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David Blunkett
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The Right Honourable David Blunkett MP | |
Blunkett (L) unveiling a Kindertransport Memorial. London, September 2003 | |
In office 6 May 2005 – 2 November 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Alan Johnson |
Succeeded by | John Hutton |
In office 8 June 2001 – 15 December 2004 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Jack Straw |
Succeeded by | Charles Clarke |
In office 2 May 1997 – 8 June 2001 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Gillian Shephard |
Succeeded by | Estelle Morris (Education and Skills) |
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 11 June 1987 | |
Preceded by | Joan Maynard |
Majority | 13,644 (55.4%) |
Born | 6 June 1947 Sheffield, United Kingdom |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Chester University of Sheffield |
Religion | Methodism |
David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Suffering from blindness since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education Secretary in Tony Blair's first Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.
He gave up this position to become Home Secretary following the 2001 general election, a position he held until 2004, when he was forced to resign following the revelation of an affair Blunkett was having while serving as Home Secretary. Following the 2005 general election, he was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, but was again forced to resign later that year following the release of a series of reports about his external business interests during his brief time outside the cabinet.
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Early life
Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, Blunkett grew up in an underprivileged family and in 1959, he endured a family tragedy when his father was gravely injured in an industrial accident in which he fell into a vat of boiling water while at work as a foreman for the East Midlands Gas Board and died a month later. This left the surviving family in poverty, especially since the board refused to pay compensation for two years because he was working past retirement age (67).
Blind since birth, and educated at schools for the blind in Sheffield and Shrewsbury, Blunkett's chances in life seemed limited.[1] Following his father's death, he was sent on assessment to the School for the Blind in Worcester (New College Worcester), where he failed to gain entry. His failed assessment is said to be partly deliberate, due to his rebellious nature and dislike of public schools. He later attended the Royal National College for the Blind in Shrewsbury.[2] Indeed, he was apparently told at school that one of his few options in life was to become a lathe operator. Nevertheless, he won a place at the University of Sheffield, where he gained a BA honours degree in Political Theory and Institutions; one of his lecturers was Bernard Crick. He entered local politics on graduation. He worked as a clerk typist between 1967 and 1969 and as a lecturer in industrial relations and politics between 1973 and 1981.
Local council
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Blunkett became the youngest-ever councillor on Sheffield City Council, being elected in 1970 at the age of 22 while a teacher. He served on Sheffield City Council from 1970 to 1988, becoming Leader from 1980 to 1987 and on South Yorkshire County Council from 1973 to 1977. This was a time of decline for Sheffield's steel industry. The Conservative MP for Sheffield Hallam, Sir Irvine Patnick, coined the phrase "People's Republic of South Yorkshire" to describe the left-wing politics of its local government; Sheffield was designated as a nuclear-free zone.[3] Blunkett became known as the leader of one of the furthest left of the Labour councils,[4] which was regularly denounced as "loony left" by the newspapers of the right. Blunkett was one of the faces of the protest over rate-capping in 1985 which saw several Labour councils refuse to set a budget in a protest against Government powers to restrain their spending. He built up support within the Labour Party during his time as the council's leader during the 1980s and was elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee.
Member of Parliament
At the 1987 general election he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside with a large majority in a safe Labour seat. He became a party spokesman on local government, joined the shadow cabinet in 1992 as Shadow Health Secretary and became Shadow Education Secretary in 1994.[5] Combining reforming zeal with social conservatism, he became a favourite of new party leader Tony Blair.
Education secretary
After Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 general election, he became the UK's first blind cabinet minister as Secretary of State for Education and Employment.[5] The role of education secretary was a vital one in a government whose prime minister had in 1996 described his priority as "education, education, education" and which had made reductions in school class sizes a pledge. In the event it was higher education that proved to be the most controversial issue for Blunkett as he moved towards the imposition of tuition fees at public universities which had previously been free.
Blunkett reflected his social conservatism and support for the traditional family[6] in government policies on sex education.In 1999, he offended liberal opinion over his desire that sex education should not be pursued until children have left primary school at 11,[7] reportedly arguing that childhood, the "age of innocence", should not be compromised by "graphic" sex education.[8] In 2000, while attempting to cool opposition to the proposed abolition of the Local Government Act 1988's Section 28 on the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools, he issued guidelines on the importance of 'family values' in teaching children sex education.[9]
Home secretary
At the start of the Labour government's second term in 2001, Blunkett was promoted to Home Secretary,[5] fulfilling an ambition of his. Observers saw him as a rival to Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's hopes to succeed Blair as the next Labour Party leader and potential Prime Minister.
Being tough on immigration and asylum was important for Blunkett during his time at the Home Office. In December 2001, he controversially called for immigrants to develop a greater "sense of belonging" to Britain. In April 2002, he proposed new powers which he claimed would curb illegal immigration and unfounded claims for political asylum.
Meanwhile, his department in Sheffield was accepting immigration applications with only cursory security checks. When a whistle-blower made this public, both the whistle blower and one of Blunkett's subordinates lost their posts, but Blunkett survived.[10]
Another controversial area for Blunkett was civil liberties, which he famously described as "airy fairy".[11] As Education Secretary, he had repeatedly expressed the intention that, were he to become Home Secretary, he would make the then-incumbent Jack Straw, who had been criticised for being hard-line, seem overly liberal.
On 15 January 2003, he was at the centre of controversy again when at a gathering of Asian and Black Home Office Employees in London he made a joke: "Colin Jackson succeeded, despite being Welsh". The comment caused great controversy amongst senior Welsh nationalists but the Labour Party rallied around Blunkett and the matter was quietly dropped.
In 2003, he announced an extension of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which critics condemned as a "snoopers' charter". His Criminal Justice Act 2003 reduced legal safeguards such as the right to trial by jury and double jeopardy rules. He also attempted to introduce compulsory national identity cards (initially called "entitlement cards", though this euphemism was later dropped). The aftermath of terrorist attacks in the USA was offered as a justification to pass this controversial legislation, though no compulsion to carry identity cards was planned.
These measures earned him the nickname 'Big Blunkett' from parts of the tabloid press, a reference to the Orwellian concept of Big Brother.
Lord Stevens, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during Blunkett's tenure as Home Secretary, said of him "If you are ever asked to meet with Blunkett, under no circumstances should you go alone...he is a bully and a liar"[12].
He also introduced plans to introduce criminalisation of possession of what the Government has labelled "extreme" adult pornography, in response to a request from Liz Longhurst, a move that has been criticised by anti-censorship and alternative sexuality groups, as the law will criminalise images involving consenting adults.[13]
Blunkett also endorsed recommendations for the then Home Office Forensic Science Service (creators of the DNA Database) to become a company.
First resignation
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During his time as Home Secretary, Blunkett had a relationship with Kimberly Fortier, the American-born publisher of The Spectator, a conservative magazine. The three-year relationship ended acrimoniously in August 2004, with Fortier choosing to return to her husband, Stephen Quinn. Fortier has since reverted to her married name.
Blair regarded it proper for Blunkett to remain Home Secretary while pursuing his pregnant former lover in the courts to ascertain paternity of her unborn child as it appeared of no relevance to his ministerial position. However, at the end of November 2004, it was alleged that Blunkett abused his position to assist his ex-lover's Filipina nanny, Leoncia "Luz" Casalme, by speeding up her residence visa application and later using his influence to ensure that she successfully obtained an Austrian tourist visa. An investigation into these allegations was launched, led by Sir Alan Budd. Shortly before Sir Alan was due to report his findings, an email emerged headed "no special favours, .. but a bit quicker". Though there was no evidence Blunkett was responsible for the email or its title, he resigned as Home Secretary on 15 December 2004, saying that questions about his honesty were damaging the government. Sir Alan's final verdict, delivered on 21 December 2004, concluded that "I believe I have been able to establish a chain of events linking Blunkett to the change in the decision on Mrs Casalme's application."
Budd admitted that the investigation was "not a straightforward matter", because few involved in it could recall the details. His report says:
" | I believe there are two broad possibilities: Mr Blunkett was seeking special help for Mrs Quinn's nanny (or) he was raising the case as an example of the poor performance of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND). I do not have direct evidence that allows me to choose between the two possibilities. | " |
A fax from Blunkett's office to the IND had not been found during the inquiry but Sir Alan found no evidence of an attempt to conceal or destroy evidence. Following the report's publication, he told reporters: "I have been unable to link Mr Blunkett to the sending of faxes to the IND. There must have been such a link but I have been unable to discover what its nature was."
Blunkett resigned as Home Secretary after being told in advance of Budd's findings. He said: "I want to make it clear that I fully accept the findings of Sir Alan's report, where his findings differ from my recollections this is simply due to failure on my part to recall details."
On the day that Sir Alan delivered his report, a Parliamentary standards committee led by Sir Philip Mawer also upheld a complaint against Blunkett for giving Quinn a taxpayer-funded railway ticket (reserved for MPs' spouses) to the value of £179. Blunkett had already admitted that he had broken the rules, saying that he had made an honest mistake, and repaid the sum in question.
Blunkett was not helped by a series of stinging criticisms of his Cabinet colleagues, made by Blunkett to his biographer Stephen Pollard, which became public days before he resigned. His increasingly public paternity battle (see Private life) was also believed by many to be harming his position. However, many believed that he would be able to salvage his political career.
Return to the cabinet
Following the 2005 general election Blunkett was returned to the cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, where he faced a growing pensions crisis, although it is known Tony Blair wanted to make him the new minister for Anti-social behaviour within the cabinet at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister but this was snubbed by John Prescott. Characteristically he was already at work on the morning of Saturday 7 May, a matter of hours after his appointment. He was to be seen the previous day (the day after the election) anxiously awaiting a telephone call from the PM during the centenary celebrations at the University of Sheffield, to which he was invited as a speaker. There he was heard to apologise for the woes of student fees he had imposed on the university. He himself had only wanted to apply them to Oxbridge, but had been overruled.
Further political trouble and second resignation
In late October 2005, David Blunkett began to feel the pressure of the media for a second time. Two weeks before the 2005 general election he took up a directorship in a company called DNA Bioscience and bought £15 000 of shares in the company.
On 31 October 2005 Blunkett was asked to explain why he had not consulted the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments regarding the directorship. Having placed the shares into an independent trust,[14] "Mr Blunkett said he had asked his three grown-up sons from his first marriage to authorise trustees to "dispose of" the shares. They agreed to the request."
Blunkett's political opponents claimed that a conflict of interest was created by him having been director of and holding shares in a company proposing to bid for government contracts to provide paternity tests to the Child Support Agency – part of the Department for Work and Pensions, of which he was Secretary of State.
An investigation by Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell – asked for by Prime Minister Tony Blair – found that although Blunkett had not broken the Ministerial Code by becoming a director of the company or buying its shares, he should have consulted the Advisory Committee before doing so.
However, it was revealed on 1 November that Lord Mayhew of Twysden, who chairs the Advisory Committee, had sent three letters to Blunkett reminding him to seek the committee's advice on his involvement with DNA Bioscience, which he ignored. On the same day, Sir Alistair Graham, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said Blunkett had breached ministerial rules.
Blunkett declared that he would not be resigning, saying to a newspaper, "I have done nothing wrong." A statement by Downing Street said that the Prime Minister did not believe that Blunkett's mistake should prevent him from carrying out his job.
It also became public that Blunkett had taken two other paid jobs, one with the international Jewish training and education charity World ORT,[15] and the other with Indepen Consulting, again without seeking advice from the Advisory Committee.
On 2 November, Lord Nolan, a former Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and architect of the code of conduct, was reported as having said in an interview with the Yorkshire Post, "I think he's more or less admitted that he should have followed the rules. But I think it's the fault of the Government that he has been allowed to see if he can get away with it." Lord Nolan was reported to have continued: "Blair should insist on Ministers all round obeying the rules. I think that if anyone breaks the rules they should be disciplined, otherwise there's no point having the rules." Lord Nolan agreed that this meant that Blunkett should have been dismissed or demoted by the Prime Minister.[16]
On the same day, a scheduled appearance before a House of Commons Select Committee was cancelled at the last minute and Blunkett was summoned to a meeting at Number 10. Later that morning, a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed Blunkett had resigned at the meeting, stating that his position had become untenable. In a statement, Blunkett claimed that the "lies" of those such as Max Clifford would one day be "dealt with".[citation needed]
John Hutton was appointed as David Blunkett's successor that day. Blunkett's children's trustees decided not to sell the shares in DNA Bioscience after all. In December 2005 it was reported that the company faces insolvency, resulting in Blunkett's shares being worth very little.[17]
Despite his resignation from the cabinet in November, Blunkett continued to enjoy rent-free accommodation in Belgravia, London, at tax-payers' expense until he found new accommodation in mid-March 2006.[18] He also rents a cottage on the estate of Chatsworth House.[19] The controversy gained further press coverage later in 2006, when Tory MP Philip Davies asked when Blunkett was due to vacate the residence.[20] Ironically, this was published only the day before the same newspaper broke the story about him vacating the house,[citation needed] which will now[when?] stand empty and be maintained by the government at the tax-payer's expense until another cabinet minister requires an official residence.
David Blunkett, who pioneered the UK government's ID cards proposals[citation needed], has taken a job with Entrust, a security company which works on Spain's ID card and has formally registered an interest in the British project.[21] He has also used his column in The Sun to promote the concept of ID cards.[22] In April 2009, Blunkett called for the ID Card scheme to be scrapped.[23] David Blunkett has used the word "modernise" 63 times in Parliamentary speeches to November 2009 [1]
Personal life
Blunkett divorced his wife, by whom he had three sons, in 1990. In 2004, with news of his affair with Kimberly Quinn, Blunkett asserted that he was the father of Quinn's two-year-old son. Quinn denied this. In late 2004, Blunkett began a legal challenge to gain access to the child. In late December 2004, as was widely reported in the media, DNA tests confirmed that Quinn's two-year-old son, was Blunkett's child. On 5 March 2005 it was confirmed that Blunkett was not the father of Quinn's newborn son.[24]
In 2005 there was more speculation about Blunkett's private life, this time regarding a young woman and for not disclosing free membership to an exclusive London nightclub, Annabel's. The matter with the young woman has been cleared up following a full apology from the newspaper which printed the original story in which the paper accepted that the story was entirely false.[25] and his membership at the nightclub has been forfeited.[26]
On 27 January 2009, Blunkett announced that he was engaged to be married to Dr Margaret Williams, a doctor in the city of Sheffield.[27] On 6 June 2009, he was walking in Derbyshire and was injured by a "charging cow", suffering from a broken rib and "painful bruising".[28]
Guide dogs
Blunkett's guide dogs – Ruby, Teddy, Offa, Lucy and most recently Sadie[29] have become familiar characters in the House of Commons, usually sleeping at his feet on the floor of the chamber, inspiring occasional witty comments from Blunkett and his fellow MPs on both sides of the house. In one memorable incident, Lucy (a black Labrador) vomited during a speech by opposition member David Willetts[30]. On occasions when Blunkett was guided by (ex-Prime Minister) Tony Blair the wry comment has been made: "who is guiding whom?" Another time, his (new) guide dog led him to the Conservative Party benches.[31][citation needed] However, Blunkett's blindness does not generally arouse much comment.
The Blunkett tapes
In October 2006, David Blunkett's audio diaries were published in his book The Blunkett tapes: My life in the bear pit. The tapes detail his time as a cabinet minister until the present date, and provide insights into the workings of the Labour cabinet. They were recorded every week, and contain his view of what was happening in Cabinet at the time, alongside contemporary reflections and more recent thoughts on the events.
Speaking career
Outside politics Blunkett enjoys a career as a popular conference and after dinner speaker. His booking agency JLA state that his speech topics include "The Political Landscape, Overcoming Adversity, Social Responsibility and Diversity." [32]
Popular Culture References
As a result of David Blunkett's affair with Kimberly Quinn he has been portrayed three times in dramatic or musical form. Along with the other recent dalliances associated with The Spectator, Blunkett was featured in Who's The Daddy?, a play by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans, the magazine's theatre critics, which ran at The King's Head Theatre in the Summer of 2005. The satirist Alistair Beaton wrote the television film A Very Social Secretary, for Channel 4, which was screened in October 2005. Finally, Blunkett – The Musical toured the UK during the course of Spring 2005. This work featured music by the American composer Mary Jo Paranzino;[33] there is also a book by The Times journalist Ginny Dougary. In 2005 BBC Radio 4 had a series of comic programmes called A 15 Minute Musical, the first of which was based on David Blunkett's affair with Kimberley Quinn.
A character based on Blunkett appeared in the Canadian cartoon series Bromwell High, and a club-night called Electric Blunkett, held at the Sheffield Blind Institute, began in the summer of 2005, although its name was swiftly changed to Electric Blanket.[34] Comedian Linda Smith once described Blunkett as "Satan's bearded folk singer".[35] He is the topic of the song Blindness by Manchester group The Fall. He appeared on The F Word with Gordon Ramsey cooking a Shepherd's Pie on 3 June 2008.[36]
David Blunkett took part in a celebrity version of Mastermind, where his specialist subject was Harry Potter. He came last.[37]
David Blunkett was featured on the channel five documentary series 'Banged up' in 2008. The show followed 10 teenagers sent to a fake jail for 10 days to see if it could change their criminal ways. He was involved in various ways, one of which was being on the panel when the teenagers were up for parole.
David Blunkett was interviewed as part of Armando Iannucci's examination of "Milton's Paradise Lost", which screened in May 2009. In it Blunkett speculates on how Milton's service in Oliver Cromwell's government might have affected his beliefs and jokingly quotes the media as saying "He [Blunkett] is no Milton."
- ^ "The House I Grew Up In, featuring David Blunkett". The House I Grew Up In. BBC. BBC Radio 4. 2008-08-20.
- ^ "In Touch: What's Blunkett cooking up on the radio?". bbc.co.uk. 31 March 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/features/whats_blunkett_cooking_up_on_the_radio.shtml. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
- ^ "The rise and fall of socialism in one city", Nick Howard, International Socialism Journal, Winter 1995
- ^ "What is Labour for?", John Lanchester, London Review of Books, 31 March 2005
- ^ a b c Brown, Colin (21 March 2005). "David Blunkett: 'I'd like to come back but I have to earn it. That means the graft of getting round the country'". The Independent (Independent News & Media). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/david-blunkett-id-like-to-come-back-but-i-have-to-earn-it-that--means-the-graft-of-getting-round-the-country-529305.html. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
- ^ Lucy Ward "Sex education plan 'same as section 28'", The Guardian, 28 January 2000. Retrieved on 9 April 2009.
- ^ Libby Brooks "Sex, kids and class", The Guardian, 2 December 1999. Retrieved on 9 April 2009.
- ^ Yvonne Roberts "You're wrong, Mr Blunkett: sex education is essential", The Independent, 3 September 1999. Retrieved on 9 April 2009.
- ^ Colin Brown "'Family values' schools sex advice rushed out", The Independent, 28 January 2000. Retrieved on 9 April 2009.
- ^ "Whistleblower fears he will lose job", Jason Beattie, The Scotsman, 2 April 2004
- ^ "Airy fairy libertarians: Attack of the muesli-eaters?", BBC, 20 November 2001
- ^ Interview: David Blunkett | Comment is free | The Guardian
- ^ BBC NEWS | Magazine | When does kinky porn become illegal?
- ^ Matthew Tempest (31 October 2005). "Blunkett promises to sell shares". The Guardian. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,9174,1605443,00.html?gusrc=rss.
- ^ "U.K.'s Blunkett Ignored Request to Take Advice on Charity Job", Robert Hutton, Bloomberg, 1 November 2005
- ^ "Labour 'may lose votes over Blunkett'", Simon McGee, Yorkshire Post, 2 November 2005
- ^ Antony Barnett and Tania Branigan (9 December 2005). "DNA company that Blunkett backed heads for collapse". The Guardian. http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1663483,00.html.
- ^ "Blunkett wins affair claim payout". BBC. 12 March 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4798182.stm. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ "Blunkett still hangs on at 'disgrace and favour' pad", Guy Adams, The Independent, 20 January 2006
- ^ "Now Tories ask when Blunkett will move home", Guy Adams, The Independent, 10 March 2006
- ^ "Blunkett is given job at identity card firm". http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/story/0,,2042463,00.html. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
- ^ Beeb play the Big Brother card
- ^ "Blunkett seeks 'end to ID cards'". BBC News. 28 April 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8022791.stm. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ "Blunkett "did not father child"". BBC. 5 March 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4320827.stm. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ "Blunkett wins libel payout". Channel 4 News (ITN). 12 March 2006. http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=1701729.
- ^ Henry Deedes (13 March 2006). "Why Annabel's tore up Siddiqi's membership". The Independent. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article350966.ece.
- ^ Allen, Nick (2009-01-27). "David Blunkett to marry again". Telegraph.co.uk (Telegraph Media Group Limited). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/4357392/David-Blunkett-to-marry-again.html. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- ^ "MP Blunkett injured in cow attack". BBC News Online (BBC). 8 June 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8089498.stm. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
- ^ "I love lucy", Guardian Unlimited, Retrieved on 2007-08-22
- ^ "I therefore think it rather appropriate that, while the hon. Gentleman was speaking, the Secretary of State's dog was sick." Mr Don Foster (Bath),Commons Hansard, 11 Mar 1999, Column 526
- ^ David Blunkett On a Clear Day, 1995, Michael O'Mara Books
- ^ http://www.jla.co.uk/conference-speakers/david-blunkett
- ^ "London run for Blunkett the musical", Simon McGee, Yorkshire Post, 4 July 2005
- ^ "Electric Blanket". http://www.electricblanket.org.uk. Retrieved 2006-06-09.
- ^ "Radio comedian Linda Smith dies", Adam Sherwin, The Times, 1 March 2006
- ^ Jeff Johnson. "The Fall Pick Up the Thread". Pitchfork. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-10-17-fall-pick-up-the-thread.shtml. Retrieved 2006-06-09.
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3345971.stm Blunkett flops in Mastermind quiz
- David Blunkett by Stephen Pollard (Hodder & Stoughton, 14 December 2004) ISBN 978-0-340-82534-1
- Civil Society and David Blunkett: Lawyers Vs. Politicians by Kenneth Minogue (Civitas, 2002) ISBN 978-1-903386-22-4
- Politics and Progress: Renewing Democracy and a Civil Society by David Blunkett (Demos, 2001) ISBN 978-1-84275-024-7
- On a Clear Day by David Blunkett and Alex MacCormick (Michael O'Mara Books, 1995) ISBN 978-1-85479-741-4
- Democracy in Crisis: The Town Halls Respond by David Blunkett and Keith Jackson (Hogarth Press, 1987) ISBN 978-0-7012-0777-9
- The Blunkett Tapes: My life in the bear pit by David Blunkett (Bloomsbury, 16 October 2006) ISBN 978-0-7475-8823-8
External links
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: David Blunkett MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - David Blunkett MP
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David Blunkett
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Special Report: David Blunkett
- Simon Hoggart's sketch
- Scotsman - David Blunkett Affair
- A balanced biography of the man
- Open Directory Project — David Blunkett directory category
Resignation as Home Secretary
- BBC News In Depth - Blunkett Resignation
- Text of David Blunkett's resignation statement
- Budd Report (fast-tracking of visa)
- Mawer Report (inappropriate use of taxpayer-funded rail ticket)
- British Home Secretary quits amid scandal
Further political trouble
Pay off for leaving the Cabinet – then coming back...
Paternity battle
- "Blunkett 'did not father child'" – BBC News
- Evening Standard - Blunkett Prepares for Court Battle 22 November 2004
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** Cloudsdale, a hovering (and possibly mobile) city made almost entirely from clouds and rainbows and featuring a weather factory.
** The Crystal Empire, whose crystal street layout is actually an enormous accumulator array to collect love and camaraderie from the city's inhabitants and feed it into the city's central spire to be weaponized against evildoers.
* Minbari cities such as Yedor and Tuzanor from ''Series/BabylonFive''. In fact, the planet is rich in ginormous crystals, so much so that they carve entire cities out of these crystals. [[http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/File:Minbar_01.JPG Just take a look.]]
* Zaofu in ''Series/TheLegendOfKorra'', a city made entirely of metal. The city is made to look like a congregation of Lotus flowers, that stay open in the day, but are closed by night.
!! Dark and Gritty
* Gotham City from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', epically [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand post-earthquake]] when the city looks like a mash up of the 1930s, Gothic London and a Modern city.
* Ankh-Morpork from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', though most of its dark has turned into grime and might occasionally become part of something served in a bun.
* The eponymous ''Film/DarkCity'' [[AlwaysNight (set only at night)]] is a SceneryPorn-tastic, GermanExpressionism-inspired, AlwaysNight CityInABottle.
* [[CityWithNoName The City]] from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series.
* New Krobuzon from Creator/ChinaMieville's ''[[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas Lag]]'' trilogy.
!! Uncategorized
* The titular Film/{{Metropolis}}. It borrows from Creator/HGWells ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and has a shiny Art Deco city on top and a gritty worker's city under the earth.
* [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Minas Tirith]].
* [[TheMightyThor Asgard]].
* And the major cities of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Silver Moon, Undercity, the Exodar, Dalaran and Shattrah.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has quite a lot. Eldar cities and the Dark Eldar capital of Commorgah are both very impressive (the former are CrystalSpiresAndTogas style cites housed inside Craftworlds, spacecrafts the size of small moons, the latter is a [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Dark Towers and Spikes]] style city located inside the Webway). Humans have numerous heavily populated worlds with impressive looking cities, but the grand price goes to Holy Terra, seat of the Imperium. The Imperial Palace alone covers most of what used to be Eurasia.
%% * ''[[Literature/TheBooksOfEmber The City Of Ember]]''.
* New Mombasa from ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}''.
* The Human City from ''Film/TheMatrix''. It's a virtual merger of several real-world cities.
* The city in ''Film/BladeRunner'' is certainly '''Dark and Gritty''', as depicted in fanart. [[http://site.jacobcharlesdietz.com/the-work/gallery-3/2019-post-alley here]] .
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia Dinotopia]]'''s [[http://dinotopia.wikia.com/wiki/Waterfall_City Waterfall City]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=5 Chel'el'sussoloth]], [[MeaningfulName literally means]] "City of light in the darkness". For LonelyRichKid Ariel, it's a fantasy world beyond her wildest dreams, to GenreSavvy {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lirel, it's a WretchedHive that also has CrystalSpiresAndTogas... perfect for having AHellOfATime.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Futurama_-_The_Future.jpg New New York]] actually finds itself suffering from a garbage ''shortage'', while they dump their radioactive sewage directly into [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:OldNY.jpg Old New York]] and the sewers below, the later of which now look like [[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mutantvillage.jpg this]] because of a civilisation of mutants (who [[FantasticRacism are required to live there by law]]).
* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', James tends to think of New York City this way.
* In ''Franchise/RoboCop'', OCP ''portrays'' Delta City as '''Shiny and Awesome''', but, like every other product OCP makes...
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Stratos Stratos City]]: CrystalSpiresAndTogas for everyone! ([[FantasticRacism Except Troglodytes.]])
** TheFederation's own capitol, [[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/San_Francisco San Francisco]].
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Aldera_City.JPG Aldera]].
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_City Cloud City]], which was allegedly inspired by Stratos City.
** "[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mos_Eisley Mos Eisley Spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.]]"
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Theed Theed]], which could have been inspired by Waterfall City.
** [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Level_1313]] The darker side of Coruscant, probably even worse than Mos Eisley.
* ''Stargate'': The Ancients, Great City Ships (notably Atlantis).
* RealLife, more or less:
** [[http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g295424-Dubai.html Dubai]].
** [[http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/modernmaterialist/2009/05/flickr_lowerManhattan_eight_double.jpg New York City]].
** [[http://www.higbank.com/images/higbank/sedeHongKong2004.jpg Hong Kong]].
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul Seoul]]. Just whoa.
** Modern/Greater Lisbon, Portugal. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Expo16.jpg Parque]] [[http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/pfreire/paulo/Lisboa_este.jpg das]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Lisboa_-_Expo98_-_Vista_Geral.jpg Nações]], [[http://imagens.casa.sapo.pt/imoveis/640x480/Escritorio-Venda-Arrendamento-Lisboa-Sao-Mamede-Marques-de-Pombal.47938790.jpg Amoreira]], [[http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/1049132.jpg Praça Marquês de Pombal]]. (Not to be confused with [[http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/pfreire/paulo/Lisboa_Comercio.jpg old]], [[http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/pfreire/paulo/Lisboa_jeronimos.jpg Royal]] [[http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/pfreire/paulo/Lisboa_torre_de_belem.jpg Lisbon]].)
* "''Ubiquitos''" (mostly known as 'The City') from ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge''. See also AsceticAesthetic and SceneryPorn.
* [[TableTopGame/MagicTheGathering Ravnica]], a true megalopolis in that the entire world is a city.

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Initial jobless claims rose 2.8% to 372,000 for the week ended Dec. 29, according to a Department of Labor report released today . After last week's revised flatline and the preceding week's revised 5.2% increase, December was a rough month for the labor market.
The four-week moving average squeaked up 250 to 360,000, reversing its month-long decline. Despite the increases, both this week's number and the four-week moving average fell solidly below 400,000, a cut-off point that economists consider a sign of an improving labor market.
On a state-by-state basis, 21 states experienced initial jobless claims increases of more than 1,000 for the week ended Dec. 22 (most recent available data). Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania all recorded more than 5,000 more claims than the previous week, citing automobile, manufacturing, and entertainment industries as some of the biggest layoffs. California's initial claims dropped by a whopping 11,800, due to a stronger overall jobs market and significantly fewer layoffs in the service industry.
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The independent jury of experts ranges from five to nine members. Jury members serve for multiple years to assure a balance between past and new members and are entrusted with selecting the laureate each year. No members of the Pritzker family or outside observers are present during jury deliberations which usually take place during the first months of the calendar year. The jury members are recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture.
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Alejandro Aravena, 2009-present
Stephen Breyer, 2012-present
Yung Ho Chang, 2012-present
Kristin Feireiss, 2013-present
Glenn Murcutt, 2010-present
Richard Rogers, 2015-present
Benedetta Tagliabue, 2014-present
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Martha Thorne, 2005-present (Executive Director)
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Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1979-1982
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Cesar Pelli, 1979-1982
Dean, School of Architecture, Yale University
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J. Irwin Miller, 1979-1984
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Ricardo Legorreta, 1985-1993
Ada Louise Huxtable, 1987-2005
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In one discovery, astronomers have detected a faint, star-like object in the least expected of places -- a "starless core." Named for their apparent lack of stars, starless cores are dense knots of gas and dust that should eventually form individual newborn stars. Using Spitzer's infrared eyes, a team of astronomers led by Dr. Neal Evans of the University of Texas at Austin probed dozens of these dusty cores to gain insight into conditions that are needed for stars to form. Starless cores are fascinating to study because they tell us what conditions exist in the instants before a star forms. Understanding this environment is key to improving our theories of star formation, said Evans. But when they looked into one core, called L1014, they found a surprise -- a warm glow coming from a star-like object. The object defies all models of star formation; it is fainter than would be expected for a young star. Astronomers theorize that the mystery object is one of three possibilities: the youngest "failed star," or brown dwarf ever detected; a newborn star caught in a very early stage of development; or something else entirely. This object might represent a different way of forming stars or brown dwarfs. Objects like this are so dim that previous studies would have missed them. It might be like a stealth version of star formation, Evans said. The new object is located 600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. In another discovery, Spitzer's infrared eyes have peered into the place where planets are born -- the center of a dusty disc surrounding an infant star -- and spied the icy ingredients of planets and comets. This is the first definitive detection of ices in planet-forming discs. This disc resembles closely how we imagine our own solar system looked when it was only a few hundred thousand years old. It has the right size, and the central star is small and probably stable enough to support a water-rich planetary system for billions of years into the future, said Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, who led the team that made this discovery. Previously, astronomers had seen ices, or ice-coated dust particles, in the large cocoons of gas and dust that envelop young stars. But they were not able to distinguish these ices from those in the inner planet-forming portion of a star's disc. Using Spitzer's ultra-sensitive infrared vision and a clever trick, Pontoppidan and his colleagues were able to overcome this challenge. Their trick was to view a young star and its dusty disc at "dawn." Discs can be viewed from a variety of angles, ranging from the side or edge-on, where the discs appear as dark bars, to face-on, where the discs become washed out by the light of the central star. They found that if they observed a disc at a 20-degree angle, at a position where the star peeks out like our Sun at dawn, they could see the ices. "We hit the sweet spot," said Pontoppidan. "Our models predicted that the search for ices in discs is a problem of finding an object with just the right viewing angle, and Spitzer confirmed that model. In this system, astronomers found ammonium ions as well as components of water and carbon dioxide ice. The Spitzer science conference, "The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos," is being held at the Sheraton Pasadena hotel. JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, Calif. JPL is a division of Caltech. |
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Chief Secretary constitutes 15 sub-committees which will submit subject-wise reports
The Chief Secretary P.K.Mohanty has constituted an apex committee headed by Planning Department Special Chief Secretary Tucker to oversee the State bifurcation process.
Mr. Mohanty who convened a meeting of Secretaries of all departments to discuss the aspects of bifurcation comprising distribution of personnel, assets and liabilities, projects, buildings, public sector enterprises here on Tuesday constituted about 15 sub-committees which would submit subject-wise reports.
The sub-committees focus on different departments such as finance, assets, buildings, public sector enterprises, Investment and Infrastructure, health, education, services, police personnel, revenue generation, energy, corporations etc., and the apex committee would coordinate with the sub-committees.
A political leader or an expert may be appointed as the chairman of the apex committee, it is learnt.
According to the sources, Centre indicated to the State that the apportioning of employees, assets and liabilities, should be completed within 10 days. However the department heads unanimously believed to have conveyed to the Chief Secretary that the process would take at least two months.
All the department heads were instructed to computerise all the files related to bifurcation process and submit them to the Chief Secretary and to the Finance department. The files related to projects, schemes and disputes related to both Telangana and Seemandhra regions should be marked separately to both the regions.
Major training institutesIt was also disclosed in the meeting that the land details through out the State would be recorded and a decision would be taken to whether to continue some defunct corporations. All the reports of various sub-committees would be forwarded to the Central committee.
Common capitalIt was also indicated in the meeting that the distribution of existing buildings in Hyderabad between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States would be decided by the Governor as the City would remain as common capital for 10 years. The list of about 100 major training institutions like APPA, MCHRD would be prepared as they would be common to both the States for 10 years.
According to the finance department officials, of 78,000 State cadre employees to be distributed between the two states, about 50,000 would have to be transferred in a transparent process and it would take about two months time.
Meanwhile IAS officers Association understood to have given a representation to the Chief Secretary that options be given to IAS officers to choose the State cadre.
Keywords: Andhra Pradesh bifurcation, TRS chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao, TRS-Congress merger, separate Telangana, Telangana Bill, separate statehood


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This recipe is adapted from one that appeared in Prudence Hilburn's excellent "A Treasury of Southern Baking." Use your imagination as far as fillings (hint: think chocolate!).
1/3 cup chilled shortening
Cut the shortening and peanut butter into the flour using a food processor fitted with a plastic dough blade. Gradually add the ice water, mixing until the dough forms a ball. Form into a disk, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Remove dough from fridge and roll out on a lightly floured surface until pastry circle is about 10 inches in diameter. Gently lay pastry into a 9-inch pie pan. Prick crust gently all over with a fork, line with aluminum foil, and fill partially with pie weights or dried beans.
Bake about 5 minutes, then remove pie weights and foil. Bake another 5 minutes, or until crust is lightly browned. Remove from heat, allow to cool completely, and fill with pie filling of your choice.
Makes 1 9-inch pie crust.
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When you're 18 everyone tells you the things they think you need to know. 'Reach for the stars' they write in your birthday cards. They arm you tried and tested quotes like
'life's a marathon not a sprint' and 'be the change that you wish to see in the world.'
Thanks guys - but whilst this may have filled us with hope and positivity, come our mid-twenties we're reminiscing about those birthday cards and we kinda wish someone just told us what was really about to happen.
Or maybe it's more fun to figure it out ourselves.
Either way, if I could go back and sit down with my 18 year old self this is what I'd tell her…
1. Your family are actually the best friends you will ever have.
2. If you think university is where you'll find yourself. You're wrong. When you hit 25 and realise you have absolutely no idea who you are, don't worry about sliding back into your teenage years. That's when you were your most awesome anyway.
3. When it comes to your career, it really isn't all about the money. The truth is, no amount cash is worth being miserable.
4. You know those friends who make you feel like crap? Ditch them. Pronto.
5. Be brave. Don't get out of the habit of doing things that scare you.
6. Don't have sex for someone else. You know good sex. What they're trying to do as you quietly wince is NOT it. Say something or just don't do it.
7. Adult life is just an extension of school. The bully, the playground politics and every thing else you learned - is worth remembering.
8. You simply can not be good at everything but you are REALLY good at something. Do that.
9. Try not to be so angry. It's toxic.
10. Always be wary of someone who is rude to service people. They are the WORST!
11. You're responsible for your own happiness. Get comfortable saying no.
12. Nothing good happens after 2am on a night out. Don't let people make you stay out any longer. Unless you're at G-A-Y and Kylie Minogue is performing. Always stay for Kylie.
13. Your body is amazing. Stop being ridiculous.
14. Chill out. At the very worst it will make a GREAT story.
15. This song is actually the oracle of truth.
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Improved statistical edge detection through neural networks
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Original title: | Improved statistical edge detection through neural networks |
Authors: | Ian Williams, David Svoboda, Nicholas Bowring, Elizabeth Guest |
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Citation: | WILLIAMS, Ian, David SVOBODA, Nicholas BOWRING a Elizabeth GUEST. Improved statistical edge detection through neural networks. In 10th Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. Manchester: BMVA, 2006. s. 56-60, 5 s. ISBN 1-901727-31-9.Export BibTeX |
Original language: | English |
Field: | Use of computers, robotics and its application |
WWW: | http://www2.wiau.man.ac.uk/miua2006/ |
Type: | Article in Proceedings |
Keywords: | edge detection; neural networks; statistical tests |
The paper details a novel and successful method for multi-statistic edge detection. The detector works by analyzing the texture properties of different regions within an image, and through the use of neural networks classifying the location and direction of any edges. The detailed technique is illustrated for use both on Histological Mouse Embryo Atlas (MA) images, and also real image data. The overall accuracy of this novel technique is extensively tested using a novel grey-scale performance measure (GFOM) which allows a robustness in the results unavailable with visual inspection alone. The filter is illustrated to outperform the traditional Canny edge detector which is seen as the benchmark for edge detection. The technique presented within the paper can be applied to a variety of low level medical imaging applications and is particularly suited to images containing high levels of noise and texture where the traditional methods of edge detection prove less successful.
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As official royal portraits go, Prince George's new one is Facebook-friendly. And we like it, even though some in the British media are put off by the informal look.
Boy George celebrates his 1st birthday on Tuesday and his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have released official photos of their adorable future king.
Look who's (sort of) walking!
Fashionable mums will want to know that George is rockin' a pair of Petit Bateau denim overalls and a pair of navy leather Early Days Alex Pre-Walker shoes in the photo.
Press Association staff photographer John Stillwell took the picture on July 2 when the family visited the "Sensational Butterflies" exhibit at London's Natural History Museum, where Kate is a patron.
"He was very lively, very confident and very sure of himself," Stillwell tells Us magazine. "He's a very determined young boy. And who does he look like? I'd have to say his dad, William."
George will have his own party on Tuesday at Kensington Palace, reportedly an indoor tea party. (We would have thought ponies would have been involved.) His great-grandma, Queen Elizabeth II, is expected to attend.
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NHS experts: Scots schools should give morning-after pill
- Experts call for schools to provide morning-after pill (bbc.co.uk, 17 February 2013)
- Experts: 'Give morning after pill at Scots schools' (scotsman.com, 17 February 2013)
- Health experts: schools should issue morning-after pill and condoms (heraldscotland.com, 17 February 2013)
- Girls, 13, given morning-after pill without parents' knowledge (15 October 2012)
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An influential group of NHS experts is urging the Scottish Government to allow the morning-after pill to be handed out in schools.
But the push has faced criticism for being irresponsible and "pours more fuel on the flames".
In a written submission to a Holyrood committee, the Scottish Sexual Health Lead Clinicians Group (SSHLCG) accused ministers of "running scared" of its critics over contraception in schools.
The group said: "Why is emergency contraception not available in schools? Why are condoms and contraception not accessible? Vaccination against a sexually transmitted infection (HPV) is given in schools, why can't pregnancy and other STIs be prevented?"
The Scottish parliament's Health and Sport Committee are looking into the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the country, which is one of the highest in western Europe.
Ministers had hoped to cut the pregnancy rate for under 16s to 6.8 pregnancies per 1,000 girls by 2010.
But the pregnancy rate for that year was 7.1 per 1,000.
John Deighan, the parliamentary officer for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said the SSHLCG call was irresponsible.
He said: "They are promoting the behaviour that causes the problem and this simply pours more fuel on the flames."
He added: "Children are already being sexualised to an outrageous extent and not enough effort is being made to discourage it."
Schools in Dumfries and Galloway have already come under fire for handing out morning-after pills to teenage girls without parental consent.
Ann Allen, Family Education Trust executive member, said she thought the programme was "very ill-conceived and badly thought out".
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His concert repertoire includes the oratorios of Handel and Bach, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Beethoven's Symphony Nr. 9, Mendelssohn's Paulus as well as Mozart's, Dvorak's and Fauré's Requiem. He sings with conductors such as Jacobs, Abbado, Rattle, Boreyko, Minkowsi, McGegan, Chailly und Koopman. His first recital album named Victor Hugo en musique, together with pianist Trung was released in 2008. He made his debut with Obrazzano in Rossini's Tancredi at Theater an der Wien in 2009.


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10 fresh tomatillos, husks removed
2 fresh jalapeno peppers, stems removed
1 bunch fresh cilantro, stems trimmed
3 avocados, peeled and pitted
1 tablespoon garlic powder
salt to taste
Very nice and oh so easy. Thanks I didn't change a thing.
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I changed it a little,, added two slices of red onion diced small and two TBLSP. Lime Juice. I don't like avocados but this is very good.
I doubled all ingredients and flavored to our liking we absolutely loved it and got compliments on it. So easy although I agree that making it in batches makes for less of a mess.
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Filter (higher-order function)
In functional programming, filter is a higher-order function that processes a data structure (typically a list) in some order to produce a new data structure containing exactly those elements of the original data structure for which a given predicate returns the boolean value true.
In Haskell, the code example
filter even [1..10]
evaluates to the list 2, 4,…10 by applying the predicate even
to every element of the list of integers 1, 2,… 10 in that order and creating a new list of those elements for which the predicate returns the boolean value true, thereby giving a list containing only the even members of that list. Conversely, the code example
filter (not . even) [1..10]
evaluates to the list 1, 3,…9 by collecting those elements of the list of integers 1, 2… 10 for which the predicate even
returns the boolean value false (with .
being the function composition operator).
Filter is a standard function for many programming languages, e.g. Haskell,[1] OCaml,[2] Standard ML,[3] or Erlang.[4] Common Lisp provides the functions remove-if
and remove-if-not
.[5] SRFI 1 provides an implementation of filter for the Scheme programming language.[6] C++ provides the algorithms remove_if
(mutating) and remove_copy_if
(non-mutating); C++11 additionally provides copy_if
(non-mutating).[7] Smalltalk provides the select:
method for collections. Filter can also be realized using list comprehensions in languages that support them.
In Haskell, filter
can be implemented like this:
filter :: (a -> Bool) -> [a] -> [a] filter _ [] = [] filter p (x:xs) | p x = x : filter p xs | otherwise = filter p xs
Here, []
denotes the empty list, and :
denotes the concatenation operator used to create a new list from a given value and an existing list.
Language | Filter | Notes | |
C# 3.0 | ienum.Where(pred) |
Where is an extension method ienum is an IEnumerable Similarly in all .NET languages |
CFML | obj.filter(func) |
Where obj is an array or a structure. The func receives as an argument each element's value. |
Clojure | (filter predicate list)[8] |
Or, via list comprehension: (for [x list :when (pred x)] x) |
Common Lisp | (remove-if inverted-pred list) |
The function remove-if-not has been deprecated[5] in favor of the equivalent remove-if where the predicate is complemented.[9] Thus the filter (remove-if-not #'oddp '(0 1 2 3)) should be written (remove-if (complement #'oddp) '(0 1 2 3)) or more simply: (remove-if #'evenp '(0 1 2 3)) where evenp returns the inverted value of oddp .[10] |
C++ | std::remove_copy_if(begin, end, result, prednot) |
in header <algorithm> begin, end, result are iterators predicate is reversed |
D | std.algorithm.filter!(pred)(list) |
Erlang | lists:filter(Fun, List) |
Or, via list comprehension: [ X || X <- List, Fun(X) ] |
Haskell | filter pred list |
Or, via list comprehension: [x | x <- list, pred x] |
Haxe | list.filter(pred) Lambda.filter(list, pred) |
Or, via list comprehension: [x | x <- list, pred x] |
J | (#~ pred) list |
An example of a monadic hook. # is copy, ~ reverses arguments. (f g) y = y f (g y) |
Java 8+ | stream.filter(pred) |
JavaScript 1.6 | array.filter(pred) |
Mathematica | Select[list, pred] |
Objective-C (Cocoa in Mac OS X 10.4+) | [array filteredArrayUsingPredicate:pred] |
pred is an NSPredicate object, which may be limited in expressiveness |
OCaml, Standard ML | List.filter pred list |
PARI/GP | select(expr, list) |
The order of arguments is reversed in v. 2.4.2. | |
Perl | grep block list |
PHP | array_filter(array, pred) |
Prolog | filter(+Closure,+List,-List) |
Since ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995/Cor.2:2012[11] the core standard contains closure application via call/N [12] |
Python | filter(func, list) |
Or, via list comprehension: [x for x in list if pred(x)] . In Python 3.x, filter was changed to return an iterator rather than a list. The complementary functionality, returning an iterator over elements for which the predicate is false, is also available in the standard library as filterfalse in the itertools module. |
Ruby | enum.find_all {block} |
enum is an Enumeration |
S/R | Filter(pred,array) |
In the second case, pred must be a vectorized function | |
Scala | list.filter(pred) |
Or, via for-comprehension: for(x <- list; if pred) yield x |
Scheme R6RS | (filter pred list) |
Smalltalk | aCollection select: aBlock |
Swift | array.filter(pred) |
Filter creates its result without modifying the original list. Many programming languages also provide variants that destructively modify the list argument instead for performance reasons. Other variants of filter (like e.g. dropWhile
and partition
) are also common. A common memory optimization for purely functional programming languages is to have the input list and filtered result share the longest common tail (tail-sharing).
See also[edit]
- ^
in the Haskell Standard Prelude - ^
in the OCaml standard library modulelist
- ^ "The List structure". The Standard ML Basis Library. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
- ^
in the Erlang STDLIB Reference Manual documentation of the modulelists
- ^ a b Function REMOVE, REMOVE-IF, REMOVE-IF-NOT, DELETE, DELETE-IF, DELETE-IF-NOT in the Common Lisp HyperSpec
- ^
in SRFI 1 - ^
in the SGI STL spec - ^ clojure.core/filter on ClojureDocs
- ^ Function COMPLEMENT in the Common Lisp HyperSpec
- ^ Function EVENP, ODDP in the Common Lisp HyperSpec
- ^ ISO/IEC 13211-1:1995/Cor 2:2012
- ^ http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ulrich/iso-prolog/dtc2#call


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PMID: 12594564 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Malformations of the corpus callosum (CC) may occur in many different syndromes. Various forms have been observed. We report seven cases of malformation of the CC. Special attention is directed towards the development of the fornix and hippocampus as a hippocampal commissure is a prerequisite of normal hippocampal development. The clinical disability of the patients presented here differed significantly, which may in part be due to the different extent of this cerebral malformation. The relevance of the concomitant aplasia of the limbic system has not been addressed in detail previously in the literature. |
W Küker; H Mayrhofer; I Mader; T Nägele; I Krägeloh-Mann |
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Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article Date: 2002-11-01 |
Journal Detail:
Title: European radiology Volume: 13 ISSN: 0938-7994 ISO Abbreviation: Eur Radiol Publication Date: 2003 Mar |
Date Detail:
Created Date: 2003-02-20 Completed Date: 2003-06-26 Revised Date: 2007-11-15 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9114774 Medline TA: Eur Radiol Country: Germany |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 598-604 Citation Subset: IM |
Department of Neuroradiology, Medical School, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler Strasse 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. firstname.lastname@example.com |
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Re: LZ: The offense is very much broken and Kubiak cant rely on the system he has
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To fix this offense , the passing game has to get verticle .... all this horozontal sh!t .... is going backwards. Problem is , the QB doesnt have the arm to get verticle.
Where's VY ?! (no , not really , that was a joke)
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isn't really the issue imo... he's got enough to get it where it needs to be. There were and have been more than a few throws that he made in the colts game and in all of these games that you wouldn't think he could make if his arm strength was the chief issue.
It's his footwork that's the main issue imo. When you're throwing a ball of any kind, that front foot/toe should always be pointed directly at your target..or where you're throwing. with both his ints, his foot placement was off. If you watch guys like Brady and Manning, they're front foot/toe is
pointed straight forward to their target. Another thing he also tends to do is overstride when he throws deep. Mark Sanchez has this issue...Donovan Mcnabb had this issue too.
In any event, Both of these things effect accuracy and can also affect how much "umf" you can get on the ball...
his 1st int, it looks to me he overstrided a little..& looking at the replay of it..i don't think his foot was placed where it should've been either..it wasn't pointed forward to his target that's for sure.
His 2nd int, while he didn't overstride, his front foot just kinda goes off to the side when he's moving forward on the balance-weight transfer..
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