We're really desperate for a Mac coder, especially one with access to Intel mac hardware as well. Right now we have some serious issues in our code path for the Mac, I suspect things will render more correctly on intel mac hardware, but can't even verify that.
Currently the main issue is that some shaders aren't animating correctly/at all, and the VM compiler isn't functioning correctly. Also, while portals and mirrors render close up, mirrors at least are Hall of Mirroring if you're at a distance (at least on my ibook).
Again, I expect that some of those issues may not even be present in an intel mac binary, which should be fairly easy to produce.
More progress reports here when we get them, I'm sorry to have to report that this delays the release I've wanted to do for some time.
If you or a friend can take a look at the code, please do and contact either myself, or more preferably use Bugzilla and the mailing list/irc channel/etc.


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José Andrés to Open a Second Bazaar in South Beach
by Tim Carman August 18th, 2010 September 24th, 2020
Ritz Plaza Hotel
Details are still coming in, but a reliable source tells Y&H that José Andrés will soon announce plans to the local media to open a second The Bazaar by José Andrés on South Beach in Miami. The restaurant, which earned four stars when it debuted in Los Angeles, will be located in the historic Ritz Plaza Hotel, which the real estate development firm sbe will transform into the luxury SLS South Beach.
The property, located next to the Atlantic Ocean, is expected to open in the spring of 2012.
As culinary director for SLS, Andrés and his creative team from THINKfoodGROUP will again work with designer Philippe Starck to "create a new take on The Bazaar byJosé Andrés for this Miami location," a source tells me. The team is "also responsible for all the food and beverage of the hotel, including in room dining, catering and pool menus," the source adds.
The news comes not long after Andrés announced plans to open two restaurants in Las Vegas, including a luxury resort version of his ground-breaking Jaleo concept.
Y&H got his hands on a copy of the draft press release about the new SLS South Beach. You can read it after the jump.
(Los Angeles, CA) – August XX, 2010 – Leading luxury hospitality, real estate development and lifestyle company, sbe, has advanced its commitment to the Ritz Plaza Hotel in South Miami Beach, Florida. sbe additionally announced its development and programming plans for the historic asset, which will open as the second location of its renowned, award-winning SLS Hotels brand as the 142-room SLS South Beach in Spring 2012.
The development will transform South Beach's iconic Ritz Plaza Hotel into a best-in-class hospitality and food and beverage destination, bringing together an unparalleled team of creative and operational talent. Joining Nazarian and sbe in the creative development of the SLS South Beach are exclusive collaborators including designer Philippe Starck, culinary director Chef José Andrés and Chef Katsuya Uechi.
"In developing the SLS Hotels brand, we re-examined and re-thought every possible aspect of luxury hospitality and teamed with the best minds in the industry to deliver a premier experience with an unwavering commitment to absolute innovation, intuitive guest service and the highest quality," said Nazarian. "Situated across 17th Street from the Delano against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ritz Plaza site is the best piece of undeveloped real estate in South Beach and provides a perfect extension for the SLS Hotels brand."
The SLS South Beach will deliver guests a unique luxury hospitality platform that combines the unparalleled design ingenuity of Philippe Starck, the world-renowned culinary brilliance of Chef José Andrés, including the second location of the award-winning Bazaar by José Andrés brand, the incomparable artistry of Master Sushi Chef Katsuya Uechi, the unrivaled relaxation and pampering of Ciel Spa and the unmistakable exclusivity and vibrancy of Hyde Lounge. "I could not be more excited to come to Miami with my partners at SLS," says Andrés. "It is an amazing city, full of life, and full of friends."
Originally built in 1939 under renowned South Beach architect L. Murray Dixon, the SLS South Beach features a rooftop architectural design depicting a lantern reaching to the sky and is the tallest art deco structure in South Beach. Starck's design for the hotel will feature a stunning surrealistic feel highlighted by a white-on-white palate with limited accents from carpeting, stone or artwork. Perfectly suited for a luxurious yet vibrant beach experience, the project will mark Starck's successful return to South Beach where his 1995-designed Delano remains the market standard.
"SLS in Los Angeles is a full boiling bucket of energy made of life, vision, creativity, intelligence, fertile surprises, love, tenderness and sexiness, but also great food and wine. It is called a modern miracle. But who said that miracles happen only on the west coast? The new SLS South Beach shall be another huge bucket of sparkling energy, but with sea, sun and sand. The perfect miracle?" added Philippe Starck.
Previously operated with 132 rooms, sbe's development of the SLS South Beach will be highlighted by the construction of 10 new luxury pool-side bungalow suites. In addition to bungalows, pools, decks and cabanas, the new construction will also mark the fourth location of sbe's Hyde Lounge brand. Dubbed Hyde Beach, the venue will feature 8,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor lounge amenities emptying onto the sand just steps from the Atlantic Ocean. Joining sbe's existing Hyde Lounge Sunset, Hyde Lounge Staples Center and Hyde Lounge Mammoth Mountain in delivering true nightlife innovation, Hyde Beach will provide an unprecedented new experience to the vibrant South Beach market modeled after the best beach-side destinations of the Mediterranean Riviera. The venue will also feature sbe Restaurant and Nightlife Group's best in class service and VIP guest relations.
The SLS South Beach experience will be further enhanced by sbe's exclusive collaboration with renowned culinary innovator José Andrés, who will serve as overall creative director of food and beverage for the hotel.
In the gifted hands of Chef Andrés, SLS guests will be treated to revolutionary culinary experiences across the hotel's lobby, bars, and expansive pool deck, as well as in-room dining and events. In addition, the SLS South Beach will mark the second location of The Bazaar by José Andrés. A true fête extraordinaire, the Bazaar concept, created with Starck, first debuted to unprecedented critical and guest acclaim at the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills in October 2008. At The Bazaar by José Andrés South Beach, Andres re-imagines the experience with influences from local flavors while still featuring a heady array of pioneering culinary and lounge concepts. The restaurant will also deliver more traditional breakfast and lunch amenities to guests.
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Joining The Bazaar, the SLS South Beach will feature the fifth location of sbe's Katsuya brand in partnership with Master Sushi Chef Katsuya Uechi. Located in the hotel's historic ballroom, Katsuya South Beach will deliver guests a masterpiece of design sensuality, beauty and soulfulness – a space where form complements function and the spirit that is Katsuya shines through. Under Chef Uechi the Katsuya concept, "mise en scène" by Starck, has completely revolutionized the Japanese culinary experience for Los Angeles diners by combining traditional Japanese techniques and ingredients with the sensibilities of the American and global palate. Similarly, Katsuya South Beach will elevate the landscape for Japanese dining experiences in Miami.

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With the support from the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE), the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is leading the initiative 'Reviving springs and providing access to solar powered irrigation pumps through community based water use planning with multiple approaches to solving agricultural water problems in the mid-hills and Terai in India and Nepal'. The goal of this project is to ensure affordable and sustainable access to drinking water in the mid-hills of Nepal and Uttarakhand in India and to agricultural water in Terai region of Nepal. Firstly, the initiative aims to address water insecurity in mid-hills and plains of Nepal and India. This is done by reviving springs in the mid-hills of Nepal and Uttarakhand through improved understanding of localised spring hydrogeology along with appropriate technical interventions and policy interventions. Secondly, it also aims to test the use of solar powered irrigation pumps (SPIPs) as a clean, climate resilient, and pro-poor solution to tackling issues related to the nexus between water, food, and energy security in the plains of Nepal. The programme will work to ensure that these tested strategies are incorporated into community-led water user master plans (WUMP). Through a consultative process, maps are created for existing water sources and detailed surveys are undertaken to assess the current conditions of springs within a given administrative boundary. After this, the community is asked to prioritise these water sources for further investment. This activity, currently being implemented in Nepal by Helvetas, will be piloted in Uttarakhand, India, for the first time through the programme. The initiative has a strong gender focus, and aims to improve access to drinking water for women tasked with gathering water in the hills. This is done by targeting at least 30% of the SPIPs at women and improving understanding of the policies and institutional frameworks required to support small female farmers in technology adoption.
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Vanderbilt Ethics Study Explores Precision Medicine's Risks, Rewards
Precision medicine research — which involves the consolidation of massive amounts of complex data and the widespread sharing of those data for a variety of research studies — offers the prospect of both benefit and harm.
To help illuminate these, investigators with Vanderbilt's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society gathered the perspectives of a diverse group of thought leaders in a range of relevant fields.
Results of the study, published Nov. 26 in PLOS One, suggest the prospect of an array of individual and societal benefits, as well as physical, dignitary, group, economic, psychological and legal harms, many of which may have been over-emphasized or overlooked in the literature.
The findings highlight specific challenges that warrant concentrated care during the design, conduct, dissemination and translation of precision medicine research and in the development of consent materials and processes, said lead author Dr. Laura Beskow, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics.
For the study, Dr. Beskow and colleagues Ms. Catherine Hammack, associate in health policy, and Dr. Kathleen Brelsford, research assistant professor of health policy, interviewed 60 primarily U.S.-based experts and scholars in the areas of ethics, genome research, health law, historically disadvantaged populations, informatics and participant-centric perspectives as well as government officials and human subjects protections leaders.
While interviewees acknowledged the potential for precision medicine research to identify targeted approaches to improving health and preventing disease, they also raised privacy and confidentiality concerns.
Several notable themes emerged, including:
Return of results to research subjects
Thought leaders pointed to the importance of setting realistic expectations among research participants concerning benefits and harms, careful decisions about which results will be offered and allocating resources to support an ethical process of return.
Group harm
Many thought leaders raised issues of dignitary and group harm, while others commented on follow-up questions about risks to families and/or communities. The current system of human subjects protections is focused on individual participants and not long-range effects on groups of applying knowledge gained in research.
Risks to the research enterprise itself
Thought leaders expressed concern about harm to the public's willingness to participate in and support biomedical research given occurrences such as high-profile data breaches, use of data for objectionable purposes and failure to meet oversold expectations about possible benefits. They said it's crucial not only to build and maintain trust, but to ensure that the people, organizations, policies and processes associated with the research are, in fact, trustworthy.
"It will be important to develop informed consent materials processes that accurately reflect the rapidly evolving landscape of precision medicine research," Dr. Beskow said. "Our study highlighted several considerations that are hard to quantify, and we need to assist people in evaluating decisions about participation in light of their own circumstances and values."
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Dr. Michael F. Adams was named chancellor and distinguished university professor at Pepperdine University on August 1, 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in political communications from Ohio State University. Adams served as vice president for university affairs at Pepperdine from 1982-1989. From 1989-1999 Adams was president of Centre College in Kentucky, and for the past 16 years he has been president of the University of Georgia, a major flagship land-grant institution. Adams began his academic career as an assistant professor at Ohio State, which he interrupted for a stint in politics. For five years he was chief of staff for U.S. Senator Howard Baker and for two years a senior advisor to then-Tennessee Governor and now U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander. Nationally, he has headed the American Council on Education, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities, and the NCAA.


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JEREMY WILLIAMS: "THEY NEED TO CREATE A SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION"
"I think now there is a scarce array of talent in the heavyweight division. These Europeans, these Eastern Block guys, they have really dominated. There really hasn't been an American in a while. We definately need an American champion in that respect...the heavyweight division needs to be broken up into two halves with one being above 240 and the other below 240 or maybe even 230 because you have guys cutting down from 260 to 240, you know? People are just getting bigger and the heavyweight division, well, let's see, if we look at the smaller weight classes, it's like 119, 122, 125, 130, 135, etc. and the heavyweight division is 200 to too many. It doesn't make a difference. You can weigh whatever. I mean 7', 300 lbs. and he can fight a guy that is 6', 200 lbs. I mean, people are just getting bigger. I think boxing needs to expand the heavyweight division. They need to create a Super Heavyweight division," stated former heavyweight contender Jeremy Williams as he shared his thoughts on the current state of the heavyweight division. Check it out!
NS: Jeremy, how have you been?
JW: Good man. Just relaxing in my life.
NS: Man, you've accomplished so much in your career. I don't even know where to start. How about Bully Beatdown. How is that project coming along?
JW: Sure man, Bully Beatdown should be starting filming in another week or so. Jason [Mayhem Miller] is cool to work with. From there, I've got my t-shirt line coming out and I am also working on a instructional Boxing and MMA stand-up DVD for Ringside magazine.
NS: How has your experience been with your TV projects? You've got Bully Beatdown now and you were also a coach on The Contender.
JW: Bully Beatdown has done a really, really good job and is a great show. It is done by the same people as The contender; that's actually how I got the job. You know, Bully Beatdown is for a diffenent audience. It's for a younger crowd. It's an MTV show. It's more fun than to find a great fighter.


HomePresident of the Federal Republic of Germany Witnesses Signing of MOU for Establishment of MICAS at University of Ghana during Visit to UG.
President of the Federal Republic of Germany Witnesses Signing of MOU for Establishment of MICAS at University of Ghana during Visit to UG.
The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier, has participated in two important activities during his visit to the University of Ghana.
Earlier welcomed by his host, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Vice-Chancellor, when he called on him at his office, the President witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the University of Ghana with the German Ministry of Education through the Freiburg University for the establishment of the Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies (MICAS) in Africa, in addition to participating in a town hall discussion on African-German relations.
The MoU was signed on behalf of the University of Ghana by Professor Francis Dodoo, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Development on one hand, and the German Government by Prof. Andreas Mehler, Director of the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg University on the other. The signing ceremony was witnessed by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
In brief welcome and introductory remarks at the well-attended ceremony, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu said the visit was also to afford the German President, the opportunity and platform to dialogue, interact and more importantly, listen to the views of students regarding the current Ghana-Germany partnership and how the future partnership between Africa and Europe should develop. The Vice-Chancellor expressed confidence in the students' ability to proffer proactive and candid views that would shape and strengthen EU-Africa relations, as well as deepen the collaboration and partnership between Germany and Ghana.
Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata who played a significant role in bid for the establishment of MICAS at the University of Ghana, said the MOU marked a notable landmark in the partnership between Ghanaian and German scholars to create a Centre which bridges the knowledge divides between Africa and the world. She expressed the University's gratitude to the German Ministry of Education and Research for selecting UG's bid to host MICAS, the first African Centre for Advanced Studies outside South Africa.
Professor Andreas Mehler, Director of the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg University said he was delighted at the launch of the Centre at the premier University. He expressed profound gratitude to University management, the German Embassy, especially Ambassador Christoph Retzlaff and his staff, and the German Ministry of Education and Research for their diverse support in making this a reality. He further noted that sustainable governance being the key area for MICAS will put research in the Humanities and Social Sciences on a new internationally recognized level.
In what was a keen competition against five other consortia built around other highly ranked African universities in Bonn on Sept 11th, 2017, University of Ghana's consortium out-competed them to emerge the winner.
The Centre will receive almost 20 million Euros over the next 11 years.
The establishment of MICAS at the University of Ghana is expected to serve as a Centre for high quality evidence-based research in areas of democratic governance, conflict management and sustainable development for the entire continent. It would also activate high potentials in people while fostering collaborations among African and non-African researchers.
Panelists for the Townhall discussion with faculty and students were His Excellency Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Professor E. Gyimah-Boadi, the Executive Director of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Madam Lucy Quist, the Co-Founder of Executive Women's Network and Mr. Franklin Cudjoe, the Founding President of IMANI-Ghana.
The townhall discussion was moderated by the Director of the Centre for European Studies, Prof. Ransford Gyampo.
The interactive section sought to answer questions relating to how EU-Africa relations could be strengthened as well as what Germany could do to strengthen its ties with Ghana. Issues of Migration, Education, Health, Youth Empowerment, Trade, and Investment, the need to promote European Studies among African Students, Good Governance, and Employment were the central themes that dominated the discussion.
Giving the vote of thanks, the Registrar, Mrs. Mercy Haizel-Ashia conveyed the University's appreciation to the German President for honouring the University of Ghana with his visit. She said the establishment of MICAS at the University of Ghana was a strong endorsement of the University's capabilities as a centre of excellence for cutting edge research as the University strives to be a world-class Institution.
Accompanying the President's delegation were the Honourable Minister for Environment Science and Technology, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng and Ambassador Christoph Retzlaff, German Ambassador to Ghana. University Officials, faculty and students from the Centre for European Studies of the College of Humanities and other guests attended the ceremony.


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Under the Black Hat
February 15, 2020 by Scott Keith
As promised, I flew through Jim Ross's new book "Under the Black Hat" this afternoon and it was a fantastic read. Thanks so much to the people at Simon & Schuster for sending it my way.
Basically it covers Jim's life from 1999 until signing with AEW, although the gaps in the story grow much bigger after 2002. The bulk of the book deals with his role as Talent Relations VP during the Attitude Era, which is where it really excels. In particular JR recounting his rocky relationship with Vince McMahon (complete with "Such good shit" and "PAL!" and yelling in headsets) is the most fascinating part of the story. And of course we know where the story ends up and it's just as wrenching reading about it as you'd expect. It's great getting Jim's perspective on Steve Austin's departure in 2002, Brock Lesnar's signing (complete with expected reactions from Vince) and the Plane Ride From Hell. To be honest, the book kind of loses steam from there, because of most what happened after that point was Ross getting fired multiple times and humiliated in various ways on TV before crawling back for more and there's only so many ways you can frame that. But Jim is brutally honest about his own short-comings and anxieties and what he could have done differently (the bit about his burning effigy in particular got a laugh from me), and especially honest about the feud with Michael Cole in 2011 that went nowhere and made no money. No matter what, it's an entertaining read from start to finish and stuff like his terrifying conversations with Ken Shamrock on Ken's way out of the company in 1999, or details of his ill-fated contract negotiations with Jeff Jarrett, will scratch the itch of the target audience. Highly recommended!
"Under the Black Hat" releases March 31, and you can pre-order now on Amazon or many other places:
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FG Targets Improved Business Environment for Construction
Moyin Osunkeyede
Article Updated:	February 11, 2019
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole
Following the ongoing reforms to improve the ease of doing business in the country, the Federal Government is working to attract more foreign investment into the construction industry.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Trade and Investment, Jumoke Oduwole, who was a special guest at the International Real Estate Federation, FIABCI Nigeria's annual business forum, recently, stated that in the past three years, Nigeria had implemented more than 140 reforms, increased its Distance-to-Frontier score by over 11 basis points, and moved up 24 places in the World Bank Doing Business Index rankings.
She said in the 2018 Global Competitiveness Report, the World Economic Forum recognised Nigeria's business environment as one of the most entrepreneurial in the world, and highlighted Nigeria's improved competitiveness in the Enabling Business Environment.
Oduwole who was represented at the forum by a representative from the Enabling Business Environment Secretariat, Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, Soji Akinyele, said in the area of construction, Lagos and Kano were taking the lead while other states would follow.
She said in Lagos, there had been reforms for people to access accurate information on all fees, procedures, requirements and laws on the Lagos State Physical Planning and Permit Authority, as well as statistical information on land disputes.
Oduwole added that in Kano, investors would appoint private professional firms to carry out inspections before, during and after construction and also expected to receive building plans within 14 days and request the issuance of a Certificate of Habitation without physical inspection, among other reforms.
She explained that the country's business environment had improved significantly, adding that there were efforts towards achieving sub-100 ranking in the ease of doing business by 2020.
"As a result of the reforms, dealing with construction permits and registration of property have become a lot easier and cheaper in places like Lagos and Kano where, before now, the cost was outrageous and punitive, while the process was cumbersome and tortuous," she said.
The Group Managing Director, Alpha Mead Group, Femi Akintunde, however stated that funding had remained the bane of construction and housing development in the country.
A former FIABCI World President, Farook Manhood, said there was a need for more Public-Private Partnership to address some of the challenges in the construction industry.
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Okay, this is a little bit of a cop out; but this week is also NUTS!! Looking forward to a weekend in the woods; but have to get through the work first. Enjoy this enchanting sidewalk art from the West Village by Hani, follow him on Twitter, and keep rockin' through your week!


Govone is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 45 km southeast of Turin and about 60 km northeast of Cuneo.
As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,991 and an area of 18.8 km.
Govone borders the following municipalities: Castagnole delle Lanze, Costigliole d'Asti, Magliano Alfieri, Priocca, San Damiano d'Asti, and San Martino Alfieri.


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Does The Mom Die In Summer I Turned Pretty?
by Kanu Priya
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 12:49 IST
A new Amazon Prime series, The Summer I Turned Pretty, is based on Jenny Han's novel of the same name. Fans had conflicting opinions regarding the series' debut episode, which aired on June 17.
The show's popularity is rising, and a second season has already been ordered. The first season well exceeded the author's greatest dreams. Amazon has put a lot of trust in the creator of the show.
The love triangle and the series are full of love, laughter, heartache, and betrayal, making the drama series even more fascinating and worth watching. The series also depicts the changing relationship between moms and their children and strong friendships. Not to mention the stunning setting, scenery, and music all add to the series' attractiveness. The show has rapidly become a sensation thanks to its excellent cast and staff.
Does The Mom Die In 'The Summer I Turned Pretty?
Throughout the first season, Susannah (Rachel Blanchard) conceals the news that her illness has returned from remission and that her chances of survival are slim. The secret is revealed to Belly, Jeremiah, and Conrad by the Season 1 finale, and Susannah agrees to take part in an experimental therapy for her disease. That conclusion gives Susannah some hope for the future. Fans of the Jenny Han novel series based on the drama know that there may be more dangers. It's Not Summer Without You, the second novel in the series takes place during the summer following Susannah's death.
What Do The Producers Of The Show Have To Say?
Han, the TV show's co-showrunner, has cautioned viewers that Season 2 will "very closely" follow the second novel. "I'll say that it will [follow] very closely," she told Distractify, "but there may be some twists and turns that people would not expect." She explained, "It won't be the same, but it's unavoidable," implying that Susannah's death is a given in the plot.
Whatever happens to Susannah, Han has ensured that she remains crucial to the story and all of the other characters' adventures. "Susannah is one of the most crucial characters in the first season," she said to Variety. "I think every single person is in her orbit in some manner, and they're all there because of her, and she's tremendously beloved by all of them."
Who Plays The Character Susannah?
Actor Rachel Blanchard played the character Susannah.
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Scientists Discover Something Remarkable Trapped in Amber: Ancient Sea Creatures
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Updated: Tuesday, 14 May 2019
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13 May 19 - Source: Science Alert - Amber from Myanmar in Southeast Asia is turning out to be an incredibly rich resource for examining the natural world of 100 million years ago. In the last year, it's turned up frogs, snails, a snake, weird feathers, and some pretty wacky bugs. What do all of those have in common? They're land-dwellers.
But now palaeontologists have discovered something really weird in a small chunk of Cretaceous Myanmar amber: sea creatures, side-by-side with land-dwelling creatures.
That's four sea snails, and a juvenile marine ammonite from the ocean. Four intertidal isopods (and three more possible isopods), which dwell in the zone between high and low tide, were also trapped, along with beach sand.
From the land, the amber contains 22 mites, what seems to be a goblin spider, 12 adult insects (eight flies, two beetles, a parasitic wasp and a cockroach) and a millipede. And it's all in a chunk just 33 millimetres by 9.5 millimetres by 29 millimetres.
It's a remarkable assemblage of creatures.
"It is rare to find aquatic organisms in amber, and it is extremely rare to find marine organisms in amber, let alone macroscopic marine organisms mixed with intertidal, terrestrial, and potentially freshwater aquatic organisms," the researchers wrote in their paper.
The piece is certainly mysterious. Palaeontologists have, for instance, been unable to figure out how old it is.
Uranium-lead dating of zircons in the matrix of volcanic rock in which the amber is found places it at around 98.8 million years old maximum, but a sandstone layer above the amber reportedly contained a fossilised ammonite that is thought to have arrived on the scene 113 million years ago, and not to have lived past 100.5 million years ago.
(Yu et al., PNAS, 2019)
The ammonite in question was neither described nor pictured in the paper that mentions it, and no one has been able to find the fossil itself to conduct a re-examination.
It's possible the amber itself is older than the bed it was collected from, so it could be more than 113 million years old. It's an issue that remains unresolved at this time.
Thankfully, exactly how such a diverse range of creatures ended up in the same piece of amber is a little easier to reconstruct.
Here lies the clue: the shells of the ammonite and the marine gastropods are lightly abraded, a significant piece of the ammonite shell was lost and the opening clogged with sand; there are also no signs of soft tissue belonging to either ammonite or gastropods.
And resin won't properly solidify when it's submerged in water - so it's unlikely a blob fell into the water and collected the marine animals there before turning into amber.
Intertidal isopods. (Yu et al., PNAS, 2019)
So the palaeontologists have inferred that the marine creatures we see here had already died, their shells tumbled by the tides and washed up on a beach. It was there that they became caught up in a blob of tree resin.
"The exceptional occurrence of macroscopic marine macrofossils in the resin suggests that the amber forest was growing close to a coast, possibly next to a beach, and could have been subjected to exceptional events," the researchers wrote.
"The shells may record an exceptionally high, perhaps storm-generated tide, or even a tsunami or other high-energy event. Alternatively, and more likely, the resin fell to the beach from coastal trees, picking up terrestrial arthropods and beach shells and, exceptionally, surviving the high-energy beach environment to be preserved as amber."
And that's how they have remained for millions of years, buried beneath a sandstone bed in Myanmar. It's possible we may not be able to learn more about how such amber inclusions come about until others containing marine animals have been found.
But what an absolutely spectacular series of events.
The research has been published in PNAS.
Source Link: https://www.sciencealert.com/cretaceous-sea-creatures-have-been-found-trapped-in-amber-alongside-insects
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It is important to note that since the development of the Implicit Association Test in the mid-1990s, numerous studies have been conducted by researchers in a range of disciplines endeavouring to gauge the accuracy and efficacy of the test. Whilst it is widely acknowledged as a useful measure of implicit bias, researchers caution that it be used as part of a multipronged measurement strategy.
Staats, Cheryl et al, 'State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review 2015' (Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, 2015).
On pp.4-5, there is a fact sheet debunking myths around implicit bias.
Staats, Cheryl et al, 'State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review, 2016 Edition' (Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, 2016).
There is an up-to-date fact sheet on implicit bias on pp.14-15.
Unconscious Bias Fundamentals for Legal Practitioners www.diversityinlaw.com.au.
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Ward, Stephanie and Jeffrey Rachlinkski, 'How can lawyers fight implicit bias?' (podcast 34 minutes with transcript) (American Bar Association Journal, 23 January 2017).
In this podcast Stephanie Ward interviews Professor Jeffrey Rachlinski of the Cornell Law School. He holds a JD and a PhD in Psychology from Stanford University. He studies the influence of human psychology on decision-making by courts, administrative agencies, and regulated communities. In this interview he discusses a research project involving American trial judges that analysed their decision-making and measured their implicit bias. Specifically, his research measured the implicit connection judges make between African-American faces and positive or negative imagery, and white faces and positive and negative imagery. They found that the judges, like most adults, more closely associate African-American faces with negative concepts and more closely associate white faces with positive concepts.


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"I'm straight, white, and male — pretty much everything a Democrat hates — but also a furry," the mysterious ShadowWolf proclaimed, before demanding that SonicFox face him next despite never having entered the competition.
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The match between the two furred fighters was incredibly close. After losing the first two games, SonicFox requested to switch seats. ShadowWolf quickly objected, shouting, "Can't let you do that, SonicFox," before being informed by a tournament official that he, in fact, had to let him do that according to the rules. SonicFox ultimately came out on top, taking the set 3-2 and moving on to win the tournament overall.
SonicFox was unavailable for comment, as he quickly left the tournament venue alongside his training partner KnucklesFalco, and his long-term boyfriend BigTheCatSlippy.


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An opinion poll in Britain — amid a grim economic situation and a spiralling tension in Northern Ireland — says Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lose his House of Commons seat in the next general election.
Johnson is an MP from the west London constituency of Uxbridge and Ruislip.
The survey of 10,000 respondents carried out by multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) in April also looked into the opposition Labour Party's prospects in the election. It found that it would emerge as the single largest party, but fall short of a majority by 18 seats.
On the other hand, if Labour Party undertakes seat adjustments with Liberal Democrats and the Green Party, the combination would win a comfortable majority. The figure of 326 is the magic mark for a party or alliance in a chamber of 650 lawmakers.
Correspondingly, if the hard-line pro-Brexit Reform Party stands down in seats where Johnson's Conservative Party is vulnerable, this could further dent Labour's prospects.
A spokesperson for 'Best for Britain', an internationalist organisation, said: "Once again, Best for Britain's seat level analysis shows the safest route to victory in defeating this (Johnson's) corrupt government is for the opposition parties to work together during election time."
If Labour Party falls short, it could be dependent on the separatist Scottish National Party, which could demand independence for Scotland or at least another tricky referendum as a condition for its support.
Analysis for 'Best for Britain' by Focaldata indicated that 54 per cent of Labour supporters and 56 per cent of Liberal Democrats supporters want their respective leaders to work more closely with the Greens.
However, after its showing in this month's countrywide local elections, Labour Party will hope its chances will progressively improve as Johnson and the Conservatives plummet further in public esteem.
Appearing before a House of Commons Select Committee, the Governor of the Bank of England, Britain's central bank, Andrew Bailey warned of "apocalyptic" food prices. He of course blamed it on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Figures due out on Wednesday are expected to reveal that the annual inflation rate has climbed above 9 per cent and it going beyond 10 per cent when the energy price cap is lifted even more in the autumn.
"Another factor that we're dealing with at the moment is a further leg of Covid-19, which is affecting China. We have seen a series of supply shocks coming one after another and that's unprecedented."
In such circumstances for Johnson to contemplate a unilateral scrapping of parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol with the European Union (EU) is considered in political circles to be ill-conceived, as an introduction of tariffs by the EU by way of retaliation, could have a devastating inflationary impact.
In refusing to agree to tax-free trade with the EU and opting for a customs border between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland in the Irish Sea, the Prime Minister has predictably created an economic and political crisis in Catholic and Protestant conflict-ridden Northern Ireland.
So much so that the United States (with a significant Irish American population, including President Joe Biden, as a powerful pressure group), which stands as guarantor of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ushered relative peace to the region after nearly 75 years of unrest or violence, has been compelled to intervene.
However, Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin Chancellor of the exchequer, is reported to be working on fiscal measures to ease the cost of living crisis, having refused to incorporate these in his budget statement in March.
The steps could include relief for pensioners and benefits claimants and cutting duties on imported food.
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Between September and December 2017 diabetes almost killed me (not literally but it did throw my life out of control) as did the devil flu of 2017. Over the period of four months, I was in the ER/hospital six times. I'm tired of doctors. I'm tired of tests. I'm tired of hospitals.
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Turkey's former president and longest serving prime minister Suleyman Demirel during a ceremony held in his honor in Isparta province, Turkey, on Oct. 26, 2014.
Suleyman Demirel: Turkey mourns a deft master of the art of politics
Demirel served as prime minister for seven terms in the 1960s and '70s before becoming president in 1993. He was the target of two military coups.
By Denise Hassanzade Ajiri Staff writer
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Suleyman Demirel, who served seven terms as Turkey's prime minister before being elected president of Turkey, has died at the age of 90. The Turkish government announced three days of mourning in Mr. Demirel's honor.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Demirel "will be remembered by our beloved people in times to come for the task he took on, the services he brought about, and his political role."
During a political career that spanned nearly five decades, the center-right Demirel was twice ousted by military coup and escaped an assassination attempt. He was known among his followers in Turkey's farming heartland as Baba, or Daddy. One of his best-known slogans was "Yesterday is yesterday. today is today," hinting at his flexibility in shifting from one political position to another.
Suleyman Gundogdu Demirel was born Nov. 1, 1924, to a peasant family in the southwestern village of Islamkoy.
He studied engineering and rose to head the State Hydraulic Works by the age of 31, earning the nickname "King of Dams."
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After a military coup in 1960 left a power vacuum, Demirel was drawn to politics. In 1962 he was elected to the executive board of the center-right Justice Party, and in 1965, he was elected prime minister in a landslide.
Demirel's government pushed Turkey into the industrial era, with annual economic growth of 6 percent a year. But by 1970, Turkey was in the midst of social unrest caused by conflicts between pro-Islamic parties on the right and students and workers demanding radical reform on the left.
When the conflict started to turn violent, Turkey's powerful military intervened and forced Demirel out of office in 1971 in the so-called "coup by memorandum."
Successive governments failed to manage the rising unrest, and Demirel was back in power in 1975, with the backing of both nationalists and Islamists.
Unable to halt Turkey's slide into chaos, Demirel was deposed in a second military coup in 1980. The military banned him from politics, but the ban was lifted in 1987.
Demirel returned as prime minister in 1991, and became president after the death of Turkish President Turgut Ozal in 1993, serving until his term expired in 2000.
"Demirel understood the art of Turkish politics better than anyone of his generation," Andrew Finkel, an American journalist who interviewed Mr. Demirel many times, told The New York Times. "His flaw was that he was unable to put that understanding to good use."
Demirel's wife, Nazmiye, died in May 2013. They had no children.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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Vallejo senior center honors vital, diverse group
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PUBLISHED: May 20, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
More than 50 senior citizens got some recognition and a chance to pat themselves on the backs Wednesday as the Florence Douglas Senior Center honored them as part of Older Americans month activities.
"We just want to acknowledge the diversity and vitality of older Americans," Florence Douglas Senior Center Executive Director Vicki Conrad said.
Seniors assembled at the center represent a wealth of experience and numerous achievements in medicine, travel, communications, technology and space exploration, among others, Conrad said.
This year"s Older Americans Month theme is Age Strong! Live Long! Its focus is on improving the quality of life of seniors as they live longer due to medical advancements, she said.
Communities also will be encouraged to tap into the resources, wisdom and skills seniors can use in helping others through volunteer projects, Conrad said.
Senior Mary Bailhache, 80, said she enjoyed getting recognized.
Bailhache stays active and vibrant by donating time weekly at the senior center helping others learn to crochet.
"We"ve worked hard to get to this point — to get older. We"ve seen a lot of things happen in history," said Bailhache"s pupil who declined to give her full name.
Meanwhile, Vallejo carver Manny Miranda, 84, said he still feels like a kid, and stays healthy by walking a mile a day, doing gardening and housework.
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Poet will 'pause production' at Iowa plant that makes ethanol from corncobs, husks
Des Moines Register: Blaming the federal government for failing to support the industry, a South Dakota company said today that it will stop producing an environmentally friendly ethanol that's made from corncobs, stalks and other crop residue in northwest Iowa. Poet, the nation's largest ethanol producer, says it will continue research and development at the Emmetsburg plant that opened in 2014. The shift means Poet will cut about 30 of the 70 workers at the plant in February.


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Клавдія Якимівна Помпа ( , селище Решетилівка, тепер Решетилівського району Полтавської області) — українська радянська діячка, дільничний лікар дитячої лікарні № 2 міста Дніпропетровська. Депутат Верховної Ради УРСР 10—11-го скликань.

Біографія
Освіта вища. Закінчила Харківський державний медичний інститут.

У 1960—1965 роках — лікар Пирятинської районної лікарні Полтавської області.

З 1965 роках — лікар, завідувачка дільниці, з 1975 року — дільничний лікар дитячої лікарні № 2 міста Дніпропетровська.

Потім — на пенсії в місті Дніпропетровську (Дніпрі).

Нагороди
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Література
 Депутати Верховної Ради УРСР. 11-е скликання — 1985 р.

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Уродженці Решетилівки
Депутати Верховної Ради УРСР 10-го скликання
Депутати Верховної Ради УРСР 11-го скликання


Student unions signed the letter on Jan. 29.
On Jan. 29, student unions from across Canada signed an open letter criticizing Ontario's Student Choice Initiative.
The announced initiative allows post-secondary students to opt out of "non-essential" fees that fund student-led clubs and organizations. The open letter calls Ford's recent educational finance reforms "a firm step backwards" which will result in more student debt and less access to affordable post-secondary education.
The letter was collectively drafted and revised by student representatives from universities across Ontario and signed by more than 70 students' associations from across Canada, claiming to represent over 1.3 million post-secondary students. It was addressed to Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities Merrilee Fullerton.
The AMS was one of the student unions involved in the drafting and publication of the letter.
According to Martinez, opt-outs could threaten the funding for orientation week, the Academic Affairs and Social Issues Commissions, and committees for environmental stability and mental health.
He cited the significant employment opportunities that could be eliminated by threats to funding. "This initiative, here at Queen's alone, could eliminate close to a 1,000 [jobs]," he said.
Martinez additionally pointed to fees being passed through frequent referendums. Every three years, several student activity fees are up for renewal, cancellation, or adjustment on the basis of a popular vote.
Among the Province's other changes to OSAP, the Ford government cut grant-based funding and removed the six-month post-graduation interest-free grace period for tuition.
The program also redefines the designation of mature student by requiring students to be out of high school for six years instead of four before qualifying as an independent.
The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance has since published a forum where students can share how the recent change have affected them.


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Everything is backwards compatible with enough money.
Has any actually performed this conversion on the S2 Elise/Exige?
Bump, someone must have figured this out by now. Any news or leads?


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This locomotive was built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow in 1949 to a design credited to A.H. Peppercorn. Arthur Peppercorn commissioned the class of 70 locos but the fundamentals of the design date back to the 1920s.
The heavy gradients of the West Highland Line demanded powerful locomotives and the famous Nigel Gresley (later Sir Nigel) designed firstly a very successful 2 cylinder 2-6-0 loco, classified by the LNER as a K2, then later an even more powerful 3-cylinder version for the purpose. This became the K4 class and 6 were built (one survives). The design was modified further by Edward Thompson (Gresley's successor at the LNER) and again by Arthur Peppercorn, the result being the K1 locomotive you see today.
The K1 presently caries the name 'Lord Of The Isles' which revives a name originally given to one of the K4s which regularly worked on the West Highland.
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During the early part of the season the K1 will be sharing its duties with ex-LMS 'Black 5' No 45231, 'The Sherwood Forester'. This locomotive was built by Armstrong Whitworth of Newcastle in 1936. It has been a popular sight on many steam charters during recent years, sometimes paired with sister engine, 45407 which takes over from 45231 during August.
Based at its home shed in Bury, Lancashire, 'Black 5' No 45407, 'The Lancashire Fusilier' has been a stalwart of northern charter trains for over a decade. It is no stranger to the West Highlands and has taken charge of The Jacobite for many years.
The LMS Class 5MT - The Black 5 - was an enormously successful design. The class is credited to William A Stanier, appointed CME of the LMS in 1932. In total, eight hundred and forty-two of this ubiquitous, mixed traffic locomotive were built, the majority by the LMS themselves at Horwich, Derby and Crewe, and some by contractors Armstrong Whitworth (as were the two to be seen on The Jacobite) and Vulcan Foundry. The first of the class was built in 1934 and the last in 1951. They worked for British Railways in almost every part of the UK. A relatively straightforward, 2 cylinder 4-6-0, they were economical to maintain and a firm favourite with many crews..
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The train consists of first and standard class coaches. The coaches are all ex- British Railways' 1960s Mark 1s. The brake is a composite, (Brake, first and second class) compartments. The first class are open coaches (FOs), i.e. not compartments, and the second class TSOs (Tourist, Second, Open in railway parlance). The Scottish scenery is an important part of your day out on The Jacobite and the open coaches afford the best opportunity to enjoy the views.
During the filming of the Harry Potter films the children were seen travelling in traditional compartments. .


I thought the "Sight" video was very cool, albeit somewhat creepy. The setting was futuristic and the times in which the character's lived seemed to completely rely on technology. Something I thought was interesting is the commercial on the TV when the female announcer said that people want to live more, feel more, and see more. I think that was the entire point and key to the video right there. People want to experience more and more and the Sight program allowed them to do anything they wanted to—except it was all imaginary. They could do and experience anything they wanted to, but in reality they were in empty rooms. "Sight" brought daydreaming to the utmost level.
The video also seemed a bit depressing to me. These people want to live out these exciting lives and do great things, but they are literally blind to reality because they only see what some computer program is showing to them. It's sad that nothing they saw or experienced was real. The scene in the kitchen with the cucumber also showed to me how perfection-oriented the people were in this make-believe world. All the guy did wrong was cut diagonally and since he didn't have a perfect score, he threw away the entire cucumber. He was upset over such an insignificant thing because it wasn't perfect.
Overall, the video was very thought provoking. It made me wonder about how dependent people are getting on technology and if we would really sacrifice reality for make believe worlds were we can be and accomplish anything in we could dream up.


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The NHS: Sub-cultures of secrecy and intimidation?
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Colchester NHS Foundation Trust has been in the news this week for all the wrong reasons. Junior administrative staff have been told to fiddle cancer patient data by their managers. Patients may have suffered, may have died. We do not know. The administrative staff alleged that they had been bullied into this malpractice and some of them had blown the whistle up to the CEO who had ignored them. CQC has passed this information on to Essex Police. Good. Few things concentrate the mind as much as the appearance of a policeman.
The narrative of NHS culture that has been emerging since the Francis Inquiry is one in which many healthcare professionals are afraid to raise concerns about patient care. When they do they are ignored even by senior management and bullied into toeing the line. In the past this might have progressed through suspension, disciplinary procedures and on to dismissal. Thank God we now have a regulator and a Whistleblower-in-Chief willing to listen to and protect the Colchester whistleblowers. And to make sure their intelligence is acted on to protect patients. That is all whistleblowers want.
In 2009 after 7 years as head of the paediatric department at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust I encountered a situation where managerial bullying was rife. My book "Little Stories of Life and Death @NHSWhistleblowr" will be published in the New Year. I am pre-releasing chapter 25 on my blog. It is a timely reminder that culture is driven from the top of organisations and in closed cultures senior managers are unlikely to welcome attempts to address problems.
A Royal College of Paediatrics review of the paediatric department in Walsall in 2010 concluded that inappropriate appointments had been made by the executive to lead the department. The managers concerned were described as having no knowledge or experience in paediatrics, exhibiting an aggressive management style (a posh way of saying bullying?) and failing to engage with senior frontline clinical staff. This was at a time when swingeing cuts to the cost base were being made to pay the mortgage on the new PFI and prepare us for FT application. Bullying became a part of the daily routine as a consequence of these appointments.
Chapter 25 is my account of this. I do of course have all the willing witnesses I need, and the minutes and emails, to verify this account.
Bullies: Challenging the Culture.
"I was never a bully. I was a hard man."
Roger Daltrey of The Who.
Years ago our youngest son came home with a badly broken nose. He'd come between a bully and his victim on the school bus and suffered the painful consequences. I was proud of him. He had been true to our family's zero tolerance of bullying. I have always challenged bullying myself and more than once suffered physical injury. When it erupted in the paediatric department in 2008 onwards I found myself on a collision course with the bullies and those who sheltered them. Bullying is a difficult problem to grapple with. Bullies often do not recognise themselves for what they are. And they never admit to it. There is no badge that I have seen anyone wearing that proclaims, "A Bully and Proud of it".
On 26 October 2009 I had written my comprehensive disclosure of the department's problems to Sue James, our Chief Executive. In it I stated that "over a period of about 18 months a culture of institutionalised bullying has developed in the paediatric department." I went on, "Although some of this may have escaped your attention I will present evidence that you have to some extent been aware of this and for reasons which are hard to understand have chosen to ignore it. I believe that in certain instances, which I will also refer to, your actions have compounded and even given sustenance to this culture." Naively, I still believed that evidence was the solution to the problems we were facing. I gave many examples of this culture. Here is one from the same letter:
"Take for example one of our nursing staff who the Divisional Director rang at home. This nurse's husband overheard the Divisional Director speaking to his wife as the phone was on loudspeaker. The Divisional Director's conversation was so aggressive and peppered with expletives (effing and blinding as it was reported to me) that her husband told her he was going to the HR Department the following day to report this manager. The nurse begged her husband not to go as it was likely to cause her more grief. I am afraid this is how institutionalised bullying works. The bullied come to tolerate that kind of behaviour. They try to keep their heads down. When they are bullied they fail to take any action because they believe that it can only produce more difficulties for themselves in their work environment."
On Bonfire Night I met with the Trust Chairman, Ben Reid and the BMA. He agreed to an independent hearing of my grievance and a departmental review by the Royal College of Paediatrics. I experienced an immediate surge of relief. I wrote to Bruce George the Labour MP for Walsall South who had agreed to meet me and cancelled. I had total confidence that the College would send its team in and the impasse would be resolved.
But within days of that meeting there was an outcry from senior nurses in the department over bullying. The head nurse, Karen Palmer, was singled out as the main culprit. I therefore arranged for the senior paediatric nurses supported by the paediatric consultants to meet Sue James, and the Nursing Director. It was obvious that it might take six months for the College to complete the review and for its report to be implemented. That was too long for nurses who were in tears every day to wait. Sue James was clearly fed up with me and did not want me to attend. I withdrew in order to let the nurses speak from themselves. But they lacked the confidence to go to the meeting without me being there to support them. I informed Sue James that as a result I would be attending. "I regret that you have gone back on your word…" she emailed me. I was by this time immune to these barbs, designed to make me feel bad about myself. I regarded them as another manifestation of the bullying culture I had complained of.
We met on Friday 20 November. Sue James and Brigid Stacey, the Director of Nursing, were faced with the two paediatric matrons who had suffered the brunt of the bullying and six consultants. Sue James had made no provision for the meeting to be minuted. I asked for this to be done. She told us she did not want minutes taken. I took extensive notes anyway and circulated them as minutes afterwards. I was an obsessional recorder of meetings and that has served me well.
The matrons were invited to describe their experiences of bullying. These included being shouted at and sworn at. They reported physical threat. They had been sent emails by the head nurse in which they were told to either toe the line or their jobs would be under threat. They were also told in the same emails to be grateful that they had a job. They complained of being ignored by management (that is a form of bullying recognised in trust policy). The head nurse had changed the ward nursing rotas without them, the matrons, being consulted. The head nurse had made derogatory comments about them at a meeting with human resources. They also raised the problem of how impending redundancies were dealt with in the department by the head nurse in 2008. Individual nurses had not been told of their possible impending redundancy. The whole establishment had been informed by what was essentially a circular. Management had made no attempt to mitigate the consequent widespread anxiety. This was not an exhaustive list of allegations. Bullying is often trivialized, passed off as "robust conversation" etc. In this case the level of distress it was causing was near intolerable.
The Chief Executive and Nursing Director did not engage with us. Disinterest was written on their faces although from time to time they gave each other an anxious look when a particularly horrible experience was being described. They promised to meet with the managers concerned and scheduled a meeting with us to feed back. This was later postponed.
I missed the second, rescheduled, meeting through illness. Ironically the meeting was minuted by our safeguarding nurse who had recently resigned after being sworn at by the Divisional Director. It was clear at this second meeting that no formal investigation had been carried out, nor would it be. No action was to be taken against the managers, not even a warning. Sue James mused as to why it was that others who worked under the same managers were not experiencing the problems we were. Of course, why hadn't we thought of this? It must be our fault! This is the remorseless faulty logic that I encountered every time I tried to address a serious problem in the department. What was I doing wrong? What were we doing wrong? Senior and middle management were always in the clear and always tried to reflect the blame onto the clinicians. This culture of managerial cronyism was deeply frustrating to all of us on the front line. It was absolutely unassailable. The dice was loaded.
Sue James told the clinicians that the paediatric department was thought to be a "basket case" and that the PCT and Walsall Council had lost faith in it. She went to some lengths to create further insecurity by saying that a number of paediatric units would be closing. We'd heard this repeatedly and would hear it again. The nurses had already heard the head nurse telling them to toe the line or lose their jobs. The matrons were then warned by Sue James not to register formal grievances against management. She later told the employment tribunal that she had done this "in the interest of the paediatric service."
This was a disappointing outcome. The nursing staff in particular had put their necks on the line. The Trust had a Harassment and Bullying policy. It stated quite clearly that:
"The Chief Executive will take lead responsibility for ensuring the Policy is correctly implemented and that the trust takes effective action to tackle harassment/bullying in the workplace."
But here we were, 8 of the most senior clinical staff in the paediatric department, with allegations of bullying so serious that we had gone to the Chief Executive herself and she had blatantly disregarded the policy she was responsible for.
The Policy also gives a clear instruction:
"Where it is clear there is a pattern of unacceptable behaviour within a particular area, a full investigation will be carried out."
But what could possibly be clearer than the allegations made by the clinicians. Again the Chief Executive was able, with impunity, to breach the policy for which she had executive responsibility.
In my experience such policies are a waste of paper. Most employees are insufficiently familiar with them to make use of them. HR departments are often well acquainted with them but disregard them. I imagine that it was unusual if not unique for Sue James to be on the sharp end of one of her policies as she had been at these two meetings. Later, under cross examination at my employment tribunal she demonstrated her flimsy knowledge of her own policies. But these policies contain some useful and often wise words. The Trust policy at that time had a section describing the damaging effects on individuals and organizations when bullying is tolerated.
"Employees are unable to work effectively. Team work is damaged. Absenteeism due to stress increases. Motivation and morale are damaged. Staff lose confidence in the organization. Staff leave."
But here was Mrs. James actively tolerating managerial bullying reported en masse.
We all knew the nurses were being badly bullied. At the employment tribunal 4 senior witnesses (3 were consultants) named the head nurse, Karen Palmer, as a serial bully giving graphic descriptions of the support they had had to give to nursing staff as a result. The hospitals head of HR, Sue Wakeman, was present throughout that testimony but sat unmoved. Those within the managerial clique typically enjoy a startling level of immunity so no-one should have expected anything else.
At the second meeting David Cremenosini, a new consultant and the husband of Louise, the safeguarding nurse, expressed incredulity at Sue James's refusal to take any action. His comments were disregarded. He resigned shortly afterwards. The Royal College of Paediatrics review which reported 4 months later instructed the Trust to remove Karen Palmer from line management in paediatrics. The report described her "aggressive managerial style". On the evidence presented to Sue James this should have been done when the bullying was first drawn to her attention. Her failure to act resulted in months of unnecessary suffering in a group of golden hearted nurses who wanted nothing other than a protected environment in which they could do their work.
Following the meeting there was an atmosphere of doom and despair. Sir Ian Kennedy QC had given his last interview as Head of the Health Care Commission to the Health Service Journal in April that year. He chose to speak on bullying. It was, he said, the most important problem facing the NHS. Four years later Robert Francis QC was telling us the same. NHS staff surveys regularly show a high level of bullying, much higher than in other organisations. Of course no trust ever admits to this problem. Few that I have heard of deal with it decisively. In some trusts bullying is a management tool. In our own department it was sapping energy and destroying morale but the Chief Executive whose responsibility it was to enforce the Bullying Policy could not have cared less. That was the only conclusion we clinicians could reach.
I suppressed my inclination to react immediately but after 2 weeks wrote to the Chairman and a non-executive director. I described the content of both meetings and the unsatisfactory outcome. I tried to get to the heart at the problem and wrote. "Sue James, on both occasions, has told these nurses effectively not to cause any more trouble. She advised them at the second meeting against any more complaints and against lodging a formal grievance as this was likely to cause more problems and would hazard the unit's future and jeopardise their jobs. She also used me as an example of how unpleasant lodging a formal grievance could get. I am afraid that this approach is tantamount to intimidation of our senior nursing staff."
His reply was unhelpful. I complained about too many things, he wrote. That spoke eloquently of the organisation and its culture which had its fountainhead in its Chair and Chief Executive.
The postscript is that the two matrons who made those complaints were later replaced by an outside appointment. They were both excellent paediatric nurses and with the right personal development plans would have risen through their profession. They both left hospital paediatric nursing soon afterwards. The limited opportunities provided and the stress of workplace bullying took their toll. Two of the consultants present at the meetings would soon resign and leave. As for me the bullet with my name on it was already being loaded into the breech.
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I was really touched by your story and am full of admiration for your persistence. Who does JH think we are to report to when a clerk post in an area dealing with child protection is cut, despite our expressed anxieties ,because we are told there is no money. We then find out the CEO and others have awarded themselves substantial pay rises.Best wishes
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Typical. My chapter "Playing Politics with Child Health" has much worse.g


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T.J. Boyle Associates, Landscape Architects and Planners, were selected by the Shelburne Veterans Memorial Committee to design a memorial for the eastern half of the Parade Ground, at the corner of Church Street and Falls Road in Shelburne, Vermont. The Shelburne Veterans Memorial Committee was created to realize the local desire for a permanent space within the Town of Shelburne that would honor veterans of the US military services.
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