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Maybot malfunction: She tweets speech full of nonsense
Mad-eyed May: The Maybot is clearly malfunctioning and should be packed back in her box.
"No change there, then," I imagine Vox Political-dom assembled is thinking in response to the headline.
Take a gander at this:
Labour has turned its back on investment, growth, jobs. A Labour Party that will always put politics before people. pic.twitter.com/Hnua5uIAo5
— Theresa May (@theresa_may) January 17, 2018
Before you even press the 'play' button, you can see the stupid in the text. "Labour has turned its back on investment" – what? Labour has a huge investment programme planned! The details are in the party's 2017 election manifesto.
"Growth" – except under the Tories, economic growth has stagnated and we are well behind the other G7 countries.
"Jobs" – well, zero-hours, part-time, non-paying jobs, maybe. Labour believes that people should receive a decent wage for a decent day's work, rather than existing on subsistence pay that subsidises fatcat executives' bonuses (think of Carillion).
Okay, now let's press 'play'.
The first thing you hear Mrs May say is, "The vast majority of people in this country in employment are employed by the private sector." Yes indeed. That has always been the case.
"But the Shadow Chancellor calls businesses 'the real enemy'." Justifiably. Conservative policies have made it possible for bosses to cheat workers, cutting pay by – what? – 10 per cent over the last few years while executive pay skyrocketed. And the fact that people are now so cheap has discouraged firms from investing in new equipment, leading to the so-called "productivity gap" that Chancellor Philip Hammond falsely blamed on disabled workers.
"Labour want the highest taxes in our peacetime history." For people whose salaries are in the top five per cent in the UK – those who have profited from the exploitation of the workforce. That seems fair to This Writer.
"Labour policies would cause a run on the pound." Whereas all Mrs May has to do is make a speech about Brexit to create the same effect.
Then she utters the line quoted in the text of the tweet, which we've already covered, before concluding: "A Labour Party that will always put politics before people."
No, Theresa. That would be you and the Conservatives.
Something has certainly malfunctioned in her somewhere.
Perhaps Maybot should pack herself back in her box and return herself to her manufacturer. She is faulty goods.
This entry was posted in Conservative Party, People, Politics and tagged Conservative, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, minister, nonsense, pmq, PMQs, Prime, questions, speech, Theresa May, Tories, Tory, tweet, Vox Political on January 19, 2018 by Mike Sivier.
Tories in tatters over NHS as stormin' Corbyn trounces Theresa May
Jeremy Hunt shuffles uncomfortably under the gaze of his fellow MPs as Jeremy Corbyn asks why he is piloting a pointless scheme to harm NHS patients while claiming to be eliminating almost-non-existent 'health tourism'.
Theresa May consolidated her position as the UK's most pathetic excuse for a prime minister yet, with a crushing defeat at the Dispatch Box under the questioning of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
(Wasn't he supposed to be the inept one?)
Mr Corbyn made strong points and supported them with solid facts. Mrs May provided no answers and seemed utterly lost.
Mr Corbyn began: "The government's sustainability and transformation plans for the National Health Service hide £22 billion of cuts from our service, according to research by the BMA. That risks 'starving services of resources and patients of vital care'. That comes from Dr Mark Porter of the BMA. When he calls this process a mess, where is he wrong?"
Mrs May ventured this reply: "The National Health Service is indeed looking for savings within the NHS which will be reinvested in the NHS. It is this government which is providing not just the £8 billion which the NHS requested, but £10 billion of extra funding… and sustainability and transformation plans are being developed at local level, in the interests of local people, by local clinicians."
"It's very strange the prime minister should say that," mused Mr Corbyn. "Because the Health Select Committee… says it is actually £4.5 billion, not £10 billion. There's quite a big difference there."
So she was being economical with the truth about the amount of money being put into the NHS – and, by the way, is that NHS England or the health service across the whole of the UK? Mrs May doesn't seem clear about that and the UK Statistics Authority certainly seems confused.
Mr Corbyn continued: "Part of the reason for the strain on our National Health Service is that more than one million people are not receiving the social care that they need. As a result of this there has been an increase in emergency admissions for older patients. What action will the prime minister take to stop the neglect of older people, which ends up forcing them to take A&E admissions when they should be cared for at home or in a care home?"
"The government has introduced the Better Care Fund… the Social Care Precept for local authorities, and we're encouraging the working together of the health service and local authorities, to deal with precisely the issues he's raised on social care and bed-blocking," Mrs May blustered, unaware of the hammer-blow that would shatter her protestations very shortly.
She blundered on: "But I will just say this to the Right Honourable gentleman: Er, we've introduced the Better Care Fund and the Social Care Precept. Let's just look at what Labour did in their 13 years. They said they'd deal with social care in the 97 manifesto, introduced a Royal Commission in 1999, a Green Paper in 2005, the Wanless Review in 2006, said they'd sort it in the CSR of 2007, and another Green Paper in 2009. Thirteen years and they did nothing."
Here comes the hammer (boldings mine): "As the prime minister well knows, health spending trebled under the last Labour government – and the levels of satisfaction with the National Health Service were at their highest ever in 2010. This government's choice was to cut social care by £4.6 billion in the last Parliament, at the same time as they found the space, shall we say, to cut billions in corporate taxation bills. That means it's affecting patients leaving hospital as well. In the last four years, the number of patients unable to be transferred from hospital due to the lack of adequate social care has increased by one-third."
So it doesn't matter what Theresa May says her government has introduced; the service it provides is much, much worse than that offered under the last Labour government. That is unquestionable.
Mr Corbyn pressed on: "Will the prime minister ensure her government guarantees all of our elderly people the dignity they deserve?"
"I recognise the importance of caring for elderly people and providing them with the dignity they deserve," said the prime minister, immediately prior to evading the question completely, going back over her previous assertion and changing the subject (which, as we all know, is a false argument).
"He says this government has done nothing on social care. I repeat, this government has introduced the Social Care Precept, that is being used by my local authorities and by his local authority, and we've also introduced the Better Care Fund." That's the recapitulation of what she had already said.
Let's look at that Social Care Precept. It allows local authorities to increase council tax by up to two per cent in order to fund adult social care, meaning that this service has now become a postcode lottery.
Oh, and the Social Care Precept was announced at the same time the Conservative Government said the local government central grant is to be cut by more than half, from £11.5bn in 2015/16 to £5.4bn in 2019/20, a drop of 56 per cent. Meanwhile, councils were expected to increase self-financed expenditure (from revenue and business rates) by 13.1 per cent over the same period, making council services another postcode lottery.
Was it wise of Theresa May to draw attention to this monumental increase in unfairness across the UK?
The Better Care Fund is a pooled budget, initially £5.3 billion, announced in the June 2013 Spending Round and intended to save £1 billion by keeping patients out of hospital. As the number of patients who could not be transferred from hospital due to inadequate social care has increased by one-third in the last four years, it is clear that the Better Care Fund has failed.
In fact, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Healthcare Financial Managers Association surveyed the plans for saving money through integration financed by the BCF in December 2015 and concluded that 80 per cent were likely to fail and that many were hampering progress, "giving integration a bad name".
Mrs May continued: "But if he talks about support for elderly people I would remind him: Which government is it that has put the triple-lock in place for pensioners, that ensured the largest increase in pensions for elderly people?" And that's the change-of-subject. Mr Corbyn was not discussing increases in pensions for senior citizens who may be perfectly healthy.
Our verdict can only be that, even though Mr Corbyn didn't actually say the Conservatives have done "nothing" on social care, the result of their efforts is in fact worse. His response – "The precept is a drop in the ocean compared to what's necessary for social care" – is mild, in that context.
Moving on to specifics, Mr Corbyn said: "I'm sure the whole House will have been appalled by the revelations in the BBC Panorama this week, showing older people systematically mistreated. The Care Quality Commission's assessment is that care homes run by the Morleigh Group require improvement and has issued warning notices. The commission goes on to say that the owner has allowed services to deteriorate further, and has 'utterly neglected the duty of care to the residents of these homes'. What action is her government going to take to protect the residents of those homes?"
Look at this stuttered, barely-intelligible response:
"The- the- Right Honourable gentleman mentioned-raises the issue of the quality of care that is provided in homes and the way that elderly people are treated. I'm sure everybody is appalled when we see examples of poor and uh, uh terrible treatment that is given to elderly and vulnerable people in care homes.
"What we do about it is ensure that we have the CQC which is able to step in, which takes action, which has powers to make sure that nobody-nobody in the chain of responsibility is immune from legal accountability. But we know that there's more that can be done, and that's why the CQC is looking into ways in which it can improve its processes, increase its efficiency.
"The, er, my-my honourable friend Minister for Community Health and Care is going to be writing to the CQC shortly, to look at how we can improve, to see what they do. It's the CQC that deals with these issues. Is there more we can do? Yes, and we're doing it."
In other words, her government is taking no action at all.
Oh, and the CQC? It deliberately suppressed an internal review that meant it was found unfit for purpose in 2013. Are we sure we want to trust this organisation now?
"Yesterday, the government proposed that patients may have to show passports or other ID to access non-emergency healthcare," said Mr Corbyn. "Has the government considered the impact of this on elderly people?
"The last census showed that nine-and-a-half million people in this country don't have passports. Rather than distracting people with divisive and impractical policies, could the prime minister provide the NHS and social care with the money that it needs, to care for the people who need the support?"
Mrs May's response was very silly indeed: "Over the course of this Parliament, the government will be spending half a trillion pounds on the National Health Service."
And it is clearly not enough! How much goes into the pockets of private health bosses?
"The Right Honourable gentleman asks about a process to ensure that people who are receiving NHS treatment are entitled to receive NHS treatment. For many years there has been a concern about health tourism, about people turning up in the UK, accessing health services, and not paying for them."
No, there hasn't!
Theresa May is wrong: I have never heard anyone express concern on health tourism. It's fabricated racism to disguise cuts and privatisation
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) November 23, 2016
The only people talking about health tourism are Conservative MPs or Tory government spokespeople – and that includes the right-wing media like the Daily Heil and the Torygraph. You'll hear people talking about it but, when pressed, they'll say they heard about it through these sources and haven't actually witnessed any themselves.
In real terms, there isn't any health tourism. But if people are being asked to produce passports when nearly one-sixth of the UK's own citizens don't have them, you can see how it would ease pressure on the NHS.
The only problem is, the health of the nation would fall off a cliff.
"We want to make sure that those who are entitled to use those services are indeed able to see those, free at the point of delivery, but that we deal with health tourism and those who should be paying for the use of our health service," dissembled Mrs May. Of course she doesn't want to see anything of the sort.
She wants poor people to go away and stop asking for the service their taxes support.
But don't just accept This Writer's comments. Mr Corbyn was able to deliver his second series of hammer blows in response to Mrs May's words (boldings mine): "Sir Simon Stevens told us… that the next three years are going to be the toughest ever for NHS funding and that 2018 would see health spending per person cut for the first time ever in this country."
So Mrs May's comment about the amount being spent is worth nothing.
"The NAO [National Audit Office] reported that the cost of health tourism is over 100 times less than the £22 billion in cuts that the NHS is facing from this government."
So there is no reason to make a fuss about it – unless it is to hide the enormity of cuts to the health service.
"The reality is… under this government, there are 6,000 fewer mental health nurses. There are a record 3.9 million people on NHS waiting lists. All of us who visit A&E departments know the stress that staff are under and that the waiting time is getting longer and longer – and that there are one million people, in this country, not receiving the social care that they need.
"So instead of looking for excuses and scapegoats, shouldn't the prime minister be ensuring that health and social care is properly resourced and properly funded to take away the stress and fear that people face in old age over social care and the stress that is placed on our very hard-working NHS and social care staff?"
Mrs May could do nothing other than reiterate her discredited claims about the amounts her government is spending.
But she added: "We can only afford to pay for the National Health Service and for social care if we have a strong economy, creating wealth."
Yes indeed. What a shame her party – the Conservatives – comprehensively trashed the UK's economy in order to hurt the poor.
This entry was posted in Health, Pensioners, People, Politics, Public services, Social care and tagged citizens, cut, elderly, funding, health, Jeremy Corbyn, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, Morleigh, national, NHS, older, pmq, Prime Minister's Questions, senior, service, social care, Theresa May, tourism, Vox Political on November 23, 2016 by Mike Sivier.
Mental health called into question as Theresa May stutters through #PMQs
Jeremy Corbyn likened Theresa May to Baldrick, saying her "cunning plan" was to have no plan at all [Image: Daily Mirror].
Forget Brexit or Heathrow's forthcoming new runway – Prime Minister's Questions today was all about mental health.
Karl Turner told a packed House of Commons that his 25-year-old nephew, Mattie, had recently died while waiting six months for a 'talking cure' appointment to help him handle depression. He said these treatments were often a dangerous waiting game and a postcode lottery, and asked what Theresa May was doing to sort it out.
She stuttered through a non-answer about having established parity of esteem between physical and mental health treatment but accepted there was more to do, and moved on – only to be stopped in her tracks by Labour's Alison McGovern, who wasn't satisfied.
The Conservative manifesto promised shorter waiting times for people with mental health problems, but prescriptions for anti-depressants are on the rise and waits for treatment are lengthening, she said. Was the Tory manifesto just words, or would the PM ever deliver?
Mrs May, out of her depth, reiterated her previous statement.
Help came – too late, from Tory MP Helen Whately, who quoted Mrs May's commitment to improved mental health on the day she became prime minister, and asked a hastily-prepared planted question about the Tory government's five-year plan for mental health.
Mrs May responded with words from a piece of paper that had been slipped to her, showing an increase in appointments of 40 per cent since 2010, but the damage had been done. If she needs a planted question and the help of hastily-scribbled statistics to get her out of a hole, she won't hold public confidence.
There were other disasters. Fellow Conservative Dr Tania Mathias backstabbed Mrs May over her decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow, when air pollution standards were already being breached.
Mrs May said air quality standards could be reached, but bizarrely reached toward road transport to help justify herself. Apparently electric vehicles on the roads will help Heathrow airport meet its air quality requirements!
It wasn't all grim, though. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn enjoyed rubbishing Mrs May's strategy on Brexit. After hearing her stuttering about "being very clear" on her aims for Brexit (while being about as opaque as she could be, he said: "I thought for a moment the prime minister was going to say 'Brexit means Brexit' again. I'm sure she'll tell us one day what it actually means!"
Some commentators have accused Mr Corbyn of missing an open goal by neglecting to ask her about her speech to Goldman Sachs bankers, in which she outlined her concerns for business of the UK were to leave the EU after the referendum that, at the time, had yet to be held. But Mr Corbyn was skilful to avoid that; critics would only have attacked him on the grounds that times have changed.
A much better tactic was to say: "When you're searching for the real meaning and the importance behind the prime minister's statement, you have to consult the great philosophers. The only one I can come up with is Baldrick, who says, 'Our cunning plan is to have no plan'."
Mrs May's attempt at a riposte – that the actor playing Baldrick (Tony Robinson) was a member of the Labour Party – was subsequently torpedoed by her own supporters, who gleefully undermined their leader by showing that Sir Anthony does not support Mr Corbyn.
Mark Wallace, executive editor of ConservativeHome, showed how far out of his depth he was by re-tweeting this comment from Sir Anthony:
To those tweeting me about 'MSM', Corbyn faces no more hostile media than every Lab leader in history. He's just inept at dealing with it
— Tony Robinson (@Tony_Robinson) October 17, 2016
It will be interesting to see what the media make of today's events.
Faced with such a disastrous collapse by Theresa May, any attempt to spin the exchange into an attack on Mr Corbyn will be unrealistic – making Mr Wallace's choice of quote doubly wrong.
This entry was posted in Brexit, Environment, European Union, Health, Mental, Politics and tagged air quality, Alison McGovern, Baldrick, Brexit, Goldman Sachs, Heathrow, Helen Whately, Jeremy Corbyn, Karl Turner, mental health, pmq, Prime Minister, questions, runway, Tania Mathias, Theresa May, Tony Robinson on October 26, 2016 by Mike Sivier.
At the last PMQs of 2015, Corbyn won out with substance over style | Voices | The Independent
After a fairly quiet week for the Labour leader, PMQs this week was a restrained but solid victory for Corbyn. Cameron was left to play the rhetorician yet again in his failure to offer sincere-sounding responses, and his perceived lack of humanity. Consistently, throughout his opening series of PMQs, Corbyn has managed to honour his promise to speak on behalf of normal people.
Almost 100 days after becoming leader of the Labour party, Corbyn has appeared consistently competent in debate with the Prime Minister. The new politics has been about moving the political discourse into the living rooms of Britain, rather than out of reach of all but the most seasoned Etonites.
While many commentators may not enjoy Corbyn's sombre PMQs appearances, and prefer the sparring banter they saw between Osborne and Eagle last week, it's important to remember this isn't an entertainment show: it's real life. Can we really celebrate the idea of spectacle over substance?
In many ways, this week's session followed the same lines as every other Cameron-Corbyn spar: serious questions with mention of actual humans, versus rhetoric-driven replies that fall back on the state of the economy. As we enter the Christmas period, those who suggested Jeremy's leadership must consider this.
Faced with the relentless attacks that come from the media and, in many cases, inside his own party, Corbyn is biting back in his signature manner. And transforming PMQs into People's Questions has been one of his greatest moves.
Source: At the last PMQs of 2015, Corbyn won out with substance over style | Voices | The Independent
This entry was posted in People, Politics and tagged David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, pmq, Prime Minister's Questions on December 16, 2015 by Mike Sivier.
Quote-miner Cameron has no answer on tax credit cuts – AGAIN
You know Cameron has made a blunder when Corbyn aims this stare at him.
Conservatives should be in despair this week after David Cameron failed to answer concerns raised about cuts to tax credits – despite having a week to think about the issue.
All he could do was stutter about irrelevances and quote Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn out of context.
In Prime Minister's Questions today, Mr Corbyn returned to the attack over the cuts – which will make three million families £1,300 a year worse off, on average.
"Last week I asked the prime minister the same question six times and he couldn't answer," said Mr Corbyn. "He's now had a week to think about it. I want to ask him one more time. Can he guarantee that next April, nobody will be worse off from cuts to tax credits?"
Cameron's response was a stutter. He tried to recover by reeling off his 'comfort' statistics: "£11,000 personal allowance… national living wage at £7.20… " (We all know that the real Living Wage is currently £8.25 per hour – £9.40 per hour if you're in London). Then he admitted: "We suffered the defeat in the House of Lords; we've taken the proposals away, we're looking at them, we'll come back with new proposals in the Autumn Statement." And he ended with a jibe at Corbyn which is not worth publishing here but which got a response from the braying idiots behind him.
"This is not funny for people who are desperately worried about what's going to happen next April," countered Corbyn.
So Cameron tried to recover by changing the subject: "If we don't reform welfare, how are we going to fund the police service… the defence service? If you listened to him, you'd still have families in London getting £100,000 a year in housing benefit," he said, referring to Coalition Government changes to housing benefit rules that were supported by the Labour Party at the time, and therefore undermining his own point.
Corbyn was not to be deterred. He referred to a veteran of the first Gulf War, who is likely to lose £2,000 per year – more than the average – due to Cameron's cut: "Is this how the government treats veterans of the Armed Services?"
All Cameron could do was serve up a poorly-reheated quote, off-subject and out of context: "That serving soldier is dealing with a Leader of the Opposition who said he couldn't find any use for the armed forces, anywhere, at any time."
This refers to a comment by Mr Corbyn during a Labour leadership hustings on Sky TV, in which he said the UK's armed forces were overextending themselves by taking on foreign adventures as desired by Cameron. While he said he could not – on the spot – think of any reason to deploy the forces overseas, he qualified this by saying he knew there must be good reasons for doing so.
The result: Cameron out of his comfort zone, Corbyn victorious.
This entry was posted in Benefits, tax credits and tagged cut, David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, pmq, politics, Prime Minister's Questions, tax credit, Vox Political on November 4, 2015 by Mike Sivier.
DWP blamed by second coroner for incapacity benefit claimant suicide
The late Julia Kelly
So you thought Mary Hassall was the only British coroner to have blamed a benefit claimant's death on the DWP? Think again.
To This Writer's shame, the case of Julia Kelly was reported in This Blog, earlier this year – but I did not recall that Northamptonshire County Coroner Anne Pember's report had conferred responsibility for her death on the Department for Work and Pensions after the case of Michael O'Sullivan was reported last month.
Mr O'Sullivan committed suicide in late 2013. North London coroner Mary Hassall, at his inquest early the following year, recorded that his death occurred as a direct result of being declared "fit for work" in a DWP work capability assessment, made in response to his claim for Employment and Support Allowance.
Julia Kelly took her life in November 2014. At her inquest in March this year, according to the Northampton Chronicle, "Coroner Anne Pember, recording her verdict of suicide, said she also believed that the 'upset caused by the potential withdrawal of her benefits had been the trigger for her to end her life'."
Ms Kelly had been forced to give up work in 2010 due to pain caused by a car crash (which was not her fault) five years previously. In 2013, she was involved in a second crash and had to undergo a six-hour operation on her spine as a result.
Together with her father, David Kelly, she formed a charity – Away With Pain – to help fellow sufferers of chronic back pain.
But then the Department for Work and Pensions told her she had to repay £4,000 in Employment and Support Allowance payments, saying she had failed to declare capital funds.
It seems the government department was referring to money held by the charity, rather than funds owned by Ms Kelly herself.
Ms Kelly, who had fought for every penny of her benefit at three tribunal hearings, was bombarded with a series of repayment demands. According to her father, it was this relentless stream of brown-envelope letters that pushed her to suicide.
He told Channel 4 News about it. Take a look at the report:
A few months later, the DWP started stridently claiming that no causal link had been shown between claims for incapacity benefits and the suicide of claimants, in response to demands from almost 250,000 petitioners – and more than 90 MPs including the new leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn – to publish the number of claimants who have died on benefits.
We all know the DWP was lying, thanks to Ms Hassall's report on Michael O'Sullivan.
The facts about Julia Kelly mean we must now question the magnitude of the lie.
We know the DWP examined the cases of around 60 people who committed suicide after their benefits were withdrawn or reduced – that fact was most recently mentioned in Prime Minister's Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday (October 21) – but the Department has refused to publish its findings.
All Cameron would offer was that he would "look … at" the question asked about publication. He can look at it all day without doing anything about it, of course.
Meanwhile, serious questions are arising as we learn more about these deaths and the extent of the DWP cover-up.
How many people have died due to the reduction or withdrawal of incapacity benefits?
How many of these deaths happened long enough after their benefits were withdrawn that the DWP never bother to record them – on the grounds that it was none of the Department's business (this is what happened with Mr O'Sullivan)?
How many more coroners' verdicts have implicated the DWP in the deaths, but have been quietly swept under the carpet?
And – as the United Nations investigates possible grave and systematic violations of incapacity benefit claimants' human rights – what can be done to secure the release of the facts?
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Serial shaming for Iain Duncan Smith in Prime Minister's Questions
Shame: Iain Duncan Smith.
No doubt the secretary-in-a-state about work and pensions won't admit it, but any cabinet minister who comes under such a sustained assault during questions to the Prime Minister must be doing something wrong.
Iain Duncan Smith was attacked over the United Nations' inquiry into the possibility that the UK has committed grave and systematic abuses of the human rights of disabled people, over suicides committed by benefit claimants due to DWP decisions, and over the vertiginous increase in food bank use. Just because David Cameron had to field the question, that doesn't mean the Gentleman Ranker shouldn't take the blame.
All this, on the day his new mascot (ha ha), a demonic-looking furry something called, ironically, Workie, made its debut in a nationwide TV advertising campaign costing more than £8.5 million. That's money that could clearly have been better-spent elsewhere.
First up was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, quoting a party supporter he named 'Louis'. Prefacing his question with the comment, "This is deeply embarrassing to all of us in this House and, indeed, to this country as a whole," he read out the following:
"The United Kingdom is currently being investigated by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities because of allegations of 'grave and systematic` violations of disabled people's human rights.
"This is very sad news indeed, but it is even sadder that we need to be investigated because of violations that have occurred. Will the Prime Minister commit to co-operate fully with the inquiry and publish in full the Government's response to it, so that we can ensure that people with disabilities are treated properly and legally and given full respect by and opportunities in our society?"
Cameron, perhaps briefed by his Work and Pensions secretary, would not. First, he twisted the question, trying to make it about the number of disabled people who have gained work under the Conservatives (tens of thousands, he reckoned. How many lost their jobs when the Tories closed Remploy, again? Nearly 2,000? And how many of those tens of thousands have gained permanent work? He didn't say.
He continued: "Of course I will look at any United Nations investigation, but sometimes when you look at these investigations you find that they are not necessarily all they are originally cracked up to be." Like Tory promises on tax credits (for example)?
"There are many disabled people in our world who do not have any of the rights or any of the support that they get here in Britain, and I think we should be proud of what we do as we co-operate with this report." Shifting the goalposts, there. Bad conditions endured elsewhere in the world are not an excuse for a Conservative Government to worsen conditions here.
The SNP's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, touched on a favourite subject of This Writer when he said: "Information has recently been released showing that a coroner has found that a 60-year-old disabled father of two from north London, Mr Michael O'Sullivan, committed suicide following his work capability assessment. The coroner warned that there is a risk of further deaths. The Department for Work and Pensions has reportedly undertaken 60 investigations into suicides that occurred after benefits were withdrawn or reduced, but it has so far refused to publish what it has learned. Will the Prime Minister publish those findings?"
This was something of a missed opportunity as Mr Robertson could have asked why nobody has been prosecuted for causing Mr O'Sullivan to take his life. Never mind; This Writer has something in the pipeline about that, which will hopefully bring out some useful information.
Cameron didn't have any: "I am aware of the case the hon. Gentleman raises, although I am sure he will understand that it would not be appropriate for me to discuss the specifics of the cases. Suicide is always a tragic and complex issue. We should take these matters incredibly seriously." More seriously than this Prime Minister, certainly.
"I will look very carefully at the specific question he asks about publication." But will he actually publish anything? And if so, will it be as opaque as the death figures the DWP released on August 27?
"We have changed the work capability assessment to lead to significant improvements, following a number of independent reviews, to make sure that people get the support that they need, and I think that is vitally important." No – because the work capability assessment is still based on a disproved theory that illnesses and disabilities are all in benefit claimants' minds.
Finally, Labour's Jo Stevens pointed out: "Food bank use has risen by 1,665 per cent since the Prime Minister took office in 2010."
HOW MUCH? Let's have that again:
"1,665 per cent"
Is that one of the achievements that make Cameron "proud", as he stated in his response to Mr Corbyn?
Back to Ms Stevens: "In Cardiff Central, I meet people every week who rely on food banks to feed their families. Does the Prime Minister know how many more families will be relying on food banks as a result of his Government's cuts to tax credits, and does he care?"
He didn't, so he quoted some figures about unemployment instead.
"Of course, I do not want anyone in our country to have to rely on food banks," he lied (if he doesn't, why have his policies led to such an exponential increase in their use?) before going on to highlight other Tory economic policies, at least one of which – the so-called National Living Wage – demonstrates perfectly why we cannot trust Tories.
A living wage is one that provides enough for people to cover all their costs without going into debt or resorting to benefits – unlike the forthcoming Tory version. If they can lie about that, they can lie about everything else.
And David Cameron, speaking for Iain Duncan Smith, is a dab hand at dishonesty.
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Tories thought they could persecute the disabled; now Tories hide from them
Protection: Members of the Conservative Government need large numbers of police to protect them from disabled people in wheelchairs [Image: Paula Peters].
Conservative MPs cowered behind the House of Commons doors and prayed they would be strong enough to keep out the horde of disabled and wheelchair-using protesters who were trying to push their way in.
They had to call in the police to hold back the mob as they blockaded Prime Minister's Questions, just after midday today (Wednesday).
The activists from Disabled People Against Cuts, other organisations, and individuals were campaigning against the closure of the Independent Living Fund – the Conservative Government's latest (although long-planned) blow against those who minister had believed were not strong enough to stand up for themselves.
This video link to the BBC News report provides a more accurate picture of British disabled people and their strength:
https://youtu.be/EgXVECJU0Xs
The Daily Telegraph (of all papers) was first to report the events:
"Onlookers said that dozens of police officers attempted to restrain the demonstrators… One woman was led away by police as she tried to get into the chamber.
"Mary Johnson, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, said: 'We tried to get down there because the Government needs to listen. We tried to get into the chamber but we were stopped by police.'
"She said she witnessed one protester being 'dragged away by police' claiming officers' behaviour was 'disgusting' and that they had been 'pushing wheelchairs around'."
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What would YOU ask David Cameron in Public Prime Minister's Questions?
Mile-wide: Mr Miliband explained his idea to bridge the gulf between the public and the Prime Minister to Andrew Marr.
Ed Miliband engaged in a particularly compelling piece of kite-flying today (July 27) – he put out the idea that the public should have their own version of Prime Minister's Questions.
Speaking to Andrew Marr, he said such an event would "bridge the 'mile-wide' gulf between what people want and what they get from Prime Minister's Questions", which has been vilified in recent years for uncivilised displays of tribal hostility between political parties and their leaders (David Cameron being the worst offender) and nicknamed 'Wednesday Shouty Time'.
"I think what we need is a public question time where regularly the prime minister submits himself or herself to questioning from members of the public in the Palace of Westminster on Wednesdays," said Mr Miliband.
"At the moment there are a few inches of glass that separates the public in the gallery from the House of Commons but there is a gulf a mile wide between the kind of politics people want and what Prime Minister's Questions offers."
What would you ask David Cameron?
Would you demand a straight answer to the question that has dogged the Department for Work and Pensions for almost three years, now – "How many people are your 'welfare reform' policies responsible for killing?"
Would you ask him why his government, which came into office claiming it would be the most "transparent" administration ever, has progressively denied more and more important information to the public?
Would you ask him whether he thinks it is right for a Prime Minister to knowingly attempt to mislead the public, as he himself has done repeatedly over the privatisation of the National Health Service, the benefit cap, the bedroom tax, food banks, fracking…? The list is as long as you want to make it.
What about his policies on austerity? Would you ask him why his government of millionaires insists on inflicting deprivation on the poor when the only economic policy that has worked involved investment in the system, rather than taking money away?
His government's part-privatisation of the Royal Mail was a total cack-handed disaster that has cost the nation £1 billion and put our mail in the hands of hedge funds. Would you ask him why he is so doggedly determined to stick to privatisation policies that push up prices and diminish quality of service. Isn't it time some of these private companies were re-nationalised – the energy firms being prime examples?
Would you want to know why his government has passed so many laws to restrict our freedoms – of speech, of association, of access to justice – and why it intends to pass more, ending the government's acknowledgement that we have internationally-agreed human rights and restricting us to a 'Bill of Rights' dictated by his government, and tying us to restrictive lowest-common-denominator employment conditions laid down according to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a grubby little deal that the EU and USA were trying to sign in secret until the whistle was blown on it?
Would you ask him something else?
Or do you think this is a bad idea?
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Bone thrown to the expenses investigators
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Tory right-whinger Peter Bone is the latest MP to face questions over his expenses.
The inquiry will focus on expenses relating to the upkeep of his second home between 2005 and 2009. As such, the investigation will be carried out using the system that was in place before it was reformed after a string of scandals in 2009.
Both George Osborne and Maria Miller had their expenses examined under this system, so we can expect Bone to get away with any wrongdoing as well.
From evidence that has emerged in the Osborne and Miller investigations, it is clear that the pre-2009 investigation system was completely useless except as a way of whitewashing MPs' reputations.
Of course, Bone is a frequent contributor to Prime Minister's Questions, where he often claims to have been prompted into making a query by his wife.
In the unlikely event that he is found guilty of a misdemeanour, will he be blaming that on Mrs Bone as well?
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Arquitectura Viva 118_119
PEKÍN OLÍMPICO
Foster, Andreu, Herzog & de Meuron, PTW, OMA, Holl
I-IV 2008
Olympic Beijing. China is a world power de facto. With an unprecedented economic growth, it faces with the celebration of the Olympic Games a challenge that endows it at once with national affirmation and global legimitation. Two articles analyze the development of the country, which has assured for itself a predominant international presence in the coming decades, and that of the capital, which takes advantage of the sports event to update headquarters and infrastructures. A map helps to locate the new facilities of the city.
Rosemary Righter
Out of the Red
China, Bright Millennium
Thomas Campanella
Beijing in Globalization
Map-Guide
Olympic Facilities
Ideological Scale. Current architecture in China is not only ostentation of the growing political and economic power of the country, but also expression of the moment's intellectual effervescence and of the desire to shape a new national identity. Six foreigners have contributed to this task: the British Lord gathers in the colossal airport the Chinese symbols and traditional colors; the French author wraps his ovoid theater with a titanium and glass membrane; the Swiss office presents the stadium as an iconic nest of steel branches in the Olympic Park, next to the bubbling facades of the swimming pools by the Australian team; the Dutch studio reinterprets the skyscraper building type in the headquarters of the state television; lastly, in the private realm, the American architect builds an interconnected residential complex.
National Grand Theater
National Olympic Stadium
PTW Architects
National Swimming Center
OMA/Koolhaas & Scheeren
CCTV Headquarters
Linked Hybrid Complex
Urban Design. The political, cultural and economic changes in China have transformed the profile of its cities; the emerging society, a totally consumerist one, wishes to create its own design brand.
François Chaslin
The Mutating Chinese City
Design Made in China
Artistic Dissidence. Two internationally renown Chinese authors have collaborated in the Games: Ai Weiwei in the design of the stadium and Cai Guo-Qiang in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic events. Laia Manonelles
Ai Weiwei, a Plural Artist
Marisa Bartolucci
Cai Guo-Qiang's Big Bang
Viennese Circle. The sociologist Otto Neurath was the leading figure of the interwar urban debates and a pioneer of the information age with his defense of interactive creation and his statistical pictograms. Focho's Cartoon
Ieoh Ming Pei
Fair Volumes. The modernization of the Spanish law courts buildings has triggered the construction of the new cities of justice. In Madrid, eight local offices, the New York-based Pei and four London ones – Foster, Rogers, Hadid and FOA (two of which repeat) – present fifteen cylindrical pieces; in Barcelona, another British studio executes a complex of linear blocks.
Emilio Tuñón
The New Courts Buildings
Fifteen Teams
Campus of Justice, Madrid
David Chipperfield / b720
City of Justice, Barcelona
To close, the large works promoted on the occasion of the Olympic Games in a barely democratic China spark controversy concerning the legitimacy of designing for regimes such as that of Putin in Russia, the autocracies of some ex-Soviet republics or the Gulf Emirates, areas all of them that are now experiencing an extraordinary construction boom. Products
Bathrooms, Ceilings, Platforms
Olympic Beijing
Strangers in Beijing
The 2008 Olympic Games symbolically endorse China's protagonism in today's world: the planet's largest nation flaunts its economic power and organizational skills through a sports, political and urban event that puts the 'Middle Kingdom' at the center of the global stage. At the same time, the colossal structures raised for the occasion – designed mainly by foreigners – turn Beijing into a rich laboratory of architectures that permit taking the temperature of a feverish discipline. Rising over a landscape of fast urban growth and vast destruction, which has led to the disappearance of the traditional city of hutongs and courthouses, the five major public works – to which we add here a private development as an example of the country's present building boom – are emblems of China's rise, but also serve to illustrate the current architectural debate.
The airport by Norman Foster, with its exact diagram of flows and an unexpected lightness in what is after all the largest building in the world, shows the stubborn resilience of modernity; a design approach that is also present in the National Theater by the polytechnicien and also airport architect Paul Andreu, whose pearly ellipsoid of glass and titanium over the water inevitably evokes that French geometric monumentality that leads us back to Boullée. Postmodern in their epidermic representation of random meshes are, in contrast, the two large sports venues of the Olympic Park: the great stadium by Herzog & de Meuron, turned into an instant icon of the Games – both techtonic and pyrotechnical –, through a huge skein that knits the steel to conform what has been described as an intimate and titanic nest; and the appealing swimming pools by PTW, known as the water cube because their prismatic precinct is clad in a translucent skin of soft ETFE bubbles. Midway between epithelial postmodernity and heroic modernity are the two high-rise projects, the striking logo drawn up as a folded frame by OMA to serve as headquarters of the CCTV, with its calligraphic expression of the structural stresses and its gymnastic, formal displays in a tradition that goes from the Wolkenbügel to the Max Reinhardt Haus, and through the KIO towers; and the Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl, eight intertwined towers that unite the metaphysical abstraction of a residential still life and the technical dynamism of their industrial footbridges, in the wake of those we admire in the Van Nelle or the Pompeia factories.
This foreign legion of excellence – only the Chinese Ai Weiwei appears prominently in the credits of the stadium project – has tried to interpret the needs and idiosyncracies of the country, but has also used this unique occasion to bring to China the present dilemmas of western architecture. European for the most part – British, French, Swiss, Dutch and even German if we were to include the urban axis by Albert Speer Jr. –, with the testimonial presence of an Australian and an American team, this gathering of talent significantly excludes the Asians – surely because it was out of the question to grant major commissions to the Japanese, by far the continent's most experienced –, but still it is representative of the moment: the Olympic Beijing speaks as much about today's China as about a global architecture hesitant between function and spectacle.
Arquitectura Viva 118_119 - PEKÍN OLÍMPICO

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It's official. Drake has finally announced a release date for his highly-anticipated fourth album, Views From the 6.
During episode 19 of OVOSOUND Radio on Saturday (Apr. 9), the Toronto native took to the airwaves to reveal an April 29 date. "Views is dropping April 29," the "Hotline Bling" rapper proudly announced.
Earlier this week, the 6 God dropped two singles from the project, the Wizkid and Kyla-assisted "One Dance" and "Pop Style" featuring Jay Z and Kanye West. He debuted a new verse for the latter during OVOSOUND Radio.
Views From the 6 marks the follow-up to 2015's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.


A specialty reserved for the Imperial Court, this tea has a light feeling on your tastebuds. It balances well with the addition of jasmine blossoms and a somewhat surprising hint of orange aftertaste.
Green tea (camellia sinensis), jasmine blossoms.


My kids adore these yellow-split lentil rissoles and lentil dip my Dad rustled up. Delicious, healthy and full of flavour, these would work as a main course or as a starter for a dinner party. They also work well for picnics and lunch boxes.
Rinse lentils over cold running water 2 to 3 times, place in a bowl and soak overnight or for at least 2 hours.
Rinse and place in a food processor. Process with onion, garlic, saffron, turmeric and egg until until it forms a thick paste. Transfer to a bowl, season well and add the egg and breadcrumbs. Mix well with your hands and make rissoles the size of a walnut.
Place 2 tbsp vegetable oil in a large heavy-based frying pan and fry the rissoles over a medium heat in batches of 6 until golden. Repeat this until all rissoles are fried, turning once. Place on a serving plate and serve immediately with crusty bread and a crispy salad.
I make veggie patties often in our nest, I never thought to puree into a paste. I think my kids would eat more of them without the chunkier texture…happy feasting.
Hello! I have just added my puff pastry tart to Tasty Tuesdays! Thank you for hosting!
Wow, very yummy looking rissoles with a tasty dip. All linked up with another recipe.
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What a fun idea to colour coordinate your meal 🙂 They look delicious.
Sounds lovely! And not too tricky – must try!
These sound delicious and right up my street. Love all lentils. And I love the Tour de France!! It's come through my town in France a couple of times but this year I'm handing over to my sister in Knaresborough! I'll definitely be giving this recipe a go.
These look amazing, and fab to have a picture of Papa G! My rissoles always seem to fall apart whilst cooking, this recipe looks so good I'll have to give them another try!
Oh fab, hope you get to try them, really tasty!
Love the World Cup theme and will definitely give it a go as (a) it looks de-lish and (b) I am on a mission to eat more veggies and less meat! Loving the summer theme in the linky and will drop back later!
Hello – I'm new to tasty tuesday 🙂 Your recipe sounds delicious and your photos are very professional.
I really fancy this lentil rissoles with dip! What a fabulous lunch, fresh, nutritious and certainly tasty and I love your photography too!
I just entered my chocolate tart to Tasty Tuesdays; I made it for my husband's birthday.
It never fails to amaze me how much my kids love sausages, sweets and…..lentils! Thanks for the recipe. My first toe dip into the world of recipe writing was how not to boil and egg…so I might save linking up for when I have something more substantial to say!
I don't think I've ever tried a lentil dip. This looks really nice.
This looks so yummy and easy. Your dad certainly has a way of taking basic ingredients and turning them into something luxe!
These look and sound fantastic. I can't wait to get to america in two weeks and start cooking for my parents. Love trying new recipes out on them…. Thanks for sharing and hosting my lovely.


Another view of Mono Lake take while hiking back from Parker Lake in the Eastern Sierras. This is a pano of about 20 images . . . but if you compare the sky in the upper left and upper right corners of the photo, you will notice serious color differentiations. The dividing line is the pine tree in the center, and then moving left (dark) to right (lighter).
I had my polarizer on the lens, but shifted it during the taking without realizing it. Problem! I think I'll shoot next time without it. Still, I liked this well enough to post.
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Upper respiratory tract disease (URTD) has been associated with major losses of free-ranging desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) in the southwestern United States. This prompted a clinical examination of 68 free-ranging desert tortoises for signs of URTD and sampling for Mycoplasma agassizii, the causative agent of URTD. Tortoises were sampled from three sites in the eastern Mojave Desert (1992–93) and from three sites in the Sonoran Desert (1992–94). Plasma was analyzed for antibodies to M. agassizii using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Nasal aspirate from 12 Sonoran tortoises was tested using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to detect the 16S rRNA gene of M. agassizii. Nasal aspirate from all tortoises was cultured for Mycoplasma sp. In the Mojave Desert, nine tortoises had clinical signs of URTD (n=28). Eight of the nine tortoises with clinical signs were seropositive for M. agassizii. In the Sonoran Desert, there were no clinical signs of URTD, but two tortoises were seropositive (n=40), and two tortoises had PCR results indicating presence of M. agassizii (n=12). Monitoring of URTD is recommended for Mojave tortoises, and further monitoring is needed for Sonoran tortoises because we do not know the extent of this disease in this population.


You don't have to look too far these days to hear the C word being bounced around. And no I'm not talking the four letter word, which is actually a word you'd probably prefer to hear than the other big C. Cancer.
The statistics are frightening; Cancer research states that 1 in 2 people will develop cancer in their lifetime. And that is why we see stories of loss, fighting, and survival on our TV screens; DIY SOS, Pride of Britain, Children in Need, but also in our communities, our friends, our streets and all too often our doorsteps.
It's terrifying – every parent's worst nightmare in not only the very thought of your children being the unlucky ones, but also in the fear of perhaps Cancer taking you too soon, and leaving them behind.
And yet, Cancer is not always a foregone conclusion. With continuous medical and scientific advances, a diagnosis isn't the death sentence it once was. Screening programmes targeting high risk groups are available and are critical in helping to facilitate early diagnosis, opening up a wider range of treatment options and ultimately a far better prognosis and recovery rate. The UK runs screening programmes for three of the major cancer groups – cervical cancer, bowel cancer and breast cancer. Prostate screening isn't rolled out as routine, but is available in men over 50 on request.
There are many reasons someone might be scared to attend their screening appointment or carry out the testing process. It's perhaps more intimate than you are comfortable with. It's frightening to face the prospect that it could open up a cascade of events and ultimately bring life to a terrifying standstill.
But, as much as we all like to stick our heads in the sand sometimes – perhaps about that credit card bill, maybe a text message you really need to reply to, a confrontation we really want to avoid a little longer…but some things just don't pay to put off. You can always ask for a chaperone in any medical situation, or request a female doctor if it makes you feel more at ease. But, in my experience, the medical professionals will always do the utmost to protect your dignity and embarrassment, and reassure you every step of the way.
I've probably gone down in my GP's history as the only person who has ever been turned away due to being too keen for my cervical screening. Having lost all concept of time and intervals, I booked one up between having the two girls and was sent home on account of being a year too early. Similarly, in my early twenties I was turned away for not yet being 25. I guess I fall into the category of super keen to be tested for anything, in fear that there is something lurking. In all honesty, as a young woman growing up in the nineties and noughties, I was forever scarred by the high profile decline of Jade Goody. Love her or loathe her, no one can deny that Jade left a lasting legacy on the awareness of cervical cancer, and the importance of screening in young women.
And I too had my own experience of a frightening result. Before the children a routine smear did identify some borderline cell changes (dyskaryosis) which I underwent colposcopy and large loop excision treatment for. It was unpleasant, but it was far from unbearable – and ultimately, for me it was a no brainer to make sure any potential signs were eradicated as soon as possible. It's common, a lot of women go through it.
Needless to say I've remained up to date with all screening to date, and so far, it's not reared it's ugly head again, over a decade, and three pregnancies later.
Breast screening is offered as routine here in the UK from age 50, but we all know how important it is to be breast aware at any age. To get to know our breasts shape size and be vigilant for any changes. I've always felt a bit unsure about what exactly to look out for, but have concluded that if and when the day came I noticed something irregular, I'd just know.
Back in the summer, I did notice a skin lesion right on my cleavage which bugged me and I poked and prodded it, debated if it was (another) mole, or a zit. I aggravated it by fiddling with it too much, made it sore, but ultimately it faded away from both my chest and my mind.
A few weeks back however I noticed that where it had been was a pea sized lump, deep under the skin in my breast tissue. It took just one conversation with the hubs to decide that enough was enough talking about this 'thing', and I promised the next day I'd make it happen that I saw my GP. And that's no mean feat when you have to call the practice at school run time to stand a chance in hell of getting in.
Ninety percent confident I'd be sent back home feeling bad for having wasted everyone's time, the GP did in fact suggest that whilst she thought it was probably a benign cyst, she would refer me to a breast clinic for a check – on a two week wait urgent referral.
I don't think any amount of self reassurance and common sense can ever take away that small element of fear in these situations – especially when, a week later I found myself in a waiting room filled with brave faces, puffy eyes, ladies wearing headscarves and proudly smiling with their treatment success. I saw people giving out thank you cards and flowers, laughing and smiling with the warm staff as I sat reading the walls adorned with Cancer advice and support services.
Thankfully, the specialist nurses there and then confirmed my lump is in fact a harmless cyst, but the experience has offered me a momentary glance into how perhaps that process could have been, how it is for many others, and shown me a world I have been blissfully ignorant of. But the stats are positive, and with a national average of 96% survival in breast cancer, that's something to celebrate.
As I moan and gripe about my inability to obtain a GP appointment for my daughters viral cough, again, I rarely stop to think about the wonder of the provision we have access to hear in the UK. We all know the difference in seeing a doctor when we REALLY need it, and as I witnessed first hand recently, this service is a life saving operation when it needs to be.
On the Cancer Research website you can search by your postcode to see the stats on early diagnosis, testing within 2 weeks of initial referral, commencement of treatment within 31 days of decision to treat, and 62 days of initial referral. It's pretty amazing to scroll through the stats and see the incredible work being done across the UK by the real heroes of Britain – the hard working, underpaid and overworked NHS staff who save lives quietly every single day.
There are so many charities that support activities surrounding cancer – Cancer Research and MacMillan are the huge players that spring to mind, whilst hundred of other smaller charities target the 200 types of cancer, the impact of their occurrence on people's lives, and helping them move forward with their diagnosis and treatment. We all give what we can, when we can, often in memory of loved ones or in celebration of a brave defeat of Cancer. We run, we march, we bake, we throw ourselves out of planes. We sponsor, we crowdfund, we donate and we sign up to direct debits. We are all doing what we can to bring an end to the suffering, and find that magical cure for the disease which has robbed far too many families of loved ones far too soon.
As a mother, a friend, a woman, a daughter, I will always be that annoying person who nags you to go and get that overdue smear, should you tell me you have been avoiding it. I will share my experiences to be vocal in supporting others to face their fears and commit to the screening programmes, or go and get something untoward checked out – however silly it may seem.
As a blogger, we are constantly told we have influence, so more so than any online shopping recommendation, any leopard print coat, or any pair of sparkly trainers, if there is one thing I want to influence you to do today, it's to make that call if you need to. Lay to rest your worries, accept that anything sinister is best being known about, so you can set about putting things right.
We cannot guarantee that Cancer won't knock on our door, but we can know that we couldn't have found it any quicker, and that could be the thing that makes every bit of difference.
What a lovely and informative post Sarah. It is true – we mums prioritise everyone and everything else and keep our own health on the back-burner. But prevention is always better than cure. Sharing to get the word out.
I completely agree with everything you say & what you say is so important.
As someone who has a congenital condition that I have little control over with regard to prognosis, I am all for doing whatever I can to keep myself as healthy as possible, including going for regular screening.


This self-drive 4×4 safari starts and ends in Johannesburg. You'll begin in the world-famous Kruger National Park, and drive slowly north for an unforgettable few days in Zimbabwe's stunning Gonarezhou National Park. Then right back down the full length of the Kruger, through Swaziland and into Mozambique to explore Inhaca Island a in traditional dhow. End your 15-day safari with a few days in the subtropical paradise of Kosi Bay, in some of the most pristine coastal wilderness Southern African has to offer.
4 nights Kruger National Park.
3 nights Gonarezhou National Park.
3 nights Santa Maria – Inhaca Island.
Day 1 is for shopping and preparation before heading into the world-renowned Kruger National Park. Once you've reached the Kruger, you'll encounter Africa's unique wild animals in their own backyard, with a chance to search for the iconic 'Big Five' in 22 million hectares of pristine African bush. Spend the next three days exploring the back roads of Kruger, overnighting in safe bush camps as you head north towards Zimbabwe and the northern Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area.
Gonarezhou National Park is part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, a massive Pan-African conservation zone that includes Kruger National Park and large sections of western Mozambique. This huge area is set to become one of the finest "peace parks" in the world and is dedicated to conservation, biodiversity and the economic development of the surrounding local communities. One of the most prominent and enduring natural features of Gonarezhou National Park is its beautiful Chilojo Cliffs. These magnificent red sandstone cliffs have been formed through eons of erosion and overlook the scenic Runde River valley.
Spend the next two days on an extended game drive – a true 'Bucket list' experience – driving Kruger National Park from north to south!
Leave Kruger via Malelane Gate, with a short stop in town to top up your pantry. From here you'll set out on the fascinating Geo Trail, into Swaziland for your next night at a private game reserve camp. The region boasts massive riverine forests with towering sycamore figs and wild date palms, as well as stunning acacia bushveld and open grasslands.
Head East to Santa Maria via the Maputo Elephant Reserve, a 50000 hectare mosaic of lakes, floodplains, mangrove swamps, woodlands and forested dunes sweeping down to miles of unspoilt, sandy beaches. Explore the birding paradise of the Bay of Maputo with a traditional dhow ride to Inhaca and Portuguese Islands.
Day 12 takes you south to the quaint town of Ponta do Ouro for swim in the Indian Ocean and lunch on the beach. After lunch you'll exit Mozambique into South Africa and arrive at a Kosi Bay campsite nestled amongst 100-year-old water berry trees. Kosi Bay, in the far northeastern corner of KwaZulu-Natal, forms part of the greater iSimangaliso Wetland Park – the first natural World Heritage Site in South Africa. Kosi Bay, a system of estuary lakes that feed into the Indian Ocean, epitomises the incredible splendour of untouched Africa at its most pristine.
Sadly the adventure draws to and end. Return to Johannesburg, drop off your 4×4 and catch your flight home.


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Eesti Pank 100museum
An exhibition of paper scrip money of the 19th and 20th centuries in Estonia will open at 11.00 on 12 April at the Eesti Pank Museum at Estonia pst 11.
The third exhibition in the series on the treasures of Estonian money collectors, dedicated to the centenary of Eesti Pank, features the scrip money or shop money issued by Estonian companies, manors, towns, societies and merchants, from the collections of Tõnu Karu and Ago Kõrva, and the Estonian National Museum, the Tartu City Museum, the Hiiumaa Museum, the Estonian History Museum, and the Eesti Pank Museum.
Siiri Ries, the curator of the Eesti Pank Museum, said the exhibition of this money from over two centuries makes an exciting journey into the history of money. "It is a miracle that this home-made money has survived over two centuries until today", she said. The display features over 100 exhibits that were historically used for payments. Among them are the 50-kopek token made of white leather issued by the Tartu city Treasury in 1812, and the 25-kopek cardboard token issued by the Kanuti Guild from 1808.
Companies and manors used their own money to pay wages with. The exhibition features money called the zettels issued by Kloostri Manor, the klubs of the Hiiu-Kärdla Kalev factory that were once used all over Hiiumaa and beyond, the shop money of the Võisiku mirror factory, the bread money issued by the Narva Kreenholm plant, the tokens of the Narva Kalev factory, the Narva linen factory, the Sindi Kalev factory and Port-Kunda, and the Neps used in Saaremaa. There are also two printing plates that were used for making such home-made money.
Scrip is money that has local significance, for example in a town or a particular company, and is made of paper, cardboard, leather or metal. It was used when there was a shortage of real money, during or after wars for example, or to simplify internal payments within a company.
The exhibition remains open until 27 April 2019.
The exhibition series on the treasures of Estonian money collectors will run throughout 2019 with six different displays. The next display will feature Estonian money used as jewellery, error coins, and coins showing particular themes. Eesti Pank is running the exhibitions to celebrate its 100th birthday by showing the varied collections of money and by doing so is making a symbolic present to all coin and banknote collectors.
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Europa League not spared from virus chaos as Manchester United go behind closed doors
Manchester United's Europa League last 16, first leg away to LASK Linz in Austria is one of five matches in the competition set to be played behind closed doors.
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PARIS, March 11 (AFP): Manchester United's Europa League last 16, first leg away to LASK Linz in Austria is one of five matches in the competition set to be played behind closed doors on Thursday as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc with football on the continent.
United confirmed on Tuesday that the decision had been made "following guidance from the Austrian government", with the Alpine country having recorded 182 cases of COVID-19 by Tuesday.
The news will be a disappointment to supporters of the Austrian club hoping to see their team spring a surprise against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's in-form side.
United's 2-0 derby win over Manchester City on Sunday saw them extend their current unbeaten run to 10 games, with eight clean sheets in that time. They are now hoping to seize the initiative in this tie before a weekend trip to Tottenham Hotspur.
Coached by the French former Bayern Munich and Crystal Palace defender Valerien Ismael, LASK are six points ahead of Salzburg at the top of the Austrian Bundesliga as they chase a first league title since 1965.
They lost to Club Brugge in Champions League qualifying this season. The Belgians then lost to Solskjaer's side in the last round of the Europa League.
Olympiakos owner has virus
UEFA confirmed on Monday that Wolverhampton Wanderers' first leg against Olympiakos in Greece would also be played behind closed doors.
That preceded the announcement that Olympiakos owner Vangelis Marinakis - also the owner of English club Nottingham Forest - had tested positive for coronavirus. He said he was taking "all necessary measures" and "feeling well".
"We share the disappointment of all of our supporters who will be affected by this decision," Wolves said.
Olympiakos top the Greek league and are hoping to claim a second Premier League scalp after eliminating Arsenal in the previous round. They also held Tottenham at home in the Champions League group stage this season.
With Italy the worst-hit European country by the ongoing crisis, Inter Milan's home game against Getafe will be played out in an empty stadium, while no fans will be allowed into Sevilla's match against Roma in Spain.
Etihad Stadium in Manchester (AFP/Anthony Devlin)
In addition, German club Wolfsburg have confirmed their clash with Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk will be behind closed doors.
However, fellow Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt are set to play FC Basel in front of a crowd while uncertainty surrounds the return leg in Switzerland next week. Basel have said the game will not go ahead in the country, where all football in the top two domestic leagues has already been postponed for the rest of the month.
Fans are also expected to fill Ibrox, where Rangers entertain Bayer Leverkusen hoping to pull off a shock result against opponents on a nine-game unbeaten run and sitting fourth in the Bundesliga.
Steven Gerrard has come under pressure with his team falling 13 points behind leaders Celtic in the Scottish Premiership and also being knocked out of the Scottish Cup by Hearts.
However, their European form has provided a tonic and now they are preparing for their 17th match in the competition this season.
Gerrard, who called it "one of the toughest ties we could have got", is without veteran striker Jermain Defoe due to a calf injury.
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One down: Planned coal export terminal in Washington is cancelled
By Philip Bump on Aug 15, 2012
All filled up, no place to go.
Plans for a massive coal export terminal in Grays Harbor, Wash., have been scrapped.
RailAmerica has abandoned any current plans to construct a coal storage and export facility at the Port of Grays Harbor's Terminal 3 in Hoquiam.
Port Commissioners on Tuesday were told the company has completed an evaluation of the site and that it would no longer be exercising an agreement giving it access to study the potential for a coal terminal, although the rail company still plans to partner with the Port on future projects. …
RailAmerica had said it was interested in possibly shipping 5 million tons of coal annually from the Powder River Basin of Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, primarily overseas to China. Documents turned over by the Port of Grays Harbor as part of a Daily World public records request showed that RailAmerica first approached the Port about a coal terminal in the spring of 2010.
The port at Grays Harbor was one of several along the West Coast where coal export terminals have been proposed. As David Roberts noted in May, local economies don't see much benefit from expanding harbors to facilitate coal export.
Opponents of the plan are, understandably, very happy. In a statement, Becky Kelley of the Power Past Coal coalition said:
We'll continue to keep a close eye on all of the coal companies' proposals. We believe that as other communities across the Northwest take a closer look at coal export, they'll come to the same conclusion as Grays Harbor: there are too many impacts and too many costs from coal export. We can do better.
A RailAmerica spokesperson suggested last night that the company had other ideas for the terminal.
[A] company spokesman, Paul Queary, said RailAmerica was "shelving the Terminal 3 coal export project" because there is a "third party that has an interest in shipping something else from the terminal and thinks that would come to fruition more swiftly than the coal terminal."
Happily, it can only be better than coal. Right? (Right?)
RailAmerica drops pursuit of coal terminal for Grays Harbor,
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Hantkenia es un género de foraminífero bentónico considerado un subgénero de Nummulites, es decir, Nummulites (Hantkenia), o de Lenticulina, es decir, Lenticulina (Hantkenia), pero su nombre ha sido sustituido por el de Paronaea de la familia Nummulitidae, de la superfamilia Nummulitoidea, del suborden Rotaliina y del orden Rotaliida. Su especie tipo era Nummulites tchihatcheffi. Su rango cronoestratigráfico abarcaba desde el Luteciense hasta el Bartoniense (Eoceno medio).

Clasificación
Chordoperculinoides incluía a las siguientes especies:

 Hantkenia complanata †, también considerado como Nummulites (Hantkenia) complanata o como Lenticulina (Hantkenia) complanata, y aceptado como Nummulites complanata
 Hantkenia mecordi †, también considerado como Nummulites (Hantkenia) mecordi o como Lenticulina (Hantkenia) mecordi, de posición genérica incierta
 Hantkenia subdiscorbina †, también considerado como Nummulites (Hantkenia) subdiscorbina o como Lenticulina (Hantkenia) subdiscorbina, y aceptado como Nummulites beaumonti
 Hantkenia tchihatcheffi †, también considerado como Nummulites (Hantkenia) tchihatcheffi o como Lenticulina (Hantkenia) tchihatcheffi, y aceptado como Paronaea tchihatcheffi
 Hantkenia venosus †, también considerado como Nummulites (Hantkenia) venosus o como Lenticulina (Hantkenia) venosus, y aceptado como Nummulites anomala

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Géneros de Rotaliida
Géneros de Rotaliida s.s.
Géneros de foraminíferos bentónicos

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