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Talisman: The City Expansion
Fantasy Flight Games | Published: 2013
Expansion for Talisman
The City provides those who live within it a chance to pursue their lives with a modicum of safety and comfort. However, though the outside world is kept outside, any alert adventurer strolling through the City Gate will feel the tension humming in the air.
The City, a new Region expansion board for Talisman, provides players with three alternative endings, its own deck, a host of shops for all your questing needs, and six new characters. Collect bounties listed on the Wanted Posters at the City Gate and fill your pockets with gold before doing some serious spending. Secure a steed from the Stables, pick up Pets or Potions, or head to the Armoury and the Magic Emporium. Visit The City in Talisman as you compete for the Crown of Command!
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Shamus {Avid Gamer}
"Who wants to go shopping?"
The city. It's a big, sprawling place, filled with long streets and many merchants and individuals who are looking for coin, either legitimately…or illegally. One can get into a lot of trouble in a city. But the rewards, oh the rewards…
Enter Talisman's City expansion, one of the newest boards and sets to be added to the Talisman family. Just as the Dungeon and Highlands expansions before it, the City expansion adds a new playing field to the board, this one centered on the City space on the board. The City space acts as normal; if you land on it, you can use any one of the abilities listed on the space. But if you have extra movement or move from the City space, you can move into the City board instead.
The City board is an interesting place; there is no backtracking, unless forced back to a specific space by a card effect. A player must follow the arrows of movement as indicated by the board itself. This means that a player typically has to traverse the city in a certain way, but there are some locations where a player can deviate from a set path. The City itself is a mass of sprawling streets, which in itself is not hard to navigate. The big difference between any of the street locations and any other locations on the Talisman board is that while landing on a street location causes you to draw a card from the City encounter deck, you can have up to three cards on a location. Which means that while the first run-through of the city might not be as eventful, subsequent trips through the city can yield lots of encounters.
In addition, the City has specified locations where players can visit shops or collect wanted posters to collect bounties on for gold. The shops themselves are useful for movement purposes; provided a character has enough movement with the roll of their die, they can end their turn in a shop and spend gold, which can be very useful for nothing else than to avoid an unpleasant space (you can't enter a store and do nothing; you have to perform a valid action). And let me stress: I LOVE the shops. There's a potion shop, a pet shop, an armory, an academy, among others…each shop provides a chance for something useful. Of course, you won't get these items for free (usually). It takes some coin to get the wheels moving, but the items you can get can be really powerful or really useful. One of the most useful (in my opinion) is a pet called Lucky, who will replenish one Fate every turn. In a game where dice rolls can make or break a situation, that is huge. And that is just an example.
The City encounter deck also offers some new and refreshing encounters that deal with the City and the main board, including monsters, places, and events. It should be no surprise that quite a few of the City encounters involve money in some way, shape, or form. There are also some events that have the potential to land a character in the City Jail. Not a fun place to be. At best, you will escape to the town square. At worst, you will beaten after repeated attempts to escape and die alone and forgotten. Not the most enterprising fate for one trying to capture the Crown of Command, but it happens. Some events, however, can really land a character "in the money" and can send a character on a sudden spending spree.
The City expansion also adds some new characters to explore: The Elementalist, the Tavern Wench, the Tinkerer, the Cat Burglar, the Bounty Hunter, and the Spy. Each of these characters brings something new to the table.
The Elementalist offers great versatility with an element of risk; he starts at 1 strength and 1 craft, but once at the start of his turn, he adds 4 to either strength or craft. The right choice can really help in combat and specific tests, but the wrong choice leaves the Elementalist vulnerable.
The Tavern Wench has balanced Strength and Craft, but also has the additional benefit of starting with 5 potions (which qualify as trinkets, so take up no space), and can also stop movement when passing another character's space to stop and force that character to give her a gold piece for a drink (which has certain effects for that character). She also never has to roll for the effects of the Tavern; she just chooses what she wants.
The Cat Burglar has very strong Craft, and is specially geared for burgling; she can attempt to procure an item from any place that sells items for free. To do so, she has to roll a contested roll with the item's price added to it, and she adds her craft. If she succeeds, she gets the item for free. If she fails, the item is discarded and she loses a turn. She also has the interesting ability to choose in what order she encounters multiple cards, which is more useful than you would think.
The Tinkerer is an interesting character; the Tinkerer has the ability to create automaton followers from items to follow him around. The Tinkerer can actually still use these items for their original effect (which in some cases destroys the object if it was a one-shot use), and they don't take up actual inventory space. Also, can turn constructs into automaton followers as well.
The Spy is able to peek at the Encounter deck and also peek at another player's spells in hand. However, I think his most useful ability is the ability to "Shadow" another character in the same region. Shadowing is essentially a teleport ability; the Spy can just move to their location as his move, but does not encounter the space. Aside from just being able to choose a teleport location with a spell, this is by far one of the most useful movement abilities I have seen.
The Bounty Hunter has a high strength rating and has the ability to get that precious coin to use in the City; every enemy he defeats earns him a gold piece. He also gets additional rewards if he fights another character, and can even collect a trophy of his choosing from another player if he lands on their space.
So what do I think of the City expansion? Lot of fun! But if you're trying to win the game, travelling to the City is not a requirement at all. A lot can happen in the City, but it's hard to make the City work for you unless you have coin to spend. You also have to spend time getting out of the City in order to make it to the Plane of Peril, which is your ultimate goal. A good rule of thumb is to follow your opponents' movements to see if you have time or not to make it to the City and try to make a purchase here or there. It can pad your chances quite a bit, but it might be more worth it to explore the main region and take your chances. But as a friend of mine said, the City expansion gives meaning to all the gold that you sometimes collect during the course of the game but never have an opportunity to use. It also includes several alternate scenarios to flesh out the game with optional directions. For the collector, this is a must-have. For the casual player, this is definitely a thumbs-up.
B. Chereaux {Avid Gamer}
This expansion surprised me. It first seemed like nothing more than a big Walmart for your character. However, the more we used it, the more I appreciated the new (if sparse) mechanics. The bounty hunting is fun, and the pets that can be purchased really drew me in.
The components are top notch (its FF), and it has cards galore! Three new special ending cards add some diversity to play, and with all of the help available for purchase, money becomes more important than it used to be.
The pet shop deserves special recognition. After purchase, they give special abilities that can really help your adventurer. They work like a follower too, so they don't count against your items.
The only downside is the lack of adventures in the city, but that is really not what this expansion is built to do. Just something to be aware of before buying.
Overall, great expansion and well worth the money!
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Q: Grails: writing HQL query when domains are not directly matched I have a domain class named Logging which stores an id of another domain class: Organization
The structure of both domains is provided:
class Logging {
   Date dateCreated
   long user_id
   long organization_id
   String memberCode

   static constraints = {
      user_id(nullable: false)
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class Organization {
   Type type
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   static constraints = {
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      memberCode(nullable: true)
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   }

   static mapping = {
      manager(lazy: false)
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}

User enters several parameters: dateCreated, the memberCode and the name of the organization. I need to select all  elements from the Logging domain  matching these criterias.
The tricky part for me is writing the query for the name of the organisation parameter.
According to the search rules I should check whether organization.name field contains data entered by user as a substring(case insensetive) and select the corresponding element from the Logging domain.
The two domains are not mapped directly and I can't join those tables.I have tried different approaches but still haven't found the solution.

A: Here you go
Logging.executeQuery("Select l from Logging l, Organization o where l.organization_id = o.id and o.dateCreated = :dateCreated and o.memberCode = :memberCode and o.name = :name", [dateCreated: dateCreated, memberCode: memberCode, name: name])

A: Try something like this:
Organization.executeQuery("select o from Organization o, Logging l where o.name like = :orgName AND o.id=l.organization_id", [orgName : orgName ])

I didn't tried it, if it works then more search options can be added on the query, and also % can be added on the parameter, in order to enhance the search.

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in the Maldives, this was a celebration to renew vows. Nevertheless, it was a shameful and a derogatory act by the celebrants. It should not have happened.
A lot have happened in the week following the release of the amateur video on YouTube. The celebrants of the ceremony have been taken in to police custody for further investigation. Government authorities have issued official apologies. The tourist couple have been identified and promised full compensation. I am also of the opinion that the management of the tourist facility should also be investigated for lack of proper care to their clients.
was picked up and reproduced in several major international newspapers.
It is a fact that a free media is important to a democracy. The media plays a crucial role in todays world. It is the conscious keeper, watching over the functionaries of society and it attempts to attend to the wrongs in our system by bringing them to the knowledge of general public, hoping for rectification.
But there is an often neglected but an important aspect to media, it is called responsible journalism. No content should be published in the sole intention of expanding readership. The editors of online newspapers know well that regional readership is a thing of the past and anything that they publish on their website can and will be viewed globally. If the media aspires to become a respected institution, it should make a genuine effort to strike the precarious balance between engaging content, entertaining the reader, and possible consequences of their reportage with national interest at heart. There are certain domestic issues that do not need to be broadcast world over.
I also found it hard to believe that heads of government offices were giving out interviews about the incident to foreign media. I thought the government would be doing everything that they possibly could to contain the problem and mitigate the damages. Top level government officials answering questions by foreign media in the hope of lessening the impact may have just attracted more attention to the event.
I hope this is the last incident of this kind to ever happen in this country. We need to make people more aware that tourism is no fair game, but each and every tourist should be treated with care and respect. It is the money that they spend here, that drives our economy. It is the revenue from the tourism industry that help us survive as a nation and as a country.
ceremony was conducted in Arabic, and like most Maldivians, I have absolutely no clue what they said. Hmmm.
you can't blame the media for publishing it.
totally agree with you, i also believe the online news paper is trying to broadening their readership by ruining the whole country's name. They need to be fined by uploading the whole conversation's subtitale in english to youtube. just like they deducted points from a local tv channel. Also how come the dhivehi word "balhu" changed to "swine" on their subtitle. if i am not wrong it is suppose to be "dog"
Minivan news should have censored the couples' faces when they also did so much effort to translate and recreate the video.
Its not the only incident it seems, I hear there is another video though I don't know the authenticity of it. But recently on Haveeru just a day or two after this incident, I read of 4 waiters being "high" on drugs and robbing some tourists rooms while some tourists were in the room! I mean seriously WTH?
Its like some people really want to ruin the economy of this country which primarily depends on our tourism. Can't even calculate the loss this would cause us. And I don't believe its just a few people they should have take in to police custody for this, how can this be blamed on just a few people? There was a whole lotta Maldivian audience in the background and not even one of them decided to report these people to the authorities.
And shame on the person who actually leaked it. It maybe a grudge or something, or just for fun, but still, is that person out of his mind not to think before leaking such a thing to the public?
And like Yafaau's Daddy said, Minivan news should've had the decency to atleast censor the couples faces with that much effort they put into translating the video.
There's no point in trying to cover anything up. It was all over when the video hit Youtube. Heck, I would have subtitled the video it myself if Minivannews didn't do it. Tourists coming to the Maldives have a right to now how they can expect to be treated.
All newspapers should have this. That's why they do have it.
You are trying to hide the behaviour of criminals instead of protecting visitors. Everyone should know about this because everyone is a potential victim of this crime in your country.
You wanted your country to "handle it", you're surprised government officials spoke to foreign media? You are not trustworthy! You want to restrict the media...yet you are yourself using the internet!
Stop trying to "restrict" and "contain" crimes that happen against tourists!
Its a shame this happened. Resort management should do a better job of monitoring their staff activities on the job. I believe that resorts should also do a background check on all employees before employment. I hope we can recover from this negative attention.
Some people don't realize that these type of actions can affect on a whole majority, as being employed in the tourism industry myself i strongly don't find it any much amusing. The management is all to blame.


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Q: How to ensure sequence of commands run sequentially (Timeout issue in jQuery - Qualtrics) I am designing an experiment in qualtrics using java script. For each question in my study, a participant needs to guess the correct answer, type it in, and then hit the space button. Once they hit the space button, a logic checks whether their answer is correct or not. If the answer was correct, a sound should be played for 1.2 seconds, the background color should change into red for a second and then back to white, and lastly the experiment should automatically moves on to the next question.
So far,  I figured out the correct sequence of commands. However, it seems like i am not using the setTimeout logic correctly. no matter what combination of timeout values I used, I couldn't get it play all the middles steps, including the audio play and red background flash, before the screen moves to the next question.
Here, I 've shared my code. I would very much appreciate any help.
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()
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                 if (input.trim().toLowerCase() == "cat") {

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                    setTimeout(jQuery("body").css("background-color","red"), 3000); // change the background color

                     setTimeout( jQuery('#NextButton').click(), 2000) //move on to the next question

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    Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnUnload(function()
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A: setTimeout is asynchronous. If you want multiple setTimeouts to execute in a fixed order then the times have to be additive. So your NextButton timing should be 5000ms (3000ms + 2000ms).
Alternatively, you could put the NextButton click inside the background color change setTimeout function. To add to that, could you put both inside an 'ended' event on your audio.

A:  if (input.trim().toLowerCase() == "cat") {

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I have done some alternate breathing with my fingers I don't know which one I've done. I am a beginner. I do not know if it is alom vilom or pranayama. After a few minutes of the alternate breathing I feel very light headed and dizzy and my mouth is dry and I have slight temple pain in the left side.
I feel very sleepy but I am scared I must have done something wrong. I also had some pasta then did the breathing. Now I feel very funny, I also feel a bit panicky and scared for some unknown reason. Please help urgently.
Doing pranayama without guidance can lead to various side efffects. You must observe all the precautions for pranayama and the technique should be correct.
It is recommended that do not do pranayama on your own. Learn it from an experienced teacher with the correct technique. Also, yoga asanas and pranayama are always done on empty stomach.
It is essential that you learn pranayama and do on your own after complete understanding.


Editor's note: A version of this story appeared in the latest edition of the Norwood News, out on streets now.
Shane Barker, a 16-year-old University Heights resident, does not usually use Devoe Park, the triangular and hilly green space that sits on the corner of Fordham Road and University Avenue and is just blocks from his home.
"Me and my brother don't come down here because there's troublemakers," he says.
But today is different. It's a gorgeous, sunny Saturday morning and Shane, sporting cornrows and the wispy beginnings of facial hair, is one of 70 kids participating in a newly-formed basketball program created by a Bronx-based group called the New York City Christian Athletic League.
Aided by word of mouth and an infusion of funding from local Councilman Fernando Cabrera, the hoops program is flourishing in a park that has become synonomous with trouble.
The league's founder, Edwin Santiago, and his "right-hand man," Frank Abarca, both attend Bronx Household of Faith, an evangelical Christian church that meets at PS 15/291 on Andrews Avenue in University Heights.
In 2005, Santiago, who lives in Soundview and works part-time at Horace Mann, started a men's softball league that has grown to the point where it now includes 10 other city churches. He wanted to expand the league to include youth leagues, but only recently decided to take "a leap of faith" and go for it. He started with football at Harris Field last fall, eventually growing the program to include close to 50 youngsters between the ages of 12 and 18.
"It's very organized and professional," Shane says. After some exercises and stretching, players meet with their coaches for "devotional" time, where players talk about life and religious lessons. "We teach them how to be a good Christian, be a godly man," Abarca says.
Although their church is evangelical and Christian values are preached before and during games, Santiago says the league is accepting of all faiths. "We have players from all religions here," he said. Abarca says devotional time is dedicated to learning "universal values" like respect and accountability.
Nice article about something good happening in the Bronx.
Wow. Interesting that the 2nd Circuit just ruled yesterday that this Bronx Household Church that is actually doing some good in the community can't meet at PS 15/291 anymore. The school policy prohibits "religious worship services" in the buildings now. Maybe the city should re-think who they're kicking out.
Too bad Council Member Koppell does not sponsor or provide the resources for a "hoops program" or a volleyball league to get players off the Mosh. onto appropriate "grounds" in his district.
This is a great article. Its Great to see something happening for the kids in the bronx. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations, initiatives developed by you are teaching good values like cooperation, teamwork and, the fact that adults organize and supervice this activities contribute to avoid conflict among them while they reinforce the religious values.
My sons are taking part in the action and I feel proud of it. I really like that.


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UP Govt Invokes MNREGA To Restore And Revive 50 Small Rivers
The Uttar Pradesh government will restore and rejuvenate at least 50 small rivers in the state, leveraging support from MNREGA. Such rivers are lower order rivers or tributaries of large rivers. Their rejuvenation is an important constituent of the Namami Gange programme which aims at integrated basin-centric strategies for rejuvenation of the vast Ganga basin drainage system.
UP has 3,000 small rivers with at least 1,300 tributaries of the Ganga alone. As many as 50 rivers will be taken up in the first phase, which could last for a few years. The process for other rivers will follow. The threats to these rivers include encroachment river banks, reduced ecological flow, siltation and pollution.
The state government last year had begun efforts to restore the flow and path of two rivers with mythological connection: Tamsa in Ayodhya and Mandakini in Chitrakoot. Later, it took up efforts to restore 17 more rivers whose existence is either threatened or lost.
This time, the Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies led by IIT Kanpur, and its partnership institutions will provide scientific/technical support to the cause through surveys, data and strategic plans. IIT-BHU, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, IIT Kanpur and Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU), Lucknow are the partnering institutes for the activity.
Each institute has been given a set of rivers to focus on. The area of the rivers has been divided into four parts. A list of critical stretches will be provided to MNREGA by the end of February.
Source: Times of India
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Jon didn't like the new plan. She followed the doctor's suggestions. It is our ardent hope that the war will end soon. Jeanne probably won't do what we want him to do. Daniel was disappointed to hear that Craig was already married. It can't happen now. I have two sisters, both of whom are married. After work, I went to exercise. Who wants to go to Boston anyway? She is capable of anything.
Around 29% of Okinawans live to be a 100. Do ants have ears? Caterpillars transform into butterflies while they're in a cocoon. I've known that for a while. I had a full time job with him. I'm afraid there is no time. That's the main thing. He's the prom king and she's the prom queen. I'm going outside. The water has just been brought from the well.
You are eating. Can I pay you back on Monday? What do you want? I want an animal. Elay is step by step relating what she saw and heard. Did you call her? Her delight consists of teaching children. Something you should know about me is that I sleep late in the morning. "How do you know Cathryn?" "It's a long story." You can smell the chocolate from outside! Cory smiled as he took his seat.
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Little girls love telling on their brothers when they've done something wrong. This room is very hot. As you already know, I don't speak French very well, so I'd rather not give a speech in French. Pravin will stay for three days. Adrian assumed it was free. I'm getting rid of him. How did you manage to talk Dieter into working for you? Let's get some coffee. I can't do it by myself. Have you eaten lunch yet?
This is a big dog. They're who broke the window yesterday. When you get to be my age, you'll understand what I mean. I spoke with Grace this afternoon. Do I really remind you of him? "How do you feel?" he inquired. That day will go down in history. She never dreamed she'd meet him in a foreign country. I should've stayed with you. Were you being serious?
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It's a few years old now: Hot Coffee, which takes a look at "frivolous" lawsuits and "tort reform," starting with the infamous "old lady stupidly spilled coffee on her stupid self and sued McDonalds and isn't she stupid" myth.
It's especially good if you want to be angry or revitalize your hatred of G.W. Bush or be reminded that Karl Rove is IRL Tywin Lannister.


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Trey Songz Premieres New Song "Chi Chi" featuring Chris Brown
American singer-songwriters Trey Songz and Chris Brown teamed up for a new song "Chi Chi".
Th duo released the song with an accompanying music video on February 4, 2019.
In the clip, Trey Songz is surrounded by bikini-clad ladies at a pool party, including flash back footage which Trey Songz and Chris Brown perform together in front of a wall of lights.
The track was written by Chris Brown and Trey Songz.
Both of artists previously toured together and teamed up on tracks like "Songs on 12 Play," "Wait," and the remix to August Alsina's "I Luv This S**t."
source : HotNewHipHop


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US lawmaker pushes for lethal aid to Syrian rebels
Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel proposes legislation to provide funds to anti-Assad opposition
16 March 2013, 1:45 am 2 Edit
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Democrat on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling on the Obama administration to train and arm select elements of the Syrian opposition as well as provide humanitarian assistance as the deadly civil war marked a second anniversary Friday.
"It is past time to stop the madness in Syria," Rep. Eliot Engel wrote to colleagues in seeking support for legislation to aid the rebels battling the regime of President Bashar Assad.
The lawmaker, who plans to introduce his bill on Monday, cited the estimated 70,000 Syrians killed and more than 1 million refugees. His legislation would provide economic assistance to local groups supporting the opposition, expand humanitarian assistance and authorize the training and arming of vetted Syrian opposition fighters.
"US training and arming of carefully vetted Syrian opposition forces offer many potential benefits, but two stand out above all: bringing the humanitarian disaster to an end as soon as possible and helping ensure that the US has a constructive relationship with a successor government in Damascus that pursues development, democracy and peace with its neighbors and rejects the regionally destabilizing influence of Iran and Hezbollah," Engel wrote.
Engel's move gives fresh impetus to the demands by some in Congress for greater US involvement to end the bloodshed, and it comes just days before President Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East. So far, only a few Republican lawmakers, led by Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have demanded greater military action such as air strikes and arming the rebels.
Secretary of State John Kerry announced at a conference in Rome last month a $60 million package of nonlethal assistance, the first direct help to the opposition forces trying to overthrow Assad.
The State Department said Wednesday that it has yet to begin shipping the meals and medical supplies to the armed opposition, as it was still in talks with the Free Syrian Army.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of Engel's letter.
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Bernard Matthews Holdings Ltd., trading as Bernard Matthews Ltd, is a British farming and food products business headquartered in Great Witchingham, Norfolk, England, which specialises in turkey products.
Founded by Bernard Matthews in 1950, it has 56 farms throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire farming nearly 7 million turkeys each year. It also has poultry production operations in Germany and Hungary. The company breeds and rears both indoor and free range turkeys on its farms, and is an integrated agricultural business.
1955 – Headquarters were moved to its present location, Great Witchingham Hall near Norwich.
1960 – Bernard Matthews entered the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest turkey farmer in Europe.
1971 – The company was publicly listed.
1980 – The company launched its first TV commercial featuring Turkey Breast Roast, with Matthews himself introducing the famous 'Bootiful' catchphrase in his thick Norfolk accent.
2000 – Bernard Matthews successfully fought off a take-over bid from US food giant Sara Lee.
2001 – The company was bought back by the Matthews family and taken private again.
2006 – Two contract workers were convicted of animal cruelty for playing 'baseball' with live turkeys.
2007 – The company's farm in Holton suffers an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
2007 – The company's factory B plant closes and staff moved to A plant causing many to leave or be relocated at its parent plant up the road.
2008 – In July, the company re-branded from Bernard Matthews Foods to Bernard Matthews Farms and stated that all its turkey products would be made with British turkey from its own farms. The company also unveiled a plan to reposition the company comprising three key elements: refocusing on British Turkey farming and production, making products that claim to better meet the needs of consumers today, and championing British agriculture.
2010 - In January, Bernard Matthews resigned from the post of Chairman, coinciding with his 80th Birthday.
2010 – In April, Bernard Matthews began a new advertising campaign, bringing back its 'Bootiful' catchphrase that was previously used between 1980 and 2007.
2010 – 25 November, the founder, Bernard Matthews, died.
2013 - September, business is bought out by turnaround experts, Rutland Partners.
Bernard Matthews has three main operating companies: the United Kingdom-based Bernard Matthews Limited, the Germany-based Bernard Matthews Oldenburg, and the Hungary-based SáGa Foods.
Bernard Matthews Limited is based in the East of England and produces a range of fresh, cooked and frozen turkey products which it sells across the UK. It employs around 2,200 staff and farms around 7 million turkeys per annum. It has 56 turkey farms and two production sites located in Norfolk and Suffolk. Bernard Matthews Limited is Assured Food Standards (Red Tractor) accredited and its production sites have ISO 14001 accreditation. Jeff Halliwell has been Managing Director of Bernard Matthews Limited since June 2009.
Bernard Matthews Oldenburg is based in the north of Germany and employs around 130 staff. It produces a range of fresh, cooked and frozen poultry products which it sells across Germany and northern Europe.
SáGa Foods is based in northwest Hungary and employs around 800 staff. It produces a range of poultry products which it sells across Central Europe.
The company produces a range of cooked, fresh and frozen British turkey, including products such as oven-ready whole birds, joints, cooked re-formed meats, and meal accompaniments, which accounts for over 90% of the business. Bernard Matthews also produces chicken products which are made with meat sourced from partners in South America.
Bernard Matthews Farms produces turkey for leading UK grocery supermarket chains for use under their own retail brands, and also for businesses supplying the out-of-home foodservice market.
Under the "Golden Norfolk Turkey" brand, Bernard Matthews Farms provides a frozen turkey range including whole birds in a variety of sizes, plus crowns and joints, basted and stuffed. New products under the Farms brand introduced in 2009 included several new seasonings, and an apricot and date stuffing.
One of Bernard Matthews' formed-meat products, 'Turkey Twizzlers', became a subject of debate in January 2005, when they were singled out for particular criticism by the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in his television series Jamie's School Dinners. The product became an emblem of the mass-produced processed food that Oliver wanted to remove from school meals. In the wake of the programme, several major catering organisations announced that they would no longer serve Turkey Twizzlers in schools. Bernard Matthews discontinued the product in 2005. Despite the popular demand from home users of the product, Bernard Matthews' ceased the production of the product to avoid any further criticism and negative press coverage.
On 7 September 2006, two contract workers were convicted of animal cruelty after being covertly filmed by a member of staff from Hillside Animal Sanctuary, playing 'baseball' with live turkeys. The two men were sentenced to a 200-hour community service which was later criticised as being 'derisory' by some animal welfare organisations. Palmer's and Allan's defence lawyer, Simon Nicholls, stated that their actions were part of a 'culture' at the Norfolk plant and, describing the conditions in the unit as "appalling", said: "You can see why people move to an organic, more open type of farming."  An RSPCA inspector said it was the worst case of cruelty to farm animals of which he had heard. A vet, after seeing the footage, said it was the 'most hideous and blatant' abuse he had seen in 25 years. In response, the company took out a newspaper advertisement saying that the men concerned were sub-contractors, and that none of its employees abused livestock. A spokesman stated that they were committed to the "highest standards" of animal welfare.
The 2007 Bernard Matthews H5N1 outbreak was an occurrence of avian flu in England that began on 30 January 2007. The infection was caused by the H5N1 subtype of the Influenza A virus and occurred at one of Bernard Matthews' farms in Holton, Suffolk. A range of precautions were instituted including a large cull of turkeys, the imposition of segregation zones, and a disinfection programme for the plant.
It emerged in a highly critical report from Defra that there was a series of biosecurity failings at the Holton plant, some of which had been drawn to the company's attention in the past.
Though the cause of the outbreak has not been determined, Bernard Matthews regularly transported turkeys and turkey products between the UK and its plant in Hungary, and the H5N1 bird flu strains found in Hungary and Britain were effectively genetically identical.
Consequences of the outbreak included bans by a number of countries on the importation of poultry from Britain, a sharp fall in sales of Bernard Matthews products resulting in workers being laid off and a collapse in confidence in the brand.
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Q: What is the proper way to build a React 0.12 Project? I have just upgraded from React 0.11.1 to 0.12.2. Up until now my code structure was that so my Components were in their own directory, I would use Grunt to compile them to a javascript directory and then concatenate that with React.js into one file to use in index.html.
Project
    |_index.html
    | JSX
        |_someFile.jsx
    | JS
        |_somefile.js
        | Lib
            |_react.js
    | Production
        |_concatenated.js

 module.exports = function (grunt) {
    grunt.initConfig({
        pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
        react: {
            dynamic_mappings: {
                files: [
                    {
                        expand: true,
                        cwd: 'jsx/',
                        src: ['*/*.jsx', '*.jsx'],
                        dest: 'js/',
                        ext: '.js'
                }
              ]
            }
        },
        concat: {
            dist: {
                src: ['js/lib/*.js', 'js/*/*.js'],
                dest: 'prod/built.js'
            }
        },
    ...
    });
};

Once I upgraded to React 0.12.2 I got the message "Warning: Something is calling a React component directly. Use a factory or JSX instead. See: h[ttp://fb.me/react-legacyfactory][1]" The code would work, but clearly I am using some old conventions. I read react-legacyfactory and the new documentation, it looked like all I had to do was add require to the project, and call var React = require('react');
I did that, I even added react and reactify to my package.json just in case, but now I get "Uncaught Error: Module name "react" has not been loaded yet for context: _. Use require([])" I'm not terribly familiar with require, or with how React is being built now. Does concatenating all of my JS files contradict with how React projects are supposed to work now?

A: What version of grunt-react are you using? I believe you'll get this error if you are using the latest version of react in your page but you compiled your jsx with an older version of react-tools.


How many of you have 'cut the cord?' *sees a few hands* Okay, now how many of you struggle with Netflix that never seems to stop buffering? *sees significantly more hands* Alright folks, I hate to break it to you, but the buffering is from a slow internet speed. Since you're saving yourself tens of dollars every month by not having cable, spring for the boosted internet speeds.
If you're still a cable-watcher like myself, I have good news for you too. Harass Negotiate with your cable company to bundle all of your services together. We did that and were able to get our boosted Internet speed, cable and a land line (don't even get me started on this) for a lower cost that what we would've paid for just the Internet and cable.
We spend all kinds of crazy money on our smart phones these days. I'm always shocked to find how people can justify spending any money on flimsy cases that don't protect squat. Smart phones these days cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to near a thousand (I'm looking at you iPhone X) – why would you pay an additional $50 for a protective phone case that has some kind of warranty. I'm incredibly partial to Otterbox phone cases, but let me tell you why. First of all, they have fabulous customer service, but second of all, they have a great product. All of their phone cases come with a lifetime warranty which means that anytime you get a crack or a tear on your phone case, you can request a replacement from their website (even if you bought it somewhere else). All it costs you is an additional $5 for shipping. I've already requested two replacements (yes, I'm particularly fond of dropping my phone) and love them just the same.
For my non-coffee drinking friends, this may seem frivolous. However, if you're an avid coffee drinker like myself then you need to keep your eyes wide open. Coffee beans may be more expensive at the store, sometimes a whole $1-$2 more. When you translate those beans into actual coffee grinds and cups of joe, the bang for your buck is clear. I used to go through a bag of ground coffee every week and a half to two weeks. Now, I go through a container of coffee beans every three to four weeks. Plus, the coffee tastes significantly better when you grind it fresh yourself. Yes, this requires a coffee grinder, but you can find them pretty inexpensively at most stores. This is the one I've been using for months and love it.
How many times have you heard you should spend money on cleaning supplies? Before I had my own apartment, I didn't hear it at all. Dollar store cleaning supplies may be tempting, especially if they're name brand. Don't be fooled, oftentimes the volume is much smaller than volumes available elsewhere. There is nothing more irritating to me than spending money on something that blatantly doesn't work. I recommend spending a few extra bucks on quality cleaning supplies that you are confident will get the job done. Kudos, if you can buy concentrated products because you will get more bang for your buck in the long run. While cleaning supplies are a very un-fun way to spend any money, the small investment will pay off in the long-run when you don't have to break a sweat dusting the cabinet. I recently purchased this wood cleaner (bonus it's all natural) and love it. It smells great, gets the job done and is going to last me a long time.
What are some things you think are worth the investment?


The Couleur Caramel matte nail polishes - What Color is It ?
If you have questions, if something is unclear for you, just say so ! In the UK, you can find these products on Amazon. In the US or elsewhere, I can make a research for you if you are interested but did not know about the brand. I was hesitating to try to find an accessible link for each shade but it would be too difficult if I have to find one for US, one for UK and so on. But tell me if you need help, I am available for you and I like to help very much !
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Q: Юникс время в js Хочу написать простую программу для вывода погоды и тд, но возникли трудности с выводом времени(а именно с разницей времени в часовых поясах)
      var sunrise = data.sys.sunrise;
      var datesr = new Date(sunrise*1000);
      datesr = datesr.getHours() + ":" + datesr.getMinutes() + ":" + datesr.getSeconds();

      var sunset = data.sys.sunset;
      var datess = new Date(sunset*1000);
      datess = datess.getHours()  + ":" + datess.getMinutes() + ":" + datess.getSeconds();

Хочу вывести  время восхода и захода солнца(openweathermap). Но правильно выводит только то что находится в моем часовом поясе, все остальное смешается на разницу между моим поясом и другим
Попробовал и так
      var sunrise = data.sys.sunrise;
      var datesr = new Date(sunrise*1000);
      datesr = datesr.getUTCHours() + data.timezone/3600 + ":" + datesr.getMinutes() + ":" + datesr.getSeconds();

      var sunset = data.sys.sunset /* + data.timezone */ ;
      var datess = new Date(sunset*1000);
      datess = datess.getUTCHours() + data.timezone/3600  + ":" + datess.getMinutes() + ":" + datess.getSeconds();

В этом случае выводится верно,но лишь частично, так как появляются отрицательные часы
Почему то мне кажется что я туплю и есть короткий вариант решения это задачи.

A:       var sunrise = data.sys.sunrise;
      var datesr = new Date((sunrise + data.timezone)*1000);
      datesr = datesr.getUTCHours() + ":" + datesr.getMinutes() + ":" + datesr.getSeconds();

      var sunset = data.sys.sunset /* + data.timezone */ ;
      var datess = new Date((sunset + + data.timezone)*1000);
      datess = datess.getUTCHours() + ":" + datess.getMinutes() + ":" + datess.getSeconds();

вот так выходит как надо


Welcome to the World of Wedding Planning!!!
Happy New Year to all and here's to an amazing 2016!!!
I was surprised to say the very least when my wonderful boyfriend of 4 years popped the question on Christmas Eve and asked me to marry him! Not only did I have no idea what he had been planning, but he chose the most beautiful engagement ring I have ever seen!! He has made me the happiest girl in the world this Christmas!
Having now spent the last week celebrating our engagement with friends and family, I have now come to the scary realisation that I have to plan a wedding! Being a Wedding Photographer, you would think that I would know what I want for my own wedding wouldn't you? You'd think that I've been to so many weddings, I would know exactly what to do and what not to do when planning a wedding! If all I had to organise was the photography, then I would be fine, but this is not the case!
So I will be keeping this blog updated on how my wedding planning is going over the next few months and if anyone has any tips on wedding dresses, wedding boutiques, wedding planners, or wedding inspiration that may help me, please get in touch!


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Tag Archives: Jim Morrison
Is it Still Cool to be on the Cover of the Rolling Stone?
Rolling Stone is in the business to make money. They need to sell ads and get people to buy their magazines. And they know that provocative magazine covers sell. Founded in 1967 in San Francisco by Jann Wenner, it has been on the forefront of music and journalism for almost a half-century. They want to maintain their relevance, their importance in the national conversation. They want to be the voice and ultimate source for all things cool and relevant. That their reputation as a major marketer of mainstream entertainment may now transcend their bonafides as a publisher of cutting edge cultural critique makes us wonder: Have their early days of music, peace, and love been replaced with music, peace, and money?
A treasured coveted piece of rock 'n' roll real estate. That's how cool it is to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone. There's even a song about it, the great Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show's The Cover of the Rolling Stone. No other words have ever expressed better what that achievement really means:
Oh, we're big rock singers. We got golden fingers. And we're loved everywhere we go…We take all kinds of pills To give us all kind of thrills, But the thrill we've never known Is the thrill that'll getcha When you get your picture On the cover of the Rolling Stone…Rolling Stone…Wanna see my picture on the cover. Rolling Stone… Wanna buy five copies for my Mother. Rolling Stone…Wanna see my smiling face On the cover of the Rolling Stone… But our minds won't really get blown Like the blow that'll getcha When you get your picture On the cover of the Rolling Stone.
What are we to make of the Rolling Stone August 2013 issue with the Boston bomber on the cover? Is it glamorizing terrorism as many think? The article inside written by Janet Reitman is a thoughtful account of who he was before his act and its devastating aftermath. In 1970, Charles Manson was on the cover. And the article won them a National Magazine Award. Is he getting "rock star" treatment? The cover of the September 1981 issue had a beautiful and still dead Jim Morrison. With an allure founded on a bad boy reputation of drinking, drugs, arrests, and riots. But he left us a legacy of evocative music that still has meaning.
We see rock star hair and a guarded direct gaze. What has he left us? Not anything good. His legacy is one of terror and victims. Is Rolling Stone making him a celebrity? They certainly have a controversial cover that may sell lots of issues. It's getting a lot of media coverage. And it certainly has a lot of people talking. The question is: Is it still cool to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone?
The Cover of the Rolling Stone lyrics: Shel Silverstein
Tags: Boston bomber, Charles Manson, conversation, cool, Cover of the Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook, glamorizing terrorism, Janet Reitman, Jim Morrison, music, rock star treatment, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone cover, trending
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The year is 1921 and Tulsa, Oklahoma is booming! As one of the most affluent Black communities in the country, Tulsa boasts of 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores, jewelry stores, 2 movie theaters and 2 newspapers. There's a postal substation, a branch of the Y.M.C.A, a hospital, bank, post office, libraries, schools, law offices, private airplanes and bus systems.
Available at Multnomah County: Reconstructing the Dreamland by Brophy, Alfred L.
The fact that this area of Tulsa was destroyed by a White mob is a glaring omission.


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[ARCHIVED] Summit County Changes Web Domain, Staff Email Addresses and Logo
Updates are aimed to ease communication with constituents
Thad Noll, Assistant County Manager
970-453-3438, thad.noll@summitcountyco.gov
Julie Sutor, Public Affairs Coordinator
970-453-3498, julie.sutor@summitcountyco.gov
SUMMIT COUNTY – Summit County government announced today that it is changing its website domain, staff email addresses and logo to allow for easier and clearer communication with residents and visitors about Summit County services and programs.
"We wanted to make things simpler and more intuitive for our citizens, whether they're looking for information on our programs, doing business with our staff and elected officials or understanding who provides their services," Summit County Commissioner Karn Stiegelmeier said. "Our new website and email addresses are going to be far easier to remember than the old ones, and we have a new, streamlined logo that will be much more recognizable out in the community."
The county's new website domain is www.SummitCountyCO.gov, and the new email address convention is Firstname.Lastname@SummitCountyCO.gov. The switch from the old domain took place before the start of business Wednesday, and the new addresses are effective immediately. The old domain was www.co.summit.co.us.
"The old address was a real mouthful, and it was pretty cumbersome to type into a smartphone," Summit County Commissioner Dan Gibbs said. "And having a dot-gov top-level domain makes it more clear to people that we're their county government organization."
Links and messages to the old addresses will be automatically redirected to the new ones for several months, so electronic communications with Summit County personnel should be subject to few if any interruptions. However, constituents, partner organizations and customers are encouraged to update county email addresses in their contacts lists and to update links from their own websites to pages on the Summit County website.
While the domain has changed for all Summit County web pages, the remainder of each URL will remain the same. In other words, a web page that used to have the URL www.co.summit.co.us/example now has the URL www.SummitCountyCO.gov/example. Neither the URLs nor email addresses are case sensitive.
Implementation of the new logo will be a more gradual process, in order to minimize costs associated with the transition. The new logo is primarily typeface, with "Summit County, Colorado," in green and gray. A mountain range is represented in blue above the type. Many felt the old logo, which had been in place since 1999, was an appealing representation of the Summit County environment, but that it was technically difficult to use in a wide variety of applications.
"We needed a clean, modern logo that's clearly visible on everything from a nametag to the side of an ambulance," Commissioner Thomas Davidson said. "It's important for our citizens to be able to easily recognize us and understand who we are, whether they're receiving communications from us or seeing our work out on the road or the trail."
In the coming months, Summit County will be working on a redesign of its website to improve the content and ease of navigation for website users. The new logo will be incorporated into the website design as part of the larger project to make the site more user-friendly.
"Our residents and visitors have an expectation that we're providing quality, timely information about our services, processes, programs and regulations, and that it's all organized in a way that makes it easy to find," Commissioner Gibbs said. "So our staff is working hard to improve our constituents' online experience."


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We can't say anything concrete about how Tanya Plibersek voted on federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
How Tanya Plibersek voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government needs to support research and conservation initiatives that aim to put a stop to the current trajectory of animal and plant extinctions in Australia
Most important divisions relevant to this policy
These are the most important divisions related to the policy "for federal government action on animal & plant extinctions" which Tanya Plibersek could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Tanya Plibersek on this policy.
Tanya Plibersek
Supporters vote
3rd Sep 2020, 5:40 PM – Representatives Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Streamlining Environmental Approvals) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
absent No
Other divisions relevant to this policy
These are less important divisions which are related to the policy "for federal government action on animal & plant extinctions" which Tanya Plibersek could have attended.
23rd Jun 2021, 7:14 PM – Representatives Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Standards and Assurance) Bill 2021 - Second Reading - Do not reject bill
How "We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on" is worked out
Normally a person's votes count towards a score which is used to work out a simple phrase to summarise their position on a policy. However in this case Tanya Plibersek was absent during all divisions for this policy. So, it's impossible to say anything concrete.


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Laws needed to stop bullying in health care
About 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Canada have faced some form of bullying from their colleagues, says an American psychologist, and more provinces need to enact legislation to protect them.
Provinces need to enact workplace bullying legislation, says Dr. Gary Namie
CBC News · Posted: Oct 10, 2014 8:25 AM AT | Last Updated: October 10, 2014
About 40 per cent of health care workers in Canada have faced some form of bullying from their colleagues, says an American psychologist, and more provinces need to enact legislation to protect them.
Health care workers need legislation to protect them from bullying, says Dr. Gary Namie. (Workplace Bullying Institute)
Dr. Gary Namie of the Workplace Bullying Institute is in Charlottetown to speak at the Fostering Healthier Workplaces conference, being held Friday by the Association of Registered Nurses of P.E.I. The conference is focused on bullying of nurses in the workplace, often by other nurses.
Amongst nurses, said Namie, the risk of being bullied is higher than for other health care workers, with about half being bullied. Those in provinces without legislation face a greater risk still, he said.
"When prompted by the risk of violating a law employers will act. And when employers act they can fix it. All they have to do is declare it's unacceptable, draft a policy and faithfully enforce it," said Namie.
"Sounds easy, I know. I'm being glib for a reason. Trouble is employers don't like to do that. They don't like to admit that it happens in their place. They should not feel ashamed. It happens everywhere."
Five provinces in Canada have enacted legislation to deal with workplace bullying: British Columbia, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Manitoba.
For mobile device users: Should all provinces enact workplace bullying legislation?
Young nurses driven from profession by bullying
Workplace Bullying Institute


ATLANTA (AP) The rebuilding Atlanta Braves invested deeper into their already important June draft on Monday by acquiring the 76th pick in the draft from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for minor league pitchers Brandon Barker and Trevor Belicek.
The Braves also acquired veteran left-hander Brian Matusz, who was immediately designated for assignment.
The competitive balance draft pick gives the Braves five of the first 80 picks in the June 9-11 draft, including the No. 3 overall selection.
Matusz, 29, had a 12.00 ERA in seven relief appearances this season. He began the season on the 15-day disabled list with back discomfort and never found his form after he was activated on April 23.
Matusz, a former top prospect, was 27-41 with a 4.85 ERA in 289 career games, including 68 starts, in eight seasons with Baltimore. He had a 2.94 ERA in 58 games as a left-handed specialist out of the bullpen last season after failing to keep a spot in the rotation.
As proof of the importance the Braves placed on the draft pick, the team will pay about $3 million of the $3.9 million salary owed Matusz. The Braves also received an added $839,000 to the bonus pool money they can use to sign draft picks.
The 23-year-old Barker, a right-hander, was 3-2 with a 2.00 ERA in nine games, including eight starts, for Double-A Mississippi this season.
The left-handed Belicek, also 23, was a combined 3-0 with a 2.22 ERA for Class A Rome and Mississippi.
Barker was a 16th-round draft pick from Mercer University in 2014. Belicek was selected in the 16th round out of Texas A&M in 2015.


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Is there something else to consider when trying to achieve maximum accuracy?
The network parameters that will most change performance are pos_dist_threshold (default is 17), global_scale (default is 0.8), resnet (i.e. network depth: 50 or 101), and crop = True + cropratio =.4 --> this is a brand new augmentation step - which will be better documented when the paper comes out (in press now!) - that works very well (see panel b here). You could increase the cropratio if you want, and keep as true (which is the default). If your images are large, be sure you change the max input size to account for scaling (it goes from 0.5 to 1.25 by default, so that means if your images are 1000 pixels, you need your max input to be at least 1250 to account for the scaling).
But, the biggest factor will be really good, error free, labels from a diversity of settings (like the cheetah example)!
Re: your question-> For extracting frames, color=True also uses color to cluster, so if you have diverse colors, then set this to True to cluster the frames using this feature before extraction.
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We hereby wish to demand that the US military installation "Hardy Barracks" located in Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, which we name Azabu US military Helicopter Base, should be withdrawn.
Workers and residents neighboring the base are threatened their daily life with possible crash accidents and suffered from serious noise trouble. For the past 35 years, we have demanded to withdraw the base and to open a vacant lot thus created to the public. Minato Ward Assembly has adopted its repeated resolutions demanding for the withdrawal of the base. To our great regret, however, the base still exists, and not only for that, its facility is expanded and strengthened. We demand for the withdrawal of the "foreign military base in the capital," which is unprecedented for an independent nation, and to open its land to the people of Japan. This is of vital importance to the equal and friendly relationship between our two nations.
In addition, the site of "temporary heliport" built in Metropolitan Aoyama Park as an extension of "Hardy Barracks" should be returned immediately. The Tripartite Agreement signed by the US Forces, Tokyo Metropolitan government and Tokyo Defense Facilities Administration Bureau in 1983 specifies that this temporary heliport should return to Tokyo after finishing of the construction of Loop 3. Nevertheless, 9 years has passed after ending of the construction, the park is still used as the heliport by your military's convenience. We can't stop feeling strong distrust and anger about this. We strongly demand that this heliport should return to its original as a park immediately in accordance with the said Agreement.
To withdraw the so-called Azabu US military helicopter base "Hardy Barracks" and to open its land to Japanese people.
In order to prevent crash accidents during flight, all safety measures should be taken, and especially, never fly out of permitted zone.
Helicopters should not land and park out of designated point, and should stop engines while standing by. Every possible measure should be taken in order to prevent for spreading noise trouble.
Any progress made in the consultation between the Tokyo Defense Facilities Administration Bureau and the US Forces should be kept informed to local residents.


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Intensive training, repeated manual activity as well as contact sports, all is having its consequences. Today the tapes are applicated preventively, in order to protect tendons, ligaments and to avoid injuries. Already injured muscles or joints are supported by the tape, so it helps to speed up the healing process. As usually, all that is useful for and tested by the professional sportsmen, then finds its way to our daily life as well.
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Pre-cuts or cutting it yourself?
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Ceisteanna - Questions
Programme for Government Implementation
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
10. To ask the Taoiseach when the next progress report in respect of the Programme for a Partnership Government will be published. [44408/19]
11. To ask the Taoiseach when the next progress report on the Programme for a Partnership Government will be published. [46449/19]
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Programme for a Partnership Government. [46490/19]
13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Programme for a Partnership Government commitment on the timeline for the passage of Bills as outlined on page 148. [46658/19]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 10 to 13, inclusive, together.
A Programme for a Partnership Government was agreed in May 2016 during the formation of the Government. This is a five-year programme of work being undertaken for the duration of the present Dáil. The Government publishes an annual report each year on the implementation of the programme. The third such report was approved by Cabinet in May 2019 and is published on the Gov.iewebsite. The next annual report is scheduled to be published in May 2020.
The Thirty-second Dáil has seen significant reform in how the Oireachtas does its business. Some of the crucial reforms include the establishment of a new cross-party Business Committee to discuss and agree proposals for the Dáil schedule. A new budgetary oversight committee has been established to allow the Oireachtas play a greater role in the budget. Committee Chairs are appointed using the d'Hondt system and there is more time for Private Members' business in the Dáil. Indeed, 13 Private Members' Bills have been enacted by this Dáil, which is more than any since the foundation of the State. Votes are grouped to encourage a more family-friendly environment, particularly on Thursdays. The timelines for the passage of Bills through the Dáil are agreed by the Business Committee with a view to ensuring that the use of the guillotine is not required. Should the need arise for a Bill to be guillotined, it can only be done with the recommendation of the Business Committee and the approval of the Dáil. Dáil reform is a continual process and as part of the sub-committee on Dáil reform, Government will continue to play its part.
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No! 0 people think not!
I want to raise the programme for Government's commitments on education. The Government made big promises in the programme, which neither it nor its partners in Fianna Fáil have delivered on over the past four years. Diversity and choice for parents in the school system have not been delivered. Core funding and capitation grants for schools and funding in third level are simply not up to it and students, particularly those outside Dublin, are in effect being priced out of their entitlement to third level education.
I want specifically to raise the issue of special education and education for children with additional needs. I attended a meeting last night with a number of principals in my constituency. The community healthcare organisation area that we are in, CHO 4, has the longest waiting list in the country for assessment of needs. Beyond assessment of needs, which is the issue that generated the headlines, the system of therapies for children once they have had an assessment is entirely broken. The organisations that provide these therapies are doing their best. Some of these assessments are done privately but there is no continuity of care then. In Cork, a charity, Marian House, provides therapies but children are not getting the therapies that they need. This has a serious impact on the children and their families and I believe it has an impact on society as a whole. These children are failed when they only get speech and language therapy or occupational therapy every few years. School principals are not trained in that regard and they are forced to try to figure out this stuff as best they can. What is needed is an entire re-evaluation of the special education system in the State because the Department of Education and Skills is blaming the Department of Health, which says it is not its problem. The co-operation between the two is not good enough, particularly in respect of the Department of Health, but the Department of Education and Skills needs to do much more as well.
It is over three years since a Programme for a Partnership Government was agreed. It set out what most of us in this House believed would be a temporary arrangement, which has now survived three years. The document, as set out, was based on an ambition for a fairer Ireland. We will argue about that on the hustings in a few months. There is nothing fair about the record of the Government on so many levels. I want to ask the Taoiseach about the conclusion of this arrangement. I understand Deputy Micheál Martin is now suggesting an orderly wind-down of the arrangement, with these commitments raising the prospect of an agreement between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael of a timetable and an election date. Will the Taoiseach confirm if he discussed or agreed an election date with Fianna Fáil, the party that supports him in government? Will he share his views on that matter?
Does the Taoiseach intend to have such discussions on an agreed date for the next general election that he might set out for the rest of us?
The programme for Government makes specific reference to implementing the national dementia strategy. As the Taoiseach is aware, there is major anxiety or fear about the fate of the St Joseph's dementia care facility in my constituency in Shankill. I brought up this issue last week when I sought a debate with the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, on its fate. It is threatened with closure. It is the biggest and best and a model dementia care facility in the country. There are, however, real fears about its fate. It would be a disaster for dementia sufferers and their families if it were to close. That simply cannot happen. There have been some reassuring comments made by the Minister for Health, but it needs to be definitive. Critically, the fate of the facility turns on recognition by the Government and the HSE that the care provided for high-dependency dementia sufferers will be funded against the minimal level of funding coming from the HSE through the fair deal scheme. Can the Taoiseach tell us, in line with commitments given in this area in the programme for Government, that the gold standard in dementia care facilities in the country will be protected, that funding will be provided and that the anxiety suffered by dementia sufferers and their families will be ended? The sooner he makes a statement on the matter the better.
I wish to make a general point, given previous comments that the programme for Government is not a document that emanates from the confidence and supply arrangement. There is a separate document on policy, to which the programme for Government commits the Fine Gael Party and the Independent Alliance. The confidence and supply arrangement document is much tighter.
I think the Deputy doth protest too much.
I also make the point that all Ministers belong to the Fine Gael Party and the Independent Alliance. There are no Fianna Fáil Ministers or Ministers of State. Such references are superficial or shallow and have no substance to them. Like every other party, we will hold the Government to account. The Taoiseach knows that secretly nobody wanted a general election while there a no-deal Brexit was threatened.
Then discuss the date.
Privately, no one in the Deputy's party wanted to push the issue too far either, but it is happy enough to criticise Fianna Fáil for facilitating the continuation of the Government in the context of a no-deal Brexit.
In a follow-up to the previous question and the first group of questions the Taoiseach will be aware that the programme for Government talks directly about "ending the housing shortage and homelessness". Does the Taoiseach believe this commitment will be delivered on?
On mental health services, it is widely acknowledged that the consistent failure of the Minister for Health to implement agreed plans and the use of mental health services funding to balance overspending elsewhere have led directly to a failure to deliver the level and quality of services that are so badly needed. The Government had the tools and the funding, but the Minister did not deliver services on the ground. In County Wexford, in particular, there is huge anger surrounding the issue of mental heath services. As part of the confidence and supply arrangement we secured extra funding every year for mental health services. Each year much of it has not been spent and the teams in place throughout the country have been understaffed. That is particularly true in the case of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Will the Taoiseach tell us the specific actions he has taken to ensure the allocated budget will be used for mental health services and that the posts unfilled will be filled as soon as possible?
The first question was about education. There are also challenges within that sector, but it is one in which the country is doing well. We know, for example, how well children are performing relative to their counterparts in maths and reading. The education budget this year is €11 billion and will go up again next year. It is the biggest ever education budget in the history of the State. No Government has invested more in education than this one which is made up of Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance. In practical terms, it means more teachers. We now have the lowest ever pupil-teacher ratio in primary schools. We have been able to increase capitation grants but not fully restore them. This has enabled pay restoration to take place for hard-working teachers and other staff in the education sector, while a huge school building programme is evident all over the country, as well as in universities and institutes of technology. There are now approximately 15,000 special needs assistants and more special classes than ever before, as well as a very substantial special educational needs budget of €1.7 billion. There are record numbers making it to third level, which is very encouraging and really important for our future. There are more people than ever before from non-traditional backgrounds attending higher education. We have reformed the curriculum, of which people will be aware. We have, for example, the reformed the junior cycle programme with the introduction of new subjects like physical education and computer science which are examination subjects for the first time.
On the general election date, no date has been discussed or agreed. My view is well known and was set out in writing in August 2018.
On the St. Joseph's dementia care facility, I am aware that discussions are ongoing. The objective absolutely is to ensure the centre will be sustainable into the future. The briefing material I have available tells me that rather than the funding being at a minimal level, the centre is receiving among the highest levels of funding for patients of any provider contracted by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. There may well be very good reasons for this, namely, the very high quality of care provided, or perhaps the acuity and needs of the patients. Rather than the funding being at the minimal level, as the Deputy suggested, it is in the top five or six organisations funded by the NTPF. There is active engagement by the HSE and the NTPF with the provider to secure the future of the service.
On mental health services, the budget will be over €1 billion in 2020 for the very first time, up from approximately €750 million a couple of years ago. We all acknowledge that there is more to providing health services than providing funding. Health services here are well funded by international standards. We have a relatively young population, but perhaps do not achieve the outcomes people are entitled to expect. However, we are seeing some positive changes when it comes to mental health services. The new forensic mental health hospital in Portrane is almost finished and will open next year. It will come in on time and on budget and enable us to close the Victorian facilities in Dundrum. The waiting lists for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, CAMHS, are falling and have fallen by about 25% in the past couple of months, which is positive. The funding provided for the National Office of Suicide Prevention and implementation of the suicide strategy is showing some results, with a 30% fall in the number of suicides. It is not all down to the funding provided by any means, but it is at least moving in the right direction. We will launch very soon the first 24/7 helpline for people suffering mental health difficulties. There are a lot of mental health services in Ireland, but sometimes they are not joined up very well.
What about the situation in County Wexford?
This will create a pathway by which people will be able to contact a 24/7 helpline in two weeks, time to access the services they need.
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach. B'shin deireadh le ceisteanna chun an Taoisigh.
That is a record. None of my three questions was answered during Taoiseach's questions today.
I regret that that was the case.