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FXTAS, Fragile X-Associated Tremor and Ataxia Syndrome, är en neurodegenerativ sjukdom som drabbar personer över 50 år. Det är ovanligt att kvinnor drabbas. Tidigare fick många män diagnoser som normalt åldrande, Parkinsons sjukdom, senil demens eller Alzheimers sjukdom eftersom symptomen är liknande, det vill säga balanssvårigheter, skakningar och demens vilka förvärras med åren. Personer med FXTAS har inte samma intellektuella eller rörelsehandikapp som är vanligt hos fragil X-syndromet.

Forskare vid National Institutes of Health i USA var de första att identifiera sjukdomen och länka den till förändringar i FMR1-genen, som är samma gen som ger sjukdomen Fragil X-syndromet.

FXTAS, som liknar Parkinsons sjukdom, är en neurodegenerativ sjukdom, vilket innebär sönderfall av nervceller i hjärnan. Forskarna räknar med att en man på 3000 riskerar att utveckla sjukdomen.

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Neurodegenerativa sjukdomar

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Neal Oram wrote an autobographical sequence of plays called the Warp. It was originally performed, in Jan/Feb 1979, at the ICA in London, 22 hours split into 10 separate performances. The subject matter of The Warp is a mystic/hippie journey through the sixties and seventies which features, in the last play, events which occurred at the 1977 Bungay May Horse Fair.
The ICA performances were accompanied by workshops/talks on subjects featured in each of the plays. Some of the long time Barsham organisers had been asked, but decided not to participate. It didn't seem right, talking about the fairs, they were to be organised and experienced, not to be talked about.
In December 1978, a middle of the night natter at a Church Farm party, a few of us agreed it would be a shame not to participate, and it was decided that we should simply hold a mini fair in the ICA. And that's just about what happened, at the cost of a large phone bill for Peter S who pulled all the bits together.
We took over the cafe and theatre foyer, banged nails in the walls to hold the Albion Photo Exhibition. Frank's mini teepee was erected in the cafe. (The roof was too low, the teepee sprawled a little.) A trip to Islington City Farm got us the straw bales for the stage. Through the afternoon and early evening, singers sung, musicians played, actors performed, jugglers juggled and Bruce and Jill did rituals. It was gleefully silly, a spot of rural anarchy visited on one of London's centres of culture. We packed up only when the arriving playgoers made movement impossible. Later as they left we took over the theatre and a mixture of the show's musicians and ours played on, and we danced until the ICA staff threw us out between 2 and 3 in the morning.


Diane Burko: Grinnell Mt. Gould #1, #2, #3, #4, 2009; based on USGS photos of Grinnell Glacier at Glacier National Park, Montana, between 1938 and 2006. Burko's work is on view in 'Endangered: From Glaciers to Reefs,' at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., until January 31, 2019. The accompanying book is published by KMW Studio.
Though it was published at the beginning of October, Global Warming of 1.5°C, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a document with its origins in another era, one not so distant from ours but politically an age apart. To read it makes you weep not just for our future but for our present.
holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.


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Q: Laravel - 'Repository Pattern' questions Using Laravel 4, I currently have an area for all of my repositories, and then I bind these repositories to an interface to use. This is all currently working and I access these in my controllers using the standard $this->users->find(1) method.
In my User repository, I have my assignRole (attach) and removeRole (detach) methods which I took my my model/User.php class. Okay great, but now I try to run my seeds it uses the eloquent classes, e.g. User::create();.
Question 1:   Are my seed files also supposed to also use the repository pattern? I have no experience with say Mongo, but would I also seed the database the same way if I were going to switch?
Question 2: My Auth driver currently uses eloquent... so what if I also changed this? Should I be making a repository for my auth and implement things like $this->auth->login($user).
Really I'm confused as to when I should be implementing a repository interface. artisan migrate runs the seed files, which currently create a MySQL DB, what would happen if I wanted to use Mongo or a NoSQL DB?

A: good questions.
The short answer to each of your questions is "it depends".
With your seeds - if you're sticking to the pattern strictly, then yes, your seeds should probably use the repository pattern. For me, however - my seeds tend to be for a quick, one-off database population and/or for testing purposes, so using Eloquent for this is probably okay.
With your Auth driver, again, if you want to stick strictly to the pattern, then yes, you should probably code to an interface - but ask yourself whether or not you're really going to change your Auth implementation in the future - and whether the extra work/cost is really worth it.
Each project is unique in requirements, budget and particularly the likelihood of change after it goes live. You just need to assess these factors and decide the best approach for each project.

A: As Taylor Otwell (The author or laravel) has mentiond in his book From Apprentice to Artisan, the repositories are a way of separating concerns, and to avoid fat controllers.
Namely, they are used to contain business logic that should be applied to your business objects, objects that are constructed from data in your database...
So, if you ask me whether I'll use such wrapping in my seed class, then I'll personally would not, because seeding -mostly- does not require any business logic, and, in the n-tiers architecture, seeding can be considered as belonging to the DATA layer.
If ever, seeding had to apply some business logic, then you might want to do so. Maybe you'd prevent a certain salary from being inserted if the employee has less than 1 year experience or so.. this kind of logic
I wrote a little article long ago that walks through a simple separation of concerns scenario to explain we use it to begin with.
If you are interested you might check it out @ coderwall

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Be a hero like this guy: bring a power strip. Via Reddit.
–NY Sports Clubs are opening their doors to anyone needing a shower, cell phone charge or bit of exercise after the storm. BK locations include Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Bay Ridge and Midwood. Details.
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-Xfinity hotspots are free through Nov. 7. Details and locations.
-Admission to MOMA is free (normally $25) from noon to 5:30 Wednesday. Details.
–New York Historical Society is offering pay-what-you-wish admission benefiting Sandy relief through 6pm Wednesday. Details.
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Time's Up! Energy bikes are charging people's laptops and cell phones at two locations: Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space at 155 Avenue C and at ABC NO Rio 156 Rivington Street. Please Spread the word.


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We're over halfway through Broadchurch and the suspects in Trish's rape case are piling up
Caroline WestbrookWednesday 29 Mar 2017 12:46 pm
Broadchurch has made an arrest – but who's the finger of suspicion pointing at? (Picture: ITV)
As the plot thickens in Broadchurch, could there be a new suspect in Trish Winterman's rape case?
Who is new Love Island contestant Harley Brash - age, job and Instagram
Well, it's certainly sounding that way, with the news that episode six will see Hardy and Miller bring in a new suspect for questioning – one who appears to have overwhelming evidence against them.
Yup, that snap of them answering questions on the steps of the police station definitely indicates something serious is up – but with suspects all over the shop and the case becoming more and more complex, is it possible that the cops have nabbed their man?
Here's who could potentially be in those handcuffs next Monday night – from suspects we've already identified to a few new candidates…
Ed Burnett
Could Ed be the new suspect? (Picture: ITV)
Trish's boss (Lenny Henry) has certainly aroused suspicion in viewers over the past few weeks, since it's become apparent he has a rather unhealthy obsession with Trish, culminating in him attacking Cath's husband Jim after she confessed he had slept with Trish on the morning of the party.
He also refused to rent a caravan to Trish's husband Ian Winterman after hinting that he might be her attacker, saying: 'Trish didn't trust you…you don't treat people very well'.
And it's since become apparent that he knows convicted rapist Aaron Mayford (Jim Howick).
All of which means it's not looking good for Ed right now – and the fact he beat up Cath's husband Jim at the end of episode five after learning he had slept with Trish doesn't really help his case either.
Ian Winterman
Ian's not looking entirely guilt-free right now (Picture: ITV)
While we've got our eyes on Ed, we should note that Ian Winterman's also a prime suspect after being unable to account for what he was doing at the party during the time Trish was attacked.
Add in the fact he's desperate to retrieve his laptop – to the extent he was seen breaking into Trish's house at the end of episode five, possibly to retrieve it -and you have to question what he's got on there that he doesn't want anybody to see. Just what is Ian hiding?
Leo Humphries
Leo's entered the frame after it became obvious that his girlfriend was lying about his whereabouts on the night of the party – not to mention the fact that he gets his hands on an awful lot of socks from the local football team – socks which match those found in the grounds of the home where the rape took place. Could he be about to find himself in the firing line?
Clive Lucas
Clive's creepy – but is he a rapist? (Picture: ITV)
The creepy cabbie has long been under suspicion due to his lack of alibi on the night (he was 'off-radar'), admitting he'd lied to the police about his cab radio not working, and having a drawer load of mysterious objects (did they belong to any of his potential victims?) Oh, and he has past history with Trish too, having once been on an 'accidental' date with her.We wouldn't rule Clive out of the running here.
Jim Atwood
Jim slept with Trish on the morning of the party – but could he also have assaulted her? (Picture: ITV)
Jim has admitted sleeping with Trish on the morning of the party – and Cath has said that he vanished for the last two hours of the event, which also coincides with the time of the assault. Given he was seen arguing with Trish earlier in the evening, could it have led to something more sinister?
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Aaron Mayford
Aaron is a convicted criminal – but does that mean he's guilty this time? (Picture: ITV)
He's already been arrested on suspicion of the crime (and subsequently endured a lengthy interrogation about mackerel) but much of the suspicion around Aaron revolves around him being a convicted rapist already – although given one of the alleged victims was attacked when he was in prison (as we learned in episode five), we're kind of on the verge of proclaiming him to be a massive red herring.Still, stranger things have happened.
Cath Atwood
Actually we shouldn't rule Cath out either (Picture: ITV)
Trish's best friend (or whether she still will be after Monday's episode is anybody's guess) is also tipped to have been involved – not in the actual assault but in potentially orchestrating it, with fans suggesting that perhaps she knew all along Trish and Jim had slept together and planned the attack as revenge. It's as possible as anything is in Broadchurch, we suppose.
Broadchurch continues on Monday night on ITV at 9pm.
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Gobstones is similar to the game of marbles played by Muggles, except that in Gobstones the balls spit a foul smelling liquid in the face of the opposing player when they lose a point. Hogwarts students are seen playing Gobstones throughout the books, and there is even a Gobstones Club at the school.
Wizard's Chess is played the same way as normal chess, Except the pieces move by themselves, to the place the player tells them. the Chess game can get very Violent because the pieces break each other when they win It is assumed that they magically Rebuild themselves, because it is mentioned in the books that sets are loaned and inheireted.


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The overwhelming assumption in the West is that the world, with a few exceptions, is strongly opposed to Russia's military actions in Ukraine. The West itself, including the great majority of Europe, seems to be of one voice in its condemnation. But worldwide the picture is rather more complicated. In the UN General Assembly on March 3, while 141 countries condemned Russia's invasion and called for an immediate withdrawal, 35 countries abstained and five voted against. In the recent vote to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, 93 countries voted in favour, 58 abstained and 24 were against. Read more >
President Biden's Dialogue on Democracy seeks to set the agenda and put China on the defensive. The problem is that Western democracy is in serious trouble, as the Insurrection at Capitol Hill in January demonstrated. Western democracy faces two deep problems. First, it is in trouble at home and losing support. Second, China has been out-performing the West in governance terms for several decades.
China and the US share two problems: acute inequality and the growing power of the tech giants. There, alas, the similarity ends: China is taking action on both fronts, the United States on neither. It should be the other way round. Both problems have been around a lot longer in the US than in China. The West should be watching and seeing what it might learn from China.
Only three 'Historic Resolutions' have ever been adopted by the Chinese Communist Party. They are a rare event and thus to be taken seriously. The one adopted in November 2021 has three striking characteristics: the emphasis on the historical continuity of the CPC; the sheer self-confidence that the resolution exudes; and the vigour and optimism with which it looks to the future. Decried and denounced it may be in the West, but the CPC is a remarkable organisation, by far the world's most important political party.
Defeat in Afghanistan a complete humiliation for the US
15/08/21, Global Times
The US has suffered total humiliation in Afghanistan. The US and its puppet regime had no popular support. The Taliban did. Over the last 20 years Western interventionism has been an abject failure. The US's role as a global power will never recover from the defeats suffered in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention Libya and Syria. The US hugely overestimated its strength and has paid a massive price. In 2001 it believed that its unipolarity would last indefinitely and that the new century would be an American century. China, for sure, will not make the same kind of mistake in Afghanistan. It is a very different kind of power. Read more >
The G7 is no longer able to order the world around
The G7 meeting in June was an eloquent illustration of the extent to which the G7 has been seriously side-lined by China's rise. Once the G7 effectively ruled the world, now its power and authority have visibly drained away. Biden had hoped to mobilise European support for his anti-China crusade but predictably he didn't get very far. Read more >
There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously
The pandemic has played a central role in the worsening relationship between the US and China. It was Trump's pivotal weapon in shifting US public opinion against China. As a result, in the West Covid-19 was always dominated by geo-politics rather than science. One of the best illustrations of the West's attempts to politicise the issue has been the demand for an independent international team to be sent to China to investigate the causes and origins of the virus. It felt like a return to the nineteenth century when China enjoyed little sovereignty. Now, of course, things are very different as the West keeps discovering. Perhaps a more apposite proposal would be an international investigation into the dismal failure of the West's handling of the pandemic…
Historically the Chinese have been by far the best at governance. Why should the present and future be different?
The real test of governing systems is not their performance over a brief period like the last seventy years, but over a much longer historical period. For the last two millennia, the Chinese system of governance has been far superior to all others. The West insists that its system of democracy cannot be improved upon and is of universal application, China included. There are, however, strong reasons to believe that the future of Western democracy is far from certain. Certainly over the last four decades it has been out-performed by China's governance.
Why there has been an overwhelming failure in the West to understand the Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party is like no other party in the world. It requires us to rethink the very idea of what a political party is. The West believes the CPC is no more than a clone of the CPSU. In fact, it could hardly be more different. The CPSU was a catastrophic historical failure: the CPC is hugely successful. The former was frozen; the latter highly innovative, constantly on the move. It is deeply rooted in Chinese society, a hybrid of Chinese Marxism and Confucianism, shaped by and as complex as Chinese civilization of which it is a fundamental part.
US can't accept painful fact that China is now its equal
The US-China High Level Dialogue in Anchorage was highly revealing. The strong criticisms made by Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi, in the presence of the global media, about the United States suggested a new kind of self-confidence on the part of China in its growing strength. It certainly took Blinken and Sullivan by surprise. The US message, meanwhile, is that Biden is reading from the Trump playbook on China, with a soft edge or two.


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För det feministiska nätverket, se Stödstrumporna

Kompressionsstrumpor är strumpor som används för behandling, eller förebyggande av vissa sjukdomar. Kompressionsstrumpor är ett medicinskt hjälpmedel som föreskrivs av läkare, till skillnad från så kallade stödstrumpor eller antitrombosstrumpor som kan köpas på apotek eller sjukvårdsaffär.

Kompressionsstrumpor är så konstruerade att de stramar åt mest i vristen, med gradvis minskande tryck uppåt benen.  Blodets återflöde sker genom venerna med hjälp av muskelpumparna i vadmusklerna. Under längre perioder av inaktivitet, till exempel före, under och efter en operation, försämras blodets återflöde och risken för blodpropp ökar.

Kompressionsstrumpor stimulerar vadmuskelpumpens arbete i benet, och ökar det venösa flödet och minskar därmed svullnad i vävnaderna. Trycket medför även att venernas diameter minskar vilket ökar blodets flödeshastighet.

För att välja storlek på kompressionsstrumpor utgår man från ett antal omfångs- och längdmått vid olika punkter längs benet.  Enligt RAL-standard för medicinska kompressionsstrumpor krävs följande mått:

cA är omkretsen runt tåbasen
cY är omkretsen från hälen via fotvecket
cB är omkrets kring ankeln/vristen (smalaste området)
cB1 är omkretsen där vadmuskeln börjar
cC är omkrets kring vaden (bredaste området)
cD är omkrets cirka 2 cm under knävecket.
Längdmåtten tas från golvet upp till respektive mätpunkt.

Ovanstående mått tas vid utprovning av knä-höga kompressionstrumpor. Det är viktigt att måtten stämmer så att kompressionsstrumpan varken hindrar blodflödet eller ger en otillräcklig kompression. I de fall måtten inte passar in på någon standardstorlek finns oftast möjlighet att måttillverka kompressionsstrumporna exakt efter tagna mått. Stödstrumpor ger, till skillnad från kompressionsstrumpor, ett visst tryck men har ingen avtagande tryckgradient längs benet, och storleken bestäms oftast endast utifrån skostorlek. Stödstrumpor kan ej måttillverkas.

Lindning med elastiska bindor (vilket utförs av en sjuksköterska, sjukgymnast eller undersköterska) är ett alternativ till kompressionsstrumpor.

Kompressionsklasser
Strumporna delas enligt europeisk standard in i olika kompressionsklasser efter strumpans tryck vid ankeln. Trycket i strumporna anges i mmHg.

Klass I
Klass I kompressionsstrumpor ger lätt kompression (15-21 mmHg). De används vid trötthetssymtom i benen, liten svullnad, tidig venös insufficiens, mindre varicer utan ödem, trombosprofylax i samband med operation, längre flygresor m.m.

Klass II
Klass II ger normal kompression (23-32 mmHg), och används vid svåra trötthetssymtom i benen, venösa bensår, kronisk venös insufficiens, efter operation av varicer, lymfödembehandling, långtidsbehandling av trombos m.m.

Klass III och IV
Klass III (34-46 mm Hg) och IV (mer än 49 mmHg) ger hård och extra hård kompression. De används vid svårare tillstånd. Dessa strumpor kan behöva måttbeställas, och mätning görs av sjukgymnast eller sjuksköterska.

Två typer av kompressionsstrumpor
Det finns två typer av medicinska kompressionsstrumpor: rundstickade respektive flatstickade kompressionsstrumpor.

Rundstickade kompressionsstrumpor
Rundstickade kompressionsstrumpor stickas i en cylinderformad stickmaskin. De är högelastiska och orkar därför inte hålla emot vid muskelexpansion varför de lämpar sig utmärkt vid mer ytliga diagnoser, exempelvis venös insufficiens. Rundstickade kompressionsstrumpor finns enligt RAL-standard i 7 storlekar, var och en i 2 längder. De kan i många fall måttillverkas och är tillgängliga i KKL 1-3.

Flatstickade kompressionsstrumpor
Flatstickade kompressionsstrumpor stickas som ett platt tygstycke med millimeterprecision, i princip alltid efter brukarens mått, som sedan sys ihop. Flatstickade kompressionsstrumpor har därför en genomgående söm på baksida. Dessa material är lågelastiska och klarar att hålla emot även vid muskelexpansion vilket tvingar expansionen att ske in i vävnaden vilket ger en djupgående effekt, mycket lämpligt vid exempelvis lymfödem. Flatstickad kompression finns för ben och arm och måttillverkas oavsett brukarens individuella behov och anatomi.

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After a nearly two-year-long probe, all Special Counsel Robert Mueller could do was produce an inconclusive report.
"The chickensh** club" is a phrase coined by James Comey after he was US attorney for the Southern District of New York back in 2002. The title means he was head of an office of over 200 assistant US attorneys. Several months into his job, Comey, who would later head the FBI for four years before being dismissed by US President Donald Trump in 2017 in what some saw as an obstruction-of-justice move, called a staff meeting.
As reported by Jesse Eisinger in his book, The Chickensh** Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, "Comey asked the seated prosecutors a question, 'Who here has never had an acquittal or a hung jury. Please raise your hand.' The go-getters and resume builders in the office were ready. This group thought themselves the best trial lawyers in the country. Hands shot up. Backs straightened in preparation for praise. Comey looked at his flock with approbation. 'You are members of what we like to call the Chickensh** Club'."
Prosecutors who had never lost a case were prosecutors who had never dared to take tough cases. White collar cases are the toughest to make and there are multiple reasons for this. They tend to take place in linguistic fogs. Instead of money taken at the point of a gun, it's taken by promises and claims that can be made to appear as merely over-ambitious, misunderstandings of complex rules, just careless, or actually made by underlings.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent out clear - though silent - signals before the release of the report that he had joined the chickensh** club. He didn't indict Donald Trump, Jr and Jared Kushner for possible offences they may have committed, like lying to Congress and failing to disclose foreign contacts, and then interview them, if they were to be charged. That would have set up an interview with the president himself.
According to Attorney General Robert Barr's letter, the report takes the most chickensh** position possible. "The Special Counsel […] did not draw a conclusion - one way or the other [...] Instead [...] the report sets out evidence on both sides [… while it] does not conclude the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Barr himself and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, are much more definitive. They have concluded that the evidence "is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
The big, and well-known facts, remain. The Russians worked very hard to get Trump elected. Trump publicly called on them for help and instantly received it. He has not only praised Russian President Vladimir Putin - he told us all, on television, that he trusted him more than US intelligence services - but has also taken political positions that strengthen Russia and weaken America in international affairs.
Barr's summary - and possibly the report itself saying: "The Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government ..." seems to conclusively end the issue of "collusion", and allows the other issues to be swept out the door along with it.
It will arouse - even outrage - many of his opponents, including the heads of key House of Representatives committees, like Jerry Nadler (judiciary committee), Adam Schiff (intelligence committee), and Elijah J Cummings (oversight committee). It will entice district attorneys, state attorney generals, and even other federal prosecutors to go for the glory of getting Trump when the great Mueller failed.
It is hard to imagine a conclusion or a breaking point in the conflict, except one that is caused by external events - perhaps a war or a stock market crash.


Picture the typical accountant. Hunched over spreadsheets, rarely personable and unable to see past their calculators. These stereotypes of an accountant working dull roles are now being thrown to the wayside. Business and technology growth combined with more reporting requirements have given accountants many new and exciting opportunities to connect with the businesses and people they serve. A new survey of UK accountants reveals that the profession, once thought of as being way – waay behind the tech curve, is now strongly embracing social media.
The latest Wolters Kluwer Social Media Survey, which sampled the views of 1100 accountants at the end of 2013, found that 77% of respondents are now using social media sites, a small increase on 2012 but up by more than 10% compared to the survey conducted in 2011. Titled 'How accountants are using social media for marketing and promotion', each annual survey findings highlight the continuing growth in social media activity over the previous 12 months.
Just over a third of respondents are now visiting social media sites at least one a day, and a further 27% of accountants visit several times a day (the figure was 20% during 2012).
The popularity of mobile devices continues to rise with two-thirds now accessing social media via their phone and over 40% using a tablet. This is to be expected. Tablet usage has now almost trebled since the first Wolters Kluwer social media survey 24 months ago. It is also a case of clients now expected their accounting contacts to be accessible on any mobile device to get updates.
LinkedIn: Unsurprisingly in a professional sector, LinkedIn remains the most popular social media tool (it has over 13 million UK users). LinkedIn has consistently been rated in the survey as the most important social media website for professional use: 67% of social media users report they use it in their business life.
Twitter usage among accountants appears to be stable. This year, a total of 43% of respondents say they use Twitter, 18% using it in their professional lives. The corresponding figures for 2012 were 37% and 16% and, for 2011 they were 39% and 18%.
Facebook usage remains low among the Wolters Kluwer 2013 survey respondents. Although over 80% of respondents use Facebook, only 12% of them use it for professional purposes, and only 2% maintain an account solely for this purpose.
Blogs have the longest history of any of the types of social media in this survey but they have been consistently the least popular, with 84% of respondents saying that they do not use blogs at all and only 10% using them in their professional life.
Google+ is showing signs of growth in popularity among accountants but usage remains low. This year, although 74% still don't use it at all, numbers are steadily growing and 14% report that they use Google+ in their professional lives.
1. Do a Google search.
2. Search in social media.
3. Have profiles on the sites that suit you best.
6. Have a social media routine checklist.
7. Have a blog on your web site.
8. Don't forget the power of informative videos.
9. Follow leaders in your field.
10. Don't neglect the traditional marketing techniques.
The Wolters Kluwer survey can be downloaded here.


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Until now, our school has offered a "Japanese language comprehensive course" for international students and a "Japanese language practical conversation course" for Japanese residents and short-term residents, but the prolonged COVID-19 has had an impact on Japan. As it continues in Japan and short-term residents such as international students and working holidays are not allowed to enter the country, the "Japanese Practical Conversation Course" will be closed for the time being from April 2022. I did.
If you are currently living in Japan or wishing to come to Japan for a short stay and are considering enrolling in our school, you can study with the "Japanese Language Comprehensive Course".Please feel free to contact us for details such as course details, study period and contents.
Various online courses are scheduled to start in April 2022.Please consider that as well.
The Nagoya School's "Practical Japanese Conversation Course" will be resumed when it becomes possible to continue to enter Japan from overseas.
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Light lamp is not only serve the purpose of a b eautiful light providing fixture but they also greatly enhance the overall beauty and décor of the room where you are planning on placing them. There is a huge variety of light lamps available in the market. Some of the most common ones are discussed below for your convenience.
These are floor mounted lamps that provide both accent and ambient lighting. You can go for the one that provides pointed lighting or the one with non-pointed lighting. Floors lamps make a good choice in areas where there is limited space, like studio apartments.
Desk lamps are designed for providing pointed light. They are made adjustable for the convenience of the user in order to allow them to adjust the light at the most appropriate angle.
Table lamps are manufactured mainly to serve the purpose of delivering accent lighting. They can also serve the purpose of reading lamps for use in bedrooms and living rooms.
Wall mounted lamps are a good way to save some space. You can install them by the side of your bed or you can make use of them in the living room. The y also provide you the convenience of fixed wiring.
One good way of having multiple designs for your lamps is to buy more than one shades for your lamp. You can switch to other lamp shades whenever you plan on making some changes in the décor of your room. Lamp shades are available in many different textures and colors . You can go for the ones that appeal you the most.
Lamp bases are available in many different materials. The most common ones are made up of wooden and metallic finishes but you can also get your hands on the ones made up of ceramic or glass.
There are many different finishes available in different types of lamps. The best choice in this regard is to take a clue from the existing hardware finish at your house. You can have a look at the door knobs and other fixtures of your house to get an idea about their finish and then buy the same finish for your lamp as well. The most popular and commonly available lamp finishes include antique bronze, stain nickel, brushed nickel, oil rubbed bronze, etc.


The show created a lot of buzz. The Glen Ridge town council officially proclaimed November 22 "Secret Garden Day;" our local restaurant created a special Secret Garden prix fix menu to honor the show; and we ended up being sold out for our final performance!
I couldn't be prouder of the show, and am in a bit of withdrawal, now that it's over. But I plan to get back to creating more video and blog tutorials in 2014.
Why 2014? Because on Saturday, I leave for the Czech Republic to visit my daughter, Mariel, who is teaching for a year in Znojmo. She's been keeping a blog about her experiences -- I know I'm biased but it's fascinating!
In the meantime, today I am on Ronda Palazzari's blog today, talking about art journaling.
And I'll be on Stencil Girl Talk on Monday with some holiday projects and tutorials!
What beautiful colorful work and the more stuff the better on the page. I work that way too! I don't have any stencils and would love to try them. Thanks.
I've already contacted Linda and am so happy to start her off on her love of stencils. Little does she know that it's addictive!
Here's a different take on gratitude by Nicole Antoinette, writing about 5 often overlooked things we can be grateful for. Lest you think I take you for granted, I want to thank all of you who read this blog. I so appreciate the online community of supportive artists and creative talents "out there." In this season of gratitude, I want to make sure you know that I am very grateful for all of you.
I'm off to check out your post on Ronda's blog!
Congratulations Linda! Sounds like you have been super busy and no, I haven't forgotten about you! I keep checking daily to see if there are any new posts! Enjoy your visit with your daughter!!!! Safe travels!
Wow Jessica, you´ve been busy. And all kinds of exciting things happening for you! congrats on the features, and I hope you´ll have a wonderful time with your daughter! thanks for the advice with my pictures. I´m afraid it´ll lower the quality of the prints though ... Not sure yet what to do. Have you noticed any difference in quality after you did that?
So happy the show was a success.. and now off to visit your beautiful Mariel. Will be so wonderful to see her and spend time. You know how much I love your art and journaling style.
Happy for Linda! Happy for you, Jessica, and your successful production! Happy for Mariel who will be overjoyed to see her Mama! Much for which to be thankful! Mwah!
Congratulations on the show, and have a wonderful time with Mariel!


Student wellbeing is essential for learning. The Yarra Hills Secondary College Wellbeing Team work to support the emotional, social and material wellbeing of our students so that they can achieve their best academically.
The Wellbeing Team can help students with issues such as friendships, mental health, bullying, drug and alcohol use, social issues, abuse, self-esteem and resilience. We also work with families to address family relationships and assist with referrals to external agencies.
The Student Wellbeing Team is available to all students within our dedicated wellbeing portable, by either self-referral, or by referral from teachers or parents.
Heads of School and Year Level Coordinators also play an active role in supporting students and families and making referrals to the Wellbeing Team. Our teachers work within a Restorative Practice model to resolve classroom issues and support students' emotional wellbeing in the classroom.
Salvo Care Line – crisis counselling service available throughout Australia.
Living is for Everyone (LIFE) – information resources for individuals and organisations involved in suicide and self-harm prevention activities.


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Our online, standardised assessment is fun, quick and easy to administer. Usually adult led, older children can work independently through the assessment. It is fully audio supported so no demand is placed on literacy ability. It looks at key areas of understanding of language for the classroom.
It is used universally in year 3 or 4 and then to track identified children. Instant results identify where support is needed and recommend appropriate class and small group interventions. If a child needs specialist support this is clearly highlighted to help you make the most of your external agency support.
Junior Language Link provides planned and resourced interventions for a graduated approach. Recommended high quality teaching strategies and classroom resources allow the teacher to support SLCN universally. Our planned and fully resourced language groups allow support staff to provide targeted interventions and for children who need a little bit extra our supplementary teaching plans offer intensive focussed individual support.
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The Texas REALTORS® Leadership Program (TRLP) provides an innovative and flexible learning experience delivered at the local level that focuses on leadership development in the context of a learning community. TRLP's mission is to identify, educate, and develop future leaders for the greater good of their association, community, and personal life. The program encourages participants to transform their knowledge into volunteer service.
Core values of the Texas REALTORS® Leadership Program include community, service, integrity, and commitment. TRLP cultivates leaders across the state by educating them about leadership roles and the process to begin their involvement. Further, it helps build and strengthen key leadership skills to effect change and make a difference in both professional and personal areas of interest. In short, the purpose of TRLP is to prepare the next generation of Texas REALTORS® to meet future challenges. The Texas REALTORS® Leadership Program includes seminars, guest speakers, group discussions, and leadership exercises that address vital issues affecting Texas REALTORS®. The format promotes discussion and involvement by all participants.
Interested in the leadership program? Email Professional Development or contact your local association/board about their next TRLP start date and application access.


In Canada, there are provincial organizations which focus on rural distinctions that impact their consumers and also participants. Scottdale has the biggest population of Residence Inspectors which was approximated in 2013 as part of a government study at being around 1500.  The majority of these are, in Canada, members of the Scottdale Association of Certified Residence Examiners (ScottdaleACHI)  Several local governments within the USA as well as Canada call for that new-home contractors supply a residence guarantee for a limited duration, and this usually leads to home contractors conducting a pre-delivery assessment with the buyer.
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Greece: Bond Opportunity Or Euro Default Risk?
Greek elections this month will keep that market in turmoil, but low Greek sovereign bond prices could be an opportunity.
While Greece, now categorized as an emerging market, remains a euro default risk, the Eurozone crisis has taught investors that keeping the euro together with creative economic solutions is more likely, writes Lena Komileva, chief economist at G+ Economics in London.
The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (GREK) is down 11.4% today, and its largest component, the National Bank of Greece (NBG), is down 15.4%. More broadly, emerging markets are selling off on signs of weakness in China: the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is down 1.2% and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) is down nearly 1.5%.
The background: the Greek coalition government is still negotiating the final bailout financing with the so-called Troika - the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank. Agreements end in 2015. The government can't agree to much more austerity to break free of the Troika, as desired, especially with signs that the Greek economy is growing. Meanwhile, election deadlines required that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras name his presidential candidate today: Stavros Dimas, a senior conservative party figure and former EU commissioner for the environment. Samaras needs opposition support for the presidential vote, or snap elections could result in January, English-language daily Kathimerini reports.
Bottom line: With tensions high, the Greek leftist Syriza Party is positioned to gain seats and potentially control parliament.
"Tail-risk electoral uncertainty in Greece, the prospect of a leftist government and no official financing backstop from the Troika may ensure a period of tumultuous but potentially effective debt write-off negotiations between Greece and the rest of the EU. That would be the EU's price for keeping the euro together, stabilise South-Eastern European markets at risk of Russian influence ... The market's conviction that the European Central Bank is on the route to quantitative easing, and that national systemic risks are contained, means that a year-end selloff spurred by Greek political risk would be taken as a good opportunity to come back into European assets at more fundamentally sound levels. But there is also an opportunity for Greece here. Greek 10-year sovereign yields in a 7-9% range this quarter, even before this latest selloff, are neither sustainable nor a sign of default-free risk ... EU politicians know that, after a 27% contraction of the Greek economy and with a 50% youth unemployment rate, Greece cannot sustain a bigger economic and social cost and further austerity can do no good and a lot of harm. An official debt write-off would be worth a lot more in the eyes of EU creditors than another Troika programme in Greece.
The alternative is to allow the vortex of Greek political radicalism to push Greece out of the euro and effectively give Russian President Vladimir Putin scope to increase his grip on the South-East of Europe at the EU's expense. That would be an irreversible error." For the US and the UK, that's "an unthinkable geopolitical scenario ... keeping Greece in the euro, against the economic odds, is about managing EU geopolitical tail risks as much as it is about preserving the euro's integrity."
A quick scan of bond funds shows that Greece's neighbor across the Aegean, Turkey, is a favored bet, especially in the iShares Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF (EMHY) and the Western Asset Emerging Market Debt Fund (ESD). More from Komileva in a Reuters blog post today.


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Swansea vs Fulham PREDICTION & BETTING TIPS - 03/01/2022
Swansea vs Fulham Prediction was posted on: December 30, 2021
Swansea City and Fulham square off against each other at Swansea.com Stadium in a highly-anticipated Championship game. The Swans suffered yet another dip in form, with the team losing each of their last three league fixtures, and, no doubt, they are low on spirits ahead of the visit of Fulham. Since Russell Martin should have a full squad to choose from, we predict that the hosts are going to grab something from Monday's clash.
The Cottagers, on the other hand, do not seem to be at their sharpest ahead of the first game of the year, and, taking everything into account, we do not believe that they are capable of beating Swansea in Wales. Ivan Cavaleiro is sidelined with injury, but he should be the only absentee in the away team. Fulham defeated Swansea 3-1 in London in the first half of the season.
Swansea vs Fulham H2H
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Highlighted Player (Korey Smith):
After spending his youth career at Norwich City, Korey Smith made his first-team debut for the Canaries in January 2008 in the FA Cup clash against Charlton Athletic. Smith played 67 league games for Norwich City and he scored 4 goals for the club, but in 2013 he signed a two-year deal with Oldham Athletic.
The midfielder who was born on 31 January, 1991, scored one goal in 42 appearances for the club in the 2013/2014 campaign and on 27 June, 2014, he joined Bristol City for an undisclosed fee. It has to be noted that he won Johnstone's Paint Trophy with the Robins in his first season with the team.
Korey Smith was born in Hatfield, England and he has two younger sisters, Alice and Harriet. Smith is a defensive midfielder, but he is capable of operating as central midfielder and right back as well. The Bristol City footballer also represented the likes of Barnsley and Yeovil Town (on loan) in the past.
Highlighted Team (Fulham):
Fulham are a club from London that play in the Premier League. The capital club dropped to the English second tier at the end of the 2013/2014 Premier League campaign after failing to impress in the elite competition, but managed to return in season 2018/2019.
Fulham were founded in 1879 and they play their home matches at Craven Cottage. Fulham are the oldest-established club from the English capital to have played in the top flight.
Fulham finished the 2008/2009 Premier League campaign in seventh place in the standings and that is considered the team's biggest success, speaking of their participation in the Premier League.
The Cottagers played in the Europa League twice and they did well to reach the FA Cup final in 1975, but they were beaten by their local rivals West Ham United in the title game (0-2). Chelsea are regarded as Fulham's bitter rivals as well and the two teams take on each other in the North London derby.


When we think of finished pots, we tend to think first of pots covered in richly colored, shiny glazes. But is that the only possibility? Let's take a look at the different ways pottery can be decorated.
Glazes are the most often used form of pottery decoration. They come in a huge variety, including nearly every color imaginable and many types of textures. Glazing can transform a simple pot into something really special and the techniques you can use are endless. On a practical level glazes are used to make a pot vitreous and both food and liquid safe. When a piece has been bisque fired and then put through a separate glaze firing, it makes the pot much more durable. Raw glazed work tends to flake off more easily and you won't get this problem with a separate glaze firing.
Glazes can be laid on top of each other to create even more effects. This is called overglazing. Some "overglazes" are simply other glazes that are applied on top of another unfired glaze that will mature at the same temperature. True overglazes may also be applied after the base glaze has already been fired. These overglazes will require the ware to go through a third firing, at a lower temperature than the base glaze to.
Underglazes are not glazes themselves, but are colorants applied to unfired bisqueware (greenware) before an overglaze is applied (usually the overglaze is transparent to really let the colors of the underglaze shine through). Underglazes provide the flexibility for a huge range of creativity. Firstly, there's the range of colours you can use, as you can mix the underglazes to get your perfect shade. With underglazes you have the opportunity to paint your own detailed designs and patterns. You can even use the underglazes like watercolors, as when you're painting straight onto a rough clay surface, there's less chance of the glazes slipping.
Slips and engobes are essentially the same thing. The difference in term is basically a difference in regional language preference. "Slip" is more common in Europe, and "engobe" is more common in North America. Both words refer to a liquid slurry consisting of clay or clay mixed with coloring agents. Slips and engobes are used to decorate wet greenware, adding color, texture, or two-dimensional design. The advantages of using an engobe are that you can use them for raw (or single) firing, meaning you can apply them to work when it is still slightly damp or even leather hard. Unlike, glassy glazes, engobes usually produce a matt surface rather than a glossy shine. The exception to engobes being matt in texture is terra sigillata, which can be buffed to have a higher shine to it.
Clay is a master chameleon. With skill, clay can successfully visually mimic all sorts of substances, from metal to old shoes.
Clay is impressionable. Textures can readily be added to wet pots through impressing a variety of tools and objects into the surface.
Clay is also carve-able. Marks and designs can be incised into leather-hard greenware. By doing so at the leather-hard stage of drying, the cuts retain their crispness. Leather-hard greenware also allows for more ease when incising more intricate patterns.
Marbling with two different types of clay, say a white clay body and a terracotta (or alternatively a colored clay) is a wonderful way to create different effects on your pottery. One of the best ways to do it, is to roll out the two different colors of clay into sheets, then stack them on top of each other. Then start gently rolling the whole block. The colors will mix together and make the most beautiful marbled patterns and from there you can hand build or use a mold to create your desired shape.


I was looking for a way to review ELA standards and ensure that students are completing the required nightly reading. The editable version is a Word Document that can be changed to suit your needs. The thumbnail shows it on two pages, but it is actually one editable page.


To commemorate the wildly inaccurate polling in the lead up to the New Hampshire primary, Flint Expatriates has added a poll of its own. It's in the top right-hand corner of the site. This is a risky endeavor because it offers some indication of how few people actually read Flint Expatriates, but it's a risk I'm willing to take.
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Rosie Duffield and antisemitism: who's pulling her strings?
Whitstable MP, Whitstable politics	by christopherjamesstone March 3, 2019 September 22, 2021
Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield has a slim majority of 187 votes
Last week, Canterbury MP, Rosie Duffield, made the following request on social media:-
Rosie Duffield MP Verified account @RosieDuffield1 Feb 27
Can anyone who thinks it's okay to use the hashtag #IStandWithChrisWilliamson do me a massive favour and unfollow me please! His values are not those of @UKLabour and have no place in our beloved Party.
The request was made on the same day that Derby North MP, Chris Williamson, a strong supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, was suspended by the Labour Party after a group of Labour MPs complained about remarks he had made at a meeting in East Yorkshire.
A strongly worded letter written by Clive Efford MP, chair of a group known as the Labour Tribune, called for Williamson's suspension after he had offered an opinion that Labour had been "too apologetic" against allegations of anti-Semitism when the party had always been strongly anti-racist.
37 Labour MPs put their names to Efford's letter – including my own Canterbury MP, Rosie Duffield. Amongst the allegations in the letter, which was circulated publicly via the Labour Tribune's Twitter page, lay the following statement: "Chris Williamson has just been told to cancel his booking for a room in the House of Commons to show a film in support of someone who has been thrown out of the party for making antisemitic comments."
This statement was untruthful.
In fact, Williamson had booked a room at the House of Commons for a screening of a film by Jon Pullman, WitchHunt, a documentary focusing on the accusations of antisemitism against Jacqueline (Jackie) Walker – a Black and Jewish anti-racist campaigner who has certainly not been "kicked out of the party", because her hearing, against suspension from the party, is not scheduled until 26 March.
You can view the whole movie on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMWCnHx8nQ
WitchHunt premiered at the Palace Cinema, Broadstairs on Sunday, 3 February with a London screening taking place a week later, followed by a Q and A session featuring Pullman, Alexei Sayle, Jackie Walker and Justin Schlosberg. It was chaired by Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, a founding member of the group Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). JVL had been expecting to host the screening at the House of Commons on 4 March. Williamson's only part in this was the hiring of the House of Commons room. He says that he didn't plan to attend this screening – the cancellation of which, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) claims was due to "intimidation".
The film's website states that "Through a series of interviews, analysis and witness testimony, WitchHunt explores the connections between the attacks on Labour, the ongoing tragedy of Palestine and the wider struggle against race-based oppression. It argues that if it is to mean anything at all, the fight against racism must be a shared one that includes all peoples."
The acclaimed film director, Mike Leigh, says of the film:-
"This impeccably-executed film exposes with chilling accuracy the terrifying threat that now confronts democracy, and the depressing intractability of the Israel-Palestine situation."
And Ken Loach, the celebrated director of I Daniel Blake, commented on the documentary's focus as follows:-
"The case of Jackie Walker is important. This film asks whether her lengthy suspension from the Labour Party and attempts to expel her are fair, or an injustice which should be challenged. She is not the only one in this position. See the film and make up your own mind"
Unfortunately, anyone who wanted to see it at the House of Commons was prevented from doing so by the objections of MPs such as Rosie Duffield.
Duffield's subsequent tweet of rejection towards anyone who showed support for Chris Williamson, was greeted by many with dismay – but also offence. Eric Segal, who is a Socialist, Jewish, a member of Unite and Secretary of the South East Kent Trades Union council, responded as follows:-
Eric Segal
28 February at 18:40 ·
I've been asked to defriend Rosie Duffield Canterbury MP for my concern at the suspension of Chris Williamson MP for his alleged anti Semitic comments. My reply to Rosie is:
"Hallo Rosie, you have asked me to defriend you on Twitter for expressing my concern at the suspension of the Labour MP Chris Williamson.
Rosie, my paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Kiev in Ukraine. Most if not all of our remaining relatives were murdered by the nazis for being Jewish. You may want to read about this in the book about Babi Yar the largest recorded case of genocide.
My maternal grandparents were also Jewish refugees from a small village near Warsaw in Poland. They were socialists and were forced to flee from persecution. My grandfather arrived in Britain and he continued his battles as a trade unionist fighting for a shorter working week in the tailor and garment workers union.
My grandfathers and grandfathers brothers and sisters nieces and nephews were also murdered in the death camps or on the death march out of Auschwitz for the crime of being Jewish.
I try to follow in the footsteps of socialists such as my grandfather and I consider your decision to attempt defriend me on Twitter an affront to the ideas and principles of true socialists, regards Eric Segal"
Mr Segal went on to explain to Duffield, on Twitter, that Chris Williamson had used official statistics published by the General Secretary of the Labour Party to "confirm that over the last 10 months complaints received led to 453 cases being investigated for antisemitism which equals 1/12th of 1% of the membership". Duffield replied to Segal: "Thanks for your important and fascinating contribution Eric, now please do as I asked (as you are clearly a Chris Williamson fan) and unfollow me."
Presumably, in an effort to clarify her position for constituents, Rosie Duffield posted the following comment on Facebook:-
Having read these comments, South Thanet constituent, Jason Tipple, asked Duffield if she had reported the individuals she had accused of anti-Semitism, and what was the outcome? Tipple says that Duffield then deleted him from her Facebook page – along with someone else "who had asked her to consider looking at the views of Jewish Voice for Labour."
Duffield's reference to "Luciana" is clearly to the former Labour MP, Luciana Berger, who recently, and controversially, deserted Duffield's "beloved" Labour Party while choosing nonetheless to hold on to her parliamentary seat, and salary, and refusing to test her constituency's allegiance to her with a by-election. But it was the mention of our own MP's support for Ella Rose that caused immediate concern for many of Duffield's constituents, including Diane Langford, a Labour Party member, former trade union worker and campaigner for the NHS as well as for Palestinian human rights, who commented as follows:-
"I was extremely disturbed to learn that our MP, Rosie Duffield, should count Ella Rose amongst her 'friends' and 'reliable guides'. Is Ms Duffield not aware that Ms Rose was directly employed by the Israeli Embassy and, was filmed, while director of Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), threatening to use the Israeli army fighting technique, Krav Maga, to 'take' Black Jewish writer and activist, Jackie Walker?"
"Furthermore," says Langford, "Ms Duffield appears to ventriloquise Ms Rose by cynically adopting the language of anti-racists. But Palestine Solidarity campaigners have long been at pains to point out that criticism of the State of Israel is not anti-Semitic, and resisted the Israeli tactic of diverting attention from its crimes against Palestinians by conflating the two. For Ms Duffield to twist matters, by accusing some local Labour Party members of using 'anti-semitic and racist myths and tropes about Jews' is not only bizarre, but grossly insulting."
Diane Langford asks why Duffield "follows the lead of the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel" after Joan Ryan MP was filmed trying to set up a Labour Member as an anti-Semite merely for asking how a two-state solution would be possible while Israel is building settlements all over the West Bank? Ryan remains chair of Labour Friends of Israel – although she, too, has resigned from the Labour Party.
Langford believes that members of JLM and Friends of Israel "clearly dread, and will work ceaselessly against, the possibility of a Corbyn-led government that might seek justice for Palestine." She goes on to ask: "Was Ms Duffield already a supporter of such lobbyists before taking office? Or groomed and used by them subsequently? Does our MP fully understand the implications of her actions, making her avowed support for Corbyn dubious? If so, surely she is allied to those who are consciously working to sabotage him?"
Certainly, Duffield's chosen support for Jewish Labour Movement – above that of Jewish Voice for Labour – raises further questions – for me in particular. Last year, Duffield was photographed at a rally in Westminster that was ostensibly against 'anti-Semitism" but populated by extreme right wing elements.
Many Canterbury constituents questioned why our MP was supporting an event widely viewed as anti-Corbyn, and attended by the likes of Ian Paisley Jnr and the former Thatcher ally, Norman Tebbit. Members of Jewish Voice for Labour were also there, but speaking up for Jeremy Corbyn, and against the allegations of anti-Semitism that had been ranged against the Labour leader at the event and in the mainstream media.
At that time, I found myself engaged in an online conversation with a member of JVL who suggested I might like to join the group. Although I have Jewish heritage, I learned that this was not required for membership because JVL admits members who "identify as Jewish." However, it only allows full membership to Labour Party members.
In fact, I am a Labour "supporter" and belong to no political party, so I could not have joined the group – even had I wanted to. But out of curiosity, I then checked the membership requirements of Jewish Labour Movement on Wikipedia to discover that although the organisation boasts a long affiliation to the Labour Party, "the Jewish Labour Movement accepts full membership to both non-Jewish and non-Labour Party members.[4][5]"
This raised the question for me of exactly how many members of JLM might be hostile to the Labour Party, in general, and to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in particular. If JLM consists of members who are non-Jewish and non-Labour, even Norman Tebbit would not have been excluded – and yet the group is often described in the mainstream media as "the Jewish community" – thereby marginalising, if not totally ignoring, the Jewish community of JVL. This week I learned that Rosie Duffield herself is actually a fully paid up member of JLM – as she boasted on a Twitter post.
It would be good to know if Duffield ever thought to check the membership requirements for either group before she joined Jewish Labour Movement and why she chose only to make "friends" among JLM. Could it be that perhaps it was they who made friends with Rosie?
Our previous Labour parliamentary candidate in Canterbury constituency was the respected former deputy general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, Hugh Lanning. Lanning also happened to be the Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – a position he had held since 2009. Members and supporters of our Constituency Labour Party (CLP) expected Lanning to stand in the 2017 general election, particularly as he had greatly increased the local Labour vote in 2015. However, as Diane Langford articulates, "Rosie Duffield was imposed on us, at the very last moment, and without a proper selection process."
Why that should have happened is a question still being asked by many in the CLP – who also complain they have yet to receive a satisfactory answer. I, too, as an ordinary constituent, have found Canterbury CLP to be unhelpful of late.
While expressing on social media my personal concern for my MP's signature appearing on the Labour Tribune letter, I received a facetious response from the local party's Twitter account informing me "As a non-member of the Labour Party, it's something you really don't need to worry yourself about too much Julie."
I reminded them that, while it's true I am not a party member, I am, nevertheless, a Canterbury constituent "and what our MP does, says – and writes on social media – impacts upon me and every other constituent she's charged to represent in parliament. This is not all about you at the CLP -though you seem to think it is. That's a great shame."
Are Rosie Duffield's constituents considered to be less important than local party members? It would appear Canterbury CLP thinks so, but considering the MP's slim majority of only 187 votes, our MP would do well to reverse thinking on that. In fact, Duffield's electoral victory in Canterbury was due to the hard work of many people across the whole district, including a "paint the town red" campaign in my own town of Whitstable by which residents were persuaded to display Labour signs conspicuously on their properties – and so give the lie to the mainstream media slur that Corbyn was unelectable. The campaign was successful, but the signs were for Labour – not Duffield.
As mentioned, Luciana Berger has now deserted Labour for the Independent Group, formed not only of the disgruntled Labour exiles: Chukka Umunna. Ann Coffey, Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Gavin, Shuker, Joan Ryan and Angela Smith (she of the "funny tinge" gaffs and malapropisms) but also disgruntled Tories to boot.
While MPs of all parties have rightfully decried any bullying or threats that Berger may have received on social media and elsewhere – it's equally important to note that this kind of atrocious conduct is not wholly reserved for Berger or other Jewish Labour MPs. Jackie Walker's acclaimed play, The Lynching, formerly performed as a one-woman show at our own Whitstable Labour Club, though after significant opposition by Rosie Duffield, (who also failed to attend the performance) has been re-cast featuring three professional actors. The revamped play was given a reading for an invited audience last week in London – though at a secret venue – in consideration of the fact that a previous event Jackie Walker was attending had to be cancelled due to a bomb threat.
Even while writing this piece, I have discovered that both Naomi Idrissi-Wimbourne and Jenny Manson, of JVL, have received recent threats:-
Naomi Wimborne-idrissi reports
1 March at 10:44 ·
"The Witchhunt is coming closer to home. My Jewish Voice for Labour comrade Jenny Manson and I have received several threatening phone calls over recent days. I've just been told, by a male voice calling from a private number, 'You're the next to go, you're the next to go, we have files on you, you're the next to go.' Police have been informed."
I also wonder if my MP is aware of the fear of solidarity between the Black community and Palestinians? "From Ferguson to Palestine" was a slogan that caused Zionist groups in the USA to denounce Black Lives Matter and withdraw support from the organisation. This is mirrored in the UK by the disproportionate number of Black activists who have been caught up in the Labour Party "witch hunt" of Palestine supporters – notably Jackie Walker and Marc Wadsworth, while the issue of Black deaths in custody at the hands of the state, the rise in anti-Black racism and Islamophobia are ignored by the pro-Israel MPs.
It should be noted that Chris Williamson had been active on this issue, attending and also speaking at the Grassroots Black Left Labour Party conference fringe meeting in Liverpool on the theme of building a new anti-racist movement.
Whether my MP likes it or not, there are many people – Labour members as well as Canterbury constituents – for whom the following statement resonates:-
"In truth, the crisis in the Labour Party was not primarily about anti-Semitism. It was part of a broader effort by a group of disgruntled Blairites and their allies outside the party to overthrow Jeremy Corbyn and to reverse his progressive policies."
Not my words, but those of Avi Shlaim, a Jewish Oxford professor reviewing Al Jazeera's expose of interference in British politics in general and the Labour Party in particular.
Diane Langford poses some further questions for Rosie Duffield regarding the latter's unswerving faith in "friends" such as Berger, Rose and JLM:
"Whose interests are being served by MPs supporting the Jewish Labour Movement, Labour Friends of Israel and the apartheid Israeli regime? Constituents who voted for Ms Duffield deserve answers. They certainly question the hubris of a recent arrival in the House of Commons assuming the right to endorse the suspension of an MP of the calibre of Chris Williamson, whose position has been wholly distorted and misrepresented. On whose behalf does Rosie Duffield take such actions? We believe we deserve better representation."
Finally, Mike Kennard of Chatham and Aylesford Labour, publicly posted the following letter that he wrote to Jeremy Corbyn last week. It's a passionate plea and sums up the views of so many lifelong supporters of Labour on an issue which, at best, seems largely misunderstood and at worst, tragically and ineffectively manipulated by those who seek to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters. I wonder if Rosie Duffield has read it – or will she continue only to express the views of her "friends" in JLM?
Mike Kennard
Dear Jeremy,
I am writing to express my solidarity with Chris Williamson and my disgust at his suspension for expressing views with which I concur.
The Labour Party is currently the major party with the best anti-racist record and the least anti-semitic. The furore created by the right wing, in conjunction with their friends in the media and in other parties is not about anti-semitism, it is aimed at stopping the turn back towards socialist policies, at our support for Palestinian rights and at your leadership in particular. The measures that have been taken, including the ill-judged adoption of the flawed IHRA definition, will never be enough because the Party has buckled instead of standing up for our programme and record. There is a principle on social media which would be appropriate in this case, i.e. don't feed the trolls, the taste of blood just makes them hungrier.
There is no place for racism of any sort, and as Jenny Formby has shown, action has been taken at a faster rate that under the previous administration. No expressions of anti-semitic views are acceptable and must be dealt with. Where they represent deeply held prejudice the holder must be removed from the Party. Sometimes justified anger at the actions of the violent and rapacious Israeli state spills over into ill-judged attitudes towards Jews; in this case, strongly worded reprimands and re-education should be the initial response, proceeding to further action if no change in attitude is seen. However, we should not be blind to the activities of the Israeli embassy in this whole campaign. Fortunately Joan Ryan is by her own choice no longer a member, but she should have been suspended when she was revealed as the agent of an alien foreign power within the PLP.
The suspension of Chris Williamson is already starting to have the effect desired by the right wing, with some socialists walking out in disgust. If you do not take a stand you will have negated your own history as a stalwart for socialism throughout the dark days of New Labour and betrayed the hundreds of thousands of new members who have flocked to the Party since 2015.
I write this not as a young and idealistic novice but as someone who first joined the Party during the general election – in 1964.
Yours fraternally
(membership no. L1296386)
If you are a Labour Party member you can put your name to a document in solidarity with Chris Williamson MP: here
Julie Wassmer lives in Whitstable. She's a writer and campaigner for human rights and environmental issues such as fracking.
www.juliewassmer.com
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Shernaz Dinshaw	 on March 4, 2019 at 9:56 am
Julie- a brilliant piece. Exactly researched and so thorough- and crafted with such precision. Dix points! But I wish it didn't have to be. I was particularly touched by Mike's letter. So poignant.
I had my own thoughts on Ms Duffield before I read your brilliant piece- here's what I thought-
What a precarious position she is in.
An inexperienced politician.
A narrow seat.
That she has chosen to align herself with the great socialist Tony Blair (!) and others of his ilk is an extremely unfortunate situation, especially for her.
In other circumstances Rosie would have hot footed it to the Umunna camp of mediocrity by now I suspect. After all, her heroes have left! But she dare not. She cannot. Her political career will be over as quickly as it began.
I should by rights unfollow her as she has asked of those of us who defend Chris Williamson but I do not Tweet at all- and am not sure she will read this however I believe there is a reek of McCarthyism in the air and in her narrow political booth, there's no room for another voice or view. This is a naive display from her. We are not in a senior school playground after all. Her comments are immature.
I feel sorry for Rosie.
How idiotic she seems.
Being a single mother could not have been easy. I know it wasn't for me. But.
From classroom assistant to MP in one swift swoop; plopped into a seat where many of us expected Hugh to be our candidate, bungling her way through hustings, and managing a victory- yet we remained kind and even annoyingly hopeful.
Her beloved Labour Party that she ascribes to is one that really doesn't do it for me- it's not one I care to recognise-as someone who endorsed her because I wanted more than anything a Corbyn government, I am utterly disappointed. RD doesn't speak for me.
And it might help if she spent some time learning how to speak for herself – because somewhere inside her I believe she wants to do the right thing. But that could be my own naivety.
I suppose if we wanted to be kind we could even say she fell in with the wrong crowd in the new school! I hate to think she started off that way and none of us knew!
G. Halfpenny	 on March 4, 2019 at 12:45 pm
Thank you so much for this excellent piece Julie. I was astounded to be asked by our MP to defriend her because I fully support Chris Williamson. The usual mix of arrogance and ignorance from this source I regret to say. I replied saying that CW is a very hard working and loyal MP, unlike some. Then I blocked her. Oh how we all regret that Hugh was pushed out by this ambitious but thick skinned individual. There must be some mechanism to ensure the local members have a choice of candidates for ppc at the next election. The seat will be lost otherwise.
Julie Wassmer	 on March 4, 2019 at 7:07 pm
Shernaz and Grace, thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog piece and to Chris (Stone) too for allowing me to guest on his page. Your views are very important and I'm grateful to you both for posting on this Comments section. I do believe we are all singing from the same hymn sheet on this issue – and I'm happy that we are. As campaigners we must continue to speak truth to power. Juliexx
Tyler Bartlett-Bray	 on March 4, 2019 at 9:41 pm
Yes thanks very much for this Julie, this has been an enlightening and interesting read, I thank you for taking the time to write this and as a party member myself I hope that very soon we will see a version of Labour under JC committed to its socialist values and willing to stand by them, with MP's that understand they are public servants, elected by voters who in general are voting for JC and Labour values not them personally.
Terence Eaton	 on March 5, 2019 at 2:35 pm
A fantastic article, full of valid information that should be sent to all LP members initially and then the nation. My MP signed that letter I have emailed him expressing my dismay. I await a reply
Wise Ancients	 on March 6, 2019 at 2:28 am
Loved the article! Have been out of the loop. I feel greatly looped back in thank you!
Sophie Johnson	 on March 16, 2019 at 11:49 am
'While MPs of all parties have rightfully decried any bullying or threats that Berger may have received on social media and elsewhere ..'
Really? Well, I decry the character assassinations that Berger seeks to accomplish every time she opens her mouth. It is surely time to discipline her and her ethnic cohorts for their constance, crass and gratuitous resorts to the 'antisemite' bludgeon. Enough already, Luciana and Co. You are embarrassing well bred Jews.
And Rosie Duffield? Oh, she clearly trusts that her screeching philosemitism is enough to construct her glorious political career.
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