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T is for Tree Of Life
It is a complete privilege to be leading Tree Of Life and especially to be leading it with such a great bunch of guys!
After a torrid year in 2011 in which I thought I would never get to serve the local church again here in the Western Cape I find myself once again blown away by the goodness of God as he had a whole different plan to those of others.
What I'm particularly enjoying is the fact that we have to rely totally on God for everything in our meetings. This is church unplugged. We have no music group, no PA equipment in fact we have very little. The blessing in all of this is that we cannot put on a performance even if we wanted to which is great because it means we have to invite the Holy Spirit and give him space in the meetings. Personally I don't ever want this to stop!
As I said in L is for local church, I'm passionate about local church and believe it is the hope of the nations. The nations are not some subjective concept out there somewhere, rather the nations begin at home and spread out from there. This has never been truer than now when the world has come to our doorstep. It must be a rare thing these days to find a community that has no international influence residing within it.
This excites me because when we first had the word about the tree of life in Revelation spoken over us as a group of folk praying together it was particularly about the leaves being for the healing of the nations and how we are the leaves of the tree in Macassar and beyond. Awesome stuff from our Lord!
This post is part of a series in the Blogging From A To Z Challenge, April 2012.
Blogging From A To Z Challenge - T
by Dino on 23.4.12
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We're standing - or, in my case at the moment, sitting - on the cusp of the Mangaung conference, due to run from 16-20 December. Indications are that ANC president Jacob G Zuma, also president of the republic, will emerge as president of the ANC for another five years.
I have written "due to run" because I don't know what the ANC will do "about Mangaung" if Nelson Mandela dies in the next six or seven days. Maybe "they" won't do anything at all, I don't know. Of course it's almost treasonable even to suggest that Mandela will die; but he will, I'm afraid - and, in his case, I think that it will be sooner rather than later; it seems clear that he has pneumonia ...
Last week I asked why, if Zuma's such an unmitigated loser, he looks likely to emerge as the winner at Mangaung. One of the points of my article was that, notwithstanding all the evidence presented so forcefully and carefully against him, the ANC faithful in the branches look set to return him to power.
The discerning reader will have realised that the main irony of this is that it's almost incomprehensible, it beggars belief, that people (the ANC folk), having been presented with such clear evidence, could vote for Zuma...
... unless of course everyone in the ANC has been brainwashed or is a moron; or that the whole ANC has, as a group, been smoking Little Julie Malema's socks or has fallen under the spell of a malign gay tokolosh, which amounts to pretty much the same thing and is what the readers of the Daily Sun would have us believe.
I then (last week) made some suggestions, and some others made some, about what might be the cause of the wilful blindness and deafness - nay, the actual antagonism - of ANC members to what seems to the rest of us to be pretty damn clear.
I have some further thoughts.
But I want to widen this inquiry away from Zuma, wide boy that he might be, into looking into just one other reason why the majority of Seffricans have voted - and are likely to continue voting - for the ANC, for at least another 10-15 years.
For notwithstanding all the evidence against the ANC, as presented by the media, the DA, the NPA, the chattering classes, and so on, Seffricans throughout this "wide and sad land" (NP Van Wyk Louw) will keep bringing the tripartite alliance back into power for the next decade and a half, if not longer.
We can call my inquiry the Gordin Commission of Inquiry into Why People Vote for the ANC.
Now then, let me ask you this. What do you know about battered wife syndrome?
Other than having been whacked a few times by my gorgeous wife, I myself don't, or didn't, know much. All I could recall about the subject was an interview of some years ago on BBC TV when the interviewer, a woman, put it to Kingsley Amis that as much as 33 percent of English women were beaten by their husbands; what did he think of that?
"Well, given the way women behave," Amis replied, "I'm surprised the percentage is so low."
Alright, stop that. ... According to Wikipedia, the following: "Battered person syndrome is a physical and psychological condition that is the basis for the battered woman defence that has been used in cases of physically and psychologically abused women who have killed their abusers. The condition was first researched extensively by Lenore Walker, who used Martin Seligman's learned helplessness theory to explain why abused women stayed in destructive relationships."
And learned helplessness is defined as "the condition of a human or animal that has learned to behave helplessly, failing to respond even though there are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive rewards. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation" [my emphasis, as the academics say].
Related to these is Stockholm syndrome or capture-bonding: "a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness. ...Battered-wife syndrome is an example of activating the capture-bonding psychological mechanism ...
Now let me try to make translate these Wikipedia words into something a little more user-friendly.
Let's say that "battered wife syndrome occurs when a man (it's usually a man, whatever the PCs say) beats the bejeesus out of his spouse or partner, sometimes to the point of death, and the partner does nothing (as in leaving or calling the cops or cutting off his peanut, etc) because she is dependent on him.
"She has no security; she is terrified (understandably) about being cast off financially (especially if she has, say, little children) - and, moreover, as you will have gleaned from the po-faced definitions above - and this point is especially important to the Gordin Inquiry - she forms a perverse relationship with her tormentor in terms of which she, bizarrely, cannot cope without him. She might, in some sense, even like him ..."
Well, I think - given the evidence (some of which we shall now examine) - that the behaviour of the ANC electorate relative to the Party (with a capital p) and those who head it, shows serious signs of battered person syndrome.
Why would I say that? Have I fallen under the spell of a malign gay tokolosh - and lost whatever was left of my tiny mind?
Consider the evidence; consider the number of areas - and I don't have the space to offer a vast plethora of examples - consider the areas in which this government (the ANC) treats its people, the ones it worked for decades "to liberate", consider the utter contempt and cruelty with which people are treated.
And yet the majority of the electorate goes on returning the ANC to power. Yes, I know that the poorest of the poor are reminded before elections just who is paying their social grants; and I know food vouchers are handed out just before elections as well. Still, is this attitude to the ruling party - voting for it notwithstanding the contempt and cruelty with which you are treated - not perverse? Is this not a species of battered person syndrome?
Housing. The government just doesn't build enough houses. And yet it manages to find tons of money to put into nonsense such as Zuma's ranch or Blade Nzimande's 7-series - and that's but two small examples of contempt for the masses. What is built is generally not equitably managed - people bribe their way onto lists, leaving the weakest and most vulnerable still in shacks (the practice is rife in Diepsloot). Because of fiddling and deals on tenders, many houses simply fall down and have to be re-built. Why vote for a government that can't get its housing policy together, that keeps you in a shanty?
Health care. A disaster. If you're too poor to afford private health care or a medical aid, you could be in deep trouble. Even at Chris Hani Baragwanath, there are some wards that- as someone I know who visits them has said - are "desperate, absolutely desperate". Bills are unpaid, equipment is not working, most of the administrators have no idea of what they are doing, in some hospitals the electricity is not working at all; patients bring their own food and nappies for the paediatric ward ...Aaron Motsoaledi might be grinding his teeth in anguish, but was this the dream? Is this how to take care of the people?
Courts/Legal system/Prisons. The system is slow and cumbersome and getting slower. Files are lost, filing rooms are mazes, toilets are unusable. The brother of someone I know was murdered two years ago by people whom the family have to see every day; the trial has still not happened; it's not such an unusual matter. We have awaiting-trial prisoners - people who are "innocent" because they have not been proven guilty - who are sitting in filth and disease and violence in awaiting-trial prisons because the courts are behind or the cops are "still investigating". There is nothing dignified about this. And many are not rapists and murderers (though some of course are); they stole food because they were hungry and clothes because they were cold. Somebody - I think it was actually Dostoevsky, not Mandela - said you judge a nation by its prisons. That being the case, we are going to get life imprisonment.
Security. It's mostly black people in townships who get their goods stolen by the thugs. It's mostly poor black girls and women who get raped. Richer people can afford security companies and burglar alarms and such-like. I often wonder how Nathi Mthethwa sleeps at night. Actually, he has body guards; I'm sure he sleeps just fine.
General Economics. All the jobs not created due to incompetence and diddling around - "should we have a youth subsidy? Should we not? but Zwelinzima and the fellows don't want one, nyah, nyah" - all the lost and uncreated jobs equal hungry, angry, desperate people. When you screw the economy due to corruption, questionable tender systems and wholesale theft, you screw the people.
Education. The worst thing the previous regime did - I maintain - was what it did to people of colour in terms of education. But what's going on now might even be worse; I don't know how you measure it. All I know is that education is an unmitigated disaster. Angie Motshekga and her DG should have been hung by their toes from the top of Table Mountain. (It didn't happen because Zuma needed the women's league vote at Mangaung.) They have blighted hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives. It's a sin. And no one seems to care.
No one seems to care about much any more, it seems to me. Surely this exhaustion, this cleaving to a knackered political party, this helplessness, this voting for the ANC notwithstanding its failures and venality - isn't this suggestive of battered person syndrome?
Until next year - and let's hope Madiba's still with us then - and I wish you a merry Xmas and Hanukkah and a happy new year.
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Grab those Stetsons and shine off the cowboy boots, because Canada's biggest stampede is back. While the focus may be on the rodeo, music and shopping, we're signing up for all of the delicious midway food. Well, most of it, anyway.
The Calgary Stampede, which runs this year from July 3-12, features some of the weirdest foods we've seen on a midway to date, mostly because of this year's signature buzz-item, the cockroach pizza. But that's not the only fresh offering we may be daring enough to try. Check out all of these crazy concoctions for yourself…if you dare.
The 10 craziest foods you'll find at the Calgary Stampede this year
Jalapeno Poutine Mini Donut BowlForget fries; donuts are the star in this poutine-like concoction with a spicy twist.
Vendor: Cin City Donuts The Calgary Stampede
Footlong Pizza DogIt's a pizza! It's a hot dog! It's a footlong hotdog inside a pizza bun, with traditional pizza toppings! Be sure to walk for a bit after consuming this puppy.
The Calgary Stampede
Glazed Donut Grilled CheeseWho needs bread when you have glorious, heart-clogging donuts instead?
Vendor: The Big Cheese The Calgary Stampede
Biggest Dog on a StickFeeling extra hungry? This corndog features not one, not two, not three, but four hot dogs. On a stick, of course.
Vendor: Chicken Tenders The Calgary Stampede
Cockroach PizzaYou read that right. This adventurous pizza isn't for the faint of heart. Not with crunchy, seasoned insects serving as the piece de resistance.
Vendor: Rick's Pizza The Calgary Stampede
Peanut Butter KabobA peanut butter and jelly sandwich, separated by three peanut butter cups, battered and deep-fried. This stick would make Elvis proud…
Vendor: The Peanut Butter Cupboard The Calgary Stampede
Mini Donut PopsicleMini donuts and frozen dulce caramel cream combine in a gourmet, Family Freezed ice pop for a pop of heaven.
Vendor: Family Squeezed Lemonade - Ice Cream The Calgary Stampede
Dragon Dog ($100 Hotdog)The most expensive hotdog in the world (according to the Guinness Book of Records) is a foot-long dog infused with cognac Louis XIII ($3,000 per bottle) and topped with Kobe beef, truffle oil, fresh lobster tail, and finished with truffles, tomatoes and ricotta cheese.
Vendor: Dougiedog Diner Truck The Calgary Stampede
Red Velvet Chicken StripsCan't decide if you feel like cake or chicken? Why not try both? These fried strips are battered in – you guessed it! – red velvet cake batter before getting a second douse of delicious hot oil.
Vendor: Pub Grub The Calgary Stampede
Cactus BurgerVegetarians don't need to get prickly over the midway fare thanks to this option. Cactus leaf, black beans, provolone cheese, roasted garlic mayo, roasted red peppers, sautéed mushrooms, lettuce, caramelized onions and tomatoes combine for this feast.
Vendor: Gourmet Burgers The Calgary Stampede


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Our country is divided. Not just between Leavers and Remainers, or between right and left. But in our attitudes and our attachments, in our loyalties and our sense of identity.
It's a split between Somewheres and Anywheres, says David Goodhart (1), between people who are Open and Closed, says Global Future (2). Although they dispute each other's estimates of how many people fall into each category, they agree that the country is divided between older people, with a lower level of education, living in small market towns and villages, especially in the Midlands and the North, and younger people, with degrees, who live in major cities and university towns, especially in the South. The former, the Closed-Somewheres, think of themselves as English more than British, oppose immigration and multiculturalism, and support authoritarian policies like smacking and capital punishment. The latter, the Open-Anywheres, think of themselves as British more than English, but also as 'citizens of the world', are enthusiastic about multiculturalism and immigration, and support international aid and transgender rights.
My own upbringing and career have given me a taste of both types of life, and a blend of the attitudes that they foster. I was brought up in the English countryside and hardly visited London until I had left school. My brother lives on the Devon farm that passed from my grandfather to my father to him. Being English is a crucial part of my identity and I am proud to represent three market towns and a large slice of one of England's most rural counties in Parliament as a Conservative.
But I am also gay, went to university away from home and graduate school in the United States. I speak three languages, am married to an Israeli man twenty years my junior, and have spent most of the last 25 years living in London.
I am a hybrid, an Open-Somewhere, a country boy-turned-metrosexual-turned Tory MP. As such, I feel a strong sense of empathy for people on both sides of this cultural divide. During my eight years in Parliament, I have come to understand how people's different experiences shape their views and determine how quickly they will accept novelty and change. Most of my constituents sit on the Closed-Somewhere end of the spectrum. They are not wildly right wing. They don't have that frightening moral certainty that characterises much of the Evangelical Right in the United States. But they are old-fashioned and conservative with a small 'c'. They see a country, an economy, and a society that have changed very quickly. They don't believe these changes have benefited them or those they care about. They worry that there has been a shift in attitudes among the ruling elites which threatens to leave them beleaguered, in a society which is becoming alien. Their vote to leave the European Union was born out of frustration. They were pulling on the emergency brake to stop the train hurtling in a direction they don't want to go.
But they aren't as extreme or reactionary as media caricatures imply. They accept that modern life is complex. They admit that the NHS could not continue to function without doctors and nurses from abroad. They are quick to acknowledge their pride in the achievements of Mo Farah and confess without embarrassment to a regular craving for Chicken Tikka Masala. But they will still say that they do not feel at ease in a bustling multi-ethnic and multi-cultural city like Nottingham or London.
The introduction of same sex marriage shone a spotlight on these divisions. As a friend of David Cameron, I played a part in persuading him of the rightness of this cause and was determined to support the legislation when it came before Parliament. But I knew that many of my constituents were not comfortable with it. Because they are reserved and instinctively polite, they would usually try to avoid the subject with me. But they were discussing it among themselves, and felt quietly aggrieved that I was not able to represent their views in Parliament. Now that gay marriage is law, and thousands of people like me have got married, I think most of them would accept that their worst fears have not been realised. But that does not mean that they feel happy about the way it came about. It was, for many of them, a totemic example of the country's metropolitan elite imposing a profound social change on people, and parts of the country, that were not ready for it.
The greatest source of the resentment felt by people with a Closed-Somewhere outlook has been immigration. For the last 15 years, the UK has accepted a sustained inflow of people that is unprecedented in our modern history. After two decades in which more people left the UK than moved here, immigration began to increase in the 1990s. After 2004 when the Blair government extended the right of free movement to the first wave of Eastern European countries joining the EU, immigration soared to over 500,000 a year.
This dramatic and sustained rise in immigration happened without any democratic mandate. There was no explicit reference to significant increases in immigration in Labour's 2001 manifesto. Nor was any legislation put before Parliament seeking parliamentary consent for it. The impact on public opinion was dramatic. In March 1997 only 3% of respondents considered immigration to be the most important issue facing the country. By December 2007, 46% did. It slipped into second place behind the economy after the financial crisis in 2008 but by 2015 was back in first place as the most important issue for more than 50% of respondents (3). According to the British Social Attitudes Survey in 2013, over 56% of respondents said they thought immigration should be 'reduced a lot' and 77% said they thought it should be 'reduced a lot or a little' (4). In October 2016 Ipsos Mori found that 60% of those they surveyed wanted to see immigration reduced (5).
David Cameron inherited this unhappy situation when he became Prime Minister in 2010. Unfortunately, he made things worse with his pledge to reduce net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands. As an aspiration it was reasonable, and in tune with the public mood, but as a policy objective it had a major defect. Because of EU rules on freedom of movement, it was largely outside government control. In the space of ten years, the government of one party (Labour) engineered massive increases in immigration without seeking public consent, and was replaced by a government of two other parties (Conservative and Liberal Democrat) which promised a reduction in immigration, and then failed to deliver it. Since most voters had persistently told pollsters that they wanted to see immigration cut, it is hardly surprising that many of them seized the opportunity to 'take back control' over our borders when it was presented to them.
The British people want to see immigration controlled but they are not opposed to immigration altogether. In December 2017, the think tank Open Europe published some research on public attitudes towards immigration (6). Happily, they found that most people don't care about the race or religion of the people who want to come here; they are much more worried about whether they have a criminal record. 56% of the public agreed with "allowing immigrants to come to the UK as long as there are controls to make sure they will contribute to our society, economy and way of life", versus 36% who preferred simply "reducing the numbers of people coming into the UK". They also found strong support for immigration to meet skills shortages, especially in 'socially useful' roles. A large majority of people are happy to see the NHS recruiting doctors and nurses from overseas; there was also support for immigrants to fill roles as academics, care workers and engineers. But here too people express a strong desire for control: 71% want to restrict access to people with a specific job offer. Large majorities also want to restrict migrants' access to benefits and back the idea of recent immigrants earning the right to public services and benefits after some time working and paying tax.
After our transition out of the European Union is complete, Britain will need a new immigration policy. We should put the exercise of control by Parliament at its heart. The Home Secretary should set out a complete package of policies and plans in a major statement to the House of Commons. The annual Immigration Control Statement should be billed as a major parliamentary event of equal status to the Budget. Like the Budget, it should be followed by several days of Parliamentary debate. Unlike the Budget, the statement should be preceded by the publication of draft proposals and several months of consultation with employers, trade unions, local councils, charities and members of the public.
In the first Immigration Control Statement describing our immigration policies as a fully independent country outside the European Union, we should drop the existing target to reduce annual net migration to below 100,000. Net migration is made up of the total number of people who migrate to the UK minus the total number of people who emigrate from it. But nobody cares how many people choose to retire to Marbella each year and Government should not set targets for things it has no desire to control.
The government should announce that following five principles of immigration control will underpin our new approach:
(1) Economic migrants will only be allowed to move to the UK if they are filling a skills shortage or making a significant contribution to Britain's economic prosperity.
(2) Economic migrants will only be allowed to move to the UK if they have a concrete offer of employment.
(3) Economic migrants who have moved to the UK will only be entitled to claim benefits, access public housing or receive non-emergency healthcare from the NHS after they have worked and paid tax for several years.
(4) Family dependants will only be allowed to move to the UK if their resident family can demonstrate that they have sufficient resources to support them.
(5) Economic migrants and family dependants will only be allowed to move to the UK if they have demonstrated a reasonable mastery of the English language.
Detailed policies for the different sectors of the economy and estimates for the different categories of immigrant should then follow.
The abandonment of the overall net migration target will remove any reason for people to object to the inclusion of students in the overall measure of immigration. There is already no cap on the number of international students that legitimate colleges can recruit. What is more contentious is the number of international students who are allowed to work in the UK for a few years after they have graduated. Privileged arrangements for students from particular countries are likely to become valuable bargaining chips in the free trade agreements that we will be seeking to negotiate with the European Union and other major partners like India, Australia and Canada. We should be ready to use them to secure better market access for British businesses. The Immigration Control Statement should set out how many students are expected to stay for a limited period after they graduate and how much that is likely to contribute to the number of economic migrants.
After we have left the EU, Immigration Control Statements should take place every year. Major changes in policy should be set out in the first Immigration Control Statement of a new Parliament, so that both employers and the agencies responsible for delivering immigration control can plan for the future. In other years, an annual Immigration Audit, reporting on all of the different categories of immigration in the past year, should form the centrepiece of the Immigration Control Statement.
If we are to demonstrate to the public that Parliament is in control of immigration, we will also need to adopt systems that make the implementation of those controls possible: not just the control of who is allowed into the UK, but the control of the benefits and services to which they are then given access. Recent revelations about the way that the Home Office's 'hostile environment' policy led to the appalling treatment of some members of the Windrush Generation who have an absolute right to remain in the UK but did not have the paperwork to prove it, shows that current methods of controlling access to employment, housing and healthcare are crude and sometimes inhumane. Yet imposing effective restrictions on migrants' access to publicly funded benefits and services is going to become even more important in the future, if we are to restore public confidence in our immigration system. I have therefore concluded that we need to think again about introducing a form of digital identity scheme.
I am instinctively uncomfortable with the idea of mandatory identity cards. I opposed the policy when it was proposed by the Blair government. I still believe we should be very wary of giving the government control of a single database containing information about every citizen's interactions with the state including health records, tax records and records of our movements in and out of the country. But technology has developed dramatically in the last 10 years as has people's reliance on digital identities to manage their finances, store personal information and communicate with other people. People are much more comfortable sharing their personal data with organisations and technology now makes it possible for people to define precisely who should have access to what data and under what circumstances. A digital identity scheme no longer seems so alien to our way of life.
Migrants applying to come to the UK for more than 6 months are already issued with a biometric residence permit by the Home Office. The permit includes the holder's name, date and place of birth, their fingerprints and a photo of their face, their immigration status and any conditions of their stay, and whether they can access public funds like benefits and health services. Some of them also include the migrant's National Insurance number. In phases over the next five years, we should plan to give everyone who has settled legally in the UK a digital residence permit (which they can access online on their smartphones) and the option of a physical biometric residence permit for those who are not comfortable with digital transactions. All citizens born in the UK should be given a digital identity when they are first given (or renew) a National Insurance number, a driving licence or a passport. Although it should not become compulsory for British citizens to use their digital identity or carry a biometric card, it is likely that in time the overwhelming majority will choose to do so, because it will make so many day-to-day transactions requiring a proof of identity so much easier.
After nearly 20 years in which the public's concerns about immigration were largely ignored, the only way for our politicians to regain the public's trust on immigration is to be seen to take control and adopt methods that make the exercise of control effective and fair. If we succeed in doing so, I am confident that we will be able to secure the consent of the British people for the level of immigration that our economy and our society need.
While control of immigration is essential if we are to allay the fears of those who feel threatened by globalisation, it will not be enough to heal the splits that divide us. This will require serious efforts to reassure people that their sense of identity is acknowledged and respected.
This need is especially acute in England. In Wales and Scotland, most people are happy to think of themselves as Welsh and British, or Scottish and British, with varying degrees of intensity and commitment. While Plaid Cymru and the Scottish Nationalists may express a more intense and uncompromising form of nationalism, they cannot claim monopolies on Welsh or Scottish national feeling. Ruth Davidson has built an astonishing political career out of her commitment to the Union and opposition to separatism. But I pity the man who suggests that this makes her any the less Scottish.
In Northern Ireland, national identities are inevitably fraught. But most people accept the fundamental bargain struck in the Belfast Agreement: that everyone in Northern Ireland should be free to identify themselves "as Irish, or British, or both" and to have their choice respected, while respecting the choice of others.
In England, matters are more furtive and confused. In the seventy years that have passed since the end of the Second World War, Englishness has been distorted. We have allowed an allegiance that people of all races, classes, faiths and views were once proud to claim as their own, to be caricatured by some as a racial identity for white Anglo-Saxons. As a result, young people from ethnic minorities, born and raised in England, tell me that they rarely if ever describe themselves as English and prefer to think of themselves as British, because it seems more flexible and inclusive. In 2014, Emily Thornberry MP, now Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, tweeted for many of the Open-Anywhere persuasion, when she posted a photograph of a house in Rochester festooned with several flags of St George, with a white transit van outside. Rather than see the embrace of the national flag as a healthy expression of patriotic feeling, she clearly interpreted it as a sinister indicator of unsavoury far-right views.
Those with a Closed-Somewhere outlook have noticed that the country's elites are embarrassed by Englishness and it irks them. Who can blame them for wondering if the ruling classes are trying to change the country they love, when their embrace of its flag has become so half-hearted and apologetic?
There are a few simple and symbolic steps that we should take to reassure people that England and Englishness are cherished. We should make St George's Day, 23rd April, a public holiday in England (but only England) in the same way as St Andrew's Day, 30th November, is already a public holiday in Scotland (but only Scotland.) On St George's Day all public buildings in England – government offices, courts, police stations, fire stations and town halls – should be asked to fly the flag of St George. Schools in England should be encouraged to celebrate St George's Day and explore England's contribution to our national story. The Welsh Assembly should be given the power to declare a public holiday on St David's Day and to fly the flag of St David on public buildings if it sees fit.
While the creation of an English Parliament would destabilise our constitution, and create more problems than it would solve, the lack of an English counterpart to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies exacerbates the sense that Britain's ruling classes are neglectful of England. We need to make extra efforts to demonstrate that this is not the case. Two or three times a year, the government should hold an English Leaders Meeting in an English city. Members of the Cabinet and ministers should meet with English MPs, mayors and council leaders to debate reports from institutions like NHS England and Natural England, Historic England and Homes England and discuss the future of policies affecting England.
In the United States, car number plates carry a motto or key attribute of the state in which they were registered. Drivers from New Hampshire proclaim that they "Live Free or Die." Drivers from Montana declare that they hail from "Big Sky Country." We should redesign British number plates to make room for a flag from the country in which the car is registered, and offer people registering a new number plate the option of the Union Jack or the flag of St David, St Andrew, St Patrick or St George.
In 2016, Toby Perkins, Labour MP for Chesterfield, called for an English anthem to be sung at sporting events involving an English team in place of God Save the Queen. He made a convincing case. Many England fans feel short-changed when they listen to Welsh fans sing Land of my Fathers and Scottish fans sing Flower of Scotland and are only given an opportunity to sing the British National Anthem in response. Conversely, some Welsh and Scottish fans find it jarring to hear their own National Anthem sung as if it were the exclusive property of the English team. Of course, God Save the Queen should remain the official National Anthem of everyone in the UK and be sung or played at any official event where it is sung or played now. But we should give the people of England an anthem of their own to sing when they are cheering on England at a sporting event. To decide what it should be – whether "Jerusalem", "I vow to thee my country", or "Land of Hope and Glory" – the government should initiate a public debate and then let Members of Parliament representing English constituencies decide.
In their attempts to identify the cultural attitudes and voting behaviour of different groups in British society, the authors of the "Somewhere-Nowhere" and "Open-Closed" analysis have done us all a service and helped us understand what motivated the vote to leave the European Union. But it would be a mistake to think that most people in Britain firmly belong exclusively to one camp or other, and a disaster to suggest that we should want one side to win at the expense of the other. If we are to come back together as a nation after the divisiveness of Brexit, we need everyone's voice to be heard and everyone's opinion to be respected. A Square Deal on Immigration and Identity would help us reflect the legitimate concerns of those with a Closed-Somewhere outlook, while preserving the openness and diversity that have defined Britain's success as an international magnet for trade, investment and talent since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
(1) Goodhart, D. 2017. The Road to Somewhere: the New Tribes Shaping British Politics
(2) Global Future. 2018 Open Owns the Future. Available at: http://ourglobalfuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OPEN_OWNS_THE_FUTURE.pdf
(3) Migration Observatory. 2016. UK Public Opinion toward Immigration: Overall Attitudes and Level of Concern. Available at: http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-of-concern/
(4) British Social Attitudes. http://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/british-social-attitudes-31/immigration/introduction.aspx
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This document more or less encapsulates my views as an 'Open-Somewhere' person. Well done, Nick! You've done our constituency proud.
Not for the first time, I say – on reading this chapter on Immigration and Identity – well done, Nick. You have enshrined my views extremely well.
* I welcome hard-working foreigners of all complexions, and – once they have earned it, and not before – am happy for them to have full residents' benefits. But we should be very cautious about extended families coming over.
* (Which you have not mentioned) We perhaps need to offer an amnesty to most current illegals – provided that they are healthy and working, BUT restrict their right to bring in families for (perhaps) 10 years.
* ID cards: yes of course, but voluntary;
* Encouragement for an English identity: Yes; I am proud to be English and British. One corollary to your proposals: It should be open for people living in (e.g.) Scotland to register as being English, but also people living in England to register as being Scottish. They would then, and therefore, be able to vote in any future referendum concerning the departure of Scotland from the UK.
* St George's Day (shame we picked on a German, but we are fixed with that!). A National Holiday, in place of the ridiculous May Day holiday, introduced by the Labour Government many years ago. It would also help if the date of Easter could be fixed.
* An English National Anthem. Yes. Land of Hope and Glory – but we need a National competition for some new words: we are no longer "..wider, still and wider.." But Britons (as indeed are the English) never, never, never will be slaves (to the EU).
I was born and raised in North London, in a home that was welcoming and tolerant to all cultures, races and differences. We were all Baptised and practising Roman Catholics and very aware of the fight for freedom to express our personal Religous Identity over the centuries and the terrible price that had been paid in the past for this freedom. This background probably gave us a tolerance to those that were in any way different from ourselves. On leaving school I worked in the rag trade, many of those in that trade at that time had had appalling histories for their personal freedoms, including numbers tattooed on their arms and nightmares of being incacerated in ghettos, labour camps and prisons in Europe pre-war. Many of my school friends and some I met later at work had come from the Carribean with their parents and the Government's promise of work here in Britain to re-build our country post-war. The Windrush scandal at the moment is personal to me due to those past friendships. I am very, very sorry we are leaving the EU., principally because we have now had peace here in Europe for perhaps the longest time in our history. I regard myself as British, but culturally English. Feelings of being English however, have now become 'dirty'. Why I ask? Probably because we now associate it with narrow and closed-minds. It should not be like that, and for this reason I feel it would be a good idea to have St. Georges day an English Bank Holiday. We should be allowed to acknowledge our culture and up-bringing, we cannot re-write history, and we cannot deny our identity from the past. We should celebrate the good, acknowledge past mistakes and never stop learning new ways to live, and above all be more tolerant of others differences, it is what makes each of us. I am extremely wary about limmitting immigration, chiefly because diversity enriches all of us. It would relieve the problem if those that come here to live and/or work, had health insurance because if I went to another country I would be expected to pay for my personal health-care. It would also be a major relief if housing policies were placed in areas of greatest need. What a silly idea to buy your council house without the council having plans to build another to replace it! Look at where the votes to leave the EU came from: mostly where there is no clear housing policy or sufficient healthcare for those living in the area. Stable-doors and bolting horses come to mind.
"I am extremely wary about limmitting immigration, chiefly because diversity enriches all of us."
Go ask the thousands of white girls in Rotherham, Rochdale, and countless other places how enriched they feel.
Nick, Why are you wary of giving the government control of a single database containing information about every citizen's interactions with the state including health records, tax records and records of our movements in and out of the country?
Presumably you have never been caught up in the current Kafkaesque nightmare of any issue that means having to deal with multiple Government departments – The enormous benefit of having a more joined up centralised system would be manifold, both for the individual citizen, taxpayers and the Government.
Firstly I feel that the subject of identity cards should be made mandatory. You cannot drive without a driving licence and you should not be allowed to vote without some form of identity. It is asking for abuse of the system to have it otherwise for anyone who does not drive or have some recognised identity. It is hardly a penalty.
St George's day holiday – why not and show he flag. I am always pleased to join the Scots and Welsh in celebrating their day not so much the Irish although there day is celebrated where I now live in Canada and we all join in and why not do so as we are all part of the United Kingdom and I feel that it would not be the same if split up.
Having served my country for 26 yrs in the RAF and been around the world, not always in countries where one was safe like the Yemen for 2 years and in Malaya where my brother was killed plus 3 yrs in Germany parted from family on numerous occasions but enjoyed my service career regrettably ended by a medical issue.
So having said that I now am in retirement but feel aggrieved because the UK Government see fit to deprive me of my state pension indexation leaving me with no annual increases which should be mine by right having paid the necessary contributions for this entitlement like everyone else. There are about 550,000 other pensioners in the same situation discriminated against because of where they live which is mainly in the Commonwealth countries plus there are about 650,000 other pensioners living abroad who do get the annual uprating just as they would in the UK but live in the EU, the USA, Israel, Macedonia and others who are treated honestly and fairly.
This is an issue that I have asked Nick Boles to raise as I moved from Stamford and was a constituent for 25 yrs but moved to Canada following the death of my wife and would still have been there today but for that as I then married again to a lady living in Canada.
Like the discrimination shown LGBT people this is so wrong and unnecessary which could backfire on the government because those frozen pensioners are ambassadors for UK goods and services abroad and with this issue they have been in touch with the politicians in their country to request denial of any trade agreement without lifting this undemocratic and unjustified frozen pension policy. As Steve Webb once said – It's free loading off of the countries that help them like Australia, Canada & N.Z.
My suggestion following the Windrush affair is that this freezing policy be stopped by removal of section 20 of the pension Act for the Queen's Official Birthday on June 9th as she signed the Commonwealth Charter on behalf of the Government which clearly states that "We are implacably opposed to discrimination of any kind".
The requirement for an agreement is a lie as it is purely a UK domestic matter and to use that to discriminate is fraud but made legal by hiding it in an Act of Parliament makes fraud legal !
I intended to add "No square deal" for us !
Biometric identity cards, absolutely. I lived in Bedford from the late 70's, then the only town with less than 50% of its population being white English. Never a problem, never felt threatened, but there were other little problems, like the ethnic habit of getting someone else to take your driving test, no one would ever ask for proof of identity.
Now for voting, get a postal vote, who knows who fills it in. Supposed to sign to say it was the named person but do you really believe that? For the next General Election a 100% secure voting system is needed. The foolish scheme of the Lib Dems to allow anyone in the country to vote, so with about 30-40 constituencies being extremely marginal the chances of a rent a mob moving in is guaranteed. The snag with a democracy is that a majority will gets its way. Imagine Tower Hamlets, now under Momentum, they decide to compulsory purchase all the nice big houses at 5p on the £. The council is autonomous and can do what it wants, any court case will be heard in years. Guess who the houses get given to?
This is similar to the Grenfell fire. Why was it necessary to say all illegal immigrants wouldn't be kicked out if you survived the fire. In fact why were they in council accommodation at all. I thought there were severe shortages of accommodation for teachers, police, fire and other essential workers who would have been quite pleased with an all expenses paid flat in central London.
Does Javid really understand what his promise to go easy on illegal immigrants means? Does it mean that I can now ignore such niceties as driving without a licence, drunk, diddling the council out of accommodation, not paying taxes, working on the side will now be looked on benignly by the powers to be? One of the things about England, and civilised countries, is that the laws are reasonable and are obeyed. We now seem to have several million arrivals to whom OUR laws are an optional extra, don't bother if you don't want to. And if you want a little excitement just go and knife someone, won't get caught, and if you want a bit sex then rape is the in thing, even less chance of being caught.
Ah the Windrush generation. My mother's side came from Penn, Wolverhampton, Enoch Powell's constituency. I can still remember the hurt and puzzlement in my aunts' voices as they discussed the arrival of thousands of 'Windrush" people in the late 50's, early 60's and destroyed the Wolverhampton that they knew. Of course, my relatives are all long dead, they can't speak for themselves, I am trying to.
I am terribly frightened. We seem now to be progressing slowly but surely to a civil war. Consider, Luton is 25% Muslim, the census people say that the Muslim population is rising at about 7% per annum, so it doubles in 10 years. Exactly WHAT are you lot, in parliament, going to do when the Muslim population becomes a majority, and, as I have said, in a democracy it is the majority that make the decisions.
Why pick on Muslims? Well, have you seen any attempt by them to integrate into British society, other than collecting any payments possible?
After identifying that the country is divided, in anywheres and somewheres or however you want to call it, you only present policies to please one half, the 'somewheres'. Considering Brexit, the inhumanely strict current immigration regime, the hostile environment, the rise in racism, what do you have to offer for them? Most of them are ordinary people, many of them young, who feel alienated by the current government. Your proposals serve to alienate them further
Firstly, thank you for the courage to entire this sensitive debate with a thoughtful, personal, openhearted piece.Like yourself I had a rural upbringing in North Derbyshire, and then as a teenager moved into Nottingham – a huge cultural change. On the whole I fully embrace all the benefits of an open and inclusive immigration system. I think, like many, my concerns arise from the seemingly self "ghetto-isation" of some fundamentalist religious groupings, particularly the impact that has on the female population within that cultural milieu. This makes integration very difficult and increases suspicion and hostility. This is reflected not just in the UK but further afield in countries like France and Sweden also.
My concern that however well meaning or thought out an immigration policy maybe, without effective enforcement measures and control it is irrelevant. Currently the Home Office seems unfit for purpose, with a huge brief from prisons, security, the police and much more. Reform of this area of government must take place before immigration law reform can take place.
A lot of the better educated metropolitan open society category are working at fastfood outlets and probably will never realise their ambitions because of globalisation, but seem brain washed into believing its the holy grail.
There are probably more countries which have managed immigration than not so its not a taboo which its being painted as, and every one who thinks different isn't racist.
Its a fact of supply and demand that if there's too much supply the price or in this case the wages drop. This simple fact has been denied time after time by the very people we vote in to represent us. The minimum wage has only just overtook what I was earning as a temp in a warehouse in 2005 fact !! Once the supply became a bottomless pit every one in similar circumstances was on £5 per hour instead of £7. To add insult to injury the local jobs were no longer advertised in the UK.
It can also affect housing policy, why would you use tax payers money to build social housing while having an open door immigration policy ? The demand will always outstrip supply and the general indigenous population see no benefit or improvement, and so there's no electoral advantage to do so by the main parties.
Then there's the affect on the environment, which never gets mentioned by the advocates of open borders. I've always been interested in politics and when I was in my teens and twenties the Greens stood for population control not open borders which threaten to overwhelm our ability to accommodate and destroy the very thing people come here for.
The need for trust in the system is very important, it was George Osbourne's treasury that was planning on millions more migrating to the UK at the same time as the official policy was to reduce to below 100,000.
I agree pretty much with most of what you've advocated Nick, theres been too much ideolagy and not enough practicality.
Which of the three languages spoken in the UK would immigrants be required to master, or were you thinking all 3?


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Every week in my Hybrid classes, there are two instructional components:
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• And an In–Class Lecture, which takes place during our regularly scheduled class meeting
What follows are the 5 steps you need to accomplish each week to fulfill the Hybrid course requirements.
1. Read the assigned textbook readings for the week.
All of your assignments, including assigned readings, are found in the "Course Schedule" in Canvas. This will generally be a physical book bought from the college bookstore.
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There will be a link in Canvas each week for "Lecture Notes." This is an assigned reading and counts for half of your course instruction. This reading correlates with the oral lecture you will recieve later in the week. The instruction that the Lecture Notes offers is essential because, unlike a traditional 2.5 hour class lecture, our Hybrid class only meets once a week for about an hour and fifteen minutes.
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- The professor will present an oral lecture. In lieu of a PowerPoint, the lecture outline is presented on scribespark.com.
- Please note that some sections of the week's instruction will be covered in class, and other sections will be learned strictly at home from the online Lecture Notes read during Step 2. The online part will make clear which parts of the week's lecture will be covered in class.
- Material from the classroom lesson is not included on the weekly online quizzes (which assesses the online lesson in Canvas and the textbook readings). However, the lecture material covered in class will be useful on your essays, discussion posts, and *will* be testable on the module exams (including the midterm and final!).
5. Complete all Online Discussion Posts & Essays.
Throughout the course there will also be short discussion posts to complete in Canvas. Additionally, there will be several essays due. These are straightforward papers that generally require no outside research, so long as you've understood the material in the weekly lessons. Essays will always be submitted digitally through Canvas.
And finally, be sure that a Hybrid course is the right fit for you before proceeding with this class. We offer traditional classroom, hybrid, and fully online courses.


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This post will explain the basic steps necessary to configure a FreeBSD system to perform the roles of a firewall and router. It is assumed that the FreeBSD system is up and running with two NICs installed. OpenBSD's Packet Filter (PF) firewall package will be used to perform the firewalling, Network Address Translation (NAT), and routing services.
PF must be compiled into the FreeBSD kernel. If you have not already done so, download the FreeBSD system source code to the /usr/src directory. Create a custom kernel configuration based upon the default GENERIC kernel configuration.
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf # cp GENERIC CUSTOM
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cpu I686_CPU ident CUSTOM options ALTQ options ALTQ_CBQ options ALTQ_RED options ALTQ_RIO options ALTQ_HFSC options ALTQ_PRIQ options ALTQ_NOPCC device pf device pflog device pfsync
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gateway_enable="YES" pf_enable="YES" pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf" pf_program="/sbin/pfctl" pflog_enable="YES" pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog" pflog_program="/sbin/pflogd"
Create the PF ruleset in /etc/pf.conf. The following sample ruleset will provide Network Address Translation (NAT), protects against attacks based on the incorrect handling of packet fragments, defends against spoofed IP addresses, allows any internal system to access the outside, and blocks access to the internal systems from the outside. Be sure to set the ext_if and int_if variables to the name of your system's external (connected to the Internet) and internal (connected to your LAN) NICs. For more information on creating more complex PF rulesets refer to "The Book of PF", available here.
ext_if = "ath0" int_if = "fxp0" localnet = $int_if:network nat on $ext_if from $localnet to any -> ($ext_if) block all scrub in all antispoof for $ext_if antispoof for $int_if pass from { lo0, $localnet } to any keep state
Reboot the system to activate PF and the new ruleset. Once the system has rebooted, check PF's statistics to verify that PF is handling network traffic.
# pfctl -s info Status: Enabled for 0 days 00:17:04 Debug: Urgent State Table Total Rate current entries 0 searches 2800 2.7/s inserts 0 0.0/s removals 0 0.0/s Counters match 2800 2.7/s bad-offset 0 0.0/s fragment 0 0.0/s short 0 0.0/s normalize 0 0.0/s memory 0 0.0/s bad-timestamp 0 0.0/s congestion 0 0.0/s ip-option 12 0.0/s proto-cksum 0 0.0/s state-mismatch 0 0.0/s state-insert 0 0.0/s state-limit 0 0.0/s src-limit 0 0.0/s synproxy 0 0.0/s
- The Book of PF.
- FreeBSD Handbook – Chapter 30 – The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) and ALTQ.
- FreeBSD Handbook – Chapter 31 – Network Address Translation.
- PF: The OpenBSD Packet Filter FAQ.


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In a deal worth over £4m, the Kexgill Group has purchased Haria Tower, Bradford from Receivers. Cushman & Wakefield's Student & Residential Investment team acted for the Receivers.
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Hailing from Nigerian and Indian roots, Destinie Adelakun is New York City based visual artist, photographer and stylist. Initially starting her journey at University of Toronto as an architecture major, she was then pulled into the world of fashion where she received her BA in fashion styling and production at the London College of Fashion. Whilst working in Fashion, Destinie came back to her first love which is painting and the fine arts. She later picked up photography, and became a polymath of mixed media. Her work is focused on the infusion of her two extreme culture/ upbringing, spiritually, mythology, history and identifying the meaning of the black female. Destinie's fashion styling has been published in noted magazines such as Love, Hunger and i-D.
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Video triubte to St Teresa
Saint Teresa of Ávila, known also by her religious name, Saint Teresa of Jesus and baptized as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was born March 28 1515 at Avila, old Castile, Spain, died October 4, 1582 at Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain.
The slide show starts with panoramic view of Avila, the town built on the hill overlooking the Adaja River and the highest city in Spain. The city is surrounded by distinctive stone walls, we can see the picture of Avila Cathedral followed by vintage and modern pictures of St Teresa convent exteriors - including the Saint statues, and interior - with St Teresa beautiful chapel. These pictures are followed by the image of young Teresa and several of her images painted both by famous artists as well as by more popular productions. We can see also little collection of stained windows depicting the Saint, as found in her convent chapel and in Churches dedicated to her from around the world. We can also see two vintage holy cards dedicated to her. The slide show concludes with the picture of St Teresa reliquary containing her heart and Discalced Carmelites shield followed by drawing representing of St Teresa canonization Mass at St Peter's in Rome back in 17th century. The background music is from the track "Salve Regina" by Benedictine Monks chanting favourite hymn of St Teresa, Ave Verum, followed by Adoro te and short sequence Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Week of St Teresa of Avila
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Pediatric First Aid CPR AED
January 13, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Course duration: 8 training hours. (full day training)
Course structure: Knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.
Pedagogic tools: manual of participant, videos.
Certification : Participants will be given international certificate after successful completion of training. Validity of Certificate is 2 years.
Course Content
- Learn how to recognize child and infant medical emergencies and activate Thailand emergency medical services (EMS).
- Learn how to recognize the typical signs and symptoms of cardiac arrest, choking, shock, diabetes, asthma, hypo and hyperglycaemia, hyperthermia, poisoning…
- Learn how to perform a primary assessment on a child or infant using the AB-CABS memory word.
- Learn how to practice child and infant CPR and use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED use is optional).
- Learn how to treat serious bleeding, shock, choking child and infant, allergies, spinal injuries, poisoning, diabetic emergencies, asthma, hypo and hyperglycaemia, hyperthermia, epilepsy, bites, burns…
- Learn how to practice injury and illness assessment, bandaging, and splinting.


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Risk Focus targets ESMA trade reporting with first commercial product
By Renee Caruthers, FierceFinanceIT
With less than three months until the end of October deadline for the European Securities and Market Authority's (ESMA's) new level 2 derivatives trade reporting requirements, Risk Focus has been shopping around a solution to help firms measure their compliance to the new regulations. The product, Validate.Trade, represents the first of several planned commercial products from a company that has spent 14 years building customized risk and trade processing solutions.
Validate.Trade validates trades just before they are sent to the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), after the trade messages have already been transformed into the appropriate reporting format.
"That's probably the point where there is a chance they have potentially broken the data; they might have mapped it incorrectly. It's post-transformation, that step before it gets into the DTCC we can run these very expansive validations on the message," said Risk Focus CEO Brian Lynch.
Trade messages that run through Validate.Trade essentially are matched with the sets of rules deemed appropriate based on the trade's asset classes or other conditions. Validate.Trade pushes out a validation that the message is good, or a report outlining which specific rules the message failed. Clients can use the data to immediately correct issues and can also save it for future regulatory inquiries.
While simple in concept, Lynch said the reach of ESMA's derivatives trade reporting rules, which affect anyone who trades derivatives in Europe from hedge funds to larger firms, has highlighted the importance of trade validation for a significant number of players. Interest has been particularly strong among top tier firms feeling pressure from regulators to prove their control framework. Eight top tier firms have already committed use the product, he said.
"ESMA Level 2 is a fairly wide-ranging impact that is happening to everyone reporting derivatives in Europe. From end of October, the regulators have said there are new data validations, there are new mandatory fields, there's new values that you can and can't use in different fields," Lynch said.
A coup for the company came late this spring when the DTCC itself announced it would use the product with its Global Trade Repository (GTR).
"The DTCC realized there was a value for them. As they build out their specification and their own test cases to make sure that they are meeting the requirement, they can bounce those off our validation engine and see that they are aligned with each other. That's hugely valuable to us because if they find a gap and decide actually their implementation is right, we can fix that and our clients get the benefit of that collective improvement in the product," Lynch said.
The DTCC has told its customers that it would have a user acceptance testing (UAT) tool for reporting under the new requirements available by mid-September, Lynch said. As a result, for the moment Risk Focus is referring to Validate.Trade as a pre-UAT solution.
"Clients can run tests and if they have done it right, by the time UAT starts it will be somewhat of a rubber stamping exercise. They will definitely hit their deadline," he said.


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So my plan way back in January was to try and make my back garden / yard more attractive to wildlife with a few minor improvements and then to document via my camera's the different species using the garden. Some of the improvements have worked , a few haven't and along the way a few [...]
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The Garden – Mayhem at the Last Post
Mayhem mayhem at the Last Post by Peter Hanscomb The last post is one of the gardens busiest feeding points and a firm favourite with the Starlings. The jar contains a peanut and mealworm butter and only lasts a couple of hours !


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Passing the Winter 1911 main content.
Part of the Race to the End of the Earth exhibition.
Amundsen and his men passed the winter at Framheim working on necessary tasks and improving their equipment. At night they read books, played cards, or engaged in the ritual of the Saturday night sauna. The dogs roamed free and some even disappeared for a few days, but only a few failed to return. Amundsen assumed they fell into crevasses.
On August 24, the sun finally appeared above the horizon for the first time since April. This was the day Amundsen had thought to begin the run for the South Pole. He was familiar with how quickly the Arctic warmed up at the beginning of spring.
Like Scott, he didn't adequately comprehend that "spring" and "fall" do not exist in Antarctica as lengthy periods bounding summer and winter. But with temperatures approaching -72°F (-58°C), Amundsen knew the dogs would have a difficult time, and Johansen warned against starting out so soon.
So day after day he postponed the start, and grew more restless with every lost moment. "The thought of the English gave him no peace," one of the crew later noted. "For if we were not first at the Pole, we might just as well stay home."
Another remarked, "I'd give something to know how far Scott is today."
"Oh, he's not out yet, bless you!" came the answer. "It's much too cold for his ponies."


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A complete listing of School of Medicine and Public Health committees can be found in the school's bylaws (pdf). The bylaws explain each committee's purpose and provide general information including the school's governing structure and its mission, vision, values and diversity commitment.
Committee elections
Along with the privilege and power of our shared governance tradition, comes the responsibility to participate, including service on SMPH committees. The rewards of committee service include the opportunity to gain important and valuable insights into the critical functions of the school and to have an important impact on our school's missions.
Several SMPH committees include student, faculty and/or academic staff members elected by their peers. Annually, an electronic call for nominations is sent to relevant stakeholders for committees with faculty or academic staff vacancies. The call for nominations provides a brief description of each committee with one or more vacancies, the type of representative sought, length of term and meeting responsibilities. Stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and levels of experience are encouraged to self-nominate or to nominate others (with their consent) for committee service.
Following the nomination period, an electronic announcement of open committee elections is sent to relevant stakeholders. Ballots are cast online during a two-week election window. New committee members are announced via email newsletter shortly thereafter.
The bylaws contain information about the following committees, some of which have their charters or additional information linked below.
List of Committees and Councils
- Academic Planning Council (APC)
- Administrative Policy Development and Review Committee (APDRC)
- Committee on Academic Staff Issues (CASI)
- Dean's Leadership Team (DLT)
- Educational Leadership Team (ELT)
- Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee (EPCC)
- Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC)
- Faculty and Staff Equity and Diversity Committee
- Faculty Committee on Distinguished Awards
- Faculty Track Committees
- Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) Leadership Committee
- Medical Student Admissions Committee (MSAC)
- Medical Student Honors and Awards Committee
- Medical Student Promotion and Academic Review Committee (SPARC)
- Medical Student Scholarships Committee
- Quality Improvement and LCME Steering Committee
- Student Grievance Board
- Student Mistreatment Triage Committee
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The commonly used abbreviation "UCITS" stands for Undertakings of Collective Investment in Transferable Securities. This refers to the European Union-regulated investment funds, which may be distributed in each and every member country of the European Union after being admitted by the respective supervisory authority (up-to-date).
The revision of the simplified Prospectus ("Key Investor Information" (KII)) represents a significant innovation. This particular form will now include a standardized and therefore comparable overview for all categories of funds and in all member countries of the European Union. The Prospectus' extend is strictly limited to two pages (in A4 format), leading to a quick and transparent summary of a fund for the potential investor.
The new guideline contains the much discussed measures of efficiency enhancement. These are, most notably: Execution of mergers of funds across borders and the enabling of master-feeder-constructions (Accumulation of capital beyond national borders). As a result, existing types of funds of different countries can be combined together to save both duplicating work and administrative costs.
As it is known to date, the fund certificate, which is issued by the responsible supervisory authority, certifies a fund's conformity with the UCITS-guideline. In contrast to the old regulation, the fund certificate's distribution to all member countries of the European Union will already be possible after the issuance. The quick admittance of funds simplifies direct competition with competing products for the future.
With the European Union Direction, any managing company can issue funds in every member country of the European Union, in which no subsidiary company or place of business exists.


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China is already a major producer of Fire-proof Material
Refractory industry is with the development of the national economy and development, as of now, the refractory industry is still in China's industrial development plays a vital role. January-March 2014 China's refractory production reached 24135668.45 tons, the cumulative increase of 9.51, only in March production reached 9242563.07 tons, an increase of 11.89.
It can be seen from the data, Shanxi Province, Fire-proof Material January-March 2014 refractories cumulative year-on-year growth rate of large, reaching 15.22, while the region in March fell 17.45 percentage points. Hebei is the largest decline in January-March areas, the decline rate of 28.35, its March production has dropped by 31.76, it is easy to see that although the national total output of refractories showed an upward trend, but the regional point of view, but There is a decrease, development is not stable.
At present, China is already a major producer of Fire-proof Material, but the overall technical level and industrial structure, the international advanced level is still a large gap between the development trend is also ups and downs, these issues are restricting the development of the industry. If not timely improvement, the long run, the industry will face more embarrassing situation behind.
In the future development, the refractory industry only to speed up the adjustment of industrial structure, eliminate backward production capacity, improve the level of production technology to the international market as a guide, and gradually to the low energy consumption, Fire-proof Material high quality direction, in order to win in the market competition , Get better development!


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The manuscript that defies science
"Yale University also took us for crackpots!" Juanjo Garcia said with a smile. But to protect the manuscript from the risk of degradation or disappearance, Yale ended up consenting to have it reproduced. For this, they selected the masters of the tailormade facsimile, publishers Garcia, and Molinero, creators twenty years ago of the small Siloé publishing house based in Burgos, in northwest Spain.


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"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves" Sir Edmund Hillary
Sometimes you take a journey that goes further than you could ever have imagined. From the chaotic and glorious mess that is Kathmandu to the serene airlessness of the upper Himalayas. Jen and I travelled through a land where beauty and hardship are so intertwined that the line blurs between what is real and what is imagined. Amidst this surrealism we finished one fantastic journey and started our greatest adventure.
For twenty-two days we trekked through the wilds of the Himalayas. Here are our photos of Nepal and its beautiful people.
Rickshaw relaxing, Kathmandu.
Would you buy a dusty coke from this man?
Mobile apple stall at the bus station.
The thirteen-hour ride in.
The journey begins.
Enter the valley.
Woman carrying thirty kilo loads.
Life etched into her face.
Clean ma socks chick.
Beast of Burden.
Man of Burden.
Maybe i'm not such a big deal.
Hardship and beauty.
Found it! The legendary Yeti.
Girl, monastery, mountain.
Tibetan character.
Jaunty step.
Jen ruining my favourite family photo ever.
In action.
In training.
For the big leagues.
And not happy about it.
Monastery with a view.
Mountain life.
No description necessary.
A stroll amongst the Yaks.
Shovelling shit with a million dollar view.
My favourite road sign.
Slippery footing.
She collects Yak poo …
So her grandchildren don't freeze in the winter.
The path travelled.
Dwarfing giants.
Welcome to Manaslu, 8163 metres.
But at 5000 metres this is only considered a hill in Nepal.
Glacial Lake.
High on altitude.
First light.
Cold start.
- 15 Degrees
Alpine mule train.
Can't breathe.
Nearly there.
5160 metres.
Jenny McCallum, a woman to walk the mountains with.
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Why We offer SaveOne - an abortion recovery Bible study
May 18th 2018
My initial introduction to the abortion issue was not intentional. It began with an early morning phone call from a friend whom I knew very well. However, that morning she was crying so hard I did not recognize her voice. I had never guessed an abortion choice could cause deep, palpable, out of control pain. I was stunned and from that day to now have never agreed abortion is ever a wise choice. Time and my experience since has served to solidify my position.
During the conversation, after some very long silences while she tried to gain some composure, she told me the day was the anniversary of an abortion she'd had several years before. She didn't share details, but she did reach out to me for something I was unable to give. I could not fully understand the depth of her anguish. I say with gratefulness I've never had an abortion. However, I have experienced unrelenting grief because of the death of my son. I do know what a grieving parent feels. Still, I did not cause nor arrange for my son's death. Therefore, my ability to fully grasp the needs of a post abortive parent is limited.
Sonja Bates and Cynthia Mossman both understand. They've experienced the devastation abortion causes in a life. Their stories are redemptive, because each uses her experience to reach out and minister hope to those who need supportive help while they seek healing from an abortion.
Why is SaveOne valuable? The study offers truth about God's character and His unconditional forgiveness. Those who go through the study learn one sin is not necessarily more damning, but there are those decisions which come with greater consequences because the losses are catastrophic. The SaveOne study addresses the unique needs of one who desires to fully embrace God's forgiveness and begin to live in restored freedom.
I have seen lives transformed in those weeks of challenging study and discussion. It has always been a joy for me to observe the last meeting when parents are able, maybe for the first time to honor a child while they shed bittersweet tears knowing he waits in Heaven. It's a beautiful time.
If you need to experience a new beginning after an abortion, think about SaveOne. Sonja and Cynthia will welcome your questions and provide confidential information.
Don't wait any longer. Make the contact today.
Sonja for the Inland Empire area. Call 909-762-3878 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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