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• Labour leader hosting public Q&A session
• 'Back to the 1950s' - Burnham attacks 'elitist' free schools
• Ed Miliband vows to keep private schools' charitable status
• Yvette Cooper: 90 and 42-day detention were 'never justified'
• Shadow home secretary doesn't rule out becoming leader
• Labour leader refuses to back job loss company BAe
19.25 That's it from live blog for today. Join us tomorrow for the last day of the Labour conference in Liverpool tomorrow.
19.16 Video: Shadow education secretary Andy Burnham accuses 'conman' Cameron of breaking promises on education and Michael Gove's policies of being stuck in the 1950s.
19.10 Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, says John Healey's speech on the NHS was "ludicrous scaremongering." He said Labour had refused to apologise for PFI contracts, waste including the £12bn IT fiasco, or back the Cancer Drugs Fund. He said:
With no announcements, and no vision for the NHS, Labour resorted today to nothing more than ludicrous scaremongering. The simple truth is that waiting times have come down since the General Election and we are committed to making sure they remain stable. Labour failed to answer any of the questions they needed to today – and John Healey refused to condemn his Welsh Labour colleagues who are slashing the NHS budget by 8.3 per cent. Labour spent the last decade loading the NHS with debt, and would now be cutting it by £30 billion. If Labour were ever allowed to run the NHS again, they would run it into the ground.'
19.09 Final round:
What would Ed do about the job losses at BAE?
We need growth in the economy. Government doesn't have to stand aside and can support business.
What will you do if there is a double-dip?
Ed doesn't think there will be, just low growth. He points to Ed Balls' five-point plan.
Should unemployed people be forced to take jobs?
Work is important but you can't if there are no jobs, he says.
What can be done for human rights in Egypt?
We need to be on the right side of the movements for change. For two long there was an 'enemy's enemy is my friend' position after 9/11, backing anti-al Qaeda regimes. Is this a jab at David, the former foreign secretary tangle up in intelligence torture allegations?
"This is a fantastic meeting. We are reinventing politics," he says to conclude. He cites the Arab Spring, the equal pay campaigners portrayed in the film "Made in Dagenham" and the gay rights campaign as proof of the need for mass movements, rather than politicians, to bring change.
19.02 He's back.
Why are you against the right to strike?
"I'm in favour of the right to strike, but it's got to be a last resort."
I'm outraged at the recent riot sentences for Facebook inciters [Ed can be heard groaning into his mike.] How will you punish them fairly?
It's important sentences recognise public sentiment, but not in a "mob rule way."
Scottish indepedence?
There are massive dangers of seperatism, he says, but he wants the case for the Union to be made in a more positive way.
Should there be a referendum on EU membership?
"I'm against (huge applause). I think it's a settled view." He says the "vast vast advantages" of membership outweigh the unhappiness. "I don't believe there's a strong case and despite certain newspapers I don't detect a public appetite [for a referendum]"
18.56 The TV feed to the conference floor has been cut as a questioner asked about an EU referndum - it follows a loss of signal during Miliband's speech.
18.50 Replace Trident nuclear missles?
Ed wants multilateral disarmament. The government's review of Trident is the right thing to do.
A man attacks the government's incapacity benefit reform. "We want socialism, the dogma of collectivism and the vulnerable," says a charity worker. "We want a clear socialist, left-wing, supporting disabled people."
Elections are won on the centre ground, Ed says. "At the last election Labour did badly and they have to appeal across the country. I want people who voted Conservative at the last election voting for us. I don't think it's a choice between principle and power..." At this time people are open to new ideas and thinking again, he says.
I find Hamas and the Iranian backing for Hamas terrifying, says a man.
"I utterly condemn Hamas rocket attacks, absolutely and without hesitation," he says, uncontroversially. But ten years on from 9/11 there has been no progress - and he understands why Palestine has gone to the UN because he "has no choice". "I'm an absolute friend of Israel... but you're no friend of Israel if you defend the status quo." Huge applause.
18.43 Harry Cole spots the "ordinary bloke" asking the question in a baseball cap is a rapper and Newsnight pundit.
Mr Cole emails:
After Ed's speech yesteday unravelled within hours and the truth about Labour's new brightest star - Rory the hypocritical EMA fan - humiliated his spin team, you would have thought that Labour would have at put a least a little effort into the Ask Ed Q&A. Billed as the leader engaging with the public, they clapped his every word. The first question was from a member, the second congratulated his speech, the third was a Newsnight star etc etc. Hardly Joe Public. The Labour Party in a poor attempt to spin their members as representative of the general public. Well I never...
Someone asks about his brother.
"David is a massive asset. I'd be glad to have him back and I'd want to have him back. But he's got to decide what is the right thing to do."
Have you asked him to be in the shadow cabinet?
He laughs, and says "Yah, yah." Which sounds almost, but not quite, like yes.
18.35 Why won't you take on corporate tax avoidance?
We've got to.
Video message: Does he believe in a maximum wage?
No, not in a free society. But corporate rewards have to be fair and most businesses "know in their heart of heart I'm right about this." Bad companies give us all a bad name, he says.
"You've got to have fair taxes - not penal taxes - but fair taxes."
18.30 What can be done about unfair internships?
Andy Burnham ran on this platform. They should be better advertised, Ed says. The issue of payment is complicated - but that might put people off.
"I don't have a solution but we are looking at it. It is a big issue. I've had internships myself. We've got to find a way of tackling it," he says.
How can parliament be more diverse?
You're totally right, Ed says. The trade unions were a vital route in and that route needs to be reopened. "We need to open our party to the trade union levy payers," he says. "If you want to represent your country you need to do it on the basis not just of gender and race but class." Big applause.
Labour's lost its values
Over the past thirty years: "We never took on the Thatcher settlement properly... There was lots that was wrong. It's about the ethic of your society. Do you believe in a society of me first or us together? That's what I believe and we're going to talk about."
18.20 Why should a 17 year old vote Labour?
I've been talking about young people - the promise of Britain is the next generation does better than the last. He cites climate change, tuition fees and apprenticeships. He says his children will say to him in the future on climate change: "Dad, did you get it, or did you say it was too difficult?"
Baby milk campaigner urges an advertising ban to children. Should businesses at large "be involved in" policy setting?
Policy making unbalanced against 'ordinary folk' towards business. There needs to be more transparency in who's having meetings.
Will Labour follow the Dutch example of protecting pensions?
People are living a lot longer, Ed says and there's a cost challenge. The man gets up and walks out.
Don't let the Germans take the hospitals like the trains, urges an elderly woman concerned about her local hospital getting sold off.
I'm against private takeovers of our NHS but I won't get into the German bit. But Labour were right to use the private sector for cataracts and hip ops and PFI. But he won't have whole hospitals. He resists doing a Brown and calling her a "bigoted woman".
18.14 The only people who think we're winning the war on drugs are those wearing ties to party conferences, says a man.
Ed: The system is not working but decriminalisation would send the wrong signal. "I don't claim to have all the answers on this," he says. "We're having a policy review."
From #AskEd on Twitter: Are jobs and position in the Labour party part of a closed circle?
"I don't have an easy answer that it's important we reflect what I said closed circles in the way we hire."
17.50 Ed Miliband's Q&A with delegates and members of the public who've been let in begins. He's introduced by comedian Eddie Izzard.
I'm not a Labour party member says a lad in a cap. "Excellent!" says Ed. "I mean, I hope you join."
Should employers who don't outsource jobs abroad get tax breaks?
We live in a globalised world and it's hard to stop jobs moving abroad, Ed says. But he "totally understands" their concerns. Britain has to be more attractive to foreign businesses but not with deregulation - government must "support business" through procurement.
What would Labour do to stop young people falling victim to drug dealers?
Put them back to work with a bank bonus tax. He praises Cameron's 'hug a hoody' speech - "Go back and read your speech, there was good stuff in your speech" - saying deprivation doesn't excuse but can help explain criminality.
Labour haven't used the word 'disabled' at conference - are they stereotyping us as scroungers?
People in Doncaster are angry Miliband begins. He's cut off. "You are reinforcing negative rhetoric from the coalition," the questioner says.
17.48 Ed Miliband's division of businesses into 'producers and predators' seemed to come unstuck at lunchtime - and the Labour leader refused to defend BAe, one of Britain's biggest manufacturers which has just shed nearly 3,000 aircraft jobs.
Nick Robinson: You made the distinction between good business and bad business. British Aerospace is in the news with all those job losses. Is it a good business?
Ed Miliband: I I I think the distinction I made in my speech is I'm not going to typecast one industry and say it's all bad.
Robinson: British Aerospace sells arms, it's the subject of a fraud enquiry...
Miliband: I'm not going to get into... I know what good business practice is.
17.30 The Ed Milliband Q&A session begins shortly. Some more of those #asked questions submitted by Twitter at the request of the leadership (see 14.00).
#AskEd - Why didn't you break up the monopoly of energy companies when you were Energy Secretary?
#AskEd - Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of multi-story car park lifts?
#AskEd - Under your administration would you create a shorter word for monosyllabic?
#AskEd - If someone owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way to the center of the earth?
#AskEd - Have Unions agreed to handover the photos and negatives yet or are they still blackmailing you?
#AskEd - Do you agree that the definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over in the hope of a different otucome?
17.25 Here's John Healey saying: "You cannot trust the Tories on the NHS"
17.00 Health service think tank The King's Fund has backed John Healey's call for regulation of business practices in care homes following the collapse of Southern Cross. Yesterday Ed Miliband said the company treated "tens of thousands of elderly people like commodities to be bought and sold."
Southern Cross effectively ran a sale-and-leaseback scheme on the buildings of the homes it bought, allowing it to expand rapidly - but couldn't pay its landlords when local authorities cut funding.
John Appleby, Chief Economist at The King's Fund welcomed the proposal, saying:
In light of the problems experienced by Southern Cross, there is a case for extending regulation to include prudential oversight of social care providers with a significant share of publicly funded services. This would enable providers with risky business strategies to be identified proactively and ensure continuity of care for service-users in the event of the financial failure of large providers.
16.50 The Conservatives say Yvette Cooper's promise of a policing review shows there is a "vacuum at the heart of Labour's criminal justice policy". Nick Herbert, policing minister, said:
Yvette Cooper has opposed every necessary reform of the police and even cynically postures against the spending reductions and pay reforms which her predecessors had acknowledged would need to be made. Now she wants to kick police reform into the long grass of a Labour commission. Labour's pathetic policy for the police now consists of opposition to cuts and a review, whilst the Coalition is driving forward with a serious and coherent programme of reform.
16.31 Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's Labour Prime Minister, gives a video greeting to conference following the terrorist attack by Anders Behring Breivik.
Never have I felt our friendship warmer than after the terror attacks in Norway... It was the Labour party in Norway that was attacked but the attack was also on you and the international labour movement. The warm embrace of the BRitish peopl and british labour party gave us strenght and comfort. From the bottom of my heart I thank you.
He warns conference of the Eurozone crisis creating rising unemployment and street protests. "The response is more social democracy," he says.
Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik
16.26 A decent pun on Gove, whom he calls "elitist and divisive"
The government's approach to education reminds me of the film 'Back to the Future.' Remember it? It starred a man called Michael who was trapped in the 1950s. Here we are in 2011 and we have the spectacle of a Tory Education Secretary promoting Latin and Ancient Greek over Engineering, ICT and Business Studies.
Burnham attacks Free Schools, saying: "He cancels new schools in areas of greatest need to build new ones in wealthier areas."
The Tories are returning to the 1950s, Burnham says, with backdoor selection. He says the Tories' academies - unlike Labour's - are two-tier system of grammar schools and secondary moderns.
He opposes the English Baccalaureate - and instead calls for a Modern Baccalaureate.
16.23 Burnham channels Blair:
Tony Blair said his priorities were education, education, education. And because of what he did we can now go further: aspiration, aspiration, aspiration.
He criticises the Tory withdrawal of the Educational Maintenance Allowance and cuts to careers services, branding Cameron a 'conman'.
"What kind of man does that, leaving thousands of young souls cut adrift?"
He calls for a UCAS-style system for apprenticeships, saying Labour didn't focus enough on the half of young people that do not go to unviersity.
16.18 Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary, is up. He mocks Ed Balls' football appearance: "There was certainly no squeezed middle."
"Is there any country in the world that runs down its schools, its teachers and its young people in the way we do?" he says.
The Merseyside MP asks the party to back the Hillsborough campaign, which is demanding full disclosure of goverment documents held on the footballing tragedy.
16.12 Education afternoon at conference. Yvonne Sharples, headteacher at Parkland High School, Speke, Merseyside, tells conference moving on how her school has been branded "failing" under the accountability framework, and said the DoE keeps changing the "goalposts". She says:
Shame on you, Michael Gove. How dare you. Michael Gove, you are a dream stealer.
16.00 Top spot by Channel 4 fact check: Yvette Cooper pulled a claim that Blair's was the "first government in a hundred years" in which crime fell from her speech - because of it would have been a whopper. Here's their comparison of the preview and the delivered speech.
15.38 When is a policy not a policy?
When it's a 'downpayment'...
Yesterday Miliband told conference:
If we were in government now, we'd be cutting the costs of going to university from a maximum of £9,000 to £6,000.
But at lunchtime Ed Balls told delegates at a youth fringe meeting that idea was a "downpayment".
The idea of cutting the limit back to £6,000 - paid for by cancelling a corporate tax cut for the banks and introducing higher interest rates on loans for graduates earning more than £65,000 - was "not a commitment for our manifesto".
"I think what Ed did was a downpayment, and there's still more work to do, so I don't think people should take that in the wrong way."
"That is something George Osborne could do right now, here and now," he said, adding that it would still be "entirely open for us to look at what we can do" in Labour's general election manifesto.
Mr Balls went on: "Ed and I have both always said we would rather get to a system where people go to university and then pay a graduate tax afterwards, and think we can make that work."
Dear Leader: Ed Miliband addresses conference yesterday
15.32 Miliband: I won't take away private schools' charitable status.
He told Channel 4 news:
It's very difficult to take away the charitable status for a whole host of complicated reasons. I don't think you can abolish public schools in a free society. Am I going to abolish public schools? No.
In the leadership election his brother, David, said he would pull their charitable status.
But he added: "We do need to change the way the class system works. We do need to open it up."
15.23 Healey ends citing Nye Bevan's battlecry: "The NHS will last as long as there are folk with the faith to fight for it."
He laments:
The betrayal of our NHS in a health bill which will break up the NHS as a "national" health service and set it up as a full-scale market, ruled for the first time by the full force of competition law... The health bill opens up all parts of the NHS to private companies, backed for the first time by a competition regulator and competition courts... So we will oppose any government move to privatise NHS hospitals. We will guarantee under Labour that NHS hospitals remain in the NHS.
But this superb essay - 'It's already happened' by James Meek in the London Review of Books argues the NHS is already subject to extensive internal competition. It is worth a careful read:
It was the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that began replacing the public components of the NHS with private ones, the effect concealed by large spending increases, long before Lansley and Cameron took charge. If the Conservatives and their Liberal allies are dismantling the NHS, it was Labour that loosened the screws.
It was Labour that introduced foundation trusts, allowing hospital managers to borrow money and making it possible for state hospitals to go broke. It was Labour that brought in the embryonic commercial health regulator Monitor. It was Labour that introduced 'Choose and Book', obliging patients to pick from a menu of NHS and private clinics when they needed to see a consultant. It was Labour that handed over millions of pounds to private companies to run specialist clinics that would treat NHS patients in the name of reducing waiting lists for procedures like hip operations. It was Labour that brought private firms in to advise regional NHS managers in the new business of commissioning. And it was Labour that began putting a national tariff on each procedure.
15.09 John Healey, Labour's shadow health secretary, is speaking now. He describes the NHS as the "proudest, greatest promise of Britain", noting that "even David Cameron declares his love for the NHS", but then attacking his "broken" promises.
"The Prime Minister is in denial about the damage" the Government is doing, says Healey, alleging that the Health and Social Care Bill is "breaking up the NHS" and turning it into a "full scale market".
Following Ed Miliband's lead yesterday, Healey attacks the failed elderly care home group, Southern Cross:
People's confidence in care was shaken by the crisis at Southern Cross. Care for some of the most vulnerable in our society, traded by predatory fund managers who saw elderly people as commodities. Dementia as a high-profit market.
Healey says that there is "always" a place for private providers in the NHS, but they must "supplement", not "substitute" for NHS services.
And he finishes on Ed Miliband's most successful line from yesterday: "You can't trust the Tories with our NHS."
15.00 And here's a video of Yvette Cooper announcing Labour's independent policing review in her speech earlier (see entries from 12.21 for more info):
You can read the full text of Cooper's speech here: she admits that Labour made the wrong decisions on 90-day and 42-day detention, as well as by not implementing transitional controls on Polish immigrants.
14.43 Yesterday's speech was meant to quell speculation about Ed Miliband's leadership of the Labour party, but some are still wondering about a possible replacement. Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, was on BBC Radio 4's The World At One earlier and she was forced to deny that Mr Miliband might step down, describing suggestions that she harboured ambitions to do lead the party as "mischievous" speculation. The quotes are from the Press Association:
I think Ed Miliband is definitely leader, not just for the next election but also to take us into government
I think Ed is doing a really good job and I think all this sort of speculation is just a little mischievous.
It is not part of my plans, it is not part of anybody else's plans.
Ed is doing a good job and I think we had a great response to his speech yesterday.
When pressed that she was not ruling out the idea that she could become leader, she replied: "It is just not what I expect to happen. It is not where we are going." Not a no, is it?
14.20 Ed Miliband said he is not Tony Blair or Gordon Brown and that he is "his own man". But the Evening Standard reports that despite that, the Labour leader regularly talks to Tony, Gordon and even Lord Kinnock: "Senior sources said the pair [Tony Blair and Ed Miliband] speak about once a month, either in person or by phone, on a range of issues".
Speaking to Adam Boulton earlier, Miliband said that: "Those people who booed Tony Blair are no friends of mine". That's a strong line, especially given that Benedict Brogan reckons the number included "bafflingly" some 2010 intake Labour MPs. Will Ed be seeking out apologies?
Still speaking, apparently...
14.00 Coming up at 17.30, Ed Miliband will take a Q&A session.
The public can submit questions using the hashtag #asked on Twitter.
The first time this happened the Labour leader was subjected to a torrent of mockery and abuse.
And it is a pun of which Britain shall not tire.
Contributions so far include:
#AskEd Don't you think your brother David would be a better leader of the #labour party than you? Be honest.
#AskEd If a train leaves Birmingham at 1458 and one leaves London at 1502, when will you do the right thing and renationalise the railways?
#AskEd - Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?
#AskEd So, Ed, these vested interests… When are you going to stop taking money from the unions?
#Asked What`s your favourite other Milliband? David, Glenn or Steve?
#AskEd - How does it feel to be Labour's second Neil Kinnock?
#Asked This was shown to be an absolute joke the first time you did this. Why do you keep trying it?
We'll have Mr Miliband's answers to these questions and more live at 5.30.
13.48 Tony Blair has been urged to give money to the Labour party.
Ex-prime minister Tony Blair, his deputy John Prescott and former business secretary Lord Mandelson were accused of cashing in on their reputations after leaving government by John Mann MP. He told a debate on party finance:
There's one group of people who are not donating sufficiently and that's former Labour ministers who are out there doing consultancies for private industry. There's also the book writers who like to give us their memoirs. What I would like to see is the naming of those who have got the bottle to donate money back to the Labour Party so we can see who they are and thank them for their donations. And then there are some of us who will be happy to name and shame those people who have made a fortune on the back of the Labour Party for doing their duties (and not donated).
Quizzed later, Mr Mann said his speech was aimed at Mr Blair, Lord Prescott and Lord Mandelson – and demanded they pay up.
He said: "One of the reasons they were able to write books and get jobs later is because they got famous through Labour."
Mr Blair is reported to have earned £20 million since leaving Downing Street in 2007 and is paid £2 million a year as an adviser to banking giant JPMorgan Chase.
Watch chief political commentator Peter Oborne's Dispatches investigation into the former PM's money-making - 'The Wonderful World of Tony Blair' - here.
13.36 Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, tells conference police cuts mean: "Those seeking to break the law will be rubbing their hands with glee."
Hands of glee: like an uncle at a wedding, Vaz hits the dance floor on Monday night
13.20 Adam Boulton is taking Ed Miliband to task over his goodies-baddies business crusade. The FT reports today:
Ed Miliband has been accused of hypocrisy for launching a moral crusade against "bad" business while Labour officials negotiate payment of a pledged £1m donation from Andrew Rosenfeld, a former tax exile.
Mr Rosenfeld, a property tycoon, only recently returned to the UK after five years in Geneva.
In 2005 the tycoon was criticised during the collapse of Allders for refusing to accept responsibility for its £68m pension deficit despite his large financial stake in the retail chain.
Mr Rosenfeld, a generous philanthropist, was also caught up in the Labour "cash for honours" affair in 2006 and briefly switched allegiance to the Tories. He was not accused of any wrongdoing.
Quizzed on the donations today, Ed said:
"This is much less about individuals. I'm making an argument about how we need to change the system."
But it was very much about individuals yesterday when Ed Miliband was sticking it to Sir Fred Goodwin.
He insisted he was "equally" pro-business as Tony Blair, adding: "Those people who booed Tony Blair are no friends of mine".
Deviated septum: Ed Miliband had an operation to straighten his squint snout.
13.17 Andrew Porter says Yvette Cooper gave an impressive performance
Yvette Cooper's speech was one of this week's better efforts by Labour's big guns. Even before Andy Burnham and, ahem, John Healey speak this afternoon it's likely to prove the most impressive and most talked about of the day. The shadow home secretary is arguably the leader Labour would have tomorrow if Ed Miliband disappeared. And it seems she is liked by activists. LabourList today ranks her first in a popularity poll carried out in the run up to this conference.
13.02 Tristram Hunt, telly-don turned MP, has come out in favour of the Big Society and praises the Tea Party as a model for re-engaging people with politics.
He told a fringe event:
I think we should support the Big Society, I'm very pro-Big Society. We're organising an event in Stoke On Trent for charities to come together to work out how to raise funds. That is the Big Society and I think it's the Labour tradition, the co-operative, mutualist tradition and I think we need to be doing more of that.
Should we be wholly opposed to the Tea-Party? I mean of course politically we are opposed to the Tea Party, but is it a bad thing in terms of politics? Here is a group of people, upset by the way politics is going, they've got together, formed pressure groups, demanded political change, they're influencing politics. Seems quite a good thing.
Earlier Tessa Jowell said people should take more responsibility and backed volunteering schemes for hospital visitors.
12.56 Jack Dromey, MP for Birmingham Erdington and husband to Harriet Harman, told conference Cameron had "bugger all" to do with increased policing numbers during the riots and attacked the "sick society" rhetoric. He told conference:
I say this to Mr Cameron: Birmingham is not sick. What is sick is Tory politicians returning from sunny climes in Bermuda shorts seeking then to take the credit for the restoration of peace to our streets when they had bugger all to do with it. What is sick is crazy talk about baton rounds, water cannon and putting the Army on the streets.
Cameron had "bugger all" to do with ending the riots, Dromey says
Mr Dromey said during the riots West Midlands Police hired 16 ex-police officers because the force was so stretched. The 16 officers were, according to Mr Dromey, forced out of the constabulary by Government cuts and found work as security guards with private firm G4S.
12.43 She says Cameron's "sick society" rhetoric is "a form of surrender, an excuse for government to turn its back and dodge the blame if crime goes up."
"Tories in government do not cut crime," because they "don't believe in active government." She ends: "Labour is the party of law and order and that is how we will stay."
12.40 Crime chief elections will cost £100m during the Olympic year. They should be halted, and the money put into anti-gang action and save 2000 police jobs, and says there cannot be riots during the Olympics.
12.38 Cooper endorses schemes in Hackney and Boston where gang members are offered help away from criminality or police crackdowns.
12.35 She attacks proposals to close the national DNA database which helps solve "thousand" of crimes a year, and say the Tories want to remove 17,000 rapists from the database.
She praises Tariq Jahan, the father of a man killed in the rioters, and says Cameron is wrong to call society "sick". She says young offending fell by a third under Labour but there remain families "handing violence down rather than values down across the generations."
12.33 She announces an independent review into modern policing under Lord Stevens, former Met Commissioner.
Cooper, Harman and Balls applaud Ed Miliband yesterday
12.32 "Police numbers do matter," she says, saying it took 16,000 coppers to bring London under control. And on proposals to deploy troops, she says: "Prime Minister you don't need to bring in the Army if you have enough police."
12.30 She says Sgt Kevin Brooks, a police officer who won a bravery award and met Cameron at Downing Street, has been laid off. Was that a cheer or a boo from the audience?
"Now we see a British Prime Minister, a Tory Prime Minister, handing P45s to crime fighting heroes. He shouldn't be sacking the police, he should be backing the police."
12.28 Twenty per cent cuts mean 16,000 officers are being cut - "a reckless risk to take in the fight against crime. She says it is putting officers into the back office because admin staff are being cut to far. Labour called for 12 per cent cuts she says based on "independent advice".
12.25 'Crime hurts' Cooper says - citing copper theft interrupting commuters and stalkers who terrify women.
"We didn't need 90 day detention. We didn't need 42 day detention. They were never justified by the evidence," she says. Huge applause.
Labour should have introduced migration controls from Eastern Europe and a point-based system earlier, and failed to realise the "impact" of migration, she says. She hails Labour's record on falling crime and says wealthy Tories don't have to deal with crime or "rowdies".
12.21 Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, is up.
She pays tribute to the bravery of police - include eight riot officers who stood their ground in the face of 350 rioters swarming towards them in Clapham.
She thanks the delegates for their tributes to a miner who died at a colliery on the edge of her constituency and says their thoughts are with the family. And a line of praise for the leader, Ed.
11.56 Sadiq Khan, shadow justice secretary, said a Labour government would introduce a 'Victim's Law'.
He said it would ensure "the rights of bereaved families of victims of homicide are honoured", "treat victims with respect and dignity" and "support victims through all stages of the process, including the deeply traumatic experience of when a case reaches court."
Although he did not refer to them by name, it reflects the experiences of the Dowler family, who said being cross-examined by lawyers for Milly's killer left them humiliated and traumatised.
"Under Labour, victims will be at the heart of our justice system... There is only one party that can be trusted on law and order and that's us, the Labour Party," he said.
He referred to 'victim' or 'victims' 27 times in the speech.
But the dispute over sentencing for rioters was not mentioned at all. The summer's disorder was mentioned just once, with the slightly baffling line:
"This summer's riots show that we need a government that isn't out of touch."
And he attacked Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, for his comments on rape:
Ken Clarke has not only fallen asleep on the job but he's also dangerously out of touch. Remember his insensitive and offensive comments on rape? On Radio 5Live, and in response to the statement "rape is rape, with respect?" He said, and I quote: "No, it's not". Mr Clarke, let me tell you rape is rape.
11.18 Pity Rory Weal
As reported at 08.59, the Telegraph and Mail have the back story on the schoolboy who went to Labour conference to lay into the "vicious, Right-wing, Tory-lead" government. He shared his family story - his parents' home was repossessed after his father's business collapsed - to defend the welfare state.
But a campaign has been gathering on Twitter to 'report' the Daily Mail to the Press Complaints Commission after their report into Weal's claims suggested he was not as hard-up as he had implied.
And Tweeters were outraged when ascerbic columnist Melanie Phillips wrote Weal delivered a "mantra of hate" that "chilled the marrow".
I owe my entire well-being and that of my family to the welfare state.' In the real world, what that means (if true) is that his entire life has been spent as a kind of state serf, that he and his family are wholly lacking in independence, that their entire subsistence has been funded by the state... To Rory Weal, all good things appear to come from the state – and so anyone who dares suggest otherwise is vicious and right-wing. Is that not terrifying?
On Twitter, a cruel new hashtag - #weallife - mocks his alleged fake-poverty, with contributions including:
The right wing Tory austerity means i might never realise my dream of joining the bullingdon club #WealLife
Caviar is now only a weekly treat at our home, thanks to the vicious right-wing! #WealLife
Guardian news editor Claire Phipps tweeted:
Not off-limits, but media shd remember he's a child and hasn't made many of the choices that have affected his life so far
And ex-tabloid man and commentator Richard Peppiatt said:
politically motivated character assassinations on 16 y olds makes for ugly reading...
Should the press have held back from examining Weal's claims because of his age? Or do the conference organisers have a duty of care to stop children making political speeches that use their private family circumstances as ammunition? Add your thoughts in the comments box below.
A Labour source said the party had no control over Weal's comments because speakers - including Weal - are picked from the floor by raising their hands and press officers would not seen Weal's speech before he made it. "It's out of our hands. The point of conference is it's a chance for the delegates to speak on their own behalf," they said.
11.07 People should take more responsibility for themselves, say Tessa Jowell, shadow Cabinet Office minister. She says:
When Beveridge created the welfare state it was always meant to be, as Ed Miliband said, a something-for-something settlement. A roof over your head, but your responsibility to maintain it. A health service that treats you when you're sick, but your responsibility to be "fit for service". A state that will find you a job, but your responsibility to take it. And as we look at our public services, I think we need to go back to that. People to take more responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities. And knowing that when they contribute we all get more in return.
She hails a scheme in Philadelphia hospitals where out-patients are visited by volunteers after they are discharged from hospital, and then visit others once they have recovered. Sounds rather Big Society.
10.47 Luke Johnson, chairman of Risk Capital Partners and former chairman of Channel 4 Television, writes today in City AM: Miliband shows why Labour are not fit for office
He delivered a speech which showed he doesn't really understand business, and probably doesn't even believe in capitalism. It was an oration full of vague phrases and void of specifics, but the sentiment was clear. He is suspicious of big business, private equity and the profit motive, and will choose companies to favour and others to extort.
The Square Mile freesheet is spitting, writing: Ed Miliband yesterday sounded the death knell on his party's relationship with the City.
10.37 Sally Bercow, wife of the Speaker John Bercow told a fringe event last night she was "very proud" of her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, adding it had been a "blast". But she admitted her husband "wasn't quite as enthusiastic about me going into the Big Brother house it must be said".
10.29 The BBC's online video team has given a harsh analysis of Ed Miliband's conference speech (via @daljit_bhurji)
10.05 Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper last night refused to rule out standing for Labour leader but insisted Ed Miliband would lead the party "back into government".
Ms Cooper told a fringe event last night that her husband had tried to get her to run against him in last year's leadership contest.
She said: "Ed said he thought I should stand, he said he thought I ought to stand."
Ms Cooper dodged a question about her future intentions for the the role insisting it was vital for the party to "pull together".
And she changed the nappies for the first month after each of their children were born. When Mr Balls is late home or away she turns to ready meals and Heinz tomato soup because she does not really cook, she added. And the couple argue most about directions and both bought each other sat navs for Christmas, she said.
Ms Cooper, a former flatmate of Ed Miliband's, insisted he was "doing a good job" and claimed Labour could win the next election.
"We have a lot to do but we can do it," she said. "But, only if we pull together."
Cooper and Balls take to the dance floor at Keith Vaz's Diversity party on Monday
09.50 Damian Reece, Telegraph Head of Business, savages Miliband's economic left-turn, saying: He will remain a hypocrite until he comes up with specific policies.
Miliband used his speech to repeat the old cliches, including: "You can't trust the Tories with the NHS."
Well, you certainly can't trust Labour with the economy, and Miliband should know. Before being elected an MP in 2005 he was chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers, which was supposed to deliver long-term economic planning for the UK economy, having been one of Gordon Brown's first special advisers in the Treasury after Labour's 1997 general election victory.
Miliband has economic mismanagement and irresponsibility written all over his CV. At least he admitted as much on Tuesday when he said: "The Labour party lost trust on the economy."
But nothing he said about the future of Labour's economic policies did anything to win it back.
He made empty promises that Labour would only spend what it can afford. "That we will live within our means. That we will manage your money properly." This is Prudence all over again, the broken promise of Miliband's beloved political mentor. He claimed the Coalition's economic policies had failed, less than 18 months after they came into power. So much for Miliband's belief in long termism.
Louise Armistead and Helia Ebrahimi report many in the City are astonished at the attack on 'predator' venture capitalism. Top Labour donors include Nigel Doughty, the financier who gave Labour £2m; Sir Ronald Cohen, dubbed the 'father of British venture capital'; and Sir Christopher Ondaatje, described as one of Torotono's most aggressive businessmen.
09.39 As world leaders grapple to prevent the collapse of the Eurozone, a delegate texts last night:
"There's one fringe event out of literally hundreds on Europe here. Unbelievable."
Indeed, the crisis only got three words from Miliband yesterday, one of which was the definite article: "The Eurozone struggling."
09.29 Sketchwriter Andrew Gimson was watching Ed speak yesterday.
Oh dear. Ed Miliband did his best, but he sounded so lonely and vulnerable. Long passages in his speech were met with sombre incomprehension: his own people could not see where he was going. The Labour leader not merely failed to sound like a Prime Minister in waiting. He also failed to sound like a Leader of the Opposition, or indeed a leader of a boy scout troop. For long periods Mr Miliband sounded more like a lone yachtsman who has got lost in the Atlantic and is attempting with the help of a defective radio to communicate with his support team in Liverpool. The Labour leader twiddled the dials, he spoke very slowly and he tried with touching fortitude to conceal the undertone of desperation in his voice.
While Adams notes Miliband's difficult relationship with the unions:
08.59 Rory Weal, the teenager who delighted delegates by sticking it to David Cameron, had to leave his £13,000 a year private school after his family fell on hard times. Gordon Rayner reports.
Rory, the son of a company director, had enjoyed a privileged upbringing before his parents split up following financial trouble in 2008. He was a pupil at the independent Colfe's School in Lee, south east London, but had to leave after his father's City-based employment agency, Jonathan Weal Associates, went bust. At the time his friends set up a "Rory don't leave Colfe's" page on Facebook, where he told classmates: "Sorry everyone, I don't want to leave Colfe's but I have to."
His family lived in a £500,000 home in Chislehurst, Kent, until it was repossessed and his mother Elaine, 43, an administrator at a cleaning company, separated from 53-year-old Mr Weal. Rory now lives with his mother and eight-year-old sister Emma in a modest rented semi-detached house in Maidstone.
His performance has lead to comparisons with a young William Hague, addressing Tory conference in 1977.
Christopher Howse writes today that Rory Weal is like a dog walking on its hind legs: "The world isn't particularly interested in what the dog is doing, except that it's unusual for a dog."
Sixteen-year-old Rory Weal looked perfectly all right yesterday pictured shaking hands with that strange Ed Miliband at the Labour conference. He may feel a little shy now at his exposure to the cameras, but in 30 years' time, the very sight of the photograph will produce a hot little internal wave of shame.
08.51 In Today's Telegraph
Robert Winnett examines in detail the meat of Miliband's left turn yesterday
Lord Stevens, the former commissioner of the Met Police, is to conduct a review of policing for the Labour Party, Yvette Cooper will announce today. Yvette Cooper is expected to praise Mr Blair's stance on crime - which will delight Blairites unhappy with Ed Miliband's leftward's tack. Robert Winnett reports:
Yvette Cooper will say in her speech to the conference that the "crime challenges of the 21st century" need to be studied – and the best responses of British and international policing considered.
Lord Stevens, who has also advised David Cameron, was one of the country's most respected police officers and appointing the former commissioner is regarded as a coup by Labour.
Ms Cooper will also demand the Coalition retain the DNA profiles of more than 16,000 suspected rapists, which are about to be deleted from national databases in a civil liberties drive.
She will call on ministers to remove barriers preventing councils and police forces wishing to install CCTV.
08.40 More Ed Miliband on Today
Isn't denying council housing to the jobless a moral judgement?
"Do you reward responsibility? I say yes."
So this is a reassertion of the moral authority of the state?
"No. The state sets rules. It's about the nature of the rules. There's no option of not having any rules. It's about what rules, and are they based on a set of values." Mrs Thatcher's era generated a short-termist culture, he says. "Do we take a long hard look, have a new reckoning, and say things have got to change?"
Are you making a post-Blair era?
"Definitely. It's a new era. It's got to be a new era. The Prime Minister is the last gasp of an old era."
He says: "Spending is not going to be the way we build social justice in the next decade" - and instead there needs to be economic reform.
Naughtie: People say you're weird
Miliband: "Other people make ther own judgement. I think I'm a pretty normal guy... I don't give a damn about that. The times are too serious, the issues are too grave, to say it's not about substance... And I've got an old fashioned view, substance wins out."
Benedict Brogan tweets:
James Naughtie gets to the point: "are you weird?" on #today. Brown showed the perils of being defined by the question #lab11
While the Daily Mail's Iain Martin tweets:
Sorry, when Mili E tries passionate in interviews he just sounds agitated - like a student politician organising a rent strike
08.40 Ed Miliband talks to Radio 4's Today
How does he draw the line between 'producers' and 'predators'?
"We are talking abt different business practices," Ed says. "Predatory behaviour is where a business does something in their short term interests but does significant harm to the long term health of the economy." Government can set the rules of the game – such as banking reform, and energy competitition law. "This is not an anti-business message. It's an anti-business as usual message," he says.
Yesterday he held up Southern Cross, the failed care home, as an example of a "bad" business. Should it not have been allowed to operate as an opco-propco?
Ed says: "There should be proper regulation of the care home sector. You can't just regulate for the standards in the care home, you've got to regulate if it's a sustainable business model."
But how can you foresee if an essentially good model is going bad when circumstances change?
"We could end up in the weeds of Southern Cross which wouldn't be enlightening for people", Miliband says - despite naming and shaming the dead company yesterday.
Was the Brown/Darling government wrong to pay Stephen Hester, the former chief executive of state-owned RBS, so much?
"We shouldn't have agreed to the sort of pay packet. I don't think they should have done," Ed says. But wasn't he in Cabinet at the time? Didn't he speak out? "I was dealing with environmental problems," he says. He adds he agrees with Vince Cable about shareholders having greater control of remuneration. "It's not about driving out wealth creation. But it's got to be sustainable wealth creation. This is a pro-business message." The "short-termism" of the City is stopping small businesses getting credit.
He adds: "Everyone knows the relationship between finance and industry has been a longstanding problem in British capitalism. The rules you set for the economy set certain kinds of wealth creation and certain kinds of behaviour."
Coming up today:
09.30-12.30: Debate on Crime, Justice, Citizenship and Equalities with Sadiq Khan, Yvette Cooper and Tessa Jowell
12.45: Douglas Alexander speaks at a Progress event on "How can Labour stop the Greens spreading?"
14.15: Shadow Health Secretary John Healey speaks
16.15: Shadow Education Secretary Andy Burnham speaks
17.30: Ed Miliband holds a Q&A with members of the public on the Conference floor
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If you're like me, then you were pretty disturbed about the revelations last month that the NSA was recording literally every digital and phone transaction you made since 2006. Soon after the NSA story broke, we were informed that the FBI had several drones at their disposal and had been using them at their own leisure over American soil. Then we learned that the Post Office had been doing the same thing for years as well. It seems like many of us may have been living in some kind of fantasy world if we thought we had any privacy whatsoever, but actually we're never alone (even when we want to be).
A new revelation about the power of local police scanning technology means that we really should never have any expectation of privacy.
If you've driven anywhere recently, it's very likely that your local or state police have pictures and a record of your travels on file somewhere, even if you've done nothing wrong. A study recently published by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has found that using automated law enforcement agencies around the nation have compiled a huge record of the location and movement of every vehicle with a license plate. These scanners can be found on police cars, bridges, buildings, at intersections and multiple other places.
As the technology becomes cheaper and easier to get and use, you can be sure that the scanners will become far more prevalent in our daily lives. Technically, it is illegal for the police to track a person or vehicle with GPS without a court order; however, these scanners maneuver around that restriction because they aren't necessarily tracking a specific person with GPS. Most states have not developed any laws or guidelines to restrict the use of the scanning technology, and only New Hampshire outlaws it except for the strictest of circumstances. In parts of New York, the information can be kept indefinitely.
The law enforcement argument is that a citizen cannot have an expectation of privacy while moving about in their vehicle. Also, while the numbers of cases that the technology has actually proven useful on is small, they have helped to protect the local communities.
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Okinawa Soba has a Flickr set of lovely 100-year-old photographs of Japanese women, believed to be Geisha or Maiko, posing in swimsuits. Some have been hand-tinted, but very few have any information about the photographers or the subjects. Link -via Everlasting Blort
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STATE – Gov. Chris Christie is doing a "good" or "excellent" job, according to almost half of New Jersey's registered voters and he has a 55 percent approval rating in the most recent PublicMind survey.
"This good news for Governor Christie comes during a time when contentious budget battles over taxes could have taken their toll on the public's evaluations of him," said Krista Jenkins, executive director of PublicMind and a professor of political science. "But the fact that the governor's appeal remains sound suggests that the bloom remains on this New Jersey rose, even if women are slightly more likely to see the thorns than see the beauty."
Yet, behind his public support lies a more complicated story. When asked to evaluate the governor's personal and political appeal, opinion is divided. Slightly more than a third (36%) of registered voters say they like him and his policies, and slightly fewer (29%) say the exact opposite about the governor. Those remaining are torn between liking him but disliking his policies (14%) and disliking him while liking his policies (14%).
"He's a complicated guy," said Jenkins, "so trying to understand whether his high marks with the public come from his policies or personality is tough." As Jenkins points out, those who are divided over his personality and policy positions represent a sizable chunk of the electorate-and one that offers insight into where Christie's overall support lies. "Whether he's getting the support of those who like his policy positions or personality will remain a debate. Both are important for understanding Gov. Christie's support."
As for whether the public believes the governor is motivated by a desire for national office or to make things better for New Jerseyans, opinion is again divided. Although most registered voters who have an opinion believe Gov. Christie is more interested in governing well (47%), not too many fewer (41%) believe his interest lies in making a name for himself in order to achieve national office. Democrats and those from public employee households are the most dubious about the governor's motivations (61 and 56%, respectively), while Republicans are less suspicious (17%).
Finally, the survey asked about attitudes toward the governor's possible move from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., and the likely effect it would have on governing in the state. Almost four-in-ten (39%) say that if Governor Christie ends up being picked to run on the GOP ticket in November, his departure will hurt effective governing in the state, followed by 29% who believe his absence won't make any difference, and one-in-five who think the state would benefit from improved governance. Registered Republicans (59%) believe the state would suffer more than Democrats believe the state would benefit (30%).
"Democrats seem to be more divided over whether the cause for problems in Trenton lie with Christie or a broken political system," said Jenkins.
As for awareness of Christie's successor, Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, the operative question is Lieutenant Governor Who? Three-fourths (76%) of registered voters have never heard of the lieutenant governor, and among those who have, almost half (10%) have no opinion about her.
"The good news is Lieutenant Governor Guadagno has almost complete freedom to define herself for the public; the bad news is she'll have to first make it clear that she even exists should Christie get the GOP vice presidential nod," said Jenkins.
The Fairleigh Dickinson University statewide poll of 945 registered and unregistered voters was conducted by telephone with both landline and cell phones from July 23 through July 29, and has a margin of error of +/-3.3 percentage points.
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A Gamma-Ray Burst as Music
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What would a gamma-ray burst sound like? No one really knows, but members of the team that work with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have translated gamma-ray measurements into musical notes and have created a "song" from the photons from one of the most energetic of these powerful explosions, GRB 080916C which occurred in September of 2008.
"In translating the gamma-ray measurements into musical notes we assigned the photons to be "played" by different instruments (harp, cello, or piano) based on the probabilities that they came from the burst," the team wrote in the Fermi blog. "By converting gamma rays into musical notes, we have a new way of representing the data and listening to the universe."
In the beginning of the song, before the burst starts, the harp plucks out a few lonely notes. After about half a minute, the piano joins in on top of the harp background, and the notes begin to pile on more and more rapidly. The cello enters the scene as the burst begins in earnest, creating a full, energetic sound.
The Fermi team created an accompanying animation to help see what is happening:
The top panel shows each individual gamma-ray. The colors refer to low (red), medium (blue) and high (green) quality gamma-rays (played by harp, cello and piano respectively). The energy of the gamma-ray is on the y-axis (higher energy gamma-rays are towards the top of the plot) and the arrival time of the gamma-rays are on the x-axis (later arriving gamma-rays are further to the right). The vertical white line tells you where the music is currently playing. The bottom panel shows the number of gamma-rays (which is the number of notes played) in each time slice.
Source: NASA Blogs/GLAST
Fermi Telescope, Gamma Ray Bursts, GRBs
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Intriguing and beautiful! Music from the stars… The Neutron Star Sonata?
I'll see if I can play it on my fiddle….
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That turned out to be rather pretty.
However, I get bugged by questions like "What would a gamma-ray burst sound like?" Gamma rays don't sound like anything. Dramatic context conversions like that provided here are just that – dramatic. There is way too much interpretation to reveal anything new about what the gammay-ray blast was doing. For starters, I highly doubt that the gamma-ray blast had anything to do with the minor harmonic series, or to do with 12-note equal temperament.
True, this has been constrained to play notes conforming to Western equal tempered scales, which sounds a bit boring to my ears. The translation could be done to more accurately reflect the natural frequency relationships, or pentatonic scales, or Javanese gamelan bells, or…
the score following the chart reminds me of Iannis Xenakis
Xenakis meets Eno, Music For Airports era… 😉


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Read 'Hong Kong Lover' and, if you didn't have a reckless youth, you will wish you had. This is as close and as real as it gets. Funny, gritty and right there in your face
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Hong Kong is the perfect setting for action-packed adventure, as noted by films such as Jackie Chan's internationally successful Police Story series and the upcoming video game Sleeping Dogs. "I wanted to tell a story about the people who lived in Hong Kong at a very chaotic time," explains author Marya Glyn-Daniel, "a sort of Wild West in the East." Creating such an epic is Glyn-Daniel's new book, "Hong Kong Lover" (published by Trafford Publishing).
"Hong Kong Lover" tells the story of Australian night club singer Julia Horton, who books an engagement in Hong Kong and moves to the wild and untamed British territory. She quickly befriends fellow Australian expats Terry O'Keefe and Jack Waterman, as well as Chinese firecracker Lee Cameron, and together the group embarks on a variety of adventures.
Throughout her years in Hong Kong, Julia will experience a harrowing engagement as a USO entertainer in Vietnam, star in an adult film, nearly die from an abortion, and eventually find love and start a family with a Chinese businessman.
"Hong Kong Lover" is racy and funny, written with a wonderful sense of place, with characters that are vulnerable and appealing set in the mesmerizing and dramatic backdrop of Hong Kong.
Glyn-Daniel says, "Read 'Hong Kong Lover' and, if you didn't have a reckless youth, you will wish you had. This is as close and as real as it gets. Funny, gritty and right there in your face."
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In the autumn of this year, 18-19 August, Sheffield Hallam University held a PE summer camp for students on their PGCE Primary PE Specialist course.
They used the ASA's NCTP to provide 65 primary school teachers with the skills they needed to deliver high quality swimming tuition for beginner swimmers.
The tuition involved utilising the NCTP presentation pack as well as information on how school swimming works in Sheffield, and what would be expected of them as teachers, and what they should expect from a good lesson.
They also used the NCTP DVD to provide an opportunity to discover how to analyse swimming strokes.
There were two practical sessions which took the students into the water with two ASA Level 2 teachers, who were also ex-national squad swimmers. This helped to provide an opportunity for good practical examples of stroke analysis.
Those students who wanted to finalise their award and get a certificate for their training had the chance to attend teaching sessions within Sheffield Hallam's school swimming programme and with the Shoals Swim School.
They had the opportunity to teach both the fundamentals of swimming in the water as assistants and more advanced sessions from the poolside.
NCTP Case Study – Teacher feedback
Luke Bully: "The practical session was extremely insightful. The leaders/coaches walked us through how you would introduce swimming to absolutely beginners entering the pool for the very first time.
"They then demonstrated the whole-part-whole method. A leader/coach demonstrates the full skill as a whole, then break it down into specific segments of the skills (this potentially could be broken down into body parts), followed again by the performer reverting back to the whole skill as one movement.
"As a coaching technique, this method can be utilised across all sports, more often than not with more complex skills which requires the use of more than one body part. For example; whilst performing the breaststroke, the coach may ask the athlete to focus solely on the leg-kick, and they would do that with the aid of floats to support the arms and upper body."
Rosie Ogden: "I was quite apprehensive as I am not the strongest, most confident swimmer. However, the session was very entertaining and engaging. Fun and enjoyment is obviously a key priority when planning swimming lessons for Primary. If a child isn't the most confident or has never had the chance to swim, having fun within the pool can lead to a huge increase in self-belief.
"Getting the children used to the water by using toys and floats is a great way to build confidence, whilst still putting the child out of their comfort zone. As a PE specialist, I believe it is essential that the teacher is involved in the planning and delivery of the swimming lesson as they can be a hugely influential."


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It's no secret that I really appreciate bible teacher Beth Moore. In fact I was actually hoping to call my daughter Beth (or a longer version of it), after my wonderful Grandmother, but I didn't have a girl and Beth is hardly a good name for a boy!! I also appreciate Kay Arthur and Elyse Fitzpatrick. Each of them are a huge blessing to so many other women. They talk about the 'promised life'. I trust you read correctly because it is the 'promised life', not the easy life. Life isn't easy, and as Beth Moore often says "easy doesn't mean good and hard doesn't mean bad". We all have the opportunity to live our promised life on earth, a life where you reach your potential and follow the best path.
All these women inspire me because their lives and writings are grounded in God's Word. Their love for God's Word is contagious. It wasn't long ago I found the Bible more of an accessory on Sundays than the living Word of God. Sadly, I probably wasn't the only one dusting the top of it before church. I can't describe or put into words the impact it has on my life and the lives of others I know.
Why am I telling you about these women I admire and whose books and studies I purchase? Do they have me on commission? No sadly, as I'd make a bundle off just what I buy! I'm telling you because of what Proverbs 27:17 says "As iron sharpens iron, so one man (or woman) sharpens another." When my life was filled with the daily grind, pointless social media sites and very average TV every night, my light and life were dull. When I filled my life with studying God's word, the world, my attitude and how I view things changed and became brighter. I take no credit. All I did was sign up for a bible study. It was God who did something so special for me. I was so undeserving but I am just so grateful for His love and His grace in His gift of salvation.
I feel somewhat sad at how I settled for average with God or even way below average if I'm really honest with you, instead of growing in my knowledge of Him. It's like tasting Lindt Chilli Chocolate for the first time. From then on you are ruined for any other chocolate. No I'm not on commission for Lindt either, but do highly recommend it! Once you have had a taste of the 'promised life', how can you possibly settle and go back to an average or below average quality of life?
For iron to sharpen iron there has to be contact between the two. After a chat with a friend at church one Sunday morning, I realised ever so clearly that I had become isolated and insulated. She asked me straight up who I was connected with? I didn't have to think long, before I realised, no-one. So I got connected!! I now belong to a weekly women's bible study group. Weekly (or more if needed) I meet with a friend to pray. I have also joined with 4 other women in a small group. I am part of a mentoring program within my church, mentoring and being mentored. I do studies offered by my church when available. I meet with God privately for 'us time' at least once a day and I do my own personal bible study daily. I got myself some iron. They are sharpening me and hopefully through Christ I am sharpening them too. With all that going on, when could I possibly fit in much TV anymore!
I have no credentials. I am not scholarly. I have not gone to
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use. I am a little quirky (that's a nice way of saying odd). I've been
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my foot in my mouth, (which has made me very well practised at apologising).
That's who I am, a work in progress. Aren't we all? It's like this. I
want you to see that God is seeking after you and you don't need to be anything
special before you begin your search for Him. God takes you as you are,
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see that the Lord is good" Ps 34:8, you won't want to go back. Bible College
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I pray that you will want to know God's passionate love for you. He wants you to get hungry, ravenous for His word, because it will change you. If you want to know how life changing Jesus can be, Saul the hunter of Christians and hater of Jesus became Paul the apostle of Jesus Christ who said "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Phil 1:21 – enough said!
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Most dogs reach their full adult height and weight by 2 years old, although this varies depending on the breed of the dog. Giant breeds like mastiffs and Great Danes are an exception. They generally reach the majority of their height by about 18 months and continue to fill out thereafter. Giant breeds reach their adult weight by 3 years of age.Continue Reading
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Ed Hale and the Transcendence, All Your Heroes Become Villains is certainly titled appropriately for the times we live in. Like a shadow of today's chaotic world, "The Villains album," due out November 15th on the Dying Van Gogh Record label, is dark, moody and heavy, and yet every now and then it glimmers with hope and those catchy ear-candy melodies that fans of the band have come to love and expect.The collective, which reached up to 12 members during the recording process of their latest, weaves together their trademark post-modern rock meets Brit pop — creating an unforgettable aural soundscape that is larger than life and will leave you humming.
Hale and the band worked for over a year, bringing in other musicians when needed as varied as a gospel singer, a second drummer, a Los Angeles DJ, and various horn players. The result is a mashup of sounds but highly cohesive as an album still recognizable as having "that Transcendence sound." Haunting melodies, bold sonic experimentation and Hale's richly layered and impassioned vocals all come together to create a highly memorable and moving listening experience. Sounding more like a rock musical or a concept album, the songs both musically and lyrically tie into one another seamlessly in one cohesively bold brash and powerful listen more akin to Pink Floyd or David Bowie's Diamond Dogs.


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Are you getting sick of these Hits swatches yet? I sure hope not because I've still got plenty more to show you!
Up until now I've been wearing the ones I've showed you as full manis for a couple of days each but last night I decided to have a swatching marathon and swatched seven of the remaining ones I have to show you. So, today I'll be showing you Hits Zeus, which is, simply put, a black linear holo.
I actually don't think I own any black linear holos! I missed out on the original OPI My Private Jet and I would never pay the ridiculous prices on eBay for it and I passed on Color Club Revvvolution, even when I saw it in a mini pack at Winners not too long ago (I hate mini polishes, simply because they don't store well). I do own Let's Do It In 3-D from the China Glaze Kaleidoscope Collection but as we all know, the Kaleidoscopes aren't true linear holos.
So, Zeus is my first black linear holo! And I really love it! This was the first of the seven shades that I swatched and I came near close to ending my swatching marathon because I didn't want to remove this! But alas, I had a swatching duty to fulfill, haha.
Once again, the formula and application of Zeus are both amazing. My swatches are 2 easy coats of Zeus with no top coat.
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Note: we cook this for everyone and separate off a portion for the Violife cheese – only because my super-slim girls need the extra dairy fats of ordinary cheese! Now we use ¼ of the ingredients on Little Lads dish, mixing up his egg and cheese separately, before mixing them with the pasta from the main pan. We use a secondary pan that has been preheated (so as to not cool the pasta too much for the sauce to blend) once it comes to mixing the cheese in. Don't preheat it too much or you'll scramble your eggs though – trust me!
4 Eggs, beaten
100g of grated Cheese substitute we like to use Violife Original Block
100g chopped streaky bacon or pancetta cubes
1tsp of freshly ground black pepper
**If you wish to make this dish even richer add 45ml of Oatly Cream and reduce the cheese to 75g**
Half-fill a large pan with cold water (add a pinch of salt or splash of oil to the water if you like to stop the pasta sticking together), Cover and bring to the boil, before adding the pasta - cook according to packaging directions.
Meanwhile chop the bacon (Top tip – Buy a pair of sharp scissors JUST for cooking and cut the bacon – it's much, much easier!) and add to a heavy based frying pan and cook slowly.
While the bacon browns and the pasta cooks, grate the cheese, beat the eggs and grind the pepper. Mix all of them in together (including the cream if using) and set aside.
Return the pasta to the still hot pan but do NOT turn the heat back on (that will result in scrambled eggs!). Working quickly, add the cooked bacon and the egg mixture to the hot pasta, and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. The cheese in the sauce will start to melt and the eggs will become glossy and lightly cooked by the heat from the pasta. As soon as the cheese has melted and the sauce has pulled together serve with big chunks of garlic bread, and a fresh green salad and enjoy!
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Dear Laia,
I'm having an outfit situation today, and could really use your help. Yesterday I was inspired by a girl at the Atlanta airport dressed in red pants and a denim shirt, so today I tried to copy her. The problem is my Ralph Lauren Polo "faded red" (fine, pink) pants are a size 20. I'm 5'3" and size 4. I bought them because they were $1 at a stoop sale, so I figured I'd make them work. But I haven't been able to yet. I feel like this outfit is definitely missing something. Like shape? Please advise.
Anya This is a great breezy spring-time outfit. Your conundrum reminded me that I also have a pair of huge pants that I bought a couple years ago after seeing Katie Holmes wearing some ridiculous pants that were so bad they were good. Unlike you though, I bought them big on purpose and paid way more than a dollar for them so it was a really stupid situation I put myself in with no one else to blame. But back to the pants. I'm assuming you don't really want to take them to the tailor to get them to fit you right so we'll go with the MacGruber alternatives. The trick when wearing any oversized or loose piece of clothing is to pair it with something more fitted or structured so you don't get lost in all the layers.
First off, I'd recommend tucking in the shirt (at least in the front), it'll streamline the look and break the silhouette so it automatically adds a bit more shape. From one of the other images you sent me, I noticed that you are belting the pants really high on your body to get them to fit more properly which would be impossible to tuck your shirt into. Here, you might consider rolling down your waistband once or twice. It'll bring the shape of the pants closer to where it would naturally fall on your body and it's also less cumbersome on you.
Lastly, when you roll the cuffs, do a sideways fold of the excess pant leg before you start rolling. This creates a sleeker line (you can tuck the excess to the front for a more casual look or to the back like I did to keep it clean). Like:
Pretty easy right? Also thanks for helping ME out with my crazy pants. Maybe I'll finally wear them this summer! The result?
French rolling my pants?! I like it! I haven't done that since 1991. I also agree that tucking the shirt in is a great way to give myself shape. Overall I love the new look. The only problem is that as soon as I rolled these pants over once, you could see the white lining and the label. So important lesson learned: sometimes the tailor is just unavoidable. -A
That's true, sometimes a tailor IS unavoidable. But to combat tags sticking out, I usually just tuck in the front and let the rest hang out in the back. Belt, shirt + pants look really great though! The brown belt really ties it all together.


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To make the Salad:
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over medium heat. Add the green beans, cauliflower and carrots and blanch for 2 minutes. Do not boil them into submission! Drain and set aside.
Salt and pepper the fish and pan-fry in a little olive oil and lime juice, over medium heat, until just cooked through and flaky.
Add the peanuts, garlic, chiles*, ginger and coconut milk to a blender and process into a coarse paste. *Cook's Note: hot, medium or mild, depending on which chile pepper and how many you choose to use.
Put the blended ingredients and the kaffir lime leaf in a medium saucepan with the soy sauce and tamarind juice. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer 10 to 15 minutes until the sauce thickens. Remove the lime leaf and set aside.
Arrange the spring greens on each plate, surrounded by julienned cucumber and hard-boiled egg. Divide the cooked vegetables and sprouts on the greens, and top each plate with a fish fillet. Artistically drizzle sambal kacang over all, and serve.
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