Meet at 06:05 as the gates open at 06:15, was the instruction, and actually the gate was open already a little before that as the two buses went in separate directions around a large salt pan area called Fischer's Pan. I was in Geoff's bus and we soon saw several kori bustards walking close to or across the road: the heaviest flying bird in the world, says Geoff, though in Extremadura (Spain) that's also claimed for great bustard. Other bustards were a single red-crested korhaan (the crest is rarely seen, only when a male is displaying) and several northern black korhaans including a male with a fine black face and neck with a large white cheek spot vaguely reminiscent of a goldeneye, as Malcolm observed, and a smart vermiculated pattern on the back, as Mary described. We agreed counts of 36 wildebeest and 54 elands. The eland group clearly had a big age mix and was joined by three others, probably bachelor males, and spent a long time at a water hole. Black-backed jackal, early on in the drive, and a group of banded mongooses were among other mammals out in the relative cool of the early morning. New birds for the holiday included ostriches, red-breasted swallows, black-shouldered kite, a party of Burchell's sandgrouse and two elegant secretary birds. Darrin's bus returned with tales of honey badger and Namibian scrub robin on a nest. Breakfast was back at Namutoni Camp, complete with Doctor Sue's regular reminder to take anti-malarials.
A morning drive took us to two water holes, first Koinachas, then Chudop. At Koinachas, as we arrived, a tawny eagle was perching out in the open, allowing first class views, before it dropped out mostly of view behind the island of reedmace in the centre of the large pond. Several white-backed vultures dropped into the same area, plus one Cape griffon vulture. There were two blue cranes on view the whole time, one of which had a turquoise colour ring with the letters NBZ. Wildebeest, southern oryx (locally and hereafter called gemsbok), impalas and springboks all came into drink.
Two bull elephants were enjoying the second water hole, Chudop. One left the area having urinated and defecated and could have been mistaken for having five legs; you can imagine some of the commentary from onlookers. Again there was a succession of mammals coming to drink, including some fine, twisted-horned kudus. Emerald-spotted wood-doves outnumbered Namaqua and Cape turtle doves. Waves of red-billed queleas moved between the reeds and the water's edge. We (in Darrin's bus) paused on the return drive for a very close and clear red-capped lark with two smaller brown, streaky birds in the same dry bush for which desert cisticola was the best fit for ID.
After lunch, Geoff and Darrin went out in search of diesel during the usual afternoon break in the heat. That included time for me at the Namutoni waterhole where Daphne, Jeremy and Gill were watching marabou storks. Jeremy had also found a pair of painted snipe, definitely a five-star bird, which we shared though telescopes with others waiting there. Red-necked falcon, banded martin and red-breasted swallow were other good finds, and finally Gill found a golden oriole which moved from the rushes to a perch beside a fork-tailed drongo.
"Gill found a golden oriole which moved from the rushes to a perch beside a fork-tailed drongo."
The afternoon drive took us back to Koinachas and other waterholes with many birds and mammals to see, including a scrub hare. A stream of impalas was close to the buses at one waterhole so you could admire not only their general beauty but also the black blaze on the nose, which might be just a colour form or might be a subspecies. Injuries were also talking points: a zebra with a scar on the rump and a giraffe with just a stump of a tail, both presumably 'ones-that-got-away' from a lion.
After our return several visited the old German fort at sunset, and from there we saw our first lions. Apparently a male came and went and when I reached the viewing area on top of the fort there were two large lionesses and eight cubs of two sizes. Red-necked falcons moved to and fro, especially into a large fan palm.
Nightfall, dinner and a catch-up of wildlife checklists included comparing notes on geckos: for example, there were four Cape geckos outside my chalet, helped by the outside light bringing in insects. The reptilian theme continued as I removed a striped skink from Gill's bath. Over at the waterhole, rufous-cheeked nightjars churred and flew around.
Cape gecko on a Namutoni chalet door.


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Children, Gillick competency and consent for involvement in research
David Hunter, Barbara K. Pierscionek
This paper looks at the issue of consent from children and whether the test of Gillick competency, applied in medical and healthcare practice, ought to extend to participation in research. It is argued that the relatively broad usage of the test of Gillick competency in the medical context should not be considered applicable for use in research. The question of who would and could determine Gillick competency in research raises further concerns relating to the training of the researcher to make such a decision as well as to the obvious issue of the researcher's personal interest in the project and possibility of benefiting from the outcome. These could affect the judgment of Gillick competency if the researcher is charged with making this decision. The above notwithstanding, there are two exceptional research situations in which Gillick competency might be legitimately applied: ( 1) when the research is likely to generate significant advantages for the participants while exposing them to relatively minor risks, and ( 2) when it is likely to generate great societal benefit, pose minimal risks for the participants and yet raise parental objection. In both cases, to ensure that autonomy is genuinely respected and to protect against personal interest, Gillick competency should be assessed by an individual who has no interest or involvement in the research.
Journal of Medical Ethics
Published - Nov 2007
Hunter, D., & Pierscionek, B. K. (2007). Children, Gillick competency and consent for involvement in research. Journal of Medical Ethics, 33(11), 659-662.
Hunter, David ; Pierscionek, Barbara K. / Children, Gillick competency and consent for involvement in research. In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 2007 ; Vol. 33, No. 11. pp. 659-662.
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The concept of a miracle is something that the western mind has adopted in the modern world to associate to a spiritual phenomenon that occurs out of the norm. On my quest to understand this phenomenon as it is related to human consciousness and awakening, I found wisdom and derived lessons on how life can be perceived through faith in the indigenous way of life.
Few years ago, I was traveling in South America and visiting the indigenous shamans (in such tribes as Camsa, Cofan and Quechua), where I have been learning about the Amazonian plant medicine. People in Putumayo, Colombia use the medicine as a traditional way in order not so much to see hallucinations or visions, but as a way of tapping into subconscious mind to modify perception. In a ceremonial setting, the Indigenous shaman provides a drink that is prepared based on two plants that come from Amazon. The medicine has been brewed in Putumayo for thousands of years for healing the body and soul. This natural drink has chemical composition that releases certain elements such as DMT that allows the mind and pineal gland to be activated, thus allowing the person to confront his/her internal truth. In this altered state, the person is able to have an internal dialogue and cleanse of his/her ego, and as result get connected to his/her heart. Since most of the shamans take the medicine from very early childhood, they develop a strong connection to the spirit world and able to assist in person's healing on more sublime realm.
The shamans in Putumayo say that health comes from internal wisdom as one is able to step out and analyze his/her own life, ask for forgiveness, and make improved differences going forward. As the plant medicine is such an integral part of the people's lives in Putumayo whether they live in the jungle or town, it has been amazing to observe how simple their lives are, and yet they rejoice in this simplicity. In the end of February, I participated in a carnival in a town called Sibudoy. This carnival is a big festivity to celebrate the beginning of indigenous New Year. Everyone in town got dressed in the traditional clothes and took part in a parade using drums, harmonicas, special song and dance as a symbol of a new cycle.
Similarly, the plant medicine provides a way for a person to shed old skin and see the light in the darkness in order to celebrate a new perception of the daily reality. In a new way of being connected to the soul, everything starts being illuminated. With such connection, one starts appreciating the Mother Nature, the food he/she consumes, and important relationships. The person becomes integrated with everything in his/her surroundings. This way, the psyche starts accepting life differently. It's no longer shut down by the modern world of daily routine where worries and stresses added by other technological distractions fog the mind.
At this important time of human evolution, I suggest we should learn from the indigenous world. Each person is responsible to at least try to modify his/her perception whether with the Amazonian medicine or with other various available tools such as meditation, yoga, ecstatic dancing, etc. Instead of acting through fear and superficiality, life should be accepted in more simple way and rejoiced as though everything is a miracle.


For the outdoor enthusiast, Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a magnificent destination. Whether you like to camp, boat, fish, hike, bike or just soak up nature's beauty, this book is your key to unlocking a wealth of opportunities.
If you enjoy the water, Land Between the Lakes Outdoor Handbook, will show you the many fishing and boating possibilities on 200,00 acres of lakes, including launch areas, swimming beaches and the 85 mile long Land Between the Lakes Paddle Route. If you prefer to explore the 170,000 acres of land, this handbook provides detailed profiles of over 300 miles of hiking, biking and esquestrian trails as well as the eight campgrounds available in the recreation area. For those who want to enjoy the softer die of Land Between the Lakes, descriptions of scenic drives, picnic areas, and historic and natural attractions are included.
Whether you visit for a day or an entire week, Land Between The Lakes outdoor Handbook is an invaluable tool for making the most of this extraordinary place.


lllios is an adventure set in ancient greece, where the sun is turning to stone and the humans have lost the ability to light fires. Follow the former oracle of Apollo's struggle to harbor the last remaining flame to safety in a crumbling city.
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The modern City of Toledo is not a popular tourist destination, but it offers a wide range of attractions and activities that visitors will enjoy. Near downtown are the Old West End and the Toledo Museum of Art. Further out is the world-class Toledo Zoo. The Port of Toledo has a healthy Polish neighborhood dotted with fantastic restaurants. In fact, visitors can find almost any ethnic cuisine in the Port of Toledo from Polish and Hungarian treats to Middle East and Indian cuisine.
The popular Toledo Museum of Art is one of the country's best. Containing over 30 thousand works of art, the museum offers over 35 galleries, a sculpture garden, and a new glass pavilion. The museum displays works by the world's greatest artists and sculptors from Cezanne and Degas to Calder and Picasso as well as many ancient masterpieces and Asian treasures.
The Port of Toledo's historic Old West End is a wonderful step back into time with 25 blocks containing one of the biggest groups of late Victorian homes still standing in the United States. The area contains unspoiled examples Colonial, Italian Renaissance, Second Empire French, Queen Ann, and Georgian architecture. Just north of the Art Museum, the old mansions surrounded by 100-year-old trees are open at Christmas for wonderful holiday tours.
The Port of Toledo Zoo holds a treasure trove of over six thousand creatures representing more than 750 species displayed in creative animal-friendly exhibits where visitors can get close without disturbing the living displays. The zoo is active in many conservation efforts to preserve endangered and threatened species of all types, including some breeding programs.


Expedition Subsahara is turning ONE!
Mark your calendars! All are invited to celebrate with an authentic African market right here in St. Louis.
Details: Saturday, September 22, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Bowood Farms.
This year, instead of doing an online fundraiser for the STEAM school in Senegal, we have decided to re-create a traditional African market. What a better way to connect cultures then to taste, smell, feel and be surrounded by it? Guests will have the opportunity to get a glimpse of what an open-air market is like in Senegal, complete with a traditional beverages and snacks, fashion, and music — staples in any Senegalese market.
Whisk: a Sustainable Bakeshop, will be there with ice pops in traditional African flavors.
We also will be hosting an up-and-coming Senegalese designer, Fatou Ndeye and bringing you her African inspired fashions from her business in Senegal, Fatou's Closet.
This will be our biggest market of the year as we celebrate our one-year anniversary. Come shop the goods, from clutches/wallets to baskets, tablewear and jewelry that will make you and your conscience smile. Supporting artisans and making a difference in the lives of people around the world has never been this fun!


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Tom Watson – 2019 Speech on Betting
Below is the text of the statement made by Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in the House of Commons on 2 July 2019.
The whole House is united in supporting the Lionesses in their game at 8 o'clock tonight. The Opposition believe that we must capture the energy created by women's football; 10 million people will be watching tonight. That is why we think that the next women's World cup should be added to the "crown jewels" list of free-to-air sport.
I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of his statement. Last September, Labour announced that we would introduce a 1% mandatory levy on gambling companies to pay for research, education and treatment of problem gambling. We stand by that commitment today: only a mandatory levy will do.
I am glad that the gambling industry has sat up and listened to what we and other campaigners, on both sides of the House, are saying on this issue. Credit where it is due: the big five companies have shown leadership and responsibility, which are sorely lacking in some other parts of the industry. Gambling addiction costs the economy an estimated £1.2 billion a year, yet the amount that the industry currently contributes to treating addiction is paltry.
The voluntary levy, as it currently operates, asks for 0.1% of gambling yield. That target is never met. The industry turns over £14.5 billion a year, yet contributes less than £10 million a year to GambleAware. Some companies contribute amounts that are, frankly, insulting to the voluntary system. SportPesa, which sponsors Everton, and Fun88, which sponsors Newcastle, gave only £50 each last year. Both are white labels of the company TGP Europe. Best Bets gave £5, while GFM Holdings Ltd gave just £1. Given that there are 430,000 gambling addicts, 55,000 of whom are children, that is completely unacceptable and deliberately insulting to those leading players in the industry who are trying to take responsibility. Will the Secretary of State tell us how he will make such companies take more responsibility if not through a mandatory levy?
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care now supports a mandatory levy; Simon Stevens, chief executive of the NHS, supports a mandatory levy; the Gambling Commission supports a mandatory levy; and Gambling with Lives supports a mandatory levy. However, I cannot quite understand from his statement whether the Secretary of State, who has responsibility for this policy area, supports a mandatory levy—does he or not?
We in the Opposition believe that a mandatory levy is the only way to provide the structure and consistent funding that a proper system of research, education and treatment needs, and with the NHS at the heart of the process. In the announcement today, the so-called big five have said they will fulfil the 0.1% donation to GambleAware, but where will the rest of the funding go? Who or what will establish the proper clinical models and guidelines for service provision? Can the Secretary of State tell us how the Government will ensure that the money does not just go on the companies' pet projects?
After today, we will still have inadequate regulation and a Gambling Act that is outdated and not fit for the digital age. Gambling companies licensed in the UK are sponsoring UK football teams yet operating entirely abroad, behaving irresponsibly and fuelling addiction in countries such as Kenya. Companies are allowing customers to lose tens of thousands of pounds on multiple credit cards in a single sitting. There are companies that bombard customers who try to self-exclude with advertising emails and offers of free bets, then make them sign non-disclosure agreements when they settle.
The gambling market is broken, and it is up to the Government to fix it. We do not need a voluntary patch, but a full overhaul of rules and regulations. I fear that the Secretary of State and the Government will fail in that task.
Tom Watson – 2019 Speech on Free TV Licences for Over-75s
Below is the text of the speech made by Tom Watson, the Labour MP for West Bromwich East, on 11 June 2019.
We found out yesterday just how little a Tory manifesto promise is worth. I have read these words in the Chamber before, but I will read them again:
"We will maintain all…pensioner benefits, including free bus passes, eye tests, prescriptions and TV licences, for the duration of this parliament."
No ifs, no buts, no wavering—a promise made in 2017 to voters by the Conservative party.
Today, 3.7 million over-75s find that promise in tatters. They have been betrayed, and it is shameful. The Government have the breathtaking gall to blame the BBC for this mess, but passing the buck will not work. The BBC is not the Department for Work and Pensions. Public broadcasters should never be responsible for social policy. My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) warned in 2015 that this was a "smash and grab raid" by the Government on the BBC. He was right, and now older people are paying the price. There are 1.8 million over-75s who live completely alone, and they will lose their TV licence because of the announcement. How can the Secretary of State justify that? We cannot means-test for loneliness or social inclusion.
What about the very poorest in our nation who are eligible for pension credit but do not claim it? How will the Secretary of State protect them? Two of the Tory leadership candidates—the former Leader of the House and the Home Secretary—have committed to overturning the decision. Perhaps they know how it will look to the rest of the world when we start jailing pensioners who cannot or will not pay the licence fee.
I would like to share some figures with the House: 4,240 older people in Uxbridge will lose their TV licence; 5,970 people in West Suffolk will be affected; and 6,730—the number in South West Surrey. The right hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) wants to give a tax cut to the very richest, but he will not lift a finger to defend pensioners. The Health Secretary says he cares about social care, but he will not defend pensioners either. The Foreign Secretary tells us that he cares about the chronically lonely, but he will not defend even the loneliest pensioners. Is it therefore any surprise that the country's pensioners are asking whether the leadership candidates will honour their word and keep their promise, or break it?
This is a test not just of leadership, but of honour, integrity and truthfulness. Does the Secretary of State agree that someone who cannot keep a promise is not fit to be Prime Minister? It is as simple as that.
Tom Watson – 2019 Speech on the WhatsApp Data Breach
Below is the text of the speech made by Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in the House of Commons on 15 May 2019.
Here we are again: another day, another major data breach from a Mark Zuckerberg company. I am glad that the Secretary of State is with Facebook today, because we can suggest a number of questions for him to put to Facebook.
First, what has happened? Spyware called Pegasus, created by the Israeli security company NSO Group, has been used to hack the phones of lawyers and human rights activists. The news reports read like a nightmare: a dystopian world of tech-enabled total surveillance. The spyware transits malicious code via a WhatsApp call. The target does not even need to answer the call for the phone to be infected. According to The New York Times, once the spyware is installed, it can extract everything: messages, contacts, GPS location, email and browser history. It can even use the phone's camera and microphone to record the user's surroundings. That is terrifying.
About 1.5 billion people worldwide use WhatsApp and millions are here in the UK. Many of them will have been drawn to the service for its unique selling point: end-to-end encryption that ensures user privacy. Now we find that a gap in WhatsApp's defences has enabled complete violation of that privacy. What is the Minister doing to work with GCHQ, the National Cyber Security Centre and tech industry players to protect the UK's digital communications and privacy?
Media reports say that WhatsApp contacted the US Department of Justice earlier this month when it found out about the hack, but when was the Minister notified about it? When was the Information Commissioner informed? How many users in the UK are affected? Have those affected been notified? If the Minister does not know the answers, will she commit to updating the House when she does?
The spyware was licensed for export by the Israeli Government. What assurances can the Minister provide to social media companies that any digital surveillance products that the UK exports will not be misused to track and monitor human rights defenders? The particular vulnerability of WhatsApp was the voice over internet protocol—the process for receiving calls over the internet. As telecoms companies modernise, they are all moving away from calls over copper lines and phasing in calling via the internet. What is the Minister doing to ensure that those companies do not have vulnerabilities such as those we are discussing today?
The attack looks as if it was carried out by malicious actors, possibly other state actors, trying to close down journalists, dissidents, human rights activists and lawyers seeking justice, but exactly that kind of surveillance was given legal basis in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, which the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) and I fought in the courts and won concessions on. The Government want tech companies to build back doors into their services, but this is an example of what happens if malicious actors find those doors: those who are fighting for justice and what is right come under attack. The Government must not allow that to happen.
Tom Watson – 2018 Speech on Gaming Machines
Below is the text of the speech made by Tom Watson, the Labour MP for West Bromwich East, in the House of Commons on 17 May 2018.
Good morning to you, Mr Speaker. I am grateful to the Minister for advance sight of her statement, and I refer hon. Members to my entry in the register.
At the outset, let me warmly congratulate the Minister on her decision today. I am not going to be mealy-mouthed about it: we are absolutely delighted that the Government have decided to deliver a Labour party manifesto pledge. Today, we have had this on FOBTs and yesterday we had the railways taken back into public ownership—it is just a shame we could not make it three with the Leveson inquiry earlier in the week. I genuinely believe this is a great moment; it is the right decision and I applaud the Minister for making it. Having been in government, I know how tricky it is to reach a consensus on these complex regulatory issues, and she deserves recognition from those in all parts of the House for getting this through. We should also recognise that this is a victory for the many people in this House who have led this campaign, particularly my friend, colleague and fellow deputy leader, my hon. Friend the Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris), who has fought tirelessly for this, alongside other Members, including the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith), whom I also regard as a friend.
During this process, we have seen how some parts of the gambling industry have stood in defiance of Ministers, civil servants, parliamentarians, clinicians and other professionals, and have sought to delay at every turn common-sense decisions that would have given comfort to those who have been afflicted by these machines. There is a lesson in this: if the UK is to retain its reputation for innovative, light-touch regulation and responsible gambling, the wider industry needs to start taking its responsibilities and obligations to players seriously. Any Government, whatever their political hue, will be deeply concerned about the situation we find ourselves in: we have 430,000 gambling addicts; 2 million vulnerable players at risk of developing an addiction; and 25,000 young people who gamble every week. It is incumbent on the industry now to show the Government and Parliament its progress on how it shoulders these responsibilities and uses its £13.8 billion a year yield to deal with harms created by gambling. Across the industry we have global leaders in innovative online gambling products who are seeking solutions to these issues through investment and technology. However, too many household name companies have belligerently denied the facts in front of their noses, so our message today is clear: clean up your act or a future Labour Government will do it for you.
In that spirt of unity and cross-party co-operation, I would like to make a few suggestions to the Minister, if I may—[Interruption.] I say that genuinely; there is no need to laugh. We understand there are concerns about revenue reduction, and the Minister has suggested she will increase remote gaming duty to cover this. Would it not be more appropriate to close the loophole that allows British online gambling companies based in Gibraltar to avoid paying tax? Secondly, the Government have chosen not to implement a statutory levy for research, education and treatment at this point, but there was a significant call for that, including from some gambling industry leaders. So will she think again on it, in order to guarantee that resources are available for treatment? Thirdly, we all want addicts to access the most appropriate treatment, so will the Government please start to collect proper data in that area? I have asked a number of questions to Ministers about how many addicts are receiving treatment on the NHS and how much treatment costs the NHS, but we have been told time and time again that the Departments do not hold or collect that data. I am sure we all agree that if we are to understand and better treat this problem, we need better data.
Fourthly, some of the largest companies affected by this decision have argued for restrictions on betting advertising for football in particular. Given that that is also the No. 1 concerned expressed by parents, it seems to me that the Government have been hasty in ignoring it.
Finally, our view is that the 2005 Act is no longer fit for purpose. We need a new gambling Act that is fit for the digital age. How draconian that new Act might be is dependent on how the industry chooses to engage with Parliament. We call on the innovative and responsible new leaders of the gambling industry to show us that they take their obligations seriously, and to work with us to alleviate problem gambling.
In conclusion, cutting the maximum stake on FOBTs is a big step in the right direction, but it is just one part of the puzzle. In praising Ministers, I urge the Government to use the new spirit of consensus to introduce a new gambling Act, fit for the purposes of the digital age.
Tom Watson – 2017 Speech to Labour Party Conference
Below is the text of the speech made by Tom Watson, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, at the Labour Party conference held in Brighton on 26 September 2017.
Conference, thank you for being here. Thanks for your enthusiasm, for your passion, for all your hard work on behalf of the Labour Party, on behalf of our country. I'm grateful to every one of you.
Last week, the Prime Minister made yet another speech to reboot, yet again, her Brexit strategy. She chose to deliver this latest oration in the great city of Florence, though no-one seems to know why. For politicians, Florence, even more than the city of Dante, the Medicis and Michelangelo, is the city of Niccolo Machiavelli.
I can only assume Michael Gove picked the venue. Michael Gove, who undermined his own Tory leadership bid last year, by admitting he doesn't have the right skills to be Prime Minster. For once in his life, he was right. Trouble is, none of the rest of them do either.
So now he's back. Machiavelli's famous advice was that it's better to be feared than to be loved. This mantra runs as deep in the Tory Party as blue through a stick of Brighton rock. Fear is how they win. Fear is how they govern.
It's fear of strangers behind this Government's callous treatment of EU citizens living here. It's with the peddled fear of economic ruin that they justify their cruelty to our nurses and teachers, our armed forces and our police officers. It's with fear that they hammer our poorest and most vulnerable, while turning a blind eye to their plutocrat friends.
I'm going to be honest with you, Conference: fear is a powerful force. It won the Conservative Party elections in 2010 and in 2015. But this year, something magical happened. The spell has been broken. Jeremy told this country that we don't need to be afraid. That another way is possible. That living in fear is not inevitable: we can choose to live in love and hope instead.
And this country, our great country, began to throw off the shackles.
Mrs May, the Tory Party was never loved. But you were happy to be feared. It worked for you. Well not any more. 15 months in, you still seem as dazed as on day one. Caught between your enemies and, even worse, your friends. Caught in the headlights. Living on Boris time.
As Shadow Culture Secretary, I've got one of the best jobs there is. When I get invited to the theatre or to the cinema or, yes, to Glastonbury, I get to say I'm only there for work. And one of the most surreal moments of my political life happened to me late at night, in a field, surrounded by people much younger and far more stylish than me.
I realised something as the crowd at Glastonbury's silent disco began to sing:
"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn…." And as they sang, I realised it's actually better to be loved than to be feared. And Jeremy has shown us that it's possible.
Thank you Jeremy.
There are some serious bits to my job, too, though. It's not all music festivals and opening nights. Digital, culture, media and sport are key battlegrounds in our fight against fear and despair.
And alongside me in those battles I have the best Shadow DCMS team you could want: Kevin Brennan, my deputy, Rosena Allin-Khan, Liam Byrne, Steve Reed, Ruth Smeeth and Wilf Stevenson.
And we've recently lost Louise Haigh, the finest mind of her generation, who was rightly promoted to join Diane's team in the shadow Home Office.
And we have a leader in Jeremy who stamped his leadership on culture policy when the two of us launched our innovative culture manifesto in Hull – deservedly the UK City of Culture.
What a great job they've done this year. An early priority for our DCMS team in Government will be to finally confront problem gambling. Of course, gambling isn't risk free. Even bets you think are absolute certainties can end up costing you a lot. Just ask Theresa May.
That was a joke, by the way, but it's a serious problem. The damage to the families of gambling addicts can be terrible. Yet some gambling firms, driven by greed, are deliberately targeting our poorest communities. We now know that when vulnerable people try to opt out of online gambling, companies don't always block their accounts as they should.
Gambling companies are even harvesting data to deliberately target low-income gamblers and people who've given up.
As Mike Dixon, boss of mental health charity Addaction says, "gambling addiction tears lives and families apart. It's outrageous that an industry with a £13bn revenue contributes less than £10m to treatment".
Well Mike, I can tell you that a Labour Government will introduce a compulsory levy.
Can you imagine the uproar if the drinks industry started targeting Alcoholics Anonymous by selling drink outside AA meetings? We wouldn't tolerate that – and we shouldn't tolerate the same kind of behavior by some bookmakers. And addicts must be given the help they need. Gambling addiction is an illness and it's about time it was taken seriously.
So I can announce today that, together with Jonathan Ashworth, our shadow Health Secretary, I'm launching a thorough review of gambling addiction in this country and current provision for treatment on the NHS. Jon Ashworth, by the way: what a sparkling star of Labour's front bench. He's going to be an outstanding Health Secretary in the next Labour Government.
Our review will look at how best to fund NHS treatment and help free problem gamblers from the destructive cycle of addiction. My message to gambling firms today is clear: stop targeting vulnerable people. Start acting properly. And meet your obligation to help those whose lives have been blighted by addiction.
You can do it now, because it's the right thing to do. Or you can wait for the next Labour Government to do it for you.
Oh and by the way, the same applies to the organisations that run football in this country. If you won't ban football clubs from signing shirt sponsorship deals with betting companies – Labour will.
Conference, as I said, I know how lucky I am. I love my job. Serving my constituents in West Bromwich, serving the Party, serving each of you as Deputy Leader. There's no better job – perhaps that's why so many people want to do it.
But I know not everyone's as lucky as me. More and more are being left behind by an economy that serves the few, not the many.
And the world's changing in ways we can't continue to ignore: the labour market's polarising. Today's choice for too many young people is precarious employment or no employment, a zero hours contract or no contract, shabby, dangerous, soul-destroying work, or no work at all.
Income inequality in Britain is amongst the highest in the developed world. Inequality between those with fulfilment and security in work, and those without it is growing too.
This is a stain on our country. But the Tories just shrug their shoulders and say there's no alternative.
Just like they did on low pay, before our party introduced the minimum wage. Just like they did on maternity rights, before we secured them. Just like they did on healthcare, before we created the NHS to treat the many, not just the few.
And the Tories are still doing it now. Transport for London has told Uber it has to follow the same rules as everyone else. Nothing more. That it can run its mini-cab service, as long as they respect our rules. Treat your customers with respect and keep them safe, like everyone else has to. And then you'll be welcome to make money in London.
Uber, you're becoming the perfect picture of how the future gig economy must not look. You may think you're immune because your friends in the Tory party run Britain and its newspapers. You know the Tories don't care about level playing fields and orderly markets. They don't care about consumer protection. They certainly don't care about workers' rights. But they don't run London – and that's where you make your money.
And, mark my words, they won't be running Britain for much longer. Conservatives don't have the imagination to embrace change. They never have. Theresa May summed it up in her now infamous line from the election:
"Nothing has changed.
Nothing. Has. Changed."
So: no lessons learned. No message received. It's the same old Tories. No end to austerity. No change for public servants who deserve a pay rise. No change for the millions who desperately need something different. The truth is, the Tories don't really want to change things.
But Labour does. And when Jeremy forms the next Government, Labour will. A time for change is upon us. The old fear is gone. We're ready for bold, transformative reform, hungry for it.
That's what Labour's campaign showed – as hundreds of thousands knocked on doors, went to rallies, got out the vote and delivered stunning Labour victories in Tory strongholds like Canterbury. Like Kensington.
This year's election showed that real change is possible. We can and we will form a radical Government which does things differently.
We have the imagination; we have the drive; we have the momentum. The fight is so important. Not just because we need to undo the damage of all these years of Tory rule. But because fresh challenges lie ahead.
On the horizon – in sight, in the next few years – automation and artificial intelligence threatening jobs and wages on a scale the world has never seen. Digital platforms making access to work much more direct and immediate. But the quality of that work, the safeguards, the wages, the pensions – too often these are cast aside, disguised as innovation.
Whereas Labour believes that secure, high-quality work should be available to every adult who wants it. And in order to get it, in the digital age, the successful worker will need to be a creative worker. It's the job of Government to make that happen. And that starts with education.
In an age when every child has access to all the knowledge that has ever existed on a device that fits in the palm of their hand, just teaching them to memorise thousands of facts is missing the point. Michael Gove's curriculum reforms were a useless return to the past – obsessed by what children can remember, instead of how they use the knowledge they have.
We don't yet know what the jobs of the future will be, so we've got to teach children not just what to learn but how to learn. And how to be. Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, social skills, creativity and collaborative learning. Transferable skills they can adapt as the new world swirls around them.
Great schools are places of imagination, inspiration, love.They help our young people become great humans, constantly adjusting in a continually changing world. Such schools are as powerful as the creative imaginations they nurture. They're fabulous places. And, let's be clear, they do exist.
But let's be equally clear that they exist in spite of Michael Gove, Nicky Morgan and Justine Greening, and all the other names of Tory shame. If it was left up to them, our children would be totally ill equipped for the economy of now – let alone the economy of the future.
Whereas Angela Rayner, our fantastic Shadow Education Secretary, will lead an education system that prepares our young people for a world we can't yet see.
Angie's talked about how a Labour Government helped her grow from teenage mom into Shadow Minister. Our education system failed her at first, but when she's running it, she won't let it fail the next generation. We're all so proud of her. So proud of what she's going to do.
The next Labour Government will educate and train a nation of workers that are the most creative and adaptive on the planet. We'll give working people the tools to use technology to enhance their lives, rather than restricting them to a digital elite.
The digital economy succeeds only when it gives each of us the means to realise our true potential. Which doesn't stop in our schools. It must be threaded throughout our economy, throughout our lives.
So let's extend employment rights to all workers in the gig economy – the self-employed, agency workers and contractors as well as the traditionally employed. Let's stop dancing on the head of a legalistic pin about when is a job not a job and when is self-employed not really self-employed. It's a fake fight which big business always wins and Tory governments love to hide behind.
So let's put an end to all that and just give rights to people. Yes, in one of the richest countries in the world in the 21st century, let's just make basic employment rights non-negotiable in all circumstances and give them to everybody.
Anybody tells you it can't be done, it's because they don't want to do it. They said it about the minimum wage. They said it about maternity rights. They said it about the NHS. Don't let them frighten you out of the rights you deserve.
We need to revolutionise our trade unions for the digital age, finding new ways to build solidarity and collectivism.
And let's not forget social enterprises: community-focused, people-oriented companies, that have thrived since the recession and will be vital to unlocking the future.
At last year's Conference, I announced an independent commission to look at the future of work. It will be reporting shortly, having done a tremendous job, and I'd like to thank the chair, Helen Mountfield, and all the Commissioners.
This year, Conference, together, we rewrote the rules of politics. We overcame fear and we took the country with us. Using new digital platforms, instead of our biased media, we talked straight to the people and they heard our message.
In contrast, last September Theresa May had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch in New York. Nine months later, at the election, Murdoch's papers did their best to start a Tory landslide. They threw the kitchen sink at Jeremy. But this time the dirty tricks didn't work. This time it was not the Sun wot won it.
And let me tell you, Conference: it never will be the Sun wot won it again.
Winding up my speech last year, I predicted an early election. In which, I also said, we're going to give the Tories the surprise of their lives. Well conference, we did it.
Jeremy, you did it. So this year I'm going to go out on another limb.
Yes, there's hard work to do and no, we mustn't be complacent, but Jeremy Corbyn has broken the spell of fear the Tories sought to cast on this country. He has helped us all to remember that politics should be about inspiring hope, not peddling despair. He has shown us again what a real alternative to Toryism looks like and what it can achieve.
And because of that, I tell you, Conference, Jeremy Corbyn will be our next Prime Minister.
And in ten or twelve years' time, this Conference will be celebrating the achievements of two transformative terms of Labour government:
Abolishing tuition fees and reintroducing the education maintenance allowance;
Taking back our utilities into social ownership;
Re-nationalising our railways;
A £10/hour real living wage, and rising;
Hundreds of thousands of new council houses;
Waiting lists down by at least a million and A&E waiting times back to 4 hours;
No more Tory hospital closures;
Freezing the state pension age;
Free school meals for all primary school children and smaller class sizes;
Banning zero hours contracts and giving all workers full and equal rights from day one.
That's what a Labour Government looks like. That's what we do. That's who we are.
Politics now is a fight between those who want to be feared and those who're not frightened to love. Britain's run out of patience with the tin-pot Machiavellis. Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Liam Fox and the rest of you: your time is up.
This country is ready for change. Ready to throw off the shackles, to turn back the tide; ready to do the right thing and to do the thing right. In place of fear, love.
Conference, Britain is ready for Labour.
Love wins and so will we.
Tom Watson – 2017 Response to Government Statement on Sky/Fox Merger
Below is the text of the speech made by Tom Watson, the Labour MP for West Bromwich East, in the House of Commons on 12 September 2017.
I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement.
The Secretary of State has taken her responsibilities seriously, and I give her credit for that. I give her credit, too, for listening to the evidence before her, including new evidence submitted after she had announced her initial decision, and for changing her mind. I also want to praise my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband), who has run a very effective campaign in this area. Dare I say it, but I think he leads the race for Back Bencher of the year for his campaign?
I welcome the Secretary of State's decision—or, I should say, the fact that she says she is minded to make such a decision—to refer the bid on broadcasting standards grounds, as well as on media plurality grounds. This is the first time that a Minister in the current Government has ever stood in the way of what the Murdochs want—and, frankly, not before time. So well done, and as they say in the Black country, "She's a good 'un."
The Secretary of State has done everything we asked her to do—or almost everything. Her statement does in my view, however, reflect a failure on the part of Ofcom. In its first report, as she said, Ofcom said that there were
"no broadcasting standards concerns that may justify a reference".
It has now admitted that there are, as she said, "non-fanciful concerns". On that basis, she had to refer the bid, and she has done so. It should have been obvious to Ofcom, as it certainly was to all Labour Members, that concerns about the Murdochs were more than fanciful.
After all, the Murdochs have a long history of regulatory non-compliance and of corporate governance failure. Just last week, Fox recognised its own failure to comply with broadcasting standards when it pulled Fox News, which has breached Ofcom's rules again and again, from the UK. Ofcom could have gone further, too, on the "fit and proper" test. It decided that a post-merger Sky would pass, despite clear evidence of impropriety and failure of corporate governance both at 21st Century Fox and at News Corporation.
Such failures include the phone hacking scandal, which still has loose ends that are yet to be tied up. Just last week, News Group settled 17 cases related to allegations of criminality at The Sun newspaper, ensuring that James Murdoch will not have to appear in court later this year. Those 17 cases are just the first tranche of 91 new claims of phone hacking and illegality in obtaining information against The Sun and News of the World. This story is far from over, even if we will read little about it in the pages of the Murdochs' newspapers, and all these cases are claims against a company that claimed for over a decade that there was no problem and that tried to move heaven and earth to prevent abuses from being uncovered. This is alongside the ongoing sexual and racial harassment scandal at Fox News, which is part of 21st Century Fox's empire.
As I have said, the Secretary of State has done almost everything we asked her to do. The one thing we still want, and we have said this time and again, is that we need to get properly to the bottom of the scandals at the Murdoch empire—part 2 of the Leveson inquiry. She has now shot her fox with the Murdochs. She has burned her boats, and they already do not like her—I know what that is like—but that liberates her. Go on, Secretary of State, do the right thing: go ahead with Leveson 2.


GF and I went to the Cross roads of the West gun show at the Orange County fairgrounds today.
A nice drive from Pomona, about 30 minutes, parking 7 bucks 16 each to get in.
Nicer show than Ontario and small crowds at the supply booths, lots of ammo for sale and most powders.
Powder was 24.95 a pound primers the same per 1K so not to bad, the bad news was 13 cents a round for 22LR ammo which is what every "dealer" was asking as well as a few sandbagers that were working out of duffle bags and back packs.
Pretty sure these are the guys who hang around wal mart at 5:30 AM to snag every round that comes in!
Sure wish I thought that was funny.
Nice displays of about everything, went because the next show will be Thanksgiving and I'll be out of town so I won't attend another show until Jan or Feb 2015.
Up shot of this show was a nice CH 3 station H press, with both universal shell holders and a CH push button powder measure, asking price was 120 he took my offer of 100 if I carried the heavy thing out the door, which I did!
I got a set of the Lee snap in shell holders and each die set come with one of course so I shouldn't have any trouble setting this up for 223 in the morning!
Need to call CH4D Monday and see what the want for a bushing set for the powder measure, however I think I did good on the press and measure deal!
Thanks for posting this. It's good to hear about the different address and how the shows there are going.
All of my years living in SoCal, I always thought the Costa Mesa show was better than the San Diego show. Hit the OC swap meet next door too. Get your supply of knock-off sunglasses and incense while there.
If so I need to drive down for the next show !
CotW usually has some $1 off coupons you can find online to at least take some of the sting out of paying for admission to someplace the prices are usually high if not flat out absurd. I went to the Costa Mesa show about 10 years ago & was so turned off by the experience I've never been back. I keep reading about people finding good deals at gun shows & have come to the conclusion that these must only exist at gun shows east of the Sierra Nevada & west of the Appalachians?
Wish I could say that CotW gun shows were worth my time, but from the reports I've heard, I'm not counting on it. Maybe some time when I'm in a more firearm-friendly environment than the PRK [People's Republik of Kommifornia?] :?
sorry about being a little late checking back on my thread but yes I saw Bullseye in both 1 and 4 pound containers, so I would make the next show at Costa Mesa if you can.


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Using white noise sleep apps could actually be bad for you - the science explained
Monday, 19th October 2020, 12:50 pm
Updated Monday, 19th October 2020, 12:50 pm
Researchers have found that using white noise apps to aid sleep could actually hinder a good night's rest.
People struggling to drift off often turn to apps to provide an ambient soundtrack, whether that be white noise, the sound of distant thunder, or the buzz of a kitchen appliance.
The idea is that a constant thrum provides a soothing tone, and can help mask environmental sounds that would otherwise be distracting.
But scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have concluded that the science behind this method is flimsy at best, and could actually be detrimental to a sleeper's health.
White noise could 'negatively affect sleep and hearing'
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania reviewed nearly 40 studies that investigated noise as a sleep aid.
The results - published in Sleep Medicine Reviews - said the "quality of evidence" for continuous noise improving sleep is "very low", contradicting its widespread use.
"Additional research with objective sleep measures and detailed descriptions of noise exposure is needed before promoting continuous noise as a sleep aid," they said, "especially since it may also negatively affect sleep and hearing."
How is white noise bad for your health?
Speaking to the Guardian, Professor Mathias Basner said he doesn't feel there is any evidence that such sleep apps work, and that he would not recommend their use.
"If these apps or devices could only do good things, I wouldn't really care," he said.
"But because there may be negative consequences, I would just be careful."
Basner added that using white noise means that, as the ear needs to continue translating those sounds into nerve signals, the auditory system stays switched on.
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What that means, is that the system doesn't get any time to rest.
"You probably want to have a period where the auditory system can wind down, regenerate and prepare for the next wake period," said Basner.


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Fail Friday with Culinary Agents, WTRMLN WTR, Super Sprowtz + More
by Nina Meijers
It's not easy being a food innovator. There's no road map for reinventing an industry. So, in partnership with Force Brands, we cooked up the Fail Friday series to celebrate failure in all its glory.
Join the food startup community for our fourth Fail Friday (on a Thursday) on Thursday, August 20. Hear from WTRMLN WTR, Super Sprowtz, The 86 Company the former co-founder of Quinciple and more. Startups will share their stories of failure and lessons learned from growing their businesses, followed by audience Q&A.
There will be snacks from food360, Legally Addictive Foods and Pure Genius Provisions, cocktails from The 86 Company and lots of networking.
Fail Friday Details
Where: Force Brands (6 Harrison Street – 6th Floor – NY, NY 10006)
When: THURSDAY, August 20 7:00-9:30 PM
RSVP: Space is limited, so snag your spot here.
7:00 – 7:45: Networking, Snacks & Drinks
7:45 – 8:45: Failure Stories & Q&A
8:45 – 9:30: More Networking
Jeff Rubenstein – CMO, WTRMLN WTR – the pioneer in cold pressed, juiced watermelon and one of the fastest growing companies in beverage. Prior to WTRMLN WTR, Mr. Rubenstein served as SVP, Marketing for Vita Coco, the worldwide leader in coconut water, where he was instrumental in helping the brand evolve from a niche, natural food trend with revenues under $10M into a global phenomenon with revenues over $300M and a 2014 partial sale to Red Bull China that valued the business at $665M. He spent the early part of his career in Brand Management at The Coca-Cola Company.
Considered a leading voice in consumer marketing, Mr. Rubenstein is regularly featured as a speaker at industry and academic conferences, including those at Harvard Business School. Mr. Rubenstein is a graduate of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida and currently lives in New York City with his wife Loren and daughter Olivia.
Alice Cheng – Founder & CEO, Culinary Agents – a professional networking and job matching website designed for current and aspiring professionals in the food, beverage, and hospitality industry. Having spent years working in a restaurant and then going on to work for IBM for 13 years in cross-industry innovation, Alice brings her knowledge of technology into the food and beverage industry to solve inefficiencies and gaps around talent sourcing and career development. Alice is a deeply experienced business, marketing and sales professional who is passionate about helping people build careers and has taken, and continues to take, leadership roles in mentoring all levels of talent in the technology, business and hospitality spaces.
Kate Galassi – Product Head, Natoora – Kate started her career in food as an apprentice on an organic produce farm in New Hampshire. She has worked for several Union Square Greenmarket producers including Rick's Picks and Cayuga Pure Organics. In 2010 she became the produce buyer for The Spotted Pig and The Breslin. In early 2013 she co-founded Quinciple, a curated farmers' market box company. She recently left Quinciple and has joined the team at Natoora, a London-based produce company.
Radha Agrawal – Founder & CEO, Super Sprowtz – a leading children's multi-media nutrition education company whose mission is to engage children to make better food choices through storytelling, music and a proven curriculum impacting over 1 million children and counting. Visit supersprowtz.com to learn more.
Radha is also the co-Founder of Daybreaker, an early morning dance party for urban professionals that takes place on weekday mornings and serves coffee, tea and green juice in lieu of alcohol and replaces the monotony and often lonely gym experience for a community inspired dance party. She is also the co-Founder of THINX, a women's apparel company that provides a sustainable,patented solution for women to provide support, comfort, confidence, and peace of mind during their "time of the month" and beyond.
She was a 2013 Recipient for the Tribeca Film Festival "Disruptive Innovation Awards", was named by MTV as "one of eight women who will change the world" and was named by Forbes Magazine as a "2013 Millenial On a Mission".
Malte Barnekow – CEO, The 86 Company – The 86 Company develops and sells hight quality spirits designed by bartenders for bartenders specifically for crafted cocktails and house pour use. The 86 Co. portfolio currently includes Fords Gin, Caña Brava Rum, Aylesbury Duck Vodka and Tequila Cabeza, all launched in the United States in 2012.
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Jay DeMarcus is telling his life story in a new Zondervan book due out in April, Shotgun Angels: My Story of Broken Roads and Unshakable Hope. The memoir gives readers a backstage pass to the unique journey that led DeMarcus from small-town Ohio to some of the world's largest stages.
Set for release April 30, the book rollout will include a major national media launch and a multi-city book tour.


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St. Joseph County police officer formally charged with drunken driving
By South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND - Coty Hoffman, a St. Joseph County patrolman who was arrested for allegedly crashing his police cruiser into a mailbox while intoxicated and off-duty on Sunday, was formally charged with drunken driving Wednesday.
Newly filed court documents allege Hoffman had a blood alcohol content of .165% and he now faces two misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Hoffman, 30, has been on paid administrative leave since the incident early Sunday morning and St. Joseph County police revealed earlier this week that the officer had previously been suspended for violating the department's policy on alcohol consumption.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday, the residents in a house in the 53000 block of Hickory Drive - which is just south of Cleveland Road on the northeast side of South Bend - heard a loud crash and looked outside to find a county police car on the grass and their mailbox "in several pieces."
The driver of the car "did not appear to be doing ok," the residents told police, the document says.
Coty Hoffman
St. Joseph County officers were the first on the scene, the department said, but contacted Indiana State Police due to the situation involving a county officer who may have been intoxicated in accordance with department protocol. According to court documents, Hoffman told the responding state trooper that he was coming from his uncle's house and had a "few beers a couple hours earlier." The state trooper also noted Hoffman "smelled strongly of alcohol."
Hoffman then failed three field sobriety tests, court documents allege, and took a chemical breath test that showed a blood alcohol content of .165%. Indiana law states that the legal limit is a blood alcohol content of .08%.
Both misdemeanor counts Hoffman is charged with carry a maximum jail sentence of one year if convicted. Hoffman is set for a hearing in late January.
Beyond the criminal case, county police are also conducting an internal investigation into the incident that could result in disciplinary action against Hoffman, who is currently on departmental probation from a previous alcohol-related suspension in July.
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The July suspension does appear on Hoffman's personnel file, which was released by the county after The Tribune filed a public records request. Hoffman's file shows he was hired as a correctional officer at the St. Joseph County Jail in 2015 and then as a patrol officer in 2019. The file also shows Hoffman was suspended without pay one day in December 2020 for "twice failing to file a report when required."
Hoffman will remain suspended with pay until the internal investigation is complete, police have said.
Email Marek Mazurek at mmazurek@sbtinfo.com. Follow him on Twitter: @marek_mazurek
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Crime: St. Joseph County police officer charged with DUI
Tyre Nichols video release ignites protesters who stomp police car, urge crowds to 'burn it down!'
Protests began after Memphis police released body camera video relating to the Tyre Nichols traffic stop, appearing to show police beat the man.


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Episode 66: Highlights from our first 6 months!
Podcast: Episode 66: Highlights from our first 6 months!
We created short selections from 7 of our best podcasts! Including our very first from September 2018. Each segment is only 3-11 minutes long.
#1 - Tony Krupicka - Longs Peak Duathlon - "Sometimes being successful means just getting back to the car. Alive."
#2 - Karel Sabbe - Appalachian Trail - "I start to hit my stride after 2,000 miles".
#7 - Christof Teuscher - R2R2R2R2R2R2R2R2R! - "If you're willing to put in the effort, what I thought was impossible is possible."
#10 - Heather Anderson - Calendar Triple Crown - "My mom still remembers the day 15 years ago, when I ran down the stairs yelling, 'I'm going to do this!'"
#13 - Jim Walmsley - R2R2R.alt - "I just took off and swam across - my idea was I wanted to set the tone - we're here to do it, we're not here to chicken out."
#17 - Peter Bakwin, Clare Gallagher, Tony Krupicka - FKTOY 2018 - "It's style versus pure performance."
#25 - Kilian Jornet with Matt Lefort - FKTOY EU; Bob Graham Round - "We think trail running is a new sport, but we cannot be more wrong about that".
Podcast music by Sage Baptiste (instagram.com/imsagebaptiste & @whatablr) and mixed by Kyle Richardson (instagram.com/kylerichardson).
FKT Podcast 66 - Highlights from 2018.mp375.65 MB


Then, just three minutes into the game and on the Ravens' fifth offensive play, Wallace was knocked out of the proceedings.
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Brandon Carr (24) intercepts a pass intended for Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Laquon Treadwell (11) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017, in Minneapolis. That left the Ravens with a three-man wide receiver group of Michael Campanaro (River Hill), who entered the game with nine catches this season; Chris Moore, who had three catches and was active for only the fourth time all year; and Griff Whalen, who was signed Thursday and had never caught a pass from Flacco before practice that day.
Flacco, who finished 27-of-39 for 186 yards, had nowhere to throw the ball.
"Every time we're in scoring position, we're just kicking and kicking", Forbath said.
The Ravens also had a tough time establishing any kind of success on the ground.
Coming into Sunday, the running back had only gained a total of 97 rushing yards all season long.
The Ravens finally started to find some success on their last drive of the game after the Vikings already had the game in hand.
"We could have made it a little easier on ourselves, but Kai came up huge and made a ton of kicks", said tight end Kyle Rudolph. Bradford has been experiencing pain and swelling in his twice surgically-repaired left knee since their season-opening victory over the New Orleans Saints, but Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer thinks the veteran quarterback can still return to the field at some point this season.
The volume and significance of the injuries are hard to overcome, but the Ravens also know they have to find a way to quickly get the offense in gear before welcoming the Miami Dolphins to M&T Bank Stadium in four days. He caught a 13-yard touchdown pass with no time on the clock to break the Ravens' touchdown-less streak at almost 13 full quarters.
"You go back to work. You just don't want to see them do too well".
"I wouldn't say we're overall trying to fix something that's completely broken", Flacco said. "We'll look at it".
"We have to keep our heads up and play one game at a time". This is where we are right now. We knew that both teams saw each other in a similar fashion and felt we were going to be the offense to break through and score a couple touchdowns and get ourselves ahead.
But no matter Xi's actions, Trump said the United States is "prepared for anything" when it comes to North Korea. He said the unwillingness of the American President to take North Korea, which now possesses nuclear warheads.
Going forward, the company is positive on its Cotai Strip portfolio of properties, buoyed by the addition of The Parisian Macao. The fund owned 131,813 shares of the casino operator's stock after buying an additional 2,341 shares during the period.
The storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall and strong winds to Okinawa, which hosts a large presence of USA troops. Toyota Motor said it would suspend operations at all domestic plants today.
Officer Leo responded to domestic situation involving a firearm at a home in the 400 block of Indiana Avenue at around 10 p.m. Police say the identity of the suspect is being withheld and will be released by the Trumbull County Coroner's Office.
It increased, as 48 investors sold FB shares while 553 reduced holdings. 79 funds opened positions while 228 raised stakes. Inc. now owns 8,597 shares of the company's stock worth $640,000 after buying an additional 968 shares during the period.
The former Democrat (1977-1981) said he had spoken to Trump's National Security Adviser, Lt. HR McMaster, with whom he had a good friendship, but for the time being he declined.
Following the completion of the sale, the insider now directly owns 3,515 shares in the company, valued at $201,550.10. Institutional shareholders now hold a 82.76% stake overall in STI . (NYSE: STI ) has been trading recently.
In other news, President David Hatfield sold 70,000 shares of Pure Storage stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 18th. Zacks Investment Research's EPS averages are a mean average based on a survey of research analysts that follow Pure Storage.
Anxious for Deanne and wanting to ease her suffering, Winters said he became determined to find her a kidney match. But what her husband did for her inspired the nation - and Winters wanted to do the same for his wife of 26 years.
He was rushed to the Breach Candy hospital due to high blood pressure, and was declared dead at 5 am by the doctors. According to reports, his cremation will be held at Vile Parle's Pawan Hans crematorium at 3 pm.


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Lawmakers, Executive Branch officials honored for about $19 million last year
by Keenan Steiner Aug 2, 2012 12:34 pm
Companies, associations and the lobbyists employed by them contributed almost $19 million to charities in honor of federal officials last year, the vast majority of it for members of Congress, according to a new report I wrote over on the Reporting Group blog. The report parsed messy disclosures that all lobbying entities have to file every six months ever since 2008, when a law aimed at shining a light on lobbyist influence in Washington came into effect.
To find out which lawmakers and cabinet members were honored most, or to see which interests paid the most in honorary expenses last year, search the interactive graphic below. You can even filter the graphic for lawmakers from your home state.
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One interesting finding is that the amount of honorary contributions has declined ever since 2009. The campaign finance lawyer I spoke with, Brett Kappel, said that transparency has made lawmakers less likely to ask for donations–especially when it comes to their own charities–and companies are less likely to give if they are publicly scrutinized. Still, the companies continue the honorary giving, doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some lawmakers' pet causes, and for charity galas where lawmakers receive awards. Even though it goes to good causes, it also gives them good access to powerful officials–sometimes as good as sitting at the same dinner table.
The above graph also shows that most of the money went to honoring lawmakers. Here is the 2011 breakdown:
Individual members of Congress: $9.6 million
Congressional caucuses or delegations: $5.7 million
Executive branch officials: $3.5 million
Legislative branch staff and federal candidates: $158,000
It was also striking to discover how narrow the disclosure rules are. There are plenty of ways to honor lawmakers without having to disclose that you did, and you can read all about them in the "Loopholes" section of the report.
Another important part of the story is just how unfriendly the data is. As with a lot of congressional ethics data, this kind is messy. It may be because Congress writes rules for itself that the end result is information that takes a lot of time and effort to make any sense of. It took weeks to standardize the names of officials and delete duplicated and erroneous reports, and that's after already being familiar with the data after writing a similar report last year.
The report focuses on the increased honorary giving by lobbying giants Google and General Motors. It also explores the connections between the cosmetics industry and a charity associated with Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.
To read more details about how the analysis was done, head here.
(Graphics by Jacob Fenton and Kevin Koehler)
Tags: Honorary Contributions, Lobbying, lobbying disclosure


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Q: World size limit in Box2D In Box2D, I am aware that the world size is unlimited. However, I am producing an infinite scrolling game, and I am concerned that large coordinate values will slow calculations, and thus gamespeed.
Will large coordinate values slow it down? If so, is there a way to translate the coordinates of all bodies in the world, to keep them small? Or is there a better way?

A: Large coordinates will not slow anything down, but you will lose precision. The b2World class has a function called shift to help you with this.
https://code.google.com/p/box2d/source/browse/trunk/Box2D/Box2D/Dynamics/b2World.h#197

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Italian food is an undeniable part of the American dining landscape. Nearly every neighborhood has its own red sauce joint, run by a local nonna who's been cooking up her famous lasagna the same way for decades. But today's modern Italian restaurants strive for something more, like handmade pastas, rustic regional recipes and exquisite surroundings. Check out GAYOT's list of the Top 10 Italian Restaurants in the U.S., presented in alphabetical order.
Consult GAYOT's guide to Italian food terms for the next time you visit an Italian eatery.
Also, discover the best Italian restaurants near you.


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A new drama takes a trenchant, soldier's-eye view of Iraq.
Whenever a film about war doesn't explicitly address the causes of war, or its morality, some critics will say that film "avoids politics." But of course any film about war is unavoidably political, both in what it says and what it doesn't.
Kathryn Bigelow's lean, trenchant drama The Hurt Locker begins with an epigram by journalist Chris Hedges, about war's appeal to warriors: "War is a drug." In Hurt Locker, the key addict is Will James (Jeremy Renner), who in 2004 reports to Baghdad to replace a bomb-squad leader killed in action.
Staff Sgt. James has defused nearly 900 bombs, we learn. Supremely confident in his skills, he flouts such safety-first protocol as letting a remote-controlled robot investigate potential roadside bombs before he does.
But if James' seeming recklessness infuriates his cautious sergeant, Sanborn (Anthony Mackie), that's just part of a larger tapestry woven by Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal. This is a picture of U.S. soldiers in occupied Iraq: a high-tech, guerilla-versus-standing-army conflict where cultures clash, and any bystander might hold the cell-phone detonator that ends a multitude of lives.
Hurt Locker is full of action and tense moments, from dubious forays through eerily evacuated, trash-strewn city streets to a desert shootout where guerrillas seem everywhere and nowhere. Bigelow (Strange Days) keeps the camera close to her main trio of fighting men, also including an uneasy young soldier named Eldridge (Brian Geraghty). But emotionally her approach is less sentiment than empathetic analysis. Hurt Locker's contrasty look and often near-documentary feel complement its artier cinematic visions: the hellishly flaming wreckage left by a night-time bombing; a death depicted through an image of a weirdly cocked thumb. It all communicates the kind of intimacy that arises among men who seldom articulate their feelings about the toll exacted by repeated stresses, frequent mayhem and convulsively sudden death.
Depicting that toll fairly, and soldiers as flawed people with doubts and fears as well as triumphs, deepens our understanding of war. Still, Hurt Locker probably won't change anyone's interpretation of current events. For instance, James might meet a sympathetic Iraqi on an illicit detective mission -- and get treated as roughly as any potential enemy combatant on his return to base. But the film's soldiers'-eye view means that audiences inclined to regard Iraqis as sneaky miscreants are as likely to have their prejudices confirmed as are those who consider them merely wary, beleaguered survivors.
Thus the filmmakers' most political choice might be simply their selection of subject matter. Because while Hurt Locker is a fine film about Americans occupying Iraq -- and the difficulty some have returning to dull civilian life -- it is of course the Iraqis themselves who are this war's biggest victims. That's easy for Americans to forget, and we probably can't count on Hollywood to remind us.


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Research Interests: Logistics systems, inventory management, intermodal transportation.
Dr. Philip T. Evers is an Associate Professor of Logistics Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Joining the faculty at Maryland's main campus in the fall of 1993, he received his B.S. in transportation and logistics from Tri-State University in 1987, his M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1988, and his Ph.D. in logistics management from the University of Minnesota in 1993. His primary research concentrates on exploring methods for achieving statistical economies of scale in logistics systems. Specifically, he has developed mathematical models that predict the reduction in inventory levels resulting from the consolidation of stock-keeping locations. These savings arise primarily as a result of the demand-pooling effect of inventory centralization. Further, Dr. Evers has examined the use of transshipments between locations, finding that in the case of emergency transshipments statistical economies arise not only from demand pooling but also from lead-time pooling. He has also performed research related to intermodal transportation, focusing mainly on actual and perceived levels of competitive service provided by affiliated carriers. Dr. Evers has had articles published in such journals as Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Inventory Management Journal, Transportation Research, Transportation Journal, International Journal of Logistics Management, and Journal of Business Logistics.
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