Isn't it amazing how suddenly the mood has changed, the band has altered its tune, and the ferrets of Wapping have been reversed?
There is a technical term in the newspaper business for the moment when a newspaper, having reported an event with great conviction one week, says the opposite the following week with equal conviction. It is called a "reverse ferret".
Enough is now enough. If this Parliament is not to begin its work on its knees, it is time to draw a line under the expenses scandal. Except in an earlier clear case of criminality or fraud, MPs' conduct should now be judged under the new expenses regime that has been put in place.
The rest is nearly as nauseating.
H.E.Bates invented Pop Larkin, though his construct's catch-phrase is now better remembered for David Jason (and, inevitably, Catherine Zeta-Jones) in the TV adaptations.
Malcolm was able to observe the darling buds of late May over the last couple of days.
The Pert Young Piece was due to fling herself (or, more likely, be flung) out of a perfectly good aircraft, two-and-a-half miles above the ominously-named Hinton-in-the-Hedges. This is where north Oxfordshire bumps up against Northamptonshire, so where better than to have an overnighter?
That meant it was possible to stop off, in each direction, in and around Oxford. Inevitably, drink was taken and books were bought.
Oxford on Saturday was quite chilly, so a swift resort had to be found. Any pub in the centre of town, particularly in the summer, is a tourist trap.
The White Horse, in the Broad, immediately opposite the Sheldonian, is ex ceptional only in so far as tourists are more prolific here than even the average. Since it is a regular for film and TV locations, that only makes things worse. Fortunately, the Hobbit lot seem to have moved on. However, the beer is good (Brakspeare's and Wayland Smithy), the catering is more than competent, and it's slap-next-door to Blackwells, arguably one of the finest book-shops in Britain. All-in-all, a no-brainer.
Malcolm reckons that the Wayland Smithy is a decent beer: 4.4% alcohol by content, and a bit of an acquired taste. It's a trifle too aromatic and spicy to be just a quaffing ale. It comes out of the White Horse brewery (no relation, apparently) in Stanford-in-the Vale, which sounds, and is meant to sound, all convincingly rustic: it is in fact set in a modern business park. So, on this occasion, he stayed with the Brakspeare's.
Then onwards (through by now driving rain) to small-town Northamptonshire. This is close enough to the race track at Silverstone for anywhere to come with a Formula One headquarters attached. Inevitably, pubs and hotels are lined with photographs and memorabilia of Grand Prix history. Malcolm's has no interest in such noisy and non-ecological boyish diversions, and is happy to be whisked between watering-holes, driven expertly by the Lady in his Life.
Malcolm has a taste for the Hook Norton brewery's productions.
On Friday a fit of depression had driven him to his local Weatherspoon's house, where he found Hooky Dark on tap. One of the revelations of recent months, greatly helped by a campaign by CAMRA, is the revived interest in dark beers (what was generically known as "Mild" in Malcolm's younger days). On the whole, unlike continental practice, these are light on alcohol (Hooky Dark is around 3.3%), and sweet on the tongue. For a lunchtime session, not a bad combination.
So Saturday evening was Old Hooky night. And very nice, too.
What the contingent from Redfellow Hovel were there for was early Sunday morning. The Pert Young Piece duly rode heavenwards, and later reappeared though a cloud, to land on her feet. The grin was there for the rest of the day. The adrenaline overdose cut in an hour or so later, on the way back south.
This is located just off the Oxford ring-road. It has also appeared in several TV episodes (and sports the Morse novels, in frames on the walls). It has been "improved" in recent years. Across the road there is an enormous (and well-filled) car-park. It makes no pretence about being mainly an eating-establishment. It provides the full range of drinks, including draught ales.
For all those reasons, and doubtless many more, the traditionalists hate it. They just don't get it. While English pubs are closing in droves, this one prospers. So think on.
Anyone else, wise enough to choose a decent day (that photograph above is obviously in winter), and get there before the terrace is full, prepared to be leisurely in waiting for the kitchen to deliver, should sit back and enjoy one of the finest locations anywhere in Britain. And, no, you're not permitted to smoke where others are eating: take your disgusting weed to the other end of the frontage.
The Redfellow continent promptly were seated right on the front of the terrace, fully alongside the overspill from the canalised river. More Brakspeare's for Malcolm.
Lunch was interrupted by visits from ducks, perching themselves on the parapet, and seeking sustenance: their success shows in that they are exceedingly well-fed and plump. Vain creatures, too.
It was all very, very pleasant. Perfeck.
The imperative to encapsulate an argument, any argument, into the scope of a blog-entry too often obliges a poster to present matters as a harsh binary.
So, either the recent British General Election (and its strange bedfellow outcome) was highly significant or … it wasn't.
(which goes with bridge and women and champagne).
A second thought is that mystical concept, "swing", the lasting legacy of David Butler and his Nuffield diaspora. Some suggest it owes less to voters floating and flitting from flower to flower than to differential turnout. For the sake of this piece, Malcolm is reluctant to shin into his attic book-stack to look out the seminal texts; so he is "going with the flow" here.
Differential turnout explains the Blair hegemony, not as a great surge of popular opinion for New Labour, but as the disillusion and disaffection of a significant section of natural Tories. Since recent General Elections have failed to enthuse more than two-thirds of the registered electorate, there's considerable scope for stay-at-homes.
On one level, there is evidence that the LibDems in Parliament had long been creeping towards the Tory position.
The Public Whip blog did the number-crunching, with a remarkable cluster analysis presented as an animated .gif (above). The Guido Fawkes site, as per usual, ripped it off and implied it was original and profound. The Guardian's Simon Rogers re-published it as far back as 20th April.
That confluence might be no more than the natural experience of shared opposition; but the new ConDem package certainly hasn't caused much dissent among the paliamentary LibDems (it's a different matter, of course, among the dissident backbench Tories). Having so many LibDems on the government pay-roll (and others expecting the call in the course of the promised five years) must grease the wheels.
On another level, it is clear that the political volte-face has caused pained grimaces among the foot-soldiers. Tories are disgruntled, which is the normal state of mind among such sort. Decent types, most publicly the estimable Nich Starling, the Norfolk Blogger, have been wrestling with their conscience.
Meanwhile, in the undergrowth to the far left of the main track, something further stirs. The Labour Party reported as many as 12,000 recruits within hours of the coalition being sealed. If Redfellow Hovel is typical, circulation of the New Statesman and Tribune may also see a boost.
So we next come to the acid test.
Perhaps as early as this Thursday when Thirsk and Malton constituency finally gets around to its delayed voting.
Only if a Eyjafjallajökull erupts in the Howardian Hills will this be anything other than a Tory walk-over. Hence the bookie's odds: Tories 66/1 on at Ladbrooke, 3/100 at Betfair. It's a newly-reformed constituency; but that reflects the predominant Tory positions in the two "donor" constituencies.
That's interesting in itself: on crude demography and track-record, the Tory vote was down by 2.6% and the LibDems up 6.1% from UK Polling Report's "notional" 2005 result. A theoretic, hypothetic, conjectural 4⅓ swing: entirely fictitious, of course, but enough to demote Labour into third place.
This time round, then, we should normally expect Labour to suffer further attrition from anyone-but-Tories" tactical voting. Except … that is no longer an option.
Betfair have the LibDems at 107/50 and Labour at 1/10.
a deep sigh among "natural" Labourites, who may suddenly feel an urge to make a mark.
MP for the Vale of York (1997-2010) — the constituency was dissolved this time round.
She was granted the Thirsk and Malton fiefdom as one of Dave's A-listers, ahead of the former Ryedale MP, John Greenway. In itself, that left a few bruises among the Constituency Association. Worse was to come: she fell foul of the Great Expenses Kerfuffle.
her husband's telephone bill materialised on her parliamentary account.
VALE of York MP Anne McIntosh has had a half a pint of beer poured over her by an irate constituent.
Tory MP Ms McIntosh, was attacked by David Andrews, leader of an environmental pressure group, during Friday's constituency surgery, which was held in a pub in Thirsk.
Ms McIntosh, who is a Shadow environment minister, said: "I regret to say that there was an unfortunate incident involving a constituent which is the first time this has ever happened to me or at one of my surgeries.
Added to which, she has a growing reputation for being "difficult". As yet, she is less than loved in her new constituency.
So, next Thursday, in Thirsk and Malton, it may not be quite so fine and binary.
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Writer and author HENRY WILLIAMSON once lived here, his many published books include Tarka The Otter.
Persons of a certain age will dimly recall, without great enthusiasm, being force-fed Tarka as a compulsory reader, even more so when the class concluded with the non-optional homework, "Now summarise that chapter".
A modern reader, in a masochistic mood, who feels moved to read more of Williamson will find no shortage of material. For instance, in late life he spread himself over five of the fifteen volumes of his A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight in fictionalising his First World War experiences. Anyone looking for a short cut to the same end might glance at The Patriot's Progress, dating from 1930. This satire of "Private John Bullock" (geddit?) and his "vicissitudes" in the trenches starts to raise a tingle of concern about Williamson's political leanings. With good reason (and — Malcolm promises — this will lead directly back to that Stiffkey cottage).
By the 1930s Williamson had come out as a fascist, a fully dyed-in-the-blackshirt supporter of the Mosleyites. Williamson was at the 1935 Nuremberg Nazifest and bought into Nazi myth of German economic and social progress, of racial unity, of freedom from the bankers. He saw ordinary Germans "breathing, extra oxygen". Williamson contrasted this with the poverty and unemployment under Baldwin's "National Government".
Williamson wrote for Action, Mosley's mouthpiece, arguing for Anglo-German amity. When T.E. Lawrence went over the handlebars of his Brough Superior, he had just been posting a reply to Williamson's invitation to join in a peace-with-Germany campaign.
When internment came in 1940, Williamson was one of the fascists rounded up, to spend a weekend in the cells of Wells Police Station. He was released when he gave his parole to stay quiet. That didn't stop him feeling that defeat of Germany killed hopes of a revived united Hitlerite Europe.
At the end of 1936 Williamson bought Old Hall Farm, and set about dragging it back from the decrepitude of the agricultural depression. The cottage in this sale was one of the buildings he restored.
The folk of Stiffkey may then have been rustic (today too many are sharp city weekenders, of course), but they had Williamson's number. They had good reason to resent his Nazi leanings, and suspect he was a spy. This, let us remember, is barely a mile from the North Sea coast; and was declared a "restricted area" (if the restriction had lasted another few weeks, Malcolm's alter ego would have needed a permit to get born).
And the evidence is still there.
The circled double lightning flash of the SS is still there, on the back of the house that directly faces on to the main street, the A149. It was painted on in black pitch and tar, and has proved very durable – it must be about the same age as us.
There are many such cottages for sale in North Norfolk now, I suspect at the prospect of 40% capital gains tax on second houses worrying the flush twenty somethings from the City who have priced out the locals. Pity Labour didn't make it 100% when they could have. The estate agents and banks keep issuing statistics showing that house prices continue to increase – the reality of the prices from the Land Registry tells a different story. Down at least 20% – couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of blokes.
Abbotts of 1 Market Place, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6BE.
An Apple System 7 chime, that is.
Today was find-the-back-wall-of-the garage day, under strict instructions from the Lady in Malcolm's Life.
Eventually the far end was gained. Plumbing parts were put in one box, electricals in another, tools and odd bits elsewhere. Paint tins stacked. Garden chemicals shelved.
And on one shelf, in the far back corner a 386SX, two Apple LC2s and a 12-inch monitor, plus odd peripherals. Now let's recall that all these have been lurking, unattended, unloved, gathering grit and dirt, cobwebs and worse, in winter frosts and clammy summers. If age hadn't got them, corrosion should.
The 386SX was as dead as a dodo. To junk. The LC2s, however, vintage late 1992, both bonged on switch on. Now, why did Malcolm have Shakespeare on Hypercard at that distant moment? And can he find SCSI cables to see if the LaCie external hard-drive still functions? And how did we ever think an 80-megabyte (yes: MEGAbyte) was "large"?
But credit to the Cupertino cohorts: when they build a product, it seems to last. Unlike the Chinese 386SX vanilla.
London mayor Boris Johnson's proud unveiling yesterday of a futuristic new London Routemaster bus, which he dubbed "a slinky, beautiful machine", has been met by his political opponents with two words: Vanity project.
Johnson's promise of an updated hop-on, hop-off Routemaster to replace the controversial "bendy buses" introduced by his predecessor Ken Livingstone was one of the cornerstones of his 2008 election campaign. And he showed off the new design yesterday with all the excitement of a small boy unwrapping a new model railway engine.
He said the updated the new design would give passengers a "greener, light and airy" service when the first buses are introduced at the end of next year, with hundreds more rolled out in time for the 21012 Olympics.
But critics say the first five new Routemasters will have cost £7.8m, which is hardly value for money. They say it's nothing more than a vanity project that will waste London taxpayers' money at a time of increasing economic hardship.
Malcolm does not expect to be around that long.
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Ivona Dadic (ur. 29 grudnia 1993 w Wels) – austriacka lekkoatletka, wieloboistka.

Dziesiąta wieloboistka mistrzostw świata juniorów młodszych w Bressanone (2009). Rok później, startując w skoku w dal, była szósta na igrzyskach olimpijskich młodzieży. W 2011 zajęła 10. miejsce na juniorskich mistrzostwach Europy, a rok później zadebiutowała na igrzyskach olimpijskich, plasując się na 23. miejscu w rywalizacji wieloboistek.

W 2015 stanęła na najniższym stopniu podium młodzieżowego czempionatu Europy w Tallinnie. Rok później sięgnęła po brąz mistrzostw Europy w gronie seniorów oraz w swoim drugim występie na igrzyskach olimpijskich, zajęła 21. miejsce. Halowa wicemistrzyni Europy z Belgradu (2017), a także szósta wieloboistka podczas mistrzostw świata w Londynie w tym samym roku.

Złota medalistka mistrzostw Austrii (również w skoku w dal oraz biegach sztafetowych), reprezentantka kraju w pucharze Europy w wielobojach i drużynowych mistrzostw Europy.

Jej rodzice są Chorwatami. W 2008 roku w wypadku samochodowym zginął jej brat Ivan. Po tym zdarzeniu Dadic wytatuowała na ręce krzyż z imieniem zmarłego brata.

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Alexander Mathis (born in Bregenz, Austria) is an Austrian mathematician, computational neuroscientist and software developer. He is currently an assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. His research interest focus on research at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning.

Education
Mathis studied mathematics, logic and theory of science at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany. His interest in computing and cryptography led him to pursue a PhD in computational neuroscience at the Graduate School for Systemic Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Herz at the department of neurobiology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. During his PhD work, he studied optimal coding approaches to reveal the properties of grid cells and how distributed population activity readout can be implemented in plausible bio-physical models. The predictions of this theory were confirmed in rats by the Moser laboratory and artificial systems optimized for navigation by DeepMind.

He spent an exchange year at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.

Career and research
After completing his PhD, Mathis went in 2013 as a postdoctoral fellow to work under the mentor-ship of Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. In addition, in 2015, he joined the research group of Prof. Matthias Bethge at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Tübingen and the University of Tübingen in Germany. His postdoctoral research positions were funded by a DFG postdoctoral fellowship and a Marie-Curie fellowship.

Mathis conducted research in odor-guided navigation, social behaviors, motor learning, and the cocktail party problem. He employed deep learning methods and experimentally testable computational models to study animal behavior and neural data. He has developed tools such as DeepLabCut and DeepDraw to accurately measure animal and human behavior. He is one of the initiators and developers of the open-source research tool DeepLabCut with his spouse Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis that estimates animal postures via computer vision and machine learning. Mathis has also created models and theories on adaptive behavior, in particular on motor control and sensorimotor transformations. Several publications appeared during this research period, including the highly cited paper "DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning" by Mathis et al. published in 2018 in Nature Neuroscience.

In August 2020, he moved as an assistant professor to the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland where he started his own research laboratory "the Mathis Group", dedicated to research at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning. The Mathis Group is committed to enhancing machine learning tools for animal behavior analysis and to developing of neural network models of sensorimotor representation.

His research was featured in The Atlantic, Nature, and Quanta Magazine,.

Awards and grants
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) awarded funding for Mathis' open source project DeepLabCut. Mathis further was awarded with a postdoctoral fellowship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship by the European Union

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Mathis is married to fellow neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, who is also the developer of DeepLabCut and an Assistant Professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

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Hands off my family
Hilary Butler - Sunday, June 04, 2017
And my choice, Lance O'Sullivan. On 4th June, 2017, you appeared on Maori TV .
You said words to the effect of, "If a person chooses not to vaccinate and gets that disease and it results in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of treatment, as a member of society, I don't want to have to pay for that."
So Lance, please answer these questions:
If some of your whanau up there are smoking, and needing hospital treatment for a lifestyle choice of lung cancer as a result, why should my tax dollars pay for that?
If you have not taught your whanau essentials of nutrition, which seriously impact the severity of infectious disease, and are a driver for hospitalisation of more severe infection, and higher rates of pathogen shedding, why should my tax dollar pay for that?
If you have not got rid of nutritionally-related obesity and needless type 2 diabetes from your community, why should my tax dollar pay for treatment resulting from a lifestyle choice which you have done nothing to educate them about?
If some of your whanau are dealing drugs, smoking pot, and beating each other up causing injuries to one another, why should my tax dollar pay for rehabilitation or treatment for that?
Before you try to mandate vaccines on anyone else, because of the tax dollar, why don't you educate your whanau about their right and responsibility to promote their own good heath which does not come at the point of a needle?
Or would your people rebel and say, "But mate, it's our choice to smoke, to do drugs, to not eat right, to let our kids and ourselves get sick. It's our choice to buy infant formula.... It's our choice to get cancer. Hands off our choice!"
When asked what advice you would give to people who are concerned about vaccines, you also said words to the effect that "parents should trust the science, trust the experts, have faith in me, and trust me."
When it comes to vaccines, trust is earned, Lance, by always giving parents information which is not cherry picked, along with the vaccine datasheets, long before any needle comes anywhere near them. Trust is earned by never emotionally blackmailing parents.
You said, "We should put a lid on information which is factually incorrect". Well, here is a fact Lance. All the information you give out about vaccines, is factually incorrect because it leaves out key concepts which are crucial to decision making. That is called lying by omission. Or… do you just assume that what you think you know is all there is to know? AND since you admit that you won't watch VAXXED, why do you think you are giving out factual information on its content? I've seen it, and your comments about it have been balderdash.
You spouted more poppycock when you dismissed the term "vaccine injury" by saying it was made up by anti-vaxxers. Seemingly it escaped your brain that the term was legalised by the American Government 31 years ago, for their 1986 "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program".
Talking about taking personal responsibility, my husband and I stopped taking vaccines, antibiotics and the other nonsense you say is "best practice" nearly 40 years ago. As a result of that smart choice, we are NO LONGER a burden on the taxpayer. My husband is 85, and on NO prescription drugs. I have had a diagnosis of a primary immunodeficiency for over 30 years, which would flip your lid, because you would be all over me like a rash saying that I needed to do this, that and the other according to your science. You would say, "Trust me". Sorry Lance. Hands off my decision making.
Yes, I refused the "best practice" treatment - which ironically has contradicted itself dramatically over the decades. Why did I refuse "best practice"? Because instead I chose to be responsible for excellent nutrition, good sleep, no smoking, no alcohol, no junk food, weight control, and as a result the "immunodeficiency" has minimal impact compared to the old bad days. Doing those things - and having no television in the house, has enabled our family to function optimally with MINIMAL need for tax-payer funded medical intervention.
If . . . at any point, our family needed, or would need medical care, I would have no feelings of guilt because I have done everything within my responsibility, and within my ability, by putting the RIGHT things into our family, to ensure that the TAXPAYER doesn't have to needlessly pay anything, because I have a COMPULSORY lifestyle which reduces so many risks down to almost nothing. We have "fixed" what is possible to fix, and anything else is outside of our ability to control. But even then, we often fix that too, without reference to a doctor.
Now when you have enabled every person in your community to have the good health that they have a right to, by compelling them to do the non-medical things they can do, THEN you will have a non-hypocritical basis with which to suggest compulsion in the matter of vaccination.
But even if you did suggest mandatory vaccination, to enforce it would be morally, scientifically and ethically wrong. Firstly, because what I put into my body is my CHOICE. What I eat, and drink is my CHOICE, which enables me to NOT USE the medical system. By having a compulsory lifestyle, our family has enabled MORE tax dollars to be spent on those people who shirk that personal choice or responsibility, and as a result, may be fully vaccinated, yet STILL line the walls of hospitals today.
You have to admit, Lance, that a large percentage of your people who sit in Kaitaia hospital, needn't be there. They are there . . . because of life style choices they have made, which you didn't pass a law to stop them making.
Just because something CAN be done, doesn't mean it SHOULD be done. Given that choice applies to lifestyle, then it should also apply to vaccination.
You talk about vaccination being necessary to protect your vulnerable. What are you doing to protect your "vulnerable", (in the same way I have done with a primary immunodeficiency), without the use of vaccines, antibiotics or your truck load of very expensive tax-payer funded drugs? It can be done. I am living proof.
Think on that, before you start forcing needles on those of us who have covered bases that many in your whanau choose to ignore, and you don't "go there" do you, because you don't want whanau to explode in your face, do a haka, and tell you to go and boil your head. So taking your example, I say, Hands off my family, and I return your friendly greeting to me, back to you: Pokokohua ratou.
Words from memory lane.
Hilary Butler - Tuesday, July 09, 2013
It's 32 years ago, since I started out researching medical history, obstetrics, drugs, vaccines and pretty much everything pertaining to keeping the family's health intact... in spite of the medical profession.
Back in 1984, when I started helping parents, whose children reacted seriously after vaccines, these are the words they said, every time, like a mindless monotone recording.
"But they never TOLD me this could happen!!! No-one gave me any information at all! I had no idea (tears) and if I had known, I wouldn't have let them give that vaccine". Continue Reading
BABY FORMULA - choice or denial?
Hilary Butler - Saturday, October 06, 2012
It is time the discussion about breast milk changed to fact, not denial. Yes, there should be labels on formula, just as there are labels on cigarettes.
But if formula feeding parents really mean business in terms of accepting that breast is best, then they should be campaigning for a nationwide breast milk bank. Continue Reading
Eminence Based Medicine Part 3
Hilary Butler - Friday, May 04, 2012
Back to Basics, Part 1 and Part 2, lay the framework for asking the key questions of this blog, which relate to "Just how 'scientific' are vaccines, in principle, in practice, in fact and in application?" In order to understand the implications of that in babies, the lack of understanding about the neonatal immune system (and new discoveries which are very disturbing) - another three part blog series - has to be read:
Vaccines and Neonatal Immune Development
How a baby fights infection and Develops Immunity
Serenity's grandmother wants answers.
Everyone wants answers, just as much as Serenity's grandmother wants answers. There's no doubt that some parents kick kids around like footballs. The problem is ... where do you get the WHOLE truth? What do the medical people mean by saying that the injuries were "similar to" shaken baby syndrome? Either they are, or they aren't. And this is important, particularly when, as one expert says, at least half of all parents tried for Shaken Baby Syndrome, have been wrongly convicted. Apart from Tony Wall at the Sunday Star Times, the rest of New Zealand media automatically assumes that any diagnosis that comes from that shrine, Starship, has to be right. Presumably under the guise of "balanced reporting" Sunday Star times, allows Michael Laws to call the family, "feral", as if they are guilty before proven so. Yet, the internet is full of stories like this one where just maybe, the parents didn't do it after all. Key lawyers, world wide, are starting to question what they see as serial injustices. Continue Reading
Paul Offit's Science Friction
Hilary Butler - Monday, April 25, 2011
The subject of a previous blog on Paul Offit, was his porkies in his new book "Deadly choices" Dr Offit has authored another document, where, amongst various dictatorial objectives, he wants to force yearly "exemption reviews" by a "state-approved counselor" (inquisitor/brainwasher), to brow-beat parents who chose not to vaccinate - who will no doubt then be billed by the state. Because such birds of a feather flock together, it wasn't surprising to see that Nikki Turner made a similar recommendation to the Parliamentary Select Committee. As you see from Offit's darling dial staring at you from this press release, this new document is HIS work. There are other signatories, but you can forget them. This is classic Offitism, written in the same tone and vein as all his books, and true to form contains similar fiction. Open up at page two and read: Continue Reading
Deadly choices - Paul's porkies.
Hilary Butler - Thursday, March 03, 2011
A few days ago, I set my husband a task. To read Paul Offit's book called, "Deadly Choices How the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all" By half way through he was unamused. Beguiled by his sighs of discontent, I decided to stop my current track of writing. and start reading. Naturally I started with the Prologue, where the first sentence read; "There's a war going on out there – a quiet, deadly war." Continue Reading
On placentas, stem cells and breastmilk
Hilary Butler - Sunday, November 14, 2010
The function of the placenta is an overlooked non-thought, because the medical system considers it redundant the minute a baby's head makes an appearance. Don't you think that strange, given that for nearly nine months, the placenta has provided nutrients, oxygen and... stem cells to the baby? This magnificent organ provides an amazing service, which is utterly abused, particularly when it comes to ... multipotent and lineage-committed stem cells. That the placenta contains stem cells should present no surprises to anyone. After all, where do the medical profession think stem cells come from? Thin air? Perhaps they "just appear" and are unique to, a developing embryo? Nope. Cord blood from the placenta, has been described as the baby's first natural stem cell transplant. Which is why anyone who understands placental physiology would never clamp a cord. So why do they? And we also also know that one of the consequences of immediate cord cutting, is brain ischaemia, which can cause brain damage for life. Continue Reading
Cord clamping - on leaving the cord alone...
Hilary Butler - Saturday, November 13, 2010
Long time readers here will know that immediate cord-clamping is something which makes me angry enough to write lots of blogs on it. In the latest BMJ, a retired consultant obstetrician, in a column called Personal View calls for the practice to be stopped. Why does an obstetrician have to be retired before saying the blindingly obvious? It's utterly insane that the "lay" community is and has always been, way ahead of the eight ball when it comes to cord clamping. And they were way ahead when it came to routine episiotomy too. I'm sure that the obstetricians only re-looked at the "science" of episiotomy, when the vocal, radical antsy mothers of the 60's to the 80's told them where to stick their automatic scissors and lucrative intervention bonuses up their own posterior!!! That there had to be some research done to justify getting rid of episiotomies, was another tragic waste of money, just as more research on leaving the cord alone will be an utter waste of money. Except to the lucky person in dibs for another 10 years of secure income.
On October 26th, I talked about the practice of immediate cord-clamping. Continue Reading
Starship Doctors slammed
Hilary Butler - Sunday, October 31, 2010
In the Sunday Star Times today, Judge David McNaughton delivered a swift message to Starship doctors about predictive and substandard medical care, and the presumption of guilt without good cause. The Judge found Famaile Lino not guilty of abusing his six month old child after Starship jumped to conclusions, and robustly defended their own preconceived mindsets. The Lino's lawyer said, " "It's a very important case. It shows how suddenly a person can be at home with their feet up looking after their children, and a nightmare commences." Here's the rub though. Court cases like this USUALLY only happen to people like the Linos or the Kahuis. Starship doesn't usually go after people who know what's going on; the limitations of the medical profession; and how to defend themselves. Starship are of course, scuttling into a "risk management" position, by defending the indefensible: Continue Reading
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St Andrews, Scotland (August 2011)
North-north-east of Edinburgh, on the east coast of Fife lays the beautiful, history-rich town of St Andrews named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.
The town is home to the University of St Andrews, the third oldest university in the English-speaking world and the oldest in Scotland, founded between 1410 and 1413. It remains one of Britain's most prestigious universities. St Andrews is especially renowned for its Physics and Astronomy, Arts and Humanities programmes.
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of St Andrews which is where he met Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (then Catherine Middleton) in 2001 while she was also there studying art history.
University of St Andrews Buildings, St Andrews, Scotland
St Andrews is also known worldwide as the "home of golf". This is in part because the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, founded in 1754, exercises legislative authority over the game worldwide (except in the United States and Mexico), and also because the famous links is the most frequent venue for The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships. Visitors travel to St Andrews in great numbers for several courses ranked amongst the finest in the world.
St Andrews Golf Course, St Andrews, Scotland
First Tee, St Andrews Golf Course, St Andrews, Scotland
First Fairway, St Andrews Golf Course, St Andrews, Scotland
Club House of the Old Course, St Andrews Golf Course, St Andrews, Scotland
The Martyrs Memorial, erected to the honour of Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart, and other martyrs of the Reformation epoch, stands at the west end of the Scores on a cliff overlooking the sea.
The Martyrs Memorial, St Andrews, Scotland
St Andrews Aquarium, St Andrews, Scotland
Seaside Park, St Andrews, Scotland
Tower of Holy Trinity, St Andrews, Scotland
Historic Building, St Andrews, Scotland
Arch Bridge, St Andrews, Scotland
There has been an important church in St Andrews ever since the 8th century and a bishopric ever since the 11th century. The settlement grew to the west of St Andrews cathedral with the southern side of the Scores to the north and the Kinness burn to the south. The burgh soon became the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, a position which was held until the Scottish Reformation. The famous cathedral, the largest in Scotland, now lies in ruins.
St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews, Scotland
The Bishops' Castle at St Andrews was a palace, a workplace, a prison and a fortress. The first castle was destroyed during the Wars of Independence and what is left dates predominantly from 1400 to 1560.
St Andrews Castle, St Andrews, Scotland
There are a good amount of very beautiful old sandstone homes in St Andrews. A couple of the more prestigious are shown below.
Beautiful Homes, St Andrews, Scotland
St Andrews certainly was a beautiful old town. Steeped in history both modern and ancient, culture and remaining relevant in the 21st century due to its world class university and golf courses.
Next stop the Scottish Highlands.
Review of Ten Minutes by Tractor (Mornington Peninsula)
Saturday, 27 July 2013, Lunch
1333 Mornington Flinders Road, Main Ridge, Victoria, 03 5989 6080, www.tenminutesbytractor.com.au
It was a frantic morning, houses to be cleaned, dogs to be walked, people to be met and consumables to be purchased. By lunchtime, I for one, was feeling quite bushed. What stood ahead though, was a trip to a Mornington Peninsula restaurant with a huge reputation.
The journey down the Eastlink and on to Peninsula Link got us to our destination at Main Ridge in a mere 55 minutes drive from Knox and quite a pleasant drive it was too.
There was plenty of parking, allowing the usual culprits in their large vehicles to take their preferred allotment of a double parking bay instead of a single like the rest of us.
The restaurant, a converted old home, was smaller than I expected and fully packed it would host about 45 to 50 patrons. By the time we entered at 1:35pm, it was about 80% full, bright, bustling and full of energy.
Photo compliments of www.tenminutesbytractor.com.au
Sometimes you get the feeling of being rushed but it was not the case here. We were allowed a good amount of time for a catch up chat with our fellow diners before being invited to select pre-lunch drinks.
They have two wine lists, one is about four pages and something I could get my head around. The other looked more like a wedding photo album than a wine list. Last time I saw such an extensive offering was at The Botanical in South Yarra awarded Australia's Best Wine List of the Year 2012, as published in "Wine" magazine by Gourmet Traveller.
Myrna chose a deliciously refreshing cocktail and the rest of us selected a glass of wine from the shortlist. I opted for a lovely Southern Italian red called D'Angelo Sacravite Aglianico Basilicata 2010 at $14 per glass. After pre-lunch drinks, the party remained with Sacravite for the rest of the day.
D'Angelo is the producer of wines made from the grape varietal Aglianico. Sacravite (Latin for the "sacred vine") is the name of the actual product. It had a bright ruby red hue with an earthy and spicy aroma. The palate was full and bright with dry black fruit flavours, strong tannins and a slightly sweet after taste possibly due to the late harvest typical of this slow growing varietal.
Now to the food.
Ten Minutes by Tractor offers two menus, the Dégustation Menu ($139 for eight courses or $109 for five courses without matched wines, which can be added for an addition charge) and the À la Carte Menu ($69 for 2 courses or $89 for three courses). We unanimously elected to enjoy the three course À la Carte option.
The menu was not extensive but included sufficient variety to enable something to suit all tastes. There were seven starters, including three vegetarian, six mains and five desserts on offer.
Portion sizes were slightly modest for the hungrier among us but most importantly, the food was superbly presented and the taste was consistently of the highest standard.
The food started with selection of freshly-cooked bread rolls served with both butter and olive oil with sea salt. One option was a most delightful olive roll, richly populated with roughly chopped black olives and served piping hot, inviting the butter which melted on impact.
Before we were served entrée, we each received an appetiser to cleanse the palate. Served in a soup spoon, it consisted of smoked salmon and goat's cheese in herb sauce, sprinkled with micro-herbs and seasoning. It definitely had the desired effect of whetting the appetite.
Appetiser at Ten Minutes by Tractor
As is often the case, and I don't know why, the entrée course seems to be of higher standard than the other courses. Perhaps it is that one's hunger is at its zenith during this course. The entrée courses all looked stunning and those I sampled tasted precisely as I would have hoped.
I think the entrée of the day went to the Goat Croquette. It consisted of a sublime croquette of goat meat in the shape of a flattened Havana cigar, cooked crispy on the outside and melt-in your-mouth soft on the inside. It was tastefully served with onion jam, pistachio yoghurt, golden raisin sauce and micro-herbs.
I chose the Smoked Quail, cooked to perfection and served on a bed of delicious red cabbage, walnut crunch and mulled wine jelly. It was served with a perfectly, soft-boiled quail egg with its delicate flavour and velvety softness to complete this excellent offering.
Goat Croquette - Ten Minutes by Tractor
Smoked Quail - Ten Minutes by Tractor
There was also a Goat's Cheese dish with the odd name of Goat's Cheeses, Red Hill, Somers Soft. It was a beautifully presented vegetarian option with pickled mushrooms, brioche, apple and walnut salad, garnished with micro-herbs; and a vegetarian Beetroot Salad which was also presented beautifully. It was served with hazelnut and pear vinaigrette, blue cheese snow and soda bread. This dish was also garnished with micro-herbs.
Goat's Cheeses, Red Hill, Somers Soft - Ten Minutes by Tractor
Beetroot Salad - Ten Minutes by Tractor
For main course I chose Pork which was very much to my liking. The pork was prepared using two different cuts and two different techniques. One part was roasted loin and the other was slow-cooked pork belly served with a crisp crackling. Flavours of pumpkin were clearly evident from the small roasted pumpkin pieces and pumpkin influenced sauce. It was served with quince and spicy bread crumbs. There was a vegetable I was unable to recognise (perhaps some type of lettuce leaf) that had been deep fried. Its addition was welcome as both the texture and the taste were very enjoyable.
Also on offer was Cape Grim Beef which was also presented in two cuts and two techniques. One was a fillet and the other a slow cooked rib. Both were deliciously tender and extremely tasty. The beef was served with a celeriac purée, heirloom beetroot and spring vegetables in a horseradish jus.
Pork - Ten Minutes by Tractor
Cape Grim Beef - Ten Minutes by Tractor
Other choices included Flinders Island Wallaby, Duck, Roasted Hapuka and Crispy Skinned Barramundi.
Flinders Island Wallaby - Ten Minutes by Tractor
Duck - Ten Minutes by Tractor
The mains were served with a bowl of Kipfler Potatoes oven-roasted in rosemary and a bowl of Dressed Green Leaves at an additional $9 per bowl.
The desserts were wonderfully presented. Colours, flavours, textures, aromas delivered artistically by a very skilful chef. My favourite was the Rhubarb Mousse served on a buttery biscuit and accompanied by celery and mint sorbet which was unusual but enjoyable, verbena foam, cashmere snow and amazing tasting freeze-dried rhubarb sticks.
Other desserts included a mille feuille of pears accompanied by macadamia crémeux and prune ice-cream and a Chocolate Mousse made with Michel Cluizel chocolate, chocolate sponge, hazelnuts, spiced figs and fig ice-cream.
Rhubarb Mousse - Ten Minutes by Tractor
Pears - Ten Minutes by Tractor
All in all, Ten Minutes by Tractor is an excellent restaurant with outrageously good food. It made it into my Top 3 favourite restaurants of the year. It ranked even higher on a raw score of quality alone but it lost a place or two on the arguable more important cost weighted ranking.
Overall Positives
Superb food
Unrushed experience
Knowledgeable staff described the dishes as they were presented
Great ambiance
Pleasant views
Uncrowded seating
Extraordinary wine list
Easy parking
Extremely clean toilet facilities
Overall Areas To Improve
Portion size (perhaps offer a second bread roll)
Overall cost
Restaurant Rating
Edinburgh, Scotland (August 2011)
After a long and enjoyable morning in York we made our way into Edinburgh via a quick stop at Hadrian's Wall and a border crossing at Jedburgh.
Hadrian's Wall was a defensive fortification which was built between AD 122 and AD 128, during the rule of Emperor Hadrian. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. Sadly, there's not much wall left as much of the material was stolen over the years for local building projects.
Hadrian's Wall, England
Kilometre after kilometre of rolling, green hills, damped by misty cold and dotted with domestic farm animals, a crest in the road abruptly presented the border between England and Scotland. It was a good feeling to be back in the ancient land of the Scots.
About 15 kilometres over the border we entered the beautiful little town of Jedburgh which is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey.
Jedburgh Abbey is a ruined Augustinian abbey which was founded in the 12th century but border wars with England in the 16th century left it a ruin.
Jedburgh Abbey, Jedburgh, Scotland
Another interesting building at Jedburgh is Mary, Queen of Scots' House, situated in a garden of pear trees, an impressive, fortified building was nearly new when Mary Queen of Scots visited the town in 1566.
Mary, Queen of Scots' House, Jedburgh, Scotland
About 2 hours later, we arrived in Edinburgh in the late afternoon. It was a little too late for more than a brief walk around the streets before readying ourselves for a traditional Scottish night out with Highland dancers, bagpipers and the Ceremony of the Haggis. The food was basic but tasty and nourishing and the highlight was the haggis and neeps that was served after being blessed by the host.
Introductory Song, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
Presentation of the Haggis, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
Blessing of the Haggis, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
Haggis Course, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
Highland Dancers, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
Piper, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
Highland Sword Dancer, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Host, Traditional Scottish Dinner, Edinburgh, Scotland
The next morning we had an early start and a busy day. We started with a walk around the New Town during which we caught site of the early residence of Robert Louis Stevenson.
New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland
Past Home of Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland
Also from the New Town it was possible to see many areas from the Old Town. The most stunningly beautiful was the site of Edinburgh Castle perched high on the hill at the head of the Old Town at the top of the Royal Mile. It looked absolutely awe inspiring. Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the Edinburgh skyline from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Castle Rock offers a naturally defended position, with sheer cliffs to north and south, and a steep ascent from the west. The only easy approach is from the town to the east, and the castle's defences are situated accordingly, with a series of gates protecting the route to the summit of the Castle Rock.
Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
We commissioned a local guide to take us on a tour of this beautiful icon.
Edinburgh Castle Guide, Edinburgh, Scotland
The statue below is of Robert the Bruce by Thomas Clapperton which was added to the gatehouse entrance in 1929.
Robert the Bruce, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
Our guide took us through Foog's Gate to enter the castle. This was the main entrance to the citadel by the 17th century.
Foog's Gate, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Royal Palace was the residence of the Stewart Kings and Queens in the 15th and 16th centuries. The birthplace of King James VI in 1566 and the home of the Scottish Crown jewels.
Royal Palace, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Great Hall was built for King James IV (1488 – 1513) as a majestic setting for ceremonial occasions. It was converted in 1650 to soldier's barracks by Oliver Cromwell. In 1887 it was restored and is used today for State and Royal functions. Interestingly, the ceiling is constructed in the form of an upside down boat.
Great Hall, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
We walked past the Scottish National War Memorial but didn't have time to do a tour. The memorial commemorates Scottish soldiers, and those serving with Scottish regiments, who died in the two world wars and in more recent conflicts.
Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The oldest building in the castle, and in Edinburgh, is the small St. Margaret's Chapel. One of the few 12th-century structures surviving in any Scottish castle, it dates to the reign of King David I (ruled 1124–1153), who built it as a private chapel for the royal family and dedicated it to his mother, Saint Margaret of Scotland.
Outside St. Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
Inside St. Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The 15th century siege cannon known as Mons Meg is on display outside St. Margaret's Chapel.
Mons Meg, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
Perched high on the hill, the panoramic views of Edinburgh were magnificent from the grounds of the castle.
Views of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
After a long morning of exploring the castle and its associated buildings, it was time for a bite of lunch and what could be more appropriate?
The Kenilworth Hotel, Edinburgh, Scotland
After lunch and a couple of hours of free time to roam the streets of downtown Edinburgh, it was time for a trip to visit the royal yacht Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia. Rule Britannia!
HMY Britannia is the former Royal Yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the 83rd such vessel since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh.
HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ship's Launch, HMY Britannia's, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Bridge, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Promenade Deck, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sun Room, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Her Majesty's Bedroom, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Main Dining Room, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sitting Room, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Officers' Bar, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
Myrna and Sailor, HMY Britannia, Edinburgh, Scotland
By the time we had completed the exploration above and below deck, it was dinner time and we were ushered to a nearby restaurant known as Malmaison for a delicious French cuisine meal.
Malmaison Restaurant, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
After dinner we set off to see the famous Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The Tattoo is an annual event performed by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth and International military bands and display teams on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. The event takes place throughout August, as part of the wider Edinburgh Festival.
These days, on average, just over 217,000 people see the Tattoo live on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle each year, and it has sold out in advance for the last decade. 30% of the audience are from Scotland and 35% from the rest of the United Kingdom. The remaining 35% of the audience consists of 70,000 visitors from overseas.
The tattoo came as an enormous surprise to me. Firstly I hadn't realised that such a prestigious event was included in the tour and secondly, I'm surprise at how immensely I enjoyed the event, wishing the entire time it wouldn't end.
As we arrived back at Edinburgh Castle there was a serious threat of some serious rain and as the tattoo is set in stands on the esplanade it is fully open to the weather. The poncho sales were booming. I must say we were extremely fortunate and the rain stayed away until we were walking back to the coach.
The sounds system was load and clear and the lighting spectacular, especially the eerie effect on the face of the castle as the bands marched in and out of the arena. The laser show was brilliant and the roar of motor cycles, fighter jet fly overs and the firing of cannons was a similar sensory overload to the nightly neon in Tokyo.
The 2011 event was nautically themed. I could not recommend a trip to this remarkable event highly enough. Make sure you hit Scotland in August.
The Esplanade, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Opening Performance, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh, Scotland
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh, Scotland
Our tour of Scotland had only just begun and there was so much more to see and do but I harboured a quiet suspicion to myself that night after the Tattoo that we were unlikely to see anything to match our brief stay in Edinburgh.
Next stop St Andrews, Scotland.
York, England (August 2011)
With a population in the vicinity of 200,000, York is one of the largest cities in the northern county of North Yorkshire, England. It is perched at a point where there is a confluence of the River Ouse and the River Foss.
The city was founded by the Romans in 71 AD and in turn became the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior. York retains the role of capital of the northern ecclesiastical province of the Church of England to this day.
Historic Remains of a Roman Column, York, England
York is a walled city and the distance to completely traverse the wall around the city is lengthy 3.1km. The walls almost form a rectangular shape and from almost anywhere in York, the York Minster is predominantly on display in the north-most corner of the rectangle and almost diagonally opposite is the remains of York Castle. Within the walls are located a multitude of commercial, residential and educational establishments.
York Minster, York, England
Lendal Tower dates as far back as the 13th century. Each night, a huge iron chain, stored in the tower, was stretched across the River Ouse to Barber Tower on the opposite bank. The chain prevented boats from entering the city without paying the requisite tolls.
River Ouse from Lendal Tower, York, England
Lendal Tower, York, England
Barker Tower, York, England
City Walls, York, England
City Walls with York Minster in the Background, York, England
Another unique and very interesting feature of the City of York is The Shambles. The Shambles is a narrow medieval street, lined with shops, boutiques and tea rooms. Most of these premises were once butchers' shops, and the hooks from which carcasses were hung and the shelves on which meat was laid out can still be seen outside some of them.
A plaque on the wall at The Shambles reads:
"The ancient street of the Butchers of York, mentioned
in the Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror.
It takes its name from the word 'Shamel' meaning the
stalls or benches on which the meat was displayed –
later versions of which can still be seen. It was rebuilt
about 1400, when it assumed its present character."
The crooked, ramshackled unevenness of the buildings give rise to the phrase still used today for anything poorly constructed.
The Shambles, York, England
There was an interesting array of specialty shops in downtown York.
Ice-creamery, York, England
Molly Browns Party-dress Shop, York, England
Gifts for Cat Lovers Shop, York, England
If you need a new knight suit this is just the shop for you.
The Armoury, York, England
Sweets and Pastries, York, England
There was even a shop where you could manufacturer your own Teddy Bear.
Teddy Bear Shop, York, England
It would have been interesting to spend a little more time in York and uncover some more of the interesting history of the place but we were destined for Scotland in order to maintain our busy schedule.
Next stop the Edinburgh, Scotland.


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La Arena de Nimes (también Arenas de Nimes según su nombre en francés Arènes de Nîmes) es un anfiteatro romano situado en la ciudad francesa de Nimes en el departamento de Gard en la Región de Occitania. Edificado en el año 27 a. C. El coso, que ha sido remodelado en 1809, se utiliza como coso taurino en el que se  celebran corridas de toros desde 1863. La Arena de Nimes es la sede de dos ferias taurinas al año. También se usa para el programa Intervilles, otros tipo de espectáculos.

El coso de Nimes es el anfiteatro romano en mejor estado de conservación de los existentes. Tiene un ruedo elíptico de 133 m de largo y 101 m de ancho. Está rodeado por 34 gradas, sustentadas por una construcción abovedada. Tiene capacidad para 16.300 espectadores y cuenta desde 1989 con una cubierta móvil y un sistema de calefacción. Es uno de los cosos taurinos más importantes de Francia.

Historia
Construido en tiempos de emperador Augusto, al inicio del Imperio, el anfiteatro fue fortificado por los visigodos y rodeado de una muralla. Durante los turbulentos años que siguieron al hundimiento del poder visigodo en Hispania y Septimania, la invasión musulmana y posterior toma por los reyes francos (principios del ), los vizcondes de Nimes construyeron su palacio-fortaleza dentro del anfiteatro. Más tarde un pequeño barrio se desarrolló en su interior, el cual contaba con unas cien viviendas y dos capillas. Setecientas personas vivían dentro en su momento de mayor esplendor.

Las construcciones permanecieron en el anfiteatro hasta el , cuando se decidió eliminarlas para devolver al anfiteatro su aspecto original. La primera corrida de toros celebrada en el anfiteatro se realizó en mayo de 1863 en la que se acartelaron toreros españoles. Sin embargo Sánchez Neira en su obra El toreo: gran diccionario tauromáquico indica que en 1853 se realizaron una veintena de corridas de toros en NImes a cargo de Pedro Fernández, banderillero nacido en Valdemoro, y su cuadrilla, actuaciones que se repitieron al año siguiente en 1854.

En Nimes se celebra varios festivales taurinos de índole internacional, el de Pentecostés que reúne a los toreros y ganaderías más destacas a lo largo de una semana con corridas de toros, encierros con toros camargueses y diferentes festejos y el de la feria de la Vendimia en el mes septiembre en la que se celebran diferentes corridas de toros y novillas en el coso romano Arena de Nimes.

Conciertos
En la Arena de Nimes también se celebran conciertos musicales y deportivos que, en algún caso, se han grabado y comercializado.

 En 1987, el Boxeador Mexicano Julio César Chávez expuso su campeonato mundial súper pluma frente al brasileño Francisco Tomás Da Cruz, a quien noqueo en el tercer asalto.
 En julio de 2005 el grupo alemán Rammstein actuó y, posteriormente, se editó su concierto en DVD
 En julio de 2009 actuó Metallica, cuyo concierto también se editó en DVD y Blu-Ray
 En julio de 2012 el dúo de Música electrónica Justice actúo y grabó su disco en directo Access All Arenas en este lugar.
22º Festival de Nîmes 2018, del 17 al 22 de junio, actuaron Marilyn Manson, Lenny Kravitz, Jamiroquai, Sting, Indochine, Norah Jones, Massive Attack, Texas y Simple Minds entre otros.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Sitio web oficial de Arènes de Nîmes (en francés y en inglés)

Anfiteatros romanos en Francia
Nimes
Yacimientos arqueológicos de Francia
Arquitectura de Francia del siglo I a. C.
Nimes
Monumentos históricos de Francia clasificados en 1840
Edificios y estructuras de la región de Occitania


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We have supported UNHCR with shelter assembly training in various regions of the country.
The Better Shelter
PV system
A solar panel provides power to a portable lamp with a USB port.
The four ventilations on the top gable panels comprise an outer frame, a slide-open hatch and a mosquito net.
The galvanised steel frame is the unit's load bearing structure. It is modular, self-supported and intended to be clad with the unit's panels.
The four windows comprise an outer frame, a hatch that can be tilted and opened, and a mosquito net.
The shelter is delivered in two flat packed boxes. The total weight of one packed unit is 160 kg = 1.14 m3 (2.02 m x 1.09 m x 0.52 m).
Lockable door
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Better Shelter RHU AB is a social enterprise based in Stockholm, Sweden, with a mission to improve the lives of forcibly displaced persons. We aim to be the leader in emergency and temporary shelter innovation.
A Better Shelter
The Better Shelter is a durable and scalable shelter solution designed to meet the needs for the activities of basic living, for privacy, security and familiarity – a safe base that offers a sense of peace, identity and dignity.
We provide temporary shelter for humanitarian operations, and offer technical consultation, project planning and support before, during and after implementation.
Frequently asked questions and answers about Better Shelter
What is the size of a Better Shelter?
The shelter is 17.5 m2 and designed to host 5 persons with 3.5 m2 covered living space per person, in line with the Sphere minimum standards. Shelter dimensions are (L) 5.68 m x (W) 3.32 m x (H) 2.83 m.
How is the Better Shelter packaged?
One shelter is delivered in two packages, which together weigh 162 kg and measure 1.11 m3. Box A measures 1990x1090x230 mm (88 kg) and box B measures 1990x1090x280 mm (74 kg).
Can the Better Shelter be disassembled and re-packed?
Yes. The shelter can be disassembled, re-packed, moved and re-assembled. Disassembly takes about 2 hours and requires a team of minimum four people. The boxes must be handled with care and stored in dry conditions if to be used again.
What is the Better Shelter made of?
The roof and wall panels are made of polyolefin foam treated with UV protection. The frame consists of lightweight galvanised steel pipes. Screws, bolts and brackets used to attach the envelope to the frame are made of plastic.
Is the Better Shelter waterproof?
The shelter is wind and rain resistant. You can find more information about the Better Shelter's performances on our product page.
Where is the Better Shelter manufactured?
Most components are produced in Northern Europe, with the exception of a few small components that are made in China. Our long‐term objective is to establish production operations as close to the end user as possible.
What does a Better Shelter cost?
The current price of a Better Shelter is €1150.
How long does a Better Shelter last?
The shelter's expected lifespan is three years with basic maintenance, depending on climate conditions and maintenance. One can also easily replace parts of the shelter in the event of any damage. The shelter frame can be upgraded with local material further on, and may be turned into a more durable shelter.
Is the Better Shelter used for any other purpose than accommodation?
Yes. While it was developed as a temporary family housing unit primarily, partners are using the shelters for several purposes besides accommodation: first aid clinics, storage space, registration centres, child friendly spaces, offices, libraries, clean water distribution kiosks, and even creative labs.
Who owns Better Shelter RHU AB?
Better Shelter is a social enterprise wholly owned by the philanthropic Housing for All Foundation, which was established by the IKEA Foundation.
What is the connection between UNHCR, the IKEA Foundation and Better Shelter?
The social enterprise Better Shelter is a development partner of the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, and the IKEA Foundation. The IKEA Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Stichting INGKA Foundation, the owner of the IKEA Group (INGKA Holding BV).
Why is Better Shelter RHU AB owned by a foundation?
Better Shelter is owned by the Housing for All Foundation to ensure that the company and any profits from it are used to benefit people in need of better housing solutions, and to protect the company from focus on short-term financial gain.
Is Better Shelter RHU AB set up as a for-profit?
Better Shelter is a social enterprise created with the sole purpose of providing housing solutions for displaced persons. It is set up as a for-profit company to allow maximum scaling of relevant housing solutions independent of any need for charitable contributions. It has no revenue objectives and any potential profits will be re-invested in the company or distributed for humanitarian purposes.
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Q: Calculated MYSQL Column I currently have a table that has 4 columns - valueone, valuetwo, valuethree and additioncolumn. I would like to know how to make the additioncolumn store the addition of valueone+valuetwo+valuethree.
I am new to MySQL and tried some syntax I found online and still no difference.
CREATE TABLE `calculation` (
  `valueone` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `valuetwo` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `valuethree` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `additioncolumnn` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

INSERT INTO `calculation` VALUES (10,10,10,1,0),(20,20,20,2,0);

The value 0 there should be for the first row 30 and 60 for the second row.

A: If you're using MySQL 5.7, you can use generated columns. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/create-table-generated-columns.html
CREATE TABLE `calculation` (
  `valueone` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `valuetwo` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `valuethree` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `additioncolumnn` int(11) AS (`valueone`+`valuetwo`+`valuethree`),
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

If you're using an older version of MySQL before they introduced the feature of generated columns, you'll have to use triggers:
CREATE TRIGGER CalcOnInsert BEFORE INSERT ON calculation
FOR EACH ROW
  SET NEW.additionalcolumn = NEW.valueone + NEW.valuetwo + NEW.valuethree;

CREATE TRIGGER CalcOnUpdate BEFORE UPDATE ON calculation
FOR EACH ROW
  SET NEW.additionalcolumn = NEW.valueone + NEW.valuetwo + NEW.valuethree;

A: I would suggest doing this as a view:
create view v_calculation as
    select c.*, (valueone + valuetwo + valuethree) as additioncolumn
    from calculation c;

When you use the view, the value is calculated automatically.  Hence, it always up-to-date.
If you actually store the value, you will need a trigger to keep it up-to-date in the event one of the underlying columns change.  That is a hassle and additional overhead on inserts and updates.
As Bill points out, the most recent version of MySQL does support generated columns, so that is the best solution.

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Discovery New School was a co-educational Montessori free school for pupils aged 4 to 10 located in Crawley, West Sussex. The school opened in September 2011 as one of the first free schools in the country and also the first Montessori free school. The school was funded directly by central government and had a planned intake of 16 pupils per year. Although the school adopted Montessori methods, the Montessori Schools Association (MSA) later said that they were refused permission to oversee the introduction of its teaching methods and had "warned the DfE of the school's likely failure" in 2010 before the school opened. Philip Bujak, chief executive of the MSA, said: "We were ignored completely." Martin Bradley, chairman of the MSA, said: "The Montessori Schools Association has had limited contact with the school from the start of the scheme. We suggested that they seek accreditation, but they did not."

While not formally affiliated with any religious organisation, Discovery New School followed an Anglican ethos and was one of four "faith schools" in the first batch of free schools approved by the education secretary, Michael Gove, along with a Hindu school in Leicester, a Christian primary school in Camden, North London, and a Jewish primary school in Mill Hill, North London.

The school closed to children for the last time on 3 April 2014, following a series of inspection failures and withdrawal of its funding.

School building

Discovery New School was located in Broadfield House, a 19th-century villa-style house in the Broadfield neighbourhood of Crawley. Built in 1830 on the extensive land of the Tilgate Estate south of the town, it was extended later in the 19th century and converted into a country club. It was subsequently used as the headquarters of the Crawley Development Corporation. The house, which is still set in parkland, was refurbished and converted for use by the school in 2011, at a cost of £1.9 million. It has been listed at Grade II by English Heritage for its architectural and historical importance.

Teacher qualifications
Discovery New School attracted media commentary when co-founder and school business director Andrew Snowdon revealed that he was "not obliged to employ qualified teachers" at the school and planned to employ teachers with a "mix of skills" including some with Qualified Teacher Status, some with Montessori training and some unqualified teachers and instructors. Alasdair Smith, of the Anti Academies Alliance, said: "The idea that free schools might not use qualified teachers would be very worrying for most parents because QTS is evidence that the teacher understands how to provide quality teaching and learning." Christine Blower, general secretary at the National Union of Teachers, said: "The NUT believes children deserve to be taught by qualified teachers. If the department decides free schools do not have to employ qualified teachers, it is a dereliction of their duties."

Ofsted inspection
Following an inspection in May 2013 by government watchdog Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) Discovery New School was rated "inadequate" and inspectors warned that "too many pupils are in danger of leaving the school without being able to read and write properly." The report said: "The headteacher lacks the skills and knowledge to improve teaching... Too much teaching is inadequate, and the headteacher has an over-optimistic view of its quality." Inspectors also expressed concerns that too many children were being assessed as having special educational needs when "some of them simply need better teaching." (As of September 2013, out of 48 students 25% had SEN statements or were on School Action Plus.) It was the first free school to fail an Ofsted inspection, and also the first to be placed under special measures, a status applied to schools which fail to supply an acceptable level of education and lack the leadership capacity necessary to secure improvements. Schools under special measures are subject to regular, unannounced inspections.

A further Ofsted inspection in September 2013 led to head teacher and co-founder Lindsey Snowdon's suspension "after failing to create an adequate improvement plan for the school." The inspection report said: "It is essential that a credible professional is appointed to the headship without delay to provide the expert leadership necessary to remove the school from special measures" and that the draft 'statement of action' and improvement plan put forward by the head teacher and the business director were "not fit for purpose."

The school governors appointed Penny Crocker, a head teacher with specialist experience in improving failing schools, as interim head teacher on 9 October 2013.

Closure
In November 2013 Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, wrote to the school governors that he was "extremely concerned about the quality of education children are receiving" and that "very little progress has been made since the school was placed in special measures." On 13 December 2013 the DfE announced: "Since the school was placed in special measures by Ofsted in May we have monitored progress closely. The trust has not provided evidence they are making the changes required. Lord Nash has today notified the trust that the department will terminate its funding agreement at the end of the [2014] spring term. We are now working with West Sussex County Council to ensure the children affected have suitable alternatives in place and their transition is as smooth as possible."

Lord Nash said: "We know from inspection evidence that teaching and learning is inadequate in DNS, and that there has been little or no improvement since Ofsted's judgement that the school required special measures in May. The number and nature of the actions and milestones to be achieved demonstrates that the staff are currently unable to deliver teaching and learning even at the most basic level with the consequence for the pupils of continued inadequate teaching for an unacceptable length of time. Further, the training implication for staff is enormous. It is difficult to see how they would be able to attend all the training listed and at the same time provide adequate teaching for the pupils."

The governors issued a statement expressing deep disappointment at the decision and said that they did not believe they had been "given enough time... to deliver improvements." Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, said: "In his terrible rush to roll out the free school programme, David Cameron has abandoned high standards and basic safeguards and the pupils at the Discovery Free School have paid the price. David Cameron is damaging standards by allowing free schools to operate under a complete lack of local oversight, transparency and accountability and by allowing them to hire unqualified teachers."

The schools founders "were sacked" and DNS became the Government's first free school to be closed on 3 April 2014.

See also

Al-Madinah School, Derby, a free school marked by allegations of financial irregularities, discrimination, and nepotism
Kings Science Academy, a free school marked by allegations of financial irregularities

References

External links
 Ofsted: Inspection Report (May 2013)
Ofsted: Special measures monitoring inspection of Discovery New School (September 2013)

Defunct free schools in England
Educational institutions established in 2011
2011 establishments in England
Defunct schools in West Sussex
Montessori schools in the United Kingdom
Educational institutions disestablished in 2014
2014 disestablishments in England


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Posted at Jul 01 2019 07:28 AM
LOS ANGELES - Two-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant announced Sunday that he will depart the Golden State Warriors, his team since 2016, for the Brooklyn Nets.
The 30-year-old star forward made his announcement on social media moments after the start of the NBA's free agency period, saying he will sign a maximum-level deal with the Nets.
A post shared by The Boardroom (@theboardroom) on Jun 30, 2019 at 3:02pm PDT
Durant commands top dollar despite the fact that he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in game five of this year's finals and is expected to miss all of the 2019-20 season.
"Kevin Durant has confirmed he will sing a max deal with the Brooklyn Nets," said a post on the Instagram and Twitter accounts of The Boardroom, his company-owned sports-business network.
A max deal for Durant would be worth some $164 million over four years. The Warriors could have offered him $221 million over five years to stay.
Under NBA free agency rules, teams cannot sign contracts with players until Saturday, so no deals will be confirmed until then.
Multiple US media outlets reported that Boston Celtics playmaker Kyrie Irving would be joining Durant in Brooklyn on a four-year deal worth $141 million.
It could give the Nets a formidable duo once Durant returns from an upcoming year of rehabilitation, provided Durant can regain the form that helped power the Warriors to the 2017 and 2018 NBA crowns.
It was in 2016 at the start of the free agency period when the Warriors, who had just been beaten by Cleveland in the NBA Finals, went to Durant and asked him to join them after the star forward opted to leave Oklahoma City.
Durant had the Warriors looking like champions again this year before a right calf injury sidelined him. Durant missed nine games before returning in game five of the NBA Finals against Toronto. He scored 11 points in 12 minutes before suffering the ruptured tendon that required surgery two days later.
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'In the Tall Grass' Review: A Dull Stephen King Adaptation in Need of Serious Lawn Care
It's always fun to see Patrick Wilson act insidious, but Vincenzo Natali's Netflix horror movie is about as scary as astroturf.
David Ehrlich
Oct 4, 2019 8:30 am
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Given the strength of its pedigree and the intrigue of its premise, it's rather astonishing how fast Vincenzo Natali's "In the Tall Grass" completely loses your interest. Adapted from a recent piece of short fiction that Stephen King and his son Joe Hill co-wrote for Esquire Magazine, the film opens by introducing us to another of the shifting nightmare spaces that Natali first explored so effectively in 1997's "Cube." This time around the location isn't an inescapable prison full of horrifying death traps, but rather a deep and disorienting field of — you guessed it — tall grass that's located somewhere in the American Midwest (where exactly in the American Midwest is something of a plot point in a movie that only has something of a plot).
If that sounds like a less frightening scenario than just about anything the director has started with before, that's because it is, but viewers familiar with the source material (or any of King's work, for that matter) know that evil loves to disguise itself in the mundane. The problem with this endless and instantly forgettable genre exercise — doomed to haunt the darkest recesses of Netflix's servers for all time — isn't that it lacks for mystery; the problem is that the film immediately gets mired in the same mystery that drives its paper-thin characters insane. If nothing else, you'll know how they feel.
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"In the Tall Grass" is only a few minutes old before it becomes lost in the weeds, but a brief prologue gives us plenty of information to get started. Becky Demuth (Laysla De Oliveira) and her noxious older brother Cal (Avery Whitted) are speeding their way through some "Jeepers Creepers" territory when we first catch up with them. Outside the car, it looks as if someone has painted over a massacre with pretty watercolors: Blue skies, green fields, abandoned businesses, a too-quiet church. Meanwhile, a strange tension gestates in the front seat. Becky, tense and queasy as she heads toward the end of her second trimester, tries not to puke as she watches her sibling chow down on a sandwich. We're more perturbed by his overprotective energy — Cal seems all too eager for us to confuse him for the father. There's a sense that he might be driving Becky to get an abortion, but in that case it would be hard to rationalize why they left San Diego for a less hospitable stretch of the country.
Becky stops to barf across the street from a creaky roadside church, and that's when she hears it: A young boy's voice calling for help from inside the veritable ocean of tall grass nearby. The siblings reluctantly step into the verdant sea, calling out to the child and each other. And just like that, they've walked straight into an ancient trap, though anyone wondering how it works and who might have set it would be wise to abandon hope of Natali answering those questions in even a remotely concrete way (the film is far more opaque than the short story on which it's based, which itself preyed upon a vague sense of hopelessness and inescapable regret). The grass seems to be messing with Becky and her brother, carrying their voices in a way that makes it impossible for them to find each other or anyone else. Basic spatial relations become a cruel joke, as straight lines become circles and even time seems to bend in a loop. Also, there might be monsters? Natali keeps the jump-scares to a minimum, but one well-placed jolt leaves us plenty tense about whatever might be lurking in the field, or under it.
Becky eventually finds the little boy. His name is Tobin (played by Will Buie Jr. in one of those exquisite kid performances that tiptoes along the fine line between vulnerable and sinister), and he's been stuck inside the grass for way too long. By the time Becky finds him, he's already prone to spouting ominous King-isms like "The tall grass knows everything" and "the field doesn't move dead things around." Tobin doesn't issue any such warnings about the giant rock that chants with the voices of everyone who's died in the grass, or about his disconcertingly upbeat dad Ross (a fantastic, ham-tastic Patrick Wilson, again subverting his all-American squareness with a performance that channels the religious zealotry that Marcia Gay Harden brought to "The Mist"). And in a story built on wet mud, it only gets even harder to find solid footing once Becky's actual baby daddy (Harrison Gilbertson) shows up.
In "Cube," Natali was able to make vagueness into a virtue; the danger was as clear as the reasons behind it were unknowable, and the mechanics of the film's geometric hell prison were so vividly illustrated that wondering about who might have engineered them was half the fun. Here, the slipperiness of the plotting is frustrating from the start, as Natali directs each scene with all the clarity of a broken compass. He's a master of atmospherics, and has no trouble insinuating all sorts of hidden dangers, but there's nothing enjoyable about watching people try to solve a puzzle that doesn't have any firm rules.
And "people" is a generous term for these two-dimensional characters, as neither Becky nor Cal is ever developed beyond the basic info we learn about them in the first scene; in a film that flirts with ideas of redemption while trying to disguise its "Groundhog Day"-like structure, there's something distressingly glib about how Becky's experience starts to influence her feelings about the fetus. "In the Tall Grass" is just a few minutes old before the emptiness beneath its Escherisms creeps up into the soil, and the movie only grows more enervating with each new wrinkle Natali introduces.
Wilson's crazed performance helps ground the happenings to something tangible from time to time, and a few compelling driblets of context are galvanized with some proper ultra-violence (those "monsters" eventually show their faces, and you won't soon forget what they look like), but the film's broad gestures towards family bonds and past mistakes never sprout into anything more than a trail of wayward seeds. The only persistently enjoyable thing about "In the Tall Grass" is the irony of Natali repeating the same mistakes over and over and over and over again.
"In the Tall Grass" will be available to stream on Netflix starting October 4.
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