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FAMILIES will have to fork out 30 to get rid of rat infestations under council plans to introduce charges for the service.

Newcastle Borough Council currently sends out pest control experts for free to homes and businesses plagued by rodents.

But its ruling cabinet has voted to press ahead with introducing charges from April this year.

It will cost a resident or business 30 for up to four visits from an exterminator, although people on benefits will either get the service for free or at cut-price.

Council leader Gareth Snell said: "A 30 charge is still much below the market rate. It could be 100 if you went elsewhere."

The local authority receives around 2,500 pest control complaints every year.

It already charges 65 for treating wasps' nests and ant infestations.

Residents also pay a 25 subsidised rate for three visits to rid their homes of problems with mice.

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Despite marked reductions in environmental sources of lead and increased protection from occupational lead exposure, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that lead exposure on the job remains a significant health threat for painting contractors. The CDC conducted a 9-year study (Very high blood lead levels among adults United States, 2002 2011) of over 11,500 adults. Study results, published 11/29/13, concluded that occupational exposure accounted for 9 out of 10 cases of adult very high blood lead levels (BLLs). The CDC designates 10 g/dL as the reference BLL for adults; levels at or above that are considered elevated; very high is defined as greater than or equal to 40 g/dL.

Of 7,076 adults with high very blood lead levels whose known exposure source was their work, construction trades (comprised of painting and wallcovering contractors; highway, street and bridge construction; site preparation contractors; and other construction sectors) were among of the four largest categories represented. Painting, renovation and remodeling work also figured prominently in non-occupational exposure activities that caused high BLLs. In general, the CDC reported:

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PETALING JAYA: Police have played down a warning circulating on the Internet and messaging services that a gang of robbers are gaining access to houses under the guise of delivering hampers to the occupants.

We have not received any reports and we can confirm that there were no such incidents in Kuala Lumpur, said acting City CID chief Asst Comm Khairi Ahrasa.

If there are, then we would have been on top of it.

He said the messages were not true but advised the public to be wary of such scams in any case.

It is better to be vigilant, especially during festive seasons, he added. Although no reports have been received, we will still keep an eye out for such gangs.

The warning being circulated warned of a gang that entered private premises on the pretext of delivering hampers and subsequently robbing the occupants.

It alleged that one such incident occurred in Kota Kinabalu in March 2012, where a hamper gang robbed a government servant of RM30,000.

The rumour related that an unsuspecting maid allowed the robbers in. Once inside, they pulled out a knife and a machete that were concealed beneath the hampers.

MCA public services and complaints department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong said he had not heard of any hamper robbers but did handle one case involving the delivery of cooking gas.

He, too, warned people to be wary of those bearing hampers.

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T.J. Thompson, chair of Safe Access Virginia, the newly formed state chapter of Americans for Safe Access, the national group advocating for medical cannabis (it prefers the "scientific" term over marijuana), will be leading a lobbying effort in Richmond on Monday, Jan. 20.

Twenty two states now have medical cannabis laws on the books. Since 1979, Virginia Code has also included a statute: "Possession or distribution of marijuana for medical purposes permitted ... for treatment of cancer or glaucoma."

Washington D.C. is an example of how the latter works, as in 2010 its Health Department was tasked with overseeing the creation of eight medical 'dispensaries' to supply authorized individuals.

In Virginia, there's also a backlash, and on Monday, HB 684, sponsored by Del. Robert G. "Bob" Marshall, will be heard in the House Courts of Justice Sub-committee. The bill would "amend and appeal" Virginia' statute "relating to prescribing marijuana as medicine" and would make it so that "no practitioner of medicine ... shall prescribe, dispense, administer, or cause to be administered marijuana."

"We don't want to go backwards," said Thompson, a Chesapeake resident and military veteran. He cites research showing the efficacy of cannabis for a number of conditions, including chronic pain, nausea, spasticity and movement disorders.

The Safe Access group also has a draft "Virginia Medical Cannabis Act" at the ready but has not yet found a sponsor for it.

The group will meet on the Capitol lawn at 9:30 a.m. before meeting with lawmakers.

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The death of Richard Davis at Southwell in 1996 was a turning point. All racecourses became equipped with ambulances and doctors specifically trained in the injuries they were likely to encounter on the racecourse. We can expect the same treatment if we fall at Cheltenham during the Festival or Fontwell on a Friday.

When he started, it had not been long since the role of racecourse doctor was virtually honorary and seen as a good job and a free lunch for a retired GP. Now there are nearly 250 fully trained racecourse medical officers who are retrained every three years.

Improving the standard of helmets and body protectors has also been an obsession for him so, although it is still an inherently dangerous profession, it is much safer than it was on his arrival; he has ensured we are fit and healthy, riding in the safest equipment and with the best medical support if we get injured.

Also near the top of the list of his achievements was his introduction of stringent concussion protocol in 2004, 10 years ahead of the Rugby Football Union, and he will now use his experience to set up the National Concussive Head Injury Centre in London which, hopefully, will also have further benefits for jockeys.

When the BHA get a new man for the job, it is essential he has a great interest in the sport and in us. That is half the battle and the new chief medical officer should not regard it as just a job. He has some big boots to fill.

Taquin De Seuil (1.30) is the reason I am at Haydock on Saturday and I am hoping he will be hard to beat in the two-mile-five-furlong novice chase. Certainly, if he wants to go to the Cheltenham Festival, he needs to be winning. He will not mind the ground or the track so neither of those will be excuses. Gevrey Chambertin, winner of a fixed brush race at Haydock last time, gets 7lb from us and is a danger and I rode Ofaolains Boy on his chasing debut and he will improve.

Champagne Rian (12.20) looks to have as good a chance as any in a handicap hurdle but Act of Kalanisi (2.40), winner of his last two and a soft-ground lover, looks like he has a tough job on his hands to beat both the former smart novice Melodic Rendezvous and Ptit Zig in the Champion Hurdle Trial.

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Democrats plan to disparage income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year's elections. Most of what's said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Let's look at it.

Income is a result of something. As such, results alone cannot establish whether there is fairness or justice.

Suppose Tom, Dick and Harry play a weekly game of poker. The result is: Tom wins 75 percent of the time. Dick and Harry, respectively, win 15 percent and 10 percent of the time. Knowing only the game's result permits us to say absolutely nothing as to whether there has been poker fairness or justice. Tom's disproportionate winnings are consistent with his being either an astute player or a clever cheater.

To determine whether there has been poker justice, the game's process must be examined. Process questions we might ask are: Were the cards unmarked? Were the cards dealt from the top of the deck? And did the players play voluntarily? If these questions yield affirmative answers, there was poker fairness and justice, regardless of the game's result, even with Tom's winning 75 percent of the time.

In a free society, for the most part, income is a result of one's capacity to serve his fellow man and the value his fellow man places on that service. Say I mow your lawn and you pay me $50. That $50 might be seen as a certificate of performance.

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are multibillionaires. Just as in the case of my serving my fellow man by mowing his lawn, they served their fellow man. The difference is they served many more of their fellow men and did so far more effectively than I and hence have received many more certificates of performance, which enables them to make greater claims on what their fellow man produces, such as big houses, cars and jets.

Brin and Page and people like them created wealth by producing services that improve the lives of millions upon millions of people all around the globe. Should Congress confiscate part of their wealth in the name of fairness and income redistribution?

Except in many instances when government rigs the game with crony capitalism, income is mostly a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity. Far more important than income inequality is productivity inequality. That suggests that if there's anything to be done about income inequality, we should focus on how to give people greater capacity to serve their fellow man, namely raise their productivity.

Becoming a taxicab owner-operator lies within the grasp of many. But in New York City, one must be able to get a license (medallion), which costs $700,000. There are hundreds of examples of government restrictions that reduce opportunity. Think back to my poker example. If one is concerned about the game's result, which option is more just: taking some of Tom's winnings and redistributing them to Dick and Harry or teaching Dick and Harry how to play better?

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David Hughes, a Doylestown landscape architect with an affinity for native flora and natural landscapes, often finds himself ripping out dead, overgrown, or otherwise undesirable plants to make way for new.

But he doesn't haul that nasty Japanese honeysuckle, Chinese white mulberry, or Norway maple to the dump, curb, or chipper. Hughes is that rare soul who prizes what other designers and gardeners despise, more so if it's scarred by deer browsing, insect damage, or disease.

That's because, in addition to designing ecologically responsible landscapes in the Philadelphia region, Hughes, 46, is a skilled woodworker who makes rustic furniture from garden "debris," a kind of plant-world Dumpster diver.

"To me, it's a nice marriage, landscaping and woodworking," says Hughes, whose five-year-old business, his second, is called Weatherwood Design. It comprises about 70 percent landscaping and 30 percent woodworking.

Storm-felled trees and gnarly vines make good raw materials. So do pruned branches, old barn boards, and stuff plucked, with permission, from the side of the road.

An arborist friend scouts out intriguing branches and discarded trunks. Hughes helps the Natural Lands Trust and local preserves thin out invasives or dead trees. And every July Fourth, again with permission, he rescues unwanted driftwood from death by bonfire at a public beach on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

The wood might sit for years on the one-acre property Hughes shares with his widowed dad, Merritt Hughes, a retired English teacher. Logs, planks, oddball sticks and scraps are stacked along the driveway, in the yard, and in and around Hughes' densely packed, unheated 8-by-12-foot workshop.

"It's hard to throw anything out," he says a bit sheepishly of the jars of nails, screws, and bolts, the bits of this or that, and the saws, planes, and other tools of his trade.

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