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NHS England Business Plan for 2016/17: Understanding the NHS Policy Big Picture (NHS England)
Summary NHS England's business plan for 2016/17 carries forwards many of the main themes from the previous year, based broadly on the agenda of the Five Year Forward View. The grand themes are: Improving health: closing the health and wellbeing … Continue reading →
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Joint Declaration on Post-Diagnostic Dementia Care and Support (NHS England / Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary Attention is again drawn to the joint declaration, spanning "government, health, social care and the third sector" (announced earlier in January 2016), which aims to improve the quality of services for persons with dementia, and their families / carers. … Continue reading →
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Signatories: Alzheimer's Society, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Beth Britton – Freelance Campaigner and Consultant, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Brendan Clifford – Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council for Adults Principal Social Worker Network, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Dementia Action Alliance, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Dementia UK, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Department of Health, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Health Education England, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Local Government Association, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - 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Cross-Sector Declaration on Post-Diagnostic Care and Support for People With Dementia (Department of Health)
Summary A joint declaration "across government, health, social care and the third sector" has been announced, aiming at improving the quality of services for persons with dementia. Full Text Link Reference Dementia: post-diagnostic care and support. London: Department of Health, … Continue reading →
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Signatories: Alzheimer's Society, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Beth Britton – Freelance Campaigner and Consultant, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Brendan Clifford – Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council for Adults Principal Social Worker Network, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Dementia Action Alliance, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Dementia UK, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Department of Health, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Health Education England, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - Signatories: Local Government Association, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support Policy Declaration - 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Long-Term Conditions: Ethnographic Approach Explores Patients' Support Networks, Social Relationships and Coordination in Care Planning (NHS England / Ipsos MORI / NHS IQ)
Posted on November 2, 2015	by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary A recent opinion survey, conducted by the Ipsos Ethnography Centre of Excellence (ECE) on behalf of NHS Improving Quality's Long Term Conditions Improvement Programme, shows that older people living with multiple long-term conditions are generally happy with NHS services … Continue reading →
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Quality of Death Index: UK End-Of-Life Care Second To None? (BBC News / EIU / NHS England / CQC / National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership)
Summary A comparative study of palliative care across 80 countries by the Economist Intelligence Unit has declared that end-of-life care in the UK can be ranked the best in the world. The UK was ranked first due to comprehensive national … Continue reading →
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Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reablement: National Audit Report 2015 (NHS IQ)
Summary The "Unbundling Recovery: Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reablement National Audit Report", from NHS Improving Quality, investigates the use of an audit methodology (used earlier for surgical conditions) to assess how to improve the rehabilitation in acute hospitals. This report describes … Continue reading →
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A New Quality Improvement Manual (HQIP) Plus an Investigation Into Online Repositories of Quality Improvement (BMJ Quality and Safety / BMJ / King's Fund)
Summary Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has produced a guide to the main twelve quality improvement (QI) methods. Section headings comprise: Introduction: Purpose. Definition of 'quality'. Good governance. Regulation, accreditation and inspection. Patient involvement in quality improvement. Collaboration for quality … Continue reading →
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Lynn Nottage's latest Broadway play, 'Clyde's,' to offer streaming access for final 16 performances
By Karu F. Daniels
Lynn Nottage is breaking new ground again on The Great White Way.
The history-making playwright's latest Broadway show is the first to be streamed virtually live.
Amid the COVID-related closing announcements of hit shows such as "Waitress," "Ain't Too Proud," "Jagged Little Pill" and "Thoughts of a Colored Man," producers of the new play "Clyde's" have partnered with Assemble Stream to offer simulcasts of the final 16 performances.
Directed by Kate Whoriskey and starring multiple Emmy Award winners Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones, the production will allow theater fans who aren't able to attend in person the opportunity to witness a live Broadway performance from the comfort of their homes or private viewing devices from Jan. 4-16.
Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones in "Clyde's" on Broadway. (Joan Marcus)
"The events of the last 18 months have shown us that there is an appetite for theater in all of its forms and we are excited to bring a simulcast of our Broadway production of Lynn Nottage's CLYDE'S —in real time — to theater fans," Second Stage executive director Khady Kamara and Assemble Stream's Katie McKenna said in a joint statement. "Nothing will ever replace the experience of attending a Broadway show but these simulcasts hope to capture the one-of-a-kind thrill of a live Broadway performance for audience members who are unable to attend the play in person."
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Captured by five to seven cameras operated remotely and situated discreetly throughout the Hayes Theater, the simulcast will be edited live as the performance happens in real time.
For "Clyde's," Nottage has crafted a stirring and humorous story about a truck stop sandwich shop offering its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption.
Adubo — who gained notoriety as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on Netflix's "Orange is the New Black" — stars as the shop's callous owner, Clyde, who tries to keep the staff under her thumb with their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.
The Boston native made her Broadway debut in 2007′s "Coram Boy" and later starred in the hit musical revival of "Godspell" in 2011.
Signage for the new 2nd Stage Theater play "Clyde's" on Broadway at The Hayes Theater on October 19, 2021 in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/Getty Images)
Second Stage planned social justice initiatives around the production of "Clyde's," which included an apprenticeship program for formerly incarcerated citizen, subsidized tickets for ex-prisoners and their families and hosting a jobs fair for formerly incarcerated individuals, connecting them with potential job opportunities, training, and other career resources.
The programming was funded by grants of $200,000 from the New York City-based Art for Justice Fund.
Lynn Nottage has another show coming to Broadway. (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)
An esteemed professor of Playwriting at Columbia University, Nottage is the only woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice; the first in 2009 for "Ruined," and the second in 2017 for "Sweat."
Named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2019, the 57-year-old Brooklyn native will have another show on Broadway just as "Clyde's" ends its run.
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The much-anticipated opera based on her award-winning play "Intimate Apparel," is scheduled to resume performances at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater beginning Jan 13.
In March 2020, the Bartlett Sher-helmed production was forced to suspend preview performances when theaters were shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Liu Bolin, camouflage artist
Sometimes inspiration comes at me from different directions.
And btw, what is so funny 'bout Peace, Love and Understanding?
Newspaper dress
While reading the NYTimes Runway Blog… "Jessica Mindich is a jewelry designer who has begun transforming recycled pistols, rifles and shotguns from Newark into a line of sleek bangle bracelets. Twenty percent of the proceeds will go directly to the gun buyback program in Newark, she said." From the Jewelry for a Cause site, "Jewelry for a Cause also works with artisans from all over the world helping them to create sustainable lives for their families through their craft."
Jewelry for a Cause, made from recycled guns, nytimes.com
As a Mom, and a left-coaster, this kind of reading plus visual gets me going.
Next inspiration…from The Telegraph, : "At first glance, this may look like a photograph of shelves in a supermarket. But look more closely and you may see a man painstakingly painted to blend in with the colourful background. Chinese artist Liu Bolin has become world-renowned for his camouflage art. Liu uses a team of two assistants to paint the camouflage onto him to make him invisible, and each photograph can take up to ten hours to set up. In some cases, Liu has his assistants paint his body and then he remains extremely still until an unsuspecting passer-by happens to walk past."
Liu Bolin before, ekfineart.com
From smithsonian.com, "Liu Bolin remembers what it feels like to truly be invisible. In 2005, the Chinese government shut down Beijing's thriving art village, Suo Jia Cun, demolishing some 100 studios, including Liu's. He protested the state's treatment of artists with a photographic series, Hiding in the City. "I was a meaningless person, according to society," Liu says. "Those years made me feel like people can exist or completely disappear."
Liu Bolin, after, ekfineart.com
Han Xu, 27, center, and Ian Cao, 29, right, paint Chinese artist Liu Bolin, 38, left, for an art project at the Charging Bull in Lower Manhattan on June 23rd, 2011, blogs.wsj.com
Liu disappears. He stands still for hours as an assistant paints him to match his surroundings. Liu hopes his work will compel people to ponder the often contentious relationship between the individual and society.
Wedding dress made from 1400 inverted rubber gloves,by Susie MacMurray, susie-macmurray.co.uk2
Last inspiration, the wedding dress made from inverted rubber gloves. From the Museum of Art and Design: "In her use of objects such as hairnets and rubber gloves, Susie MacMurray evokes memories of the body—often a specifically working-class, female body—and its daily labor. In A Mixture of Frailties, the familiar, standard, yellow rubber gloves used for dishwashing and other domestic chores have been turned inside out to create matte white surfaces. The work references other uses of gloves by various artists in the construction of dresses that lie somewhere on the continuum linking fashion, design, and art."
Widow 2009, by Susie Macmurray, susie-macmurray.co.uk
Widow, 2009, 94 pounds of adamantine dressmaker pins. Exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, in the Power of Making show.
…And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
What is so funny 'bout it?
by: Sally Steele
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"Wait. Hold on master. Goodly races?" Maia interrupted.
"I know, a bit of a shock, is it not? This next one will really hit home. The gods are real, and they walk among us. Balim is real. You met him not long ago. His brother, Memnon, was just as real. The two of them stalked the battlefield on the Utand Plain. Good so far?" Jyri asked.
"Um, I guess so?" Maia responded.
Jyri could see the questions in his eyes, but it was best to forge ahead and get the whole story out there. Well, at least as much as Maia needed for the immediate task at hand.
"Of course you don't. This real knowledge is a bit hard to grasp. We kept on fighting, but every time we beat evil down, it would pop up again somewhere else. It was a bit like plugging a leaking dyke with your thumb. But we persevered. With Balim's guidance, we cut down potential evil leaders when they were young and weak. It seemed like we were finally getting ahead.
"It was then that Balim brought us a prophecy.
The meek shall inherit the earth and peace and justice shall reign.
Maia was starting to catch up, but it was still hard to reconcile what he had known with what was now being told to him.
"You know little of what prophecy means, baby moose. We convened with Balim and we all agreed that he was the son to be raised up, and that world peace would follow. It was up to all of us to make sure the prophecy came true.
"So, Balim devised a means by which we could keep score. He enchanted the courtyard of this temple to show the influence evil had in the world, and along with it, the good in the world. We continued to combat evil, secure in our new knowledge that we would win. And gradually, evil's presence faded.
"The Battle of Utand was the largest battle of the long war, and the only one where all of the goodly races fought side by side. We gambled that we could destroy the source of evil in the world, and we did! Or, at least we thought so. The last time we checked the courtyard, after the Battle, evil was retreating from the scene. Peace and prosperity reigned. Disease and despair ceased. The prophecy had come true.
Maia followed closely behind as Jyri made his way unerringly out of the sanctuary and along dark corridors. They ascended a steep staircase that turned sharply at a landing every ten steps. At the tenth lending, Maia felt a slight breeze and sensed a change in the stale air. At the eleventh landing, light started to show the way up the stairs.
On the twelfth landing, a spectacular view greeted Maia. He could see all around the peaceful valley he had grown up in. He could see the stream work its way down the mountainside in jumping cascades before winding peacefully through his village. He could see each home, the blacksmith, school, mill, tanner, and a dozen other public buildings. He could even see the farmers toiling away in their terraced fields.
He was still taking in the breathtaking vista when a shocked cry broke his reverie.
"Master! What is it?" Maia asked as he rushed to Jyri's side.
Jyri looked like he could not decide between vomiting or fainting. With a visible effort, Jyri willed away his anxiety and composed himself.
Maia moved away from Jyri and to the edge of the tower. He looked below and gasped. Though he did not grasp the full meaning of what he saw, he understood enough.
In the center of the courtyard sat a majestic, red dragon. Its wings were spread and one paw was held out with the palm out. Its red scales sparkled in the sunlight and added to the air of tranquility on its face.
As grand a site as the red dragon was, it was not what caught the eye. The rest of the courtyard was a pulsing, swirling black. It was not quite solid, but rather looked like a fog in the distance. Soon, the fog would settle and nothing would be seen through it, but for the time being a brisk breeze kept it at bay.
The red dragon did not see the fog, and seemed even less aware of the black dragon rising up from the swirling fog behind it. Only the head and one arm was visible. The black head sported two sharp horns. A massive, opened jaw filled with teeth the size of spears, and two black eyes that sucked in the light around them making the eyes blacker than night. They filled Maia with terror to his very soul, and he quickly looked away.
The arm was stretching out towards the red dragon's neck, one of its five talons leading the way and looking to try and rip out the red dragon's throat. If this courtyard truly told the balance of good and evil in the world, it looked like the scales were about to take a serious turn.
Maia tore his gaze away from the troubling scene below him and turned back to Jyri. His master was sitting cross-legged on the floor and appeared to be finishing preparations of some kind. Jyri sensed his attention and looked up.
Maia heard Jyri begin chanting behind him, the musical sounds bringing peace to his soul.
Something was out of place in the melody; some discordant note creating a timorous harmony.
Maia looked out across the towns as he heard the discord again. And then he saw it.
And that sound, it was a scream!
Maia squinted into the sun and could just make out hundreds of moss colored figures running through the fields. More screams echoed through the valley to his right. He looked and could see more smoke and figures.
Maia turned quickly to Jyri, too frantic to notice the irony of the situation.
Jyri jumped to his feed and rushed to the balcony. Maia sensed, rather than saw, the change that came over the big monk. It was if the air began to vibrate around him. The screams reached his ears again and he could now see panicked farmers being overrun by goblins in the outer fields. Fear and anger warred within him; his parents were in one of the fields. Maia looked to Jyri for guidance and took a shocked step backward. Jyri had grown and his face bore a wicked grin that seemed entirely out of place on the benevolent monk.
Maia did not question and ran to the top of the stairs.


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It finally arrived; it's here. The Mueller Report the world has been waiting for hoping it would tell us once and for all the truth about Donald Trump. Is he as corrupt as it was reported or is all that was written about him a hoax the fake news Trump always claimed it was? No matter where you fell on the political spectrum everyone put their faith in what Mueller would produce because of his sterling reputation as a Washington institutionalist, his integrity, and experience as a soldier and federal prosecutor, the head of the FBI and his bipartisan appeal.
Mueller amassed a team that worked for almost two years on the 'Report on Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election'. During that time his team produced scores of indictments against people surrounding the Trump administration and beyond. He also produced several convictions that hit very close to Trump proving to all his investigation was not a hoax and reports of Trump corruption were not fake news. More importantly during the entire time preceding the publication and release of the Report, there were no leaks from Mueller's office. There weren't any rumors or speculations about what would be in his report which emanated from his office which was further testimony to the integrity of the process and its results.
Now that the Report is out and available for all to read it presents America with a problem that only has ONE solution. Mainstream media, especially print media did a pretty good job of detailing a lot of Trump's corruption and criminal behavior but what it printed could always be dismissed by Trump supporters with the appellation "fake news". Mueller's report, however, put a stamp of authenticity on some of the reports that had been previously dismissed and exposed an even more brutal truth that the President of the United States was actively attempting to obstruct investigations into his criminal behavior. Names, dates, places were given the imprimatur of Mueller and his team with an irrefutable precision that can leave the government of the United States but one choice in response. Impeachment.
How can the largest most powerful democracy have its standard bearer, its president and the titular head of the free world remain in office with sins so exposed and obvious for all to see and not make any moves to remove him from office in ways that its own system of governance say it can pursue. The Constitution of the United States has provided a mechanism to legally remove a corrupt President from office without violence while maintaining the continuity of governance. What excuse can be legitimately offered NOT to impeach a president who has shown such disdain for the law and the legal process of governance that Trump has demonstrated so clearly and blatantly? What signal does it send to the world now and in the future to have someone who has been exposed to be engaged in criminal activity against his own government to allow that type of behavior to continue unchallenged when a legal remedy exists to stop and remove such a leader. What does America think will be the response of the world community that looks upon this predicament and sees a country impotent? Doesn't that diminish the stature of America in the eyes of the international community? America has to begin the process of impeachment. Whether it will lead to the removal of Trump from office is irrelevant; the legislative branch of government must claim the authority the Constitution has given it and assert its power in the face of an over-reaching executive otherwise the Constitution will have become an inert document that cannot save America from itself.
The dinosaur known as the Republican Party
I've been tweeting since 2016 and the election of Donald Trump that the Republican party is no longer a legitimate, relevant opposition party in American politics. The descent into the abyss of moral decadence lays squarely at the foot of those Americans who support the candidacy of Donald Trump, the most morally bankrupt and ignorant person to occupy any political office in American history. I am willing to give people who voted in the Republican primary for Trump because perhaps they were not up to snuff on who he is but in 2019 after all the media exposure Trump has had as a candidate and as President should leave no doubt how bad a candidate he is and how much worse the Republican party that props him up has become.
Personal responsibility used to be a bedrock of GOP ideals. Theirs was a notion that honorable politicians propose a policy they think will benefit the American body politic and if things go upside down those same politicians will own up to their mistake and try to make things right. The buck stops here an expression used by Democrat Harry Truman was turned on its head by Trump whose incompetence means nothing he does will work but who's smart enough to pass the buck and claim 'the buck stops with everyone'. In practical terms a government shutdown solely of his making which had disastrous effects on America is not his problem or responsibility at all…..it's everyone's fault.
The law and order mantra of Republicans in the '60s barely got out of their mouths before it was defamed by the Nixon/Agnew ticket. It stands to reason Trump has even more egregiously made that idea meaningless. He ran a criminal enterprise as a real estate businessman and he's carried that criminality into the White House. In the process, he's laid ruin to bureaucracy by firing competent career public servants and putting in his cronies whose only priority is to protect him from the rule of law. Oh, and a benefit of their doing a good job is they are able to plunder the government largesse available to them as long as they don't get caught. Republicans now find themselves making excuses for criminal behavior and they do so with a vigor that makes you wonder whether they ever really held on to the belief that law and order, the rule of law is important in civil society.
Family values of the Reagan years are out the window. Do we need to talk any more about pussy grabbing and extramarital affairs that were withheld from the public that Trump paid to make disappear or by corporate friends of his who paid his paramours for their silence? In days gone by such dalliances would keep an office seeker out of office but today's Republican has no problem with a president who cheated on his wife BEFORE he assumed office, just don't do it while in the White House. However, that vice is not for mere mortals only for Trump or those who surround and defend him; all others are held to the standards of morality that usually come with family values in sometimes very comic ways. This is today's Republican Party; you'd be wise to avoid it. When you see it coming towards you get the hell outta the way!
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We always heard from @realDonaldTrump about how strong a leader Vladmir Putin is and how weak a President Obama was, yet the evidence and the historical record shows just the opposite. Obama was confident, comfortable, prepared and domineering during his encounters with Putin. Can the same be said of Trump?
I am always amazed how people who are the most oppressed by the American system are some of its most ardent believers and supporters and those who stand to benefit the most from America seem to be casually dismissive about what is America. While this might be an ugly thing to say, oppression can bring out the best in people. It causes them to fight, to exert themselves in order to outdo in every way their opponents. I think that's what propelled Jackie Robinson to pen this essay in the early '50s. I was impressed with the hope, enthusiasm even patriotism he seemed to hold for a Jim Country country which sought to deny him every opportunity he chose to explore. It was this spirit of hope, excellence and patriotism which seemed to mark the essence of African-Americans who fought white supremacy. See if you can feel it in Robinson's words.
At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion, when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. This is organized major league baseball, and I am standing here with all the others; and everything that takes place includes me.
About a year later, I went to Atlanta, Georgia, to play in an exhibition game. On the field, for the first time in Atlanta, there were Negroes and whites. Other Negroes, besides me. And I thought: What I have always believed has come to be.
And what is it that I have always believed? First, that imperfections are human. But that wherever human beings were given room to breathe and time to think, those imperfections would disappear, no matter how slowly. I do not believe that we have found or even approached perfection. That is not necessarily in the scheme of human events. Handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices — all of these are imperfect. Yet, they have to be reckoned with because they are in the scheme of human events.
Whatever obstacles I found made me fight all the harder. But it would have been impossible for me to fight at all, except that I was sustained by the personal and deep-rooted belief that my fight had a chance. It had a chance because it took place in a free society. Not once was I forced to face and fight an immovable object. Not once was the situation so cast-iron rigid that I had no chance at all. Free minds and human hearts were at work all around me; and so there was the probability of improvement. I look at my children now, and know that I must still prepare them to meet obstacles and prejudices.
But I can tell them, too, that they will never face some of these prejudices because other people have gone before them. And to myself I can say that, because progress is unalterable, many of today's dogmas will have vanished by the time they grow into adults. I can say to my children: There is a chance for you. No guarantee, but a chance.
And this chance has come to be, because there is nothing static with free people. There is no Middle Ages logic so strong that it can stop the human tide from flowing forward. I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe — and with every fiber in me — that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.
I believe in the human race. I believe in the warm heart. I believe in man's integrity. I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it — and to fight against whatever imperfections may exist.
My fight was against the barriers that kept Negroes out of baseball. This was the area where I found imperfection, and where I was best able to fight. And I fought because I knew it was not doomed to be a losing fight. It couldn't be a losing fight-not when it took place in a free society.
And in the largest sense, I believe that what I did was done for me — that it was my faith in God that sustained me in my fight. And that what was done for me must and will be done for others.
Anyone who is an appointee in the Donald Trump administration or anyone else within reach of his tentacles that he can fire will be required to ensure him they are ok with his extortion and treason. Please let there be no doubt about that and such an employee in the federal government is highly undesirable. That said the new attorney general is proof positive of this strategy; within a week of taking over that off ice he has sent out feelers that the Robert Mueller investigation should be drawing to a close and if you're Donald Trump the timing couldn't be better.
Mueller is the consummate professional and a beast. His office has been silent while he racks up convictions and charges of Trump's inner circles. Given time Mr. Mueller would be knocking on Trump's door BUT loyalty which Trump extracted from William Barr is at work here and will delay what should be an inevitable, the removal of Donald Trump from office. Barr isn't an institutionalist he's an ideologue who like the others in the administration can hold their nose just long enough to get what they want from Trump while giving him the protection (read loyalty by some) he needs to escape what should be a very long, as in for the rest of his natural life, prison term.
The commodity called Hope Hicks
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks
I will never understand how or why any woman would ever want to vote for Donald Trump for anything but a prison sentence. The way he treats women is nothing short of sexual harassment/assault. Hope Hicks and the treatment she has received throughout her time working with him the campaign and in the White House is a textbook example of an emotionally abused woman who found a way to escape from her abuser by resigning from her job working for him.
If it's true she really knows who Donald Trump is her remaining with him for as long as she did is one sign of abuse where a victim remains with her abuser as a survival strategy during captivity or in her case during the intense partisanship that exists in Washington and national politics. Hicks sought solace in some rather unfortunate circumstances….romantic relationships with abusive men who were affiliated with Donald Trump, extensions of him in every way. Whether they were abusive towards her is something we don't know at this time but the abuse of her paramours is a matter of public record a record that Hope Hicks chose to ignore. Donald Trump is a particularly aggressive sexual predator, don't forget who likes to force himself on women or publicly shame them. Talk of blood and women was a common rebuttal Trump used against his female detractors.
What is it that allegedly drove Hicks to find some sort of normalcy with the likes of Corey Lewandowski who was once arrested for carrying a handgun, three magazines, a holster and several rounds of ammunition into a federal office building? They were mixed up by accident, he said, with his dirty clothes in an overnight bag. Red flag!!! Definite red flag….that Hicks ignored. Lewandowski was also charged with inappropriate sexual behavior by Joy Villa. And when Lewandowski was released by Trump from his responsibilities with the Trump campaign it was Hicks, some would say, who wanted to help him in. It's amazing how one person encompasses all that is happening in today's political discussion centering around firearms and who should, should not possess them. Lewandowski is one who should not own firearms.
Yes, Hicks went on to have a relationship with another Trump aide who was twice married before being involved with her and who abused both of his former wives in a way that had to be known by Hicks but the thing that bothers me the most in all these trysts is how Donald Trump reportedly talked about this valued aide, Hicks in front of others. In what could only be described as slut-shaming Trump told Hicks not to worry about Lewandowski since she was the best piece of tail he would ever have…Said comment was embarrassing enough to send her out of the room but it also shows how Trump views people in his orbit and more importantly women. Pundits trying to understand and explain Hicks' sudden departure from the White House talk about how important she was to Mr. Trump, how indispensable, important and well-liked she was yet none of those descriptions square with the language of slut-shaming Trump used in the presence of others as if she was a "thing" a commodity to be valued based on how well she sexually satisfied Lewandowsky. This is the sign of the times where the President of the United States sees people who work with him as sexually satisfying or sexually gratified. Those who voted for him have to figure out in which category they fall.


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If you haven't yet noticed, voting has now opened for the first AFOE European Weblog Awards, so you can now get voting.
And in other awards news, we've been nominated for Best Group Weblog in the 2005 Bloggies, so if you're not completely tired of voting for stuff then please consider voting for us in that.
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The poll page looks really cool. I especially like the little coloured bar next to Siberian Light's entry!
I'd quite like to put a link to the poll in the top corner of my blog – if this technodunce can figure out how to do it. Is it ok to use the picture you have on afoe?
Oh, and how long does the voting go on for?
Andy, use any afoe-logo-picture you like :).
Looks like the Bloggies weren't too well thought out – bandwidth exceeded already… You'd think they might have twigged that would get a lot of linkage.
Well, htanks for the nomination, and fot the contest, which allows to discover some very interesting blogs.
How long are the polls going to be open ? A proper vote needs clear rules set out from the beginning.
At least a week. Possibly longer if interest remains high.
I was disappointed that with so many European blogs out there you have many of the same blogs on many lists. Surely you could have tried a little harder. I will enjoy reading the blogs you have listed. Next time please broaden your horizens.
But I did manage to vote for you on Monday, fear not.
Shame the nominations closed before the WorldBankPresident.org blog got properly going. It's a bit special interest, but worth watching if you're taking an interest in development/Africa, etc.
Jane Perone at The Guardian has it as featured blog today.
Would I be right in thinking that the award for Blog Most Deserving of Wider Recognition will go to the blog with the least votes?


A romantic dinning experience is much more than starting the evening with a glass of pink fizz and leaving with a single red rose. Apart from an excellent dinning experience its also needs intimacy, privacy, attention to minute detail and a service that appears to be delivered invisibly. Here are five that meet that expectation.
Ask for one of the tables for 2 by the window with a panoramic view of the east side of Lumpini Park fringed by Wireless Road. The culinary emphasis is on a market-style menu we recommend Carte Blanche to Chef, a concept the Chef introduces his ingredients and tailor makes them sharing style to suits our mood and taste, bespoke dining. Both the food and the view were equally amazing.
Sitting majestically on 26th floor, the top of Rembrandt Bangkok. It'sname comes from the Indian word for the pleasure house where the ruling Maharaja's would wine, dine and entertain. The restaurant has been winning awards for the past two decades, but this Grande Dame has never shown signs of ageing, always retaining her sense of palatial beauty. They have one window facing table for two which is rumoured to be one of the most popular places in Bangkok to propose.
Housed in the elegant Thai Chine building was built in 1903, originally opening it's doors as the Bombay Department Store. The Fine Art Department cited the building as an exceptional example of the colonial style era architecture. The restaurant is on the ground floor, hospitality space on the middle floor and cooking school on the top floor. They serve redefined Thai fine dining with western influence while remaining faithful to the Thai taste.
A wine library and culinary oasis to promote Italian wine with well matched modern simple and creative simple Italian food. Front of house owner Nicola Bonazza while in charge of the kitchen Italian Chef Stefano Merlo. They work as a successful team to create uniquely innovative Italian dishes served with flawless warm hospitality. A culinary journey of discovery, be prepared to expect the unexpected and you will not be disappointed.
An interpretation of the French brasserie concept of the 1920's golden era of Paris which by definition is an informal serving simple hearty well prepared food and offering alcoholic beverages and wine. At the front a small lounge area, inside the bar section and at the back the dining room. The elegant setting of steel structure is industrial raised to an elegant level with rows of glasses and bottles on shelves in the spirit of the original Water Library in Chamchuri Square. Stepping into the restaurant guests travel from the mundanity of a mall to another world of culinary luxury.


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Q: Mystery recursive function python def mystery_code(n):
    return mystery_recursive(n, n-1)

def mystery_recursive(a, b):
    if b<=0:
        return 0
    else:
        c=mystery_recursive(a,b-1)
        if a%b==0:
            c+=b
        return c

Could someone please help me understand what this code does?

A: It computes the sum of proper divisors of n.
If you step through the code you'll see it calls, e.g., mystery_recursive(5, 4) and then recursively mystery_recursive(5, 3), mystery_recursive(5, 2), mystery_recursive(5, 1), mystery_recursive(5, 0). It'll then return 0 because b <= 0.
In each of these calls, it assigns the result of a call to c and if a % b == 0 (i.e., a can be divided by b) then it adds b to c. So you'll end up with a sum of the proper divisors of n.

A: As already told by Simeon Visser the above code computes the sum of proper divisors of n.
if your function call is:

mystery_code(12)

then it will call the mystery recursive function (mystery_recursive(a, b)) in your code as:

mystery_recursive(12, 11)

Once the recursive function started to execute it will keep on calling itself until the condition b<=0 satisfies. In this case mystery_recursive(12, 0) will return a value of '0' to the variable 'c' to its called function mystery_recursive(12, 1). Then, beginning with the above mystery function (mystery_recursive(12, 1)) the 'c' value will be computed and returned to their respective calling functions of the same until the called function mystery_recursive(12, 11).
Output in this case: 16

A: Perhaps it helps to convert this recursive function to an interative version
def mystery_recursive(a, b):
    c = 0
    while True:
        if b <= 0:
            return c
        if a % b == 0:
            c += b
        b -= 1

It's still a bit clumsy, so try to convert it to a sum generator expression
def mystery_recursive(a, b):
    return sum(b for b in range(b, 0, -1) if a % b == 0)

You can even roll that back into mystery_code
def mystery_code(n):
    return sum(b for b in range(n - 1, 0, -1) if n % b == 0)


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Q: Map with identical kernel and image Do you know a linear map A on $R^n$ such that $kerA=ImA$?
I may suggest only one, quite strange, example when $n=0$, i.e. $R^0$ and $kerA=ImA=\emptyset$, though I've no idea what A maps there.
But, may be, there is another one on $R^n$ where $n\neq0$? What do you think?

A: A simple one, in dimension 2, maps $e_1 \mapsto e_2\mapsto 0$, where  $e_1, e_2$ is a basis.

A: Yes, one exists. I didn't know one immediately, but I was able to reason one out.
If $\DeclareMathOperator{\ker}{ker} \DeclareMathOperator{\Im}{Im} \ker A = \Im A$, then $\ker A^2=\mathbb{R}^n$, or equivalently $A^2 x = 0$ for all $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$. (This follows immediately from the definition of image and kernel.)
This lead me to try taking $n=2$, and then a solution falls out quite nicely. Consider the map $A:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ taking $(x,y) \mapsto (y,0)$.
This is linear:
$$A((x,y)+(x',y')) = A((x+x',y+y')) = (y+y',0) = A((x,y)) + A((x',y')).$$
The image of the map is
$$\Im A = \{(y,0):y\in\mathbb{R}\}$$
and the kernel is
$$\ker A = \{(x,0):x\in\mathbb{R}\} = \Im A,$$
so the condition is satisfied.
Then $A$ is the linear map taking $e_1 \mapsto e_2$ and $e_2 \mapsto 0$ (in the standard basis), whence it has the rather nice matrix representation
$$A = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$
ETA: I spent a bit of time thinking over this some more, and came up with a slightly more general rule. Suppose $A:\mathbb{R}^{2n} \to \mathbb{R}^{2n}$. We can extend the principle above, as follows, in the standard basis:

*

*If $i=1,\ldots,n$, then $e_i \mapsto e_{i+n}$;

*If $i=n+1,\ldots,2n$, then $e_i \mapsto 0$.

This has
$$\Im A = \{(\underbrace{0,\ldots,0}_n, x_{n+1},\ldots,x_{2n}):x_i \in\mathbb{R}\} = \ker A$$
and is linear by a similar argument to the above. So that gives you one for $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$.
However, you can't find one for odd-dimensional real vector spaces. Why? We use the rank-nullity theorem, which states that
$$r(A)+n(A) = \DeclareMathOperator{\dim}{dim} \dim \Im A + \dim \ker A = \dim \mathbb{R}^n = n$$
But $\Im A = \ker A$, so $\dim \Im A = \dim \ker A$, whence $n$ must be even. So you can't find any linear map like this for odd-dimensional real vector spaces, because the initial premise would never hold.


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The compliance advantage
Corporate and finance expert Augustine Hamwela believes Zambia has a very bright future. He spoke to Craig Sisterson about the roles mining businesses and government play in ensuring this comes to fruition.
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To realise the potential and help unlock the future of mining in Africa, businesses need to make sure their own houses are in order in terms of compliance, while governments need to work on streamlining and alleviating the regulatory bottlenecks, says Augustine Hamwela.
"One of the things we say to a lot of our clients is that compliance is a huge, huge advantage," noted Hamwela, co-founder of innovative, modern law firm August Hill & Associates which serves a variety of Zambian and international businesses and investors from its Lusaka base. "We encourage them to do a complete compliance health check, and we're doing quite a lot of that work to make sure they are ready to take off when the opportunities come their way."
Issues such as haphazard record-keeping, unaudited financials, or not keeping mining and related licences and policies (e.g. mineral processing licences, environmental law type approvals etc.) in good order and in sync makes for lengthier due diligences and tougher conversations with financiers, Hamwela explained.
Meanwhile, Hamwela highlighted that new opportunities across Africa are there for those who are prepared, and while Zambia has been a mining country since colonial times, it has wider future potential.
"We have massive copper and cobalt reserves in Zambia, and a reputation as a peaceful country, so generally there's a sense that your investments are safe," he said. "With our new government, there's a lot of opportunity in terms of investment, and in the past 18 to 24 months we've seen a number of new projects come through. Another big opportunity is gold; in the last four or five years, sizeable gold deposits have been found. The gemstone industry also has massive opportunities around processing, cutting and cleaning rather than just raw exports."
There is already a lot of positive news for Zambia for 2023. This year Canadian company First Quantum Minerals is investing $500 million to construct solar and wind energy installations to power its copper mines in Zambia. Anglo American has returned to Zambia for the first time in 20 years via a joint venture for copper-cobalt (key battery minerals) exploration licences, and Rio Tinto is involved in joint ventures in Copperbelt Province.
With the theme of the upcoming Mining Indaba 2023 being "Unlock the Future of African Mining", Hamwela believes governments also need to play their part by untangling regulatory and tax regimes and improving infrastructure so their communities can benefit more from the mineral riches being discovered and exploited.
"In Zambia there's quite a bit of work that needs to be done with the Ministry of Mines to improve efficiency as well as transparency, from simple matters like searchability of mining licences to how long it takes for applications to move," commented Hamwela. "There are bottlenecks which can sometimes affect a transaction if you're trying to transfer mining rights or if clients want to acquire a mining right or are looking for financing in the sector."
Local procurement of goods and services, and ensuring true benefits trickle down to local communities is also an ongoing challenge in Zambia and across Africa, says Hamwela. "I think there needs to be a deliberate policy to ensure that locals benefit from the dividends of mining."
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New Capital Ice Complex Grand Opening
January 1, 2018 — News
On Wednesday, November 29, the new Capital Ice Complex, 1504 Wichita Drive, opened its doors to the public for its grand opening.
Schaumberg Arena has six new locker rooms and an expanded lobby on the south end of the building for improved indoor traffic flow. A new mezzanine addition provides a view of both ice rinks. Also new in the complex are three community rooms, a dryland training area, puck shooting area, storage spaces, concessions, a new lobby with ticket sales and skate rentals and offices for the local ice skating and hockey clubs.
Wachter Arena has six new locker rooms, officials' locker rooms, stadium seating for 490 and new restrooms for the complex and Wachter Park users. The compressors in the Wachter Arena feature the newest technology in ice refrigeration and the Wachter Arena is the first facility in the continental United States to install it.
The new Capital Ice Complex is part of the Wachter Park Master Plan, which includes additional parking, a new picnic shelter, new sidewalk connections, new shade structures and a new Magical Moments playground. Finishing touches to Wachter Park will be completed in the spring.
"This complex was created with wonderful public and private partnerships. The Bismarck Hockey Boosters and the Bismarck Figure Skating Club made substantial donations to the project, along with the Chad and Stacy Wachter family. Over $3.8 million was raised to help create more opportunities for kids and for the public," said Randy Bina, Bismarck Parks and Recreation District Executive Director. "We're very proud of the complex and are excited for the community to come see it."
The original Schaumberg Arena was built in 1974 and has been home to public skating, High school hockey, youth hockey, and figure skating and during the summer months, the Triple Star Day Camp program.
New Entrance
Wachter Arena – Stadium seating for 490
New entrance for Schaumberg Arena
New Lobby
Wide hallway to new locker rooms
New locker room
Dryland training space
Mezzanine level with view of both rinks


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By Tsvetana Paraskova - Feb 14, 2019, 9:30 AM CST
Squeezed between peak oil demand forecasts and investor demand for increasingly environmentally conscious investments, the world's largest oil companies have started to venture into clean energy and new technologies in recent years.
Some oil supermajors have been investing billions of U.S. dollars in their 'new energy' divisions, some have started to bind carbon emissions goals with executive pays, many have been pitching natural gas as a cleaner-burning fuel and the 'natural bridge fuel' between oil and renewables.
Yet, Big Oil is not rushing into renewable energy and electric power production with all the capital might they have—their investments in clean energy may be huge by some standards, but they are a drop in the ocean for a company investing dozens of billions of U.S. dollars every year in oil and gas exploration and production, refining, and chemicals.
The slower pace of oil majors toward alternative energies is due to two key reasons. First, they all say that oil and gas will be needed in the world in the foreseeable future. And second, and probably much more important, is that although renewables could offer steady returns over time, they are nothing compared to the huge bonanzas oil firms are accustomed to rake in when oil prices are high at the peaks of an oil price cycle, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning argues.
While the oil price cycles are of the boom-or-bust type and majors have had to do painful cost cuts and restructuring during the latest downturn, the world's largest oil companies are just not sure how much profits and returns a renewables-dominated operations portfolio would generate.
Shell's Downstream Director John Abbott told Denning and Bloomberg NEF's summit on the future of mobility last week that "The reality is, in some of these value chains that we've been talking about, we don't know exactly where the rent will sit."
To be sure, Big Oil does invest in clean energy solutions and has accelerated such investments in recent years, but the general mood, at least for now, is as Shell put it last year—we'll move away from oil "when this makes commercial sense."
Shell is not 'going soft' on oil and gas, despite recent investments in cleaner energy and energy solutions—Shell's core business is and will continue to be oil and gas for the foreseeable future, the supermajor's chief executive Ben van Beurden said last fall. Van Beurden pointed to recent headlines about Shell's investments in hydrogen, moves into electric vehicles (EVs) charging infrastructure, or an acquisition into the UK power sector, adding this note of caution: "But even headlines that are true can be misleading. They might even make people think we have gone soft on the future of oil and gas. If they did think that, they would be wrong."
Shell's spending on new energy solutions may be huge by some standards, at US$1 billion to US$2 billion. But this is compared to total annual capital spending of around US$25 billion, the chief executive noted.
Norway's Statoil went a step further in 'embracing the energy transition'. Last year, Statoil rebranded as Equinor, dropping 'oil' from its name and pitching itself as an 'energy company' rather than an 'oil and gas company'. Equinor plans to boost its renewables portfolio. Yet, it expects to invest 15-20 percent of total capex in new energy solutions by 2030, while the rest will still be in oil and gas.
France's Total says its ambition is to have close to "20% low-carbon businesses in 20 years' time,"—these businesses being midstream and downstream gas, renewable energies, energy storage and energy efficiency as well as clean fuels and carbon capture, utilization and storage technology.
Some majors have also responded to investor pressure by proposing to tie executive pays with carbon emission reduction targets.
At the end of last year, Shell said that it plans to set short-term emission reduction targets and link these targets with executive pay, yielding to growing investor pressure about establishing short-term emission goals.
Earlier this month, Chevron said that its board "established greenhouse gas emissions performance measures that will be a factor in determining compensation for executives and nearly all other employees beginning in 2019."
"In response to discussions with investors and other stakeholders, Chevron is providing more insight on climate change governance," the U.S. supermajor said.
Big Oil is increasingly hearing investors and building alternative energy portfolios, but oil and gas will very much be their core focus of operations over the coming decades, or at least until returns on clean energy start making commercial sense.
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P Wills on February 14 2019 said:
This makes good business sense, although strategic planning should happen at more frequent intervals to take the acceleration of adoption of renewables into account. Loss aversion is one of the top fatal business errors.
If energy is a business, the content of the business cannot be a religion. At some point the realities of demand and social surety force a shift just by mass. Companies that shift early will be in a much stronger position.
It's very clear the direction things will go. The practice of management is to ensure the continuation of the company regardless of the content of the product.
Mamdouh Salameh on February 14 2019 said:
Big Oil's investments in renewables will be guided by three pivotal principles. The first is that there will be no post-oil era throughout the 21st century and probably far beyond. Oil will continue to reign supreme all through.
The second principle is that there will be no peak oil demand either. Global oil demand will continue to grow well into the 22nd century. While the penetration of increasing numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) into global oil market coupled with government environmental legislations could decelerate the demand for oil, EVs could never replace oil in global transport throughout the 21st century and far beyond
The third principle is business opportunities. While Big Oil is investing huge amounts in renewables, such investment pales in size when compared with that in oil and gas exploration and production, refining and petrochemicals. The reason is that although renewables could offer steady returns over time, they are nothing compared to the huge revenues that oil and gas could generate. While renewables accounted in 2018 for 3.7% of global primary energy demand, oil and natural gas accounted for 58%. For oil supermajors, their core business is and will continue to be oil and gas for the foreseeable future.
Lee James on February 14 2019 said:
I like two things that Equinor of Norway is doing. One is that their sovereign wealth fund seems to be well managed. It maximizes benefit for Norwegians, and to some extent for our planet.
The second admirable thing they're doing is rebranding to embrace clean energy. They seem to take "Beyond Oil" seriously and are setting targets for how much of their business needs to "go clean" by specified milestone target years.
Unfortunately, most Big Oil companies are still comfortable with the idea that consumer demand dictates AND justifies what they do.
If a consumer product is "all good," a business model based entirely on furthering the product is justified. If a product has obvious downsides, like tobacco, business must think twice about how it promotes and commits to its product. A product that has 50% upside and 50% downside and hidden cost is not a worthwhile net-benefit product. Something has to give.
Petroleum, as a product, lies somewhere between "all good"/necessary, and undesirable. It's in between on the social and health benefit scale. Wise use of a valuable, finite resource like petroleum is what we should double-down on. The worth of petroleum is somewhere between the extreme positions in the debate.
I feel that Equinor has one of the more balanced, reasonable approaches. Admit that Petroleum has got some downsides that hard to correct; start taking action to transition over to clean energy. Be a good corporate and world citizen while we burn up the rest of the resource.


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Bango technology ensures that qualifying customers have the opportunity to subscribe to Amazon Prime Video as part of the customer's mobile, fixed or broadband plan. Vivo is the first mobile operator in Latin America to offer its customers Prime Video as an additional option.
This follows Bango's initial launches with Amazon in Asia, USA and UK.


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