the heightened security treatment accorded the building.