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Currently, although the reports of staff financial positions are officially part of the public record, they aren't readily available. Often they have to be requested from individual agencies using the names of the individuals about whom information is sought. The result is that the public is effectively blocked from learning the information disclosed in the reports.
The public disclosure requirement was arguably too lax to begin with. There's good reason to prohibit trading by senior government officials altogether. Many lawyers, journalists and Wall Streeters who come into possession of sensitive, confidential information as part of their professional lives are barred from any short term trading. Some are barred from owning individual securities at all, allowed to own nothing but index and mutual funds.
The provision of the Stock Act was a compromise in which government officials were required to disclose trades to the public in exchange for being able to trade in the first place. If disclosure proved too burdensome, government officials could simply adopt personal no-trading policies and avoid the cost of disclosing trades altogether.
The new law scraps the disclosure requirements for the staffers, leaving them in place only for members of Congress, Congressional candidates, and the President and Vice President.
People who lament our bitterly divided political situation might want to reflect what bipartisanship and inter-branch government agreement has been able to so quickly accomplish here.
A Congressional Insider Trading ETF?
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In the 17th and 18th century the Kirk was a very important institution in monitoring how people conducted their day to day lives and it interfered in a way we would now find unacceptable. It did however, do a lot of good in the community by giving small pensions to people who were unable to work through age or disability, paying school fees for a child whose father had died and by trying to ensure that the father of an illegitimate child took responsibility for its upkeep. As the arbiters of morals in the community, the Kirk Session Minutes contain a large number of cases of fornication and children born out of wedlock. Occasionally, there are cases where there is a dispute about paternity of an illegitimate child or whether fornication has taken place and some of these can be as entertaining as a soap opera.
The Session normally met each week and on Thursday, 13th July 1752 the Moderator informed the Session that one of the elders had given a report of “flagrant and scandalous behaviour” on the previous Friday between George Wilson, a farmer in Knockhouse (Knockhouse farm is now part of Crossford) and Isabel Watson, the widow of Peter Shorthouse, who was the late gravedigger in Dunfermline. The Moderator had therefore cited both George and Isabel to appear before this meeting of the Session.
Isabel Watson admitted that George Wilson was in her house on the previous Friday, as he puts his horses in her stable, and he had sent for a choppin of ale (a choppin was a Scots measure equivalent to 2 pints) and a gill of whisky (a quarter of a pint) which he and she drank together. She also said that despite there being no other person present, the full door and the half door were open and there was no indecent behaviour between her and George Wilson.
George Wilson stated that Isabel Watson had required a firlot of oats (a Scots dry measure equivalent to around 31pints) for the privilege of putting his horses into her stable and he had gone into her house and sent for ale and whisky. He also stated that the doors were open and that there had been no indecent behaviour between him and Isabel.
Although there is no indication in the Minutes of any previous suspicions of indecent behaviour between George and Isabel, it would appear their liaisons were known in the neighbourhood. The case was brought to the attention of the Session by Isabel’s stepson Charles Shorthouse who had taken over from his father Peter as gravedigger (Charles later became a Beadle at the Abbey). As soon as George had entered Isabel’s house, a neighbour ran to fetch Charles and he and some other residents of the town ran to Isabel’s house, presumably to catch them in flagrante delicto. Charles Shorthouse was also present at this meeting of the Session and claimed he could prove there was bad behaviour between George Wilson and his stepmother and he named several people he could call as witnesses. In fact, he named seven witnesses who would be willing to testify.
George and Isabel were cited to appear before the meeting of the Session which was held on August 7th. Neither of them turned up but a messenger gave a paper signed by George Wilson giving reasons why he did not turn up and why the witnesses could not be examined that day. All the witnesses had turned up along with another two not named at the previous meeting. These were two of the people who had accompanied Charles Shorthouse in his dash to Isabel’s house. George and Isabel along with the nine witnesses were ordered to appear at the next meeting.
The first episode of the drama is now over. It is obvious that Isabel and her stepson, Charles, do not get along, but is he being vindictive in trying to shame Isabel when she has done nothing wrong, or is he an upright elder of the Kirk who is trying to prevent his stepmother bringing shame on the family?
At the meeting held on 20th August, 1752 both George and Isabel turned up and George produced a legal document which listed the names of all the people who had been cited to appear that day as witnesses against him. The document stated that these witnesses would be guilty of slander and defamation and that if the Session heard them they would be liable for costs and damages. George Wilson then left the meeting as he had to return to the harvest. The Session rejected the document given by George and proceeded to examine the witnesses.
The majority of the witnesses were in the house above that of Isabel Watson. This house was occupied by James Turnbull who was deacon of the corporation of tailors in Dunfermline, his wife and their three female servants along with two visitors. All of the people in James Turnbull’s house were aware of George Wilson being present in Isabel’s house and made good use of two or three holes in the floor through which they could see into Isabel Watson’s house. These witnesses appear to have taken turns looking through the holes in the floor and gave similar accounts of what they saw. These graphic descriptions would have been enough – depending on his disposition – to make the clerk of the Session either blush to the roots of his hair or salivate! One of the witnesses, Margaret Gullen, said she stopped looking through the hole in the floor as she could not look upon them any longer as she understood “they were about the act of uncleanness”. Margaret could be forgiven her modesty as she was only fifteen years of age.
Isabel had to listen to all these witnesses giving their testimony and the Moderator now asked her to tell the truth. Surely, Isabel now has no option but to confess. She stated that George Wilson made attempts upon her chastity both by his words and actions but persisted in saying that she was innocent, having resisted him and not complied in any respect or degree; she added she was bewitched by him.
The Session delayed consideration of the affair until the next meeting and in the meantime appointed a committee of Mr Fernie (the Moderator), John Angus and John Ker (Elders) to look at the evidence and report. On October 12th the committee reported and their unanimous opinion was that George Wilson and Isabel Watson ought to be censured for guilt of “uncleanness with one another”. The report was accepted by the Session and the Officer was ordered to cite George and Isabel to the next meeting.
Both George and Isabel turned up to the meeting held on October 19th 1752. George admitted that he had been guilty of “unseemly carriage” with Isabel Watson as after having 2 pints of ale and a dram he didn’t really know what he was doing but that he had “no carnal knowledge of her”. Isabel stuck to the same story as before and also claimed that George had “no carnal knowledge of her”. The Session decided that they should both be rebuked before the congregation for their “uncleanness” with one another.
The usual outcome of having been found guilty of fornication was that the culprits had to appear before the congregation on the stool of repentance on at least three occasions when they would be rebuked for their offence by the minister. Not turning up when called could result in ex-communication from the church.
Isabel was ordered to appear before the congregation on Sunday, 29th October but she did not turn up. George was ordered to appear before the congregation on Sunday, 5th November but he also did not turn up. Isabel eventually appeared before the congregation on January 21st 1753 when she was rebuked and dismissed. This was unusual, as someone found guilty of “uncleanness” would normally be on the stool of repentance on more than one Sunday. Also, there was no mention in the minutes of George being cited again to appear before the congregation. In fact there is no mention at all of George after the 21st January when Isabel was rebuked before the congregation. How did George get out of being on the stool of repentance? Why did Isabel only have to appear once? It is like reading a novel where the last few pages are missing.
Normally, the only way to escape the wrath of the Session would be to leave the country or to die and it would seem the latter was the fate of George Wilson. Through the activities of George’s sons, who appear to have followed in their father’s footsteps (not just as farmers), more information about George was discovered. In January 1751, Adam Wilson admitted to being the father of an unborn child whose mother was unmarried. In the Minute, Adam is described as the lawful son of George Wilson of Knockhouse. If George was the father of a grown up son then he could not have been a particularly young man at the time of his affair with Isabel. Also, George was accused of fornication, but if he had been married he would also have been accused of adultery. We can therefore assume that in 1752 George was a widower. In April 1761, William Wilson is accused by a lady called Margaret Lyal of being the father of her unborn child and the minute describes William as the son of the deceased George Wilson farmer in Knockhouse. William denied being the father of the child and he was acquitted because Margaret Lyal was found to be “of previous bad character”. Less than a year later, in February 1762, William was accused of fathering another child. The mother was called Grizel Anderson who was a servant in the house of his brother John, who was now running the farm. This time William admitted his guilt and eventually he married Grizel.
What about Isabel Watson. She had married Peter Shorthouse in 1834 and had two children in the 1830’s. We can therefore assume that Isabel was not a young woman when she was having her liaison with George but as Isabel does not appear in any future Session Minutes it would seem she went on to lead an uncontroversial life.
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Blog synopsis: Creating a compelling video for Christmas can significantly boost your brand’s engagement and sales during the yuletide season. Videos have a high engagement rate and ROI. It’s also super dynamic and easy to do with Chant.
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A digital debate took place on Twitter, ahead of today’s debate. Mr Speaker has agreed that for this debate members of the public can use handheld electronic devices in the Public Gallery, provided that they are silent. Photos, however, must not be taken.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz, and, in particular, to be debating the first petition to reach the debate stage under the new system for dealing with e-petitions. The original petition on the joint Government and Parliament website called for a vote of no confidence in the Secretary of State for Health. Fortunately for him—or unfortunately, depending on how people want to look at it—the Petitions Committee does not have the power to initiate a vote of no confidence, and so we decided that the debate should be on the issue underlying the petition, which was the contracts and conditions of NHS staff.
I might be joking about motions of no confidence in the Secretary of State, but the morale of NHS staff is not a joke. It is a long time since I last saw dedicated doctors, nurses and ancillary staff so demoralised and, sometimes, despairing. If we look at the current state of the NHS we can see why. A&E departments are in crisis and missed waiting time targets for the whole of last winter. GP services are struggling to cope, and patients find it harder and harder to get appointments. Last year, the deficit across trusts was nearly £1 billion; this year, that is predicted to double.
Yet despite all that, NHS staff work miracles every day. Who could not be proud of some of the achievements of our surgeons? Who could sit in an A&E department, as I unfortunately had to during the election, seeing the endless patience of NHS staff, and not be grateful to them? Who could watch paramedics dealing with an accident or reassuring a frail and confused elderly patient and not be ever grateful for the NHS? After the Olympic opening ceremony, I remember one American reporter said, “Oh, it’s just like praising UnitedHealthcare.” No, it is not. The NHS is not like UnitedHealthcare, thankfully, and that is why we value it.
NHS staff have been badly treated by this Government. Since 2010 pay increases have been deliberately kept low and last year we saw some staff being told that they could not have even a 1% increase if they were due to get an increment as well. The Government often talk about public services as if they were a drain on the economy, but they are not. Services such as the NHS are a huge contributor to our economy. It is completely wrong that, under this Government, tax is cut for millionaires but dedicated NHS staff are not even entitled to a decent pay rise.
Indeed, in the previous Parliament the NHS was told to make £20 billion of what the Government call efficiency savings but the rest of us call cuts. That is due to rise to £30 billion by the end of this Parliament. The NHS is struggling to cope with fewer and fewer resources but more and more patients. Many of the difficulties being encountered are of the Government’s own making. Ministers criticise spending on agency staff, but the Government’s first act on coming into office in 2010 was to cut nurse training places by over 3,000 a year.
I of course recognise the great work that NHS staff do, not least in Dorset, but is the official policy of the official Opposition now to lift pay restraint in the NHS?
We made our policy quite clear in the last Parliament. In particular, we opposed the Government’s decision to curb 1% pay increases for NHS staff who were gaining increments. The hon. Gentleman really has to think about this: if there are fewer and fewer nurses in our hospitals—in particular, employment in the most senior grades is down by 3%—and we are spending millions on agency staff, something is going badly wrong. Hospitals are being forced to recruit nurses from abroad or spend on agency staff when we have thousands of people in this country who want to train as nurses but simply cannot get the training places that are available.
In a moment. I want to make a little progress and finish this point.
In a moment. The hon. Lady will have to curb her impatience for a little while.
I make no criticism at all of those nurses’ skills, but it is much better to be employing people here in this country. The only people benefiting from the current situation are the companies that supply agency staff. Indeed, one, Independent Clinical Services, saw its profits more than double, from £6.2 million in 2010 to £16.5 million in 2013. In other words, what the Government have done is a textbook example of a false economy.
Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that between May 2010 and May 2015 the number of qualified nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff increased by 2.1%, at 6,622 additional staff?
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for reading that out, but I referred to nurses in hospitals. The number of nurses working in hospitals has fallen under this Government, particularly in the top grades. The failure to train and recruit enough permanent staff is putting a great strain on those staff already in post, who are having to deal with agency staff all the time to make sure that they know how things work in a particular hospital or ward. That does not offer continuity of care for patients.
Can I just say that it is the change to the skill mix that has demoralised nurses, and that did not happen under this Government?
In a moment. I need to make a little progress, because other people want to speak.
No. I need to make a little progress, because other people want to speak.
In Warrington, we have fewer GPs than we had in 2010—those are the Government’s own figures, not mine. Nationally, the number of unfilled GP posts quadrupled in the three years from 2010 to 2013. The Royal College of General Practitioners says there are severe shortages in some parts of the country and that in some areas—it quotes Kent, Yorkshire and the east midlands—we need at least 50% more GPs over the next five years just to cope with population increases. Now, when there are not enough GPs to ensure timely access to appointments on weekdays, it is difficult to see how the Government are going to extend GPs’ working hours without recruiting more staff.
Of course, the cost is also an issue. It is estimated that the costs of extending services beyond the current contract, with one in four surgeries opening late in the evening and at weekends, would be £749 million. That would rise to £1.2 billion if one in two practices were open longer. That is far in excess of the money currently in the GP challenge fund. If the Government intend to proceed without recruiting more staff, that will simply increase the pressures on the staff working already, leading to more burn-out, and it will be a downward spiral. We already know that many GPs are thinking of retiring early.
The Secretary of State has now turned his attention to not only GPs, but hospital doctors and consultants, who he says do not work weekends. Well, I have two consultants in my family, and that is news to me, because they certainly do work weekends. In fact, the Secretary of State so provoked hospital doctors that they took to Twitter under the #iminworkJeremy, posting pictures of themselves working at weekends, often after a 70-hour, five-day week.
Now, I reiterate that everybody accepts that out-of-hours care has to improve, but the Secretary of State needs to achieve that through consultation and by showing respect for the staff we already have. At the moment, he is guilty of muddled thinking; he has deliberately confused emergency care with elective care. Specialists in emergency care do work weekends; in fact, very few consultants opt out altogether—the figure is about 0.3%. Yet, the Government tell us that there are 6,000 extra deaths among people admitted at weekends. The Minister needs to publish the research on that and to go further, because correlation and causation are not the same thing.
May I recommend that the hon. Lady read last week’s edition of the British Medical Journal, where the issue is set out very well by Professor Freemantle?
Yes. I thank the hon. Lady for that useful suggestion. I will do so.
People who are admitted to hospitals at the weekend are much sicker than those admitted on weekdays, because we do not have elective admissions at the weekend.
Does the hon. Lady have any suggestion as to why people are sicker at the weekend? Is it perhaps because they have been unable to get hold of their GP in the evenings or on previous weekends?
I have just said the Government should publish their research and delve deeper into the figures. [Interruption.] Look, the hon. Lady knows that people admitted at weekend are, overwhelmingly, emergencies. That is the point. Their death rates cannot be compared with death rates on weekdays, when there is elective surgery—that is a basic point, which she needs to grasp.
If the Government really believe these things are happening, they need to find out why. As I understand it, death rates are taken over 30 days, so someone can be admitted on a Sunday and die 28 days later, on a Thursday. The Government need to prove cause and effect before they can make the link between admissions at the weekend and death rates. So far, however, we have not seen that from them.
No, I need to make some progress.
What, exactly, is the Secretary of State trying to do? If he is trying to bring about a seven-day fully elective service, he needs to say so. As far as I am aware, no major health system in the world has managed to do that. If he is not trying to do that, he needs to tell us clearly—perhaps the Minister will do so when he winds up—which services he thinks should operate at the weekend.
The Secretary of State also needs to recognise that, to have the service he proposes, he needs not only more doctors, consultants and nurses on the wards, but back-up staff. Doctors operate by leading teams. If they do not have the ancillary staff—the people to do the MRI scans, the radiology and the lab tests—they cannot operate properly. We need to hear how the Secretary of State will implement his proposals. Will he recruit more staff, or will he worsen the terms and conditions of staff who are already not well paid, to introduce weekend working?
It might help to improve morale in the NHS if the Secretary of State refrained from attacking staff for not working at weekends, when they do, and actually negotiated with them sensibly. Staff know what is happening at the frontline, and they can best suggest the changes that need to be made.
We are discussing contracts and conditions. Does my hon. Friend agree that whistleblowing is another issue over which there tends to be silence? The last time there was a full debate on it in this place was 2009. It came up tangentially in 2013, in a debate on accountability and transparency, and it has appeared in statements—I think there was one last July and one earlier this year—but is it not time that we had a full and proper debate?
Whistleblowing in the NHS, as in other areas, is an important issue. It is important to protect staff who blow the whistle to protect their patients, which is their duty. Perhaps my hon. Friend will initiate a debate on that; I am sure we would welcome that.
When the Secretary of State talks about NHS staff and doctors, let us remember that the starting salary for a junior hospital doctor is £22,636. It is not a huge amount when someone has spent years in medical school and works many hours, and often has to deal with seriously ill patients. However, the Secretary of State proposes to change their contracts to take away the extra payments for weekend working, which will effectively mean a huge pay cut. The Scottish Executive will not do that, and that will lead to the ridiculous situation in which two doctors doing exactly the same jobs in different hospitals either side of the border will be on two rates of pay.
As for consultants, I have heard complaints from the Government that Labour raised their pay rates. Yes, we did, and I am proud that we did. I will give the Minister the reason, which was set out very clearly by Frank Dobson, who was formerly my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras. In the City there are people who probably messed about for most of their time at school and played noughts and crosses at the back of the class, and who can make millions. Across the road there will be someone who was probably the cleverest kid in their class and has worked for years in training—often someone who is at the cutting edge of medical development. Yes, those people deserve a decent rate of pay for their skills, training and responsibility.
The Government also forget that consultants’ time is allocated in two blocks: direct clinical care and supporting professional activities. Those two together make up the 40-hour week. SPA time is for such things as mentoring, quality improvement and teaching. Some consultants go on to do more teaching and research, perhaps, but they are doing extra work on top of the 40-hour week, which increases their pay. Consultants’ basic pay ranges from £70,249 to £101,451, so the Secretary of State needs to explain how he can tell us that consultants are paid £118,000 a year. How does he calculate that figure, and what is included in it?
If the Government really want more consultant time on the ward, they could look at some of the things that do not need to be done by doctors, but which doctors currently do because of lack of back-up staff. The Government always talk as if non-clinical staff in hospitals are somehow superfluous and an extravagance. That is not correct. Without the right staff, doctors and nurses are forced to take time from clinical care to do some of their jobs. For example, many doctors whom I have spoken to now collect their own data for audit and input it themselves. That is a job that a competent clerk should be doing—not a consultant. I found one hospital where there is one secretary to a group of 25 consultants. Writing letters takes consultants away from clinical care.
I found one place where the IT equipment is so old that it takes six minutes to boot up, and often collapses, with the loss of the data. If the Government really want more doctor time on the wards they should consider those issues as well, and think about the other staff. As an example, if an operating theatre does not have a full complement of staff, there is no one to send out with the patient who is in recovery, and a doctor must go with them. That slows the turnaround time for theatres, and staff are told that their turnaround time is not good enough.
I say again that it takes a team of people to run the NHS, not just doctors. Let us also remember that the NHS depends on many staff who earn very low salaries. As doctors would be the first to say, those people are an essential part of the team. The NHS Pay Review Body could see a case for some adjustments to unsocial hours pay—and I have not met any staff who do not see a case for that; but it noted that both the Department of Health and NHS employers said that the cost of unsocial hours premiums makes the delivery of seven-day services prohibitive. The Minister must tell us whether the Government will try to deliver seven-day services by cutting the pay of staff again. The review body said that that could risk the morale and motivation of staff.
Recently we have had a few soundbites from the Government, but no clear mechanism showing how they will set out to do what they say they will do. They have pledged an £8 billion increase in NHS funding by 2020. Even taking them at their word—and some of us are rather sceptical—that is the bare minimum to keep existing services going. [Interruption.] If the Minister’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, the hon. Member for Winchester (Steve Brine), will stop chuntering from behind the Minister, I will wind up my remarks. [Interruption.] PPSs, as I told someone once before, are meant to be seen, not heard.
The Minister needs to make it clear what services the Government will run and what staffing arrangements they will put in place. They can put more doctors on the ward, but that will be useless without the back-up staff. It is not surprising that one surgeon in the #iminworkJeremy campaign posted a picture of himself mopping out his operating theatre at the end of the day. That was very good of him, but is it the best use of a consultant surgeon’s time? Above all, the Secretary of State and his Ministers need to stop attacking the people who work in the NHS, and to try to work with them in a climate of mutual respect. It is not hospital doctors, GPs, nurses, lab technicians or cleaners who have caused staff shortages in the NHS; it is the Government. Those staff members did not introduce the disastrous Health and Social Care Act 2012. They are not the people requiring huge cuts in our hospitals and other services. Unless the Government are prepared to recruit more nurses, doctors and ancillary staff, more and more pressure will be put on existing staff, who will suffer burnout. It will be a downward spiral.
When I worked in teaching, a wise old head teacher said to me, “People say that the first thing you have to do in a school is ensure that the children are happy; but no—the first thing you should do is ensure the staff are happy. If the staff are happy the children will be well taught.” That is something that can be applied in many areas. I tell the Minister honestly that he needs to take note of the anger among staff that generated the petition, take it on board, stop denigrating them, and deal with them properly and sensibly, to achieve what the Government have set out to achieve.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Vaz, particularly as recently you were a fellow member of the Select Committee on Health. For the record, I am married to a full-time NHS forensic psychiatrist, although one might say that I do not have a dog in this fight, because he already works weekends.
It may help the House if I comment quickly on the background. I thank Professor Freemantle and his team for their excellent updating of the data following the last analysis of data in 2009-10. He and his colleagues carried out the exercise again based on data from 2013-14, and it may help if I put some of that in context. What he shows is that 1.8% of NHS patients will die within 30 days of admission. It is important that we look not only at the data relating to what happens within a few days, which he has also analysed, but at the longer-term data. He shows a very real effect: if someone is admitted to hospital on a Friday, there is a 2% increase in the risk that they will die within 30 days; if they are admitted on a Saturday, the increase is 10%; if they are admitted on a Sunday, the increase is 15%; and if they are admitted on a Monday, the increase is 5%. Those are relative, not absolute, statistics and are on a background rate of 1.8%, so it is important that we do not alarm people unduly with those data. However, they mean, very importantly, that around 11,000 more people die if they are admitted between a Friday and a Monday, relative to what we would expect had they been admitted on a Wednesday.
That is extremely important, and the Secretary of State is absolutely right to take that very seriously, but we need to look at it in its wider context. Is it simply because a different group of people are being admitted in the middle of the week than are being admitted at weekends? Is it because they are a sicker group of people? Both of those are true, which is why it was important that Professor Freemantle made adjustments for those kinds of data. He showed that even if we take account of the fact that there are genuinely sicker people coming into our hospitals at the weekend, the effect was still present, but it was reduced. There was a 7% increase on a Saturday and a 10% increase on a Sunday, so it was still important. As for people admitted to hospital for routine procedures, it was shown that the nearer it gets to the weekend, the more their chances of mortality increase.
To go back to my earlier point, the Secretary of State is absolutely right to take this issue seriously. This is not just an effect in Britain; it is observed internationally, but it matters. Yes, those people are sicker, and yes, a different group of people is coming in, but there is also the issue of what we should do about it. We must not give the impression that all those 11,000 deaths are preventable. We have to be very careful not to rush into action that leads to a levelling down, rather than a levelling up. We want to bring the data up as far as we can, but when hospitals have done a deep analysis of the deaths that have occurred within 30 days of people being admitted at weekends, it is sometimes very difficult to say what could have happened differently.
We need to look at this issue, but it is not just about consultant presence. Senior supervision at weekends is undoubtedly part of it and is very important, but other issues are at stake. Is there access to diagnostic tests? We need to look beyond this being just about consultants; it is about nursing staff, too. We have to be careful not to shift resources into trying to sort out one part of the issue—consultant presence—because if that means a continuation of a worrying trend of shifting resources out of primary care, we could inadvertently end up with a sicker group of people coming into hospitals at weekends. In other words, we have to be very careful about the balance and potential unintended consequences of what we do.
Undoubtedly, at the root of all this—this issue would face whoever was sitting behind the Secretary of State’s desk—are the issues of financing and resources for the NHS. I hope, as we come closer to the spending announcements, that as much as possible of the £8 billion announced will be front-loaded, so that some of these issues can be addressed. Resourcing and how we spread it across the wider NHS lies at the heart of this question, and it is important that we do not focus entirely on hospitals.
I want to talk more widely about the seven-day NHS. I hope that the Secretary of State will look carefully at what that is for. Is it about trying to reduce that excess weekend mortality? Yes, it should be about that. Should it be about reducing avoidable, unnecessary admissions to hospital? Absolutely. We know that people do not want to be in hospital. It is a dangerous place for someone to be if they do not need to be there, particularly if they are frail and elderly and would be better looked after in the community, so yes—let us reduce avoidable admissions.
Should the seven-day NHS be about accessing the kind of specialist advice that makes a real difference to people’s lives? I am very conscious that this House debated on Friday whether people should have the right to medical assistance in ending their life. It was a controversial debate. I think the House made the right decision, but there was absolute consensus within that debate about the need for greater access to specialist palliative care advice. I would include that kind of thing in a seven-day NHS, because people’s quality of life at the end of their life has an extraordinary impact not only on them, but on their whole family. Seven-day services should be about addressing quality, and I would love the Minister to comment further on how we can bring about sustainable funding for specialist palliative care. That is absolutely part of what we should be doing on seven-day services.
However, there is another aspect, which is more difficult. When resources are very restricted, should we prioritise access to primary care out of hours for people who would prefer to be seen at the weekend than mid-week? I am sure we all understand that—in our busy lives, it is sometimes difficult to take time off work—but it might not be the priority when resources are tight. I speak as someone who, before I came to this House, was a clinician in rural Dartmoor in a two whole-time-equivalent practice. It was a very rural setting, and if we were to try to provide an 8-till-8 service on Saturdays and Sundays for routine GP appointments—if we were, as this is sometimes presented to the public, to enable people to see their doctor at any time—the cost would be enormous. There are extra costs involved in manning surgeries at those times, and there are also issues to do with staff availability.
I visited several practices in my area over the summer recess, and I see there genuine concern about not only the GP workforce, but the wider primary and community care workforce. We have to be very careful. If we prioritise issues such as making it possible to have a routine appointment from 8 till 8 on Saturdays and Sundays—much as I can see merit in that—it will take resources away from the other things on that list of four. We should focus on other priorities on this stage and be clear that there are other risks, such as undermining other out-of-hours services.
I would like the Secretary of State to be very clear about what he means by a seven-day NHS when it comes to primary care, and about how we will make those fair funding decisions and divide the cake, so that we get the very best for people. We absolutely have to address the excess mortality, but we have to look at the reasons behind the data to be realistic about what we can achieve. We have to make sure that we bring the quality up and that we do not inadvertently end up bringing it down by having sicker people coming into hospital, which is one of the drivers of the data that we are trying to address.
Many Members want to speak, and I, along with colleagues, have the opportunity to question the Secretary of State at the Health Committee tomorrow, so I will draw my remarks to an end. However, I hope that those points can be addressed.
I will speak briefly, because unfortunately I cannot stay until the end of the debate. First, I thank those who signed the petition. It is a genuine vox pop, not something that any party brought to the House. A large number of people signed the petition because there was genuinely an explosion of anger. It is absolutely right that we listen to those voices and ensure that they are heard in the House, and that this debate should take place. It is the first debate of its kind—the first debate from the Petitions Committee. There is another one in a fortnight’s time, on a subject that terrifies MPs. We hide our heads under the pillow to avoid talking about it, but the public are very happy to talk about it in great numbers. That subject is the idea of legalising cannabis so that people here can enjoy the benefits enjoyed in many other countries that do not have a neurotic policy that is self-defeating and actually increases cannabis harm. But that is the second debate, which is coming up. This is a great innovation by the House.
The two previous speakers in this debate made very illuminating speeches. I agree with almost every word that has been said. Of course, we genuflect before the expertise and good sense of the hon. Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston). She is someone else who has come to the House as a candidate elected not so much by a party as by a popular vote. Let us hope that politics is changing.
The issue that I worry about greatly is how we behave as political parties. We seem to be indifferent to, or unconscious of, the effect of our words. The use of soundbites, scares and fearmongering is extremely damaging, and it happens so often with the health service. The Daily Mail, about a year ago, had three page 1 headlines all about the health service in Wales. There was no way in which news values, or the problems that arose, which were hugely exaggerated, justified those headlines, but they were there for a political purpose: to denigrate the health service in Wales, under Labour, and to boost the chances of the Conservative party getting votes in the election.
I believe that there is an element of that in this case. Many speeches by the Secretary of State contain valuable, intelligent thoughts about how to improve the health service. If there is some statistical blip that shows there is a problem somewhere—something that is unexpected— of course it should be followed up, but not by an hysterical headline that has one effect, which is to add greatly to the anxiety of patients who are about to go into hospital. As the hon. Lady said, that is a terrifying experience, and people suffer greatly from anxiety beforehand. If they are told that there is a 16% greater chance of dying at the weekend, that anxiety and fear is greatly multiplied.
The evidence was there—and came out in great abundance—of anger at what the Secretary of State was saying, and the misguided and inaccurate picture that he was giving of life in the health service at weekends.
Another tabloid story suggested that we MPs get privileged treatment when we go to hospital. I was rather astonished by that, so I searched the story to find out which hospital gives us privileged treatment, and I discovered that it is St Thomas’s. Well, the only hospital that I have ever been in during the 80 years of my life is St Thomas’s, and I went there as an MP and there was certainly no privileged treatment. I was, quite rightly, treated the same as anyone else. I was stuck in a cubicle and waited there for hours and then stayed overnight in a ward, and rightly so. But the press will believe only negative stories about MPs. That goes on.
I would like to ask the Minister this. A long time ago there was, I recall, another gimmick that a Health Secretary used: he force-fed a beefburger to his young child, when we were all terrified of catching Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from eating beef. That seemed a very unwise thing to do. It is not new for people to use fearmongering and gimmicks to advance political causes. The one question is a simple one. If we are to increase the services at weekends, where will the staff come from? Are we suddenly going to magic up special weekend surgeons? If we improve the service at weekends, we have to reduce the service in the week. Perhaps the Minister can explain that to us.
I welcome the fact that in this House we are talking about the NHS workforce, because that is one of my greatest concerns for the future of the NHS. In my role on the Health Committee, tomorrow and on other days I will be asking questions about the future of the workforce.
The hon. Member for Newport West (Paul Flynn) has just made a very important point: what is said in the House really matters; words matter. I want to talk briefly on the subject of confidence. What really matters for the NHS is patient confidence and public confidence in the NHS. I note that last year, public confidence in the NHS in England went up by 5%, and that is at a time when the NHS is more transparent than ever before about the standard of care. It is being incredibly open about things going wrong as well as things going right, so the public know that problems are no longer being swept under the carpet. In fact, that may be one reason why public confidence has gone up: problems are being investigated and sorted out.
What I said, if the hon. Lady was listening, was that the Government have to dig behind those figures and find out the reason for them. Correlation is not causation. That is a very basic principle when we are looking at things such as that, and I would be grateful if she did not attribute to me words that I have not said.
The hon. Lady is correct to distinguish clearly between correlation and causation, but I did feel that the tone of her remarks seemed to question the evidence of increased mortality over weekends and out of hours. I will say that I agree with her on the need for increased investment in IT to enable the clinical workforce to spend more time on clinical work. I agree with her on that point.
I have observed over recent years that the Secretary of State has championed the NHS. He has fought for its budget to be protected at a time when many other budgets have been cut. He has secured the Chancellor’s commitment to an extra £8 billion of annual funding by 2020, and he has truly focused on patients and clinical quality over finances and structures. I wonder whether any other Secretary of State has spent as much time with his sleeves rolled up in hospitals, not just listening to the sound of bedpans but actually emptying them.
I am a supporter of the Care Quality Commission and observe that three years ago it was close to collapse, but it is now widely praised, particularly by the acute sector. I know that GPs are unhappy about the inspections, but 70% of providers say that the CQC’s inspections have given them information that has helped to improve their service. That has been supported by the Secretary of State.
Along with that focus on quality and transparency, the Secretary of State is to be applauded for trying to improve the culture of the NHS—to make it more open, supportive and connected and to ensure that NHS leaders are in touch with patients and staff.
If the Secretary of State is doing the marvellous job that the hon. Lady suggests, why did so many of the front-line staff in our NHS, who work so hard day in, day out, take to Twitter to express their lack of confidence in him?
I believe that the Secretary of State has done a good job of driving the NHS in the right direction, and I know that a large proportion of the workforce have been very supportive of him.
We are all in this room because we value the NHS, but we must not be complacent. We have to recognise when it lets people down. It is intolerable that if someone has the misfortune to get ill and be admitted to hospital at the weekend, they may be more likely to die. I am not going to repeat the statistics on that, because my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) helpfully updated us, and I suspect that my figures are not as recent as hers. She made a strong case, as have others, for why the NHS needs to have proper seven-day care, which must include the support services mentioned by the hon. Member for Warrington North.
The Royal College of Surgeons strongly supports seven-day care. It has said that one reason why outcomes are worse at weekends is that patients are less likely to be seen by the right mix of junior and senior staff; that such patients experience reduced access to diagnostics; and that earlier senior consultant involvement is crucial. Research from the NHS National Health Research Institute shows that 3.6 more specialists attend acutely ill patients on Wednesdays than on Sundays. More senior doctors need to be available at weekends—not just on call, as many consultants are at the moment, but present in hospitals.
The changes should not be about getting doctors to work intolerable hours, and that is not what is being proposed. As has been mentioned, only a small proportion of consultants exercise their opt-out. One could argue that the changes to the workforce, and to the consultant contract in particular, are about bringing the contract into line with what is actually happening. Looking at the terms of the workforce gives us an opportunity to ensure that there is an appropriate package for doctors in A&E, where there are large numbers of vacancies. That is the case in hospitals in and around my constituency in Kent, which is an area with a high proportion of out-of-hours work. It also gives us an opportunity to ensure that clinicians are recognised and rewarded for taking on management and leadership responsibilities. We really need clinicians to step up and take on those responsibilities. It gives us an opportunity to make sure that consultants are treated as professionals who take responsibility for their patients, their team and the whole service that they provide.
The NHS faces an incredibly tough time over the next five years. It faces rising demand for its services and rising expectations, and even with an extra £8 billion on its way, things will have to change. Senior doctors, along with senior nurses and other health professionals, will have to lead those changes. When I worked in hospitals grappling with the challenges of transformation, ideas came from everyone: junior doctors, senior doctors and patients. When it comes down to it, consultants, matrons and senior staff have to lead from the front and make things happen. They often face opposition from colleagues, so they need to be courageous and put in extra hours.
To ensure that that happens, and to get the NHS from where it is now to where we want it to be in five years’ time, there has to be a sense that we are all in it together. We cannot have a situation in which doctors blame managers and politicians, while politicians and managers point fingers at doctors. We absolutely have to move on and focus on doing what is best for patients, and what will achieve the best clinical outcomes. We have to build trust among all who are involved in healthcare and work out how we can have, and how we can afford, excellent care seven days a week, day and night. We have to support the healthcare professionals—consultants, nurses, managers and everyone else who is going to make that happen.
I just wanted to ask where the hon. Lady would place management consultants in that. The NHS in north-west London has spent, I think, £13 million this year alone on Saatchi and Saatchi, and various other groups. I just wondered where she would place that in that trajectory. Hopefully, it will be something we can all agree on.
I want to make the important point that we in this House need to support the NHS in doing what it needs to do to make the substantial changes that it faces over the next five years. That means supporting managers, supporting doctors and supporting nurses. Let us not try to be divisive.
I believe that the hon. Lady had just finished.
It is a pleasure to serve under your stewardship, Ms Vaz. It is also a pleasure to follow two fellow members of the Petitions Committee, including the Chair, the hon. Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones). The Petitions Committee is a new Committee, and we are feeling our way. As hon. Members have heard, we cannot debate no-confidence motions; petitioners cannot seek a vote of no confidence in a Secretary of State or anybody else. None the less, it is important that we reflect the views and concerns of people who raise substantive matters with us, and I am glad that we have the opportunity to do so today.
Confidence and good staff morale in the NHS are important. In my constituency, morale in our local hospital, St Helier, has been comparatively low for several decades, for a number of reasons. A reorganisation has been recommended in the past couple of years, which we have successfully fought off so far. The NHS clinicians wanted to move A&E, maternity services and children’s services to St George’s in Tooting. One of the reasons why they wanted to do so was the shortage of consultants in St Helier. They wanted to concentrate consultants’ time in St George’s, which is too far away for residents.
One of the big driving factors in that, to my mind, is the fact that over 20 or so years, our local hospital has been used as a political football. People have said, “St Helier hospital is due to close. We have got only a short time, and we have to save it. We have to fight for this, because it will close some time soon.” I do not know about you, Ms Vaz, but if I were a consultant looking to work in the NHS, would I want to go and work in a hospital that is always apparently under threat of closure? No, I probably would not. I would probably go to St George’s or one of the hospitals that are being talked up. I have seen at first hand how staff morale in the NHS can be fragile. The same thing has happened nationally as well. How many times have we heard that we have 24 hours to save the NHS? We keep seeing, hearing and reading that, time after time. It is important to build confidence.
We also have a manifesto commitment to deliver. We talked in our manifesto about having a seven-day NHS, and we have been elected as a Conservative Government, so it is important that we deliver our promises. We have to work with the profession to do that, however. Why do we want a 24-hour NHS? We have heard some of the arguments about safety and patient outcomes, and at the end of the day, patient outcomes are what it is all about. There is also an argument—although, as my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) described, it is a secondary priority, because we do not want to divert too many resources—for convenience and fitting in with people’s lifestyles, which I will come back to in a moment.
The 2003 consultant contract made the seven-day move a lot more expensive to deliver, so we need to change things. Consultants, as we have heard, can refuse to work weekends, but it is quite apparent that a great many do not choose to opt out. We are not saying in a broad-brush way that every consultant opts out of such working. None the less, we need to have a degree of consistency if we are going to move towards a seven-day NHS, because we want to make sure that the healthcare in hospitals around the country is as consistent as possible. Removing the opt-out will leave a new limit of working a maximum of 13 weeks in a year—one in four weekends—which still gives plenty of opportunity for family life and for flexibility in rotas, while delivering better patient outcomes.
The changes also recognise the need for proper reward in areas such as A&E and obstetrics, with higher-performing consultants able to earn a bonus of up to £30,000 a year, and with faster pay progression for new consultants. The hon. Member for Warrington North talked about support services, which are crucial for front-line consultants, doctors and nurses. I am pleased to hear that diagnostic services will be moving in the same direction so that patients can have quicker access to information and advice about their conditions.
I have talked about convenience, and GP services cannot be boiled down to some sort of retail operation such as late-night shopping or Sunday opening. None the less, we need flexibility. The 2004 GP contract led 90% of GPs to stop providing out-of-hours care at night and at the weekend. That contract, in many cases, helped to break the personal link between patients and those responsible for their care, which has been especially hard on elderly people. Caving in to the unions at that point effectively restricted GP services to a five-day service, which created extra pressure on A&E.
I have had the misfortunate of having to use my local hospital’s A&E service four times in the past 18 months with my elderly mum and my wife. My wife stood on a six-inch spike in a park, and when she was writhing around in agony with a spike though her wellington boot, there were a lot of people in A&E who had experienced neither an accident nor an emergency. Those people did not know where to go, they chose not to go to the GP, the appropriate care was not signposted clearly enough, or the GP simply was not open. We need to address those pressures, and a seven-day service will help.
The proposal is part of our wider NHS reforms, which since 2010 have moved to bring patient decisions closer to patients. We need to provide services that patients want, rather than a Henry Ford one-size-fits-all approach—we need greater flexibility. We have largely moved away from that, so we need to continue the move towards a seven-day service and towards greater flexibility. A seven-day service fits in with people’s working practices, childcare and busy lives. There is also greater take-up of digital initiatives such as the NHS national information board, and people are being brought in to help support the greater use of technology.
Members have talked about the statistics on satisfaction with the NHS over the past few years. The Commonwealth Fund’s report in 2014—four years after the Conservative-led Government took over—showed that, according to the fund’s records, the NHS is the best-performing health service in 11 countries.
The hon. Gentleman has surely read the detail of that Commonwealth Fund report. Much of the data that were used data from the previous Labour Government.
The hon. Gentleman will also find that the NHS improved over those years. We were second when the Labour Government were in power, so we have improved, and more data are still coming through. That is backed by public confidence, which has gone up by 5 percentage points to its second-highest level in the period covered by the report. The number of people in England who think that they are treated with dignity and respect increased from 63% in 2010 to 76% last year, according to Ipsos MORI. Record numbers say that their care is safe, and the number who think that the NHS is one of the best systems in the world has increased by 24 percentage points in the seven years since Mid Staffs. That is a great base from which to start, but we need to continue working with healthcare professionals to secure the seven-day NHS that we need and people want to see. Shouting and using the NHS as a political football will not get us very far.
Although there is nothing wrong with employers investing in fitness classes for their employees, does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in a crisis situation, this is simply adding insult to injury?
In his King’s Fund speech, the Secretary of State talked about working with professionals, including the British Medical Association and other organisations, throughout September. That example is why we need to keep the dialogue going. I have seen nothing substantive in speeches by Ministers to pitch them into conflict with the vast majority of NHS staff. It is about change management. Change is always difficult, but change we must do. We can achieve much more together.
Does my hon. Friend agree that staff morale has been an issue for decades? I worked in the hospital in his constituency during the previous Labour Government, and what demoralises staff most is the NHS being used as a political football. Opposition Members are screaming, “We have found data!” But it is not their data; it is patients’ data and the staff’s data. We need to work together. I commend my hon. Friend for saying that we need to work together and stop using the NHS as a political football.
We can take every small initiative, such as the fitness classes, and find offence because the NHS has a limited budget. When staff look at whether there will be a pay increase and what that pay increase and the conditions might be, they tend to find such examples if they are not happy with what is on offer. Obviously, I cannot comment on that particular example.
Change management is always difficult, but we need to change. I believe that we can achieve such change under the calm, professional stewardship of the Secretary of State and his ministerial team.
We have a wonderful resource in the national health service, but it cannot be preserved in aspic. I am lucky enough to have been treated by these wonderful consultants, which is why I am here. Society and medical technologies are changing at an alarming pace. The importance of the central asset of NHS staff cannot be overestimated, and the interest from my colleagues today shows how much Government Members value them. I am the daughter of a nurse, and I am the mother of a health professional. I get berated long and hard on how tough things were, as my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Maria Caulfield) alluded to, and how tough things are. That is a constant state, but let us be realistic: there will be a deficit this year of enormous proportions. Rather than throw in yet another figure, we know the deficit is large, and we know it is a problem.
Do I believe the premise of this petition? No. Important decisions have to be made if we are to focus on the primary need of patient outcomes. The question is how we treat people efficiently, effectively and with compassion. Hospital managers and consultants may say that the changes will deliver a 21st-century model of care that will safeguard both the patient interest and the cost-effectiveness of services, but that is quite wordy and is making everything the same problem. We do not all have the same problem. I completely concur with my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) on rural GPs. There are rural GPs in my constituency who are already feeling stretched, and asking them to deliver two more days of cover—seven days in total—with no more staff is not the answer. We must link training and recruitment, and we must work on a delivery mechanism that means not only the 5,000 extra GPs that we have promised but less box-ticking to free up their time, which would not go amiss. It has been said that we do not have enough GPs, but it takes five years to train a GP. Anyone who starts university now will not be qualified by the end of this Parliament. We are dealing with the legacy of the tail end of the Labour Government, which is one reason why we do not have enough doctors.
I am from a business background, and I ask simply how we can do more with less. Do I believe that the way to achieve better care in our hospital settings is not to have access to seven-day patient services? No, I do not. Do I think that if a child is knocked off their bike on a Saturday or a dad has a heart attack on a Sunday, doctors and nurses should struggle to deliver optimal service without the important back-up of diagnostic services? No, I do not. Why is it that, although an acute bed costs about £900 a night, patients in our hospitals cannot be admitted or discharged as easily on Saturdays and Sundays as on Mondays and Thursdays? One problem is that we cannot discharge. It is not all about who is coming in the front door; it is also about who is going out the back door. It is a real strain.
My local trust, Oxford University Hospitals trust, has recently started a “perfect week” scheme, in which it makes all resources available to all those who work in the hospital system. It has discovered that one main barrier to discharge on Saturdays and Sundays is that pharmaceutical staff are not available at all hours of the day and night. Would it be possible to roll out that concept of a perfect week elsewhere?
It is a very good idea. The lack of pharmacy provision in hospitals is often cited as one obstacle to patient discharge. The cost of not discharging someone on a Friday, meaning that they use a bed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, is £2,700, which is a lot of money.
The hon. Lady was not in the House when we debated this Government’s change to local government finance, but at the time, many of us warned that it would hit social care and impact on our hospitals. Does she accept that hospitals are having great difficulty discharging patients, not only at weekends but during the week, because social care is not available for them?
I would say that it is a mixed picture. What I am picking up from care homes in my constituency is that some wards do it more effectively than others, with better services and things better locked together. Although I accept that there may be a problem, again, I look to the leadership.
I gave birth to some of my children on a Saturday and Sunday. Their entrance did not appear any less special to the obstetrician than those of my children who appeared midweek. I am not consultant-bashing; this is reality. The NHS has been delivering consultants and staff who provide outstanding service, but one cannot deny the statistic that patients’ chance of survival is less if they are admitted to a hospital at the weekend. Even if we extrapolate from those figures to account for the fact that the people admitted at the weekend are often very poorly, and often very elderly, they tell us that there is a problem. It would be remiss of this or any Government not to ask why or to investigate the situation and consider how to provide solutions.
I will not talk about people’s pay or anything else; we have done that. Instead, I shall focus on the petition, which in my view is neither constructive nor helpful. I would like the Government to learn from the best practice of consultants and their teams. Brilliant ideas are out there if we can only harness that best practice. For example, at the virtual fracture clinic at my West Suffolk hospital, a consultant told me that he has cut the number of times that patients must visit the hospital. Work can be done remotely; even discharges can be done on the phone, and those who need further specialist help can be sent on. We need to have honest conversations about the NHS. We need to use its finite resources, including staff, more sensibly if we are to survive.
We have 1.4 million great people working in our NHS, and 1.6 million people working in our social care sector. That is one tenth of this country’s population. We all agree that a seamless pathway between the two is the best future, but I leave Members with this question. If we cannot discuss a way forward that allows us to accept change, understand and develop new ways of working, we may struggle to look after the burgeoning health population, and there may be more than contracts to think about.
Thank you, Ms Vaz, for giving me the opportunity to speak in this debate. I am a passionate supporter of a seven-day-a-week national health service. That might take many formats; it is not a one-size-fits-all situation, so what works in my constituency might be different from what works in someone else’s.
I will not repeat what many of my colleagues have already said, but I think that we need an honest debate. There are difficulties to get over; my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) in particular has described them. We will have to work together and compromise on certain things, but if we do not debate the issue and find a resolution, patients will die from lack of access to good out-of-hours care. We need to tackle it. To be 16% more likely to die just because of the day of the week one is admitted to hospital is not good enough in this day and age.
However, it is not just about the impact on patients and their relatives; it is also about the impact on staff. Tribute has rightly been paid in this debate to staff, senior consultants and doctors who work long hours and come in at weekends. Many of them do so unofficially because they are dedicated, but I want to represent staff who work out of hours because it is part of their contract. I have been a nurse for more than 20 years. I have worked in the community on weekends, when patients without access to a GP have needed painkillers or an urgent dressing and it is difficult to get hold of a doctor. I have been in charge of wards on weekends and nights, when patients tend to be sicker because as medicine has progressed, patients who are well are often discharged earlier, so those left in hospital are often sicker than they would have been a decade ago.
Along with the reduced skill mix that I highlighted earlier, the pressure on nurses, healthcare assistants and other ancillary staff is huge. Two or three staff on night duty with a poorly patient who is septic might have one doctor on call handling four or five other wards, who might have 10 admissions that night to see to first. The staff will have expanded their skills so that they can cannulate the patient, take their bloods and send them off to the labs, but that is the limit of what they can do. It is hugely stressful. I know from having been in charge of a team of nurses on nights how difficult it can be.
That cannot continue. It is not good for patients—we know that their mortality and morbidity rates get worse—and it is not good for staff or for their morale. I have seen nurses in tears after a busy night shift during which we could not care for a patient the way we should have, because we had no access to senior medical advice. Yes, it is possible to phone the consultant on call and have a chat with them, but nothing beats having the advice of an expert who can interpret an X-ray or blood results and who can help junior medical staff prescribe the right antibiotics.
A great example introduced in the past couple of years is the acute oncology service, which has transformed out-of-hours care for cancer patients. As a sister in a research unit not far down the road, I know what a difference that has made to my patients. For some reason, patients tend to get really poorly at half-past 4 on a Friday afternoon, come what may. I have been so pleased with that service, which is now available up and down the country and offers trained senior nurses, doctors and a whole team of people who can assess a patient and get treatment going. For conditions such as sepsis, it is life-saving. Those with spinal cord compression can have a scan urgently and be started on steroids straight away. That is the difference between a patient being able to walk during the last six months of their life and being bed-bound.
That is out-of-hours care at its best, but of course difficulties and contentious issues will arise when renegotiating contracts. It is not just about consultants and senior staff. Proper out-of-hours care will require support services such as radiologists, radiographers and pharmacists. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Victoria Prentis) spoke about the perfect week; I could talk to hon. Members day in, day out about how many patients we kept in hospital over the weekend because we could not access drugs to send them home. That is not a great use of hospital resources, but more importantly that is not a great experience for patients and their relatives.
Support services make a huge difference, but my plea is that we do not use the debate as an opportunity to score political goals. We have to work together. If we do not work cross-party on this, we will be here in 10 years’ time. Patients will lose out and their families will lose loved ones if we do not make a difference. It will not be easy. Nobody will be happy about working different hours. We are not asking people to work more than 40 hours a week; we are just asking people to work differently. We are not even just talking about how we work, but about a systems change in the culture of the NHS, so that the patient at half-past 4 on a Friday afternoon does not think, “What lies ahead for me this weekend?” I urge hon. Members on both sides of the House to be as constructive as possible.
I am grateful to the hon. Lady; she has been most generous in giving way. She says that she is not expecting NHS staff to work more than 40 hours a week; did she mean to say that? Many of them already work more than 40 hours a week. Is it now Government policy that no one in the NHS should work more than 40 hours a week?
The hon. Lady is being disingenuous.
Of course. I have worked more than 40 hours a week; many staff do. We are not asking staff to work more hours—we have been very clear—but we are asking staff to work differently. I do not think that there is anything wrong with that if it provides a better service for the patient and takes the pressure off those front-line staff who are without radiology support, laboratory support and senior cover support. I ask the hon. Lady to support the measures and work with us, so that we can work with healthcare professionals to achieve that. They need senior support out of hours, because they need someone to interpret test results, make decisions to discharge a patient and break bad news when results are not good, and they need senior expertise to refer to others to move the process forward. My plea is that is we all work together.
I welcome the debate this afternoon. It is good to have it. I am pleased that healthcare professionals flag up issues, because I do not want policies to be steamrollered in, as they have been in the past, and for us to sit here 10 years later reaping the results. I welcome the seven-day-a-week initiative and the move to change the culture and the system, so that ultimately patients see improvement in patient care.
Thank you, Ms Vaz; I missed the first few minutes of the debate owing to a delegated legislation Committee, so I appreciate your calling me to speak. I speak not as a healthcare professional, but as a husband, father and proud supporter of our NHS. I am passionate about our NHS, because it has always been there for me and my family when we needed it. My daughter was born in Colchester general hospital and my son sadly passed away there in October last year. I cannot fault the care and compassion that the NHS gave me and my family, and I will never forget that. Yet, I am bombarded with criticism that, as I am a Conservative, I must somehow care less about the NHS than the Labour party does. The scaremongering and empty rhetoric is patronising and insulting. It has to stop.
I spent several months, as we all did, speaking with constituents in the run-up to the general election. The message I received was loud and clear: they care deeply about our NHS and want us to work together to address the underlying causes and challenges facing it—challenges like an ageing population and the rise in long-term health conditions like diabetes and dementia. They do not want cheap party political point scoring.
I am fortunate to represent a constituency with a large general hospital. The pressures on my own hospital are well known, as it is currently in special measures. Last year, we saw a major incident declared in relation to accident and emergency. I desperately want Colchester hospital to come out of special measures as soon as possible. However, I want it to happen only when the healthcare regulators feel that it has improved significantly enough to warrant it. Although I and many others were saddened to see Colchester receive an inadequate rating from the CQC, that close scrutiny is absolutely necessary. High standards at the trust are needed to address some of the deep-rooted issues facing the hospital. That is why I welcome the steps taken by the Secretary of State to introduce such a rigorous inspection regime, which puts patient safety at its heart.
I do not recognise the assertions of the petition we are debating today. The changes to contracts and conditions for workers in the NHS are absolutely vital to help us deliver the seven-day NHS that we all need. Diseases and illnesses do not strike only in the working week. Patients should get the same high-quality, safe care on a Saturday and Sunday as they do on a weekday. To take the case of my grandmother, who also sadly passed away last year, why can someone diagnosed with cancer at the beginning of the week have radiotherapy within two to three days, but someone diagnosed at the end of the week have to wait until Monday? That is not acceptable, which is why we need better flexibility in NHS staff contracts, going hand in hand with recruiting more doctors, consultants and nurses to staff those enhanced services.
Colchester general hospital emergency department has undergone a major reform programme over the past six months, which has contributed significantly to a sustained improvement in performance. The trust invested in three rapid assessment and diagnostic units, which have increased the department’s ability to assess and treat patients rapidly, resulting in shorter stays. In addition, there is now an action plan in place to address low staffing levels, which have improved significantly on every shift. The trust is welcoming a cohort of new substantive nurses, who are joining following a successful recruitment campaign. I sat on the recruitment panel for the new chief executive of the trust, Frank Sims, and I am very confident that he will be able to help turn the trust around. He has a strong record on staff engagement and working with partner organisations—two areas in which our trust desperately needs to improve.
I want to put on record the help and support that the Secretary of State has given Colchester general hospital. He has visited twice during the past year and has taken a genuine interest in our local healthcare. I also very much welcome the recent announcement about the success regime, which shows the determination of the Secretary of State to address the underlying issues facing the NHS in Essex and tackle them head on. Identifying problems, bringing in better leadership and helping our health and care systems to work better together is, in my view, the right approach.
NHS professionals tell us what is needed to address the underlying issues in the system: better self and family care; early diagnosis of illness and response; more focus on preventive healthcare; faster access to medication; community-based care where appropriate; and quicker discharge into community services. We can argue and debate about the process and the different ways of implementing the change our NHS needs. We can debate the funding. We could and should debate the future challenges. Make no mistake, our NHS will need to adapt over the next five years to keep pace with our changing demography and society, but let us make it a grown-up debate based on evidence and professional opinion, not conjecture and scaremongering.
I declare an interest: I am a doctor and member of the British Medical Association, and I still work in the hospital.
We are talking about data showing that people admitted at the weekend are more likely to die within 30 days than those admitted on weekdays. It is important to listen to what Bruce Keogh said, which is that it would be misleading to assume that all of those deaths could be prevented. We use terms as if the deaths were avoidable or talk about people “dying unnecessarily”, but we do not know. We must understand what the data show. There is nothing wrong with the data and nothing that can ever be bigger, because the NHS is the biggest single health service in the world. Professor Freemantle has done the work twice and the pattern is there, but it is not people dying at the weekend; it is important to realise that his data show the reverse. They show fewer people dying on a Saturday or Sunday then dying on a Wednesday. What is higher is the number of people who are admitted, and we need to understand that. As the hon. Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) said, they are sicker people. On a Saturday, there are 25% more people in the most ill category and on a Sunday there are 35% more people in that category.
It was said that there was an increased number of deaths among elective patients admitted on a Sunday, and people wondered why that was. As a surgeon with a Monday list, I can say that the norm now is that patients come in on the morning of surgery. So, for me to get permission for someone to come in on a Sunday, let alone a Saturday, means that that person has complex co-morbidity. If we are simply looking at additional populations, we cannot simply use a broad sweep and assume that all of this can be changed, because it cannot be; these people are inherently more ill, whether they are elective patients or emergency patients. Those data are absolutely there and they remain when we re-analyse them or try to balance them, so this issue needs to be tackled.
There are a few myths going around, including the idea that the opt-out clause is a major barrier. The opt-out clause that was cited was for routine work. Consultants do not get to opt out of emergency work at night or at weekends if they work in an acute service. If a consultant works in a service where acute provision is at all relevant, that acute provision is part of what they do and they do not get to opt out of it. Nine out of 10 consultants work out of hours and the other 10% are engaged in specialties for which there is not an acute service.
There has been talk about getting people to work for only 40 hours. My colleagues who are still up the road holding it together work for 48 hours and they simply cannot work more than that because it is illegal under the European working time directive to do so. Most consultants within the acute system work 48 hours a week, and I am sure that those of us who are married to them or simply aware of them will be well aware of that fact; indeed, we will have been told that in no uncertain terms in the last few months.
It is important that we focus what we do on trying to save the lives of those among those 11,000 people who can be saved. When I was a junior doctor, I was aware that getting scans out of hours or at weekends was very difficult, and so patients hit “pause” for a few days. I do not think there is that much difference in services; I find it hard to believe that there is. In Scotland, the situation has been changing for five or 10 years, not by threatening or cajoling people but simply by evolving. Our consultant radiologists cover the entire weekend; our stroke patients get CTs; and our heart attack patients go straight to get angiography, will get an angioplasty there and then, and will go home after breakfast the next morning. So this idea that we have big tracts of those in medicine sitting home watching “Coronation Street” is not true.
The NHS will be cash-strapped; it has to save £22 billion per year in the next five years, which is a big challenge. So now is not the time to say, “We can provide GP services eight to eight, seven days a week.” The pilots have not been successful. The uptake was 50% for Saturday and 12% for Sunday, and some of those pilots reported that there was great difficulty in covering the out-of-hours GP service, which people who feel unwell should be going to, because what was being talked about was totally routine.
Both in hospital and in primary care, we need to focus our attention on improving the access for people who feel unwell, which includes people being able to access a GP and not having to go to A&E with something that means they do not need to be there. That is recognised within the profession, but it is important for people to work together towards that aim rather than pulling out the pin and throwing a grenade at somebody, which is obviously how the profession regards what has happened during the summer. Like many people in Westminster Hall today, I was inundated by messages from colleagues, including from doctors south of the border who I do not know at all. They were very angry at the statement on 16 July that senior doctors do not work outside 9 to 5, which is patently not true.
We need to look at what we should do about these figures. One of the groups that shows the effect of this situation very strikingly is stroke patients. However, research by Bray looked at 103 stroke units, including units where there was seven-day consultant review through the day, and compared them. There was absolutely no difference between that seven-day service and units where there was a routine ward round and no ward rounds at the weekend. What made a significant difference was the ratio of fully trained registered nurses to patients. When that ratio was halved, so that there were twice as many nurses, the mortality was reduced by a third. So, before we go rushing into policy, even if we are working cross-party it is important to understand the data sufficiently to answer the question, “Do we need more doctors or do we actually need more nurses?” That is a pretty important question to answer before any moves are made.
It is also important to focus on the emergency side. People say, “Well, Tesco is open 24/7”. Actually, it is not open 24/7 totally. People will not find the fishmonger 24/7; the baker will not be making fresh bread; and there will not a butcher producing fresh cuts of meat. It will be the basic system that is open 24/7, so let us not confuse matters. And frankly, we can generate a person to work in Tesco, stacking shelves or operating the till, an awful lot quicker than we can create a GP, which will take 10 years because there are five years of medical school and then five years of training, or a consultant, which requires five years of medical school and—in my time—about 15 or 16 years of training.
There is no quick fix for this situation and we cannot afford to take on extra staff, but actually the money would be the easiest bit because we do not have the extra staff. The Government talk about 5,000 extra GPs and yet the British Medical Association shows that we will lose 10,000 GPs in the next five years. That means that we would need 15,000 GPs, and we simply cannot produce that number. So we need to ensure that we hang on to all the doctors we have, including the junior doctors, because that partly comes down to what those junior doctors see, including how they see their seniors working and what they think of that as a career. I say that because junior doctors have always gone to places such as Australia but they used to come back; now they are not coming back.
This whole matter could have been handled better, but the issue is working with people. The Scottish Government are also working towards seven-day cover, but they have been very clear that what they are talking about—the priority within that system—is seven-day cover for people who are ill. That means expanding the out-of-hours service for GPs and expanding what is available to us as senior doctors inside hospitals. That is the route that must be followed, and not the use of a grenade.
I welcome the hon. Lady’s thoughts and agree with a lot of what she has said. On the issue of nurses, does she agree that it is not just the number of nurses that matters but the skills mix? Because of budget constraints, what has happened over the past two decades is that the skill of senior nurses has been cut back, and those senior nurses are now often not on duty at nights and weekends, which has made a crucial difference.
I made the point that Bray’s paper talked about registered nurses—so, degree nurses—and that reflects the skill mix.
We need to know what the actual problem is rather than just running in and throwing ideas and policies around. Attacking staff who work very hard and for really long hours is not very fruitful. We need NHS staff to believe in the political decisions, the guidance and the direction being taken in the future, so I simply suggest that everyone in this House look at the way forward.
When time permits, it is our practice in Westminster Hall that when a Member has been here for the opening speeches and then had to step out temporarily, we give them the opportunity to speak. So I call Andrea Jenkyns to speak.
Thank you, Mrs Gillan. I will be brief, but I wanted to make a few points that I feel are important. I am speaking in this debate because I truly support the NHS. I have worked in it for the past four years, through the charity sector, and my sister also works in it. The NHS is a vital national institution, and we must protect it and make sure that it is secure for the next generation. However, that does not mean that it is constituted in a way that is perfect. There are many flaws, which must be addressed to ensure that the service is in step with people’s lives in this rapidly changing world.
With more medical innovation comes more advanced treatment. Diseases that 20 years ago might have been a death sentence can now be easily treated, but only if we provide people with the care that they need, when they need it. Patients should not be worried about going into hospital on a weekend, thinking they might not be able to see a consultant to diagnose their complaint. That is why I fully support the Government’s plans for a truly seven-day NHS.
Let us not forget that the recommendations come from independent bodies that have reviewed the pay and conditions of senior managers in the NHS. The recommendations would bring about real change and ensure that people could access the treatment they needed, when they needed it. It is about ensuring that key decision-making staff are there to support people when they most need it. That will ensure that we start to treat people as soon as possible after their diagnosis. There should be no situation where consultants can demand extremely high fees to provide a service to patients out of hours. Other key public sector workers cannot do that.
The change is only possible through the Government’s investment of £10 billion in the NHS, and through the determination to ensure that the NHS provides the best possible services to patients and reassurance to families whose loved ones are unwell, and ensures better outcomes for all. The hon. Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones) mentioned the demoralisation of NHS staff. Trials of seven-day services have already taken place in such hospitals as Salford and Northumbria, and according to the Government’s statistics, those hospitals have increased patient care and staff morale.
I briefly turn to the substance of the petition that led to the debate. For the past four years, I have worked on health issues. Since I have been elected, I have become a member of the Health Committee and have set up an all-party group on patient safety. The Health Secretary has been attacked, with calls for a vote of no confidence, but since I have been elected, he has been absolutely fantastic. Throughout the work I have done, not only on the Health Committee, but in setting up the all-party group, he has been there to support me with help and guidance. I am planning a major national campaign on hand washing, and he has met charity representatives. He is a person to lead our NHS. Every time I speak with him, I am hugely impressed by his compassion, knowledge and drive to make real improvements to the service and the lives of those who work in it. I have no doubt that he is the right man to drive through improvements to the health service, and I have every faith that he, as much as anyone else, wants to improve the NHS, to work closely with the staff and to ensure that the changes to how they work are well received and appropriate to their needs.
I return to the opening remarks of the hon. Member for Warrington North. She accused the Secretary of State of attacking NHS staff. She has said that the NHS is under threat from this Government. During the election campaign, Labour tried to weaponise the NHS, and she has continued that agenda today. The debate should, however, include a view of the NHS under Labour’s tenure. If we are looking at staff costs, we should look at the massive increase in agency costs that began under the last Labour Government. From 2007 to 2009, spending on agency staff increased by 60% and continued to rise in the five years of the previous Government because of the shackles placed on contracts by Labour. That situation is being addressed by the Secretary of State, with caps on costs for agency staff bringing down costs for trusts. While Labour is busy weaponising the NHS, the Secretary of State is trying to undo the damage done to the service under Labour.
My experience of the NHS has not always been good. Sometimes it has been fantastic; other times it has been not so great, such as when I lost my father to a hospital-acquired infection. I am encouraged by the work that is being done on improvements.
It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mrs Gillan. We have had a good debate, and it is a pleasure to speak in it, for a number of reasons. This opportunity comes with a number of pressures. I note that this is the first debate relating to an e-petition under the new system. As the shadow teams are still being put together, I am not sure whether this will be my last outing as a shadow Health Minister or as a shadow Minister altogether, but patience is a virtue and time will tell.
It is a particular pleasure to respond to my good friend the Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones), who opened the debate. From my slightly partisan perspective as the shadow Health Minister, I thought she made a devastating critique of the Government’s record on the NHS. She will be an outstanding Chair of the Petitions Committee, which is, again, a parliamentary first. I declare an interest: in my first Parliament, from 2005 to 2010, I was a member of the Procedure Committee, and we looked at the practicalities of having a proper petitions facility and a petitions Committee to back that up in the House of Commons. The wheels of democracy take a long time to turn, but here we are 10 years later with the Petitions Committee, debating the first of the probably great number of petitions already lodged with the House of Commons. I welcome my hon. Friend to her post.
While I am making welcoming remarks, I welcome the promotion of my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander) to the role of shadow Health Secretary today. She will be a doughty campaigner for the NHS in that role, as she has been for her constituency, not least because she cut her teeth on the Lewisham hospital issue.
I also pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham), who has served diligently and excellently as the shadow Health Secretary for the past four years. I have been privileged to work under him. He has been committed to the national health service in his time as a Health Minister and as the Health Secretary, and in his time in opposition.
There was a need to adjust the terms of the debate to ensure that we addressed the issues and not the personalities, but we have all alluded to why we are here, what triggered the petition and the reasoning behind it. Government Members might want no challenge to their record and policies, but the fact is that while we agree on a large area of health policy—where we do, it is right that there is consensus—we will not avoid political debate just because it is uncomfortable for some Members. It is right that where the Opposition—whichever parties they may be—have differences of opinion with the Government of the day, we are able to raise them.
When it comes to the seven-day NHS, the Health Secretary has a habit of spinning the data to suit his purpose and to divert attention away from some of the Government’s failures on the NHS. Of all his public pronouncements since the election, the most controversial —indeed, it inspired many people to sign the petition—was his suggestion that NHS staff are avoiding working at the weekend. As we heard from the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford), that is just not the case, and she speaks with a vast amount of experience. Let me reiterate: it is not true, and we know it is not true.
I want to place on record my appreciation and thanks to all who work in our NHS: the consultants, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff and the ancillary staff. They do a tremendous, often thankless job under difficult circumstances. The deluge of social media users sharing photos of themselves working at the weekend on wards and in surgeries demonstrated just how absurd the Health Secretary’s claim was. Indeed, according to a series of freedom of information requests, only 1% of consultants in our health service actually opt out of weekend working.
The Health Secretary told consultants they needed to “get real”, but it is the Health Secretary who needs to get real. Rather than picking fights with hard-working NHS staff, he should be consulting them on the best way to deliver seven-day services. If the Government are serious about delivering further weekend care, they have to stop coming out with speculation and conjecture, and must urgently define what they want to deliver and how they plan to pay for it. Demonising doctors who are already working evenings and weekends will get us nowhere.
A seven-day NHS is the aim of all those who want the best health service in the world—I include myself among them—but to achieve one, we have to listen to those on the frontline and address their concerns. Staff are rightly worried about losing their antisocial hours pay, the effect of which could be devastating for huge numbers of assistants and nurses. Working at night is as expensive as shifts get, with transport and childcare being more expensive or totally unavailable, and all the evidence shows that night shifts have a detrimental effect on people’s health. It is only right that such shifts are appropriately compensated. I sincerely hope that the Minister, for whom I have a great deal of respect, will address that point in his reply.
The scale of the recruitment crisis is startling even to those of us who have been following the fortunes of the two Health Secretaries since 2010. The coalition Government were wrong to cut training places as one of their first acts, and immigration policy is not joined up with the need for recruitment from abroad. If adequate numbers of staff are not being trained at home, the two polices do not make any sense together. As we have heard, retention is a big challenge; it is about not only the new staff coming through the system but the staff leaving at the other end.
My message to the Minister and the Health Secretary is this: if they want to deliver a seven-day NHS, we will work with them, but they will not achieve it by picking a fight with staff and, importantly, they will not achieve it unless it is properly funded. The Conservatives made many promises on the NHS before the election, many of which the Government have already dropped, and many more of which have not been funded. If the seven-day NHS promise is to be realised, I implore the Minister to work closely with the health service unions and actually go out and speak to the health professionals that keep our system going.
More broadly, we need a serious debate about how services are organised across the whole week, so that people can stay healthy in their own homes. The Minister and I have debated the concept of whole-person care on numerous occasions—in fact, we debated it at length both before and during the general election. There was a degree of consensus around the plans of my right hon. Friend the Member for Leigh. We desperately need to make sure that all parts of our health and care service work together to ensure that care focuses on the individual.
It is no good Government Back Benchers lauding the ring fence for the NHS budget when, as we heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington North, social care budgets have been ransacked. I should not need to remind Government Members, but the fact is that social care cuts are NHS cuts because of the pressure that they cause throughout the health system. Let us look carefully at the workforce issues that triggered the petition and this debate. Let us work with staff, because without them the NHS will not be transformed into that single health and social care service. For all of us who care about the NHS, ultimately that must be our goal.
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship for the first time, Mrs Gillan, as it was to serve under the previous Chair, Ms Vaz.
This is an important and exciting day because we are responding to the first e-petition under the new system. The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne) is quite right that it should have happened some time earlier. I hope that through what are pretty modest forays into social media we can make more popular the debates that take place in Westminster Hall, because they are often far more thoughtful and certainly more nuanced than some of the debates that one hears just a few hundred yards away.
I am grateful to the Chairman of the Petitions Committee, the hon. Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones), for her introduction. Hers was a vigorous opening argument and certainly did what it should have done, which was to spur a good and, at many points, enlightening debate. There is much to which I would like to respond, but at times the debate turned into a general critique of the NHS, so if I tried to answer every point, Mrs Gillan, I think we would be here beyond the 7.30 pm cut-off that you and, I imagine, other Members would not like me to reach.
The debate encompassed many of the issues and problems that confront the NHS, as do all discussions of seven-day services because they touch on contract reform and how we manage the NHS workforce. At the core of the debate was what we are trying to do: deliver exceptional, world-class care to every patient coming to an NHS institution, hospital, GP or community service in England and, by extension, the other nations of this country.
I, too, pay tribute to some shadow Front Benchers. I am grateful for the words of the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish. I almost wish he had not said what he did, because I wanted to say that I hope he keeps his Front-Bench position. He has always been a very reasonable defender of the Labour party’s point of view and a strong interrogator of the Government’s policies. That is exactly what opposition should provide. I should take the opportunity to say how much I will miss his colleague, the hon. Member for Copeland (Mr Reed), with whom I sat in this Chamber a couple of days ago for his last debate as a shadow Minister. I did not have the opportunity then—the moment escaped me, and I did not have knowledge or foresight about where he would be on Saturday—to wish him well and say how much I had, in my short time as a Minister, enjoyed debating important issues in the Chamber with him.
It is also entirely right to say that the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) has been Secretary of State for Health, a Health Minister before that, and a shadow Secretary of State for a long time. His contribution to debates about the NHS has been very important. It is clear from how he speaks that he cares passionately about the health service, and I very much hope that he delivers the same kind of force of argument in his new position as shadow Home Secretary.
It will be good to see what the new shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander), brings to her role. I hope that she will enter into arguments and debates on NHS reform with the spirit of openness and decency shown by the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Dr Whitford), who often attends these debates, bringing a great deal of personal experience from both this country and abroad, and who makes sure—no doubt because we often feel chastised if it goes any other way—that the debate is continued with a sense of decorum and a remembrance that our discussions are held in public. We must be aware of the fact that what turns people off political discourse more than anything is a silly repetition of party political positions with no meeting in the middle or discussion of the issues at hand.
It is in that spirit that I hope to address the central point of the presentation of the petition by the hon. Member for Warrington North. I am glad that we have these petitions, although perhaps a little less glad that this particular petition contains such stridency of language. Nevertheless, at the core, what concerns me is the point made very well by the hon. Lady: words matter. That was echoed by my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid Kent (Helen Whately). We must be very careful about the words we use—not only the manner in which we say them but how they might or might not be construed.
Hon. Members may not be surprised to hear that I have read—several times, as it happens—the Secretary of State’s speech on this matter. I have also seen the coverage on it, and there is dissonance between the two. At no point did he attack NHS staff or suggest that they are not working in conditions that are often heroic, and at no point did he suggest that we have ended up at this impasse because of a wilful wish on the part of NHS staff not to work at weekends. What was construed from that speech has unfortunately meant that our debate has been about a number of words and phrases that were not used, intended or even suggested.
Turning to the core of the speech, the Secretary of State began by saying that talking about seven-day services is not news to a large number of NHS staff, because nurses, porters, cleaners and many of those working under the “Agenda for Change” contract have, for the entirety of their professional lives, been working in seven-day services. His main contention was that, given the weight of evidence on excess mortality that can be attributed to differential working patterns at weekends and on weekdays, it is at least reasonable to ask what we are doing to ensure that if someone is admitted on a Saturday or a Sunday they can expect the same quality treatment and intensity of consultant and diagnostic support as they would receive on a Wednesday. That suggestion was not plucked out of the blue.
I have two points to make. Given that the petition is an ad hominem attack on the Secretary of State, it is right to say that I have never encountered anyone in a ministerial post who has acquitted himself with as much passion about a point on which he wishes to concentrate—patient safety—as the Secretary of State. The right hon. Member for Leigh recognised that when he was shadow Secretary of State, and it is recognised even by those who often oppose the Secretary of State in the BMA and other professional representation bodies. The fact is that the Secretary of State is passionate about patient safety. He cares deeply about it, which is why he takes an intense interest in gathering evidence about differential mortality rates.
I want to run through in detail where NHS England’s thinking comes from and why the Government have decided to act as they have. As the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire knows, there have been various academic papers from the United States and some from the United Kingdom on differential mortality, and they contain many of the questions and answers that have been alluded to today. It is certainly true that people are admitted sicker at weekends, which points in part to the need to do something about community and GP services at weekends. That is part of the reason why people are being admitted sicker. If somebody with a serious acute illness is seen on a Wednesday, they will receive a level of service—both diagnostic and consultant support—that they are unlikely to receive in many hospitals on a Saturday or Sunday.
The Minister is making a sensible point, but could he enlighten us about exactly which services the Government foresee working seven days a week? Has the Department for Health assessed how many extra staff will be required to ensure that happens? NHS staff have got to have days off sometimes, so if they are working at the weekend they will have to have a day off in the middle of the week. How many more staff will we need?
Those are very reasonable questions. If the hon. Lady will allow me to continue with what I was setting out, I will certainly answer them.
That assortment of academic research, together with the wide anecdotal evidence from people who have experienced poor care in good hospitals, either for themselves or for their relatives, led NHS England to conduct the Seven Days a Week forum in 2013, which gathered together clinicians to look at the challenge. It produced a clear strategy for dealing with differences in care quality at weekends, compared with the week, and set out 10 clinical standards that it believes hospitals must meet to eradicate the difference between weekday and weekend working. Many hospitals are implementing the 10 clinical standards on a variable basis during weekdays, so the work done for weekends was helpful in determining a standard clinical approach for maximising the ability to reduce avoidable deaths for weekend and weekday admittances. The product of that forum was taken forward by NHS England and incorporated into its five-year forward view, in which the NHS, separately from the Government, made a commitment to seven-day services. It did so not because of the benefits to patients—as my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully) said, that is a secondary reason for pursuing the agenda—but purely because of the need to reduce excess mortality where possible.
This is a challenge on the scale of infections in hospitals. It is our duty not only to find out precisely why excess deaths are happening—as the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire correctly said, further work is needed and the data must be understood—but to do what we can as quickly as possible to reduce them where we think they are preventable. That is why NHS England incorporated the seven-day service into its five-year forward view. NHS England asked for an additional £30 billion of spending between 2015 and 2020, of which it said £22 billion can be achieved through efficiencies within the service. It is important to point out to the hon. Member for Warrington North, who made that point, that they are not cuts but genuine efficiencies within the organisation. On top of the £22 billion of internal efficiencies though a better use of IT, to which she alluded, and better job rostering—I will turn to that in a minute—there will need to be an injection of £8 billion to make up the rest of the £30 billion. That package will implement the five-year forward view, which includes seven-day services and many other things of great importance and about which all parties agree, such as shifting resources from providers to primary care, social care and the community sector.
This programme was not invented by the Secretary of State in a speech given to annoy doctors and consultants, much as that might be the impression given by some people on Twitter. It is the policy response of a Government taking seriously the clinical evidence and advice of NHS England, led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh. We are responding to give NHS England and the providers tools with which they can deliver a seven-day NHS service in hospitals and GP practices.
I turn to the changes in the contracts, which are at the heart of the petition and the speech of the hon. Member for Warrington North. The contract terms are based on a review by the doctors and dentists pay review body, which identified a number of areas where contract reform is needed, including the systems of opt-out and on call. It asked a completely reasonable question: why should it be that some members of the workforce, who are expected to work at weekends as part of their normal shift patterns, do not have the option of an opt-out from their contract, while others—who tend, as it happens, to be far more highly paid than those who do not have the option of an opt-out—do? It proposed a series of changes, which in our view make up a far better contract for both junior doctors and consultants. On balance, we feel that it presents a real opportunity for consultants and doctors to improve not only their working conditions but, in some cases, their pay.
To take some salient examples from the consultants’ contract, we want a far more equitable and reasonable distribution of clinical excellence awards—many consultants are privately critical of how they are awarded—within not a cut to the total consultant budget, but exactly the same existing pay framework.
To point out a slight difference, we do not have those awards in Scotland. We have local discretionary points, but the national clinical awards have been done away with for quite some time. Much as we also struggle with staff, we have not been haemorrhaging them south on that basis.
The hon. Lady points out that contractual differences already exist between NHS Scotland and NHS England. Officials have looked with interest at the experience of NHS Scotland—one of the pleasures of the devolved NHS system is that we can all learn things from one another. I hope that the new replacement of the clinical excellence award will be perceived as far fairer by clinicians and will reward those surgeons who are giving their utmost in academic research and the professional development of others. That is a tangible improvement to consultants’ terms.
It is important to point out, as several of my hon. Friends have done, that we are talking about ensuring that, at most, consultants work no more than one weekend in every four. That is the basis on which they will be contracted to work in a seven-day NHS. We are not talking about seven days at a time, but about shift rotas and patterns, as many people in professional life already recognise, not least some of those who have spoken in this Chamber. We need to get to a situation in which NHS professionals at the top, as well as those at the bottom, are trusted to organise their life and work patterns according to the professionalism they hold so dear. Many consultants in the NHS want to move to contract reform so that they may express their professionalism in that way, and we need to ensure that it happens so as to bring them with us, rather than its being forced on them.
For that reason, I am delighted that the consultants committee of the BMA has agreed to rejoin negotiations. It has seen that there is a basis for reaching an agreement, which suggests—contrary to some of what has been said by Opposition Members—that things are being done with a sense of collaboration. We have wanted to enter the negotiations for some time. The BMA, for reasons no doubt connected with the election—probably understandably—decided to withdraw from negotiations, but it has now come back. We and the consultants committee can reach a good position on the proposed contract.
The junior doctors’ contract is a proposal of great strength, not least because we include a significant increase in basic pay rates, which should be welcomed across the board. The contract addresses one of the points made by the hon. Member for Warrington North and does something important for the way in which junior doctors are perceived by their management. Instead of offering, in effect, danger money for excess hours, which is surely not the way to manage a workforce, it gives junior doctors a right to a review of their hours, so that they may properly manage their work rotas and patterns. For the first time, that will be enshrined in their contract. They will have far more predictable work patterns; providers—employers—will be forced to think seriously about work-life balance when constructing the roster; and, on pay and on the offer to juniors for their working life, the proposed contract will produce a far happier outcome.
I had hoped that the juniors committee would already have agreed to come back to the table, and I remain hopeful. The committee is meeting imminently—in six minutes’ time, in fact—and I hope that it is listening to the words in this Chamber, because hon. Members and others listening have heard nothing from both Government and Opposition Members but unalloyed praise for NHS staff and a real desire to work cross-party to secure the kinds of advances in quality that everyone wishes to see. With the juniors at the table, we could reach a constructive and reasonable resolution to the need to change their contract. That need was impressed on Ministers not only by the DDRB—the review body on doctors and dentists remuneration, but by the NHS’s own independent pay review body. Many in the service, perhaps more quietly than those who have been most exercised on Twitter, know that it is necessary.
Is the Minister aware that if we compare the number of staff in a particular NHS service with the demand for that service over time, we can see that demand is sometimes highest when staff numbers are at their lowest? Demand and staff numbers do not match well. Is there not an opportunity to look at changing staff shifts and rotas to ensure that there is the greatest number of staff when demand is greatest?
My hon. Friend is entirely right. The whole purpose of what we are doing through contract reform is to match the professionalism of doctors, consultants and those working on agenda for change contracts—nurses and so forth—with the demands of any particular hospital. That cannot be decided by me or NHS England, but has to be decided in each setting, because of the differences—sometimes subtle and sometimes wild—between hospitals. In a study of some 15 hospitals released a couple of years ago, it was noticeable that there was 3.6 times more consultant cover for acutely ill people on a Wednesday than on a Saturday, even though 3.6 times more people were not acutely ill on a Saturday. The comparison is roughly drawn, but it points to a mismatch between rostered staff and peak patient flows. Most hospital managers would not only accept that point, but offer it to you.
All that suggests that somehow no seven-day NHS working is going on at the moment. As the shadow Minister and other hon. Members have said, however, some hospitals are already delivering an exceptional seven-day service—sometimes at no extra cost at all, and sometimes with only a minimal cost increase. What is most noticeable is that care quality has improved. In some cases that is now measurable, which is very exciting, and we can see reductions in mortality attributed to changes to staff working patterns. The staff, when asked, “What difference has this made to your lives?” point, as the key difference, to the fact that this was led by enthusiastic members of the staff themselves. There we have a pointer as to where we need to go: we need to get staff buy-in at the beginning. When the change is done well, it gives staff far greater control over their working life, which has led in a couple of hospitals to appreciable improvements in staff satisfaction.
Those settings have achieved the trick that we want to see throughout the NHS, which is for contract reform to empower and help staff to deliver care with the professionalism that I and everyone in this Chamber know that they wish to, while delivering better, higher quality care and decreased mortality—all within tight spending constraints, despite the increases to the cash budget that the Government have pledged to the NHS. If we can achieve that, we will have done something very special: we will have dealt with the lack of a link that has existed for too long between patient quality and care, and restrictive contracts that do not reflect how many staff want to work, and certainly do not reflect how patients admit themselves to hospital.
There is one final thing that I would like to add—in fact, it is the penultimate thing, because I must answer the point made by the hon. Member for Warrington North about staff. She is right to say that, of course, seven-day services will, in some disciplines, have an effect on the staff numbers that might or might not be required. That is part of the plan being developed by NHS England, in close association with Health Education England. We are recruiting close to record numbers of nurses, doctors and consultants, and we are doing so in many of the diagnostic specialties as well.
However, this is a question of not just staff numbers, as the hon. Lady recognises, but much smarter rostering and rota-ing, so that we use staff and their time as effectively as they would like us to. It is also a question of the productive use of staff time. She rightly pointed to the bureaucracy that ties people down. In some hospitals—some quite near her constituency—that bureaucracy has been reduced to a very minimum, as a result of which staff have patient contact time of an order of magnitude different from that in hospitals just 50 or 60 miles away. If we can bring all levels of staff exposure to patients—the patients they want to care for, for the maximum period of time—up to the best level in the NHS, we will already have the productivity gains in the workforce that will make possible not just seven-day working but a whole series of other improvements in care quality.
That kind of message to the system is new. It is so radical that I think many still do not quite believe it could be true, but I hope that the instigation, at some considerable cost, of whistleblowing champions, along with the framework for whistleblowing and the independent national officer, demonstrates to Members and the outside workforce that we are deadly serious about listening to staff, no matter where they work or who manages them, to make sure that we improve patient care wherever possible. We know that improving staff’s experience in their working lives is a crucial part of that.
Although this was not mentioned in the debate, I am conscious that far too many staff in the NHS suffer bullying and harassment. The numbers are almost unheard of in any other walk of life, including the Army and the police. NHS workers unfortunately can expect abuse from members of the public and bullying within management chains to a degree that is unique in the public sector and close to being so across the entire workforce. That is an historical problem that has led to the very high levels of staff sickness that the NHS has carried for decades. It will not be an easy problem to crack, but I have to tell Members that I and the Secretary of State are absolutely committed to doing something about it. NHS staff go to their place of work because they care about patients and about their vocation, but too often can get pushed back by poor management, abusive patients and poor performance management processes, and often feel belittled in what they are doing. If we can do something about their working conditions and improve their working lives, that will be very important, not just for staff but for patients. If we can improve the working practices and the working lives of the 1.3 million people devoted to our nation’s healthcare, we will do so much to help them produce even better care for the patients they serve.
I hope that Members on both sides of the House have come to a broad understanding that the changes anticipated by the contract reform are necessary. It is certainly true that we must take account of the data and listen carefully to the arguments of everyone involved in the provision of NHS services seven days a week, to make sure that changes are made as collaboratively as possible, so long as collaboration is made possible by all parties. We must also bind ourselves to the promise that we should all reflect correctly the words of politicians on both sides of the House, lest their misconstruction cause worry and fear in the outside world. In all that, we must ensure that the changes we make improve the quality of patient care and reduce the excess rate of mortality, which I know everyone, including all Members, would like to come down when and if possible.
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I joined two hundred millennials and millennials leaders at the White House yesterday to hear from President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and several cabinet secretaries and spokespeople about efforts to help this generation.
Topics covered include the economy, jobs, workplace issues for families, education, campus free speech, and the opioid crisis.
The funniest line of the day came from President Trump who was asked what advice he would give to his 25-year-old self: "Don't run for president!" The room erupted in laughter.
Overall, administration officials encouraged young people to consider jobs in the public sector to help to push forward on policies that aim to help them and all Americans.
Jobs, jobs, and education that leads to jobs - President Trump, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, and advisor Ivanka Trump explained that our strong labor market with 4.1 percent unemployment rate and 6.3 million unfilled jobs is great for young people. Graduating seniors can find jobs, younger workers can leave their jobs and find new ones, workers are experiencing wage growth, and tax cuts allow younger workers to keep more of their paychecks.
The administration is also proposing programs that connect education and training with the available jobs (like apprenticeships). They reiterated that they are committed to helping students understand what jobs are available to them when they graduate high school or college as well as the skills needed to get those jobs.
Removing barriers to entrepreneurs and jobs - Secretary Acosta talked about the challenges that dog walkers now face in one city where they must now get a license- something that wasn't needed before. The administration wants cities and states to reform their licensing requirements for different jobs (called occupational licensing reform) to increase competition and allow young people to get into jobs, transfer their skills, or start their own businesses. Ivanka Trump highlighted how important this is for military spouses who move around often but can't port their certification across state lines.
Fighting the opioid crisis – The administration is working across agencies to implement measures that stop the supply of illegal drugs, get poisonous drugs off the street, rehabilitate those struggling with opioid addiction, educate the public, and push for alternatives to opioids. For example, Sarah Flores of the Department of Justice talked about a federal drug bust this week that took 3 pounds of fentanyl (a synthetic opioid) off the streets which she said is enough to kill all of Toledo, OH.
One area that Ivanka Trump iterated her commitment to helping millennial women is on paid leave, but it was Secretary Acosta who explained why this an issue for conservatives to run with. He noted, "This is a conservative principle, we believe in family." He went on to explain why passing a paid-leave solution ensures women's continuedlabor force attachment and strengthens the modern working family.
Millennials today can be encouraged that this is the best economy we've had in decades. Opportunity is abundant, but we need Washington to continue tearing down the hurdles and promoting pro-growth policies to keep us moving forward.
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Ana was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia but has been living in Sao Paulo, Brazil for 6 years. She is passionate about personal finance, social impact, and entrepreneurship & she plans to combine all three of them to realize her dreams for a better world.
She studied Finance and International Relations at the University and has experience in the public, private, and social sectors. Currently she works for a multinational company on a project related to real estate within 15 countries across Latin America. Some of her work experience includes working in the Mayor’s Office of Medellin; in an international student organization, AIESEC; co-founding and selling her family business in Colombia; in a pioneering NGO focused on social impact business in Brazil, ARTEMISIA; and at a leading architecture company.
Ana loves to dance, cook and travel and believes that the world needs more leading women, tolerance, and love.
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Buy branded tyres for your car and ensure regular wheel alignment and swapping to get the most out of them. Visit Kismet Mechanical to get cheap tyres in Sydney, along with installation and one-time wheel alignment free of cost. Call to enquire about the tyre prices.
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Currently licensed in both Arkansas and Missouri, Johnny White has been involved in real estate for more years than he has not. Johnny began his real estate career in 1973 in residential development and homebuilding. Later, he took a great interest in commercial real estate and opened his own commercial company in 1999. Johnny exclusively dealt with commercial properties including brokerage, land development, site selection, leasing , acquisitions and consulting.
Johnny is a graduate of Arkansas State University with a B.A in Sociology. He has served as President and board member of the Jonesboro Board of Realtors, President and board member of the Rotary Club of Jonesboro, and President of the Northeast Arkansas Homebuilder’s Association.
Johnny also served Jonesboro as member and Chairman of the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission.
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There is no cost effective way to deliver a payload to space and, with rising fuel prices, currently the price to travel commercially is also becoming more prohibitive to the public. During supersonic flight, compressive shock waves form around the craft which could be harnessed to deliver an additional lift on the craft. Using a series of hanging plates below a lifting wing design, the total lift generated can be increased above conventional values, while still maintaining a similar lift-to-drag ratio. Here, we study some of the flows involved in supersonic shockwave interaction. This analysis uses ANSYS Fluent Computational Fluid Dynamics package as the modeler. Our findings conclude an increase of up to 30% lift on the modeled craft while maintaining the lift-to-drag profile of the unmodified lifting wing. The increase in lift when utilizing the shockwave interaction could increase transport weight and reduce fuel cost for space and commercial flight, as well as mitigating negative effects associated with supersonic travel.
Dixon, John Michael, "Heat, Mass and Force Flows in Supersonic Shockwave Interactions" (2012). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 1556.
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P532 User Instruction Manual - Paper copy [P532BAP] : BÖWE Dry Cleaning Parts Online, Quality Parts Direct to You!
This is a printed copy of the downloadable pdf. As the pdf is a scanned copy of an original manual the quality is not perfect but is perfectly readable and will satisfy SED regulation inspectors requirement for a manufacturers manual.
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The River Barle is one of the best places for moderate whitewater canoeing in the southwest of England. The section between Tarr Steps and Dulverton is a fantastic grade II paddle, which is quite sustained with few stretches where you aren't avoiding rocks!
The weir at Dulverton is the biggest hazard, and in many conditions it may be best to portage. It can be run with caution though.
Please be aware of other river users and landowners, and paddle responsibly. There has been conflict in the past. Especially, please park sensitively, and don't get changed in front of other people.
The river Barle can be shallow, and should probably be avoided in low water conditions. In high conditions, the low hanging branches and many trees can be hazardous for canoeists.
The flooding Barle has got so high that the ancient clapper bridge at Tarr Steps has been mostly washed away. Whilst this in itself may not cause direct issues for paddlers, the fact that the wire protection cables above were destroyed by large trees too, means that there must be large amounts of debris downstream.
Small tributary stream and bank seal launch to access river. Off-road parking at site.
Bolder and concrete-faced weir. Safe slide dow concrete face, route through bolders safe (with caution) in medium levels.
Public slipway, just upstream of Dulverton town bridge. Plenty of parking in public carpak and elsewhere locally.
Series of 5 weirs forming salmon steps beside mill. Different routes down for diffent levels. Portage route to river left.
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When we combine charcoal with clay, we have the ultimate deep cleaning power. Also, clay and charcoal are ideal to make a mask since they have solid like consistency.
We don’t want our masks to drip everywhere at home right? Okay. So let’s see what we will need for our amazing clay and charcoal cleansing mask to make our skin look smoother and cleaner.
You need to first grind the oats if your have whole oats. To do this, you can use a coffee grinder. Or if you have an empty salt grinder, you can use that one for this step as well.
Add kaolin clay and bentonite clay inside a bowl. And mix these two ingredients. When you are working with clay, you need to be careful.
Always avoid metal bowls or metal utensils to mix. Just use wooden things when working with clay. Clay may react with any metal and spoil your recipe.
Add activated carbon, lavender essential oil, bergamot essential oil, and tea tree essential oil to this mixture.
Mix all the ingredients. Remember to use a wooden spoon.
Just transfer this mixture into a clean glass container.
Your clay and charcoal cleansing mask is ready.
To use this amazing mask, just take about one tea spoon of grinded oat, and one tea spoon of this mixture into a small cup.
Add some water to obtain paste like consistency. Apply this paste on your face. Avoid your eye area as this area may be sensitive. Wait for 10-15 minutes or until the mask dries. Then, wash your face with warm water.
Oat inside this mask will do the peeling job. And active charcoal will deep clean your pores. You can easily store this mixture in a dark and cool place up to 6 months.
If you don’t want to prepare a mask every week, you can make bulk mask and just store it at home. Also, you can always change the essential oils in this recipe or do not even add essential oils. It is all up to you.
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Didn't realize it has been so long since I posted.
I have been trying to keep the links as up to date as possible.
We have beautiful new litters ready for their new homes this weekend. Still trying to get pictures of everything on the specific links.
We also have discounted a couple of pups.
We have one Yorky male also 4 months old and discounted to $600.00 each.
One little Chihuahua male that is 4 months old and going to weigh about 5# when full grown is discounted to just $400.
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Still discerning over here. Actually, not really. Instead, it seems that the active stage of searching, exploring, asking, digging, weighing, has shifted to simply allowing. This is a strange and unfamiliar landscape for one such as myself who has spent the vast majority of my 47 years in compulsive planning, anticipating, preparing for various potential outcomes. Instead, I am simply allowing myself to step into whatever the Universe places at my feet or in my lap. For example, this week, I had three paying clients. In the coming week, zero. I should be freaking out, right? Nope. Admittedly, I could be in a profound state of denial, but I don’t think so. Instead, I am embracing the three things the Universe apparently DOES want me to be present to: my children, working on my novel and teaching my Living in Freedom which has been organized, recruited for and scheduled with virtually no effort on my part. On Wednesday of this week, 12 participants will begin the journey of identifying the unique lens through which they see the world (from the perspective of the Enneagram) and how to embrace the gifts of this lens, while transcending its shadow. As I am allowing the Universe to unfold my life for me, I am also aware of a little word that keeps creeping into my consciousness and what seems like an invitation, direct from the Universe (aka God) to embrace this word in my life and to allow this word to direct my future actions….and that word is…..(drum roll please)……Simplicity.
2) What does that feel like to you?
Simplicity feels like ease…a gentle, graceful flow. And image of the tide coming in and surrounding me in support, then gently receeding, moving out into the world in all directions.
Simplicity feels like right here, right now. It feels like breathing and the gentle, persistent beating of the heart. It feels like staying in this moment and BE. HERE. NOW.
Simplicity feels like a stately oak deeply rooted; and the boughs of the pine which tenderly hold.
Simplicity feels like effortless flow – the tide that comes and goes on its own – we know not how; the waves of the ocean, the flow of the rivers and streams. The movement of the wind – moving here and there unseen, but recognized in its effects.
Simplicity feels like a sliver of the moon, a shooting star and the silence of the night before dawn.
Simplicity feels like grass growing, daisies waving in the breeze, a robin’s song, the air after a spring rain and the scent of autumn.
Simplicity feels like a butterfly’s wing, dandelion fluff, and a young child dancing in the sun.
Next Post God Has a Sick Sense of Humor!
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"Perhaps the beam cast by film projectors can pierce the continuing willed blindness."
The Teicholz Holocaust Remembrance Film Fund supports an annual film series at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
The theme of the 2019 series is the Holocaust in France.
For more information, please contact the Development Department at (323) 456-5078 or development@lamoth.org.
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, federal tax ID 46-0503824. All donations are tax-deductible.
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Sean kacang Turns on the Hampstead natal lights. Sean kacang Turns on the Hampstead natal lights. Wallpaper and background images in the Sean kacang club tagged: sean bean 2012.
This Sean kacang photo contains konser. There might also be gitaris and pemain gitar.
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SUMMARY: Eliot teaches Parker to waltz.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: A ficlet I wrote for leverageland's Dance Challenge.
Eliot grit his teeth and resisted the urge to snap at her. He’d spent the last hour up on Nate’s roof doing his best to teach Parker to waltz. She’d gotten the basic steps down but her movements were stiff and hesitant and she kept second-guessing his lead and stepping all over his toes.
For the con to work, they needed her to dance with the mark at a big fancy charity ball; quitting wasn’t an option. Besides, Eliot had never yet met a woman he couldn’t charm across a dance floor and he wasn’t going to let Parker be the first.
“Close your eyes,” he ordered.
Parker puffed out an impatient breath. But after a moment he felt her grip on his shoulder relax and she begin to sway subtly in time with the music.
She frowned slightly and shook her head.
“Here we go.” Eliot started slowly. There were a couple of false starts, but soon enough Parker had relaxed into his touch until she was gliding along with him effortlessly, their feet in perfect step. They swirled across the rooftop together, their footfalls making little crunching noises in time with the music.
Eliot nodded, unable to resist matching her smile. His right hand moved slightly lower on her back and he raised his left into the air. Parker followed his lead instinctively and twirled under his arm, laughing delightedly.
Eliot’s grip tightened, pulling her closer. Parker’s body brushed against his and her smile deepened almost imperceptibly. The music was tantalizingly slow and smooth and her eyes were locked on his as he swept her across the rooftop under the stars. They danced waltz after waltz that way, lost in the music and the feeling of their bodies moving together in the cool night air.
So lost, in fact, that they didn’t notice when Sophie joined them on the roof. She cleared her throat loudly and they shot apart like a couple of teenagers caught making out.
Parker started to follow Sophie towards the stairs, but then she stopped and ran back over to Eliot. “Thanks for the dance,” she whispered, giving him a quick hug.
For the next week Eliot kept catching himself humming the Blue Danube waltz under his breath, usually with a stupid smile on his face. Fortunately, no one on the team seemed to notice. Except maybe Sophie, and she knew better than to say anything about it.
Very lovely. I think dance, like hitting, is all about controlling bodies, and I feel you really captured that here.
More feeeeeeeeellings. This was sweet. & Delightful.
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We took a taxi from Singapore Changi airport directly to the W Singapore, which took roughly an hour. At a cost of roughly 25 SGD, we felt like it was a pretty good value. Note: You will want to have your hotel confirmation available, as that will save you 5 SGD when driving onto Sentosa Island.
Arriving at the W Singapore, you enter on the first floor to a small lobby (if you can even call it that), and have either a flight of stairs, or a short elevator ride up to the second floor where the real lobby is.
We had a short wait to check in, which gave us the time to observe that the check-in process was pretty lengthy, our own took roughly 8-10 minutes. I’m not sure if this is standard, as this was our first W stay. Luckily, my wife’s SPG Gold status was still active (you can get that status from having the American Express Platinum card), so we were offered points of a free beverage at the bar. This offer was further refined when the kind lady checking us in realized that she wouldn’t be able to upgrade us, so she gave us the 250 SPG points, as well as 2 complimentary drinks at the Woodgrove bar. Unfortunately, she also informed us, that since we were on a 100% points stay (at a whopping 25k SPG points), we would not be eligible for free breakfast. Normally I stay at Hyatt or Marriott properties, and both provide free breakfast on all points stays, at least, last I checked, so this threw me for a bit of a loop. It wasn’t a huge deal though, as it gave us a chance to explore more of Sentosa in search of a bite to eat.
We had a pretty standard looking room, overlooking the front of the hotel. This proved to be a great thing, as we could see when the bus made it to the hotel, and could then do the math (since it was 35 minutes between trips), to figure out when we would want to be down in the lobby.
The bathroom was spacious, with a shower, soaking tub, and obvious toilet. It was a bit awkward though with the door for the shower and toilet being shared. The toiletries were “Bliss,” which was funny to my wife and I, since we had attempted to resell some Bliss products we had picked up at a favorable price, only to find out that they fit into the “Luxury Beauty” category, requiring further special permission. We certainly enjoyed the lemongrass scented luxury amenities though!
The main bedroom was interesting. Behind the bed was a headboard/wall that lit up different colors, depending on which button you pressed on the wall, there was Hello (regular), Escape (Purple), Runaway (Bluish-Green), Flirty (pink).The bed was especially comfortable, in fact, we took a nap the afternoon we were there, and I had 2 hours of some of the best sleep I’ve had in years. The pillows were king sized and great as well.
One thing that threw us a bit for a loop, was that the TV had a special Bose system integrated into it, so when you turned the television on, you got no sound. It took a bit of playing around before we realized a small button on the lower left of the remote marked “Bose” provided sound.
Overall though, we found the room to be more than sufficient, with some very awesome comforts.
A nice feature was the “Plug In/Turn On” key card already provided in the room which is an energy efficient measure. I suppose the key cards kind’ve defeat the purpose, but, we appreciated it. The privacy was also kind’ve sassy, like the rest of the room. We also appreciated “The Sanctuary” which was supposed to be a charging station, the only problem we ran into was that the micro USB cable was missing.
If there is one thing I got from this hotel, it was that the hotel was trying too hard to be “trendy,” Now this could be a direct result of not being very “trendy” myself. Of course, there were other aspects that didn’t work for us.
The biggest of them was the pool. Here we are, on Sentosa Island, thinking that this is the perfect opportunity to relax by the pool, swim some, and enjoy the pool bar. Boy were we wrong! There was actually very little (comparatively speaking) seating around the pool. It was so sparse that the hotel augmented it with lounge chairs on a grassy area. Of those few seats, few really had shade. For me, who burns easily, I really need some level of shade, but for others who want to be out in the sun, this will work for you. The hotel was also doing a part (in honor of Formula 1 weekend), which resulted in heavy bass being blasted, which, for us, was another downer. I see what they were trying to do, but, interestingly enough, the demographics just didn’t support the effort, considering that we were some of the younger folks around the pool.
One of the aspects that we really appreciated in the morning was a small nespresso-like machine, accompanied by a cold water reservoir, and a carafe of hot water (and tea left out). It sounds small, but, a nice cup of espresso or tea in the morning, gratis, is always appreciated, especially when its high quality stuff!
It is important to note that the W Singapore is kind’ve far from nearly all the Sentosa Island attractions, in fact, the hotel has it’s own shuttle, and there is a Sentosa Island Bus 3 that also services the hotel, however the latter only has a frequency of 35 minutes, vs. 10 minutes for the other buses, and 4 minutes for the monorail.
Despite the remote location, there was roughly a dozen restaurants not associated with the hotel, within a short walk. We ended up eating at one of them, a pub, our only night there. They had reasonably (for Singapore) priced food, and beverages, including promotional buckets of beer. Definitely worth exploring if you’re staying at the hotel.
We booked this hotel primarily because it was available during Formula 1 weekend. At a price of 560 SGD, we felt it was worth burning 25k SPG points for. We also had wanted to visit Sentosa Island, so this hotel really helped us accomplish two goals.
The room was really the best part of the hotel for us, the bed was comfortable, the amenities were high quality, and those were two factors that made a big difference for us, after having traveled for nearly 24 hours to get to Singapore.
Some of the public areas made us think that the hotel was just “trying too hard,” or as my wife aptly commented, perhaps the hotel belonged more on Miami’s South Beach, rather than in Singapore.
Coming back to brass tacks, we’d return to this hotel, primarily for its comfort.
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In 2015 I wrote a blog post about using simple password encryption (SPW) and how – without it – your valuable passwords can be trivially sniffed on your network. If you look through the post it illustrates the vulnerability and shows just how easy it is to set your system up in a more secure way.
SPW only encrypts your password when you connect. Not everyone wants or needs full encryption of all their traffic but what reasons are there not to use SPW?
It requires a small amount of set up extra work, although this can (should?) be automated.
It means your database engine spawns some extra cssmbox_cn threads, although they are only used at connection time and the overhead is low.
Consideration should be given to patching the IBM Global Security Kit (GSKit) separately from the server and client, both of which bundle it.
I don’t know of any other drawbacks. In my opinion these are nothing substantive then when you consider your peace of mind.
If you have Fix Central access you can always download the latest GSKit from here. Although it’s used by many IBM products it’s filed under Tivoli which isn’t obvious at all.
Patching the GSKit separately isn’t necessarily something you need to do but it isn’t only used by SPW: if you’ve set ENCRYPT_HDR, ENCRYPT_SMX or ENCRYPT_CDR, for example, you are using it. The GSKit doesn’t get installed in INFORMIXDIR; it’s installed by RPM (on Linux) to /usr/local/ibm and only one version can exist on your server. So if you’re used to pre-installing a new version of Informix server or Client SDK in its own folder prior to an upgrade, be aware that you may just have unwittingly upgraded the GSKit.
All recent JDBC drivers earlier than 4.10.JC8 (including 3.70.JC8W1) suffer from an issue where a small proportion of connections will fail. You might not notice this if your application can capture logon failures and retry automatically. There is no APAR for this that I know of as 4.10.JC8 was extensively reworked for JDBC 4.0 support.
Informix 11.70.xC9 contains fix IT10493 but this caused a high rate of logon failures with SPW and fix IT17087 is additionally needed but not included.
If you’re using the 12.10 code line you need xC8 or later to get the same fix.
CSDK 4.10.FC8 ships with an incompatible GSKit version, 8.0.50.66, but actually requires 8.0.50.70+ (APAR IT18763). You may not notice this, however, if your server software ships with a later version.
I hope this doesn’t come across as a moan, more a call to action.
When do my stored procedure execution plans get updated?
For the sake of brevity in this article I am going to group procedures, functions and routines together as stored procedures and ignore any differences between them.
What does the SQL command UPDATE STATISTICS FOR PROCEDURE/FUNCTION/ROUTINE does and perhaps, more pertinently, as a DBA do I need to run this regularly to ensure my systems are working efficiently? For those wanting an immediate answer I think it is “never” or “almost never“, the reasons for which I hope to explain clearly in this article.
The command itself is straightforward: calling it causes Informix to parse a stored procedure’s code and produce a query plan for all of it based on the current statistics and data distributions (if the procedure references any tables). It then writes the query plan to the sysprocplan table which is, unless you have an unlogged database, a logged operation written to the logical log. Used with no parameters it does this for all stored procedures in the system.
As long as the query plan in sysprocplan is reasonably efficient there is probably no need to (ever) proactively update it but there may be cases when you’d want to do so, for example, if a very small or empty table has grown into a large one. However if you were to do this your new plan would be based on the current table statistics and data distributions and if these haven’t been updated yet you may get the same, now inefficient, plan.
The UPDATE STATISTICS FOR ROUTINE, FUNCTION, or PROCEDURE statement.
There is a created column in the sysprocplan table but it’s a date and not a date/time which makes it much harder to match plan updates to other events.
How the engine works out the dependencies a stored procedure has on different tables falls into the category of system internals, which IBM chooses not to publicly document, but I think it’s safe to say that if a table is referenced anywhere in a procedure it is dependent on it.
I am not sure why some operations increment the value by large numbers, all powers of 2, as any increment has a similar effect, at least as far as the scope of this article is concerned.
On most systems it’s likely that UPDATE STATISTICS commands will be the main trigger for stored query plans to be updated. If you run LOW, HIGH and MEDIUM modes for a table like you will if you use AUS or dostats, you’ll trigger at least three updates for dependent stored procedures (if they are called).
If we want to grant multiple privileges on the same table, it’s best to do it in a single statement because if a dependent stored procedure is being called in between running commands by an application, its stored execution plan will be updated only once.
GRANT DBA is not a table level operation yet it has an effect.
Further testing shows that both the GRANT DBA and REVOKE DBA statements increment the version number on all tables in the same database where the tabid is 100 or greater, that is all user tables. From the manual above it follows that the stored query plans for all stored procedures or functions dependent on a table will be updated the next time they are executed.
On our systems we see a large amount of writes to sysprocplan after granting or revoking the DBA privilege to anyone. When graphed we see a sharp peak and a long exponential tail off as less commonly used procedures get called.
Therefore if you grant DBA to a user on a busy live system, it can affect concurrency more than you might expect. On an idle system you may want to run UPDATE STATISTICS FOR PROCEDURE immediately afterwards to update the stored query plans in an orderly way and save the first session to call any given procedure from this overhead.
I think running the command offline to avoid the overhead for user or application sessions is possibly the only true use case for this command.
I thought I’d write blog post as a nice example of where tuning the client-side variable, FET_BUF_SIZE, really speeded up a remote query.
FET_BUF_SIZE is documented by IBM in the context of a Java application using JDBC here and as a server environment variable here.
I am just using a single connection to the database.
the query returns around 10000 rows and 60 Mb of data.
the client and the server are geographically separated from each other and Art Kagel’s dbping utility typically takes around 0.1 seconds to connect remotely; this compares with around 3 milliseconds locally.
crucially the query runs in seconds locally on the server but takes over three minutes when run remotely.
A quick check with onstat -g ses 76228 shows that thread id. 84353 does indeed correspond to my session.
What the above is showing us is that there are consistently around 1200 to 1300 bytes in the send queue (Send-Q). This is surely our bottleneck.
At this point when investigating the problem I considered modifying other parameters such as OPTOFC and Linux kernel parameters. However with a few moment’s thought it was clear these weren’t going to gain anything: OPTOFC optimises the open-fetch-close sequence and for a single long running query this is not going to give us anything measurable; and an investigation into increasing the Linux kernel parameter related to the send queue size was dismissed when we found that 1300 bytes was well below the maximum allowed.
This will produce many measurements per second and with this it’s possible to see it fill up and drain several times in the period while the statement is running.
Increasing FET_BUF_SIZE at the client side can dramatically improve the speed of remote queries.
Maximum Send-Q sizes, as measured by netstat, increase in discrete steps as FET_BUF_SIZE is increased.
A larger Send-Q allows more data to be cached and reduces waits seen in Informix.
To see any improvement at all FET_BUF_SIZE must be increased to at least 6000 (approximate value).
Around boundaries between maximum Send-Q sizes there appears to be a cross-over region where maximum send queue sizes overlap from two adjacent values are seen from one second to the next.
The maximum value allowed in 11.70 at least is 2147483647 and not 2147483648, as indicated in the documentation.
Other testing I did, not documented here, shows that the results are uniform across JDBC and ESQL/C applications.
Note: all user names, IP addresses and port numbers used in this post have been altered.
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HELSINKI, Jan. 22 — While the number of asylum seekers arriving in Finland via Sweden and the Baltic Sea has dwindled, there is growing concern in Finland about possible border crossings from Russia.
HELSINKI, Dec. 27 — A man of foreign origin became the target of repeated threats and later victim of violence in the town of Kajaani, northern Finland, on Christmas Day.
HELSINKI, May 15 — Finland will send more troops to take part in a massive NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea due in mid June, Finnish media reported on Thursday.
HELSINKI, May 2 — Anxiety caused by fear of worsening labor conditions was reflected in the International Labor Day statements in Finland on Friday.
HELSINKI, April 23 — Finland's first artificial heart transplant has been successfully conducted in Helsinki Meilahti Hospital last week, reported Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, March 2 — Representative of a Finnish company in Iran said international firms feel safe for activities in Irans mining sector which is one the most alluring markets in the world.
PHNOM PENH, Feb. 16 — Finland's Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja will lead a delegation to pay a two-day official visit to cambodia on Wednesday, according to a statement from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.
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“That’ll Be the Day” is a song written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison. It was first recorded by Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes in 1956 and was re-recorded in 1957 by Holly and his new band, the Crickets. The 1957 recording achieved widespread success. Holly’s producer, Norman Petty, was credited as a co-writer, although he did not contribute to the composition.
The guitar intro to the song was not originally part of the song but was something that Don Everly had come up with that was just tacked on to the beginning. Chet Atkins was the lead guitar player on the session. Buddy Harman was the drummer.
“Sea Cruise” is a song written and sung by Huey “Piano” Smith and His Clowns.
The recording was included on the 1971 Ace Records compilation Huey “Piano” Smith’s Rock & Roll Revival!
The song was initially covered by Frankie Ford in 1959, with a top-20 hit, using Smith’s original backing track. Released on Ace Records, it sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status. The single included ship’s bell and horn sound-effects, as well as boogie piano, a driving horn section and a beat that anticipated ska music. The song has been included in several motion picture soundtracks, including Ski Patrol in 1990 and Out to Sea in 1997.
Won’t ya let me take you on a sea cruise?
Feel like jumpin’ baby won’t ya join me please?
Feel like jumpin’, baby won’t ya join me please?
“It’s All in the Game” was a 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards. Carl Sigman composed the lyrics in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition titled “Melody in A Major,” written by Charles G. Dawes, later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. It is the only No. 1 single in the U.S. to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President or a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Dawes was both).
The song has become a pop standard, with cover versions by dozens of artists, some of which have been minor hit singles.
Edwards’ song ranked at No. 38 on Billboard’s All Time Top 100.
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Feb. 11: What's Jen Clicking on Between Casts?
I'll give you a hint ... it's not the latest on some police pursuit.
I hate police pursuits. I always have. I know why TV stations broadcast them -- it's because people watch them. But I have never understood why people watch them.
Maybe the O.J. Simpson pursuit started it, and it kicked off the original TV Reality Show that was the Simpson trial? I don't know. During that pursuit, I sat at a table in a restaurant waiting as everyone watched the pursuit from the bar. I would find out what happened on the news later, I figured, and in the meantime my food was getting cold.
So I was really bummed out when I saw that KNBC was following the pursuit of the guy in that Bentley the other night. Our station has had a "no pursuit" policy in place for a few years, and it made all of us who work here proud. Our former General Manager Paula Madison was quoted in this 2005 Broadcasting & Cable story as being surprised at seeing so many pursuits on our air. "One of her first directives banned lengthy coverage of car chases." The story continues: "It stunned the newsroom. Car chases are one of the signatures of L.A. news. But Madison found them disruptive, and, she notes, most were news-free stories about petty thieves."
There is very little that's more upsetting to a reporter, ready to present the story he or she has worked on all day, than to watch the entire newscast squandered away on some yahoo driving down the freeway running from the cops. So the other night when I saw our 11pm newscast devoted to this thing with the guy in the Bentley, I had a sinking feeling. Were we really covering this? And was this a predictor of what's coming?
"It was a wasted newscast, and I feel terrible about that," he said. "It irritates my serious news watchers. I got a lot of unpleasant mail today, and I answered everybody to explain my thinking."
The story, called, "L.A. Newscasters Love the Chase," noted how chases are still a staple of L.A. newscasts and that "...even KNBC - which has been leading the charge to stop televising car chases - gave in and dumped its 11 p.m. newscast in order to showcase the chase. " It continues with another quote from the boss: "On rare occasions we'll make them a part of regular newscasts if it seems to rise to the level of legitimate news," said KNBC news director Bob Long, who's been vocal in the past on his dislike of televised chases. "This one smelled like it might. We got some information that turned out to be incorrect, that a person of some prominence was involved."
Everyone thought, ooh, maybe it's Chris Brown running from the cops after he made bail! That's what everyone was putting their bets on, as they followed this chase and standoff to it's fruition, into the early morning hours.
It's true, that chases get ratings. But my boss put it really well at the end of this Variety story. In essence, who cares about a little bump when you're looking for long-term equity with your viewers?
"There are some people in our business who get a huge kick out of moving that needle," Long said. "But that's a meaningless number. It represents people who are in constant motion through the dial, who don't actually watch anything."
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Anti-leakage & anti-splashing design: thanks to the integrated design of the travel steamer, which contains functions of anti-leakage and anti-splashing, there will be neither water drops splashing from the nozzle to your clothes, nor leakage of hot water from any gap of the hand steamer to scald your hands due to a well-designed bezel inside the steamer, these protect the user’s 100% safety. Note: keep steamer in an upright position or with just slight tilt when steaming to avoid water leakage. Work effectively on different fabrics: comes with a 7.8ft length cable, the vivreal clothes steamer works not only as a clothes straightening tool, but also works on suits, sofas, bedding’s, curtains, carpets, automotive interior and many more. This steamer is really a best buy if you need to save time and space, or take it with you when go traveling. Moreover, you don’t need to worry about leakage anymore.
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Cops cuffed a 50-year old man who they say shoplifted at an Avenue U clothing store on March 16.
The thief entered the store near Flatbush Avenue shortly after 5 pm, before making off with an estimated $2,202 in stolen merchandise, said cops.
Police arrested the man shortly after 7:45 pm later that evening and charged him with grand larceny, according to the report.
Robbers stole all four tires off a man’s car while parked overnight on Avenue J on March 16.
The victim left his car between E. 58th and E. 59th streets at 7:45 pm, and f returned at 8:45 am the next day to discover the theft, said cops.
A thief stole a 70-year-old woman’s purse in a Flatbush Avenue shopping mall on March 13.
The victim was in a fitting room in a clothing store at the mall near Avenue U when, shortly after 4 pm, the perp made off with her bag, which contained $1,100, several pieces of jewelry, and her driver’s licence, said police.
Con artists scammed an 86-year-old E. 32nd Street resident out of $7,800 on March 1.
The victim told police he received a call at his home from a muffled voice that claimed to be his grandson, who said, “I am arrested, I need money. A lawyer will contact you.” Another man later called the victim claiming to be a lawyer who said, “Your grandson is in the hospital, you need to send money to bail him out.” The victim then deposited $7,800 into the so-called lawyer’s bank account, said cops.
The victim eventually successfully got in contact with his grandson, who had not been arrested, and knew nothing about the incident, according to police.
A Huckster opened up a bank account using an E. 61st Street resident’s personal information and charged more than $1,000 to it on March 8.
The victim received a bill at his home between Avenues T and U from the banking company for $1,164.10 for unknown charges. An investigation showed that someone had opened the account using the 57-year-old victim’s identity and made the charges without his knowledge, said cops.
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Scoliosis or curvature of the spine commonly produces a cosmetic deformity. Visible asymmetries in the contour of the back and the observation that one shoulder or hip is higher than the other are the most common signs that someone has scoliosis. These asymmetries are more pronounced in adolescence during rapid growth spurts and may be detected by parents or friends.
Adults, who have not suspected that they have a curvature of the spine, may realize that they are rapidly losing height which could be an indication of a progressive curvature of the spine. Direct examination by a qualified orthopedic spine surgeon and confirmation by x-ray will confirm the presence of scoliosis in an adolescent or an adult.
Is there someone I can talk to who has scoliosis?
Discovering that you have scoliosis may be frightening. Once patients understand that curvature of the spine is not rare (approximately 3% of the population has a curve of 10° or more), they accept being followed by a qualified physician to monitor the curvature for progression. Information about scoliosis and its many variants is readily found in bound reference material and on the Internet www.eSpine.com/scoliosis2.html The primary source of information on scoliosis and curvatures of the spine should be obtained by a qualified orthopedic spine surgeon. Many patients find that speaking to a similar aged individual who is also dealing with scoliosis can be comforting.
In my experience, patients especially appreciate speaking to other patients about their postoperative experiences and the timeline for their recovery. Routine activities of daily living in the postoperative period are best communicated between patients. In my practice, if the patient is scheduled for surgery, arrangements are made for other patients that I have treated to speak to the patient about many issues. All over the country and in every community there are scoliosis organizations that have meetings to discuss common experiences and issues related to scoliosis. The National Scoliosis Foundation, Inc. and the Scoliosis Association, Inc are two of the largest associations.
Is scoliosis caused by not drinking enough milk or eating too much junk food?
In extremely rare cases, scoliosis can be caused by dietary issues. Scoliosis may be an infrequent finding in diseases where calcium is lacking which causes softening of the bone. What one eats and how much one eats does not produce curvature of the spine. To my knowledge, junk food by itself has never caused curvature of the spine.
Children and adolescents who have scoliosis rarely complain of pain. If pain is the major complaint in a young patient with scoliosis, further analysis is needed beyond plain x-rays to establish an underlying cause of the curvature. For example, in rare instances a benign inflammatory focus of tissue (osteoid osteoma) can produce curvature of the spine.
The adult population diagnosed with scoliosis often seeks treatment because of pain. As one ages, the spine becomes less flexible and undergoes changes which reduce water content in the disks and produce inflammation in the joints.
To answer this question it must be understood that scoliosis falls into two major categories: idiopathic and non-idiopathic scoliosis. Idiopathic is the more common type of scoliosis and the one that is most commonly identified at the beginning of accelerated growth in adolescence. Unfortunately, at this time we have not established a single identifiable cause for production of curvature of the spine in idiopathic scoliosis. I have the honor of being a member of an international group of physicians who have received grants from the Cotrel Foundation of France to investigate the causes of idiopathic scoliosis. To date, research has focused on genetics (based on the observation that scoliosis can run in families), nerve and muscle abnormalities (based on the observation that scoliosis can occur in patients who have abnormalities of the nerves and muscles), central mechanisms and abnormalities of the inner ear. My research focuses on the finding that the fluid around the spinal cord (CSF) flows asymmetrically in patients that have curvature of the spine. That research is being carried on here at the Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders in Los Angeles. To read more about this research project, please click here.
If surgery is not an option, is wearing a hard brace the only other choice to preserving the spine?
Although there is little controversy as to whether patients who meet certain criteria should be braced, the exact choice of the brace type and duration of brace wear generates some debate.
Who qualifies for spinal surgery (and who makes that decision)? How bad does the curve have to be?
Is there an age requirement? (If so, is this a common age that many spinal surgeons tend to go by)?
The decision for surgery is based on medical criteria, including the degree of curvature, the skeletal maturity of the patient, and the progression of the curvature. Through surgical intervention, the spinal curvature can routinely be corrected to 40% of the original size, but the surgical goal should more importantly be producing a fused spine that leaves the patient balanced.
What are the goals and expectations of scoliosis surgery?
The goal of surgery for children and adolescents is to stop the progression of a curve and leave the patient with a balanced spine in the front and side view plane. Patients and families are always interested in the amount a curve was reduced from its preoperative status. I am frequently asked whether the spine will be straight after surgery. With the use of new instrumentation techniques, our ability to straighten the spine is improved. On the other hand, I always tell the patient that the primary goal of surgery is to stabilize the curve.
The goals of scoliosis surgery for the adult patient are to stop progression of the curvature and to improve one's quality of life. Although surgery can significantly reduce pain in adults with scoliosis, I counsel patients to recognize that their improvement is viewed as increased function in managing their daily activities with less pain.
How much correction do you expect to achieve?
The spine maintains its flexibility and higher percentages of correction can be achieved with children, adolescents and young adults. As was stated in the previous question, newer instrumentation provides greater corrective forces than older techniques (Harrington Rods) to straighten the spine. In these younger patients, corrections up to 60, 70 and 80% are commonly achieved.
How long will the incision be, and what can I expect in terms of scarring?
Any time an incision is made in the skin, a scar is produced. With careful attention to the technique of closing the incision the scarring can be minimized and be cosmetically acceptable. In the standard posterior spinal fusion, the length of the incision will correlate with the number of vertebrae that need to be fused. In endoscopic procedures, multiple one to two inch incisions will be produced at the point that the camera and instruments are introduced into the body.
Which vertebrae will be fused in the "average" scoliosis correction?
The choice of vertebrae that are fused in scoliosis surgery is determined by the primary curve. Many times the primary curve has a secondary, flexible curve which allows the spine to be balanced as the primary curve gets larger. In most cases only the rigid primary curve needs to be corrected, and the secondary flexible curve will decrease by itself without surgery. The determination of which vertebrae need to be fused takes skill and experience. Incorrect choices of fusion levels can sometimes lead to unbalanced spines and further surgery if an unoperated curve progresses. In rare instances most of the thoracic and lumbar spine needs to be fused. More often only a minority of the spine needs to be fused. Correction can be achieved by fusing three or four vertebrae together in certain types of curves.
Do you normally show the patient the hardware that you will use in the surgery?
I show patients and their families x-rays of similar types of operations that the patients are about to undergo. I do keep a small inventory of metallic implants in my office for patients to examine, however, I find that most patients understand the instrumentation by viewing x-rays.
Can you see or feel the hardware under the skin?
It is uncommon to be able to see instrumentation under the skin. Depending on the size of the patient and the thickness of her skin or fat layer, the instrumentation may or may not be noticeable to the touch. Even in the thinnest and youngest patient rarely does instrumentation need to be removed because it can be felt or seen.
How much growth would you expect the fused portion of my spine to have grown had it been left unfused?
Lost growth potential of fused vertebrae after scoliosis surgery is dependent on the age of the patient at the time of surgery. If a patient is extremely young (less than 7 years old), significant loss of height can occur after spinal fusion. When these young fusion patients are adults, there will usually be a significant discrepancy between the size of their torso and the length of their legs. The actual decrease in their overall height will depend on what their potential growth could have been based on other factors such as genetics. In patients with significant scoliosis, height loss also occurs because it is taken up in the curvature. If it is possible, surgeons will elect to delay operations in young patients in an attempt for them to gain maximum growth potential. Sometimes braces can be used to hold the curve until this maximum growth potential is achieved. Unfortunately, if a large curve is rapidly progressing, it is prudent to surgically control the curve despite the potential for loss of height.
What is a "crankshaft phenomenon," and when does it occur?
Crankshaft phenomenon occurs in a very young patient who undergoes a posterior spinal fusion for scoliosis. Although the back of the spine is fused, the front of the spine continues to grow causing the characteristic twisting of the fusion mass in crankshaft phenomenon. New more rigid instrumentation techniques using stronger screws and rods can sometimes overcome continued of the spine. If this is not possible, the front and back of the spine may need to be fused by performing an anterior and posterior spinal fusion.
Would instrumentation without a fusion be a better alternative than a fusion when growth potential is remaining?
The technique of a "growing Rod" is used in very young patients to maximize growth potential. In this procedure instrumentation is placed without a fusion. In multiple intervals, the Rod is lengthened until a time when growth potential can be maximized. There are clinical investigations that use partial fusing of growth centers in the spine (epiphosyodesis) in an attempt to minimally impair growth potential and induce correction of the curve. At some centers in very young patients, temporary staples can be placed across the spine to maximize growth potential.
What will I be given for pain after surgery?
Both children and adults are given patient controlled analgesia for 24-48 hours after surgery. The patient has control of a button which provides incremental doses of narcotic medication to effectively control their pain. After that time period, interval injections of narcotics and oral pain pills are usually sufficient. The patients are discharged with a prescription for oral narcotic pain pills which they may need to take for a few weeks after surgery.
How often will I be awakened and checked by a nurse after my surgery?
The nurses check on the patients every four to six hours for the first 24 or 48 hours and then every six to eight hours after that. The nurses monitor vital signs, and are looking for any changes in neurologic functions such as weakness or numbness.
When will I be able to get up and walk for the first time after surgery?
With rare exception, patients are either walking or getting out of bed and sitting in a chair within 24 hours after surgery.
How soon will I be able to eat and drink after surgery?
Most patients can take sips of water or liquid within three to four hours after surgery. Broth, Jello, and soft foods are offered, and if they are tolerated, solid food is introduced.
What will be done to make my back incision safe after surgery?
I rarely use staples to close the skin. A dressing is kept over the patient's incision for 48 hours after surgery while the incision seals. Significant protection is usually unnecessary after the wound has sealed.
Adults are more likely to require physical therapy than children or adolescents. A prescription for physical therapy after surgery will depend on the type of surgery performed. If the instrumentation is holding the spine rigidly, physical therapy can usually be prescribed within four to six weeks following surgery. Many surgeons will not institute physical therapy until three months after surgery or at a time when the fusion starts to consolidate.
What are some types of therapy that I might have to undergo?
Most children and adolescents do not require any physical therapy. A careful description of usual post operative activities will usually suffice with these individuals. In adults, physical therapy can range from exercises in a swimming pool to land-based strengthening and cardiovascular instruction.
Will I need a special type of mattress on my bed?
No. The mattress which was comfortable for you before surgery is usually the one that will be comfortable for you after surgery.
How much experience will the person who is monitoring my spinal cord function have?
At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the technician who performs neurological monitoring is extremely experienced, and specializes in this type of anesthesia. The operating room equipment is connected by high speed wiring to a central command center. A specially trained medical doctor monitors the operation with the technician. Any observed changes in the monitoring are quickly relayed from the control room to the operating room for confirmation.
What is a "wake up" test and when is it performed?
During the correction of the spine the spinal cord can become irritated. A wake-up test is a sensitive technique to detect any malfunction in the spinal cord during correction of the spine. It is performed by waking the patient up during the surgery and asking the patient to move their feet as a test for spinal cord function. Sedation is provided to the patient during the wake-up test so that they have no recollection of being awake during surgery.
Motor evoked potentials are used during surgery. Motor and sensory evoked potentials are highly sensitive in detecting slight changes in spinal cord function during surgery. If the patient is able to undergo both motor and sensory evoked potential's effectively, a wake-up test during surgery is not necessary. If there is any question about the results of the motor or sensory evoked potentials during surgery, a wake-up test will be performed.
I want my rib hump corrected. How is this done?
The rib hump is produced by rotation of the chest wall as the spine curves. In many cases correction of the curvature of the spine may induce the rotation of the spine to produce a cosmetically acceptable decrease in the rib hump. If this cosmetic deformity cannot be adequately controlled by the instrumentation alone, the ribs are removed and are used as graft material. This procedure is called they thoracoplasty and produces excellent cosmetic results.
72 hours after surgery or after the wound seals.
Do I have to get my stitches taken out?
I do not use external sutures. The sutures usually dissolve underneath the skin.
When can I go back to school?
Ideally, surgeries are done over a school break, either in late spring or early summer enabling the patient to return to school in late summer or early fall. If children meet this surgery schedule, they usually never miss any school time.
For the first year after surgery, activities are decreased. Normal activities such as walking and traveling are allowed. If the fusion heels after 12 months all restrictions are usually lifted.
How long will I have to take pain medicine?
Most young patients remain on pain medicines for two to four weeks after surgery. Adults may require pain medicines for a longer period of time, but are discouraged from taking them beyond three months.
Do my rods have to be taken out?
In my practice it is rare that rods need to be removed. The most common cause of rod removal is failure of fusion or disassociation of the rods from the spine. This is uncommon in young patients.
Can I have children if I have had scoliosis surgery?
Yes. It is advisable that you meet with the anesthesiologist performing your epidural prior to giving birth. He may request the latest x-rays of your fusion for reference.
Do I need to eat a special diet and drink extra milk to help my spine to heal?
No. In most individuals normal diet will suffice for healing.
What will my activity restrictions be after scoliosis surgery?
In most instances, restrictions are lifted after 12 months post-op. Each patient is different and restrictions may depend on the type of surgery performed and the age of the patient.
What are the differences between an open and an endoscopic procedure?
Endoscopic surgery utilizes cameras and instruments which are manipulated through small portals in multiple places on the body to correct and stabilize the scoliosis. The incisions for endoscopic surgery are narrow. This technique is best applied to single thoracic curves in young patients with extremely flexible spines. Failures have occurred because of the technical difficulties in placing strong enough instrumentation and applying enough corrective force through small incisions to induce adequate correction.
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Every party hits that critical moment when the host realizes that energy is flagging…that no one is talking to anyone new.
Enter Dr. Clue’s “Find-Someone-Who” Bingo — to the rescue! In this quick and easy DIY game (no facilitator required), each person receives one of 5 bingo cards. In each square is a description of someone in the room you need to seek out: for example, you may be asked, “Find someone who…speaks 3 languages”, or “Find someone who…is vegetarian”. As you locate someone who meets the requirement, you take their signature in the box and move on to the next quest. The first person to get a Bingo, wins. Or, you can play on until one’s entire card is filled.
This is a great energizer that literally never fails. Not only will people enjoy getting up and interacting with others, but they’ll also start asking questions like, “So where did you learn these languages?” and “What’s your favorite vegetarian recipe?” Friendships have been born with far less stimuli!
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In a divorce, both partners often find themselves facing numerous legal and emotional hurdles. While the situation is usually not easy for any of the involved parties, partners from abroad might encounter additional problems such as the language barrier, unfamiliar bureaucratic procedures and the question whether they can and want to stay in Finland after the divorce. Unfortunately, a big part of the information on those issues is only available in Finnish.
Duo Guide to Intercultural Divorce in Finland provides basic information about the divorce process in Finland for English-speakers. The guide is divided into six sections: Children in a divorce, Property distribution, Staying in Finland, Legal help, Emotional and psychological help and How can I get divorced? Each section contains a summary of the most important aspects, as well as useful documents, links to external sources, and quotes from people who have gone through an intercultural divorce.
We have summarized the most important divorce terms in Finnish in this Glossary.
You can also download the entire guide (PDF) including all sub pages and the glossary here.
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NOTE: LMD Board Members and LMD members running for SLA-wide office in the year of nomination are not eligible for nomination.
LMD believes strongly in advancing the development of information professionals’ leadership and management abilities. The award is presented to an individual who, in the initial five years of his/her information career, demonstrates a keen interest in furthering LMD’s leadership initiatives and developments.
Nominations must be received by April 7, 2019, 11:59 pm EST. Please send questions and nominations to the LMD Awards Committee at LMDHonors.SLA@outlook.com.
The LMD Awards Committee is soliciting nominations from the Leadership and Management Division membership for the 2019 Karen J. Switt Leadership Award. This award honors a member who has shown outstanding leadership, served as a role model for others, and contributed significantly to SLA. In 1999, the award was named in memory of Karen J. Switt, a much-admired and much-missed LMD member. For those of you who did not know Karen, here is a link to a November 29, 1999 article from the Chicago Tribune that describes her life. Click here for more information.
Nominations are accepted for anyone who is a member in good standing of SLA’s Leadership and Management Division. The nomination should include a description of the nominee’s leadership activities in the past five years, as described above. Self-nominations are accepted.
Nominations must be received by April 7, 2019, 11:59 pm EST. Please send questions and nominations to the LMD Awards Committee at awards@lmd.sla.org.
Leadership and Management Division (LMD) offers up to 2 professional development grants to help cover travel expenses for the SLA Leadership Symposium in January 2020.
This award is not necessarily intended to be an annual award or only for a single recent effort. This award is intended to be awarded occasionally for truly outstanding service over time to the Leadership and Management Division.
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Jason Hope believes in the Internet of Things and with a passion. He believes that it is the future and that it will make everything much more efficient. The Internet of Things refers to the way that technology is connected and how they are able to sync with one another. This can and does include everything firm street lights to cars and even kitchen appliances.
According to Jason Hope, the Internet of Things has the power and potential to change the way businesses are run and could very well be the best and biggest investment that the tech industry will see. Many companies have already begun to try to keep up with the technological advancements of devices.
Smart technology is making our lives much more convenient and comfortable but it has so much more potential and Jason Hope believes that it will change our lives on a grander scale in the not-so-distant-future. He believes that it has the potential to monitor transit systems better and will even prevent fatalities since there will be much less room for error.
Jason Hope is an Internet entrepreneur who has made a significant contribution to the anti-aging cause and especially to the SENS Foundation. His efforts and monetary contributions have greatly pushed forward what is known as rejuvenation biotechnology which is a type of research that focuses primarily on age-related disease.
He became involved with SENS in 2010, and he has donated well over one million of his own funds to support the cause. His contributions have made it possible for the Foundation to build a laboratory in Cambridge as well as to implement brand new research initiatives.
He chose to invest in SENS for a number of reasons. He believes that their work is important and is a foundation that is advancing medicine. He also believes that SENS has the capability to redefine the biotech industries as well as healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. SENS follows the pattern of the future and its involvement in the technological state of mind melded with medicine is right up Jason Hope’s alley and is something he supports.
Sometimes investors and businessmen see what looks like a golden egg and want to go all in on their idea, only to find out later the idea wasn’t nearly as solid as what they thought. Adam Milstein once learned this as he was gaining the knowledge to become successful in real estate investments. Milstein is the Managing Partner at Hager Pacific Properties, a real estate broker company that he co-founded along with David Hager in Los Angeles. The company owns many luxurious properties across California, Texas and Illinois and is valued in the billions of dollars. Adam Milstein decided to sit down with Ideamensch to explain how he became successful in real estate, and how other entrepreneurs could learn from his experiences.
The idea for the company came while he was finishing grad school and looking for a job that would reward his knowledge and life experiences. When he didn’t find any openings that satisfied him, he decided he needed to make his way into the real estate field himself. In fact, he told Ideamensch that entrepreneurs should be willing to make the idea happen that they want to happen without relying on someone else to do it for them. But he did say he learned to have patience in business as well because once he had attempted to invest in art pieces because it seemed the temples in Israel had an interest in them, only to find out later it wasn’t going to be as big a success as he had thought. But he’s learned well from that mistake and helped build a successful company and a successful foundation.
Adam Milstein was born to two parents who moved to Israel when it was recognized as a sovereign nation in 1948. He has both a background in military and the construction industry, following in the footsteps of his father who served in the independence war and built the family business. Adam served in the Yom Kippur War prior to completing his education at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, and marrying Gila Elgrably during that time. He completed his MBA at USC in 1981 and started the Milstein Foundation in 2000. He is Chairman and board member of several organizations that speak for Israel’s government policies, and combat anti-Semitism across the globe including StandWithUs, Hasbara Fellowships, Israeli-American Council and AIPAC.
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This ground floor corner unit at the Mews has it all! Perfectly positioned on the east side of the building with incredible views of the mountains and Heritage Park, it feels like you have your own private yard. Open layout with lots of windows to take in the views and let in natural light. Kitchen is open to the living room and features a 12' eating bar, granite counter tops and recently upgraded top of the line stainless steel appliances. Beautiful floor to ceiling tile fireplace surround with an upgraded LED high efficiency fireplace. New paint and crown mouldings throughout, new high end steam washer/dryer and light fixtures. Spacious Master Bed is bright and airy, has California Shutters, a gorgeous walk-in closet and spa-like ensuite. Checkout the video tour!
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Monster Hunter: World initially seemed destined to be one of those game of the year candidates that, due to a January release, would be forgotten about when all the lists rolled around 12 months later. Thankfully, the promised PC port has finally appeared, and it’s set to reignite that discussion.
“World takes a dramatic leap into a look, feel, and size that feels truly new, simultaneously staying true to the series’ ideals by maintaining the addictive loop of combat, intimidating monsters and meaningful upgrades that fans love. The sheer depth and commitment required is still intense, but it clearly isn’t Capcom’s aim to court a casual crowd. This is as all-consuming and incredible a ride as ever.” Read our original Monster Hunter: World review.
Brilliantly, Monster Hunter’s first western foray onto PC is a near-perfect recreation of that console experience I fell in love with last winter.
Those hoping this release would be Capcom’s excuse to add the much-loved G-rank challenges will be disappointed, but this remains the stupendously generous game it always was, with hundreds of hours of play in store for those that become entranced by its web of quests and upgrades. In fact, those returning having dropped off from playing earlier console versions will find a more welcoming experience. Months of updates saw Capcom fixing some of our few complaints about the launch version, from being able to sort the endless lists of Investigation quests to changing text size and adding more options to farm certain useful items. It’s not drastically different, but it’s definitely more efficient.
While all the console versions’ quality of life improvements have made their way across, PC players will have to wait a little while to get the content updates that came post-launch. New monsters like Deviljho and Lunastra will be added at a later date - but in a game that takes at least 100 hours to finish the basic storylines, that isn’t a huge problem.
The true benefit of playing on PC is, predictably, in the performance. Playing the game at the ‘Highest’ level of quality doesn’t outstrip what we’ve seen on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X but, as you’d expect, you aren’t forced to choose between higher resolution, graphical quality and frame rate here. The result is a game that looks as good as on the most powerful console, but runs without a hitch (and, with an uncapped frame rate option for those with beefier machines, even better than the original). Read more about Monster Hunter World's performance on PC.
While it’d take a more powerful PC than mine to run with every setting maxed, in hours of play at 1080p, 60 FPS at max quality with a GTX 1070, I’ve not seen a hint of the frame rate dips that hit every console version. Capcom’s hinted that it may release a PC-exclusive graphical improvement patch post-release but, even without, this is no slouch.
Speaking of patches, you may have heard about a pre-release version of the port crashing regularly. Thankfully, a pre-release fix seems to have eliminated that issue. Despite suffering multiple crashes pre-patch, I’ve had none in the hours I’ve played of the release version.
PC’s other major addition is keyboard and mouse play. While this works far better than I’d assumed it would, and feels like something of a novelty, I’d still recommend a controller. Monster Hunter’s combat requires pinpoint timing at the best of times, and using its more complex weapons can feel like more of a dance across a keyboard than it perhaps should. That said, with some input remapping, I can see the game’s ranged weapons becoming more usable on keyboard and mouse, offering real precision, but the default control scheme just isn’t there.
Fitting for the series’ first ever western PC version, this isn’t a case of bringing flashy new exclusive content but a supremely stable, confidently-put-together package of what got all the console players so excited about in January. If it’s the first time you’ve gotten a chance to see what Monster Hunter is all about, this is as good a starting point as you’re likely to get.
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The skirt from cotton red print of tiny white flowers in combination with black material is resonating the feeling of the calm night over the lake, which is regularly coloured by red sunset. It is smartly combined with wide black lace and velvet ribbon, which only raising the feeling of the peaceful night. It is suitable with headband from RedLake collection.
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Have you been charged with a crime in Springfield Township, New Jersey? Were you arrested on a warrant and sent to the Burlington County Jail? Were you subjected to a motor vehicle stop and charged with Driving While Intoxicated or Refusal to Submit to a Breathalyzer? Whatever your situation, the Criminal Defense Lawyers at Proetta & Oliver are available to assist you. Our firm has handled thousands of criminal cases throughout New Jersey, including Burlington County. We are conveniently located to handle any criminal or serious traffic matter in Springfield Township. Contact our office today for your free consultation by calling 609.850.8284.
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As the title of this episode suggests, here there be Nazis. And it’s not a big shock who is accused of being a Nazi war criminal and experimenting on people: Dr. Arden. Fun fact that I just learned, the young Nazi Arden was played by James Cromwell’s son, John Cromwell. I just thought they did a really good job at making him look younger.
Not a bad episode this week. There were no present day flashes, so Bloody Face didn’t make an appearance. The police head to Briarcliff to question Arden about the whore he attacked and the pictures she found, oh and apparently there was also Nazi memorabilia which wasn’t shown. Sister Jude begins to doubt Kit’s guilt when the police ask if she believes that Kit has the ability to skin and behead a woman. Hmm…no but Arden does. Speaking of the sadistic doc, he is creating another monster out of poor Shelly, oh and he has been outed as a Nazi war criminal by the not so dead Anne Frank, who is now a patient at Briarcliff. She sees Arden and recognizes him from the concentration camps as one of the soldiers who would take prisoners and return them ill and scared beyond being able to speak about what happened. I had to remind myself that the show is set in 1964, so a Nazi in Briarcliff is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Oh and the good Monsignor Timothy Howard is fully aware of what Arden has been up to.
Aside from Arden as a war criminal, the disappearance of Shelly, the Mexican and Pepper (Naomi Grossman) is not mentioned beyond a sentence. There wasn’t much about Sister Jude or Sister Mary Eunice or demonic possession and aliens. Kit and Grace get it on but are caught. Sister Jude locks them in solitary and announces that they will be sterilized for their discretion. Kit gets the truth about Grace; she did butcher her parents with an axe. He isn’t angry after she tells him her father was molesting her. Kit on the other hand is beginning to doubt his own innocence after Dr. Thredson turns around what has happened to make him believe he could have killed Alma out of shame.
There was an uncomfortable and pervy scene with Thredson, Lana and young male inmate named Daniel. Oliver wants to get Lana out of Briarcliff but they must convince Sister Jude that she has been “cured” of her homosexuality and to do this, Oliver uses Aversion/Conversion therapy. He gives her a drug (I can’t remember what) that causes her to vomit while looking at images of half-naked women. The aversion. Oliver brings in Daniel and asks him to disrobe. He proceeds to tell Lana to touch herself while touching Daniel’s member and he observes all this. See, pervy. The conversion doesn’t work.
Final Thoughts: It was an alright episode. If felt a bit tighter, deviating somewhat with the Nazi story line. I don’t know how this is going to play or if it will continue to be a focal point after these two episodes but I guess it helps to lend credit to Arden’s propensity for torture and experimentation and paranoia about Kit’s little microchips. Again, I just wish some of the stories would get more attention. The Lana and Thredson stuff I didn’t care for. It just felt weird to me. I want to see more on the demonic possession of Sister Mary Eunice and what the hell happened to Pepper?
This entry was posted on November 11, 2012 by Denise in Reviews, T.V. Reviews and tagged American Horror Story, Asylum, Franka Potente, James Cromwell, Naomi Grossman.
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A recent study from East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research shows that legalized sports betting has plenty of fans among the American populace.
The poll — which was part of the university’s recent “Life, Liberty, and Happiness” survey — reveals that 47 percent of the 1,152 US residents surveyed believe in legal sports betting, while just 26 percent are firmly opposed.
The remaining 27 percent had no opinion on the issue.
Current levels of public support, particularly among both self-identified Democrats and Republicans, suggest that the prospects are clearly more favorable than unfavorable for additional states, and even the federal government, to pass laws that further legalize sports gambling,” the report read.
It turns out that support is largely bipartisan.
Among the GOP, 50 percent voiced support for sports betting, compared to 48 percent of Dems. Those who consider themselves politically independent gave the lowest levels of support at 41 percent.
“Republicans are both the most likely to support and the most likely to oppose the legalization of professional sports gambling because they are the least likely to express neither agreement nor disagreement on the issue,” the report’s authors wrote.
Other demographics saw more pronounced polarization.
Age proved to be even more divisive, with only 28 percent of those older than 75 giving approbation of legalization versus 57 percent among those between the ages of 18 and 24.
Income was also a factor: US households with incomes of at least $120,000 gave 57 percent approval, while the next-highest income bracket saw levels of support dip to 47 percent, and it went down from there.
Those opinions have come a long way from a few decades ago.
The report points out that a Sharkey Institute poll from 1975 found that just 27 percent of Americans supported legalization. That number grew to 41 percent by 1993, and the same survey found 46 percent support by the time 2017 rolled around.
And a Washington Post survey conducted in September 2017 — just under six months from the US Supreme Court’s overturn of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, aka PASPA — found that 55 percent of US residents supported ending the federal ban on sports betting.
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They are small and mottled brown in colour with small black spots across forewings.
They have a wingspan of 9-16mm.
Both the forewings and hindwings have a hairy fringe, making identification of this type of moth slightly easier.
Their larvae leave behind cases in which they reside. So if you notice small, rice like cases then it's a tell-tale sign of case-bearing carpet moths.
Case-bearing carpet moths (Tinea Pellionella) are a common textile pest, their larvae feed on keratin in natural fibres and so are a household pest due to the damage they can cause to woollen carpets and silk rugs as well as expensive clothing. The larvae can also feed on cobwebs, birds’ nests and other natural materials. Carpet moths are typically found in warmer climates during the summer and late autumn months. So, in the UK’s case this will be from June – September; however, with advancements in central heating, case-bearing carpet moths that live in human dwellings can be seen all year-round, taking the seasonality out of their cycle.
After mating, the female will lay her eggs, roughly 40-50 over a course of 4-7 days. The eggs will then hatch into the destructive larvae stage of the life cycle which feeds on, carpet, clothes and other household goods. Typically they are 1-1.5 cm in length, however this is totally dependent on the availability of food and water.
Carpet moth larvae can stay at this stage for up to 3 months waiting for favourable conditions so they can pupate and turn into adult moths. When the conditions are right and they’ve reach their optimum size, they then start the pupation stage. They spin a cocoon in which they metamorphose into the adult stage of the life cycle, this can take as little as 9 days and up to 19. Debris from this process may be found scattered around the home in the form of cases that look like small grains of rice. The final stage of the life cycle is obviously the adult moth, whose only purpose is to reproduce - they mate, lay their eggs and then die within 4-6 days.
The tell-tale sign of carpet moths is threadbare patches in your carpet. Commonly, carpet moths lay their eggs in dark places, so check around the edges of the room, corners of skirting boards, under furniture etc for damage as well as discarded larval cases. Carpet moth infestations can sometimes originate from bird’s nests, so when trying to identify the source of the infestation it’s useful to check any unused chimneys or attics.
Treating an infestation of carpet moths can be relatively simple. Highly effective DIY carpet moth treatment includes the application of residual moth-killing insecticides such as Formula 'C' Carpet Moth Spray and Formula 'P' Carpet Moth Powder, which kill moths, eggs and larvae. It’s advisable to use these products liberally around the edges of carpets, under long-standing furniture and in other areas of damage. Fumigating with Formula 'P' Foggers will also kill any adult carpet moths at higher levels. Once your initial carpet moth infestation has been eradicated good housekeeping, such as thorough vacuuming can help to prevent the problem recurring.
Our Carpet Moth Killer Kits contain everything you need to eliminate a carpet moth infestation in one room quickly and easily. The comprehensive range of carefully selected products will get rid of carpet moths fast and provide ongoing carpet moth control for up to 12 weeks, preventing further damage to your carpets and rugs! The professional-grade insecticides in our Kits are HSE-approved for amateur use, making them the most powerful available to the DIY user, delivering unbeatable results.
1. Take children and/or pets out of the room prior to beginning the carpet moth treatment. Cover or remove any fish tanks.
3. Once the powder has been removed, apply Formula 'C' to affected areas or the entire carpet if activity is widespread. Move any heavy furniture and spray beneath. A heavier application of spray should also be administered around the edges of the room (up to 50cm out from skirting boards/wall-floor junctions). This should save you the trouble of having to lift and treat beneath the edges of the carpet. A 1 litre container will treat approx 20 sq m.
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Korali Hotel is a small, cosy hotel built in a traditional Greek style. It has an ideal location just a short walk from the sandy beach and the town centre.
This hotel offers great value for money with free transfer from the port of Naxos, free internet, and a roof garden with a fantastic view of Agios Georgios beach.
The hotel has a peaceful and quiet location, perfect for a calm, relaxing holiday.
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Is Regin a real threat to your company?
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Quantum theory and general relativity are famously at loggerheads. Their mathematical languages are different and conceptual bases are discordant, if not outright conflicting. For more than sixty years this conceptual gap and scant experimental evidence has been preventing unification of the two theories.
At the close of the last century a seemingly unrelated development of quantum information theory helped to resolve some of the long-standing conceptual problems in quantum mechanics. The scientific and technological breakthroughs followed a realization that information is physical, so its acquisition and processing are ultimately determined by the laws of physics. While originally discussed in terms of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, recent years have seen increasing research interest and activities in placing quantum information in a more rigorous framework of quantum field theory. Moreover, information theory is often appealed to in black hole physics, particularly in relation to the information loss paradox, as well as to the treatment of relational observables in the problem of time.
A relationship of “R” and “QI” is twofold. On the one hand, quantum field theory is an instrumental tool in proposed designs of quantum computing and communication, and to comprehend the meaning and possibilities of quantum non-locality, and entanglement in the quantum vacuum . On the other hand, the role of “R” in RQI is perhaps best captured by what a relativist does traditionally, encompassing special and general relativity, geometry and topology, quantum field theory in curved space-time and quantum gravity. The aim of this international workshop is to serve as platform for joint explorations of this nascent yet fast growing interdisciplinary field.
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In running your small business, have you ever had to let an employee go for one reason or another? If the answer is yes, you know how difficult it can be at times.
That said some employees will not always go quiet into the night. As a result, you may have to take legal action to get them to stay clear of your business. If that happens, it can prove costly in money and time.
With that in mind, what can you do to best assure that a former employee will remain that?
If you have a former employee who doesn’t get the hint to move on, what steps can you take?
Although you hope taking legal action will be a last resort, it does happen. As such, make sure you prepare to deal with the various consequences.
Getting law enforcement and lawyers involved could bring negative publicity to your brand. Although you may view this action as being necessary, think about it long and hard.
When a former employee makes it difficult on you to leave, he or she has options themselves.
One of them is to go public with the dismissal.
If they feel they got a raw deal, the may think that using social media etc. is one way to get back at you. If something's stated in a libelous manner, you may consider your legal department handles the issue.
What do you do if a former worker is contacting your place of work?
In some cases, you may not be able to pin them down right away. Do you know for sure if the calls or anonymous letters or social media posts are from them?
One way to try and identify the caller is by making a free reverse phone search. Doing this allows you to see where the calls are coming from. As such, you are able to know for sure if your former worker is in fact the one making life difficult for you.
Social media is another area where employers must guard against damage.
With millions on social networking sites at any given time, the potential for damage is great.
If you believe someone you laid off or fired is using social media to get back at you, consider legal action.
You will need evidence that it is the former employee to have any chance of winning a defamation suit. At best, you can send out a letter to the individual, telling them you suspect it is them behind the posts. Whether that deters them moving forward is oftentimes up in the air.
Fallout from having a disgruntled former employee is the impact on your current team.
It is imperative that you do your best to keep your current team’s focus on their jobs at hand. In doing so, you have less of a risk of the former employee’s actions becoming a major distraction in the office.
In the event the individual shows up at your workplace, make it known that they are not to do this again. Some of your current staff may become uneasy if this individual comes to the office.
Dealing with a disgruntled former worker can be a difficult challenge.
That said handle it in as professional a manner as possible.
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You will find many studios, flats, houses and villas for your holiday in St. Gilgen. Contact the owners directly on the IHA site and enjoy the best rental prices, promotions and last minute deals that meet your budget. Visit the picture gallery on private lettings for a break with family or friends. All holiday listings on IHA are verified, plan your journey to St. Gilgen with absolute confidence!
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Caroline has drawn on her own collection of postcards and love of the history of South Shields for her first publication. The scenes are categorised, with sections covering Outlying Areas, Downtown, Along the Prom, the Marine Parks and the Seafront, Marsden Bay and the Grotto. This pictorial journey provides the reader with an enjoyable insight into South Shields as the landscapes reflect changes and developments in the history of the town from the mid-nineteenth century.
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Revitalization Objective: Create not only a revived residential neighborhood, but to strengthen the community’s social fabric and convey a new image of Wilkinsburg as a desirable place to live and conduct business.
Housing Scope: The Peebles Square homeownership effort consists of constructing 12 new, single family detached homes, renovating 6 row-house units into townhouses, and renovating 2 single family detached homes.
Hosanna House’s Supportive Service Scope: Reach out to the community to improve its social fabric and offer comprehensive social and supportive service programs composed of employment and economic opportunities, education, training and skill development, neighborhood and family development, leadership development and training, and homeownership training.
Work with local employers including Forbes Medical Center, West Penn Hospital, and Watson Health Care, and other employers to provide job placement opportunities for local area residents.
Engage residents in family savings programs (ACTION-Housing Family Savings Account and DCED Family Savings Accounts) with matching incentives through federal/state programs, assistance in applying for state funded real estate tax rebates available to both owners and tenants, and assistance programs for those eligible for negative income tax refunds.
Community outreach efforts to provide information on Hosanna House’s and its partner agencies job and educational resources.
Identify potential homeowners by hosting home-buyer preparedness workshops.
For the past ten years, Citizens Bank has assisted Hosanna House in assembling and distributing Christmas holiday food baskets to families in our New Foundation's supportive housing program and senior citizens in the local community. "In these very hard times it is impossible for nonprofits to serve all of the people in need without corporate support.", says Leon E. Haynes III, Executive Director of Hosanna House, Inc. At Hosanna House we are truly humbled, not only by the monetary support that Citizens Bank provides, but also by the 100 percent commitment that Citizens Bank makes to our organization.
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Aside from Penang and KL, Ipoh is one of my most visited state in Malaysia as it's located between Penang and KL, and most importantly, they have awesome food and coffee!!
So last month, I finally managed to squeeze out one weekend to have a short getaway to Ipoh Lost World of Tambun with boyfie after having a few hectic work weeks!
Side note: I've made a video on our trip! So there will be less picture and more video footage in the video. Scroll down to watch the video if you're too lazy to read the post.
We took ETS KL to Ipoh on a Saturday morning. We booked our tickets through BusOnlineTicket.com. BusOnlineTicket.com is a one stop online booking portal for bus tickets that features a large number of operators in both Singapore and Malaysia, going through over 3,000+ routes within these two countries.
Some of you might thought that this website only sell bus tickets from its website name itself, but in fact they sell train tickets and ferry tickets as well!
You can pay with normal online banking, Paypal and even through 7-eleven!
Their website is easy to search and surf! Best for people like me who travels back to hometown.
Received travel pack from the team! How thoughtful!
This thing is a lifesaver for both of us in the train!
After we arrived, we went to Lost World of Tambun directly from Ipoh Train Station with Uber. It was about 20 minutes of drive from the train station to Lost World.
As you can tell from its name itself, this theme park has an adventurous theme. If you haven't been before, they have 2 exciting water slides, a roller coaster, some fun fair stuff, a long river to swim in and relax, a fake beach with waves and so on!
One of the best attraction in this theme park is their Hot Spring!
We spent some time looking around at the Petting Zoo as well. There are a few parts where you can directly interact with the animals such as birds and raccoons!
The hungry Raccoon! It's so cute! Managed to make it look at the camera!
And it thought my finger was a food so it bit me! So cute!
And yes I was so happy when all of them stand on my hands for foods! Always love to pet animal!
I have to say that this was rather a very chill day for me to spend time in Lost World. Even though it doesn't have many very exciting rides, but I took my time to enjoy the hot spring, beach waves, watch animal shows and petting animals, and can't believe I enjoyed their food as well! I'm planning to visit them at night on my next visit!
The "Ipoh Street" in the theme park! Surprisingly their Curry Mee and Popiah is so good!
That's a wrap for our trip in Lost World of Tambun! We spent another day chilling at a few random famous food stall, and head back to KL in the evening. Didn't took much about our food as well but here I have created a blog post on Ipoh 1 Day Food Itinerary before, click here to read it!
The food that I must must must share is the Peanut Paste & Mua Chee from Hong Kee! I will never miss my chance to visit them when I'm in Ipoh (except when I'm heaty and fever, which happened a few times already lol).
So that's a wrap for our short weekend trip to Ipoh! Here's a short video that we filmed together, but edited by Edwin. It covered more parts of our trip so make sure you watch it!
Special thanks to Bus Online Ticket and Lost World of Tambun for giving me this chance to release my stress in Lost World of Tambun and enjoy good food in Ipoh! Make sure you check them out for some best holiday deals!
Heading back to KL with the same train that we got the tickets from BusOnlineTicket.com as well!
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Mesa 18.0.4 is a bug fix release which fixes bugs found since the 18.0.3 release.
Mesa 18.0.4 implements the OpenGL 4.5 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) / glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don't support all the features required in OpenGL 4.5. OpenGL 4.5 is only available if requested at context creation because compatibility contexts are not supported.
Bug 106480 - A2B10G10R10_SNORM vertex attribute doesn't work.
radv: Fix up 2_10_10_10 alpha sign.
radv: Disable texel buffers with A2 SNORM/SSCALED/SINT for pre-vega.
r600: fix constant buffer bounds.
radv: resolve all layers in compute resolve path.
radv: use compute path for multi-layer images.
eg/compute: Drop reference on code_bo in destructor.
winsys/radeon: Destroy fd_hash table when the last winsys is removed.
winsys/amdgpu: Destroy dev_hash table when the last winsys is removed.
cherry-ignore: radv/resolve: do fmask decompress on all layers.
i965: Don't leak blorp on Gen4-5.
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Do You Have to Write a “Happy” Essay for College?
A few weeks ago, I had one of those moments any parent would want to forget. When I dropped off my youngest child at preschool for the first time, her teacher had to physically pull her off of me in between sobs and flailing arms. Later that day, one of my colleagues was talking about her oldest child struggling to write her college essay. The irony was not lost on me as I thought about how hard every stage of parenting really is. In a sardonic tone she asked, “Does my daughter’s college essay have to be all happy, and perfect-sounding like her life is full of unicorns and rainbows every day?” I chuckled aloud; it was the first time I smiled all day.
The college essay should relate one moment, one characteristic, one experience, or one single thing that succinctly captures the student’s persona and motivation. It can be happy. It can also be sad or challenging as long as the student shows growth, self-awareness, and hope by the end of the essay.
I have read extraordinary essays about students traveling by foot to escape religious persecution, surviving the death of a parent, and even overcoming cancer. I’ve read just as many extraordinary essays about students who can impart a small ritual of eating rice every day, running, or even the experience of taking public transportation to school. Topics that are seemingly mundane can be turned into the most breathtaking metaphor and give unparalleled insight about a student. But one thing that all of my favorite essays share is a common theme of hope.
Admissions officers read hundreds, sometimes thousands of essays in a year. They want the essay to move them. But students need to be careful about the topic they choose. A sad or particularly heart wrenching essay topic can sometimes be risky without context. If the admissions officer thinks the student is immersed in a situation that could negatively impact their high school or college performance, they tend to get scared off. So a student who chooses a less than happy topic needs to be in a good place mentally and emotionally when they write the essay to show how they’ve grown.
Even the darkest moments and experiences can serve as motivation for something greater. That’s exactly what hope is. Hope can sometimes be hidden beneath the surface or muted by the grind we face on a daily basis. When a young person can tap into hope in their writing, it’s like a jolt that reminds us of the good we have in our lives. Whether reading college essays as an admissions officer or editing them now as a college counselor, I have always wanted that inspirational jolt to put a smile on my face and remind me about what really matters.
As much as social media and “reality” shows make us believe that others have more perfect lives, we all struggle every day with large and small challenges. It’s finding the hope in our everyday challenges that allows us to rebound, recharge, and re-commit to what’s important. Students can write about something purely happy in their college essay, but they don’t have to as long as they can show hope in their writing and their description of how they view their situation.
The night of my daughter’s first day in preschool, I wrote a piece to help me process all of the emotions I was feeling. It wasn’t for publication; it was merely a chance for me to see the good in being a working mom to three young children. That’s part of the authenticity that students need to recognize when writing their own college essays. A simple idea that can be happy, sad, or challenging should always have an underlying message about who we are that inspires us in times of doubt and inspires the reader as well. Hope is everything in the college process, and happiness always follows.
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Below you can view all the homes for sale in the Timber Ridge subdivision located in Fortville Indiana. Listings in Timber Ridge are updated daily from data we receive from the Indianapolis multiple listing service.
To learn more about any of these homes or to receive custom notifications when a new property is listed for sale in Timber Ridge, give us a call at 317-910-4605.
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Latin Relationship is a website for online dating, friendships, and relationships with 4,281,353 worldwide. Latin singles seeking romance, love and marriage. Find a latin wife, husband, or make new latin friends.
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55: Jeff has earned 55 Hero Points by being an active WPMU DEV member. They can use these to buy real stuff!
15: Jeff has earned 15 Reputation Points by getting involved in the WPMU DEV community.
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Diver’s World has some great products for our paddling, sailing and other water sport needs.
We have Akona inflatable Stand-Up Paddle boards (SUP), wetsuits, boots, gloves and Stohlquist PFDs and drysuits.
If you are a member of any Erie area Yacht Club, bring your membership card in for a 10% discount on all Stohlquist products (limited time offer)!
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Do you love creating family keepsakes? I created this sweet child of mine cloche using beautiful products from Melissa Frances.
I added a sweet photo to a resin frame, then glued it into place, adding a heart charm, flower and beehive background.
I glued the bottom to the cloche and then added Melissa Frances' pink glass glitter.
I finished this sweet cloche but adding seam binding and a key charm, all from Melissa Frances.
I hope you enjoyed this fun and easy project. Wishing you a wonderfully creative day, dear friends.
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Hoshangabad: Some of the attention-grabbing electoral battles in Madhya Pradesh meeting elections, there’s a digital BJP as opposed to BJP contest in Hoshangabad the place a disciple is taking over his mentor.
Sixty-seven-year-old Meeting speaker Dr Sitasaran Sharma of Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration is pitted towards former BJP veteran and now a turncoat, Sartaj Singh, who joined Congress only a day sooner than the remaining day of submitting nomination over price ticket denial from Seoni-Malwa.
Latching onto the chance, the Congress fielded Singh towards meeting speaker Dr Sitasharan Sharma from Hoshangabad, a constituency the place Sharma circle of relatives has been ruling for many years.
It’s relatively attention-grabbing that the 2, status towards each and every different within the upcoming elections, had been as soon as birthday celebration colleagues. It was once Singh who had impressed Sharma, a certified doctor, within the overdue 1980s to sign up for politics.
The 78-year-old Sartaj Singh has been a few of the mainstays of Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration in Madhya Pradesh, who remained birthday celebration vp from 1991-1994, was once member of birthday celebration nationwide govt, was once a part of overdue PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s 13-day govt as cupboard minister and was once in Shivraj cupboard until 2016 when he was once shunted on grounds of his age.
Singh was once at odds with the birthday celebration since then and was once mentioned to be in contact with the Congress leaders just lately.
Many imagine that in spite of Singh contesting below the Congress flag, it’s just about a BJP as opposed to BJP contest as each the leaders derive their power from the cadre of the saffron birthday celebration.
Each are identified for his or her down-to-earth symbol and powerful bonding with the locals.
Singh, who’s a local of Hoshangabad, went up the ranks in BJP together with his onerous paintings and grit trampling Congress veterans like Arjun Singh and Hazarilal Raghuwanshi, whilst Sharma inherited politics and gear as his circle of relatives has remained on the helm in Hoshangabad for a number of a long time.
Whilst eldest amongst 4 brothers – Kripashankar Sharma was once a bureaucrat and retired because the Leader Secretary, his brothers Bhawani Shankar and Girija Shankar additionally represented Hoshangabad in state meeting.
Girija Shankar who was once suspended from the birthday celebration for rise up in native frame polls in 2014 made a comeback to birthday celebration folds on Thursday and political analysts characteristic his ‘homecoming’ to the problem posed by way of veteran Sartaj Singh to his circle of relatives.
In the meantime, this ‘guru-shishya’ (mentor-disciple) struggle comes as an aberration for Hoshangabad, which has the popularity of wearing bonhomie a few of the staunchest political opponents up to now.
Senior journalist Rakesh Diwan who additionally hails to Hoshangabad claims the unsightly political contention had all the time been lacking from Hoshangabad the place a number of politicians didn’t contest now and then to keep away from severing private members of the family. Diwan recounted a well-known example throughout emergency when then MLA Vinay Diwan’s one of the most wards was once getting married and the guests had been amused to peer his staunch political rival and the then deputy meeting speaker Ramgopal Maheshwari serving meals to the visitors.
The custom was once additionally visual just lately when throughout nominations, each Singh and Dr Sharma met on the election place of job and the latter was once fast to the touch ft of his guru and political adversary to hunt blessings.
In the meantime, in spite of their amenable natures, each Sartaj Singh and Dr Sharma are anticipated to struggle teeth and nail to save lots of their political legacy.
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Here is part III of our kitchen face lift. Read the first two posts here and here. We are still waiting for our new counters and backsplash to be installed so today I’m going to show you how we rearranged the upstairs to make things much more practical for our family of three.
A few weeks ago it was in a cozier arrangement with seating around an ottoman I had slipcovered via Etsy.
Since the first time we set foot in our house I have wanted to reverse the living and dining rooms. But once we got our table inside, we realized it fit just fine and that was that.
But once Mazen was old enough to move, I started to realize why everyone on HGTV is obsessed with open kitchens. Our porch acts an upstairs living area in the warmer months, but it’s still hard to see Mazen while I’m cooking through the door. And with the winter coming, I knew we’d need a better upstairs play area.
A few weeks ago I actually pushed the dining table over and made a play area on the other side of the dining room. But it was cramped and just didn’t feel right. Plus our table was only partly functional if we had more than 2 people over and we had to sit two on one side so we weren’t both in arm’s reach of Mazen at the table.
SO, when we moved the dining room table into the living room to have the cabinets painted, I knew it had to stay. It looked so majestic there, covered in kitchen stuff and all!
I LOVE the table in its new space. It’s more open and airy and fits the formality of the room with all of its glass front cabinets.
Eating dinner in here is way more fun than I imagined. It’s cozy at night with the curtains closed and the twinkling IKEA lights on top of our bookcases. I can’t wait to host Thanksgiving this year!
I have actually moved a few of the chairs around since taking these photos so there is even more space. The Queen chair is now next to the couch in the living area for an extra conversation seat.
I love having all the space for Mazen to play while I am in the kitchen.
And it has also been awesome to have the couch next to the kitchen. We used to sit at the dining room table while one person was cooking and the other chatting, but now we get to lounge on the couch, so it’s much more comfortable and inviting.
M’s highchair lives in the kitchen. I usually eat breakfast on the couch while he does and eat my lunch during his nap. For dinners we bring his high chair into the dining room. It’s a 10 foot walk, so it’s no big deal to move. Once he is older we’ll probably leave his seat in there to eat all meals at the table. Maybe we’ll even switch the rooms back by that time!
I bought another one of Ballard Designs’ easy-clean outdoor rugs with a lush pad underneath for playing. I wish I had bought a bigger size (I bought it thinking it would just take up half the room) but it’s big enough to work for now.
I am getting new covers for pillows on the couch (these purple ones are Karen’s from 1990-something) and I’ll show final photos of the space when this whole project is done! Counters in T-1 week!
Looks great! I love the modern light fixtures and the openness…makes me long for the day when I can move out of the city and into a house. Open kitchens are really rare in France (they’re called American kitchens here actually!), but I think they’re slowly becoming more popular. Fingers crossed!
Love it! Though I must admit, I’ve never really seen a kitchen fan in a dining room, but it looks great!
not “kitchen fan” but a fan in general 🙂 It really does create an open/airy feel!
Thst’s really smart to switch the rooms! At my house growing up our kitchen had a breakfast area and it was connected to the dining room, so I have no idea what my mom did about watching us!
I got burlap from etsy so mine are a bit scratchy too!
Looks good and I’m sure it will be much more functional for your family arranged in that way. I love when that happens. Are you going to switch the fan and the light? I think that green light looked so good above your dining room table and since a fan isn’t really functional in a dining area, that would make sense. And it should be an easy swap.
It didn’t occur to me to switch them but we might consider that now!
Love the change! Seems to be much more practical for your life with a little guy right now.
I love how everything looks, especially your lighting fixtures! Looks so modern and fun.
So …. what’s with the cat on someone’s head in your old living room picture? That cracked me up!
Mazen’s great grandmother was having fun!
I absolutely love your sense of style. The colors you have in your home are very inviting and calming. 🙂 Love it!
It’s nice to have the option to move things around to work better for you now and know you can always change it back later.
The switch looks great and will function well for all of you! You may have mentioned this before…but where did you get your dining room table and chairs. It’s exactly what I am looking for and have difficulty finding something that simple and ‘elegant’. Thanks!
Love that you found a new way to arrange the furniture that fits better into your needs for now. Personally I really like the green fixture over the dining room table but understand if flip flopping isn’t high on the priority list right now. 😉 Can’t wait to see the rest!
I’m loving the furniture switch it looks great! Not sure if you’re aware but the ad showing up at the bottom of your posts is for McDonalds. I have seen it many times before too.
Hi Kath! I love the changes you are doing and agree that if it’s easy enough to do switching the ceiling fan and dining room light would be a nice idea. My main question though is do you know the paint color in your old living room/new dining room? I love the freshness of the aqua blue and would like to do a few rooms in that color.
Benjamin Moore Robin’s Egg Blue. Thanks!
it looks so bright and crisp! Love it!
Could you use those two Queen Ann chairs in your dining room as the end chairs for your dining room table? I can’t tell if they’re high enough for the table.
Also, it might be fun to use the ottoman as a sort of ottoman/coffee table with your couch. Something to put a magazine or book or plate on while you’re sitting on the couch. It could easily be moved to the side when Mazen is playing or for guests to use as seating. It also looks like any chairs from the dining room (Queen Ann chair, for example) could easily be brought into the family room for additional seating.
Good suggestions! I tried the Queen chairs at the dining table and the one with arms doesn’t fit underneath (so it sticks out). I have the smaller one in the living area now as an extra seat – you’re right that they are great to move in.
It’s funny how before I had a baby I was always like, “I would never change my home/design aesthetic for kids! I will just teach them boundaries.” Now I am much more pragmatic, like when I see a standing lamp I just think about how tippy it would be, or when I see silk throw pillows I think of spills and little paws. I guess I will get to redecorate when the boys are a bit older and past the sticky phase. Obviously, boundaries are easier to set when a child is fully verbal. Our living room is definitely doubling as a play space too, and I don’t want it to be full of things I have to say “no” about all the time.
Your new dinning arrangement does look so inviting and cozy! It is the perfect place to host a dinner party. You did a fantastic job on the remodel.
Love the switch…so smart!! I know what you mean about HGTV open floor plans. Every once in a while I’ll see an episode in which the couple thinks a floor plan is TOO open and I’m thinking “WHAT??” Crazy! We did a major main floor remodel to open our kitchen. Best decision ever and money well spent.
Wow, looks great! So you’ve been happy with the Ballard Design rugs? We’re considering one of them, but the indoor/outdoor looks like it may not be the most comfortable for sitting/playing.
Love it! It looks great! It is nice to have a sofa near the kitchen were people can sit comfortably and chat…especially with a baba running around! Can’t wait to see the next kitchen update!
looks great, kath. and makes so much more sense for you family. i wish our kitchen opened into our living room. i keep a stack of toys in our kitchen and dining room so atticus can play while we cook. but i constantly feel like too many toys are everywhere. here’s hoping our next house has a more suitable floor plan.
It looks great so far! It’s crazy how much cozier it seems with the rooms switched.
Brilliant! I love switching things around in my house too. It almost feels like having new stuff. Silly question: are your curtains two different sizes, lengths, and colors? I think your cool new dining room would look super cohesive with window treatments that are the same. I’m not a designer, but I have a degree from HGTV!
My eyes keep being drawn to that awesome green light. I love it! Your space looks very comfy.
looks good! if you decide to keep the switch permanent, a sleek, slender sectional may look good there too and be super functional!
I need a runner for my hallway (and a new rug for our kitchen) that isn’t too costly and the cats won’t claw up. Do you think this rug can hold up against cat claws? I can’t tell on their website, but I saw it was pet-friendly. I know you don’t have indoor pets, but I thought I’d ask! Does it have loops that could easy pull? Thanks!
I made that switch about 5 years ago and have never looked back. Our former dining room is now our “cozy room” or reading room with a love seat and two chairs all from Ikea (and a coffee table, console table and ottoman). It gets used all the time!
Our dining room used to feel so tiny and cramped but now that our table is in the old living room it is so spacious. It still makes me happy every time I walk into my house! You are lucky though, in that you had ceiling lighting in both rooms. We only had it in the (old) dining room and have tried to figure out what to do for years. We have lamps and I love candles, but this year by BFF and her hubby made me a knock off Pottery Barn candle chandelier and now the room is complete!
Arent you worried your couch is going to absorb food smells? Looks comfy though!
Gosh I love your house. I know I’ve said it a lot, but I love your style.
It looks really nice. What I especially like is the black ‘n’ white armchair. Actually I like the design of the whole room. Good job!
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Philadelphia : Wagner free institute of science, 1931.
Book — x, 436 p. incl. ill., plates, diagrs. ; 25 cm.
Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929.
New edition. - London, A. Constable & co., ltd., 1909.
Book — xxiii, 331, p. illus. 21 cm.
Book — xxxii, 536, p. 10 fold. pl. 24 cm.
Book — 3 v. illus. 26cm.
-- Mammifères tertiaires.-- Fossiles primaires.-- Fossiles secondaires.
Ward, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1834-1906.
Rochester, N. Y., Benton & Andrews, printers, 1866.
Book — 1 p. l., viii, 228 p. illus., plates (part fold.) 23 cm.
Book — xi, 496 p. illus., fold. pl., diagrs. 19cm.
Book — xii, -207 p. front.,illus., 74 col. pl. (partly fold.) 30 cm.
Book — 3 v. illus. 19 cm. and atlas of 17 tab. (16 fold.) 29 x 25 cm.
A new ed. With supplementary notes. - Philedelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1841.
Book — 2 v. 69 [i.e.,87] plates (part fold.,part col.) 22cm.
Deshayes, G. P. (Gérard Paul), 1795-1875.
Paris, F. G. Levrault; [etc., etc.] 1831.
Book — vii, 264 p. 14 pl. 22 cm.
London, J. Robson [etc.] 1804-11.
Book — 3 v. fronts., col. plates. 29 cm.
The fossil starfish, echini, shells, insects, amphibia, mammalia, &c.
Book — 2 p. l., [iii]-vi, 43 p. ix pl. 29 cm.
Book — xxxii, 606 p. 18 cm.
London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757.
Book — vi, , 294 p. pl. 26 cm.
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January 2, 2018 – New York (N.Y.) – Cellectis (Euronext Growth: ALCLS - Nasdaq: CLLS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing immunotherapies based on gene-edited allogeneic CAR T-cells (UCART), announced today that Dr. André Choulika, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cellectis, will present at the 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference on Monday, January 8, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time in the Elizabethan A/B room. A Q&A session will follow at 1:30 p.m. PT in the Sussex room. The conference will be held from January 8 to 11, 2018 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
To access the live webcast of Cellectis presentation and subsequent breakout session, please visit http://www.cellectis.com/en/agenda/. A replay of the webcast will be available on Cellectis website for 90 days.
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Today, on the 30th of August, are remembered the victims of enforced disappearance. In Colombia this day is of special meaning given the great number of direct and indirect victims of enforced disappearance in the country.
According to the National Centre for Remembrance of History, there were almost 83.000 persons disappeared in Colombia since 1958. Different state bodies use different numbers nevertheless. One of the most urgent problems therefore is the creation of a single and unified register of victims of enforced disappearance as an essential step to reduce the high rates of impunity of over 98 % in these cases.
In the Peace Accord between the Colombian government and the Farc-Ep signed in 2016, was agreed upon the creation of the Unit for the Search for Persons held for Disappeared (UBPD), part of the Integral System for Justice, Truth, Reparation and Non-Repetition (SIJVRNR). The scale of the problem, the lack of response of the State and the inefficiency of existing state entities, brought victims to ask for the creation of this new unit.
Recently nevertheless, victim’s organizations have expressed concern about delays in its implementation. The delays in the issuance of decrees necessary for its operation and changes made to the Special Jurisdiction of Peace by the President’s party in Congress, raised doubts about the commitment of the former and new government to put into force the transitional justice system.
At the beginning of August, the decrees were issued, but it’s necessary that the Ministry of Finance makes available the necessary financial resources for the UBPD. The total support of the new Government is needed so the UBPD can function, also on a local level in the different regions. Clarity is needed about mechanisms of participation prepared by the UBPD for the victims.
Taking into account these concerns and delays, we think international support for the UBPD and the other entities of the SIJVRNR is crucial to meet the rights of the victims of enforced disappearance and of other crimes related to the armed conflict. Oidhaco asks for the European Union to monitor and support politically and financially where possible the implementation of the fifth Chapter of the Peace Accord, about the Victims of the Armed Conflict.
More so because the practice of enforced disappearance has not ceased to exist. A recent case of enforced disappearance took place on 22nd of August in Puerto Rico – Meta, when Jefferson Arevalo was allegedly taken and disappeared by neoparamilitary groups. His body was found a couple of days later.
Oidhaco insists on the importance to bring truth and justice for the victims in these cases as a guarantee for non-repetition for them and other persons who are currently still at risk to be disappeared. Oidhaco is expecting the visit of Ms. Flor Hilda Hernández in October 2018 to Brussels, one of the Mothers of Soacha, who’s sons were disappeared and subsequently victims of extrajudicial executions. She will participate in activities to bring over the message of the importance of the implementation of the Peace Agreements, in particular the issues about victim’s right, to the different EU institutions in Brussels.
Oidhaco will as well be supporting the activities of the Commission for Elucidation of Truth, Community and Reconciliation in Europe.
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Nightingale Lane runs from Bournehall Lane to Bournehall Avenue, close to the Moatfield. It is a natural continuation route, shown in red, for riders using bridleway Bushey 55, shown in blue.
Image based on original obtained from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey.
11 Feb 96: Application made by Bushey and District Footpaths Association to record Nightingale Lane.
18 Dec 15: The Hertfordshire County Council (Bushey 72) Modification Order 2015 was made to record this route as a bridleway.
Commences from Bournehall Lane (public highway) at TL 1355 9562 running generally NW along the Moat Field pavillion access track for approx. 75m to a point where it diverges from the access track at TL 1350 9568. Continuing generally NW for approx. 85m then generally N for approx. 75m to join Bournehall Avenue (public highway) at TL 1345 9582.
Width: Varies between 3.15m and 12.5m as shown shaded grey in the Hertfordshire County Council (Bushey 72) Modification Order 2015.
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A networking opportunity for women in a leadership position in the retail environment. Development circle networking meeting. Workshops.
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Penta is an online bank account designed specially for German small businesses and startups. It allows founders to spend less time banking and more time focusing on their business. As of today, Penta is free to open and free to use.
Penta does not hold its own banking license, we’ve partnered with solarisBank that is providing us with their banking license and some of their technology. This setup was chosen in order for us at Penta to focus on creating the best business account offering and providing high quality support to all our accounts.
Every account is free and comes with a German IBAN and a Business MasterCard. Penta support is available in English and German. Applying for a Penta account takes 15 minutes online.
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Developed by innovative educators Conductive Music, and delivered to Bristol schools in partnership with BPM, Conductive Music is a groundbreaking primary and secondary education programme that combines music, engineering, electronics and coding.
Thanks to the generous support of sponsors Renishaw, this programme teaches students to design, build, programme and play unique electronic instruments using open-source software and Arduino-powered circuit boards. A unique, cutting-edge education programme, enriching the Music, Science and Design & Technology curricula.
Conductive Music is a London-based organisation that sits at the intersection between multi-media performance art and open-source communities.
Renishaw are a global company with core skills in measurement, motion control, healthcare, spectroscopy and manufacturing.
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This level actually compares pretty favorably with the market at large, as the PE for the S&P 500 compares in at about 15.8. If we focus on the stock’s long-term PE trend, the current level puts Tower International’s current PE ratio slightly below its midpoint (which is 8.2) over the past five years.
Further, the stock’s PE also compares favorably with the industry’s trailing twelve months PE ratio, which stands at 8.5. At the very least, this indicates that the stock is relatively undervalued right now, compared to its peers.
We should also point out that Tower International has a forward PE ratio (price relative to this year’s earnings) of just 5.8, so it is fair to say that a slightly more value-oriented path may be ahead for Tower International’s stock in the near term too.
Right now, Tower International has a P/S ratio of about 0.2. This is noticeably lower than the S&P 500 average, which comes in at 2.8 right now. Also, as we can see in the chart below, this is somewhat below the highs for this stock in particular over the past few years.
In aggregate, Tower International currently has a Value Style Score of A, putting it into the top 20% of all stocks we cover from this look. This makes TOWR a solid choice for value investors, and some of its other key metrics make this pretty clear too.
For example, the PEG ratio for Tower International is just 0.7, a level that is slightly lower than the industry average of 0.9. The PEG ratio is a modified PE ratio that takes into account the stock’s earnings growth rate. Additionally, its P/CF ratio (another great indicator of value) comes in at 3.3, which is somewhat better than the industry average of 4.9. Clearly, TOWR is a solid choice on the value front from multiple angles.
Meanwhile, the company’s recent earnings estimates have been encouraging. The current quarter has seen two estimates go higher in the past sixty days, compared to none lower, while the full year estimate has seen four upward and no downward revisions in the same time period.
Is Toyota Motor (TM) a Great Stock for Value Investors?
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Strength & Conditioning Coach, Sean Light emphasis’s the need for regular rest periods between your workout schedule. This allows the muscles that have been broken down to rest and recover. Thus having the ability to increase your desired weights and reps. Sean stresses the attention on form, ensuring that you are properly lifting to prevent injuries and strains.
The best way to know if you are well rested is to listen to your body, tuning into the feelings and sensations that arise and to know your limits! You do not want to overload your body as this may lead to long term damage.
We would love to hear what your GO TO sport or activity to break a sweat is!
Sean Light is a Registered Strength & Conditioning Coach who has spent many years working in professional sports. Most recently serving as a strength & conditioning coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
With philosophies deeply rooted in Neuroscience, Light works to teach and treat people starting at the deepest level, the brain. A constant researcher, he is developing new and revolutionary techniques for true health and performance.
Along with Strength & Conditioning, Sean is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and Postural Restoration Trained.
Click the above player to listen to this Experts Interview Hosted by Bonnie Iris - Rest, to Optimize Your Workout with Sean Light, or subscribe to Healthy Lifestyle Show on iTunes.
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2018 Junior Season: Named Second Team All-Conference as an outfielder for the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference after finishing fourth on the team in both batting average (.298) and hits (45), appearing in all 42 games… Added 22 RBIs, 10 doubles and a team-leading three triples… Hit his only home run of the season in an 8-2 loss at Louisiana College April 9… Led the team with a 12-game hitting streak of the season from March 30 through April 21… Also had a stretch of recording a hit in 20-of-21 games… Named to the Scholar’s List for the SCAC.
2017 Sophomore Season: Named to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Honorable Mention squad after finishing the season seventh on the team with a .328 average... Played in 42 games with 38 starts... Tallied 41 hits, 31 RBIs, 27 runs scored, seven doubles, five triples, and one home run... Went 3-for-3 with three runs scored, three RBIs, and his only home run of the season in the Gents 12-0 win at Austin College in the first game of a double header March 11... Went 4-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored in the Gents 7-4 win against Texas Lutheran in the second game of a doubleheader April 8.
2016 Freshman Season: Appeared in 37 games with 36 starts... Had 31 hits in 122 at-bats (.254 average) with 23 runs scored and 22 RBI’s... Hit his lone home run, going 2-for-4 with a season-high four RBI’s and two runs scored in a 9-2 win at nationally-ranked UT-Tyler February 12... Had a season-best three hits in five at-bats with three RBI’s and a run scored in the 16-7 win at Schreiner March 20.
Prior to Centenary: Pitched and played center field for head coach Austin Hands at Castor HS… Named Second Team All-District his freshman season, and First Team All-District sophomore-senior seasons… Also played basketball and was named Second Team All-District his junior season... Helped basketball team reach the State Semi-Finals both his eighth grade and sophomore seasons… Named Academic All-State… Won the Honesty and Integrity, named Mr. CHS and the Wendy Heisman Award.
Personal: Full name is Cameron Gene Guin… Born July 6 in Shreveport, Louisiana… Son of Chris and Pam Guin… Has one sister, Gabriella, and two brothers, Colton and Caleb… Majoring in business at Centenary.
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Superior Industries Inc., a US-based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, has announced Grant Aggregate as a new distributor of Superior components products.
Officially a distributor since 1 January 2017, Grant Aggregate will market, stock, and sell Superior idlers, pulleys, belt cleaners, and other conveyor accessories.
Grant Aggregate, in business since 1990, is headquartered in Sudbury, Ontario, with additional warehouses in Ajax, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba. The new partnership between Superior and Grant Aggregate will help supply aggregates and mining operations in Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.
Superior Industries engineers and manufactures groundbreaking, bulk material processing and handling equipment and cutting-edge machinery components. From its headquarters in Morris, Minnesota, US, the manufacturing firm supplies bulk crushing, screening, washing and conveying systems for industries including construction aggregates, mining, bulk terminals, agriculture, power and biomass. It also operates from additional facilities in Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and Nebraska, US; Alberta and New Brunswick, Canada; and three locations in Brazil to serve South American markets.
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One particular passage in this book was about a mother who couldn't understand why her baby cried during their entire massage, every time. The author asked about her baby's daily routine, and found out that she and her baby spent most of the day apart.
I read this book when my two kids were really small, and I started applying what I learned right away. The methods that the authors suggest for helping each child feel special and understood are still effective for me 6 years later.
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, a publication by La Leche League, is a must have for breastfeeding mothers!
Getting ready to breastfeed: What do I need to know?
I enjoyed chatting with midwife and lactation consultant Amberley about breastfeeding frequently asked questions. Here is our recorded interview. Thank you Amberley!
So maybe we can embrace postpartum, embrace life as a parent, asking for help when we need it, giving thanks for this grand opportunity to grow and learn and rethink some of the rules and customs of our grandparents. We might even (gasp!) change a few things. Because, yes, sleeping in on weekends and having alone time was really wonderful and luxurious, but with the right kind of support system, postpartum can be amazing, too.
Sarah explains how the nervous system is like a cup, and how every experience that we go through fills our cup. When our cup is full, we are more susceptible to trauma.
Will my toddler ever wean? What worked for us and a FREE ebook!
Download this children’s book for free! I wrote it for you to read with your breastfeeding toddler. Weaning from breastfeeding is not “breaking a bad habit.” It’s transition time, and I hope this book can help as you and your toddler grow and change together.
She thought she knew her limits. She thought she knew what she was capable of, but this birth showed her that she was capable of even more. She had achieved more than she ever thought possible.
Giving birth at Gaslini Children's Hospital in Genoa: What's it like?
Attending a birth at Gaslini Hospital in Genoa was a positive experience. In this post I share photos and information about the building and protocols that they have around birth.
What do doulas do, exactly?
Labor and birth is like a mountain. A tall one. And you're the climber. What exactly can a doula do on your journey to the top?
I delivered my little lady just before midnight on Boxing Day 2017. What an amazing experience. To feel my body perform such a magical feat was unreal.
Rachel shares two birth stories with us. Ciaràn was born when Rachel was in secondary school. Sixteen years later, baby sister Imogen Ivy was born in Lancashire, England.
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Here are a few sneak peek images from my senior session with Sienna last night! I just can't get over how beautiful this girl is!! Keep a lookout for her full blog post in the coming weeks....it's going to be stunning!
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That’s why we’ll always love PJ.
Are you a real PJ person or just a tourist?
Many people consider themselves PJ people just because they've stayed here for a while. But if you're using Waze to navigate around SS2, and can't tell between Asia Jaya LRT and Taman Jaya LRT, or all the different Damansara townships, then you've still got some learning to do.
First launched in 1974, the mall was redeveloped and reopened in 2014. Since then, it has carved its identity as the community mall, and has a whole lot of events lined up for the rest of the year.
Scroll down to find out more about the "Fascinating Malaysia, My Home" photography exhibition happening until 16 September.
By experience, you've learnt that the longer the queue, the better the food is.
While everyone else is stuck in the traffic, they always avoid the jam by using back alleys and housing roads.
Petaling Jaya is right smack in between areas like Kuala Lumpur, Subang, Puchong, Shah Alam, Kepong, and Taman Desa with highway access all around.
One of the unassuming places for good food and coffee is Happy Mansion at Section 17, a complex of apartment buildings. Here, you'll find a host of cafés, kopitiams, and hole-in-the-wall restaurants.
And of course, there are hidden gems in Jaya Shopping Centre too, such as places like Farmer’s Street, Good Food Co., and Leng for Leng Tong.
People here get very irritated at Klang and Penang drivers, mostly because they're slow and super blur.
Almost every other week, you'll see trucks at the side of roads waiting to collect falling branches. The thing that annoys people the most is that tree cutting usually takes place during peak hours, causing unnecessary jams.
Which is in fact super convenient. The entire PJ is so connected that you can practically get to anywhere with the Kelana Jaya LRT Line.
They consider KL, Cheras, and even Bangsar far away.
Less dense, less crowded, and more charming than Kuala Lumpur.
After all, it's hard to find any other place that's just quite the same. In fact, you'll hear of people moving in, but rarely anyone who willingly leaves PJ for places like KL or Shah Alam.
This exhibition features local photographers capturing breathtaking moments of Malaysia, with 80 handpicked photos on display at Level 2. Make sure you head over to Jaya Shopping Centre this weekend or by 16 September 2018 for your final chance to catch this exclusive showcase.
There will also be pop up stores supporting local entrepreneurs and new retail offerings, with Hush Puppies Shoes, Niki Cains Homes and more opening soon! Art exhibitions and design showcases featuring student works from IACT and Saito College will be next in line, so don't forget to look out for updates on Jaya Shopping Centre's social media.
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To visit to Dunhuang, you can fly from Beijing, Lanzhou (Gansu), and Urumqi (Xinjiang), or you can take a train from Urumqi or Lanzhou to Liuyuan and then take a bus to Dunhuang. Liuyuan is 130km from Dunhuang.
Dunhuang Airport is 13km (8 miles) east of the city. It has direct flights from Lanzhou, Xi'an, Beijing, Urumqi and other cities, although there are not many flights each week. Buses from the CAAC offices (09473-22389) on Dong Dajie near the Dunhuang Hotel.
There are now two railway stations available for your trip to and from Dunhuang: the Dunhuang Railway Station and the Liuyuan Railway Station.
Dunhuang Railway Station is located 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) away form the city center. At present, trains connecting Dunhuang with Jiayuguan, Xian, Lanzhou, and Yinchuan leave from the station. In front of the station's square, there are many taxies and minibuses heading for downtown Dunhuang. The minibus fare is about CNY 3 and the journey to the city center is no more than 20 minutes. Moreover, buses heading for Mogao Caves coming from the Dunhuang Hotel in the downtown area stop in front of the railway station every half hour. You can take these buses to get to the Mogao Caves directly.
Before the opening of the Dunhuang Railway Station, Liuyuan Railway Station was the main transfer station for people get to Dunhuang by train. the Liuyuan Train Station 130km (80 mails) to the north of the downtown area. Tourists can travel directly by train to Liuyuan Railway Station from Shanghai, Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Urumqi, Chongqing, Lianyungang, Zhengzhou, Hankou, etc. and many other destinations can be reached from Liuyuan.
Long-distance buses to and from Lanzhou, Xi'an, Hami, Turpan, Urumqi and other cities can be taken in Dunhuang.
Dunhuang Bus Station is located at No. 24 Mingshan Road, Shazhou Town, opposite Feitian Hotel. There are bus routes to Xining, Hami, Turpan, Urumqi and Golmud, etc.
Dunhuang Passenger Transport Center is located at No. 25 Mingshan Road, offers local services between Dunhuang and other cities or regions inside Gansu Province, including Lanzhou, Jiayuguan, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Wuwei, etc.
Minibuses run along fixed routes throughout Dunhuang. Taxis are also quite available and convenient. If you'd like to rent or hire vehicles for traveling around the area, then ask at your hotel or a local travel agency for options.
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Learn to make Wild Prawn & Pork Dumplings from scratch!
Fish & Co. will be hosting Dumpling Workshops where you will learn to make Wild Prawn & Pork Dumplings from scratch with Vanessa Miles @thehungrychook. You will learn how to make the wrappers, prepare the filling, and enjoy your dumplings after the class.
All workshops are held in Artisan Lane, near Osaka Trading Co.
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Investor special ~ bring your contractor! Cute house in Congress Heights, steps to metro, the Shops at Park Village, The Arc and easy access to downtown DC, MD and VA via I295 and Suitland Parkway.
Listed by Ronald Sitrin, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.
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Whether you're leisurely camping, surviving in the elements, or full-on backcountry hunting, KA-BAR knives are versatile, dependable and even as rugged as you are.
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Mental health issues often rise to the surface during adolescence. But teenagers today are also facing new challenges. The demands of school, extracurricular activities, worries about the future, and an active online life can make it hard to keep it all together. Therapy can help.
It's common to feel lost at different points on your journey. You worry about making big decisions. You feel overwhelmed with big and scary emotions. You can't stop the cycle of negative thoughts and worries. Whether you are struggling with depression or anxiety, talking one-on-one can help.
Although it is traditional to see a therapist in the office, it's never been easier to talk to a therapist from your living room. Many clients are served just as well through online therapy as through face-to-face therapy.
Family Based Treatment (also called Maudsley) is an effective therapy for child and adolescent eating disorders. In FBT, parents help their child return to good physical and mental health through weight restoration and improvements to their child's pattern of eating.
The practice at UNC Mental Health Specialists requires payment at the time of service. The cost for each session is $150. Insurance is not accepted at this practice but you will be provided with a statement to file for out of network insurance reimbursement.
Call your insurance provider for more details about your out of network insurance benefits. Crystal Rogan is also happy to advise you about payment options +1 (919) 445 0770.
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Product reviews for every day mountain bike riders.
Having trails near your house is a huge advantage for getting it a lot of miles each week, but it can get mundane because you know them so well that you can almost ride them on auto pilot. When this happened to me I almost wanted to stop riding because I knew it would be the same.
This year I decided to try something different and that was listening to music and Audible books while I ride. We all do it in the car and I feel more comfortable on the trail than having to worry about being a defensive driver and watching out for the crazies on the road.
The first few times I tried to use headphones they either kept falling out or starting hurting my ears after 30 minutes. When I heard about Apple’s new AirPods and had some friends using them that absolutely loved them. I ordered a pair hoping they would work and to my surprise, they have not only worked but work flawlessly.
One of the neat features of the AirPods is that if you take one out then whatever you are listening to pauses. So as long as you are listening to something you should now instantly if one comes out of your ear, and with a retail price of $159 you definitely do not want to lose these. So far I’ve used them on a dozen rides and they’ve not once fallen out, not even during a few crashes. I’m not sure how Apple did that, but it’s amazing.
Outside of mountain biking, the AirPods are an excellent pair of headphones. I’ve been using them for hours every day and they are comfortable, even after having them in for three hours or more, they charge fast, and are easy to stick in your pocket to carry around. They work with existing Apple products like your iPhone, Apple Watch, or Mac and once you set it up through iCloud all devices immediately have access.
Another neat feature is the white case they come in, pictured below with the Fox sticker, is actually both a charger and a case. You charge up the case and it holds its own charge so when you stick your AirPods in they are charged off it. This keeps you from being tied to a wall socket and in my tests, it holds a charge for a few days.
You can get a pair direct from Apple but they have a six-week shipping delay, or you can purchase through Amazon. The current price is $159 and they only come in white.
Web developer by day, mountain biker on the evenings and weekends. Currently riding a neon red 2018 Giant Trance.
While this sounds like a great idea (no pun intended), unfortunately you are blissfully unaware of those around you. People who are trying to pass you, screams of lost hikers, the snapping of branches as a bear runs you down, the noise of another cyclist approaching head on from a blind corner, these are all important things to be able to hear. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing more enjoyable than hauling, flat-out, with a silly grin on your face while listening to Poker Face at volume 10 but the better way to do this is with a bluetooth speaker in your bottle cage or back pack. For your own safety and others please don’t encourage the use of headphones on trails.
This is a bad idea on many levels, and without starting a PhD dissertation on the necessity of your auditory senses I’ll keep this short. 1) You can’t hear anything, not the person behind you, nor the person in front of you, not even the person approaching head on from the other side of a blind corner. 2) Not everybody has the same skills on an MTB but damn near everybody loves music, the pairing of limited cycling skills and headphones is a disaster waiting to happen. That’s pretty much it, if you really want to encourage listening to music on while trail riding, I would suggest a bluetooth speaker like JBL flip, it fits perfectly in your bottle cage or back pack and also serves to warn everybody that you are coming. Me personally I love the classics like “ride of the valkeries” by Wagner, feels like I’m simultaneously ripping through the forest moon on endor while battling the empire.
Hey Robert, thanks for your comments. I personally don’t like music or audio of any kind when I ride. I think that’s because riding for me is a time to zone out from all the audio/video in our lives and let my mind rest. As someone who enjoys that peace and sweet hum of my tires and cassette I’ve noticed a downside to the speaker method is noise pollution. On more densely populated urban trails you can end up listening to someone else’s sound track for a good part of your ride. There are some concerns with either method and I think it’s up to us as a MTB community to figure what is safe and respects other users on the trail. One possible solution is to maybe ride with only one ear bud in.
It’s also worth mentioning that these work very well on Android phones too (albeit without the instant connectivity when first set up).
As for trail riding with headphones, definite no-no but if you’re doing a commute on a long stretch of path then yeah definitely worth it!
Is it work on android also?
Yes they are universal and work through Bluetooth. On Apple devices you can configure what happens when you double tap on each one, for example double tap the left ear for Siri, the right for pause. I’m not sure how that would work with Android but I feel positive you can search around and find the answer.
Copyright © 2019 Everyday MTB.
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‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’ is one of the most beloved movies of the last 15 years. But even if you’ve seen it a hundred times, you might not know about all the awesome Easter eggs and behind-the-scenes trivia the movie has to offer. So sit back, relax, and prepare to have your mind blown!
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The best idea is to have a student class with Name and DateOfBirth Properties. Then in your XAML, all you need to do is bind the DatePicker to the DOB property and set the StringFormat like this Solved: Hi all, I am trying to format the date in the datepicker to view as mmddyyyy. Currently it is viewing as ddmmyyyy. I would like Oct 14, 2016 When I used the same stringformat with textblock or textbox it worked but not working in case of Datepicker. I want to display date in ddMMyyyy format in datepicker when it bounds from datasource and when user selects a. Sep 20, 2012 Re: Datepicker format Hello, Have you tried ensuring that your userform field is a text field. I tend to use date fields and manipulate the data from there. The container for the datepicker's title containing the month and year. The textual display of the month or a element if the changeMonth option is set. Format'), This way you make sure the format string is defined only once and you use the same formatter to translate the format string into the formatted date. However, the datepicker will not accept date strings formatted in user format such as" " as this is ambiguous and will mean different things depending on the locale of the browser running the code. Sep 24, 2012 but the date time format is same in 'dt' as in string 'dat'. If you mean when you hold mouse over dt, you see the same format as in the DataPicker, then this is because MouseOver shows you ToString() method of your date, which IS the same format as shown in the picker.
Solved: We are using DatePicker, but we need to change the format of the displayed date, is this possible? You can display a date in different formats and if you are using the jQuery Datepicker UI widget in your web application, then you can change the format using various ways. Using jQuery date picker we can format a selected date by using dateFormat option. In a previous post, we have seen how to use jQuery datepicker in a form to select a value for a date field. It popup a calendar widget to select a date. Autosuggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Value: function (date, format, language) to convert string object to date, that will be used in date selection ( '. Say our UI should display a week ahead, but textbox should store the actual date. Solved: Hi all, I am trying to format the date in the datepicker to view as mmddyyyy. Currently it is viewing as ddmmyyyy. I would like For a text box control or a date picker control, ensure that the Data type list displays the appropriate data type, and then click Format. For an expression box control, ensure that the Format as list displays the appropriate data type, and then click Format. The best idea is to have a student class with Name and DateOfBirth Properties. Then in your XAML, all you need to do is bind the DatePicker to the DOB property and set the StringFormat like this Is there documentation for the different format options for a DatePicker when using Xamarin forms. In the one of the guides I found I could set the Format" D.
The event how to organize a speed dating event was a success because the young men and women involved were able to a speed dating night for you and your friends can be relatively. Straight through the bush and into her arms. But dropping their trousers down the well was the limit. Heaven shield the Guise from seconding that truth With what he. Usually, speed dating events have a line of tables, with a chair on either side. You will also need a bell or whistle, to sound when a minute has passed.
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Charlie Chaplin saw stereoscopic pictures of the Donner Party and the Klondike while visiting Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. He was intrigued by pioneers eating their moccasins. The two ideas coalesced into a story idea and Chaplin wrote the "Gold Rush," a story about the "little tramp's" search for gold, wrapped in humor and pathos.
It was kind of strange to take the tragedy of the Donner Party, the cannibalism and starvation, and turn it into a comedy but Charlie Chaplin was successful. The "Gold Rush" was, according to some, his most successful movie. It was the highest grossing comedy of its time. It was also the most elaborate and expensive of any comedy of the silent era.
Donner Summit served as the setting for the "Gold Rush" which became the first movie to be filmed there. Watching the movie you will see gold seekers climbing the "Palisades" at what is now Sugar Bowl. Unfortunately, many of the cast caught colds and flu while filming on Donner Summit so filming moved to Hollywood where the sets, covered with salt and flour, became a tourist attraction. To read more about that kind of thing: Charlie Chaplin - The Rest of the Story.
Among the many people coming to find gold was the "little tramp." He avoids a bear on arrival to Alaska (Donner Summit), weathers a storm, and comes to an isolated house.
Someone has to go for food and Black Larson "wins" the draw.
Big Jim and Charlie are left in the cabin, starving. They cook a boot, hallucinate, and shoot a bear.
Big Jim and Charlie separate. Black Larson steals Big Jim's gold and goes over a cliff.
Charlie falls in love with Georgia, a beautiful dance hall girl who ignores him. Charlie puts her picture under the pillow of the house he's house sitting. It's found by some girls. A foot catches fire. Charlie invites the girls to New Years and prepares. He's stood up. There's a dance of dinner rolls. A house teeters on a cliff edge. Gold is found. Charlie and Jim ship out where Charlie is mistaken for a stowaway by Georgia who happens to be on board. Charlie sees Georgia. The ending is happy.
Charlie Chaplin said the "Gold Rush" was the movie he most wanted to be remembered for.
The "Gold Rush" was not the only movie filmed on the Summit. Goofy's "The Art of Skiing" (1941) was filmed entirely on the Summit featuring Sugar Bowl. It is a tour de force for skiing style. "Two Faced Woman" (1939) took place on Donner Summit and has some familiar views for those who know the Summit.
See also the article "Donnerwood" about movies made on Donner Summit in the 3/'09 Heirloom and see our index of articles for the heading, "Videos of of including Donner Summit."
The highest grossing comedy of its time.
It was the movie Charlie Chaplin most wanted to be remembered for.
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Assetz Capital, a fast growing peer-to-peer finance platform, has outlined its intent to further develop its nationwide broker network, supported by its rapidly growing Regional Relationship Director team.
The P2P lender explains that since 2014 brokers have played a key role in referring many small and medium sized businesses to access funding on its platform. Assetz Capital says that more than 350 successfully funded SME projects have come via brokers and management expects this trend to continue with 1000 businesses being referred by brokers by the end of 2018.
Law said that in June his company hit a new record in peer to peer lending with £31 million in loan originations. The second quarter was an internal record as well as Assetz Capital lent over £60 million.
Assetz Capital is looking to increase its active broker network significantly in the next two years, and has announced a strategy to further support brokers through several methods. This includes using its network of nationwide Regional Relationship Directors to locally support more brokers, further product and pricing improvements, dedicated staff in the head office and a series of regional broker events which are specifically aimed at educating and supporting brokers. The first of these events has already taken place in Edinburgh and several more are said to be announced shortly.
Assetz Capital uses a secured lending model and all loans are backed by tangible assets. The company says having a well informed and engaged broker network will benefit both small businesses looking for the right options for them, as well as adding another layer to its rigorous due diligence process.
“Our new strategy will provide further support to our existing network of brokers as well as to help new ones make the most out of the multiple opportunities which our competitive finance presents to them. We would love to hear from more brokers looking for flexible and well-priced lending partner,” added Law.
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Hello, I've been researching the following gloves and was curious what others might have to say on the topic. My local shop has Astars GP Pros and RS Taichi GP-Evos that I've tried on, and the Evos felt much better, but I've heard that Held, Rev'It Jerez and Knox Handroids are also very good in terms of protection and quality fit. I wear protective gear on the street, but am relatively new to the track gear side of things. With most of these gloves being mid $200's and higher I'm curious what others think in terms of protection, fit and quality as I can't try on everything that's out there within my local shops. I'm sure there's a lot of personal preference involved, but does it seem like there is a glove or two out there that "takes the cake" compared to others in terms of quality, fit and protection? I was also curious if Astars seems to be more popular just because they're better at marketing and brand awareness compared to some of the smaller companies or if they truly do seem to be high quality. Maybe I'm over analyzing, but just want to any disappointment and make a good decision. Thanks!
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The objective of the aftercare programme is to provide safe learning spaces in which children/youth are assisted with their academic progress and self-development in order to improve the academic and educational achievements.
NWF offered two types of Aftercare programmes in the period of End of January to July 2013 one for children/youth from (Grade R to Grade 7, age group 5 to 13 years old) and one for children/youth from Grade 3 to Grade 10 (age group 9 to 16 years old). In total, 122 children and youth were registered and round about 95 children/youth attended the programme on a daily basis. The commitment of the children towards the programme was very high. A Life Skills Aftercare Manual was developed in 2013 as well.
The Aftercare Programme at both schools started in the end of January 2013 and was running from Monday to Friday from 12.45pm – 5.30pm. In total 82 children/youth were registered. 65 children/youth attending the programme at Zerilda Park and 17 children/youth at Levana Primary. The programmes were supervised by staff members, part time staff members and of New World Foundation with the assistance of 5 women of the communities of Lavender Hill/Seawinds.
The programme has a set structure. Children/youth are receiving lunch, having a resting period, getting home work support and afterwards have a period were different life skills and educational programmes are offered, such as arts and craft and painting, sewing and beading, board games, reading and numeracy activities. The life skills focused on getting to know who I am, the importance of a positive self-esteems, family and healthy life style. Several outings were organised. In addition, two parents meetings took place, which were well attended. The focus was on the importance for support and responsibilities of parents for children/youth. Two of the facilitators participated in a parenting facilitator training. They have organised the first parenting training in July, which was attended by 8 parents.
The Aftercare Programme started in the end of January and ran daily from Monday to Thursday from 2pm – 5.30pm. Up to 44 children/youth were registered. Approximately 33 children/youth attended on a daily basis. Some children/youth received additional support programmes from a trained clinical psychologist and its team of “Journey Back to You” to assist them with their behavioural problems and trauma counselling. The uniqueness of the programme is the monitoring of the behaviour and academic progress by one staff member of NWF in cooperation with the teachers and principals of the schools, to ensure the progress of the children/youth at risk. Teachers/principals of Primary and High schools referred most of the participants.
The programme was facilitated by a NWF youth worker with support and in cooperation with women of the Aftercare Programme. International volunteers and local volunteers provided additional support. The programme offered every participant lunch, homework and academic support, as well as various life skills modules. Educational programmes such as literacy and numeracy activities, arts and craft, environmental education and games were part of the programme as well.
Two meetings were conducted with parents with 13 parents and 18 parents attending respectively. The two meetings focused on the expectations of parents towards the programme and year planning and management of the behaviour of the children and youth, parenting skills and drug awareness. The parent involvement is vital and the NWF youth facilitator encouraged the parents to be actively involved in their childrens life.
One Holiday Programme (1 week in April 2013) for the Aftercare Children was organised and one Holiday Programme (2 weeks in July) for the whole community (children and youth in the ages of 7 – 16 years). The Holiday Programme offers the children and youth a safe environment during the holiday time. The focus is usually to offer the participants a programme based on arts and cultural activities, sport activities, games and fun activities, life skills and outings.
The April Holiday Programme was organised at NWF for the children/youth of the Aftercare together with the Chaeli Campaign, which works with children/youth with disabilities. These youth are facing the challenge of being excluded from the daily community life. A series of workshops for all the participants was organised to sensitize children and youth without disabilities and integrate children/youth with disabilities. NWF was grateful for the chance to cooperate with the Chaeli Campaign. The Programme was conducted from Tuesday, 02 of April to Friday the 05th of April from 9am – 3pm and in average 30 -35 children attended the programme. Unfortunately, the programme was restricted due to gang fights and shooting in the area, which required additional safety measures. Children and youth had to be picked up and dropped off at home.
The June/July Holiday Programme was organised for the children/youth from the whole Lavender Hill community at the Hillwood Primary School with the support of the Department of Social Development. The programme started with a training for youth volunteers from the 24 until 28 of June. The Holiday programme ran from the 1st until the 14th of July. Over 320 children and youth participated in the programme with a daily average attendance of 160 children and youth. The children and youth were divided into three different age groups (6-9 years), (10-12 years) and (13-16 years). The programme consisted of various life skills workshops, arts and craft workshops, games and sport programmes, environmental programmes and a daily meal. The Programme finished of with a talent show and presentation on the last day at the Uniting Reformed Church/New World Foundation with almost 300 children youth and parents participating.
The Aftercare for the older children/youth is on Friday divided into a Girls and a Boys Club with the aim to create time and safe space where young people can learn about gender specific topics but also have the chance to do activities together. The programmes offered were open to non-members of the Aftercare programme as well!
The programme started in the end of January and was conducted every Friday from 1.30pm – 4pm. In the beginning of the year, 21 girls were registered and the number increased to 34 registered girls in the age of 12–16 years in the meanwhile. In average 26 girls participated on a regular basis in the programme. The sessions were facilitated and supervised by a staff member of NWF with the assistance of local and international volunteers. Topics covered by the programme were life skills such as the Self, sexuality, gender topics, drug awareness, peer pressure, etc. Outings were part of the programmes as well.
Especially Boys in the age between 11 and 17 have the need to a have positive male role models and their own space and time to express themselves and learn and acquire life skills. The programme is conducted at the same time as the Girls Club (every Friday 1.30pm-4pm) at NWF. It is facilitated by a NWF staff member with the assistance of local and international male volunteers. The programme commenced in the end of January. 27 boys in the ages of 11–17 years were registered with the average attendance of 16 boys per session. Sessions on self-development, dealing with conflict and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, sexuality, etc. were conducted, in addition to sports games. Additionally outings to Rondevlei and Zeekovlei Nature Reserve were organised.
Soccer, the beautiful game, and sport in general are a good medium to teach children not only soccer or technical skills related to the sports code, but also to teach and develop important life skills such as leadership, teambuilding and cohesion, conflict management, anger management, emotional intelligence in order to strengthen the resilience of the youth. In addition, refereeing skills are important and teaching participants how to control groups, respect one another, deal with conflicts in a non-violent way and essential communication skills. The objective is to teach Life skills by using soccer as a medium in a safe, peaceful environment.
The programmes was facilitated by NWF Soccer and Life skills facilitators and local and international volunteers. The programme commenced in the beginning of February at 4 Primary Schools (Hillwood-, Levana- and Prince Georg Primary School in Lavender Hill and Sullivan Primary School in Steenberg) on a weekly basis. The attendance differed from school to school with an average of 23 children/youth participating per session per school. Content of the programme were various Life skills and soccer skills. In addition, tournaments were conducted as well. The focus in the first half of the year was on improving the self-esteem through improved soccer skills and teambuilding activities but also topics like HIV/Aids.
The specific objective for this programme is to give children/youth the opportunity to express themselves in a creative way, to find ways to express their feelings by using art as a medium, but also help to heal wounds and trauma. Martha Cabrera, the Nicaraguan psychologist described and discovered the phenomenon of multiple wounded communities. Art and Art Therapy is one way to create an opportunity to space and place for healing.
In 2012 NWF facilitators and volunteers of the community of Lavender Hill received training in Art Therapy by a professional Art Therapist for twelve months. The transferred and learned skills enabled NWF facilitators to conduct art/art therapy classes.
The programme started in the beginning of February 2013 at Hillwood Primary School every Monday form 2.30-5pm. The programme started with 24 registered youth and is accommodating in the meanwhile over 40 youth. The participants receive a healthy lunch, followed by the art and craft and life skills session. Different tools, materials and method of art making are used on regular basis to teach children/youth a variety of different skills.
The youth leadership programme enables youth to become active and positive change agent in communities. The main objective for this programme is to teach youth leadership and life skills in order to enable them to become positive role models and change agents in their communities. In addition, young people are empowered to assist with programmes for children/youth and become support structures and role models for them. A Computer Training Programme is complementing the Youth Leadership programme.
In the first six month (February – July 2013), the programme was offered to learners (17 -18 years of age) from two High Schools in the Lavender Hill/Retreat/Steenberg area. 21 students from Sibelius High School and 19 students from Crestway High School registered for the programme. The Programme started in February and was offered twice a week (Youth Leadership class and Computer Class) for 12 weeks.
The modules in the Life skills classes covered were: The self/self concept and self management, communication skills, time management, prioritising and planning and topics such as good Leadership and role modelling and community involvement. In the Computer Training basic skills about the utilisation of Microsoft Word were taught and the participants were able to write their own CV at the end of the course.
Ten outstanding and very committed youth leaders from both programmes were nominated to join the Ashley Kriel Youth Leadership programme of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and were additionally trained in reconciliation and reconstruction work and even invited to lectures at the University of the Western Cape.
15 youth leaders started to organise the Holiday Club meetings in order to run a Holiday Programme in June/July 2013 at Crestway High School. Over 17 meetings took place amongst the youth to organise with the assistance of Zain Nazier (Youth Leadership Programme Facilitator of NWF) the first Holiday Programme ever held at Crestway High School. The principal and the Department of Education appreciated the effort and extended their gratitude to New World Foundation. The programme was attended by 50 to 60 learners every day (24th of June -14 of July 2013).
A Theatre and Drama group was started by some of the youth leaders, with the help of Zain Nazier, which the youth called !productions. The aim of this initiative is to offer young people a programme about arts and culture where they experiment in the field of arts and culture. It teaches furthermore skills to plan and produce shows and get the participants in contact with professionals in the field of arts and culture. In addition, the theatre/drama group aims to bring educational productions and theatre for development for children and youth as well.
The group meets on Wednesdays in the evening from 6pm-8.30pm at NWF. The youth leaders facilitate the programme with the assistance of NWF staff members. The group started with 15 members and grew up to 23 registered members in the age group of 13 – 22 years old. The group worked on various small productions/stories related to the problems of the youth in their communities. Links and visits/outings for the group are part of the programme. Theatres such as the Masque Theatre, the Baxter Theatre and Artscape offered their assistance.
In 2012 a Hiking Club was started by a group of young community members with the help of Bruce Adams (ex NWF staff member). It’s activities are now organised by two youth leaders of the NWF’s Youth Leadership programme in cooperation with a member of the Western Province Mountain Club and NWF staff members. The club is offering the youth an opportunity to learn about leadership in nature, to learn about the environment, survival and safety and first aid skills, group dynamics, orientation (reading maps, using a compass) etc. and the beautiful experiences to be in nature with a group and to support each other.
The group is meeting on a regular basis on Tuesday at NWF from 5.30 to 7pm two times in a month to learn about the different skills, to plan hikes, prepare for outdoor trainings (two times a year) etc. The Club started with 10 members and in the last six month another 8 members joined the Club. Three hikes and one training camp on Table Mountain were organised.
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The rubbish strewn around Nelson Mandela is evidence that coalition governments do not work and that an outright winner is needed when it comes to elections.
That was the opinion of president Cyril Ramaphosa who did not mince his words when talking about the state of the metro on Sunday morning.
Ramaphosa was addressing a hall filled with ANC supporters at the George Botha Hall in Kleinskool.
"At local government level, here in the metro, there a lot of problems because coalition governments do not work.
"We are in a coalition that is not working because you need one key political party that will govern,” he said.
"We have to get to a point where we'll have one boss. The ANC is that boss.
Ramaphosa said he noticed how dirty the area was while on his way to the hall.
"There were papers all over the show. There was rubbish all over the show and that is not how people should live as South Africans,” he said.
Echoing Ramaphosa's sentiments, ANC Eastern Cape premier candidate and provincial executive committee chairperson Oscar Mabuyane said people had realised that coalitions did not work and were not the solution.
"Voters realised that the mistake of not voting for the ANC [during the 2016 municipal elections]. They realised that mistake was too costly and we need the ANC back, recharged and ready to sort out the issues of our people," Mabuyane said.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-26T14:27:37",
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