Modern beer cafe (you may wish to style it as a micropub, but the owners don't) set in former shop premises on a shopping parade near Burnage railway station. Its small and inconspicuous facade hides quite a long interior; this comprises a small seating area to the front, the bar on the right with a few high stools in front of it. Behind the customers are shelves stacked with British microbrewers bottles and cans on sale to either take away or consume inside. The three handpulls will always stock a porter / stout, a bitter, and a pale ale; on the bar-back are displayed the six taps for keg or key-keg beers. A partial wall divides this room from the more secluded rear room; this can accommodate about 16-20 people. All of this is decorated in a two-tone colour scheme of cream, and a blue-grey; the result is pleasant and calming. Cider comes from a bag-in-box arrangement behind the bar. Three-thirds flights will be introduced soon. There is a 10% discount for CAMRA members too. Its stated role is to sell locally and independently made real ales and craft beer to sit in or take away. The bar will focus on community and hopes to attract further investment into this part of Manchester. This area of Burnage had hitherto been very under-pubbed till this bar opened. History: Elena Rowe and family, together with her boyfriend, Andrew had a passion for good beer, so they formed this beer cafe which duly opened for business on 14/1/17.
Guest beers, usually sourced from Greater Manchester or regional micros.
Small table fronting the street.


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Aquamarine Stones - March's Birthstones
Aquamarine, the birthstone for March, is a beautiful aqua blue gemstone that is often used in contemporary jewelry designs. Sailing sailors were supposed to be protected and calmed by the drink's name, which comes from Latin for "seawater." Aquamarine's history, usage, and spiritual aspects will be discussed here, as well as some jewelry-making ideas. If you've been married for more than a decade, aquamarine is said to bring happiness and rekindle a romance.
Colour: From a delicate sky blue to an intense turquoise, aquamarine may be found in many different shades of blue. Beryl, of which Aquamarine is a subspecies, is the mineral that gives the stone its blue hue (Emerald is the deep green variety of the mineral).
Appearance: Increasingly When it comes to aquamarine, it is both transparent and opaque. There are fine hollow rod inclusions that may reflect white light and develop in a hexagonal crystal structure. A cat's eye effect or even a six-rayed star is achievable when there are a great number of growth lines.
Rarity: Although aquamarine is widely available, particular colors and certain inclusions are more difficult to get. One of the most sought-after colors of Aquamarine is a darker shade of blue seen in Madagascan Aquamarine. Also extremely popular is Cats Eye Aquamarine, which is frequently cut into cabochon stones in order to maximize the visual impact.
Mohs Scale Hardness: Aquamarine has a Mohs hardness rating of 7.5, making it one of the hardest gemstones.
Sourced: Brazil is the primary source of aquamarine. Other than that, they may also be found in countries like Mexico and the United States.
HISTORY AND FORMATION OF AQUAMARINE STONES
In the 19th century, the most sought-after hue of this exquisite stone was sea green/blue, however in more recent times the Sky blue and Dark blue have grown more fashionable. The quantity of iron in the gem is what gives it its green/blue hue. Heat treatment has been given to most Aquamarine that is now available to improve its blue color. We suggest that you put your gemstone last so that it doesn't come into contact with any unwanted heat while it is being sent. As a rule, the untreated stones are darker in color than their treated counterparts.
It has been dubbed "The Sailor's Lucky Stone" because it resembles water, which is life-giving. It has also been referred to as 'Water of the Sea' in Latin because of the color of its seat.
Aquamarine is thought to bring happiness and prosperity to women who wear it, according to old folklore.
MYTHOLOGY, HEALING, AND SPIRITUAL QUALITIES
In tradition, aquamarine is said to have the power of the sea, and many sea goddesses, such as Aphrodite, have been devoted to it. Sailing ships have long relied on amethyst to keep them safe from the elements, including storms and drowning. The diamond is referred regarded as the stone of bravery because of its repute.
If you've been separated from your partner, this gemstone is claimed to help you reconnect, attract international business or contacts, as well as alleviate your fear of water, such as fear of swimming or fear of traveling. According to some, it may create relaxing energies that relieve tension and quiet the mind, instill tolerance for others, and assist the brain in filtering information for clarity.
Sore throats, dental decay, and water retention may all be alleviated by taking it. It is also supposed to assist with digestive diseases, renal issues, and respiratory issues. As a result, panic and discomfort may be alleviated as well. This stone's properties are thought to be heightened when it is submerged in water, yet it may still be quite useful to wear it.
As a stone of travel, aquamarine may help keep you safe on the road, or it might offer up new vistas for you to explore, both physically and psychologically.
Using a blue glass bowl filled with seawater (or a teaspoon of salt) during a full moon, place Aquamarine in the water and let it overnight before rinsing with fresh water in the morning.
THE DESIGN OF JEWELRY
Aquamarine is gaining prominence as a semi-precious gemstone due to contemporary jewelry trends. With the new Spring 2016 Pantone colors, including 'Serenity Blue,' which Aquamarine reflects well, we believe its popularity will continue to rise.
A robust stone-like aquamarine makes it ideal for jewelry manufacturing, but it is heat-sensitive, therefore care must be given while soldering (as we have said previously - always set last). Aquamarine is one of our favorite gemstones since we are located in Cornwall and work only five minutes from the shore, so we have a strong connection to the water.
The combination of this gemstone with silver and other pastel-colored gemstones is very beautiful.

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Q: Laravel Eloquent relations issue Hello i am new to laravel. I am trying to build relationship between two tables.
Method in my controler
public function show()
    {
        $users = users::all();
        dd($users->art);
        die;
        return View('test')->with('ime');
    }

user model
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use App\Articles;

class users extends Model
{
    protected $fillable =['name','email','password'];
    public function  setNameAttribute($data)
    {
         $this->attributes['name'] = strtolower($data).'Duca';
    }

    public function scopeNametor($query)
    {
        $query->where('name','ero');
    }

    public function art()
    {
       return $this->hasMany('App\Articles');
    }
}

article Model
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Articles extends Model
{
    public function users()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\users');
    }
}

I set foreign key
user.id to articles.user_id

also i add index to articles.user_id field.
But i get error
Undefined property: Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection::$art

Somehow laravel do not recognize art as method, but treat it as property. Something i am doing wrong. I try sometjing like this but no luck
dd($users->art()-get()->toArray());

Where could be problem. i think this could be easy to resolve

A: This is expected behaviour as stated in the Laravel Docs:

Once the relationship is defined, we may retrieve the related record using Eloquent's dynamic properties. Dynamic properties allow you to access relationship functions as if they were properties defined on the model

Laravel - Eloquent: Relationships
The example given:
<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    /**
     * Get the phone record associated with the user.
     */
    public function phone()
    {
        return $this->hasOne('App\Phone');
    }
}

To access the phone relationship:
$phone = User::find(1)->phone;

A: Yes i found error you cant use  $users = users::all(); it gonna return whole colection try something like this  $users = users::first();

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HWPL: Development of Peace in Mindanao, Philippines
August 4, 2021 dsprime0
Aug 3: On 24 January 2014, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) offered local representatives including political and religious leaders to sign a peace agreement for the 40-year conflict in Mindanao. Currently, the civilian group-led peace agreement is at implementation and has contributed to creating an atmosphere of peace for a peace agreement between the government of the Philippines and the Moro people.
HWPL had held various events and activities in the Philippines since June 2013, including bringing relief for the slums, holding conversations with religious leaders for interfaith harmony, and establishing a youth network for peace.
HWPL hosted the first peace walk festival on 24 January 2014 in Mindanao, General Santos, Philippines. Over 1,000 people, including believers from both religions, students from the Mindanao State University, and members of the International Peace Youth Group, participated.
On the same day, representatives including Esmael G. Mangudadatu, Governor of Maguindanao and Catholic archbishop, signed an agreement for the creation of peace and the cessation of war. According to HWPL, the Mindanao peace agreement proposed a "civilian-centered awareness improvement and action"-based approach to peace.
In line with this approach, the organization is cooperating with local groups to carry out peace initiatives centered around civil society, including education, religion, youth, and women, in order to eliminate the factors that are sources of conflict and also to strengthen the core values for peaceful development.
At the age of 84 when he held hands with the leaders who signed the agreement, Chairman Man Hee Lee of HWPL recalls, "While the signing of the agreement for peace was shown to the participants, the moderator explained the peace agreement, which was photographed and videotaped. The crowd erupted in cheers and applause of joy and delight."
(HWPL Chairman Lee Man-hee(center), H.E. Fernado Robles Capalla, D.D, Archbishop Emeritus of Archdiocese of Davao (left), and Esmael G. Mangudadatu, Governor of Maguindanao (right), sign the civilian peace agreement on 24 January 2014.)
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Treatment Kills Zebra Mussels In Christmas Lake
September 25, 2014 / 2:45 PM / CBS Minnesota
SHOREWOOD, Minn. (AP) — Officials said Thursday they're encouraged with initial results from an effort to kill zebra mussels infesting Christmas Lake west of Minneapolis.
The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District used the bacteria-based pesticide Zequanox to treat the area around the public boat access on the suburban lake earlier this month. The district said Thursday that it appears to have killed all the zebra mussels in the 50-foot by 60-foot treatment area.
"We have more work to do to improve the long-term chances of containment, but these early results are encouraging," Craig Dawson, director of the district's aquatic invasive species program, said in a statement.
Divers found and removed around 25 more live zebra mussels outside that area last Friday. Officials now plan to expand the containment zone, and they're considering alternatives to Zequanox, which isn't as effective in colder water.
Christmas Lake was selected for the test because the infestation was detected early. Officials said it marked the first use in the nation of Zequanox except for some small experiments or to kill the pests in power plant water pipes.
"We're committed to doing everything we can to ensure total containment and, if possible, eradication of the zebra mussel infestation in Christmas Lake," Keegan Lund, an invasive species specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, said in the statement.


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Poor working and social conditions are being propped up by the mass provision of CBT
March 24, 2017 December 10, 2017 · 22 Comments ·
According to the Counsellor's Guide to Working with EAP, by 2013, almost 50% of the UK workforce was supported by an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), representing 13.79 million people. The EAP industry began in the UK during the mid-1980s and has since become firmly established, with a rapid expansion in schemes following the recommendations made by Carol Black and David Frost in their report on sickness absence (Black & Frost, 2011). A high percentage of the larger public and private sector organisations and an increasing number of small to medium sized enterprises provide their employees with access to some form of short-term EAP service.
The EAP association say, in their 2013 Market Watch report: "The difficult economic climate of the past five years may also be a driver, as employers look to support staff with non-work related issues to prevent these from intruding on the workplace."
The Conservative's austerity programme in the UK has presented the wellbeing industry with many lucrative business opportunities, and there are many profits being made on the growing poverty, inequality, social injustices and inevitable subsequent psychological distress of the population.
The relentless political drive towards the privatisation of government functions has turned traditional public services, social security and other safety net provision into profit-making enterprises as well.
A major cause of economic inequality within market economies such as the UK is the determination of wages by the market. The systematic (and partisan) undermining of trade unions over recent years via Conservative legislation has seen the collapse of collectivism as the main way of regulating employment, and a substantial loss of space for bargaining for working rights, conditions and pay. The substantial cuts to social security support over the past few years have also served to drive wages down further.
Neoliberalism, which was adopted as an overarching socioeconomic policy during the Thatcher and Reagan era onward, is premised on an idea that tight monetary control will contain inflation, and that labour market deregulation combined with regressive tax and benefit reform will somehow secure full employment. The expectation is that the more unequal redistribution of income and the freeing up of markets will dramatically improve competitive economic performance, and that the benefits of this higher rate of growth will trickle down the income distribution, benefiting everyone. Of course, that hasn't happened.
The CBT technocratic sticking plaster
EAPs commonly use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – usually in digital form – online or by phone – and it's a "workplace-focused programme" to assist in the identifying and resolving of employee concerns, which affect, or may affect, performance. Such employee concerns typically include, but are not limited to:
Personal matters – health, relationship, family, financial, emotional, legal, anxiety, alcohol, drugs and other related issues.
Work matters – work demands, fairness at work, working relationships, harassment and bullying, personal and interpersonal skills and work/life balance.
According to NHS Choices, Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
CBT is a talking therapy that can help you manage YOUR problems by changing the way YOU think and behave. It doesn't address your circumstances as such, nor does it address the socioeconomic and political context that imposes constraints and increasingly untenable living conditions on people.
In fact, the briefing document for counsellors working with EAP says:
"When working with an EAP referral it is important to remember that the organisation is your client as well as the individual concerned, therefore there will be two people who will be 'in the room' with you. It is, after all, the employer that is indirectly funding the sessions. Developing your understanding of the organisation will help you work with both 'clients' since an insight into the type of business and the pressures of this work can help you build up a rapport with the client.
[…] The employer is often keen to know whether the support offered by the EAP is having a business benefit. This will be part of the implicit or explicit requirements of the employer and they may need to have evidence of any return on investment. For instance, is there evidence that the employee/client has returned to work more quickly as a result of the counselling? Has the counselling prevented the client from taking time off work for sickness?"
This presents a constraining framework of conflicted interests for counsellors with favourable "outcomes" invariably weighted towards employers and not employees. How, for example, does a counsellor support someone in a decision to leave their job and find another with better conditions, more security and pay? In this context, the mass provision of CBT may be regarded as a technocratic "fix" for poor employment and social conditions, and is rather more about policing critical thinking and dissenting behaviours in the workplace than providing support for employees. Treating each individual as if the problems lie "within" their thoughts and behaviours also serves to discourage collective bargaining to improve workplace (and social) conditions.
Although the briefing paper doesn't tell us if 50% of the UK workforce have actually accessed the EAP services, the perceived need for this service provision and the growth of the industry tells us a lot about employment and social conditions in the UK.
And what does the mass provision of CBT tell us about how this is being addressed?
CBT has become a means of re-socialising those who have become casualities of neoliberalism to accept and internalise the normative "logic" of neoliberalism. It's a repressive state "therapy" for micromanaging dissent and critical thinking. It inhibits progressive social change, by locating all of our socioeconomic and political problems within the thoughts and behaviours of individuals.
Meanwhile private providers are making lots of profit on something that can never work in the long term. By coercing individuals to accept the terrible burdens and ravages of neoliberalism, the state and co-opted agencies are propping up a socioeconomic system that is collapsing, and in the process, it is profoundly harming people.
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The government's in-work sanctions are incompatible with 'halving the disability employment gap' (and other ideological problems)
December 5, 2016 December 6, 2016 · 12 Comments ·
The government have introduced in-work sanctioning for low paid and part-time workers to "incentivise" them to "progress" in work. Historically, wages and employment conditions were raised, and hours were often negotiated by Trade Unions. Now those decisions are entirely down to the executive decisions of employers not employees. Sanctioning employees is grossly unfair, because they have very little negotiating and bargaining power (especially since the raft of Conservative anti-collectivist and anti-Trade Union legislation) to improve their lot.
There is also a significant growing body of empirical evidence that informs us sanctions do not work as the government claim.
It's not as if employees' behaviour is at fault or that they would ever actually want poor pay, fewer rights and adverse working conditions – that's down to exploitative employers who are primarily profit driven. It's hardly fair to punish workers for the motivations and behaviour of their employers.
Clearly, the weight of favour in policy-making is heavily towards big business profiteering. Implying that the behaviours of workers are a problem in this context is simply another way justification is presented for the further erosion of state responsibility and support and ultimately, the long term plan is to remove such support completely.
Workplace disagreements about wages and conditions are now typically resolved neither by collective bargaining nor litigation but are left to management prerogative. This is because Conservative aspirations are clear. Much of the government's discussion of legislation is preceded primarily with consideration of the value and benefit for big business and the labour market. They want a cheap labour force and low cost workers, unable to withdraw their labour, unprotected by either Trade Unions or employment rights and threatened with destitution via benefit sanction cuts if they refuse to accept low paid, low standard work. Similarly, desperation and the "deterrent" effect of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act – the principle of less eligibility – also served to drive down wages.
In the Conservative's view, trade unions distort the free labour market which runs counter to New Right and neoliberal dogma. Since 2010, the decline in UK wage levels has been amongst the very worst in Europe. The fall in earnings under the Coalition is the biggest in any parliament since 1880, according to analysis by the House of Commons Library, and at a time when the cost of living has spiraled upwards.
In-work conditionality enforces a lie and locates blame within individuals for structural problems – political, economic and social – created by those who hold power. Despite being a party that claims to support "hard-working families," the Conservatives have nonetheless made several attempts to undermine the income security of a significant proportion of that group of citizens recently. Their proposed tax credit cuts, designed to creep through parliament in the form of secondary legislation, which tends to exempt it from meaningful debate and amendment in the Commons, was halted only because peers in the House of Lords have been paying attention to the game.
Sanctioning people in work flies in the face of the government's previous "hard working families" mantra. But it also flies in the face of their aim to "help" disabled people into work. Many of disabled people would have to work part-time: reduced and flexible hours are also a reasonable adaptation, especially for people who are ill. Many of us also have to accommodate hospital appointments, often with a variety of specialists, as well as hospital based treatment regimes. All of which probably makes us much more likely to face in-work sanctioning in the future.
How does this address the "disability employment gap"?
The government propose tax cuts and other rewards for employers who employ disabled people in their recent consultation on work, health and disability. However, it is against the law to treat someone less favourably than someone else because of a personal characteristic, such as being disabled.
Furthermore, disabled people have a legal RIGHT to work and to be included in the economy, and I think in light of this, employers should be fined for not employing a quota of disabled people instead. "Disability Confident" is supposed to be about supporting disabled people, not providing publicly funded handouts to employers, whilst at the same time, financially punishing the very people that the policy is supposedly designed to "support."
There was some very worrying discussion in the recent work health and disability green paper about new mandatory "health and work conversations" in which work coaches will use "specially designed techniques" to "help" disabled Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants "identify their health and work goals, draw out their strengths, make realistic plans, and build resilience and motivation." Apparently these conversations were "co-designed with disabled people's organisations and occupational health professionals and practitioners and the Behavioural Insights Team – the controversial Nudge Unit, which is part-owned by the Cabinet Office and Nesta.
It's very evident that "disabled people's organisations" were not major contributors to the design. It's especially telling that those people to be targeted by this "intervention" were completely excluded from the conversation. Sick and disabled people are reduced to objects of public policy, rather than being seen as citizens and democratic subjects capable of rational dialogue.
Systematically reducing social security, and increasing conditionality, particularly in the form of punitive benefit sanctions, doesn't "incentivise" people to look for work. It simply means that people can no longer meet their basic physiological needs, as benefits are calculated to cover only the costs of food, fuel and shelter. In fact sanctioning people make it less likely that they will find work.
Food deprivation is closely correlated with both physical and mental health deterioration. Maslow explained very well that if we cannot meet basic physical needs, we are highly unlikely to be able to meet higher level psychosocial needs. The government proposal that welfare sanctions will somehow "incentivise" people to look for work is pseudopsychology at its very worst and most dangerous. State imposed sanctions on sick and disabled people are known to have very harmful consequences. In fact sanctions create significant difficulties and distress for everyone subjected to them. (See also An example of in-work conditionality: when work doesn't pay).
In the UK, the government's welfare "reforms" have further reduced social security support, originally calculated to meet only basic physiological needs, which has had an adverse impact on people who rely on what was once a social safety net. Poverty is linked with negative health outcomes, but it doesn't follow that employment will alleviate poverty sufficiently to improve health outcomes.
In fact record numbers of working families are now in poverty, with two-thirds of people who found work in 2014 taking jobs for less than the living wage, according to the annual report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation a year ago.
Essential supportive provision is being systematically reduced by increasing conditionally; by linking support to such a narrow outcome – getting a job – and this will ultimately reduce every service to nothing more than a state behaviour modification programme based on punishment, with a range of professionals being politically co-opted as state enforcers of an ideology which is perpetuating and accentuating socioeconomic problems in the first place.
Work is not a "health" outcome
The Government is intending to "signpost the importance of employment as a health outcome in mandates, outcomes frameworks, and interactions with Clinical Commissioning Groups."
A Department for Work and Pensions research document published back in 2011 – Routes onto Employment and Support Allowance – said that if people believed that work was good for them, they were less likely to claim or stay on disability benefits.
It was decided that people should be "encouraged" to believe that work was "good" for health. There is no empirical basis for the belief, and the purpose of encouraging it is simply to cut the numbers of disabled people claiming ESA by "encouraging" them into work. Some people's work is undoubtedly a source of wellbeing and provides a sense of purpose. That is not the same thing as being "good for health".
For a government to use data regarding opinion rather than empirical evidence to claim that work is "good" for health indicates a ruthless mercenary approach to fulfill their broader aim of dismantling social security and to uphold their ideological commitment to supply-side policy.
From the document: "The belief that work improves health also positively influenced work entry rates; as such, encouraging people in this belief may also play a role in promoting return to work."
The aim of the research was to "examine the characteristics of ESA claimants and to explore their employment trajectories over a period of approximately 18 months in order to provide information about the flow of claimants onto and off ESA."
The document also says: "Work entry rates were highest among claimants whose claim was closed or withdrawn suggesting that recovery from short-term health conditions is a key trigger to moving into employment among this group."
"The highest employment entry rates were among people flowing onto ESA from non-manual occupations. In comparison, only nine per cent of people from non-work backgrounds who were allowed ESA had returned to work by the time of the follow-up survey. People least likely to have moved into employment were from non-work backgrounds with a fragmented longer-term work history. Avoiding long-term unemployment and inactivity, especially among younger age groups, should, therefore, be a policy priority. "
"Given the importance of health status in influencing a return to work, measures to facilitate access to treatment, and prevent deterioration in health and the development of secondary conditions are likely to improve return to work rates"
The government made a political and a particularly partisan decision, rather than one that has any an evidence base, to promote the cost-cutting and unverified, irrational belief that work is a "health" outcome.
Furthermore, the research does conclude that health status itself is the greatest determinant in whether or not people return to work. That means that those not in work are not recovered and have longer term health problems that tend not to get better.
Work does not "cure" ill health. To mislead people in such a way is not only atrocious political expediency, it's actually potentially downright harmful and dangerous.
The government's Work and Health programme involves a plan to integrate health and employment services, aligning the outcome frameworks of health services, Improving Access To Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Jobcentre Plus and the Work programme.
2020health – Working Together is a report from 2012 that promotes the absurd notion of work as a health outcome. This is a central theme amongst the ideas that are driving the fit for work and the work and health and programme. Developing this idea further, Dame Carol Black and David Frost's Health at Work – an independent review of sickness absence was aimed at reviewing ways of "reducing the cost of sickness to employers, 'taxpayers' and the economy."
Seems that the central aim of the review wasn't a genuine focus on sick and disabled people's wellbeing and "health outcomes," then. Black and Frost advocated changing sickness certification to further reduce the influence of GPs in "deciding entitlement to out-of-work sickness benefits."
The subsequent "fit notes" that replaced GP sick notes (a semantic shift of Orwellian proportions) were designed to substantially limit the sick role and reduce recovery periods, and to "encourage" GPs to disclose what work-related tasks patients may still be able to perform. The idea that employers could provide reasonable adjustments that allowed people who are on sick leave to return to work earlier, however, hasn't happened in reality.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has been highly critical of the language used by the government when describing the fit for work service. The association said it was "misleading" to claim that fit for work was offering "occupational health advice and support" when the emphasis was on sickness absence management and providing a focused return to work.
The idea that work is a "health" outcome is founded on an absurd and circular Conservative logic: it's an incorrect inference based on the fact that people in work are healthier than those out of work. It's true that they are, however, the government have yet again confused causes with effects. Work does not make people healthier: it's simply that healthy people can work and do. People who have long term or chronic illnesses most often can't work. It has been historically and empirically established that poverty is closely correlated with disproportionate levels of ill health, and it's most probable that targeted austerity, leading to increasingly inadequate welfare provision, has made a significant contribution to poorer health outcomes, too.
The government's main objection to sick leave and illness more generally, is that it costs businesses money. The government remain committed to a supply-side labour market model. However, as inconvenient as it may be, politically and economically, it isn't ever going to be possible to cure people of serious illnesses by cruelly coercing them into work.The government's aim to prompt public services to "speak with one voice" is founded on questionable ethics. This proposed multi-agency approach is reductive, rather than being about formulating expansive, coherent, comprehensive and importantly, responsive provision.
This is psychopolitics. It's all about (re)defining the experience and reality of a social group to justify dismantling public services (especially welfare), and that is form of gaslighting intended to extend oppressive political control and micromanagement. In linking receipt of welfare with health services and "state therapy," with the single intended outcome explicitly expressed as employment, the government is purposefully conflating citizen's widely varied needs with economic outcomes and diktats, isolating people from traditionally non-partisan networks of relatively unconditional support, such as the health service, social services, community services and mental health services.
Public services "speaking with one voice" will invariably make accessing support conditional, and further isolate already marginalised social groups. It will damage trust between people needing support and professionals who are meant to deliver essential public services, rather than simply extending government dogma, prejudices and discrimination.
However, unsatisfactory employment – low-paid, insecure and unfulfiling work – can result in a decline in health and wellbeing, indicating that poverty and growing inequality, rather than unemployment, increases the risk of experiencing poor mental and physical health.
People are experiencing poverty both in work and out of work. Moreover, in countries with an adequate social safety net, poor employment (low pay, short-term contracts), rather than unemployment, has the biggest detrimental impact on mental health. There is ample medical evidence to challenge the current political dogma, and to support this account. (See the Minnesota semistarvation experiment, for example. The understanding that food deprivation in particular dramatically alters cognitive capacity, emotions, motivation, personality, and that malnutrition directly and predictably affects the mind as well as the body is one of the legacies of the experiment.)
Systematically reducing social security, and increasing conditionality, particularly in the form of punitive benefit sanctions, doesn't "incentivise" people to look for work. It simply means that people can no longer meet their basic physiological needs, as benefits are calculated to cover only the costs of food, fuel and shelter.Food deprivation is closely correlated with both physical and mental health deterioration. Maslow explained very well that if we cannot meet basic physical needs, we are highly unlikely to be able to meet higher level psychosocial needs.
The government proposal that welfare sanctions will somehow "incentivise" people to look for work is pseudopsychology at its very worst and most dangerous.In the UK, the government's welfare "reforms" have further reduced social security support, originally calculated to meet only basic physiological needs, which has had an adverse impact on people who rely on what was once a social safety net.
Poverty is linked with negative health outcomes, but it doesn't follow that employment will alleviate poverty sufficiently to improve health outcomes.In fact record numbers of working families are now in poverty, with two-thirds of people who found work in 2014 taking jobs for less than the living wage, according to the annual report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation a year ago.
Essential supportive provision is being reduced by conditionally; by linking it to such a narrow outcome – getting a job – and this will reduce every service to nothing more than a political semaphore and service provision to a behaviour modification programme based on punishment, with a range of professionals being politically co-opted as state enforcers.
I have pointed out previously that there has never been any research that demonstrates unemployment is a direct cause of ill health or that employment directly improves health, and the existing studies support the the idea that the assumed causality between unemployment and health may actually run in the opposite direction.It's not that unemployment is causing higher ill health, but that ill health and discrimination are causing higher unemployment. If it were unemployment causing ill health, at a time when the government assures us that employment rates are currently "the highest on record," why are more people becoming sick?
The answer is that inequality and poverty have increased, and these social conditions, created by government policies, have long been established by research as having a correlational relationship with increasing mental and physical health inequalities. For an excellent, clearly written and focused development of these points, the problem of "hidden" variables and political misinterpretation, see Jonathan Hulme's Work won't set us
Neoliberalism and inequality are strongly correlated with increasing ill health
I visit my doctor and not the government when I am unwell. There are very good reasons for this. I don't believe anyone was ever cured by neoliberal ideology. Nor do I believe that work is a health outcome for ordinary people. Health is a health outcome. Work is just work. Being unemployed isn't unhealthy. Below subsistence level social security is. Sanctions are. Poverty and massive inequality are also a major cause of poor health.
If work was a reliable health outcome, then the government wouldn't need to address in-work poverty, although sanctioning low paid or part time workers for the employment conditions that profit driven employers are entirely responsible for won't change the nature and incidence of in-work poverty. The problem isn't one that is down to employee behaviours, it is a systemic one.
If the protestant work ethic is such an effective cure for disease, the Victorian era "trial" certainly didn't provide any empirical evidence of that in the data collected concerning premature mortality rates. In fact both men and women were debilitated by the age of forty. Poor nutrition, long hours and premature full-time employment all contributed to a short life expectancy. Although life span slowly increased within the Victorian age, notably as treatment became more advanced, surgery more effective, and medical knowledge more extensive, the average life span in 1840, in the Whitechapel district of London, was 45 years for the upper class and 27 years for tradesman. Laborers and servants, who did the most work, lived only 22 years on average.
Heather Yoeli, a public health specialist from the Department of Public Health and Wellbeing at Northumbria University, says: "From a public health point of view, the main things which improved UK life expectancy between the Victorian era and the 1980s (at which point improvements tailed off) have been:
– near-universal access to clean water and indoor toilets
– childhood immunisation
– antibiotics
– access to education, and particularly, improving female literacy
– increasing social equality
Given that, as statistics sadly show, the health of the poorest in the UK is again declining despite the first four factors mainly still being accessible to even the UK's very poorest, one can only point at the worsening inequalities and social injustices as a significant cause. The Marmot review pretty much concludes the same. "
Addressing these issues is not consistent with the ideological thrust of Conservative policies, unfortunately, since the government insist that social problems such as poverty and ill health (the biopsychosocial model, with an emphasis on the "psychosocial" elements) are due to individual "behaviours." Their approach to date has been to level punitive policies with an embedded core of behaviour modification techniques which usually entails the punitive removal of lifeline income at the poorest citizens – casually called "incentivising" and "supporting" – whilst addressing the behaviours of the wealthy with a system of publicly funded financial reward. This simply recreates, deepens, perpetuates and accentuates existing inequalities.
Empirical research published two years ago demonstrated the high a cost the country paid in terms of health and wellbeing for the Thatcher administration's neoliberal economic and social policies. The study, which examined at material from existing research and data from the Office for National Statistics, illustrates that Thatcherism resulted in the unnecessary and unjust premature deaths of British citizens, together with a substantial and continuing burden of suffering and a widespread degradation of wellbeing.
Co-author and researcher Professor Clare Bambra from the Wolfson Research Institute of Health and Wellbeing said that deaths from violence and suicide all increased substantially during the Thatcher era in comparison with other countries. Regional inequalities in life expectancy between north and south were also exacerbated, as were health inequalities between the richest and poorest in British society.
Professor Bambra also says that the welfare cuts implemented by Thatcher's governments led to a rise in poverty rates from 6.7% in 1975 to 12% by 1985; poverty is well known to be one of the major causes of ill health and mortality. Income inequality also increased in the Thatcher period, as the richest 0.01% of society had 28 times the mean national average income in 1978 but 70 times the average by 1990. Other research (The Spirit Level) indicates that income inequality is internationally associated with higher mortality and morbidity.
Yet earlier this year, the welfare reform minister, Lord Freud, refused to monitor the number of people who take their own lives as a result of the £120-a-month cut planned for those people in the work related activity group (WRAG), claiming employment and support allowance from April 2017. Concerns were raised in the House of Lords, when Baroness Meacher, amongst others, warned that for the most vulnerable citizens, the cut was "terrifying" and bound to lead to increased debt.
Condemning the truly callous and terrible actions of the Treasury, she urged ministers to monitor the number of suicides in the year after the change comes in, adding: "I am certain there will be people who cannot face the debt and the loss of their home, who will take their lives."
Many people have died as a consequence of the welfare "reforms."
Not only have the government failed to carry out an impact assessment regarding the cuts, Lord Freud said that the impact, potential increase in deaths and suicides won't be monitored, apart from "privately" because individual details can't be shared and because that isn't a "useful approach".
He went on to say "We have recently produced a large analysis on this, which I will send to the noble Baroness. That analysis makes it absolutely clear that you cannot make these causal links between the likelihood of dying – however you die – and the fact that someone is claiming benefit."
However, a political refusal to investigate an established correlation between the welfare "reforms" and an increase in the mortality statistics of those hit the hardest by the cuts – sick and disabled people – is not the same thing as there being no causal link. Often, correlation implies causality and therefore such established links require further investigation. It is not possible to disprove a causal link without further investigation.
Whilst the government continue to deny there is a "causal link" between their punitive welfare policies, austerity measures and an increase in premature deaths and suicides, they cannot deny there is a clear correlation , which warrants further research and political accountability.
We have a government that provides disproportionate and growing returns to the already wealthy, whilst imposing austerity cuts on the very poorest. How the government possibly claim that inequality is falling, when inequality is so fundamental a prop to their ideology and when social inequalities are extended and perpetuated by all of their policies? It seems an Orwellian re-writing of language about inequality is being used to mislead us into thinking that the economy is far more "inclusive' than it is. The number of vulture private businesses payrolled by the government to deliver increasingly ideologically biased and punitive welfare, health and social care "services" has risen dramatically this past six years, all of which has cost the UK taxpayer billions.
Meanwhile, those people who need essential supportive public services are facing severe cuts to their lifeline provision. Many of the multinationals contracted by the government are paid to cut the costs of public services, but are costing the public far more than they save.far more than they save. This brand of neoliberal crony capitalist is an entrenched mindset that needs to radically change, because the only beneficiaries are big businesses, and at the expense of those people with the highest level of need. The government's policies are harming our most vulnerable citizens.
It seems that for wealthy people, "incentives" are always financial rewards, and for poor people, "incentives" simply involve grossly unfair financial punishments, which have too often challenged people's capacity to meet basic survival needs.
It's time to challenge the class-based prejudice and blatant discrimination that is embedded in Conservative policies, which ultimately may only serve to deepen existing wealth and health inequality and increase social and economic division.
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Aberdyfi Search And Rescue Team
Injured Farmer at Rhiw Gam
Shortly before 2:00 p.m. the Team was made aware of a seriously injured man in the hills south of Machynlleth.
The man, a 69 year old farmer, had fallen down a bank from a hill track at Rhiw Gam, and had sustained suspected pelvic and spinal injuries. Early reports suggested that he had been knocked over by a cow.
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Office 2.0 Reviews: Free the Chatter! Chatter is FREE!
A few months ago I wrote a post about Salesforce's new Chatter service and how Salesforce is being unreasonable charging money for this feature that should be a draw.. Well, as of today basic Chatter service is free as it should be.. This is going to serve Salesforce well as it provides a stepstool for getting onto the CRM train (how's that for a metaphor?)!


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Q: What is PostgreSQL equivalent of MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND? With zend2 Currently I use (mysql) But I will change to use postgres
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The Government has permitted the importation of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) since the 1970's for meeting the shortage of local full-time live-in domestic helpers. The arrangement is in line with the fundamental principle of the Government's labour policy that local workers should enjoy priority in employment. Employers can only import workers if they have difficulty in recruiting suitable local workers in Hong Kong.
The Government has prescribed the Standard Employment Contract (SEC) (form ID 407) to protect the interests of FDHs and their employers. The SEC for application of visa for FDHs is available for collection in the Information and Liaison Section of the Immigration Department on 2nd Floor, Immigration Tower, 7 Gloucester Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
To provide a quick reference on the rights and obligations of employers and FDHs, the Labour Department has issued the "Practical Guide for Employment of Foreign Domestic Helpers - What foreign domestic helpers and their employers should know", covering answers to some of the common questions raised by the FDHs and their employers. You may also visit the "Publicity Materials and related Publications" section for more materials relating to rights and obligations of FDHs and employers under the labour laws and SEC.
In addition to protection offered by labour legislations, FDHs enjoy additional protection, such as free accommodation, free food and free medical care by employers, as set out in the SEC. FDHs and their employers also have access to the free consultation and conciliation service provided by the Labour Department (click here for the addresses and contact details of offices of the Labour Relations Division of the Labour Department) in case of disputes. If no settlement could be reached by conciliation, the cases would be referred to the Labour Tribunal or the Minor Employment Claims Adjudication Board for adjudication.
To protect employers as well as the job opportunities of local workers, FDHs are not allowed to take up any other employment including part-time work, or to work at any places other than their employers' addresses as specified in the signed contracts.
For FAQs on contractual and statutory entitlements of FDHs, please click here.
Related link: Hiring Foreign Domestic Helpers
Minimum Allowable Wage (MAW)
The MAW is the wage protection offered to FDHs. Employers must pay FDHs a salary that is not less than the prevailing MAW at the time of signing the contract. This safeguards FDHs against exploitation on the one hand, and protects local workers from competition with cheap foreign labour. The MAW will be reviewed regularly by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, having regard to the general economic and employment situation in Hong Kong.
The prevailing MAW for FDHs is $4,630 per month, which is applicable to employment contracts signed on or after 28 September 2019. The previous MAW was $4,520, applicable to contracts signed between 29 September 2018 to 27 September 2019.