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Tag: Central Middlesex Hospital
Mansfield Health Commission Report published
After controversial national changes to the NHS, Brent contributed to a major independent review led by top lawyer Michael Mansfield QC.
The Independent Healthcare Commission for North West London, led by Mr Mansfield, spoke to lots of residents and considered hundreds of pages of evidence and the final report has now been published.
The main findings are highly critical of the process of reorganising NHS services across North West London, including closing down Accident and Emergency centres at Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals, and concentrating more services in other hospitals, including Northwick Park.
The report shows how wrong it was to shut these centres before it had first improved other services designed to relieve pressure on Accident and Emergency services. I'm also concerned that there isn't a proper recognition of how quickly the population is growing, and how much NHS provision we really need. It's important now that we learn those lessons, and focus on supporting Northwick Park and other NHS services in helping local people remain healthy. In future, any such changes need to be designed in greater collaboration with local councils.
Posted on December 2, 2015 December 1, 2015 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in HealthTagged A&E, Central Middlesex Hospital, Hammersmith, health commission, NHS, Northwick Park, Northwick Park Hospital, Sir michael mansfield. Leave a comment
Public event to discuss the future of Central Middlesex Hospital – Thursday 17th July 2014
The Brent Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) ishosting a public meeting is to help in designing the services for Central Middlesex Hospital.
The event on Thursday,17th July at Hilton London Wembley, 5:30-8:00pm will be for Brent residents as well as the wider affected populations across North West London to hear and share their views on the service designs.
Please see flyer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxA67dNyvDUqRXpUMjhvZkxKS2pKNlVLQ04ybzJxeEpudF9N/edit?usp=sharing
Posted on July 16, 2014 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in Brent, HealthTagged Brent CCG, Brent Clinical Commissioning Group, Central Middlesex Hospital, Hilton Wembley, NHS Brent, North West London Hospital Trust. Leave a comment
Brent Labour marches with campaigners for the A&E at Central Middlesex Hospital which is threatened with permanent closure
Brent Labour Councillors along with London Assembley Member Navin Shah joined campaigners in a march from the Jubilee clock tower in Harlesden to Central Middlesex Hospital.
If you would like be more involved in the campaign, this link has a few materials that you can use and practically do today! LINK
Posted on September 16, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in HealthTagged Brent Labour, Central Middlesex A&E, Central Middlesex A&E Closure, Central Middlesex Hospital, Central MIddlesex march, Harlesden, Labour, Navin Shah, Navin Shah AM. Leave a comment
I do tend to tweet a lot (follow @Krupesh4Brent!). Now and again, I retweet interesting articles I've read on the web. Here are the last 10 [politically relevant] articles I have linked;
Cuts will bleed Council reserves dry in 5 years says Senior Tory – LINK – Brent has traditionally had low levels of reserves. That it is why it is financially important that in an era of increased risks to Brent Council, we keep sufficient reserves to cover those risks.
Disability rights groups protest at DWP against Paralympics sponsor Atos – LINK – Atos is a French IT company that carry out Work Capability Assessments with disabled people. Unfortunately, the Labour Party is not innocent in all of this as we did as award the original contract to Atos, but pressure to attack benefits from the current Government has exacerbated things. The Coalition has gone even further by naming Atos as a main contractor for carrying assessments for disabled people's Personal Independence Payment (PIP) entitlement. PIP is the benefit that will replace the Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
Mark Ferguson on LabourList on a Lab / Lib Coalition being a non-starter – LINK
Save Central Middlesex Hospital's A&E – LINK – The Brent Labour Party has provided campaign materials for people to join in on the campaign against the current proposal that will permanently close the A&E Department serving the most deprived part of the Borough.
Fleet Street Fox's article on tax and cuts to disabled people – LINK
Lib Dem Peer says their Party should consider disposing Nick Clegg – LINK
Mark Steel on Atos – LINK
Retiring Andrew Strauss may bat for the Conservatives at the next election – LINK – after quitting cricket for good, the ex-England captain is being touted as a future Tory MP.
Welsh health survey: One in three take no exercise – LINK – This is an article related to Wales, but it is a trend I am very worried about. The positive effects of regular physical exercise are well documented.
Caught Yellow Handed – LINK – I was reminded last week about this document highlighting Lib Dem Hypocrisy through their actions in Parliament and their leaflets and campaign work in their constituencies. Brent Central Lib Dem MP Sarah Teather has a starring role.
ATOS PROTEST BY ECAP (Photo credit: Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty)
Posted on September 3, 2012 September 3, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in GeneralTagged Andrew Strauss, Atos, brent council, Brent Council Reserves, Caught Yellow Handed, Central Middlesex Hospital, Coalition, Conservatives, disability, Disability Living Allowance, dwp, Labour, LabourList, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrat, london borough of brent, Mark Ferguson, Mark Steel, Nick Clegg, Paralympics, Personal Independence Payment, PIP, Sarah Teather, Sarah Teather MP, Tory, Welsh Health Survey, work capability assessments. Leave a comment
Poll on Central Middlesex Hospital A&E
I've created an online poll on the closure of Central Middlesex Accident and Emergency (A&E) services. These responses will be collated and sent to the Shaping a Healthier consultation that is currently under way. Click the Survey link below:
Posted on August 20, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in Brent, HealthTagged A&E closure, Central Middlesex A&E, Central Middlesex Hospital, Shaping a Healthier Future. Leave a comment
Open letter from Councillor James Allie – Alperton Ward, Brent
It is with great sadness that after more than 10 years as a Liberal Democrat Councillor, this week I have resigned my membership of the party. I joined the Liberal Democrats because I wanted to help make Britain a fairer, greener and more equal country. I no longer believe that the Liberal Democrat Party can make this happen. They have betrayed the values that I once shared with them.
However, I do believe that the Labour Party, under their new Leader of Brent Council Muhammed Butt along with Ed Miliband in Westminster, shares my values and that I can as part of a Labour administration continue to work for the people of Brent.
I find that I am unable to lend my support to the devastating policies the Coalition is inflicting on Britain. In particular I have been sickened by the hypocritical things the Liberal Democrats do and say here in Brent.While my feelings about this have built up over the past two years, there are three issues that have finally pushed me to take this decision:
The people I represent in Alperton are struggling more than ever under this government, but the Liberal Democrat Leadership in Westminster is prioritising reform of the House of Lords instead of a plan for economic growth.
The closure of the A&E at Central Middlesex Hospital under this government is an astonishing betrayal. Sarah Teather campaigned to keep the A&E when it was not under threat of closure. Now she is in government closing it. I am only sorry that I trusted her back then and I am sure that a number of her constituents feel the same way.
Paul Lorber also knows very well that had the Lib Dems won the Local Election in 2010 they would have faced the same pressure to close the six libraries in Brent. It is the Coalition cuts to local government that are causing this problem and Cllr. Lorber's posturing on the issue is just an insult to the library campaigners and the people of Brent.
I recognise that some of my constituents in Alperton will feel let down by my decision. I apologise to them if they feel I ought to have nailed my colours to the mast more firmly before the election. Equally I trust that many of them voted for me because they knew of the hard work that I have done as a councillor over the years. I pledge to them that I will work harder than ever to improve the lives of everyone who lives in Alperton. I know that there are many people who voted Lib Dem at the last election and indeed many Lib Dem members who feel as betrayed as I do by the party's record in the coalition. I urge them to join me and to join the Labour Party.
Councillor James Allie
Posted on July 31, 2012 July 31, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in Brent, Labour Party, Liberal DemocratsTagged Alperton, Alperton Ward, brent council, Brent Labour Party, Brent Lib Dem defects, Brent Liberal Democrat defection, Brent Liberal Democrats, Brent libraries, Central Middlesex A&E, Central Middlesex Hospital, Cllr James Allie, Cllr Lorber, Cllr Muhammed Butt, Cllr Paul Lorber, Ed Miliband, Labour, Lib Dem, Liberal Democrat, london borough of brent, Paul Lorber, Sarah Teather, Sarah Teather MP. 2 Comments
Serious incident concerning 6,000 X-Rays at Urgent Care Centre at Central Middlesex Hospital
The Urgent Care Centre at Centre Middlesex Hospital under the hospital reconfiguration plans for North West London is due to remain and stay open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. With Accident and Emergency services unlikely to remain at Central Middlesex Hospital, it will play an even more important role in servicing the needs of people in Brent. The Urgent Care Centre at Central Middlesex Hospital is currently outsourced to Care UK, who are a private company.
The Guardian reported in April 2012 that 6,000 X-rays in the possession of Care UK from Central Middlesex Hospital had not been processed. It was logged as a serious incident and investigated.
It was revealed at the recent Health Partnerships Overview and Scrutiny meeting that Care UK knew about the unprocessed X-rays for two weeks and only took an urgent course of action once NHS Brent found out and pressed them on this issue. The NHS Brent representative at the meeting said that they were 'disappointed' with Care UK's response. Sadly, a Care UK representative did not attend the meeting.
Furthermore, it was revealed that the contract does not allow NHS Brent to enforce any fines or penalties on Care UK for their misdemeanour. This lesson must be learned and a penalty should be included in the next contract. Alternative providers must also be explored.
Posted on July 22, 2012 July 21, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in Brent, HealthTagged Andrew Lansley, Brent, Care UK, Central Middlesex Hospital, Emergency department, London, North West London, Urgent Care Centre. 1 Comment
Key tests that North West London Hospital reconfiguration should be subject to
Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham MP said in a recent Parliamentary debate that I blogged on earlier on Health that…
In 2010, the Secretary of State set out four tests that all proposed reconfigurations had to pass. They related to support from general practitioners, strengthened public and patient engagement, clear clinical evidence and support for patient choice. He said:
"Without all those elements, reconfigurations cannot proceed."
So let me ask the Minister: does he think that the A and E units closing at Ealing, Hammersmith, Charing Cross and Central Middlesex pass that test? How about St Helier, King George, Newark and Rugby?
Posted on July 20, 2012 July 18, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in UncategorizedTagged A&E, A&E closures, Andrew Lansley four tests, Andy Burnham, Andy Burnham MP, Central Middlesex, Central Middlesex Hospital, Charing Cross, Charing Cross hospital, Ealing, Ealing hospital, Hammersmith, Hammersmith hospital, King George, Labour, Newark, Rugby, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Shaping a Healthier Future, St Helier. 1 Comment
Sarah Teather a no show at Parliamentary debate on local hospitals
Maybe there was a rational reason why the Tory Liberal Minister could not attend the debate and vote on the NHS and local hospitals.
However, it is good that attention was paid to Central Middlesex Hospital in the debate.
Barry Gardiner MP for Brent North said,
Barry Gardiner: Thank you, Sir. I shall try to respect your advice.
In November 2011, the following announcement appeared on the Central Middlesex hospital website:
"A and E at Central Middx Hospital is temporarily closing overnight between 7 pm and 8 am starting from Monday 14 November 2011.
The urgent care centre next to A and E will remain open 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to treat patients with minor injuries and illness.
We are making this temporary change to ensure we continue to provide a safe service to patients during the winter months."
In those three paragraphs, we hear twice over that that overnight closure is temporary, which gave minimal comfort to my constituents in Brent who used the facility. The overnight closure is indeed temporary. On 2 July, a consultation entitled "Shaping a healthier future" was launched in north-west London, and residents can submit their views until 8 October this year. The consultation, promoted by a transitional body called NHS North West London, aims to centralise and rationalise hospital services in the area. Each proposal outlined in the consultation includes the closure of the A and E at Central Middlesex—not overnight provision, but the 24-hour facility—for good.
The motion speaks of
"the growing gap between Ministers' statements and what is happening in the NHS".
I may have trouble agreeing with that, because it depends on which Minister and which statements. The Minister of State, Department for Education, the hon. Member for Brent Central (Sarah Teather), received an e-mail from me today advising her that, if called to speak, I would quote her in this evening's debate. I wanted to do so, because she made the following three statements. First:
"The Tories would be a disaster for the NHS, they plan a part privatised service".
The second quotation:
"These cuts will hit the poorest and most vulnerable hardest".
The third quotation:
"The government must take urgent steps to safeguard our local NHS".
Those three quotes date respectively from 2003, 2007 and 2007, when the hon. Lady was campaigning to keep open the accident and emergency centre at Central Middlesex hospital—campaigning for something which she, in her government, is now closing. No wonder her latest comment is:
"This flawed consultation, which does not allow residents to say that they want to save the A and E, is a kick in the teeth for all local people."
I do not speak Parseltongue—I do not understand it—but I deplore the pretence of opposing a policy that you are pushing through in government. That is really disgraceful.
Even Tory MP for Ealing, Angie Bray MP spoke out against what is happening. She said,
Angie Bray: As my right hon. Friend is aware, the proposal is to downgrade four accident and emergency departments across London that are all right beside my constituency. Does he agree with my constituents that losing four accident and emergency departments is disproportionate and will mean a significant loss of service for them locally?
Posted on July 19, 2012 July 18, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in Brent, Con Dem Nation, HealthTagged A&E, Angie Bray, Angie Bray MP, Barry Gardiner, Barry Gardiner MP, Brent Central, Brent North, Central Middlesex A&E, Central Middlesex A&E Closure, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, Sarah Teather, Sarah Teather MP. Leave a comment
Health Partnerships Overview and Scrutiny and North West London Hospital Reconfiguration
Dr Mark Spencer, Lead Medical Director for Shaping a Healthier Future which proposes to make Central Middlesex Hospital into an Elective Hospital rather a Major Hospital was at the Health Partnerships Overview and Scrutiny meeting last night at Brent Town Hall. He said that no decision had been finalised. However, he admitted that there would only be change to the proposals and preferred option A if something has been left out or if there was a gap identified somewhere that needed to be filled.
Sadly, it appears that there is little room for manoeuvre on these proposals.
Posted on July 19, 2012 by Cllr Krupesh HiraniPosted in HealthTagged Brent Town Hall, Central Middlesex Hospital, Dr Mark Spencer, Facilities, Hospital reconfiguration, North West London, Overview and Scrutiny, Shaping a Healthier Future. 1 Comment


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I need to give an active class to the link of the section closest to the top of the page, I tried using the scroll event listener but it is not working properly
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A: The scroll event is working properly, but your code  does not correctly address the list of elements you are itering.
just try changing list[] to sec[]

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I've justed finished a small PieMenu for a WPF-Application for one of our customers in switzerland. The PieMenu is displayed below with a black-red-style. The Style, colors and items can be changed individually. The colors and icons etc. in the PieMenu below are just the ones I've created for testing purposes.
I developed, made some UI-Tests, developed, made some UI-Tests and so on and everything was fine. But only till I've placed a second PieMenu in my Test-App. All Items of PieMenu1 and PieMenu2 were contained in PieMenu1 and PieMenu2. If you see the line above you can image what happened, if you sit in front of your code with at least 1000 lines of code in the PieMenu-class, you have to search a bit.
In the line above the ObservableCollection created as a Default-Value for the Dependency-Property is of course a static one, because the Dependency-Property is stored in a static variable and as you see in the code-snippet above it is initialized in the static constructor of the PieMenu-class. There's no instance around at this point.
In the Instance-Constructor assign a new ObservableCollection to the Dependency-Property and you're fine.
Keep in mind that setting a local value in the Constructor won't let you set this value in a Style anymore. But for the PieMenu and the ObservableCollection that won't matter. You're just adding and removing elements, you don't want to define this Collection in a Style.
So, as you see in this post, you've to implement Dependency-Properties with Default-Values that are reference-types with caution.
Sweet PieMenu *thumbs up* I am wondering if you have added some animations?


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Yancy Grey has been a character in the Ransom Canyon from the time he stepped off of the bus after getting out of prison and became the caretaker for a group of senior citizens. Now in book four he gets his HEA. There a mystery person who comes into his life. It is interesting how he reacts to having someone who loves him and he loves in return. It is a very nice sweet relationship that has no guarantee for either one. There are two mysteries in the book. Yancy is the only main character from previous books in the series. Look for two more to intertwine their lives with Yancy and Ransom Canyon. A really good addition to the series. I hope we see more of the main characters in Sunrise Crossing in future books.
Andrea Montgomery has had a rough time but she is putting her life back together (We met her in the last book when a starker came to town and found her). Sheriff Marshall Bailey is having a tough time. When someone tried to run him down he ended up with a broken leg and having to stay home. Of course Andrea is the one asked to look in one him, a task she would just as soon skip. Don't you know it is a set up for a great romance but not one that runs smooth. At first there is Marshall's really bad attitude. Then there are Andrea'a fears and the danger stalking Marshall. That leads to more complications than any one needs. A good addition to the series using two characters we have met before.
The Harrisons are a interesting family, very wealthy but that is not bringing a lot of happiness to Charles, the eldest. This appears to be book three in the family saga. The other two brothers have found their HEA. Charles's sister is still looking. Charles finds his in an unexpected place with someone who he has known for two years. I enjoyed the story but did think they talked the relationship to death before finally getting together. A nice fun love story.
I hit the audio books at the library this week. I have been reading so much I decided to rest my eyes a bit. Even so I also added to ebooks. Fatal Deception and Fatal Mistake by Marie Force are the next ones in the Fatal series.
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs - This is one of my favorite series and I read the book when it came out. Enjoyed visiting with Charles and Anna again.
Possession by Kat Richardson - Another series I have followed. This one is out of order but I am not having any trouble following the story.
Miss Julia Inherits a Mess by Ann B. Ross - I listened to another one in this series. Miss Julia is a little over the top but she is a fun read.
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore - Started this one but it did not hold my attention. I sounded like fun but that just did not come through.
Piper Dove and Cooper Graham are two interesting and fun characters. Piper is living her dream but when Cooper sees her following him that dream just might not ever come true. Can a detective and a retired football quarterback find anything in common. Of course they can and you can count on Phillips finding a way for it to work. There is the trademark Phillips fun dialog, interesting situations and visits with previous characters from the series. A great addition to the series and a lesson on following your dreams.
Marie Force just released a new book in this series and people kept raving about it. I looked and book one was free on Amazon so I downloaded and started reading. I was hooked and realized why everyone loved the series. There are two very interesting main characters and a great cast of secondary or supporting characters. The plot is well though out and kept me guessing. While this is a mystery it is also a romance. The two main character connect after not seeing each other for six years. Everything is not smooth sailing and that just adds to the tension. A great start to a series that I will continue to follow.
After reading Fatal Affair, book one of the Fatal series, I purchased Fatal Justice, book two, Fatal Consequences, book three and the novella Fatal Destiny book 3.5. Each picks up where the last one left off. I am still hooked on the series and will continue buying and reading until I get to the end.
"There it was. Just the way Brenna Lamont had left it: Benevolence, Washington, in all its small-town glory."
"I though you were staying in a hotel for the night did you change your mind?"
From Sweet Surprises by Shirlee McCoy. This is a book I received from Amazon Vine this week. I haven't started it yet but it does look good.
I love slow burn romances and the one in Star Cruise: Outbreak has just the right pace to feel real. Emily and Jake have something of a shared past and when they meet again working on the luxurious interstellar cruise liner Nebula Zephyr they find that there is an attraction. There is a medical mystery on the ship and the two have to work closely to find a solution. A very well done addition to the Sectors SF Romance series. One of the nice things about this series is the fact that each book is very different and each book is a stand alone with only faint hints about previous books.
Rogues follows Erelah, Jon's sister, with just brief glimpses of Jon and Sela. There are some new and interesting characters as well as Erelah's old enemy in a new form. This one is really a middle book as it does not resolve anything. It does set up the action in the next book. I like the story line. Jon and Sela are great characters and Erelah adds another interesting character to keep the story going. There is the hint of a romance for Erelah. The relationship between Jon and Sela is still my favorite part of the books. Start with book one in the Allies and Enemies series for the most reading enjoyment.
The Warrior Wench is not a person but a space ship. That ship is full of great characters many with their own backstory. That and world building are a big part of the story. There are plots within plots as the Warrior Wench travels on different missions. There is a lot of action and some mystery with the characters. Don't look for a resolution to the story. The end is a bit of a cliff hanger.
All of the key players are here in the final book of the Majat Code. Kara has been marked in the last battle with the Kaddim Brothers and that is at the heart of this final battle. That mark can turn her to the other side and there does not seem to be any way to stop that from happening. I loved how every character on the good side worked so hard to win that final battle and how everything turned out to be for the best for every characters. There is a lot of action, tension and danger in the book. It all weaves into a wonderful ending for everyone. Start at the beginning for maximum enjoyment of this interesting and different series.
This is a re-issue of the Path series by Francis. I loved it the first time I read it and loved it even more this time. Reisil is such a strong character. No matter what happens she does not let it get her down. All of the back story and world building are part of the story line and never interfere with the flow of the story. While there is a conclusion to the plot in the book it is easy to tell that Reisil has much more of a story to tell. There is action, adventure, a little romance, betrayal and an all around good story line to keep interest high.
Sandy and Mark are two great characters who make a choice that will change their lives. They have a history but it is 20 years in the past. There is a lot they have to work out and they have to do it in a very different world from the one they know. This is very different from previous Sector Romances. It is a very interesting mix of fantasy and scifi. Look for outstanding world building, great characters, and a romance that spans over 20 years.
I have followed the Chance Sisters since their first book and have wondered how Gracie was going to give Daisy an HEA like her sisters. Unlike the other three sisters Daisy is not a lady and never will be. What she has always been is a wonderful fashion designer and in The Summer Bride she finally get her dream, her own store. What else she gets is a very handsome man who wants her for his bride. It is great fun to see what happens after that. A really great ending to the Chance Sisters series. It can be read as a stand alone but for maximum enjoy start with book one, The Autumn Bride.
Hippolyta Royle has a problem. She has been kidnapped and will be forced into marriage if she does not get away. Enter Matthew Mortimer. When Hippolyta does escape Matthew gives her a ride in his coach helping her get away. From there on it is a fun story full of mixups and finally romance. Hippolyta is very rich and Matthew just became the owner of an estate full of debt. A match made in heaven if only they two can get on the same page. This is a novella with very well developed characters and great action. A must read of Maiden Lane fans and a good place to start if you are new to the series.
Set in 1818 An Untimely Frost is the first book in a new series. Richards did a great job of integrating the history of the time with the back story of the main character while keeping the mystery at the heart of the story front and center. I loved the fact that the main character was a very strong woman who could fake it until she make it using her skills as a actress in her new career as a Pinkerton Operative. Look for a character who is mostly in the background and whose backstory is mostly a mystery. That is a set up for the two to work together in future stories. A very good start to a new mystery series set in a interesting and dangerous time.
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From Awaken Me Darkly, An Alien Huntress Novel, by Gena Showalter. This is the first book in the series. I purchased it quite a while ago when it went on sale for 2.99. It is still in my TBR pile but I have to say I do love the beginning.
A must read if you have been following the Appaloosa pass Ranch series. We finally get to the end of the Moonlight Strangler mystery as Paige comes back from the dead and Jax has to keep her safe. She let everyone believe she was dead after her attack to protect Jax and her son. There are a thrill a minute and enough suspects to keep you guessing. There is even a nice HEA for Jax and Paige.
Grady is another member of the Thunder Mountain Brotherhood. We met both Grady and Sapphire is the last book and saw a immediate spark ignite between the two. Six weeks have passed and Grady is back to help Sapphire with her art show to support the nonprofit pet shelter. Grady is ready to rumble but Sapphire has decided no more romances with artists. Can Grady change her mind. Maybe with the help of a gray cat he names Grandolf. The cat does steal the show and adds some fun to the story. This is part of a series but works just fine as a stand alone.
Cassidy is another daughter of Buck and Sarah Hamilton. Jack Durand is part of the mystery from Sarah Hamilton's past. When they meet more of the puzzle that is Sarah is revealed. What is very different in this book is what happens to Jack and Cassidy when they start to learn the truth about Jack's father and Cassidy's mother. Look of a very different ending to their love story. I knew more about the past with this book but there is a whole lot more to be revealed. This is part of a series. It can stand alone but is much better if you read from book one.


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Middletown Pacemakers CC of Ohio to be honored at annual Hot Rod Reunion in KY, June 14-16
Justice Brother's Car Care Products Spotlight Award Shines on The Middletown Pacemakers Car Club of Ohio
Bowling Green, Ky. – This year's Justice Brother's Car Care Products Spotlight Award shines on the Middletown Pacemakers car club of Ohio. The annual JB Reunion Spotlight Award was established by Ed Justice Jr. and the National Hot Rod Reunions to recognize an outstanding group or individual who has pioneered pathways in drag racing and/or hot rodding. The award will be presented at the free Honoree Reception, Friday, June 15, 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn University Plaza.
"The Middletown Pacemakers car club is well-deserving of this honor because of their pioneering efforts that helped forge the way for the National Hot Rod Association and today's professional drag racing sport enjoyed by millions across the globe," said Justice Brothers President & CEO Ed Justice Jr.
The Pacemakers car club was a small group of wide-eyed lads seeking public acceptance of hot rodding as a sport. It was the early 1950s, and together with the newly formed National Hot Rod Association embarked on a pioneering adventure in support of drag racing. The club adopted the NHRA slogan Dedicated to Safety and conducted several activities including successful car shows, safety inspections and even helping stranded motorists with extra gas or a tire change.
Beginning in late 1956, the Pacemakers raced a series of club-built dragsters that kept members active and did well at area strips such as Thorn Hill (Ky.), Beechmont (Ohio), and Stout Field (Indianapolis). From 1958 through 1965, club cars entered the NHRA Nationals. After respectable showings with the dragsters, the club switched to Comp in 1963 and scored three consecutive Nationals class wins.
Several club members built successful race cars of their own. Jim Neely and John Buehl bought a Hemi Plymouth that evolved from Super Stocker to early Funny Car. The Barnes brothers raced a strong B/Sports Corvette, and John and Dick Kauffman raced a Super Stock Ford. Don Klamo and Marion Hounshell raced a B/Dragster with Gary Rupp, who went on to a successful Top Fuel career with Pat Dakin and was named a 2007 reunion honoree.
By the mid-1960s, hot rodding had changed. Drag racing was becoming a professional sport, and club-built race cars had little chance against the pros. The original members of the Middletown Pacemakers were nearing middle age with families and businesses to run. The clubhouse was sold, and by mid-1966, the Pacemakers club was gone.
Though many members moved and left racing, the first of several club reunions was held in Middletown in 1994. This year at the Reunion, join us in remembering this trailblazing car club. A special ceremony in their honor will be held on Friday night during the Honoree Reception at the Sloan Convention Center.
For more on this typical club, get a copy of Middletown Pacemakers: The Story of an Ohio Hot Rod Club by third-generation member Ron Roberson, available from Arcadia Publishing and Amazon.com.
For the past 10 years along with the sponsorship of the Reunion Spotlight award, Justice Brothers has offered a FREE collectible poster and sticker to the spectators of this event. Along with being a manufacturer and worldwide distributor of over 100 car care products Justice Brothers, Inc. is known for their one of a kind racing museum. For more information on Justice Brothers, visit http://justicebrothers.com.
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the Reunion brings out thousands of race fans from across the country to celebrate the Father's Day holiday weekend at the entertaining Beech Bend Raceway Park. For tickets, go online www.nhratix.com or call 1-800-884-6472. For more information about the Reunions, visit www.museum.nhra.com. Tickets are $25 per day at the gate, kids 15 and under are admitted free with paid adult.

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Glen Gulutzan started his coaching career with the Las Vegas Wranglers in the East Coast Hockey League in 2003 when he was 32 years old. Only eight years later, he was behind the bench as head coach of the Dallas Stars. His tenure at the helm with the Stars was over in two seasons, but a small blip in the life of a coach, and he is currently an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks.
I remember the day I got the job. I had interviewed over a couple week period, first I went golfing with Joe Nieuwendyk, he was the general manager at the time, and then I went for a few formal interviews in Dallas. They told me they were going to make their decision at the end of the week.
My wife had been petitioning to get our taxes lowered, it's something you can do in Texas. She'd put together this big presentation and went in front of the panel that Friday morning and got denied. I was driving home from the office when I got the call from Joe. He said, "Gully, I just want to let you know that we've made a decision and we'd like to go ahead and offer you the job in Dallas." And of course, I was excited and thankful and all those things; we said we'd talk about a contract later.
I called my wife but when I got her on the phone, she was very upset, close to tears, and all she wanted to talk about was that she'd put in all this work and we were still going to have to pay an extra $800 in taxes that year. Finally I was able to say, "Well, I don't know that we have to worry about all that as much in Dallas, because we're moving. I got the job." And then she actually cried.
Another memory that sticks out was something that Joe Nieuwendyk said to me. I grew up as a Montreal Canadiens fan in Saskatchewan and the first exhibition game I coached was in Montreal. As we were walking into the Molson Centre, he said, "So, how many games have you coached here before?" It was a great moment.
And then on to my first regular season game in the National Hockey League. There was a lot of buzz, it was the home opener against Chicago. I was excited and confident—we felt prepared, we'd had a great pre-season and we felt ready for the game. I remember getting the guys ready and knowing that they knew it was my first game, there was an acknowledgement there, a sort of nod to me, it seemed small but it was a big moment.
What I remember most though is that we played really hard that night and it was a really good game. The guys were amped up and we got off to a 2-0 lead. I remember being on the bench and thinking, "Wow, we're playing the Stanley Cup champs from a couple years ago and we are playing a great game." We won and I got this feeling like, yes, this is where I belong.
It was exciting for me because my mom and dad had flown into Dallas and a lot of family was at the game. After, I can remember my wife saying to me that when we won and the horn blasted she looked over at my dad and he had tears in his eyes. So that will always be a special moment for me.
It's a special league, but there are pitfalls to coaching, you have to get used to moving on and if you have a family, that can be tough. My thirteen year old daughter told me at the beginning of this school year, that this is the longest she'd ever spent in one school ever. It was her third year.
So sometimes you wonder. But then you focus on the game and you see the players develop and you get some wins, and winning solidifies your confidence. That's important for a coach. At the highest level you're dealing with the best of the best, some of these guys are very sharp and have been coached by a lot of great minds.
It was a tough time in Dallas but the biggest thing I've learned is that you've got to just keep trying to get a little bit better; coaching is about making adjustments. It was a big adjustment for me after Dallas, coming to Vancouver. I went from going as the head guy to an assistant under John Tortorella.
It was an adjustment but it was a great adjustment—I'd never been an assistant coach and it was a really good learning experience to watch a veteran guy at work. It was a good year for me to sit back and watch somebody else do it at this level. My first year in Vancouver was a real affirming year for me as a coach, knowing that the things I had been doing in Dallas were a lot of the same things that they were doing here.
Then when Willie Desjardins came in as head coach, it was another new experience, another adjustment, because Willie had been the assistant under me in Dallas. It's just the way it works in the coaching circles, and I have no problem working for people as good as John and Willie. The only thing I let Willie know on a daily basis is that he makes me work a lot harder than I made him work.
There's no question that being head coach again is always somewhere in my mind. I certainly want to be a head coach again at some level, some day, but I don't let myself start dreaming that way. My focus is to do the best I can here, in the role that I'm in. I'm a big believer that you have to be happy where you are and do the best you can at what you're doing. After that, the opportunities take care of themselves, just like the opportunities that led me to Dallas in the first place. Those things happen when they happen but the focus is on the task at hand.
I know that if I'm working hard as a coach to develop players, then it's going to develop me as well. Winning is the goal, but it all works together and I don't think you can get caught up on just the winning side of it. There's only one team that's going to win the Stanley Cup every year but the coaches that are committed to trying to get their players better, they'll have good teams and they'll get to where they want to go.


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WM XX Sets Revenue Record
By tazz13,
March 26, 2004 in Wrestling Forum
tazz13
wow that big whopping 5 million dollars they spent on advertising sure was wasteful :roll
Show to be WWE's highest grossing PPV ever...
World Wrestling Entertainment Expects Record-Breaking WrestleMania XX Pay-Per-View to Be Its Highest Grossing Event Ever
Pay-Per-View Buys for WrestleMania® XX to Exceed $40 Million
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2004-- World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE - News) announced today that it expects world-wide Pay-Per-View gross revenues for WrestleMania XX to be between $40 million and $45 million, making it the highest grossing Pay-Per-View event in WWE history. WWE's net share is expected to exceed $20 million after revenue-sharing with cable and satellite providers.
WWE said its first-week estimate of Pay-Per-View buys is 825,000, exceeding Pay-Per-View buys for WrestleMania XIX by 25 percent. WWE expects that final Pay-Per-View tallies, once all information is provided by distributors and their affiliates, will be between 900,000 buys to 950,000 buys. The suggested retail price for WrestleMania XX was $49.95 as compared to a suggested retail price of $39.95 for WrestleMania XIX.
The number of buys for WrestleMania XX is an estimate based upon preliminary data available from the WWE's Pay-Per-View distributors and their affiliates and is subject to refinement as further information becomes available from these distributors over the next several months. The estimate has been posted on corporate.wwe.com in accordance with WWE's practice of updating the website weekly to reflect certain key drivers of its business including television ratings, pay-per-view buys and live event attendance.
Thats good news for the WWE, so it was worth spending all that money on advertising! Hopefully it will be the start of something great and bring people back to wacthing the WWE and its PPV's. Maybe, just maybe the single brand ppv's could start getting a few more buys?
Dickie Hyde
Well let's hope it's the start of something weird and wonderful! I hope this gives the WWE a chance to get "back to normal" so to speak. Good on them, good advertising :)
Rikidozan
From http://www.liveaudiowrestling.com/WO
'WWE announced today they are estimating 825,000 buys for Wrestlemania, which would mean combining all revenues, it would be the biggest money pro wrestling event of all-time'
That's great news for them.
Hey, can anyone tell me if the T.V ratings have consistantly risen, or that house show attendance has risen above 3,000? :roll
Get a freakin' clue; the buy rate was always going to be up from last year's. This isn't a major triumph at all. Come back and start yelling when the television numbers, house show business and future non-WM PPV buys are the same.
Screw you Singhy. All I care about is going around saying that Chris Benoit came out on top in the main event of WWE's biggest grossing PPV of all time.
The way you're talking it's as if you're starting to turn your back on Benoit. Maybe Ed has gotten to you...
:lol
Hey, no one was more happy than to see Benoit and Eddu hugging at the end of that show. It was bloody surreal, and mark-out for one and all...smarts. I have a horrible feeling though, like Shawn and Bret, that Benoit and Eddy have been doomed failure in terms of drawing because of the era before. The ending of WM was, well, weird; as they two hugged, I had their careers flashing thru my mind, from Stampede with Benoit to New Japan thru WCW to WWE, and with Eddy down in Monterry, to New Japan, WCW then WWE. T'was a very strange sensation indeedy.
From http://www.liveaudiowrestling.com/WOGet a freakin' clue; the buy rate was always going to be up from last year's. This isn't a major triumph at all. Come back and start yelling when the television numbers' date=' house show business and future non-WM PPV buys are the same.[/quote']
:lol At least your consistant :lol


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Словацкий национальный совет () 1943—1992 годов являлся постоянно действующим высшим словацким органом, функции и значение которого значительно различались в разные отрезки времени.

Периодизация

Военный период (1943—1945)
Словацкий национальный совет (СНС) был создан в конце 1943 года как совместный орган словацкого коммунистического и некоммунистического сопротивления, заключивших соглашение о сотрудничестве (). Между 1943 и 1944 годами Словацкий национальный совет был лишь одной из словацких групп сопротивления (хотя и значительных), без реального влияния на события. Это положение изменилось с началом Словацкого национального восстания, в первые дни которого лидеры СНС Густав Гусак и Йозеф Леттрих вынудили Вавро Шробара распустить созданный им в Банске Быстрице Революционный национальный комитет и включить его в СНС, который он возглавил.

 года Словацкий национальный совет стал законодательным и исполнительным органом на территории, контролируемой повстанцами. Его делегация была направлена в Лондон для переговоров с Эдвардом Бенешем, главой Чехословацкого правительства в изгнании, о полномочиях СНС и чешско-словацких отношениях.

Период третьей Чехословацкой республики (1945—1948)
После освобождения Праги от немецких войск и возвращения туда правительства Бенеша  года было восстановлено довоенное Чехословацкое государство и действовавшая в нём конституция 1920 года, с поправками, по которым было допущено существование словацких национальных органов с ограниченными полномочиями. Для осуществления полномочий в управлении словацкими землями Словацким национальным советом, ставшим законодательным органом, стал формироваться исполнительный  () во главе с председателем ().

Первоначально СНС формировался кооптацией членов в его состав. В 1946 году он был определён по результатам общенациональных выборов.

Полномочия СНС были значительно изменены в период с 1945 по 1948 год , тремя договорами, заключёнными в это время между правительством Чехословакии и СНС, которые определяли взаимосвязи и распределение полномочий между центральными чехословацкими и национально-территориальными словацкими государственными органами. По первому из них, подписанному 2 июня 1945 года, было подтверждено, что СНС обладает всей  исполнительной и законодательной властью в Словакии в части, прямо не переданной центральным органам в Праге, а исполнительным органом СНС является Совет уполномоченных, подотчётный центральному правительству и СНС. Вторым соглашением, подписанным 11 апреля 1946 года, полномочия президента Чехословакии и центрального правительства были значительно расширены, особенно в части замещения должностей государственного аппарата. Третье соглашение, подписанное 28 июня 1946 года после неудачи  на прошедших выборах, было направлено на снижения значения победы на них . В рамках соглашения была введена предварительная проверка центральным правительством всех решений, принимаемых в Словакии, а также установлено подчинение словацких министерств соответствующим министерствам в Праге.

Период «Конституции 9 мая» (1948—1960)
В 1948 году в Чехословакии сложилось так называемое асимметричное национально-государственное устройство: чешская нация не имела своих национально-государственных органов, а словацкая их имела, что создавало определённую степень национально-территориальной автономии для Словакии. При этом центральные органы государственной власти по факту выполняли в чешских землях ту же роль, что словацкие национальные органы в Словакии. В принятой  года Конституции Чехословакии (после событий «Победного февраля» и формирования практически однопартийного коммунистического правительства) словацкие национальные органы характеризовались как носители и исполнители государственной власти в Словакии и как представители самобытности словацкой нации.

Период унитарной Конституции ЧССР (1960—1969)
После провозглашения Чехословакии социалистической республикой новой Конституцией Словацкий национальный совет был полностью лишён исполнительских функций (ликвидирован его Совет уполномоченных), оставшись представительным органом, вторичным по отношению к Национальному собранию ЧССР, сохранив в этом элементы асимметричного национально-государственного устройства.

Период федерации (1969—1992)
 года (в соответствии с  № 143 от 28 октября 1968 года) Чехословацкая социалистическая республика стала федерацией двух равноправных государств — Чешской () и Словацкой () социалистических республик.

Словацкий национальный совет получил право формировать республиканское правительство () со значительным объёмом полномочий.

 года в новой Конституции Словацкой республики её парламент получил название Национальный совет Словацкой Республики.

Выборы в Словацкий национальный совет
 Выборы в Словацкий национальный совет (1946) — не прямые

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Примечания

Политика Словакии

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24:1 And Iesus went out, & departed from the temple: & hys discyples came to him, for to shewe him the byldynges of the temple.
24:2 Iesus sayde vnto them: Se ye not all these thinges? Uerely I saye vnto you ther shall not be here lefte one stone vpon another, that shall not be destroyed.
24:3 And as he sat vpon mount Oliuete, hys disciples came vnto him secretly, saying: Tell vs: when shall these thinges be: & what shalbe the token of thy commyng & of the ende of the world?
24:4 And Iesus answered, and sayd vnto them: take hede, that no man deceaue you.
24:6 ye shall heare of warres, & tidinges of warres: be not troubled. For all must come to passe, but the ende is not yet.
24:7 Nacion shall ryse agaynst nacion, and realme agaynst realme: and ther shalbe pestilence, & hunger, and erthquakes in all places.
24:9 Then shall they put you to trouble, and shall kyll you: & ye shalbe hated of all nacions for my names sake.
24:10 And then shall many be offended, & shall betraye one another, & shall hate one another.
24:11 And many false prophetes shall aryse, & shall deceaue many.
24:12 And because iniquite shall haue the vpper hand, the loue of many shall abate.
24:13 But he that endureth to the ende, the same shalbe safe.
24:14 And this Gospell of the kyngdome shalbe preached in all the worlde, for a wytnes vnto all nacyons, and then shall the ende come.
24:15 When ye therfore shall se the abhominacion of desolacion (that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet) stande in the holy place: whoso readeth it let him vnderstande.
24:16 Then lett them whych be in Iewry, flye into the mountaynes.
24:17 And let hym whych is on the house toppe, not come downe to fet eny thinge out of hys house.
24:18 Nether let him whych is in the felde, returne backe to fetche his clothes.
24:19 Wo shalbe in those dayes to them that are wt chylde, & to them that geue sucke.
24:20 But praye ye that youre flyght be not in the winter, nether on the Saboth daye.
24:21 For then shalbe great tribulacions suche as was not sens the begynning of the worlde to this tyme, nor shalbe.
24:22 Ye & except those dayes shulde be shortened, there shulde no fleshe be saued: but for the chosens sake, those dayes shalbe shortened.
24:23 Then yf eny man saye vnto you: lo here is Chryst, or there: beleue it not.
24:25 behold, I haue tolde you before.
24:26 Wherfore, yf they saye vnto you: beholde, he is in the desert, go not ye forth: behold, he is in the secret places, beleue it not.
24:27 For as the lyghtnynge commeth out of the East, and appeareth into the west: so shall the commynge of the sonne of man be.
24:28 For wheresoeuer a deed karkas is, euen thether wyll the Egles also be gathered together.
24:29 Immediatly after the tribulacyons of those dayes, shall the sonne be derkened: & the moone shall not geue her lyght, and the starres shall fall from heauen, & the powers of heauen shall be moued.
24:31 And he shall sende his Angels wt the greate voyce of a trompett, & they shall gather to gether his chosen, from the foure wyndes: euen from the hyghest partes of heauen, vntyll the endes ther of.
24:32 Learne a symilitude of the fygge tree: When hys braunches is yet tender, & the leaues sprong, ye knowe that sommer is nye.
24:33 So lykewyse ye, when ye se all these thinges, be ye sure that it is neare, euen at the dores.
24:35 Heauen & earth shall passe, but my wordes shall not passe.
24:36 But of that daye and houre knoweth no man, no not the angels of heauen, but my father onely.
24:37 But as the dayes of Noe were, so shall also the commynge of the sonne of man be.
24:39 and knewe not tyll the floud came and toke them all awaye: So shall also the commynge of the sonne of man be.
24:41 two wemen shalbe gryndinge at the myll, the one receaned & the other refused.
24:42 Watch therfore, for ye knowe not what houre your lord will come.
24:43 Of this yet be sure, that yf the good man of the house knew what houre the thefe wolde come: he wolde suerly watche, & not suffre hys house to be broken vp.
24:44 Therfore, be ye also ready, for in soch an houre as ye thynke not: wyll the sonne of man come.
24:45 Who is a faythfull & wyse seruaunt, whom his Lorde hath made ruler ouer his housholde, to geue them meate in season.
24:47 Uerely I saye vnto you, that he shall make hym ruler ouer all hys goodes.
24:51 & shall hewe him in peces, & geue hym his porcyon wyth ypocrites: there shalbe wepynge and gnasshynge of teth.


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Australia's coronavirus debate turns to the way out
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Remember how last year's Easter felt bizarre because the country was in election-mode? How normal that seems, now everything is surreal, with the nation "holidaying" in this peculiar, unpleasant limbo.
As we contemplate the grimness we should also remember it could be much worse. It's early days but we've dodged the horror of Italy, France, Britain, and the US. So far in Australia, the virus is being contained, the "curve" of new cases flattened.
Nevertheless, this Easter millions of Australians see little but uncertainty ahead, as they worry about their health, their jobs or lack or them, their businesses.
The economic fear inevitably remains dialled high despite a trimmed-down parliament (only 50-plus House of Representatives MPs out of 151) on Wednesday passing the government's $130 billion wage subsidy package.
Earlier in the week, Scott Morrison had received a Newspoll bounce in his approval, just as Kevin Rudd did in the global financial crisis. Bad as the GFC was, it's clear this crisis will be much more fraught to exit.
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We are only just into the restrictions but already the debate is intensifying about how and when we get out of them – a result of the relatively good news and people's natural impatience.
The question occupying cooped-up households, half-dead businesses, and anxious governments (and their health advisers) is: what now?
The immediate answer is simple. We need to endure Easter in a virtual monastery. When Health Minister Greg Hunt says "this in many ways is the most important weekend we may face in the whole course of the virus", it is likely only a minor exaggeration.
The longer term answer to "what now" will involve practical and ethical judgements, and contested views.
The exit strategy is uppermost in Morrison's mind – he has always bracketed "livelihoods" (aka the economy) with "lives" in his language.
We're not going to jump from where we are now to that "other side" he and others talk about. We will walk on a long perilous journey requiring complex decisions about steps and timing, with the risk of serious mistakes, and the certainty of pain.
Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy says: "We are on a life raft. We now have to chart the course of where we take that life raft." The national cabinet has asked its health experts for navigational advice. But the issue always comes back to the health-economics balance.
The much-anticipated modelling the government has released didn't provide much of a compass. It told us the obvious: if we'd let the epidemic rip – which we were never going to – the health system would have been overwhelmed.
The present policy is one of "suppressing" the virus – isolating cases, tracking contacts.
Morrison believes it would be too costly to aim to eliminate COVID-19 here – the New Zealand route.
Read more: New Zealand outstrips Australia, UK and US with $12 billion coronavirus package for business and people in isolation
So the future choice is between attempted continued containment until there is a vaccine – a big operation in testing and tracing – or pursuing some form of "herd immunity". The latter would allow the virus to move through the community (while protecting the most vulnerable).
The herd immunity path (there'd be a nicer name) would be very controversial and take more lives than attempting to maintain the suppression approach.
Asked on Thursday whether it was possible, when we do unwind the various restrictions, to simultaneously pursue a suppression policy, deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth said:"It's entirely possible, and that would need to be the aim….The suppression strategy needs to be sustainable in the medium term whilst we work out things like when a vaccine becomes available, whilst we bring new molecules online to be able to treat the virus."
What is important as discussion gets underway about lifting some restrictions is that we get transparency on the health advice. This is being promised, but it's no good having modelling long after decisions are made.
There has been more than a dash of "we know best" in how the government has explained things so far. "We're acting on medical advice", it has said, to justify this or that measure. But the official health advice has sometimes appeared less than consistent, and been criticised by some experts.
Morrison has canvassed easing restrictions on a patchwork basis, first in places where and when it seems safest to do so. Those places would in effect be trials for elsewhere.
This is logical but won't be easy. If combined with the continuation of the suppression policy, governments must be willing to reimpose controls if case numbers increase again.
And strict health protocols should be in place for how businesses and organisations deal with fresh cases.
A present challenge is to manage the pressures from stakeholders and the community for an easing timetable. Innes Willox, chief of the Australian Industry Group, wrote this week in the Australian: "we need a path back to getting the economy going again. … Businesses owners and their backers will quickly change direction, make other arrangements or move on if they don't have some hope or sense that the current restrictions aren't limitless."
After an initial period when anyone who criticised the government was likely to be attacked for betraying "Team Australia", a degree of political normality is returning, at a muted level. Anthony Albanese has become more outspoken, and this week the Senate set up a Labor-chaired committee to examine the government's response to the pandemic.
On the current timetable, the parliament is not due to meet again until August. The parliamentary hiatus is one restriction which is unnecessary and undesirable.
Morrison says all who have jobs are essential workers. Federal parliamentarians have jobs and part of their remit is to hold regular collective deliberations in Canberra. It's time they got back to doing so, with provisions for appropriate distancing. One-day dashes are not enough.
– ref. Australia's coronavirus debate turns to the way out – https://theconversation.com/australias-coronavirus-debate-turns-to-the-way-out-136058
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Michael Bennet's No-Interview Strategy Changing?
By Kelly David Burke, | Fox News
After largely avoiding interviews for much of the last year, incumbent Colorado Senator Michael Bennet has appeared on three TV networks in as many days. Could this be a change in strategy, after polls show he has closed the gap with his GOP opponent, since both won their respective primaries August 10? On August 25th the Real Clear Politics poll average had Bennet trailing 45.3%-42.5%. By October 1st the RCP average had him losing to Buck by 7 percentage points, 50%-43%. Now, less than two weeks before Election Day, Bennet has pulled to within one percentage point, trailing Buck 46.3%-45.3%.
Prior to this week, one heard frequent grumbling from local print and TV reporters about this sitting Senator Bennet's lack of availability for in-depth interviews. Nor did the Democrat meet with the editorial boards of most major Colorado newspapers with the notable exception of The Denver Post (a virtual requirement for any statewide candidate in the Rocky Mountain State) which endorsed him October 16th.
The Colorado Springs Gazette pointedly voiced its displeasure at being snubbed by Bennet in its October 11th endorsement of Ken Buck. Wayne Laugesen, writing on behalf of the Gazette editorial board asked, "So where is appointed Sen. Michael Bennet? The Gazette cannot begin to answer that. Of all campaigns invited to board meetings, none was contacted more frequently and consistently than Bennet's. Most calls and e-mails were unreturned. At one point, a major Bennet supporter took over in trying to arrange a meeting and convinced us to hold off on a decision until all efforts were exhausted. As we became more assertive in our efforts to meet with Bennet, it became clear that he had no interest in speaking with the board of the second-largest newspaper in Colorado. Michael Bennet thinks Colorado means Denver. He would be bad for Colorado Springs."
The Gazette editorial is unusual in that the media has rarely, if ever, reported on Bennet's unwillingness to be interviewed. Yet when Bennet's opponent Ken Buck recently spent a week in D.C. meeting with the national GOP leadership and raising campaign funds the Denver Post published an article titled, "Senate Hopeful Buck Speaking in Public Less These Days" which questioned why the Buck campaign had stopped returning calls from the press. The Post article did not mention that throughout the primary and general election Buck, District Attorney of one of Colorado's most populous counties, has been far more accessible to the press than Senator Bennet. The article did say near the end that, "Though he has had to spend time in Washington, D.C., wrapping up Senate business, Bennet hasn't exactly been ubiquitous on the Colorado campaign trail either."
A Politico.com article titled, "Year of the Missing Candidate," noted that Colorado is not alone when it comes to candidates who avoid the press. "With a month left until the midterm elections, there is something noticeably absent from some key statewide races: the candidates." Ironically, the October 5th article never mentioned Senator Bennet's well known aversion to interviews. Instead, it uses his opponent (who you'll recall was in D.C. at the time) as an example of a missing candidate: "As of Friday, Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Ken Buck had gone nine consecutive days without holding a public event and acknowledged to The Denver Post that he's more mindful now that he's constantly being recorded by the ubiquitous 'trackers' being used by both sides. (With the fundraising quarter now done, however, he's planning a more robust schedule for October.)"
Not only does Senator Bennet avoid interviews and editorial boards, his public events are often tightly controlled with little opportunity for the media to ask him questions. The Senator held an event at his Denver campaign headquarters on October 5th to announce a plan to enhance women's economic and social rights. The Democratic incumbent walked into the small room where the press was waiting, opened a three ring binder from which he read a statement and, taking no questions, simply left, shaking hands with supporters on his way out.
In fairness, Bennet, appointed two years ago by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to serve out the remainder of Ken Salazar's term, did appear on Fox News Sunday last Spring to discuss healthcare reform. He also appeared on Fox and Friends on August 11th to discuss his victory in the previous day's primary election.
Other than that repeated requests for an in-depth, sit-down interview with Bennet have been met with vague, noncommittal replies, or simply ignored. That is, until this week. Bennet surprised us by agreeing to be interviewed by Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron on Tuesday. Interviews with the Senator also appeared this week on CBS and MSNBC.
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Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
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Credit: Mandala with the eight-handed Uṣṇīṣavijayā as a Buddhist deity of long life. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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A maṇḍala (circle) is both the sacred circular realm of an enlightened being and a symbol of the universe. In the centre of this mandala is Uṣṇīṣavijayā (Ushnishavijaya), the Buddhist deity of long life, surrounded by her retinue placed at strategic cardinal points. Between the inner maṇḍala and an outer circle is a square structure representing a heavenly palace of geometric design, in accordance with sacred architectural principles. Visualisation of a maṇḍala aids progress towards enlightenment, while the visualisation of Ushnishavijaya promotes longevity
The form of Uṣṇīṣavijayā shown here has only one head, while the more usual form has three. Since the inscription on the verso says "sgrol ma tshe rin rnam dkyil" (The excellent mandala of the Tārā of Long Life), Uṣṇīṣavijayā is probably here regarded as a form of the White Tārā. In her upper right hand, she holds an image of the Red Amitābha. Her upper left hand forms the "fear not!" gesture. Her two original hands form the dharmacakra (Wheel of life) gesture. The hands between the upper and the original hands are holding a bow and arrow while forming the tarjanī (threatening) gesture. The lowest right hand forms the giving gesture, while the lowest left hand holds a vase with a wishing tree in it. On her necklace, Uṣṇīṣavijayā is wearing the viśvavajra or double vajra (crossed thunderbolts)
Uṣṇīṣavijayā is surrounded by eight deities in a circle: the four blue male deities are forms of Vajrapāṇi, their legs stepping to the right (an action called pratyālīḍhāsana). The Vajrapāṇi at the top is swinging an elephant goad in his right hand, holding his left palm on which is a vajra (thunderbolt) poised against his chest. Moving to the viewer's right, the second Vajrapāṇi holds a vajra in his outstretched right hand and forms a threatening gesture with his left. The third Vajrapāṇi, at the bottom, holds an arrow in his outstretched right hand and a bow in his left hand against his chest. The fourth Vajrapāṇi, on the left side of the circle, holds a club in his outstretched right hand. All the Vajrapāṇis are wearing Boddhisattva ornaments, long green scarves round their necks and tiger skins round their hips
Between each pair of Vajrapāṇis there is a Tārā: 1. a green Tārā holding a fly whisk in her right hand ,while her left hand, in preaching gesture, holds the stem of a white flower. She stands with her feet pointing in opposite directions. 2. a yellow Tārā is seen walking in profile, bowing in a worshipping attitude, holding in both hands a vase with peacock feathers in it. 3.Opposite her is another yellow Tārā with the same attributes and in the same attitude. 4. a white Tārā standing, her right arm holds a fly whisk, her left arm stretched downwards, her hand forms the threatening gesture and holds the stem of a white flower.
These nine deities form the centre of a maṇḍala with eight leaves forming a circle. The circle is surrounded by a square palace with four gates leading into the palace gardens filled with wishing trees, rgyal mtshans (victorious banners), umbrellas, ascetics meditating in the gardens and Ḍākinīs (serving girls) offering fruit. The gardens are surrounded by a blue, red, green and yellow wall of fire. In the top gate is a stūpa (reliquary) surmounted by an umbrella. In the clouds are gandharvas (heavenly musicians)
Outside the circle, in the top centre of the painting, is Tsongkhapa with book and sword at shoulder level. He holds a vase with a giwang (bezoar, concretion from a cow's stomach). Tsongkhapa is flanked by Amitāyus on the left and by the White Tārā on the right. Below the firewall on the left hand side is a White Amitāyus embraced by a pink consort. She holds a wishing tree in her left hand. He holds a wishing tree in both hands which form the medicine bowl gesture. This is formed like the dhyāna mudrā (meditation gesture), but the thumbs, instead of lying flat, form a triangle with the nail end of the thumbs meeting at the top. Below the couple is a standing Red Amitāyus with his feet pointing in opposite directions, holding a bowl containing a bezoar in both hands which form the medicine bowl gesture. At the right hand side, below the maṇḍala is the four-handed Avalokiteśvara. Below Avalokiteśvara in the right hand bottom corner is Vajrapāṇi, with a blue body, wearing Bodhisattva ornaments, his body surrounded by a fire aureole, stepping to his right, his outstretched right hand holds a vajra, while forming the kāraṇā mudrā (fascination gesture). He is wearing a green scarf and a tiger skin
In the centre, below the maṇḍala, is a combined emblem of the Eight Auspicious Things: wheel, unending knot, two fishes, conch shell, umbrellas, mirror, lotus and vase, with two myrobalan plants and fruit, and a pair of cymbals in addition. To the left of Vajrapāṇi is the yellow Mañjuśrī, sitting in meditation posture, lifting the sword of knowledge with his right hand, and with a book on a lotus flower above his left shoulder; with his left hand he forms the preaching gesture. To the left of Mañjuśrī are the Eight Auspicious Things, and to the left of these is the white Mahākāla with six arms. In his upper right hand he holds an elephant goad, in his upper left a triśūla (trident), in his middle right hand a chopper, in his middle left hand (which forms the fascination gesture) a ḍamaru (double drum), in his lower right hand a wish-fulfilling gem, and in his lower left hand a skull-bowl. To his left, in the bottom left hand corner, is a standing figure of Amitāyus with his feet pointing in opposite directions
Publication/Creation
[Tibet]
1 painting : distemper on linen ; distemper 66 x 44 cm
sgrol ma tshe rin rnam dkyil
Publications note
Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, pp. 76-77, thankas banners and paintings no. 8
Wellcome Library no. 47073i
Lettering note
An inscription on the verso says that the work was painted in memory of the gSer-sbug family
Type/Technique
Mandala (Buddhism)
Tankas (Tibetan scrolls)
Distemper painting.
Longevity.
Uṣṇīṣavijayā (Buddhist deity)
Tārā (Goddess)
Amitābha (Buddhist deity)
Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity)
Mañjuśrī (Buddhist deity)
Mahākāla (Buddhist deity)
Bezoars.
Vajrapāṇi, Bodhisattva.
Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa, 1357-1419.
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Q: Is there a way to improve the queries in a loop on one in django? Need to count the number of rows in which some attribute value equal 1, 2, 3 and >3 in the best case.
Example:
for i in xrange(1,4):
    count = some_queryset\
        .filter(related__value__exact=i)\
        .annotate(count=Count('mtopening'))\
        .values_list('count',flat=True)

Is there a way to improve in an object-oriented way without raw_sql or with simple .extra select?

A: Using Django's count method
count = some_queryset \
    .filter( Q(related__value__gte=1) & Q(related__value__lt=4) ).count()  # This should work also without using Q()

EDIT
I don't think there is a direct way to do this in django, but I think the below code will do the job:
sums = []

for i in range(1,4):

    sums.append(
        QUERYSET.filter( related__value = i ).count()
    )

print sums # will show you a list of sums of the values you want


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We Need To Talk About Race When We Talk About New Jersey Charter Schools.
I've been thinking about race this weekend, probably because NJ Advance Media just came out with The Force Report, which describes this state's broken criminal justice system. According to the journalists, who worked for 16 months to complete this project, in New Jersey Black people are more than three times as likely as white people to face police use of force, which includes "compliance holds," "takedowns," using "open hand strikes or closed punches," "leg strikes," pepper spray, batons, "sic[cing] a police dog on a suspect," stun guns, and firing of weapons.
That "three times as likely" is just the state average: in South Orange Black people are nine times as likely as white people to face police use of force and in Lakewood it's 21 times more likely.
For me, this disproportionality converges with the Charter School Law Review, currently being conducted by the New Jersey Department of Education.
Why? Because — let's just say it — the vast majority of charter school students in New Jersey, 86.7 percent, are Black or Brown. (Seventy-two percent are low-income.) When the DOE Commissioner, our sole charter authorizer, decided to reject all charter school applicants in the last round, the parents who lost the opportunity to make better educational choices for their children were almost all Black or Brown.
I know it's hard to talk about race. But when we talk about charter schools and equity, just like when we talk about criminal justice and equity, we can't ignore the disproportionate impact on children and families of color.
Except that we do.
I'm old. I was born in the tail end of the Baby Boom and grew up in a time when it was considered virtuous to visit with a group of people and claim you "didn't notice" if someone was Black or white or brown, noble to insist you were "color-blind." I work at a non-profit that employs a lot of millennials, many of color. They'd laugh me out of the room if I insisted that the color of our skin doesn't affect who we are, what obstacles we face, how the world sees us and we see the world.
And so, if the DOE is serious about having an honest discussion about charter schools, than we have to talk about the demographics of the 50,000 children these schools serve.
If you attend the annual NJ Parent Summit, which I do, you may notice that almost all the charter school moms and dads there are parents of color. If you go to the #CharterStrong Facebook page, you'll see photos of parents and students, almost all of color. If you go to the pro-charter Parents Engaging Parents page, you'll see photos of parents and students, almost all of color.
This is not true of every charter school in NJ. At Princeton Charter School, one of our first charters, students are 54 percent white and 31 percent Asian. But this is the exception, not the rule, especially since almost all of our charter schools are clustered in low-income cities where most residents are Black or Brown. This disproportionality — the fact that charters serve many more students of color than white students — must be a key factor in any discussion of the future of NJ's charter school law and the DOE's current stance.
When Ed.Comm. Repollet decided to not approve any charter school applicants in the last round (and ignore the standard DOE process), he was almost exclusively slashing public school choice for Black and Brown families. (White families, who tend to be wealthier, freely exercise NJ's most common form of public school choice, moving to towns with better school districts) When Gov. Murphy announced a "pause" (or a "stealth moratorium") on authorizations of new charter schools, he was almost exclusively slashing public school choice for Black and Brown families.
I'm not saying that racial disproportionality in criminal justice is equivalent to racial disproportionality in parents' ability to enroll their children in better schools. But to deny any connection is to deny reality.
Yes, race is hard to talk about. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. In the case of the charter school review process, we must. If the DOE, state legislators, the State Board of Education, and our Governor refuse to consider the disproportionate impact of the current charter moratorium on students of color, then we efface those 50,000 students and the 35,000 who sit on wait lists. They deserve better. They always have. Let's have the wisdom and integrity to recognize reality.
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Beliefs • Culture • Ethics • Opinion
In the battle against Ebola, a struggle for hearts and minds
Two nurses with Ebola patient #3, 1976. Photo courtesy CDC via Wikimedia Commons.
Rachel Marie Stone Rachel_M_Stone
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's maxim — that fear itself is the only thing we need fear — almost certainly rings true for doctors working to beat back the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history, which is currently raging in four West African countries.
Fearful of doctors, young men armed with slingshots and machetes have been preventing doctors and other health workers from entering their villages, the New York Times reports.
"Wherever these people have passed, the communities have been hit by illness," said one 17-year-old vigilante.
It makes a certain kind of sense: conflate correlation with causation, and the healers are seen as the harbingers of doom. This happens often enough in the USA, among, for example, parents who are convinced that certain of their children's challenges were caused by vaccination, simply because the two events — the vaccination and the onset of certain symptoms — happened to appear at roughly the same time.
Fear is a potent stimulant, and health workers, many of whom are foreigners, no doubt give restless and frustrated youth a scapegoat at which to aim their distress over a senseless and undiscriminating virus.
"People appear to have more confidence in witch doctors," the Times reported, noting that traditional 'treatments' serve to spread the deadly Ebola virus even further.
Even in countries that are relatively well-served by medical care, convincing people to take advantage of such care can be a challenge. My husband and I certainly encountered this issue in Malawi, even in regard to the virus that causes AIDS.
"Don't you think that healthy living and herbal remedies are better than the ARVs?" my friend Sostine, a farmer and entrepreneur, asked me.
"Don't get tested for HIV; don't rely on condoms or ARVs, don't listen to the godless foreign health workers," a pastor told his congregation on World AIDS Day.
It's not just the "strong belief in traditional religion" cited by the Times that stymies the efforts of health workers. It's Christianity and Islam as well, and a sticky conviction that, as one woman told a Times reporter, "only God can save us."
In a context where even an Advil can be impossible to come by, it's not an unreasonable assumption — to say nothing of the fact that hospitals are often understandably perceived as dangerous places, full of foreigners, where people go to die. Never mind that they were probably going to die anyway: correlation conflates with causation once again.
One of the challenges in such a context — and sometimes, even in our own US context — is to show people how their religious beliefs (i.e., God is "in control") need not be seen as conflicting with science and with medical treatment: that you can trust in God and get your flu shot or take your antibiotics at the same time. As it stands for many people I encountered in Malawi, it takes a leap of faith to go to the hospital.
That's why the challenge is often to win hearts and minds while practicing good medicine. If you can't get people to trust you, you have little hope of helping. If you can't erase the stigma of, say, an HIV+ diagnosis, you won't be able to get the infection rates down.
It's easy to dismiss deeply held traditional and religious believes as "ignorant" and "backward," but such things are present nearly everywhere in this world of ours — and they are deserving of serious consideration and respect, because lives depend on our understanding such dynamics.
{For an in depth look at a specific, compelling disaster at the intersection of culture, religion, and medicine, I cannot recommend Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down highly enough.}
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Rachel Marie Stone
Rachel Marie Stone is the author of "Eat With Joy: Redeeming God's Gift of Food" and a book about Jesus for children called "The Unexpected Way."
From what I have read, the medical treatment for Ebola isn't much different than the traditional one. Isolate the patients from everyone else, and try to get the disease to run its course.
Rachel Marie Stone says:
Supportive nursing care such as intravenous hydration is also part of the treatment that's not really replicable by traditional healers, to say nothing of the fact that Ebola is transmitted via ALL body fluids including sweat, so if there aren't latex gloves…bad news.
Obviously I need to read more on the subject. 🙂
I was going by the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, which I read in the late 90's. Preston described how people in rural would be trapped in their homes to die of the disease and then their homes burned.
Adam Shields says:
We also have to be aware that the CIA at least in a couple cases have posed as medical aid workers including in areas of Afganistan and Paskistan where polio has not been eliminated which when found out has contributed to mistrust of doctors especially from the west.
That is certainly not something that I think is reasonable in most of Africa, but if there is one thing that is true, it is hard to disprove something in one area when it has happened in other areas.
With all the sick people following Jesus, no wonder they wanted him crucified. Walking where the trouble is seems to be more dangerous than it first appears.
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Wouldn't it, though? That contrast is so eye-catching!
I love him. He is my son now.
Kind of digging the idea of a pleco tail! I love them so much anyway!
I like big flukes and I cannot lie.
I love this thread! So many beautiful fishies! Keep it going!
The Rainbow Trout seems to be everywhere, especially here in my local waters. Photos never seem to do it justice!
I apologize for the lack of posting. I've spent the last two weeks preparing art entries for a tournament and things got a bit hectic!
I'm not sure if this one has already been posted, and if it hasn't it's a shame. The Red Spotted Green Discus is a beautiful fish!
Good luck with your tournament! Let me know how it goes!
Also, that's a beautiful fish! It's odd; I'm having trouble figuring out where fins start and body ends. And just look at those markings on the face! 11/10, would stare at for hours.
Also, that's a beautiful fish! It's odd; I'm having trouble figuring out where fins start and body ends, And those markings on the face! 11/10, would stare at for hours.