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Wyoming and women's suffrage: How the Equality State earned its name
Even most Americans would struggle to pinpoint Wyoming on a U.S. map. The least-populous, and second-least densely populated, of the United States is a perennial afterthought in discussions of the American union. Wyoming has much to offer outside observers, however.
In addition to Yellowstone National Park, which lies mostly within the state's boundaries, Wyoming's greatest claim to fame is that it was the first political jurisdiction in the world to maintain the right to vote for all women. Other political jurisdictions had introduced limited women's suffrage, usually based upon property qualifications, and almost always relegated to local elections. Wyoming, however, has continuously maintained this fundamental right without qualification since 1869, during its first legislative session as a territory of the United States. The state's egalitarian trailblazers refused to budge even when the its accession to statehood was jeopardized by its voting policies. When Wyoming became a U.S. state in 1890, it likewise became the first state to allow women to vote.
Wyoming's mark on human progress did not go unnoticed elsewhere. Other American states, largely in the West, soon began to allow women to vote. New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all women the right to vote in 1893. Norway (1913), Denmark (1915), and Germany (1918) were other early national movers in granting women's suffrage. The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote in both federal and state elections in every state, was ratified in 1920.
Women's suffrage came later in other countries. Canada established women's right to vote in federal elections in 1918, and in all provinces save Quebec by 1922. Quebec enacted women's suffrage in 1940, enshrining Canadian women's right to vote across the entire country. France began allowing women to vote in 1944, and Mexico in 1953.
The United Kingdom granted limited voting rights to women over the age of thirty, subject to property qualifications, in 1918. England, Scotland, and Wales later granted all women over age 21 the right to vote in 1928. Northern Ireland, however, did not enfranchise women in UK elections until 1968, and did not allow women to vote in local elections until 1973. At that point, all women in the United Kingdom obtained full suffrage. Switzerland was the last advanced democracy to establish women's suffrage across the country, completing the task in 1990 (women had been permitted to vote in federal elections beginning in 1971).
To this day, Wyoming's official nickname is the Equality State, and its motto is Equal Rights. Wyomingites have done the work to earn these titles, paving the way for one of the most important advancements in the history of democratic governance.
Andrew G. Johnson June 10, 2021 June 29, 2021
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It's been quite awhile since I wrote anything here. Today I came across: a friend I haven't seen for a long time, a barista who doesn't drink coffee, my own perseverance, and this item of clothing. Apparently Caltrans is now fashion statement. Maybe I should write more often.
How is it the tiniest of gnats can outmatch a kitchen dishtowel and a five foot seven human? I'll tell you. Gnats must be some kind of super bug. Every time I go near my kitchen sink I see them. Flying around smugly, over my sink, around the kitchen. Not a lot. Just a few. I swat at them, think I have solved the problem, and move on with my activities. But after a few of these incidences, I began to feel like the ne'er do well in a cartoon. The bumbling one who always insists that he sees the Pink Panther or some other character that no one else can see. Or like Gladys Kravitz, always screaming for Abner to come see the witch and magic happenings on her street. Only to have it all disappear just in time for any and everyone else to arrive and not believe her.
Sitting on my kitchen counter, my poor Beyonce-wanna-be chicken bore the brunt of a few choice swats. I was pulling the shredded towel strings from her wiry beak, and that's when I started to think I had a problem. If the chicken is in danger, things are going downhill. I snap my towel. I wash some dishes. I see another one. I squint, knowing if I hold very still, the million mega-seeing eyes bugs possess will not even perceive my breathing. Then I can go in for a fast thwap! Of the towel and rid my kitchen of these invaders forever. Ha, ha, ha.
Then I discovered a small congregation of them on my soap dispenser. Finally, I figured out what the source of the problem was. It's bad my friends. It's gotten so that the most miniscule speck of dust snaps my head any direction. My scalp and skin itch when I miss. My subconscious (or not) is sure they are coming to rest on me instead of the shutters or counter, just to add insult to injury.
In one particularly embarrassing moment, I took aim at my own reflection in the counter top backsplash, certain I was about to deliver the final and victorious blow. Finally, convinced I've ridded myself of these creatures, I tossed my head back and closed my eyes, opening them only to find another one has decided to alight on the upper reaches of a cabinet door. What, you think my towel can't reach that high you insouciant interloper? HA! Oh great. I'm talking to bugs. Or dust. And I have bad aim. And my neck hurts.
Ewww, Why Am I Eating This Crap??
My post today over at MOMS LA. I'm probably crazy, but then, so is this.
I have a whole new group of friends. It took me awhile to get all of their names straight. There were so many of them, and almost all at once. They were all colors, shapes and sizes, and while I didn't lack a social life before, I now found myself befriending many types of animals and creatures as well. It was a strange new world, getting to know them all and getting up to speed with all of their likes and dislikes. They rarely leave my house, but unlike stereotypical houseguests, they never leave wet towels anywhere, they don't have any special dietary requirements, and they don't mind sleeping in a heap from time to time. Of course, not once has one of them ever offered to clean up, but I guess you can't win them all. Isn't it enough to keep up with Facebook, Twitter, school friends, skating friends, the local baristas, people at my husband's office . . . just anyone I need to remember. But this? This I didn't see coming.
Barney was first on the scene. He was easy to remember because, well, he was large and blinded us with his personal shade of purple. Then came Old Panda, followed by Hopkins the frog (Hop-Hop for short). This tiny green frog began dominating our every move. Can't get in the car without Hop-Hop! Can't go to bed without Hop Hop! The Panda family had to keep up with the Frogs-es, and grew steadily as Baby Panda, Amanda Panda, New Panda, another Baby Panda, Little Panda and Crawley (don't ask) joined the fray.
Not wanting to be outdone, the frogs leaped ahead with Eggo, Stripey, KK Frog, Kermit and some large ball of green fur that has yet to be named. Barney, thankfully, didn't bring along any friends.
Eventually this crew allowed other species to make their way into the living room, but not into the kids' beds. That is sacred territory. Only a spaceman of extreme worthiness could bridge that gap, and his landing occurred in late 2009.
Buzz Lightyear's leadership relegated the miscellaneous monkeys and zoo creatures that had filled in the gap between birthday and Christmas to a small pop up tent, seemingly content to lie in a heap of inattention. Then Barbie made her grand entrance and all hell broke loose.
She pranced in and guess who wasn't far behind? Princesses, with all their accompanying pink and sparkly paraphernalia. Anyone who knows me knows I love pink. But at first glance, I wanted to ask, "Who shot the bottle of Pepto Bismal?" The inanimate amongst us built a small village in my living room, but the good news is that they now had their own mobility options. Trucks and cars of varying behaviors parked themselves on the Thomas table and under chairs. A garbage truck aptly named 'I Stink!' by my son became the preferred mode of transport for a small giraffe named, oh hell, I have no idea what his name is.
Alas, my head swimming in more names than I'll ever remember and more faces daily that blur my eyes are now the audience to which I must cater. Who gets to sleep in bed? Who gets to go in the car? Who watches you eat breakfast? No, they can't go to school with you. You have real friends there. I know, I know, these friends ARE real. Sigh. I just sometimes wish my kids had imaginary friends. They would be far less messy, could go anywhere with us at any time (except the bathroom – PLEASE LET ME PEE IN PEACE!!), and I'd never trip over them or take an unexpected ride across the living room, face first into the couch because they got left behind in the rush of everyone trying to play with the same toy at once.
I rarely have time to talk on the phone, and without Facebook I might have less of that aforementioned 'social life'. But when I see the wonder on my children's faces as they talk to Charlotte, Hazel, Stripey, Eggo, Hop Hop or whoever, and make up stories to create this 'real' environment, I have to pause and wonder. These stuffed friends remain in previous centuries, blissfully unaware of digital friendship. It's like they know something about being face to face. Despite the fact that they are so loved they almost have no faces left. Hmmm.
examining the detail of fire hoses and uniforms, then made our way inside and upstairs to have a snack and watch Rescue Bots.
Cushy bean bags had been set up for viewers and I have to say I was surprised that the show was pretty well done. The writing was good (even some humor for parents) and the characters were interesting. My son was captivated.
Afterward I had the opportunity to interview a few of the voice actors from the show. Chase helped me, asking Elan Garfias and DC Douglas if they liked their jobs. He was most interested in DC Douglas, the voice of 'Police Bot, Chase'. I could see him trying to figure out how the same voice came out of this tall man AND the cartoon on screen, and has his same name. Then he wandered off to check out the hats again.
Garfias' parents got him into his first voiceover job at five years old, feeding him the lines because he couldn't read. DC Douglas' resonant voice made for a great conversation, during which he shared his favorite childhood cartoon to be Speed Racer.
Also on hand was Maurice La Marche, famed Canadian stand up comic and voiceover veteran.
He was as kind as could be and super friendly, sharing his experiences in the voiceover world and his excitement at seeing that what he had voiced (Chief Burns) worked well in Rescue Bots. With credits such as the original Beany & Cecil, Dennis the Menace and the uncredited role of Buddy's Belch in Elf (2003), La Marche has thrice portrayed Orson Welles in "The Critic" (1994), Ed Wood (1994) and "The Simpsons-Treehouse of Horror XVII" (2006). He also provided voices for the 1984 "Transformers" series, the film of which was Welles' last performance. La Marche is only the third person in history, and the second in the last 50 years, to be the official voice of Popeye.
The series premiere of "Transformers Rescue Bots" will be Saturday, February 18th at 11:30 a.m. ET/8:30 a.m. PT on The Hub. Disclosure: I received no compensation for this post. I was invited to attend the screening through Moms LA. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own.
"Tony Bennett, the evening's first performer, recounted other recent big-name deaths in the music industry. 'First it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now the magnificent Whitney Houston,' he said. 'Let's legalize drugs, like Amsterdam. It's a very sane city now.'"
Following the death of Whitney Houston, the pre-Grammy celebration at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, music industry celebrities and executives paid tribute to Houston. I am appalled that as a society we know what drugs and alcohol do to your body. The way they ravage and destroy your life. And yet someone like Tony Bennett has the nerve to make this statement. As if the reason for Ms. Houston's death would have been acceptable if drugs were legalized. Whether or not she perished from prescription medications directly or not, she clearly struggled to overcome her addictions.
For anyone fighting their demons, this is a slap in the face and an utterly ignorant thing to say. I have lost all respect for Tony Bennett.


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Treasure Island cleanup exposes Navy's mishandling of its nuclear past
By Matt Smith, Katharine Mieszkowski | May 1, 2014
For decades before it was selected for closure, the Treasure Island Naval Station in San Francisco Bay overhauled military ships and housed nuclear war academies that used radium, plutonium, and cesium 137 in their training courses. The Navy knew for years that those materials were not always in safe hands. But it did not acknowledge that history publicly, and as a result, workers preparing for civilian redevelopment may have inadvertently spread radioactive material around the island, The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has found in a year-long investigation co-published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on its open website, www.thebulletin.org, and here in its subscription journal. With the naval station decommissioned, the city of San Francisco has set its sights on erecting a second downtown on Treasure Island, with plans for apartments for 20,000 residents, commercial development, and open space. But the CIR investigation—based on wide-ranging document reviews and interviews—has confirmed the detection of significant levels of radioactive contamination on the island during preparations for redevelopment. Rather than conduct a more systematic radiation survey, CIR reporters found, the Navy engaged in bureaucratic warfare with health regulators and joined the city of San Francisco in telling 2,000 civilians already living on the island that they need not worry about exposure.
Read in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Archive
Issue: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 70 Issue 3
Keywords: Alameda Naval Air Station, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, McClellan Air Force Base, Treasure Island Naval Station, base closure, nuclear cleanup, nuclear waste, redevelopment
Topics: Uncategorized
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Geoengineering and the politics of science
By C. Hamilton
Playing God: Why religion belongs in the climate engineering debate
By F. Clingerman, K. J. O'Brien
The A1 Verse: The world's war machine
By Thomas Gaulkin
Chernobyl is still changing: Four enduring stories and a recent one
By Susan D'Agostino
Four unanswered questions about the intersection of war and nuclear power
By Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin, Maxime Polleri
Israel has long exported arms to India. Now it's selling spyware too.
By Urvashi Sarkar
Wildfires break out in Chernobyl amid a non-functioning radiation-monitoring system


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Silvestro Valiero (ur. 28 marca 1630, zm. 7 lipca 1700) – doża wenecki od 1694 roku. Był synem doży Bertuccio Valiero.

Bibliografia
 Pompeo Molmenti, La storia di Venezia nella vita privata dalle origigini alla caduta della Repubblica, 1927-1929.

Władcy Wenecji
Urodzeni w 1630
Zmarli w 1700

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This week's episode takes us through several intertwined storylines that are heartbreaking and frustrating in equal measure. I don't mean frustrating in the sense of weak writing; rather, they're frustrating as collections of choices and occurrences, frustrating because their subjects make decisions that seemingly get themselves–and others–in more and more trouble. Primarily, we have Kevin Garvey Sr. stumbling his way through Australia, trying to follow what he deems to be signs. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't. However, the sheer fact that Garvey Sr. is so hellbent on believing places his storyline smack dab in the middle of the series's themes.
A tumble off a rooftop, a chicken named Tony, the Itsy Bitsy Spider…all of these lead us toward that powerful final scene in Grace's home. Played beautifully by Lindsay Duncan, we learn that Grace's current situation was the product of a similar line of faith-based reasoning. Namely, her children died because of her belief in the Departure, and she killed Australian Kevin because she thought that the Book of Kevin brought her a sign. Watching her tell her story, the camera super close to her face throughout, is intense and devastating. Duncan and Glenn are forces of nature in this episode, their performances adding to an already incredible cast and carrying an episode devoid of most of the series regulars.
A final point: it's interesting that the episode opens with a discussion about John Hinckley Jr., Taxi Driver, and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. It's certainly no coincidence: here's a scenario in which someone latched onto something in the world, eventually being driven to the point of obsession and irrationally believing that this violent action would make things right. Not saying the stories in this series are exactly the same, but there's an element here of believing that you yourself can make a change. If you simply believe in something greater than yourself, then you can dictate your actions based upon this constructed narrative. It may lead to detrimental consequences, but it sometimes is the only way you can survive.
– "Would you kill a baby if it cured cancer?" "No" is apparently the wrong answer here, and it leads to a guy immolating himself as Garvey Sr. watches in horror.
-The opening credits this week uses Richard Cheese's cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus".
-Mimi Leder's directing in this episode is phenomenal. The way she and her d.p. shoot the desert is absolutely gorgeous.
My favorite episode of the season so far.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using kgrep;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace Tests {

    [TestFixture]
    public class CommandTests {

        [Test]
        public void WhenUsingTemplateTarget_ExpectSplitOnTemplate() {
            Command command = new Command("/ hello/ a->b");
            Assert.AreEqual("a", command.SubjectString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenUsingTildaInSubjectAndTemplateTarget_ExpectSplitOnTilda() {
            Command command = new Command("/ hello/ a~ c->b");
            Assert.AreEqual("a", command.SubjectString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenUsingTildaInTargetAndTemplateTarget_ExpectSplitOnTemplate() {
            Command command = new Command("/ hello/ (..) c-> b~dog");
            Assert.AreEqual("b~dog", command.ReplacementString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenAnchorInTopattern_ExpectAnchor() {
            Command command = new Command("/ hello/ a~b");
            Assert.AreEqual(" hello", command.AnchorString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenNoAnchor_ExpectNoValue() {
            Command command = new Command("  a~b");
            Assert.AreEqual("", command.AnchorString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenReplacementInTopattern() {
            Command command = new Command("/ hello/ a~b");
            Assert.AreEqual("b", command.ReplacementString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenAnchorAndSubjectInPattern() {
            Command command = new Command("/ hello/ a~b");
            Assert.AreEqual("a", command.SubjectString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenOnlySubjectInPattern() {
            Command command = new Command(" a");
            Assert.AreEqual("a", command.SubjectString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenSubjectInPatternWIthSpaces() {
            Command command = new Command(" a ~b");
            Assert.AreEqual("a", command.SubjectString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenEnclosedQuotesInTopattern_ExpectQuotesRemoved() {
            Command command = new Command("this ~ \" with blanks \"");
            Assert.AreEqual(" with blanks ", command.ReplacementString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenEnclosedQuotesInFrompattern_ExpectQuotesRemoved() {
            Command command = new Command("\" from  \" ~ to");
            Assert.AreEqual(" from  ", command.SubjectRegex.ToString());
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenEnclosedQuotesInAnchor_ExpectQuotesRemoved() {
            Command command = new Command("/\" AnchorString  \"/ from  ~ to");
            Assert.AreEqual(" AnchorString  ", command.AnchorString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenEnclosedQuotesInTopatternWithExcessSpacesFollowing_ExpectQuotesRemoved() {
            Command command = new Command("this ~ \" with blanks \"  ");
            Assert.AreEqual(" with blanks ", command.ReplacementString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenEnclosedQuotesInTopatternWithExcessSpacesPreceeding_ExpectQuotesRemoved() {
            Command command = new Command("this  ~ \" with blanks \"");
            Assert.AreEqual(" with blanks ", command.ReplacementString);
        }

        [Test]
        public void WhenOFSused_LetItBecomeDefaultUntilChanged() {
            PrintTokensInSourceFiles engine = new PrintTokensInSourceFiles() { sw = new WriteToString() };
            ParseCommandFile commands = new ParseCommandFile("(.);OFS=' ';(.);(.); OFS='+';(.)");
            string results = engine.ApplyCommandsToInputFileList(commands, new List<string> { "de" });
            Assert.AreEqual("d\ne\nd e\nd e\nd+e\n", results);
        }

        [TestCase ("/abc/ from  ~ to", Command.CommandType.isAnchoredReplace,"abc","from","~","to")]
        [TestCase("from  ~ to", Command.CommandType.isReplace,"","from","~","to")]
        [TestCase("/abc/ from ~", Command.CommandType.isAnchoredReplace,"abc","from","~","")]
        [TestCase("from  ~", Command.CommandType.isReplace,"","from","~","")]
        [TestCase("/abc/ from  -> to", Command.CommandType.isAnchoredTemplate,"abc","from","->","to")]
        [TestCase("/abc/-> to", Command.CommandType.isAnchoredTemplate,"abc",".","->","to")]
        [TestCase("from  -> to", Command.CommandType.isTemplate,"","from","->","to")]
        [TestCase("/abc/ from  ->", Command.CommandType.isNotSupported,"abc","from","->","")]
        [TestCase("from  ->", Command.CommandType.isNotSupported,"","from","->","")]
        [TestCase("->to", Command.CommandType.isTemplate,"",".","->","to")]
        [TestCase("/abc/ ", Command.CommandType.isPickupOnly,"","abc","","")]
        [TestCase("from to", Command.CommandType.isScan,"","from to","","")]
        [TestCase("->", Command.CommandType.isNotSupported, "", "", "->", "")]
        [TestCase("s->", Command.CommandType.isNotSupported, "", "s", "->", "")]
        [TestCase("/a/~t", Command.CommandType.isNotSupported, "a", "", "~", "t")]
        [TestCase("/a/~", Command.CommandType.isNotSupported, "a", "", "", "")]

        public void TestCommandTypes(string line, Command.CommandType type, string anchor, string subject, string delim, string target) {
            Command command = new Command(line);
            Assert.AreEqual(type, command.CommandIs);
            Assert.AreEqual(anchor, command.AnchorString);
            Assert.AreEqual(subject,command.SubjectString);
        }
    }

}

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ASU president: Tax-free office complex is not a 'scheme' to hurt schools
Michael Crow: Arizona State University is looking for new ways to generate revenue without imposing new taxes on residents.
Michael Crow
opinion contributor
Laurie Roberts' Dec. 18 column ("Arizona's largest office complex pays no property taxes") misrepresents Arizona State University's use of its land to generate revenue for the university as a "scheme" that is diverting money from K-12.
First, state universities are not depriving K-12 schools of property tax revenue. The land parcels in question have never produced property tax revenue for those schools; no action by universities is taking away any property tax that had been received by schools.
Second, as a result of the largest reduction in state investment in higher education in the United States, Arizona's universities have been left to make entrepreneurial use of all of their assets to generate new revenue.
Finally, ASU has, over time – with approvals at all levels of governance necessary including city, county, state and university governing board – used land that has been gifted to or acquired by the university to help advance the university. This is not a situation unique to ASU; universities across the country have land assets that they use to advance their mission.
Land pays for ASU sports (so you don't have to)
By law, university property is exempt from property taxes. And Arizona statute authorizes the university and its governing board – the Arizona Board of Regents – to acquire, dispose, lease and/or hold real property, or property rights or interests.
One example is the ASU Athletics Facilities District. In 2010, the Legislature passed HB 2676, which allowed the boards of supervisors of certain counties to establish university athletic facilities districts. The legislation specified that all land within these districts must be owned by the universities and that the districts are authorized to impose an assessment in lieu of property taxes to be used to construct and improve intercollegiate athletic facilities.
Unlike professional sports, taxpayers do not support ASU athletic facilities. We worked to create this district intentionally, to designate a revenue stream for athletics and free up other money to support our students and operate the university. Land adjacent to the district also owned by the university is used for this purpose as well, as allowed by law.
There is a secondary benefit: Projects developed on university property grow jobs, generate new local and state tax revenues, and create a dynamic destination for the greater community.
ASU Research Park generates 16,100 jobs
Look to the ASU Research Park as an example. In total, ASU Research Park tenants generate more than 16,100 jobs for Arizona residents, provide labor income of $865 million for Arizona workers and account for $1.4 billion of the total income generated in the state. This includes indirect impacts – jobs and incomes supported when tenant companies purchase goods and services from local suppliers – at an estimated 2,350 jobs, $124 million in labor income and $211 million in total income.
Arizona has been on the fast track to driving its universities to act more entrepreneurial in lieu of state funding. We don't throw up our hands; we embrace the challenge and look for new ways to generate revenue without imposing new taxes on residents. Using university-owned land to generate new revenue is one way to achieve that.
Our desire is to continue to grow ASU into a world-class destination for students and the public. We are on the side of Arizona and its residents. We are working to build a stronger future for the state's economy and the well-being of its people.
Misrepresenting the ways we are trying to acquire resources to advance the university damages the relationship between the state's universities and its residents. We all need to pull together to overcome funding challenges the state faces to achieve a future in which all Arizonans can thrive.
Michael M. Crow is the president of Arizona State University. Email him at president@asu.edu; on Twitter, @michaelcrow.
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Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son
Mark Colvin joined the ABC as a cadet in 1974. He was the first presenter of The World Today and worked for Four Corners for five years. After five years as London correspondent for the ABC, interrupted by six months in hospital with a life threatening disease, he returned to Australia as presenter of PM in 1997, a job he continued to do despite three years on dialysis and a successful kidney transplant. Mark died in May 2017.
Publisher : Melbourne University Publishing
Imprint : Melbourne University Press
Author : Mark Colvin


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Department of Health and Social Care: Unpaid Advisers
To ask Her Majesty's Government what recruitment policy is used by the Department of Health and Social Care in the appointment of unpaid advisers to Ministers; and whether each such appointee is required to sign a confidentiality agreement.
My Lords, I welcome the challenge. Perhaps I may reassure the noble Baroness that all ministerial appointments were required to declare conflicts of interest and abide by well-established codes of practice, and that all procurement went through proper departmental governance. Perhaps I may also be clear that those who stepped forward to help this country at its time of need should be praised. We should all recognise the considerable contribution of those who brought skills, energy and networks when we needed them.
My Lords, I do not see this Question as a challenge at all. It would appear that George Pascoe-Watson, the chair of the lobbying company, Portland Communications, was until recently an adviser to the Minister and used the words,
"the decision makers have told me personally",
with regard to the Government's intended Covid restrictions, in an email to his clients before the proposed restrictions have been publicly announced. In some places, this kind of thing could be regarded as insider trading—profiting from private information for one's own or a company's gain. Does the Minister believe that the rules of confidentiality have been broken? Will he be pursuing the matter? It clearly should be investigated. What form will the investigation take? Will it be departmental, or is it a matter for the Cabinet Office or the head of the Civil Service?
My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness for giving me the opportunity to set the record straight. It is worth sharing with the House that the emails to which she referred were sent after George Pascoe-Watson left his role as an adviser to the department. With the greatest respect to Portland and its chairman, the emails contained nothing more than the kind of speculation that one might find in any national newspaper. Therefore, at this stage, I thank those who have served as advisers to me and the department.
My Lords, given the disclosures in the Sunday Times about the Minister's three telephone calls with suppliers and lobbyists at the same time, I am surprised that he has not recused himself. Has he complained about the newspaper placing him—the Minister —at the centre of the web of the Covid chumocracy? Does he agree with the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, the noble Lord, Lord Evans, that too many in public life are disregarding the norms, ethics and propriety that have led to Portland Communications being secretly involved in government and then going off to make money?
I am grateful to the noble Lord for highlighting three calls to suppliers. I should like to reassure him that those were absolutely exceptional times, when our supply chains had broken down and we were competing with other Governments for extremely scarce resources. I personally did not make three supplier calls; rather, I made 300. I put out literally hundreds of calls on behalf of the Government to try to find the medicines, supplies, diagnostics, PPE and all manner of medical requirements needed for this country. I could have done that only with the help of the networks, energy, skills and support of those who stepped forward to help us at our time of need. I repeat, I am extremely grateful for that support. It does not warrant a place on the front page of the Sunday Times but the lack of follow-up from that newspaper article speaks for itself.
My Lords, we all wish to live in a time of transparent government. On 6 April, I understand that a Minister in the department had a phone call with a former Conservative Party chairman and an adviser who had not been publicly declared, as well with as a businessman who had donated a significant five-figure sum to the party and who was later awarded PPE contracts of more than £150 million. Does the Minister know if the contract was open to tender? Given the donation and the nature of future PPE contracts, why was that not considered to be an inappropriate call?
I take this opportunity to thank the very large number of Members of this House who contacted me during that period. My inbox was filled with thousands of emails every day, including emails from Lib Dem, Labour, Cross-Bench and Tory Peers, all of them seeking to help us during our time of need. I sought to reply to as many as I could, but I fear that I did not reply to enough and I did not mean any discourtesy. I spoke to a large number of those people, as my transparency register makes very clear. The telephone call on 6 April to which the noble Baroness has referred was not in any way inappropriate. I am extremely grateful to all those who stepped forward to help us when we needed it.
My Lords, this is a huge crisis in unprecedented times. My noble friend the Minister has already thanked those who are trying to help the country at a very difficult time. Does he find it regrettable, as I do, that some are sniping at those who, for good reasons of public service, are giving their time, energy and expertise pro bono in service to this country and everyone in this Chamber?
My Lords, scrutiny of appointments, a commitment to transparency and declaration of interests are absolute values that we should all subscribe to. However, sneering at those who step forward to help, denigrating the intentions of volunteers who try to play their role and smearing the good name of people who have done the right thing does not have any role in this House.
Lord Snape
My Lords, many years ago, the then political editor of the Sun, Mr Chris Potter, told me that the main qualification for his role was the ability to translate the musings of Ministers at the Dispatch Box for the benefit of his readers without using any words longer than "wheelbarrow". Now that one of his successors, Mr George Pascoe-Watson, attends confidential departmental meetings, can the Minister tell the House whether the criteria for such a role has been enhanced or dumbed down these days?
I thank the noble Lord for his description of the role. I do not endorse it but am entertained by it. Let me be clear: the people who stepped forward and took ministerial appointments brought a wide range of skills, some of them quite soft in terms of networking, energy, the ability to negotiate and understanding the important skills of communication. Those are the kinds of skills that we value. They were provided for free in the instance to which the noble Lord has referred, and were limited in their timescale, scope and interactions with the department.
The noble Lord, Lord Scriven, has withdrawn.
My Lords, I deeply regret that some noble Lords are dragging this debate down to the issue of unpaid advisers. This is most inappropriate. No one could object to unpaid advisers; I have used them. I have even taken advice from people on the Benches opposite; that is how low I am prepared to sink. It is not about them being unpaid or giving advice; it is about the lack of transparency and accountability. Will the Minister agree that announcements should be made about unpaid advisers so we can know it is happening and guarantee there are no leaks—which there appear to have been so far.
The noble Baroness makes her points extremely well. She rightly points out that we take advice from a wide variety of people. The only reason that we are talking about this today is because a transparency register is made of my appointments, which is published on GOV.UK and I would be glad to share the website link with anyone who would like to look at it more closely. The appointments of unpaid advisers follow the guidance on direct appointments from the Cabinet Office. We are scrupulous in our adherence to that guidance, and we will continue to be so in any future appointments we make.
My Lords, in view of what has been said by the Minister, I am extremely sympathetic to him. Could he publish a full list of all those who have given of their time, talents and money at a time of great crisis? Could he place a copy of that in the Library of your Lordships' House?
My Lords, I am not sure if I can make the commitment that my noble friend asks. It is a reasonable commitment and I take it in the spirit with which it is meant, but there have been literally hundreds of people—not all of them formal, not all of them documented—who have stepped forward in the spirit that the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, has spoken of to try and contribute to our thinking, our connections and our ability to respond to this pandemic. That is a long roll of honour, of which I am extremely proud. I will give some thought to the way in which we do it, but doing it in a formal fashion in the way my noble friend describes may not be feasible or approachable.
My Lords, yesterday former Conservative Attorney-General Dominic Grieve described the Johnson Government as presiding over
"the disappearance of any standards of conduct at the heart of government",
and said that the cronyism of administrative decisions had communicated to young people in particular a sense of government as corrupt. Given that, can the Minister be surprised that there was concern over the conduct of Mr Pascoe-Watson after he had ceased to be an adviser?
I always take the words and advice of former Attorney-General Dominic Grieve extremely seriously, and I value his opinion greatly.
My Lords, I understand why the Government need as much help as possible in securing PPE in a time of emergency, but I struggle to understand why there still seems to be such a demand for public relations help. We recently learned that Kate Bingham, who is in charge of the vaccine programme, spent £690,000 on external PR help. Is it not the case that the Department of Health and Social Care has extensive PR expertise on its team? Is the problem that this Government is still too involved in fighting an election campaign rather than fighting Covid?
It is a reasonable question and let me be clear. This year, we are seeing a massive change in the behaviours of our entire population—from the big macro challenges such as the rule of six, social distancing and adherence to infection control procedures, through to different uses of NHS and medtech. This morning, I spent my time looking at the marketing for "111 First"—the important new way of using 111 that will give people guidance on using the service before they get to A&E. This has been possible only because of the change in the use of medtech and the changing attitude to telephones and the internet brought about by the pandemic. The noble Baroness is right that there is a big focus on communications right now, but that is because things are changing so quickly and we need to get the message across to the population in clear, persuasive terms, to provide the guidance they need to protect and save themselves.


Focus on the etiology, pathogenesis and antiviral therapy etc. of viral hepatitis.
Focus on the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment etc. of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Focus on the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
Focus on the pathogenesis, immune pathological changes, and clinical treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus, and improve the survival time and life quality of patients.
2) the diagnosis and treatment of hematological malignancies. study on diagnosis and treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome, acute and chronic leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, malignant histiocytosis etc.
3) diagnosis and treatment of hemostasis and thrombosis disease. research on diagnosis and treatment of includingabnormal platelet count and quality, abnormal coagulation factor, the function of fibrinolysis system disorder and hypercoagulability and thrombophilic tendency etc.
Candidate should be a Non-Chinese citizen, under 40 years old, the Bachelor Degree holder in the similar field, healthy, without any criminal records.


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Mother Mother Share New Single 'Sick Of The Silence'
11. June 2021 Ashley Perez Hollingsworth	0 Comments	2022 Tour, indie, Indie Rock, Just Released, Mother Mother, New Music, Rock Music, Tour Dates
Canadian indie rockers Mother Mother have shared their new single "Sick of the Silence" from their upcoming album, Inside.
The rousing track opens with a quiet synth riff before it explodes in a mass of blazing guitars and bouncy energy. Once frontman Ryan Guldemond starts singing "I get so sa-la-la-la sick of the silence/Because I'm terri-la-la-la-fied of what's inside of it/Yeah, I get so sa-la-la-la-la-la sick of the slience/That I have to, that I have to just scream" you're completely hooked.
Speaking about the new song, frontman Ryan Guldemond says, "I realized that writing an album about self-betterment wouldn't be honest unless I did some of that work myself, so a disciplined meditation schedule became a part of my routine. I was struck by just how noisy my mind was during the first half of 2020. It was as though the quietude of the world amplified the cacophony within. Feeling fed up with my meditation practice and the whole new-age/self-help ideology, I wrote 'Sick Of The Silence', a loud and aggressive song. Funnily enough, it helped to quell the negative voices and brought about some of the stillness I was seeking."
Listen to the infectious track below.
The band recently debuted the track on The Late Late Show With James Corden. Watch the performance below.
Mother Mother's new album, Inside, drops June 25th. Pre-order the album here. The band will embark on their Inside tour next year playing shows in the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. Due to a number of shows selling out, the band have announced new shows in New York and a second show at London's O2 Arena. Check out all their dates here.
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Better Parenting
Science Says Let Your Kid Push Boundaries
From crib diving to tree climbing, some kids live to give their parents gray hair. Turns out, that's a good thing!
By Jennifer King Lindley
Sabrina Helas
In the context of our current bubble-wrapped world of parenting, risky play such as climbing trees, practicing skateboard stunts, and racing bikes fast may seem downright scary. But in fact, this particular kind of play is not only normal, it's an essential part of healthy development. We're not talking about so-called clinical daredevils or truly dangerous thrill-seekers who leap off the roof or take the family car for an underage joyride. Instead, "it's the kind of everyday exciting play where there's a chance of physical injury," says Mariana Brussoni, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist and injury prevention researcher at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. "Kids describe a scary, funny feeling. It's the possibility of danger that can make it so exhilarating."
And the thrill they get from taking that chance packs a host of benefits, notes Dr. Brussoni—from reducing obesity by getting kids to put down their gadgets to increasing kids' resilience in the face of setbacks. But the opportunity for kids to engage in this kind of wild fun is fast disappearing as anxious parents focus on preventing even the minor injuries once assumed to be part of childhood, according to a review of research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last year. "What's now characterized as risky play didn't have a name a generation ago," says Dr. Brussoni. "It was just what kids did." (Guilty here: In my own free-range childhood, I wandered the woods for hours unattended, something I never allowed my own two kids to do.) The result, experts worry, is that in the name of caution we are preventing kids' healthy growth. But, luckily, there are ways to—safely—have the best of both worlds.
RELATED: An Age-by-Age Guide to Building Independence in Your Kids
It's Only Natural
From babyhood on, kids learn about their world through physical play. "I hear from lots of parents about toddlers who want to climb everywhere," says Roy Benaroch, M.D., an Atlanta-area pediatrician and author of Getting the Best Health Care for Your Child. Rambunctious play is a way kids gain, through trial and error, the physical skills they will need to negotiate the big world—how to run, jump, balance, even fall safely. It's all crucial preparation for adulthood: "It's better to learn that wet pavement is slippery when you are running, not when you first get behind the wheel of a car," says Dr. Brussoni.
Risky play also has evolutionary benefits, argues Ellen Sandseter, Ph.D., a professor of early-childhood education research in Norway, who has published dozens of papers on the topic. It gradually exposes kids to challenging events so they can learn to face them without fear. (Climbing trees, for example, reduces the fear of heights, research has found.) "If you are not allowed to confront these scary situations through play as a child, you could end up with anxieties as an adult," Dr. Sandseter says. That's because if kids constantly have an adult telling them when to stop or when to go, they don't have a chance to develop an inner instinct for their own limits or confidence in their own decision-making, Dr. Sandseter adds. That can leave them with all sorts of worries when they get older.
None of this is to say, however, that parents should abandon common sense. "Kids should be allowed to play, but that doesn't mean they never need supervision," says Dr. Benaroch. But before you worry that without your eagle eye, they'll be juggling knives in the backyard, take heart in knowing that most kids approach risk-taking in a step-by-step way, says Dr. Sandseter. They push a little further each time, motivated by the incremental successes. Indeed, my son Ethan spent one whole summer attempting progressively more harrowing flips off the diving board at our local pool. Even though I could see his skills developing, I still sat on a lounge chair Googling "skull fracture" when he wasn't looking.
Ethan survived—and by pushing himself, learned something important. "Risk-taking kids are always challenging themselves and are not afraid to get out of their comfort zone," says Jim Taylor, Ph.D., a psychologist in San Francisco and the author of Positive Pushing: How to Raise a Successful and Happy Child. Cheryl Hullihen, of Vineland, NJ, has witnessed this with her own bold daughters, Lauren, 6, and Sarah, 11. "Last summer, Lauren was finally old enough for her own boogie board during our annual summer vacation at the beach. Once she ran into the ocean for the first time, she never looked back," recalls Hullihen. "She took lots of tumbles off of her board, but she always got up again. Many people commented on how she was so fearless riding in the big waves. At first my girls' adventures made me a little nervous. But it didn't take long before I realized how confident they've become."
Putting It in Perspective
Many parents begin to let go of their worries once they see their child's skills improve, but it also helps to look at the cold, hard facts: "Childhood is much safer than it's ever been," says Dr. Benaroch, thanks to such advancements as increased use of helmets and safer playground equipment. One study found that injuries decreased by 36 percent when 86 Canadian schools installed better playground equipment. Plus, a 2015 review of studies encompassing more than 50,000 children found that the vast majority of injuries from so-called risky outdoor play required little or no medical treatment. "When kids do get hurt playing outside, it's not usually serious," says Dr. Benaroch. "Even if a kid needs some stitches, he will heal just fine."
What they may not recover from so well? Missing out on the joys of childhood. "When we ask parents to recall their own favorite play memory, it's not on the playground," says Dr. Brussoni. "It's playing in an abandoned ditch or getting briefly, thrillingly, lost in a forest."
Encouraging Healthy Risks
"I often suggest nervous parents start with one thing they can do to give their child a little more autonomy," says Dr. Brussoni. This helps kids get adjusted in a more gradual way too. Here are several ways you can loosen the reins a little, without just opening the back door and hollering "Go for it!"
Hang back. Don't dive right in to rescue your kid from a tricky spot on the climbing structure. If you wait a moment, your child will likely find her own way down. "Pretend to have glue in your pockets," suggests Dr. Sandseter—be slow to reach out, and let her solve the problem herself. The idea is to expose kids to small risks so they can gain experience. "Let them learn the lesson when the lesson is small," says Angela McElroy of Dorr, Michigan, whose 10-year-old son Cole is quite the daredevil. "When they get bigger, the risks they face get bigger too."
Assess hazards. Dr. Brussoni distinguishes between "risks" and "hazards." Risks are situations kids can reasonably evaluate before making their own decisions: "I think I can reach that next rung." Hazards are dangers a child cannot be expected to be aware of or handle: a swingset's rotten foundation, a river's powerful current, rocks at the bottom of a sledding hill. It's crucial you suss these out to protect your child.
Cool your own jets. If your child sees you looking nervous as she attempts a new feat, that sends the message that it's a scary situation (even if it may not be). Change your inner dialogue, suggests Tamar Chansky, Ph.D., a psychologist near Philadelphia and the author of Freeing Your Child From Anxiety. "You are watching your child scale the monkey bars and you're thinking, 'We are going to end up in the ER!' Ask yourself, what are the facts? It's not like you see ambulances at every playground." Or reframe what you are seeing, as I did when my son was back-flipping at the pool: "He's getting so much better!"
It can also help to recall the harrowing high jinks you somehow managed to survive, suggests Dr. Brussoni. (Among my own bona fides: jumping off a one-story rock ledge into a bog to practice Wonder Woman moves, leapfrogging onto our sharphooved Shetland pony's back, and building a secret fort in the woods with a "borrowed" ax—all before my first day of junior high. And I was the quiet, bookish type.)
Leave "no" for the big stuff. A lot of parents follow kids around, repeating "Be careful!" as if it were a magical incantation. "This is not helpful from an injury-prevention standpoint," says Dr. Brussoni. When we interfere incessantly, kids can start second-guessing themselves, get distracted, or tune us out completely. "If you want to give a warning, make it very precise: 'Watch out! There's a stick coming straight for your head!' " she suggests. In deciding to step in, weigh the possible consequences of your child's actions: Are we talking a skinned knee? Or paralysis? That's McElroy's philosophy with Cole: "He knows when Mom says no, it must really be important," she says.
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That's because you're still the parent here. If you don't think your child is developmentally ready for something ("But all my friends get to!!"), it's your job to say no. "If your child wants to walk to school alone, you can say 'That's a big step, let's practice shorter trips first,' " says Nancy Eppler-Wolff, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and coauthor of Raising Children Who Soar: A Guide to Risk Taking in an Uncertain World.
Develop a ritual. For younger adrenaline lovers, 3 and up, it can help to have a routine if you'll be heading to an exciting situation like a water park and you want to remind revved-up kids of safety rules. "First, get their attention: Physical routines often work well with these high-energy kids," says Dr. Chansky. "You could do a couple of jumping jacks together or clap hands with him a few times." Then review the safety rules: We walk; we don't run. "Sure, you might have to sit them down for a break if they forget, but praise them when they do use good judgment."
Insist on the right equipment and safety training. Make sure your child has a properly fitted helmet and other standard safety equipment. "If your 7-year-old is begging for a skateboard, get her into a camp or clinic so she can learn safe practices," suggests Dr. Taylor. "Give her the skills to do it safely."
Channel their energy in safe ways. With kids who veer toward actual daredevil activities, you can help them find safer, more structured outlets that still provide the same kind of excitement, advises Dr. Benaroch. Younger kids might like a karate class or gymnastics. Tweens might want to try skiing or rock climbing. Dr. Sandseter's study of 360 teens found that those who did high-stakes sports such as kayaking and rock climbing were less prone to speeding, vandalism, and other forms of antisocial risk-taking. Another benefit: "Oftentimes, daredevil kids will listen to their coach's safety advice when they won't to their parents'," says Dr. Taylor.
So the next time you find your child a little too far up in that tree, take a deep breath and realize what is actually happening: You're just catching a glimpse of him heading to a healthy, happy adulthood.
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