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Swan Valley Amateur Football Club
Reserves History
Colts History
Thirds History
Most Courageous
Teams of the Decade
Most Games Played
Players Game Tally
Legends Match 2011
Swan Valley AFC was formed in 1965 as the Young Christian Workers Football Club, playing in the Hills Football Association. The Club won the premiership in its first year, defeating Parkerville in the Grand Final. Winning quickly became something of a habit with the Club, having won 24 premierships with the First team in their 45 years of existence. Indeed, the Clubs First team made the finals in each one of its first 19 seasons.
Over the years the Club has fielded teams in the Hills FA, the WA Football Association, the Sunday Football League and now the WA Amateur Football League.
The Club plays at the Swan Valley Sporting Club located at 766 Gt Northern Hwy Herne Hill, currently fielding teams in the WAAFL C3 League and Reserves and West Coast Eagles Colts.
The League teams Fairest & Best medal is struck in honour of the late Keith "Foss" Butler, a founding member of the Club. The Reserves medal is named the Durnin-Bearham Medal after two long serving players and Life Members in Trevor Durnin and Des Bearham. Likewise, the Colts medal is named for Neil Sumich, another long serving player, committee person and Life Member. Arguably the Club's most sought after award is the Santos Caratozzollo Medal, named for the late player and Life Member who lost his brave fight with cancer. It is awarded each year to the player from any grade considered the Clubs Most Courageous.
The Club has over 40 Life Members, most of which are players who earned the right by playing the required 150 Club games. Administrators and lady volunteers have also been recognised.
Former players of note include Ian Williams who played in a premiership with the Club before winning another with Swan Districts and then moving on to Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs for those too young!) in the VFL. Ian returned to the Club and player coached it to three consecutive premierships in the mid 90's. He won four Club Fairest & Bests in his 141 games for The Valley.
Mike Richardson also played in a premiership with The Valley, winning the Fairest & Best before going to Swan Districts, and playing in a premiership there. He then went on to a successful VFL career with Collingwood, Essendon and Brisbane.
Max George, the former Swan Districts and Fitzroy forward played for and coached the Club in 1985.
Highly decorated community footballer Ric Ellard coached the Club to four premierships, playing in three of them. This included a hat trick of wins including an undefeated season. He won three Club Fairest & Bests and two Hills FA Association Fairest & Bests in his 116 games for The Valley. Ric played in two Sunday FL premierships with Kalamunda, winning the competition Fairest & Best the Bowden Medal. He also played in a premiership with Albany Royals, also winning the Gt Southern FL association Fairest & Best. Before returning to The Valley he player coached in premierships with Mundijong Centrals, again winning the Metropolitan FL association Fairest & Best. For the last 5 years he has been coach of Guilford Grammar Schools First XVIII and was an assistant coach with the WA State U16's football team in the 2007-8 seasons.
The Club has selected a "Team of the Decade" four times. Eligibility is generally at least 50 Club games in that time and a player can only be selected in one team if their career spanned two such periods. A plaque of each team is on the Club's Trophy wall and each selected player is given a smaller version in recognition.
In the home change rooms each jumper peg is marked with a numbered plaque, every player to play 100 games in that number gets his name on the plaque.


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Q: How to Expand and Collapse Cells without Pivoting or Using Group Data Options How can I add expand and collapse button in excel without Pivot Table or Group Data, same as the attached picture?
expand and collapse button

A: A few years ago I wrote something like this for a customer.  The code below demonstrates the macro attached to a button that expands/collapses a pre-defined Named-Range ("pRngPurchaseOrders").
This range has "guard rows" which are just empty rows at the beginning and end of the range, and thus if there are <= 2 rows in the range, we assume that it is empty and call an update routine to get data from a database to fill-in the range (if you don't need this, just ignore that branch and treat the range as collapsed).
' Expand or collapse the PurchaseOrder display region
Sub ExpandPurchaseOrders()
  Debug.Print Format(Now, "HH:mm:SS  "), "ExpandPurchaseOrders begin"
    ' get the PurchaseOrders range
    Dim nPurchaseOrders As Name, rPurchaseOrders As Range, lenPurchaseOrders As Long
    Set nPurchaseOrders = ws.Names("pRngPurchaseOrders")
    Set rPurchaseOrders = nPurchaseOrders.RefersToRange
    lenPurchaseOrders = rPurchaseOrders.Rows.Count

    ' if len=2 then assume we are expanding/expanded and updatePurchaseOrders
    ' if len > 2 and row(2) is invisible then we are collapsed, so expand and then updatePurchaseOrders
    ' if len > 2 and row(2) is visible then collapse

    If lenPurchaseOrders = 2 Then
        ' no rows, so we are expanding, but effectively already expanded
        PurchaseOrdersUpdate

    ElseIf lenPurchaseOrders > 2 Then
        Dim i As Long
        If rPurchaseOrders.Rows(2).Hidden = True Then
            'EXPAND: unhide all of the PurchaseOrder rows
            For i = 2 To lenPurchaseOrders - 1
                'first and last rows are hidden and used as anchors, so skip them
                rPurchaseOrders.Rows(i).Hidden = False
            Next i
            ' and update
            PurchaseOrdersUpdate

        Else
            'COLLAPSE: hide all of the PurchaseOrder rows
            For i = 2 To lenPurchaseOrders - 1
                'first and last rows are hidden and used as anchors, so skip them
                rPurchaseOrders.Rows(i).Hidden = True
            Next i

        End If

    End If

  Debug.Print Format(Now, "HH:mm:SS  "), "ExpandPurchaseOrders Done"
End Sub

To use this I simply created a button on the sheet with a "+" in the text next to the named range, and assigned this macro to it.

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Commentary: What vaccine distributive justice means for Black residents and other communities in Allegheny County
by Noble Maseru
As the nation pins its hopes on the efficacy of vaccines to end the COVID-19 pandemic, we must take a realistic look at how we will reduce the raging spread of the virus in communities of color and ensure equitable vaccine distribution and access for the hardest hit populations in Allegheny County.
The COVID-19 case count in the United States has reached more than 16 million following the Thanksgiving holiday when the greatest number of people traveled by air since March of this year. COVID-19 is now the nation's leading cause of death. With the virus running amok, hospitals are overwhelmed, and medical personnel are exhausted and overworked from coast to coast.
For Black Americans throughout the pandemic, COVID-19 rates of hospitalizations and deaths have been higher, and case rates continue to rise at a disproportionate rate compared to white residents.
The unfortunate reality is that as goes the country so goes Allegheny County. In a coronavirus pandemic that spreads through contact with infected people, every opportunity to reduce the number of cases is an opportunity to keep more people safe and healthy.
To this end and from my position as a professor of public health practice with a career spanning 40 years in the areas of human services, academia and public health, I call upon the county to implement four measures that will address the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 virus on the Black community and to develop a plan that will inform equitable distribution of the vaccine to improve the safety of all residents and avoid "vaccine deserts." It is crucial that the county establish trust with communities of color because of the historical harms caused by medical researchers on communities of color.
Noble Maseru. (Courtesy photo)
I also invite our region to join me in applauding the county for its collaboration with community-oriented initiatives like Father Paul's Neighborhood Resiliency Project, the Federally Qualified Health Centers, and The Black COVID-19 Equity Coalition. Working closely with entities that have long-standing and trusted relationships with residents is a proven formula for success. Such organizations have systems in place to reach a vast majority of people who call those communities their home. If these partnerships can be enhanced – let's do so.
Now, let's take a look at the numbers, keeping in mind these numbers represent people – souls. The numbers show an alarming situation in Allegheny County.
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Tags: black americans, Communities of color, COVID-19, vaccine deserts, vaccine distributive justice

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Q: MSBuild email alert to list failed tests I'm using TFS, MSBuild and MSTest for automated build and test solution. When some unit tests fail; build partially succeeds and I get email just giving the error information.
Is there any way that I can customize the e-mail content? I want the failed test names and fail reason listed in the mail. Even the test result file as an attachment(1 MB) would do.
Thanks

A: There is a Jenkins plugin called "Email-ext plugin" link maybe that could help you. However, (I assume) you might need some kind of your own custom template to do what you want.
Example
You can attach a HTML page to your email, likewise you can customize as you want:
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Q: AngularJS Select | After selecting an id from a JSON show the rest of the information of that id I have a JSON saved that has plenty information:

I am able to fill a select menu with all the names of each element inside the JSON this way:
<select ng-model="car.marca" ng-options="item.brakeId as item.name for item in fillBreaks" class="form-control cforms" required>
  <option value="" disabled selected>Sleccionar Marca</option>
 </select>

Getting this as result: a select menu filled with the names:

I am able to get the BreakId of the selected element, in this case is saved in 'car.marca' using ng-model.
ng-model="car.marca"

My question is, Based on the selected element lets say 'BrakeId: 9' how can I display the rest of the information of that selected id?
I want to display the price, description, stock, and so on.

A: You can get the selected object by doing a find on fillBreaks (should be fillBrakes?) for an object with a matching brakeId using ng-change like below. This will allow you to display the additional brake information while keeping car.marca true to holding just a brakeID.

var exampleApp = angular.module('exampleApp', []);
exampleApp.controller('ExampleController', ['$scope', function($scope) {
  $scope.car = null;
  $scope.fillBreaks = [
    { brakeId: 0, name: 'Brake A', description: 'Good brakes', price: 100, stock: 1 },
    { brakeId: 1, name: 'Brake B', description: 'Great brakes', price: 200, stock: 1 },
    { brakeId: 2, name: 'Brake C', description: 'The best brakes', price: 300, stock: 1 }
  ];
  $scope.brakeInfo = null;
  $scope.getBrakeInfo = function(brakeId) {
    $scope.brakeInfo = $scope.fillBreaks.find(function(item){return item.brakeId == brakeId});
  }
}]);

  <select ng-model="car.marca" ng-options="item.brakeId as item.name for item in fillBreaks" ng-change="getBrakeInfo(car.marca)" class="form-control cforms" required>
    <option value="" disabled selected>Sleccionar Marca</option>
  </select>

{{ brakeInfo }}

A: You can change your ng-options to grab the entire selected object, instead of just it's ID.
ng-options="item as item.name for item in ctrl.fillBreaks"
See this JSFiddle for example
P.S. A little trick to remove the Placeholder option from the dropdown is to add style="display: none;" to it, so that it can't be intentionally selected; also illustrated in the JSfiddle


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Q: Copying printer preset .plist files (Mavericks) I am trying to copy a custom print preset from one computer to another.  My understanding is that the presets are stored in ~/Library/Preferences with the name com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.<name>.plist.  I have copied the preset into my preferences folder, yet the presets for that printer (a Canon ImageRunner 5075) have not changed.
In my preferences folder there is only the new file, and when I inspect it with the Property List Editor, the correct presets seem to be there, but when I choose Print, they don't appear in the Print dialog for that printer; instead the previous presets still show up.  Are the preferences cached somewhere?
(The purely obvious answer "Just make a new preset" won't work for me, since Canon, in its infinite wisdom has removed print dialog access to the functionality encoded in the old preset, even though the printer is still able to use it.)
Any suggestions on how to get this working are greatly appreciated.

A: It turns out that preferences are cached in Mavericks (and presumably Yosemite), and therefore copying preference files will not make them immediately available.
A generic cache cleaning tool such as Onyx can be used to clear the caches or if you're happy using the command line the following command will reload the cached preferences:
killall -u <yourusername> cfprefsd

Thanks to the MacOS Hints Forums for this useful gem.


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Drive sustainable growth and prosperity across the UK, and to enable the transition to a net zero economy, by improving access to finance for smaller businesses.
Angelene Woodland
Angelene Woodland is Chief Marketing Officer, having joined the British Business Bank in April 2019.
Angelene leads the Bank's Demand Development Unit and is responsible for brand proposition, the customer demand strategy, marketing communications and the regionally based UK Network Team.
Angelene has held several positions within Marketing over the past 25 years and has worked both Agency and Client side.
Angelene joins from Bupa UK where she was Director of Marketing Communications, leading all Bupa UK's brand, acquisition and retention marketing strategy across all customer segments and business lines. Prior to Bupa, she held senior roles at Littlewoods Shop Direct Group and the British School of Paris.
Phil Piers
Phil joined the Bank in November 2019, with more than 25 years' experience working in corporate and investment banking businesses, leading multi-disciplined finance teams both in the UK and globally.
A chartered accountant, Phil was previously CFO for Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets and started his career in Valuations and Product Control with Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital.
Richard Bearman
Richard Bearman has over 20 years' experience in the banking sector and over that time has developed a real passion for working with and supporting entrepreneurs.Richard is Managing Director at the British Business Bank and is responsible for the Start Up Loans programme.
Working with a range of Delivery Partners across the UK to help start up businesses access funding, Richard is proud to play a part in helping people achieve their dream of being their own boss.
Richard was previously UK Head of Small Business at HSBC, where he led and supported colleagues serving the UK SME market via face to face, telephony and digital channels. Richard set the strategic direction and led the business to evolve its channels and grow its customer base. Under Richard's leadership, HSBC was voted Best Business Banking Provider in the Smart Money People British Bank Awards and Best Online Banking Provider in the Business Moneyfacts Awards.


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Ian Colquhoun
From a young age, Ian Colquhoun knew he wanted to be involved in education. Several factors, including his mother being a teacher, becoming involved in various leadership positions in high school and being greatly inspired by his professors when he studied at County College of Morris (CCM), influenced his career path.
"I had a lot of good teachers all the way up through college. I always thought what teachers did was awesome," says Colquhoun.
Colquhoun graduated from CCM in 2001 with an Associate in Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology. He then went on to earn his bachelor's degree at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). After graduating from NJIT, he worked as a structural engineer, a motorcycle frame and suspension designer and a motorsports engineer, all which required demanding hours. After several years of working 80-100 hours a week, he decided it was time to pursue his dream of teaching. He was hired by CCM as a lab coordinator. Knowing that was a good place to start, he went on to earn his Master of Science in Education. In 2011, after seven years of being a lab coordinator and adjunct professor, Colquhoun was hired as a full-time professor.
Joining the Department of Engineering Technologies and Engineering Science as a full-time teacher was a smooth transition. The desks he used to sit at became the desks of his students. Former professors, who inspired his dream of being an educator, became colleagues.
Recognizing that the smaller class sizes that are found at a community college provide the opportunity to interact more with students, Colquhoun works hard to build relationships and offer guidance. "Whatever they can take from me, I will give 110 percent. We work collaboratively together in order for that to take place," he says.
In between classes, he finds students end up visiting him to ask questions about the industry, pitch their ideas and even ask for help in other classes. "I find CCM to be more of an inclusive environment," says Colquhoun. "There's an opportunity to build a working relationship with your professor." Being in their shoes not too long ago, he offers students his knowledge on classes, transferring and beyond.
His hope is to encourage students to pursue their career path with vigor as his professors instilled in him. From a CCM student to a CCM professor, Colquhoun sees the big picture of effectively helping students pursue a career in something they love.
"I was fortunate to have been provided with the guidance and support to pursue a field I love," he notes. "I hope to be able to do the same for my students."


Brazilian police have announced the arrest of Assad Ahmad Barakat, a Lebanese national who is believed to be one of the most prolific international financiers for the Shiite group Hezbollah. Barakat was born in Lebanon but fled to Paraguay in the mid-1980s in the midst of Lebanon's brutal civil war. He began an import-export business and eventually acquired Paraguayan citizenship. He gradually built a small business empire in Paraguay, which included engineering and construction, as well as transportation firms. Throughout that time, however, Barakat maintained strong connections with Hezbollah, the paramilitary group that has a strong following among Lebanon's large Shiite Muslim community.
By the mid-1990s, Barakat was one of Hezbollah's most active representatives in the Americas and operated as the Shiite group's head of paramilitary and fundraising activities in South America. It is believed that he used his Paraguayan passport to travel to Iran and Lebanon for meetings with Hezbollah's leadership at least once a year. In 2001, following pressure from the United States, Paraguay charged Barakat in absentia with money-laundering. He was eventually caught in Brazil in 2002 and extradited to Paraguay, where he was tried and sentenced to six years in prison. Upon his release in 2008, Barakat returned to his role as Hezbollah's fundraiser. Using fake passports, he traveled frequently to Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and other Latin American countries, despite having been described by the US government as "one of the most prominent and influential members of the [Hezbollah] terrorist organization". He was wanted in Paraguay for identity theft and in Argentina for laundering in excess of $10 million in casinos in the north of the country.
Last Friday, the Brazilian Federal Police announced that Barakat had been arrested in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, which is adjacent to the Paraguayan and Argentinian borders. The city of 250,000 is the largest urban center of the so-called Tri-Border tropical region, known for its tropical climate, spectacular mountain views and casinos. Aside from being a year-round tourism center, the area is a known as a hotbed of money-laundering, forged currency smuggling and drug-trafficking activity. It is now known whether Barakat will face charges in Brazil or whether he will be extradited to Paraguay or Argentina.
Media reports from Lebanon claim that Israel was behind a bomb explosion that injured an official of the Palestinian group Hamas in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon eight days ago. The official, Mohammad Abu Hamza Hamdan, who is originally from the Gaza Strip, suffered light wounds when his parked car blew up on January 14. Television footage posted online by Lebanon24 from the site of the alleged attack shows smoke coming out of a white BMW car, parked on the courtyard of Hamdan's home. Reporters at the site said the car belonged to Hamdan and that it had been booby-trapped by unknown assailants. Hamdan was reportedly transported to a nearby hospital, where he received treatment for light wounds.
Reports quoted Lebanese officials who pointed to the fact that the booby-trapped car was parked inside the enclosed courtyard of Hamdan's home as evidence that the attack was specifically targeted at Hamdan. Others said that the attackers may have originally planned to kill Hamdan's brother, Osama Hamdan, also from the Gaza Strip, who has served as Hamas' Lebanon representative for 30 years. Now a new article published by Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper has accused Israel's Mossad intelligence agency of having orchestrated the assassination attempt. The paper also said that Lebanese security officials had managed to identify the Mossad operatives that carried out the attack. It said they were headed by Ahmed Battiya, a Dutch-born Lebanese man who was recruited by the Mossad in Holland and has participated in prior assassination operations perpetrated by the Israeli spy agency. Al Akhbar said that Battiya had traveled extensively inside Lebanon on behalf of the Mossad, in order to identify Hamas officials and track their movements. The article was published hours after Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Shiite paramilitary group Hezbollah, also accused Israel of attempting to kill Hamdan.
In Israel, however, government officials appeared to reject claims that the Mossad was behind the attack on Hamdan. The country's Minister of Defense, Avigdor Liberman, told reporters that the Lebanese media blames Israel for everything that happens in Lebanon, and warned Hamas not to open a "new front against Israel from Lebanon". Yisrael Katz, Israel's Minister for Intelligence, said that, if Israel had been involved in the attack against Hamdan, "this wouldn't have ended with him lightly wounded".
The spy agency of Lebanon used a virus designed for the Android mobile operating system to compromise the cell phones of thousands of people in at least 20 countries, according to a new mobile security report. The 50-page report was published on Thursday by a team of researchers from Lookout, a mobile security company, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Washington, DC. In an accompanying press release, the researchers said that the virus, which they named Dark Caracal, has been in existence for at least six years. They added that it was traced to a building in Beirut belonging to the General Directorate of General Security (GDGS), Lebanon's primary external intelligence agency.
According to the Lookout/EFF research team, the trojanized phone application was camouflaged as a secure messaging service, resembling popular applications like Signal or WhatsApp. However, once an Android user downloaded it, it gave remote users access to the compromised phone's cameras and microphone, thus turning it into a bugging device. The virus also stole email and text messages, pins and passwords, lists of contacts, call logs, photographs, as well as video and audio recordings stored on the compromised device. The report states that compromised devices were found in over 20 countries, including Lebanon, France, Canada, the United States and Germany. The majority of those targeted by the virus were civilian and military officials of foreign governments, defense contractors, and employees of manufacturing companies, financial institutions and utility providers.
On Thursday, Reuters contacted Major General Abbas Ibrahim, who serves as director general of GDGS. He insisted that the GDGS is known for collecting intelligence using human sources, not cyber technologies. "General Security does not have these type[s] of capabilities. We wish we had these capabilities", General Ibrahim told the news agency.
Western intelligence services warned Lebanon's former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri of an assassination plot against him, thus prompting him to resign on Sunday, according to Saudi news media. Hariri is a Saudi-born Lebanese politician, reputed to be one of the world's wealthiest people. He is the second son of the late Rafiq Hariri, who ruled Lebanon for much of the 1990s but was assassinated in 2005. Saad al-Hariri spent most of his life in Saudi Arabia, the United States and France, but returned to Lebanon in 2014 to lead the Future Movement, a center-right political party supported by Sunni Muslims and some Christians. He became prime minister in 2016.
On Friday, Hariri flew from Beirut to Riyadh for a scheduled high-level visit. But on Sunday he shocked the Arab world by announcing his resignation from the post of prime minister. He did so in a surprise television address from the Saudi capital, which was broadcast live in Lebanon. Hariri told stunned Lebanese audiences that he was resigning in order to protect himself from a plot that was underway to assassinate him. He added that the political climate in Lebanon was intolerably tense and reminded him of the conditions that led to the assassination of his father 12 years ago. He also accused Iran and Hezbollah of acting as the primary destabilizing factors in Lebanon and much of the Middle East. Hariri and his supporters believe that Hezbollah was behind his father's assassination in 2005. There was intense speculation in Lebanon on Monday that Hariri would remain in Saudi Arabia for the foreseeable future, fearing for his life if he returned to Lebanon.
On Sunday, the Saudi-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat claimed that Hariri decided to resign after he "received warnings from Western governments" that there would be an assassination plot against him. The newspaper did not name the Western governments, nor did it identify those who are allegedly trying to kill Hariri. Later on Sunday, Saudi television station al-Arabiya al-Hadath alleged that an assassination attempt against Hariri had been stopped at the last minute in the Lebanese capital Beirut earlier in the week. Both news media cited "sources close" to the Lebanese leader, but did not provide specific information, nor did they give details of the alleged plot or plots. It is worth noting, however, that Lebanese security officials denied these reports from Riyadh. Lebanese media quoted senior security official Major General Abbas Ibrahim as saying that no information about assassination plots had been uncovered. Major Ibrahim, who heads Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security, said that his agency had no information about attempts to kill Hariri or other Lebanese political figures.
This could mean that the information about a possible assassination plot against Hariri was given directly to him by Western intelligence agencies, probably because the latter fear that Lebanese security agencies are infiltrated by Hezbollah sympathizers. Or it could mean that the Saudi media reports are inaccurate. Lebanon is now awaiting further details by Hariri regarding the alleged assassination plot against him. In the meantime, the already fragile political life of Lebanon appears to be entering a period of prolonged uncertainty.
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 07 November 2017 | Permalink | Research Credit: B.M.
An Israeli military official has repeated claims in the Arab media that the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah killed its own military commander in Syria, following a dispute with Iran. Mustafa Amine Badreddine, 55, an expert in explosives and former bomb-maker, was a senior military commander in the military wing of Hezbollah. He rose through the ranks of the organization to become a trusted adviser to Hezbollah's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah. In 2011, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set up by the United Nations, charged Badreddine with organizing the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hariri was killed with over 20 other people in a massive bomb blast in Beirut, in February of 2005.
Soon after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, the leadership of Hezbollah dispatched Badreddine to the Syrian capital Damascus. His stated mission was to command thousands of Hezbollah troops, who fought under Iranian guidance in support of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But on May 13, 2016, Badreddine was reportedly killed in Damascus, causing observers to describe his death as the biggest setback for the Shiite militant group since the 2008 assassination of its leading commander, Imad Mughniyeh. Initial reports in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese media suggested that Badreddine might have been killed in an Israeli air attack. But a press statement issued later by Hezbollah said the commander had been killed as a result of an armed attack by Sunni rebels. However, on March 8 of this year, the Saudi-owned pan-Arab television network al-Arabiya said it had conducted its own investigation into Badreddine's death, and had concluded that he was killed by Hezbollah itself. The network claimed that Hezbollah's Secretary General Nasrallah had ordered Badreddine's killing, after the Iranians demanded it. Apparently the Iranians wanted him killed because he disputed the authority of Major General Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, who is often credited with having saved the Syrian government from demise during the Civil War.
The claim that Badreddine was killed by Hezbollah was echoed on Tuesday by Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. Speaking to the Associated Press, Lt Gen Eisenkot said that reports from Arab media that Badreddine was killed by his own forces agreed "with intelligence we have", referring to the Israeli military. It is worth noting that Israeli officials rarely comment on intelligence operations, including assassination operations, choosing instead to adhere to a "refuse to confirm or deny" policy.
The security services of Lebanon announced on Wednesday that they had arrested five foreign nationals who were allegedly spying of Israel. A brief statement issued by Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security (GDGS, also known as the General Security Directorate) said the five individuals were members of a "spy ring" set up by the Mossad, Israel's external intelligence agency. The five —three men and two women— are accused of contacting Israeli embassies in countries in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, with the aim of passing information about domestic Lebanese affairs.
The statement from the GDGS said the alleged spy ring consisted of two male holders of Lebanese passports, a Palestinian Arab man (passport not specified), and two women with Nepalese passports. It said that the five foreigners were interrogated and "confessed to the charges", which include "spying for Israeli embassies abroad". According to articles in the Lebanese media, the members of the alleged spy ring admitted that they had dialed telephone numbers that were operated by the embassies of Israel in: Amman, Jordan; Ankara, Turkey; London, United Kingdom; and Kathmandu, Nepal. The reports state that the five foreigners said the reason they contacted the Israeli embassies was to "pass on information", but no specifics were offered.
According to An Nahar, Lebanon's leading daily newspaper, the two Nepalese women had been tasked with recruiting other Nepalese women working in Israel as maids or nannies. The recruits were allegedly instructed to call telephone numbers belonging to Israel's embassy in Nepal and share information about their employers' activities. No information has been given about the identity and occupation of those who employed the domestic workers. The GDGS statement said that the agency was seeking to arrest "the rest of the culprits", but did not specify whether these were members of the same alleged spy ring.


Indonesian prodigy Rio Waida has taken out the 2017 Hello Pacitan Pro QS1,000 event in pumping waves at Watu Karung in East Java. In its first year as a WSL event, Watu Karung didn't disappoint with barreling, 3-to-6 foot waves on offer throughout the competition window.
The world's best tube riders are ready to gather at Bali's most iconic wave on Sunday, July 9th for the Rip Curl Cup Opening Ceremony. All are welcome to attend the traditional festivities at Padang Padang Beach to bless the event with good waves and to welcome the official invited surfers.
In a do-or-die three days of surfing, both the Rip Curl Gromsearch #5 and the Rip Curl Gromsearch National Finals were decided in challenging conditions at Lakey Peak, Dompu, Sumbawa.
New edit from 15 y.o Indonesian-Japanese surfer Rio Waida. He had fun sesh in Bali, along with his powerful turns and barrelled.


BEIJING – Il y a quarante ans ce mois-ci, les dirigeants de la Chine orientaient le pays sur une trajectoire de réforme qui allait produire la transformation économique la plus spectaculaire de l'histoire. Mao Tsé-toung était mort deux ans plus tôt, et Deng Xiaoping, rapidement rétabli dans ses fonctions, allait parvenir à imposer sa vision du développement économique et de la modernisation, lors de la troisième assemblée plénière du onzième Comité central, en décembre 1978. Au cours des quarante années qui suivront, la Chine se changera en puissance économique majeure, produisant un refaçonnement tout aussi impressionnant de l'économie et de la géopolitique mondiale.
Les réformes de la Chine débutent dans l'agriculture, avec l'assouplissement de contrôles étatiques jusqu'à lors écrasants. Au travers du mécanisme de double fixation des prix, les agriculteurs vont bénéficier d'incitations de marché. Le système de responsabilité des ménages leur confère un plus grand contrôle sur les terres qu'ils travaillent. Les agriculteurs vont rapidement répondre, avec une augmentation de leur efficience et production.
Les réformes vont par la suite s'élargir et s'étendre à d'autres domaines. Les incitations liées à la production non agricole vont être renforcées via une forme hybride de propriété appelée entreprises communales et villageoises (ECV). Les réformes se propageant aux villes, les entreprises d'État gagnent en autonomie, et sont encouragées à entreprendre. Des incitations sont créées afin que les provinces et les localités investissent et dynamisent la croissance économique. Dans les années 1990, la croissance des zones économiques spéciales (ZES) finira d'orienter définitivement la Chine sur une trajectoire d'intégration à l'économie mondiale.
"political freedom"? You mean a system where you have to spend millions of dollars to be a viable candidate? Do you really call that "freedom", or are you joking?
Great piece. But on the interpretation of the past the statement that "China represents the triumph of practical economics... over the simplistic reasoning of Econ 101", while essentially true, leaves me wondering about what kinds of social processes led to such practical economic outcomes. Was it the dominant influence of brilliant and well trained economists in the Communist Party fully familiar with second-best strategies to identify and choose market failures to solve? Was it some kind of "experimentalist governance" based on key player participation combined with common sense? And how did the experimentation and competition necessary to screen out successful experiments from failed ones take place under what has always been hierarchical and authoritarian CP rule?
On the great "experiment" of the future, yes, it indeed seems to be Western Liberalism versus new Beijing Consensus: high growth, high tech and economic inclusiveness at the cost of political conformity and control.
"how did the experimentation and competition necessary to screen out successful experiments from failed ones take place under what has always been hierarchical and authoritarian CP rule"? One only needs time and stability to learn how to apply science to politics and society. My question is: why did it take them so long?
Chinese leadership has, indeed, proved very effective in recent years, particularly in its handling of the financial crises of 2008. It is enough to make one wonder a bit if democracy is really the best system, especially looking at the chaos democracy is producing now.
But when I begin thinking like that, I always remember an experience at the University of Waterloo back in the 1970's. The student paper was controlled by a group of very hard-line Maoists. China under Mao was a wonderful place. The only other country that was any good was Albania under Enver Hoxha. Then Mao died, and they were left with only Albania as a shining beacon of light. Few students agreed with this position, or wanted their fees to be used to push it, but it continued like that for years until the democratically-elected student council took a hand. The thing about that paper was that you had to write in it to become a member, and the members controlled who got to write in it. It was a system that could be taken over, and it was taken over.
The current Chinese system seems rather like that. Right now, it is working very well. But those on the inside get to control who gets in. As far as I know, it lacks any mechanism that could correct it if it goes off the rails like that student paper. Works great for now, but I wonder about the future.
"In the West in contrast, politicians seem focused on struggling on the same temporal plane than that of the voters, with endless short term promises and short term events related scare mongering tactics to stay in power or conquer it"
Well said! The demise of our beloved Republic!
"By doubling down on authoritarian single-party rule, China is now testing that proposition."?
China still "enjoys" first generation middle class. Conventional wisdom will come into its own when a new set of demands (re: A. Maslow) develop when the successor generation takes over.
the main problem of China is, in a way, complementary to the problem of the US. The entire population of China cannot join the "middle class" in a western sense. It is not the matter of political will, or political organization, but physical barriers due to resource limitations. Nature does not care about human politics. Just like the US will have trouble maintaining social cohesion under pressures of declining prosperity, China will have trouble maintaining social cohesion under pressures of barriers to growth. The cure, in both cases, is technological progress, which however takes time and the outcome of which is not assured. Social cohesion, however, is a daily, rather than hypothetical, concern.
Unlike Russia, which could reach "western" living standards with political reform, China simply cannot. It is a big difference.
About the contrast between China and it's tribalo-populist neighbours across the West there might be some point in looking at the notion of delayed gratification.
Democracies might, at least on paper, tend to involve voting populations that might want to elect representatives that do represent their average selves.
Of course, their average selves might be effective at delayed gratification at a somewhat average level, allowing the majority to be in horizontal resonance with their representative.
This is the ideal setting for spatial freedom and enrichment, "share the spoils" based colonial expansion, market expansion, cultural expansion, interplanetary expansion.
In China what might be going on is to some extent a vertical resonance between the effective majority, that which needs to tolerate the government to allow it to function, and the leadership constituted not by elected representatives of average level delayed gratification competencies as in the West, but by selected representatives of high level delayed gratification competencies.
This would be the ideal setting for temporal freedom and enrichment "cycle through the farmlands fruits", with politicians focused on long term deeper planning and the non-politicians on short term shallower planning.
In the West in contrast, politicians seem focused on struggling on the same temporal plane than that of the voters, with endless short term promises and short term events related scare mongering tactics to stay in power or conquer it.


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CMS Cheer team posts video on TikTok that racks up nearly 20M views
T'Keeyah Cummings,
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – The next viral video you see may have some local flavor.
The Columbus Middle School Cheer team's answer to a TikTok challenge and its follow-up videos have received millions of views.
The next time you scroll through TikTok you may see some familiar faces.
The Columbus Middle School Cheer team participated in a TikTok cheer challenge, and now that video has gone viral.
Columbus Middle School Cheer Coach Ashley Hill said it all started two years ago with 200,000 views.
Now they are close to 20 million.
"About 2 years ago we went viral with about 200 thousand but when we made this cheer this cheer was actually a cheer challenge we had 4 point 4 million likes and the view with 19 million we were all just shocked," said Hill.
And while the numbers continue to increase on the page, some of the members are still shocked by the outcome.
"I didn't think we were going to make it as far as we did and be that big," said Murray.
But Hill always knew they had star power and she has always had faith in her girls.
"I had high goals for them and we set the bar high and we they realize anything they think they can do we can master it. It was a good thing just to see all the different likes and other countries saying 'I want to go to that school' just because of that cheer. It was a big accomplishment for all of us," said Hill.
Cheer Captain Tamiya Baldwin said she is thankful for the support from people across the country and even around the world.
"It's great knowing we have support not just from our school but from everybody," said Baldwin.
While this group is filled with laughter and fun, Hill said they can't pick up their pom poms if their school work isn't turned in.
"We teach them to be a student first. I tell the girls all the time that cheerleading is second and being a student is first. Always make sure your grades are up all of them know that grades are very important," said Hill.
And as the girls continue to make their videos, Hill said it's all about preparing them for the future.
"That's our goal for their foundation to be strong, so when they get to the high school and elevate to that level then they will have the tools that they need in order to be successful in high school as well as college," said Hill.
The team was invited by the TikTok team to go to Atlanta Georgia for a National Cheer Competition.
If you would like to help support the girls on their next journey, you can contact the Columbus Middle school for guidance.


If your child is in need of ear tubes, you probably know why: lots of ear infections. And if your family is facing a decision about ear tube surgery, you're not alone. After the common cold, ear infections (otitis media) are the most common reason that young children visit their pediatricians.
In many cases, ear infections clear up on their own without antibiotics or surgery. But repeat infections, known as recurrent otitis media can be problematic and be persistent causing pain or hearing problems due to the inflammation and fluid buildup behind the eardrum. As a pediatric ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist, I often recommend surgery to insert an ear tube for children who experience severe, recurrent ear infections.
Placing tubes in the ears has many benefits. An ear tube drains the fluid and equalizes the pressure in the middle ear. Ear tubes provide access to the infected area of the ear, allowing the use of eardrops to treat the ear infection. Ear drops are a safe alternative to the use of oral antibiotics, which can have side effects. If a child experiences hearing loss because of fluid or repeat otitis media, ear tubes can often restore hearing.
Ear tubes can be inserted in an outpatient surgery clinic, which means your child doesn't need to be admitted to the hospital overnight. Even if your child needs tubes for both ears, the surgery takes 10-15 minutes.
During the surgery, your child is placed under general anesthesia while an ENT specialist makes a small incision in the ear drum, removes the fluid and inserts the ear tube. Antibiotic drops will also be placed in the ear.
Children who have ear tube surgery usually recover quickly and have little pain or other symptoms after the procedure. You and your child can return home within one to two hours, and your child will probably be able to return to school or child care the next day.
Follow-up visits to the doctor every six months are important to make sure the tubes are functional and your child's hearing has improved. The tubes normally stay in for 12-36 months and often fall out on their own. The child may swim and participate in water sports with ear tubes. Ear plugs are recommended if swimming in lakes or oceans is planned.
Check out our video on complete ear tube surgery for a family's perspective.


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Burger bar slapped with $300k in penalties
Adam Zuchetti
14 May 2018 — 2 minute read
The former operator of a suburban burger bar has been burned by penalties worth more than $300,000, with the Ombudsman citing it as a wake-up call to all hospitality businesses to lift their game on wage compliance.
Todd Patrick Buzza, the former owner of two Burger Buzz outlets in Melbourne, was fined $51,735 and his company Rum Runner Trading copped a $258,495 fine after a judge found them guilty of "blatant" and "extraordinary" conduct towards employees.
Despite having previously been the subject of multiple complaints of wage underpayment by various workers, Mr Buzza admitted that he and his company underpaid multiple employees in 2015 and 2016.
The penalties arise after two separate actions were launched by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) – one for the underpayment of seven workers to the tune of $7,113, and a second after a further five employees were found to have been shortchanged by $7,513.
Most of the impacted workers were university students or foreign visitors on working holiday visas.
The FWO alleged that further underpayments were likely but that "they could not be quantified because [Mr] Buzza and his company contravened record-keeping laws, including knowingly providing inspectors with false and misleading records".
Handing down her verdict in the Federal Circuit Court, Judge Suzanne Jones criticised Mr Buzza and his company for demonstrating "a blatant disregard for their obligations", and that "no genuine contrition or remorse" had been shown.
Judge Jones admitted that the penalties handed down included a component of deterring other business owners from breaking the law in a similar fashion.
"A penalty should be fixed with a view to ensuring that it is not regarded by the respondents and others 'as an acceptable cost of doing business', and should be likely to act as a deterrent to like-minded persons or organisations," she said.
"Employers should be in no doubt that they carry a responsibility to ensure that they comply with the obligations which they owe to their employees under the law."
Commenting on the verdict, Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James said that hospitality businesses are vastly over-represented in complaints the FWO receives about wage underpayment.
"It is deplorable that nearly one-third of the most serious cases that end up in court involve this one sector," Ms James said.
"The Fair Work Ombudsman's experience and data suggests that a disturbing culture of non-compliance has emerged in the restaurant, cafe and fast food sector that is completely unacceptable," she said.
According to Ms James, hospitality workers make up 7.2 per cent of the total labour market, yet food businesses account for 29 per cent of all FWO legal cases.
"Unless industry leaders take action to overhaul a culture where underpayment of wages has become normalised, this sector and its individual businesses will increasingly attract the attention of law makers and find itself in the middle of media storms," Ms James said.
She added: "We appreciate workplace laws can seem complex but there has never been more freely available information to help employers understand their obligations, and there is no excuse for failing to check what lawful minimum pay rates apply."
Pros and cons of outsourcing
Workplaces causing 14% of mental health cases
Last Updated: 18 May 2018 Published: 14 May 2018


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Brandless is an online store that sells wholesome, organic and speciality food and other household goods. Each item is sold for $3 and some are even less.
The idea behind Brandless is that customers are paying just for the item and not for the markup that often comes along with brand names and certain household names and promises.
Often times when we are shopping, we pay more for certain brand name items to pay for marketing and advertising and perhaps not necessarily the best product.
Founders Tina Sharkey and Ido Leffler met when they were both were living in Mill Valley, California. Both have extensive experience in online communities and ecommerce and wanted to give this project a go.
Sharkey is the founder of iVillage and the former CEO of BabyCenter and Leffler founded several companies, including Yes To, Inc. and Yoobi. They founded Brandless in 2014 to set a new standard of quality for consumers. Specifically, they hope to appeal to people who seek quality and transparency and consumers who are sick of choice overload.
Brandless is now based in San Francisco, California and operates an additional facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
They distribute foods that are free from GMOs, organic products and fair trade coffees. They also sell health products like vitamins, cruelty-free beauty products and paper products that comply with sustainable forestry practices. There are products for many home needs including soap and cleaners and even kitchen tools like tongs and spatulas as well as plates and bowls with a simple and clean design.
Each product is in simple solid colored packaging with a few descriptors of simply what the product is and any other information like if it is kosher, organic or gluten-free.
Each product is $3 and some are two for $3 or some are as low as three for $3.
Many of the products cost significantly less than something you could find in a grocery store. For example, they sell maple syrup, peanut butter, almond butter and other nuts that you may not otherwise be able to get for such a low price. Typically, maple syrup and almond butter can cost well over $5 each.
The founders say that by offering only one or two types of each product, they are able to keep costs down even more. Instead of needing to spend money on both the product and marketing to make a product stand out so people buy it, Brandless cuts that piece out completely and sells the product to you. The product speaks for itself and the low cost and high quality combination will bring you back.
Since the start, Brandless has been able to expand into several new product offerings including pet and baby products. These offerings are another market that falls victim to heavy marketing and consumer choice fatigue and Brandless hopes to fix that.
The company has also started to offer a new subscription service so once you find your favorites, you can make sure they are coming to you as often as you need them.


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Medal of Honor Warfighter Project Honor Edition
Exclusive global warfighter documentary takes you into the lives of the world's most deadly warriors in the Medal Of Honor Warfighter Project Honor Edition.
Check out a press release from EA talking about Project Honor Edition.
Get ready for a glimpse into the lives of the world's most highly trained and skilled warriors with the exclusive Global Warfighters documentary included in the Medal of Honor Warfighter™ Project HONOR Edition available only at Walmart. This unique documentary dives into the lives of some of the world's most elite warfighters including the U.S. Navy SEALs, German KSK, Polish GROM and more as they put their skills to the ultimate test day in and day out.
Fans that purchase the Medal of Honor Warfighter Project HONOR Edition at Walmart will also receive all Medal of HONOR Limited Edition content including the Medal of HONOR Zero Dark Thirty Map Pack. In anticipation of the release of Columbia Pictures and Annapurna Pictures' Zero Dark Thirty, this multiplayer map pack takes you to some of the world's most dangerous locations. Players will fight online in the Darra Gun Market, a flourishing arms bazaar and the largest illegal gun market in the world, and Chitral, a rugged area in the far north of Pakistan governed by tribes that will not allow even the Pakistani army to operate in the region. Also included in the Medal of Honor Warfighter Project HONOR Edition is access to the exclusive Battlefield 4 beta available in fall 2013.
Written by actual U.S. Tier 1 Operators while deployed overseas, Medal of Honor Warfighter puts players in the boots of today's most highly trained and skilled warriors to experience missions that have an intense sensory connection to real world terrorist threats. From rescuing hostages in Abu Sayyaf's stronghold in the Philippines to assaulting Al-Shabaab's "Pirate Town" on the Somali Coast, Medal of HONOR Warfighter features international hotspots in the single player campaign and introduces international Tier 1 Operators in multiplayer allowing gamers to show their national pride online.
Gamers anxious to start the fight can download the Medal of HONOR Warfighter beta this October exclusively for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system. Featuring a brand new multiplayer mode called HotSpot, players team-up in pairs using the game's unique co-op Fireteam system to attack and defend randomly-selected locations on the Sarejavo Stadium map in Bosnia.
Medal of Honor Warfighter Project HONOR Edition will be available for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC at Walmart retailers for a limited time starting on October 23, 2012. Pre-Order the Medal of Honor Warfighter Project HONOR Edition at www.walmart.com.
For more information on Medal of Honor Warfighter and be sure to visit www.medalofhonor.com, and www.facebook.com/medalofhonor, or follow on Twitter® at www.twitter.com/medalofhonor.
About the Author Rafael is the founder and video editor of latinogamer.com. Currrently a graduate student at California State University, Los Angeles pursuing his master's degree in Computer Science. He loves reading and learning about video game history and development. His dream is to be a video game designer.
Rafael es el creador y editor de video de latinogamer.com. Es estudiante de posgrado en la universidad del estado de california, los ángeles trabajando hacia su maestría en la ciencia de computación. Le encanta leer y aprender acerca de la historia y desarrollo de videojuegos. Su sueno es ser diseñador de videojuegos.
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Q: Systemctl blocking when starting my deamon I have written a small daemon in Python with:
#!/usr/bin/python3

import time
import click
import daemonocle

from daemonocle.cli import DaemonCLI

@click.command(cls=DaemonCLI, daemon_params={'pidfile': '/var/run/daemon.pid'})
def main():
    while True:
        time.sleep(3)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

It works great as is. If I do the following I get a good exit status 0
$ sudo ./daemon start
Starting daemon ... OK

$ echo $?
0

Then I wrote a systemd service file:
[Unit]
SourcePath=/home/pi/daemon/daemon
Description=My First Daemon
Before=multi-user.target
After=mosquitto.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/daemon.pid
Restart=no
ExecStart=/home/pi/daemon/daemon start
ExecStop=/home/pi/daemon/daemon stop
ExecReload=/home/pi/daemon/daemon reload

And if I try to run my daemon with systemctl the command remains blocking:
$ sudo systemctl start daemon
^C
$ sudo systemctl status daemon
? daemon.service - XEMWAY Demo Service
   Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/daemon/daemon; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (start) since Wed 2019-02-13 13:47:40 GMT; 12s ago
  Process: 13044 ExecStop=/home/pi/daemon/daemon stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 12304 (code=exited, status=143); Control PID: 13079 (daemon)
   CGroup: /system.slice/daemon.service
           +-13079 /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/daemon/daemon start
           +-13081 /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/daemon/daemon start

After one minute systemd says:
Feb 13 13:49:10 raspberrypi systemd[1]: daemon.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 13 13:49:10 raspberrypi systemd[1]: daemon.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
What's wrong with this?

A: The issue is that your service creates daemon by it's own and systemd doesn't know about it. It's just a simple program that runs and exit after little amount of time for systemd. Instead of forking you want to use simple:
Type=simple

Systemd wil still track your process as a daemon, since it knows its pid:
systemctl status test2.service
* test2.service - My First Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/tmp/a.py; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-02-13 16:06:27 EET; 5s ago
 Main PID: 18104 (python)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 10.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/test2.service
           |-18104 /usr/bin/python /tmp/a.py start
           `-18115 /usr/bin/python /tmp/a.py start


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Year   |Number
1984   |152
Information is not held centrally on how many took up NHS practice in Scotland. In recent years most dental graduates have undertaken a year's vocational training before becoming a general dental practitioner. As from October 1993 this became mandatory.
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many dental de-registrations there were in Scotland in the period 1985 to 1993.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : Formal arrangements for patients to register with a specific dentist were introduced under the new contract for general dental services on 1 October 1990. Information supplied by health boards shows there have been around 17,000 de-registrations in the period October 1990 to December 1993.
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has for a review of orthodontic services in Scotland.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : There are no plans for a review of orthodontic services specifically. However, the system of dental remuneration is currently under review, following consultation on the Bloomfield report.
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many clients were registered in Scotland with general dental practitioners in each year since 1983.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : Formal arrangements for patients to be registered with a specific dentist were introduced under the new contract for general dental practitioners on 1 October 1990. The number of people registered with a dentist in Scotland is contained in the table.
Number of people registered with
a dentist in Scotland as at 31
Year       |Number
|registered
1991       |1,710,947
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many NHS episodes of orthodontic treatment there were for Scotland for the period 1983 to 1993 ; and what was the cost of NHS orthodontic treatment for Scotland for the same period.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : NHS orthodontic treatment is provided through the general dental service, community dental service and hospital dental service. Information on treatment and cost, where available, is shown in the tables.
Orthodontic treatments in the General Dental Service in Scotland:
Year<1>           |Number of        |Total cost
|treatments<2><3> |(including
|patient
|contributions)<4>
1983              |18,321           |1,556,020
1991-92           |16,305           |3,009,660
<1> Information is for calendar years from 1983 to 1990. From 1991-92
information is for financial years.
<2> The number of treatments is a count of the number of forms with an
orthodontic appliance. This includes retention and replacement
applicances.
<3> Differences in the number of treatments may be due to changes in
the definition of orthodontic treatment items in 1987, 1989 and 1990.
<4> The cost of orthodontic treatment from 1983 to 1990 include
examinations and study models. From 1991 the cost excludes examinations
and study models.
Orthodontic treatment episodes in the Hospital Dental Service
in Scotland: 1983-1993
Year ending     |New            |In-patient and
31 March        |out-patients at|day case
|consultant     |discharges
|clinics
1983            |14,523         |10
1984            |14,371         |1
1985            |15,514         |195
1990            |<1>19,487      |858
1991            |18,825         |1,089
<1> Estimated.
Information on costs is not available centrally.
Orthodontic treatment episodes in
the Community Dental
Service in Scotland: 1988-1993
Year<1>     |Number of
|Orthodontic
|Episodes of
|Treatment
1988        |5,727
<1> No information is available
prior to 1988.
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of the number of individuals who received private orthodontic treatments in Scotland during the period from 1983 to 1993.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : No information is held on private dental treatment.
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many patients are waiting for orthodontic treatment in Scotland.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : At 31 December 1993, the latest date for which information is centrally available, there were 12 patients waiting for in-patient treatment in orthodontics and paediatric dentistry. No patients were waiting for day case treatment. Information on patients waiting for out-patient treatment is not centrally available.
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has to amend the Prison (Scotland) Rules 1952 ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 17 June 1994] : The draft revised Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules were issued for consultation last September. Consideration of the comments received has almost been completed and it is intended to lay the new rules before Parliament in the next few weeks.
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the attendance records of individual members of prison visiting committees for the last two years for which figures are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 17 June 1994] : Detailed attendance figures for all individual visiting committee members are not collated centrally and any exercise to obtain comprehensive data would involve disproportionate costs.
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what consultations have been undertaken with the local authorities in Scotland about proposed changes in the membership of prison visiting committees.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 17 June 1994] : The draft revised Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules, which contain proposals for changes in the constitution of prison visiting committees, were sent to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in September 1993 as part of a comprehensive consultation exercise.
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many private ambulance contracts there were for Scotland in the period 1985 to 1993 ;
(2) how many private patient journeys were undertaken by NHS patients in Scotland for journeys to and from (a) nursing homes and (b) private hospitals in the period from 1985 to 1993 ; what ambulance charges were levied on these NHS patients ; and what was the total money earned from these charges for the same period ; (3) if he will list the NHS ambulance services in Scotland which have contracts with private sector health care providers.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 17 June 1994] : Information is not collected centrally on private ambulance contracts, but it is considered that there has been little use if any, of such contractors by NHS bodies in Scotland since the Scottish ambulance service exists to meet the needs of NHS patients.
No charges are levied on NHS patients for any ambulance journeys provided by the Scottish ambulance service for NHS treatment in nursing homes or private hospitals. Non NHS patients are carried by the Scottish ambulance service only on the basis where there is no detriment to NHS patients. A charge is made. The total income earned in respect of such patients for the period 1991 to 1993 was £48,131. There is only one ambulance service for the whole of Scotland and it has no contracts with any private health care provider.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMISSION
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission what arrangements are in hand to audit non-departmental public bodies ; and what improvements to those arrangements are currently being considered.
Sir Peter Hordern : The Comptroller and Auditor General is the auditor of two-thirds of non-departmental public bodies. The auditor of the remaining bodies is appointed by the responsible Secretary of State, usually from the private sector, and accounts are laid before Parliament.
In addition, as the auditor of all central Government Departments and agencies the C and AG checks the payment of grants to all public bodies funded by central Government. In most cases he has a right of access to the body receiving the money both so that he can check that the Department is supervising the spending of public money effectively and also to check that the body spends the money properly.
The recent report by the Public Accounts Committee on the proper conduct of public business suggested that the National Audit Office be enabled to examine and inspect all non-departmental public bodies and other organisations which receive the greater part of their income from central Government funds. The Government have agreed to consider the need for the C and AG to examine bodies to which he currently does not have access on a case by case basis.
National Audit Office
Ms Lynne : To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission if he will make a statement about the level of funding made available to the National Audit Office to investigate changes in the proportion of moneys spent by local authorities on the various duties they performed over the last five years.
Sir Peter Hordern : The audit of local authorities is the responsibility of the Audit Commission, and does not therefore come within the remit of the Public Accounts Commission and the National Audit Office.
Air Manoeuvres
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the members of each manoeuvres commission established under the Manoeuvres Act 1958 since 1979.
Mr. Hanley : It has never been necessary to invoke the powers of the Manoeuvres Act 1958 as training has been accommodated on existing MOD land, or on the occasions this has not been possible, by negotiation with the landowners concerned.
Naval Firing Range, Cornwall
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what consultations his Department has had with the Department of National Heritage concerning the siting of a naval firing range off Dodman point in Cornwall ;
(2) what is his estimate of the total savings to his Department of resiting a naval firing range off Dodman point in Cornwall from Lulworth cove in Dorset ;
(3) what consultations his Department has had with the Department of the Environment concerning the siting of a naval firing range off Dodman point in Cornwall ;
(4) what assessment his Department has made of the impact on the local economy of the siting of a naval firing range off Dodman point in Cornwall ;
(5) if he will make a statement about his Department's decision to resite the Navy's firing range from Lulworth cove in Dorset to the sea area off Dodman point in Cornwall ;
(6) if he will name all the sites which are being considered as a naval firing range to replace the current range at Lulworth in Dorset.
Mr. Hanley : The proposal to establish a new naval gunfire support training area has arisen as a result of the decision to move the Royal Navy operational sea training organisation from Portland to Plymouth, which will require transfer of training currently conducted at sea off Portland to exercise areas in the channel south of Plymouth. The move will involve the transfer of some 280 RN personnel to the Plymouth area, and will create an estimated 100 civilian jobs there, as well as bringing additional revenue to the areas. As well as undertaking extensive consultations locally, my Department has also consulted the Department of Transport, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the habitat protection branch and the water resources and marine division of the Department of the Environment. We did not consult the Department of National Heritage as it has no locus in this matter.
The financial savings involved in establishing the new range, as opposed to continuing to use the current site at Lulworth, are difficult to quantify precisely. We expect, however, that the saving in man hours and fuel alone could be as much as £500,000 per annum. Also, were the task not transferred to the new range, there would be significant operational penalties elsewhere in the Navy's programme as a result of the greater amount of resources necessary to complete the NGS task.
After a preliminary survey of the whole coast area from Lizard to Start Point, we have also given careful consideration to several alternative sites to that proposed off Dodman. These included Bolt Head, Bolt Tail, HMS Cambridge, Rame Head and the Eddystone Lighthouse. Each of these sites proved unsuitable, however, for various reasons.
There has been local concern about the potential impact of this proposal on the local economy. As it is the Navy's intention to work round, rather than to disrupt, the
activities of fishing and commercial vessels and of leisure craft, we would expect there to be very little impact on Cornwall's economy.
The formal phase of the public consultation period has now ended, and the various representations are being considered. We shall look very carefully at all the factors before making a final decision.
D-day Veterans
Mr. Wareing : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans Her Majesty's Government have to compile a register of surviving British service men and other United Kingdom citizens who took part in the D-day landings to ascertain their living conditions ; and if he will introduce measures to improve those conditions.
Mr. Aitken : It is the Government's aim to provide a full range of health and welfare facilities to meet the needs of all members of the population. This would include those who have served in the Armed Forces, and who may expect to benefit from them in the same way as other members of the community. There are of course also arrangements in place to cater for the special needs of former members of the armed services.
D-day Commemoration
Mr. Wareing : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the cost to Her Majesty's Government of the events staged to commemorate D-day.
Mr. Hanley : I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Redcar (Dr. Mowlam) on 24 May, Official Report, column 108. The estimated additional costs for the Department of National Heritage are approximately £230,000.
Troops (Emergency Tours)
Mr. Churchill : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) infantry battalions and Royal Marine Commandos, (b) Royal Artillery regiments, (c) Royal Armoured Corps regiments and (d) Royal Engineer regiments are currently projected to have an emergency tour interval in (i) 1994-95 and (ii) 1995-96 of less than 24 months, assuming continuation of the current level of commitments in Bosnia and Northern Ireland.
Mr. Hanley : On current plans the following number of units will deploy in each of the two years on emergency tours within 24 months of their last emergency tour :
|1994-95|1995-96
Infantry battalions and Royal Marine
commandos                          |6      |7
Royal Artillery regiments            |1      |1
Royal Armoured Corps regiments       |1      |2
Engineer squadrons                   |4      |8
Mr. Churchill : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of his duty hours (a) a guardsman and (b) a trooper in the Household Division has spent on
public duties over the most recent (i) quarterly and (ii) annual period for which figures are available ; and what assessment he has made of the impact of public duties on recruitment to the Household Division ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Hanley : It is not possible to answer the question in the form requested. On average, however, a guardsman in a public duties battalion is committed to nine days public duties per month, rising to 13 days in the ceremonial season and a trooper to 10 days per month, rising to 14 days in the ceremonial season.
There is no evidence to suggest that the Household Division's requirement to perform public duties has any effect on its ability to meet its recruitment targets.
McCarthy and Sons
Mr. Allason : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what grounds McCarthy and Sons (Contractors) Ltd. of Coombe road, Torquay, are ineligible to work on his Department's sites.
Mr. Aitken : Provided that McCarthy and Sons (Contractors) Ltd. of Coombe road, Torquay meets the MOD's contract terms, including security requirements, there is no reason why the company should not be eligible to undertake work at MOD sites.
Military Bands
Mr. Jessel : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the annual cost of maintaining and training (a) a military bandsman at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Twickenham, (b) a Royal Marine bandsman trained at Deal and (c) a Royal Air Force bandsman trained at Uxbridge, including all extraneous training costs ; and what is the annual cost of training an Army bandsman at Kneller Hall.
Mr. Hanley : It is not possible to make meaningful comparisons between the costs of training bandsmen at these establishments for various reasons, such as the differences in course lengths and varying standards of musical ability on arrival. It is possible, however, to give
a broad indication of the approximate annual cost of training bandsmen at the three establishments in question, and this is as follows :
|£
Deal         |72,000
Kneller Hall |16,000
Uxbridge     |<1>Nil
<1> The RAF recruits fully
trained musicians although
there is a small element
of expenditure on higher
level training.
Mr. Jessel : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what sum was spent by his Department on the restoration of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, after the decision to reprieve the RMSM and prior to the visit by Her Majesty the Queen to mark the completion of the restoration.
Mr. Hanley : Repairs to the roof and work on the stonework on the external facade of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, was carried out in November 1990 at a cost of approximately £2,000, 000.
Special Air Service
Dr. Reid : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to disband R Squadron of the Special Air Service.
Mr. Hanley : There are no plans to reduce the current strength of the SAS reserve although some restructuring will be necessary to enable more flexible use of the numbers available.
Dr. Reid : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the capability to produce small arms nitro compound currently exists in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Aitken : Small arms nitro compound is not a term recognised within the Ministry of Defence. There is no capability in the United Kingdom to produce propellant for small arms ammunition.