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Rain and flood alerts in northern England and Scotland
Warnings of heavy rain and flood alerts have been issued for parts of northern England and Scotland.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency says 10 areas face possible floods including Dumfries and Galloway, the Borders and Edinburgh and Lothians.
Five areas are on flood alert in England, four in the South West.
It comes after flooding and disruption in Wales, south-west and northern England and the Scottish borders on Sunday.
The Met Office has issued an orange "be prepared" warning for heavy rain in north east England and Yorkshire and the Humber area. A yellow warning for rain - which tells people to be aware - is in force for north-west England and much of Scotland.
It said: "Heavy, thundery showers are expected to develop again during Monday. The public should be aware of the risk of surface water flooding, although as always in showery conditions, some places will escape."
Find your local BBC site
Meanwhile, flash flooding in Newcastle has closed the Central Motorway in the city, along with other roads, for the second time in two days.
Metro services have again been disrupted, although conditions are not as bad as they were in June when thousands of motorists were stranded in their vehicles for several hours.
And six people have been rescued from their homes after flash flooding hit the town of Galston, in East Ayrshire.
Residents living in Wallace Street and Barr Street walked to safety after a local river burst its banks.
On Sunday, six firefighters helped two people after their car became trapped in water on the A3072 at Redpost, near Bude, Cornwall.
The Scottish border town of Jedburgh was badly affected by rising waters, after the River Jed burst its banks. The town's High Street was flooded, and at least three people trapped in houses, according to Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade.
Mid and West Wales Fire Service dealt with more than 70 calls between 08:00 BST and 14:00 BST on Sunday.
The service said flash flooding in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, had affected six homes and 21 caravans, and fire boats were used to rescue some stranded motorists.
Meanwhile, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it received 65 flood-related calls in five hours on Sunday.
One person was rescued after flood water demolished an internal wall and destroyed surrounding pavements at a house in Frizinghall, Bradford, while 10 apartments were evacuated after a basement flat was flooded in Manningham, Bradford.
Heavy rain caused flooding in Prestwich, Whitefield and Swinton, Greater Manchester and left around 100 homes damaged.
In the north-east of England, torrential downpours caused flash flooding and travel disruption around Newcastle and Tyneside.
Later, Northumbria Police said most routes in its area had been reopened but the Swing Bridge, linking Gateshead to Newcastle near the Tyne Bridge, remained closed due to debris caused by the flash flood.
The inside of Newcastle railway station was hit by flash flooding for a time, with walkways cordoned off to allow the clean up to take place.
In Cheshire, the horse racing meet at Chester Races was abandoned after the third race due to "adverse weather conditions".


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Green roofs and sustainability go hand in hand and good green roof design will reflect the stewardship and incorporation of native ecosystems.
One interesting ecosystem that will hold potential for Green Roof Botanists and Enthusiasts alike is the 'Upland Glades' ecosystem. Not unlike the everglades, an Upland Glades ecosystem is typically found near limestone outcroppings - for an interesting discussion of the everglades geology-ecosystem click here (opens in a new window).
Upland Glades can be found across the Southeastern United States - and typically have shallow soils over limstone rock. The hydrology is usually rain water supplied and during the wet months the soils are saturated while months with little precipitation create hot, dry soils. These conditions are similar to those on roofs.
For an excellent Florida Natural Areas discussion of Upland Glades found in Florida click here (PDF paper download). This paper discusses the site conditions and plant species found in Florida Upland Glades.
Another excellent website discussion of Upland Glade ecosystems is 'Starkly Beautiful Cedar Glades' article on the Wildlife Garden website. This article contains many photos of a limestone glades area, including mentioning of plant species and observations of wildlife utilization. Click here for the website link.
Some of the similarities between Florida Green Roofs and Upland Glades include;
- potential for lengthy innundation and quickly thereafter long periods of drought
- shallow soil depths
- lack of organic matter in the soil
- open areas subject to harsh winds
- intense sunlight exposure
- high heat retention and thermal radiation from surrounding solid mass
- and more
There are also many inadvertent Urban habitat recreations of Upland Glades within your surrounding Urban Core area.
Buildings made from concrete block and brick simulate the native rock out-croppings. Gutters that collect organic debris carried by winds will eventually see thin layers of a soil-like material form as the leaves decay. Seed source also carried by wind or by birds will sprout and over time, unless the gutters or cracks and crevices in the buildings are cleaned, will sprout and grow in the gutter or out of a crack in the building - much like the way plant species do in an Upland Glade.
Driving around town, always watch for plants growing on the walls of buildings, on church steeples or out of non-maintained gutters. The plants you see growing are those species that also may do well on a green roof. They are proven survivors of nature-based irrigation, infertile soil, harsh environmental conditions and other factors similar to the ecological traits of an Upland Glade or a Florida Green Roof.
|Urban Core Green Roof Potential or Exotic Invasive? - Glade Ecosystem Type Plant
Unfortunately, some of the most resilient plant species you may see in the humankind-made Urban Core Glade ecosystems could be exotic invasive species (such as some of the ferns you will often encounter).
Florida has a native fern called Wild Boston Fern, Nephrolepis exaltata, and then Florida also possesses non-native similar species such as Tuberous sword fern, Nephrolepis cordifolia.
A good reference site about the Boston Fern in Florida from the University of Florida's IFAS can be viewed by clicking here.
Yet studying natural systems with similar characteristics to those encountered on a roof can shed light on new opportunities, both with plant species and hydrology.
We will be trying many of the species mentioned in the FNAI article on trial roofs and will post results.
As always - stick with native species and email us with your questions! Happy green roofing!

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With a short flight like this, you don't ask for very much. The boarding by bus from the Hanoi terminal was pleasant and you could see the surrounding traffic.
The legroom on this small aircraft was sufficient for a flight of this length, it might even have been better than some seats I've had on Qatar Airways.
One thing I like on a flight is when the captain or the copilot provides information about the altitude, climactic conditions and the flight path. Unfortunately, nothing like that happened this time.
A small drawback on the flight was that we were only served a small 11 oz. bottle of water, no small snack or some cookies.
The flight attendants were smiling and friendly.
Finally, the arrival at Dien Bien Phu in the mountains was very nice.
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NL East scene on the field from My17, just after the victory last night.
I remember the day when we clinched in 2007, I still feel that this game may have been the best game that I've ever been at. The epic Mets collapse was happening, the division was basically theirs to win, and the Phillies stormed back to win the division on the last day of the regular season. The crowd at the stadium that day was electric. This 2007 NL East Division win started it all off, and there looks like there is no end in sight.
Fast forward and this core group of players have now won 5 NL East championships, with the victory last night over the St. Louis Cardinals last night. This team of course is a little different from the other teams that has won the Division, but they are making history and they have accomplished something that has never been done in Phillies history. Five straight championship years by the Phillies is beyond some people's imaginations.
The players celebrated mightily after the victory last night. Champagne and beer and cigars marked the moment that this Phillies team has now officially won the title of NL East champs. Ruben Amaro said it best after the game, he said that this group of players really like one another, and with a big group of players like the players on the Phillies, that isn't all that easy. A group of players that stand up for one another and have one another's back is what they are. It's a magical combination of personalities that end up in a winning result.
There will be time to digest what has happened in this season after it is all over. The work is still there for the team. We may see some more rest for some of the regulars as the regular season winds down, but there is still the better part of 12 days left in the regular season before the playoff scenarios start.
Check out what the party looked like and sounded like on Todd Zolecki's blog from MLB.com here!
It's Party time now, the division is ours and the focus soon turns to the playoffs. Can this team take all of what it has done so far and manifest it to a series of victories to reach the World Series? We'll see.


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"You don't give me enough of your time?" Beverly started. She was on the phone with Dennis. These days, they hardly spent time together. Many times, her mind would wander back to the days when they just met. She remembered how he would bombard her phones with calls and text messages every day. Those days when she would wake up to random text messages from Dennis. She had gotten used to the attention and now it was almost nonexistent. She could feel it. Now, she had to almost beg him to call her, she had to beg him to see her. His excuse was mostly his job. "No babe, you know work is really hectic these days" Dennis replied her. Beverly sighed. That was it. It was always about his work. What about her? Why wasn't it ever about her? The connection between them was getting reduced with each passing day. He only seemed to have her time when he wanted to have sex with her. She was tired. She was tired of struggling. "You know what, let me just give you space", she said finally. "Maybe, then you would realize how much I mean to you." She said and ended the call. She was furious.
Dennis wondered why Beverly was acting this way. Of course she knew that work was very hectic, it wasn't like there was anybody else. The last thing he needed right now was anybody giving him drama. He sighed and went back to his work.
Two days later, Beverly had just gotten to work when Tunde waltzed in to her office. This guy was a pain in her ass. She didn't know how to tell him off especially since he was her boss. He had been asking her to dinner, but she really wasn't interested and right now, she was having one of those mornings when she felt like she had the world on her plate, she didn't need anyone trying so hard to crack her up. "Hello Bev" he said grinning from side to side. She looked up at him. She wondered if he ever had a bad day or a bad morning. "Hello Tunde". She examined him closely. He was not looking bad. "Gosh! When did he ever look bad?" she asked herself. She could see that he just got a haircut. She wondered who the lucky girl was that had him to herself. Tunde was the Assistant General Manager of the branch, he drove a Range Rover and was one of those big boys that graced high profile society events, so she wondered why he chose to pay her, an ordinary content editor, his attention ever since he was posted to this branch from Abuja. "What do you want from me Tunde?" she finally asked when the silence got awkward. "I just want you to say yes to me. Just a dinner, just once".
Beverly was one of the most beautiful girls in this organization and since he first set eyes on her, he had not stopped thinking about her. His groin ached every time he thought about her, he found himself day dreaming of kissing her whenever she stood close to him. Damn! Those lips were the sultriest thing since Ifunnaya. He thought about Ifunnaya, he remembered how he had relentlessly sought her. But once he had her, he got tired and broke up. He knew this was different. He couldn't explain it. He just knew that there was something about her that he needed to explore. "I just want you to say yes to me. Just a dinner, just once"
"Hello Dennis" Beverly said into the phone receiver four days later. "Hello love" Dennis replied. Beverly scoffed. It was four days since they last spoke. She didn't in her wildest dreams think Dennis could go four days without talking to her. "Wow, so I still have a boyfriend!" she said in mock surprise. "I am sorry babe. I just had a lot to deal with at work so I have been really busy. Our partners are coming in from New York next week so we have to make sure everything is tight." Dennis replied. She closed her eyes as she held on tighter to the phone. She wanted to scream in anger. Couldn't he see that they were losing touch with each other? She summoned strength to finally say something, "You couldn't even text me?" She asked. "Beverly, you know the way this work thing is, I don't even have time for myself" he started. "I would make it up to you. Soon." Beverly sighed. "Okay no problem, it is fine." She said.
As Beverly dropped the phone she thought back to when she went on that dinner date with Tunde. She finally said yes and she didn't regret it. The dinner was one of the best things she had experienced in a long time. Everything was perfect that night. Just as she was thinking, Tunde called. "Talk of the devil" she said to herself. "Hello dear" he said. "Hello Tunde". She replied. "You sound really stressed, are you fine?" he asked. "Well…" she started. "You know what? How about I come over and help relieve the stress" he said, cutting her. "No, don't worry, you don't even know my house address" she replied him. "You have forgotten I dropped you off after the dinner? I would be there in a minute." And with that, he ended the call. She couldn't deny that she was beginning to feel a tiny bit of affection for Tunde or was it because Dennis was being off and on?
Not long after, Tunde was at her door. She looked him over, he was wearing shorts, a t-shirt with a face cap. "I am fine, you really didn't have to come over" she said. "Well, here I am, use me" he said laughing. "Fish! You are just something else" she said as she ushered him into her flat. Tunde walked in briskly, "Not bad" he said looking around, "You know you didn't let me in the last time" he continued as he sat down on the couch. "Well, you know I was tipsy, I had slightly more than enough to drink, so I couldn't possibly have allowed you over" she said, joining him on the couch. "So let's talk about what it is that is stressing you out." he said. She laughed as she looked at him paying close attention this time. He had such hot lips, and his eyes could set a woman's soul on fire. "It is nothing really, just…" and with that she started about how her boyfriend Dennis was acting up. "Maybe there is someone else" Tunde started. No, she didn't want to think about it. She couldn't begin to imagine that it was someone else who was making Dennis act this way. "Forget about it, what should I offer you? I was just about to make lunch". She said. "Nothing" he said. "Are you sure?" she asked. "Yes I am" he maintained. "Just sit with me". "No I won't be sitting with you. I am famished. Let me prepare something to eat. And I am cooking for you too. I insist!" she said. He laughed, "Yes ma!!!"
Beverly stood by the kitchen sink, she was just rounding up her cooking and had quite a number of plates to wash. Tunde came and stood by the door, "And that is how you left me all by myself in the sitting room" he said. "Let me help you out." He continued. Beverly laughed. "You can't possibly know your way round the kitchen" She said, avoiding looking at him. This kitchen was small enough and she didn't want him coming closer. It was enough that she found him sexually appealing, she needed to be in control. "You would be shocked". Tunde said as he went closer.
Tunde looked at Beverly, her long legs were a wonder to behold and it didn't help that she was on bum-shorts. He moved closer to her and put his hands on her waist on both sides. He felt her shudder, leaning closer, he put his lips to her neck and planted a kiss there.
Beverly couldn't take it anymore. Enough with the pretense. At least she could indulge herself just this once. Dennis would never know. She turned around and kissed him slowly. Just then, they both perceived the burning smell of the burning jollof rice. "Oh my God, the rice" she screamed breaking off. They both laughed as she tried to salvage what was left of the food.
Three hours later, it was time to go. "Today was almost a hit" Tunde said to himself as he left the house. "There would be other times".
As Beverly closed the door, she put her hands to her lips. "What did I do?" she asked herself. "Never again would this happen."
To be continued…
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We have decided to go to Camp Wehinahpay for Summer Camp this year. I know it is early, but it is a small camp and only hold four sessions.
Interesting is that because of cold weather, it doesn't begin camp until June 24th and it ends on July 26th.
We weren't sure the boys would be interested since there is no swimming pool or lake to swim in. They were all fine with it.
They wanted to go somewhere with mountains and cooler weather. Last year we attended Camp Pioneer in Mena, Arkansas (run by the Caddo Area Council). They loved the camp, but it sure was hot and humid. Just about everyone had heat rash (including me). Had to run to the local Walmart to get a tube of Desitin and it did the trick.
This is the second year of going out of council for camp. We try to stay in council every three years.


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First established in 1877 on Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit, the University of Detroit added the campus on West McNichols in 1927. In 1990, the University merged with Detroit's Mercy College, founded in 1941 on Southfield Road at Outer Drive.
Creative Writers at the UDM McNichols Campus Joyce Carol Oates taught on the McNichols campus from 1962 until 1967; John Gardner was Distinguished Visiting Professor in 1970-71; Daniel Berrigan was a visiting lecturer in 1975. Dudley Randall held a combined post as a reference librarian and poet-in-residence from 1969 until 1975, and from 1969 until 1976, poet Joan Gartland also worked in the library's reference department. Among the creative writers who hold degrees from this campus are Elmore ("Dutch") Leonard (Ph.B.,1950), Mary Minock (BA, 1966), Donald Levin (MA,1974), Ursula Carlson, (Ph.D., 1976) Gary Eberle (BA, 1973 and MA, 1976), and Michael Martin (MA, 2000). William Kienzle attended the University in 1968.
The McNichols Campus in Literature
Oates, who shared an office in the Jane and Walter Briggs Liberal Arts Building and taught classes there and in the Commerce and Finance Building, makes the most explicit use of the campus in her work. Two works involve relationships between professors and difficult students. "In the Region of Ice" is a story based upon Oates's experience with an actual student, Richard Wishnetsky, an extremely troubled young man, who murdered the well-known and much respected rabbi, Morris Adler, before committing suicide in front of the congregation assembled at Shaarey Zedeck synagogue in 1966. In the story, the Wishnetsky character becomes Allen Weinstein, a very intelligent but mentally ill young man who attempts to befriend an English professor, a nun named Sister Irene, whom Greg Johnson says was suggested by a faculty colleague, Sister Bonaventure, but closely resembles Oates (126). In them, the professor is the narrator, identified as Oates herself, and the novel's pretext is a series of letters she receives from the student, Maureen Wendall, who has flunked out of the University. From these letters, the Oates of the novel constructs the four-decade narrative of the Wendall family.
The campus's northeast corner was the location of the old University of Detroit stadium, demolished in 1971, the setting for an important high school football game in T. R. Peters' novel, Two Weeks in the Forties.
Other UDM Literary Notes
Marygrove College English professor Frank D. Rashid attended the University of Detroit Mercy's McNichols Campus from 1970 until 1980. He received his B.A. from the University in 1972 and his Ph.D. in 1980.
Photos by Anna Fedor.
Eberle, Gary. A City Full of Rain: Collected Stories. Xlibris, 2001.
Johnson Greg. Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Plume, 1998.
Muller, Herman J., S.J. The University of Detroit: A Centennial History. Detroit: The University of Detroit, 1976.
Oates, Joyce Carol. them. New York: Ballantine, 1969.
---. "In the Region of Ice." "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been: Selected Early Stories. New York: Ontario Review Press, 1993.
Peller, Laurie. "Taking A Bow." Spiritus, Fall 1995. History of the Theatre Company. http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/theatre/.
Peters, T.R., Sr. Two Weeks in the Forties. Detroit: XPressway, 1988.


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If you require further support or advice on allergies visit anaphylaxis.org.uk and allergyuk.org
18.09.15 - the title of the article on Femme Intemporelle has now been changed.
As a nurse this level of stupidity makes my blood boil. Having dealt with anaphylaxis I cannot believe how irresponsible people can be.ReplyDelete
Thank you Karen for your feedback and I totally agree with you, very irresponsibleDelete
LOL what even. I just read the article. As someone who has a severe nut allergy, I'm not going to 'go for it' because I really fancy that slice of chocolate cake. The author sounds woefully ignorant and seems to have rather confused allergies and intolerances.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your feedback Laura, totally agree with you, I just wish the people behind the blog could see this :(Delete
I see Femme Irresponsibelle have changed the title. Their editor is calling those who complained to her 'idiots'. If our complaints were idiotic, why did she make the change? Name-calling rather than engaging with the issue raised - we must have really riled her. Good.ReplyDelete
I have seen her project this attitude over many things in the years I have been blogging, really shame that she takes this approach, disappoints me greatly. Glad to hear she changed the titleDelete
I always correct my friends when they say "Oh that's right, you have an allergy to wheat and dairy don't you?" I scored a 'medium' severity in my food INTOLERANCE test, so I always correct them, as I don't want them seeing me eating a pizza and thinking food allergies mustn't be that dangerous, or that I'm now in need of medical attention!
I heard of a little boy with a peanut allergy that had to be rushed to hospital because he'd played on park swings were there was some peanut oil residue - he was fine but wow that's scary!
I think peanut allergy has to be the one that we all know most about, very scary how some people can react to the smallest amount.Delete


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Top Gear #1 (The North Face Base Camp Duffel Bags)
14th Aug 2013
Soon we will have so many of these Tops series running we won't know where we are up to but anyway......here's another one! We get so many questions about our favourite bits of kit that we thought we'd run an occasional series highlighting some of them.
And the first item on the list is an absolute classic. The Trojan Horse for so many great adventures. A piece of kit we rely on for every trip. The humble yet essential duffel bag. Now, of course, there are loads of makes, models and styles of load hauling kit bags out there but there is only one that has led the way for so long. It may just be a duffel bag but this is the Rolls Royce of duffel bags. It is our very favourite load hauler. It is the classic The North Face (TNF) Base Camp Duffel.
The photo at the top shows one of the original models TNF produced. It is testament to the quality that this particular bag has just completed it's 31st trip and is still going strong. No broken zippers, no torn fabric or damaged stitching. A great product.
Available in a wide and expanding range of colours (although we think red is the classic choice!) and sizes (they all have their place but we'd say the large hits the target for most adventures). TNF Base Camp Duffels are built from their legendary 1000 denier TPE fabric with 840 denier ballistic nylon base reinforcement. All many seams are reinforced, there are removable rucksack style shoulder straps for load hauling, heavy duty zippers, a wide opening D shaped lid flap for easy loading, internal mesh storage pocket and enough handles and daisy chain attachments to allow it to be strapped to everything from mules to vehicles.
TNF Base Camp Duffels certainly aren't the cheapest.....but in our opinion they are by far the best. Oh....and talking of cheapest - you'll get the best deals on these from our good friends at The Outdoor Shop. They have a great range of TNF Base Camp Duffels and all the details are here.


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13th October 2016
Debate speech.
Roman Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse.
Earlier this year I gave notice of a Motion condemning the Roman Catholic Church for its failure to protect children from abuse. The motion was rejected by the Government and will now be debated by the House. Below is my opening speech, in which I lay out the reasons of why I have chosen to target the Catholic Church. The debate has be adjourned so as to allow other Members to prepare.
Some my ask why have I chose to raise this issue as it doesn't have anything to do with animals? Firstly, it is an issue deeply personal to my heart as you will hear in my speech. Secondly, it reflects one of the core principles of the Animal Justice Party, that is, protection of our most vulnerable and giving a voice to those that either don't have one or it is a voice that is not being heard.
The Hon. MARK PEARSON (11:39): I move:
(1)That this House condemns the Roman Catholic Church in Australia for its abject failure to protect children from sexual abuse by members of its clergy and leadership, who either:
(a) sexually assaulted children whilst they were in their pastoral care; or
(b)by omission caused ongoing and aggravated suffering to child victims by failing to intervene and report these crimes to police in New South Wales and Australia over the past five decades, as evidenced before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
(2)That this House conveys its utter disgust and profound disappointment in Cardinal George Pell for his ongoing failure to protect the innocent child victims of routine egregious sexual abuse who sought his help and assistance over many years.
Members might wonder why a fellow member of the Legislative Council would call upon this House to support a motion such as this when a royal commission is on foot. I think it is time—and it is expected by the traumatised victims and outraged community—for the Parliament to speak out on behalf of those who have elected us and for those who are not yet old enough to vote. It is time for New South Wales parliamentarians to speak to the actions of the church. We have parliamentary privilege and can therefore elucidate on the evidence and concerns that the judiciary cannot because of limitations on admissibility of evidence.
Childhood sexual abuse has blighted the lives of too many young people and for too long society has refused to see, hear or speak about their pain. It has caused premature deaths through drug and alcohol abuse, risk‑taking behaviours, self-harm and suicide. It occurs within families and within educational, sporting, health, cultural and religious organisations—in fact, anywhere where adults are in authority over children. Children have been sexually abused by their music tutors, Scout leaders, swimming coaches, foster carers, doctors and dance teachers. Most damning of all, they have been abused by those who give instruction about the moral standards required to guide them through life, their religious leaders.
These pastors, priests and teachers are accorded great reverence and authority by not just their own religious hierarchies and communities but also mainstream society. Imagine that authority, by means of a person vested with its power sermonising from the pulpit or lecturing in the classroom, groping your genitals or sexually penetrating your body. Imagine the secrecy, the shame, the pain, the confusion and the fear and terror of not being believed, of being damned to hell if you tell. Imagine the waking nightmare of having participated, however unwillingly, in breaking the very moral laws you have been told to live by. What moral compass then becomes the guiding principle of those people's lives? No wonder so many seek solace in obliteration.
Why has my motion singled out the Roman Catholic Church? In various commissions and inquiries we have learned that paedophiles have been active in other religions and denominations, such as the Anglican Church, the Salvation Army, Judaism, the Jehovah's Witnesses and obscure religious cults, to name a few. There are four reasons why my motion has singled out the Catholic Church. I formed my position even before an article substantiating it entitled, "Child sex abuse: Restoration of trust key to survival of Catholic Church", by Chris McGillion and Damian Grace was published in theSydney Morning Herald on 19 September. The first reason for this motion is that it is important that the culprits are singled out and not allowed to cowardly seek refuge in the shadow of the more broad term "institutional responses to child sexual abuse".
The second reason for this motion is the sheer volume of offending in the Catholic Church. In evidence given at the 2012 Victorian parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations, police figures showed that since 1950 there have been 10 times as many abuse cases in the Catholic Church as in the Anglican Church, which was the next largest group for rates of offending. Given that Anglicanism and Catholicism have historically been the two largest religious denominations in Australia, at 17 per cent and 25 per cent of the population respectively, the massive difference in prevalence is compelling evidence of a serious problem within the Catholic Church and is indicative of its failure to protect children.
The third reason is the culture of clericalism in which the church leadership believes it is only answerable to itself. Obedience to canon law is of more importance than submitting priests to the secular criminal law system. The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith has stated, "The bishop has a duty to treat all priests as father and brother." Patrick Parkinson, Professor of Law at the University of Sydney and a specialist in family law and child protection, argues that this has been interpreted by some as an obligation to protect priests and religious brothers from the criminal law. Examples of the impacts of clericalism include: transferring alleged offenders to other parishes or schools between parishes, interstate or overseas; permitting international trips for priest to undergo spiritual formation amidst child sexual abuse allegations; persuading complainants, victims and families to remain silent; ignoring schoolteachers' repeated requests for action against alleged child sexual abuse offenders; and not intervening after inadvertently discovering offenders in the act of child sexual abuse.
The final reason for this motion is the position of power and privilege that the Catholic Church has within society. The Catholic Church started out on the margins of Australian society. It was the spiritual home for Irish outcasts, political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. With the declaration of World War I, the church battled against the State in fighting against conscription. As the decades passed, however, the leadership of the Catholic Church aligned itself with the conservative establishment—fighting communism, socialism and upholding rigid standards of sexual morality as secular society became more permissive. The conservative establishment has been happy to provide support and protection from oversight. In August 2002 then Archbishop George Pell was stood down during an investigation into sex abuse claims against him. During the course of the investigation, Prime Minister John Howard contacted the archbishop to offer his support, and later publicly stated that he believed Dr Pell was innocent. In 1996, as public outrage grew over the failure of the Catholic Church to adequately respond to child sexual abuse, then Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett said:
I was reassured that George said "yes, he'd get stuck into it" … I was told that he had put together a response … it's not for me to sit in judgment … of whether the response was adequate or not.
Cardinal Pell is on record as saying that he set up the Melbourne Response in 1996 after Mr Kennett told him, "Now you clean this thing up and there won't be a royal commission." In his essay "The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell", David Marr said:
For twenty years, in the face of growing public anger about paedophile priests, political leaders had backed the Catholic Church. Despite protests from victims, their parents, Anglican bishops, lawyers, academics, child protection advocates, a number of Catholic priests, newspapers and police, the business of cleaning up the mess of child abuse had been left to the churches themselves. When Pell provoked an outcry by walking the paedophile Gerald Ridsdale into court in 1993, Jeff Kennett hosed down calls for a royal commission. When Pell was accused himself of abusing boys, John Howard blocked calls for a royal commission.
The evidence uncovered by the media and whistleblowers as well as commissions and inquiries has shown that the church cultivates an aura of untouchability. Through strategic relationships, it has been able to keep a lid on the scandal of its systemic failure to hold perpetrators accountable for abuse. One example of a disturbing collaboration between the police and the church is the activities of the Professional Standards Resource Group [PSRG]. The Police Integrity Commission investigation, known as Operation Protea, was established after the ABC'sLateline program reported in 2013 that the church had an agreement with police to allow it to withhold information about paedophile priests.
The investigation found that the police failed to act on multiple allegations of child sexual abuse raised in the PSRG meetings, a clear breach of their duty. This was done through a process of "blind reporting" where the names of alleged victims of child abuse and other details were deleted from reports to the police. Only recently it was reported that the Catholic Church has finally agreed to cease blind reporting to police. Hundreds of child sex abuse cases going back decades may be reopened as police finally have access to the names of suspected paedophiles. So let us examine in more detail the failure of the Catholic Church to protect children from sexual abuse. In the words of Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart in his evidence to the Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse:
The Catholic church failed to act on the "horror story" of paedophiles in its midst. There was knowledge and a failure to act.
Royal commission data shows that since 1980 the church had received child sexual abuse complaints from 335 people against 84 priests covering the period 1950 to 1989. Campaigners say the true number of abuse victims could be as many as 10,000 children. Counsel assisting the commission, Gail Furness, SC, stated that under "Towards Healing" the largest number of complaints were made against the Christian Brothers, Marist Brothers and the De La Salle Brothers, all Catholic. In all, 2,215 victims had come forward and 1,700 people commenced the process, although not all claims were pursued or substantiated. The most complaints, 43 per cent, were made against religious brothers, 21 per cent against diocesan priests and 14 per cent against religious priests. Most of the abuse happened between 1950 and 1980 in orphanages and schools.
As evidenced by both the Victorian parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations and the royal commission, time and again, over many decades, church authorities concealed the crime from the police, civil authorities, parishioners and Catholic school staff, pupils and their parents within the diocese. Archbishop Hart spoke about a "failure to act", but that is not quite accurate. Church officials often did act but in the worst possible way. Sexually abusing priests were frequently transferred to a new parish or a new school, where they continued to offend.
The damage to the victims was immense. The breach of trust, secrecy and silence frequently caused deep psychological pain and disrupted a victim's schooling or personal development. Victims felt hurt by knowing that their offender was being protected by the church. Many victims went on to live broken lives, struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and unable to form adult relationships or pursue stable employment. Sadly, many died young as a result of damaged mental and physical health. Police reports have detailed the suicides of at least 40 people sexually abused by Catholic clergy in Victoria.
When I was only 16 years of age and in year 10 at Marist Brother High School, Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales, I witnessed Brother Patrick and Brother Romual walking up and down the aisles of the classroom and stopping near "desired" boys, placing one hand under their robes on their penis and masturbating it while running their other hand down the pants of boys and rubbing their bottom and genitalia. I observed these boys freeze in fear and confusion. At the beginning of each term we could select a new seat and desk in the classroom. The perimeter desks were up against the left and right walls. Boys would arrive as early as possible so they could clamour to a seat adjacent to a wall because they knew that this would position them too far from the Brother for him to be able to molest them. I reported those Brothers to another Brother whom I respected. He tried to help, but nothing happened and he soon left the Brotherhood.
The evidence is overwhelming that the leadership within the church looked the other way. This encouraged the church's offenders to continue committing similar crimes. The offenders knew that their church status would protect them from being arrested and convicted. It was only through the incredibly brave and tenacious campaigning by the families and victims themselves and groups such as Broken Rites that the true scourge of clerical abuse became a matter of public knowledge and outrage. Over the past 30 years we have seen the scandal within the Catholic Church unfold. Some perpetrators were finally brought to justice. A number of priests were convicted and jailed. It took decades for their child victims to be believed and to experience vindication. In many other instances, charges could not proceed due to lack of evidence or due to the death or incapacity of the accused.
And what was the response of the Catholic Church when these priests came before the courts? Who can forget the image of Cardinal, then Archbishop, Pell walking side by side with the notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale as they entered the court precinct for his trial. The message that Archbishop Pell and the Catholic Church signalled to the Australian community was, "We place the might and majesty of the church against these child victims." Cardinal Pell has been subject to rigorous cross-examination before the royal commission about what he knew and when. At all times he seems to have not seen, not heard and not spoken out. In his own words:
It's a sad story and it wasn't of much interest to me.
As a prince of the church, it is clear that the investigation of sexual abuse of children by its servants is a low priority. Let us look at Gerald Ridsdale—just one example of what the church knew and what it did. At Ridsdale's 1994 trial it was claimed that as early as 1971 he had been sent to a psychologist for treatment for his paedophilia. At Inglewood in 1973 a parent complained that Ridsdale had molested their son. A police officer spoke to Bishop Mulkearns, who promised to deal with Ridsdale, but he moved him on instead. Ridsdale was sent to and moved from five more parishes until he was sent overseas to New Mexico. He returned and was appointed chaplain at St John of God Hospital in Richmond, New South Wales, where he was finally arrested. He was charged with 30 counts of indecent assault against nine boys aged between 12 and 16 between 1974 and 1980. He was then convicted and sentenced in 1994 after pleading guilty to 46 charges of abusing 20 boys and one girl between 1961 and 1982.
Given that the Catholic Church has portrayed itself as a moral pillar and has been accorded significant social status for its stance on sexual behaviour and moral authority, it beggars belief that its leaders would place themselves at arm's length from the actions of those who carried the authority of the church into day-to day-life.
The Catholic Church has failed abysmally to protect young people in its care. The leadership of the Catholic Church has consistently and deliberately, over many decades, prioritised the reputation of the church and the protection of paedophile priests over the safety of children. Cardinal Pell may compare the church to a transport company with the odd dodgy truck driver but in doing so he exposes the hypocrisy of an organisation that has fought to maintain the illusion of moral authority.
Debate adjourned.
POISONING OF WILDLIFE by LANNATE L INSECTICIDE
13th September 2016
Questions without notice.
Poisoning of wildlife by Lannate L Insecticide.
The Hon. MARK PEARSON (16:35): My question is directed to the Minister for Primary Industries. At my recent community forum in Broken Hill I was told that it was common practice for landholders to purchase Lannate L, a schedule 7 insecticide, known colloquially as "Magic" because if used undiluted on a carcass it will kill anything. I was told of a sheep farmer who killed 60 wedge-tailed eagles in one week. Will the Minister advise whether the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has approved the use of Lannate L for wild animal control? If not, will the Minister direct his department to investigate this unauthorised and cruel use of a schedule 7 poison?
The Hon. NIALL BLAIR (Minister for Primary Industries, and Minister for Lands and Water) (16:36): Some components of this question relate to the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority [APVMA], which is a Federal body. The wedge-tailed eagle, which is a native bird, component probably falls under the jurisdiction of the Minister for the Environment. If the question also relates to other pest animals species it may be relevant to my portfolio. What chemicals can be used for agricultural purposes and not for pest management is a responsibility for the APVMA. In good faith, I will take the question on notice and provide the Hon. Mark Pearson with information that is directly relevant to my portfolio rather than taking up too much time of the House now.
13th October 2016
In reply tothe Hon. MARK PEARSON (13 September 2016).
The Hon. NIALL BLAIR (Minister for Primary Industries, and Minister for Lands and Water)—The Minister provided the following response:
Lannate-L is an insecticide registered by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority [APVMA] for treatment of a range of insect pests in crops, it is not approved for wild animal control.
23rd August 2016
Adjournment speech.
The brutality and cruelty of the kangaroo meat industry.
The Hon. MARK PEARSON (18:41:2): I draw to the attention of the House the betrayal of the national symbol of Australia—the internationally recognised totem for Australia, the kangaroo—here on the Coat of Arms in our House, the Legislative Council, the Coat of Arms in the other place, the Legislative Assembly, and on the Coat of Arms of the Federal Parliament. The ultimate betrayal of kangaroos is undertaken every night in Australia when a beautiful, soft, gentle and harmless herbivore is hunted down and slaughtered in their thousands. It is the largest routine slaughter of a land-dwelling wild animal on earth. And for what reason?
In the main it is their perceived conflict with agribusiness. This has led to a dirty and ugly pet food industry; but, moreover, a filthy, out-of-control, misleading and deceptive human consumption industry, for both domestic and export consumption. It is the dirty and dark secret of the Great South Land that is second only in scale of abuse and brutality to the treatment of the First Peoples, the Indigenous people of Australia. Analyses of carcasses and the meat that is in supermarkets and retail outlets, and analyses by countries of import such as Russia, have led to their own findings that this is a dirty and filthy industry. Contaminants such as E. coli, salmonella, faeces, antibiotic spray and rotting meat caused Russia to implement a ban in 2008, through to 2009, and then finally crown it in 2012. China is refusing to accept kangaroo meat, despite numerous applications by governments to do so. Europe is commencing its own analysis of imports of kangaroo products. Holland has put forward a motion and is preparing a bill to be the first member country to implement a ban on kangaroo meat.
I approached Minister Speakman to refer this industry, after 22 years of no overview or review, to the relevant committee, but he refused. I will obtain the agreement of three committee members to have the committee undertake an inquiry into the New South Wales kangaroo management program—not plan, but program. No rock will be left unturned. Not one slaughter operation, not one bludgeoned joey, not one retrieved decapitated head will be ignored in the inquiry's penetrating and forensic analysis of what has been up until now an unaccountable but bloody disgusting industry. For the first time light will be shed on a critical and fundamental, but completely ignored, fact that has been dismissed with contempt and disrespect: The profound Indigenous connection with this animal, the malu, or kangaroo.
If the next kangaroo management program is signed off next December or January by the State and Federal Ministers for the environment, it will be challenged by the Indigenous people in the Federal Court and no doubt will go all the way to the High Court. The mass slaughter of kangaroos, which is sanctioned by the second people of Australia, is the mass slaughter of an animal that is a totem to many Indigenous people, central to their spiritual relationship with land and water and, moreover, intricately interwoven into the complex laws and lores of the First Peoples. If industry and governments ignore the slaughter and significance of kangaroos, the Indigenous people will have no option—which was the case with Mabo—but to go to the judiciary and, inevitably, the highest court in the land to seek the help of the courts in protecting those misunderstood and abused animals.
24th August 2016
Its is final, the Greyhound Prohibition Bill 2016 presented by the Mike Baird government passed in the Legislative Assembly at 3:45 AM Wednesday 24th of August 2016. Since the announcement by Mike Baird and Troy Grant that the government would shut down the greyhound industry in response to the finding of the Commission of Inquiry Report, the industry ramped up their defence propaganda in an effort to spook the government into back down. To their credit the government did not back down, it in fact presented a measured and solid bill to Parliament for the orderly closure of the industry. Whilst their is some minor concerns, the message had to be sent – we support this governments brave, but right decision. The future suffering of unborn greyhounds has been prevented and as we celebrate the end of this vile industry, no doubt all of us are thinking about those animals that were needlessly and brutally killed. For all those greyhounds, possums, piglets, kittens and chickens, we are sorry that you could not be saved. May we remain vigilant and committed to ending animal suffering when ever and where ever it occurs. Our immediate task now is to ensure that promises are kept and the orderly process of re-homing begins. Thank you to everyone who made this victory possible.
The NSW Labor party, under the leadership of a seemingly cold Luke Foley on the other hand decided to make this decision their defining moment. Luke Foley and NSW Labor's opposition to the ban is very disappointing, more so, that they have pledged to overturn the ban if elected in 2019. It seems any real interest that Labor indicated they had in animal wellbeing comes a long second in a chance to score political points. This was evident in the tactics Labor employed in both houses during the debate. In the Legislative Council, members constantly objecting and causing a division and vote at every step. In the Legislative Assembly, Labor leader Luke Foley's marathon 3 hour speech in reply causing the final vote occurring at 3.45 in the morning.
My second reading debate speech to the bill can be found HERE
6th April 2017
Shamefully, the Labour Opposition used this issue for there own gain, completely ignoring the systemic cruelty and unfortunately the ban was repealed.
10th August 2016
Second read Speech.
Greyhound Prohibition Bill 2016.
The Hon. MARK PEARSON (16:05): The Animal Justice Party overwhelmingly supports the Greyhound Racing Prohibition Bill 2016. Last year I was asked to assist with developing a strategy after unfortunate evidence was gathered over several months in relation to live baiting. The training of greyhounds routinely involves a great deal of live baiting. Many trainers would arrive at a training track with various species—rabbits, possums, cats and piglets. One particular scene has haunted me ever since. It was not a one-off incident; it is systemic, it is part of the industry, it is the norm and it is integral to the industry. In broad daylight a possum, which is a nocturnal animal, was strapped to a lure. A cloth was placed over its shoulders and it was strapped down firmly by its lower legs. The only part of its body it could move was its tail. Owners paid $50 to train their dogs using that live bait.
The lure was set off, with engines roaring, screaming and vibrating. This nocturnal animal was sped around the track. When it was stopped, the dogs were allowed to tear and rip at it. It then came back around to the start. The possum was kicked around and hit to see whether it was conscious. If it was still alive it was sent around again with other dogs. A possum that came back conscious would emit a very high-pitched squeal—as do kittens, piglets and rabbits, believe it or not, when suffering and in enormous distress. The possum to which I refer went around the track 23 times, and it was still conscious. If the owner of the dog was satisfied with the live baiting episode and the possum was still alive he could have his $50 refunded because the animal could be used for the next dog. The possum would be left there to die a long, lingering death—the police described it as torture.
Justice McHugh subpoenaed 10 trainers to give evidence to the inquiry. Nine of them said—they could have lied but they did not—that they used live baiting to various degrees, and one refused to answer the question but certainly did not deny it. Therein lies the savagery of the greyhound industry. It is not a minority of trainers; it is not a one-off incident. Nine out of 10 trainers admitted to live baiting and that means the industry cannot save itself from itself.
No regulator can save it from itself. The Government has rightfully decided that no government can save the industry from itself. That is why the Animal Justice Party and I personally overwhelming support the Baird Government in taking this historic, principled and ethical decision.
The greyhound industry has a long history both here and afar. It is a history built on animal cruelty that traces the "sport" from the traditions of the elite and royalty to the "battlers' sport" that it is portrayed as today. Its long history is important as it coincides with the dynamic shift of social and community expectation regarding our relationships with animals. It is clear that the industry has formulated its own demise, no doubt carrying innocent casualties with it of both the human and non-human kind. The industry and its core participants have ignored society's shift regarding animals and their treatment. The shift places high expectations of those seeking to profit from animals and transcends political persuasions and socio-economic backgrounds. To pigeonhole love for animals as elitist and snobbery is an insult to working class everyday people, many of whom will take in a rescued greyhound as owners seek to dispose of them in the coming months when they no longer bring in revenue.
It has been a widely known secret that the greyhound industry has systemic animal welfare issues. It is critical to note that those issues are systemic, not rare or in the minority. Stories of live baiting, mass graves, greyhound muscle men and over breeding have been common for a very long time. There has been a great deal of evidence about greyhound muscle men, which I will explain. When a greyhound has an injury it is very rarely taken to a vet or has a vet called for it. Instead, a decision is made to immediately breach a section of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act that says it is an offence to fail to provide veterinary treatment. A greyhound muscle man is called in. People who have been in the industry have given clear descriptions of what muscle men do. If a dog has gathered a serious injury while racing and cannot perform the muscle men will try various practices. One of them is to strap the front two legs of a dog to a high tree branch and then stretch the bottom two legs to try to rectify the injury. No analgesia or pain relief is given while the muscle men do the job. That practice is systemic in the industry.
In my previous job I was privy to a large amount of evidence but not enough to bring about prosecutions at the level required. It was only in early 2015 that the evidence exposed in theFour Corners broadcast "Making A Killing" that I unfortunately witnessed as I assisted in obtaining that evidence for the program and the police. The exposé documented what has been spoken about a great deal today. The important thing is the program was the catalyst for the establishment of the commission of inquiry. It utilised covert video footage of the most appalling cruelty and suffering obtained by animal activists—those passionate everyday people exposing acts which the government, authorities and the industry could not or would not investigate and rectify. This is a testament to the everyday people who seek to right the wrongs of this world, which include those committed to voiceless animals beholden to our care that have suffered at the hands of callous people who knowingly committed illegal activity day in and day out.
Thanks to the Government and the commission of inquiry led by Michael McHugh the public and the lawmakers of this State—and, indeed, across the globe—have had the truth revealed to them. I repeat that it is truth. The facts contained in the report by a conservative and esteemed former judge are not fictional or delusional. The bare facts as revealed by the McHugh report are that this industry has implicitly condoned as well as caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of healthy greyhounds, engaged in the barbaric practice of live baiting, and caused and will continue to cause injuries to greyhounds that range from minor to catastrophic. An enormous amount of catastrophic injuries will occur as a direct consequence of the genetic musculoskeletal structure of the animal as well as the race. Those things are fundamental to the industry and cannot be turned around. They are part of the industry and cannot be changed; however, they are unacceptable.
The McHugh report also found that the industry has deceived the community concerning the extent of injuries and deaths caused during race meetings and it has failed to demonstrate that in the future it will be able to reduce the deaths of healthy greyhounds to levels the community could tolerate. I am sure many in the House will debate the finer points of the economics, jobs and the complexities that come with making such a tough but brave and just decision to shut down an industry. As a member of the Animal Justice Party I will discuss a few other aspects of this industry.
The greyhound racing industry likes to claim that greyhounds are an ancient breed of racing dog going back to biblical days, with thousands of year of adaptation. Modern genetic testing shows differently. In fact, greyhounds are descended from herding dogs such as the St Bernard and the wolfhound, hardly known for their light frames or speed. The selection process is relatively recent, being only a few hundred years old. Breeding selection intensified with the commercialisation of the industry, placing considerable pressures on the greyhound's musculoskeletal structure. Modern greyhounds have been bred for larger muscle mass, lower body fat and a higher overall muscle-to-bone ratio than other canine breeds. This intensive breeding selection has resulted in significant animal welfare issues for a large numbers of animals.
Greyhounds have been shown to suffer from osteochondrosis dissecans, a genetic predisposition causing growth plate fracture in young dogs and hock joint fractures in adult dogs. Hock joint fractures are extremely common injuries experienced during racing. Injuries to the carpal and tarsal joints are also common in racing greyhounds, resulting in an increased risk of osteoarthritis and potential long-term lameness. Risk factors cited are heredity, rapid growth, anatomic conformation, trauma and dietary imbalances. Of these, heredity and conformation have been scientifically supported.
The fact is and always will be that in order for the industry to exist greyhounds must be bred in excess to replace the dogs existing and to maintain race participation numbers. Greyhounds that do not participate in the greyhound racing industry have a life expectancy of between 12 and 15 years. For the industry's greyhounds, the life expectancy is often far shorter. Many are put down before the age of 4½ years. That is another systemic blight on the industry. Over the past 12 years approximately 97,783 greyhounds were whelped in New South Wales. The McHugh report found, after taking into consideration a multitude of factors, that up to 68,000 of those dogs had been slaughtered simply because they were either too slow or could no longer pay their way.
We cannot tolerate an industry that kills that many dogs because they do not make the grade. What was their fate? Appalling brutality and suffering. If they were lucky it was a bullet to the skull and a mass grave; the unlucky ones got baseball bats to the skulls and put into a crab trap and thrown into a river. In the 2014 committee inquiry into the industry evidence was also given that unwanted dogs were drowned, gassed and hung in New South Wales by Australian trainers and breeders.
From the age of 12 months the training process commences with a "breaking-in" process—sometimes referred to as "education". Breaking-in involves an intensive form of training during which the animal first learns to chase a lure. In many cases the lure used is a live animal termed "bait". This widespread and rampant practice has been a criminal offence since 1979. The animal used for bait is often a terrified rabbit, possum, piglet or kitten. It also harms the welfare of those so deeply involved in an industry that has at its fundamental core systemic brutality and cruelty to animals.
On theFour Corners program we saw—and I saw the complete video—children as young as 10 shown to be unwilling witnesses to this appalling treatment of animals. Members will recall a child being held by the hand and made stand in front of a possum upon which three greyhounds were set. The possum was torn to pieces. This is obviously common practice; how can it be welfare for those people? This bill is not only about the animal issue—dogs, possums, rabbits, piglets, cats, et cetera—but it is also about bringing people into a better way of compassionate living and children not being exposed to brutalities upon animals.
Since 2007, despite the best efforts of volunteer-run greyhound rescue and rehoming groups across the State, Greyhound Racing NSW has only rehomed 593 greyhounds through its Greyhounds As Pets program, at a cost of $200,000 per year. That is unacceptable. Justice McHugh put it simply when he said:
The greyhound is simply a gambling instrument, no different from a card in a poker game or a handle on a poker machine.
This bill is a historic document and one that will end a cruel industry in an ordered manner which I support. I commend Mike Baird for his leadership in reviewing the report and evidence, and making the difficult yet right decision to introduce the bill. I strongly commend the bill to the House.


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From: Gregory Nowak <email@example.com> To: Devuan Bug Tracking System <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: bluez: missing support for raspberry pi3 bluetooth Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 16:28:03 -0700 Package: bluez Version: 5.23-2 Severity: critical Dear Maintainer, this is a migration of: <https://git.devuan.org/sdk/arm-sdk/issues/14> The bluez package in devuan is missing raspbian's patches necessary to use the built-in bluetooth adapter on the raspberry pi3 (rpi3). The patches are a part of raspbian's source: <http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/b/bluez/> The necessary patches are in debian/patches 0050-0053. They are necessary for the arm64 and armhf architectures, since the rpi3 can use either image. I cannot guarantee that applying them won't break other architectures, so didn't take this farther on my own. The bluez package I'm reporting against installed on this system is devuan's bluez from January 2017 with the necessary patches from raspbian applied. So, it isn't what currently exists in devuan. It will also be necessary to write an init script to run hciattach, since raspbian's package has a script to do this for systemd only. -- System Information: Architecture: aarch64 Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-rc5-v8+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages bluez depends on: ii dbus 1.8.20-1+devuan1.1 ii kmod 18-3 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u9 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-1+devuan1.1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3 ii libudev1 215-17+deb8u7 ii lsb-base 4.1+devuan2 ii udev 215-17+deb8u7 bluez recommends no packages. bluez suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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Every Vote Equal:
A State-Based Plan For Electing The President By National Popular Vote
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With forewords from:
- John B. Anderson (R,I–IL)
- Birch Bayh (D–IN)
- John Buchanan (R–AL)
- Tom Campbell (R–CA)
- Greg Aghazarian (R–CA)
- Saul Anuzis (R–MI)
- Laura Brod (R–MN)
- James L. Brulte (R–CA)
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Alaska - 70%
Arizona - 78%
Arkansas - 80%
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California - 69%
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Colorado - 68%
Connecticut - 73%
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Delaware - 75%
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Rhode Island - 74%
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South Dakota - 75%
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Tennessee - 74%
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Virginia - 74%
Washington - 77%
Washington - 77%
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Wisconsin - 71%
Wyoming - 69%
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The National Popular Vote bill, which was recently signed into law in Maryland and which recently passed the Hawaii House and Senate, would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
Jim Henshaw's April 8 editorial in Hawaii Reporter ("Blithering Idiots at the Hawaii State Legislature") complains that, under this proposal, Hawaii's presidential electors would sometimes be of a different political party than the candidate who received the most popular votes in Hawaii.
However, the purpose of presidential election is to choose a person to serve as President for four years, not to pick four presidential electors who meet for a hour in Honolulu in mid-December of presidential election years to cast Hawaii's four electoral votes.
Under the National Popular Vote legislation, the presidential candidate receiving the most popular votes in all 50 states would be guaranteed enough electoral votes (that is, at least 270 of 538) to be elected President. This legislation would only go into effect when enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (that is, at least 270).
The shortcomings of the current system of electing the President stem from the winner-take-all rule that awards all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes inside each state.
Because of the winner-take-all rule, candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise, organize, or campaign in states that they cannot possibly win or lose. The result is that Hawaii issues are not on a presidential candidate's radar screen.
Instead, candidates concentrate on issues of importance to closely divided battleground states, such as New Hampshire and Ohio. In the November 2004 election, the candidates spent only $390,000 in Hawaii, compared with $4,600,000 in New Hampshire (which has the same 4 electoral votes as Hawaii). Candidates visited New Hampshire in the November election 6 times more often than Hawaii.
They visited Ohio 5 times more often than Hawaii (after adjusting for Ohio's larger size). Hawaii (and two-thirds of the states) are mere spectators of presidential elections.
Hawaii would increase its clout in presidential elections if the candidate with the most votes in all 50 states were guaranteed the Presidency. Nationwide election of the President would make a vote in Hawaii as important as an New Hampshire or Ohio voter. The 13 smallest states together contain 11 million people.
Because of the two electoral-vote bonus that each state receives, the 12 non-competitive small states have 40 electoral votes. Ohio has 11 million people and has "only" 20 electoral votes. However, the 11 million people in Ohio are the center of attention in presidential campaigns, while the 11 million people in the 12 non-competitive small states are irrelevant.
Nationwide election of the President would also mean that a candidate could not win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide. A second-place candidate won in 1 in 14 elections, including 2000.
A shift of a handful of votes in one or two states would have elected the second-place candidate in five of the last 12 presidential elections. For example, a shift of 60,000 votes would have elected Kerry in 2004, even though President Bush was ahead by 3,500,000 votes nationwide.
Todd Shelly's reply to "Blithering Idiots at the Hawaii State Legislature"
—Dr. John R. Koza of Los Altos, CA, is the originator of the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" contained in bill SB 1956 in the Hawaii Legislative. Reach him via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or log onto http://www.NationalPopularVote.com for more information.


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To view a quick summary of instructions, click here: Quick Guide.
Table of Contents
- Settings
- Enter or Upload Names
- Inspect Results
- Download Results
- Perform name resolution: this option processes names completely with the TNRS, making use of the GNA parser and Taxamatch to determine the best match for your submitted name.
A number of additional settings will influence the names returned to you when this is selected. Match Accuracy, Source Selection and Ranking, and Classification settings may be applied to further enhance your returned results.
- Parse names only: this makes use of the GNA parser to return the atomic parts of your submitted name. No other settings need to be applied.
- Allow partial matching: when selected the TNRS will match to a higher taxon if a match to the full name submitted cannot be found.
For example, submitting Vitis vitifolia will return Vitis L. from the Tropicos source if this setting is enabled. When disabled, you will get a return of "no matches found".
- Set Match Accuracy: allows a user to determine how exact the matches are.
Setting the threshold to the lowest setting will return all names found within an edit distance of 4 (4 missed letters, 4 transposed letters).
Using the highest setting will allow you to validate your names by only providing exact match details for the names you submit. Central to this slider is our "happy medium" where names that score 0.5 according to our scoring algorithm will be returned.
- Source selection: The 3.0 version of the TNRS includes four sources for selection to use in matching of your submitted names. By default, all four sources are selected, so the TNRS will match against all names in our database when name resolution is performed. If the name submitted is matched to names from more than one source, the sources will display by that name in the results grid.
- You may narrow your focus of sources by deselecting the sources from the Sources tab in the settings.
For example, should you only wish to match to Tropicos and USDA names, you can deselect NCBI and GCC as sources. The TNRS will then only return names found in those data sources when matching is performed. Should no match be found in those sources, you will be returned a status of "no suitable matches found".
- Source ranking: You may rank sources in order of preference by dragging and dropping sources in the order by which you wish your results to be returned for display.
The TNRS will return all names found within your selected match threshold for all sources selected. The best match is determined to be the name with the highest lexical score (best spelling match). Should this name not be within the same taxonomic group as the name you submitted, you will receive a flag letting you know that a better taxonomic match has been found.
Should your name match to a name with the same score, the best match will be displayed according to the highest taxonomic acceptance. Should more than one name with the same score and acceptance be found, names will be ranked alphabetically.
You may refine your results by selecting either "Constrain by source" or "Constrain by higher taxonomy" from the "Best Match Settings" button on the results grid.
- Example of override: the genus Acer albopurpurascens is found in both the NCBI and Tropicos databases. However, NCBI attributes this genus to the family Aceraceae, whereas Tropicos attributes this genus to Sapindaceae Juss.
- If you choose to override the APGIII family classification with NCBI, the family attributed would be displayed as Aceraceae for this name. Other family names for all other names returned would be listed with the NCBI classification. If there is no classification for family that is attributed to that name in NCBI, then the family field for your returned name will be blank.
Current Settings
Prior to submitting a list, there are settings that can be adjusted. To change your settings, locate the Current Settings box to the right of the application. Click Edit next to your desired mode.
Processing Mode
The GNA parser will attempt to determine the elements of your name string and return back the name tokens identified.
Match Accuracy
The Match Accuracy settings allow you to determine the sensitivity of the lookup and fuzzy matching to the names in our TNRS data repository.
For example, if you submit a genus+species with the genus name spelled correctly but the species name spelled incorrectly, the application may match a name that is a closer edit distance for the overall name. In this case, it is possible that genus+species will be returned with a higher score that is not the intended species. If you know that the genus or a higher taxon submitted is correct, you can use this option to filter the best match to be constrained by that higher taxon.
SourcesDisclaimer: The TNRS database is a repository for numerous sources. The TNRS team makes no attempt at determing the authority of the names, rather we provide the information that is available from these sources in a centralized location for matching of submitted names. Should you encounter issues with names that are lacking, please contact the source curators directly.
By default, the TNRS will return the classification for family according to the APGIII classification if you have selected more than one source. If you select only one source, the family will be displayed for that source. In this case, if you have selected a source of USDA only, you will get the family classification for USDA only (which is very similar to the APGIII classification schema).
This setting has the option to apply a different family classification, which may vary between sources. You may override this family classification by selecting the NCBI classification schema for family.
Enter or Upload Names for Resolution
There are two ways to use this application: enter a list or upload a list.
Enter List
- Enter up to 5000 names in the Enter List tab, one name per line regardless of the file extension. You may type the names in the box or cut and paste from a text editor.
- As an option, you may include the family name in front of the scientific name, separated by a space. Family name is NOT required. This option is provided to support ecological data where some taxa are identified only to family, followed by a morphospecies identifier (for example, Lauraceae sp.3). However, if you include family you may improve your matches by preventing fuzzy matching to similar names in different families.
- Click the Submit List button to begin or Clear to start over.
- Wait while the list is processed. Results appear when complete in a table immediately below the tabbed input box.
Upload and Submit List
- Upload a list of names separated by commas in the Upload and Submit List tab, with or without authority.
- Processing long lists takes time. Enter an email address to receive a notification when the list is successfully submitted and another when it is completely processed. The second email will include a Submission Key to be used to retrieve your results in the Retrieve Results tab.
- You have the ability to upload a list with a unique identifier for each name. The identifier must be in the 1st column of the list.
- Click the Submit List button to begin.
- When the list is processed, enter your email address and Submission Key in the Retrieve Results tab. Click the Retrieve button.
- Results appear in a table immediately below.
Note: If you upload your list in UTF-16 format, you may include special characters. However, if you manually enter your list, you may not include special characters as they can not be translated. If you manually enter your list with special characters, you may receive an inaccurate match score.
Inspect Results
We strongly recommend users carefully examine any result with Overall Score less than 100%, or with more than one Name Matched (as indicated by the "(+X more)" link after the Name Matched; see step 2 below). The TNRS provides a link to the original source of each name.
Results ScreenYour results will appear in the following window:
- If the TNRS application finds only one match for a submitted name, that match is displayed in the results.
- If the TNRS application finds more than one near match for a submitted name, it will choose a single best match and display it in the list.
You may select an alternate match if you prefer. Click the (+X more) link to view and select from multiple options when they exist.
- Select the preferred term from the popup list and click the Apply selected button or click Cancel to retain the current selection.
- If the TNRS finds multiple equally-good matches and cannot select a single best name, or if there are other issues with the results requiring inspection by the user, it will display a red warning flag:
- Mouse-over the flag to see the reason. Click on the flag for a more detailed explanation.
- Click the arrow icons in the Accepted Name field to go to the accepted name for a given source. Hovering over the icons will give you the source with a link.
- Click the Name Source to open the source's database page (not available for USDA at this time).
- Taxonomic Status tells you whether the matched name is also the accepted name (Accepted) or whether the matched name is a synonym of a different accepted name (Synonym).In some cases, there may be insufficient information to determine the status of the name, or the Computed Acceptance algorithm is unable to choose a single best name from among alternative conflicting accepted names (No opinion).
- Click Details to view a popup with more information about a matched name.
- Click Download results located at the top left corner of the results window to download a CSV file.
When more than one of the above scenarios are encountered, numerous messages will appear when selecting the flag. These warnings will also be part of the downloaded list.
Warning FlagsIf TNRS is unable to uncategorically resolve your submitted name to one best matched name in our database, a red warning flag will appear next to the submitted name.
Flags will be displayed for the following scenarios:
- Ambiguous Match: more than one matched name was found with the same score and acceptance.
- Partial Match: name matched is a higher taxon than the name submitted.
- Better spelling match in different higher taxon: anotheir name that was found to match the submitted name has a better overall score, but is not within the same taxonomic group.
- Better higher taxonomic match found: another name with a lower overall score has a better matching higher taxon.
Viewing Your Results
- Parse only mode: names are returned in a sortable grid with the taxonomic elements displayed according to how they are interpreted by the GNI parser.
- Name resolution mode:
  Initial grid display
- Names found as matches to submitted names are returned in a sortable grid (you can click the headings to sort) that displays the following information:
- Name Submitted: the exact name submitted for processing.
- Name Matched: the best match found in the TNRS database for the submitted name.
- The best match is determined by the settings applied by the user. By default, names will display according to source taxonomic constraint (best match is most similar to the name submitted according to the most closely related taxonomic match).
- If there is more than one name found that matches to the submitted name, then a (+X more) link will be displayed next to the name. An alternate match may be selected by clicking the (+X more) link to view and select from multiple options when they exist.
- Select the preferred term from the popup list and click Apply. To retain the current selection, click Cancel. If the TNRS finds multiple equivalent matches and cannot select a single best name, or if there are other issues with the results requiring inspection by the user, it will display a red warning flag.
- Name Source: the source of the name matched to the submitted name.
If more than one source exists for the name matched, the TNRS will display all sources for that name. Selection of the hyperlinked source (where available) will direct the user to the web page for the matched name as it is described in that source for further investigation.
- Overall Score: score that was calculated according to our scoring algorithm for the name found that matches the name submitted. Note: With taxonomic constraint on, it is possible that a better lexical match has been found to the name, thus having a higher score for a name that is not in the same taxonomic group. If this occurs, a warning flag will be displayed.
- Taxonomic Status: the status of the matched name.
- Accepted Name: where applicable, the accepted name for the matched name will display in this field.
- Details: displays all details determined as a by-product of processing the submitted name. The panel displays the following:
If an accepted is found in more than one source, an icon will appear for each source next to the accepted name. Click the icon to go to the source's web page.
|Name matched
|Name matched for the submitted name.
|Name source(s)
|Source(s) that contain the matched name identified.
|Name matched rank
|Taxonomic rank of the matched name.
|Name score
|Score for the name found.
|Author matched
|The author found to match the submitted name (only displays when author is submitted with the name string).
|Author score
|Score for the author string submitted.
|Overall score
|The score calculated for the name found that matches the submitted name (includes author where applicable)
|Family matched
|The family that is found to match the submitted name (Only displays when family is submitted with the name string)
|Name matched accepted family
|The accepted family for the submitted name. This depends on the classification schema selected in the settings.
|Genus, specific epithet, infraspecific epithet (1 and 2) matched
|Depending on the name submitted, the token detected by the name parser will be matched to the data in the database.
The matched token for each taxonomic rank will be displayed in these fields.
|Genus, specific epithet, infraspecific epithet (1 and 2) score:
|Score applied to each name found to match the submitted name, broken down by taxonomic element.
|Infraspecific rank (1 and 2)
|The rank indicator detected as a parsing product.
|Annotations are contained in the submitted name as detected by the parser.
|Unmatched terms
|Terms not able to be matched given the scoring threshold applied by the user.
|Taxonomic status
|Nomenclatural status for the matched name.
|Accepted name
|Accepted canonical name found for the name matched (where applicable).
|Accepted name source(s)
|Source(s) for the accepted name (where applicable).
|Accepted author
|Author attributed to the accepted name (where applicable).
|Accepted species
|Accepted species for the name matched (where applicable).
|Accepted Family
|Accepted family for the accepted name listed.
|Any flags that are associated with the name submitted (see warning flags).
  Batch match settings
In the case of a name that has multiple matches, these options control which of the returned names is considered the best match.
As a general rule, multiple names are ranked according to the highest match score. Two options are available to modify this behavior:
- Sorting by source (default): The name from the first source selected will always display as the best match unless there is no match found in that source.
If no match is found in the first source, the best match in the second ranked source will display until all selected sources are exhausted.
- Taxonomic constraint: It is possible that the best match is not within the same taxonomic group as the name submitted and that a better taxonomic match exists. Turning on this option will ensure that the best match is within the matched higher taxonomic level.
If this option is turned off, a warning flag will be placed next to the submitted name.
- Turning off both options: By turning off both the taxonomic constraint and sort by source options, all names will be returned according to the highest score found, regardless of source or taxonomic group.
- Turning on both options: If both options are turned on, the source takes priority over the taxonomic constraint.
Download ResultsAfter clicking Download results, you will have the option to download in a Simple or Detailed format.
- Files are downloaded with Unix-like new line characters. This is usually not an issue with newer text editors and spreadsheets, but rarely results will appear to all be in a single line when using other applications.
- If your browser is set to prompt you for download information, be sure to select 'all files' as the download type to ensure proper retrieval of your data.
Simple DownloadThe Simple download contains the general information displayed on the results screen.
|Name entered by the user.
|Scientific name with the highest match score. May be an exact match or a fuzzy match. This score does not include the author score.
|Standard authority for the matched name.
|Standard authority of the name with the highest match score name.
|Score assigned by the TNRS to indicate overall similarity between the submitted name and the name returned by the TNRS. This score incorporates the author score as well.
|see Taxonomic Status
|Accepted name for the Name_matched, according to the taxonomic source used. If the Name_matched is accepted, this name will be the same as the Name_matched. If the Name_matched is a synonym, this name will be different.
|Standard authority of the Accepted_name.
|The accepted familial classification of the accepted name for the name matched by the TNRS.
|see Warning Flags


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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- An estimated 77 million U.S. adults have trouble understanding basic health information, which impairs their ability to follow doctors' orders, researchers say.
Senior author Dr. Dean Schillinger of the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, said millions more simply lack the skills necessary to make clear, informed decisions about their own healthcare.
"Depending on how you define it, nearly half the U.S. population has poor health literacy skills," Schillinger said in a statement. "Over the last two decades, we have focused on what patients can do to improve their health literacy. In this report, we look at the other side of the health literacy coin, and focus on what healthcare systems can do."
Organizations that promote proper health literacy tend to make improving health literacy a priority at every level of the organization, measure health literacy, take into account the needs of their patients and avoid stigmatizing people who lack health literacy.
Those organizations also tend to provide easy access to health information, distributing easy-to-understand information, take health literacy into account when discussing medicines and train the healthcare workforce in health communication, in addition to letting patients know what their insurance policies cover and what the patient must pay.


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