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UL Hospitals Group
Expert staff and reduced waiting times at St John's Injury Unit
Suzanne Lynch, Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the Injury Unit at St John's Hospital, Limerick
With Christmas fast approaching and cold weather settling across the Mid-West, UL Hospitals Group is reminding Limerick residents that the Injury Unit at St John's Hospital is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, for treatment of a range of minor injuries.
St John's Injury Unit is one of 11 across the country, and one of three in the UL Hospitals Group, with the other units for the Mid-West located in Ennis Hospital and Nenagh Hospital.
Patients aged 5 and over can be treated in St John's Injury Unit for a range of minor injuries including sports injuries, broken bones, dislocations, sprains and minor burns.
To the end of October this year, a total of 9,751 patients attended St John's Injury Unit, a marginal decrease (0.3pc) on the corresponding period in 2018. Across the Hospitals Group, the number of patients treated in Injury Units has continued to increase.
A total of 28,216 patients have been treated in the Group's three Injury Units to the end of October 2019, up by 2.18% on the figure for the corresponding period last year.
The Injury Unit at St John's is staffed by a team of doctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) and nurses who are highly experienced in the treatment of minor non-life and non-limb threatening injuries.
With seriously ill patients prioritised for treatment in the Emergency Department in University Hospital Limerick, the Injury Units are a vital resource for maximising efficient patient flow and minimising wait times for patients.
As Suzanne Lynch, an ANP based in St John's Injury Unit, explains: "If you want to save time and you want to get our injury treated a little bit quicker, please come to an injury unit instead of visiting the busy Emergency Department."
Dr Gareth Quin, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Limerick and St John's Hospital Injury Unit, also encouraged any patient with minor injuries to attend St John's injury unit for treatment.
"We have a team of highly experienced doctors, ANPs and nurses, and typically, patients will be treated and discharged much more quickly than they would be if they attended the ED at University Hospital Limerick," Dr Quin added.
Injury Units can treat patients with broken bones, dislocations, sprains, strains, wounds, scalds and minor burns that are unlikely to need overnight admission to hospital. Staff members take x-rays, reduce joint dislocations, apply plaster casts and treat wounds by stitches or other means. Injury units provide swift access to tests and x-rays and some have rapid access to physiotherapy services. They are staffed by Consultant-led teams of doctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), nurses, radiographers and physiotherapists. Patients can go directly to the Unit or be referred by a GP.
Nationally, the average turn-around time for seeing and treating patients in injury units is 1-2 hours. The Injury Units in the Mid-West and across the State provide patients with the same level of expertise and service as Emergency Departments. The only exceptions are for patients with serious head, back and neck injuries, abdominal (stomach) pain, medical illnesses or mental health problems and children under the age of five. For appropriate patients who wish to avoid long waiting times, Injury Units are the best option.
Approximately one in three of all emergency presentations within UL Hospitals Group take place within the three Injury Units. Attendances continue to increase in Nenagh, Ennis and St John's and the Injury Units have the capacity to do more still.
All three have had consistently good feedback and reaction from the patients they treat. There is no charge for patients with full medical cards or those patients with a valid medical/GP referral letter.
The Injury Unit at St. John's Hospital is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm, and can be contacted on 061-462303. For information online, visit www.hse.ie/injuryunits or view this brief video - https://youtu.be/hV9jN4r9JJo
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1. There will be no Neymar. But life goes on. Brazil's best player and the face (and hair) of the World Cup is out for today's semifinal, and for the final—if Brazil wins—because of a fractured vertebra suffered in the soccer/wrestling match against Colombia. Can Brazil win without him? It's certainly possible. The team is loaded with Oscars and Freds and Willians and other one-named players who've been sold to European clubs for massive piles of euros. It has a successful coach who looks great in a blousy windbreaker (Big Phil Scolari) and was in the charge the last time Brazil won a World Cup (2002, in Korea/Japan). And it's playing at home, in front of basically 200 million extremely concerned citizens prepared to burn the continent to the ground if their beloved Seleção loses. It will be loud in that stadium.
2. Unfortunately for Brazil, they're also missing Thiago Silva. If you ask me, the accumulated yellow card rule is almost as terrible as resolving games via penalty kicks. Any player who gets two yellow cards across his team's first FIVE games misses a game (in this case, the semifinal), and that's the fate of Thiago Silva, Brazil's best defender and team captain. His absence is nearly as painful to the host nation as Neymar's, especially considering that this German team is loaded with attacking talent, in particular the gangly Thomas Müller, who seems in many ways like he shouldn't be good—he's not especially fast, or strong, or a great dribbler—but who is in reality maybe the best player in this tournament. He has nine goals in his first ten World Cup games, going back to 2010, and no team has come close to stopping him so far.
3. Germany has been the most consistent team in the tournament. Everyone will remember this World Cup for being one of thrilling play, dramatic endings, and goals—lots and lots of goals. Numerous teams have looked great at times, but often those same teams have regressed to the mean later in the tournament. Basically, that's the case of every team but Germany. The Germans are a strange bunch. They start four central defenders and are vulnerable to speed at the back (as we saw against Ghana). They typically don't play any strikers, except sometimes when the increasingly ancient but still pretty decent Miroslav Klose is called upon to doink in a goal. And they are absolutely stacked in the midfield. Coach Jogi Löw can start any combination of eight or nine world-class players in his midfield, and that's the heart of his team. Goals come from the midfield, and opponent attacks are stopped there. The Germans possess the ball well, counterattack well, and put together some of the best combination play of any team in the tournament. They rarely look overpowering—except (ahem) against the U.S.—but after five games, Die Mannschaft have been the most consistent team in the tournament. Germany hasn't won a World Cup since unification, and the country's last major win was the 1996 European Championship, but they're always in contention, more consistently than any other nation, and sooner or later the luck has to break Germany's way.
4. Don't expect jogo bonito. Brazil is famed for its beautiful soccer. Colorful, stylish, balletic play is a matter of national pride. But we sure haven't seen it much so far. There have been flashes during the World Cup, and certainly guys like Hulk, Oscar, and Willian are capable of creative genius, but Brazil's play has also been physical and plodding at times and without Neymar—the one guy who plays jogo bonito all the time—you can expect a more patient team that might resort to relentless fouling, as it did against Colombia. Jogi Löw has already fired off a very public warning about this, saying that he hopes the semifinal won't be a repeat of last week's bloodbath, and certainly the referee will be under great scrutiny, but strategic fouling can slow down a superior team, so if the Brazilians feel like they're losing grip on the game, it could well happen. But let's hope it doesn't.
**5. All that said, Nate Silver likes Brazil. **ESPN's resident egghead ran his supercomputers and they spat out Brazil as a 65 percent favorite, even factoring for the absences of Neymar and Silva. (The percentage rises to 73 percent if they're playing.) That surprises me, but Silver says the deciding factor—and a powerful one—is the home-field advantage. If the teams played at a neutral site, he says, it would basically be a toss-up. My guess? For the good of the tournament, I guess I'd like to see Brazil win, but I think the Germans are the better team. So I'm going 3-2 to Ze Germans.


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Utah to appeal ruling in 'Sister Wives' case
Utah's attorney general has decided to appeal a ruling that struck down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law.
Utah to appeal ruling in 'Sister Wives' case Utah's attorney general has decided to appeal a ruling that struck down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law. Check out this story on hattiesburgamerican.com: http://hatne.ws/1piZyXS
By BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press Published 6:45 a.m. CT Sept. 27, 2014
Kody Brown poses with his wives at one of their homes in Las Vegas. Utah's attorney general has filed notice that he will appeal a ruling striking down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law in a lawsuit brought by the family on the TLC reality TV show "Sister Wives." Attorney General Sean Reyes filed the notice Wednesday, about a month after a federal judge issued a final ruling in the case.(Photo: JERRY HENKEL AP)
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's attorney general has decided to appeal a ruling that struck down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law in what marked a significant victory for the family on the reality TV show "Sister Wives" and polygamous families living in Utah.
Advocacy groups for polygamy and individual liberties hailed U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups' December ruling in favor of the TLC reality show's Kody Brown and his four wives as a landmark decision that removed the threat of arrest for plural families in Utah.
The ruling was made final about a month ago, and Attorney General Sean Reyes filed paperwork Wednesday saying Utah will appeal to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeal will be filed within two weeks, Reyes spokeswoman Missy Larsen said.
Reyes' chief of staff, Parker Douglas, said it is office policy to defend any law that is challenged for constitutionality so long as there is a defense. He said they aren't taking any political position, but rather seeking clarity so state residents know the reach of the state's polygamy law.
"If the attorney general doesn't defend a law, he's just let the representatives of the people down by essentially vetoing it through non-defense," said Douglas, who oversees cases that go through federal courts.
He said they will use office attorneys on the appeal, meaning there will be no outside cost.
Waddoups ruled a provision in Utah's bigamy law forbidding cohabitation with another person violated the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom of religion.
Brown family attorney Jonathan Turley wasn't immediate available for comment but previously said the family is prepared to take the legal fight to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
In a blog post Wednesday, Turley argued that Utah should not challenge a ruling that reaffirmed freedom of religion and equal protection. "Utah is a state that was founded by citizens seeking those very rights against government abuse," Turley wrote.
The Brown family filed their lawsuit in July 2011 and fled Utah for Las Vegas last year under the threat of prosecution.
Waddoups' ruling decriminalized polygamy, but bigamy — holding marriage licenses with multiple partners — is still illegal. If the ruling stands, Utah's law would be identical to most other states that prohibit people from having multiple marriage licenses. In most polygamous families in Utah, the man is legally married to one woman but only "spiritually married" to the others.
Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream Mormon church, but the Salt Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned the practice in 1890 and strictly prohibits it today.
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Trnjani falu Horvátországban, Bród-Szávamente megyében. Közigazgatásilag Garcsinhoz tartozik.

Fekvése
Bród központjától 11 km-re északkeletre, községközpontjától 2 km-re nyugatra, Szlavónia középső részén, a Dilj-hegység déli lejtői alatt, a Szávamenti-síkság szélén, a Brezna-patak partján fekszik.

Története
A mai település területén a 18. században még négy település osztozott: Tominkut, Hrpaće, Trnjani és Glavica. Trnjanit a középkorban nem említik, de fekvése és talajának minősége alapján lakott területnek kellett lennie. Dolnja Dolac és Trnjani között feküdt Tominkut település, melyet az 1781-es kataszteri térkép Tominačko selište néven jelez. Glavica valószínűleg valahol a Božurac-hegy körül feküdt, Hrpaće pedig Donja Vrba felé esett, arra a helyre, melyet 1746-ban "aliter Vrba" névvel jeleznek. Tominkut, mely mára már Trnjani részét képezi a középkorban a diakovári püspökség birtoka volt. Akkoriban a falu feletti dombon egy kisebb erődítmény is állt, mely a Bródról Diakovárra vezető utat ellenőrizte. A térséget 1536-ban szállta meg a török. A lakosság a mai Magyarország területére menekült, helyükre pedig Boszniából pravoszláv vlacok települtek be. Amikor 1687-ben a török kivonult Bród vidékéről a faluban a pravoszláv lakosság egy része ottmaradt, majd melléjük Boszniából a török uralom alatt maradt területekről katolikus horvát lakosság települt be.

Tominkut a fenti települések közül egydüliként 1698-ban "Tominkutt" néven hajdútelepülésként szerepel a török uralom alól felszabadított szlavóniai települések kamarai összeírásában. 1730-ban a mai Trnjani területe a vrhovaci plébániához tartozott és három falu állt a helyén: Trnjani 8 katolikus házzal és a Havas Boldogasszony kápolnával, Tominkut 8 házzal és Glavica 6 házzal és a Szent Bernát kápolnával. Az 1746-os vizitáció jelentése szerint Trnajinak 6 háza volt a már említett kápolnával, Tominkuton 9 ház, Glavicán pedig 5 ház állt a Szent István kápolnával. Az 1758-as vizitáció csak Tominkuton és Glavicán említ kápolnát, Trnjanin nem. 1760-ban már említik Hrpaće települést is 4 házzal, 3 családdal, 28 katolikus lakossal. Glavica 7 házzal, 8 családdal és 49 katolikus lakossal szerepel. Trnjanin 6 ház állt 3 családdal és 33 katolikus lakossal, Tominkuton pedig 16 ház volt 18 családdal és 104 katolikus lakossal. 1770 körül a másik három település lakossága is a Bródról Diakovárra menő főút mellé, a mai Trnjanira költözött, így létrejött a mai, egységes település. 1828-ban felépítették a Szent Márk templomot, 1833-ban pedig a plébánia székhelyét is ide helyezték át Verhovináról.

Az első katonai felmérés térképén "Ternjane" néven található. Lipszky János 1808-ban Budán kiadott repertóriumában "Ternjane" néven szerepel. Nagy Lajos 1829-ben kiadott művében "Ternyane" néven 68 házzal, 149 katolikus és 198 ortodox vallású lakossal találjuk. A katonai közigazgatás megszüntetése után 1871-ben Pozsega vármegyéhez csatolták. Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia idejében jelentős számú német lakosság települt ide, akik később nagy szerepet játszottak a falu fejlődésében. A második világháború idején a partizánok űzték el őket.

A településnek 1857-ben 355, 1910-ben 750 lakosa volt. Pozsega vármegye Bródi járásának része volt. Az 1910-es népszámlálás adatai szerint lakosságának 46%-a szerb, 22%-a horvát, 21%-a német, 4%-a magyar anyanyelvű volt. Az első világháború után 1918-ban az új szerb-horvát-szlovén állam, majd később (1929-ben) Jugoszlávia része lett. 1943-ban 35 német családnak kellett elhagyni a falut. 1991-től a független Horvátországhoz tartozik. 1991-ben lakosságának 45%-a szerb, 44%-a horvát, 7%-a jugoszláv nemzetiségű volt. 2011-ben a településnek 786 lakosa volt.

Lakossága

Nevezetességei
Szent Márk evangélista tiszteletére szentelt római katolikus plébániatemplomát 1828-ban építették. A plébániához Zadubravlje, Klokočevik, Verhovina és Šušnjevci települések tartoznak.
A faluban egy pravoszláv templom is állt, melyet 1945-ben építettek. A bródi parókiához tartozott és a délszláv háború során a horvátok rombolták le.

Kultúra
A KUD Lovor Trnjani kulturális és művészeti egyesületet 1928-ban "Sokol" néven alapították. Célja a fiatalok sport és kulturális programjainak szervezése volt. Az egyesület ebben a formában 1945-ig működött, amikor felvette Mićo Vitas nevét. Táncos, zenés műsorukkal az egész akkori ország területén felléptek, de több helyn jártak külföldön is. Működése 1991-ben a háború miatt megszakadt, majd 2003-ban már Lovor néven folytatta működését. Ápolja a falu hagyományait és képviseli a helyi népművészetet a környékbeli fesztiválokon. Etno műhelye a fiatalokat a kézimunkák és a népviselet készítésére oktatja.
A falu tamburazenekara mintegy 20 főből áll.

Oktatás
A településen a garcsini "Vjekoslav Klaić" elemi iskola négyosztályos területi iskolája működik.

Sport
Az NK Slaven Trnjani labdarúgóklubot 1928-ban alapították. A megyei 2. ligában szerepel.

Jegyzetek

Források
A község honlapja
 Andrija Zirdum: Počeci naselja i stanovništvo brodskog i gradiškog kraja 1698-1991. Slavonski Brod, 2001.
A község kulturális emléklei
Az első katonai felmérés térképe

További információk
A megye turisztikai irodájának honlapja
Bród turisztikai irodájának honlapja
A község információs portálja
Az elemi iskola honlapja

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Hate the Sinner But Love the Sin
by [Individual 1] mistermixat11:45 am on July 7, 2013 . It has 53 Comments.
Leave it to third-stringer Rod Dreher to tell us why being mad at Paula Deen is like elder abuse:
But Deen has been so nastily scapegoated over race that I've become a reluctant Deen supporter. That's because as someone who grew up in a small Southern town, and who moved back after 30 years away, I know so many big-hearted but misguided older people like her, good people who could not withstand the scrutiny that has destroyed Deen's career.
The only difference between those big-hearted older people and Deen is that Deen is making millions of dollars as a marquee celebrity chef on a network that sells advertising to companies that market to demographics other than fossilized old white southerners. And leave it to the guy who invented "Crunchy Cons", the non-existent group of conservatives who are also hippies, to dream up an old-age exception for despicable bigots.
Dreher is a slippery weasel, so he minimizes Deen's use of the n-word as an "admission that on at least one occasion in the distant past, she used the N-word". That little trope is going around in conservative circles in an attempt to paint Deen's predicament as the outcome of some kind of PC witch hunt, but the bare fact is that she's a big old bigot and the invisible hand just pushed her to the curb.
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Shalimar says:
That's because as someone who grew up in a small Southern town, and who moved back after 30 years away, I know so many big-hearted but misguided older people like her, good people who could not withstand the scrutiny that has destroyed Deen's career.
He knows lots of big-hearted older white people. What do you want to bet he doesn't know a single black person over 60 who wasn't his teacher, cleaning lady or counter person at the DMV?
Gex says:
That's what I hate most about these guys. When hateful, hateful people say obnoxious things that alienate the public from their BUSINESSES and it hurts their business, these guys abandon the free market they adore so much. Suddenly it is the most offensive thing in the world to make a decision not to spend money on a product. Suddenly the idea of deciding NOT to incentivize behavior you don't approve of is a horrible, horrible act of scapegoating.
No one is scapegoating McDonalds if they decide to stop going there. No one is scapegoating Paula Deen if they decide not to watch.
Somehow, Paula Deen is entitled to a show and viewership. The Boy Scouts are entitled to taxpayer funding. On and on and on. It's getting such that I don't know if these guys even have a view on the free market and economics 101 that doesn't involve politicizing a business. I guess this goes to show how closely coupled the culture wars are to their economic policies. It used to be the used culture wars to get the pro-business policies they want. Now it appears that the culture wars and their pro-business policies have completely fused.
"Tho' I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Paula Deen!"
sbjules says:
I'm older than Paula Deen and have never used the N word. I was born & I was born & raised in California
MattF says:
Deen knew very well what she was getting away with. And when it all stopped working– well, boo-hoo.
geg6 says:
@Gex:
This. The sense of entitlement that these people have is so enormous that it threatens to swallow us all. Everything must be according to their wants, needs, desires and prejudices. Everyone must validate their feelings. I've known toddlers, hell babies!, that have more self-control and empathy and act more maturely than your average racist and/or wingnut. I'm so sick and tired of these people and their endless whining and moaning about not being able to avoid the consequences of their endless temper tantrums.
lawguy says:
Well 20 years ago Paula Deen was 46. Not some small child who didn't know better. But then as has been pointed out again and again that isn't why she's getting nailed. Its what she's done in the recent past that is her problem now.
Also, I really haven't heard of any organized boycott, is there one or are the businesses just getting a little skittish?
Jamey says:
@sbjules:
I was born & I was born & raised in California
That would make you born again?
Higgs Boson's Mate says:
Consumers are turning away from those whose odious ideas and actions become public. That has to make entitlement junkies and bootlickers like Dreher very defensive because it diminishes, if only a bit, the notion that the wealthy and/or well known can ride roughshod over the rest of us.
The phrase "Suck on it!" was never so appropriate.
What is driving me nuts is that the press has not shared the cause of her deposition in the first place. She and her brother allegedly have run restaurants where racism runs riot and their business practices are downright rotten.
The darker-skinned Workers entered at the back of the kitchen, did not get hired to serve patrons out at the front of the house, and were paid less than their white counterparts. Paula allegedly hosted parties where the payment to the staff was in beer, which one employee said was useless, as he was not a drinker and had a wife and new baby to support.
Confessing to using the "N" word has gotten all of the press. Every letter to the editor in our local newspaper screams about the Liberals seizing this headline and running with the extreme PC in this country. But they haven't bothered to check the facts, nor has the mainstream press backed up the facts.
Paula Deen is a disgrace, so whatever scorn is heaped upon her doesn't make me feel sorry for her.
If you followed the story, her use of the "N" word was the least of it–there were other things like racially-segregated restrooms for employees, attempts to recreate the plantation dining experience complete with black waiters ordered to pretend to be slaves, and (compared to her own use of the "N" word) tolerance of use of the "N" word in addressing employees by her supervisory staff, including her husband.
Botsplainer says:
Those would be the cowardly mothers, fathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, teachers, coaches and mentors who were beloved and either tut-tutted or quietly approved of economic and political disenfranchisement, police oppression, mob violence and lynchings perpetrated against members of their own communities. While they sat around praying loudly and benefitting the status quo through wage theft, patting themselves on the back for being "good Christians", people suffered.
Those are the fucks that Dreher wants to excuse.
Dreher needs to be beaten to death with 2×4.
White Trash Liberal says:
Didn't these racist confessions come about over a lawsuit dealing with her son's systematic abuse of female employees?
She's lucky the media is only shit-storming her bigotry.
tybee says:
@lawguy:
paula lives down the street and i see some "we -heart- you paula" yard signs in the hood and the local mullet wrapper shows long lines at her downtown restaurant.
i haven't been by uncle bubba's to see if the parking lot is full or not.
(that restaurant's food has sucked in its previous incarnations as well as its current racist one)
NickT says:
Rod Dreher's entire career of resentful white privilege has been one long whine of:
"In the good old days, you could be bigoted without being despised by nice people."
Tom Levenson says:
Why does Dreher hate the free market so?
cmorenc says:
The vast majority of southern whites old enough to have spent all or a substantial part of their growing-up years in a still-segregated society were for a considerable time during their lives, frankly bigoted toward blacks and countless times said things little different from what Deen admits to having said a few decades ago. The proper issue with these generations of southern white folks isn't what they were then, but how successfully they have grown out of it over the succeeding years. Deen's real problem shouldn't be whether she ever said the 'N' word decades ago, but rather how recently and to what extent she's more recently exhibited bigoted behavior.
I'm 64 yo now and grew up in a small southern town in eastern north carolina where prejudiced attitudes toward blacks was as pervasive and natural-seeming to us as the water is to fish who swim in it; the social water seemed perfectly fine to me when I was say, 12, even while it doubtlessly seemed toxically polluted to many of the blacks swimming in it. It wasn't until our local high school began the desegregation process in 1966 and I became familiar on a peer basis, and after awhile a friendly basis over the cafeteria tables at lunch with some among the initial beachhead of blacks who'd come into our school, that my attitudes (and those of my white friends) began to change toward them. It frankly helped with their rapid acceptance that our lackluster school varsity teams suddenly became much more competitive with their arrival, and they were now practicing shoulder-to-shoulder every day with the most popular white kids in the class. That observation seems very politically un-correct to say to our tastes today, but at the time, it was a crucial factor in our town's rapid, peaceful acceptance of school integration when the white kids came home and frankly told their parents that the new negro kids in the class were ok.
BTW: among more polite southern white society, people avoided using the 'N' word, which was considered a vulgar, crude usage of cruder strata of white society. Instead, they pronounced "negroes" as "nig-ras", as if that somehow made a substantive difference (or would be heard much differently by blacks from the "N" word itself).
Again, what Deen should properly be held to account for are the more recent things she's done that exhibit residual unreconstructed attitudes (e.g. wanting black servants at a wedding), and not whether she used some unmistakable variant of the 'N' word decades ago.
Hoodie says:
Seeing Deen go down gives me hope that the kind of faux southern bullshit she represents may also be relegated to the dustbin of history. She's an example of an ahistorical kitsch that has more to do with strip malls, Walmart, Bass Pro Shops and other forms of commercial exploitation that pretty much destroyed the south I grew up in.
Guys topher says:
Having barely followed the story, I don't find most of what the media has latched into all that offensive. Use of the n-word in some unspecified context? Meh. Even the wedding plans — although there I might be guilty of thinking that if she could have gotten the waitstaff all the same shade, carefully picking out uniforms, there might be a nice aesthetic to it, similar to picking out bridesmaid dresses — seem only dubious.
Tolerating her brother's porn at work? Paying people in beer? Not referring the manager who was screwing underage staff to the police? Not letting the darker skinned staff be waiters? All of that is way more damning.
vI'm older than Paula Deen and have never used the N word. I was born & I was born & raised in California
California neither is, nor was, the deep South where Deen grew up. Having grown up in a small town in eastern North Carolina and had close cousins out in California whom I visited growing up, the cultural differences between the two environments was vast, to say the least, especially on day-to-day issues of race.
It isn't what Paula Deen was then, many decades ago, but what she still seems to be much more recently, that is a proper subject for concern and possible condemnation.
sublime33 says:
I am totally convinced that the whole Paula Deen uproar has to do with money. She wasn't fired – her contract was not renewed. My guess is that her camp wanted a lot more money than Food Network wanted to pay, things got nasty and Food Network went nuclear with the racism issues. Face it, a very high percentage of people over 45 years old have used the "N" word at some point in their lives – even up to 25 years old. If you disqualify every one who has uttered that word even once, there will be a lot of vacancies on the Fortune 500 executive suites and in the board rooms. Follow the money – there has to be more to the Paula Deen story.
@cmorenc:
Instead, they pronounced "negroes" as "nig-ras", as if that somehow made a substantive difference (or would be heard much differently by blacks from the "N" word itself).
That was my first grade teacher.
xjmueller says:
Ms Deen was around 10 when Little Rock schools were integrated. She was around 20 when MLK went down. Obviously, these didn't open her to a larger view of society. It's the culture she's from and that still exists. Making excuses for her because she's of an older generation is just BS. The younger generation from her neck of the woods aint much different. Her feelings are hurt because nobody ever told her she's a bigot before. Who in her circle would?
She's been a southern small town bigot all of her life. Who else in his or her right mind would think an ante-bellum wedding reception featuring house negroes in short pants and bow ties was a cool idea? It didn't matter when she owned a local restaurant, because her customers share(d) her POV. However, when she made the big leagues, it finally bit her in the ass. It doesn't matter how "sweet" you are, if you're an established bigot the invisible hand of the market will hold the invisible nose, while the invisible foot kicks you to the curb. Big advertisers don't like to be tainted with the smell of it.
BTW, I never thought too much of her recipies. Putting mayo on corn before roasting it just ruins the corn. The sweet corn we get nowadays is so good that only a goober would do something that stupid. Everything she does is overblown. I suppose that appeals to some tastes – paging Louis and Marie, your table is ready.
ruemara says:
@sublime33: This is my thought behind the Food Network decision. It's not like her programs are off the air.
And it's only racism and bigotry if white people are troubled by it.
RSA says:
…the scrutiny that has destroyed Deen's career.
How many other victims with a net worth of more than $10 million will political correctness claim?
Percysowner says:
I'm 60 and I have to admit that when I was a child the "polite" term was Negro. That was a step up(?) from the coloreds, as my Grandmother called them (Hungarian immigrant at age 14 so she went with what she learned when she learned English). Since NAACP was National Association for Colored People that was an upgrade on the N word. Then the 1960's came around and the acceptable term was Black. Then it was pointed out that Black was not an accurate description of color and it changed to Afro-American. That later was updated to African-American to be more in line with similar ways of designating immigrant communities i.e. Italian-American, Irish-American or my Grandmother Hungarian-American. Now there is a broader category of People of Color to include other minority groups that experience discrimination due to not being of obvious European descent. I know all the different terms because as I librarian, we were constantly having to change the subject headings on books to make certain we were not being offensive.
Through all the permutations, I NEVER thought that the N word or the supposedly better nig'ra were appropriate or anything other than offensive. I knew my grandmother's term wasn't much better, but I was under eleven and just let it go. She was a lovely person in general and if she had been told it was unkind to use that expression she would have stopped.
Although it is nothing like the persistent discrimination against Persons of Color, when my first generation mother married my "can trace his genealogy back to the Revolution on his mother's side" father, my paternal grandmother did talk about the polluting of the races. After all my grandmother and (who never went to church in all the time I knew her) and my mother (Unitarian my entire life) might be HORRORS Catholic!!! The fact that my maternal grandfather left Hungary to escape 1) the draft and 2) the church made no difference. How dare the spawn of an immigrant DARE to marry the son of a Daughter of the Revolution.
Comrade Dread says:
I think Deen is largely ignorant, not malicious. That said, the issue remains her alleged toleration of a hostile work environment, not simply saying a word once decades earlier.
reflectionephemeral says:
Dreher can be pretty thoughtful on some topics. I enjoy his blog.
But on racial and social issues, he serves to illustrate that social conservatism is tribalism upon stilts. George Zimmerman and Paula Deen are the Real Victims. Whites are under "assault", constantly victimized. Blacks are too willing to wallow in victimhood. Etc.
scav says:
@Comrade Dread: I'm not entirely convinced by the simple ignorence claims either. She's canny enough to have recognized that her tap-dancing ol' style Disney South wedding wouoldn't go over well in the media.
WereBear says:
@scav: You don't create race-segregated bathrooms out of "ignorance."
For that matter, the media could tell the whole story and REALLY roast her, but I'm sure that would interfere with their beloved "both sides! both sides!" narrative.
dewzke says:
Shuffle off Deen and Dreher. They both suck and that is all that needs to be understood.
Woodrowfan says:
I confess I am somewhat amused that "colored people" is bad, but "people of color" is good. But there is a simple test for anyone who wonders if they can use the "n-word. Are you Chris Rock doing a comedy routine? No? then you shouldn't use it. See? Very simple.
Seanly says:
Dreher is a weird freak. He converted to Eastern Orthodox because American Catholicism wasn't conservative. He constantly moves his family with each new place being the Greatest. Place. Evah. for his oddball brand of conservatism. Roy Edroso used to have a lot more about him, but I think Dreher has slipped pretty low on the radar now.
RE: Deen, I could've accepted someone using the N-word in the 60's or 70's but it was a verbotten word even by the early 80's when I was a kid living in Little Rock. I think she's just a mean bitch & gave everyone enough rope to hang her (and probably still an unapologetic racist).
And that's exactly what the Dreher, the media in general, and her supporters want us NOT to do. The separate entrances for black and white employees is one of many examples.
They want us to feel sorry for the poor old lady who said something tacky many years ago when what we're actually dealing with is a vicious millionaire business owner who treats her employees like shit and deliberately breaks the law in order to do that.
Classic misdirection, aided and abetted by the media. I can only assume that racism is a value that they are determined to support.
@Nutella: What might be interesting to watch there is the bifercation of media interests and other corporate interests. General business dropped her fast and hard, to my eye nearly in advance of public hue and cry. They don't benefit from a long-drawn out circus, so my bet is they're faster to reflect the actual generalized social norm (plus a bit of getting rid of a potentially fading star while the legal boilerplate minimizes pain for your side). Media benefits from keeping the pot boiling — so they're in the business of keeping the unrest unrestful.
Johnnybuck says:
@tybee:
Oh yeah, it was full Friday evening. Dumbass southern white racist fucks gotta represent. And the food sucks by the way. The food at Deen's restaurant (Lady and Sons) isn't anything you can't get practically anywhere in the state for a lot less money and usually better quality.
@Seanly:
Dreher has been trying to conceal his residual nastiness more carefully over the last year or so. He's spent a lot of time talking about his sister's death in a way that looks ever-more exploitational.
Boohunney says:
@tybee: We drove by Uncle Bubba's over the weekend and the parking lot was pretty empty. And, yes, I ate there once and it did suck…
gene108 says:
From reading the 33 page complaint, Deen's problem is she is nepotistic to a fault. Her brother, Bubba, was stealing money from the restaurant and the GM of the restaurant was still expected to make a profit after Bubba's dipping into the cash drawer.
She's an asshole owner, who happily allowed those who became close to her to do whatever asshole things they though was a good idea, like the deeply Christian CFO imposing his values about marriage and other things on the management staff.
She didn't care about a damn thing regarding the work environment she created, as long as the restaurants were making money and her family was able to be fat and happy off the work of others, who actually ran the places.
The fact she could put on a "friendly" "charming" face to the public is truly what is remarkable, because most people, who are such assholes as managers are assholes in pretty much every other facet of their lives; some are successful and folks put up with it because they're successful (Larry Ellison, for example), while the rest just crash and burn because people don't want to deal with their shit.
Pogonip says:
@Seanly: No, he says he converted because of pedophile priests and the bishops' protection of same.
@Woodrowfan:
What's interesting are Deen's defenders, who somehow cannot comprehend racism at all, because black use the N-work "everyday".
It's like blacks get up in the morning, go to the bathroom and start belting out the N-word like they had turrets, in the minds of these folks.
I just don't get what alternate reality these people live in because blacks do not use the N-word, even when talking to other blacks (at least the blacks that I know).
Other than proving they do not know any black people, I don't get what they hope to accomplish by defending the use of the N-word, because it isn't coming back as an acceptable term to use in public.
@Percysowner:
Then it was pointed out that Black was not an accurate description of color and it changed to Afro-American. That later was updated to African-American to be more in line with similar ways of designating immigrant communities i.e. Italian-American, Irish-American or my Grandmother Hungarian-American.
African-American, as a term, will breakdown if and when a large number of people from Africa, especially lighter skinned North Africans, start moving to the U.S.
Technically these immigrants are African and in a generation would be African-Americans, unless we'd need to subdivide them into Moroccan-Americans, Egyptian-Americans, etc.
Even Barack Obama isn't African-American, in the intended use of the word, as he's not the descendant of former slaves, but he decided to be identified with the African-American community.
henqiguai says:
@Percysowner (#42):
Then it was pointed out that Black was not an accurate description of color…
Yeah, 'cept the "Black" was more a political tag; basically, if 'you people' are "White" then the farthest from that which was achievable was "Black". *Your* mileage may vary, but I was kind'a there when the change started taking hold.
farley says:
I've followed Dreher for many years, and even though I disagree with him much of the time, I love to read his stuff. He's definitely not an asshole. He's the kind of conservative I'd love to have a few beer with on the porch, talking politics and history and philosophy. I wish there were more conservatives like him. If your definition of an asshole is anyone who disagrees with you, then I think you're the assholes.
aimai says:
@Comrade Dread: the hostile work environment argues malicious. I don't get the excuses being offered up. Are people really under the impression that because she plays the "aw shucks" granny image crossed with southern belle that she is anything other than a ruthlessly exploitative business owner?
Comrade Carter says:
I grew up in a "nice" southern town (Hagerstown, Maryland), and the people were so nice I was glad the Lord (hahahaha) had answered my prayer and we were moved to Milwaukee.
They were so nice, there. Of course, it was only about 40 years ago.
What an idiot this guy is.
BTW: I grew up knowing that the use of the "N-word" was a non-starter because of my instructors in elementary school, St. Marys in Hagerstown.
Now, they were from Milwaukee, so… Perhaps that was where they got their sense. (And they were actually from Elm Grove, which is about two miles from me in Wauwatosa.)
My Mother was very glad they had the sense of a goose. My Mother was from Scotland. (And I was an atheist at that time, and am now, but they were dear to me.)
majii says:
Thanks, for your insight, Gex. I live in the same neighborhood with people like Paula Deen. Although I'm better educated than many of them, and my kid graduated from high school and one of the best private liberal arts colleges in the South with honors and has a good job working for a major airline, it makes no difference to them. All they see when they look at us is our black skin. It amuses me that they seem to think being white makes them better than us. People like Deen and her brother Bubba see us but then they don't see us. This is what makes it easy for them to say/do offensive things and think it doesn't matter to us. I was reared under segregation for 18 years, and the word n!99er was one my parents would have scorched my and my siblings behinds for if they had caught us using it. This is why I get upset when I hear some whites try to sanction the use of the word in defense of Deen by claiming that all blacks use it. We don't, and even when other blacks use it, it offends us just as much.
Tyro says:
@farley: I've followed Dreher for many years, and even though I disagree with him much of the time, I love to read his stuff. He's definitely not an asshole.
I'm a regular reader of Dreher as well, and I kind of disagree with this– he is an asshole. He has a lot of residual bitterness about gays and African Americans, specifically the demand that they be considered on equal standing with people like himself. He seems to have very clear ideas about how the social hierarchy should work, and he gets really, really pissy when the social hierarchy isn't being honored the way he believes it should.
I feel his entire socio-political journey, including his adherence to conservatism, is part of a lifelong demand on his part for "respect." And the problem is that wherever he goes begging for it from — his hometown, the National Review, etc. — he never quite gets any. So of course he blames the liberals, the gays, and the blacks for his problems.
@Tyro:
I think this sums it up well. Dreher's always been an unpleasant little piece of work, but he's managed to be a little more adept about concealing it in recent years – mostly by telling the world that he was really sad when his sister got cancer – so he must be one of the good guys. If you fall for that particular routine, there's something badly wrong with your bullshit meter.
Plantsmantx says:
@xjmueller:
She's been a southern small town bigot all of her life.
I suspect that would be the case if she was 20 years younger.
@majii:
I hear you. I'm black, and I hear that word used with much less frequency than many whites claim to hear it.
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Lionel Messi dropped the biggest hint yet that he could stay at Barcelona in an upcoming interview with Spanish media
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Lionel Messi has seemingly dropped the biggest hint yet that he may not leave Barcelona after all.
In an upcoming interview on Spanish TV, Messi will reportedly say that he is "excited" by what is happening at Barcelona right now.
Messi's possible departure from Spain has been one of the biggest stories in football in 2020.
He submitted a transfer request in the summer, but ultimately backed down when faced with the prospect of going to court.
Lionel Messi has seemingly dropped his biggest hint yet that he may ultimately decide not to leave Barcelona at the end of this season, following months of speculation over his future fueled by the imminent end of his contract.
In an upcoming interview with Spanish TV network La Sexta, Messi reportedly described himself as "really excited" for the future at Barcelona, according to a segment of the interview broadcast by Catalan radio network RAC 1 on Monday.
"The truth is that as of today, I'm good," Messi said, according to a translation of the RAC 1 clip by the English language version of Spanish sports newspaper AS.
"Right now, I'm good, and I'm keen to really fight for everything we've got in front of us. I'm excited. Really excited."
Messi's contract with Barcelona comes to an end following the 2020-2021 soccer season, and from January, he is free to speak to other clubs about signing for them.
The Argentinian star submitted a transfer request in the summer amid a rift with the club's administration and poor performance on the pitch. He ultimately withdrew his transfer request when Barcelona refused to let him leave the club for free, but still looked almost certain to leave either through a transfer deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars or as a free agent next season.
However, Monday's reports in Spain are the strongest evidence yet that Messi could change his mind and stay with the club he has played for since he was a teenager.
"I know the club is going through a difficult period, in terms of the administration and the team, and it makes everything around Barcelona difficult, but I'm keen," he continued, according to AS.
Messi acknowledged during the interview with journalist Jordi Evole that he was unhappy with both the team's performance and his own standing at the club during the summer.
"It's true I had a terrible time in the summer, though it started before that. What I went through before the summer, with the end to the season and the burofax and all of that," he said, referencing the letter he sent requesting a transfer.
The forward added in his interview with La Sexta that his negative feelings "carried over a little bit into the start of the season."
Messi's future has been the subject of intense speculation since the initial transfer request, with reports suggesting he could move either to Paris Saint Germain or Manchester City, the two richest teams in football.
His future is also a major issue in the coming election for FC Barcelona's next president. Previous chief Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned earlier in the year, and several candidates are vying to take the reins.
Last week, candidate Emili Rousaud said that the Argentine's current pay packet is "unsustainable" and warned he might have to leave the club regardless if he doesn't take a pay cut.
"We'll have to sit down with Messi and ask him to make a salary cut," Rousaud told Catalan newspaper ARA. Messi is reported to earn close to 500,000 euros ($610,000) per week.
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Boeing announced today that it intends to keep its rotorcraft facility here open but will reduce the size of the facility and its workforce.
"As previously announced in January 2001, our workforce will be about 5,000 at the end of this year," said Roger Krone, vice president and general manager of U.S. Army programs, which is based in Ridley Township. "Additional reductions of between 1,000 and 1,500 jobs are necessary because our business has continued to decline. We will have a workforce of 3,500 to 4,000 by mid-2004."
Krone said employees have made significant process and quality improvements; however, lack of success in bringing in new international sales of the Chinook, production delays on CH-47Fs for the U.S. Army and lower production rates for the V-22 are forcing the workforce reduction.
Krone said Boeing also is taking steps to keep the Pennsylvania site a viable enterprise and position it to take advantage of future business opportunities in the global marketplace.
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Schools closed from 5 January 2021 as part of national lockdown
Primary (reception upwards) and secondary schools and colleges are closed for most pupils until February half-term. All pupils not in school will receive remote learning (see below).
Who will schools remain open for?
Schools will remain open for certain groups of children, including children with education, health and care (EHC) plans,* children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans and on child protection plans, 'looked after' children.
The children of critical workers are permitted to attend school - see the government website for an explanation of who counts as a critical worker - but parents and carers should keep their child at home if they can.
Children considered "vulnerable" and permitted to attend school now includes those at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training) and those who will find remote learning particularly difficult, for example due to a lack of equipment or "quiet place to study")
Special schools and colleges can remain open, and alternative provision settings will remain open.
* Under Section 42 of the Children and Families Act 2014, children are legally entitled to receive the special educational provision set out in part F of their EHC Plan. If a child cannot receive this provision at their existing school (for example, because of Covid-related staff shortages or closure), the local authority must make alternative arrangements for these children. This may mean attendance at a different education setting.
If the school are saying that their child cannot attend, we would advise parents to contact their local authority SEND team. Take a look at this recent helpful video from Special Needs Jungle for additional info.
Early years settings
Early years settings, including childminders and nurseries will remain open throughout the national lockdown.
Respite care, where care is being provided to a person with a disability or a vulnerable person, is allowed to continue.
Clinically extremely vulnerable children
Children on the Extremely Clinically Vulnerable list are not expected to attend school and should receive remote education.
State-funded schools must provide remote education for children who cannot attend school because of coronavirus. The amount of education should be between three to five hours depending on a child's age. It should be suitably tailored to the needs of children with SEND. Education must include direct teaching (recorded or live) and time to complete tasks independently.
The government is supporting schools to help families whose children do not have good access to computer technology - see the guidance.
Children at home who normally receive free school meals will receive provision through food parcels or supermarket vouchers.
Exams taking place in the summer - for example GCSEs and A-levels - won't go ahead. Alternative arrangements will be announced at a later date.
Primary school assessment tests (SATS) are cancelled. BTECs and other vocational exams taking place in January are expected to go ahead.
Non-attendance offences disapplied
The Secretary of State for Education has issued a notice disapplying non-attendance of school during the pandemic. This means there is no penalty for your child not attending school.
The government has published guidance for parents and carers on early years providers, schools and colleges.
See also the latest guidance on children of critical workers and vulnerable children who can access schools or education settings.
The government has also published guidance for schools on restricting attendance during the national lockdown, guidance for further education settings on restricting attendance, and guidance for special schools, specialist post-16 providers and alternative provision during the national lockdown.
Children with education, health and care (EHC) plans
During the first lockdown in March 2020, temporary changes were made to the law on EHC plans to relax the rules around providing education and health support and to allow extensions to EHC timescales.
All of these changes have now ended and have not come back into force. This means that a child or young person is entitled to the support specified in their EHC plan and local authorities and health services have a legal duty to make sure the support is provided.
Legal timescales must be followed for EHC processes, such as carrying out EHC assessments, issuing EHC plans and holding annual reviews.
If your child is still going to school
We have information about the latest guidance and advice for families whose child is still at school.
Education settings closed until February half-term
From Thursday 7 January, nurseries, primary and post-primary schools will carry out remote learning for most pupils, as schools plan to remain closed until the mid-February half-term break.
Special schools will remain open. Schools will remain open for face-to-face teaching for statemented children, alongside other vulnerable children, and the children of key workers.
You can read the guidance update in full at the Department of Education's website.
More information about education
Visit nidirect.gov.uk for all the latest updates in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland has published its own guidance on vulnerable children.
Schools closed until 1 February 2021 as part of national lockdown
First Minster for Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has announced that, as part of a national lockdown, schools will be closed for the majority of pupils until 1 February 2021.
This includes nursery as well as primary and secondary schools, with learning taking place online instead. A review of the arrangements will take place on 18 January.
From 5 January 2021 to 29 January 2021, schools will only open to in-person learning for children of key workers and vulnerable children.
Enquire, the Scottish advice service for additional support for learning (ASL), has specific information on how coronavirus is affecting ASL in Scotland at this time including information on the Additional Support Needs Tribunal.
Mindroom is a charity dedicated to supporting those living with a learning difficulty. They have developed a back to school toolkit for children of different ages, including a printable workbook for them to fill in.
Contact in Scotland - If you have a query or would like to talk through any concerns you have about your child going back to school or need other information and support just now, then please don't hesitate to email our enquiry line Scotland.office@contact.org.uk or call 07458 046071 (Monday to Wednesdays).
Extra funding for additional teachers
The Scottish Government also announced that an additional £30 million will be allocated to Scottish local authorities to bring in additional teachers, building on the £45 miillion previously announced.
The total amount will be enough to recruit approximately 1,400 extra teachers to support education recovery and accelerate progress in achieving excellence and equity for Scotland's children.
School reopenings pushed back to 18 January 2021
All schools and colleges have been moved to online learning until 18 January.
Education settings will remain open for vulnerable children, the children of key workers, and children taking essential exams.
All childcare settings can remain open.
See the latest guidance on schools in Wales.
Who should schools inform if a learner or staff member has displayed symptoms of COVID-19?
Persons displaying symptoms of Covid-19 should be sent home, and advised to arrange a test and ensure self-isolation guidance is adhered to. For learners, parents should be advised to arrange a test for their child. If the test comes back positive, the contact tracing system will commence for that case.
Contact tracers will get in touch with the school if there is a suspected cluster or potential outbreak, where they will ask for information from the school as to who was in the classroom if needed. Pupils and staff should only request a test if they are symptomatic, not if they suspect contact with a potentially positive case.
For full details visit Welsh Government website - Schools: coronavirus. There is also specific guidance for School admission appeals: coronavirus (COVID-19)
Guidance on learning in schools and settings from the autumn term: Keep Education Safe (COVID-19)
The Childrens Commissioner for Wales has a Coronavirus Information Hub for Families and Children including information & advice, support, activities.
Help for childcare funders
Welsh Government have announced a £4 million funding pot for childcare providers. The Childcare Provider Grant will offer dedicated funding for the childcare sector to help ensure more providers re-open as the schools return in September.


Just an hour's drive north of Wellington city rests beautiful Greytown village.
Papawai Marae is just minutes from the heart of Greytown and is one of the most historically important marae in New Zealand. Papawai has been home to Wairarapa Māori for hundreds of years, and in the late 1800s it was the focus of Kotahitanga, the national Maori parliament movement.
Unusually, the magnificent carved ancestors that surround the pā face inward. This is said to indicate a desire by Māori to live alongside the European settlers peacefully, as well as a willingness for Māori to look inward to find solutions to the challenges facing them.
Settled by early Wellingtonians who had finally found small affordable portions of farm land, the village was named in honour of the Governor, Sir George Grey, in recognition of his commitment and support of their search.
March 1854 saw the first six intrepid souls arrive, their possessions carried by four bullocks, after crossing the Rimutaka… on foot. Pitching camp near Cobblestones where a small memorial shelter marks the spot today, they immediately set to work building shelters and small cottages.
Shops, hotels and larger houses were built in the subsequent years and despite the constant hazard posed by fire, enough of these original buildings remain today to give Main Street its strong Victorian flavour. With 60 120-acre sections located each side of Main Street, Greytown had become New Zealand's first planned inland town.
Greytown Rugby club, established in 1877, is one of the oldest in the country. Greytown Cricket Club is the second-oldest cricket club, established in 1867, 10 years before test cricket began and in 2017, celebrated its 150th Anniversary.
Conservation of trees and the environment has always been important for local citizens.
In 1890, the country's first Arbor Day planting was held and trees from that planting still stand south of the town alongside State Highway 2.
In 1919, 20 acres of O'Connor's Bush, an uncut remnant of lowland forest, was purchased with the help of forward-thinking citizens. Memorial Park remains as a monument to the men of Greytown who gave their lives in both World Wars.
When the railway by-passed the village in the 1870s, Greytown's position as the pre-eminent town in the Wairarapa slowly declined.
The years passed quietly until the 1970s. In a strange way, this has helped today's Greytown, as little development was undertaken between 1920 and 1970, and the old colonial buildings with their exotic trees were left largely untouched.
Greytown's current inhabitants are increasingly proud of their heritage. Old buildings have been sensitively upgraded and put to new purposes – cafés, restaurants, craft shops, accommodation, clothing and other boutique retail stores now line Main Street.
Today, Greytown is an attractive and thriving community. Learn more at Greytown Community Heritage Trust.


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Q: segmentation fault produced by tests running under CppUnit Today I found that one of my tests is using some code/library that segfaults.
I work in Linux environment in C++ and CppUnit.
Is there any  feature of function in CppUnit to test against segfault and report it as failure for the specific test case?
In CppUnit I can even test against exceptions, but I think that what I am asking might be too much! The only thing I found is the section How do I print debug info at this page here.
I was thinking to run the CppUnit executable from a script in pyhon or perl and then check if the core is produced. Do you know some better way to achieve what I want?

A: A seg fault will result in a non-zero exit status from your test (On Solaris I believe it's 139). Are you able to test this from whatever method is being used to call your unit test?

A: "Is there any feature of function in CppUnit to test against segfault and report it as failure for the specific test case?"
Nope.  Segfault is an OS level violation and you're not allowed to catch it.  Even if you try (through use of signal() iirc) you can't do anything about being murdered by the OS.
You need to step through your test program with a debugger.

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HomeUPGro Consortium ProjectsGro for GooD: Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development
Groundwater is essential for economic growth and can contribute to human development if resources are used sustainably to benefit the poor. New approaches need to be found to balances growth and development goals.
RESEARCH AIM / HYPOTHESIS
To develop Groundwater Risk Management Tool that will help government and groundwater users balance the demands of human development and better health, economic growth and groundwater sustainability so that the poorest benefit.
Africa's groundwater systems are a critical but poorly understood socio-ecological system. Central to accelerating and sustaining Africa's development is improved understanding of groundwater risks and institutional responses to competing growth and development goals is needed. Explosive urban growth, irrigated agricultural expansion, industrial pollution, untapped mineral wealth, rural neglect and environmental risks converge to increase the complexity and urgency of groundwater governance across Africa.
The research will focus on tackling the following questions:
How can risks to groundwater quality and quantity for drinking water security be identified and reduced?
How can groundwater governance be designed to balance growth and development?
What are the most significant and uncertain future scenarios affecting sustainable groundwater use for the poor?
The study will focus on the Kwale County area of South East Kenya where the poverty rate is high (7th most deprived out of 47 Counties in Kenya) and there is intensive use of groundwater for urban water supply, sugar cane irrigation and mining. Tackling the three questions above will involve detailed data collection, including the use of innovative 'Smart Handpumps' developed by University of Oxford that measure handpump use. The research brings together rigorous analysis and modelling of environmental, social, economic and governance systems and processes. A risk management tool will be developed and then tested. While sensitive to context of Kwale, the Groundwater Risk Management Tool will be designed to be flexible so that it can be scaled-up across Kenya and can be adapted to other countries and contexts.
University of Oxford (OU) – Grant NE/M008894/1
University of Nairobi (UoN)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
OU: Dr Robert Hope (PI), Dr Katrina Charles, Dr David Clifton, Dr Caitlin McElroy, Patrick Thomson, Jacob Katuva, Johanna Koehler, Farah Colchester, Prof David Bradley, Heloise Greeff , Dr. Achut Manandhar, Saskia Nowicki, Nancy Gladstone
JKUAT: Prof Bancy Mati, Prof John Gathenya.
UoN: Prof Daniel Olago, Julius Odida
UPC: Dr Albert Folch, Dr Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia, Dr Xavier, Sanchez-Vila, Prof Emilio Custodio, Prof Jesus Carrera, Núria Ferrer Ramos
RFL: Michael Thomas, Mike Lane
WORKING IN:
Mati, B. and Thomas, M. Overview of Sugar Industry in Kenya and Prospects for Production at the Coast. Agricultural Sciences 10, 11. 1477-1485. doi: 10.4236/as.2019.1011108.
Hope, R. and Ballon, P. (2019) Global water policy and local payment choices in rural Africa. npj Clean Water 2, 21. doi:10.1038/s41545-019-0045-y.
Ferrer, N., Folch, A., Masó, G., Sanchez, S., Sanchez-Vila, X. (2019) What are the main factors influencing the presence of faecal bacteria pollution in groundwater systems in developing countries? Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2019.103556.
Ferrer, N., Folch, A., Lane, M. et al. (2019). How does water-reliant industry affect groundwater systems in coastal Kenya? Science of the Total Environment doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133634.
Ouédraogo, W., Gathenya, J. & Raude, J. (2019). Projecting Wet Season Rainfall Extremes Using Regional Climate Models Ensemble and the Advanced Delta Change Model: Impact on the Streamflow Peaks in Mkurumudzi Catchment, Kenya. Hydrology 6 (3): 76. doi.org/10.3390/hydrology6030076
Greeff, A. Manandhar, P. Thomson, R. Hope and D. A. Clifton (2019). Distributed Inference Condition Monitoring System for Rural Infrastructure in the Developing World. IEEE Sensors Journal 19 (5): 1820-1828.
Wara, C., Thomas, M., Mwakurya, S. and Katuva, J. (2019). Development of River Rating Curves for Simple to Complex Hydraulic Structure Based on Calibrated HEC-RAS Hydraulic Model, in Kwale, Coastal Kenya. Journal of Water Resource and Protection, 11, 468-490.
Ferrer, N., Folch, A., Lane, M., Olago, D., Odida, J., and Custodio, E., (2019). Groundwater hydrodynamics of an Eastern Africa coastal aquifer, including La Niña 2016-17 drought. Science of the Total Environment, 661: 575-597.
Thomson, P.. Bradley, D., Katilu, A., Katuva, J., Lanzoni, M., Koehler, J., and Hope, R. (2019). Rainfall and groundwater use in rural Kenya. Science of the Total Environment. 649: 722-730.
Nowicki, S., Lapworth, D., Ward, J., Thomson, P., and Charles, K. (2019). Tryptophan-like fluorescence as a measure of microbial contamination risk in groundwater. Science of The Total Environment646: 782-791.
Olago, D. (2018). Constraints and solutions for groundwater development, supply and governance in urban areas in Kenya. Hydrogeology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-018-1895-y
Koehler, J., Rayner, S., Katuva, J., Thomson, P. and Hope, R. (2018).A cultural theory of drinking water risks, values and institutional change. Global Environmental Change, 50, pp.268-277.
Koehler, J. (2018). Exploring policy perceptions and responsibility of devolved decision-making for water service delivery in Kenya's 47 county governments. Geoforum, 92, pp.68-80
Foster, T., J. Willets, M. Lane, P. Thomson, J. Katuva, R. Hope (2018) Risk factors associated with rural water supply failure: A 30-year retrospective study of handpumps on the south coast of Kenya. Science of the Total Environment 626 (2018) 156-154.
Garrick, D., Hall, J., Dobson, A. et al. (2017) Valuing water for sustainable development. Science 358 (6366); 1003-1005. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4942.
Foster, T. (2017). A critical mass analysis of community-based financing of water services in rural Kenya. Water Resources and Rural Development 10, 1-13.
Foster, T., and Hope, R. (2017). Evaluating waterpoint sustainability and access implications of revenue collection approaches in rural Kenya. Water Resources Research 53(2), 1473-1490.
Colchester, F. E. , Marais H. G. , Thomson P., Hope, R., Clifton D. A. (2017) Accidental infrastructure for groundwater monitoring in Africa, Environmental Modelling & Software 91 (2017) 241 – 250
Thompson, P. & Koehler J. (2016) Performance-oriented Monitoring for the Water SDG – Challenges, Tensions and Opportunities, Aquatic Procedia 6: 87-95.
Colchester, F.E., Greeff, H., Thomson, P., Hope, R., and Clifton, D.A. (2014). Smart Handpumps: A Preliminary Data Analysis. IET Appropriate Healthcare Technologies (AHT), London, 2014, pp. 1-4.
Koehler, J. (2019). Water risks and institutional change in Kenya. DPhil thesis. University of Oxford
Katuva, J. (2019). Water and Welfare in Coastal Kenya. DPhil thesis. University of Oxford.
Ferrer, N. (2019). Assessment of a groundwater system under global change scenarios: the case of Kwale (Kenya). PhD thesis. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Nowicki, S. (2017). Variability in Drinking-water Microbial Contamination Risk: Exploring short-term hazard and exposure dynamics in rural Kwale County, Kenya. MSc thesis. School of Geography and the Environment. University of Oxford.
Jou, S. (2017). Importància I dinàmica de la intrusion marina en aigües subterrànies a la costa de Kwale, Kènia. MSc thesis. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
School resource
The Water Module Student Resource, and Water Module Educator Guide. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (2018)
Research Brief: A critical mass analysis of community-based financing of water services SSEE (pdf).
Research Brief: Risk factors associated with rural water supply failure SSEE (pdf).
Policy Brief for Kwale County Government: Delivering Water Security and Welfare– 22nd November, 2018. Gro for GooD project.
Research Brief: Evaluating waterpoint sustainability research brief SSEE (pdf).
Policy Brief: Poverty Transitions in Kwale County. Jacob Katuva, 2017
Policy Brief: How has devolution fared in its first term? Responses from Kwale County at the end of the transition period. Johanna Koehler, 2017
Briefing Note: Distributed Monitoring of Shallow Aquifer Level using Community Handpumps" Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Water Programme, August 2015 Thomson, P. Greef, H., Colchester, F., Hope, R. (Work funded by Oxford University's John Fell fund).
Gro for GooD newsletter – June 2018
Gro for GooD newsletter 1 2017
Usemi Wetu – Base Titanium quarterly newsletter (2016) Groundwater Risk Management, Issue 14, July – September 2016
The Economist: An innovative cure for broken water pumps in Africa (Mar 2017)
BBC 'Good Vibration' hand pumps boost Africa's water security (Feb 2017)
Guardian: How do you solve a problem like a broken water pump?
World Water Day 2016 article on The Guardian by Katherine Purvis, (Mar 2016)
Presentations and posters from UPGro and related research
What is the status of groundwater science in Africa? Presentation by Prof Daniel Olago, University of Nairobi at the REACH Water Security and Poverty Conference, Keble College, Oxford, 27-29 March 2019.
Presentations from Gro for GooD project final stakeholder workshop. Kwale County, Kenya, November 22nd 2018.
Illuminating microbial contamination risk: the usability of fluorimetry for rapid groundwater assessment in low-resource contexts. Poster by Saskia Nowicki, Dan Lapworth and Katrina Charles. Ineson Meeting, October 2017.
Groundwater and Poverty: Evidence from Coastal Kenya. Poster by Jacob Katuva, Johanna Koehler, Patrick Thomson, Tim Foster and Rob Hope. 44th IAH conference, Dubrovnik, September 2017.
Presentations at RWSN Seventh Forum "Water for Everyone" Nov-Dec 2016, Abidjan.
The FundiFix Model (Susie Goodall) [224]
FILM: FundiFix in Kenya (Jacob Katuva) [203]
Implementing the right to water – water policy choices with decentralised politics in Kenya (Johanna Koehler)
Handpump usage changes in response to rainfall. Poster by Patrick Thomson at UNC Water and Health, North Carolina, October 2016.
Water policy choices in Kenya's 47 Counties. Presentation by Johanna Koehler (Gro for GooD, work done under ESRC grant), 3rd Annual Devolution Conference, Meru, Kenya, April 2016
First step to understand the importance of new deep aquifer pumping regime in groundwater system in a developing country, Kwale, Kenya. Poster by Nuria Ferrer, Albert Folch, Willy Sasaka, Mike Lane, Calvince Wara, Said Banje, Mike Thomas, Dan Olago, Jacob Katuva, Patrick Thomson, Emilio Custodio and Rob Hope. Poster at EGU General Assembly, Vienna, April 2016.
Keynote 5: Translating research ideas into water security impacts for the poor in rural Kenya. Presentation by R. Hope (Gro for GooD) at the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research conference, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2016.
Do the poor think they are poor? Presentation by Jacob Katuva (Gro for GooD) at the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research conference, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2016.
Do close elections benefit the poor? Water policy choices in a decentralised system. Presentation by J. Koehler (Gro for GooD, work done under ESRC grant) at the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research conference, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2016.
Presenting new insights into the relationship between rainfall and water use using innovative handpump monitoring technology by P. Thomson (presented by R. Hope) (Gro for GooD) at the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research conference, Pretoria, South Africa, March 2016.
"Financing water infrastructure for sustainable growth" . Presentation by Dr Rob Hope (Gro for GooD), at World Water Week, August 2015.
Presentations from Gro for GooD project inception workshop (Mar 2015)
Groundwater risks and institutional responses in Kwale, Kenya. Presentation by Jacob Katuva. RWSN Webinar Mar 2015
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We see a good range of studies, which is excellent. Though I am still missing the primary issue, which is what are the REAL long-term average costs for the users while using these handpumps. The focus is now on technology, monitoring, and institutional settings, but most of our studies and experiences show that at the end of the day, there are only two deciding factors for sustainability, which are:
(1) average yearly cost per family and
(2) average breakdowns per year per pump.
As long as policymakers do not have any idea about these figures, it is impossible to make right decisions on how to improve Community Water Supply and to achieve the SDGs.
The trap is that the donor community may be just fooling itself with excellent reports, while not realizing that most if not all of these results have been made with substantial (hidden) subsidies, which is of course not sustainable. You even don't know how much subsidies went in. Even worse, the REAL cost is therefore not exposed, which makes planning even more difficult.
Paul van Beers
BluePump.com
Tim Foster says:
Thanks for your comments. In Kwale, water committee records suggest a typical community spends between $150-200 per year on O&M (all handpumps in Kwale are Afridevs). About $100-$150 per year is spent on repairs, with most of the remainder covering the pump attendant's wage. The average household pays $7.20 per year (if they pay on a monthly basis), or equivalent to $1.30 per cubic meter if they pay per bucket. Based on self-reported data, the handpumps break down 2-3 times per year. You can see a detailed analyses of revenues and expenditures for water committees in Kwale here: https://goo.gl/Tb6Bxu
Tim Foster
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Title: William Austin Strong Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1897-1955
Collection number: 781
Creator: Strong, William Austin, 1875-1959
Extent: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Abstract: William Austin Strong (1875-1959) was a lawyer in California. The collection consists of court transcripts, correspondence, notes, books and ephemera concerning Strong's life and career as a lawyer. Included are materials regarding probate law, legal testimony, the Richfield Oil Company, Cornell University, Sigma Chi fraternity, Stanford University, and the settlement of Strong's estate.
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[Identification of item], William Austin Strong Papers (Collection 781). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Strong was born January 18, 1875 in Woodbourne, New York; moved to California with his parents, 1886; AB, Stanford University, 1897; LL.B, Cornell University, 1898; admitted to California bar, 1898; died in 1959.
Collection consists of court transcripts, correspondence, notes, books and ephemera concerning Strong's life and career as a lawyer. Includes materials regarding probate law, legal testimony, and the Richfield Oil Company. Also includes materials related to Cornell University, Sigma Chi fraternity, Stanford University, and the settlement of Strong's estate.
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