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Cameron's comedy turn won't make anybody happy
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Business, Conservative Party, Cost of living, Democracy, Disability, Economy, Employment and Support Allowance, European Union, Health, Housing, People, Politics, Poverty, UK, UKIP, unemployment
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David Cameron should be very happy that UKIP is around to make him look acceptable.
We can't ever say he'll look good, but in contrast to the 'Farage wave', the spectacle of UKIP being thrown out of the venue where it was supposed to be launching its European election campaign, and the never-ending queue of candidates who are desperate to embarrass themselves publicly – what's the latest one? "Women should be made to wear skirts because they're a turn-on for men"? Ye gods… – it's easy to think that the Conservatives are mild, or at least rational.
They're not.
But Cameron was keen to project an image of competence at the Conservatives' campaign launch for the local council elections. This is strange because, with his record of achievement, the things he was saying seem more like stand-up comedy than serious statements of ability.
Try this, about the European Union: "I have a track record of delivery – and believe me, whatever it takes, I will deliver this in-out referendum." A track record of delivery? Well, yes. He delivered a top-down reorganisation of the NHS that nobody wanted, leading to an inrush of private health companies into the NHS – that nobody wanted. He has delivered the lowest amount of house-building, per year, since records began. He has delivered a withered economic 'recovery' that arrived three years later than if he had continued with the plan of the previous, Labour, government. He has delivered all the benefits of that 'recovery' to the extremely rich, rather than sharing it equally with the people responsible for it. And he has delivered a new high in employment, with no economic benefit to the country, that has left workers on wages that are so low they are going into debt.
He delivered the bedroom tax.
He delivered a massive increase in the National Debt.
He delivered millions of people into poverty and food bank dependence.
Ha ha ha. Very funny, Mr Cameron.
He told us, "People said I would never veto a European treaty. In 2011 that's exactly what I did." Well, yes. But the rest of Europe just went right ahead and carried on without you. You marginalised Britain as a member of the EU and made us a laughing-stock in the eyes of the world.
"We came through the great recession together; we are building the great British revival together," he said. But he can't say that to the many thousands of people who used to be claiming sickness and disability benefits but aren't anymore because they are all dead. They didn't come through the great recession. Cameron cut off their means of survival, forcing them into situations in which their health was allowed to worsen until their conditions overwhelmed them, or their situation induced such huge bouts of depression that they took their own lives.
Ha h- no. That's not funny, Mr Cameron.
"The job is not done. If you want to finish the job we have started, back the party with a plan," he said. Well, no. The Conservative plan (such as it is) will destroy your employment rights, scrap the welfare state, maintain a huge underclass of unemployed people to use as fodder for work-for-your-benefit schemes (a contradiction in terms if ever there was one) to circumvent the minimum wage, and to claim credit for successes that aren't theirs.
There is only one reason to support the Conservative Party in this – or any other election.
That is if there is only one other political party on the ballot paper – and that party is UKIP.
The questions that Sunday Politics WON'T ask Iain Duncan Smith
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Like it or not, politics in the UK is far more nuanced today than it has been at any time in the last 100 years. How can it be anything else? All the main political parties are trying to occupy the same, narrow, centre-right ground.
Even so, one man has emerged as the pantomime villain of British politics: Iain Duncan Smith.
ConservativeHome readers regularly vote him into the top slot as the most popular cabinet minister – but it seems that anyone who has ever had dealings with his Department for Work and Pensions has the exact opposite opinion of him. He has been nicknamed IDS, but this blog calls him RTU instead – it stands for 'Returned To Unit', a military term for serving soldiers who have failed in officer training and have been returned in disgrace to their original unit (the implication being that his claim of a glittering military career is about as accurate as his claims to have been educated at the University of Perugia and Dunchurch College of Management).
Here at Vox Political, we believe that this man's tenure at the DWP will go down in history as one of the greatest disasters of British political history – not just recent history, but for all time. It is our opinion that his benefit-cutting policies have done more to accelerate the impoverishment of hard-working British people than the worst recession in the last century could ever have done by itself.
We believe the assessment regime for sickness and disability benefits, over which he has presided, has resulted in so many deaths that it could be considered the worst genocide this country has faced since the Harrowing of the North, almost 1,000 years ago.
That will be his legacy.
On Sunday, he will appear on the BBC's Sunday Politics show to answer your questions about his work. The show's Facebook page has invited readers to submit their own questions and this seems an appropriate moment to highlight some of those that have been submitted – but are never likely to be aired; RTU is far too vain to allow hyper-critical questioning to burst his bubble.
Here is our choice of just some questions he won't be answering:
"Why [has he] decided to cover up the number of suicides due to [his] benefit cuts?" "Why is he killing the elderly and the disabled?" "Does he have a figure (number of deaths) before he accepts a policy might not be working?"
"Universal Jobmatch, Universal Credit, WCA reforms, PIP; are there any policies and projects he has tried to implement that haven't been a massive shambolic waste of money, causing distress and sanctions to so many people?"
"Would he like to comment on the huge amount of people wrongly sanctioned, and would he like to explain why whistleblowers from the JCP have admitted there are sanction targets?"
"Ask him if he believes a comparison can be drawn between the government's persecution of the sick, disabled and mentally ill and the 'Action T4' instigated by the Nazis in 1939. I am sure the tow-the-line BBC will give him sight of the questions before he gets on the show so he will have time to look it up."
"People are now waiting months for their appeals to be heard and the meantime their benefits are stopped. What does he expect them to live on? Why [are] he and his Department pursuing this deliberate war against some of our most poor and vulnerable people?"
"Could he comment on the massive amount of money written off due to failures with the Universal Credit?"
"Why are we paying private companies to test disabled and sick people when one phone call to their consultant or GP would provide all relevant details they need?"
"[Does] he have any intention of putting his money where his mouth is, [living] on £53/week, and how does he square that with the £39 on expenses he claimed for breakfast? Half a million people signed the call for him to do so."
"Why are full time carers who look after loved ones only paid £59.75 a week? Less than JSA, indeed less than any other benefit! they save the tax payers millions, and yet have still been hammered by the changes in housing benefit, council tax benefit and of course the hated bedroom tax."
"Ask him about the Universal Jobsearch website and the fake jobs on the site. As a jobseeker, this site need[s] better monitoring."
"Ask him if the bedroom tax was really just a deceitful way to remove all social housing and force people into private rentals for the rich to claim housing benefits paid to claimants."
"Does he think that paying subsidies to supermarkets and other private companies via welfare benefits because they do not pay well enough is what government should be doing?"
Some of the questioners address Mr… Smith directly:
"Why do you keep testing people with incurable progressive illnesses? Once found unfit to work, [they] never will get any better so to retest is stressful, cruel, and not needed."
"Why are you telling Jobcentre Plus staff to get ESA claimants and JSA claimants to declare themselves self-employed, then reeling them in with the promise of an extra £20 per week? Is this why the unemployment rate fell last quarter?"
"You say you want the sick off what you call the scrap heap but with few jobs out there, do you mean off the scrap heap into the destitute gutter?"
"Do you feel remotely guilty for the lives you've ruined? the lies you've told? The dead people on your hands? Do you feel any shame at all that you've done all this and more? Do you sleep well at night knowing there are people who can't feed their children because of you?"
"As a committed Roman Catholic, how does your conscience deal with you supporting and advantaging privileged millionaires while you personally and systematically further impoverish the poor and disadvantaged?"
"Does he feel ashamed to have caused so much suffering, because he flipping well should!"
There were many more questions that were not appropriate for repetition.
To see what he does have to say for himself, tune in to Sunday Politics on BBC1, starting at 11am on March 9 (which is, as you might have guessed, Sunday).
Just don't get your hopes up.
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Labour and Atos – is it a distraction from the main issue?
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Corruption, Disability, Employment, Health, Labour Party, Law, People, Politics, Poverty, Public services, UK, unemployment
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Real change required: Sacking Atos would be a cosmetic difference if DWP policy remains unchanged under a Labour government. Let's have an announcement about that! [Picture: Skwawkbox blog]
Having had time away to think about this, it has occurred to me that in discussing whether Labour is right to say it will fire Atos – or whether it will even fulfil that promise – we are barking up the wrong tree.
Atos does what the DWP tells it to do. We can all say it does this work very badly, but that would be splitting hairs. The orders come from the Department.
Getting rid of Atos won't make any difference if the policy stays the same – and Labour's record on social security has not been good since neoliberal 'New Labour' took office in 1997.
So I reckon more pressure needs to be exerted on Mr Miliband and his front bench, to expel all traces – not only of Atos, but of Unum, the real influence, and to put forward a new policy that is, above all, humane to claimants of disability/sickness/incapacity benefits.
What he says on this subject will be very interesting. But he must be pinned down.
New policy.
No Unum.
No Atos – or any other unqualified overseers of our medical health.
Humane treatment for benefit claimants.
(And sack Liam Byrne!)
Revealed: ConDem 'vendetta' against citizens it believes are livestock
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Business, Conservative Party, Corruption, Democracy, Disability, Employment, Health, Housing, Immigration, Law, Liberal Democrats, Media, People, Politics, Poverty, Public services, Race, Tax, UK, unemployment
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"Fascist Britain, 2013. Everybody knows you can't beat the system. Everybody but…?"
It has been rumoured that V for Vendetta 'Guy Fawkes' masks are to be banned from large-scale public demonstrations in the UK.
They have already been banned in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
The masks were adopted by the loosely-affiliated protesters Anonymous as a clear indication of members' feelings towards a Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government whose actions, they believe, have been increasingly fascist.
These people have a point.
Has anyone read V for Vendetta lately? An early chapter, 'Victims', provides the historical background to the fascist Britain of the story – and provides very disturbing parallels with the current government and its policies.
In the story, there is a recession and a nuclear war. Fortunately, in real life we have managed to avoid the war (so far) but the recession of 2007 onwards has caused severe hardship for many, with average wages cut by nine per cent (in real terms) due to government policies.
In the story, the line "Everybody was waiting for the government to do something" is notable. Isn't that just about as British as you can get? As a nation, we seem unwilling to take the initiative; we just wait for someone else to do something. We queue up. And then we complain when we don't find exactly what we wanted at the end of the queue. But then it's too late.
Does the government "do something"? Well, no – not in the story, because there isn't any government worth mentioning at this point. But then… "It was all the fascist groups. The right-wingers. They'd all got together with some of the big corporations…"
Here's another parallel. How many corporations are enjoying the fruits of the Conservative-led (right-wing) government's privatisation drive?
Look at my IDS (I Believe) video on YouTube – which features only a tiny minority of those firms.
The NHS carve-up signified huge opportunities for firms like Circle Health and Virgin, and Bain Capital (who bought our blood plasma supplies). Care UK, the firm that famously sponsored Andrew Lansley while he was working on the regressive changes to the health service that eventually became the Health and Social Care Act 2012, no doubt also has fingers in the pie.
The Treasury is receiving help – if you can call it that – from the 'big four' accountancy firms – PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG. They have written the law on tax avoidance. By no coincidence at all, these are the firms that run the major tax avoidance schemes that have been taken up by businesses and rich individuals who are resident in the UK. For more information on the government's attitude to taxing the rich, see Michael Meacher's recent blog entry.
The Department for Work and Pensions has employed many private firms; this is the reason that department is haemorrhaging money. There are the work programme provider firms who, as has been revealed in previous blog entries, provide absolutely no useful training and are less likely to find anyone a job than if they carried on by themselves; there are the IT firms currently working on Universal Credit, about which Secretary of State Iain Duncan Smith lied to Parliament when he said he was having to write off £34 million of expenditure – the true figure was later revealed to be closer to £161 million, almost five times as much; there are Atos and Capita, and probably other firms that have been hired to carry out so-called 'work capability assessments' of people claiming sickness, incapacity and disability benefits, according to a plan that intentionally ignores factual medical evidence and places emphasis on a bogus, tick-box test designed to find ways to cut off their support; and there is Unum Insurance, the criminal American corporation that designed that test, in order to push British workers into buying its bogus insurance policies that work on exactly the same principle – this is theft on a grand scale.
So we have a government in cahoots with big business, and treating the citizens – the voters – like cattle. We'll see more of this as we go on.
"Then they started taking people away… All the black people and the Pakistanis…" All right, these social groups have not been, specifically, targeted (yet) – but we have seen evidence that our government would like to do so. Remember those advertising vans the Home Office funded, that drove around London with a message that we were told was for illegal immgrants: "Go home"?
"That is a term long-associated with knuckle-dragging racists," said Owen Jones on the BBC's Any Questions.
This blog's article on the subject added that not only this, but other governments (like that in Greece) had created an opportunity to start rounding up anybody deemed "undesirable" by the state. "Greece is already rounding up people of unorthodox sexuality, drug addicts, prostitutes, immigrants and the poor and transferring them to internment and labour camps," it stated.
Note also the government's response to criticism from UN special rapporteur on adequate housing Raquel Rolnik. Grant Shapps and Iain Duncan Smith and their little friends tried to say that she had not done her job properly but, when this was exposed as a lie, they reverted to type and attacked her for her racial origin, national background, and beliefs – political and personal. You can read the lot in this despicable Daily Mail smear piece.
Back to V for Vendetta, where the narrative continues: "White people too. All the radicals and the men who, you know, liked other men. The homosexuals. I don't know what they did with them all." Well, we know what Greece is doing with them all, and in the story, such people also ended up in internment and labour camps. We'll come back to that.
"They made me go and work in a factory with a lot of other kids. We were putting matches into boxes. I lived in a hostel. It was cold and dirty…"
Last month this blog commented on government plans for 'residential Workfare for the disabled', rounding up people with disabilities and putting them into modern-day workhouses where someone else would profit from their work while they receive benefits alone – and where the potential for abuse was huge. If that happens, how long will it be before every other jobseeker ends up in a similar institution?
A while ago, a friend in the cafe I visit said that a Tory government will always see every class of people other than its own as "livestock". That's the word he used – "livestock". From the above, with descriptions of people being treated like cattle, or being herded into the workhouse for someone else to profit from their work, it seems he has a very strong case.
So let's go back to these internment and labour camps – in V for Vendetta they're called "resettlement" camps. A later chapter – The Vortex – reveals that inmates at such camps are subjected to unethical medical experimentation. The doctor carrying out the trials notes in her diary that the camp commandant "promised to show me my research stock… they're a poor bunch."
Her research stock are human beings who have been subjected to conditions similar to those of the Nazi concentration camps. Notice the language – this doctor considers the other human beings taking part to be her property. And they are "research stock" – in other words, she does not see them as other human beings but as livestock – exactly as the friend in the cafe stated.
And jobseekers in today's UK are being coerced into experimental drug trials, disguised as job opportunities, according to the latest reports.
V for Vendetta's tagline – the blurb that set the scene – was: "Fascist Britain, 1997". It seems the only part that its author, Alan Moore, actually got wrong was the date.
Zero hours, zero benefits, zero enthusiasm. Why would anyone take a job on these terms?
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Business, Corruption, Employment, People, Politics, Poverty, UK
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The rise of zero-hours contracts: These figures from the Office for National Statistics may be showing only one-fifth of the picture, according to new research.
The rise of the zero-hours contract must be deeply disturbing to all those with an interest in fair employment practices.
The arrangement is that an employee agrees to be available for work whenever required, but with no set number of hours or times of work specified. The employee is expected to be on-call at all times but is paid only for the number of hours that are actually worked.
There appears to be no pension scheme, no sickness cover, no holiday entitlement – no rights other than those laid down by health and safety regulations (which the government is trying to ditch) and the National Minimum Wage Act (also under threat from the Conservative-led government).
Also, the system is open to abuse by managers, who can use it to reward some employees (and the term is used in its loosest possible sense) with extra hours or punish others with fewer.
And how, exactly, is an employee supposed to be engaged in, and enthusiastic about, a job where they are treated as a disposable commodity, to be picked up and thrown away whenever it is expedient?
It seems possible that there is an argument in favour of zero-hours contracts – but only for employees who want to top-up another income stream; people who want occasional earnings and are flexible about when they work. The problem here is that it seems likely employers will want these people to work at times when it will be hard to meet the commitment.
For anyone else – including people who are unemployed, penniless, and need the certainty of a properly-constituted employment contract with set hours, pay and conditions, there seems to be no point in taking up such a contract at all. Yet they are proliferating across the UK.
Is the Department of Work and Pensions, through the Job Centre Plus network, forcing these conditions on jobseekers?
Such a situation might be a huge boost to employment figures, but it would also explain why average pay has fallen so drastically in recent years and the economy has failed – so abjectly – to reignite.
Today (Monday) it is being reported that more than a million UK workers are on zero-hours contracts – four times official estimates.
The BBC is reporting that 14 per cent of these could not earn a basic standard of living. If Job Centres are forcing people into these jobs, via the sanctions regime, this is scandalous. Perhaps it is permitted by law, but this would only mean that the government should have a duty to ensure that jobs which are taken under the threat of sanction are capable of providing this basic standard.
Worse still for the government is the allegation, in research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, that public sector firms – those with government contracts – are more likely to use zero-hours contracts than private companies.
This is particularly prevalent in education and healthcare.
And how is the benefits system affected by these contracts?
CIPD chief executive Peter Cheese told the BBC: "Zero-hours contracts cannot be used simply to avoid an employer's responsibilities to its employees." But isn't that exactly how they are being used? Don't the number of people saying they can't make ends meet, and the wider state of the economy, indicate exactly that?
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis seems to have got it right when he said: "The vast majority of workers are only on these contracts because they have no choice. They may give flexibility to a few, but the balance of power favours the employers and makes it hard for workers to complain.
"The growing number of zero-hours contracts also calls into question government unemployment figures."
Business secretary Vince Cable has ordered a review of the zero-hours contracts system, to take place over the summer. He played down fears of abuse, saying evidence was "anecdotal" and adding that "it's important our workforce remains flexible" (in employment terms, this means all the power is with the employer, while the actual worker has to adapt to the circumstances foisted upon them).
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham called for zero-hours contracts to be banned, back in April this year.
It seems clear that they are unsafe and open to abuse. But would an all-out ban be appropriate?
Would it not be wiser for Job Centres to continue advertising them, but with no obligation to recommend them to jobseekers (and certainly no requirement to force anyone into applying for them), and with a requirement to warn anyone considering taking up such a position about the possibility that they will not be able to survive on the pay provided?
This might go some way to redressing the balance of power with employers; without the coercive power of the government supporting these contracts, they might try more traditional (and fairer) employment models.
This is a subject worth more examination. What are your thoughts?
Doubletalking DWP's new assault on the sick
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Conservative Party, Disability, Health, People, Politics, Poverty, UK, Workfare
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Their doctors will say you're not sick: The DWP's new policy is another sign of disrespect to PROPER health professionals across the UK; their diagnoses aren't good enough for the Department. It's bringing its own people in, to pretend more sick people are actually healthy, no doubt.
"People on sickness benefits will be required to have regular meetings with doctors, occupational health nurses and therapists to help them address their barriers to work – or face losing their benefits," the Department for Work and Pensions announced yesterday.
The initiative was revealed under the euphemistic headline 'Help for people on sickness benefits to address barriers to work' and shows yet again that ministers in the DWP do not understand the meaning of the word "sick".
"Around 3,000 people on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) who have been assessed as being able to work in the future will have regular appointments with healthcare professionals as a condition of receiving their benefit. The meetings will focus on helping claimants to move closer to being able to get a job," the DWP press release states.
"The proposed pilot scheme will compare the help given by doctors, occupational health nurses and therapists to two other pilot schemes which will offer enhanced support from Jobcentre Plus and Work Programme providers to see which is best at helping people off sickness benefits and into work."
This is all very well, but has it not occurred to DWP officials that perhaps a person who is off work because of illness may already be involved in meetings with healthcare professionals?
This is anecdotal evidence, I know, but Mrs Mike has attended many, many appointments with her GP, physiotherapists, osteopaths, other back specialists, nerve specialists, surgeons, she's had MRI and CT scans, spent a week at the pain clinic in Bronllys Hospital (recently featured on a BBC documentary which notably focused on its successes and not its failures – it does have them) and is currently due to attend an appointment at the orthopaedic hospital in Gobowen.
What do DWP officials think its people can do, that these specialists – who are experts in their field – cannot?
Employment minister Mark Hoban trotted out the usual line that "we need to ensure that people who are able to work get the encouragement they need to get a job, while those who are too sick to work get real support". What, by threatening them with losing their sole source of income? That's not encouragement – it's bullying; it's threats; it's intimidation.
"Many people on sickness benefits want to work, so it's vitally important that we give them the right help to move into a job if they are able. The help we give people at the moment tends to focus on work-related skills, but doesn't necessarily address health problems. But by giving people regular support from doctors, occupational health nurses and therapists we can do more to help people manage or improve their conditions."
The thought of the DWP – an organisation that absolutely refuses, under any circumstances, to publish the number of people its policies are killing every week (or have killed already) – claiming it is trying to help people into work is laughable. The fact that it will do this by threatening to remove their benefits is serious to the point of being deadly.
The release goes on to remind us all that people in the work-related activity group of ESA recipients already have 'work-focussed interviews' with Job Centre Plus staff as a condition of receiving their benefit. This is true – Mrs Mike attended and, due to her interest in finding work, was passed on to a work programme provider who immediately – within one telephone conversation – told her she was not fit for any kind of work, the Atos assessment had put her in the wrong group and she must seek re-assessment with a view to going into the support group immediately.
That was in January; the DWP has been dragging its heels somewhat. I would say this demonstrates the department's real concern for people with long-term health problems (almost as much as those nebulous death figures).
In the pilot area, the press release states, the work interview would be replaced by meetings with healthcare professionals – provided by the DWP. The length and frequency of the meetings would be flexible, depending on the individuals' needs.
Would these healthcare professionals by contracted in from private health companies? If so, isn't this just another 'bung' of taxpayers' cash to friends of the Conservative ministers in charge of the DWP? Does anyone else sense yet another monumental, Work Programme-style waste of taxpayers' cash on the horizon here?
"The regular discussions will focus claimants on how they can improve their view of their readiness for work by taking steps to manage their health issues," the release claims. "They will not replace a person's GP, but can promote health support and help a claimant to re-engage with their GP if they are struggling to adapt to their condition." Plausible language, but let's remember this is DWP doublespeak, so we must not expect anything of the sort.
There will be three separate pilot schemes:
Healthcare professional-led – mandatory engagement with health care professionals. Interestingly, this will use funding from the European Social Fund. How they managed to persuade the EU that this was a good idea defies rational explanation.
Jobcentre Plus – enhanced Jobcentre Plus support
Work Programme – enhanced support designed by Work Programme provider
The pilots will begin in November and will run until August 2016 – so, if there's any justice, they will be terminated in May 2015 when a sensible government takes over. This depends on whether Labour can devise any reasonable ideas for Work and Pensions in the next 18 months or so, of course.
The pilots will involve people on ESA in the work related activity group who are expected to be able to return to work in 18 months or over – based on the flawed Atos work capability assessments that we all know make wrong decisions in an unacceptable number of cases.
While we're discussing ways of getting sick people off-benefit (which is what this is about – never mind putting them back into work), I wonder whether DWP officials partaking in this scheme will also employ the "Pester Power" strategy?
I learned about this from Vox Political commenter Maria Nelson this morning. She wrote: "They partake in something called 'Pester Power' to bully and harass claimants… knowing it may push people over the edge."
Apparently it is employed by staff "who bully claimants by hanging up on them and aggravating stressed, angry claimants, losing paperwork etc to create misery – sanctioning etc… Their horrid phone service is privately operated and numbers changed regular[ly] – wrong numbers given out – and it generates nice profits for that private company, and there's supposed to be a free number for mobile callers but no-one gets told… I was so shocked [by] what I was told, I forgot to ask [for] it".
Following on from the negative response to my Freedom of Information request about the Atos/DWP deaths, we all know that the DWP is monitoring this blog – so how about making yourselves useful? Why not come out of the undergrowth and give us some useful information about this alleged strategy?
Come to that, why not come out of the undergrowth and give us the facts about the number of people who are dying because of the fatal policies practised by your department? You do realise, don't you, that your continued participation involves you in mass murder, don't you? After the response to the FOI request, I see no reason to give any of you the benefit of the doubt; not only are you participating in a scheme that leads to death – it is revealed as a scheme that is intended to cause death. You don't cover up mass deaths, with an intention to continue the policies that cause them, without intending to induce those deaths.
That's murder. If you are an employee of the DWP involved in this process, then you are implicated. There will be trials; the dead will have justice. And, just as in Nuremberg in the 1940s, saying you were "only following orders" will not help you.
You should consider a change of career.
Tory talk and support for backdoor genocide will ruin any chance of defeating the Blue Meanies
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The newest right-wing party: This Gary Baker cartoon appeared after Ed Miliband's 'One Nation' speech last year, but let's adopt it to illustrate the fact that successive Labour leaders, from Blair to Brown to Miliband, have steered the party ever-further away from its support base until, with Miliband's speech this week, it has become a pale shadow of the Conservative Party it claims to oppose, leaving the majority of the UK's population with nobody to speak for them.
Yesterday I wrote that Ed Miliband's speech on social security reform was the beginning of the Conservative victory in 2015 – and picked up a little criticism for it in some areas. I stand by my words.
Ed's speech proved he is not a leader but a follower. He has agreed to follow Conservative spending cuts and not reverse them. He has agreed to follow Tory spending plans for the first year after a Labour government takes office (if it does) in 2015. He has said he would cap social security spending, formally adopting as policy an idea the Tories floated during the March budget. He has agreed to give up the principle of universal benefits.
He has done this when the Conservatives have no argument whatsoever that can possibly justify what they are doing.
All the Tory claims about austerity have blown away in the wind – hot air to disguise their real aim of shrinking the state and selling off the family silver to their rich friends.
Iain Duncan Smith is to face a grilling by Parliament's Work and Pensions committee over his – and his colleagues – persistent misrepresentation of the facts about unemployment, sickness and disability and the people claiming benefits on these grounds.
As for the benefit cap, Miliband said an independent body should advise government on how best to design it. Great! Can I sit on this body? I could do with the cash!
Or is it another example of fake jobs for the boys to get their snouts in the trough?
The system needs to change, because the Conservatives/Coalition have cocked it up. Miliband offered up more of the same, with a little bit of tinkering around the edges. Red Conservative.
For a party that's supposed to be the official Opposition to the government, there was a hell of a lot of Tory talk in Miliband's speech, like this: "It is only by reforming social security with the right values that we'll be able to control costs." Tory values?
"We have always been against the denial of opportunity that comes from not having work. And against the denial of responsibility by those who could work and don't do so," he accused, in one of those confusing single-sentences-split-into-two that make his speeches so utterly unreadable. But he needs to get his facts right. The number of people who could work but don't do so is around 2.5 million – but that's because there isn't any work available for them. One job for every five people, although we have witnessed moments when adverts for a handful of places at a single shop have attracted thousands of applications. These people aren't denying responsibility, Ed – they're desperate for a chance.
He was referring to benefit fraud, though, wasn't he? Benefit fraud is the bogeyman that haunts much of Iain Duncan Smith's policy, even though it is, as the facts show, a ghost. In fact, 99.3 per cent of all benefit claims are genuine and are made out of real need – according to government figures – and that figure rises to 99.6 per cent in sickness and disability cases. It's not a perfect situation but any system will have its abusers, and that's why we have fraud detection built into it. Benefit fraud is not a huge problem, and Miliband does himself and his party enormous harm by adopting the Tory line and alienating the genuinely sick and disabled people who have been fighting the unjust removal of their benefits by a system he seems unlikely to reform, for all his weasel words.
He returns to this theme later: "Just as there is a minority who should be working and don't want to, there is a majority who are desperate for work and can't find it." Evil, divisive, Tory rhetoric. Isn't this the man who wants a 'One Nation' government? Why is he trying to split us up and set us against each other? That's Tory policy.
Have some more of the same: "I want to teach my kids that it is wrong to be idle on benefits, when you can work" – implying that people – many people – are in just that position. Tory divisiveness from a Labour leader.
Here's another: "It appears that some people get something for nothing and other people get nothing for something – no reward for the years of contribution they make." This one really got my goat because it turns the principle of the Welfare State on their head.
For goodness' sake, it isn't about paying in money in order to get exactly the same amount back another time. It's about contributing to the welfare of the state as a whole, including everyone in it. A Labour leader should be making the argument that this is not about selfishness; if you're a part of this nation, you contribute to its well-being. "From each according to [their] ability, to each according to [their] needs," as Marx put it. His philosophy may be out of fashion with the 'Me, me, me' generation but that doesn't make those words any less relevant to the funding of a national economy.
I wonder whether quoting Bob Crow from last night's This Week programme will actually make the message any easier to hear, but I'll give it a go. He said: "It's the strong helping the weak – that's what the whole welfare benefits system is based on."
"We have to tackle this too," bleated Miliband. Yes, we do – by correcting the wrong attitude, whenever we hear someone spouting it. So get a clue, Ed.
There are dire portents for the future "laser-focusing" of a Labour government's spending, as well.
Look at his ideas about attempts to get people into work. He said: "This government's work programme can leave people… unemployed year after year after year," leading one to believe that he'll ditch the work programme and its useless money-grubbing private, for-profit 'provider' firms that have been leeching millions from us for years. Official figures have proved they are worse than useless.
Alas no. He went on to voice his support for the grievously damaging Atos-run assessment regime for Employment and Support Allowance, claiming that this backdoor genocide policy "was the right thing to do. We continue to support tests" that kill 73 people per week, on average, according to official figures last year.
His problem with the Atos test was that it should be focused on helping to identify "the real skills of each disabled person and the opportunities they could take up" – completely missing the point about disability. Of course people who are off work with illness have skills, but they cannot use those skills because they are ill! It doesn't take a genius to work out the sticking-point so he must be intentionally avoiding it.
And then, the killing blow: "So these tests should be connected to a work programme that itself is tested on its ability to get disabled people jobs that work for them." He would re-employ the useless and wasteful 'work programme provider' firms, putting the final seal of hopelessness on the lives of people who thought they could rely on him for help.
Perhaps the worst betrayal in this whole sorry mess – and I've only scratched the surface here – is the fact that Miliband and Labour had the front to claim they were making tough decisions. There's nothing tough about copying the hated policies of a hated and failed administration. There's nothing tough about allowing their private-interest friends to continue bleeding the state of its cash, and there's nothing tough about opening up more opportunities for them to strip us of whatever we have left.
Miliband and his team have proved they cannot take the tough decisions; that they are followers and not leaders. If they can't – or won't – step up and meet the challenge of our times – starting with a retraction and apology for yesterday's speech – then they should make way for somebody who will.
And they should do it now, while there is still time to mount a credible opposition to David Cameron's government of failures.
Postscript: One aspect of the speech I haven't explored in detail relates to housing benefit, and the pledge to build more houses. Be warned: It seems this heralds another expensive and wasteful private finance initiative (PFI) adventure: "We would let [councils] keep some of the savings they make, on the condition that they invested that money in helping build new homes." I have a feeling that those homes would fall into private hands at some point in the future – at huge cost to the taxpayer. Again.
Tory department of dirty deeds swings into pre-election action
Posted by Mike Sivier in Conservative Party, Labour Party, Politics, UKIP
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The Nasty Party is at it again, spreading dire warnings about its political foes and trawling opponents' appearances on the social media for anything it can use against them.
Labour and – especially – UKIP candidates had better watch out; these are people who will take any apparently-innocuous off-the-cuff comment and turn it into galloping racism (for example) before your eyes!
The Party of Smears kicked off in typical fashion yesterday by attacking UKIP as "a collection of clowns" in a protest party with no positive policies, that was primarily opposed to foreigners.
The comment about being a party of protest will also ring in the ears of Labour candidates, after former party leader Tony Blair warned Ed Miliband that Labour must not be seen as one.
According to the BBC, UKIP reckons it has evidence that Conservative Central Office is spreading smears about its candidates, after spending months trawling through the Twitter and Facebook accounts of anyone likely to be a candidate.
Meanwhile The Guardian has reported a warning to Labour MPs from party vice-chairman Michael Dugher, that they will all be under "intense scrutiny" from the Tories for the next 18 months to two years, with Conservatives "scouring" opposition MPs' Twitter accounts (and, we can well expect, Facebook pages) for damaging or embarrassing material.
"The message was that while you might not be household names now, any slip can instantly make you one and do huge damage to the party. The next 18 months is crucial. And the next few weeks are crucial ahead of the June spending review," a 'source' is quoted as saying.
Facebook has already been the subject of controversy over alleged links with the Conservative Party, after blogger Tom Pride said he had been told by a Job Centre Plus employee that the Department for Work and Pensions had conspired with the social media giant to create a blackout around his blog because it criticised the Coalition government.
That blackout spread to other blogs including Vox Political, in a bid to choke off critical political writing, with potential readers warned that sites "may be unsafe" in an effort to turn them away. Although initially successful, with hits on this blog suffering during the early part of last week, the attack was routed after Facebook users were told that they were being manipulated. Hopefully, visits to this site will soon be back to pre-attack levels.
UKIP has taken the Tory attacks in its stride. The relatively young party has taken on nearly 2,000 candidates to contest the local elections on Thursday and has admitted it has not had time to check all their backgrounds properly. Therefore, the party says, it is glad the Conservatives are doing this job and has begun investigating six candidates over alleged links to the British National Party and other far-right groups.
UKIP sources have also stated their certainty that, if they were to investigate Conservative candidates in a similar manner, they might find "even more examples" to use in a counter-attack, summing up the Tory tactic as "morally reprehensible and downright dirty".
"It isn't scrutiny; it's smear," said a spokesperson.
Of course, this fighting among the right-wing, minority-interest parties (and if you don't think the Tories are a minority-interest party, you haven't been following their policies for the last three years) should be very helpful to Labour.
UKIP's popularity splits the right-wing vote, meaning Labour has more chance to gain a majority in marginal council wards (and, by extension, marginal Parliamentary constituencies). At least, that's one theory.
The problem is the fact that Labour voters might decide to defect on Thursday, as well – maybe even to UKIP, despite the fact that that party's position is further to the right than the Conservatives'.
Much of this problem, Labour believes, lies in policy – with many people unaware of what most members of the Labour front bench actually do.
And this is compounded, in my opinion, by the fact that the one policy area in which Labour's position is known is such a cast-iron, vote-losing, disaster for the party: Welfare/Work and Pensions.
Yet a Guardian article about a possible reshuffle makes no mention of Liam Byrne and his deputy Stephen Timms whatsoever – despite the fact that their decision not to oppose a blatantly illegal stitch-up of the system by the Tory DWP secretary Iain Duncan Smith enraged Labour heartlands across the country. Indeed, a fellow blogger recently headlined an article with the profanity (which I'll edit here) 'Liam Byrne f*ck off'.
It is long past time that Ed Miliband told him to do so. If Labour does not abandon Byrne's horrifying attempt to equal the Tories' brutality towards Britain's most vulnerable people, in favour of a new policy that attacks the causes of unemployment, sickness and disability rather than the symptoms, then Labour will lose the next general election.
And that will be an even graver disaster for us all.


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@author: worm
'''

from django.urls.base import reverse
from snapshotServer.tests.views.Test_Views import TestViews

class Test_StepListView(TestViews):

    def test_stepExists(self):
        """
        Test that steps are found for our test case
        """
        response = self.client.get(reverse('steplistView', kwargs={'testCaseInSessionId': 1}))
        self.assertEqual(len(response.context['object_list']), 1)
        self.assertEqual(list(response.context['object_list'])[0].name, "Step 1")

    def test_multiple_steps_with_order(self):
        """
        Test that steps are found for our test case
        """
        response = self.client.get(reverse('steplistView', kwargs={'testCaseInSessionId': 101}))
        self.assertEqual(len(response.context['object_list']), 2)
        self.assertEqual(list(response.context['object_list'])[0].name, "Logged")
        self.assertEqual(list(response.context['object_list'])[1].name, "Login")

    def test_no_step_exists(self):
        """
        Test that no steps are found for our test case
        """
        response = self.client.get(reverse('steplistView', kwargs={'testCaseInSessionId': 20}))
        self.assertEqual(len(response.context['object_list']), 0)

    def test_context_complete(self):
        """
        Test that extra information are added to the context
        """
        response = self.client.get(reverse('steplistView', kwargs={'testCaseInSessionId': 1}))
        self.assertEqual(response.context['testCaseId'], '1')

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No matter how hard I try, I cannot seem to get the wrinkles out of this shirt. I've ironed it plenty of times, but I think it has it out for me. I've considered giving it away because of the issue, but every time I go to take it off the hanger and throw it my pile of clothes that need new homes, I can't bring myself to do it. Those scallops! That mustard color! I can handle a few wrinkles, right? And so, every few months, I put it on and face the consequences. Eternally wrinkled I shall be. ...but I mean, it's still cute, right? Right.
My life right now is just counting down the days until I get to leave customer service forever. I can't wait until I don't have to be yelled at by rude people for mistakes I didn't make. It's brutal, to say the least. On the bright side, I will forever be overly kind to anyone working in customer service for the rest of my life. So there's that.
You have some serious luck with the thrifting Gods, lady! Those shoes are beautiful <3 Loving the mustard with the blue! Hoping the days fly forward for you!
And where is the new job?! Congrats!!
Ahh I used to work customer service and I hated it too! I honestly think that everyone should be required to work in customer service or wait tables for a while so that they would learn to never be rude to the people who serve you!
I also really adore your blouse - I get why you wouldn't want to get rid of it, despite the wrinkles. To be honest, I didn't even notice them... haha!
I worked in retail for a few years so I totally understand the troubles of service jobs. It opens your eyes to how people really are. On the flip side, I have also seen some SUPER nice people from working sales so it's not all bad!


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Fox Sports Parts Ways with NFL Announcer Brian Billick After Six Years
By Brian Alexander Giuffra
Fox Sports has parted ways with football analyst Brian Billick after six years, sources tell The Big Lead. Billick's contract was up, and Fox Sports decided not to renew it.
A Fox Sports spokesman confirmed the news to The Big Lead Sunday afternoon. "We simply decided to move in a different direction. We appreciate all of Brian's contributions over the years at Fox."
In January 2013, Billick and play-by-play announcer Thom Brennaman called a playoff game. In January 2014, Fox instead went with the up-and-coming pair of Kevin Burkhardt and analyst John Lynch.
It's unclear what the next step will be for Billick, who won a Super Bowl as coach of the Baltimore Ravens. He turned 60 in February, but last coached in 2007. One possible landing spot is the NFL Network.
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Latino and Latin American artists explore the…
Latino and Latin American artists explore the concept of home in LACMA exhibit
The art work of Daniel Joseph Martinez, the west bank is missing: i am not dead, am i, sits on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The art work of Guillermo Kuitca, Le Sacre, sits on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Artist Daniel Joseph Martinez shows his work, the west bank is missing: i am not dead, am i, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The art work of Pepon Osorio, Badge of Honor, sits on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Artist Leyla Cardenas shows her work, Excision, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The art work of Camilo Ontiveros, Temporary Storage: The Belongings of Juan Manuel Montes, sits on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Carlos Lagunas takes a photograph of the art work of Pepon Osorio, Badge of Honor, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The art work of Abraham Cruzvillegas, Self-Construction, sits on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The art work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (North), sits on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Artist Carmen Argote shows her work, 720 Sq. Ft.: Household Mutations, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Jody Zellen takes a photograph of the art work of Johanna Calle, Black Opus, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 07, 2017. The art work of 40 Latino and Latin American artists are presented in the exhibition Home- So Different, So Appealing, the first of five exhibitions at LACMA in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. (Photo by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
By Sandra Barrera | sbarrera@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2017 at 9:34 pm | UPDATED: September 14, 2017 at 1:34 pm
For the past 60 years, Latino and Latin American artists have been exploring the notion of home amid a changing political and socioeconomic landscape.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the first institution to combine about 100 thought-provoking works by 40 artists for the exhibit "Home — So Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas since 1957," now on view through Oct. 15 in the Broad Contemporary Art Museum.
Four years in the making, the exhibition is not a chronological survey but organized into thematic clusters that showcase diverse artists of different generations working across continents in a range of styles.
"I like to think of each gallery as a meditation upon issues that have been extremely topical over the last 60 years but that are extremely topical today in our current political climate," says Mari Carmen Ramirez, the exhibition's co-curator.
Ramirez is also the Wortham curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she is also director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas.
The exhibition is a collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center and Vincent Price Art Museum at East L.A. College.
Highlights include Camilo Ontiveros' "Temporary Storage: The Belongings of Juan Manuel Montes," a "dreamer" protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program designed to shield kids brought to the country illegally and recently deported by President Donald Trump's administration.
The work is a re-creation of Ontiveros' 2009 work. In this updated version, the artist gathers Montes' personal belongings — a plaid quilt-covered twin bed, flat-screen TV, basketball, office chair, red boxing gloves, full-length door mirror, welding books and clothing — and bundles them together with ropes.
The objects are shown precariously balanced atop a pair of sawhorses to represent the instability in the lives of undocumented immigrants with no permanent place to call home.
Ontiveros' sculpture is one of many reiterations of a previous work, including Maria Elena Gonzalez's "Magic Carpet."
A replica floor plan of an apartment in the Nickerson Gardens projects in Watts transformed into an undulating wave, the sculpture has been shown many times, including in South L.A.'s Ted Watkins Park, where residents interacted with it over a six-month period.
"We're very excited to include it in this new context and to give it a new element of play while considering issues that pertain to housing developments and the urban condition," says Pilar Tompkins Rivas, the first Latina to oversee the Vincent Price Art Museum since its founding in 1957.
Still another re-creation is Daniel Joseph Martinez's "The West Bank Is Missing: I Am Not Dead, Am I." First shown in New York, it consists of two large sculptures featuring three-dimensional representations of 22 Israeli settlements outlined in clear Vacuform shapes.
"This is a model of architecture that is used in the United States for the poor, middle class and very rich," Martinez says. "But the Israelis in Gaza and the West Bank are using architecture as a tool of war, and they've done it by building illegal settlements. By building illegal settlements, they're essentially squeezing the territory of the Palestinians until there's nothing left."
"Home — So Different, So Appealing" is the first of five exhibitions to open at LACMA in conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, which officially launches in September at institutions across Southern California to explore Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with L.A.
The other LACMA exhibitions include "Playing With Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz" opening Aug. 6, "A Universal History of Infamy" opening Aug. 20, "Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985" opening Sept. 17 and "Painted in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici" opening Nov. 19.
Sandra Barrera
Los Angeles Daily News reporter Sandra Barrera has been writing about entertainment and lifestyle topics since 1998. Before joining the Daily News in 2000, she was a reporter for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario where she helped launch the now-defunct entertainment magazine 72HOURS as its music writer. Her reporting career at the Daily News has included fashion coverage from the red carpet at Hollywood's biggest awards shows, home and garden trends with a particular focus on earth-friendly alternatives and a wide range of events, from theater to the latest happenings at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
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Pete grew up on Sydney's Northern Beaches and sports were (and still are) his passion. Being a year round surfer his interest in the weather and what brought wind and swell etc. grew. When the family bought a holiday house at Anglers Reach in the NSW Snowy Mountains in the early 80's, school holidays in winter were now spent on the slopes with his cousins. With only one trip to the mountains a year, the big question was always "when will it snow?".
It wasn't until years later when the internet came about that Pete's interest in the weather started to focus on the snow and when the snowfalls would come. Now weather charts were accessible and there was also the opportunity to chat to other likeminded snow enthusiasts. Around 1995 the ski.com.au website was created and the forum there was the place to talk snow. Pete (known as 'The Frog') started to post up his thoughts on coming weather systems and the chances of them bringing snow. The method Pete came up with seemed to be pretty accurate and it wasn't long until he began to get emails asking for forecasts for particular dates from all over the country. Recognition in snow magazines meant that he must be doing something right.
Answering the endless emails was very time consuming so Snowatch was started so that all the forecasts could be published daily for all to see free of charge. The very basic single page site began to get quite popular and enquiries came from snow industry companies wanting to advertise on the page so the keen snow lovers could see their brand/product. Pete's thoughts were also sought out for the planning of World Cup Aerial events in the early 2000's held at Mt.Buller.
The site has grown from just a forecasting page for the Australian resorts to a comprehensive snow site featuring the Australian forecasts, NZ forecasts for the South Island, snow cams, forums, accommodation listings and now feature articles.
These days Pete has a young family and lives on the Northern Beaches of Wollongong. He still works fulltime in his 'real' job (graphic designer) and gets up very early 6 months of the year to do the forecasts before getting his two young boys up and heading off to work. The rest of the year is late nights working on the website. Snow and snow forecasting are his passions and Snowatch is his second home. Snowatch is still a one man operation and as such can be flexible which is how Pete is able to use it as a vehicle to promote the Australian snow industry, something he feels very strongly about and will continue to do so.
Pete is now regarded by many in the industry as the best long range snow forecaster in the country and the best part about that for snow lovers is that he doesn't charge for his forecasts…"I could never charge someone for something I can't guarantee. The weather is a fickle thing and I wouldn't feel right knowing I took money off someone and then got the forecast wrong. I don't need to make millions; it's not why I do it."
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Brianna Wu's talk carried a lot of really important messages, but I think among the most fundamental for people here and on the internet to realize was that Empathy is a learned trait, not something that can and should come naturally to everyone. People have a hard time placing themselves in the shoes of others, wondering about how they might experience things differently, and as a consequence, we tend to treat one another with the expectation that everyone will react the way we do to something, rather than examining their own behavior to figure out how they might feel about it.
This is exactly the sort of dangerous behavior that leads to assumptions being made, and the regular denial of other people's experiences. If you haven't experienced racism, then of course you won't have a strong personal reaction to it, and assuming that, because you aren't personally bothered by it that other people aren't or shouldn't be is a terrible thing to do to your fellow human being.
Empathy provides the solution to this problem. It's not an easy solution, necessarily, as it requires one to think carefully about the reception of their actions and statements, which can't always be easy. We can't account for everything, right? While that is correct, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try our damndest in every interaction to practice our empathy, as that's the only way to improve it, and as we do so, it of course can only make our lives and interactions even easier.
When discussing issues of misogyny or #Gamergate and the gaming community, I think people are in desperate need of empathy. Being overly concerned with abstract causes and not concerned with the people involved makes it very hard for the conversation to be anything but talking past one another.


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The U.S. Coast Guard published guidance that allows mariners to use electronic charts and publications instead of paper charts, maps and publications.
The Coast Guard published Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular, NVIC 01-16, on Feb. 5 to provide uniform guidance on what is now considered equivalent to chart and publication carriage requirements.
"After consultation with our Navigation Safety Advisory Committee, the Coast Guard will allow mariners to use official electronic charts instead of paper charts, if they choose to do so. With real-time voyage planning and monitoring information at their fingertips, mariners will no longer have the burden of maintaining a full portfolio of paper charts," said Capt. Scott J. Smith, the chief of the U.S. Coast Guard's Office of Navigation Systems.
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Yesterday afternoon, we took a small selection of pupils over to Wollaton Park, to compete in the Year 5/6 Cross Country Championships. This event differs from the cross country event back in October - in that racers compete as individuals not as a team.
The conditions on the day were not ideal, with low temperatures and high winds making it a difficult course for all pupils taking part. However, all six of Whitemoor's pupils ran extremely well and showed grit and determination to cross the finishing line.
Unfortunately, we did not make it into the top 12 runners, but the staff present were very proud of these children's efforts. A big well done to all involved.
The Y5/6 Cross Country team on the day was: Megan M, Kamara J, Natasha C, Mason N, Brian D and Harvinder D.


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Before you even start to prepare for any EMC Certification Exam, you should know exactly what you are facing. With this knowledge, you can form a smart study plan and then execute it with ruthless efficiency. This is the recipe for ultimate success on the EMC E20-007 Data Science and Big Analytics Exam Certification Exam.
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You always want to pay close attention to what topics will be zeroed in on in the questions of any exam like this. Targeted study efforts yield much better results than unfocused ones or ones focused on the wrong subject areas. The subject areas that you should be focusing on primarily when you study to earn this certification are Data Analytics Lifecycle, Big Data Analytics plus the Big Scientist Role, the data's initial analysis, and the theory, methods, technology, and tools of Advanced Analytics for Big Data.
EMC practice tests are an excellent way to assess your readiness to take the real exam, but the practice tests like these should not be your only indicators. You may get lucky and take practice tests that cover the information that you know only to find that the real exam covers areas of information that you don't know. For this reason, you need to make sure that you know all the information and only use practice tests as one indication of your readiness to take the exam. To learn all the information, go to http://www.examtrace.com and use those study packages for all of your EMC Certification Exam preparation needs.
I think the big thing for all certification exams is practice test after practice test. Great info.
Thanks for the info, good to know that there are resources to help with these certification exams.
The advice you gave for this exam seems like it would be good advice for any exam. it is always good to do practice exams before the real thing.
Technical certifications are recommended nowadays. A plain and simple bachelor's diploma does not cut it.
I used to study like crazy before every exams. If it's an entrance exam, sometimes for over a month.
Interesting resources on data science exams. I honestly don't like the idea of exams (written or computer) but I know it's really needed.
It is the same pattern I did before I took the board examination years ago. For some reason I love taking exams. Weird but that's true.
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Nordex SE: Swedish utility Jämtkraft and Persson Invest awarded Nordex Group an order for 131 MW in December 2020
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Hamburg, 14 January 2021. At the end of last year, the Nordex Group received an order for its N163/5.X turbines of the Delta4000 series about 131 MW in Sweden. The utility Jämtkraft and its partner Persson Invest ordered 23 turbines from the Nordex Group for the "Hocksjön" wind farm. The order also includes a Premium Service of the turbines covering the period of 25 years.
The installation and completion of "Hocksjön" will take place in 2022. The wind farm will be built about 20 kilometres southwest of Ramsele in the province of Västernorrlands län. The turbines will be delivered in the operating mode of 5.7 MW and with a hub height of 148 metres. Due to the harsh winters with temperatures down to minus 33 C on site, the turbines are designed as a cold climate variant. Because of the large rotor diameter and the high installed rated power, the N163/5.X turbines are ideally suited for the site with medium wind speeds.
"We are delighted that Jämtkraft and Persson Invest have opted for the N163/5.X turbine for their Hocksjön project. The efficient technology backed up by a full scope Premium Maintenance and Service contract for a period of 25 years will meet their high life time expectation for the wind farm. As of 2022, Jämtkraft and Persson Invest will add a great portion of their 100% renewable energy from wind", says Patxi Landa, CSO of the Nordex Group.
Jämtkraft - a profile
Jämtkraft is Swedish energy utility that offers sustainable energy solutions within electricity trading, energy production, electricity grid and district heating. Jämtkraft is owned by the three municipalities Östersund, Krokom and Åre, in Jämtland, and sell electricity throughout the Nordic region, both to private and corporate customers. The electricity production is 100% renewable from sources such as solar, wind, hydro and biomass.
Persson Invest - a profile
Persson Invest is a conglomerate, family owned investment company with its headoffice in Östersund, Sweden. Total turnover is 620 million
EUR. The group employs about 1 350 people. The company was founded in 1932 when started as a Volvo dealer. Today the business segments are: Sales and service for cars, busses and trucks, Planing of wood, Sawmill, Real Estate, Forestry and Windmills.
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The Group has installed more than 30 GW of wind energy capacity in over 40 markets and in 2019 generated revenues of EUR 3.3 billion. The company currently employs a workforce of approx. 8,400. The joint manufacturing capacity includes factories in Germany, Spain, Brazil, the United States, India and Mexico. The product portfolio is focused on onshore turbines in the 2.4 to 5.X MW class, which are tailor-made for the market requirements of countries with limited space and regions with limited grid capacity.
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The idea was simple: Ask a few Fine Woodworking contributing editors to make a box to hold tea bags. We gave them dimensions for the bags, but no other design constraints. Then we waited for the boxes to get made and sent to us. As we expected, Christian Becksvoort, Michael Fortune, Garrett Hack, Roland Johnson, and Steve Latta created boxes that are beautiful, elegant, practical, and charming. However, we were a bit surprised by just how well each box expressed the personality of its creator. There's just no mistaking who made which box.
I love the work of Garrett Hack. I am going to build something like his with lacewood for my son. OMG is that stuff hard and dense. And just for fun I am going to put a drawer on the side for no particular purpose! I am not sure how or what to use for inlay. The lacewood has an amazing grain pattern. Perhaps an ebony and holly strip in morse code like Garrett has done in the past. What a great idea for the magazine.
I really liked Christian Becksvoort "light refreshing..." tea box and tried making it. It's not as easy as it looks. What I'm really wondering is what Mr. Becksvoort glue up strategy was? Typical large clamps don't work well. Did he use straps or heavy rubber bands around a form? Lots of pieces there to glue up accurately. I'd really like to know what his strategy was.


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Q: Создание полосы состояния загрузки Здравствуйте, подскажите пожалуйста как можно создать полосу загрузки какого-нибуть файла на сервер. Например загрузка аватара, когда юзер пытаеться его загрузить то показываеться полоса состояния (1% - 100%). Как ее можно создать. Заранее спасибо.
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A: На jQuery, основа которого jаvasript, нет возможности сканировать размер переданной части файла, яваскрипт нужен для обработки событий и простых вычислений в браузере. Есть уйма решений на технологии flash, называются приблизительно так "flash download bar", ещё есть технология java, на ней вроде тоже реализована эта возможность, но требуется установка у пользователя приличного размера плагина виртуальной java-машины; для отображения флеша необходимая примочка уже имеется в новых браузерах.
A: Полоса загрузки она же по "научному" statusbar или progressbar. Введите в гугл progressbar jquery и выбирайте. По первой ссылке вроде был не плохой плагин http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jQueryProgressBar. Рекомендую также разобраться с http://jqueryui.com/demos/progressbar/

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Being Single Quotes
1. "Single life is so overrated. It sucks."
— Rihanna
2. "I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to."
— Eric Dickerson
3. "As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
— Hermann Hesse
4. "Don't keep a man guessing too long – he's sure to find the answer somewhere else."
— Mae West
5. "Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true."
— Robert Browning
6. "You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere."
— Chris Rock
7. "I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
8. "One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
9. "If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them."
— Sloane Crosley
10. "Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in."
— Kelly Rowland
11. "An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence."
— Honoré de Balzac
12. "It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it."
— Anna Held
13. "I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world."
— Mindy Kaling
14. "Being single can pave the way for new opportunities."
— Selena Gómez
15. "Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly."
— Voltaire
16. "I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing."
— Aziz Ansari
17. "Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us."
— Pablo Neruda
18. "If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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19. "Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not."
— Guy Finley
20. "The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore."
— Louis C.K.
21. "Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends."
— Chuck Palahniuk
22. "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do."
— Thomas Hardy
23. "There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself."
— Samuel Johnson
24. "What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results."
— Michael Scott
25. "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
— Ray Bradbury
26. "When you're under audit, you don't give your papers. An audit is – I have been under audit for so many years. Every year, I get audited. For, I think, over 10 years, maybe even 12 years, I have been audited. And I think it's very fair. And I think I'm being singled out."
— Donald Trump
27. "Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
28. "Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone."
— André Gide
29. "The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."
30. "If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married."
— Elizabeth I
31. "Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness."
— Miranda July
32. "I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing."
— Candace Bushnell
33. "People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?""
— Jerry Seinfeld
34. "I think it will be better when I get involved with someone again, because I made this time for me. I haven't really been single for a while, and I think it's been good for me, to lose the fear to be like this."
— Penelope Cruz
35. "My mom always said I liked to stir the pot with a glittering spoon."
— Kris Carr
36. "He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. "Only if the computers really love each other."
— Groucho Marx
38. "All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."
39. "Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child. Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days."
— Jennifer Aniston
40. "The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single."
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