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"The Parent Trap"
Chapter 1
It was 11 pm on Wednesday, 11th of June, when Emma Bass came home from her birthday party. When she got out of the elevator she saw no one else but her father, still in his suit, sitting on the couch in the living room with a glass of scotch.
"Aren't you home too early?" Chuck asked her with his smirk on his face. "I mean, you don't turn fourteen every day!"
She didn't answer and simply went upstairs in her room. "Emma?" Chuck called her but again got no response from his daughter. He sighed, left the glass of scotch on the table before the couch and went upstairs, too. When he got in front of Emma's door, he knocked lightly.
"Emma, may I come in?" he asked but wasn't given an answer so he took that for a 'yes'. "Emma, are you OK?" Chuck asked as he entered the big room and closed the door. He saw his daughter lying in her bed with her face on a pillow. It looked like she was in another crisis. 'Where is Blair in moments like this?' he thought and the answer came into his mind – Blair left him and was now probably married to some nobleman in France.
Emma's voice took Chuck back to reality, "Go away!" she said.
"I'm not going anywhere, Emma," he insisted.
"Don't you have some whore to entertain in your bedroom?" she spat.
"Emma…" Chuck sighed, sat on her bed and caressed his daughter's curls. Three days ago she caught him with a woman in his bedroom. Again. He thought that Emma was still on a trip from school and decided to have some fun. Unfortunately he messed up with the dates and when his daughter came home he was in his bed with a half-naked prostitute by his side. If only Blair knew what kind of father he was, she would have killed him at least ten times. But it was too easy for her – she left him take care of her daughter. Yes, her daughter. Chuck felt like he was raising a mini Blair. Emma was so much like her mother – her chestnut hair, her ruby lips, her large doe eyes, her attitude… everything.
"Dad, please don't act as if you care!" Emma lifted her head from the pillow in order to face her father.
"Don't talk like that, Emma! I am your father and I am worried about you. What happened?" he said and really meant it. He loved his daughter and wasn't letting anything or anyone hurt her.
"Someone sent Gossip Girl something very embarrassing about me," she replied with a pout.
"Oh," was all Chuck could say. The specialist about embarrassing Gossip Girl's blast was Blair. It's not like Gossip Girl hadn't posted anything about him when he was a teenager but it was not like he cared that much. He never had the reputation of the 'Golden Boy' – he was always known as the 'Play Boy' and he pretty much liked it but Emma… she was a whole different story which pretty much looked like Blair's one.
"And I'm absolutely sure that it was that stupid Brooklyn poseur who sent it," Emma's voice brought her father out of his thoughts. "How dare she to humiliate me, Emma Bass, in front of everyone on my birthday?"
'Oh, God!' Chuck thought. Brooklyn poseurs and Gossip Girl blasts? It sounded like a page from Blair's diary. He asked himself again where she was now when both he and their daughter needed her and then again he answered to himself.
"Do you want to talk to Aunt Serena?" he asked his daughter since he couldn't say or do anything to help her.
"No, Dad," Emma responded. "I don't want to talk to Aunt Serena or Grandma Lily or anyone else but… my Mother," she said and burst into tears.
"Emma, your mother…" Chuck began, not knowing what to say. Not having a mother, while growing up, was may be the only thing Emma had in common with Chuck. And he regretted that because no matter how much he blamed Blair for leaving them, he knew that it was his own fault that his daughter was living without a mother.
"I know my Mom died while giving birth to me," Emma said through her sobs. One day, when she was seven years old, for the first time she got the courage to ask her father why she didn't have a mother like all the other girls, whose moms help them dress up, take them to school and read them bed stories. When she asked that question she caught Chuck completely unprepared and he said the first thing that came into his mind – the same lie that his father had told him. But even if he was prepared, he actually couldn't tell Emma anything else. If he had told her that he and Blair simply divorced, sooner or later she would look for her mother. And that was definitely not an option since Blair made it perfectly clear that she didn't want Chuck in her life. So, he just made up some story and told it to Emma. He told everyone to keep up to it. Of course, Serena and Nate were pretty much against it but eventually decided that it was for the best. And now Chuck spent every day of his life blaming himself for letting an innocent girl believe that she killed her mother… Just like his father did to him.
"Shhh…" Chuck tried to comfort his daughter. "This is not your fault, Emma," he said. "Hey, come here," he pulled his daughter into a hug until she stopped crying. After all, he wasn't such a bad father – he loved Emma very much and was always there for her, though he couldn't give her girly advises (that was what Serena and Lily were for) and still hadn't forgotten his old habits. And even if Emma and he had fights sometimes, she adored him. According to her, Chuck was 'the best Daddy in the world'.
"Dad?" she said when she finally calmed down. "Can I ask you something?"
"You already did," Chuck smirked. "Say it," he said when he saw the frown on Emma's face.
"Can I leave town for a while?" she asked. "I mean, for a month or two after the school finish on Friday."
"Sure," he answered.
"Really?" Emma asked surprised.
"Yeah. I mean why not? You know you can always go to the house in the Hamptons," Chuck said.
"Dad, I didn't mean going to Hamptons," his daughter said and he looked at her confused. "I wanted to go to Europe."
"Europe?" Chuck asked confused. He didn't want his daughter to be so far away from him. She had always spent the summers in the Hamptons in the van der Woodsen house with her cousins. Hamptons was quite near to New York so Chuck could simply get in his limo and go to see Emma whenever he wanted. But it wasn't all that simple with Europe.
"You always travel around the world," she told him. "You've been to Austria, France, Belgium, last year you even went to Japan! But you never took me with you."
"I thought you wouldn't like it since all my trips were business ones," Chuck said.
"You're right here," Emma giggled. "But still… And right now I just need to escape from here. I know you have this charity thing next week and how much you wanted me to go but…" she began but was interrupted by her father.
"You don't have to worry about that," he said. "This is not the first and definitely won't be the last charity event."
"Really? Does that mean that I can go?"
"Absolutely," Chuck smiled. He had suddenly changed his mind. Something bad had happened tonight and she needed to be away from it for a while. And being in Hamptons wasn't away enough. He understood her – going abroad when something not so good had happened was something natural for people from the Upper East Side, especially for him and Blair when they were younger. "I'm only worried that you will have to be a whole month in Europe by yourself," he said.
"Who said I was going to be alone?" Emma asked.
"Wow! Shall I take that as a sign that you and Nick are getting serious?" Chuck teased his daughter. She had been with her boyfriend, Nicholas Whitney since they were twelve and Chuck knew him very well because his father was one of his business partners.
"I don't know," Emma said hesitantly. "I mean, our relationship has been pretty… complicated lately and I'm not even sure it still exists after tonight," she said with a deep sigh and then added, not giving her father a chance to question her further, "However, I wasn't planning on going to Europe with Nick, anyways."
"If you want me to come with you, I'll have to disappoint you because I'm closing a big deal for 'Bass Industries' right now."
"I wasn't talking about you, either," she said. "I want to go to Europe with Katherine." Katherine Archibald was Emma's best friend and her sort-of-cousin since she was Serena and Nathaniel Archibald's daughter. "Last week we talked about how great it would be if we had the chance to go to Europe together sometime. And I think this 'sometime' should be now. Oh, by the way, she mentioned that Aunt Serena told her that when they were in high-school, she and my mother used to go to Europe very often," Emma said the last sentence with a more cheerful voice.
Chuck sighed. Everything was about her mother. And he was even sure what the destination would be.
"I guess you will want to go to Paris, then," he told Emma. "Your mother always went there when something was wrong… or when everything was fine… It was her favourite place."
"Actually, Dad, I was thinking of a place a bit more southern, where there is beach and sea," Emma said.
"And what place will that be?"
"Monte Carlo!"
Blair Waldorf was sitting calmly on the couch in the living room of her huge penthouse in London and was watching 'Roman Holiday'. She wasn't expecting her daughter to come home from her birthday party in the condition she did.
"Grace, sweetie, is everything OK?" she asked when Grace stepped out of the elevator with tears in her eyes but her daughter totally ignored her and went to her room.
Blair paused the film and went upstairs to see what was going on with Grace. However, when she reached her door, it was already locked. Blair took a deep breath and knocked but the door remained locked. She knocked once more but again got no response. She was losing her patience.
"Grace Eleanor Waldorf!" she shouted. Blair had changed Grace's surname the minute she divorced Chuck. She wanted him out of her life and thought that the best thing to do as a beginning was to change her daughter's surname so that Grace doesn't know who her father was. And to be absolutely sure that she won't ever make an attempt to look for him, Blair told Grace that he died in a plane crash when she was only one year old. Of course, that version was still working since Blair made her mother, her father, Cyrus, Roman and Dorota to keep to it. "Open the door!" she shouted irritated.
Blair heard footsteps on the floor and her daughter opened the door.
"What do you want?" Grace asked. Blair noticed that she had wiped away her tears but it was still obvious that something was wrong.
"I just wanted to check up on you," she said sweetly. "You didn't seem to be in a birthday mood when you came home. What happened?"
"Nothing," Grace shook her head.
"Grace, you don't have to pretend," Blair sighed. "You know you can tell me everything," she caressed her daughter's cheek. "May I come in?"
Grace thought for a second and then nodded. Her mother entered the room and closed the door. She sat on Grace's bed and put a pillow in her lap.
"Come here," she said.
Grace lied on her bed and put her head on the pillow in her mother's lap, just like Blair and Serena did many, many years ago.
"Now," Blair said. "Tell me what's bothering your pretty head?"
"Dylan," her daughter spoke. "He… he broke up with me."
"On your birthday?" Grace only nodded and burst into tears. "Hey," Blair caressed Grace's curls and tried to comfort her.
"I just don't know what I did wrong. I…" the younger Waldorf spoke through her sobs.
"You haven't done anything wrong," her mother said. "You are a Waldorf and he is just a stupid boy, who doesn't know what he wants."
"But, Mom, I felt so embarrassed and I…"
"Shhh… Everything's fine. At least it will be very soon."
"Mom, can I go abroad after school finishes? Please!"
"Of course," Blair said. She remembered when she was a teenager she went abroad very often when something was wrong. She used to think that if she was away from her problems, they would just disappear. Now she knew that this is very far from the truth, but it still helps to clean your mind and calm down. "Do you want to go to Paris to see your grandparents?"
"As much as I love them, I would have to say that I want to go someplace different," said Grace, who wasn't crying anymore. "Monte Carlo, for example."
"Monte Carlo?"
"Yeah, I watched a movie a few weeks ago. It was taking place in Monte Carlo. This place is amazing!"
"I understand you, Grace, but I cannot come with you because of the magazine and I definitely won't let you go to Monte Carlo alone," Blair said.
"Then, can Brooke come with me?" Grace asked with hope in her voice.
Brooke Evans was Grace's best friend since the kindergarten. She was a very nice girl and Blair liked her a lot. The two best friends somehow reminded her of Serena and herself with the small exception that Grace and Brooke weren't constantly fighting over some stupid things.
"Well, it's OK with me," Blair said. "But I don't know if her father will agree to let her come with you."
"Trust me, he will," Grace grinned. "Especially if you ask him. You know he's kind of into you."
Brooke's parents were divorced and she was living with her father. The girls once decided that they have to hook up Brooke's father with Grace's mother. They went on a date but things didn't work out. However, according to Brooke, her father still thought that Blair was a very attractive woman.
"Well, then I guess I will have to call John and ask him," Blair laughed. "But that, my dear Grace, doesn't mean that I will go on a second date with him," she added when she saw the devilish look on her daughter's face, who only giggled. "However, if you're lucky and he lets Brooke come with you, on Saturday the two of you will be on your way to Monte Carlo."
Thanks for reading! I hope you liked it.
I want to say a few things. First, about that anonymous review, saying that Blair would never leave Chuck one of her daughters - she has her reason and it will be revealed in the next chapters :). Second, in this story Dorota isn't be married to Vanja (for now :D) and was never pregnant. She moved with Blair when she left New York and is still her maid. I know I said something about Ana in the prologue but I changed it so everything's fine :).
So, if you want to see what happens next, don't forget to review! And if possible, post signed reviews, so that I can answer to them :).


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Disclaimer: Don't own the x-men but I will stake my claim on the uber-cuteness that is Jinx and Tommy so paws off!
Cayden rushed down the corridor in the direction of the scream, finding a number of students already gathered outside one of the bedrooms much further down the hallway. Three girls – the identical triplets – stood backed up against the wall opposite the open bedroom door, squirming and pulling faces as some of their classmates gathered around.
"Oh my God!" one of them shrieked.
"It was huge," cried another.
"And hairy!" the last one shuddered, crossing her arms and hunching her shoulders. Cayden slowed his approach, breathing a sigh of relief that Lily had surely been found. His expression darkened again however as he found Carl was standing next to the girls.
"Ah Jinx," the other student offered a knowing – and somewhat smug – grin. "Missing something?"
Cayden took a sharp breath.
"Where is she?" he asked calmly.
"She?" one of the triplets blinked, looking at Cayden.
"Is it your spider?" one of her sisters asked.
Cayden nodded and opened his mouth to reply but Carl spoke up first.
"Yup. That would be Jinx's pet tarantula. Not my pet of choice but…"
Cayden gave Carl a brief glare but quickly returned his attention to the girls.
"Yes, she's mine. If you just tell me where you last saw her I'll go catch her and get her back in her cage."
The two girls exchanged a quick glance before looking back at Cayden.
"I'm so sorry," the girl nearest Cayden said quietly, wringing her hands anxiously. "I got such a scare I just… I eh… I dropped a textbook on her."
Cayden's heart sank. Quickly he rushed into the triplet's room, his eyes immediately falling on the large, heavy textbook on the floor. Inhaling sharply he lifted the book, swallowing back the nausea that swelled through him. Lily lay crumpled on the floor, one leg twitching but only slightly.
"What's going on here?" Mr Summers' voice drifted in from the corridor. Cayden closed his eyes briefly, cursing under his breath.
"There's a rogue spider on the loose," Carl's voice followed Summers'. "Or there was anyway."
Cayden heard a quiet sigh and footsteps heading in his direction.
"I thought we made it clear that you were supposed to keep your pet secure," the teacher said sternly.
"She was," Cayden replied tightly, looking down at Lily helplessly as her leg gave another faint twitch. Carefully he picked the spider up, cradling her small, battered body, alarmed by just how limp she felt. There was a quiet scoff.
"So I see."
Cayden clenched his jaw against the unsuitable retort on his lips, not taking his eyes off the spider in his hands, desperately looking for any more signs of life.
But there were none.
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A soft, tired sigh escaped Cayden's lips as he lay and stared up at the ceiling. He tried to close his eyes but once again all he saw was Lily's crumpled body and Carl's smug grin. The other boy was lucky he had been holding Lily or that grin would have been wiped from his face. Hearing a gentle knock on the door he rolled his head lazily to the side but made no effort to answer it. Returning his gaze to the ceiling, he completely ignored the second knock. He took a deep breath as he heard the door creak open.
"Jinx?" a soft voice drifted from the doorway. With a quiet groan Cayden pulled himself into a sitting position looking at Thomas tiredly. The other boy gently closed the door behind him and looked back at Cayden concernedly. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine," Cayden grumbled, looking down and fidgeting with the ring on his finger. Thomas took a deep breath.
"I really am sorry about Lily. I know…" he sighed. "I think we both know who opened the cage. I think he did it 'cause I blew him off earlier to come after you."
Cayden inhaled deeply, scowling heavily but he did not comment further. Thomas glanced over at Lily's cage, frowning sadly at the limp form only just visible under the log. For a moment he regarded the spider thoughtfully, worrying his bottom lip before giving himself a determined nod.
"May I?" he gestured towards the tank. Cayden looked up frowning briefly before giving a shrug. Thomas made his way towards the tank, glancing over it to figure out how to open it. "You remember my power from the danger room right? How I can bring inanimate stuff to life?"
Cayden arched an eyebrow, looking at the tank – at the log in particular.
"What? You gonna try and give me a pet log?"
"No, I…" Thomas took a deep breath. "Look you can't tell anyone about this – I've been working on it with the Professor. I don't know if it'll work… she's quite big…"
Cayden just frowned in confusion as Thomas reached into the tank, resting all his fingers from both hands on Lily's back. For several moments he just watched but suddenly his eyes widened as one of Lily's legs twitched. Leaping to his feet he rounded his bed to stand over the tank next to Thomas.
"What…" he started but he quickly shut his mouth as he saw the concentration on the other boys face. Instead he just watched as Lily's leg twitched again, and another twitched. Suddenly the large spider pushed up on all eight legs, stumbling slightly as Thomas pulled away. Doing a small circle Lily seemed to calm, settling down half under her log. Cayden stared down at her in disbelief.
"Is she… I mean," he looked quickly to Thomas who now sat on his bed before turning back to Lily, reaching down and stroking her leg, earning another little shuffle from the spider. Quickly he closed the lid, double checking all the clasps. With a broad smile he turned back to Thomas only to find he now lay down, eyes closed. Panic flitted through Cayden's eyes.
"He's just sleeping," a soft voice came from the doorway. Cayden spun round to find Dr Grey standing in his room. The teacher offered him a reassuring smile although with a serious note on her face. "The Professor realised what he was doing. He's not supposed to attempt this alone."
Cayden glanced back over at the other student.
"He'll be ok though, right?"
Jean nodded as she crossed the room to give the sleeping student a closer look.
"He'll just be exhausted – he's never even tried to revive anything as big as Lily, only small bugs," Jean looked at Cayden solemnly. "You realise you cannot tell anyone about this? If people found out what Tommy can do…" she inhaled deeply. "Of course he is getting stronger – and will continue to do so – but we have no way to tell what his limits would be. If people were to find out about this…"
"They'd want him to try and revive humans," Cayden nodded understandingly. What kind of a strain would that put on the other boy if reviving a spider tired him so? "I won't tell a sole."
Jean gave an appreciative nod.
"Thank you."
Cayden glanced back over at Lily.
"What about her? What do we tell people?"
Jean looked thoughtfully at the tank.
"We'll just have to say she wasn't as badly injured as first thought," she replied. "I'll drop in and see the triplets and tell them Lily's moving a little and we're hoping she'll make a full recovery after all. You'll just have to keep her hidden a while so no-one sees just how quick her recovery is," she held up a hand as Cayden smiled wryly. "Carl and his companions will not be bothering you, I assure you. The triplets might come along though," she arched an eyebrow. "They are truly horrified by what happened."
"I know," Cayden nodded. Even earlier he had not really been able to be mad at the girls. "I'll keep the cage covered and tell them the dark'll help her get better."
Jean gave a nod.
"That'll keep the girls satisfied," she said, smiling faintly. "I don't think they'll be too upset at not getting to see her. They're not good with…creepy crawlies."
"I gathered," Cayden arched an eyebrow in Lily's direction. Jean looked back over at Thomas.
"You know Tommy came to see me today. He asked to be moved to another room… apparently he doesn't want to share with Carl anymore."
"Oh… right…" Cayden blinked in surprise.
"Would you like me to wake him up and get him back to his room?" Jean asked. "Well… one of the spare rooms until we get him sorted out properly."
"No, it's ok," Cayden waved a hand dismissively. "Just… leave him. He looks comfortable."
The corners of Jean's lips twitched.
"That's probably him out for the rest of the night…" she pointed out. Cayden shrugged.
"I'll crash on the floor."
"Ok," Jean smiled broadly, knowing the student would not look up to see it. "I'll go and look you out some spare bedding. And I'm sure there's a spare mattress or cot or something you can have for the night."
"Thanks," Cayden nodded although still he did not look up. Dr Grey made her way back to the door, pausing in the doorway to cast one more satisfied look over the room before leaving. Only when the door shut softly behind the teacher did Cayden let out a small sigh. Wandering over to Lily's tank he retrieved her food from the bag by the side, dropping a cricket in through the small flap on the lid, securing it shut again and checking it twice. He watched with a small smile as the spider crept out from under her log, grabbing her prey and retreating back under the log quickly. For several minutes he watched before grabbing a towel from where he had dropped it on the floor earlier and covering the tank.
"She ok?"
Cayden jumped slightly, tuning quickly to look at Thomas. The other boy started to pull himself into a sitting position but Cayden gestured for him to stay.
"Lie down, you look exhausted!"
"I'm fine," Thomas objected but he lay back down tiredly. Taking a deep breath, he blinked rapidly to clear his tired, blurry eyes. "So, how is she?"
"She's fine," Cayden smiled timidly at the other boy as he looked at him. "Thank you."
"No problem," Thomas returned a warm, albeit tired smile. "What are friends for?"
Cayden glanced away sheepishly for a moment. Upon turning back to reply however he found the other boy had fallen asleep again but he did not mind. For the first time in a long, long time Cayden Poole's lips curled into a comfortable, contented, happy smile…
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Author's Note: And there we go. No drama, just two boys meeting and becoming friends. I hope you approve of Tommy's power – I know it is a little extreme but in both stories I've used him in I've had him kidnapped because of his powers so I needed something serious.
I am still in a state of semi-retirement from writing fanfics but there's still too many Pyro/Iceman and Pyro/Multiple Man and …well… Multiple Man/Colossis ideas buzzing about my head so don't suppose that'll last too long…
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Safeguarding Office
The Archdiocese of Perth is the first of Australia's Catholic dioceses to begin to establish Safeguarding Officers across its network of parishes. The Safeguarding Office is responsible for ensuring the safety of children, young people and the vulnerable within the confines of the Catholic Church across the Archdiocese of Perth, educating the Catholic community on child protection and protective behaviours, and establishing Safeguarding Officers within Perth's metropolitan and rural parishes.
Safeguarding Project Coordinator: Andrea Musulin
29 Victoria Square, Perth WA 6000
Telephone: +61 (0)8 9221 7762
Fax: +61 (0)8 9325 7459
Email: email@example.com
Part 1: Perth leads the way on facing abuse
In a two-part series, leader and pioneer in child protection, Andrea Musulin, talks of dramatic changes taking place in the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth to face abuse head on and to minimise future opportunities of its reoccurence.
Part 2: Perth leads way on facing abuse
Comparing her present role to her previous work, Musulin said that the Catholic Church is a very different place to working with the Police.
Safeguarding Downloadable Forms
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Hi All, > -----Original Message----- > From: David Crossley (JIRA) [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Friday, 2 June 2006 11:35 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: [jira] Commented: (FOR-891) css-validator reports CSS errors and > many warnings for pelt skin > > [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR- > 891?page=comments#action_12414345 ] > > David Crossley commented on FOR-891: > ------------------------------------ > > Gavin, i tried applying your patch but it makes some changes which don't > seem correct (so not yet applied). Ok, there may have been a few default colors I used to get rid of the 'warnings' , they could have been corrected afterwards but I'll try and match them up. > > The top-right rounded corners have disappeared from tabs and the top > search box. Oops, yes I spotted that all the round corners were using id attributes - except one which uses the class instead e.g. - #roundtop #roundbottom .roundtopsmall #roundbottomsmall So I do not understand the reason for this inconsistency, my mistake was changing the . to a # and not changing the corresponding xml. > > The colour for unselected tabs seems to get a new default colour. This > over-rides the value from the project's skinconf.xml file. I wonder if > these default background-color values need to happen in the generated css > files. Sorry, been dispatcher minded for too long now (that's another thread) and I did not remember the skinconf.xml file. Most of the 'Warnings' from the CSS Validator (which is basically a judgement call, fix them if you want but they are not failures/errors) are that there are missing background-color declarations when using color and vice-versa. The W3C may insist on these in future as fallbacks so that inherited parent colors do not clash with their children, so we may as well fix them. The question now then is, where do you want them ? I will make sure I spend longer finding better default colors for them before sending the patch in. The new patch I sent today cures the Errors and so will pass validation. I will work on the Warnings next. > > Also please do not add extra tabs to the files (we use spaces). This > creates unnecessary diffs and obscures the real changes, e.g. see > #level2tabs in your patch. Bummer, I DID use spaces! For some reason, a few of the lines were (upon initial opening of the file, before any changes by me) indented further in that most, so I backspaced them once which seemed to get rid of a tab, then spaced in 2 spaces to line them up again. This may be another Windows Quirk I don't know, my Vim is set up correctly. > > When providing patches, please also tell what you have changed in general > terms so that we can add a sensible svn log message for the commit. Okey Dokey. Gav... > > > css-validator reports CSS errors and many warnings for pelt skin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: FOR-891 > > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-891 > > Project: Forrest > > Type: Bug > > > Components: Skins (general issues), Documentation and website > > Versions: 0.8-dev > > Reporter: David Crossley > > Assignee: Gavin > > Priority: Blocker > > Fix For: 0.8-dev > > Attachments: screen.css.diff > > > > Our home page does not pass CSS validation with > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: > http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa > - > For more information on JIRA, see: > http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.1/354 - Release Date: 6/1/2006
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Mental health advisory group
The Mental Health HEEAG works alongside HEE's Strategic Advisory Forum (SAF) to provide strategic professional advice and expertise to HEE around in its work on workforce planning and education development.
Advisory group members
- Stephen Dalton (Co-chair), Mental Health Network
- Chris Welsh (Co-chair), Health Education England
- Felix Davies, Turning Point
- Avril Devaney, Mental Health Directors of Nursing Network
- Ian Hulatt, Royal College of Nursing
- Paul Jenkins, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Mary John, British Psychological Society
- Paul Lelliott, Care Quality Commission
- Kevin Mullins, National IAPT/MST Programme Director
- Aideen O'Halloran, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Joe Rafferty, Mersey Care NHS Trust
- Julie Repper, Improving Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC)
- Genevieve Smyth, College of Occupational Therapists
- Jude Stansfield, Public Health England (PHE)
- Denise Taylor, Pharmacist
- Hazel Watson, NHS England
Meeting dates
- 24 Mar 2014
- 11 Jun 2014
- 10 Sep 2014
- 03 Dec 2014, 11:00 – 13:00, Portland House, London
- 25 Feb 2015, 10:00 – 12:00, Portland House, London
- 05 May 2015, 14:30 – 16:30, Portland House, London
- 14 Oct 2015, 10:00 – 13:00, Portland House, London
- 09 Dec 2015, 14:30 – 16:30, Portland House, London
Minutes from past meetings can be found in the related documents section below. For more information about this advisory group, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Terms of reference
Purpose and Role
The overall purpose of the Mental Health HEE Advisory Group (HEEAG) is to work alongside HEE's Strategic Advisory Forum (SAF) providing strategic professional oversight and expertise to Health Education England to influence decisions:
- looking at a one to five year time frame (whilst being mindful of the longer term view and horizon scanning at a national level);
- from the perspective of those practitioners delivering mental health care;
- with a patient pathway focus.
The role of the Mental Health HEEAG will be to:
- provide a short to medium term strategic view of the workforce planning and education system;
- align the business of the Mental Health HEEAG to enable HEE to meet its mandate and key strategic requirements across all staff groups for health, public and social care;
- support HEE in influencing decisions and policy concerning workforce planning and education related to delivering mental health care at a national level.
- To provide expertise and advice on strategic workforce planning and education development across all practitioner groups; delivering mental health care;
- To provide expertise and advice on how HEE could achieve parity of esteem between physical and mental health across all its workforce planning and education systems;
- To make specific strategic recommendations to HEE in light of the Francis Inquiry and the requirements of HEE's mandate;
- To provide oversight on issues emerging from mental health staff groups;
- To identify and promote best practice both in the UK and internationally to help support the work of HEE;
- To support the work of the HEE SAF and Patient Advisory Forum by providing professional oversight at a national level.
Whilst mental health is a specialism in its own right, it is unique in that it is delivered, to a degree, by all health professionals. The immediate focus of the HEEAG will be to advise on the workforce planning and education of mental health specialists, but it will also share responsibility, with the uni-professional HEEAGs, for advising on mental health in the wider system.
Governance and Membership
The Mental Health HEEAG will be chaired by Stephen Dalton, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Network, NHS Confederation and co-chaired by Professor Chris Welsh, Director of Education and Quality, HEE.
The HEEAGs will meet approximately four times per year, and meetings will be aligned to the HEE SAF dates.
The meetings will, wherever possible, be held in HEE offices for a maximum of 2.5 hours and at zero cost. Teleconference facilities will also be utilised.
The Mental Health HEEAG will be accountable to HEE's Chief Executive through the HEE SAF.
The HEEAG will consist of a core membership of 20 (maximum). Core membership needs to be representative and consideration should be given to ensuring representation (where appropriate) from the following:
- Chief Professional Officer
- Higher Education Institute
- Newly Qualified Health Care Professional
- Patient/Lay representation
- Professional Regulator
- Royal College
- Student
- Union.
Mental Health HEEAG members will have a high level of credibility with their constituency and be able to allocate sufficient time and have the flexibility required to make an effective contribution to the work of the HEEAG. The Mental Health HEEAG will be supported by a secretariat provided by HEE's Directorate of Education & Quality, who will be in attendance at meetings. Each organisation/group represented on the HEEAG will have at least one member.
External experts may be invited to attend meetings in order to contribute to specific agenda items, if necessary. The Mental Health HEEAG will convene time-limited topic-based working groups, drawn from a wide-range of partners, to address key issues in detail. The working groups will be governed by the HEEAG and will produce and present papers at meetings when and where appropriate.
The membership term will initially be for two years. Where a HEEAG member does not attend a minimum of two meetings per year, a replacement nomination from the organisation/group they represent will be requested.
The core of the HEEAG agenda will be informed by the work of the strategic priorities for HEE, the HEE SAF, HEE Patient Advisory Forum and HEE LETBs.
Ways of Working
By joining the Mental Health HEEAG, members agree to:
- uphold the NHS Constitution;
- always place the patient at the centre of HEE's work, promoting and developing work streams aligned to pathways and patient journeys;
- allow all members to have an equal voice;
- commit to the highest standards of conduct, as governed by the 7 Principles of Public Office;
- adopt a 'can do' approach and be open to challenge;
- use accessible terminology, providing clear explanation of specialist terms and acronyms both verbally and in written documentation;
- uphold the constraints of discussing confidential data and information outside of the meeting when consulting within their constituencies on specific issues raised in meetings, whilst supporting the need for openness and transparency.
Review and Future Arrangements
The revised governance arrangements (including membership) will be reviewed annually to ensure the arrangements are fit for purpose.


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TORONTO -- The Ultimate Fighting Championship doesn't even pretend that light-heavyweight titleholder Jon Jones faces serious threats in the cage anymore.
"If he stays on the right track, does the right things, this guy could go down as the greatest ever," UFC President Dana White said. "I just don't see anybody beating this guy anytime soon."
Not the most encouraging words for anyone trying to drum up interest in UFC's first major U.S. show of 2012, slated to feature two men fighting over the right to try beating Jones. But praise of the champion comes in the wake of a 2011 showing from Jones that White and several other observers have anointed the greatest year ever for a UFC athlete.
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Jones put an exclamation point on it this past weekend when he released his chokehold on former titleholder Lyoto Machida and let the unconscious challenger flop to the canvas in the second round of UFC 140's main event in Toronto. It was Jones' fourth win this year, including three title fights against current or former champions. None of them went the distance. Only one of them, Machida, ever had Jones in a semblance of trouble.
The champion's progress so far bodes ill for the winner of a Jan. 28 bout between consensus No. 3 Rashad Evans and No. 7 Phil Davis that will decide the next 205-pound challenger. UFC "probably" will bring Jones into the cage to face off with the winner, White said, just as Evans did following Jones' victories in March and September.
"I'm sure he'd like to ruin one of Rashad's evenings anyway," White said.
He fears putting too much pressure on Jones quickly, yet UFC's leader can't stop coming up with superlatives.
"He's so young, you don't want to put that kind of stuff in a guy's head that's that young," White said. "But he's walking through serious, serious guys and busting them up bad. Stopping them. Finishing them. You don't see somebody come in and wreck people like this guy."
The string of one-sided victories makes it harder to convince MMA viewers that a Jones fight will be competitive. That's fine with the boss, who believes Jones eventually can become an attraction on the level of welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre, UFC's best pay-per-view draw.
Jones simply needs to keep winning in dominant fashion.
"The best thing that could happen to us is you end up with a Mike Tyson," said White. "He's got a long time to work at it. ... I think he does have the potential to be our biggest star."
It's been a heady experience for a 24-year-old who was living in his girlfriend's basement a few years ago. Jones at first tried to stay low-key about it during UFC 140's post-fight press conference: "I'll do my best and where I'll land is where I'll be."
But as reporters and White continued heaping on accolades, Jones couldn't help but bask in some of it. Minutes after his attempt at acceptance of any outcome life throws at him, the champion was holding forth on his potential and his plans o simply think about it when he returns to his home to Ithaca, N.Y.
"I'm going to sit in my own bed … and just think about the greatness of the mind," Jones said. "It really wasn't about who I beat or anything like that. It was about just improvement of the quality of my life and how I set a goal and I stuck to it. ... I do believe that I can be one of the best on the planet, and I think it's my destiny to one day be one of the best who's ever lived."
He traces his strong self to encouragement to mentor Jack Stanbro, who coached him to a Greco-Roman state wrestling title at Union-Endicott High School, in Endicott, N.Y.
"My wrestling coach has been telling me ever since high school," Jones said. "He said, 'Jon you're the best in the world and I want you to believe that.' ... He doesn't even train me anymore, but when he says things like that, it just reminds me that that could be true and that maybe it is true. So I'm going to keep working towards making it true."
His critics view those sentiments as confidence spilling over into arrogance, a view that seems to be growing, if his reception in Toronto is any guide. Most of the officially announced crowd of 18,303 at Saturday's fight -- as well as the audience for the previous day's weigh-ins -- booed Jones as he entered the arena.
White doesn't view it as a problem. For a fight promoter, all that matters is that viewers and ticket buyers care enough to make any kind of noise.
At the post-fight presser, Jones initially professed a lack of concern with a hostile crowd. But he later admitted that he'd rather have adulation.
"I have good intentions, so hopefully it'll change in the future," said Jones, who appeared to take the boos in stride as he walked to the cage on Saturday. "My message to my fans was, I thank the ones that support me and I wouldn't let the boos shake me. I love people and I love people who love me."