Man With Illegal Chicken Coop Appeals to Board of Health

If the Board of Health's ordinance stands, Jeffrey DelVecchio will have to find a new home for Scrappy Coco, Fluffy 1, Fluffy 2 and his three other nameless, but just as beloved,Online fine art gallery of quality original landscape oil paintings, chickens.

However, the chickens aren't flying the coop just yet — at least not without a fight. DelVecchio ardently believes that change can be affected through persistence and education.

That is why he attended the Board of Health meeting on Wednesday armed with information about the keeping of chickens, hoping to educate the board and to find out the reasoning behind their cursory denial of his request to amend the borough's 1968 ordinance prohibiting chickens. He also provided them with a copy of the signatures he has obtained through his on-line petition.

DelVecchio received a letter from the board on January 5th, notifying him of its decision to enforce an ordinance banning the keeping of chickens. The letter stated he had 45 days to remove the chickens from his backyard.MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, The 45 days have passed and now, DelVecchio has been summoned to court.

He is scheduled to appear in municipal court on Wednesday.

"I want to be open and tell the board that I still have the chickens," DelVecchio said during the meeting.

"I have a court date next Wednesday, but I'm here to ask the board for their reasoning behind the decision to enforce the ordinance and not consider amending it."

Board President Marlene Slavin informed DelVecchio that board members had been advised they could not comment on the matter, because it was scheduled to be heard in municipal court. However, Slavin did allow DelVecchio to speak publicly on the matter.

"Under the current ordinance, homing pigeons are allowed," DelVecchio said. "Homing pigeons are allowed to fly free and leave their droppings everywhere. And they make a considerable amount of noise."

DelVecchio also said that he has had parrots as pets and they,We offer offshore merchant account, too, are considerably louder than chickens.

"Under this ordinance it is legal to keep a goat; so, if the ordinance was intended to prevent farming animals, how can goats still be allowed, but chickens aren't?" DelVecchio asked.

DelVecchio provided the board with copies of Maplewood's ordinance for a pilot program designed to allow up to 15 households to raise as many as 3 hens for egg production for a one-year period.

"I hope that you take a look at this," DelVecchio said.Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET, "It's very informative."

Former councilman Peter Rebsch, who was in the audience, asked DelVecchio how the town could possibly monitor every person who decides to keep chickens cooped in their backyard to ensure sanitary conditions.

DelVecchio said that monitoring chickens would be little different than monitoring other pets, such as dogs and cats. He also suggested that the town require a permit fee of $100 so that only serious-minded people would apply.

"Even urban areas such as New York City allow chickens," DelVecchio informed the board.

After the meeting, DelVecchio told Patch he believes the ordinance should be updated to reflect the current sustainability movement.

"I'm disappointed that [the board] didn't have a meeting during the 45 days I was given to remove the chickens," he said.An Air purifier is a device which removes contaminants from the air.

"I wasn't even given a chance to find out the reason behind why they made their decision."

Sheriff opposes needle access program

Sheriff Justin SmiMDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds,th opposes a syringe access program for the same reason he rallied against medical marijuana dispensaries: He believes they condone and promote drug use.

However, research from the Centers for Disease Control, World Health Organization and other prominent public health agencies show otherwise,We offer offshore merchant account, according to the Northern ColAorado Aids Project,Online fine art gallery of quality original landscape oil paintings, which wants to establish a clean needle program to prevent the spread of HIV and hepatitis.

Twenty-five years of research on needle access programs worldwide show that, instead of increased crime and drug use, communities with these programs actually see increased access to treatment and counseling, less spread of disease and less dangerous needles discarded in trash and alleys.

"Their injection drug use does not depend on us," Jeff Basinger, executive director of NCAP, said at a stakeholder meeting Wednesday to discuss the option of creating a needle exchange in Larimer County.

"If we don't provide them with a clean needle, they'll be out there injecting with a dirty one."

With offices in Greeley and Fort Collins, Northern Colorado Aids Projects provides counseling,Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET, emergency food help, referrals to rehabilitation and other services to residents who are suffering from or at risk of contracting HIV or hepatitis. Last year, 219 of those clients were injection drug users.

Now, the agency would like to follow an international trend and hand out clean syringes along with safe containers to dispose of used, dirty syringes as well as education and referrals to treatment.

They believe their already established rapport will help the drug users reach out to treatment and, in the meantime, the clean needles would stop the spread of disease.

Several drug counselors and public health officials from the area spoke in favor of establishing a program at the Wednesday session.

They believe the research shows it works, and fears of increased drug use are not realized in communities that have a syringe access program.

"We're very much supportive of this kind of program," said Andrea Coryell, representing treatment professionals at Colorado State University.

She compared offering clean needles to offering condoms; both, she said protect from but do not encourage risky behaviors.

Smith disagreed. He said offering clean syringes is like a stamp of approval for injection drug use. "If we condone things, we get more of the behavior," Smith said, drawing a connection to medical marijuana dispensaries.

"In the long term, do we send a message to kids to future generations that it's OK."

Basinger and Craig Chapin, a member of the NCAP board, disputed Smith's worry, saying a needle access program is a public health measure that can save lives and, in the long run, save public health dollars spent treating deadly diseases.

Before NCAP can establish a needle access program it must receive approval and oversight from the Larimer County Board of Health. The board is reviewing research and meeting with stakeholders and,An Air purifier is a device which removes contaminants from the air. next month, will schedule a meeting to hear from residents.

If the program is approved, NCAP would begin to hand out needles to clients -- along with education and referrals to treatment -- later this year. The funding for the program is from a private nonprofit; no tax money would be used.

The world's first steampunk bedtime story

Author Emilie P. Bush isn't shy about saying her latest book, "Her Majesty's Explorer," meant to get your little one's cogs and wheels turning, is the world's first steampunk bedtime story. The illustrated children's book, which released last Tuesday and jumped to No. 1 in Amazon's "Hot New Releases," follows the adventures of automaton St. John Murphy Alexander and his not-so-rubber ducky, Steamduck.

Already the author of two adult steampunk novels, Bush is also the mother of two young daughters -- whom she calls her "built-in focus group." When she went to a steampunk panel for young adult literature at Dragon*Con last year, all of the authors agreed on one thing: "What is missing in the steampunk genre is there are no picture books," Bush remembers them saying. "I was already working on this and thinking, 'finally, I have found a niche before somebody else!' "

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CNN Geek Out caught up with Bush in a phone interview about the book and her experience working on it with Petty. The following is an edited transcript.

Bush: I wanted to work with Kevin! Gosh, he has such talent. In relationships, the best ones are where each half thinks they got the better end of the deal, and that's the kind of thing we have. We get on like a house on fire. Together, we have lots of plans. That's why we did the bedtime story. He said, "Let's work together, but I don't know what we should do," and I went through his images and found one of the mechanical man.

He had made some postcards, and he sent me one from Kuwait (Petty was stationed there as an Army captain), and I had this little postcard on the corner cupboard,All RUBBER MATS is comprised of all types of mats,Dimensional Mailing magic cube for Promotional Advertising, and I looked at it all the time, and I just got so charmed by the guy. I wrote this story about him being an explorer and sent it to Kevin, and he sent me back some drawings. For a man who has no children, he understands kids really well. He knows how to make the face be appealing to a child's eye.

Bush: He sent me a message on Facebook! He had started drawing these pictures overseas, and like so many of us that come to steampunk, he showed them around and people said, "You draw steampunk," and he said, "What's steampunk?" He went tooling around the Internet, discovering what steampunk was. He found my book and sent me some fan art of ["Chenda and the Airship] Brofman." I thought, "This guy has the talent of an artist and the discipline of a soldier, he gets the job done." He was halfway around the world, and we were well into the project and talking all the time on Facebook. By the time we finally met, we knew each other really well!

It was a testament to his character that he could still be thinking about these really charming drawings while he was soaking in man's inhumanity to man. He had some pretty rotten days in Iraq, yet he could still be thinking about these charming things. That's one of the most remarkable things about Kevin.

Bush: Steamduck was one of the things he sent before going to Iraq. The interesting thing about children's books is they're meant for children to read, but adults pick them out and buy the books. The things that I liked best about books when I was a kid were the ones that I could go through myself, even when I couldn't read, and have some activity with. Like Richard Scarry's stories, where he has very detailed pictures and he would hide the Goldbug in many of his pictures. I would go and look for the Goldbugs and see if I could find them.

When we went about creating the book, the first thing I did was I wrote the book in a circle because kids love to do things over and over again. The story of St. John Murphy Alexander starts with him marching for queen and country, coming home, following his duty and going to bed, without a fuss. And when he finally falls asleep, he dreams about exploring for the queen and country, so it takes you right back to the beginning of the story again.

The other thing was, I said to Kevin, let's put little things in the pictures so when we get to the end, we can have a little seek-and-find page. The idea is parents will read this to the kids, leave the book with them, and they'll go back and look at the pictures again. Steamduck was the first of those. I loved Steamduck so much, I said, "We can market around Steamduck because he is adorable and kids get duckies." We started saying, "Looking for Steamduck? You will be." He appears in the bathtub with St. John,MDC Mould specialized of Injection moulds, and Kevin wrote to me at one point and said, "You know, Steamduck has become such a big thing,Here's a complete list of oil painting supplies for the beginning oil painter. you need to write another story just about Steamduck."

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"Fitch's view of support is also based on PMP's association with, and consequent reputational risk to, PB's franchise given the common brand identity and PB's representation on PMP's board," the rating agency said.

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PMP's profitability, measured by return on assets , was 0.44% excluding non-recurring items, as at end-9MFY12 which, although an improvement from a negative 0.43% at FYE11, remains weaker than that of similarly rated peers.

PMP's equity to assets increased to 32.5% at end-9MFY12 from 12.7% at FYE11, following a rights issue of LKR450m in November 2011. Fitch expects capitalisation to remain healthy, provided it is not diluted by aggressive growth.

Net three-month non-performing advances to equity improved to 35.5% as of end-9MFY12 from 81.8% in FY11 and net six-month NPAs improved to 28.3% from 63.3% on account of equity increase and a reduction in absolute NPA levels.

Fitch notes large maturity mismatches between interest rate-sensitive assets and liabilities point to a refinancing requirement in Q4FY12. Management indicates that options for funding this gap through further credit lines from banks are being explored. However, Fitch expects adequate liquidity support from PB would be forthcoming should it be required. Management has also indicated that measures are being taken to diversify the funding base.

PMP's asset quality remains weak when compared with rated peers with three-month gross NPAs at 20.6% and six-month gross NPAs at 17.6% as at end-9MFY12 . Fitch expects asset quality to remain weak, despite reduced NPAs on account of greater recovery efforts. This is because of high NPAs in term loans that are relatively more difficult to recover.

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The lecture was moderated by Henry HL Chan, M.D., PhD, a practicing dermatologist and Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.

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After the lecture, Dr. Anderson travelled to Vietnam to treat infants with vascular birthmarks at the Vascular Anomalies Center at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Ho Chi Minh City. Candela previously donated a Vbeam? pulsed dye laser to support the opening of the Vascular Anomalies Center and Syneron co-sponsored Dr. Anderson's efforts in Vietnam.

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The March 2012 issue of the AMT magazine from AMTIL features articles on robotics in manufacturing, Enterprise Connect, additive manufacturing, supply chain capabilities, CAD technology and OHS harmonisation laws compliance among others.

‘Manufacturing with robots: The road ahead’ by Frank Tobe covers the launches in Europe of pi4-Robotics’ Workerbot and Japan’s Motoman’s two-armed headless robot, plus the anticipated launch in the US of Heartland Robotics’ Factory Assistant Robot as examples of the marriage of industrial and service robots.

The Minister for Manufacturing, Senator Kim Carr writes on the importance of some manufacturing industries for national defence in ‘The arsenal of democracy’.

Australian Industry Group Chief Executive,What is a third party payment gateway ? Heather Ridout expresses concern over the serious shortfall in literacy and numeracy skills in Australian workplaces as Ai Group continues to seek solutions to this disturbing situation in ‘Time to act on basic skills’.

AMWU National Secretary, Dave Oliver expresses his views in ‘Co-investment or tariffs or no auto industry’ while a feature on Austech 2012 sees an opportunity for the soaring Aussie dollar.

In the ‘One on One’ section, Grant Anderson, ANCA CEO is interviewed by Nina Hendy.

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Other features in AMTIL Inside include ‘Austech shines the spotlight on digital and additive manufacturing’, ‘ManufactureLink – Australia’s most powerful online director’, and ‘Innovate 2012 at Austech’.

Company Focus features MiniFAB in the article ‘Australia’s leading micro-nano-bio company has eye on the future’ in which Graeme McLean explains MiniFAB’s mission to create business success for the company, its clients and its partners by developing and manufacturing real world solutions and products using micro and nanotechnologies.

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Hugo Chavez says new tumor was cancerous

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed Sunday that a new tumor recently removed from his pelvic region was of the same type of cancer as a baseball-sized growth extracted from that part of his body about eight months ago.

In his first TV appearance in nine days, Chavez said the surgery and follow-up tests showed the tumor was "a recurrence of the initially diagnosed cancer."

He said "the tumor was totally extracted" and noted "the absence of lesions suggestive of cancer neither locally, neither in nearby organs, neither far away ... neither metastasis, none of this thanks to God, to the diagnosis and rapid intervention."

The 57-year-old president said he would spend several weeks recovering and then "we are going to do radiation treatment in the area ... without discarding other treatment options."

"There isn't fever nor any other sign, neither infection, hemorrhage," he said. He called the post-surgery healing "perfect in relation to the time that's passed, and we are already doing physical therapy."

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Chavez spoke firmly in footage recorded Saturday in Havana while accompanied by various government ministers and older brother Adan Chavez. The president said his recuperation has been "open, progressive and rapid" in the footage aired Sunday in Venezuela.

Chavez said "still it hasn't been six days because the operation ended on the night of last Sunday." He verified the date of the recording by displaying a Saturday copy of the Cuban government newspaper Granma and a similar copy of the Venezuelan government paper Correo del Orinoco.

"We are very optimistic," he said while seated at an oval conference table. "There is a very favorable medical evolution, the vital signs very favorable."

Chavez underwent several weeks of radiation treatment in 2011.

Chavez flew to Cuba for his most recent surgery on Feb. 24, and his absence from the public spotlight since then has sparked speculation about his health. Chavez did phone into a show Friday on Venezuelan state television when he said he was recovering well.

Chavez hasn't specified what kind of cancer he has or exactly where it's located. But cancer specialists say that based on available information, Chavez appears to suffer from a relatively rare cancer known as sarcoma, which tends to reappear in the same location where related tumors are removed.

The president has taken pains to demonstrate unflagging energy in his public appearances as he faces a tough re-election battle this November.

"Everyone who has been operated on knows ...What is a third party payment gateway ? the impact of an operation of various hours," Chavez said in the most recent footage. "And how, above all the first day when the body begins to awaken, the pains begin, the obstacles, after one goes step by step recovering the functions of the body, like I'm recovering."

He added, "Since almost the second day, I began to walk. For this, I say thanks to God, to everybody."

He spoke in a stark, white-walled room, in front of paintings of Cuban independence leader Jose Marti and South American hero Simon Bolivar. With no one taking over his duties in Venezuela, Chavez issued instructions to government ministers and approved the budgets of various state-owned companies.

As he has done in recent weeks, Chavez defended Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has tried to violently crush a popular revolt in much of the Middle Eastern country. Venezuela has at least twice sent shipments of diesel oil to Syria over the past months.

"We continue lamenting the aggressions against Syria," Chavez said, "and the pressure of the United States government and many European countries, failing to recognize the sovereignty of a people such as the Syrian people."

"From here," Chavez said, "we send our solidarity to the Syrian people and to President Bashar Al-Assad."

Chavez supporter Johsny Flores said Sunday that his faith in the leader remains high despite the reports of ill health.

"Cancer is a serious illness, but I know that Chavez has so much love for the country, so much desire to continue with us, that he has going to come out of this," said Flores, a 35-year-old street vendor.

On the other side of the political fence, merchant Tomas Gutierrez followed the example of sole opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles and wished Chavez a swift recovery even as he longed for an end to the leader's 13-year rule.

"Another person in his place would be on the floor," the 63-year-old said. "We have to recognize his willpower. But also, we hope that he gets better and that Capriles wins and puts an end to this disastrous government."