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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1890s → 1898 → February 1898 → 18 February 1898 → Commons Sitting → ORDER OF THE DAY.
FOOD ADULTERATION.
HC Deb 18 February 1898 vol 53 cc1151-71 1151
§ *MR. H. E. KEARLEY (Devonport)
Sir, I beg to move the following Amendment to the Address:— And we venture humbly to represent to Your Majesty the urgent need of a measure for checking the widespread adulteration of food products, and to express our regret that no assurance is given that such a measure will be proposed to this House during the present Session of Parliament. I move this Amendment because, Sir, I believe that legislation should be introduced on a subject that is pressing, and that has been urged upon the attention of the House by me on three previous occasions. I am aware that there is a reference in Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech of the intention of the Government to legislate on this important matter this Session if time permits. But as the Leader of the Opposition reminded us, these promises are what he termed "uninsurable lives," and, as I regard this question as of the most pressing importance, I felt that I should lose an opportunity unless I put down an Amendment with the object of ventilating the subject once more. But there is another reason which actuated me, and that is 1152 that last year, at the end of the Session, the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Local Government Board, in fulfilment of a pledge by the Leader of the House, introduced a Bill, which, instead of proceeding on the lines of the recommendations of the Select Committee, which sat three Sessions, and collected most voluminous and important evidence, and made 23 important recommendations, ignored the majority of these recommendations. Sir, I think I am correct in saying that that Bill was remarkable, not for what it recommended, but for what it failed to recommend, and, though not desiring to be disrespectful to the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Local Government Board, I am entitled to say that he, in that Bill, was trifling with a great national question. He not only disregarded the bulk of the recommendations of the Select Committee, but he seemed to go specially out of his way to disregard the most important of them, and things upon which we were unanimous. It was pointed out to the Select Committee that the administration of the present Acts was altogether most faulty, and it was also proved by statistical facts that there was an intimate connection between the amount of adulteration which existed and the number of samples taken throughout the country. For example, in Somersetshire, one sample was taken for every 379 inhabitants, and the percentage of adulteration disclosed was 3.6. In Bedfordshire, one sample to every 821 inhabitants disclosed 7.1 of adulteration. In Oxfordshire, one sample to every 15,000 revealed 41 per cent. of falsification. In Marylebone, where the Acts are rigorously enforced, the percentage of adulteration in milk was only four per cent., but in St. Pancras, a parish where the administration is most lax, the amount of adulteration went as high as 43 per cent. In the face of these figures it would have been thought that a provision would have been put into the Bill compelling Local Authorities to undertake prosecutions for adulteration, but the right hon. Gentleman thought it sufficient to declare it to be their duty to put the Act into force. Well, it is the duty of every man to be honest, but I doubt very much whether the percentage of dishonesty would be as 1153 low in this country as it is if there were not Acts of Parliament to enforce honesty. Local Authorities will not carry out those Acts, as is proved by the figures I have quoted, unless there is some power to force them so to do. In the Report is sued by the Local Government Board every year, hon. Members will find tabulated a list of defaulting Authorities not in connection with the administration of Acts dealing with our food supply, but in connection with the administration of the Public Health Act. The Board have repeatedly taken action against local authorities for neglect, of their duties in such matters as the provision of pure water, sanitary drainage systems, and so forth. I confess I cannot differentiate between the duty of a local authority to supply its inhabitants with pure water, and its duty to see that they are supplied with pure food; and I am encouraged to hope that the right hon. Gentleman will see the necessity of taking some action to compel enforcement of the Acts dealing with food by the fact that I find that where the Public Health Act is enforced the result is most satisfactory. If the local authority has been dilatory, and, the Local Government Board has applied for a Mandamus, there is not a single case in which the local authority has dared to refuse to enforce the Act after a peremptory command by the High Court. I will venture to quote to the House a few additional figures to show the different results between a vigorous administration and an apathetic administration of these Acts. I will take the case of two great towns, London and Manchester. London has a, very bad reputation as regards adulteration, and the reason is, because the Acts are not enforced. Manchester, on the other hand, has a great reputation in the contrary direction, having spent large sums of money in the provision of Inspectors to watch over the interests of the community. I will take the figures with regard to the adulteration of milk, and I will deal with six parishes of London as typical of the whole. In Clerkenwell, the number of samples inspected was 148, and no less than 37 proved to have been adulterated. In Hackney 177 samples were taken, of which 52 were adulterated; in St. Olave's 51 per cent. were found 1154 to be adulterated; in St. Pancras 39 per cent.; in St. George's, Hanover Square (perhaps that will touch some hon. Gentlemen in this House more closely than the outlying parishes, because a great many of us live there) no less than 36 per cent.; and in aristocratic Kensington 31 per cent. Those are the figures given in the last Local Government Report as affecting London. Now, what are the figures as affecting Manchester and Salford? A far larger number of samples were taken, proving the argument I used just now, that the larger the number of samples taken—the greater activity shown in enforcing the Act—the less adulteration is found. In Manchester, out of 1,167 samples taken, the percentage of cases of adulteration was as low as 3 per cent.; in Salford, out of 421 samples taken, there were only 10 ćases of adulteration, under 3 per cent. These are not figures I have myself collected; they are found in the last Report of the Local Government Board. But I think it is fair to point out that these figures do not in any way represent the true extent of the adulteration, for this reason: The public analysts of this country have resorted to a very low standard for the testing of milk, and their justification of that is this: They have discovered that the Official Analysts at Somerset House have set up, and have continued to maintain for some years, a very low standard. Now, a public analyst has a reputation of his own to maintain, and it is not surprising that he will not advise a prosecution based on the standard of purity which he himself might think proper to adopt, when that prosecution would be certain to be defeated by an appeal to the lower standard of Somerset House. This brings me to my second criticism of the Bill that was introduced by the right hon. Gentleman last Session. There were some points of difference between the Members of the Committee, but on this one question to which I am about to refer there was absolute unanimity, and that was that, seeing the various technical and scientific questions that had to be determined in connection with adulteration, it was impossible for public analysts to satisfactorily discharge their duties unless there was some Board or Court of Reference, consisting of 1155 experts competent to give an unbiassed opinion on these various questions, such, for example, as the standard of purity in milk, the amount of water to be allowed in butter, the amount of "preservatives" to be allowed in butter and milk, and other articles. The Committee unanimously decided that those were questions to be settled by a Technical Board, and they therefore unanimously recommended that this Court of Reference should be appointed. I will not trouble the House with the details; but the right hon. Gentleman in his Bill absolutely ignored that recommendation altogether. It was extraordinary that he did so, inasmuch as the Report that the Committee agreed to was drawn up by the responsible officials of the Local Government Board. I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman himself drew it up, but it was drawn up by one of the permanent officials of the Department. Now, if that Report cannot be accepted by the Local Government Board for whom it was drawn, we are entitled to ask the reason why. I should like to ask my hon. Friend the Member for South Tyrone, who gave so much attention to this question when he was Chairman of the Committee, as well as my hon. Friend sitting below me, what explanation they can give? I want to know why, in spite of the labours of this Committee during three Sessions, which resulted in a practically unanimous report, we should have proffered to us a Bill which not only ignores the majority of the recommendations of the Committee, but also absolutely ignores those in which we were absolutely unanimous. It is suggested that the right hon. Gentleman at the head of the Board of Agriculture is responsible. I will never believe that till I hear him say it. That the right hon. Gentleman the Minister for Agriculture should desire that we should not get the benefit of the labours of his friends who were so active upon that Select Committee seems to me most extraordinary. Now, I want to show the necessity of this Board of Reference by instancing the matter of preservatives. It has become the custom to introduce preservatives into milk, and butter, and cheese, and other articles, to keep them fresh for a longer period than would otherwise be possible. I am not competent 1156 to express a scientific opinion upon the matter myself, but in the last Report of the Local Government Board it is pointed out that in Birmingham there were cases in which samples of milk contained no less than from 50 to 70 grains of boracic acid per gallon, and in Glamorganshire the practice of putting preservatives into milk was so common that, as the milk naturally passed from hand to hand, each man who handled it thought he would like it to keep fresh, and added an additional dose of this compound, until in some cases a distinctly poisonous dose was reached. All this evidence came before the Select Committee, but they were, of course, not competent to deal with it; we were not analysts; we could not say whether boracic acid was good or not; but we unanimously agreed that we should recommend the appointment of an expert Board, and I am anxious to know what reason the right hon. Gentleman can give for ignoring that recommendation. This matter was referred to in the course of the evidence by representatives of the Corporation of Manchester, the Corporation of Glasgow—I forget whether the Corporation of London did not also recommend it—by farmers, importers, distributors, public analysts, and, above all, by the Official Analyst of Somerset House. In spite of all that important evidence, the Bill which the right hon. Gentleman introduced last Session failed to refer to it, or to introduce the provisions that we worked for so hard. Now, Mr. Speaker, I do not want to delay the House, but there is one aspect of this question that I must refer to before I sit down. I am glad to see the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House in his place, because last year he gave a promise that we should have a Bill which should satisfactorily deal with these matters. No Bill will be satisfactory that does not embrace at all events, the main recommendations of the Select Committee. The right hon. Gentleman said that he feared that this was a contentious question, because it might resolve itself into a question between town and country. Now, I say it is not true to suggest that this is a question of country against towns, at all events in the sense suggested. I maintain that the question is a consumers' question, and this House ought to view it independently of any 1157 supposed conflict of interest between country and town. I know that the influence of the Agricultural Party in this House is not always discreetly used, but, in this case, what is demanded has nothing to do with the Agricultural Party. I take up the question purely in the interests of the consumer, and I hope the House will so regard it, whatever particular interests may have to say. If I were asked to go into this question of the respective interests involved, I should be obliged to say that this is more of a townsman's than a countryman's question for this reason: The towns are the field of operations of the adulterater. It is to the towns, in the main, that the goods that are adulterated are sent; and, while I decline to be drawn into a controversy between town and country, I do make this definite statement; that, while we want to stop adulteration, we should strongly resist any attempt on the part of any interest to interfere with the free importation of foreign food into this country. Adulteration must be stopped, but there must be no attempt to make this a lever for interference to the importation of food from abroad. I have referred chiefly to milk, and I am not going to weary the House now with statistics as to butter and other things; but I should just say this: So persistent has this evil become, and so apathetic are many local authorities in dealing with it, that it has been found necessary, in the large towns of England, for consumers to combine together, and start what is practically their own police, to hunt down the offenders, and put a stop to this great evil. I have here a list of convictions obtained by one of these bodies—a very influentially supported association formed in London. The first case I have marked is one of a vestryman in Hackney—a member of the very body entrusted with the administration of the Acts under the present system. There are no less than eight members of one of our London vestries who have been convicted of adulteration; and these convictions, the House will remember, were secured, not by those whose duty it is to see that the law is obeyed, but it was simply by the organisation of this kind of private police that these men were run to earth. In some of these cases milk was found to have been adulterated 1158 with no less than 50 per cent. of water. Hon. Members may think of the iniquity of finding that what is left at their doors as milk consists of half milk and half water; but, of course, this fraud is carried on principally in the poorer districts; it is not the wealthy, but the poor districts of London and other great cities that are the happy hunting-ground of the adulterater. Sir, I sincerely hope that we shall have some satisfaction to-night, in the shape of a promise that a Bill will be introduced at an early date in the Session—not, as it was last year, on the expiring day of the Session. What we want is immediate legislation, and effective legislation. And I, again, ask why a Bill should not embody the proposals recommended in the admirable report of the Select Committee, which worked so hard upon this matter. There were some Amendments proposed to the Report by my agricultural friends below me, with which I had no sympathy whatever, and I did my best to defeat those proposals, but I hope to hear before the discussion closes my hon. Friend explain why it is that, in spite of the fact that he drafted a most admirable Report, he lent himself to bringing in a Bill which absolutely ignored the best of the recommendations unanimously made by the Committee. Sir, I beg to move the Amendment which stands in my name.
§ *MR. G. LAMBERT (Devon, South Molton)
Sir, I beg to second the Amendment moved by my hon. Friend. While he speaks so well for the consumer, I have a tender feeling for the producer, representing, as I do, an agricultural county, which produces a very considerable amount of dairy produce. There cannot be any doubt that a very large amount of fraud exists in regard to the sale of articles of food, and especially in regard to the sale of margarine for butter. It is a remarkable fact that while the largest amount of margarine imported into this country is from Holland—no less than 93 per cent. of the margarine coming into this country is imported from Holland—there is, at the same time, a great increase in the importation of butter from that country amounting to 165,000cwts. in 1894 1159 to no less than 275,000cwts. in 1897. For my own part, I have a strong suspicion that this so-called butter is adulterated with margarine. In most countries on the Continent they will not allow the sale of this stuff as butter; there is very stringent legislation against it; but this country is made the dumping-ground for this refuse, and we want to stop that, not only in the interests of agriculturists, but in the interests of consumers as well. It was brought out before the Committee that this stuff is sent over here in packages so marked as to lead to the impression that it is pure and genuine butter. This is the kind of thing we want to put a stop to. I am very glad indeed to have been instrumental in inserting in the Report, the very admirable Report, of that Committee (and I am glad to say that I received the support of some hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House) a paragraph prohibiting the colouring of margarine, or the marking of it so as to make it resemble butter. You may have as many inspectors as you like, but if you wish to put a stop to this fraud you must make the buyer his own inspector. We are told that the working classes would suffer by any restrictions on the sale of margarine. Well, I do not for a moment believe that the working classes are dying to be deceived in this way, and all we desire to do is to protect them against deceit and fraud. I will not further detain the House, but I may just say this: The Bill introduced last Session by the right hon. Gentleman proved abortive, and we cannot be surprised that it did. It was condemned by all agricultural bodies, who expressed an opinion upon it. At a recent meeting somewhere in the Eastern counties of the National Agricultural Union, one speaker said he did not believe that the right hon. Gentleman, the President of the Local Government Board had even seen the Bill which he himself had introduced. Sir, agriculturists have a very great faith in the right hon. Gentleman; he has grown thin, I might almost say, in working for agricultural interests; I do hope that he will not allow his great reputation with agriculturists to be shattered, and it will be shattered unless he will bring in a really good and thoroughgoing Measure dealing with this subject. All his efforts in the way of reducing 1160 rates, and all the other reforms by which he has endeavoured to benefit the agricultural interests, will be overlooked, and he will find that his reputation will be sunk in a mess of margarine. I beg, Sir, to second the Amendment.
§ Amendment proposed, at the end of the Questions, to add the words,— And we venture humbly to represent to Your Majesty the urgent need of a Measure for checking the widespread adulteration of food products, and to express our regret that no assurance is given that such a Measure will be proposed to this House during the present Session of Parliament."—(Mr. Kearley.)
§ Question proposed, "That those words be there added:"
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, Sleaford
I am aware of the great interest which the Lon. Gentlemen opposite have for a long period taken in this question, and I can assure them and the House that I am quite as anxious to introduce and proceed with a Bill upon this subject as they can be. I entirely agree with the hon. Member who has just sat down, in his desire to prevent fraud, and to prevent the importation of adulterated articles of food. Now, the hon. Member, who moved the Amendment, complained that no promise had been given to the House on the part of the Government that this question would be presented for the consideration of the House. Sir, the subject is mentioned in the Queen's Speech, and although I frankly admit that there is only a qualified reference to it in the Speech, yet hon. Members must remember that no assurance that could be given could be absolute, unless, indeed, it was an assurance that this should be the first Measure undertaken by the Government. Well, the hon. Gentlemen opposite know just as well as I do that, considering the business which is at present before the House, it is impossible that we could give any assurance of that kind. But short of that I can say this: that I am, and have been for some time, busily engaged in the preparation of a Bill dealing with this 1161 question, in the hope of amending soma, at all events, of the evils of which they complain. Although it may be possible that I should find some things in the Report of the Committee, to which the hon. Member has referred, with which I am unable to agree, yet I am as anxious as he is to make progress with this Measure, and to introduce a Bill on the subject, which I hope will be met, if not with complete satisfaction, at all events with no hostile feelings on the part of the hon. Gentleman and his friends. They must remember that, in spite of what the hon. Gentleman has said, the interests involved in this question are extremely conflicting. If I were to introduce a Bill modelled precisely on the lines of the Report of the Select Committee that Bill would have no earthly chance of passing into law in the course of the present Session. I could not imagine anything that would be more contentious or likely to give rise to great differences of opinion. But, short of that, I think a Measure may be produced which ought to have a reasonable chance of giving satisfaction, and of making progress during the present Session. I hope to be able to introduce a Bill, and if it be found impracticable to send it, in the ordinary way, to a Select Committee—because, of course, a Measure of that kind must be full of technicalities—it might be sent to one of our Grand Committees. Sir, I have listened to everything which the hon. Member has said, but it is impossible in a matter of this sort that I can follow him in the discussion of all the details into which he went so fully, nor am I for a moment going to be inveigled by him into a defence of the Measure introduced last Session. I hope the Measure, upon the preparation of which we are now engaged, will be more satisfactory to the hon. Gentleman and his friends.
§ SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derby, Ilkeston)
I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has only given us a repetition of the qualified assurance contained in the Queen's Speech. I had hoped that he would have seen his way to go a little further. I had for two years the honour of presiding over the Committee to which reference has been made. The 1162 inquiry extended over many long and tedious sittings, and involved the taking of a vast amount of evidence. There is no doubt that the result of that inquiry was to demonstrate the existence throughout the country of a very widespread evil, affecting a large number of articles of food. It is the duty of the State, where the public are not able to protect themselves against frauds of this kind, not only against their pockets, but against health, to step in and do something to put down the frauds. That being the case, one naturally inquires why this large amount of adulteration is allowed to go on. This brings us to the second thing that the Committee were convinced of. They were convinced not only by evidence, but also by discussion, as shown by the Report which they finally made, that a large amount of this adulteration was due to a lax administration of the law, and, thirdly, that this lax administration was favoured by the difficulty in securing convictions, owing to the fact that there was no authority to fix standards of purity. Those three points having been brought out thoroughly by the evidence before the Committee, and endorsed by the Committee in their Report, there naturally ought to have been in any Bill presented to Parliament some endeavour to meet these three great evils. I am sorry to say that, in spite of the goodwill of the Local Government Board, the Bill of last year was not a satisfactory Bill, when we consider the evidence taken by the Committee and the report they made. I hope that we shall have some assurance that in the Bill to be introduced this Session the Government will deal with the matter more boldly. I am quite aware that this is a very difficult question, one of the most difficult, perhaps, that any Government could have to tackle, affecting both private and public interests. My hon. Friend behind me, who seconded this Amendment, has referred in some detail to the adulteration of butter, and the importation of margarine. Perhaps I may support the case he was making by mentioning a little story I heard the other day, which illustrates the position of margarine under the present defective administration of the law. Two 1163 commercial travellers got into a dispute as to the pronunciation of this word, one arguing that it should be pronounced "marjarine," and the other arguing for "margarine." Ultimately they wrote the word on a piece of paper, and handed it to the shopman at a place where the stuff was sold, and asked him what he called the stuff described on the paper. His answer was, "Well, I call it 'butter'; it would be as much as my place is worth to call it anything else." There is no doubt that margarine has won its way into use in this country as an article of food, and we had plenty of evidence before the Committee that it is not unwholesome or injurious, and it is a cheap substitute for butter. I regret to say that it is often brought into this country and sold largely mixed with butter. The importation of margarine is, however, on the decrease. There is another substance infinitely more important from the point of view of adulteration than margarine, and that is cheese. There is an enormous amount of so-called cheese coming into this country which consists of certain milk products mixed with a lot of fat; if it is kept for a few days it becomes putrid. Last year we imported nearly £6,000,000 worth of cheese—some of which is called filled cheese—and is unfit for human consumption. The House will agree that, in the interests of consumers, and in the interests of our own producers of wholesome cheese, this should be put a stop to. I do press upon the right hon. Gentleman, and the Government generally, the necessity of dealing thoroughly with this subject. I do not think any Measure will be satisfactory which does not provide for compelling local authorities to properly administer the law. I also agree with my hon. Friend in urging the appointment of a Court of Reference of the kind contemplated by the Committee—a body of experts who will fix standards of purity and decide other technical matters. Unless some such authority is created there will always be difficulties in enforcing the provisions of the Act.
§ SIR MARK J. M. STEWART (Kirkcudbright)
Although there can be no doubt that this is rather a thorny and difficult question to deal with, the 1164 Government themselves must know that there has been a very great advance in public opinion in regard to it within the last few years. A very few years ago you could hardly find (with, I think, one exception) in England or Scotland a single agriculturist who would have anything to do with analysis. I took a somewhat prominent part in this matter, having had, I was going to say, many hundred samples analysed, and succeeded in bringing many farmers to book—farmers who did not intend to deceive, but who sold stuff of the most disgraceful character. With regard to margarine, it must be remembered that it is not an unwholesome food, and it is one which a large portion of the community like. What we have to contend with is the adulterated butter which is sold in such large quantities. I quite agree with what has been said with regard to the necessity of a Court of Reference, consisting of fair and reliable analysts, to whom samples could be sent, and whose analyses would have weight and authority. At present, if I send a sample of butter or cheese to one chemist, and another sample of the same stuff to another chemist, the chances are that I get two irreconcilable analyses; because they have not one uniform standard to be guided by; and the same thing holds good with regard to another and a very vital question—the question of condensed milk. There is another agricultural subject about which the greatest possible care should be taken, I mean in relation to our dairies. When you visit the places out of which the milk comes that is sent to us from Denmark and other parts of the Continent, no one could believe that that milk comes into this country in a wholesome condition. For these reasons, Sir, I do ask the Government to bring in a good strong Measure. We, on this side, want to stiffen their backs, because, unless we can have a really effective Measure we had better have no Measure at all.
§ *MR. W. STRACHEY (Somerset, S.)
I hope that the First Lord of the Treasury will be able to give us a more definite assurance than we have had from the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Local Government Board. All the right hon. Gentleman gave us was a qualified assurance that a 1165 Bill of some sort would be introduced in the course of the Session. That is exactly what was said by the Government last Session when this subject was raised on the Address, and my hon. Friend did not press the matter to a Division. I hope that, having that experience, my Friend will now act differently, unless he has some absolute assurance. Some of us will not be satisfied except by the assurance that a Bill will be brought in and sent to a Grand Committee. If, as the right hon. Gentleman said, the Bill will be so full of technicalities that it must be sent to a Grand Committee, let it be brought in immediately, so that the Committee may set to work upon it; do not, as you did before, wait till the last days of the Session, when it is impossible for it to be passed into law. I certainly think this matter, in which the producers of this country, as well as the consumers, and last, but not least, the retailers, are so deeply interested, should be no longer trifled with. Hon. Members who represent agricultural constituencies will agree that this is a question on which the farmers of this country feel very strongly indeed. They consider it most unfair that their own products should be handicapped by the sale of adulterated cheese and adulterated butter from abroad; and while I, for one, shall always advocate the free importation into this country of articles of food, I do strongly object to the free importation of adulterated articles of food. It is all very well for local authorities to prosecute (and they are very lax in even doing that) people who sell adulterated foreign stuffs; I consider that that is beginning at the wrong end. We should stop these adulterated stuffs from entering the country at all. I hope that my hon. Friend, unless he receives a more satisfactory assurance from the Government, will press his Amendment to a Division.
§ SIR F. G. MILNER (Notts, Bassetlaw)
I should like to impress upon the right hon. Gentleman the President of the Local Government Board that there is an intense feeling in agricultural districts in favour of this Amendment. The Secretary of the Agricultural Union, which includes an important body of my constituents, has written, urging me to support this Amendment if it should be 1166 pressed to a Division. Having regard to the sympathetic answer given to the hon. Member opposite by the President of the Local Government Board, I do not think there would be any advantage in going to a Division, but I venture to say that if the Government bring in a Measure carrying out the principle of this Amendment, such a Measure will meet with no serious opposition from any quarter of this House. I think the time has come when this question ought to be grappled with, and in dealing with it vigorously the Government will have the support of the agricultural population of this country.
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.
I do not in the least complain of the Debate which has taken place on this subject, and I thoroughly sympathise with the views of my hon. Friends who have spoken from this side of the House and from the opposite Benches: but I must be permitted to say that a great part of this argument is absolutely academical. In the Speech from the Throne there is reference to a Bill upon this subject, as one which the Government are desirous to bring in, but the hon. Members opposite who moved and supported this Amendment are not satisfied with it; they ask for some pledge of a more specific character. No pledge of a more specific character could be given by any Government in a Speech from the Throne. The hon. Gentleman who moved the Amendment complained that the paragraph in the Speech relating to this and other Measures only promised their introduction "if time permitted." Sir, that is a qualification which is now almost common form. I believe, by the way, that I was the person who first introduced that particular way of enumerating Measures which must of necessity occupy other than premier place in the Government programme. Every Government is bound by limitations of time. No Government in the world can control the time of the House. ["Oh, oh!"] I repeat, that no Government in the world ever can or ever has controlled the time of the House. No Government in the world has been able to pass all the Measures in a Session 1167 which it has desired to pass. And, having regard to the evidence which the Government have given of their desire to deal with this question, it seems to me—I say it with all respect—that this Debate is simply well qualified to spend our time, and not qualified to increase the probability of our having time to spare for dealing with this subject. Sir, I can only repeat what has been said by my right hon. Friend the President of the Local Government Board. We are most desirous of dealing with this question; we have stated that desire in the most explicit terms in the Queen's Speech. Further than that neither can we go, nor could any Government which might be substituted for us. Why, therefore, we should further debate this question; why even we should divide upon it, I confess myself wholly unable to understand. This is, I think, the first time in the history of the British Parliament in which a Government has been reproached for not dealing with a question which is specifically mentioned in the Queen's Speech as one which it is intended to deal with.
§ MR. WARNER (Stafford, Lichfield)
I do not think the statement of the right hon. Gentleman is in the least satisfactory, The right hon. Gentleman the President of the Local Government Board has told us that his Bill will not be brought in until the end of the Session——
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD
I said nothing of the kind.
§ MR. WARNER
At any rate, he gave a very qualified assurance, and the right hon. Gentleman the First Lord of the Treasury did not go any further. Clearly, the Measure, whenever it be introduced, is to be relegated to a backseat, and I hope my hon. Friend will press his Amendment to a Division, in the hope that we may secure for the Measure a more prominent position in the programme than it would now appear likely to have.
§ Question put:—
§ The House divided; Ayes, 66; Noes 171.
AYES.
Asher, Alexander Griffith, Ellis J. Nussey, Thomas Willans
Asquith, Rt. Hn. Herbert Henry Hayden, John Patrick O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny)
Austin, Sir John (Yorks) Hayne, Rt. Hn. C. Seale- O'Brien, P. J. (Tipperary)
Brigg, John Healy, Maurice (Cork) Paulton, James Mellor
Brunner, Sir J. Tomlinson Healy, T. M. (N. Louth) Phillipps, John Wynford
Caldwell, James Hedderwick, Thos. Chas. H. Price, Robert John
Causton, Richard Knight Holburn, J. G. Provand, Andrew Dryburgh
Cawley, Frederick Jordan, Jeremiah Randell, David
Clancy, John Joseph Kilbride, Denis Roberts, John H. (Denbighs.)
Clark, Dr. G. B. (Caithness-sh.) Knox, Edmund Francis Vesey Robson, William Snowdon
Clough, Walter Owen Lewis, John Herbert Souttar Robinson
Condon, Thomas Joseph Lough, Thomas Stevenson, Francis S.
Crean, Eugene MacAleese, Daniel Strachey, Edward
Daly, James MacNeill, Jno. Gordon Swift Sullivan, Donal (Westmeath)
Doogan, P. C. M'Cartan, Michael Sullivan, T. D. (Donegal, W.)
Ellis, Thos. Ed. (Merionethsh.) M'Ghee, Richard Tanner, Charles Kearns
Evans, S. T. (Glamorgan) Maden, John Henry Warner, Thos. Courtenay T.
Ferguson, R. C. Munro (Leith) Mandeville, J. Francis Weir, James Galloway
Finucane, John Mendl, Sigismund Ferdinand Williams, J. Carvell (Notts.)
Flavin, Michael Joseph Milner, Sir Predk. George Wills, Sir William Henry
Foster, Sir W. (Derby Co.) Morton, Edw. J. C. (Devonp.) TELLERS FOR THE AYES—
Gibney, James Moss, Samuel Mr. Kearley and Mr. Lambert.
Grey, Sir Edward (Berwick) Murnaghan, George
NOES.
Allen, Wm. (Newc.-under-L.) FitzGerald, Sir R. V. Penrose Moon, Edward Robert Pacy
Allhusen, Augustus Hy. Eden Fletcher, Sir Henry More, Robert Jasper
Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. Flower, Ernest Morrell, George Herbert
Ashmead-Bartlett, Sir Ellis Forster, Henry William Morton, Arth. H. A. (Deptf'd)
Atkinson, Rt. Hon. John Foster, Colonel (Lancaster) Murray, Rt. Hn. A. G. (Bute)
Bagot, Capt. J. FitzRoy Garfit, William Murray, Chas. J. (Coventry)
Baird, Jno. Geo. Alexander Gedge, Sydney Murray, Col Wyndh'm (Bath)
Balfour, Rt. Hn. A. J. (Manch'r) Gibbs, Hon. V. (St. Albans) Newdigate, Francis Alex.
Balfour, Rt. Hn. Gerald (Leeds) Goldsworthy, Major-General Nicholson, William Graham
Banbury, Fredk. George Gordon, Hon. John Edward Nicol, Donald Ninian
Bartley, George C. T. Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir J. E. Northcote, Hn. Sir H. S.
Barton, Dunbar Plunket Goschen, George J. (Sussex) Orr-Ewing, Charles Lindsay
Beach, Rt. Hn. Sir M. H. (Bris.) Goulding, Edward Alfred Pollock, Harry Frederick
Beach, W. W. B. (Hants) Graham, Henry Robert Powell, Sir Francis Sharp
Beckett, Ernest William Gray, Ernest (West Ham) Pryce-Jones, Edward
Begg, Ferdinand Faithful Green, Walford D. (W'dn'sb'y) Purvis, Robert
Bemrose, Sir Henry Howe Greene, Hy. D. (Shrewsbury) Pym, C. Guy
Beresford, Lord Charles Greville, Captain Rentoul, James Alexander
Bigwood, James Gull, Sir Cameron Richardson, Sir T. (H'rtlep'l)
Blundell, Colonel Henry Gunter, Colonel Ridley, Rt. Hn Sir Matthew W.
Bond, Edward Hanbury, Rt. Hn. Robt. W. Ritchie, Rt. Hn. C. Thomson
Broderick, Rt. Hon. St. J. Hanson, Sir Reginald Robertson, Herbt. (Hackney)
Burdett-Coutts, W. Hare, Thomas Leigh Round, James
Butcher, John George Haslett, Sir James Horner Russell, T. W. (Tyrone)
Campbell, J. H. M. (Dublin) Heath, James Sharpe, William Edward T.
Carlile, William Walter Helder, Augustus Sidebottom, Wm. (Derbysh.)
Cavendish, R. F. (N. Lancs.) Hill, Rt. Hn. Lord A. (Down) Simeon, Sir Barrington
Cavendish, V. C. W. (Derbysh.) Howell, William Tudor Sinclair, Louis (Romford)
Cecil, Lord Hugh Hutton, J. (Yorks, N. R.) Smith, Abel H. (Christch'rch)
Chaloner, Captain R. G. W. Johnston, William (Belfast) Smith, Samuel (Flint)
Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. (Bir.) Kemp, George Stanley, Lord (Lancashire)
Chamberlain, J. A. (Worc'r) Kenyon-Slaney, Col. W. Stanley, E. J. (Somerset)
Charrington, Spencer Kimber, Henry Stephens, Henry Charles
Clare, Octavius Leigh King, Sir H. Seymour Stewart, Sir Mark J. M'Taggart
Cochrane, Hn. T. H. A. E. Lawrence, Sir Edw. (Cornwall) Stirling-Maxwell, Sir J. M.
Coghill, Douglas Harry Lawson John Grant (Yorks.) Strauss, Arthur
Cohen, Benjamin Louis Lees, Sir Elliott (Birkenhead) Sutherland, Sir Thomas
Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse Leigh-Bennett, Henry Currie Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester)
Colomb, Sir John C. Ready Llewelyn, Sir D-. (Swansea) Thornton, Percy M.
Compton, Lord Alwyne Lockwood, Lt.-Col. A. R. Tollemache, Henry James
Cook, Fred. Lucas (Lambeth) Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine Tomlinson, Wm. E. Murray
Corbett, A. Cameron (Gl'sgw.) Long, Rt. Hn. W. (L'pool) Vincent, Col. Sir C. E. Howard
Cranborne, Viscount Lones, Hy. Yarde Buller Wanklyn, James Leslie
Cross, Alexander (Glasgow) Lucas-Shadwell, William Webster, R. G. (St. Pancras)
Cubitt, Hon. Henry Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred Webster, Sir R. E. (I. Wight)
Curzon, Rt. Hn. G. N. (Lanc. S. W.) Macartney, W. G. Ellison Wentworth, B. C. Vernon-
Curzon, Viscount (Bucks) Macdona, John Cumming Whiteley, H. (Ashton-under-L.)
Dane, Richard M. Maclean, James Mackenzie Williams, J. Powell (Birm.)
Davenport, W. Bromley- M'Arthur, Chas. (Liverpool) Willox, Sir John Archibald
Dickson-Poynder, Sir J. P. M'Calmont, H. L. B. (Cambs.) Wilson, John (Falkirk)
Disraeli, Coningsby Ralph M'Iver, Sir Lewis Wilson, J. W. (Worc'sh N.)
Douglas, Rt. Hn. A. Akers- Malcolm, Ian Wodehouse, E. R. (Bath)
Duncombe, Hon. Hubert V. Maple, Sir John Blundell Wortley, Rt. Hn. C. B. Stuart-
Fardell, Sir T. George Martin, Richard Biddulph Wyndham-Quin, Maj. W. H.
Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn E. Milbank, Powlett Chas. John Wyvill, Marmaduke D'Arcy
Finlay, Sir R. Bannatyne Milton, Viscount TELLERS FOR THE NOES—
Fisher, William Hayes Monckton, Edward Philip Sir William Walrond and
Fison, Frederick William Monk, Charles James Mr. Anstruther.
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Patient safety is a very important subject for the European Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Associations (EFCCA) and the Global Alliance for Patient Access (GAfPA), and lies at the core of our work. Within this framework EFCCA, together with GAfPA, organised an advocacy workshop on patient safety, which took place in Barcelona from 4-6 February 2016. The summit was attended by 60 advocates from 34 different organisations stemming from 27 different countries, representing patients with a variety of medical conditions including rheumatic disease, in ammatory bowel disease, psoriatic disease and hemophilia.
The main goals of the workshop were to create greater awareness amongst patient communities regarding the issues impacting access to biologic and biosimilar treatments and therefore to provide or improve basic understanding of the science and issues associated with biological medicines and biosimilars. Secondly, the workshop provided practical training on how to employ effective advocacy and communication strategies with the goal of raising awareness and understanding amongst key policy makers.


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Environmental consultants join forces
Cheshire-based RSK Group has become one of the biggest environmental consultancies in the UK with the acquisition of Adas UK from its venture capitalist owners....
Winner chosen for lighting London bridges
A design competition to light up London's bridges has been won by American 'light artist' Leo Villareal with British architects Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands....
TfL accelerates £3.1bn Bakerloo plan
Transport for London is looking to start construction of a £3.1bn extension of the Bakerloo line by 2022....
Hansford to review rail procurement
Network Rail has commissioned Peter Hansford, former chief construction adviser to the government, to lead a review of alternative project delivery models....
Crossrail contractors to be prosecuted over shotcreter's death
BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Agroman and Kier are being prosecuted by the Health & Safety Executive in relation to three incidents during construction of Crossrail tunnels....
Hot-on-hot asphalt paving trialled on M6
Aggregate Industries, Kier and Highways England have collaborated on the UK's first hot-on-hot inline paving trial....
Disqualified construction boss gets back into contracting
A Birmingham contracting boss whose companies collapsed six years ago is back in the business despite being banned until November 2019....
Merged housing associations aim to double build programme
Housing associations L&Q and East Thames have merged and negotiated a £2.6bn refinancing package to double their build programme....
Welsh minister takes Metro case to Brussels
Wales' first minister Carwyn Jones is in Brussels today in a bid to keep alive plans for a flagship £600m transport project....
Support services more than compensates for Carillion's flat construction year
Carillion's construction business has seen little change on 2015 this year but growth in support services means that its overall revenue and profits will be up in 2016....


I'm one of the guys you'd see with naked gadgets, and by that I mean I hate cases that cover up the design of my handheld or even my laptops. I just feel that we should see gadgets the way they're designed and not cover it up with bulky cases that practically destroys any semblance of aesthetic value it has. But on rare occasions I see a case that is worthy of covering up my silicon based companion and the image above is a very good example of such an event. What you see above isn't a Lenovo branded arcade cabinet but something even better. It's a case for your gaming laptop that will turn it into an arcade cabinet. I know it's hard to picture so just go ahead and read more to see the laptop itself.
Sadly Lenovo won't be producing this for mass consumption. I guess they just want us to drop our jaws and feel bad that we won't be able to own one.


Jasper's a charming little town in the heart of the Jasper national park in western Alberta, that's kept hold of its authentic Rockie mountain feel, despite the opening of the ski resort back in the sixties.
As it is a bit more remote than some of the other familiar Canadian resorts from the main international airports means Jasper never feels busy.
It is just a short bus journey from the centre of Jasper town to the Marmot Basin ski area.
One thing skiers notice about the Marmot Basin area is how well laid out the area is. So whatever conditions your ready to ski next, it's very easy to navigate the four distinct areas of the mountain and find what you are looking for.
Whether that's gentle winding trails, alpine bowls, steep chutes or pine glade tree runs. Marmot Basin also has a fantastic long season, and regularly opens from mid November till late May.
Ski-lifts can offer two choices for airport transfers between Calgary airport and Jasper. Either the standard private transfer, or a coach transfer for larger groups.
As well as this there is a shared transfer option from Edmonton airport to Jasper.
Please use the quote generator for more details on our transfer prices, choose the option that suits you best and make your booking online.
Booking your airport transfer to Jasper in advance with Ski-Lifts is one of the easiest ways of getting to Jasper. It can save you time and money when compared to getting a taxi to Jasper from the airport.


A fun story on the news this morning.
The British helicopter carrier HMS Ocean was deployed to the Mediterranean back in April of this year on a seven-week training exercise. Unfortunately, when the Libyan uprising began, the ship and crew were diverted to Libya as support for the UN air mission. Without notice, their seven-week training exercise became a seven-month deployment. It became a stressful time for the crew, and when they were informed they wouldn't be home until Christmas, Lt. Kelly Cleeve came up with the idea of filming a video of her shipmates lip-synching the lyrics to Mariah Carey's Christmas song, All I Want for Christmas Is You, as a morale booster and a diversion for not only the crew, but for their family and friends back home. Cleeve and Warrant Officer Mick Wakeham filmed and edited the video.
As you can imagine, the crew's fun video has gone viral and it's linked below.
I don't mean to drop a lump of coal into this nice Christmas story, but when I heard the story this morning I was reminded of Captain Owen Honors, the US Navy captain of the USS Enterprise, and the morale-boosting videos he and some of his fellow officers made back when he was that ship's executive officer. That story surfaced back in January of this year and Captain Honors wound up losing his job over the videos. I really can't defend the videos he helped make while executive officer of the USS Enterprise because they were in bad taste, but then I've never been in the US Navy and I don't know what's traditionally been acceptable, or what's traditionally been considered bad taste, and my understanding at the time of the story was that the videos weren't anything new and the reason they suddenly became a problem for Captain Honors was because they happened to surface on the internet. I guess the part that bothers me the most about Captain Honors' story isn't that the morale-boosting videos were made, but that based on the video clips I saw, which were, again, in bad taste, they weren't worse than any tasteless sitcom we've seen on television nearly every night of the week for decades and we have no problem accepting those without question. It was unfortunate that a good soldier, and by all accounts, a good man, had to lose his position and career over the incident while actors, writers and producers are rewarded with fame and riches for being tastless and offensive.
Oh well, that's too depressing a story to think about and who likes thinking about depressing stories? Well, I guess I generally do, but that's besides the point… Let's forget about the story of the USS Enterprise and their videos and think instead about the story of the HMS Ocean and their Christmas video. To help with that, here is the HMS Ocean's video which I'm also including as part of today's Monday's Music Moves Me.
Michael…Thank you for my day brightener. The range of your blogs is incredible. From funny to inspiring to thoughtful. Thank you for your posts.
These are priceless, especially the first one! Thanks for putting a smile on my first this morning!
That is sad that he lost his job. I think I remember that story.
Now seriously I LOVE LOVE LOVE this video!
It can be frustrating when common sense is not used, bad taste in videos? Not so smart but firing? Sometimes the extreme is baffling!
The Christmas video, cute, they used good judgement and it is Christmas BINGO!!!
I heard about this on the news this morning and was so happy for them but I'm glad that you shared the entire video. It is so obvious that all of these men and women are so excited about going home for Christmas. I am also grinning from ear to ear at this video. I remember last year when I heard that my son would be home from Afghanistan in time for Christmas, so I know how their family members are feeling.
I also heard that Mariah Carey was extremely moved by their using her song and tweeted something wonderful to them and their families. That I thought was sweet.
Looking forward to what you share with us next week.


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Gemini Recruits New CCO
Home News Cryptocurrency Gemini Recruits New CCO
Haydn Franklin, Friday 6th September 2019, 2:36 PM CEST
New CCO Recruited at Gemini
Gemini, the digital currency brokerage owned by the Winklevoss Twins, has appointed a new chief compliance officer. Their new CCO is Noah Perlman, who used to work for the prestigious worldwide firm Morgan Stanley. He will now lead the company into the new world of compliance for cryptocurrency and assist with protocols that stop anti-money laundering. This is slated to be accomplished with a series of new market surveillance systems.
Tyler Winklevoss, the CEO of Gemini, stated: "Gemini's philosophy of asking for permission, not forgiveness, is a first in the crypto industry. Compliance is one of Gemini's four pillars, along with Product, Licensing, and Security. Noah has deep compliance expertise, and we are excited for him to continue to build on Gemini's compliance-first tradition."
The History of Perlman & Future of Gemini
Noah Perlman held an executive role when he worked with Morgan Stanley, acting as the Global Head of Financial Crimes. He was the boss to more than 350 employees that worked towards ensuring compliance for oversight, execution and governance. This allows for numerous sanctions, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering programs to be created for many brokerages worldwide.
Perlman has a long history before joining the global investment bank, Morgan Stanley. He worked with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration in the New York Division for thirteen years. He was also the assistant to the United States Attorney in New York, and he fought as an exclusive advisor for children that faces unwanted crimes. This led him to become the Deputy Chief of Narcotics in NYC inevitably. Eventually, he retired from policing and moved to a world of digital governing. He had his first interview with Gemini more than three weeks ago and was told that if he wanted, the job was his to take.
The future of Gemini looks bright with such a substantial law figure behind them. It's estimated that they'll perform flawlessly in the United States market going forward. Additionally, with the help of Perlman, they plan to enter international markets such as Australia. This would enable a whole new client base and revenue stream for the firm.
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Chefs Curtis Stone and Christian Dortch of Georgie.
What's Next for Georgie, One of Dallas's Premier Steakhouses
Plus, what to expect from Curtis Stone's appearance on the Netflix reboot of "Iron Chef"
by Courtney E. Smith Jun 9, 2022, 1:35pm CDT
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A restaurant is only as good as its kitchen: That's the motto shared by chef Curtis Stone and his protege and executive chef at Georgie, Christian Dortch. They've been working on the menu at Georgie, one of Dallas's premiere (and most expensive) steakhouses, which changes nearly constantly.
Many people are familiar with Stone, a prolific restaurateur known for his appearances on Surfing the Menu, Take Home Chef, or his regular appearances on the Today show — as well as his restaurants in LA and Dallas. For diners who are less familiar with Dortch's career, he has been with Stone for nearly a decade, starting when he applied to a Craigslist ad to be sous chef in Stone's Beverly Hills restaurant, Maude. He has risen through the ranks, helping to open Gwen on Sunset Boulevard in LA, and serving as the executive chef at Stone's Share restaurants on Princess Cruise ships. He came to Dallas in 2020 and stepped into his current position in 2021.
Eater Dallas sat down with Stone and Dortch to discuss the latest changes to this nearly three-year-old Dallas restaurant, including the latest menu updates, which the pair created collaboratively, as well as what they've learned about the Texas food and agriculture scenes. Oh, and to get the scoop on what's happening with Stone and that Netflix reboot of Iron Chef.
The Spanish turbot at Georgie.
Eater: Tell us about developing your summer menu together?
Curtis Stone: Christian and I genuinely developed this menu together. It's not me just telling him what to put on. There's some dishes that I've made for a long time that are really special little things, but even those we pull back from sometimes to do something different because it feels right.
Christian Dortch: The Spanish turbot is a new dish we created together. I really wanted to put turbot on the menu because, for me, I had a piece of seared turbot last summer that was so delicious. I told Curtis we need something we're able to put out pretty fast that can't be too finicky. We wanted the layers of flavor, and I wanted to use shallots. He suggested the classic, adding vermouth.
CS: It's a dish I've done in the past, the idea is that everything is built on this fish with a crust. He started playing with dry-aging it. When you think about fish, there's how you cook it. There's how you rested it before serving. Christian went on this journey figuring out what happens when you dry fish. It's an obscure concept. Christian dry-aged the turbot for three to four days and what happens then is you get a little bit of dehydration in the fish, which creates a concentration of flavor.
When we worked on the crust, we brainstormed and I suggested we use a cheese you wouldn't normally use. We honed in on Gruyere, a strong cheese but just a tiny bit. So little that if I hadn't told you that, you'd eat it and not know. You know how sometimes you're like, what is that? I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's wonderful? To me it brought that concentrated flavor the fish needed; it's something a little stronger.
The market salad at Georgie.
What makes the food at Georgie unique to Dallas?
CD: We launched the restaurant with a partnership with Profound Microfarms in Lucas, Texas. One thing that has always been strong with Curtis's restaurants are the ingredients. Finding Profound and showcasing their food — they grow lettuce better than anybody's.
CS: Being there and seeing what they're doing too, makes you realize what you should use. When you see the spring onions they grow, it makes you think, "We're going to do a dish with that." Same for the lettuces — lettuce is a pretty generic ingredient, but it makes such a huge difference in the flavor.
CD: I snack on it. They use an aquaponic system with fish in an ecosystem that runs their greenroom. You can taste the flavor; it's way different from any other place. It's so clean and mineral-y. We also work with Reeves Family Farm in Princeton, Texas. Their tomatoes are phenomenal. Their spinach, that red spinach, is incredible. It sucks that it's already too hot to get those products.
CS: But it's also cool, because you realize it's a moment in time.
CD: Something interesting I'm learning about Texas is that there are seasons, but there are also micro seasons. In Texas, something you would grow for the entire spring and into summer, you can only have for three or four weeks. Because of that, we constantly have to be developing and changing components on a dish, or an entire dish. It's challenging but fun.
Where in Dallas do you like to go to eat, outside of Georgie's kitchen?
CD: Chefs get off work late, so we go to places that are still open after we close. You always need a late-night sushi spot. Yama Sushi [on Forest Lane] is pretty good. They're open late and it's solid. If I get off a little bit earlier, Uchiba is good sushi. I like In-N-Out. [laughs]
Have you heard of Whataburger? Watch out before you offend the whole state.
CD: It's better than Whataburger. [laughs] There are a lot of good late-night spots, even a gas station taco spot down the street that just opened up. It's good — $1.50 for a taco.
CS: Really?
Have you not had this experience in Texas, the gas station taco?
CS: No!
CD: The one downtown, Fuel City, there's a line every time.
CS: We work too much. I ate at the Charles and I really liked that.
A night out at Georgie.
Courtesy of Georgie
Curtis, what can you preview for us about Netflix's Iron Chef?
CS: With Iron Chef, that was the one show that I've always watched. I love the Japanese version of it. Watching someone do a five-course menu in 60 minutes as a chef who knows what they're doing — you watch it. It was also not produced. It's a proper competition where you don't know the ingredient and don't know what's going on. If you don't get it on the plate, bad luck. So when Netflix called me and asked me, I was like, "Oh my god yes. Yes, yes, yes." Then I realized, shit, I'm going to have to go into battle. I got a little nervous as we went into it each day.
Like everything Netflix, they do it bigger and better. They come at it with the ambition to make the best possible product, and there's no other real factors. I don't know exactly what their budget was, but they built this set where we had to run up and get the ingredients — I don't think I'm allowed to tell you what so let's say cheese. When you run in, there are a thousand cheeses. It's like they went to every country in the world and put all of these cheeses together.
I cook with fire a lot, so I asked if it would be possible to have live fires. They asked what I wanted, so I asked for a live-fire grill or a spit. They said, "Yes of course — you just tell us." I asked for a wood-fire oven and they said, "Tell us what you want and we'll have it." So you end up with these crazy amounts of options. It was the most fun I've had in a while.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
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Q: I don't understand the error I am trying to get a background image for my applet assignment for school and i am getting an error i don't understand. Also using Ready-to-Program if that is relevant
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;

public class Summative extends Applet
    implements ActionListener
{
    Button bttn1 = new Button ("Formulas");
    Button bttn2 = new Button ("Start");
    boolean Formulas = false;
    boolean Start = false;
    URL url;
    Image background;
    public void init ()
    {
        setSize (1000, 1000);
        try
        {
            url = getDocumentBase ();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
        }
        background = getImage(url, "MathMeme.JPEG");

        setBackground (Color.white);
        bttn1.addActionListener (this);
        bttn2.addActionListener (this);
        add (bttn1);
        add (bttn2);
    }

    public void paint (Graphics g)
    {
        g.setColor (Color.white);
        g.drawImage (background, 0, 0, this);
        /*if (Formulas == true)
        {
            Dimension d = getSize();
            g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
            g.fillRect(0, 0, d.width, d.height);
            g.drawString ("Enter Formulas here", 100, 100);
        }*/
    }

    public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent evt)
    {
        if (evt.getSource () == bttn1)
        {
            Formulas = true;
            repaint ();
        }
    }
}

and this is the error i am getting:
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(Unknown Source)
    at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(Unknown Source)
    at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(Unknown Source)
    at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(Unknown Source)
    at Summative.paint(Summative.java:38)
    at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(Unknown Source)
    at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

i thought null pointer exception was when you have a try and access something with a null value so i dont understand how i can have one in this program.

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You can explore Rochdale Town Hall in person by taking one of our guided tours.
Take a virtual tour of Rochdale Town Hall using Google maps below. If you're unable to view the tour below you can access this through Google direct.
You can also see a selection of images and view a brief history of the building on our Facebook gallery.
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Everyone was VERY excited about the possibility to show HTML content inside Silverlight.
But soon we Silverlight developers realized that it wont work in a inside-browser scenario (if you can call it like that).
We have a Silverlight application that loads some HTML content (maybe rendered emails) in a small window on the right hand side.
Our iframe is in place and ready to load some HTML. Yeah!
2. In our XAML we add a placeholder border, called "borderPlaceHolderIframe", so that our designer has an idea where the iFrame will be.
4. The code is pretty straightforward, and a lot of people have already written about this..
Now we have our iframe, and it resizes with the browser! Awesome!
Ok the layout is crap. But you can do it better!
Small gotcha here: Make sure to place the iframe outside the div hosting the Silverlight object. The navigation iframe is inside the div, because its not supposed to be visible.
Try to position your iframe with some absolute and percentage values in HTML, so you don't have to handle the onresize event..
Having the website (iframe) in the background and setting the Silverlight object to be windowless is not an option because of performance reasons!!
I'd like to know how to handle the case where the placehorder is draggable or its position in the screen changes with scrolling.
Can you please upload the source code.. ?
The source code should be fine with Silverlight 5. Which part do you mean??
does the new SL5 in-browser support helps in any way? or every thing is yet the same?
"Having the website (iframe) in the background and setting the Silverlight object to be windowless is not an option because of performance reasons!!
I couldnt really get what you mean..
If you set this to windowsless to true you can display HTML content on top of Silverlight content.
This Method has some limits.


VC Glendale hosted Round 5 of the Ulster cyclocross series in Musgrave Park Belfast.
Three hundred competitors enjoyed the challenging course and the weather improved after some light rain in the morning events. It was a great day of sport and the Glencalse club deserve hugh praise for their hard work. It was pleasing to see the Club president Brendan Graham at the event after his recent family tragedy.
Ciara McManus (Summit Mountain Biking) won the womens race, Sean McCourt (VC Glendale) the support race and Thomas Creigton (McConvey Cycles) won the 'A' race.


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"Climate change is a critical issue and clean energy is big business": Eric Donsky
It's in our best interest to transition to a clean energy economy. CEO and Co-Founder Eric donsky envisions Bodi Energy's nanomaterials as a gateway to clean energy that is affordable for the mass consumer.
Eric Donsky
CEO and Co-Founder, Bodi Energy
Words - Oliver Featherston
Eric Donsky, CEO and Co-Founder of Bodi Energy, sees the broad adoption of clean energy as an incredible commercial opportunity. But, at the same time, he says innovations like electric vehicles and solar panels remain prohibitively expensive; something still limited to the privileged.
"This is not going to change our world," he says. "This is clean energy for the very few. If we can't deliver clean energy to the mass consumer, then we won't realize the tremendous economic growth and job creation that a move to clean energy could stimulate. Global sales of clean energy products and services are projected to reach US$1 trillion in 2019 and we are only in the bottom of the first inning."
Over his career, Eric has gravitated to revolutionary technologies and supply chain disruption. He founded one of the world's first synthetic biology companies focused on the manufacturing of chemicals and plastics from carbohydrates instead of oil, using genetically engineered bacteria and yeast as catalysts.
Eric also built a company that launched the first FDA approved, nanofluidic laboratory-on-a-chip platform to test various biomarkers in tears for the diagnosis and management of eye diseases. He is now committed to taking on the challenges facing the clean energy industry.
Eric believes that the micron-scale materials used in conventional lithium-ion batteries are holding back the broad adoption of electric vehicles and grid scale energy storage. Eric says the technology hasn't evolved substantially since the launch of the first lithium-ion battery in 1991, and numerous issues have not been addressed.
Lithium-ion batteries don't store enough energy for their cost, take too long to recharge and have received a lot of negative publicity for their tendency to overheat, from exploding Teslas to self-combusting Samsung Note 7s. As far as Eric is concerned, we need more innovation in battery materials science and with Bodi Energy, he believes he's found a viable path to real disruption.
"It's not the materials science of today, it's that of tomorrow – nanoscale. So, I went looking for manufacturing technologies that would enable the precision engineering and mass production of highly tunable nanoscale materials.
I read over 2,400 technical papers and I visited many universities and government labs looking for scalable nanomanufacturing. I found what I was looking for at Cornell University. At that time, the processes were at an early stage, but I just knew this was it. I knew this was the technology we needed."
Following his moment of inspiration, he raised US$25 million to develop a breakthrough material that could greatly improve the safety and performance of a lithium-ion battery and to also pilot manufacturing.
Bodi Energy has recently received favorable reports from tier one automotive companies that validate its first commercial battery material in its pipeline. In battery testing, Bodi's material proved its ability to increase the battery's energy storage capacity by 30% and its rate of recharge by three times. Moreover, the flammability of the battery was dramatically reduced, thus improving consumer safety.
"There are so many companies in the battery industry making audacious claims about their materials and they can't seem to back them up in independent testing with major companies in the supply chain," Eric says. "This validation is critical to our ability to raise capital and scale our business".
Bodi Energy has been developing an expansive pipeline of battery materials that enable even further improvements to energy storage capacity, recharge rates, unit economics and safety.
The company has developed a continuous, low-cost process to reproducibly fabricate graphene, a nanoscale version of graphite that is 200 times stronger than steel and 15 times more conductive than copper.
The ability to mass-produce tunable graphene unlocks the possibility of commercializing next-generation battery chemistries, such as lithium sulfur, that replace the lithium-ion battery and enable a profitable, mass consumer electric vehicle (EV).
Bodi Energy and its research partner Cornell University won the only cell level grant under the Department of Energy's Battery 500 Seedings, a program calling for a battery that stores at least twice as much energy as a conventional lithium-ion battery. Bodi's lithium-sulfur battery would extend the driving of an EV to 600 miles, increase recharge rates by four times, and lower the sticker price of an EV to less than US$30,000.
The ethics of this new technology also represent an improvement. Commercial lithium-ion batteries rely on cobalt to manufacture the positive electrode material. Cobalt is a rare earth metal that is primarily sourced using child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bodi's lithium-sulfur battery only requires elemental sulfur and other abundant materials.
Cobalt-based electrodes are also the source of thermal runaway reactions that lead to explosions and fatalities. Bodi's lithium-sulfur battery greatly mitigates the likelihood of an explosion, which is quite critical to consumer safety; as Eric says, "It's not very comforting to know that you're putting your life at risk to take a stand for clean energy."
Eric can't stress enough the importance of Bodi Energy's work – lithium sulfur is the next generation battery chemistry and major automotive manufacturers are moving in this direction because they are well aware that commercial lithium-ion batteries are not good enough to enable a profitable, mass consumer EV.
"A breakthrough battery chemistry like lithium sulfur could generate over US$500 billion a year in revenue as low-cost, high-performance EVs reach the market."
Bodi Energy will initially launch materials that improve the safety and performance of lithium-ion batteries to establish revenues and build its relationships with battery manufacturers and automotive companies. This strategy will establish the company's presence in the supply chain as it works towards the roll out of the advanced materials for its lithium-sulfur battery.
"When I started this company eight years ago, I wanted to make a contribution that could impact the way society produces and stores energy. I could see that nanoengineering of materials science would enable the possibility of building the core components we needed to transition our global economies to more abundant, renewables resources.
The semiconductor industry has figured out how to mass manufacture low-cost wafers with nanoscale control. We needed to bring the same paradigm shift to the materials industry to establish a Moore's Law in battery energy storage."
The concept behind the company's name and logo is a testament to the profundity and necessity of this mission. The name itself derives from the Sanskrit word bodhi, which in the West is translated as 'enlightenment', a spiritual awakening and more specifically, the attainment of buddhahood – and that awakening, that awareness of reality, is what Eric's trying to propagate.
The logo incorporates two infinity symbols (between the 'B' and the 'O', and the 'O' and the 'D'), representing abundance. "Being bodhi is pretty similar to self-actualization in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Being the best version of self. We have to build a society that aspires to abundance and being extraordinary.
"We have to build a society that aspires to transcend to abundance and being extraordinary."
The way we're killing off our animals and plant life so that we can eat cows and polluting our environment by burning coal – rather than commercializing technologies that sustain our biosphere – seems very ordinary. When do we take responsibility for our choices, and commit to sustaining our biosphere and the little biodiversity we have left?"
Through his previous ventures, three successful companies revolving around biology and medical technology, Eric has touched millions of lives. But with Bodi Energy, he believes he now has the potential to touch billions.


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Wall Street little changed ahead of earnings wave
Sinéad Carew, Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 2019 08:09 AM
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US. Brendan McDermid, Reuters/File
NEW YORK -- US stocks ended a low-volume trading session little changed on Monday, with the biggest gains in the energy sector as investors otherwise stayed on the sidelines ahead of quarterly earnings.
Investors were waiting for some of the biggest S&P 500 companies, including Boeing Co, Amazon.com Inc and Facebook Inc to report first-quarter results later in the week. Additional reports could ease investor fears of an earnings recession.
Trading volume - which was the lowest so far in 2019 - was also muted by the fact that some investors were still on vacation after Friday's U.S. market holiday and because markets were closed in parts of Europe and Asia on Monday.
Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist, at Federated Investors, in New York said he has been encouraged by quarterly results even though it was early in the reporting season.
"To some degree it could be some concern because we know it's a big earnings week. What will the overall tenor of this week look like by Friday?" said Orlando.
Orlando was impressed with the latest GDPNow forecast from the Atlanta Federal Reserve for a first-quarter expansion of 2.8 percent compared with a 0.2 percent forecast a month ago.
"That tells you the data has turned around and maybe earnings aren't going to be so bad," he said.
S&P 500 profits are expected to drop 1.7 percent year-over-year, according to Refinitiv data, in what would be the first earnings contraction since 2016.
But more than three-quarters of 82 S&P 500 companies that have reported so far have surpassed beaten-down expectations.
With the S&P trading at less than 1 percent below its record high reached in September, investors were also waiting for upcoming data such as first-quarter GDP before making bigger bets.
"It's important at this point to sit back and reflect on what the prospects are that will take us forward. It's appropriate to see what we're seeing today," Ryan Larson, head of U.S. equity trading at RBC Global Asset Management in Chicago.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48.49 points, or 0.18 percent, to 26,511.05, the S&P 500 gained 2.94 points, or 0.10 percent, to 2,907.97 and the Nasdaq Composite added 17.21 points, or 0.22 percent, to 8,015.27.
The S&P energy index jumped 2.1 percent in its biggest one-day percentage gain since January, as oil prices surged on the United States' move to further clampdown on Iranian oil exports, tightening global supplies.
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Die A839 road ist eine A-Straße in der schottischen Council Area Highland. Sie verläuft von der Ostküste bei Golspie quer durch Sutherland über Lairg und ist Teil einer Ost-West-Verbindung quer durch die Northwest Highlands bis zum Fischereihafen Lochinver an der Westküste.

Verlauf
Die Straße beginnt an der schottischen Ostküste südwestlich von Golspie an dem nach einem früheren Bahnhof der Far North Line benannten Knotenpunkt The Mound mit der A9. Von dort verläuft die A839 im Strath Fleet, dem Tal des gleichnamigen Flusses nach Westen. Parallel zur Eisenbahn passiert die Straße die kleinen Ortschaften Rogart, Pittentrail und Muie sowie weitere einzelne Ansiedlungen in diesem überwiegend landwirtschaftlich genutzten Teil von Sutherland. Ab etwa der Hälfte der Strecke zwischen The Mound und Lairg verläuft die Straße überwiegend durch Heide- und Moorland und erreicht kurz vor Lairg am oberen Talschluss von Strath Fleet ihren höchsten Punkt.

In Lairg, dem größten Ort in diesem Bereich von Sutherland, kreuzt die A839 die in etwa in Nord-Süd-Richtung verlaufende A836, die Verbindungen bis an die Nordküste und in Richtung Inverness herstellt. Westlich von Lairg ist die ansonsten zweispurig ausgebaute A839 einspurig als Single track road ausgeführt. Bis zu ihrem Endpunkt an der Einmündung in die weiter an die Westküste führende A837 bei Rosehall passiert die A839 einige kleinere Ansiedlungen und größere Waldgebiete.

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 Die A839 auf sabre-roads.org.uk

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A SMALL VILLAGE WITH A GREAT DEAL OF ACTIVITIES!
Aureilhan is a charming village near the ocean and situated on the banks of a very attractive 340 hectare classified lake in an exceptional natural setting.
There are many activities for you to do!
Enjoy theme evenings organized by the local community.
The pond Aureilhan, halfway between the Landes forest and the ocean beaches of the Silver Coast, is appreciated for its preserved natural setting and the range of activities accessible to children that it is possible to to practice as a family. In addition to pedal boating and boat trips, you can learn to Hawaiian canoe, stand up paddle and rowing. Several pontoons have been built for fishermen and the Mimizan golf course is near the pond. After swimming and your water activities, you will probably want to go around the pond by bike or walk in the forest. If you like plants and flowers, the Flower Walk will fascinate you. This free botanical trail open all year to the public will allow you to observe more than 300 plant species.


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