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Care Standards Bill [H.L.] - continued House of Commons
PART IV, SOCIAL CARE WORKERS - continued
Training - continued
Post registration training. 61. - (1) A Council may make rules requiring persons registered under this Part in any part of the register to undertake further training.
(2) The rules may, in particular, make provision with respect to persons who fail to comply with any requirements of rules made by the Council, including provision for their registration to cease to have effect.
(3) Before making, or varying, any rules by virtue of this section the Council shall take such steps as are reasonably practicable to consult the persons who are registered in the relevant part of the register and such other persons as the Council considers appropriate.
Visitors for certain social work courses. 62. - (1) A Council may by rules make provision for the visiting of places at which or institutions by which or under whose direction-
(a) any relevant course (or part of such a course) is, or is proposed to be, given; or
(b) any examination is, or is proposed to be, held in connection with any relevant course.
(2) The rules may make provision-
(a) for the appointment of visitors;
(b) for reports to be made by visitors on-
(i) the nature and quality of the instruction given, or to be given, and the facilities provided or to be provided, at the place or by the institution visited; and
(ii) such other matters as may be specified in the rules;
(c) for the payment by the Council of fees, allowances and expenses to persons appointed as visitors;
(d) for such persons to be treated, for the purposes of Schedule 1, as members of the Council's staff.
(3) In subsection (1) "relevant course", in relation to a Council, means-
(a) any course for which approval by the Council has been given, or is being sought, under section 59; or
(b) any training which a person admitted to the part mentioned in section 52(2)(a) of the register maintained by the Council may be required to undergo after registration.
Functions of the appropriate Minister. 63. - (1) The appropriate Minister shall encourage persons to take part in courses approved by a Council under section 59 and other courses relevant to the training of social care workers.
(2) If it appears to the appropriate Minister that adequate provision is not being made-
(a) for training social care workers; or
(b) for further training in the work of social care workers,
the appropriate Minister may provide, or secure the provision of, courses for the purpose in question.
(3) The appropriate Minister may, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Minister considers appropriate-
(a) make grants, and pay travelling and other allowances, to persons resident in England and Wales, in order to secure their training in the work of social care workers;
(b) make grants to organisations providing training in the work of social care workers.
(4) Any functions of the Secretary of State under this section-
(a) may be delegated by him to the English Council; or
(b) may be exercised by any person, or by employees of any person, authorised to do so by the Secretary of State.
(5) For the purpose of determining-
(a) the terms and effect of an authorisation under subsection (4)(b); and
(b) the effect of so much of any contract made between the Secretary of State and the authorised person as relates to the exercise of the function,
Part II of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 shall have effect as if the authorisation were given by virtue of an order under section 69 of that Act; and in subsection (4)(b) "employee" has the same meaning as in that Part.
(6) The Assembly may delegate to the Welsh Council any of its functions under this section.
Miscellaneous and supplemental
Appeals to the Tribunal. 64. - (1) An appeal against a decision of a Council under this Part in respect of registration shall lie to the Tribunal.
(2) On an appeal against a decision, the Tribunal may confirm the decision or direct that it shall not have effect.
(3) The Tribunal shall also have power on an appeal against a decision-
(a) to vary any condition for the time being in force in respect of the person to whom the appeal relates;
(b) to direct that any such condition shall cease to have effect; or
(c) to direct that any such condition as it thinks fit shall have effect in respect of that person.
Publication etc. of register. 65. - (1) A Council shall publish the register maintained by it in such manner, and at such times, as it considers appropriate.
(2) Any person who asks the Council for a copy of, or of an extract from, the register shall be entitled to have one on payment of such fee as the Council may determine.
(3) Subsection (2) is not to be taken as preventing a Council from providing copies free of charge whenever it considers appropriate.
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Prepared 6 April 2000


Language disguises the thought, so that from the exterior form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is designed with quite another subject than to let the form of your body be recognized (Calefato 2004. p 13).
The traditional western culture is cultivating a grand romance with the distinctive fashion style in India. Along with Indian music and spirituality, Indian clothing is viewing a huge effect on main stream identities of traditional western style and culture. The main intention of this essay is to demonstrate how this emerging trend pertains to the changing face of Indian fashion.
Fashion is the style and custom prevalent at confirmed time. To some it's an art form, to others it's just like a part of their culture and faith but to most it is a method of utilizing fabric showing or hide something about themselves. Fashion may be used to serve as an expansion of your respective own personality or to disguise one's own true do it yourself. One of the major points here is, how does art, culture and industry, the three aspects of life, relate to fashion? The English dictionary states that, artwork is a human skill opposed to nature. There are various for and against discussion on whether fashion is an talent. One view that favors the debate is, fine art is a visual medium whose creators react to the same stimuli as painters and sculptors and like fine art, it consists of immense imagination as well as mastery of approach and materials. The view against it is, designers supposedly are not concerned with providing, they are used with creating works of art, not creating a collection for regularly slated showings (Rhodes, 2003). Culture on the other palm is actually an 'intellectual development' at a certain time and a certain place and refers to certain human tendencies and activities that conclude to relevance and importance whereas; industry is a section of economy, concerned with the production of goods and service. It is an essential component of most societies and fashion is an enormous contributor to it. The major fashion metropolitan areas have ongoing competition between the other person and because of their different strategies become known as the 'ethnical industries'. The history of outfit, Barthes (1983) says, has an over-all epistemological value. By 'background of outfit', he means a socio-semiotic reading of the phenomenon of clothing as an articulate vocabulary through which it is possible to analyse a culture, as system and process, organization and individual action, expressive reserve and significant order. The nature of fashion, however, constantly changes and targets newness, or the illusion of something new meaning signs and symbols are transient. Matching to Woodruffe-Burton "fashion is a visible commentary on the excess of any postmodern culture, the perfect foil for an environment of fragmented and commensurate identities and personage, offering a active procession of free floating signals and symbolic exchanges" (Woodruffe-Burton 1998, page 302).
Choices made in regards to new clothes are usually managed by the existing fashion 'look' as defined within the fashion system and understood by the option of fresh goods (Alexandra, 2004). Relating to Barthes (1983), the concept of new lifestyle and fashion styles is "signified" while the fashion commodities become "signifiers". He also highlights that the present form of fashion commodities decrease in value and are eventually relinquished when the new signifier quickly provides a alternative to the previous signifier. Furthermore, Baudrillad (1981) described fashion as a "compulsion to innovate indications evidently arbitaray and perpetual production of meaning - some sort of so this means drive". The meanings drive individuals, to search out those new goods that could symbolize them. Relating to Vinken, "The discourse on fashion is created by the articulations of three major conceptual articulations: the department of being and mere appearance; the division of the sexes; and - inseparably linked to the last mentioned - the department of the classes". Today, there's been a marked inclination for the first of these conceptualities - whether it seems in its philosophical form or in its honest request - to be included into the sociological variations of the divisions of gender and course. This phenomenon of compression has been compounded by the fact that the paradigm of the division of the sexes has allowed itself to be grafted onto the discourse on class, dominant before eighteenth century, with the same decrease that, in traditional thought, the moral condemnation of vanity let itself be combined with philosophical suspicion of mere appearance"(Vinken, p4) India during its early on times to be clothed in fashion was regarded as a make of privilege loved exclusively by top class. The lower end of the contemporary society didn't have the access to it due to the dominance of traditional clothing which followed intensively throughout that time. But now it has altered for the better and is being enjoyed by everyone at every cultural level because of the democratization of fashion which includes helped in mass development during the Industrial Revolution. The looks of avant-garde designers from Japan in the first 1980s was thought to be the start of the postmodern sensation in the field of fashion. It allows openness to a great variety of styles and styles and the acceptance of Asian designers that was considered as the breakdown of the racial restrictions among designers who had been mainly white. Post modernity allows ethnic minorities, from women, lesbians and homosexual men to state find or retrieve an individuality (Wilson 1994). The definition of what's fashionable was slowly but surely reducing in its mother nature with the start of postmodernism which eliminated variations and with the end of the autonomous sphere of fine art. What was usually worn as underwear now's worn as outerwear. What used to be always a gap for the throat could be worn as an armhole. Contents of fashions have become diverse and also have redefined themselves implying the breakdown of the clothing system, itself that is, of sartorial conventions. The emergence of the new modern India seems to be the buss term for the new youthful generation exposed to the perspective of the new millennium as India exposed its entrance doors to the west, there came a need to create a new personality. Thus was the thought of taking Indian traditional fabrics and styles and incorporating them with western slashes and lines, to appeal to larger sections and masses. Because of these innovations, fashion gained in approval out of picked cities in to the most conservative homeowners. The new trend catered way to the concept of Indian fashion boutiques, credited to which women started moving out of our home and those typical tailor master were out of fashion. When more and more women began doing job, the online boutiques proved to be of great help as they can find everything under one roof covering, from fabric, creating, stitching and accessories (Chawla, 2006). Preceding to truly have a desired design, work was would have to be put on to run from shop to shop to buy the fabric. After the fabric is purchased, the matching color of laces and control keys need to bought and each one of these need to be given to the tailor for completing the stitching of the garment. Now, each one of these head aches are been considered attention by the boutiques which keep a total selection of stitched and unstitched clothes from casuals to get together wear. The mall culture and family stores has dominated and is also progressively growing in India. They are the places that happen to be starting to turn into a favorite fashion hub for upper and middle class people. These stores sell fashion clothing of all age groups and sexes and are considered as shopping vacation spot.
Most Indians express a great deal through their clothing. Their quench for the ultimate perfection plays a good deal in their choice of beautifully colored dramatic and sensuous clothing. Highly exciting colors woven in to indicate the ornate designs are available resonating through the entire of India. Lot of western influences has generated modern designs which has been included into the basic framework of Indian costume and that are the dresses that we find these days. In order that makes us question, that which was Indian fashion actually like when there have been no designers exhibiting their haute couture to pamper a luxurious line of clients? Well the answer to it is, India had its own kind of customs and traditions adopted from technology to years, the presence than it are even sensed today. A shocking fact about historic Indian fashion was that the clothes weren't stitched together by any means because almost all of the clothing was ready-to-wear, when they kept the loom. The old Indian fashion didn't really have garments which were sewed mutually. The examples of these are the dhoti, the sari, the turban and the shawl. The practice of using dhoti by women and men were seen as a familiar site since India always go through hot and humid climatic conditions and we were holding made with egyptian cotton which suits the problem. The traditional Indian Dhoti, the Scarf or Uttariya and the popular Turban remain seen noticeable in India as people continue to wear them and hence remains as a fundamental element of Indian culture. Indian dressing styles are designated by many variations, both religious and local with a wide choice of textures and styles (Tirthankar, 1999). One of the most commonly worn traditional dresses, the sari, is actually a rectangular fabric measuring about 6 yards long. It passes through the hip and legs around your body and tucked in at the back. It's worn in different styles and is manufactured out of materials like natural silk or other fabric woven in several textures with different habits. It really is worn by women as the lower garment combined with a Stanapatta (a thin strap that wraps horizontally around torso) which forms the basic wear. This includes garments that don't need to be stitched, the stanapatta being simply fastened in a knot at the trunk (Osella, 2000).
Although the saris and the dhotis haven't vanished out of fashion, with the Persian influences in Indian fashion, women started wearing long tunics that went down to the legs with trousers which were known as churidars. In addition, it includes the popular, functional, comfortable and stylish salwar-kameez. The salwar is a loose pajama like trouser whose thighs are wide at the very top and small at the ankle whereas kameez is an extended tunic that falls till the legs, the sides of which are left open below the waist-line, providing the wearer great flexibility of movement. The basic design of this has been revised in a variety of ways since historical days and nights (Jessica Pudussery, 2009). Apart from clothes, Gold takes on a significant role in Indian fashion and the utilization of it's been a custom, long liked by Indian women since early on ages. Ornaments made of gold, coupled with important and semi-precious gems and beads, will be the most popular ones. As the storyline goes on, it is said that usually Indian ornaments got an economical value for girls. The ornaments given to her at her wedding constituted a daughter's inheritance from her father (that was earlier known as "Dowry"). Though this no more holds true, a bride's ornaments is recognized as a financial security for her throughout life.
In India the appearance of dressing styles is more towards a cosmopolitan way rather than region specific; the cause of this change can be mirrored back to the early days and nights of Indian Independence. Later on globalization bought about huge changes and this can be considered as one of the major factors witnessed in Indian fashion industry, were relevance noticeable changes in styles have occurred regarding the Indian dressing. India's speedily expanding current economic climate has provided the basis for a fundamental change, the emergence of what is called a "new vanguard" progressively more dictating India's politics and economic path (India child, 2000). There can been seen an increasingly popularity towards traditional western method of dressing styles among the urban youth of both sexes. Some young women want to incorporate the latest fashion movements within their closet while still following some of the traditional Indian dressing customs. The women children market is significant not only because from it sheer size and the spending vitality but being that they are the tendency setters for remaining population. Young women generally pay more emphasis on the look of them than the elderly and therefore clothing occupies a far more central position. They will be fashion mindful and hence are frequent potential buyers and they usually prefer putting on casuals (Gowswamy Roy, 2007). Although traditional dress is still worn in India, corresponding to V. P. Sharma, an Indian worker working as a weaver in the original handloom sari industry in Bihar since 1988, blames the tendency in women's changing tastes for handloom saris, a simple cotton sari that many Indian women wear daily. The basic designs and less appealing colors, plays no significant role for a new modern girl like Rashmi Raniwal who is a 22 season old sales helper. "Sari?" she says giggling, "I never use it casually, limited to formal occasions". She further contributes that "ladies in India welcomes change as it is seen as a tag of progress". There's a common view that folks would consider, a female clothed in western formal wear is more empowered than her traditional counter-top parts. (Time Magazine 2009).
In globalized modern India men's fashion hasn't modified significantly from season to season whereas business clothing has been subject to few changes but it's more of being professional than being elegant. Personal health is part of the success equation, freshly scrubbed wins out over seriously fragranced. The finishing touch for Indian business pros is his choice of accessories like briefcase, profile and pen but when it comes to sealing the deal, a high of the line suit, a silk link and a good pair of leather shoes would make things perfect and professional. It's about presenting themselves in a manner that makes the business enterprise clients feel safe and confident in it. Dressing for success is still the guideline that is being followed. It was during the late 1970's and 80's the value of ladies in work place started out to truly have a prominent role than ever before. They gradually relocated into positions that had been traditionally kept by men. Most of them even thought that they need to imitate male's business clothing to look befitting the position; the results was, women seen dressed in skirted suits and overcoats with personalized blouses. While the business women now wear trousers to work, she should it with the intention to look professional. (Doris, 2005). Just like the men the same overall guidelines apply to women's work atmosphere as well, business clothing is not really a representation of the latest fashion development but it is to note herself as a specialist. They think that they must be seen for who they are and their professional skills rather than the trendy clothes they wear. The business wear should be appropriate for the industry and the position they keep within the industry.
In the 1960s and '70s, this whole bit of buildup of prosperity in India was still suffering from a Gandhian hangover. Even though there were a whole lot of families who have been wealthy all over India from North to South, all their lifestyles were suprisingly low key. These were not exhibitionist or weren't into the complete consumer culture. The tendency has now changed completely and we can easily see a complete lifestyle change on spending patterns from cellular phone, holiday vacation spot to latest fashion, which before would have prompted a feeling of guilt that in a country like India a kind of vulgar exhibition of riches is contradictory to its own values. Consumerism has become an Indian value and the new Indian middle income is making its tone heard everywhere. The center course is hard to explain exactly, is bracketed on either part by top of the and lower echelons. It is not a single stratum of modern culture but straddles town and countryside. It encompasses successful farmers, white-collar personnel, business people, armed service workers and myriad others, all positively working towards a prosperous life (Fernandes, 2006). Customers of top of the class which is just about 1 percent of the populace, are owners of large properties, participants of exclusive golf clubs and vacationers in foreign lands, and include industrialists, ex - maharajas, movie stars and top professionals. Below the center class is perhaps a 3rd of the population who are ordinary farmers, deals people, artisans and professional staff (Britannica 2009).
In today's fashion conscious contemporary society, with numeral volume of designers, it would be a difficult to notice down a few of the most notable fashion designers all over the world. The superiority of artist clothing offers one the satisfaction of owing a developer piece that is exclusive atlanta divorce attorneys way. The introduction of western concepts of displaying fashion shows has become a common event in India. The so called catwalk models began displaying choices of designers on ramp. It had been in 1932, the first fashion catwalk was planned in India by Catherine Courney. Now it could be seen as a common every day event with many conceptual and theme founded shows. Indians have started exploring new avenues using their modern cross types fashion trends which really is a mixture of the old traditional and the new modern and is also gearing up to International visibility. This simple fact can be proved by the lifestyle of eighty plus fashion classes in India were young vibrant designers are trained to handle the international arena. Recently, some of the world's famous fashion designers like Armani, Fendi and Myiake all have been fascinated and attracted by the elements of the exotic Indian culture and customs (Tag 2008). India, which correctly mixes the soul of adventure, the sense of puzzle and majesty with the ideas of elegance, class and modernity, is definitely a wonderful source of inspiration for most internationally acclaimed fashion designers. In Paris, Dries Van Naton, (The Telegraph, 2009) one of the new fashion leaders and the member of the so- called "Belgain Four" offered a collection of split chiffon raps dresses saris and kurtha looks - alikes. The colour palettes of these modern traditional western designers are sketching from the colors of vibrant Indian Rajasthan Desert at sundown using wealthy gold's red and renewable. Fashion designers are acknowledged for their mastery in embedding their creations with works of art that embellish the beauty of a woman. It's a fact that all folks are different from one another and seldom hold the perfect figure and beautiful personality that should be flaunted. It is also a real truth that nobody is perfect, we all vary high, color and characteristics. It is the wonderful hands of the style designers that transform one through brilliant smart dressing. They condition up the body in the most humble manner and make people look stunning and sensuous. There is something unique about every designer, one might give attention to ethnic styling while the other on hottest western selections. The Indian movie industry has contributed and provided inspiration for the gloriously rich Technicolor summer months fashion. Asia acquired a huge affect on the planting season/summer 2002 creator catwalks which resulted in the high street awash with smart turquoise, fuchsia, brocade and emerald tops, skirts and trousers (Colin 2004).
With the changing time, the Indian fashion designers have brought about a surprise in this glamour world with their commendably fantastic variety both internationally and locally. An enormous chunk of latest fashion is manufactured out of expensive creator clothing. These range between expensive saris to other traditional outfits that happen to be stitched with semi-precious rocks. These are exclusively made to accommodate the flavor and preference of particular individuals to be worn during special occasions. Some even give attention to modern expensive european fashion brands to make their occurrence felt. Each one of these trends can be seen in India's growing course of the super-rich which constitutes the maharajas and other like leading movie stars and industrialists. According to CapGemini Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific Wealth Report 2008, the amount of Indians with more than $1 million in assets is continuing to grow since this past year by 22%, to 167, 000, more than in any other Asian country. Finally, Indian fashion beauties on the earth stage can't be ignored or overlooked of fashion since it's the women beauties of India who bought about major changes in prospect of fashion, though they were left behind in the early days and nights. Lara Dutta (Miss World 2000) and Priyanka Chopra (Neglect World 2000) will be the few to mention as the world renowned Indian beauty's who added to these changes. Indian fashion acquired International vulnerability and acclamation through the medium of such beauty contests. Unlike outfits, just how we dress of our very own accord involves lots of unconscious decisions. There's a concept in fashion that there is nothing new, in a sense everything has been done before. This is coming closer to obvious reality, however the way is not yet decided, it is nearly certain that women use fashion as an expansion of their independence and being no more limited by the limitations of category. Now people like to dress in style which is accepted globally and has become an aspect of your respective personal information and personality.
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Q: GPUs with virtualized Remote Desktop Session Hosts I would like to have Remote Desktop users benefit from the new RDP 8 features, including Aero designs and H.264 on-the-fly video encoding. While I could find a ton of documentation on how to set this up on bare metal hardware for VDI scenarios, my environments typically are Remote Desktop Session Host servers running as guests in Hyper-V installs. So here go the questions:

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*Is there a way for virtualized RDSH installs to take advantage of the GPUs for Aero rendering and video encoding? As I understand, it is possible to expose a virtual GPU through Hyper-V, but the docs list additional requirements as SLAT, which I see would be unavailable from within the VM.

*If this is possible, would I need to run the full-graphical install of Windows Server instead of the "Hyper-V Server" edition as the hypervisor?

*Is using GPUs in this scenario worth the effort or would I rather benefit from a couple additional CPU cores used for soft-rendering?

A: No such solution exists.  Remote Desktop Virtualization in Hyper-V addresses the scenario where you have a client OS running in a VM and you want that guest to be able to use the GPU resources (even without actually assigning a GPU to the VM) to render a high-fidelity client experience.
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What makes the lady? Good gams, great shoes, a little leather, some light layering, gold that goes a long way, short shellacked nails and an envelope clutch? It sounds pas si simple, but it's actually quite easy.
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Thoughts on the Santa Anita Crisis
April 22, 2019	/ Standard	/ 0 comment / by Donna Brothers
The rash of catastrophic breakdowns that happened in a 6-month period at Santa Anita Park make it seem like racing fatalities are common. They are not. While it is true that there are somewhere around 50-60 training or racing fatalities per month at U.S. tracks (1.68 per 1,000 starts), it's also true that there are nearly 3,300 human deaths per month due to automobile accidents. These 55 or so horse fatalities are spread throughout all of the U.S. tracks and so it is truly a rare occurrence to actually witness one, but it hurts your heart every single time. It is also rare to actually see a dead person on the side of the road and we have roughly 3,300 chances of that per month. If we saw even a few of those we would never be able, with good conscious, to buckle our kids into car seats or seat belts, but we still believe the benefits of driving outweigh the odds of a fatality. Same with racing: it is rare to witness a fatal injury and we know that our horses love to race and that the benefits outweigh the dangers.
Thoroughbred race horses are athletes and just like human athletes, they will at times encounter an injury (torn tendon, bone bruising, sprains and sometimes a broken bone) in competition or in training. Many of these injuries are repairable given sufficient time off, however, broken bones are often catastrophic and fatal because horses do not understand that they need to keep the weight off of leg in order for it to heal. In some, though not all cases, the humane treatment is euthanasia. If they were running free in the wild and broke a bone they would have to suffer until eaten by a predator. (And, yes, horses do break bones in the wild too!)
I understand that people can accept said injuries in human athletes since they choose to compete and animal rights activists would have those not familiar with horse racing believe that race horses do not choose to race but are instead, forced to race. This is not even possible!
One would have better luck getting a 3 year old child to race against his will than a 3 year old horse! With a child you can threaten to take away his favorite dessert and his beloved toys and, perhaps, persuade him to race even if he doesn't want to. If a horse does not want to race there is no amount of persuasion that will change his/her mind. I've seen horses that don't want to race—and we don't race them! Not every thoroughbred is born with racing on their mind but the vast majority of them are.
On point or not, these are the topics being discussed right now:
Banning Whips
No, striking a horse with the riding crop does not hurt them. Horses do not run into pain, they slow down from it. If their leg hurts, they slow down. Same with their bum. Hurting them while encouraging them would be counterproductive and nonsensical. Yes, it looks bad. No, it doesn't hurt them. Can we do better? Absolutely.
Former jockey and Hall of Fame member, Ramón Dominguez, has patented a new riding crop called the 360 GT. The popper is made from material akin to the material used for a Nerf ball so the GT stands for Gentle Touch. "360" is because the popper is tubular in design with no seam so that there is no risk of having the seam side of the popper hit the horse. And this thing, literally, feels like you're being hit with a Nerf ball.
Should we just ban the riding crop all together? I don't think so. Horses need to be reminded of expected behavior. Asking riders to ride races with no riding crop in hand would be akin to taking your kids to the amusement park and not being allowed to discipline them in any way while they are there. Or like walking your dogs with no collar and leash. Probably not a good idea.
Using the riding crop on a horse does surprise them to some extent and, more than that, either serves to remind them of expected behavior or encourages them to dig deeper. It's like the jockey is saying, "Come on! You've got this! I'm still riding as hard as I can, I'm still trying, you need to try with me!" And while it's possible that a rider could just say all this rather than using the whip, I think it's unlikely that a horse would know what they were saying. Or care.
The jury is still out in many respects about whether or not Lasix is a performance enhancer and about whether or not it actually reduces the overall incidence of exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhaging (EIPH). But there is zero evidence to suggest that the use of Lasix has anything to do with Santa Anita's breakdowns.
That said, again, we can do better. There is reason to believe that Lasix weakens the bones in a horse through repeated use because of the periods of dehydration when used and that the widespread use has caused us to breed more bleeders than at any point in our history of the Thoroughbred.
But a hard and fast ban of Lasix is not the ideal solution even though I do believe it should be phased out. Creating horses that are Lasix dependent, then abruptly pulling the Lasix, is likely to be much worse for the horse than continuing to allow the use of Lasix until a resolution can be determined and executed.
There are alternative/natural herbs, tonics and vitamin combinations that can and do effectively treat EIPH but they all disappeared from the market with the widespread use of Lasix. To be sure, Lasix works really well. Plus it's easy. But there was a time when Lasix was not permitted in New York and they used vitamin and herbal combinations to stop their bleeders from EIPH. This is an area of the Lasix debate that warrants further consideration.
The only way we'll get those natural remedies back is if Lasix can no longer be used. I'll write more about Lasix in a future blog as there's really much more to be said on subject.
The racing surface at Santa Anita
The surface saw a confluence of 3 factors that it had experienced before as singular events but, at least in recent history, not as a cacophony.
More rain than in recent years.
Colder temperatures than in recent years.
Santa Anita's longtime track superintendent, Dennis Moore, was let go (only to be brought back when things got really bad) in the midst of the first two weather related influencers.
The track got away from them. And not every horseman at Santa Anita knew how to read the track to judge for their own horses.
It is good to see that the horsemen's groups, the Stronach Group and the Jockey's Guild are now working together to find a comprehensive strategy to move forward in California and a good initial step by Santa Anita was adding more dirt (aka "cushion") to their racing surface. But make no mistake, this is a watershed moment in the sport of horse racing and what happens in California will affect horse racing everywhere in the United States.
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Donna is one of the most decorated female jockeys of all time. Now retired from race-riding, she is currently an award winning sports analyst and commentator for NBC, and the author of the book, "Inside Track: Insider's Guide to Horse Racing", which is now in its second printing. When she's not on location, or in meetings, you can find her writing, reading, traveling and spending time with her husband Frank and her two dogs.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css" id="bleu" />

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon32.ico"/>
<title>Gestion de Notes e-Miage: interface ETUDIANTS</title>

                       <?php include "menus/menu-etudiant.php"?>

 Bienvenue <?php echo $_SESSION['prenom'] . " ". $_SESSION['nom']; //Affichage du nom de la personne ?>

                <?php
				//affichage de la photo par défaut ou de celle uploadée
				$requeteCheminphoto = mysql_query ("SELECT photo FROM etudiants WHERE idETUDIANT = '$id'");
        			$resultatCheminphoto = mysql_fetch_array($requeteCheminphoto);

				echo '';

				?>

 Mes notes de devoirs

                <form method="post" action='<?php echo "$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]"?>' id="notesDevoirs">
                    choisir une session: *
                    <select name="session">
                    <option></option>
                    <?php
                        $recherche_sessions = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT session FROM devoirs ORDER BY `date` DESC ;")
                        OR die (mysql_error());
                        $nombre_sessions = mysql_num_rows($recherche_sessions);
                        for($i=0; $i<$nombre_sessions; $i++)
                        {
                            $session = mysql_result($recherche_sessions, $i, 'session');
                         echo "<option value='$session'>$session</option>";
                        }
                    ?>
                     </select>
                    <input type="submit"/>
                </form>

               <?php
                    if(isset($_POST['session']) AND !is_null($_POST['session']))
                    {  ?>

 Session: <?php echo $_POST['session']?>

                            <?php
                   $recherche_modules =mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT devoirs.module
                        FROM devoirs, notesdevoirs
                        WHERE devoirs.session =  '$_POST[session]'
                        AND notesdevoirs.etudiant =  '$_SESSION[id]'
                        AND notesdevoirs.devoir = devoirs.idDEVOIR") OR die(mysql_error());

         while($modules = mysql_fetch_assoc($recherche_modules))
         {
                $module = $modules['module'];
              $recherche_notes = mysql_query("
                      SELECT notesdevoirs.note, devoirs.NUMERO
                            FROM notesdevoirs, devoirs
                            WHERE notesdevoirs.devoir = devoirs.idDEVOIR
                            AND devoirs.module = '$module'
                            AND notesdevoirs.etudiant = '$_SESSION[id]'
                            AND devoirs.session =  '$_POST[session]';
                      ");
              echo "

Module: $module

Numéro du devoir	Note du devoir

                ";
              while($notes = mysql_fetch_assoc($recherche_notes))
              {
                  $note = $notes['note'];
                  $num_devoir = $notes['NUMERO'];
                  echo "

                      Devoir N° $num_devoir
                      $note

                   ";
              }
              echo "
";
         }

                 ?>

               <?php

               }
               ?>

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