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According to the police, jewellery and cash worth Rs 3.06 lakh was stolen from the jewellery shop of one Rakesh Verma in the Chakeri police circle in the JK Colony area. The police are investigating into the case following an FIR. Similarly, thieves broke into the jewellery shop of one Maneesh of Ratan Lal Nagar in the Panki police circle here on late Wednesday night and escaped with jewellery items worth Rs 2.5 lakh and cash worth Rs 5,000. A case has been registered with the Panki Police. Elsewhere, jewellery worth several thousands was stolen from the jewellery shop of one Raju in Yashodanagar area under the Naubasta police station on late Wednesday night. About the rise in incidents of theft in the city, a senior police official in charge of anti-burglary cell said, “I have given strict instructions to all subordinates to lodge complaints and FIRs of the people. Also I have directed them to furnish a daily area-wise report of such crimes.” Another police official said, “In order to track down these petty criminals, an order has been issued to all the SHOs to prepare a list of those accused of monetary offences. It is also to be ascertained whether those criminals who figure in the list are lodged in jail or absconding. And to trace out such criminals in case they are absconding.”

macaroni and cheese with tomatoes and peas

Couscous with spinach, tomatoes, and melted cheese

Mozzarella Cheese Sticks with Marinara Sauce (also delicious with CoolWip when in a munchie mood)

A cheese and ham party platter – a surprise from the sexiest Black Widow I’ve ever seen.

Life saving yogurt-covered pretzels – there was a rumor that one of the party hosts ate nothing but these and snap peas all night.

A Skeleton and Martian cake – dreadful! A delightful contribution from the Pearly Gates AND the Fires of Hell

Walking around special school Abbey Hill technology college with recently retired principal Mike Vening feels a bit like touring the enclosure at Ascot with a member of the royal family. Everyone stops to exchange a smile, a few words, or to pump his arm.

Carl Scott, 17, is clearly delighted to see his old head: “He was fantastic. We always liked winding each other up. We had jokes and a laugh.”

Natalie Richardson, 18, who is learning hairdressing, agrees. “He was always funny and cheerful. He used to take the assembly and he said good things.”

Much of the bustling campus, which serves the needs of almost 300 students with special needs aged 11 to 19 from Stockton-on-Tees, came into being during Mike’s 11-year headship. There is the main secondary school building, which bears a plaque to commemorate its opening by education secretary Estelle Morris in 2000, another building housing a 16-19 college with a polytunnel and beehives outside it, a separate building for autistic students, a unit for very severely disabled children, and more.

The school also achieved national recognition and awards – it was the first special school in the country to gain specialist status as a technology college, it is recognised by the National Autistic Society as a centre of excellence for autistic education, and it is the lead school in a leading edge partnership, which made Mike an executive head.

The judges who selected Vening for the Ted Wragg lifetime achievement award said that over his 21 years at Abbey Hill, he showed that young people with special needs “can be valued and valuable members of the community”.

Business manager Edwin Thorman recalls: ” Mike had just arrived when the specialist status option became available. I was saying, just get settled in first. But Mike was more visionary. It was new, but he saw what it could mean for us and how we could capitalise on it.”

In a darkened room in their special unit, some seriously sensory-impaired children and their helpers are enjoying exploring the effects of light and touch with a range of interactive technology. This expensive equipment was bought with extra funding that came with specialist status.

Thorman said: “No child is ineducable. This technology can stimulate them, and help them to understand the relationship between cause and effect.”

Technology is used widely throughout Abbey Hill. “In a conventional classroom, a teacher who is demonstrating cookery tells the class to come over and watch. Our students may not be able to do that. So a close-up camera is trained on what the teacher is doing, and it is displayed on a big screen with a written narrative.”

Thorman was an ICT teacher in a mainstream school, and it was his involvement in using technology to enable a boy with cerebral palsy to use a word processor that brought him into special education. “He had never been able to write or communicate in any written form before and, when he could use the word processor, he started writing poetry. That blew me away and I thought, this is what I want to do.”

Vening is proud of having achieved specialist status for Abbey Hill. “They hold their head high leaving here because they are in a position where they are at a technical college and not a special school,” he says. “That can be where the pitch about inclusion falls down – we underestimate the upset and stigma that goes with some of the terminology we use.”

The recognition by the National Autistic Society, which involves having to show annual improvement, is another key achievement. This is for creating an environment “where they are not made to feel anxious, but where the challenge and demand of them is nonetheless rigorous.”

That seems to be the guiding principal across the whole campus, where there is a notable sense of energy and focus. School students are in uniform and give every indication of working hard, but there is a more collegiate atmosphere in the 16-19 building. That, too, has been popular with students.

The downside is that having to leave here at 19 remains a challenge for many. Partnerships with local FE colleges for further study and with firms such as a builders, caterers and solicitors mean that for some, “if they can meet the criteria for being a good worker”, there will be job opportunities. Within the college, enterprise has a high priority.

“We do jewellery making; we have a wood enterprise making benches and bird tables, greetings-card making; we keep bees, sell honey and beeswax; and we do bicycle repair and maintenance, repairing them for young people and also sending them to the third world.”

Vening was disappointed when an attempt to create another annexe for 19 to 25 was knocked back. “If we could keep them here until age 25, they could be protected from a society that is focused on material gain for a bit longer. At the end of that time, I hope they would be able to make sensible decisions from a position of confidence about what they might be able to do rather than feeling they had failed.

“The decision might be: I can’t compete in the job market or the academic world, but I want to take part. Society needs to find more ways for them to do that.”

Vening, at the end of his career just as  at the start, is pushing the boundaries of special education. “The limit of what we can do is really the limit of our imagination.”

The Ted Wragg award for lifetime achievement

Regional winners

Maggie Richards, Thomas Tallis school, London; Grahame Webb, The Emmanuel CE middle school, South; Susan Carr, Wombwell Park Street primary, North; Bernard Nicholson, The Trinity school, East Midlands; Lesley Deninson, Ainsdale CE primary, North-west; Geraint Williams, Ysgol Cynfran Llysfaen, Wales; Michael Southworth, King Edward VI Camp Hill school, West Midlands; Patricia McManus, Rathmore primary, Northern Ireland; Cheryl Everitt, East Preston junior, South-east; Vic Galyer, Challney high, East; John F MacKenzie, Oban high, Scotland; Diane Riley, St Mary’s RC primary, West

CHENNAI: In what could be a grim reminder of the age-old practice of gold smugglers, Chennai Airport Customs last week arrested two “carriers” –one, an Indian and the other, a Sri Lankan — for smuggling 1.489 kg of 24-carat pure gold bars, concealed in their rectum. They had arrived from Colombo. In two other cases, customs officials had seized one kg of gold jewellery being smuggled in by two passengers travelling in the same sector last week.

In the latest case, the culprits had wrapped the bars in carbon sheets to escape from metal detectors, but landed in the Customs net owing to intelligence inputs. “Our officials found two passengers Mohammad Israth of Kandy in Sri Lanka and Mohammad Shahul of Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu in uneasy postures and hence picked them up for questioning. Showing no resistance, they admitted to carrying gold in their rectum,” said R Periasami, commissioner of customs.

In the past 20 days alone, the Chennai Airport Customs has seized 7.5 kg of gold bars and jewellery from passengers who evaded paying customs duty. This year, so far, the customs has seized Rs 1.16-crore worth gold. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized another Rs 1.5-crore worth gold. It is a huge jump from the seizures in the last two years — Rs 87.79-lakh and Rs 36-lakh worth gold respectively.

The steep hike in bullion rates, coupled with the increase in customs duty on import of gold (from Rs 10 to Rs 20 per gm in the last budget) have led to a spurt in instances of gold smuggling in recent times, so much so that Chennai, which is one of the top consumers of gold jewellery, also tops the list of entry points for smuggled gold in the country, feel industry sources.

The seizures could be just the tip of the iceberg, as going by accepted norms, only 10 per cent of smuggled contraband lands in customs net. For instance, Israth, by his own admission, had flown to Chennai last month with a huge consignment of gold jewellery. It is estimated that an average of 90 to 100 tonnes of gold is smuggled into the country, mostly from Dubai, Singapore and Colombo, per annum. Much of that is done using carriers. It is almost 20 per cent of what the country imports legally (500 tonnes, mainly through banks), noted industry sources.

With investment in gold yielding 20 per cent returns (Rs 1,246 per gm to Rs 1494 per gm) in the past 10 months alone, many who had given up smuggling of gold following liberalisation of the economy in the early 90’s, have re-surfaced on the scene with more vigour, said a customs official. “Some buy gold in foreign countries and bring them to India using carriers weeks and months later when the price shoots up,” an official with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence said.

Smugglers are looking at a lucrative profit of Rs 36 per gm (customs duty of Rs 20 per gm and value added tax of Rs 16 per gm), which any legal importer has to pay. In the case of smuggling of gold ornaments, the profit is much more because making charges and wastage of gold in jewellery making in countries like Singapore is at least 10 per cent lower than that of India. The launch of budget airlines in international sectors made smuggling still profitable.

“Gold smuggling, apart from being a major revenue loss for the exchequer, is also a big threat for jewellers who follow strict guidelines. Since smuggled gold can be sold at cheaper rates, jewellers who have links with smugglers enjoy an undue advantage. It affects the business of reputed jewellery shops,” noted K Shivram, vice-president of World Gold Council.

A man watched in horror as his wife was struck by a car and killed as she rushed to catch a TTC bus in Scarborough yesterday morning.

The couple began crossing together from the south to the north side of Finch Ave. E. at Blackbird Gt., just east of Nielson Rd., around 7:15 a.m., Toronto Police say. But the man hurried ahead to stop the bus.

He looked back just in time to see a Chevrolet Cavalier slam into his wife.

“She died on impact,” Const. Hugh Smith of Traffic Services said of the 63-year-old Malvern woman, who smashed through the car’s windshield and ended up virtually in the driver’s lap.

Smith said it was dark at the time and the roads were wet, both of which are believed to be factors in the pedestrian’s death. There is also no traffic light at the intersection and Finch was recently widened from two to four lanes, making more of a challenge for people to walk across to the bust stop, he said.

No charges are expected to be laid.

After the accident, the woman’s husband was comforted by family and fellow members of the area’s Somali community, Smith said.

He said the man driving the car and the bus driver, who also witnessed the fatality, were both in shock as well.

The victim lived near the scene, Smith said. Her name was not immediately released.

She is the 36th person to die on city streets so far this year and the fifth fatality since Sunday. A section of Finch was closed throughout the morning as investigators re-constructed the collision.

Smith said traffic accidents have been on the rise recently and he urged both motorists and pedestrians to be careful.

“A lot of it has to do with the time of year,” he said. “It’s staying darker longer.”

Here’s a sign the recession is not over: New York City this year may discontinue its program of buying scarves, backpacks, even watches, for the homeless at Christmas.

Watches? For the homeless?

“It does strike me as surprising, if not shocking,’’ said Mary Brosnahan, the executive director for the Coalition for the Homeless, who had not heard of the program. “I have a waiting room of people every morning in desperate need of help, and I’ve been at the coalition for 20 years and never heard anyone say they needed a watch.”

The gift program has been around since 2002 when the city decided that providing small, personal items to a needy population would be a nice, useful gesture. Over the years, purchasing orders (one pictured below) show that the city has spent about $25,000 buying more than 6,500 watches and thousands of dollars more buying scarves and other gifts for single men and women in the shelter system. Officials say they try to keep the cost below $10 a person.
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Monday
Flemish Beef Stew

Throw this recipe together in a slow cooker before you leave in the morning (or the night before), and you’ll have a flavorful hot dinner waiting and ready when you get home.

Tuesday
Chicken Chilaquiles

Wednesday
Chili-Rubbed Tilapia With Asparagus and Lemon

Thursday
Autumn Vegetable Succotash

Friday
Roast Chicken Dinner

Saturday
Golden-Crusted Pork Chops With Green Beans

Sunday
Caramelized Garlic and Shallot Pasta

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In experiments conducted by the US Dept of Agriculture, volunteers were asked to ingest large quantities of fruits that have been identified as having high levels of antioxidants, and their blood were subsequently tested for antioxidant capacity. One important note is the large amount of fruit required per ingestion – for example – volunteers in the Kiwi fruit group must eat 4 kiwis. The cherry group? 45 cherries. This should give consumers an idea of the potential “starting” dose needed to gain an antioxidant benefit – and this is PER DOSE. (imagine eating 45 * 3 cherries a day – if you want to get the benefit of cherries’ antioxidant properties with every meal.)

This does make for an attractive commercial market to give consumers “concentrated” forms of antioxidants – except most of companies providing these types of nutrition products are not regulated by the FDA – that branch of the government regulating food and drugs to make sure that you as a consumer aren’t being ripped off or worse – physically harmed by ingesting unsafe products. Unfortunately, history has shown that the FDA only steps in when enough people get sick or if a few people begin to die from the so-called “nutraceutical” – just look at the ephedrine cases in the multi-billion dollar weight-loss industry.

Currently there is no agreed projection of antioxidant intake because this can fluctuate based on individual energy intake, caloric consumption, and especially environmental or confounding health related factors like exposure to cigarette smoke or disease (increasing body’s oxidation burden). There are researchers who are trying to determine what these individual needs may be, but for the most part, consumers have been inundated by commercial entities eager to profit on a perceived benefit of “high antioxidant intake”. For example, via Quackwatch:
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The verdict? If you like to drink exotic berries for the taste, there’s no problem with indulging yourself but if you’re looking for some of these commercial products for bona fide healthcare benefits, require the claims to be backed up by randomized, double-blind placebo controlled clinical trials, with full disclosure of side effect profiles experienced by the human subjects.

(…and if there is really some miracle plant bearing amazing therapeutic properties, the pharma companies would outrun anyone to isolate the agents, synthesize/mass produce, and submit it through the proper legal govt channels for commercialization! that was how we got cancer drugs from the pacific yew tree.)