The Homelessness Reduction Bill introduced by Bob Blackman was a rare example of a private members' bill attracting government support and passing into law.
It also had the support of almost everyone who has to address the challenge of homelessness, particularly in London where 70% of the nation's homeless families are found.
Now an act, it could transform the way homelessness services are delivered and ensure that all eligible applicants are given the help they need. But this will only happen if local and national government work together to identify how the act can be translated into concrete actions and how those actions can be resourced.
The London boroughs fully support the act's approach to tackling homelessness, which rightly focuses on prevention and early intervention as well as working with a broader range of residents in a more collaborative way.
We want to honour the intentions of the act by providing expanded services that address the full range of factors in people's lives that can lead to them becoming homeless.
However, we are concerned about the way the Homelessness Reduction Act is currently being implemented. There is a real risk that the act's landmark reforms could fail to reduce homelessness due to a lack of proper planning and unrealistic funding arrangements from government.
With less than seven months until the Homelessness Reduction Act comes into force on 1 April 2018, local authorities are still waiting for information from government that is vital for preparing to deliver the expanded homelessness prevention offer required by the act.
Crucially this includes both the funding allocations and the code of guidance. London boroughs are doing as much as they can, but without this information they cannot act with certainty to recruit additional staff or enhance their services in appropriate ways.
From 1 April 2018, boroughs will need to provide higher levels of support to a broader number of people at risk of homelessness as well as earlier interventions to the 54,000 homelessness households currently being accommodated, with every stage subject to review.
We are seeking to make this step change despite having experienced a 60% reduction in our funding since 2010, which has had a very significant impact on existing services.
Government must provide local authorities with the additional funding needed to run these important new services. Data from a survey of London boroughs suggests that providing expanded homelessness prevention and relief services will cost around £77m per year in London.
One of the ways government could help is by removing the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap. The restrictions that have been placed on LHA and its uprating since 2011, including the freezing of LHA rates from 2016 until 2021, have meant that it is increasingly difficult to meet the cost of renting in London even at the lowest end of the market. Indeed, this insufficiency has itself been a significant driver of homelessness.
We welcome the Targeted Affordability Fund (TAF), but it isn't enough to meet the needs of those threatened, or at risk of, homelessness because a significant proportion of LHA rates are already at the level of the cap.
Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are being used by boroughs to help households on a case-by-case basis. However, the level of DHP funding allocated to London is currently significantly lower than its peak in 2013/14 (£40.1m in 2017/18 compared to £56.6m in 2013/14) and insufficient to meet even the current challenges presented by the government's welfare changes. DHP is also by nature supposed to provide only short-term support, and is an inadequate solution to a systemic issue that can only be resolved at a central government level.
As we move to implement the act we need leadership and support from the centre if we are to avoid missing this once-in-a-generation opportunity to help thousands of vulnerable homeless families.
Local government is ready, willing and able to play its part but we urgently need the guidance to be published and proper levels of funding to be announced so we can get moving.


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Once you taste this Homemade Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing, you'll never use store bought dressing again! So easy and delicious and you know all of the ingredients in it! Perfect salad dressing on almost any salad!
Don't Buy Store-Bought Salad Dressing!
Seriously. Do not buy salad dressing from the store! Have you looked at the list of ingredients on the dressing? What is all that stuff? Things I can't even pronounce!
Store bought dressings can be high in sodium, sugar, preservatives and some even contain MSG. This article from Eat This, Not That breaks down 20 of the Best and Worst Store-Bought Salad Dressings. So, if you want to keep an emergency bottle of salad dressing on hand, you can work from that list. But really, make your own!!
It takes maybe all of 5 minutes to put together a quick and easy vinaigrette. This lemon vinaigrette dressing that I'm sharing today is my go to dressing. With only 5 ingredients and barely 5 minutes to prepare, perhaps I should have called in my 5 in 5 dressing! It's also worth noting that you recognize and can pronounce all 5 ingredients.
Step 1 – Gather your ingredients and tools. You'll need a lemon, a citrus juicer (or you can squeeze with your hands,) a zester, extra virgin olive oil, honey, salt and pepper.
Step 2 – Add olive oil, lemon zest, lemon juice, honey and salt and pepper into small jar. You can also use a small bowl, but I like the convenience of a jar.
Tips – zest your lemon before juicing! I use a Microplane zester to zest right into the jar. You can squeeze the lemon by hand, but I find a manual citrus press works great for small jobs.
Step 3 – put a lid on the jar and shake to combine. Alternately whisk the ingredients if they are in a small bowl.
Tips – I use a small jar to make my vinaigrettes. Shaking seems to work so much better than whisking for me, especially if the dressing has honey. It also allows for easy storage in the refrigerator.
See how easy it is to make your own homemade vinaigrette. This lemon vinaigrette will taste so much fresher than any store-bought dressing and just look at that color!
How to store homemade vinaigrette – I store mine in the same jar that I made it in, in the refrigerator. I take it out about 30 minutes before I want to use it to allow it to come to room temperature.
How long will homemade vinaigrette keep – I keep mine for about 2 weeks, but honestly we go through it much faster than that. Once you have this delicious dressing in your refrigerator, you'll be making salads all the time!
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This easy homemade lemon vinaigrette dressing will become your go to salad dressing. With only five ingredients and ready in about 5 minutes!
Add all ingredients to small glass jar or small bowl.
Put a lid on the jar and shake to combine, or whisk ingredients in small bowl.
Zest your lemon before juicing! I use a Microplane zester to zest right into the jar. You can squeeze the lemon by hand, but I find a manual citrus press works great for small jobs.
I use a small jar to make my vinaigrettes. Shaking seems to work so much better than whisking for me, especially if the dressing has honey. It also allows for easy storage in the refrigerator.
I've never used bought dressing as it's so easy to make it yourself with deliciously fresh ingredients. Let's hope you have started a movement Pam!
Yes, it's so easy and tastes so much better!
I'll be making this one. Need to get away from store bought.
Really, it's so easy and it tastes so much fresher than store-bought!


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Virtual Event – MasteringSAP OnAir – 27 to 29 July 2021
July 1, 2021 By Dudley Cartwright
Virtual Event – MasteringSAP OnAir – 27–29 July 2021
We are preparing for Mastering SAP OnAir, a massive virtual event arranged by Mastering SAP Australia covering topics such as Tech & Cloud; Business Analytics; HR & Payroll; Financials; Security & Risk and Public Sector.
About Mastering SAP
Mastering SAP provides a platform for customers, partners, and technology experts to gather, find answers to pressing challenges, showcase solutions, and demonstrate how to harness the power of SAP.
At a time of great uncertainty for many industries, Mastering SAP Australia is on a mission to unlock and realise the potential of technology for the betterment of people, businesses, and the world. Once again, they are bringing the thriving Mastering SAP community together online – 1000+ people, 3 days, 90 hours of brilliant content, and a plethora of unrivaled networking opportunities – to celebrate the talent, innovation, and ideas transforming the way we work.
The virtual event will run from the 27th of July to the 29th of July. The event will be for 4 hours each day. The event will allow for novel content delivery designed for engagement broken up into 25min, 15min, and 10min sessions.
Date: Tuesday, 27 July – Thursday 29 July 2021
Register/Book tickets
Please note that there is no need to worry about different time zones, as you will have access to recorded content post-event.
Here's what you'll take away from our sessions:
How to Improve an Organisation's Risk Awareness With Business-Centric GRC
Tuesday 27 July, 2:40 PM – 3:15 PM AEST
Join our CEO, Dudley Cartwright as he discusses how to enhance business accountability and buy-in with business-centric GRC.
Organisations have been struggling to derive value from their GRC investment since the inception of GRC solutions. Coupled with this, business users often perform compliance tasks with minimal intent and/or consideration to the impact on business.
The technical nature and complexity of SAP security and GRC means that ownership typically remains an IT problem.
In this session we will articulate the techniques and strategies to successfully shift access risk from IT to the business, thus enhancing business accountability and buy-in. This will ultimately improve an organisation's overall risk awareness and ability to manage their risk.
Elevating the Role of GRC in Your Organisation
Wednesday 28 July, 2:20 PM – 2:55 PM AEST
Join our CEO, Dudley Cartwright as he discusses how to add significant value to your organisation by elevating the status of your GRC
Many organisations have implemented a GRC solution but find that it is highly under-utilised. In many cases, the GRC solution is predominantly used as a back-end solution by the technical team, with minimal or no involvement from the business.
How does one go about elevating the status of the GRC solution (and team) that it not only becomes integral in the business-as-usual processes, but also adds significant value to the organisation
Driving Governance at Bridgestone
In this session, Jess Barnes, a Senior Business Analyst – SAP at Bridgestone Australia will take you through a journey of how Bridgestone used to maintain segregation of duties, the problems they faced, and why Soterion is the solution that they adopted.
It is unavoidable that there are risks in every business. It's crucial to be able to identify segregation of duties and apply mitigating controls against the risks. Bridgestone Australia & New Zealand use Soterion as a tool to ensure that they met J-Sox audit requirements and authorisation standards.
One of the key functions of the tool is that it allows Bridgestone to run a simulation before a role is created or access is assigned to users, then highlight conflicts if any. Soterion software provides a short description of why this change will cause segregation of duties. The tool has increased the visibility of risks in the business and assists Bridgestone in reviewing controls.
We look forward to connecting with everyone virtually.
If you require any further information or have any questions about the event, please email [email protected]
Read more about our offerings. Soterion's GRC modules include Access Risk Manager, Basis Review Manager, Elevated Rights Manager, Periodic Review Manager, Password Self-Service, and SAP Licensing Manager.
SAP User Access Review – Why is it Important to Get This Right?
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Home » News » A Champion for Woodland Owners—and Students—Retires After Two Decades
A Champion for Woodland Owners—and
Students—Retires After Two Decades
Mary Tyrrell '97 M.F.S. was in her early 40s when she decided to change careers and enrolled at F&ES. That mid-career transition would transform her life — and the School.
Mary Tyrrell had always considered herself an environmentalist, but it took her a while to make a career of it.
For years before enrolling at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies she'd worked in the digital technology sector. By the mid-1990s she was managing the implementation of manufacturing processes in emerging markets for one of the world's earliest computer makers.
Mary Tyrrell
But increasingly she felt the pull to do something else. Tyrrell, who lived in Boston at the time, regularly took night classes at the Harvard Extension School. Some subjects, like eastern art, she studied because she was simply curious. But others, such as environmental science and tropical forestry, pointed toward her future.
"The work I was doing was heady stuff, but at the same time I was thinking, 'What am I doing?'" Tyrrell recalled recently. "I was just trying to figure out how to make these products cheaper all the time. Was that the way I wanted to spend the rest of my life? I decided it wasn't."
While she wasn't sure exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, she knew it would likely be in the environmental sector. And when in early 1994 she learned that the division of her company was for sale she decided it was time to make the move.
Her new path would lead Tyrrell to F&ES, where in the process of earning a master's degree in forest science she fell in love with ecology. And while she would never have imagined it at the time, it led her to a community where she would spend the next 23 years of her life.
After graduation Tyrrell joined the staff of the School, eventually becoming director of the Yale-based Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, one of the several new centers that have since redefined the School's role in the forest sector and how it connects faculty, students, industry, and alumni.
In the two decades since, she has also mentored students, taught courses, coordinated the School's summer orientation program, conducted research on the impacts of land use changes, and helped create a national program to improve stewardship of family-owned forestlands.
For Tyrrell, who will retire this month after 20 years on staff, it's funny to think back on the concerns she'd had about coming to New Haven all those years ago. Back then, as both an older incoming student and the product of working-class Fall River, Mass., she arrived at F&ES for an open house with reservations about whether she'd fit in at Yale.
"I remember talking to Bill Smith, who was on the faculty at the time. I was 42 at the time, so I said, "What's it going to be like for me here?' He said, 'It'll be fine! We have older students all the time — you'll fit right in!' And he was right."
Like just about every other student in those years, Tyrrell took terrestrial ecosystems during her first semester, as well courses on soils, environmental chemistry and hydrology. What she wanted most was to learn about forest ecology.
Having grown up skiing and hiking in the White Mountains, she felt a natural pull toward the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, a pioneering research project based at a 3,160-hectare reserve in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. It was there that she first worked with vital mentors like Tom Siccama, a revered professor of forest ecology, and Kristiina Vogt, a former ecosystem management professor at F&ES who would become dean of the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources.
"It was intellectually exciting because of all the science going on."
— Mary Tyrrell
"It was intellectually exciting because of all the science going on," Tyrrell says. "I learned a lot about the boring, tedious, grunt fieldwork you have to do to get ecology science done. I also learned a lot about how to critically look at data that come from the field!"
Her work at Hubbard Brook included an examination of a decline in red spruces that had occurred at mid-elevations during the 1960s and '70s before, inexplicably, rebounding in the early '80s. She looked at the impacts of climate, of soil, of water.
She also had a chance to get her hands dirty. She remembers one day when Siccama excitedly told her that a swath of spruce trees was being cleared nearby, and that he'd brokered a deal whereby Tyrrell would have access to cross-section cuts of the wood in exchange for helping to move the trees.
"I said, 'What?' And Tom said, 'Yeah, I told them that you're going to help them clear the trees!' Yeah, right, me. Five-foot-two, 40-something and with no upper body strength," she recalls with a laugh. "Are you kidding me?"
Mary Tyrrell, left, as a student, with classmates Ellen Denny '97 M.F.S. and Paul Calzada '97 M.E.M. during a "soils" class field trip.
Rather than haul the trees she ended up having to skin the bark off the trees with an axe, leaving her covered in spruce resin, so that the wood could be used for a makeshift bridge; in exchange she received samples of the wood for her research. Eventually she'd lug those samples to Greeley Lab where she drilled out tiny cores for wood chemistry analysis.
In the end her brief master's research project didn't produce any major revelations. But for Tyrrell, that was OK. "I just wanted to do something that was going to teach me more about ecology," she said.
After graduating in 1997, Tyrrell spent several months working for the Appalachian Mountain Club, mapping roadless areas in the northern forest and collecting information about best forest practices. But the position was temporary, so when she heard from a friend at F&ES about a job at the School she applied.
Her first job at the School was with the now defunct Center for Coastal and Watershed Systems, where she eventually was named program director. But it was becoming clear to her that her passion was forests.
As it turned out, her timing was fortuitous. During the 1990s, F&ES was investing in a range of new centers and program to deepen its interactions beyond faculty research and classroom learning. A new group of initiatives would emerge as nexuses for scholarship, research, student learning, and outreach to alumni and the wider professional communities.
An early example was the Yale Forest Forum — created by former Dean John Gordon in the aftermath of the Seventh American Forest Congress — which incorporated a range of stakeholders to develop and articulate a vision of forest management for the 21st century.
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"It really was a golden era of entrepreneurial spirit at the School," remembers Gary Dunning, a 1996 graduate of the School who would be tapped to run the Yale Forest Forum. "There was a huge effort, led by John Gordon, that enabled Yale to play a relevant role in discussing U.S. forest policy in a deep way, including through research but also through stakeholder agreement."
Excited to return to forest issues, Mary Tyrrell joined GISF as a researcher in 2000. In the early days she organized expert forums on forestry-related topics. And she led a new program whose mission was to strengthen the School's engagement with private forest owners.
"I don't think she had a lot of prior experience in working with private landowners" Dunning recalls. "But she really took to it, really developed a strong love for the issue and the people she began to work with."
She soon began studying how human changes to the land were impacting the health of forests and ecological systems. Over a decade she collaborated with Myrna Hall, a former professor at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, on a series of research projects in New York State, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Together they examined the impacts of land parceling and land use changes and — using modeling tools developed by Hall's husband, Charles Hall — they were able to project what might happen if trends continued. One of Tyrrell's studies, for instance, examined how land use changes were affecting the reservoirs that provide drinking water to New York City.
"Her primary interest always has been in educating people... She's a tremendous force for good analysis and a force for education."
— Myrna Hall, professor emeritus, State University of New York
The research would eventually expand to incorporate peoples' attitudes, including through surveys of landowners.
A signature of Tyrrell's work, Hall remembers, was that she started every project by inviting as many people as possible from across the community into the conversation.
"Her primary interest always has been in educating people," Hall says. "Not just in the university, but perhaps even more so in communities, so that they can better understand what's happening to the landscape around them and how they can make a difference."
"She's one of the people I most respect of all the people I've worked with over the years," she added. "She's a tremendous force for good analysis and a force for education."
Back at F&ES, meanwhile, Tyrrell came to accept an increasing number of roles. She became a mentor for the School's forestry students, giving advice on building class schedules that best met their professional goals and helping them navigate academic life. For years she taught a course, with retired F&ES Prof. Ann Camp, on invasive species. And in recent years she has coordinated the summer orientation for incoming students (known as MODs).
And she would eventually become director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. In that role she helped organize and run conferences, hosted an annual field educational program for visiting Indian Forest Service professionals and, critically, increased the School's outreach to private forest owners.
Tyrrell, fourth from left, with women foresters from the Indian Forest Service, F&ES students, and forestry officials at the White Mountain National Forest.
For many involved in forest conservation and management there had long been concerns about the general lack of knowledge of how U.S. private forest owners managed their lands. About one-third of all forestland in the U.S. is owned by private individuals or families, but in most cases these owners don't develop long-term management plans — a fact that leaves vast expanses of property vulnerable to degradation, fragmentation, and development.
In 2003, Tyrrell joined a small group of individuals from business, government, academia, and the NGO community to discuss strategies for addressing this challenge. Those early discussions — convened by F&ES alum Scott Wallinger, a retired senior vice president at MeadWestvaco and proponent of sustainable development — would mark the beginning of the Sustaining Family Forests Initiative (SFFI).
And since its beginning Mary Tyrrell has guided its growth.
The Sustaining Family Forests Initiative, which now receives funding from the U.S. Forest Service, has trained more than 1,200 natural resources professionals from 400 organizations over the past decade. They have hosted more than 44 workshops in 31 states.
At these workshops, Tyrrell and her team have helped these professionals better understand the attitudes and behaviors of landowners and develop strategies to meet their landscape goals by engaging these landowners in stewardship and conservation actions.
The process helped bridge a gap between the needs of landowners and the resources available from forestry professionals, said Brett Butler, a research forester with the U.S. Forest Service and former co-director of the SFFI.
"The family forest owners are trying their best to be good stewards and want to have more knowledge of what to do with their land," he said. "But a lot of them don't know what to do."
"She's able to make people feel welcome, to get different voices heard. And it's not just that they're able to speak. She hears them."
— Brett Butler, U.S. Forest Service
Butler, who coordinates the U.S. National Woodland Owners Survey, says there has long been data on forest owners. But for years there weren't many opportunities to do much with that data.
"So through this process that Mary was pivotal in starting we were able to harness this information that we were collecting and turn it into something that at a lot of people were able to access and utilize in improving the programs that they were conducting with family forest owners."
One of Tyrrell's strengths, Butler said, is that she is equally comfortable communicating with scientists and funders, landowners and policymakers, even though they might have very different goals and speak different languages.
"She's able to make people feel welcome, to get different voices heard," he added. "And it's not just that they're able to speak. She hears them."
That has been particularly true for landowners, said Dunning. She understands that every region, and that every owner, is different. And she illustrates that she's interested in listening to their stories.
"With landowners, you have to earn their trust," Dunning said. "And it's not as easy as building a partnership with industry or the government. Landowners work on personal relationships, and if they don't trust you you're not going to get very far.
"Mary demonstrated that she was able to earn the trust of that community to the point where she was able to build a really strong, successful program."
For the past year and a half, Katherine Hollins, program manager for SFFI and the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, has had an up-close perspective on how Mary Tyrrell does her job.
One of the reasons for her success, she says, particularly when it comes to communicating with a range of audiences, is simply her frankness. ("I don't know if it's her Boston upbringing, but she doesn't dance around stuff… I find it really refreshing.")
But beyond that, she said, it also comes down to Mary's passion — for nature, for her work, for the School.
"Mary cares about a lot of things, and she really puts her heart into them," she said. "She's so passionate about F&ES and the students here. But it goes beyond the School. You can tell she's just passionate about making a difference."


Our stories today was yet again filled with adventure ! today started with a prairie fire !!! The Indians set the prairie on fire once a year so the grass would grow back greener and easier to travel on !!! Pa was plowing the fields when it happened and Pa and Ma had to scramble to dig a furrow and start a backfire !!! The backfire stopped the fuel of the lager fire and kept the Ingalls and their home safe !!! That evening Mr Edwards and Mr Scott came to see P and expressed that they thought the Indians had started the fire to kill or run the white people off the land ! Pa expressed he didn't think that was the case but Mr Scott said that the only good Indian was a dead Indian !
We took time today to learn more about the Minnesota Massacre , we learned the purpose of forts , and learned about backfires and how they work !!! After studying the massacre I understood more why the white people felt the way they did !!! We finished our day with our other school activities !!!! We had a wonderful day today ! God is good !!! hope everyone has a blessed week !!!


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About Bryan
A Paladin's Journey details the adventures of Krell, called to service by ReckNor, god of the seas and skies. An exploration of faith where the gods are not only provably real, but where they speak to their champions directly.
Too often in literature I see our heroes living in a world populated with gods, but with scant attention paid to what that would actually mean. It should profoundly shape the worldview of every character, influence every event, and be such a constant underlying component of the world that shines through in every moment of everyone's lives.
This is my exploration of what that world would look like.
I'm extremely pleased that Beginning of Arrogance is being very positively received by readers and critics alike!
Book 1 of A Paladin's Journey
Beginning of Arrogance
Paladins are nothing but trouble.
Stories about paladins are everywhere, noble warriors riding magic steeds into battle against terrible foes. Champions of their gods. Heroes to everyone, except those who already have everything. Paladins are notorious for upsetting the balance of power, to the detriment of any who don't worship their deity.
So when Krell is called to service by the capricious god of the seas and skies, ReckNor, those with wealth and power can't help but be concerned. ReckNor hasn't called a paladin in years, and his nature is ever-changing and erratic. The fact that Krell is also an uneducated nobody with a stubborn streak as wide as the sea turns their concerns into fear.
All of which matters less than the threat clawing its way from the waves, ready to turn the ocean red with spilled blood…
"This is a book worthy to invest some time and emotions in."
"Bryan Cole's BEGINNING OF ARROGANCE features solid world building, a strong protagonist, and a spirited cast of familiar fantasy characters."
"[Bryan] has a great character, a world full of danger and double-cross, and a way of bringing creatures we may have grown up with into vivid and riveting detail."
"…a promising start to a series that will be enjoyed by high-fantasy fans."
Where to buy Beginning of Arrogance
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An intense controversy over Amnesty International's association with people who reject its universalist principles has been sparked by its treatment of a senior figure who raised the issue. Here, a global petition signed by prominent writers and activists poses questions to the human-rights organisation and defends the now suspended Gita Sahgal; and Amnesty's own statement reaffirms its values.
The reference is in particular to Amnesty's work with the former Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg and the organisation he represents, Cageprisoners - itself a "human-rights organisation" that exists "solely to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror". Begg had been held without charge or trial for three years, January 2002-January 2005: in Pakistan, Bagram (Afghanistan), and (for two years) in Guantánamo. Since his release he has campaigned and written widely on behalf of the inmates still held in the prison-camp; his book Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantánamo and Back (2006) was published on both sides of the Atlantic.
The nature of Begg's political views and affiliations has long been questioned, not least whether he endorses the ideas and agendas of the kind of radical Islamism espoused by the Taliban (see Jane Kinninmont, "Guantánamo and back: an interview with Moazzam Begg", 6 March 2006). For Gita Sahgal, Amnesty International's collaboration with him raised serious issues which she tried to bring up internally: "I sent two memos to my management asking a series of questions about what considerations were given to the nature of the relationship with Moazzam Begg and his organisation, Cageprisoners. I have received no answer to my questions." It was only after her concern "to restore the integrity of the organisation and remind it of its fundamental principles" became public on 7 February 2010 that these issues could be properly discussed - though at considerable cost to Gita Sahgal's own professional life.
More broadly, the dispute involving Gita Sahgal, Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners, and Amnesty International highlights Amnesty's evolution in the past decade; in particular what the scholar Stephen Hopgood has called its attempt to switch "from moral to political authority" (see "Amnesty International: the politics of morality", 7 June 2006).
"The difference between them can be caught by a simple idea. The trust that a moral authority inspires is that it speaks for everyone, without fear or favour, from a vantage-point that is somehow detached from the perspective of any one person or social group. It is just a question of the facts, of what is right or true. This is the position of a judge, or a witness.
In this larger perspective, the Gita Sahgal/Moazzam Begg affair was waiting to happen. As it unfolds, its character and implications are for many other organisations and individuals to ponder.
As organisations and individuals who stand for and support the universality of human rights, we have noted with concern the suspension of Gita Sahgal, head of the gender unit at the international secretariat of Amnesty International in London, for questioning Amnesty International's partnership with individuals whose politics towards the Taliban are ambiguous.
We come from communities that recognise and appreciate the work of Amnesty International in defending human rights and women's rights around the world. Many of us work closely with Amnesty International in its campaigns at various levels.
We believe that Gita Sahgal has raised a fundamental point of principle which is "about the importance of the human rights movement maintaining an objective distance from groups and ideas that are committed to systematic discrimination".
This issue of principle is critical at the present moment, with the United States-led "war on terror" leading to the suspension of human rights and increased surveillance over individuals and the body-politic. Ironically, the language of human rights and human-rights defenders is being taken over by the US/Nato alliance in its efforts to legitimise a reborn imperialism. Equally disturbingly, this language is also being hijacked by organisations that espouse extremist and violent forms of identity-based politics. The space for a position that challenges both these is shrinking, and human rights are becoming hostage to broader authoritarian political agendas, whether from states or communities.
In this context, it is crucial for human-rights defenders and organisations to clearly define principles and core values that are non-negotiable. Our commitment to countering, among others, Islamophobia, racism, misogyny and xenophobia should at no time blur our recognition of the authoritarian, often fascist, social and political agendas of some of the groups that suffer human-rights abuse at the hands of the big powers.
The broader issue of principle which we raise here, is one which concerns all of us as human-rights defenders from different parts of the world. Many of us who work to defend human rights in the context of conflict and terrorism know the importance of maintaining a clear and visible distance from potential partners and allies when there is any doubt about their commitment to human rights. Given the circumstances in which questions regarding the partnership with Cageprisoners appear to have been raised, we feel that Amnesty International should have refrained from providing them with a platform. It should have been possible for Amnesty International to campaign against the fundamental human rights abuses that have occurred at Guantánamo and elsewhere without making alliances that compromise Amnesty International's core values, just as other human-rights organisations have done.
History has repeatedly shown us that anti-democratic organisations can and do manipulate information and their own self-representation for narrow political advantage. In any situation of ambiguity, we feel that the benefit of doubt should have been given to the expert staff members of Amnesty International. We feel that in this instance there has been a lack of respect for the opinions expressed by Gita Sahgal, who is a senior member of staff, and a critical failure of internal democratic functioning at Amnesty's international secretariat.
What is needed is democratic debate, internally as well as in the public sphere, on the human-rights principles that should guide Amnesty International and all of us in determining our alliances. We have to ensure that the partnerships we form are true to the core human-rights values of equality and universality. Our accountability in this area, internally as well as externally, to all our diverse constituencies, cannot be put at risk. We need a rigorous examination of potential partners. Given the complex situations we work in, what is needed is open debate, not a censoring and closure of discussion on these important issues. Shifting the debate and turning this into a discussion about "Othering" and "demonisation of Guantánamo prisoners" is merely obscuring the real issues at stake. It puts at risk the work that Amnesty International is attempting to do in Afghanistan and other areas. Unfortunately, it also fails to answer the very serious questions that have been posed to which we are also seeking answers.
In the present context of 'constructive engagement' with the Taliban, as proposed at the conference on Afghanistan in London [on 28 January 2010], it is our obligation to ensure that we do not barter away the human rights of minorities and of women for "peace". There are enough recent examples of such attempts which show that these deals are a chimera and do not result in either peace or security. Whatever the nature of "engagement" with authoritarian groups, and whatever partnerships and alliances we enter into with individuals or organisations involved in such "engagement", the positive conditionalities and checks based on human rights, which are universal and indivisible, must remain central and non-negotiable for human-rights organisations and defenders.
We call on Amnesty International to clearly and publicly affirm its commitment to the above in all areas of its work; and to demonstrate its obligation to make itself publicly accountable, as it has so often demanded of others.
We extend our solidarity and support to Gita Sahgal, who is well known and widely respected for her principled activism on human rights internationally, for her courageous stand in raising this issue within and outside Amnesty International.
This comment, by Amnesty International's interim secretary-general Claudio Cordone, was released on 11 February 2010.
There has been a lot of controversy in the media surrounding Amnesty International's work with Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners, in light of statements by Gita Sahgal, an Amnesty International staff member.
Contrary to Gita Sahgal's assertions to the media, she was not suspended from Amnesty International for raising these issues internally. In fact, we actively welcome vigorous internal debate. Up to now we have maintained confidentiality in line with our policy but wanted to correct this misrepresentation. This is not a reflection of the organisation's respect for her work as a women's-rights activist and does not undermine the work she has done over the last few years as the head of Amnesty International's gender unit.
Our work with Moazzam Begg has focused exclusively on highlighting the human-rights violations committed in Guantánamo Bay and the need for the United States government to shut it down and either release or put on trial those who have been held there. Moazzam Begg was one of the first detainees released by the US without charge, and has never been charged with any terrorist-related offence or put on trial.
When President Obama promised to close Guantánamo, Amnesty International hoped that we could wind down our campaign and focus more broadly on human-rights abuses related to security and terrorism. However, as that promise remains unmet, Amnesty International continues to work with Moazzam Begg and other former detainees to ask European governments to accommodate those who cannot be returned to their country of citizenship without risk of torture or ill-treatment.
In this complex and polarised world, we at Amnesty International face the challenge of communicating clearly the scope of our work with individuals and groups. Amnesty International champions and continues to champion Moazzam Begg's rights as a former detainee at Guantánamo. He speaks about his own views and experiences, not Amnesty International's. And Moazzam Begg has never used a platform he shared with Amnesty to speak against the rights of others.
Amnesty International has a long history of demanding justice – in the case of our Counter Terror with Justice Campaign we called for both an end to human-rights abuses at Guantánamo and other locations, and called for those detained there to be brought to justice, in fair trials that respected due process.
However, our work for justice and human rights spans a far wider range of issues than counter-terrorism and security. Amnesty International has done considerable research on the Taliban and campaigns to stop violence against women and to promote women's equality. We continue to take a strong line against abuses by religiously-based insurgent groups and/or governments imposing religious strictures, Islamic or otherwise, in violation of human-rights law. Sometimes the people whose rights we defend may not share each other's views – but they all have human rights, and all human rights are worth defending.


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Article: Greece is the Word -- June 2008
Barbara T. Nessinger
Dolmas, or grape leaves stuffed with ground lamb and long-grain rice, is considered a classic Greek dish.
Greek cuisine is one of the oldest, most classic cuisines known to Western society. Greek cooking is very diverse, and although there are many common characteristics, there are also differences among the culinary traditions within different regions of the country. Some dishes can be traced back to ancient Greece (trahanas,skordalia, lentil soup), while others hearken from the Hellenistic and Roman periods (
loukaniko). Therefore, a full list of representative dishes is difficult to present. Greek influences on modern cooking are myriad and probably incalculable.Prepared Foodssat down with chef John Matchuk, R&D manager at Grecian Delight in Elk Grove Village, Ill. With 15 years in foodservice and the past 17 years in R&D, chef Matchuk's unique perspective on Greek cuisine, both past and present, encompasses classic Greek cooking; plus, his observations on the future of "Greek fusion" shed some light on the direction in which this timeless cuisine is currently headed.
PF: What influences shaped your love of Greek cooking, and where did you first learn to cook Greek cuisine?
JM:"Chefs already have a broad perspective on all foods--I had a good grip on Greek classics already. Joining Grecian Delight gave me the opportunity to actually make things, or 'put stuff into a box,' and manage an R&D division. My work here has been a matter of refining, management and authenticity."
PF: How would you differentiate Greek cuisine from other Mediterranean cuisine?
JM:"It is both difficult and easy to differentiate, as the cuisines of the Mediterranean overlap at the countries' borders. The result of this overlap is that some cooking techniques and/or ingredients from both countries seep into the border cuisines. It is currently more difficult to differentiate, as Greek cuisine is in a 'new version,' which uses fusion. The simple response would be to cite the universal use of olive oil, oregano, Feta cheese, olives,phyllodough, cucumbers and eggplant, and garlic and lemon juice in so many Greek preparations. The recipes utilize simplicity (as in so many Mediterranean cuisines), and thus, the quality of the ingredients is key for them to work well. Of course, do not forget lamb, especially at Easter and springtime!"
(See charts, "Greek Seasonings and Common Ingredients--Botanicals" and "Greek Seasonings and Common Ingredients--Non-botanicals," for a complete list of commonly used Greek spices and ingredients.)
PF: How would you define Greek fusion cooking?
JM:"Fusion is basically taking a classic dish, such asmelitzanes mousakka(layers of seasoned ground [or minced] lamb or beef, sliced eggplant and tomato, topped with whitebechémalsauce), and using an Asian eggplant rather than Greek eggplant. Or, it could be a new spice profile. It is the fusing of a new technique with old, classic ingredients.Avgolemono('egg-lemon soup' traditionally consisting of chicken, red meat, vegetable or fish broth thickened with eggs, lemon juice and rice) might be given a 'fusion update' by using lemongrass instead of lemon. This would add more intense lemon flavor with other spice notes to create a trendier, Greek fusion dish."
PF: How are traditional Greek seasonings such as oregano, paprika and lemon used in modern Greek cuisine?
JM:"Basically, they are used very much as they have always been used. The modern, or new, Greek food is basically a function of technique and price points. The more you pay, the more likely it will be an interpretation of the classic version. Smoked paprika and, perhaps, preserved lemons could make an appearance, for example."
PF: What cooking techniques are commonly associated with Greek cooking?
JM:"Grilling, braising, stewing and roasting are the most common techniques used."
Legend has it that the classic, Greek slow-cooking technique originated from the Klephts, who, lacking their own flocks, would steal lambs or goats and cook them in a sealed pit to avoid the smoke being seen. The Greek wordKleftikotranslates roughly into "stolen meat."
PF: Are there any chefs or restaurants currently building reputations for creativity in the area of Greek cuisine? What sort of things are they doing?
JM:"The menu at Molyvos, in New York, is built upon the home-style cooking of Greece, with dishes elevated through the talents of executive chef James Botsacos. He prepares each of the authentic recipes using classical cooking techniques and superior ingredients available to him in New York, such as prime meats, greenmarket vegetables and day-boat fish. He then seasons the food with flavorful stocks and fresh herbs. Classics such as grilled, baby octopus, Cretan bread salad,stifado(game [rabbit, venison] stew with pearl onions, red wine and cinnamon), lambyuvetsi(lamb casserole withorzo--tiny, rice-shaped pasta), and their specialbaklavaall exhibit the quality difference in taste and presentation."
PF: Are there areas (geographic) of Greek cooking that are becoming more popular (such as the vegetarian dish, Haniotiko Mpoureki, from western Crete)? In other words, are more restaurants focusing on different types of Greek cuisine, based on the area from which they originate?
JM:"If not today, then tomorrow. Focusing on a geographical area is usually a result of the passage of time and people's continual quest for 'something new' when they dine out. Twenty years ago, for example, Italian cuisine went to new regions--Tuscan, Northern Italian, etc. Chef Rick Bayless has done it with Mexican cuisine. An emerging 'hot' South American cuisine is Peruvian. It will happen eventually with Greek cuisine, and it will mainly be a consequence of marketing, plus boredom."
PF: What are some of the health aspects of Greek cuisine?
JM:"Greek food has excellent health benefits. It fits in squarely with the Mediterranean diet, of course. It is, however, always up to the end-user to limit the restricted or special foods at the top of the pyramid."
Studies in the 1950s found that residents of the Greek island of Crete had one of the lowest rates of heart disease in the world. This, of course, led to Mediterranean cuisine being almost synonymous with "heart-healthy."
In the landmark Seven Countries study, it was found that the men of Crete got only 8% of their calories from saturated fat--most of their diet consisted of vegetables, grains and olive oil, with a small amount of seafood, milk and cheese. Clearly, these men were not eatingmoussakaor gyros, both of which have as much artery-clogging fat as some fast foods. Conversely, some Greek classics, such as chicken, lamb or porksouvlaki, are among some of the heart-healthiest meals. It would seem that Greek cuisine is a mixed bag of healthy and not-so-healthy foods. However, the same study also found that the men of Crete had a much more active lifestyle than most Americans. With Americans' sedentary lifestyle and constant, dining-out mentality, it is wise to note that following the simple dietary rules of the Greeks can reap results, if as chef Matchuk stated, the "end-user" takes responsibility for limiting the foods that are high in fat.pf
www.greciandelight.com-- Home of Grecian Delight Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of ethnic foods and services; website includes information on menus and recipes, merchandising, equipment and products
www.greekcuisine.com-- A complete guide to finding Greek food and Greek cuisine; includes a Greek dining and restaurant guide, as well as cookbooks, recipes, spices and more
www.thatsgreece.com-- Click on "food, drink" for a comprehensive history of Greek cuisine, a glossary of Greek food terms, vegetarian traditions, the Cretan diet and more
www.epi.umn.edu/research/7countries/overview.shtm-- An overview of the Seven Countries study, of which Ancel Keys at the University of Minnesota was the principal investigator; links to the individual countries are provided
www.PreparedFoods.com-- Scroll down the left side of the home page to the "Menu Development" section for information on restaurant trends
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Across the Boards – Fall 2019 Feature
Limestone District School Board
STEM/Culture Collide at Outdoor Camp
By Karen Smith, Limestone DSB
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Limestone DSB
During three days in June, Self-Identified First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Grade 5 to 7 students in the Limestone DSB participated in a land-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and cultural camp at Gould Lake Conservation Area.
Staff from Queen's' Aboriginal Access to Engineering facilitated the STEM-based teachings. Gould Lake staff, local traditional Knowledge Keepers, and Limestone teachers facilitated the cultural and land-based teachings.
"This unique camp was designed to play a role in supporting the development of cultural identity and social well-being for all as well as fostering leadership and a sense of community," says Gillianne Mundell, Limestone's Indigenous Education and Reconciliation Lead. "Students discovered that Science, Technology, Engineering and Math is embedded in Indigenous culture and knowledge."
Land-based teaching provided the focus for Day 1. Students participated in STEM habitat and structure activities and created commitment strings around a fire. Day 2 focused on Traditional medicines where students learned about the four sacred medicines. Students made a plantain salve using plantain from Gould Lake and hiked and canoed around Gould Lake. Day 3 focused on water teachings. Students participated in STEM water purification activities and, again, spent time canoeing on Gould Lake.
"Connecting to the outdoors naturally engaged the students and proved the concept that kids learn better when they're involved directly with experiences on the land," says Mundell. "It is our goal to continue these important experiential learning opportunities for our Indigenous students."


LOS ANGELES: Four California district attorneys have jointly agreed to seek the death penalty if they win a conviction of an ex-policeman charged with 13 counts of murder attributed to a serial predator dubbed the "Golden State Killer," prosecutors said on Wednesday.
DeAngelo was arrested in April 2018, capping more than 40 years of investigation in a case that authorities said was finally solved by DNA evidence. The breakthrough came about two months after the case gained renewed national attention in the bestselling book: I'll Be Gone In The Dark.


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The mainstreaming of Film, Media and Entertainment education in India
By Guest Blogger
India's Censor Board needs a badass rejig!
The Business Model problem in 'Bollywood'
Excuse me, what is the whole outrage about?
Guest Blogger: Alexandra Eaton
Alexandra Eaton. Photo by: Katherine Finkelstein
BOMBAY MOVIE is a documentary which offers a unique glimpse into the making of an independent Hindi film, Barah Ana. The film features Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, and Arjun Mathur in key roles. This revealing documentary follows Raja Menon, an independent filmmaker living in the shadows of India's Bollywood. Inspired by his watchman to make a film about the city's overlooked working poor, Raja enlists two foreign producers and a star cast (Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, Arjun Mathur) to undertake the making of this gritty realist film of his dreams. BOMBAY MOVIE reveals the passion and perils of filming a love letter to India's biggest, most unpredictable city.
The film is shot and directed by US-based filmmaker Alexandra Eaton.
The film is edited by Mark Becker; Original Music and Sound by Ian Turner; Produced by Vinay Singh; and Executive Produced by Gill Holland.
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It goes without saying that Kew Gardens is one of the most incredible spaces in London. Kew Gardens in Spring makes standing on crowded undergrounds and waking up on dark drizzly morning to rain, rain, rain and more rain seem a million miles away. Surrounded by the fresh ambience of the diverse botanical world, Matthew & Jenny's Wedding couldn't of been more flourishing.
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Plenty of people on the center-right, including me, mocked Donald Trump when in a recent presidential debate Mr. Trump cited the liberal Harvard law professor (no, that isn't redundant) Laurence Tribe as his legal authority for the idea that Senator Cruz, born in Canada, may have trouble fulfilling the Constitution's requirement that a president be a natural born citizen of the United States.
My thought was that the reference to Mr. Tribe wouldn't exactly help Mr. Trump with his audience of Republican primary voters. But I may have spoken too soon, for, after this week's order from the Supreme Court blocking the Obama administration's unconstitutional crackdown on coal, Mr. Tribe may wind up as a hero in the conservative legal pantheon right up there with TGS (the editor of the New York Sun's term for "The Great Scalia"), Kenneth Starr, or Theodore Olson.
What is astounding, at least in retrospect, is the attacks with which Professor Tribe was met from from the left, including from his Harvard Law colleagues, for his decision to represent coal interests — Peabody Energy, precisely — in the case.
Richard Revesz, dean emeritus and a professor at NYU law school and a fine fellow, went so far as to write an entire New York Times op-ed attacking Professor Tribe for his decision to take on the client. In the op-ed, Professor Revesz described Professor Tribe's arguments as "weak," and "far-fetched," characterizing them as "unlikely to persuade a court." After this week's 5 to 4 order from the Supremes, Professor Revesz may want to go back and reassess his views of the strength of those arguments.
"That a leading scholar of constitutional matters has identical views as officials of a coal company — that his constitutional views are the same as the views that best promote his client — there's something odd there," said Richard L. Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
What's really odd is that Professer Revesz would make the error of crossing the line from differing with Professor Tribe on the substance of an issue and stray beyond that into casting doubt on his motives.
I don't hold any brief for the coal industry, other than it provides decent-paying union jobs for coal miners in places where such jobs are scarce. But if President Obama wants to outlaw it, it's not unreasonable to suggest, as Professor Tribe does, that he needs to do it by getting Congress to agree with him rather than by executive fiat. Of all the twists and turns of this political year, seeing Laurence Tribe turn up as a hero of the fight for property rights and limited government may be both one of the most surprising and the most welcome.


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Forecast Shows China's Huawei & US Chipmakers Will Lose BILLIONS From Ongoing Trade War
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The United States' ongoing battle against Huawei is taking a toll on the Chinese tech giant, and its founder now says that it will likely cost the company billions in revenue as a result.
Despite its place as the world's largest supplier of telecom equipment, Huawei has suffered as a result of actions taken by the United States government, and the tech giant's founder now says it will cost the company more than $30 billion dollars in the next two years.
"So in the next two years I think we will reduce our capability, our revenue will be down by about 30 billion dollars lower than forecasted. So our sales forecast is 100 billion dollars in revenue this year and next year, but in 2020, we may regain our growth momentum to contribute more to human society," said Huawei Founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei.
Zhengfei said Huawei is like a "badly damaged plane" following Washington's decision to place it on a blacklist that requires U.S. firms to obtain government approval before selling parts to the Chinese tech giant. But he maintained that the core of that plane is still intact, and it will be repaired.
U.S. officials have repeatedly claimed that Huawei is a threat to national security. But the decision to target the company will also hit its top customers in the United States, the chip-maker Broadcom announced that it will make $2 billion dollars less in annual sales than expected—making it one of the first to quantify the financial impact of the ongoing Trade War.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin is set to meet President Trump in Washington this week, where they plan to discuss a new continental trade pact and the status of two Canadians who remain detained in China. The two men were arrested after Canada complied with requests from the US, and detained Huawei's chief financial officer in December.
Meng Wanzhou now faces extradition to the US, and her hearing is set to begin in January 2020. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland claimed the decision to move forward with the extradition process was done so lawfully.
"When it comes to the extradition request for, around Ms. Meng, Canada has very carefully and intentionally abided by our extradition treaty commitments. We are a rule of law country, and rule of law is not something you can pick and choose," Freeland said.
Regarding the current tensions with Canada, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry said that "the responsibility lies entirely with Canada," and Beijing is waiting on Ottawa to release Huawei's CFO, and to put relations back on track between the two countries.
Now, it remains to be seen how long the trade war will continue and if its impact will be even greater than billions of dollars in revenue lost, both in China and in the United States.
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John Henry "Doc" Holliday 8/14/1851 to 11/8/1887 was an American gambler, gunfighter and is best know as one of Wyatt Earp's good friends. "Doc" is also known to have participated in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Holliday died in Glenwood Springs, Colorado where he had moved to find relief for his ailing lungs. Holliday died of tuberculosis at the age of 36.


Cigarettes are available for most teens. Education is the key to prevention. Due to the fact that cigarrettes are legal, and are found everywhere, many teens start smoking cigarrettes at a very early age. Help you teen realize the consequences of smoking.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
Nicotine is an addictive drug found in cigarettes.
Approximately 80% of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18.
Most teens can buy cigarettes even though it is illegal to sell them to minors in all 50 states.
Spit tobacco (chew) is not a safe alternative to smoking. Regular use of spit tobacco can cause cancer of the cheek, gums, tongue, and throat.
Show concern. Don't wait for your teen to smoke before you talk about tobacco use. Many kids begin trying cigarettes at 11 or 12 years of age.
Establish rules. Talk about family expectations and rules about smoking. Clearly state and enforce the consequences for breaking the rules.
Know the facts. Talk with your teen about the dangers of smoking. Teens often don't relate to the future health problems caused by smoking, such as lung cancer and heart disease. Try talking about the dangers of smoking in a way that hits home with your teen. Use a relative or close friend who is sick with or died of a smoking-related illness as an example.


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Their adjunctive use in congestive heart failure relates to their additive diuretic effect in combination with other drugs, reducing edema and decreasing the cardiac workload.
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        sales: [    { year:2005, profit: 1100 },
                    { year:2006, profit: 1700 },
                    { year:2007, profit: 1680 },
                    { year:2008, profit: 4000 },
                    { year:2009, profit: 4900 }] }
    ],
    // experiment to demonstrate unsupported data structure //////////////////////////////
    dataset2 = dataSet1.map(function(d){
      return {
        name: d.name,
        sales: d.sales.reduce(function(s, o) {
          return (s[o.year] = o.profit, s)
        },{})
      }
    }),
    _stack = d3.layout.stack()
      .values(layer)
      .x(function(d){ return d.year; })
      .y(function(d){ return d.profit; }),
    dataRaw = _stack(dataset2).map(function(d){
      return {
        name: d.name,
        sales: layer(d)
      }
    });

function layer(d){
  return Object.keys(d.sales).map(function(y){
    return {profit: d.sales[y],year:y}
  });
}
// end experiment /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var offsetSelect = d3.ui.select({
      before: "svg",
      style: {position: "absolute", left: width - padding.right + 15 + "px", top: yRangeWidth + "px"},
      onUpdate: function() {
        update(dataSet1)
      },
      data    : ["wiggle", "zero", "expand", "silhouette"]
    }),
    orderSelect = d3.ui.select({
      before: "svg",
      style: {position: "absolute", left: width - padding.right + 15 + "px", top: yRangeWidth - 20 + "px"},
      onUpdate: function() {
        update(dataSet1)
      },
      data    : ["inside-out", "default", "reverse"]
    }),
    stack = d3.layout.stack()
      .values(function(d){ return d.sales; })
      .x(function(d){ return d.year; })
      .y(function(d){ return d.profit; })
      .out(function out(d, y0, y) {
        d.p0 = y0;
        d.y = y;
      }
    );

// apply a transform to map screen space to cartesian space
// this removes all confusion and mess when plotting data!
var plotArea = svg.append("g")
  .attr(transplot(yRangeWidth))
  .attr("class", "plotArea");
// x Axis
var xPadding = {inner: 0.1, outer: 0.3},
  xScale = d3.scale.ordinal()
      .rangeBands([0, xRangeWidth], xPadding.inner, xPadding.outer),
    xAxis = d3Axis()
      .scale(xScale)
      .orient("bottom"),
    gX    = svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "x axis")
      .attr("transform", "translate(0," + yRangeWidth  + ")");
// y Axis
var yAxisScale = d3.scale.linear()
      .range([yRangeWidth, 0]),
    yAxis = d3Axis()
      .scale(yAxisScale)
      .orient("left"),
    gY    = svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "y axis")
      .style("pointer-events", "none");

var yScale = d3.scale.linear()
  .range([0, yRangeWidth]);

var color = d3.scale.category10();

function update(dataSet) {

  var data = stack.offset(offsetSelect.value())
        .order(orderSelect.value())(dataSet),
      maxProfit = d3.max(data,function(d) {
        return d3.max(d.sales, function(s) {
          return s.profit + s.p0
        })
      });

  function yDomain(){return [0, offsetSelect.value() == "expand" ? 1 : maxProfit]}

  xScale.domain(data[0].sales.map(stack.x()));
  yAxisScale.domain(yDomain());
  yScale.domain(yAxisScale.domain());

  var series = plotArea.selectAll(".series")
    .data(data);
  series.enter()
    .append("g")
    .attr("class", "series");
  series.style("fill", function(d, i) {
    return color(i);
  });
  series.exit().remove();

  var s = xScale.rangeBand(),
      w = s - xPadding.inner,
      points    = series.selectAll("rect")
        .data(function(d) {
          return d.sales;
        }),
      newPoints = points.enter()
        .append("rect")
        .attr("width", w)
        .on("mouseover", function(d) {
          var rect = d3.select(this), selectedYear = d.year;
          // if the plot is not normalised, offset the axis to align with the selected group
          if(offsetSelect.value() != "expand") {
            var pMin = d3.min(data,function(d) {
              return d3.min(d.sales.filter(function(p) {
                return p.year == selectedYear
              }), function(s) {
                return s.p0
              })
            });
            yAxisScale.domain([-pMin, yDomain()[1] - pMin]);
            gY.transition().call(yAxis).attr("transform", "translate(" + rect.attr("x") + ",0)");
          }
          // manage the highlighting
          series.selectAll("rect")
            .transition()
            .attr({opacity: 0.5});
          rect
            .transition()
            .attr({opacity: 1});
          d3.selectAll(".x.axis .tick")
            .filter(function(d) {
              return d == selectedYear
            })
            .classed("highlight", true);
          // move the selected element to the front
          d3.select(this.parentNode)
            .moveToFront();
          gX.moveToFront();
          // add the value for the moused over item to the legend text and highlight it
          var g = d3.select(this.parentNode).selectAll(".label").select("text");
          g.classed("highlight", true);
          g.text(g.text() + ": " + d3.format(">8.0f")(d.profit));
          series
            .append("g")
            .attr("class", "tooltip")
            .attr("transform", "translate(" + [rect.attr("x"), rect.attr("y")] + ")")
            .append("text")
            .attr(transflip())
            .text(d3.format(">8.0f")(d.profit))
            .attr({x: "1em", y: -rect.attr("height")/2, dy: ".35em", opacity: 0})
            .transition().attr("opacity", 1)
            .style({fill: "black", "pointer-events": "none"})
        })
        .on("mouseout", function(d) {
          var year = d.year;
          d3.selectAll(".x.axis .tick")
            .filter(function(d) {
              return d == year
            })
            .classed("highlight", false);
          series.selectAll("rect")
            .transition()
            .attr({opacity: 1});
          var g = d3.select(this.parentNode).select("text");
          g.classed("highlight", false);
          g.text(g.text().split(":")[0])
          yAxisScale.domain(yDomain());
          yAxis.tickSize(6);
          gY.transition().call(yAxis).attr("transform", "translate(0,0)");
          series.selectAll(".tooltip")
            .transition()
            .attr({opacity: 0})
            .remove();
        });

  points.transition()
    .attr("x", function(d) {
      return xScale(d.year);
    })
    .attr("y", function(d) {
      return yScale(d.p0);
    })
    .attr("height", function(d) {
      return yScale(d.y);
    })
    .attr("stroke", "white");

  points.exit().remove;

  gX.transition().call(xAxis);
  gY.transition().call(yAxis);

  // Add the legend inside the series containers
  // The series legend is wrapped in another g so that the
  // plot transform can be reversed. Otherwise the text would be mirrored
  var labHeight = 40,
      labRadius = 10,
      label = series.selectAll(".label").data(function(d){return [d.name]}),
      newLabel = label.enter().append("g")
        .attr("class", "label")
        // reverse the transform (it is it's own inverse)
        .attr(transplot(yRangeWidth));
  label.exit().remove();

  // add the marker and the legend text to the normalised container
  // push the data (name) down to them
  var labelCircle = label.selectAll("circle").data(aID),
      // take a moment to get the series order delivered by stack
      orders = data.map(function(d) { // simplify the form
        return {name: d.name, base: d.sales[0].p0}
      }).map(function(d) {            // get a copy, sorted by p0
        return d
      }).sort(function(a, b){
        return a.base - b.base
      }).map(function(d) {            // convert to index permutations
        return data.map(function(p) {
          return p.name
        }).indexOf(d.name)
      }).reverse();                   // convert to screen y ordinate
  labelCircle.enter().append("circle");
  labelCircle.attr("cx", xRangeWidth + 20)
    .attr("cy", function(d, i, j) {
      return labHeight * orders[j];
    })
    .attr("r", labRadius);

  var labelText = label.selectAll("text").data(aID);
  labelText.enter().append("text");
  labelText.attr("x", xRangeWidth + 40)
    .attr("y", function(d, i, j) {
      return labHeight * orders[j];
    })
    .attr("dy", labRadius / 2)
    .text(function(d) {
      return d;
    });

  function aID(d){
    return [d];
  }
}

update(dataSet1);

d3.selection.prototype.moveToFront = function() {
  return this.each(function() {
    this.parentNode.appendChild(this);
  });
};

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In 2016, the Parent Council organised volunteers to run the school library. We drafted a Library Roles and Responsibilities grid for our volunteers, a library policy and labelled the library shelves to make it easy for all pupils to use.
Pupils, parents, staff and members of the community.
The launch of the Reading Cloud, a cloud-based library management system. This engaged the pupils with the library and reading - through digital means. Over the past two years, we have pupils visiting the Library regularly and reading for pleasure.
Yes, I'd speak to teachers about having Pupil Librarians to help manage the Library. We started off with them tidying the library regularly, but I feel this could be a great opportunity for P6s and P7s to learn valuable life skills if this were run as a 'job' they'd have to apply for, show up for and do well at.
We will definitely continue as we see the spark of enthusiasm in the pupils coming into the library. It helps involve parents in school life, and builds confidence in parents and pupils.
No funding, but we often have books or funds donated by parents.


Designed by Miguel Cancio Martins, the man behind the infamous Buddha Bar in Paris, the swanky Vermillion Cinnabar serves excellent Asian fusion food in chic surroundings. Though the boxy exterior is nothing to write home about, ugly even, inside the place is opulent in the extreme, raising a cocky two fingers at the credit crunch. A lot of time and effort has been spent getting the look right. The upstairs Cinnabar is particularly striking, peppered with no surprises Buddha statutes and odd egg-shaped cocoon seats. The drinks are very well executed, the Asian-flavored food is excellent and the crowd is glam and buzzing.


A convicted killer failed today in a bid to secure a reduced sentence for beating and stamping his helpless victim to death.
Mark Ward, 27, was challenging the minimum 16-year prison term he received for murdering father-of-four Marcell Seeley in Lurgan, Co Armagh in October 2015.
Ward's lawyers claimed the sentence was manifestly excessive as the fatal and drunken attack involved no planning.
But the Court of Appeal rejected submissions based on the two men's history of drunken quarrels, injuries inflicted and a mere intention by Ward to inflict grievous bodily harm.
Mr Seeley's body was discovered in the living room of his Dingwell Park flat.
The 34-year-old, also known as Junior, died from blunt force trauma to the head.
He had also sustained multiple injuries, including fractures to his ribs and a bone just above his voice box.
A pathologist concluded that he would have survived for several hours after the attack.
Ward, from Drumellan Gardens in Craigavon, was convicted of murder after footprints found at the scene linked him to the attack.
A distinctive sole pattern was matched to shoes worn in CCTV footage of him walking towards Mr Seeley's home on the night of the killing.
Following an earlier failed bid to overturn his murder conviction, he returned to court in an attempt to have his jail term cut.
Ruling on the appeal against sentence, Mr Justice McCloskey rejected defence arguments on the sentencing process.
"A murderer's intention to cause grievous bodily harm, rather than to kill, will not invariably attract mitigation," he said.
"Futhermore, in appropriate cases there will be no distinction between an aggressor's use of feet for the purpose of kicking or stamping on a helpless victim prostrate at ground or floor level and the use of a weapon for a like purpose.
Dismissing the appeal against the 16-year term, appeal judges also highlighted differences between sentencing in Northern Ireland and the "more prescriptive" tariffs in other parts of the UK.
Heavier tariffs in England and Wales are based on that jurisdiction's different regime, while a 2005 review of the life sentence in Northern Ireland resulted in no reforms.
Mr Justice McCloskey pointed out: "In short, there has been no statutory alteration of the legal rules and principles governing the life sentence in Northern Ireland during almost two decades, since the introduction of the Life Sentences (NI) Order 2001.


There are about a ka-gillion ways to embellish and dress up your tree and in case you're overwhelmed with all of the possibilities, this list will help direct your decorating desires. Do you enjoy real or flocked? Tinsel or ribbon? Angel or star? Check out the nautical tree decorated with starfish! We love the tree draped with printed burlap, the Americana tree that is so patriotic and festive and the lollipop tree! Are you dreaming of a blue Christmas? Maybe a Candy Land Christmas? These gorgeous trees will inspire you! Happy decorating!
Did you love our 31 FREE Christmas Printables? When getting ready for the Christmas season, get inspired by these trees!
Enjoy this Christmas Decor – Inspiring Christmas Mantles. Pin to Pinterest.
Also check out these 31 FREE Christmas Printables – Pin to Pinterest.
Don't forget the 31 Days of Christmas Food Crafts (Pin to Pinterest) and amazing round-up of Holiday Cocktail Recipes (Pin to Pinterest).


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"Jak nie my to kto" (English: "If not us, then who") is a Polish-language single recorded by Mrozu and featuring Tomson. The song mostly features elements of blues and rock and roll and refers to 1960s music. It was released on the YouTube platform on 18 December 2013, and was later included on the platinum-certified album Rollercoaster, which was released on 11 March 2014.

The song was directed by Mrozu and Robert "DrySkull" Krawczyk, and the artistic supervision of Marcin Bors. It additionally featured the chorus by Patrycja Gola.

It reached high places on various record charts in Poland, including a first place on the RMF FM's Poplista. By July 2021, the song's music video had almost 15.8 million views.

Chart performance

Weekly and daily charts

Personnel
 vocals: Mrozu, Tomson
 chorus: Patrycja Gola
 Direction: Mrozu, Robert "DrySkull" Krawczyk
 Artistic supervision: Marcin Bors

References

2013 songs
2013 singles
Polish-language songs
Number-one singles in Poland
Rock-and-roll songs
Blues rock songs


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Gilbert Beesby (fl. 1382–1401) was an English merchant, mayor and Member of Parliament from Lincoln.

Beesby was Bailiff of Lincoln in September 1371 – 1372, and Mayor of Lincoln in 1380–81.

He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Lincoln in 1382, 1388 and 1401.

References

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15th-century deaths
14th-century English businesspeople
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Lincoln
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Once in the resturant, I realized that it was quite chili sitting under the AC vent at Chili's (ironic) so I borrowed Josh's keys to go out to the car to get my fleece.
At the car, I realized I was not so skilled at his car clicker as I thought since it was not unlocking the back door. However, when I tried the driver's door, it opened so I just leaned in and unlocked the doors manualy. Success, the back door finaly submitted and opened up.
As I leaned in to grab my fleece, a sight surprised me… What is Josh doing with all this police riot gear in his back seat?
Yep, I broke into the wrong car! A unmarked police car!
I quickly shut the door and walked briskly to the correct vehicle. I grabbed the fleece and headed back in to see if any of my coherts saw my mistake. As I moved along, I passed two larger built men with police badges on lanyards on thier way out to their car.
If I was just a minute behind, they would have come out while I was leaning in their car. Yikes!
Too, too funny. Makes me wonder why a law enforcement car wasn't locked.


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Blackhawks Cap Crunch Will Force Trades
By The Falconer Jun 22, 2010, 10:35pm EDT
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The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup this summer I recall reading a number of comments about how unfair it was that Dale Tallon wasn't getting sufficient credit for assembling this team. Well if Dale Tallon deserves credit for the Cup win, he certainly deserves the blame for the fire sale that is about to happen. The harsh reality is that Tallon set in motion both the construction and destruction of the current Chicago roster. He made a number of good choices (draft picks), bad choices (bloated free agent contracts) and mistakes (screwed up qualifying RFAs). Now Chicago is going to have to pay the piper. (click here to read my previous comments on Tallon's performance.)
Let's review the facts and assess the damage. The NHLPA invoked the 5% kicker on the salary cap. In essence this assumes that NHL revenues will grow by 5% and if it doesn't the players risk losing their money which is held in escrow during the season. Invoking the kicker puts next season's cap at $59.6 in cap dollars. Most NHL clubs can carry a cap expense of almost $60 million next year--but not Chicago. Why not? Bonus money.
When Jonathan Toews won the MVP that triggered a bonus clause that pays him an additional $1.3 million. Other Chicago players also had bonus clauses vest and that put the team over the cap ceiling to the tune of nearly $4 million. That $4 million in excess bonus money will be subtracted from the 2010-11 cap for Chicago, which means the Blackhawks can only carry a $56 million cap hit next year.
During the summer NHL teams are allowed to exceed their cap ceiling by 10% so they can make moves--so Chicago could have as much as $62 million on the books, but they must get back down to $56 million in the regular season. Right now Chicago has a hard commitment of $58.5 million to 15 NHL roster players (a team MUST carry at least 20 roster players). Chicago has 5 Restricted Free Agents (RFAs) to sign (Ladd, Skille, Eager, Hjalmarsson and Niemi).
Now here is where it gets tricky. NHL clubs must make Qualifying Offers (QOs) to all RFAS to retain their rights, if they fail to qualify to do so the players become unrestricted free agents. The qualifying offers must at least match last season's salary, if a player made less than $1 million then the qualifying offer must include a minimum raise (either 5% or 10%). Now here's the key part: Right now the Blackhawks are so hard up against the cap that they probably can't even deliver their qualifying offers to their RFA players. The deadline for making those qualifying offers is fast approaching which means that Chicago will be almost certainly have to move one of their $3 million cap players in the next few days.
Many people have pointed out that Chicago could go the route of burying Huet's $5.6 million cap hit in the minors this next season. They can go this route, but his cap hit only comes off the books AFTER training camp. So dropping Huet to the minors could be an effective method of getting the Blackhawks back under the cap ceiling before the start of the regular season--but it is not a tactic that can buy them room to deliver their qualifying offers.
Now some people will complain that the cap "caused" the pre-mature dismantling of a Stanley Cup contender. The truth is that every GM must make choices the future. Dale Tallon tried to speed up the contending process by throwing excessive money at players. He signed free agents Brian Campbell ($7.3 million) and Huet ($5.6 million) to huge deals and he paid checking line players guys like Bolland $3 million and Kopecky $1.2 million. Tallon also signed UFA Marian Hossa to a rich deal. All of those decisions by Tallon meant that there would not be enough money to maintain the team's depth as they young players began signing their 2nd and 3rd NHL contracts. Tallon's foolish contracts helped Chicago in the near term at the cost of foreshortening the club's window of contention in the long run. You could argue that winning the Cup was worth sacrificing team depth--but don't blame the cap for that consequence--it was a strategic choice, not some unpredictable edict forced upon the team. They rolled the dice, won their Cup and now have to slash the team's depth--and you should credit or blame Dale Tallon for both outcomes.


I know many of you want to make some good money with Adsense right ?
But it's not easy to get into adsense program now a days. You have to do few things before applying for adsense.
Google Adsense is world's largest Ads Network and works at Pay Per Click system. It's paying rates are better than all of other networks which is the biggest reason it is so popular to all Bloggers and Webmasters. But since everybody is running behind them, they have made the approval system very strict. You make little mistakes and get disapproved every time. So you need a complete guidance and list of thing that you need to do before applying for Google Adsense and supposing that you are ready.
An About has major role and importance if you don't want to apply for Adsense. But when it comes to Adsense, they are about Zero chances of getting approved if you are not showing this page. About page simply describes about you and your Blog. This will not only help you establish a relationship with readers but it will also make them trust upon you.
It's quite obvious that everyone has his/her own opinion. What one of your readers likes may be bothering someone else. Than it is better to give them opportunity to speak up to you and tell how they feel about your Blog, what they want to be edited, what they liked or hated. It will also show the Google Adsense Team that is viewing your site that you actually care about your readers and not only the money and Adsense.
Make sure to put you Name and Email Address in some easily visible area like About Me and Contact Us pages. It will confirm to Google Adsense Team that it is the same person who applied for Adsense and not some spam, crappy bots.
Instead of 18, I accidentally published my age as 17 while on Adsense Application Form, it was accurately 18. Hence there started a problem . Because Google Adsense is not for under 18 people. I realised this problem after being disproved a few times without any legitimate reason. So I advice you to be accurate while typing your age.
There is no exact answer. Not even one. Because I have seen very established Blogs with 400+ posts and their owner telling me that Google Adsense is rejecting them while somewhere ,people with 40 or 50 posts are enjoying making money. Exactly what I said that there is no actual answer. However, we can always predict things. According to my experience , you should only apply after you have more than 70 posts. Posts length should must be 500+ words too.
Your Blog is the biggest thing after Content. This represents your expertise, experience and Professionalism. So be careful because anything can kill your Chances.
Be careful with what type of content you are publishing. Because it is something that truly matters. Google Adsense is not for Pornographic, Illegal Items, Drugs or other Blogs/Sites like that. Also Adsense team won't be willing to allow you to step in if you own a Non English Blog. Having posts shorter than 300 words in length is also Red Signal.
Don't complain about not making money and don't clearly state that your are Blogging for Money only and have no other interest in it. Because this will show them that you will not be providing values to your readers any day. Hence another Red Light glows up.
Those are gone far away when Adsense used to approve "Blogspot" and "WordPress.com" Blogs. As for today, you must have your own unique domain that specifies your Blog. If you don't have one yet, stop dreaming about getting approved with Sub domains and go buy a Top Level Domain.
Another important thing about domain is it's age. Because for most of Asian Countries, Adsense has placed an age restriction. They don't accept any sites before they are 6 Months old.
Google hates the sites that are getting Paid traffic and mostly penalizes them so there is not a damn chance of getting Adsense Approval letter for a site that is getting paid traffic. You can bring traffic from Search Engines or any other way you want but if you want to earn via Google Adsense the right way, paid traffic is not a solution.
Final Words About Apply for Adsense !
This will take your few time and you have to Do these things Before Applying for Google Adsense. I guess these are not too hard. Don't be sad if Google Adsense not approve your blog !
There are many other ways to make money online without Adsense.


In a RGB color space, hex #0641ba is composed of 2.4% red, 25.5% green and 72.9% blue. Whereas in a CMYK color space, it is composed of 96.8% cyan, 65.1% magenta, 0% yellow and 27.1% black. It has a hue angle of 220.3 degrees, a saturation of 93.8% and a lightness of 37.6%. #0641ba color hex could be obtained by blending #0c82ff with #000075. Closest websafe color is: #0033cc.
● #0641ba color description : Strong blue.
The hexadecimal color #0641ba has RGB values of R:6, G:65, B:186 and CMYK values of C:0.97, M:0.65, Y:0, K:0.27. Its decimal value is 410042.
Below, you can see some colors close to #0641ba. Having a set of related colors can be useful if you need an inspirational alternative to your original color choice.
This text has a font color of #0641ba.
This paragraph has a background color of #0641ba.
This element has a border color of #0641ba.
A tone is produced by adding gray to any pure hue. In this case, #5f6061 is the less saturated color, while #0641ba is the most saturated one.
Below, you can see how #0641ba is perceived by people affected by a color vision deficiency. This can be useful if you need to ensure your color combinations are accessible to color-blind users.