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Dalton (Con defence) and Moss Bay (Lab defence) on Allerdale
Result of council at last election (2015): Labour 29, Conservatives 17, Independents 7, United Kingdom Independence Party 3 (Labour majority of 2)
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(runs and hides).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508389/Abdeslam-questioned-ONE-HOUR-four-days-attacks-TIRED.html
Dupond et Dupont at it again...
Edit: I do not want this to happen.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35895416
Sad to see Cruyff had an untimely death today. My earliest football memory was watching his sensational performance in the 74 world cup.
WTF
University organizations also offered counselling to those affected
Yes, sad news about Cruyff. It was a shame that the Netherlands did not win the World Cup in 1974 or 1978. Whether Cruyff would have made the difference in the latter is not known, but they are certainly one of the greatest teams in the history of the game.
University organizations also offered counselling to those affected
Preparing them for the real world.
ISIS, and Islamism offers this pathetic group something. It is almost impossible to take them seriously other than the fact that they cause such carnage and unbearable heartbreak.
University organizations also offered counselling to those affected
Unbelievable. Heaven forbid that someone has a position they disagree with. Recent stories like these are making me reconsider my life in academia!
Also, the small matter of one of the world largest asset manager BlackRock have pumped huge sums into Amaya.
I would however argue the Nazis were a similar bunch of sexual and emotional inadequates - Hitler's lusting after his teenage niece springs to mind - who had far greater traction and caused considerably more carnage and heartbreak.
It is worth further mentioning at this point that Hitler was a big admirer of Wahhabist Islam (the creed which underpins much of Daesh's dogma) and was reported as saying that would have been a much better religion for Germany than 'meek and flabby' Christianity. Which suggests there is something rather radically wrong with it.
It makes me feel old, but at 23 I was handling cardiac arrests, massive road trauma and attempts at suicide. At 21 my wife was often Nurse in charge of a chest surgery ward with deaths every day. Friends of mine were really searching out safe spaces and looking for trigger warnings in Northern Ireland at the same age.
Stifling children leads to immature adults. I blame the parents, and the Universities in Loco Parentis.
If this turns out to be the start of something big there, a lot of people who have never even heard of Black Rock but use charities that have money with it are going to get badly hurt.
I dunno about humanity- I kind of believe that we have sufficient checks and balances in our system of governance, but then you have this kind of horror emerging.
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone does though
Pokerstars is still making money however, so at worst Blackrock still have a solid asset (although Amaya are running the site appallingly).
And now it seems the guy behind Amaya, his brother etc are as dodgy as hell. And then a whole list of other people are alleged to have been given privileged information about this takeover.
I mean would you do business with these brothers on a multi billion takeover?
https://advisor1.dynamic.ca/servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/dynamic/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20150612&archive=rtgam&slug=escenic_24950113
They were evil and they happened. Therefore, as you say, such things could happen anywhere.
More seriously, although my older daughter is only 15, she tells me that lots of her acquaintances at school are almost desperate to have some sort of mental illness diagnosed - depression, OCD, self-harming, eating disorder. She reckons it has become almost like a badge of honour these days or at least it has done amongst girls she knows. These are intelligent girls at a grammar school. A worrying trend.
Mind you fellow parents were aghast when my 8 year old son broke his arm jumping out of a tree. "Kids who don't break the odd bone every now and then are not getting enough exercise!" meant only slightly in jest.
After a teenage girl spends a whole page psychoanalysing herself and her disorders, she is withered with the phrase 'You're a perfectly normal adolescent who spends too much time in adult company.'
And that was in about 1960!
Goodnight all, and Happy Easter.
Absolutely pitiful, the next generation of leaders are being moulded in these places and it, quite frankly, scares the shit out of me.
Backs 50p tax but won't implement it
Opposes fracking but won't ban it
Prioritises education but will cut it
#LeadersDebate
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I'll get my daughter to read the book you mention. To be honest, she feels like an observer of the angst around her, rather than a sufferer. Her own theory is that she is far too busy studying, playing sport and practicing music to spend loads of time navel-gazing. Lots of her friends seem to go to school, hang out on social media .... and that's about it.
Anyway, happy Easter. Am off to the Wye Valley tomorrow for a short holiday. Looks like it is going to be a very wet break!
One thing that troubled me was whether labelling odd behaviour helped or hindered recovery. Despite its ubiquity there is a paucity of evidence that such counselling does help much following perceived trauma. I think that neurotic personalities can be made worse by excessive dwelling on such things.
Thats not to say that certain forms of extreme trauma don't benefit from short time limited intervention. Group therapy became commonplace after being used on combat fatigued troops in WW2. It was recognised that timely and time limited discussion with fellows having had similar experiences was the quickest and surest way to get soldiers combat fit again and returned to action.
Surely this is an unintended consequence of the commodification of learning. If you are a customer paying through the nose, you are going to expect your views to be pandered to.
http://ukcharts.20m.com/number1.html#enter1
Perhaps my profession shows in my choice of favourite Jam track "the Bitterest Pill"
The Bakraoui brothers progress to the point of these attacks actually show a notably different pattern than those that traditionally feature high on the ones to watch list.
That in itself is a serious worry because the priority filtering exercise gets more difficult if they represent a distinct subset of people coming within IS orbit. Whether these guys are an exception or a new angle will be important to assess.
The UK is lucky in any number of ways with its counter Islamist terrorist capabilities but the truth is the kind of IS controlled, directed and executed attacks seen in France and Belgium haven't really been sniffed here to a great degree. Given the widespread belief that something of this kind has been on the slate for some time the question is why has their been comparatively little concrete evidence of it yet in the UK? There are number of either/or/all possibilities:
-IS didn't have the appropriate infrastructure & people in place for some time
-The spooks have kept a tremendous amount under wraps domestically
-The interdiction efforts at source are proving successful
-The authorities aren't seeing it and we'll get blindsided.
IS really want to hit the UK and by now could and should have the people ready to do some damage. The concern is that if and when IS do launch a truly centrally directed attack, it will be a first-time variation on a well known theme, causing a serious stretch problem and that it may not be all pure domestic citizens involved in its execution.
Musically, culturally, I cannot complain about the time and place I grew up in. Thank god it isn't as boring as Adele, the Internet, Facebook and multi channel TV.
The Times has a story the cell was planning a radioactive dirty bomb.
Trump: Britain will leave EU.
There is some good music round now too. Just the mainstream has been drowned in look alike talent show wannabees.
Europhile Tory donor calls for leadership contest after EU referendum. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/24/tory-donor-urges-david-cameron-resign-after-eu-referendum
I saw the Jam loads of times at the Rainbow and also their final gig in Brighton. They were superb. The late 70s/early 80s was a golden time for music and much else, even as the country itself seemed to be in permanent turmoil. Maybe that was the reason. London Calling was maybe the definitive song of that era.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6DRNPIgOOY&feature=youtu.be
I'm not sure we have a consensus on what we want kids to be. There's the sentimental "let children be children" idea, which I remember hating as a kid and wanting to grow out of as fast as possible: I've never met a child who didn't want to be older. There's the "children should be mature" idea, linked to low age of criminal responsibility and relates to the sort of stifling Fox mentions. There's the "children should be free to explore and experiment" idea, which is probably the dominant view at the moment, but adults are unnervingly inconsistent in what they mean by it - is it sinister or OK or a good thing if a 12-year tries wine, or 14-year-olds explore sex, or 18-year-olds get hammered and have sex with strangers in Spain? I'd be confused, God knows what the average young teenager thinks is desirable behaviour.
Labour hold Moss Bay
Its not easy being a parent, but the toughest bit is letting them go. Fox jr spent last summer backpacking in South America. I had to pull over on the road home and stifle tears after dropping him at the airport. It did him the world of good though. He is a level headed lad and matured noticeably over the couple of months. A lot better than xbox.
Con 468
Lab 180
UKIP 149
Green 93
LD 28
Con hold
There were some exceptions - "Baker Street" was in the chart for months without doing anything really - as was "The Birdie Song" - reached #2.
Ind 133
Lab 118
Con 93
UKIP 53
Green 22
Allerdale -Moss Bay
Lab 411
UKIP 189
Con 33
Among one of the more hilarious lines was J.R. Jones at the Chicago Reader, who said the film 'was 'not as bad as Bush v. Gore, but close'.
According to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice an approval rating of 31%, based on 185 reviews, with an average rating was 5.1/10. According to the site's critical consensus, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice smothers a potentially powerful story – and some of America's most iconic superheroes – in a grim whirlwind of effects-driven action."[145] Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 44 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[146]
In Brazil, 60%, yes 6-0 percentage, of their legislature face criminal proceedings including murder.
He is home on leave as of Sunday, for five, whole, days - my bandwidth will disappear under his usage, I'll not be able to go to for a bath when I want, the food stocks will be ransacked, I'll have a huge pile of ironing to to do and my knowledge of the naval pacific war (1941-1945) and the 14th century will again come under great scrutiny. Actually, I am rather looking forward to it