 adjacent shops.
Sadly, locals were supported in their opposition to the proposal by all of the local councilors who were vying for re-election at the time (Cathy Casey and Glenda Fryer, Christine Fletcher) and so Auckland City Council officials were told to rethink. Some time later, the project then got handed over to the newly formed Auckland Transport.
In July, 2011 Auckland Transport came back with a scaled down proposal which retained on-street parking but looked to extend bus lanes around key villages on the route during peak hours only. It also aimed to provide cycle lanes where “room allows.” In fact, these wouldn’t really have been “cycle lanes” in the sense of being physically separated from the buses, but they would at least have provided a 4.5 metre wide lane for buses and cycles to share.
Unfortunately, however, this proposal was expensive because it could not be done without widening the road. Widening roads cost heaps because you have to relocate services sideways, away from the traffic lane under the footpath (e.g., water pipes, stormwater, electricity cables).
So, in October 2012 Auckland Transport’s Board announced that they had approved an even more scaled-down version of the project which would extend the bus lanes slightly at peak time, retain on-street car parking (off-peak in the bus lanes) and involving some small upgrades for cyclists on side streets, but not on Dominion Road.
So in just two years we went from a proposal for the first high quality, on-road cycle lanes on a major regional arterial in Auckland, to a plan for some very small improvements to current cycling facilities. This is pretty much the same story that has been repeated in Auckland over the last 10 years many times. A major roading project is proposed and carried out which creates some improvements to public transport, some upgrades for pedestrians, and almost nothing for cyclists.
My next blog post is about why I think the upgrades to cycle lanes that are being proposed are of dubious value and why this whole project represents a major lost opportunity.Q: Vorinostat 'unmasks' reservoirs of disease in patients. Thought to be key to eradicating HIV from body. Tests on eight HIV-positive men.
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A: By. Rob Waugh. PUBLISHED:. 06:08 EST, 26 July 2012. |. UPDATED:. 06:08 EST, 26 July 2012. HIV under an EM microscope: A cure for AIDS has got a step closer after scientists found that a common cancer drug can purge the disease as it lies dormant in the body. A cure for AIDS has got a step closer after scientists found that a common cancer drug can purge the disease as it lies dormant in the body. Current treatments are effective at reducing levels of the disease in the bloodstream - but a drug that can 'knock out' the disease when it lies dormant is thought to be key to a cure. Tests on eight HIV-positive men found that the drug was highly effective in 'unmasking' the hidden reservoirs in the body - which the researchers say is a vital step towards eradicating HIV from the body. ‘This work provides compelling evidence. for a new strategy to directly attack and eradicate latent HIV. infection,’ said David Margolis at the University of North Carolina at. Chapel Hill. ‘Long-term, widespread use of. antiretrovirals has personal and public health consequences, including. side effects, financial costs, and community resistance,’ said Margolis,. who led the study. ‘We must seek other ways to end the epidemic, and. this research provides new hope for a strategy to eradicate HIV. completely from the body.’ The existence of persistent. reservoirs of dormant HIV in the immune system that are not attacked by. anti-AIDS drugs is believed to be a major reason why infection reemerges. once patients stop taking their medication. The disruption and clearance of these reservoirs is critical to finding a cure for AIDS. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published pioneering research showing that a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma was able to dislodge hidden virus in patients receiving treatment for HIV. Researchers at UNC, working in collaboration with scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health, National Cancer Institute, Merck, and the University of California at San Diego, undertook a series of experiments designed to evaluate the potential of the drug vorinostat, a deacetylase inhibitor that is used to treat some types of lymphoma, to activate and disrupt the dormant virus. Initially, laboratory experiments measuring active HIV levels in CD4+ T cells, which are specialized white blood cells that the virus uses to replicate, showed that vorinostat unmasked the hidden virus in these cells. Subsequently, vorinostat was administered to eight HIV-infected men who were medically stable on antiretroviral therapy and the levels of active HIV virus were measured and compared to the levels prior to administration. Those patients receiving vorinostat showed an average 4.5-fold increase in the levels of HIV RNA in CD4+ T cells, evidence that the virus was being unmasked. This is the first published study to show the potential for deacetylase inhibitors to attack latency within dormant virus pools in a translational clinical study. Targeting latency is the first step on a path that may lead to a cure.


Q: NEW: U.S. expresses disappointment with the decision. A three-judge panel says George Wright should not be extradited. Wright's house arrest was also lifted, his attorney says. Wright is accused of hijacking a plane in 1972 in Miami.
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A: A Portuguese appeals court has ruled against extraditing fugitive American hijacking suspect George Wright to the United States, his attorney said Thursday. "I am very, very happy," said Manuel Luis Ferreira, attorney for Wright, 68, who was found in Portugal in September after more than 40 years in hiding. Wright said he was grateful to the Portuguese justice system. "They made the right decision and this is correct," he told CNN affiliate RTP Portugal. Wright's house arrest was also lifted, and he is free to move around with no restrictions, Ferreira said. A three-judge appeals court in Lisbon agreed with all Wright's arguments to reject the U.S. bid for extradition, including the fact he is now a Portuguese citizen and is in declining health. They also agreed the statute of limitations on the case has expired, according to Portuguese state-run news agency LUSA. The United States can appeal to Portugal's Supreme Court, Ferreira said. He said he could not release the court's ruling as it is secret. The U.S. State Department said it was "extremely disappointed" in the ruling. "George Wright is a convicted murderer guilty of an extremely serious crime which falls squarely within the terms of our bilateral extradition treaty with Portugal," the department said in a statement. "He is a fugitive from justice. We expect Portugal to abide by its treaty obligations in this case. In conjunction with the Department of Justice, we will review the court's decision and consult with Portuguese authorities to determine a path forward that results in Mr. Wright's return to the United States." Wright escaped from prison in 1970 while serving a 15- to 30-year sentence for murder after he and another man shot and killed a World War II veteran in a 1962 gas station robbery in Farmingdale, New Jersey. On July 31, 1972, Wright and four other members of the Black Liberation Army went to the Detroit airport and boarded Delta Flight 841 for Miami. Wright was dressed as a priest and carrying a hollowed-out Bible. The group then allegedly hijacked the plane. Once it landed in Miami, they allegedly demanded that FBI agents dressed only in bathing suits deliver $1 million in ransom to the plane -- a way of making sure they were not armed. The FBI followed instructions, and the scantily clad agents delivered the money. After allowing the 88 passengers off, the hijackers kept the flight crew on board and ordered the plane to fly to Boston. When it arrived, an extra navigator -- dressed in swim trunks and a shirt -- was brought on board, the DC-8 was refueled, and it flew to Algiers, Algeria. The Algerian government seized the ransom money and returned it to the United States, but Wright and his associates vanished. Some were arrested in Paris in 1976. It's not clear how he wound up in Portugal. U.S. authorities were able to locate Wright near Lisbon by tracking his travel patterns, ending a manhunt spanning three continents. When seeking Wright, authorities matched a fingerprint in a Portuguese national identification database with one that they had on file for Wright from his time in prison, according to two U.S. law enforcement officials. Then they set up a delicate surveillance operation to make sure they had the man who had eluded them for so long, the officials added. Ferreira previously said his client was suffering from heart and blood pressure problems. "He thinks that if he goes to the U.S. he will die," he told CNN earlier. "He was a member of the Black Panthers group, and he fears that he will be made to serve as an example for everyone if he goes, and that he will die in prison." He said Wright was a married father of two adult sons who goes by the name Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos in Portugal.


Q: £14,400 role involves cleaning the Queen's antiques... and running her bath. The job - which includes care of guests and cleaning - is advertised online. The vacancy is in H Branch of Royal Household in Buckingham Palace. Basic salary is £276.92 per week, but accommodation and food is included.
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By. Bianca London. PUBLISHED:. 10:28 EST, 27 January 2014. |. UPDATED:. 10:28 EST, 27 January 2014. Are you on the