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Zachary Comeau Daily News Staff @zwcomeau
Sep 27, 2016 at 7:09 PM Sep 27, 2016 at 7:09 PM
BLACKSTONE - The town has taken the vacant lot at 23 St. Paul St., the former site of a squalid home in which authorities discovered three dead babies, dead animals and heaps of filth that is now the subject of a murder case.
The "tax taking" was recorded with the Worcester County Registry of Deeds last week. The document claims that the homeowner, Kristina Rivera, owes the town $3,096.97 for fiscal year 2016.
Past attempts by the town to get Rivera to pay taxes to the town have been unsuccessful, including a demand for payment
The total includes $2,763.53 in unpaid taxes, $303.44 in interest and $30 for other costs, according to the registry of deeds.
Rivera also owes the town $46,457 via a lien on the 2,326-square-foot lot property for the cleanup and demolition of the home in September and October, respectively.
Town officials last January said Rivera has failed to comply with any orders served to her by the town, including one to hire a demolition company despite signing for several notifications delivered by police officers.
With the town eating those costs, the Board of Selectmen voted in January 2015 to lien the property.
Town Administrator Daniel Keyes and other town officials didn't return calls for comment Tuesday.
Rivera is the sister of Ramon Rivera, who faces child abuse charges relating to the 2014 case, which has yet to be tried. Roman Rivera is due back in Worcester Superior Court Wednesday for a motion to dismiss two charges of assault and battery on a child causing substantial bodily injury.
His girlfriend, Erika Murray, the mother of seven children – including three infants found dead by authorities in September of 2014 – faces two counts of murder along with two counts of assault and battery on a child causing substantial bodily injury, two counts of reckless endangerment of a child and two counts of cruelty to animals.
She's due back in court on Oct. 28.
Zachary Comeau can be reached at 508-634-7556 and zcomeau@wickedlocal.com. Follow him on Twitter @ZComeau_MDN.


In the years since I was first introduced to Global Chorus I have seen a change in the world, one person, one idea at a time. We, each of us, are beginning to realize the impact we can have on our individual places. So many new and heart filled ideas, and movements have come about. Though there are troubled places on our planet I believe a new day is awakening. It is my hope that even in these places of unrest there will rise a new consciousness, that collectively overtakes the old ways, the need to conquer and divide will give way to a time where life is the most valued of prizes. The earth and all its treasures are paramount to commerce. That our borders dissolve in issues for the good of all.
Do you think that humanity can find a way past the current global environmental and social crises? Will we be able to create the conditions necessary for our own survival, as well as that of other species on the planet? What would these conditions look like? In summary, then, and in the plainest of terms, do we have hope, and can we do it?
Introduction: According to Adria Vasil, environmentalist and journalist, "we don't need a foggy crystal ball to see the world screeching toward the brink of catastrophe" Global Chorus, p. 303. We see the results of pollution everywhere, from animal extinction due to the destruction of habitats to litter all along roadsides and trails, even in Prince Edward Island. Water, air and ground are all suffering. Jane Goodall writes "Can we save Planet Earth? Of course we CAN. The question is, will we?" Global Chorus, p. 2. We, in 5G feel that we can indeed save the planet, and of course we will! We have to! It's our responsibility and it gives HOPE to those who are watching us.
The smallest actions can have a massive impact. We learned that by reading Global Chorus in our class. We, as a class, have read approximately a dozen essays and we will continue to read more. Adria Vasil wrote about taking care of our own little corner which is what we are doing. For example at the beginning of the year, after reading some of the GC essays, we decided to reduce our waste in our lunches. Litter-less lunch has been successful. We've also learned more about sorting our trash properly.
Before Thanksgiving we read an article on David Suzuki's website about global food waste and how it causes pollution. We now have started reducing the amount of food waste we produce each day. We sort our trash in class and most everything goes into different recycle bins. The stuff that our school doesn't recycle, but which can be, is then taken home by our teacher to be recycled at her house.
We read in Global Chorus that we can have a big influence on others because we're all teachers and we're all students. We are teachers when we tell other people about how to recycle and reduce waste and showing them how to do it. We are taking the information we learned in school and bringing it home. We are also planning on sharing our learning with other classes. We are exploring the possibility of a green roof and planting trees to help our environment. We have reduced our waste by using containers instead of plastic bags. Buying things in bulk helps to reduce packaging so we have been making better choices when we shop. We are also careful to use what we have, and share what we have with others instead of buying new things whenever we need them. We also support buying local whenever possible. We made apple-sauce in our class using locally grown apples.
If we all pitch in and do our part, we will save the world, because it needs our help. Thank you Todd for helping us to make our lives big and green and for developing Global Chorus. Everyday, let's keep the earth green! Do you think you will go green?


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Golf is unique in that it is a self-regulating game and it is the responsibility of all golfers to know the rules. Golf etiquette is an integral part of the game and describes the way a game of golf should be played to ensure all players gain maximum enjoyment of their playing experience.
The following points should always be taken into consideration for the safety of other golfers and your own. Every golf course is different, with various obstacles along the way to challenge all golfers. Rotorua Golf Course is a perfect example where golfers must show caution and follow the rules. With many holes played over and around dormant and active thermal areas, it is paramount that golfers follow the club rules to make the most of their round of golf.
Golfers should never swing a club until all other golfers are at a safe distance away from you and likewise, you should always stand back when others are swinging at a ball. A practice swing should also be carried out away from other golfers to reduce the possibility of pebbles or other substances in the grass from hitting a player. If you hit a ball in the direction of other golfers, make sure to shout "Fore" to act as a warning. This is the only accepted form of shouting on a golf course. Players should ensure that their temperament is kept at bay during the whole round of golf.
When enjoying a round of golf, it is important that a golfer is prepared and ready when it is their turn. Start visualising your swing and shot leading up to the tee off so that you have a plan of action when it is your turn. The Rotorua Golf Club benefits from being an all-weather links course that has been designed for easy walking and an excellent golfing layout. This ensures that golfers can keep a good pace to their rounds and should not impede on other golfer's games.
If you lose a ball, do not spend too long looking for the ball as you will be holding up the group behind you. If you are using a golf cart, bring more than one golf club with you to the ball to eliminate time going back and forth. Boisterous behaviour may affect your pace and have a negative effect other groups around you.
In order to maintain the golf course, golfers should ensure that they observe all golf cart rules and stay away from all greens and hazards. The Rotorua Golf Club has unique thermal hazards that should be avoided – bubbling mud pools and steam vents on the 9th hole or the geothermal crater on the 14th.
You should always repair any divots in the fairway as best you can and repair ball marks on the green. If your ball enters a bunker, enter from the lowest side nearest the ball and rake the sand on your way out to remove all footprints. Golfers should always be respectful of other golfers when they are swinging or putting. Ensure you are not leaving a shadow over a putting line and don't walk through a putting line as the footprints may alter the ball path. Golf bags should be left off a green and never walk across a green with your bag as the extra weight can make an imprint on the green.
Rotorua Golf Club offers information on all things golf – Call The ProShop on 07 348 4051 for professional golf coaching, golf products or to book your next tee off.


Buddha Vajradhara emanates in the form of Chakrasamvara -> Indian Mahasiddha Drilbupa -> Lineage hold by numbers of Mahasiddhas -> Palchen Galo Namgyal Dorje*, the great Tibetan master and translator who brought many precious teaching including this lineage from India to Tibet -> after number of Lineage Holders -> -> -> Drukpa Choegon & Drukpa Yongzin Rinpoches of Dechen Choekhorling about 500 years ago.
Palchen Galo Namgyal Dorje, also widely known as Ga Lotsawa is a great Tibetan mahasiddha and translator who visited India and brought back many precious teachings to Tibet, including this practice.
Heruka Chakrasamvara (Tib: Khorlo Dompa; 'Wheel of Perfect Bliss') is a tantric meditational deity (Yidam) of the Highest Yoga Tantra (Anuttara) of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Chakrasamvara, along with Hevajra and Vajrayogini, are the three main meditational Yidam practices of the Kagyu Lineage.
There are many different forms of Chakrasamvara appearing with different number of faces, hands, and number of surrounding retinues. Although there are quite a diversity in the Chakrasamvara lineages and practices, the iconographical differences of the main deity are minor. Essentially there is the 2-armed form and the 12-armed full form of Chakrasamvara, embracing his consort Vajrayogini in union. Their divine embrace is a metaphor for the union of great bliss and emptiness (skilful means and wisdom), which are one and the same essence.
The Two-Armed Heruka Chakrasamvara is the essence form of Chakrasamvara. He appeared as a dark blue coloured semi-wrathful deity, with one face, two arms, and three eyes. He stands in alidha posture with his left leg bent, right extended upon a golden sun disc and a multicoloured lotus. With his two arms crossed before his heart he embraces his consort, Vajrayogini, whilst holding a vajra and a bell in his right and left hands. He wears a five-skull crown, the six bone ornaments, a loosened tiger-skin loin-cloth, a garland of severed heads.
- mainly practice by individual practitioner with higher faculty.
Two-armed Chakrasamvara is a meditation deity mainly for those with higher faculty for which their mind is relatively less complex and a simple form of deity is sufficient to support their practices.
Chakrasamvara is the emanation of Buddha Vajradhara and is the main meditation deity of Tantrayana. Most of the famous 84 Indian Mahasiddhas attained perfect enlightenment relying on this deity; and since the time when these Tantras were introduced into Tibet many great Tibetan masters have also accomplished perfect realizations through this practice.
Yidam practice is a very unique tantric practice in which one transforms one's normal, samsaric worldly experience of reality into an extraordinary experience of the true state of all phenomena.
The practice of Yidam is a special and profound method to quickly transform ordinary worldly deluded appearances into enlightened appearances. To be more accurate, the Yidam practice uncovers the actual state of ultimate appearances which is primordially pure, empty of inherent existence and unceasing. This purity and emptiness has always been there within us, but is obscured and unseen due to our confused and deluded mind.
Since this is not an ordinary deity practices, but of tantric nature. It's crucial that one receive the details instruction and initiations of these profound teachings directly from an authentic teacher of a valid lineage when the time and conditions are right.


Cotechino is an Italian charcuterie made with pork meat, fatback and rind usually eaten the last day of the year during the New Year's Eve Dinner. We use to serve Cotechino on a big plate with lentils because, according to the Italian tradition, lentils symbolize prosperity and money for the upcoming year.
The original Cotechino comes from the city of Modena (Emilia Romagna Region), where it has the PGI status (Protected Geographical Indication).
Because of his intense taste, it should be always combined with a glass of red wine as Lambrusco of Sorbara , Barbera or Chianti Classico.
Put the lentils in a large bowl with lukewarm water and let them soak overnight.
Poke the Cotechino with a fork, then place it in a large pot of cold water with a bay leaf.
Bring to boil, then cook at low heat for about 2 hours.
In the meantime, in a large skillet saute' the diced onion with Extra Virgin Olive Oil until golden.
Add the lentils (drained and rinsed), tomato sauce, sage, white wine. Stir and cook at medium heat until evaporated.
Reduce the heat , cover with broth and cook for about 30 minutes or until the lentils are soft but not falling apart. Add salt and pepper, to taste.
When the Cotechino is ready, remove from the water and clean all the butcher's twine.
Cut into 1/2 inch slices and place on a serving plate surrounded by the lentils.
Only few days left until Christmas, so hurry up and try to put on a perfect Christmas dinner to celebrate with the whole family.
As a second course we love to have on our plates a delicious roast turkey breast stuffed with the meatballs mixture. As a side dish we use to prepare oven roasted potatoes seasoned with rosemary, sage and sea salt.
Enjoy with red or withe wine, either way it will be a great second course.
Buon Appetito & Buone Feste!!!
Prepare the turkey filling placing the stale bread to soak in lukewarm water for 30 minutes. After this time, squeeze out the excess of the water.
In a large bowl combine ground beef, chicken, squeezed bread, prosciutto cotto, mortadella, parmesan cheese, parsley, 1 egg, salt and pepper.
Blend all the ingredients very well with your hands, set aside.
Remove the skin in one piece from the turkey breast and reserve.
On a large wooden board, pound the turkey breast with a mallet until 1/4 inch thick.
Spread a generous amount of meatballs mixture, leaving 1 inch border around all sides.
Lay the skin over the top and tuck under the edges.
Tie the rolled turkey with kitchen string.
In a large pot, place the Extra Virgin Olive oil, the butter, the rolled turkey, the beef bullion cube, the chopped sage and rosemary.
Sauté at medium heat for a couple of minutes.
Add the withe wine and cook until evaporated.
Add 3 glass of hot water, cover with the lid (not entirely) and cook at low heat for 1 hour and a half.
Untie the rolled turkey, slice it and serve with oven roasted potatoes.


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Police say they will summon officials of the Justice Ministry for questioning after they were implicated by Khru Jomsap to have knowledge of the fake witness.
Chief investigator of the case Pol Gen Wirachai Songmetta said Khru Jomsap Saenmuangkote has given useful information during yesterday's questioning although she denied all the charges the police have brought against her.
She told police investigators in Nakhon Phanom that officials of the ministry and the Department of Special Investigation have provided assistance on the revival of her car accident case, particularly the fake witness, Sub Wapee, who came out first to say he was the driver of the car, not Khru Jomsap.
Pol Gen Wirachai didn't elaborate their names but said they would be summoned for questioning as they were implicated to have involvement.
Meanwhile the police will issue second warrant for Khru Jomsap's husband, for questioning after he failed to show up for questioning.
Police escorted Khru Jomsap to the Nakhon Phanom provincial court today for detention and will reject her bail request.
Mrs Jomsap was arrested by police at her home in Sakhon Nakhon on Saturday and was on Sunday questioned by Pol Gen Wirachai.


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Грузинська траса S1 (груз. ს1, також відома як Тбілісі — Сенакі — Леселідзе) — це «дорога міжнародного значення» із зареєстрованою довжиною 542,7 км у грузинській системі класифікації, що робить її найдовшою грузинською трасою. Вона пролягає від Тбілісі через Мцхету, Горі, Хашурі, Зестафоні, Кутаїсі, Самтредію, Сенакі, Зугдіді, Сухумі та Гагри до кордону з Росією поблизу Леселідзе на північно-західному краю країни, фактично охоплюючи 537 км. Після перетину грузинсько-російського кордону в сепаратистській Абхазії автомагістраль продовжує прямувати до Сочі та Краснодара як A147. Вона є частиною європейських маршрутів E60, E97 та E117 та азіатських автомагістралей AH5, AH81 та AH82 і з'єднується з шістьма іншими S-маршрутами.

На північ від Зугдіді, через річку Інгурі, яка є спірним абхазько-грузинським кордоном, решта 198 км маршруту S1 пролягає через сепаратистську Абхазію не знаходиться під контролем центральної Грузії. Перетин Абхазії з контрольованої Грузією території (і навпаки) неможливий на автомобілі, лише пішки через міст Інгурі, який є частиною маршруту S1. Дорога досягає найвищої точки 910 метрів над рівнем моря біля південного порталу тунелю Рікоті, відкритого в 1982 році. Це найдовший автомобільний тунель у Грузії, його довжина становить 1,722 км.

Передумови
У 1980-х роках нинішня траса S1 була повністю частиною радянської траси М27, яка проходила від Баку через Тбілісі до Новоросійська. Російська частина цієї М27 проіснувала до 2018 року, коли її перейменували в А147. До 1980-х років нинішній маршрут S1 складався з шосе 17 (Тбілісі – Самтредія) і 19 (Самтредія – Леселідзе).

Шосе Схід-Захід

З 2006 року понад 160 км автомагістралі S1 було переплановано та модернізовано до стандартів швидкісної або автомагістралі в рамках міжнародного спонсорованого проекту шосе Схід-Захід, який було розпочато в 2005 році. Цей амбітний довгостроковий проект має на меті створити 455 кілометровий транспортний коридор схід-захід через Грузію та з'єднання Азербайджану та Вірменії з Туреччиною шляхом модернізації грузинських ділянок автомагістралей E60 (Поті-Тбілісі-Червоний міст, Азербайджан) та E70 (Поті-Батумі-Сарпі, Туреччина) для зміцнення позицій Грузії як Південно-Кавказький транспортний вузол. Проект Східно-Західного шосе включає перепроектування основних ділянок грузинської автомагістралі S1, S2, S4, S12 і нещодавно шосе S7 на шосе з роздільними рівнями, переважно як швидкісну магістраль 2x2.

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03:56 huginn_ bag: matts was last seen in #koha 6 weeks, 6 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes, and 47 seconds ago: <matts> hi #koha !
08:14 josef_moravec marcelr: it's a shame that bug 8612 does not go to 17.05, but my mistake ;( anyway what do you think about my last followup?
08:21 marcelr hi ashimema : any status on the inventory patches?
08:22 cait @later tell Joubu I think it's all good now with the Schema, but can you take a look at the branch maybe to make sure I didn't miss something?
08:22 huginn_ cait: The operation succeeded.
08:32 magnuse click on page 2 and it says "no results found"
08:33 josef_moravec magnuse: QueryParser ?
08:53 eythian ashimema: I think you'd have to go out of your way for that to happen, and the actual vulnerability part won't work anyway.
12:04 oleonard @later tell rangi Please delete Bug 18603. Spam.
12:04 huginn_ oleonard: The operation succeeded.
12:05 oleonard @later tell rangi Please delete Bug 18604. Spam.
12:05 huginn_ oleonard: The operation succeeded.
12:55 liv_ong Joubu: the other day you helped me with a koha problem, thanks for that, can I pm you?
13:00 magnuse anything in particular you need to know?
13:04 liv_ong magnuse: can I pm you?
13:17 kholt good morning everyone!
13:29 atheia That new Koha installer UI is really neat, whoever did that, ++ from me!
13:30 Joubu cait: all looks good to me, thanks!
13:30 oleonard Always with the sticky fingers, me.
13:45 oleonard liv_ong: Usually the advice for upgrading a version of Koha which is so much older than the latest stable version is to do a fresh installation of the latest, export the database from the old system, and import the data into the new one. All of this should be done on a separate server from your production one.
13:45 Joubu Why do not we have a wiki page for that already?
13:46 oleonard Why do we not have an UPGRADE file included along with INSTALL and README?
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14:19 huginn_ Joubu: The operation succeeded.
14:24 liv_ong Joubu: if I have 3.14 migrating to 16.05 can I link to the same database?
15:15 Joubu cait: I would not translate them..
15:19 Joubu cait: Do you want me to take a look?
15:19 Joubu Or is it too late already?
15:21 Joubu Why is it too late?
15:23 cait and because i hope that's the version that will stick...?
15:26 cait do you think we will get another version of it?
15:29 cait ah, did you see my later?
17:25 oleonard @later tell rangi Please delete Bug 18608. Spam.
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Q: Design 2 interactive modules in Ocaml I would like to design 2 modules A and B which both have their own functions, for instance: A.compare: A.t -> A.t -> bool, B.compare: B.t -> B.t -> bool. The elements of A and B are convertible. So I would also need functions a_of_b : B.t -> A.t and b_of_a : A.t -> B.t. My question is where I should define these functions? inside the structure of A or the one of B or somewhere else?
Could anyone help?
Edit1: just amended some errors based on the first comment

A: You probably mean A.compare: A.t -> A.t -> bool because types are in lower cases.
You can have a single module AB which contains both the type for A and the type for B.
You can have a single module AB containing both A & B as sub-modules.
You might also use recursive modules  & functors.

A: This is a classic design problem. In OOP languages, it is hard to resolve this elegantly because a class encapsulates both a type definition and methods related to that type. Thus, as soon as you have a function such as a_of_b, which regards two types to an equal extent, there is no clear place for it.
OCaml correctly provides distinct language mechanisms for these distinct needs: type definitions are introduced with the keyword type, and related methods are collected together in a module. This gives you greater flexibility in designing your API, but does not solve the problem automatically.
One possibility is to define modules A and B, both with their respective types and compare functions. Then, the question remaining is where to put a_of_b and b_of_a. You could arbitrarily give preference to module A, and define the functions A.to_b and A.of_b. This is what the Standard Library did when it put to_list and of_list in Array. This lacks symmetry; there is no reason not to have put these functions in B instead.
Instead you could standardize on using of_ functions vs to_ functions. Let's say you prefer to_. Then you would define the functions A.to_b and B.to_a. The problem now is modules A and B are mutually dependent, which is only possible if you define them in the same file.
If you will have lots of functions that deal with values of type A.t and B.t, then it may be worth defining a module AB, and putting all these functions in there. If you will only need two, then an extra module is perhaps overkill.
On the other hand, if the total number of functions regarding A's and B's is small, you could create only the module AB, with type a, type b, and all related methods. However, this does not follow the OCaml community's convention of naming a type t within its own module, and it will be harder to apply the Set and Map functors to these types.

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Q: Matrix of adjoint linear map is transposed matrix I am stuck with some exercise and hope that someone can give me a hint:

Let $V$ and $W$ be vector spaces and let $B_V = \big\{ v_1, \ldots, v_n \big\}$ and $B_w = \big\{ w_1, \ldots, w_n \big\}$ be bases of $V$ and of $W$.

Let furthermore be $\big\{ \alpha^1, \ldots, \alpha^n \big\}$ be the dual basis of $B_V$ and let $\big\{ \beta^1, \ldots, \beta^n \big\}$ be the dual basis of $B_W$.

Let $\varphi : V \longrightarrow W$ be a linear map and let $A^i{}_j$ be its matrix representation with respect to the bases $B_V$ and $B_W$. Show that the matrix representation of the adjoint map $\varphi^{\ast} : W^{\ast} \longrightarrow V^{\ast}$ is the transpose of $(A^i{}_j)^T$.

I cannot quite close the proof for this. My attempt is as follows:
1. Let $\varphi(X) = Y$, then
$$ \beta^i(Y) = \beta^i(Y^j w_j ) = Y^j \beta^i(w_j) = Y^j \delta^i_j = Y^i $$
and therefore
$$Y^i = \beta^i(Y) = \beta^i \big( \varphi(X) \big) = X^j \beta^i \big( \varphi(v_j) \big)$$
Consequently, the matrix representation of $\varphi$ in said bases is
$$ A^i{}_j = \beta^i \big( \varphi( v_j ) \big)$$
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2. Now, doing an analogous calculation yields the following: Let $\Psi = \varphi^{\ast}(\Omega)$, then
$$ \Psi(v_i) = \big( \Psi_j \alpha^j \big)(v_i) = \Psi_j \alpha^j(v_i) = \Psi_j \delta^j_i = \Psi_i$$
and therefore
$$\Psi_i = \Psi(v_i) = \varphi^{\ast}(\Omega)(v_i) = \varphi^{\ast} \big( \Omega_j \beta^j \big) (v_i) = \Omega_j \, \varphi^{\ast}(\beta^j)(v_i) $$
and consequently the matrix representation $C^i{}_j$ of $\varphi^{\ast}$ with respect to the considered dual bases is
$$C^j{}_i = \varphi^{\ast}(\beta^j)(v_i)$$.
${}$
3. The adjoint map is defined as
$$\varphi^{\ast}(\Omega)(X) = \Omega \big( \varphi(X) \big) \quad , \qquad \text{for some} \enspace \Omega \in W^{\ast} , X \in V$$
and so
$$C^j{}_i = \varphi^{\ast}(\beta^j)(v_i) = \beta^j \big( \varphi(v_i) \big) = A^j{}_i$$

What am I missing here? The transposed matrix of $A^i{}_j$ is supposed to be $A_j{}^i$. This is however not my result here. Can anyone help me find and correct my error?

A: I think you've just made a mistake in part 2. I'm not used to the notation you're using, but I'll try to keep it the same (so if something is off in my notation let me know). I'm going to use lower case letters for the matrix entries though.
In your part 1 you get $a^i_j=\beta^i(\varphi(v_j))=\varphi^*(\beta^i)(v_j)$, which is correct. A way to think about this is the following. The map $\varphi$ sends $v_j$ to $\sum_l a^l_j w_l$, i.e. $a^i_j$ is the $i$-th coordinate of $\varphi(v_j)$ with respect to the $B_W$ basis. But, by definition of dual basis, $\beta^i$ picks out the $i$-th coordinate of a vector in $W$ with respect to the $B_W$ basis. So $$\beta^i(\varphi(v_j))=\text{$i$-th coordinate of $\varphi(v_j)$}=a^i_j.$$
Now let's apply this approach to $\varphi^*$. If $C$ is the matrix, then $\varphi^*$ sends $\beta^i$ to $\sum_l c^l_i \alpha^l$, i.e. $c^j_i$ is the $j$-th coordinate of $\varphi^*(\beta^i)$ with respect to the dual basis $B_V^*$. That is, $$\varphi^*(\beta^i)=\sum_l c^l_i\alpha^l.$$
Let's evaluate both sides of the above at $v_j$:
$$(LHS):\quad \varphi^*(\beta^i)(v_j)=a^i_j$$
$$(RHS):\quad \sum_l c^l_i\alpha^l(v_j) = \sum_l c^l_i \delta^l_j = c^j_i.$$
Comparing the above we get $a^i_j=c^j_i$, as desired.


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 * @param <S> Store
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A Church of England school
St Margaret's Lee Church
Computing & online safety
Physical Education & Sport
Confidential message
We are delighted to have been in the Sunday Times list of best primary schools (based on end of KS2 outcomes) for 4 out of the last 5 years.
Our end of KS2 results 2019:
expected standard (national)
greater depth (national) average scaled score (national)
Reading 93% (73%) 57% (25%) 111 (105)
SPAG 97% (78%) 57% (31%) 111 (106)
Mathematics 100% (79%) 53% (23%) 109(104)
Writing 93% (78%) 30% (18%) n/a
Science 90% (82%) n/a n/a
Average progress score:
Reading: +3.1
Writing: -0.4
Maths +1.3
Click here to view the school's data and statistics in the Department for Education performance tables.
SPAG 100% (78%) 66% (31%) 112 (106)
Mathematics 96% (78%) 76% (23%) 112 (104)
Writing: +0.7
Preparing Children for life in Modern Britain
We work hard to provide the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences that will prepare them for life in modern Britain. At St Margaret's Lee, these values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways:
Democracy:
Children have many opportunities for their voices to be heard. We have a school council and the pupils have regular opportunities to shape their experiences. All children have the opportunity to talk to senior staff on a regular basis and use these occasions to share their views. Our involvement in the CBBC Vote for Me series really highlighted the relevance and importance of democracy!
The Rule of Law:
The importance of laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced at St Margaret's Lee. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that these involve and the consequences when laws are broken. Visits from the police and fire service as well as our Year 6 attending junior citizen events help to reinforce this message.
Individual Liberty:
Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make choices safely, through the provision of a safe environment and clearly articulated choices. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our online sessions or through the school values. Whether it be through choice of challenge in lessons, of how they record responses, of participation in our extra-curricular clubs and opportunities, pupils are given the freedom to make choices.
Mutual Respect:
At St Margaret's Lee, we teach the children the importance of respecting each other, regardless of age, ability or belief. We teach the children to show courtesy and good manners to adults and each other and reinforce how this contributes towards the quality of life at school and at home. The children are proactive in designing their own learning and understand that the staff team respect them for taking on this responsibility. We are currently working as a school on the Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Programme.
Tolerance of those of Different Faiths and Beliefs:
This is achieved through enhancing pupils' understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to experience such diversity. Our children visit St Margaret's church throughout the year. They are also given opportunities to visit other faith centres, such as mosques and synagogues.
St Margaret's Lee CE School is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. We aim to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of our pupils, our workforce and the community in which we work.
We will assist our pupils in achieving to their very best potential. Where pupils experience barriers to their success we will work with them to address these in a sensitive and sympathetic way. We will teach our pupils the importance of equality and what forms discrimination can take and the impact discrimination can have.
We will not discriminate on any of the grounds listed below (known as the Protected Characteristics) save where such discrimination is permitted by law. Examples of permitted discrimination are:
1. The school may arrange pupils in classes based on age.
2. The school may take positive action to deal with particular disadvantages affecting pupils of one racial group if this is a proportionate means of dealing with the issue.
The Protected Characteristics that apply to schools are:
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• Pregnancy and Maternity;
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As a Governing Body and employer we will also not accept any of the following:
• Direct or Indirect Discrimination;
• Harassment; and
• Victimisation.
We will comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty giving due regard to that duty when making decisions, taking actions and developing policies. In line with its specific duties under the Equality Act 2010, we will publish our equality objectives which are updated every four years.
If you are a parent or carer of a child in our school, you can register your views on the school online by using Ofsted's Parent View website. Click here to find out more.
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Charges & Remissions Policy
RE policy
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Havana Curveball (March 19th and 20th at Tower City Cinemas as part of the 39th Cleveland International Film Festival)
[HAVANA CURVEBALL screens Thursday March 19th at 4:40 pm and Friday March 20th at 11:35 am at Tower City Cinemas as part of the 39th Cleveland International Film Festival.]
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Imagine: a husband-and-wife team of filmmakers showcase their own school-age son as subject of a feature. Yeah, ultimate stage parents. Yeah, the kid stays in the picture, all right. Sounds like a real recipe for disaster, or have we all forgotten AFTER EARTH?
Still - coming along with exquisitely good timing courtesy the Obama Administration's moves to normalize relations with Cuba - movie couple Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider have done a lot more than make a glorified home movie with their modestly impressive short docu-feature HAVANA CURVEBALL.
The San Francisco-based filmmakers' son and star is Mica Jarmel-Schneider. Shortly after his Bar Mitzvah, the school-ager wants to do something selfless and heroic that will mark him as a mensch. Combining his affection for baseball with concern over poverty in Latin America, Mica is struck by the plight of Cuba, a baseball-loving nation still subject to harsh, decades-old trade embargoes by the anti-Communist United States. Even Havana's top team has only one helmet among the lineup.
First Mica rounds up a cache of donated bats and balls and tries to expedite them to Cuba via Canada (a reminder that Canadian filmmaker Michael Rubbo, back in the early 1970s, had the access to make the documentary WAITING FOR FIDEL, a rather arch send-up of the dictator and something of a precursor to ROGER & ME). When Mica can't confirm the arrival of his shipment, the boy and his parents (who wisely stay offscreen or in nonspeaking roles most of the time) personally visit the island, via a faith-based American charity organization.
At last Mica is able to bring more gear, play in actual games on the taboo island, and meet Cuban fans and players - and it is quite amazing for us money-grubbing, celebrity-worshipping Yankee- imperialist pig-dogs, that even leading stars of Cuba's diamond have ordinary, comrade-in-the-street proletarian lives. Just like everyone else. Yet Mica also realizes the limits and fallibility of his one-mensch relief effort.
Except for the overarching sense of Washington DC clinging blindly to an exclusionary, sorehead Cold-War relic foreign policy, there are no detailed discussions of politics or Castro, one way or another (perhaps a severe blind spot). But a brief, eye-opening visit to Cuba's small Jewish community is an unexpected bonus. HAVANA CURVEBALL may not be a home run, but the picture certainly rounds a few bases that most American viewers thought we'd never get to without stealing - either via US military invasion or a right-wing coup via Miami exiles and/or mafiosi. (3 out of 4 stars)
Posted by Charles Cassady Jr. at 12:00 AM
Labels: 39th CIFF, baseball, Charles Cassady Jr., Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland OH, Cuba, Documentary, Havana Curveball, Ken Schneider, Marcia Jarmel, Movie Review


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He said: "When we return for our second term in office, the youths will take 60 percent of appointments. The elders have had their day during the first term. The second term will be for the youths.
The governor urged the youths to protect their permanent voters cards as the APC has set up a committee to steal the PVCs.


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#pragma once

#include <sol-str-slice.h>
#include <sol-coap.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#include "sol-oic-common.h"

/**
 * @file
 * @brief Routines to create servers talking OIC protocol.
 */

/**
 * @ingroup OIC
 *
 * @{
 */

#ifndef OIC_MANUFACTURER_NAME
#define OIC_MANUFACTURER_NAME "Soletta"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_MANUFACTURER_URL
#define OIC_MANUFACTURER_URL "https://soletta-project.org"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_MODEL_NUMBER
#define OIC_MODEL_NUMBER "Unknown"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_MANUFACTURE_DATE
#define OIC_MANUFACTURE_DATE "2015-01-01"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_PLATFORM_VERSION
#define OIC_PLATFORM_VERSION "Unknown"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_HARDWARE_VERSION
#define OIC_HARDWARE_VERSION "Unknown"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_FIRMWARE_VERSION
#define OIC_FIRMWARE_VERSION "Unknown"
#endif
#ifndef OIC_SUPPORT_URL
#define OIC_SUPPORT_URL "Unknown"
#endif

struct sol_oic_server_resource;

struct sol_oic_resource_type {
#ifndef SOL_NO_API_VERSION
#define SOL_OIC_RESOURCE_TYPE_API_VERSION (1)
    uint16_t api_version;
    int : 0; /* save possible hole for a future field */
#endif

    struct sol_str_slice resource_type;
    struct sol_str_slice interface;

    struct {
        sol_coap_responsecode_t (*handle)(const struct sol_network_link_addr *cliaddr,
            const void *data, const struct sol_vector *input, struct sol_vector *output);
    } get, put, post, delete;
};

int sol_oic_server_init(void);
void sol_oic_server_release(void);

struct sol_oic_server_resource *sol_oic_server_add_resource(
    const struct sol_oic_resource_type *rt, const void *handler_data,
    enum sol_oic_resource_flag flags);
void sol_oic_server_del_resource(struct sol_oic_server_resource *resource);

bool sol_oic_notify_observers(struct sol_oic_server_resource *resource,
    const struct sol_vector *repr);

/**
 * @}
 */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif


A Mexican law enforcement helicopter crossed into the United States early Thursday and fired on two US Border Patrol agents.
Andy Adame, a spokesperson for US Border Patrol, said in a statement issued soon afterward that the incident had indeed occurred and that the two government agents targeted were not injured.
The incident occurred early Thursday around 100 yards north of the US/Mexico border, Adame said, around eight miles southwest of the Village of San Miguel on the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation.
According to the spokesmen, the personnel on board the Mexican military chopper were in the midst of a drug interdiction operation at the time of the event. Art del Cueto, the president of the Tucson sector Border Patrol union, told local news network KVOA that Mexican officials contacted US authorities soon after and apologized for the incident. The event is now under investigation, Adame added.
"They're dealing with the criminal element; they're dealing with somebody who is accustomed to violence," Adame told KVOA. "Those are the people the parents are putting their children's lives into the hands of."
Previously, the US Department of Homeland Security has reported that Mexican police or troops have crossed over the border around 300 times during the last decade, and were armed in around half of those incidents, according to the Washington Times.
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But if we want to connect this board directly with ESP32 board, we have to use at least eight general purpose input output pins of ESP32 which will be a waste of GPIO pins of ESP32. So the better solution is to use an I2C LCD instead of typical 16×2 LCD. In this tutorial, we are using 16×2 I2C LCD, but LCD of any size will also work the same way as we will learn in this tutorial. The advantage of using an I2C LCD is that we only need to use two pins of ESP32 to connect with this display.
Now let's see how to connect this LCD with the ESP32 development board. At the back side of this liquid crystal display, you can also see a variable resistor. This variable resistor is used to modify the brightness of LCD. This potentiometer is very handy when you are using this display module in the different light conditions.
Now we will see the wiring diagram of I2C LCD with the ESP32 development board. The wiring diagram is straightforward. We only need to use two GPIO pins of ESP32 Devkit with this display as you can see in the picture shown here.
In this circuit, we are using the default I2C communication pins of ESP32 board. In this board, GPIO22 is default SCL pin, and GPIO21 is default SDA pin for I2C communication. So you need to connect GPIO22 with SCL pin of LCD and GPIO21 with SDA pin of liquid crystal display. You can also check to this table for wiring connections.
You should know ESP32 development board; you can check this introduction to esp32 development board tutorial.
You have to install ESP32 library in Arduino IDE, so you check this post if you have not installed it earlier: How to install ESP32 in Arduino IDE?
ESP32 pinout which pin you should use?
Go to this link and download the I2C LCD library.
The file which you download in the last step will be a compressed or zip file. Now unzip this file.
After unzipping the file, you will get a folder with the name of LiquidCrystal_I2C-master.
Rename this folder LiquidCrystal_I2C-master to LiquidCrystal_I2C.
Now close the Arduino software, if you have already opened it.
Now copy this folder inside the library folder of your Arduino IDE.
Now open your Arduino software. Your library will be included successfully.
Till now you have successfully installed the library and made the circuit diagram.
When you connect your I2C display with ESP32 board, you need to check its address. Because every I2C device has an address associated with it. For many devices of I2C LCD, the default address is 0x27 where 0x shows hex format of the numbers. But address can be different for some cases. This address depends on the position of pads A0, A1 and A2 on I2C controller on this device. As you can see in this picture, we have three soldering pads, so we can have 8 different values of address depending on the connections of the pads.
But you don't need to worry about the internal connections of this device; we will use the code given below to check the address of the controller. Now copy this code and upload it your board.
This code will search for devices connected with GPIO pins 22 and 21 and display its result on the serial monitor. After connecting the device with ESP32 board properly, you will get this message on the serial monitor. This message shows the address of liquid crystal display which is 0x27. You will most likely get the same address for LCD with 16 columns and 2 rows.
Now we will come to the main part of this tutorial. In this section, we will show a static message on the screen.
This code will display the message "Microcontrollerslab" in the first row and "I2C LCD tutorial" in the second row for one second. After that, it will clear the LCD and displays "Static text" in the first row and "I2C LCD tutorial" in the second row as shown below.
Now we will see the working of code. This line will add the library in the code.
These two variables define the name of the total number of rows and columns of the display which in our case is 16×2. If you want to use the screen of any other size, you need to need to change the number here accordingly, for example, 20×4 display.
This line is used to initialize the library with the address of LCD, the total number of columns and rows. The first argument to this function is an address which we have found in the last example. Second and thirds arguments are the size in terms of the number of columns and number of rows.
Inside the step(), we first initialized the LCD with above-mentioned parameters.
This backlight() function is used to turn on or turn off the backlight. Every LCD has a backlight built-in inside it, so you can control it through this function.
First values inside this function define column number and second value defines row number. So inside the loop(), first we set the cursor to the first row and second column. After that lcd.print() will display the message "microcontrollerslab" in the first row.
Similarly, these two lines will set the cursor to the second row and display the text "I2C LCD tutorial" on the second row. For one second same text will be displayed in the first and second row. The delay() is used to add the delay of one second.
After waiting for one second, clear() will erase the text.
Now the other section of the code also works the same way.
lcd.print("Static text");  // display text " Static text"
So this is how we can use I2C LCD with ESP32 and you use the same instructions for the ESP8266 development board.


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A: Just write a function to check if both are ready:
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At the heart of the Bill are the provisions in chapter 4 for supervised community treatment. When the current law was introduced, the focus of care for people with the most serious mental health problems was in hospital, and the use of compulsion meant detention, and sometimes forced treatment, in hospital. Modern medicine and clinical practice has shifted the whole focus of care into the community and the law needs to follow. The Bill would, therefore, enable a patient who is detained in hospital to be released under supervised community treatment, enabling some patients to be discharged into the community earlier than would otherwise be the case—a real benefit for them and, often, for their carers, too.
Those provisions, of course, are designed particularly for the so-called "revolving door patients"—people who are hospitalised, whether under compulsion or voluntarily, who respond to treatment, who are released, and who then fail to maintain their treatment, producing another crisis and yet another hospitalisation. That pattern features all too often when someone who has been in contact with mental health services takes their own life—some 1,300 people a year. The same is also true in many of the far smaller number of cases—about 50 a year—when someone else dies at the hands of a mental health patient. We will probably never be able to prevent every such death, but supervised community treatment is essential to help ensure that patients who have been discharged from hospital continue with their treatment in the community, helping to keep them well and thereby helping to protect them, their families and the wider public.
Fiona Mactaggart (Slough) (Lab): On that point, I am glad that my right hon. Friend has made it clear that this provision applies where people represent a risk of harm to themselves or to others. I fear that some people, in reflecting on the Bill, think that supervised community treatment following admission to hospital could be applied more widely than that. Will she look further into the Bill's provisions for victims in those circumstances? I am concerned that victims of those "revolving door patients" who are not dealt with under criminal justice Acts, but quite properly in mental health care legislation, do not have rights under the Bill to information about the person who has made them a victim. That differs from the original draft Bill, so I hope that during the Bill's passage, my right hon. Friend will write in rights for victims.
Ms Hewitt: My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point about rights for victims in these tragic cases—a matter that the Minister of State, my right hon. Friend the Member for Doncaster, Central (Ms Winterton), will want to discuss with her and others so as to establish how best to proceed.
Lynne Jones (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab): Supervised community treatment orders have proved controversial, but they were introduced with relatively little controversy in Scotland. Indeed, the ease with which Scotland was able to improve its mental health legislation was related to the fact that legislators accepted the advice of their expert committees. The hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning) raised the issue of definition earlier. The Government accepted the recommendations of the
expert panel in this particular case, but they did not accept other recommendations. I believe that some, though not all, of the Lords amendments and other proposed amendments should be made to improve the Bill.
Ms Hewitt: My hon. Friend makes an interesting point, particularly about Scotland, where the scope of supervised community treatment goes far wider than what we are proposing in the Bill. In Scotland, of course, supervised community treatment is available in relation to any patient—not just those who have been compulsorily detained in hospital. I want to stress a point that has often been ignored: under the Bill, supervised community treatment will not be available to a patient who is already being treated in the community or who is a voluntary in-patient.
As hon. Members will be aware, our original proposal was indeed to make supervised community treatment available in all such circumstances, precisely as the Scottish legislation has done, but we considered very carefully the objections of the joint scrutiny Committee and others to that aspect of the 2004 draft Bill and we decided not to proceed in that way.
We have sought to reach agreement with those in the other place on a number of issues, but we are not prepared to accept those Lords amendments that would restrict the use of community treatment orders to patients who have been detained as compulsory patients at least twice. I believe that that would be a wholly unacceptable restriction on clinicians: it would exclude patients whose first compulsory admission had already been preceded by several voluntary admissions; and it would deny the potential benefits of supervised community treatment to patients until there had been a further crisis and a further compulsory hospitalisation. I simply do not believe that that can be justified, and we will therefore seek to reverse that amendment in Committee.
Under supervised community treatment, clinicians will keep a very close eye on people and, if they are in danger of relapsing, take appropriate action to prevent that. Of course, one part of supervised community treatment provision will be appropriate conditions, which might, for instance, state that somebody live in a particular place or abstain from the use of recreational drugs, from alcohol abuse and so on. When one thinks of the situations that can exacerbate or, indeed, help serious mental disorder, one sees that such conditions are simply common sense.
Tim Loughton: Can the Secretary of State name one physical health condition to which similar circumstances currently apply?
Ms Hewitt: No, I cannot. No doubt the hon. Gentleman will wish to develop that point later in the debate.
Let me turn to the other changes in the Bill. Under the Mental Health Act 1983, people can be detained only if very strict criteria are met. In brief, the patient must suffer from a mental disorder, which must be of such a kind or degree that detention in hospital is appropriate and assessment or medical treatment must be needed to protect the patient or others. In addition, we propose that appropriate treatment—treatment
appropriate to the circumstances of the individual—should be available before that person can be detained for treatment.
The new appropriate treatment test will replace the so-called treatability test. That, too, is a point on which we shall seek to reverse amendments made in another place.
Justine Greening (Putney) (Con): Is the Secretary of State not concerned, as I am, that organisations such as the British Medical Association are still concerned about the Bill as currently proposed? In saying that she is going to oppose the Lords amendment, is she not overriding what is probably the best medical advice?
Ms Hewitt: No. I think that there is a very real problem with the treatability test as interpreted in current law and in practice. The problem is that people with personality disorders often have enormous difficulty getting the services that they need, because they are too often dismissed as untreatable on the basis of what people think the treatability test means.
Mr. Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire) (Con): I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way on that point, because it is one that she and Ministers of State constantly reiterate. In how many cases in which the Act has not been misinterpreted—that can clearly be dealt with by putting people right—are patients with a personality disorder actually denied treatment on the specific grounds that they are not susceptible to treatment?
Ms Hewitt: Our estimate is several thousand, but, in any case, it is too many. I am afraid that there is a perverse incentive inherent in the treatability test—it is inherent in any test of the likely effect of treatment, rather than its purpose—for some patients to refuse to engage with treatment in the hope of proving that it will have no effect on their condition.
The hon. Gentleman, who is muttering away on the Opposition Front Bench and clearly does not like my answer, needs to recognise that the treatability test is taken into account by the courts in sentencing offenders, as well as by clinicians in deciding whether detention is appropriate. I do not know whether he is aware of this, but let me refer the House to the case of a man called Richard Ley, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2005 for setting fire to his own flat in a suicide bid. The judge who sentenced him, Judge Sean Overend, said:
"You were trying to self harm and did not care about the safety of others. I pass the life sentence with a heavy heart because it seems to me that to send you to prison for life when you have a disorder within the Mental Health Act is an inept disposal. But it is forced on the court because the consultant psychiatrist says that your personal disorder is untreatable so I cannot make a hospital order."
That is precisely what is wrong with the treatability test. [ Interruption. ] I do not know why Opposition Front-Bench Members seem to think that this is a matter for laughter. It was a tragic case. Modern clinical practice is that treatment is possible for people with personality disorders. The current combination of the four different categories of mental disorder—which we are going to get rid of—and the misunderstanding or current interpretation of the treatability test is having precisely the wrong effect.
Mr. Lansley: The Secretary of State has just demolished her own argument. She says that modern treatment is available for people with personality disorders. She has quoted cases. The case of Reid v. the Secretary of State, in 1999, made it perfectly clear that anger management alone could constitute treatment that would justify the imposition of a section. Why can she not accept that, if the law is being misinterpreted and people are not being detained where they should be, that is one thing, but to say that the law is wrong on those grounds is a completely different argument?
Ms Hewitt: I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is ignoring the fact that, because of the assumption that people with personality disorders were not treatable, services to treat them have not been properly developed over a period of many years. But, of course, as he and I would both recognise, such disorders can be treated. Those services need to be developed and we do not need an unnecessarily complex piece of law, which has been interpreted in the way that I have described, getting in the way of the treatment needed by patients who are seriously ill.
Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab): Is not a further difficulty that many clinicians, when faced with the question, "Will there genuinely be a therapeutic benefit for somebody with a personality disorder?" will not in the first instance be able to guarantee that and will in fact be able to state that in the first two or three months, there will almost certainly be a deterioration in the person's condition? That is the problem that we have to face.
Ms Hewitt: My hon. Friend is absolutely right and that is why we have come to the conclusion that it is much better to focus on the intention and the availability of appropriate treatment, rather than on whether a particular benefit, over a particular time scale, can be predicted.
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham) (LD): I have some sympathy with what the Secretary of State is talking about, because I am familiar with a case in which someone with a severe personality disorder was excluded from treatment—as is so laughingly dismissed by Members on the Conservative Benches. [ Interruption. ] I will return to the case later in the debate and I will explain how that was exactly the case. The person was excluded from treatment—there is no question about it—but he was not excluded simply by the treatability test. The issue is, as the Secretary of State mentioned, the interplay between that test and the narrow definitions of mental disorder. Does she not accept that, if those definitions are removed, the treatability test has lost a lot of its sting and therefore the modest amendments that have been produced by the Lords will still safeguard the interests of people such as James Green?
Ms Hewitt: The hon. Gentleman is quite right that we have to look both at the treatability test and the definition of mental disorder. As I have indicated, we propose to change both. But I do not accept his point that, in the light of the changes that we wish to make to the definition of mental disorder, we can therefore be comfortable with retaining the treatability test. The way in which it has been defined in the amendment
made in another place would have thoroughly unhelpful—and in some cases, quite disastrous—consequences, of the kind that he describes in relation to, as I take it, one of his constituents.
I am conscious of the fact that I have been generous in giving way and that there are many other hon. Members who wish to speak in the debate, so let me just turn briefly to the other key provisions in the Bill. I have referred already to the changes to the basic definition of mental disorder in the Mental Health Act 1983—as have others. We also intend to remove all the exclusions from the definition of mental disorder—except the one for alcohol and drug dependance—again in the belief that the simpler we can make the law, the fewer arbitrary obstacles there will be to the proper use of the legislation, thus ensuring that people who are seriously ill and need treatment get that treatment.
The Bill will update legislation in line with new ways of working in health and social care. Many of the statutory functions under the 1983 Act have to be carried out by a psychiatrist or social worker. However, of course, the world has moved on. For example, nurses are now taking on a wider range of roles and gaining additional qualifications in a way that simply was not happening 20 years ago. The Bill thus opens up several such functions to people who have the right skills and experience, regardless of their professional background. I know that those provisions have been warmly welcomed by the Royal College of Nursing, Unison and others.
We will strengthen safeguards for patients who are subject to the compulsory powers of the 1983 Act. At the moment, all patients under compulsory powers have the right to apply to a mental health review tribunal. However, the Bill will establish a maximum period after which all civil patients must be referred to an independent tribunal, even if neither they nor their nearest relative has made such a request. We will also take a power to allow the Secretary of State for Health and Welsh Ministers to reduce that period.
Dr. Brian Iddon (Bolton, South-East) (Lab): What would the Secretary of State say to people who are critical of the six-month automatic referral period, especially those who argue for a 28-day period, which, I understand, is the length of time proposed in the Bill relating to Scotland?
Ms Hewitt: I hope that I can reassure my hon. Friend on that point. We have agreed that it would be desirable to reduce the six-month period, which is why we will take order-making powers in the Bill so that as resources become available—we will, of course, need to expand the capability of the mental health review tribunals—we can reduce that period.
We will amend the Mental Health Act 1983 to remedy a human rights incompatibility regarding the nearest relative. We will also change the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to introduce the so-called Bournewood safeguards, following the Bournewood case in the European Court of Human Rights. Those new safeguards will be important for people who lack capacity and whose care unavoidably, and in their best interests, involves a deprivation of liberty, but for whom detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 would be quite inappropriate.
I have already indicated that we tried, whenever possible, to reach agreement in another place, where the Bill has been extensively debated. In particular, we tabled an amendment in another place to ensure that the code of practice required under the Bill will contain principles and that the Bill will set out the issues that must be covered by those principles. I hope that the new clause, which I welcome, will reassure many of those who were concerned about the provisions of the original Bill and called for principles to be included in it. However, we believe that other amendments made in another place would damage patients and create the risk of harm to them, their families or the public. We cannot accept those amendments and we will try to reverse them in Committee.
Ann Coffey (Stockport) (Lab): My right hon. Friend will be aware that concern has been expressed by approved social workers about the way in which resources are managed locally and that compulsory admission can be a fraught affair. Will she consider ways of addressing such concerns and improving local arrangements?
Ms Hewitt: My hon. Friend has extensive experience in the field and I hope that she will develop her point during the debate. Of course that is a matter that we need to consider, although it is primarily the responsibility of primary care trusts, working closely with local councils, to ensure that they have the correct resources available. In an emergency, they must be able to ensure that an assessment is made so that an authorised social worker—under the Bill, an authorised mental health professional—can decide whether to apply for detention in hospital for the purpose of assessment or treatment. I have no doubt that we shall return to that point.
I stress that we have substantially increased the investment that the national health service makes in mental health services, as a result of which many thousands of mentally ill patients are getting far better care and treatment than was the case 10 or 20 years ago. However, there are still people with serious mental health problems who are not getting the treatment that they need, not only to protect them, but sometimes to protect the public from harm. We need to make changes to the legal framework to help to ensure that they get the necessary treatment, not only in hospital but, in line with modern medical practice, in the community. I believe that the Bill—or rather the Bill as amended in Committee as I hope and intend it will be—will strike the correct balance between modernising the legislation in line with the development of clinical practice, improving patient safeguards and protecting more people from harm. I commend the Bill to the House.
Mr. Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire) (Con): It is interesting to hear the Secretary of State move the Second Reading of a Bill whose principles now diverge substantially from those that the Government proposed, but such is the nature of today's debate. It probably will not be well understood outside that we will manage to have an argument while all agreeing that the Bill should be given a Second Reading, but we will carry on and do so anyway.
The Government always say that the Bill is not about mental health services but, like the Secretary of State, I want to start by paying tribute to the people who work in mental health services. Hon. Members on both sides of the House will in a personal context, a family context and a constituency context have met people who work in mental health services, who do an often difficult job in difficult circumstances. People with psychological illnesses may present in similar ways to those with physical illnesses, but in some cases they can be very different—and very difficult to handle. The skills required of those who work in mental health services are remarkable, as are their forbearance and their patience in delivering those services. We should therefore start our debate by recognising what they do. The Conservatives think that, as a consequence, such people should be especially listened to. That has happened during consideration of the Bill in another place and, as it passes through this House, I hope—I know—that Members of this House will take a lot of trouble to ask people working on the front line in mental health services what they feel about the provisions. That may well change a few minds that might have started out a bit too set.
I do not want to discuss at length the state of mental health services. You will recall, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that in February last year we had a debate in Opposition time in which we set out the issues in some detail. I hope that that will be taken as read. We acknowledge that additional resources have been provided for mental health services. Ministers often chide me, but I am prone to say that health services generally and mental health services have improved. From experience in my local area, I especially welcome the creation of crisis resolution teams and the introduction of early intervention and assertive outreach. Those are important innovations, as has been the development of the care programme approach. However, I hope that Ministers will be equally even handed and acknowledge that significant problems remain.
Those problems include reductions in the number of in-patient beds and financial pressures on mental health trusts—even if they are not in deficit, they have to make savings as a consequence of deficits elsewhere. Despite the introduction of the care programme approach, only 50 per cent. of patients are subject to care planning. In addition, as the "Count Me In" census demonstrated, there are continuing problems relating to the discriminatory effects of the use of compulsion, especially in relation to black and minority ethnic patients. Those are all problems that we have to deal with, but as I am sure that Ministers would remind us, the legislation is not specifically designed to deliver services; it is designed to establish the legal framework under which people are brought under compulsion.


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Children with regular bed-times could be healthier as teens, says study
Getting the kids to bed every night can be a trying task at the best of times.
From the chasing them around attempting to get them into their pyjamas, putting them back into their rooms when they inevitably return downstairs, to the multiple wake-up calls, we're surprised if we get any rest ourselves.
Once the children are asleep, it can mean some peace for the grown-ups, but new research is now showing that the benefits of sleep extend further than just giving their parents some quiet time.
Studies are now showing that kids with regular bed-times might actually be healthier as adolescents.
While bed-times are a challenge, they're clearly worth all that effort if your children get a positive outcome later in life.
For pre-school and school-aged children up until the age of 13, the National Sleep Foundation recommended that they get between nine and 13 hours of sleep. Pre-school children need slightly more than school-aged.
While adults only generally need eight hours of sleep per night, kids need significantly more for their mental and physical development, as outlined by the National Sleep Foundation.
Penn State researchers have since found that having a consistent bed-time as well as receiving plenty of sleep from a young age might be pivotal when it comes to having a healthy body weight as a teen.
The journal SLEEP published the research, and classified groups of children based on their bed-time and sleep routines. Associations for the groups with teenaged BMI were then tested.
It was discovered that roughly 33 percent of children regularly went to bed at age-appropriate bed-times for kids aged between five and nine.
Kids who did not have a bed-time routine when they turned nine reported that they slept for shorter periods of time and at age 15 had a higher BMI compared to their counterparts.
Orfeu Buxton, professor of bio-behavioural health at Penn State stated;
"Parenting practices in childhood affect physical health and BMI in the teenage years. Developing a proper routine in childhood is crucial for the future health of the child. We think sleep affects physical and mental health, and the ability to learn."
According to EurekAlert, professors noted that bed-times ideally should have a 'window', and a routine which helps them feel secure and develop self-discipline.
Routines at bed-time can also include good-night hugs, a reading from their favourite book, and hygiene activities such as bubble baths or brushing teeth.
By creating a consistent routine, parents can make the process of sleep much easier for their children.
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