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Giants can't baby Daniel Jones in huge preseason debut
By Steve Serby
August 6, 2019 | 6:43pm	| Updated August 6, 2019 | 7:49pm
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From the moment the boos for Daniel Jones subsided at the MetLife draft party, the Giants have talked up their Quarterback of the Future for his accurate downfield arm, for his legs, for his smarts, for his Eli Manning-esque makeup.
Now is no time to baby him.
Pat Shurmur doesn't need to play Manning, or Saquon Barkley, in Thursday night's preseason opener against the Jets.
He needs to show Giants fans desperate to cheer Daniel Jones instead of jeer Daniel Jones what kind of prize the club believes it has.
Let's see Daniel Jones behind the first-team offensive line as much as possible. Let's see him throw to Evan Engram and maybe Golden Tate.
Jones would welcome it, too.
"I think it'll be valuable. I think over these last few weeks, I think we've built chemistry kind of across the board with everyone, whether you're throwing in routes or seven-on, or whatever it is. So, I'm confident in all the guys, and I think it'll be good," Jones said.
The kid's precocious? Let everyone else see what he's got.
Besides, if Manning starts the regular season slowly again, the Future Is Now drumbeat will thunder in and around MetLife Stadium, and the Giants will want Jones ready to take the torch.
Remember when offensive coordinator Mike Shula volunteered in the spring that Jones had shown the capability to be a Week 1 starter?
Remember Shurmur keeping Alex Tanney as the No. 2 last season over rookie Kyle Lauletta because he wanted an experienced backup?
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Jones will start the regular season as the No. 2. This is the only time for him to gain experience.
So bring on that first hit.
"It kinda gets you going," Jones said, and smiled. And then added: "Don't need to be too big, but no, that's part of the game. I'm looking forward to getting in there."
The Kid can't wait.
"I'm excited. Think it'll be a whole lot of fun to just run out there the first time and kinda be part of the scene, be part of an NFL football game," Jones said.
It's the realization of a dream, and his immediate family will be there to watch.
"I think first time walking out there, whether that's warmups before the game, I think I will take a moment and look around. I'm excited for that," Jones said.
But only a moment.
"Realize you're playing a game pretty shortly, so I don't know if you have a whole lot of time to do that," Jones said.
And rest easy, Giants fans, Jets defensive coordinator Gregg Williams' Bounty days are behind him.
"They play really hard," Jones said of the Jets' defense. "Something you notice is how aggressive they are and how hard they play. Just been trying to familiarize myself with those different looks and how they attack an offense."
The plan, as always: Score points, don't turn the ball over, make it look like football.
"If we're scoring points, if we're moving the ball, I think we'll feel good about what we did," Jones said.
So will Shurmur.
"We want him to execute the offense. There are some plays that they have flexibility to do what they do," Shurmur said. "Then there are other things that we have that are what I consider 'run it' plays, where you just call it and run it. We want him to execute, and we want him to do it in a way that represents how we run our offense."
Williams won't be throwing the kitchen sink at Jones since the teams will meet again for keeps on Nov. 10.
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"You want to be aggressive, you want to take advantage of the opportunities they give us," Jones said. "Part of playing quarterback, part of being the decision-maker's understanding when those chances aren't there."
The Giants do not expect Jones to wear that deer-in-headlights look.
"I realize there's still a lot to learn, but I do feel like it's slowed down," Jones said. "I've gotten better recognizing a lot of different things."
Learning at Manning's feet has been invaluable.
"I feel prepared for Thursday night," Jones said.
Don't baby Daniel Jones.
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De Onderscheiding van Koningin Nathalie (Servisch: Орден краљевице Наталије, Orden kraljevice Natalije), opvolger van de Onderscheiding van Prinses Nathalie werd door haar echtgenoot, de Servische Koning Milan IV Obrenović op 22 februari 1886 (6 maart 1886 in de orthodoxe tijdrekening) ingesteld. Deze onderscheiding was bestemd voor de vrouwen die de gewonden van de Servisch-Bulgaarse Oorlog van dat jaar hebben verpleegd en werd door Nathalie van Servië uitgereikt.

Er zijn twee uitvoeringen van de onderscheiding bekend; met een cyrillische "N", die op de Latijnse "H" lijkt en met een "N". Die laatste versie is voor West-Europese dames bestemd geweest.

De medaille werd in gouden en zilveren uitvoeringen toegekend.

Het kleinood

Men kan beter over een medaillon dan over een medaille spreken. Deze beide medailles zijn immers een roodgeëmailleerd en geguillocheerd cartouche met op de blauwe ring in gouden letters uit het cyrillisch schrift en in Servische taal de woorden die men als "VOOR DE VERPLEGING VAN GEWONDEN EN ZIEKEN GEDURENDE DE OORLOG" kan vertalen. Om de ring is een groen geëmailleerde lauwerkrans gebonden en als verhoging dient een geëmailleerde gouden vorstenkroon als in de Orde van het Takowo-Kruis.
De ring heeft de vorm van een lint die in een strik eindigt. Op de strik is het Servische wapenschild, een schild met een kruis en ieder kwartier een vuurslag, gelegd.

Het lint is hemelsblauw en opgemaakt tot een platte strik. De uiteinden van het 27 millimeter brede lint werden van inkepingen voorzien. Men droeg de onderscheiding op de linkerschouder.

Externe links
 Afbeelding en geschiedenis op

Literatuur
 Almanach de Gotha, 2001

Voetnoten

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Mark your calendar: Pink Shirt Day is on February 24th.
Wear something pink to show that we are all working together to erase bullying in our community. What better time of year to connect with models of kindness like Auggie (Wonder, by R.J. Palacio).
Check out these resources and book trailers to get inspired and spread the message for kindness all year round.
Seven short videos highlighting contributions of important historical figures and inventors.
Thanks to the organizers, families in attendance and our wonderful Teacher Librarian superheroes (including our planners and set up team) for an inspiring literacy event at today's Riot of Reading. The Riot of Reading is an annual community event in Mission to celebrate Family Literacy Day.
We had so much fun exploring Reading Superpowers, sharing fictional and real-life superhero books, and discovering our Superhero names. Hanging out with Clifford was pretty cool too!


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Get the Chromium depot\_tools via the
[instructions](https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools).
This provides the gclient utility needed below and many other tools needed for
PDFium development.

Also install Python, Subversion, and Git and make sure they're in your path.

### Windows development

PDFium uses the same build tool as Chromium:

#### Open source contributors
Please refer to
[Chromium's Visual Studio set up](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#visual-studio)
for requirements and instructions on build environment configuration.

Run `set DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN=0`, or set that variable in your global
environment.

Compilation is done through Ninja, **not** Visual Studio.

### CPU Architectures supported

The default architecture for Windows, Linux, and Mac is "`x64`". On Windows,
"`x86`" is also supported. GN parameter "`target_cpu = "x86"`" can be used to
override the default value. If you specify Android build, the default CPU
architecture will be "`arm`".

It is expected that there are still some places lurking in the code which will
not function properly on big-endian architectures. Bugs and/or patches are
welcome, however providing this support is **not** a priority at this time.

#### Google employees

Run: `download_from_google_storage --config` and follow the
authentication instructions. **Note that you must authenticate with your
@google.com credentials**. Enter "0" if asked for a project-id.

Once you've done this, the toolchain will be installed automatically for
you in the [Generate the build files](#GenBuild) step below.

The toolchain will be in `depot_tools\win_toolchain\vs_files\<hash>`, and
windbg can be found in
`depot_tools\win_toolchain\vs_files\<hash>\win_sdk\Debuggers`.

If you want the IDE for debugging and editing, you will need to install
it separately, but this is optional and not needed for building PDFium.

## Get the code

The name of the top-level directory does not matter. In our examples, we use
"repo". This directory must not have been used before by `gclient config` as
each directory can only house a single gclient configuration.

```
mkdir repo
cd repo
gclient config --unmanaged https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium.git
gclient sync
cd pdfium
```

Additional build dependencies need to be installed by running the following from
the `pdfium` directory.

```
./build/install-build-deps.sh
```

## Generate the build files

We use GN to generate the build files and [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/)
to execute the build files.  Both of these are included with the
depot\_tools checkout.

### Selecting build configuration

PDFium may be built either with or without JavaScript support, and with
or without XFA forms support.  Both of these features are enabled by
default. Also note that the XFA feature requires JavaScript.

Configuration is done by executing `gn args <directory>` to configure the build.
This will launch an editor in which you can set the following arguments.
By convention, `<directory>` should be named `out/foo`, and some tools / test
support code only works if one follows this convention.
A typical `<directory>` name is `out/Debug`.

```
use_goma = true  # Googlers only. Make sure goma is installed and running first.
is_debug = true  # Enable debugging features.

# Set true to enable experimental Skia backend.
pdf_use_skia = false
# Set true to enable experimental Skia backend (paths only).
pdf_use_skia_paths = false

pdf_enable_xfa = true  # Set false to remove XFA support (implies JS support).
pdf_enable_v8 = true  # Set false to remove Javascript support.
pdf_is_standalone = true  # Set for a non-embedded build.
is_component_build = false # Disable component build (Though it should work)

clang_use_chrome_plugins = false  # Currently must be false.
```

For sample applications like `pdfium_test` to build, one must set
`pdf_is_standalone = true`.

By default, the entire project builds with C++14, because features like V8
support, XFA support, and the Skia backend all have dependencies on libraries
that require C++14. If one does not need any of those features, and need to fall
back to building in C++11 mode, then set `use_cxx11 = true`. This fallback is
temporary and will go away in the future when PDFium fully transitions to C++14.
See [this bug](https://crbug.com/pdfium/1407) for details.

When building with the experimental Skia backend, Skia itself it built with
C++17. There is no configuration for this. One just has to use a build toolchain
that supports C++17.

When complete the arguments will be stored in `<directory>/args.gn`, and
GN will automatically use the new arguments to generate build files.
Should your files fail to generate, please double-check that you have set
use\_sysroot as indicated above.

## Building the code

You can build the sample program by running: `ninja -C <directory> pdfium_test`
You can build the entire product (which includes a few unit tests) by running:
`ninja -C <directory> pdfium_all`.

## Running the sample program

The pdfium\_test program supports reading, parsing, and rasterizing the pages of
a .pdf file to .ppm or .png output image files (Windows supports two other
formats). For example: `<directory>/pdfium_test --ppm path/to/myfile.pdf`. Note
that this will write output images to `path/to/myfile.pdf.<n>.ppm`.
Run `pdfium_test --help` to see all the options.

## Testing

There are currently several test suites that can be run:

 * pdfium\_unittests
 * pdfium\_embeddertests
 * testing/tools/run\_corpus\_tests.py
 * testing/tools/run\_javascript\_tests.py
 * testing/tools/run\_pixel\_tests.py

It is possible the tests in the `testing` directory can fail due to font
differences on the various platforms. These tests are reliable on the bots. If
you see failures, it can be a good idea to run the tests on the tip-of-tree
checkout to see if the same failures appear.

### Pixel Tests

If your change affects rendering, a pixel test should be added. Simply add a
`.in` or `.pdf` file in `testing/resources/pixel` and the pixel runner will
pick it up at the next run.

Make sure that your test case doesn't have any copyright issues. It should also
be a minimal test case focusing on the bug that renders the same way in many
PDF viewers. Try to avoid binary data in streams by using the `ASCIIHexDecode`
simply because it makes the PDF more readable in a text editor.

To try out your new test, you can call the `run_pixel_tests.py` script:

```bash
$ ./testing/tools/run_pixel_tests.py your_new_file.in
```

To generate the expected image, you can use the `make_expected.sh` script:

```bash
$ ./testing/tools/make_expected.sh your_new_file.pdf
```

Please make sure to have `optipng` installed which optimized the file size of
the resulting png.

### `.in` files

`.in` files are PDF template files. PDF files contain many byte offsets that
have to be kept correct or the file won't be valid. The template makes this
easier by replacing the byte offsets with certain keywords.

This saves space and also allows an easy way to reduce the test case to the
essentials as you can simply remove everything that is not necessary.

A simple example can be found [here](https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/refs/heads/master/testing/resources/rectangles.in).

To transform this into a PDF, you can use the `fixup_pdf_template.py` tool:

```bash
$ ./testing/tools/fixup_pdf_template.py your_file.in
```

This will create a `your_file.pdf` in the same directory as `your_file.in`.

There is no official style guide for the .in file, but a consistent style is
preferred simply to help with readability. If possible, object numbers should
be consecutive and `/Type` and `/SubType` should be on top of a dictionary to
make object identification easier.

## Embedding PDFium in your own projects

The public/ directory contains header files for the APIs available for use by
embedders of PDFium. We endeavor to keep these as stable as possible.

Outside of the public/ directory, code may change at any time, and embedders
should not directly call these routines.

## Code Coverage

Code coverage reports for PDFium can be generated in Linux development
environments. Details can be found [here](/docs/code-coverage.md).

Chromium provides code coverage reports for PDFium
[here](https://chromium-coverage.appspot.com/). PDFium is located in
`third_party/pdfium` in Chromium's source code.
This includes code coverage from PDFium's fuzzers.

## Waterfall

The current health of the source tree can be found
[here](https://ci.chromium.org/p/pdfium/g/main/console).

## Community

There are several mailing lists that are setup:

 * [PDFium](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdfium)
 * [PDFium Reviews](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdfium-reviews)
 * [PDFium Bugs](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pdfium-bugs)

Note, the Reviews and Bugs lists are typically read-only.

## Bugs

 We use this
[bug tracker](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/pdfium/issues/list), but for security
bugs, please use
[Chromium's security bug template](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Security%20Bug)
and add the "Cr-Internals-Plugins-PDF" label.

## Contributing code

For contributing code, we will follow
[Chromium's process](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/contributing.md)
as much as possible. The main exceptions are:

1. Code has to conform to the existing style and not Chromium/Google style.
2. PDFium uses a different Gerrit instance for code reviews, and credentials for
this Gerrit instance need to be generated before uploading changes.
3. PDFium is transitioning to C++14, but still supports C++11 compatibility
for the duration of the transition period. Prefer to use only C++11 features,
though technically C++14 is allowed in code that is only built when V8, XFA, or
Skia is turned on.

Before submitting a fix for a bug, it can help if you create an issue in the
bug tracker. This allows easier discussion about the problem and also helps
with statistics tracking.

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Book Tour Launch: Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice by Heidi Ashworth
Sunday, May 18, 2014 - Leave a Comment
A themed tour with Prism Book Tours
I'm so excited to be promoting Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice today! I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and this book was a great addition! You can see my 4.5-star review here.
THE ROSE GARDEN TOUR for
Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice
by Heidi Ashworth
Roses in the Miss Delecourt Series
It all begins when the Dowager Duchess of Marcross sends her grandson, Sir Anthony Crenshaw, to accompany her niece, Miss Ginny Delacourt, to their country estate to check on the roses. The Dowager is concerned since her neighbor is keen on stealing cuttings from her spectacular rose garden for Rosehaven, his rose-inspired country home. On the way, they have a carriage accident and are held up by highwaymen but it isn't until they are quarantined at Rosehaven for the pox that Ginny's and Sir Anthony's love begins to bloom.
Thus the series begins...
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(Miss Delacourt #6)
April 24th 2014 by Dunhaven Place Publishing
Mr. Colin Lloyd-Jones and his friend, Sir Anthony Crenshaw, make a pact to avoid the fair sex during the course of an entire season in order to nurse their wounded hearts. As they shake hands on it, they have no idea that one would soon be off on a trip to escort a young lady to the country and the other soon to fall head over heels in love with Miss Elizabeth Armistead. Sadly, Miss Armistead is only interested in those she trusts not to become so besotted with her beauty that they cannot see her true self. Prior to meeting Colin, she had only met one man fitting that description and she has promised to be his bride. However, Mr. Cruikshank is not due to arrive in London for a full month. Can Colin convince Miss Armistead that he loves her for more than her beauty before her betrothed's ship arrives on British shores?
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More About Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice and the Author, Heidi Ashworth
1. What is your motivation behind this book? Why did you want to write it?
In my novella, The Lord Who Sneered, there is a character who is briefly mentioned who has been terribly wronged. I wanted to give him a happy ending.
2. What do you hope readers take with them when they read your book?
I hope that they develop a lingering affection for the characters and that they get something more from it than pure entertainment. I hope that my stories illustrate what it means to truly love someone rather than to simply be infatuated or "in lust" and that there is a realization that great relationships require work and sacrifice.
3. Do you have a favorite scene?
I guess the scene in the churchyard b/c it is the most romantic.
4. Share something about you that is unique - maybe about how/where you write... or favorite snack foods?
I have a certain playlist on my computer that I listen to when I write. And I must be availed of a quantity of chocolate. Music and chocolate are my muses.
Heidi Ashworth, author of the popular Miss Delacourt series, including the award-winning Miss Delacourt Has Her Day, is a busy wife and mother who's grateful for a bit of peace and quiet in which to write. An unapologetic anglophile, she is determined to return to England to see the home of Jane Austen, a landmark she missed during her first trip across the pond, though she knows Lord Byron's house to be a suitable substitute. She's smitten with books, chocolate, and roses, not necessarily in that order, and is never averse to a round of Guitar Hero.
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Released in March 1982, this album signalled the beginning of the end for The Jam as Paul Weller was no doubt hatching his Style Council project in his mind. Weller used horn players on this album as his Motown/Stax influences grew stronger. The traditional Bruce Foxton (bass) and Rick Buckler (drums) rhythm section seemed less integral to The Jam's sound on this one, despite some high points - Foxton's "Town Called Malice" intro for one.
4. Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero?
The afore-mentioned Motown-influenced "Town Called Malice" was, of course, a huge chart topping single. Its B side, "Precious", a worthy first stab at funk that left some early punky fans of the band a bit in two minds. "Carnation" and "Ghosts" were beautiful Weller "slowies" and "Happy Together" a reasonable, upbeat opener. "Trans Global Express" continued the funk experimentation, its hook directly lifted from the Northern Soul obscurity "So Is The Sun" by "World Column".
The suitably breathless "Running On The Spot" is upbeat enough, but to be perfectly honest, it is nothing special. "Just Who Is The 5 O' Clock Hero" is a quirky number with cynical lyrics about the working life and "The Gift" is a sort of energetic rock meets Northern Soul groove.
"The Planner's Dream Gone Wrong" was a bit of a calypso-inflenced mess, while Foxton's instrumental "Circus" somewhat inessential considering the excellent "A Solid Bond In Your Heart" (later to be recorded by The Style Council) was not included (it appears in the bonus tracks). The bonuses include the great non-album singles of "The Bitterest Pill" and the band's final single, "Beat Surrender" and some ill-considered soul covers in "War" and "Stoned Out Of My Mind".
The remastering on this is, a bit like that used for "Sound Affects" a bit to tinny for my liking. The best remasters of this material can be found on the "Direction Creation Reaction" box set. As with "Sound Affects" though, the extras are remastered in a much more bassy, appealing fashion which is equally perplexing.
One could see which direction Paul Weller was going here. What was amazing was that he called the whole thing to a halt virtually overnight. Five great years. Maybe, like The Beatles, The Clash, "Fawlty Towers" and "The Office", he was right. The Jam left a great musical legacy.


The objective is to deepen the minister's understanding and expression of the Christian faith and to equip him or her with the managerial skills needed in managing the church. The courses are designed to equip present and prospective church leaders with solid theological foundation coupled with well-grounded people management skills. A graduate with a Master of Divinity degree is well-prepared for higher graduate study with many possible specializations. Apart from the ministerial emphasis, the critical thinking skills and open perspective offered by this programme allows students to pursue professional degrees in a wide variety of fields such as counselling and education.
Entrance to the M. Div. programme requires a B.A. degree, or its equivalent, with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 2.00 or better. An Applicant with a bachelors degree in an area other than theology but possess at least three years of experience in church ministries may be considered for admission.
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Château Beauregard Ducasse Cuvée Albertine Peyri Graves 2012
Wine Club featured in Collectors Series - 1 Red 1 White
Wine vintage:
Grape varietals:
Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon
Serving Temperature:
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Displaying a brilliant crystalline color and a delightful array of floral and fruit tones to tantalize the nose, the 2012 Château Beauregard Ducasse Cuvée Albertine Peyri immediately ingratiates itself to the thirsty palate. Dry, yet rich in flavor from the preponderance of Semillon, along with a strong supporting role from ripe Sauvignon Blanc, this Cuvée Albertine Peyri captures the inherent beauty of white Graves: delicacy and minerality wedded to waxy fruit flavors with hints of ripe honeydew melon, citrus and guava. Although the wine's eight month hiatus in barrel is in evidence, the oak tones imparted by the wood never overpower the wines' essential fruit, herb, and mineral components, which seem to grow more pronounced with each sip. It is this wine's ability to evolve continuously in the glass and impress with equal attention to finesse and flavor that we found so attractive. We suggest serving the 2012 Château Beauregard Ducasse Cuvée Albertine Peyri moderately chilled (38°-40°F).
In Bordeaux, white Graves is the order of the day with the region's legendary seafood. With that said, the 2012 Château Beauregard Ducasse Cuvée Albertine Peyri truly shines at table with Pecan Encrusted Sea Bass, a simple plate of prawns, dipped in drawn butter, or just about any other fruits de mer. But why not consider more eclectic seafood offerings and other elaborate fare, too? To that vein, consider Prosciutto Wrapped Shrimp and Pineapple served with a butternut squash crispy spring roll or Baked Grouper Filets, prepared with a pumpkin seed pesto, or Almond Encrusted Pork Tenderloin, served with a dried cranberry and apple conserve. Each of these dishes offers a myriad of flavors to complement the sophisticated, flavorful 2012 Cuvée Albertine Peyri. A cheese platter with a variety of French cheeses, including authentic Roquefort, provides a simple, satisfying complement to this soulful Graves, too. Bon appétit!
Marie-Laure and Jacques Perromat are the sixth generation to make wine at Château Beauregard Ducasse, as the family has been in possession of this venerable château since 1850. Located in the village of Mazères in the southernmost rural section of the Graves region on a bed of gravel (from which the name Graves is derived), this 27 acre estate produces exceptional white and red Graves. The majority of the estate's production is white Graves from Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc, while the red Graves of Château Beauregard Ducasse consists of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet France and Petit Verdot. In order to provide the highest quality wine, Château Beauregard-Ducasse produces two white Graves, an easy drinking wine meant for early consumption and this month's feature, the château's flagship offering, Cuvée Albertine Peyri, a barrel fermented white Graves from the finest barrels.
Graves: The First Bordeaux
Graves is the oldest and most historic of all the Bordeaux communes. Before Latour, Lafite, Margaux, and the rest of the well-known names of the Médoc even existed or had even seen a cultivated vine, there was Graves. In fact, Graves has been the home of cultivated vines since as early as the 1st century AD, due at least in part to the Romans inability to grow other crops in the graveled soil from which the name Graves is derived. The stone and gravel deposits are vestiges of the last Ice Age, a bane to most farmers but a boon to grape growers, whose vines struggle deep into the thin porous soil to draw life and subtle complex flavors from the nutrients below.
The wines of Graves appear to be the first Bordeaux wines to be exported, with archeological evidence that Roman garrisons in Britain were the happy recipients of Bordeaux's quintessential wines. And by the early 12th century, Graves was the most sought after wine in England and beyond for its quality as well as its proximity to the city and port of Bordeaux itself, which lay just a few kilometers from Graves.
Today, the northern section of Graves called Pessac Léognon must battle the urban sprawl that has broken out of the confines of the city of Bordeaux and spread to the nearby suburbs of Talence and Pessac. A little south of these towns lays the pastoral heart of Graves, a pretty, rural country that includes La Brède, where vineyards mingle with pastures and pine forests. Here, life remains wedded to the land and the joys of the vine.
Graves is rightly famous for both its red and white wines. At their best, the red wines of Graves are unsurpassed for their aromatic beauty as well as their smooth, rich flavors. Earthy fragrant aromas that resemble cedar, a classic cigar box scent, black currant, and tobacco emanate from red Graves and form a bouquet that is frequently described as enchanting and profound. Moreover, fine red Graves is often the supplest of Bordeaux on the palate. It is also the most flavorful and easily appreciated of all Bordeaux reds.
White Graves is a dry, very aromatic wine that emits great freshness, along with substantial flavor. Perhaps, the greatest event in Graves in the last twenty years has been the revolution that has taken hold among the producers of white Graves. Once, an obscure and expensive proposition that did not always travel well, contemporary white Graves has taken on vigor, personality and even an exotic edge that underscores the physiological ripeness that was often absent in white Graves in years past. At their best, the finest white Graves can rival the best white wines made anywhere in the world.
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Habitat Interviews Sen. Chuck Schumer on Paycheck Protection Loans
"I had to fight and fight and fight" to get co-ops eligible for Paycheck Protection loans, says U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer.
The following is a lightly edited version of Habitat's recent telephone interview with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the new Senate majority leader. The conversation centered on the successful fight to make housing cooperatives eligible for a share of the $284 billion of forgivable loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Habitat: How did this issue first come to your attention?
Schumer: Geoffrey Mazel (legal counsel at the Presidents Co-op & Condo Council) and Mary Ann Rothman (executive director of the Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums) called and said, "We've been left out." And they explained that during the pandemic, co-ops were hurting just like other small businesses were hurting, and with everything going on, it was harder to keep their employees.
And they were right. Then the (Trump) administration decided to expand the PPP program, but only to rural electric cooperatives. We went to them and said, "What about our residential co-ops?" And they refused, I think, on political grounds because they were for rural, not urban co-ops. So I said, "I am going to work as hard as I can to get housing co-ops included in the next round of PPP." And we originally put it in the Heroes Act, which was the bill that passed the House, but not the Senate.
Habitat: That was back in May 2020, right?
Schumer: Yes, back in May. But then I had to fight and fight and fight, and I got it into the December COVID-19 bill. And so now, here's the good news for co-ops: they're eligible for PPP, just like any small business, in this second round. And the loans can go up to $10 million – 60% can pay for payroll, 40% for non-payroll. I would say to co-ops in New York who need help, they can call my office, and we will make sure they get plugged in. They've got to apply through a lender.
Habitat: Historically, co-ops and condos have had a hard time getting politicians to listen to them. This seems to be a breakthrough moment.
Schumer: It is a breakthrough.
Habitat: Casey Fannon, president of the National Cooperative Bank, recently told me that a lot of congressmen and senators don't understand housing cooperatives. They're still seen as a New York City concentration. Do you think that's true?
Schumer: No, not anymore. To get this done, we linked up with other types of co-ops that were excluded from the PPP. I did this single-handedly. The fact that I am majority leader – and was then minority leader – allowed me to use my clout to do this, but I didn't get much support from people because they didn't understand. I do understand it because in the state Assembly and in Congress I represented neighborhoods that have lots of co-ops. I'm a cooperator myself, have been since 1982.
Habitat: You seem to think that people on Capitol Hill and in Congress are beginning to get it. What's happening?
Schumer: They need a lot more educating, but I think this bill helped me. I had to persuade so many different senators and congressmen to go along. They're beginning to learn. Everyone knew about rural co-ops, some people knew about telephone co-ops. And what we're telling them is housing co-ops are no different in terms of their needs.
Habitat: You mentioned the Presidents Co-op & Condo Council and the Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums. They did a lot of lobbying, sent letters to members of Congress signed by groups from California to New York.
Schumer: When we spoke to our New York co-ops, to Geoffrey Mazel and Mary Ann Rothman, we said, "Reach out to other co-ops." There are general cooperative associations that include housing co-ops, but in the past they had been more led by the electric co-ops and the rural co-ops. I linked up with (former U.S. Sen.) Kent Conrad from North Dakota because he had a ton of rural co-ops. There are lots of alliances we can make to help.
Habitat: The fact that housing co-ops are now eligible for this big chunk of money for the first time – is this a major sea change?
Schumer: It is a major sea change. It's the first time that housing co-ops were recognized for their importance and vitality. I was able to get legislators who didn't know about housing co-ops to come on board to help me. And I think it'll be a change that will work in the future. Let me say this: as long as I'm majority leader, housing co-ops will have a very strong friend who has some real clout in Washington.
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So the other day I talked about the excuse of not having enough time to workout.
One of the other common excuses I see is not being MOTIVATED.
It's not easy to be motivated.
I love this quote from Zig Ziglar.
MOTIVATION is something that you should be doing daily.
Especially if you find that you lack in the motivation department.
Everyone will be motivated by different things.
My "WHY" is what keeps me motivated.
My WHY is to be a positive example for my children. My job as a man is to support my family, keep them healthy, and make sure they are taken care of. That is my motivation to continue what I do every single day.
Some times that isn't enough to keep us pushing forward every day so here are a couple ways you can motivate yourself.
Current pain – Think about the pain you have been in because you aren't in the shape you'd like to be in. Has this made you embarrassed? Have you not been able to run around and play with your kids? Are you wearing a shirt in the pool because you are embarrassed to go shirtless? What pain will you be in with illness and other problems in the future if you continue to go in this direction?
Others in pain – It's not that hard to look around and find others that were where you currently are 5-10 years ago. What has happened to them since they didn't take action and get in shape? How has it affected their future? Are they having health problems that are affecting them and putting a burden on those around them? Or have they already left and don't have a second chance to make a change?
The Future – Think about the long term consequences instead of the short term pleasures of being lazy and unhealthy. What delayed dangers are on their way if you don't take ACTION on these changes now?
Envision a better tomorrow – Think about what your life will be like after you've stayed consistent with healthy changes. Running around with your kids, having so much energy, being healthy into your golden years, being able to see your son's/daughter's marriage, playing with your future grandkids, watching them grow up and get married. I don't know about you but when I retire I want to be able to get out and do things, travel, maybe improve my golf game… and have fun. Not sit on the couch watching reruns of TV shows all day long.
Remember past success – How did it feel? How did your body react? How did it change you? Vividly recall the amazing feelings you had when you were successful and reached your goal. Imagine that you've already reached your goal and how you are going to feel.
Tell a new story – Write out your current story of your health and fitness journey. Add a new ending to this story. Describe the challenges you'll go through, plot twists and how you'll end up victorious. Put some feeling into it. This is a great tool you can go back to and read when you aren't feeling motivated.
Give some of these tricks for MOTIVATION a try!
The key to all of these is the FEELING part!
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We hope you can find most of the info you need on the website. If you have other questions, please either get in touch via our Contact page and let us know how we can help, or come along to one of our socials and meet some of the members who be more than happy to talk about the club. We normally have a few new people to the club on our socials so you won't be alone!
Can I come on a trip before joining?
We don't accept guests on trips. If you want to meet members before joining, please come along to a social night. Or you could meet us at a climbing wall - we're usually at the Castle on Tuesday and Thursday evenings; to arrange a meet-up, contact us via Facebook or send the Climber's Rep a message via the Contact page.
How do I sign up to a meet?
Once you've joined the club, you can just book directly via the Meets page once you're logged in. An email will be sent by the meet organiser a couple of weeks before the meet giving the details of the meet.
Members must take full responsibility for their own safety. The club does not provide training or guiding services for new members nor does it take any responsibility for members or their activities when on club meets. Participation in club activities is entirely at the members' risk.
For climbers, experience can be gained at the various climbing walls around London. All offer beginners training to help you climb and belay safely at a climbing wall, and also "indoor to outdoor" training to help make the transition to outdoor climbing. We can help you gain experience at these activities, but would expect you to have acquired the basic knowledge through formal training, which we are neither qualified nor insured to provide. Members frequently climb at walls in London - join our Facebook group to find out who's going when, or contact the Climber's Rep. We also run a Novice Meet once a year where you can come and try climbing on real rock.
For walkers, we expect you to have undertaken some country walking activities. If you're completely inexperienced we recommend that you have a few days out with Metropolitan Walkers or the Saturday Walkers' Club first, preferably undertaking some of their longer and more strenuous (i.e. hillier) walks.
We are affiliated with the British Mountaineering Council and agree with its participation statement: "The BMC recognises that climbing, hill walking and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions and involvement."
Where do you stay on meets?
Generally, during the winter months (November to April) we stay in hostels or huts (something like this or this). Outside of these times, we stay at campsites which almost all the time have hot showers and toilets, so it's not too wild! The sites are (usually) strategically chosen to be close to a pub so we can dive in there to get some food in the evening and dry off (though you can bring your own food, of course).
How do people get to and from meets?
Once upon a time the club would travel to the mountains on a coach departing from the back of Waterloo station on a Friday night. This meant everyone could sing songs together, and everything was bliss (ahem). Today we operate by arranging lift shares between drivers and passengers. Depending on the meet setup, you can either request or offer lifts when you book onto the meet, or the meet organiser will allocate places in available cars and the driver arranges the lift details with their passengers. Passengers are expected to pay their share of fuel costs (and drivers usually appreciate being bought a drink on Saturday night).
Sometimes there aren't enough cars available; in these cases, members without lifts will be asked to make arrangements between themselves regarding hire cars. We understand that a hire car may be more costly than the usual lift share, particularly including taking out the independent excess waiver insurance, which we would advise. If you do not wish to pay the extra you can indicate in the comments box on the booking form that you would rather not attend the meet if it involves travelling in a hire car. Please note that this does not increase your chance of a place in a lift share, which is strictly made by order of booking.
On many meets it is possible to travel by public transport and this is something that we encourage.
What equipment/gear do I need? What other stuff do I need to bring along?
We will often be visiting mountain areas so you will need to be equipped to survive a full day out, in weather which may include driving wind and rain (or snow in winter). On these meets your gear may need to be higher specification than that used for lowland walking. Please refer to our Hill-walking and Climbing pages for more details. You'll also need to bring stuff for sleeping:
Tent and sleeping mat (if not in a hut)
Towel and toiletries
And eating: whether camping or staying in a hut, you'll definitely need breakfast and a packed lunch for Saturday and Sunday. For dinner, we normally congregate in a pub in the evening where you can get dinner, but you can bring your own food. Most of the huts have cooking facilities of some sort, but don't rely on that without checking first! In summer, if it's nice in the evenings we might just chill at the camp site and enjoy the good weather, perhaps with a communal barbecue. On the Friday drive up, drivers will generally stop at a service station to get some food, or again you can take your own.
Also bring a water bottle - and cash! Unlike London, you can't pay by card for everything, and ATMs are hard to come by. And your driver might want petrol money in cash.
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Summertime always brings about the produce that makes me happy. It wasn't always so, but in recent years, I've developed a taste for fresh, local produce, and an eye for colourful, vibrant food. These heirloom tomatoes were just what I needed to make a Heirloom Tomato Feta Pasta Salad!
Pasta salad is one of my favourite go-to dishes. I love to make a big batch of it in the summertime and serve it for a few meals. You can rest assured that pasta salad can last for 3 days in your refrigerator as long as it is stored properly and free of products like mayonnaise or sour cream. Who knows – they might be okay too, but I'm a little OCD about leaving food for too long, even if it is stored properly.
You can ask John.e about how much I like to clean out food storage containers. He's one of those that will open the lid, look at the food inside, smell it, and eat it if it looks and smells okay. I'll open the fridge and think, "This has been in here for three days!" I remove the container from the fridge and put in the garbage whole. I won't dare risk opening it for fear of smelling something rancid. I cannot tell you how many times I have thrown away my favourite pieces of Tupperware, because I'm too afraid to open the lid.
Why is it that refrigerators can sometimes act like some lost abyss, like something out of a Tim Burton movie? It's true! I put things the refrigerator and sometimes they completely disappear. Either McKenna or John.e has eaten it, or it just gets lost way at the back where nobody dares reach or look. Is your fridge like that too, or is it just ours?
There was very little risk of this Heirloom Tomato Feta Pasta Salad going to waste though! It's a great tasting dish and can be served as a main – even just on its own – or as a side dish. The first night I made it, both John.e and McKenna had it for dinner. There was enough left so that the next day, McKenna had some for lunch, and then I split the leftovers between them both for dinner with a grilled seitan cutlet.
Even though there are very few and very simple ingredients in this pasta dish, the taste is fresh and wonderful! Use the freshest tomatoes (local!) you can find; buy good, salty feta, use the best olive oil, and don't be afraid to pile in the freshness of the green onions. A simple seasoning of freshly ground black pepper and a good helping of salt will be all the seasoning you need.
Summertime always brings about the produce that makes me happy. It wasn't always so, but in recent years, I've developed a taste for fresh, local produce, and an eye for colourful, vibrant food. These heirloom tomatoes were just what I needed to make a Heirloom Tomato Feta Pasta Salad!
Add the olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and black pepper to a mixing bowl. Whisk to combine.
Add the pasta, tomatoes, green onions, and parsley. Toss to combine.
Add the feta and lightly toss to incorporate into the salad.
Refrigerate the pasta in a sealed container for at least two hours. Toss once again and serve cold.
I recently discovered a love for cooked tomatoes and raw tomatoes are next! How could anything be bad when you mix it with pasta??


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Nikkatsu Diamond Guys: Vol. 2 (Blu-ray)
Arrow Features // Unrated // June 14, 2016 // Region A
Review by Ian Jane | posted June 3, 2016 | E-mail the Author
The Movies:
Nikkatsu's 'Diamond' line was a showcase for their contract stars, a series of modestly budgeted pictures in which some of their top talent was given the chance to shine in films made for a younger audience. Arrow Video offers up their second installment in their series of Nikkatsu Diamond Guy collections, bringing these pictures to a western audience in their proper aspect ratio and language and in very nice quality.
Tokyo Mighty Guy:
The first feature tells the story of Jiro (Akira Kobayashi), a bold young man recently trained in the culinary styles of French cuisine! Armed with this knowledge, he returns to his native Japan where he hopes to open up a new restaurant in the Ginza district of Tokyo. And so as our hero sets out to do just that, he meets and falls for a pretty girl named Hideko (Ruriko Asaoka).
As things progress for Jiro, he finds himself getting in, and then just as quickly out, of some trouble with some local criminals. If that weren't bad enough, a politician with ties to a local organized crime ring is throwing his weight around in hopes of moving in on Hideko's business. What's a Japanese French chef to do? Well, being that he's a mighty guy, if you guessed get rough and tough with the bad guys, you'd have guessed right.
The first in a series of 'Mighty Guys' movies to be directed by Buichi Saito (a director probably best known to western audiences for helming Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart In Peril in 1972), this film was made in 1960, a year after The Rambling Guitarist (available on the first Nikkatsu Diamond Guys set), which also starred Akira Kobayashi. It works on the same level as that earlier film. It's quick in its pace, it does a nice job of showing off some interesting Japanese location photography (in this case, the streets of Ginza, which are never short on eye candy). The film consistently uses bold colors in interesting ways, and the widescreen cinematography is impressive and at the same time, marginally gritty.
The movie mostly hinges on Akira Kobayashi's 'cool' factor but he's got it. He's watchable, he's handsome, he's dashing and he handles himself well in both the action and romance departments, just as the script requires him to. This won't blow you away, it's formulaic in the way that a lot of Nikkatsu's more teenage audience oriented movies tend to be, but it has the right balance of action, drama, romance and even periodic light humor to make for a pretty fun watch.
Danger Pays:
This second film in the set, directed in 1962 by Kô Nakahira, is a bit more of a comedy than the first, and it's the weakest of the three films in this collection, but the crime and heist film elements that are part and parcel with the basic plot keep it interesting.
The story revolves around a robbery in which over a billion in watermarked paper that can be turned into Yen is stolen during a brazen and successful theft. When a small timer named Jôji "Joe The Ace" Kondô (Joe Shishido) gets wind of this he sniffs out an opportunity for himself. See, Joe knows one of the best counterfeiters in the business and he figures he can put that guy in touch with the thieves so that they can do business together. In return, he'll collect a nice fee for his efforts and be on his way, washing his hands of the deed and with a full wallet to show for it.
What Joe doesn't realize is that the thieves he's dealing with are smarter than he gave them credit for. They know exactly who his counterfeiter is and before he can do what he plans to do, they kidnap him. Will Joe try to save the guy? Will he walk away from it all? Or will he find himself embroiled in an increasingly dangerous situation involving mobsters aplenty?
That probably makes this one sound more hardboiled than it really is. Danger Pays is light on crime and tension and spends more time trying to be funny. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but like its predecessor it's at least fun to look at. The mobsters often wear fancy, colorful suits and the urban backdrop against which all of this is cast is nicely shot. There's some pretty ladies on display throughout the movie and the movie has a pretty catchy, bouncy soundtrack. Joe Shishido was better suited to more serious fare like the films he made with Seijin Suzuki (Branded To Kill and Gate Of Flesh) and Kinji Fukasaku (the first New Battles Without Honor And Humanity film) but he does fine with this material.
If you don't need to take your crime films too seriously and don't mind if the humor occasionally gets a bit corny, you can do a lot worse than Danger Pays.
Murder Unincorporated:
Last but not least, 1965's Murder Unincorporated also mixes comedy with crime, but director Haruyasu Noguchi is a little better at the comedy than Kô Nakahira proved to be with the second feature in this set. This one has an even heavier emphasis on going for laughs than Danger Pays, but if you go into it with the right expectations it's amusing enough, though there's a weird child actor that pops up here and there that feels way out of place.
The story tells the tall tale of one "Joe Of Spades" (Shishido again), an underworld figure who winds up successfully hitting the leader of one of the biggest crime rings in all of Tokyo. When word gets out that Joe was the man responsible for the killing, his friends abandon him for fear of retribution on the part of the dead man's crew. In order to fix the problem once and for all, these guys go so far as to enlist the aid of Murder Unincorporated, a company that specializes in exactly what it sounds like.
But taking out Joe Of Spades can't be easy, right? Right. The employees of Murder Unincorporated are going to give it their best shot, however, and as they do, the killings that take place throughout the film become increasingly bizarre.
Some of the sequences in this one are crazy enough to work, and then other times the movie resorts to some cliché and pedestrian attempts at goofy slapstick humor. Shishido is decent enough in his role but sometimes isn't given quite as much to do as you want. He gets the 'cool guy' thing right, however, looking snappy and dapper each and every time he's onscreen. There are a lot of fun period fashions on display and some odd costumes worn by a few characters in the film as well (one guy wears a fez, another guy dresses like Charlie Chaplin!).
The score is fun and the camera work once again nice to look at. Mileage will definitely vary on this one as humor really is such a subjective thing and not always the easiest to translate into another language, but there's plenty of entertainment to be had. Murder Unincorporated is the weakest of the film's in the set, but Shishido fans and those who enjoy Japanese 'pop' films from this era should still find it easy enough to enjoy.
The Blu-ray:
Each film is presented in AVC encoded 1080p high definition and the transfer are really strong. Each movie boasts nice color reproduction and all three films show nice detail and a considerable amount of depth (though some scenes do tend to look softer than others). There are no problems with any obvious noise reduction here, so expect a natural amount of unobtrusive film grain, but there isn't much in the way of serious print damage, just occasional specks now and then and the odd scratch that pops up. Compression artifacts are never a problem, there is no evidence of edge enhancement and all in all, things shape up very nicely here, the movies all look very good in high definition. All three films are included on the same disc, but it's a 50GB platter so there aren't any issues here. The transfers won't blow you away, but they look pretty nice.
The only audio track for this set is an Japanese language DTS-HD 2.0 Mono option with removable subtitles available in English only. While range is understandably limited by the source material, the tracks here sound just fine. There are no problems with any hiss or distortion and the levels are properly balanced. There's a reasonable amount of depth present in each mix and the subtitles are clean, clear and easy to read.
The main extra is provided in the way of a newly recorded video discussion with Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp on the Diamond Guys' Jo Shishido and Akira Kobayashi. It's a twenty-minute piece that does a nice job of giving viewers enough background information on the two performers to understand why they'd be treated as 'Diamond Guys' by Nikkatsu. Through this piece we get a feel for who they were and why they mattered to Japanese cinema audiences of the day. It's pretty interesting and well put together.
Outside of that we get original theatrical trailers for all three films, trailers for a few other Japanese films in Arrow's current library, still galleries for each film, menus and chapter selection.
Nikkastu Diamond Guys Volume Two, like its predecessor, is a lot of fun. There's a lot of entertainment value to be had from each of the three features and fans of sixties era pop-style action and intrigue should get their money's worth here. Arrow's set offers each movie in solid quality and with a few fun extras as well. Recommended.
Ian lives in NYC with his wife where he writes for DVD Talk, runs Rock! Shock! Pop!. He likes NYC a lot, even if it is expensive and loud.
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Jonathan Ashworth MP announces plans for a Future Generations Wellbeing Act
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth MP announced the Labour party's plans to tackle child health inequalities and introduce a new Future Generations Wellbeing Act at the FEPS-Fabian Society Summer Conference 2019.
By Jonathan Ashworth MP
Topics Health Inequality Labour party Public Services
Good morning and thank you.
As a member of the Fabian Society since I was 16, an avid reader of your pamphlets, your journals it is a real pleasure and indeed honour to have been asked to offer a few reflections this morning.
The Fabian Society has always stood in the finest Labour traditions of intellectual endeavour to improve the common good.
Today you remain at the forefront of the debate about what a socialist transformative programme encompasses for the next Labour government.
At a time when society feels more fractious, more divided than ever before and when political debate seems more polarised and disagreements protracted with hitherto solid certainties melting into the air, the left needs the calm, considered wisdom of the Fabian Society more than ever.
Of course we are still grappling with the shockwaves of Brexit and we still don't know if we are on the cusp of fundamental realignment in political preferences in response.
Like Saturn devouring his children, Brexit has already finished off two Tory Prime Ministers, I'm not convinced a third will fare any better.
I don't intend to focus my remarks today on Brexit in detail suffice to say that in my opinion deeply entrenched inequalities, often concentrated geographically, coupled with the collective failure of policy makers to address and confront those inequalities drove that referendum result.
But ironically Brexit is essentially a neo liberal pro austerity project, it's Nigel Farage's and Boris Johnson's great swindle on working people. It will only entrench those inequalities not alleviate them.
I commend Jeremy Corbyin for his efforts in trying to win support for a deal – an entirely honourable attempt in my mind – to bring both sides together and mitigate the very worst excesses of that neoliberal project.
Now though we face the very real prospect of a so called no deal Brexit.
A Brexit that will smash our manufacturing base, that risks the smooth import of 37 million packs of medicines every month, that puts our NHS up for sale in a trade deal with the US forcing us to buy expensive drugs at higher prices and hand over patient data, the so called 'new oil' to US tech firms.
This is not the future I want for our society, certainly not the future I want for my children.
A general election must be our priority, but its time people were given a public vote on the Brexit outcome. I would campaign for remain.
But whatever happens with the debate in the Labour Party over Brexit, it doesn't resolve the question of how we tackle the entrenched inequality that blights so many communities.
This is where I want to focus my observations this morning.
Inequality is fundamentally about life and death.
The creation of the National Health Service 71 years ago, surely stands as our proudest achievement and the most effective engine for social justice the United Kingdom has ever seen.
Richard Titmus described it as the "most unsordid act of British social policy in the twentieth century" that "allowed and encouraged sentiments of altruism, reciprocity and social duty to express themselves."
The idea of an NHS free at the point of use, universal and comprehensive in scope where care is delivered on the basis of need as a moral right for all rather than purchased as a commodity by the privileged few is woven into the fabric of our society, and quite rightly so.
But our NHS has been under attack like never before.
9 years of austerity have left us with waiting lists at over 4 million and 580,000 waiting beyond 18 weeks for treatment.
Over 260,000 wait beyond 4 hours in busy overcrowded A&E departments.
100,000 children are denied mental health treatment each year because their problems aren't 'serious' enough. For problems deemed serious 500 children wait beyond a year for specialist mental health treatment.
Our NHS struggles with shortages of 100,000 staff including 40,000 nurses, 3,500 midwives and almost 10,000 doctors.
Adult Social Care often delivered by private providers seeking to squeeze our profits to the detriment of quality has been savaged by £7 billion of cuts. 400,000 vulnerable and elderly people denied the care support they otherwise would have got.
The constant competitive tendering of contracts brought in by the Health and Social Care Act has led to £8.8 billion being spent on private health providers.
When a private provider fails to win a contract, like Virgin Care, they can sue the NHS.
Years of austerity has seen local health commissioners ration more treatments and deny patients procedures all together.
Last week a hospital invited patients to pay for hip and knee replacements for £18,000 each on NHS wards – treatments that were previously available on the NHS.
Our Labour response is to drive up standards, provide the best quality of care and start recruiting the staff our NHS needs for the future.
Austerity in our NHS will end. Cuts to Adult Social Care will end.
To start recruiting the nurses, midwives and allied health professionals we need we will bring back a training bursary, we will invest in fair pay and rather than cutting professional development budgets will restore them.
We will bring an end to privatisation too.
So that means we will sweep away the Health and Social Care Act and bring forward legislation to reinstate a publicly provided, administered universal National Health Service.
Our commitment to reverse the Health and Social Care Act is motivated by more than our desire to rebuild a public NHS after years of damaging austerity and marketization. It's also because the current structures have left our NHS ill equipped for the challenges ahead.
Let me explain:
In 1948 life expectancy was 66 for men and 71 for women. Today it is 86.9 years for men and 89.2 years for women.
We have become used to thinking of our live spans in terms of the Biblical three score years and ten yet as Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott argue in 'The 100 Year Life' we are in the midst of a transition few of us are prepared for as much much longer lives face us.
By the time the NHS celebrates its 100th birthday the numbers of over 60s are projected to have increased by 6.6 million; overs 85s by 2 million and the numbers over 100 by 63,000.
It's obvious that the need for a sustainable solution for the provision of adult social care becomes more pressing by the day and my colleague Barbara Keeley is working on detailed plans.
But it's not just that we are living longer, the burden of ill health as we live longer is changing too.
In 1948 the medical challenge was infectious disease.
In 2019, we are worlds away from the days when 30,000 hospital beds were set aside for the treatment of tuberculosis, or when wards were filled with row after row of iron lungs to treat those suffering from polio.
Today we face a growing population of people with multiple health needs whether that's for example COPD, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease.
Twelve years ago one in ten patients admitted to hospital as an emergency had five plus conditions, today that figure has increased to one in three.
The prevalence of mental health conditions whether depression, anxiety is growing. Its estimated one in six people meet the criteria for a common mental disorder.
Over the next 20 years the numbers of people in England with four plus conditions is expected to have doubled compared to 2015.
In the face of ever more complex health challenges we need a system not based on fragmentation and market forces but one based on local planning, publicly provided and administered integrating health and social care properly, better coordinating across boundaries.
But I think there is something even more fundamental we need confront too.
After creating the NHS Bevan described it as a "real piece of socialism."
Its creation was essentially about equality, social justice and the recognition that health is a human right.
Yet 71 years health inequalities are widening.
Today a baby girl born in Liverpool can expect to live 13 fewer years in good health than a baby girl born in Richmond.
Men from the most deprived backgrounds can expect 52 years of healthy living, despite the retirement being 67, 15 years later.
And after nine years of Tory austerity, advances in life expectancy, which had steadily increased for 100 years, have now ground to halt, and even gone backwards in some of the poorest areas.
Shamefully infant mortality rates – children dying before their first birthday – have risen three years in a row for the first time since the Second World War.
Rates of premature deaths – including deaths linked to heart disease, lung cancers, COPD – are two times higher in the most deprived areas of England compared to the most affluent.
Children and adults living in the poverty are up to three times more likely to develop mental health problems compared to those living in the highest income brackets.
We see a higher rate of suicide in the most deprived areas, a higher rate of addictions and shockingly higher rates of drug overdose deaths too.
It's a toxic cocktail. The result is death rates in middle age, so called 'deaths of despair' are rising after decades of virtually continuous improvement.
Sir Michael Marmot says "The higher your income the longer you live."
And as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett have shown in the Spirit Level societies with greater inequality have worse health outcomes, lower life expectancy, higher rates of infant mortality, mental illness and obesity.
Inequality, poverty and deprivation mean people get ill quicker and die sooner.
As socialists we should never settle for this, as Health Secretary I won't.
For me it's so heart-breaking that while poverty is not self-correcting, is need not be inevitable.
Yet much of the growing burden of ill health is driven by that inequality and poverty. And it is preventable.
For example, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown lifted a million children out of poverty, rolled out Sure Start centres in communities which the IFS has shown helped prevent thousands of hospital admission for children every year.
We shifted more NHS funding to poorer areas and by 2010 for the first time we actually had more GPs per person in deprived areas than in more affluent areas. That Labour government made a dent in health inequalities.
But today, GP numbers are actually falling fastest in the most deprived areas. Sadly Tudor Hart's warnings of the inverse care law where the communities that need the most care provision, get the least has emerged once again.
In response the next Labour government will adopt a comprehensive, cross government national strategy to tackle health inequalities, attacking the wider determinants of ill health and putting prevention first.
That means action to improve the homes we live in, the childhood experiences we are exposed to, the neighbourhoods we grow up in, the schools we are nurtured in, the condition of the work we do especially in today's gig economy, the food we eat, the quality of air we breathe and the support we rely on in our older years.
As a start we will fully fund public health services – sexual health services, smoking cessation services, drug and alcohol treatment services which have been hammered with £700 million of cuts.
Investing in children must be the rock upon which a health inequalities strategy is built. I've said our ambition should be for our children to become in the healthiest in the world.
We know the first 1001 days of a child's life, from conception to age 2, are the most crucial for a baby's development.
The evidence shows that children who suffer abuse, neglect and trauma – so called Adverse Childhood Experiences – are more likely to suffer mental health problems and other physical problems later in life.
So rather than cutting Health Visitors as the Tories are, we will expand their numbers and introduce mandatory visit and as Angela Rayner is developing prioritise an expansion of early years services.
We must become braver in intervening to challenge the commercial determinants of ill health too.
The smoking ban was one of the most effective public health interventions of recent years.
I've called for mandatory labelling of alcohol, we need action on minimum unit pricing and when more people die from drug misuse than in car accidents every year it's clear the status quo on drugs isn't working either, we need a clear public health approach instead.
Or take the air we breathe.
The UK has the highest asthma death rates in most of Europe for 10 – 24 years olds.
It's estimated that air pollution kills 40,000 people every year.
Its time, as our shadow Defra Secretary has called for a Clean Air Act but when we know the NHS is responsibilities for 6 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions it's also time the NHS took its responsibilities to climate change seriously as well. A Labour government will make sure it does.
We know obesity carries life-threatening health risks and that obesity in children leads to serious health outcomes in adulthood and ultimately premature death. Our child obesity rates are amongst the worst in Europe, with rates highest in the most deprived groups.
The government is failing to act so a Labour government will.
We will restrict the advertising of junk food, with Tom Watson has launched a Diabetes Commission to understand how our food industry is failing to provide the nutritious food we need.
And whereas the Tories are cutting Health Start funding that helps families access healthy food, today I can announce that Labour in Government will commit £26 million to the 'Healthy Start' programme to ensure no child in the poorest parts of our country is deprived of fresh fruit and vegetables – the equivalent of an extra 42.4 million pints of milk, and 33 million more apples for the very poorest children.
We know that loneliness and isolation is a growing social problem that allows mental health problems and harmful behaviours to fester. As John Steinbeck wrote "a sad soul can kill you quicker than any germ."
Government talks of parity of esteem while only 1.6 per cent of the public health budget is allocated to mental health. A strategy to tackle preventable illness and inequality must integrate mental health into the prevention and public health agenda too.
The World Health Organisation defines health not just as the absence of disease but as "a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing."
Yet too often a focus on wellbeing has been absent from our debates.
I believe a plain, clear, simple commitment to improving happiness and wellbeing as Richard Layard has proposed would force significant change and force policy makers to think through the long term implications of decisions, not just the pounds and pence of GDP.
Welsh Labour led the way with a wellbeing act built upon clear principles requiring public bodies to improve overall wellbeing and meet the sustainable development goals.
In New Zealand the Labour government recently introduced a wellbeing budget. Their Minister of Finance Grant Robertson explained it's about helping people live "lives of purpose, balance and meaning" and giving people the capabilities to do so.
Like Wales and New Zealand, I want to put wellbeing central to our framework for tackling health inequalities in society.
So a Labour government will introduce a Future Generations Wellbeing Act.
Fundamentally such an Act will commit the next Labour government to a 'health in all policies' approach with 'health equality audits' of all government decisions.
It will enshrine our commitments in legislation to ensuring life expectancy match the best of our international peers and that children enjoy the best health and wellbeing outcomes possible.
And it will place a new duty on both local health services and national leadership to reduce health inequalities.
Our NHS is not just a national driver of prosperity employing over 1.5 million staff UK wide but also communities acts as a local 'economic anchor' institution.
Provision of services, levels of NHS employment, pay and conditions impacts local economies and therefore wider local health outcomes too.
So a Future Generations Wellbeing Act will also ensure the NHS maximises the social value of its local spending decisions to improve the wellbeing of local communities.
So a well-being framework could have radical far reaching consequences indeed.
And it's fully in the tradition of the left as a theme running through so much of our heritage.
Our movement always sought to improve the 'social wage';
Marx spoke of society where one could hunt in the morning and criticise after dinner;
Tony Crosland famously sought the aesthetic life for all exemplified by open air cafes.
Perhaps it was the great liberal US Democrat Bobby Kennedy who put it most eloquently reminding us "the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play."
Prioritising wellbeing and tackling inequality for me is about the kind of society we want to leave for those who follow us.
It was the wellbeing economist Katherine Trebeck who suggested:
"Why not get countries to measure the number of girls who bicycle to school? What clearer yardstick could convey so much about progress in women's education, green transport, health and poverty alleviation in a single number?"
That's the kind of world I want.
We can achieve it.
And it will be one where people live longer, healthier, happier lives.
That's something worth fighting for.
Watch the speech here.
Jonathan Ashworth MP
Jonathan Ashworth is Labour MP for Leicester South and shadow secretary of state for health & social care.
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Beijing Sanlitun - The Most Famous Bar Street in Bejing
Sanlitun Bar Street is the most famous bar street in Beijing. Located in Changhong Bridge, Ease Third Ring Road in Beijing, Sanlitum Bar Street is known to most of the foreigners traveling to Beijing. The embassy district is in the north of the bar street. As the most famous foreign area in Beijing, 77 embassies gather in Sanlitun. Otherwise, UNDP, Population Development Program and other international agencies, foreign-related hotel, foreign trading companies are also near here.
The File of Sanlitun Bar Street
• Location: Changhong Bridge, Ease Third Ring Road in Beijing.
• Forming year: 1995
• Target consumers: people who work in the embassies and young people who like kill time in a bar.
• Surrounding: Beijing Worker's Gymnasium, Tunjiehu Park
• Features: the earliest and largest bar street in China bar street culture
• Optimal consumption time: 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the next morning
• Transportation: Taxi, Bus No. 707, No. 659.
• Payment: cash, Chinese credit card.
In 1993, the Sanlitun District office makes Sanlitun Road extended 260 meters to the north, in order to develop the economy. They built 36 business rooms in the East Road to use for operating crafts, gifts, flowers, clothing and porcelains trade. Due to the small scale of operation and miscellaneous varieties, this street had been in a half-dead state. In April, 1995, two young people invested several hundred thousand yuan to open the first bar "Swing Bar" in Sanlitun North Commercial Street. Swing Bar brought vitality to the deserted commercial street. However, as foreign culture with bars, most Chinese people do not know much about it, so most of the people who came to the bar were guests with the embassy. And the bars were closed at day. As people got to know more about the bar culture, more and more Chinese go to the bar to enjoy their spare time too. The bar street came to be famous during this time.
Sanlitun district is near to the Beijing Second Embassy District, so the majority of customers are foreigners. In addition, many foreign companies gather around the place and there are a lot of white-collar executives. And there are also media workers, entertainers and young people stroll around. With the constantly development of Sanlitun, there are upscale restaurants and shopping centers everywhere. Many foreigners drive or take taxi to come here every day. And not only foreigners like to come here, but many Chinese people also take their friends to come here as communication place.
Featured Bar in Sanlitun Bar Street
• Boys & Girls BarBoys & Girls Bar is the large bar in Sanlitun Bar Street, and also the first to provide on-side cabaret bar. The line of Boy & Girls bar is quite clear with flashing neon lights. The silvery metal door is like a boy wearing fashionable dressing, while the upper curved hollow glass like a whirling skirt sexy girl. Besides the elongated bar counter in the bar, this place is fill with small square tables and boys and girls who are drinking wine and playing games.
Address: No.68 Sanlitun North Street
• Swing Bar
Swing Bar is regarded as a Rock Bar. There is a huge abstract painting in red and brown on the pitched roof, with a indigenous painting style. On the black metal walls sticks posters of famous rock bands, such as ROLLING STONE, GRUNSU ROSE and so on.
Philippines Band is the distinguishing feature of Swing bar. Their cheerful music makes you indulge in the environment. Their sounds sometimes make you seethe with excitement, sometimes bring you away with romantic lyric.
• Jass Ya
Jass Ya is a bar that features with western-style and Japanese cuisine. Jass Ya provides customers with more than 150 kinds of main dishes and 200 kinds of drinks. Therefore, the varied diet is also charming to the drinkers. What also makes you enjoyable is the sound effect in the bar. You can either enjoy your cocktail at the bar, or dine in the relaxing jazz atmosphere. You can stay here just like staying in the home of your friends, as there is a feeling of comfort you could not help but want to sit there longer. You can experience the collision and exchange between western and eastern culture in the small shop filled with blue music.
Address: Sanlitun North Street
• Day Off Bar
Day Off Bar is located on the prime place in Sanlitun Bar Street, with Boy& Girls Bar in the right and Milan Club in the left. The bar is quite popular in the area. It was opened up in 1996 and owns 120 seats. The decoration of the bar contains with some kind of the favor of the American western cowboy. The bar counter is oval U-shaped. Beside the brown oak tables stand black bar stools. And around the dancing floor casually stands wooden table and chairs, which looks quite simple. The cross of iron and wood on the roof reflects t he strength and wildness of the bar. Day Off Bar plays the classic dancing CD that come from many countries. Some of the CDs were gave as presents by those who often danced here. Among these CDs, the Turkish dance CD given by the Turkish embassy is the most popular one. It is said once the CD was played, people could not help themselves but dance together. Day Off Bar of one of the few entertainment places in Sanlitun Bar Street that require tickets. But it does not charge everyday and it depends on the number of guests.
Address: No.8 Sanlitun North Street
Do you like bars? Are you a fashion follower? If yes, just come to the Beijing Sanlitun Bar Street to enjoy the bar ambience.


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Inflation and the Tooth Fairy: How the Cost of a Lost Tooth Has Changed
January 19, 2023 by A Dime Saved
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Inflation is affecting everything, and it seems the tooth fairy is one of the many casualties of rising prices! Recent trends show that the price of a lost tooth has grown tremendously since 202o, with the average tooth price being $5.36.
Delaware and Hawaii are the most expensive states for parents whose kids have lost a tooth, with an average payout of over $8. Iowa is the cheapest state, with an average payout of $2.30, and Wyoming comes in second-last with an average payout of $2.43.
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The Worth of a Lost Tooth
Since 1998, Delta Dental has been analyzing the Tooth Fairy's U.S. annual giving trends.
The 2022 Original Tooth Fairy Poll indicates the Tooth Fairy's average cash gift reached $5.36 per tooth, an all-time high in the 24-year history of the poll. This year's value of a lost tooth has more than quadrupled since the inception of the Original Tooth Fairy Poll when the value of a lost tooth was $1.30.
The 2022 poll's average gift of $5.36 per tooth is 66 cents (14%) higher than the previous peak of $4.70 set last year and well over $1 (33%) more per tooth in 2020 ($4.03). The 2022 poll also finds that 80% of the time, the Tooth Fairy leaves only money rather than some other physical gift.
"Our oral health is essential to our overall health, and the time-honored tradition of the Tooth Fairy can help bring attention in a fun way to the importance of establishing proper oral hygiene habits at an early age," said Jennifer Elliott, Chief Marketing Officer, Delta Dental Plans Association. "Delta Dental is committed to increasing the public's oral health care awareness as we support millions of dental health journeys across America."
Tooth Fairy Payout Index
(Ranked in order of the highest amount in dollars paid by state on average)
Delaware 8.91
Hawaii 8.39
Florida 7.42
Mississippi 6.17
Rhode Island 6.12
Texas 6.00
Wisconsin 5.89
New York 5.88
Georgia 5.81
New Jersey 5.61
Alabama 5.57
Michigan 5.48
Pennsylvania 5.44
New Mexico 5.29
Nevada 5.21
For the complete list of state rankings — or additional details about Tooth Fairy trends in your state.
Not all parents are keeping up with inflation, however.
Victoria, who manages Motherhood Life Balance, says that despite the rising inflation, she won't increase the amount of money she gives her children for the tooth fairy.
"My now teens always gotten $5 from the tooth fairy. With inflation increasing, my little one may not see $5 but lots of coins instead as long as she keeps loving them. $5 will be the max for the tooth fairy, as I think $5 is more than fair". She has no plans to change her tooth fairy routine.
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