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Finding the right entertainment for your child's party can be daunting, as you want to ensure you show them how much you care and turn their party into a treasured memory that will last a lifetime. You can't rewind the day and only get one chance at making it a success, as the party entertainment will literally make or break the party!
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Fabian Hamilton - Member of Parliament for Leeds North East
Fighting for fairness justice and equality
About Fabian
Richard Burgon MP
Yorkshire & Humber Labour
Linda McAvan MEP
Hilary Benn MP
Surgery Appointments
Building Homes for Britain
LGI Childrens Heart Surgery Unit
Following the announcement that it is proposed to end specialised heat surgery for children at the Leeds General Infirmary, Fabian has stepped up his work to support moves to reverse this decision. At an interview he gave to Radio Leeds on the 4th July 2012 he reiterated his firm view that the geography of the UK meant that Leeds was the most sensible centre for the location of a specialist heart unit especially as it currently forms part of one of the largest concentrations of medical expertise anywhere.
The next day Fabian submitted an oral question to the Health Minister at Westminster and, together with local Members Stuart Andrew MP and Greg Mulholland MP he applied for the matter to be considered for a parliamentary debate by the Back Bench Business Committee which is able to determine some of the issues in the parliamentary timetable. The Back Bench Committee viewed the matter gravely but there was insufficient time for it to be debated in the remaining period before the recess. Subsequently a debate has been promised for September. Fabian also hopes to see the matter raised this term in an adjournment debate before the House rises.
On Tuesday 10th July Fabian met members of the Children's Heart Surgery Campaign in London that had been joined by Leeds Councillor John Illingworth and Kevin Watterson the senior cardiac surgeon from LGI. Fabian strongy supported the view that specialised surgical units in both Leeds and Newcastle should remain open to satisfy the needs of both communities as shutting either would cause profound distress in the large conurbation affected. Fabian also noted that the review leading to the closure programme had not included Scotland and if implemented would lead to the anomalous situation of units being retained in Glasgow and Edinburgh (just 40 miles apart) even though the performance data for Glasgow suggests that it is less effective than either Leeds or Newcastle at present.
Last week Fabian had a private conversation with the Andrew Lansley MP, Health Secretary, who advised him that a decision on closure was not a government matter. However procedure requires for such a matter to be referred to the minister if the local authorities of the area concerned raise it. Fabian is actively promoting the cross-party accord in Leeds in order to ensure that such a controversial decision is taken at the highest level and, to seek to ensure that common sense prevails. Leeds City Council, only last Wednesday passed unanimously an emergency motion, with all party support, noting with great concern the decision by the Joint Committee of the Primary Care Trusts not to retain Leeds as a designated surgical centre for children's congenital cardiac surgery services. The Council confirmed its support for the decision to be referred to the Secretary of State given the adverse impact the plan would have on the population of this region and upon local health services.
Fabian has met children and their families who have been greatly helped by the unit at LGI and fully understands the distress that is being caused by the current proposal.
The photograps below show the large demonstration held in Leeds on Monday 23rd July 2012 and the its size indicates the volume and strength of public opinion. Councillors and local MPs took part. Fabian was unable to attend as he was undertaking his charity cycle ride to Berlin.
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Urgent search launched for missing Callum Ross, 15, from Paisley
Police say they're very concerned for Callum's safety as he may have travelled to Glasgow city centre or even to Inverness
Gillian LoneySenior editor
(Image: Police Scotland)
Police have launched an urgent search for a 15-year-old boy missing from his home in Paisley.
Callum Ross was last seen around 2am today (Monday, September 14) in the Paisley area and may have travelled to Glasgow city centre or to Inverness.
Sergeant Jackie Melvin, Paisley Police Office, said: "We are very concerned for Callum's wellbeing and safety. He is a young boy who we urgently need to locate."
Victim fights for life as detectives reveal incidents in two different towns 'may be connected'
Teenager found dead outside Springburn flats as police launch investigation
Callum is 5ft5, of medium build and has brown eyes. He was last seen wearing black jogging bottoms, a black jacket, white trainers and a black baseball cap.
Sergeant Melvin added: "Anyone who has seen Callum or anyone who knows of his current whereabouts is asked to contact Police Scotland on telephone number 101 quoting incident number 0341 of 14/09/2020."


The Observatory organised a workshop to present the results of a study carried out by a consultant for Groupe URD on new jobs in post-earthquake metropolitan Port-au-Prince. Seven key organisations from the humanitarian and development sectors, most of whom are involved in professional training in the neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, shared and discussed experiences and constraints in relation to professional training and professional activities, and the findings of the study. Amongst other things, the participants discussed engaging in joint action to promote reform of the professional training sector in Haiti.


The Face Vase filled with flowers.
A colourful bouquet in a face-shaped vase.
I have to ask Herbert--A lady walked in withy this ceramic "face container'" and asked Julie to fill with flowers.to make another face.


The trained touch of a human upon another human with only a healthful intent is known as Chiropractic Care. Chiropractors are so well trained to touch the human body with healthful intent that interventions can be alarming and confusing or well understood and comforting. However when your Chiropractor clinically appraises your body's needs he will apply his touch with your safety and improved health in mind.
Of the new patients seen at the Beaminster Practice from February to Sept 2017 75% returned back to normal in an average of 3.1 visits (range of 2-5). 11% of people were just visiting (transitory), 11% discontinued care at visit 1 or 2 and 3% attended the practice for wellness care (no symptoms).
67% of new patients were male and 33% were female with an average age of 43.5 yrs (range 10-78). 39% people presented with Chronic Back Pain, 11% of people presented with Chronic Neck Pain and 50% presented with Psychosocial Aspects to their pain experience.


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News from the Center for Civic Education
www.civiced.org
Presidential and Congressional Academies Are Being Held in Baltimore July 7-20
Sandra Stotsky Releases New Book, The Roots of Low Achievement
Project Citizen Research Program to Reach Hundreds of Students and Teachers
SB193 Funds Civic Education in Nevada
Nevada Center for Civic Engagement Receives Substantial Grant from Gannett
We the People Ebooks on Actively Learn Have Become Even More Adaptable!
60-Second Civics Podcast Celebrates Ten Years of Civic Education Lessons
Senators Sponsor USA Civics Act to Promote Civic Education
Summer Online Course: Educating for Informed & Equitable Voting
Apartments Dedicated in Honor of Board President Pauline Weaver
We the People Teacher Ryan Ruttan Wins Educator of the Year
May 14, 2019 / E-news
Ryan Ruttan, We the People teacher from Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, won the Kiwanis Educator of the Year Award! Ruttan was nominated by Rancho High School's assistant principal for the fun and engaging ways that he inspires students, but also for his commitment to fostering deep academic and civic engagement in the classroom.
The Educator of the Year program was founded by the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas in 1992 to recognize outstanding "Unsung Education Heroes" at the High School level in the Clark County School District (CCSD), Nevada.
"In my fifteen years of education, I have not once encountered an educator so committed to and so adept at growing a well-informed and engaged electorate," said Assistant Principal Lilianna Bonderov.
Ruttan fought for the We the People program at his school when they lost their funding two years ago. By speaking at curriculum meetings and rallying students to share about their We the People experiences. Ruttan and his students were able to win over the administration and Bonderov after "seeing seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds argue and debate constitutional values with the same enthusiasm that one might see in a first-year law school class."
Throughout the school year, Ruttan's classes focus on academic rigor and civic engagement via debate on the various parts of the Constitution, time spent learning case law related to the Bill of Rights, developing the ability to make relevant connections to current events, and more! "It's the rigor and academic discourse that educators (and their administrators) dream of," said Bonderov.
Ruttan's dedication to his students and their immersion in the We the People program led them to the Nevada state competition this year, their first time attending in the history of the school.
Bonderov attributes a shift in culture and mindset for students, as well as a large increase in student enrollment in AP Government and AP U.S. History classes, to Ruttan. "[Students] see the kind of deep learning that happens in his AP classes as 'rad,' and they don't want to be left out. He inspires students to want to know the ins and outs of government and to thoroughly understand development of the United States. They want to talk about politics and law and history and current events for fun."
Congratulations to Mr. Ruttan for winning Educator of the Year, and thank you for all you do for your students!
Ryan Ruttan, We the People teacher from Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, was presented with the Kiwanis Educator of the Year Award. Ruttan was nominated by Rancho High School's assistant principal for the fun and engaging ways that he inspires students and also for his commitment to fostering deep academic and civic engagement in the classroom.
Ruttan fought for the We the People program at his school when it lost its funding two years ago. By speaking at curriculum meetings and rallying students to share about their We the People experience, Ruttan and his students were able to win over the administration and Bonderov after "seeing seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds argue and debate constitutional values with the same enthusiasm that one might see in a first-year law school class."
Teacher Ryan Ruttan accepts his Kiwanis Educator of the Year award.
Throughout the school year, Ruttan's classes focus on academic rigor and civic engagement via debate on the various parts of the Constitution, time spent learning case law related to the Bill of Rights, developing the ability to make relevant connections to current events, and more. "It's the rigor and academic discourse that educators (and their administrators) dream of," said Bonderov.
Bonderov credits Ruttan for a shift in the culture and mindset of students, as well as a large increase in student enrollment in AP Government and AP U.S. History classes. "[Students] see the kind of deep learning that happens in his AP classes as 'rad,' and they don't want to be left out. He inspires students to want to know the ins and outs of government and to thoroughly understand development of the United States. They want to talk about politics and law and history and current events for fun."
Congratulations to Ryan Ruttan for winning Educator of the Year, and thank you for all you do for your students! See some clips from the Educator of the Year awards here.
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Once you start skiing the trainer will get no love.
Put Calville bay Classic on your schedule and you will have to stay on the bike.
Thanks for the Breaking Bad tip. Just finished the first episode.
FYI, I did 97 min on my trainer last night.
I'm in the middle of the second episode now, and it's proving too intense for me. I haven't had this much anxiety since high school.
Rabid, just wait. It only gets better.
trainers are for the weak.
for a brief view of the Seattle cross season.


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Q: AngularJS app freezes during query I am running an Angular app with a Parse backend. When I make a query, the app freezes, even when the DOM doesn't depend on the data being grabbing at the time. That is why this answer was not so helpful. Is there any way to have the rest of the app run along while some request is in progress?
Below is the code that freezes everything until the request resolves. The Parse Javascript SDK comes with promises, which is what 'QS.errorQuery.find()`  returns.
function get() {

        var queries = [
            QS.errorQuery.find(),
            QS.resLogQuery.find()
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        return $q.all(queries)
            .then(function(res) {
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A: The request is async so as the response is coming in, your UI wont freeze up. The long delay is probably happening when Parse gets its response from the server and parses it.


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By Pastor Jim and Peggy Biswell
Celebrating a century
Medicine Rocks Church 100th Anniversary
Pastor Jim and Peggy Biswell
Pastors and spouses of Medicine Rocks Church who attended the anniversary celebration in late July
Before World War I, there was no church building in the Medicine Rocks area. Sunday School and Sunday services we held at the Medicine Rocks Schoolhouse. In 1917, George Blake wrote to his friend, Rev. George McGovern, asking him to come or send a pastor to hold revival services.
In July of 1917, a tent was set up in the "Rocks" and Rev. J. C. and Mrs. McGovern (parents of former South Dakota senator George McGovern) began a revival meeting. It was during those services, that plans were made for the construction of a church.
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import random

from bomb_defusal.modules.module import DisarmableModule

class WhoIsOnFirst(DisarmableModule):
    """
    This module is disarmed by pressing the buttons in the correct order. After each step, the buttons get new
    labels. The button that needs to be pressed, is determined by a lookup mask based on the major label and the
    first occurrence in the set that is behind the mask.
    """
    _lookup_mask = {
        'YES': 2, 'FIRST': 1, 'DISPLAY': 5, 'OKAY': 1, 'SAYS': 5, 'NOTHING': 2,
        '': 4, 'BLANK': 3, 'NO': 5, 'LED': 2, 'LEAD': 5, 'READ': 3,
        'RED': 3, 'REED': 4, 'LEED': 4, 'HOLD ON': 5, 'YOU': 3, 'YOU ARE': 5,
        'YOUR': 3, 'YOU\'RE': 3, 'UR': 0, 'THERE': 5, 'THEY\'RE': 4, 'THEIR': 3,
        'THEY ARE': 2, 'SEE': 5, 'C': 1, 'CEE': 5
    }
    _button_set = {
        'READY': 'YES,OKAY,WHAT,MIDDLE,LEFT,PRESS,RIGHT,BLANK,READY,NO,FIRST,UHHH,NOTHING,WAIT'.split(','),
        'FIRST': 'LEFT,OKAY,YES,MIDDLE,NO,RIGHT,NOTHING,UHHH,WAIT,READY,BLANK,WHAT,PRESS,FIRST'.split(','),
        'NO': 'BLANK,UHHH,WAIT,FIRST,WHAT,READY,RIGHT,YES,NOTHING,LEFT,PRESS,OKAY,NO,MIDDLE'.split(','),
        'BLANK': 'WAIT,RIGHT,OKAY,MIDDLE,BLANK,PRESS,READY,NOTHING,NO,WHAT,LEFT,UHHH,YES,FIRST'.split(','),
        'NOTHING': 'UHHH,RIGHT,OKAY,MIDDLE,YES,BLANK,NO,PRESS,LEFT,WHAT,WAIT,FIRST,NOTHING,READY'.split(','),
        'YES': 'OKAY,RIGHT,UHHH,MIDDLE,FIRST,WHAT,PRESS,READY,NOTHING,YES,LEFT,BLANK,NO,WAIT'.split(','),
        'WHAT': 'UHHH,WHAT,LEFT,NOTHING,READY,BLANK,MIDDLE,NO,OKAY,FIRST,WAIT,YES,PRESS,RIGHT'.split(','),
        'UHHH': 'READY,NOTHING,LEFT,WHAT,OKAY,YES,RIGHT,NO,PRESS,BLANK,UHHH,MIDDLE,WAIT,FIRST'.split(','),
        'LEFT': 'RIGHT,LEFT,FIRST,NO,MIDDLE,YES,BLANK,WHAT,UHHH,WAIT,PRESS,READY,OKAY,NOTHING'.split(','),
        'RIGHT': 'YES,NOTHING,READY,PRESS,NO,WAIT,WHAT,RIGHT,MIDDLE,LEFT,UHHH,BLANK,OKAY,FIRST'.split(','),
        'MIDDLE': 'BLANK,READY,OKAY,WHAT,NOTHING,PRESS,NO,WAIT,LEFT,MIDDLE,RIGHT,FIRST,UHHH,YES'.split(','),
        'OKAY': 'MIDDLE,NO,FIRST,YES,UHHH,NOTHING,WAIT,OKAY,LEFT,READY,BLANK,PRESS,WHAT,RIGHT'.split(','),
        'WAIT': 'UHHH,NO,BLANK,OKAY,YES,LEFT,FIRST,PRESS,WHAT,WAIT,NOTHING,READY,RIGHT,MIDDLE'.split(','),
        'PRESS': 'RIGHT,MIDDLE,YES,READY,PRESS,OKAY,NOTHING,UHHH,BLANK,LEFT,FIRST,WHAT,NO,WAIT'.split(','),
        'YOU': 'SURE,YOU ARE,YOUR,YOU\'RE,NEXT,UH HUH,UR,HOLD,WHAT?,YOU,UH UH,LIKE,DONE,U'.split(','),
        'YOU ARE': 'YOUR,NEXT,LIKE,UH HUH,WHAT?,DONE,UH UH,HOLD,YOU,U,YOU\'RE,SURE,UR,YOU ARE'.split(','),
        'YOUR': 'UH UH,YOU ARE,UH HUH,YOUR,NEXT,UR,SURE,U,YOU\'RE,YOU,WHAT?,HOLD,LIKE,DONE'.split(','),
        'YOU\'RE': 'YOU,YOU\'RE,UR,NEXT,UH UH,YOU ARE,U,YOUR,WHAT?,UH HUH,SURE,DONE,LIKE,HOLD'.split(','),
        'UR': 'DONE,U,UR,UH HUH,WHAT?,SURE,YOUR,HOLD,YOU\'RE,LIKE,NEXT,UH UH,YOU ARE,YOU'.split(','),
        'U': 'UH HUH,SURE,NEXT,WHAT?,YOU\'RE,UR,UH UH,DONE,U,YOU,LIKE,HOLD,YOU ARE,YOUR'.split(','),
        'UH HUH': 'UH HUH,YOUR,YOU ARE,YOU,DONE,HOLD,UH UH,NEXT,SURE,LIKE,YOU\'RE,UR,U,WHAT?'.split(','),
        'UH UH': 'UR,U,YOU ARE,YOU\'RE,NEXT,UH UH,DONE,YOU,UH HUH,LIKE,YOUR,SURE,HOLD,WHAT?'.split(','),
        'WHAT?': 'YOU,HOLD,YOU\'RE,YOUR,U,DONE,UH UH,LIKE,YOU ARE,UH HUH,UR,NEXT,WHAT?,SURE'.split(','),
        'DONE': 'SURE,UH HUH,NEXT,WHAT?,YOUR,UR,YOU\'RE,HOLD,LIKE,YOU,U,YOU ARE,UH UH,DONE'.split(','),
        'NEXT': 'WHAT?,UH HUH,UH UH,YOUR,HOLD,SURE,NEXT,LIKE,DONE,YOU ARE,UR,YOU\'RE,U,YOU'.split(','),
        'HOLD': 'YOU ARE,U,DONE,UH UH,YOU,UR,SURE,WHAT?,YOU\'RE,NEXT,HOLD,UH HUH,YOUR,LIKE'.split(','),
        'SURE': 'YOU ARE,DONE,LIKE,YOU\'RE,YOU,HOLD,UH HUH,UR,SURE,U,WHAT?,NEXT,YOUR,UH UH'.split(','),
        'LIKE': 'YOU\'RE,NEXT,U,UR,HOLD,DONE,UH UH,WHAT?,UH HUH,YOU,LIKE,SURE,YOU ARE,YOUR'.split(',')
    }
    _possible_buttons = set(v for s in _button_set.values() for v in s)

    def __init__(self, position, disarmed, buttons):
        """
        Initializes a new instance of the :class:`WhoIsOnFirst` class.

        :param tuple[str, int] position: Tuple that describes the modules position.
        :param bool disarmed: Flag that indicates the initial disarmed status of the module.
        :param list[str] buttons: Labels that should be pressed in their correct order.
        """
        super().__init__(position, disarmed)

        if len(buttons) != 4:
            raise ValueError('There must be exactly four buttons to press.')

        if not all(b in WhoIsOnFirst._possible_buttons for b in buttons):
            raise ValueError('Invalid button')

        self._press_order = buttons

        self._button_to_press = None
        self._label, self._buttons = self._next_step()

    @property
    def buttons(self):
        """
        Gets the actual buttons

        :rtype: str
        """
        return self._buttons

    @property
    def disarm_stage(self):
        """
        Gets the actual disarm stage from 0 (no action yet) to 4 (disarmed).

        :rtype: int
        """
        return 4 if self._disarmed else 3 - len(self._press_order)

    @property
    def label(self):
        """
        Gets the actual label.

        :rtype: str
        """
        return self._label

    def press(self, label):
        """
        Press on the given label.

        :param str label: Label to be pressed
        """
        if label != self._button_to_press:
            self.on_wrong_try()
            return

        if self._press_order:
            self._label, self._buttons = self._next_step()
            return

        self._disarmed = True

    def _next_step(self):
        """
        Calculates the next step including the mask and the new buttons.

        :returns: The major label and a list of buttons
        :rtype: tuple(str, list[str])
        """
        self._button_to_press = self._press_order.pop(0)
        possible_sets = {k: v for k, v in WhoIsOnFirst._button_set.items() if self._button_to_press in v}
        chosen_set = possible_sets[random.choice(list(possible_sets.keys()))]

        disallowed_buttons = set(
            chosen_set[:chosen_set.index(self._button_to_press)] + [self._button_to_press])
        allowed_buttons = list(self._possible_buttons - disallowed_buttons)

        lookup_mask = random.choice(list(WhoIsOnFirst._lookup_mask.keys()))

        random.shuffle(allowed_buttons)
        buttons = allowed_buttons[:6]
        buttons[WhoIsOnFirst._lookup_mask[lookup_mask]] = self._button_to_press

        return lookup_mask, buttons


The 2017 Stepping Up study graded Florida counties, school districts and law enforcement agencies on their performance in using civil citations, using the traditional A-F scale (90% and above=A; 80-89%=B, 70-79%=C, 60-69%=D, 59% and below=F). The data used for the grading scale comes from the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Civil Citation Dashboard.
Who developed the data-driven grading scale?
The author, Dewey Caruthers of the Caruthers Institute, and the study's sponsors and partners: ACLU of Florida, Southern Poverty Law Center of Florida, Joseph W. and Terrell S. Clark, Project on Accountable Justice, James Madison Institute, Florida Juvenile Justice Association, Florida PTA, Florida League of Women Voters, and Human Impact Partners. Collectively, they represent Florida's top juvenile justice and children's organizations.
How did the study's author, sponsors and partners determine the data-driven grading scale?
The data-driven grading scale is based on the study's recommendation that juvenile civil citations for common youth misbehavior be the presumptive norm, and that arrests be made only in rare and exceptional circumstances. Simply put, high utilization rates garner high grades and low utilization rates low grades. This aligns well with the traditional grading scale of A-F, with utilizing civil citations in nearly all applicable instances setting the bar for an A grade.
Why are high juvenile civil citation rates good and low rates bad?
The data on juvenile civil citations shows high utilization rates provide measurable community benefits – increasing public safety, improving youth outcomes, and saving lots of taxpayer money – and that low utilization rates can harm public safety, diminish youth futures, and fleece taxpayers.
Why did the study start grading counties, school districts and law enforcement agencies?
The purpose of the grading scale is to provide a frame of reference for the public to better understand utilization rates. For example, is a utilization rate of 55 percent good or bad? Based on the goal of juvenile civil citations being the presumptive norm, a 55 percent utilization rate (which is a 45 percent arrest rate) is not very good. The grading scale is an easy way for citizens to determine how their county, school district and law enforcement agencies are performing.
Is Florida a national model in juvenile civil citations?
Yes, Florida is a national model for other states in using juvenile civil citations to address the problem of arrests for common youth misbehavior. Most other states have no statewide pre-arrest diversion efforts, and many don't even collect statewide data on juvenile arrests.
Florida is a model because the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) and Florida Legislature have developed systems and statutes that create opportunity for law enforcement to issue civil citations. And, Florida Governor Rick Scott has consistently made this issue one of his top priorities for Florida DJJ.
Anecdotally, Florida DJJ has received numerous calls from other states to learn more about Florida juvenile civil citations. And, Florida DJJ's Civil Citation Dashboard is a nationally innovative tool that every state needs. From a data perspective, previous Stepping Up studies have shown Florida leads the nation in strength of state data reporting (Florida DJJ) and strength of state statutes (Florida Legislature) – two key aspects needed for juvenile civil citations to take root and grow in any state.
Additionally, Florida may be alone in having a full-time staff dedicated to juvenile civil citations. Florida DJJ Civil Citation Coordinator Theda Roberts tirelessly travels the state to encourage higher utilization of civil citations and share good ideas among counties.
How can Florida be a national model while the state's counties receive a collective F grade?
Some have criticized the Stepping Up 2017 study for on one hand identifying Florida as a national model while on the other hand giving the state's counties a collective F grade.
Florida DJJ has no control over law enforcement issuing civil citations nor local policies regarding civil citations. So even though the state's structure serves as a national model, Florida counties earned an F grade for not taking better advantage of the systems and statutes.
The grading scale is data-driven – based solely on civil citation utilization — with no room for subjective interference.
Florida deserves much praise for being much more progressive and reform-minded than other states in its approaches to this issue. The data shows, however, that most Florida counties have failed to adopt this approach to common youth misbehavior.
Is the state's F grade a reflection on the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice?
No, absolutely not. Collectively, Florida's counties garnered an F grade for a 53 percent utilization rate, which is NO reflection WHATSOEVER on the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). Florida DJJ has no control over the state's utilization rate.
Why don't you give low-performing law enforcement agencies encouragement instead of an F grade?
While we understand low grades are disappointing to those counties, districts and agencies that received poor marks, the goal of the data-driven grading scale is to provide a frame of reference for the public to interpret performance – not to provide grade inflation and encouragement that cannot be supported by data. The best and only way for a county, district or agency to obtain an A grade is to make very few arrests while issuing civil citations in the vast majority of instances.
There have been too many news conferences and press releases with elected officials making claims of support for juvenile civil citations only to be followed by high rates of arrests for common youth misbehavior. The grading scale provides a way to hold counties, school districts and law enforcement agencies accountable for following through on its support of this approach.
Did you interview any local officials to learn more about their juvenile civil citation programs before determining a grade?
No. The data-driven grading scale is based solely on utilization rates, which is the percentage of instances in which a civil citation is issued instead of making an arrest. What local officials have to say about civil citations has no weight whatsoever in the grading scale.
However, The Caruthers Institute has conducted numerous surveys of law enforcement leaders and program practitioners to gather opinions and attitudes over the past three years, while learning more about how civil citations operate statewide. This research has also included in-depth analysis of the state's top-performing counties. The result is Florida's first-ever research-based set of best practices, which are available to counties, school districts and law enforcement agencies. Anyone interested in learning more about using these best practices should contact the Caruthers Institute.


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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 05, 2011: Hiroshima: Is this the Greatest Crime in Human History?
5 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
NATO Plans Campaign in Syria
Tightens Noose Around Iran
By RIA Novosti
NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28756.htm
Could Arab Staying Power Ultimately Defeat Zionism?
By David Hearst
Abbas's UN appeal, combined with the civil rights fight inside Israel, is changing the nature of the Palestinian struggle.
Afghanistan's Innocent Victims
By Mary Meehan
Mr. Biden and his boss, President Barack Obama, would do the same – and a great deal more – if an allied nation were bombing American homes in "targeted killing" efforts.
Creating Evidence Where There Is None
The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden.
Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
When Truman lied to America that Hiroshima was a military base rather than a city full of civilians, people no doubt wanted to believe him.
Is this the Greatest Crime in Human History?
Watch it to believe it – Hiroshima Atom Bomb Impact.
The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up
And the Greatest Movie Never Made
By Greg Mitchell
This is a story of the official suppression of the most important film footage of the human consequences of the bombing, created by the American military and a Japanese newsreel team.
Who Would Jesus Nuke?
US Air Force Pulls 'Jesus Loves Nukes' Training :
By Bryant Jordan
The Air Force has suspended decades-old Bible-centric ethics training intended to make Christian officers comfortable with the possible use of nuclear weapons.
Faber: Brace for a Global 'Reboot' and a War
By Peter Guest
"The next time we have a global economic crisis, it will be much worse than 2008. Before this happens there will be money printing and there will be war. The whole system will collapse," he said.
Top Russian Economist
US Shirked Its Responsibility to the Global Economy
By RT
The former head of Russia's Central Bank has said that the US is to some extent Indebted to the entire world and that in a unipolar system which keeps pursuing globalization, this spells an inevitable collapse.
Living for Free! Taking Our Jobs!!
Why We Hate Illegal Immigrants
By Brian J. Foley
"These illegal immigrants come here, take our jobs, get free health care, free education, and free housing!"
Lying to Ourselves About the Good Old Days
By David Benjamin
It has become a cottage industry among America's reactionaries to lie about matters like health care and birthplaces, debt and taxes, war and heroism, and other such trivia.
Nine killed in protests across Syria on Ramadan Friday: –
Syrian security forces killed nine people in attacks on tens of thousands of protesters across the country who marched against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on the first Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
http://yhoo.it/nNXZ6w
Syrian dead litter city streets:
SYRIAN security forces are summarily executing people on the streets of Hama, a human rights group says, raising fears that bloodshed could escalate dramatically in the besieged city.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/syrian-dead-litter-city-streets-20110805-1ifis.html
Syrians take to streets over Hama massacre as outrage grows:
Demonstrators gather in cities across the country while Bashar al-Assad's troops continue shelling residential areas
http://bit.ly/qHy7sl
Amateur video shows aftermath of Syria shelling (1:37) :
Amateur video purports to show protesters removing the body of a dead man and the aftermath of shelling in the Syrian city of Hama. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
http://reut.rs/nagwkT
Video from Hama –
http://www.youtube.com/user/citizentube?feature=mhee#p/c/0/nzckhsS6VKY
Russia warns Syrian leader he may face 'sad fate':
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday he has warned Syria's leader that he will face a "sad fate" if he fails to introduce reforms in his country and open a peaceful dialogue with the opposition.
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/110195/
Troops kill 7 in Somalia:
Somali government troops on Friday opened fire on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a UN distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/181699/troops-kill-7-somalia.html
Food has run out in Somalia. And so has time:
It's not that food is running out. It has run out. The cupboard is empty. What we are now running out of is time.
http://bit.ly/n8OfzP
Four killed in Afghan protests:
Three civilians and a policeman were killed on Friday after a demonstration in southern Afghanistan turned violent, police said.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/four-killed-in-afghan-protests-1.1112864
Nato Occupation Force Soldier Killed in S Afghanistan:
At least one Nato soldier was killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Friday, Nato said in a statement.
http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/3582-nato-soldier-killed-in-s-afghanistan
Soldier pleads guilty to manslaughter in deaths of Afghan civilians:
Winfield is one of six soldiers who, while on assignment in Afghanistan, are accused of participating in an illegal "kill squad" that murdered civilians and covered up the alleged crimes by making it appear as if they were insurgents.
http://bit.ly/nM7sKE
NATO bombs kill mother and 2 children in Libya:
The Libyan government shows journalists the bodies of two children and their mother who it claims were killed in a Nato air strike in the coastal town of Zlitan.
http://tgr.ph/o6mFvO
"Gaddafi son death" false report a smokescreen?:
"It's false news. They invented the news about Mr Khamis Gaddafi in Zlitan to cover up their killing [of civilians]," Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told Reuters news agency in Tripoli.
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-son-killed-report/
Tripoli rocked by blasts:
10 powerful explosions rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight in a new wave of airstrikes by NATO warplanes.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/05/54216856.html
Zlitan: Gaddafi forces say they control key Libyan town:
They had launched a counter-offensive on Wednesday against advancing rebels, who have been fighting government forces with Nato's support since March.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14413157
Libya: UK warship HMS Liverpool comes under heavy fire:
The attack came after Liverpool fired a barrage of illumination rounds in support of an air attack on the regime stronghold of Zlitan.
http://tgr.ph/qMVlIC
US troops kill Iraqi child and policeman:
Local officials in Iraq have said that US troops in the country have killed an Iraqi child as well as a policeman in the Salahuddin province north of Baghdad.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192445.html
US mulls over permanent base in Iraq:
The unexpected trip by the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen to Baghdad led to an about-face on the part of the Iraqi statesmen on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the two sides.
http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=257729
Stable Yemen against US, Saudi interest:
The analyst pointed out that if there were to be a national alliance in Yemen, Washington would no longer be able to maintain its drone base in Yemen under the pretext of combating al-Qaeda.
Egypt's new regime rules with an iron fist:
What makes someone a martyr and another a thug? In Egypt right now it is the date of death
http://rt.com/news/egypt-new-regime-mubarak-trial/
Lawyers Appeal For Amnesty For Former Guantánamo Prisoner Held In Egypt :
"The Egyptians have a track record of abuse and one that we've seen continued in the post-Mubarak era,"
http://bit.ly/nzsF1j
Aid group condemns armed raid on its Bahrain offices:
The Bahraini authorities have defended an armed raid on the offices of Médecins Sans Frontières, saying that it lacked the required permission to work in the capital, Manama. The respected aid group has condemned the raid as "unwarranted and unacceptable".
http://ind.pn/nvwJS4
Erekat: Israel expansion in East Jerusalem 'entrenches occupation':
Top PA negotiator condemns Israel's decision to build 900 new homes in Har Homa, says illegal, goes against International Law and International Humanitarian Law.
http://bit.ly/oqc7Li
Ehud Barak On Obama Administration: 'I Can Hardly Remember A Better Period' Of U.S. Support For Israel:
In an interview on Fox News, Israel's foreign minister (and former prime minister) Ehud Barak laid to rest the myth that the Obama administration is casting aside the U.S.'s special relationship with Israel.
http://bit.ly/qyKpms
Jerusalem Post : Apology to Norway:
We hope that the Norwegian government and people will accept the 'Post's apology and forgive us for any offense or hurt caused at this sensitive time.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=232535
Mexico town's police force quits after attack:
An entire 20-man police force resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials said Thursday.
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110804/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
Drug Task Force On the Hook for Bad Shooting:
A federal judge refused to grant immunity to members of a drug task force who are being sued for allegedly shooting a man several times without cause while the man was sitting in his car.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/04/38725.htm
Foxconn to Replace Half a Million Employees with Robots :
Taiwan's IT giant Foxconn announced it plans to replace up to half a million human workers with robots in the next three years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSPNOTa40g&feature=player_embedded#at=23
China warns U.S. on managing its debt:
The comments from People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, posted on the central bank's website, signal China's lingering concern over America's financial health. China is the U.S.' largest foreign creditor, holding at least $1.16 trillion in Treasury securities.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2011-08-03-china-wanrs-us-on-debt_n.htm
Currency Intervention Revived as Odds of Fed Easing Escalate:
Just eight months ago, Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega declared a "truce" in competitive currency devaluations. Now, Japanese and Swiss moves to weaken the yen and the franc show reviving tension in foreign-exchange markets as the deteriorating U.S. economy weighs on the dollar.
http://bloom.bg/mU9O8n
Nonfarm payroll for July posts modest increase of 117,000:
Although the 117,000 jobs created during July was slightly better than anticipated, it was still not enough to keep up with growth in the number of working-age Americans, let alone make a dent in the unemployment figures.
http://bit.ly/pnl5a5
Beneath Jobs Report Surface Lies Some Ugly Truths:
Let's start with the reality that fewer people actually were working in July than in June.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44033486
More Americans using food stamps than ever before: 45.8 million:
The record on food stamps has been going on for well over two years now. In March 2009, that record was 31 million people. Now, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a whopping 45.8 million people are getting them
http://obrag.org/?p=42584
Va. Beach ponders approving homeless 'tent city':
City staff are exploring authorizing a "tent city," a move that would make the Beach the first community in the state to sanction a homeless encampment – if the City Council approves the idea.
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2011/08/va-beach-ponders-approving-homeless-tent-city
IRS: 235,413 million-dollar earners:
The data shows, the 235,413 taxpayers who reported earning seven digits or more in 2009 took in a total of $726.9 billion – yet 1,470 paid not a penny of income taxes. In 2007, 959 Americans earning $1 million or more paid no income taxes.
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,792
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,622
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,230,897,733,433
http://www.costofwar.com/
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Sailor named 'Chef of the Year'
By Jacqueline Klimas on March 18, 2013 Chow, Navy
Senior Chief Culinary Specialist (SS) Derrick Davenport moves items from the stove to the storage area during the international event March 6. Army photo by T. Anthony Bell.
While you may not see roasted lamb with risotto or caramelized onion and parsnip soup on your next deployment, that's what Senior Chief Culinary Specialist (SS) Derrick Davenport whipped up to win two gold medals at the Military Culinary Arts Competition.
The competition, which took place March 6 to 15 at Fort Lee, Va., pitted active duty service members from all branches, DoD civilians, Army reservists and National Guardsmen against each other, a Navy release said.
Davenport won gold for chef of the year March 5, achieving a career-long goal.
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Q: Angular - Table filter not working after updating table content I have a mat-table with a simple filter that shows or hides elements depending on their disabled property. I initialize the filter and fill the table like this in my ngOnInit():
ngOnInit() {
  this.dataSource.filterPredicate = function (record, filter) {
    return record.disabled === ConverterService.toBoolean(filter);
  };

  this.dataSource.filter = "false";

this.elementsService.getElements().subscribe((elements) => {
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}

My ConverterService.toBoolean function is just a simple helper function for converting strings to booleans (because for whatever reason, Boolean("false") returns true)
I then have this mat-slide-toggle in the HTML template which can be used to either show all enabled or all disabled elements:
<mat-slide-toggle (change)="showDisabledChanged($event)" color="primary">{{
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This is the showDisabledChanged() function:
showDisabledChanged($event: MatSlideToggleChange) {
  this.dataSource.filter = $event.checked.toString();
}

For the most part, this works perfectly fine. However, if the user manually disables an element (which can be done via another mat-slide-toggle in each row of the table), the filter is not applied again. This causes the now enabled or disabled element to still be displayed in the table until I manually click on the mat-slide-toggle twice to refresh the filter. My only workaround which seems to work so far is to add this line after updating the disabled property of an element:
this.dataSource.filter = this.dataSource.filter;

Is there a better solution to re-apply the filter or what am I supposed to do in this scenario?


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Political Figures >
Tom Driberg
British Journalists >
Members of Parliament 1920-1960 >
Spies and Spymasters >
The Spanish Civil War >
History of Socialism >
Tom Driberg was born at Crowborough, East Sussex, on 22nd May 1905. His father, John Driberg, worked for the Indian Civil Service. Educated at Lancing College, Driberg joined the Communist Party when he was fifteen.
Driberg went to Christ Church, Oxford, and studied classics (1924-27) but left without graduating.
During the General Strike Driberg worked at party headquarters and began writing for the communist newspaper, Sunday Worker.
In 1928 he joined the Daily Express as a gossip columnist. He came to the attention of Lord Beaverbrook who gave him his own column "These Names Makes News". It was at this time that Driberg began using the pen name, William Hickey, a famous 18th century diarist.
Driberg was a strong opponent of the British government's Non-Intervention policy in the Spanish Civil War. He visited Spain as a journalist during the war. In January 1939, he helped to take food supplies to the Republican Army fighting General Francisco Franco and his nationalist forces.
Maxwell Knight, head of B5b, a unit that conducted the monitoring of political subversion, recruited Driberg as an agent for MI5. In 1941 Anthony Blunt informed Harry Pollitt that Driberg was an informer and he was expelled from the Communist Party. Knight now suspected that his unit had been infiltrated by the KGB but it was not until after the war that MI5 discovered that Blunt was responsible for exposing Driberg.
In 1942 he was elected to the House of Commons at the Maldon by-election as an Independent. In 1943 Driberg was dismissed from the Daily Express and transferred to the Reynold's News. He later wrote for the Daily Mail and the New Statesman.
During the Second World War Driberg joined the Labour Party and in 1945 retained his seat in Parliament. In 1949 he was elected to the party's National Executive but he was severely censured in 1950 for gross neglect of his parliamentary duties by taking three months off to report on the Korean War.
In his book, Spycatcher (1987), Peter Wright, who had previously worked for MI5 claimed: "Since the 1960s a wealth of material about the penetration of the latter two bodies had been flowing into MI5's files, principally from two Czechoslovakian defectors named Frolik and August. They named a series of Labour Party politicians and trade union leaders as Eastern Bloc agents... Tom Driberg was another MP named by the Czech defectors. I went to see Driberg myself, and he finally admitted that he was providing material to a Czech controller for money. For a while we ran Driberg on, but apart from picking up a mass of salacious detail about Labour Party peccadilloes, he had nothing of interest for us."
Driberg was commissioned to write a book on Soviet spy, Guy Burgess, who he become friendly with in the 1940s. During his research for the book Driberg travelled to Moscow to interview Burgess. He later remarked: "He (Burgess) had lately moved into a new flat in Moscow, for which I had sent him a good deal of Scandinavian furniture from London, and I was able to spend a weekend at his dacha, in a country village about an hour's drive (by official pool car)."
Both Driberg and Burgess were homosexuals and it seems that they had some sort of sexual relationship while in the Soviet Union. According to the Mitrokhin Archive, Driberg was photographed in a homosexual encounter. The honeytrap operation was an attempt to force Driberg to spy for the KGB. The book, Guy Burgess, A Portrait with Background, was published in 1956.
Harold Wilson and Tom Driberg in 1955
Tom Driberg served as chairman of the Labour Party National Executive in 1957-58. After losing Maldon in 1958 Driberg moved to Barking which he won in 1959.
In the early 1960s Driberg attended sex parties with Lord Boothby in London. Boothby commented in its autobiography, Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel: "Tom Driberg once told me that sex was only enjoyable with someone you had never met before, and would never meet again." Winston Churchill added that "Tom Driberg is the sort of person who gives sodomy a bad name."
According to the journalist, John Pearson, "Driberg got to know them through Mad Teddy Smith, a good-looking psychopathic gangster who was a friend and occasional enemy of the Krays. Driberg, described as a voracious homosexual, is said to have given Smith the addresses of his rich acquaintances, whose houses he might burgle in return for sexual favours." As a result of these sex parties Boothby began an affair with gangster Ronnie Kray.
In June 1964, two Conservative back-benchers reported to the chief whip that they had seen Driberg and Lord Boothby at a dog track importuning boys. Boothby was on holiday with Colin Coote, the editor of the Daily Telegraph, when on 12 July 1964, the Sunday Mirror published a front page lead story under the headline: "Peer and a gangster: Yard probe." The newspaper claimed police were investigating an alleged homosexual relationship between a "prominent peer and a leading thug in the London underworld", who is alleged to be involved in a West End protection racket.
The following week the newspaper said it had a picture of the peer and the gangster sitting on a sofa. Rumours soon began circulating that the peer was Lord Boothby and the gangster was Ronnie Kray. Stories also circulated that Harold Wilson and Cecil King, the chairman of the International Publishing Corporation were conspiring in an attempt to overthrow the Conservative government led by Alec Douglas -Home. Boothby's friend, Colin Coote used his contacts in the media to discover what was going on.
As journalist John Pearson pointed out: "By doing nothing he (Boothby) would tacitly accept the Sunday Mirror's accusations. On the other hand, to sue for libel would mean facing lengthy and expensive court proceedings which could ruin him financially - apart from whatever revelations the Sunday Mirror could produce to support its story." Boothby was then approached by two leading Labour Party figures, Gerald Gardiner, QC and solicitor Arnold Goodman. They offered to represent Lord Boothby in any libel case against the newspaper. Goodman was Wilson's "Mr Fixit" and Gardiner was later that year to become the new prime-minister's Lord Chancellor.
John Pearson has argued that Driberg was behind this cover-up: "As an important member of the Labour executive, Driberg had a lot of influence, particularly over Harold Wilson, and he would certainly have used it to encourage Arnold Goodman's rescue operation which would save Boothby and himself. All of which undoubtedly explains why, after the settlement, there was not a squeak in parliament about the case - and why instead there seemed an overwhelming cross-bench willingness to let sleeping dogs, however dirty, lie - and go on lying."
Tom Driberg left the House of Commons in 1974 and the following year was created Baron Bradwell. He died of a heart-attack on 12th August 1976. His autobiography, Ruling Passions, was published posthumously in 1977.
(1) When he was fifteen Tom Driberg joined the Communist Party.
Several things happened during my last year at Lancing. Political interest was quickened by the election of the first Labour Government (but without a clear majority) under Ramsay MacDonald. I cannot remember how soon disillusionment set in, but both then and much later the Labour Party (of which I was to be Chairman in 1957-8) seemed to me about as dull as a 'middle-stump' church. During one of the long, boring holidays - when term ended I dreaded going home, when holidays ended I dreaded going back to school - searching for something that seemed more revolutionary, I joined the Brighton branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and was assigned the hopeless task of selling the Daily Worker (or was it then the Workers' Weekly) at Crowborough.
(2) Tom Driberg, Ruling Passions (1977)
The first of these (visits to Spain) was early in the war, when Madrid was still holding out against the Fascist siege. The other correspondents whom I saw most of included Tom Delmer, also from the Express, and Ernest Hemingway; with him was the brilliant American writer, Martha Gellhorn. I enjoyed Hemingway's company, and we drank a good deal: it is galling to have to record, of a writer much of whose work I admired, that I cannot remember a single thing he said.
The great tragedy of Spain at that time - one reason why the rebel Franco won the war - was the mistrust and divisions between the two main forces supporting the Republican government, the Communists and the Anarchists. Propaganda and press facilities were looked after by the Communists: of them I remember best an able and handsome woman of aristocratic ancestry, Constancia de la Mora. She wrote a book entitled In Place of Splendour,and after the Fascist victory went to Moscow.
The circumstances of my second Spanish visit, in January, 1939, were very different. I had been travelling elsewhere in Europe; by pre-arrangement, at Perpignan I met two comrades from Fleet Street - one, Harry Harrison, was killed in the Second World War, one, Lou Kenton, is still around. They were driving a food lorry into Spain on behalf of the Printers' Anti-Fascist Movement, a purpose for which we had for some time been raising funds.
As we drove into Spain we should have realised that the war was almost over and the government defeated; for, trudging up the road towards us and towards the French frontier, alone and carrying a pack, was a stout middle-aged figure whom I suddenly recognised: he was Alvarez del Vayo, Foreign Minister of Spain. (He was not, in fact, running away from Spain - only taking some government documents to safety in France.)
Our lorry was laden with food: Women with faces of agony stretched out their hands to us crying "Bread, bread!" It was horrible to have to say: "We are here to help you but we can't give you bread," and to explain that we had to go on to the central depot. They clawed at the side of the lorry. Carabineers moved them on.
(3) Peter Wright, Spycatcher (1987)
Since the 1960s a wealth of material about the penetration of the latter two bodies had been flowing into MI5's files, principally from two Czechoslovakian defectors named Frolik and August. They named a series of Labour Party politicians and trade union leaders as Eastern Bloc agents. Some were certainly well founded, like the case of the MP Will Owen, who admitted being paid thousands of pounds over a ten-year period to provide information to Czechoslovakian intelligence officers, and yet, when he was prosecuted in 1970, was acquitted because it was held that he had not had access to classified information, and because the Czech defector could not produce documentary evidence of what he had said at the trial.
Tom Driberg was another MP named by the Czech defectors. I went to see Driberg myself, and he finally admitted that he was providing material to a Czech controller for money. For a while we ran Driberg on, but apart from picking up a mass of salacious detail about Labour Party peccadilloes, he had nothing of interest for us.
(4) John Pearson, The Sunday Independent (15th June, 1996)
According to a friend, he (Lord Boothby) was on the point of suicide when help appeared from an unexpected quarter. It came in the shape of two of the Labour party's legal heavyweights - Gerald Gardiner, QC, who would become Lord Chancellor in that autumn's newly elected Labour government, and Harold Wilson's portly "Mr Fixit", the overweight solicitor Arnold Goodman, who was soon to join Gardiner in the House of Lords. They offered to represent him.
At their appearance Boothby's troubles vanished as if by magic. Sir Joseph Simpson, the Commissioner for Police, denied ordering the Yard investigation that the Sunday Mirror mentioned. The Sunday Mirror suddenly discovered that it had no evidence to support its story.
And, advised by Gardiner, Boothby penned a famous letter to the Times specifically denying all of the Mirror's allegations. He firmly stated he was not a homosexual and that he had met the man "who is alleged to be king of the underworld, only three times on business matters and then by appointment in my flat, at his request and in the company of other people ... In short, the whole affair is a tissue of atrocious lies."
Backed by this letter, Goodman jumped into action, and by winning a swift agreement from the International Printing Corporation, owners of the Sunday Mirror, saved Boothby from the court case he was dreading. He did more than that. Like the tough negotiator he was, Goodman won his client a record out-of-court settlement of pounds 40,000 and a grovelling public apology signed by Cecil Harmsworth King, the chairman of IPC.
At the time it seemed that justice had been done, and that Boothby had indeed deserved this massive sum - over half a million pounds in today's inflated currency. It also seemed as if this settlement would put an end for ever to the doubts and queries raised by the Sunday Mirror article.
In fact, they were just beginning. I got to know the Krays in 1967 when, in a fit of investigative zeal, I agreed to write their joint biography with the promise of their full co-operation. This was nine months before they were arrested, and the more I saw of them the more worrying Found them.
These were emphatically not the cheery cockney villains of popular perception, keen to help old ladies and steer clear of honest citizens. Ronald, a homosexual, was seriously psychotic, and his identical twin brother, Reginald, was living on his nerves - and Gordon's gin.
Both were palpably dangerous. But despite, or possibly because of this, the twins were extraordinarily successful in their chosen line of business.
In their dark blue suits and chauffeur- driven cars they were essentially early figures of the enterprise culture, criminal entrepreneurs who made large amounts of tax-free money from a vast and efficiently administered protection racket, mostly operated with other criminals.
They were the enforcers of the underworld, "Percentage Men", whose reputation was so fearsome that hardened criminals obeyed them. Much of the Krays' money came from the arsonists, gamblers and fraudsters they saved from trouble.
They had connections with the American Mafia, "protecting" their gambling interests in London together with the sale of stolen bearer bonds in Europe. Many West End clubs paid them to keep out of trouble, and the Krays had a knack of getting money out of any crime they heard of either by threats or extortion.
They could be useful if expensive allies - and lethal enemies. Like the big businessmen they were, they were always anxious to expand their operations. One of the last discussions I had with Ronnie Kray, a night or two before he was arrested, was over whether he should get involved with some stolen uranium on offering Switzerland - and I remember him adding that "the Firm" would soon be moving into sophisticated drugs.
He knew someone in the Pakistani Embassy who could use his diplomatic immunity to bring heroin into Britain, and clearly saw this as only the beginning. The Krays also murdered people. How many was a matter for speculation. The rumours of their gangland killings were an important part of their mystique, for what particularly impressed the underworld was the way they seemed to murder with impunity.
Bodies were rarely found, no one dared give evidence, and the police evinced no eagerness to catch them. The twins were expert in what they termed "propaganda"; spreading the rumours round the underworld which formed the basis of the fear they marketed.
Much of this fear depended on the sense of their invulnerability. I was impressed by it myself. The press steered clear of them. So, it seemed, did the police, and they claimed to have protectors and informants in the highest places - "even in the House of Lords," as Ronnie said to me on one occasion.
Certainly their inside knowledge was uncanny. Some thought Ronnie Kray was psychic but I suspected more prosaic sources of protection.
From all that I could gather, the twins' immunity had started at around the time of their "victory" over the press and the police in the Boothby case in 1964, but this was something they would not discuss. So I interviewed Lord Boothby on the subject in his flat in Eaton Place.
Despite his celebrated charm, it was not the easiest of conversations. Unsurprisingly Boothby was very guarded on the subject of the twins. He insisted that he barely knew them, and that "the truth about my relationship with the Krays is contained in my letter to the Times" .
Boothby added one thing that I've always remembered. I asked him why, as a lifelong Conservative, he was assisted in his troubles by important members of the Labour party. "That was all down to the little man, " he said. "What little man?" I asked him. "Harold Wilson," he replied.
"He was always one of my admirers." I took his word for it, and there the matter rested until July 1968 when, in a series of dawn raids across London, a great policeman, Commander Leonard "Nipper" Read, arrested the Krays and their henchmen in their beds.
Their years as criminal "untouchables" were over. When dealing with gangsters it's advisable to get on with their mothers. I genuinely liked the Kray twins' mother, Violet, and a few days later, when I visited her in her top-floor tower-block flat in Moorgate, she said she wanted me to have a small,brown suitcase "which might be useful for your book".
Along with old newspaper cuttings of the twins, it contained a personally inscribed copy of Lord Boothby's memoirs, and a photograph. The picture was of Ronnie Kray and Boothby and a pair of criminals I recognised, sitting with a teenage boy in Jermyn Street's Society Club - now Tramp.
There were also some letters to Ronald Kray from Boothby, written on headed paper from the House of Lords, which began, "Dear Ronnie" . One of them thanked him for the gift of an expensive vase. Another proposed to call to see him at his Knights, Esmeralda's Barn.
The letters were dated 1963, the year before the three brief business visits to the flat in Eaton Place which he had specifically stated were the only times they'd met. These letters made it clear that in his letter to the Times, Lord Boothby had lied.
This lie had important implications for the book that I was writing, but it was made apparent by lawyers on both sides that if I mentioned it, I could face a libel action that would ruin me for ever. I was also coming up against another wall of silence from a different quarter.
Lord Goodman refused to see me, as did Cecil King and Lord (Hugh) Cudlipp of the Mirror. It was explained to me that when Goodman had made the deal with IPC, he had insisted on a clause forbidding anyone involved from subsequently discussing it in public.
This meant that when my book about the Krays, The Profession of Violence, was published, it lacked what I knew to be a crucial section of the story. But once the Old Bailey trial of the Krays was over, people around them talked more freely, and I found out more about the curious relationship between Ronnie Kray and Robert Boothby.
There was considerably more to it than I suspected. Not only did they share a love for teenage boys, which Ronnie Kray provided, but Boothby clearly had a fascination for dangerous company, coupled with a reckless disregard for its consequences.
There was evidence that when he dined Ronnie Kray in the House of Lords and took him for a drink at White's Club in St James's, members of Scotland Yard's Intelligence section already had him under surveillance. There was also evidence that, in return, Ronnie Kray could offer Boothby something more exciting than dinner at the Lords.
As well as boys there were East End orgies and sex shows involving criminals. One account described Boothby lying under a glass-topped table while boys were made to defecate above him. Another described him sitting naked in a room with a number of criminals and boys around him, and "love beads" protruding from his anus.
Normally such behaviour would have been Lord Boothby's own affair but for someone so famous - and so recognisable - it was madness, and one must wonder if he was seeking self- destruction.
Certainly it made him subject to blackmail by the Krays. More to the point, it raised again the crucial question of why, in that early summer of 1964, distinguished members of a future Labour government should have let themselves become involved in saving such a character from a disaster of his own making.
From what I knew of Harold Wilson, Boothby's suggestion that "the little man" had done it from the kindness of his own heart appeared unlikely. The heart of Harold Wilson didn't operate like that, and the idea of two top legal members of the Labour high command taking on a case like this on their own initiative - and on the eve of a general election - struck me as improbable.
From what I finally discovered, the answer seemed to lie with Cecil Harmsworth King, who had eagerly insisted on running the original story in the Sunday Mirror, in the hope of impressing the Labour leader with what he thought would be an election-winning scandal.
But Wilson and his close adviser Arnold Goodman felt otherwise. Just the year before, during the Profumo affair, Wilson followed Goodman's wise advice not to make party capital from scandal, and enhanced his image as statesman. Now it was even more important for Labour not to spoil its chances in the election by exploiting an even murkier affair.
It was an awkward situation. But, not for the first or the last time in his life, Harold Wilson's clever Mr Fixit came to the aid of the party. In 1994 a further twist was given to this extraordinary saga when cabinet papers, released under the 30-year rule, showed that back in June 1964 members of the Conservative government led by Alec Douglas Home had been even more alarmed at the prospect of a Boothby scandal on the eve of the election than their Labour counterparts.
This was not because they thought their man was innocent and had been cruelly libelled by the Sunday Mirror. Quite the contrary. Only a few weeks earlier, two Conservative back-benchers had reported to the chief whip that they had seen Lord Boothby at a dog track importuning boys with none other than his friend Tom Driberg.
The Tories were so shell-shocked from Profumo, that the situation called for a crisis meeting at Chequers to decide what to do. As no one apparently had the least idea, the Conservatives must have felt extremely grateful when Arnold Goodman inadvertently saved them - even if pounds 40,000 for a rogue like Robert Boothby did strike some of them as at ouch excessive.
The most interesting fresh evidence to come to light, and in its way the most pathetic, is the story of how Boothby met the Krays. This was through Leslie Holt, a young, good-looking cat burglar, with whom Boothby fell in love after meeting him at gambling club in 1963.
Holt was also one of Ronnie Kray's drivers and lovers, and Ronnie clearly used him as a lure for Boothby, who was all too willing to be caught. To his credit, Boothby tried to save Holt from the dangers of the life he was living,and it was not the fault of Boothby - or the Krays - that Holt was later murdered by a Harley Street anesthetist.
There is also new and probably conclusive further evidence of why Labour's high command moved so swiftly into action on behalf of Robert Boothby. This involves yet another future member of the House of Lords, Boothby's fellow enthusiast for boys and dog tracks.
Tom Driberg - just as Boothby became involved with the Krays through Leslie Holt so Driberg got to know them through "Mad" Teddy Smith, a good-looking psychopathic gangster who was a friend and occasional enemy of the Krays. Driberg, described as a "voracious homosexual", is said to have given Smith the addresses of his rich acquaintances, whose houses he might burgle in return for sexual favours.
Knowing Driberg, this is not unlikely, but if Boothby was self-destructive, Driberg had a famous knack of getting out of trouble. As Boothby's friend he was very much aware of his situation from the start. He knew that if the case went to court he would almost certainly be named and ruined along with Boothby.
But as an important member of the Labour executive, Driberg had a lot of influence, particularly over Harold Wilson, and he would certainly have used it to encourage Arnold Goodman's rescue operation which would save Boothby and himself.
All of which undoubtedly explains why, after the settlement, there was not a squeak in parliament about the case - and why instead there seemed an overwhelming cross-bench willingness to let sleeping dogs, however dirty, lie - and go on lying. Which Lord Boothby did until he died in 1986.
Whatever the reasons for the rescue of Lord Boothby, what can never be disputed is the dire effect it had upon the three great institutions which are meant to protect us from dangerous criminals like the Krays. First in responsibility were the politicians in parliament who had previously been concerned about the growth of organised crime and protection rackets but who now fell silent.
To have mentioned the Krays would have meant reviving their involvement with Lord Boothby, and who could tell where that would lead? The press fell silent, too; pounds 40,000 was a lot of money, and there was little point in risking a similar performance with such tricky characters.
The press, once so vociferous against the Krays, found other targets. But the worst effect was on the police. Here, the crucial point was that the Sunday Mirror story was correct. A Scotland Yard investigation had been observing and reporting on the obvious relationship between Boothby and the Krays. It had been conducted by the Yard's Intelligence section, on the initiative of its then commander, Detective Superintendent John E Cummings.
But, worried by the prospect of trouble from the politicians, the Commissioner, Sir Joseph Simpson, had chosen to deny it, and from then on there was no real incentive at the Yard to catch the Krays. What Sir Joseph wanted was a quiet life.
An Old Bailey trial against the Krays for criminal protection foundered - thanks partly to the way they interfered with members of the jury, and also because of a lack of commitment from the top. It was while the Krays were on remand that Boothby infamously felt obliged to ask a question on their behalf in the House of Lords.
For the next three years the police would leave the Krays alone. Even when they turned to murder, there was no attempt to catch them, and when "Nipper" Read finally obtained permission for a full-scale offensive from a new police Commissioner, Sir John Waldron, in 1967, he wisely insisted on conducting the entire operation away from Scotland Yard itself. It could be argued that, as political scandals go, the Boothby case was an exception.
But scandals are exceptional by their very nature, and now that it is part of history, the Boothby case should be remembered for what it was - an exemplary and most extraordinary cause celebre among British political scandals.
It embodied almost everything that makes us cynical about politicians - the neat manipulation of events, the bland suppression of the truth, and the way the establishment protects its own.It is also a fascinating demonstration of the way the fault lines of corruption run in our society, how the law can be manipulated, how class solidarity is exerted, how secrecy becomes a curse and how power corrupts.
The lessons are endless and I recommend them to a new and - we hope - less gullible generation of British politicians. It would be good to think that Lords Boothby, Driberg, Goodman - and the Krays - could not have got away with it today.
Ruling Passions


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State's 21-day average surpasses 10,000 new COVID cases a day.
More than 5,000 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized in Ohio for the second day in a row as the state's daily cases remained high.
Ohio had 5,207 coronavirus patients hospitalized on Tuesday, with 1,193 in ICUs and 771 on ventilators, according to the Ohio Department of Health. It's the highest number of COVID inpatients reported since the peak of the state's winter surge last year. On Monday, Ohio had reported 5,019 COVID inpatients.
One in four patients in the state's hospitals and one in three ICU patients have coronavirus, according to the Ohio Hospital Association.
Earlier this month, Gov. Mike DeWine announced he would deploy more than 1,000 Ohio National Guard members to help hospitals across the state with the surge in patients. The first deployments started in northern Ohio, but about 70 Guard members were expected to begin working at Mount Carmel East Hospital in Columbus this week.
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Health experts suspected a rise in cases would continue across the country because of holiday gatherings and the spread of the omicron variant, which is more easily transmitted. They urged people to get vaccinated, or take the booster if already vaccinated, plus wear masks and distance when possible.
The state added 60 COVID deaths on Tuesday, bringing Ohio's total to 28,780, according to ODH.
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As we come together again to celebrate the great feast of our God's incarnation as a human being, we realize that our faith is unique in the history of humankind. We believe that our God loved His creation so much that He decided that He would make us unto His image and grant us the potential to grow in His likeness. Because we are made in His image, we have free will, we share in His most important powers and we have the ability to cooperate with His Spirit to become the best possible version of ourselves that is possible during this lifetime on earth. Indeed He spared nothing to help us achieve the status as His children. He decided from all eternity that He would be with us, helping us to understand how to live this earthly life so that we might become all that we can possibly be. We actually believe that He came to show us how to live this life so that we might truly benefit from the experiences of life and spiritually grow. He could have created us with many different powers. He decided that we must have free will so that we, like Him, might be able to freely and voluntarily return His love. His intent was not to create robots or slaves, but rather free men and women who could freely choose to return His love. He voluntarily created us as we are so that we might share in His life in an intimate way. He unconditionally loves us and allows us to freely respond to His love. As we celebrate this great feast, we must ask ourselves if we truly are trying to understand this great mystery OR are simply just going through life without a clue about the meaning and purpose of their lives. So today I ask you to pause and ask yourself this serious question: Why would God become a human being? How did this action bring about the completion of His creation? It is truly my hope and prayer that all who celebrate this feast with me might come to know they are loved by God and also by me. Thanks to all who have supported me all these years.