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SCIE home page
Guide home
Putting it into practice
Appendix 1: Introductory letter for participants
Appendix 2: Communication with participants re one-to-one conversations
Appendix 3: Conversation structure summary
Appendix 4: Table of key practice episodes
Appendix 5: Framework for contributory factors
Appendix 6: Typology of underlying patterns
Learning together to safeguard children: developing a multi-agency systems approach for case reviews
Someone from your team or organisation may have spoken to you about the plan to conduct a case review of [fill in relevant details]. With this letter, we would like to take the opportunity to give you a brief summary of the approach that is going to be taken and the role that we would like you to play.
In this case review we are going to use a new method called 'systems analysis'.
This sort of review process will be familiar to Health colleagues but applying a systems approach to safeguarding work is still a relatively new endeavour. Up till now, any review of cases had tended to take the 'bad apple' approach, which focuses on blaming the 'bad apple' individual for mistakes and failures.
A systems approach concentrates not on judging people's work. Instead, by taking account of the situation they were in, the tasks they were performing, and the tools they were using etc, it focuses on understanding why someone acted in a certain way. It highlights what factors in the system contributed to their actions making sense to them at the time. Importantly, it also highlights what is working well and patterns of good practice.
Traditional 'bad apple' approach
Systems approach
Human error is the cause of accidents Human error is a symptom of trouble deeper inside the system
To explain failure, you must seek failure To explain failure, do not try to find where people went wrong
You must find people's inaccurate assessments, wrong decision, bad judgements Instead, find how people's assessments and actions made sense at the time, given the circumstances that surrounded them
The experiences and perspectives of people like yourself, who were directly involved in this case, are central to a systems review. The review is, therefore, very much a joint venture which we hope you will take an active part in.
We would, therefore, like to invite you to talk with us about the case on a number of different occasions. Details of the most immediate meetings are given below.
Introduction to systems analysis
On [fill in relevant details: date; place], [fill in relevant details: name] will be giving an introduction to systems analysis. We then hope to discuss plans for using this method in relation to the case we are reviewing. This will include one-to-one conversations with everyone involved in the case, as detailed below.
One-to-one conversations
The purpose of this conversation is to ascertain how you understood the situation at the time, how you understood your role or the part you were playing in the case and your perspective on what aspects of the whole system influenced you as a worker. We hope to be able to arrange a time to have this one-to-one talk some time in [fill in relevant details: month], during the initial meeting. Conversations will take up to one hour and a half.
Feedback meetings
A joint meeting of the review team and all the people involved in the case after individual conversations have taken place will be arranged at a later date.
Organisational backing
The use of the systems approach has the full backing of the local safeguarding children board and the agencies to which they are accountable. The LSCB has agreed that this process is NOT about blame and disciplinary action, but about an open and transparent learning from practice, in order to improve inter-agency working. The board has actively promoted the 'no blame' premise of this work. Chief officers of all agencies have been informed and are in agreement.
Staff can, therefore, be confident they will not be penalised for taking part in this project. In formal terms, the thresholds for disciplinary action have been raised for the sake of learning. If serious malpractice were to emerge in the course of the review, then disciplinary procedures would, of course, come into play.
We very much look forward to working with you in this exciting project. If you have any queries then please do not hesitate to contact one of us.
[fill in relevant details: names of review team]
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Learning together to safeguard children: a 'systems' model for case reviews


I dont have long to update, but I have just had to copy a cd for a girl who is leaving today and have to wait a few mins, though "i'll update! why not!"
tomorrow ismy last day at the elephant sentre and I am going to miss it so much, I really dont want to go! but hopefully diving will be pterry awesome too. I made quite a few good friends here and its really good for me toi now be able to say like I have a friend in australia america germany belgium norway etccc and everyone has said that If im ever in that country I am welcome at their houses! So yeah, after spending 2 weeks trying to settle in, I finally am and I have to leave! But now I feel much more prepared for doing other stuff, like when I get to the dive shool I will know what to do more and stuff.
today was cool, it was theresas last day, and she has been here for almost the same time as me. we had to help out cleaning the bear pool this morning which was also fun because all of the volunteers helped and it was a real sense of teamwork. luckily the bears werent in there at the time haha! I spent a lot of time watching them afterwards and it was so cool, like 12 black bears just messing around. I love living here, its kinda like living in the middle of a zoo, but with more varietry of animals, and less zoo like and more like the wild. I normally cant sleep becuase of the monkeys, literally about 20 meters out of my window is a mekaque cage.


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Kódy ISO 3166-2 pro Burundi identifikují 18 provincií (stav v listopadu 2015). První část (BI) je mezinárodní kód pro Burundi, druhá část sestává ze dvou písmen identifikujících provincii.

Změny
 Věstník I-4  přidává BI-MW
 Věstník II-2 odebírá provincii Bujumbura (BI-BJ), přidává BI-BM a BI-BL

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Související články
 ISO 3166-2, seznam kódů územně správních celků všech zemí.
 ISO 3166-1, seznam kódů všech zemí, používaných současně jako jejich doménová jména na internetu.

BI
Burundi

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Lobbying for boxing in Rockdale
Updated: Feb. 14, 2011, 2:37 a.m.
Alex Beadle is working on bringing boxing to Conyers.
But he's not yet working in the gym, instead he's working in a what can at times be a tougher place, the Georgia State capital.
Beadle, the President/Executive Promoter of the Georgia Boxing Association, is also working as a lobbyist for the organization as it tries to get a bill passed.
The GBA also attempted to get the same bill passed during the last legislative session, but it died due to time constraints.
This year Beadle is at it again with more confidence after legislators have already seen the bill once before.
The bill will do three things for boxing in Georgia. It will clear up some language in the boxing code in the state, it will require fighters to take an HIV test and it will add the Georgia Boxing Association as the governing sanction body in the state of Georgia.
Beadle already has four signatures from state senators and was searching for more this week before the bill dropped into session. It was expected to drop before the start of this week.
Monday will be the 18th day of the 45 day legislative session, allowing more than 20 days for it to get passed.
"Now that it's a familiar bill they should b able to make a decision on it easier than last year,' Beadle said. "They know it now. They're familiar with it."
If the bill passes it will bring several benefits to Conyers.
The GBA is looking to make Conyers its headquarters and is currently shopping for buildings to house its gym. The gym will bring several boxers to the area and will make Conyers the state's center for amateur boxing.
If all goes as planned the grand opening will take place sometime around July 1.
"What it's going to do is enable us to actually start a league based out of Conyers for amateur fighters," Beadle said. "This bill is going to make Conyers the center of amateur boxing in the entire state of Georgia."
The GPA coming to Conyers will mean its non-profit wing the Fight Harder Foundation will follow.
The foundation pairs seniors with community youth to develop workouts for seniors and young person together in a mentoring process.
"That's where I think Rockdale is going to truly benefit," Beadle said. "The fight against childhood obesity and getting kids off the street."
The bill will also open up the possibility for state tournament for amateur boxing.
Along with working on the boxing side of things, the GBA will bring Mixed Martial Arts to Conyers whether or not the boxing bill gets passed. There have already been several fights in the Georgia International Horse Park, and Beadle will have a MMA television show based out of there starting in May.
"The Horse Park is going to be the home of our MMA show," Beadle said. "We plan on doing six, all to be televised as a reality TV show based out of Conyers."
Beadle was also asked to lobby for the Rockdale County Chamber of Commerce.

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Q: Is it possible to use multiple lines in Angular attributes? Is is possible to include a newline in an Angular JS expression in an attribute tag? Something like this:
<p ng-repeat="
    foo in foos
    | filter:{attr: 'something really long'}
    | orderBy:bar">
  {{foo}}
</p>

EDIT: To clarify, the above doesn't work. I was wondering if there is some other syntax that allows for breaking this kind of expressions into multiple lines.

A: It is possible for an expressions to span multiple lines. But ng-repeat throws an error if you try to span the expression on multiple lines.
Take a look at this plunker:
Add a new line in the ng-repeat expression and open the browser console to see the error message.
http://plnkr.co/edit/E1O8Iy3VzL3kzj72BDUL?p=preview

A: angular.js parser would be able to handle it, but there's a quick regex check before handing it to the parser (see http://docs.angularjs.org/error/ngRepeat:iexp):

Be aware, the ngRepeat directive parses the expression using a regex
  before sending collection and optionally id to the AngularJS parser.
  This error comes from the regex parsing.

I filed a bug to loosen this restriction: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/5537, you can hand-patch it in the meantime, it's just 1 character: m (/regex/m).

A: Yes, it is possible to use multiline attributes with ANY HTML element, including AngularJS directives.

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March 29, 2020 May 4, 2020 AJ
Writing Creative Non-Fiction – Assignment #4: On Woolf on Cavendish
This week's assignment offered a choice of character depictions. I opted to go with reviewing Virginia Woolf's 1925 essay, The Duchess of Newcastle, from The Common Reader First Series. Its subject is Margaret Cavendish the Duchess of Newcastle. I very much enjoyed getting to learn about her. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
It is difficult to come away from Virginia Woolf's essay on the life of Margaret Cavendish with anything but a sense of admiration for the person the Duchess of Newcastle was: a libertarian who lived life on her own terms, a prodigious thinker, prolific writer and designer, all-round force of nature and perhaps proto-feminist. What is even more remarkable about her life is the context within which it was lived, times which seen from the lofty, enlightened heights of our 21st-century sofas seem like the dark ages. Given the latitude to explore and later express a non traditional interpretation of the roles of daughter and wife by both her mother and husband, we get the sense that virtually every thought she had was encouraged and articulated in some shape or form with no attempt to self-censure. It helped perhaps that there were no children to encumber her free spirit. Given Virginia Woolf's own life and character – and reputation for being a free spirit of sorts too – the largely positive portrayal here does beg the question of objectivity given the tendency in all of us to eulogise those who inspire us and worship them as heroes.
How then could one look to build a balanced, more nuanced view of her life and work? As a starting point, one could perhaps look to see what the opinions of her contemporaries were. The consensus appears to be that she was considered a maverick of sorts, an assessment which lives on in her 'Mad Madge' nickname. What we know of the societal context and the social mores of the time suggest that this assessment errs on the more negative side of Virginia Woolf's. No surprise there as even in our day those who benefit from societal power structures tend to take a dim view of non-conformists as mavericks and upstarts. That this is the view which survives is thus a backhanded compliment of sorts and casts a positive light on her legacy.
A second task would be to ascertain how much of her work survives in the various archives. A search in the national archives website identifies over 700 items which suggest that there was enough interest in her work to preserve it. Tracking down a few of these works and where they are stored would constitute a valuable activity, both for the works themselves but also the prestige of the collections which house them. That her life and legacy are the subject of a number of 'serious' academic investigations is also another indicator of the heft of the ideas which she espoused.
A third prong to the investigation would be to attempt to assess what debt current thinkers and philosophers owe to her by how much she is referenced and how ideas she raised have been incorporated into their works.
My belief is that each of these prongs taken together would help build a composite picture of the life of the Duchess of Newcastle. From the little I have seen already, I am beginning to side with Virginia Woolf.
Writing Creative Non-Fiction – Assignment #3: An Interview of Sorts
This week's assignment was to interview someone, summarizing what we learned about them in 300 to 500 words. Here goes.. Image by Clint McKoy on Unsplash
R was hunched over his phone typing furiously when I pushed the door open and walked into the restaurant, one of the many that dot the roadside on this corner of the seaside boulevard. I was three minutes late but he, ever the most punctual of people, had arrived early and was in the middle of typing an acerbic note to me.
In the 11 years since I first met him, six of which were spent cooped up in the same office space, memories of questionable banter and several meals and evenings out; a veritable tour of brews – and the uninhibited honesty that comes with having those – and cuisines are a large part of what remains. That we opted to do this over food was entirely in keeping with that shared history, particularly given the reasons: he opted to retire a year ago, I am on the cusp of moving on from the organisation that was part of our lives for all those years. It thus felt right to catch up properly before I headed out.
Selecting a main took more time than usual as it was our first time in a Turkish restaurant, the choice between the varieties of kebabs, casseroles and koftes somewhat overwhelming. For drinks, though it was more clear cut, 'an EFES* for the young man' he declared as he waved his hand in the manner of one holding court. Over food, our conversation turned to the subject of our time out here in this grey corner of Scotland, more than 30 in his case.
'It's the longest I've been in one place' he said and then proceeded to reminisce on his life before the 'Deen. Madras, Delhi, Goa, Aden, Perth in Australia, London, Perth in Scotland were a few of the places he mentioned, all of which he'd spent five or less years in, thanks to the somewhat itinerant lifestyle of a father who was in the diplomatic corps. I was curious as to why he hadn't taken the opportunity of being retired to move somewhere else, warmer perhaps. 'Aberdeen feels like home now', was his response. All that is left elsewhere are tenuous links to vaguely familiar extended family members – "Our fathers have all died", he said. "Us kids didn't bother to stay in touch, we've all made other connections."
In the tone of his voice, I sensed a faint nostalgia, once I know only too well. It is the burden of the prodigal to go out into the world – to a far country – to seek his fortune. At the best of times, that home can become a distant memory, at its worst home can become nowhere.
* a Turkish beer, settled on because in a few weeks time I'll be working out of a 'dry' country…
March 3, 2020 March 23, 2020 AJ
Writing Creative Non-Fiction – Assignment #2: On Detail and Deduction
Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG186
Last week's assignment was to take a look at an image and attempt to deduce and interpret what it is about from the details one can see. I went for the image above, Jan van Eyck's Portrait of Arnolfini. Here goes.
What strikes me the first time I look at the picture is how young and frail she looks. With eyes looking downwards and away from his face, as though in deference, one gets the impression that she feels entirely in his power, her demeanour almost apologising for intruding into his space. He, on the other hand, has that stance that screams importance, eyes forward, looking towards the one who has crafted the scene, seeming to declare that he owns everything in sight. I am here and in charge. All this is mine, notice me!
From the rich green of her thick dress, and the fur that lines its neck, hem and sleeves, I imagine they are well off. The pet resting in the foreground of the image suggests daily sustenance is not a problem, as do the finely decorated bed, the ornate chandelier,an exquisite rug and what seems to be solid oak floors; all trappings of luxury. The folds of her dress bunch together, held by her hand which seems to protect what looks like the beginnings of a baby bump. In the mirror behind them a woman lurks, her gaze matronly, a hint perhaps of motherly pride in her eyes at the scene which unfolds before her. She is not the only one looking on, various religious inscriptions adorn the rim of the mirror, suggesting this is a devout house, perhaps one that has unfettered access to the parish priest and is a patron of the local assembly.
I imagine all of this is the crafting of the man who hides in the shadows in the mirror behind everyone else, the signature on the wall the only thing that identifies him. If The Man is his patron, perhaps this is the artist's gift, his art offered up to the service of the one who gives him sustenance.
February 26, 2020 February 28, 2020 AJ
1. A Poem For Remembering We Are Dust
Photo by Kelly Kiernan on Unsplash
For Lent this year, I'm choosing to reflect via the medium of poetry, inspired in part by Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound podcast and an inability to pray, in any formal sense of the word. What started as a season of uncertainty has evolved into something bigger, hence this, an attempt to use poetry as prayer. These will be a response to the daily reflection from the Church of England's LiveLent app which this year encourages us to reflect on creation and how we can be better stewards of it. Here goes! NB for a version in which I attempt to read, visit the anchor.fm page.
The bright gleam
of sunlight reflecting
in the glass and the steel
of the hills we have built
lull me into forgetting,
that this – these monuments
to our power and resolve
which wrap themselves
like a shroud around
the horizon, a scar from
a wound revived in the present,
tethering us to the certainty
of the things we think we know-
is but a moment,
fleeting in its existence.
of things which are unseen
is their intricacy,
how closely knit together
they can appear,
how easy it is for them
to unravel like a slip
of fine cashmere, once
a string begins to slip.
This is what beauty is,
observed in the frail,
reminding us that we are dust
and from dust
to which we must return
when time untethers us
from this rock
to which we cling.
Between a super busy week at work and beginning to pack up my life for an upcoming move, I made slow going of studying this week, hence the lateness of this week's wrap-up. A highlight was receiving largely positive feedback on my first assignment, an exercise in people-watching which took me to a city centre Burger King.
This week's learning focus was research; tips and tricks for getting beneath the skin of a place to understand the wider context behind the story we're trying to tell and to ground it in facts and truths. Memory being as fickle as it can be, there was rightly a focus on building systems for capturing details about the people, places and things we write about. Upon reflection, some of the great essayists who have inspired me on this journey have documented their own systems for doing just this including David Sedaris and Ryan Holiday (both of whom have inspired Austin Kleon) to name a few. Also introduced this week were a number of tools: brainstorming (a la mind maps of ideas around a central topic) and foot stepping, physically visiting the area one wishes to write about to absorb its very essence into one's mind. That I suspect will be very useful over the next few years as I travel more.
More imminently though is the small matter of the next assignment, to apply the tools discussed over the course of the week to observe an object in great detail to see what deductions one could make about it from that… Hopefully, I find enough time in these last few weeks to deliver on that…
February 14, 2020 May 4, 2020 AJ
Writing Creative Non-Fiction – Assignment #1: People Watching
Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash
Last week was about thinking about the underlying reasons for writing, this week was starting off on the journey towards sharpening our powers of observation, the idea being to hone our ability to find stories in the quotidian. A city-centre eatery late one night was my muse.
It is a little after 8.30pm when the smell of French fries wafting in through the door draws me in. The first thing that strikes me as I stride through the door is how empty it looks, the bulk of the two-storied structure being cordoned off, with only the small section to the right of the counter open for use. I find the emptiness surprising given it is next to a major bus station and right in the centre of town. As I wait for the chance to order, I find myself behind three people, all decked out in the garb of people dressed to brace the cold, with the brightly coloured logo of a food delivery service gracing the insulated bags they hold.
A few feet away from the space I find for myself and my tray are three men with youthful faces, chattering away in a language which is not English, possible South East Asian if I were to hazard a guess. Their half-eaten burgers suggest they've been here a while, given how much of their time is spent in conversation interspersed with raucous laughter. When they are finally done, one of the three gathers up their trays and proceeds to empty them into the bin and then they leave, taking their mirth with them. Clearly close friends, or people connected by a shared lived experience I suspect.
Apart from them, the only other people in the room are a group of much older people – 2 men and 2 women occupying the central tables and someone sitting alone, sipping from a cup looking out onto the streets. Of the four, the woman who looks the oldest is slouched in her seat, hands folded together in her lap, two shopping bags beside her, listening it seems. Across from her a younger man with hair the same ginger colour as hers sits, leaning in, several discarded sachets of milk at his elbows, gesturing wildly. Between the accent and my hunger, I can barely make out what the subject of their conversation is but the name of the suburb to the south of the river comes up several times. Maybe a family squabble then, or given the reputation the small town has for being a difficult place, maybe an appeal to the matriarch of the clan for an intervention. All I can see of the fourth person are feet clad in streaked sneakers, the upper body obscured by a heater.
When I steal a glance at the group on my way out, I find the fourth person is fast asleep. Maybe, I have misread the situation after all.
February 7, 2020 February 12, 2020 AJ
Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash
One of my objectives for 2020 is to complete a Creative Non-Fiction course, which is how I signed up for the National Centre for Writing's Start Writing Creative Non-Fiction course. Once a week, or so, I'll drop a few thoughts on exercises completed, thoughts and progress on here. Here goes the first one.
The focus of this first week has been pondering the question 'why?', exploring the motivations for taking on the course, and perhaps the underlying book project which it is assumed one is working on. For me, the course is an attempt to go beneath the surface and understand the techniques behind good writing, in keeping with the theme for this year of Delving Deeper. Progress on that elusive memoir, The Small Light in Things. will be a very welcome bonus.
In my head, The Small Light in Things will focus on the last ten years of my life, ones in which I upped sticks on the cusp of turning thirty and began life anew on a new continent along with all the change that instigated. It will be a story of surviving – of navigating a culture shock, the first tentative steps on a journey of evolving faith and changing, by degrees as it were. It might be cathartic, or not, but my hope is that I get to properly process all of this with hopefully the benefit of some distance and detachment.
Three books come to mind as exemplars of what I am trying to achieve here: Teju Cole's Every Day Is For The Thief, Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and Etgar Keret's The Seven Good Years, all of which reflect on times of change and evolution with the benefit of some distance. What resonates with me in these books, particularly Every Day is For The Thief and Hunger of Memory, is the lived immigrant experience -both in the other country and in the country of birth. Time, life and the experience change us in ways which are not immediately obvious, that is what I'm hoping to tease out from the past ten years of my life.
May 16, 2019 October 30, 2019 AJ
For The Sunday Wednesday Muse Prompt, Garden Spot. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash. A nod to the still vivid memories I have of being dragged off to our family farm by my parents in those dire, dark SAP days.
First comes the rain,
and then the wakened worms which turn the
hard, sun-baked soil into compliant mulch.
Grain by grain, leaf by leaf
the beauty of Symbiosis begins
to rear its head, the cycle of death
begetting life and sustenance for the things
we must ingest, for which with backs bent
beneath the blazing sun we labour;
the reward of another day survived eked out
from the hard, earth.
December 4, 2018 AJ
I Write Because…
Photo by Hannah Olinger on Unsplash
One of my earliest memories of doing stuff with my mother is of a newspaper cutout, sheets of paper and her sitting beside me encouraging me to apply whatever iota of critical thinking I could summon to whatever was the task of the day, usually some Close Up essay competition or the other. I don't recall us ever submitting any of those, the discipline of wrestling thoughts into semi-coherent arguments perhaps being the point of the entire exercise. That sense of writing as a vehicle for thinking aloud about a subject is one that has stayed with me over the years.
I would like to say that this search for (small t) truth at the nexus of a subject is what motivates me to write but that would be bending the truth somewhat. That is partly the truth of course, but it is the sense of being curator of my own little corner of the internet, and the probability – however increasingly minuscule in this world of SEO and algorithms – that makes me write publicly. I have known the delights of minds connecting over a turn of phrase deliciously delivered and also the angst from forlorn pages which have seemingly disappeared into the great void of the internet. Be that as it may, that is a drug, the lingering memories of a past hit drawing me to write again and again in hope.
January 9, 2017 AJ
08. Returning
The quietness of
Old haunts, to which one returns.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Life


Locke starts off by defining war as a state of "enmity and destruction" brought about by one person's pre-meditated attempts upon another's life. The law of self-preservation, integral to the law of nature, dictates that a person may kill another person in self-defense. This definition rests upon the presumption that any aggression by one person against another constitutes a challenge to that person's freedom. By this reasoning, one can justifiably kill a thief since an attack on one's property represents a threat to one's liberty.
Locke then outlines the differences between the state of nature and the state of war, noting that the two are NOT the same. The state of nature involves people living together, governed by reason, without a common superior, whereas the state of war occurs when people make designs of force upon other people, without a common authority. In this case, the attacked party has a right to war. Want of a common judge or authority is the defining characteristic of the state of nature; force without right is adequate basis for the state of war.
The difference between war in Society and war in Nature depends on when they conclude. In Society, war ends when the "actual force is over," because both parties can then resort to the common authorities for arbitration of past wrongs. In Nature, war does not end until the aggressive party offers peace and reparations for the damage done; until then, the innocent party has a right to try to destroy the aggressor. Locke notes that in the presence of a common authority that fails to act justly, the only possible state is a state of war, because the arbitrating power in place to stop war is itself in violation of the laws of nature and justice. Locke ends the chapter by noting that one of the major reasons people enter into society is to avoid the state of war, for the presence of a supreme power limits the necessity for war and increases stability and security.
Locke starts Chapter 4 by defining natural liberty as a person's right to be ruled solely by the laws of nature, and social liberty as the right to be under no legislative power other than that founded by the consent of the commonwealth, functioning for the commonwealth's benefit.
Locke bases his ideas about slavery on the idea that freedom from arbitrary, absolute power is so fundamental that, even if one sought to, one could not relinquish it; it is therefore impossible for one to enlist into slavery voluntarily. The only possible state of slavery is the extension of the state of war, between a lawful conqueror and a captive, when the captive has been forced into obedience. Locke notes that even in Exodus, the Jews did not sell themselves into slavery, but simply into drudgery, for their masters did not have full power over their lives, and therefore, did not have full control over their liberty.
We should note that Locke's use of the term "war" really means "conflict," since he addresses clashes between individuals rather than nations. In the state of nature, the absence of authority requires individuals to protect themselves. In society, victims can appeal to a common authority for the resolution of disputes, when possible (there are times that this is impossible, as in Locke's justification for killing the thief). Locke's definition of what constitutes, justifies, and ends a state of war continues his explication of the natural foundation of government. We can see more and more how fundamentally all of Locke's ideas rest on the right to personal liberty, and in the next section we will see that he directly equates that libertywith property, making property the Treatise's most important subject.


Something family based from Sib's visit yesterday. It was quite drizzly and grey up by the suspension bridge, but the view is always impressive in some way, I think.
Also really excited that it is cold enough again to wear my favourite jumper.


"In my kitchen I was using a gyuto knife. It was a beautiful knife. But it was a little too curved for my liking. Didn't make enough contact with the food. So I switched to a straight-edged nakiri. Better for chopping vegetables. But when I was cutting meat, then I wanted to go back to my gyuto. Hmm, I thought. Somebody should make a new type of knife, one that falls between a gyuto and a nakiri. And then, as I am a knife maker, I thought that I should make it. So I did.
I gave it a slightly curved edge. Too-straight produces too much friction. Too-curved reduces contact with the food. This slight curve is my attempt at a happy medium.
I also gave it a sharp point. This is very nice for scoring vegetables, or squid, or chicken.
The spine of the knife has a very high mirror-polish. This maximizes friction between your fingers and the blade, for better control, comfort, and safety.


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The Gannon case began in 2010 after the Legislature was unable to keep its promises, failing to fund its school-finance plan in the wake of the 2008 recession. Now, here we are again — on the verge of what financial experts predict is another impending recession — attempting to resolve the litigation with another unsustainable plan.
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• Followed the court's directive to pay $126 million in inflation.
• Recession-proofed the plan by escrowing $243 million so the state could meet its obligations to our schools in the event of an economic downturn.
• Added an estimated $17 million for early childhood programs, recognizing that investments in early childhood education are one of the most effective ways we can close the achievement gap identified by the court.
• Added $27 million to expand a children's mental health pilot program that is seeing results in our schools by identifying young people in need and preventing teen suicide.
Senate Bill 16 contains an often-overlooked provision that commits taxpayers to an automatic annual inflation increase — not just during the life of this plan but for the rest of our lives and our children's lives.
That means an estimated $100 million more will come due every year — funds that will have to come from our highways, mental health, foster care, our colleges, our nursing homes and other essential services. These areas of the budget will be made to suffer even more because of SB 16.
• The Supreme Court rules in favor of funding not based in their opinion.
• The food sales tax is not lowered.
• Money continues to be swept from the highway fund.
• There is not a recession.
As parents, we serve as role models for our kids. Repeating the mistakes of those who came before us is not the right example to set.
As legislators, we have a responsibility to think beyond what is politically expedient in the short-term, and to be disciplined enough to form long-term, sustainable solutions that will carry our schools and our state forward.
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Who is in the '27 Club'? Amy Winehouse joins stars who died at 27
Christopher HootonSaturday 23 Jul 2011 5:48 pm
Amy Winehouse is the latest in a long list of musicians in the so-called 27 Club after dying at the age 27.
Amy Winehouse is the latest tragic member of the '27 Club'. (pic: Getty)
The list compiled by fans contains many big names in the music industry to die at 27 including:
Brian Jones– The Rolling Stones guitarist was found drowned in a swimming pool. A coroner's report explained the incident as 'death by misadventure'.
Jimi Hendrix– Pioneering guitarist Jimi Hendrix died by asphyxiating on his own vomit. A well-known known drug addict, he had earlier combined sleeping pills with wine.
Janis Joplin– Songwriter Joplin died on October 4, 1970 from a heroin overdose.
Jim Morrison– The Doors lead singer died from heart failure, but no autopsy was carried out.
Kurt Cobain– The Nirvana frontman infamously committed suicide with a shotgun in 1994 in a death that has been steeped in controversy and conspiracy theories.
Other famous musicians also to die at the age of 27 include: Grateful Dead guitarist Ron McKernan, Stooges bassist Dave Alexander and the Manic Street Preachers' lyricist and guitarist Richey James Edwards (missing, presumed dead)
Winehouse was discovered dead at her home in North London on the 23rd July, 2011.
The cause of death is as yet unknown and police are treating it as 'unexplained'.
The Rehab singer has been battling drink and drugs for a number of years and was booed from the stage in Belgrade recently after being unable to perform soberly.
Her drug use has been well documented, in January 2008 a video of Winehouse appearing to smoke crack cocaine appeared on YouTube.


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Roy Smalley, the American League's best, has brains—and now some brawn
Jim Kaplan
It was cold last Thursday night in Bloomington, Minn., no time to be watching baseball at Metropolitan Stadium, especially since the evening's Twin-Tiger game seemed to have run its course by the third inning. Detroit was leading 3-0, with men on second and third and two outs, when Phil Mankowski hit a hard grounder up the middle. It looked like a sure two-run tweener, but Roy Smalley III, Minnesota's astute shortstop, didn't see it that way. Playing the lefthanded Mankowski to pull, Smalley had stationed himself just to the left of second. With several giant steps he swooped across the bag, gloved the grounder and threw Mankowski out.
Swelling with confidence now, Smalley went into high gear. In the Twins' half of the third he got his second single of the night and Minnesota scored twice. In the fifth he again used clever positioning to turn Lance Parrish's slow hopper into a rally-breaking double play. Minutes later Smalley walked on a 3-2 pitch to help build a run for the Twins. Other smart fielding plays followed in the sixth and seventh innings.
Then, with the score tied at 6-6 in the bottom of the eighth, Smalley batted against Detroit righthander Jack Billingham. The first pitch, a fastball, came in higher than Billingham had intended. Striding forward from his slightly closed stance, Smalley kept his lead shoulder aimed at the mound until the last split second and then uncoiled his wrists—and his body. A keen student of all sports, Smalley believes a closed stance with delayed wrist action may be the most critical skill in athletics; it is, he contends, the key to swinging a golf club well, to putting the shot, to making a strong overhand throw, to landing a hard right cross. And to swinging a baseball bat successfully. Billingham's pitch shot high over the infield, climbed far into the dark outfield sky and cleared the rightfield fence 375 feet away.
Smalley was not through. With Detroit runners on first and second and one out in the ninth, Parrish hit a pitch from Minnesota Reliever Mike Marshall into the hole between where the shortstop and third baseman would usually be positioned. But because he had again stationed himself perfectly, Smalley had to move all of two feet to turn a hit into a game-ending double play. In sum, he handled eight fielding chances flawlessly—and a couple brilliantly—went 3 for 4 at the plate, scored two runs and got the game-winning RBI. However, when Smalley was asked if this had been his best game in the majors, he was momentarily confused. To the top all-round shortstop in the American League it had been just another night's work.
Aided by Smalley's contributions, the Twins ran off six victories in one stretch last week and maintained their surprising hold on first place in the American League's Western Division. To be sure, they had run up their 18-8 record largely against non-contenders—Oakland, Seattle, Toronto and Detroit. The only tough team they have played, California, has beaten them five of six times. And with an inflamed shoulder putting 3-0 Pitcher Geoff Zahn onto the disabled list last week, the Twins will be vulnerable going into upcoming series against Texas and Kansas City. But thanks in large part to Smalley, Minnesota should improve—perhaps dramatically—on its 73-89 record of 1978.
Smalley's influence seems to be everywhere on the revived Twins. Catcher Butch Wynegar hit .229 last year. After taking Smalley's advice to undergo an off-season weight-training program, he has kept his 1979 average over .250. Pitcher Jerry Koosman is off to a 5-0 start, mainly because the Twins scored 46 runs in his six starts, as compared to the 47 that the Mets gave him while he was losing 15 of 18 in 1978. The switch-hitting Smalley, who is battling for the American League batting lead with a .380 average and pacing the Twins with six homers, 20 runs batted in, 38 hits and 20 runs, has been Kooz' major benefactor. What's more, Koosman finds Smalley's fielding unbelievable. "Sometimes the ball is hit and I think 'base hit,' " Koosman says. "But all of a sudden Roy is there." The Twins have turned 39 double plays, the most in the majors, and Smalley has been in on 32 of them. He has committed only two errors in 179 chances for a fielding percentage of .989.
The number of his chances is worthy of note. If he continues at his present pace, the 26-year-old Smalley will obliterate the major league record for chances accepted by a shortstop (984 by the Giants' Dave Bancroft in 1922) by 102. "Mark Belanger of the Orioles is the best-fielding shortstop in the business," says Smalley, "and Boston's Rick Burleson and Robin Yount of the Brewers are quicker than I am. But I hope people won't say I led the league in chances because my pitchers threw ground balls." No way. Smalley has led the league in chances the last two seasons because he is a practitioner of a lost discipline—studying opposing hitters and his team's pitchers.
Just listen to another grateful Twin, Marshall. The once acerbic reliever, who seemed washed up at the start of '78, left the unemployment rolls to join the Twins on May 15. He was so successful that at the end of the season he was given a four-year, $1.2 million contract. Along with the Yankees' Tommy John, Marshall is the early-book co-favorite for the Cy Young Award with a 5-1 record, nine saves and a 0.84 ERA. He says his turnabout has been greatly facilitated by infielders who are willing to listen to his advice about positioning. "On the last play of Thursday's game," says Marshall, who has grown portly and pleasant at 36, "I told Smalley I was going to pitch Parrish to pull more. Roy waited for the appropriate moment, when no one was paying much attention, and moved right over to the perfect place. He's the kind of shortstop who says, 'Come on, hit the ball to me.' A take-charge shortstop changes the game for everyone."
Though it passed almost without notice, Smalley was the league's best at his position in 1978, when he hit .273, drove in 77 runs and led all shortstops with 19 homers, 287 putouts and 121 double plays. After undertaking an off-season weight program himself—it was suggested by a Los Angeles friend, Ron Klemp—Smalley started 1979 even hotter. He considers himself a step and a half faster in the field this year; at the plate he says he's hitting for distance without trying to pull. "The bad things you hear about weights—tightness, decreased flex and speed—aren't true as long as you keep playing your sport," Smalley says. "I bet that all world-class athletes have used weights. Even sprinters must have tremendous upper-body strength. And you can't separate the physical from the psychological. As you get stronger, you think more positively."
When Texas traded him to the Twins in June of 1976, he found himself in a negative situation. The man who insisted that Smalley be part of the deal was his uncle, Minnesota Manager Gene Mauch. Because eight members of the Twins' undistinguished front office are related to owner Calvin Griffith—two of his brothers, his son, three nephews, a sister and a cousin are on the payroll—Minnesota fans were already sensitive to the slightest suggestion of nepotism, and for the next two years they heaped unrelieved abuse on Smalley, using his kinship with Mauch as the main theme of their barbs. "I guess my problem was that I was thinking so logically," says Smalley. "I mean, here's Gene Mauch, three-time Manager of the Year in the National League, the dean of all managers, the best manager in baseball. Is he going to use an incompetent guy at shortstop because he happens to be his nephew?"
Shattered by the catcalls, Smalley became tense and too conscious of his statistics. By the middle of last season, he had improved his hitting—apparently at the expense of his fielding. On July 3, following a game in which Smalley made three errors and was booed even while hitting a homer, Mauch took him aside. "He told me, 'You're my shortstop. I wouldn't trade you for any shortstop in the league,' " Smalley recalls. Much relieved, Smalley made only six errors in his last 86 games and ended Rod Carew's six-year reign as Most Valuable Twin. By then the booing had stopped.
It is hardly surprising that Smalley should become the thinking man's favorite infielder. His father, Roy Smalley Jr., was a shortstop for the Cubs, Braves and Phillies in the 1940s and '50s. "I was inundated with baseball," says Roy III. Because Roy Jr. married Mauch's sister Jolene, the kid was doubly inundated. "Every time Gene came over to the house, he and my father talked baseball all night," Smalley says. It rubbed off. Playing with Fred Lynn and Rich Dauer at USC, Smalley was a hero of the 1973 and 1974 NCAA champions. The Rangers made him the first choice of the 1974 draft and signed him for a $100,000 bonus, but it was not until he became a Twin that he blossomed.
Like Mauch, Smalley gets to the park early, studies the pitching and hitting charts and talks baseball incessantly. "I like to follow the signals and see what's coming when I'm in the field," he says. "I also watch the batter. Sometimes you know where he's going to hit by the way he's standing, by how aggressive he is. I guess you could call it intuition." Such talk is a joy to Mauch, the archetypal "good baseball man." But playing for his uncle has not been the indispensable ingredient in Roy's rise. As Marshall points out, "Smalley became a star by being Roy Smalley, not because he's Gene Mauch's nephew."


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Please guide me the correct way to achieve my objective.

A: You probably did not render your template
try something like:
from django.shortcuts import render

def myview(request):

    return render(request, 'path/template.html', {})

A: The reason you see the raw code when rendering the template, is that statements must be on a single line, both tags and comments.
For the multiline comments, you can use the comment tag:
{% comment %}
Some or all contents of this
div may be dropped over the search bar via negative margins, to make
sure that the search bar can occupy 100% of the content width. Search
bar may have padding on the left and right to accomodate the buttons.
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As for your set statement: I don't know about any set statement (is it a third-party tag?), but the template language is by design not nearly as powerful as Python code. The use of parentheses to group statements is not permitted, and you can't call functions with arguments in the same way you can do it in python. You also cannot concatenate values with + and format is not a defined template filter. I'd suggest you read up on templates in the documentation.
More advanced logic, like what you are trying to do here, should be done in the view function, and passed on to the context of the template.


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Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst like to play rough together. And by following the two-heads-are-better-than-one line of thinking, they hope to make some noise after officially turning their solo acts into a duo called Shovels & Rope two years ago.
The first product of this Odd Couple-like relationship is O' Be Joyful (Dualtone Records), a homemade record seared with country rock and punk influences. Their 11 well-crafted songs, some that belong in a Coen Brothers movie, include double shots full of piss and vinegar.
Already landing on the Americana charts before the album's July 31 release, they're taking their act to the West Coast, followed by a documentary film crew out of Nashville called the Moving Pictures Boys that's been shooting footage of them for the past two years.
Trent, 34, (left) and Hearst, 32, seem like polar opposites, and their decidedly different geographical roots are largely responsible for that. The Denver dude had trouble staying in a "horrible private school" before graduating in 1996, while the Mississippi missy often traveled the City of New Orleans train from Hazelhurst to Yazoo City. But they eventually found commonality in a wanderlust that landed them in Charleston, South Carolina.
The pair started making music that's "equal parts spirited and raucous as well as poignant and tender," Hearst said over the phone last week from (of all places) Denver, where they were taking a brief touring break and visiting some of Trent's family before heading off to Lake Powell for more serious R&R.
Feeling a musical kinship with couples as varied as John Doe-Exene Cervenka of X and the Knitters (Poor Little Critter on the Road) and Gram Parsons-Emmylou Harris, they were particularly inspired by the rough-and-smooth combination of Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello.
Both started out as artists in different bands and released solo records, but were involved in a personal relationship before they united as one musical entity. The fast-talking, wise-cracking Hearst, who at the age of 8 moved to Nashville with her mother, is more than a little bit country. Yet, her musical identity might be traced back to the Cramps' Poison Ivy and Lux Interior, not Johnny Cash and June Carter.
Hearst took a John-and-Exene vocal comparison as a "wonderful compliment," saying the dynamics of X's singing-songwriting team were "a little bit more complicated" than Johnny and June's.
"We don't have an internal power struggle, but I feel like sometimes we get received that Michael is this quiet, quiet storm and I'm always jibber-jabbering," she added.
Rockamount Cowboy in a rock and roll band, plugged his amplifier in all across the land. Athens, GA on a Friday night, saw that little girl, she could sing alright.
Hearst called "Birmingham" a "psychedlicized, semi-fictionalized, definitely abbreviated version of true events," referring to Trent as her Rockamount Cowboy.
The thoughtful, more reserved Trent chuckles when asked if that's how he envisions himself.
They formed a friendship while sometimes playing in each other's bar bands in South Carolina. Personal serenades involved old-timey country and punk rock. Trent and Hearst even put "Can't Hardly Stand It," a Charlie Feathers song covered by the Cramps, on the first record they made together (under their own names), 2008's Shovels & Rope.
"I'd bring over a case of Bud Light and we'd make little rudimentary recordings in the living room," Trent said.
"That's how we flirted with each other," Hearst interjected.
After earlier terminating a long relationship "that wasn't going anywhere to free myself up to go on musical adventures," Hearst eventually tied the knot with Trent at Charleston's only domestic vineyard, which she appreciated for its muscadine wine.
Michael: Three years. (To Cary Ann:) Is that right?
For the record, Michael Trent Robinson and Cary Ann Hearst were married at Irvin-House Vineyards on Wadmalaw Island on March 28, 2009, the year after Shovels & Rope, the record. But it was 2010 when they adapted that colorful combination as their band name.
After another guttural laugh, Hearst explained herself.
"So many years of Michael's life had been spent on the road scratching out a future for himself," she said. "So much of my time had been spent trying to distinguish myself among the sea of red-headed singer-songwriter female musicians out there that to take our names off of our own individual projects after we had kind of almost … we just made really good records. And I am not ashamed to say like, our records that we made, solo records, are plenty good to have made it a career as individuals with a band.
While renting a house on Johns Island, they also built quite a collection of their own records, with Hearst's Lions and Lambs, Trent's The Winner, both completed in 2010, and Shovels & Rope.
It was a time when, as Hearst put it, they "didn't have two pennies to rub together" while their musical inventory was collecting dust. So going — and staying — on the road to unload some of that product was a necessity.
In the rapid-fire fashion of a carnival barker, Hearst has her spiel to live audiences down pat.
Those records continue to sell well at shows while Shovels & Rope play about 200 nights a year to crowds amazed to see how one man and one woman can pull off performing with grungy guitars and other string instruments, keyboards and a beat-up drum kit all by themselves.
On O' Be Joyful, they did enlist (kidnap, they say) the brilliant Amanda Shires on fiddle for "Keeper" and "This Means War," recording in their van after soundcheck on a final tour stop with Justin Townes Earle in Louisville, Kentucky. New York City-based multi-instrumentalist Nathan Koci appears on the seductive "Tickin' Bomb" and adds some delicious horn parts on "Hail Hail" that "sounded chaotic and really great all at the same time," Trent said of his pal's work. But the fresh, inventive, Joyful noise comes mostly from the creative couple, and they want to keep it that way on tour.
Experiments included a live introduction recorded on Trent's iPhone to "Kemba's Got the Cabbage Moth Blues" at a show in Beaumont, Texas, where the folksy host asks his customers to keep the conversations down because "We don't want to know what you cleaned out behind the refrigerator last night"; and a priceless recording that plays during an otherwise somber hymnal called "This Means War," with a giggle and the voice of a 3 1/2-year-old Cary Ann, who tells her grandfather she wants a poodle she can dress up with ribbons and fingernail polish.
"Since it's such a heavy song, I thought that it might be good to sneak a little rainbow in at the end," Trent said.
On a song in which Trent's trembling, Dylanesque voice sounds like a tortured soul who decides "I'm on my own," it's a touching and surprising end to an album that'll keep you guessing.
The same can be said of Shovels & Rope. Separately, those two words are random objects that might be found in anyone's garage. But when tied together with an ampersand, they seem made for each other.
Just like Michael Trent & Cary Ann Hearst.
Images courtesy of Shovels & Rope.


claims the lawyers failed to timely perform previously agreed upon work for her, ultimately causing her to lose a real estate investment opportunity.
Jessica McKay, who resides in Philadelphia's Fishtown section, is suing local attorneys Thomas D. Kenny and Michael Kotik, as well as their firm, the Law Office of Thomas D. Kenny P.C., over claims that the two lawyers didn't properly assist her in drafting a deed for a piece of property adjacent to the plaintiff's home that the woman sought to purchase from its owner.
According to the complaint, which was filed Aug. 2 at Philadelphia's Common Pleas Court by Morton, Pa. attorney Matthew B. Weisberg and Philadelphia attorney Leo M. Mulvihill, Jr., McKay learned in late 2011 of a vacant lot adjacent to her Mercer Street home that was up for sale by its out-of-state owner who was living in Arkansas at the time.
McKay soon tracked down the owner, who agreed to sell the lot to the plaintiff for $1,000.
McKay then drafted an agreement of sale and sent it to the property's owner, who signed it and returned it to the plaintiff, according to the lawsuit.
McKay, who needed someone to draft the deed, then sought out the defendants' help; she had found the two lawyers via the Internet, specifically through an advertisement on the website Craigslist as well as at the site LegalPhilly.com.
McKay met Kenny in late October of last year, explaining to the defendant that she had a short time in which to finalize the sale of the property, since another potential buyer had expressed interest in the vacant lot.
The plaintiff soon entered into an agreement with the defendants, under which the deed to the property was to be delivered to the lot's owner by mid November of last year, according to the complaint.
The date when the deed was supposed to have been delivered passed, however, and numerous problems soon ensued, the suit states.
After numerous attempts to reach the defendants, McKay finally met with the two lawyers in early December 2011, at which time they all discussed potential options to deal with the issues, including possibly suing the lot's owner for the property, the suit states.
Months soon passed with no resolution of the issue, the lawsuit claims, and at no time did the defendants ever offer to refund any legal fees to McKay despite the problems that arose during the attorney-client relationship.
By the time mid February of this year rolled around, McKay was "fed up," the lawsuit states, and contacted the two defendants to inform them she no longer wanted them working on the matter regarding the vacant lot.
The lawsuit contains counts of professional negligence, malpractice, breach of contract and covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and breach of fiduciary duty.
The complaint accuses the defendants of being aware of the time constraints involved in the matter, but not timely acting on their responsibilities.
The suit also accuses the defendants of failing to timely and properly communicate with McKay and failing to appropriately advise her as to the problems with the deed by the date it was due.
McKay seeks $50,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, costs, interest and other court relief.
An arbitration hearing has been scheduled for early April 2013.
The case ID number is 120704581.
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Q: Let $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function satisfying $f(f(x)) =f(x)$ then which one is correct As stated in the title;  Let  $f: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R $ be a continuous function satisfying $f(f(x))$ = $f(x)$   then
(a) $f$ must be constant
(b) $f(x) = x$ for all  $x$ in range of $f$
(c) $f$ must be a non constant polynomial
(d) There is no such function
By randomly trying different functions I discovered that $f(x) = x$ and $f(x) = 1-x$ satisfy given property . So using this option (c) seems to be correct.
But , My question is that  How can I make sure that these are the only functions that hold this property  ? and if there are any other function (other than these two)  then  how should I find them .
Thank you

A: If $x$ is in the range of $f$ means $x=f(y)$ for some $y$. Since $f(f(y))=f(y)$ you have $f(x)=x$.
Just to see how arbitrary your function may be I give the following example satisfying your conditions:
$$f(x)=\left\{ \begin{array}{cc}
x,&|x|\leq 1\\
\sin(\pi x/2),& |x|>1
\end{array}\right.
$$

A: The answer should be $b$. Suppose not. That means there exists $f$ and there exists $y_0$ such that we have some $x_0$ with $f(x_0)=y_0$ and we have $f(y_0)\neq y_0$.
Then, $f(x_0)=y_0$, but $f(f(x_0))=f(y_0)\neq y_0$, which contradicts the assumtion that $f(f(x))=f(x)$ for all $x$.


FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron is backing a cross-party coalition of Remainer MPs in an astonishing intervention.
The group also wants to join forces to stop Brexit "fuelling extremism in the UK".
Mr Freeman supports a Brexit with a 'Norway-style' relationship with the European Union so the UK would pay to stay in the European Economic Area.
Earlier this month Theresa May flew to the south of France to appeal for Macron's help with Brexit.
The UK prime minister was aiming to persuade Macron to soften the EU resistance to her Brexit plan.
In the past Macron has dismissed any attempts to involve him in the Brexit talks.
Mrs May has been under pressure to win support across Europe after her plan forged in Chequers sparked both David Davis and Boris Johnson to resign.
Mrs May met with the Norfolk MP shortly before the crucial Brexit vote in June regarding whether parliament should get a final say on the deal.
However after meeting with Mrs May, he told the Eastern Daily Press: "I've been to see the prime minister and received important undertakings and decided to vote to give the prime minister the authority and freedom to negotiate the best deal she can".
The government is due to publish on Thursday the first technical notice to prepare the UK for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.
Brexit Secretary, Dominic Raab, said the Brexit advice was necessary to "mitigate the risks and make sure the UK is ready to make a success of Brexit".


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Winston Salem NC Pain Management Company To Pay $789,292.95 To Resolve Allegations of False Claims For Urine Drug Testing
Winston-Salem NC Pain Management Company to Pay $789,292.95 to Resolve Allegations of False Claims for Urine Drug Testing
U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. (PPM) and its owner, Dr. David Spivey, have agreed to pay $789,292.95 to resolve civil allegations that PPM violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug testing (UDT) between June 1, 2014 and May 24, 2017, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston.
The United States alleged that PPM knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs for presumptive and definitive UDT, in circumstances where such testing was not medically reasonable or necessary. Presumptive UDT are tests that screen for the presence of drugs, and definitive UDT are tests that identify the concentration of those drugs in a patient's system. The government alleged that PPM and Spivey automatically ordered both presumptive and definitive UDT for all patients at their monthly visits, without conducting individualized determinations of need or risk profile.
The United States further contended that PPM billed Medicare for specimen validity testing, a quality control process used to analyze a urine specimen to ensure that it has not been diluted or adulterated. Since January 2014, Medicare's guidance has been explicit that specimen validity testing should not be separately billed to Medicare. The United States asserted that PPM nonetheless submitted claims to Medicare for specimen validity testing throughout 2014 and 2015.
This settlement resolves allegations originally brought in a lawsuit filed by a whistleblower under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, which allow private parties to bring suit on behalf of the government and to share in any recovery. The whistleblower will receive $118,911.12 as her share of the federal recovery in this case, excluding recovery for allegedly improper specimen validity testing separately identified by the United States. Tips and complaints from all sources about potential fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement can also be reported to the Department of Health and Human Services at 800-HHS-TIPS (800-447-8477).
"Our District is committed to ensuring that federally-funded medical procedures are ordered based on each patient's medical needs and not for the purpose of increasing a provider's profits," said Acting United States Attorney Sandra Hairston. "We will continue to identify and pursue providers who submit false claims that lead to unnecessary costs for taxpayer-funded health care programs."
"It is vital that agencies work together to hold health care providers accountable for the misuse of taxpayer funds," said Lori A. Ahlstrand, Regional Inspector General for Audit Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "With the use of forensic tools, our auditors identified suspicious billing and partnered closely with our Office of Counsel and the United States Attorney's Office."
This case was handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of North Carolina with assistance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, as well as the North Carolina Attorney General's Medicaid Investigations Unit, the Office of Personnel Management, Office of Inspector General, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General. The United States was represented by Assistant United States Attorney Cassie Crawford.
The lawsuit is captioned United States ex rel. Kovalich v. Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. et al., No. 18-CV-44 (M.D.N.C.). The claims settled by this agreement are allegations only, and there has been no determination of liability. The Settlement Agreement is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing by PPM.
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Strange Brigade – The Thrice Damned Parts One & Two Are More Of The Same, And That's OK
Adrian Burrows 09/11/18 0 Comments
The Strange Brigade are off on their jollies once more in the first two parts of a spiffing new escapade, The Thrice Damned, and as you might expect it involves lots of undead creatures who need shooting in the head. The DLC, which is free as part of the season pass or just £5.79 by itself, gets you a new character in the shape of American Aviatrix Tessie Caldwell, a couple of new weapons, and two new amulets one based on fire and the other on ice.
The first part of the new campaign finds the Brigade heading to a mysterious island where the undead are rising once more. Given the price of the DLC – free in the season pass or £5.59 standalone for each part – I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking and indeed The Thrice Damned uses similar locations and identical enemies to those found in the main game. Rebellion have a little fun with this when a certain Pirate Captain appears yet again and the narrator spends a good half a minute questioning how Captain Tiberius is still 'alive' and why he's suddenly turned up on the island for absolutely no reason. It's modestly amusing, but the parody isn't nearly sharp enough to excuse the shameless re-use of assets.
The story continues on from the main game, during which some dastardly individuals destroyed Ammit – the part hippo, part lion and part crocodile beastie of Egyptian mythology – who guarded the gates to the afterlife, which means the undead hoards have now been left free to roam unchecked. It's the Strange Brigade's task to right this wrong by finding three McGuffins, each one conveniently distributed across three DLC episodes.
There are a couple of new puzzle types but you would have to be thicker than a whale pancake to not spot the solutions, and there's the usual array of cats to shoot and collectables to find. It takes around thirty minutes to play through but there's plenty of nooks and crannies to investigate so there's some replayability, especially if you have some chums to team up with.
Thankfully, the second episode, The Sunken Kingdom, refreshingly offers some small amendments to the standard run and gun gameplay mechanics. First off, there's the revelation that those pesky bug swarms – so adept at destroying your health bar in the main game – are vulnerable to sunlight. With this episode taking place in an underground cave, it means that an early section has you fighting within a small ring of sunlight, fending off giant scorpions and shooting bug lairs, before dashing to the next spot of sunlight. It proves to be a fun intermission and it's a shame that it's over far too soon. It's an idea that could certainly be explored further in the next episode. The Sunken Kingdom also offers a terrific trap filled maze to navigate, which is cram packed with hazards and offers an enjoyable spike – pun fully intended – in difficulty.
Each DLC is accompanied by a separate new character – American Aviatrix Tessie Caldwell for the first and ship-wrecked Japanese Naval Officer Hachiro Shimuzu for the second. Neither character really offers any discernibly different gameplay experience, but they are both visually interesting and their voice offers are charismatic and filled with fun one-lines – even if Hachiro does veer into sounding a little Scottish on occasion. The real gameplay differences come through the new amulets to use and handful of new guns and special items.
Talking of voice-overs, the MVP of Strange Brigade, the quick quipping RP accented Narrator continues to delight, as his verbose verbiage is once again on top form here.
As part of the DLC schedule, new horde and time attack maps have been added for free. Sadly the horde maps do little to mitigate the problems found with this survival mode; each of them goes on for far too long and the same loop of enemies is repeated ad-infinitum. A quick fix would be to vary up the enemy types and introduce more rewards at regular intervals, but as it stands horde is a limited experience stretched to breaking point.
Time attack continues to be the game mode to choose once the campaign is done and dusted, offering rapid and bite-sized chunks of action. However, it's enjoyment is severally hampered by the limited player-base at this moment in time. Indeed, this complaint can be levelled across Strange Brigade. If you don't have your own team of dedicated Strange Brigaders to play with online, than you'll struggle to find many strangers to share the experience with.
It's a real shame, as there's a lot to like with Strange Brigade's straight-forward co-op shoot-em-up formula, however, Rebellion Games are going to have to do more to freshen up the experience if they want players to return to see the end of The Thrice Damned.
Adrian Burrows
Adrian reviews video games. He writes Playing With History. He also likes to refer to himself in the third person. Working on life.
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Tetris Light for the kids: Not just a regular desk lamp, this mood light can be stacked in endless combinations to allow you to design your own 3D Tetris light! The Tetris light is made up of seven brightly coloured shapes (like the ones you find in the popular Tetris game), which illuminate once they come into contact with each other. The possibilities are endless for what you could create with these iconic designs.
Magic Wand Programmable Remote Control for the tweens: If you know someone who is a Harry Potter fan, or just loves geeky gifts, this unique remote control will be a big hit. This wand can "learn" up to 13 infrared codes from your existing remotes and be directly calibrated to one of 13 hand gestures. You can twist the wand to change volume, and flick it to change the channel! It will no longer matter if there isn't something worthwhile on TV, this magic wand will offer entertainment on its own.
TEAC LPU190 Turntable Recorder for the grandparents: How about a gadget that transfers all of those old vinyls into digital files? This Vinyl ripper not only transfers the songs into digital format - it can also play them. In addition, there is also an AM/FM radio and a built in amplifier. What's not to love?
D-Link Securicam Camera for the small business owners: This is a great little wireless security camera that can be set up anywhere! The mydlink-enabled Wireless Network Camera can easily be added to the home or small office network. The user can view what is happening at their house or office by just logging on to the "mydlink" website using their phone. A very reasonably priced gift (prices start at $89) and a great way to help your office or home remain safe.
iPad mini or Nexus 7 for the BIG gift: This new generation of 7" tablets are here –but which one do we choose?
What we all want in a media tablet is access to quality entertainment –music, games, social networking, web browsing and messaging. It also needs to be lightweight. The fact is, both these small tablets meet these requirements. If you regularly use a Mac or an iPhone, the iPad mini will be more familiar to you. On the other hand, if you are not a regular use of Apple products, then consider the Nexus 7.
The Nexus 7 offers more memory, a higher resolution, GPS and a cheaper price than the iPad mini ($299 for the Nexus vs $559 for the iPad mini). However, the iPad mini has a larger screen (7.9 vs. 7.0 inches) and is a little thinner than the Nexus 7. Although, some people prefer the movie –friendly rectangular format on the Nexus 7 rather the iPad's square-ish shape.
Check out our list of products that you should definitely NOT buy for your loved ones.
WiFi Bathroom Scale: It is common for most people to own scales. However, giving them as a gift may be seen as a little offensive. In particular, these Wi-Fi bathroom scales may cause you to wind up uninvited to the following year's Christmas party.
How come you ask? Well, this device automatically sends your weight, fat mass and body mass index to your PC or iPhone each time you use it. Worst of all, it can share these personal details on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. Sounds like a nightmare? It is.
18-buttonWarMouse: It's one thing to save time; however, no one has 18 fingers nor could remember the buttons needed for this device's 52 programmable settings. (The gamers might disagree with me here).
Flying Alarm clock: Unless you know someone that enjoys springing out of bed in the early hours of the morning, this gift may be quickly thrown in the bin after it's unwrapped. Reaching over to turn this alarm clock off is not enough – this incredibly annoying little device actually takes off and makes you chase it around the bedroom before quietening down!
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Connecting HR to career development
Upcoming Cannexus conference looks at timely topics such as the future of work and redeploying talent
By Sarah Dobson
HR professionals may not always appreciate their connection to the field of career development, but it's an important one, according to Sharon Ferriss, senior director of marketing and communications at CERIC, a charitable organization that advances education and research in career counselling and career development in order to increase the economic and social well-being of Canadians.
For example, there's the area of recruitment and retention.
"If employers are able to address career management within their organization, that's a strategy to show prospective employees, and current employees, that there's a future within the organization; the individual wants to be able to grow and develop and contribute more, and by taking a career management approach, the employer can support that both through the career management structures that HR might put in place, and then through the support of managers who are the ones having career conversations with their staff," she says.
Often, it's a three-way partnership, where career management within an organization is the joint responsibility of the employee, the organization – which HR often represents – and the individual manager, says Ferriss.
"Certainly, if employees see that employers are investing in their skill development, and supporting them to reach their career goals, that's going to help with engagement, and with the returns that the organization gets from the employee."
Sometimes when you say career management, people equate that with training or professional development, she says.
"While those can be components of career management, they're not synonymous. There are lots of other ways to support employees in their career development, whether that's coaching and mentoring or providing stretch assignment opportunities."
And while career management can be connected with performance management, there are differences, says Ferriss.
"Career management is understanding: What are the skills and interests and values of the individual? And how does that align with what the organization wants to achieve? And how can the employee be supported in such a way that they'll be able to reach their goals and contribute to helping the organization achieve its goals?"
Another big area where the interests of career counsellors and HR professionals intersect? The future of work, a timely topic that will be covered by former RBC Chief Human Resources Office Zabeen Hirji, now executive advisor, future of work at Deloitte, as a keynote speaker at the upcoming Cannexus21 virtual conference.
"You have career counsellors that are preparing students or clients who are in career transition to have the skills and mindsets to navigate the future of work," says Ferriss.
"And then you have HR professionals who are trying to prepare their organizations with the right talent to be able to capitalize on these trends that are coming. So it's where that supply and the demand meet, and there's an important conversation to be had here around workforce planning."
Cannexus is Canada's largest career development conference, and by going virtual in 2021, it's truly pan-Canadian, along with having more of an international component, bringing together people with an interest in career and workforce issues from different sectors.
Among the over 150 sessions exploring the theme of "Career Development for Public Good," highlights include:
"Building Back Better: How Work Needs to Change for Good After COVID" with Jim Stanford
"Fostering Positive Indigenous Community Engagement with Purpose" with Trina Maher
"Thriving with Mental & Emotional Well-being" with Shellie Deloyer
"Inclusive Supported Employment Practices for LGBTQ2S+" with Tara Buchanan
Another session that should also interest HR is "Redeploying Talent: Industry-Responsive Upskilling During COVID" with AJ Tibando, executive director at Palette, a not-for-profit dedicated to helping workers adapt to automation and build successful careers in the digital economy.
As jobs are lost in certain sectors of the economy, it's about looking at what kinds of programs can be put in place to rapidly upskill those individuals to meet the needs of other sectors where demand is increasing, says Ferriss, particularly with a focus on nontraditional or hidden talent pools.
"That could be persons with disabilities, for example, or newcomer communities, where you have fantastic talent that may be under the radar. And so how are career professionals connecting candidates to employers to help build inclusive workplaces? Obviously, that's a very timely conversation right now."
Cannexus21 will be held on Jan. 25 and 27, and Feb. 1 and 3, 2021. For more information, visit cannexus.ceric.ca. The early bird rate is available until Nov. 12.
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Lebanon Community School Corporation Board of Trustees
The Board exists for the purpose of a governing system for providing a free, public education in grades K-12 for children in Lebanon Community School Corporation.
The Board retains the powers granted by statute or rules adopted by State Board of Education, and functions as the legislative, executive, and judicial agency:
Act through written policy in which provisions neither require nor prohibit specific actions
Appointment of Superintendent who shall enforce all relevant statutes, guidelines, and policy
Manage and control all district facilities and programs, and employees, students, and other persons entering upon its premesis
The Board of Trustees consists of five (5) elected members, elected at large by the district's eligible voters for four (4) year terms. The members are elected from, and must reside in, geographic districts as follows:
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