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The government yesterday attempted to quash industry concerns that the “spy clause” in the Online Safety Bill, which aims to crack down on child abuse and other harmful online content, would fundamentally weaken end-to-end encrypted services.
Junior arts and heritage minister Stephen Parkinson told the House of Lords yesterday that regulators would not use controversial powers in the bill to scan encrypted messages until it is “technically feasible” to do so.
“Let me be clear: there is no intention by the government to weaken the encryption technology used by platforms, and we have built strong safeguards into the bill to ensure that users’ privacy is protected,” he said.
“A notice can only be issued where technically feasible and where technology has been accredited as meeting minimum standards of accuracy in detecting only child sexual abuse and exploitation content.”
The new powers in the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which went through its third reading in the Lords yesterday, will be enforced by the communications regulator, Ofcom, which will have powers to issue fines of £18m or 10% of a company’s annual global turnover, and to bring prosecutions against company executives.
Technology providers including WhatsApp, Proton and Signal have threatened to withdraw encrypted messaging services from the UK if the government implements controversial powers which they claim will undermine the safety and integrity of encrypted communications.
Opponents of the Bill, including Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, met with former Facebook vice-president for policy, Richard Allan, now a member of the House of Lords, in a closed-door meeting on Monday described as a last-ditch attempt to urge lawmakers not to pass measures in the bill that would damage privacy-enhancing technology.
Government denies U-turn
The government, however, denied it had made a U-turn on the bill, which went through the Lords without any changes to the “spy clause” – section 122 – which gives Ofcom powers to require technology companies to use “accredited technology” to monitor the contents of encrypted messages.
“As has always been the case, as a last resort, on a case-by-case basis and only when stringent privacy safeguards have been met,” a spokesperson said.
“[The bill] will enable Ofcom to direct companies to either use, or make best efforts to develop or source, technology to identify and remove illegal child sexual abuse content – which we know can be developed.”
Government assurances fall short
Signal president Meredith Whittaker described the announcement as a “win” for technology companies.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, she said the clause could genuinely imperil Signal’s ability to operate in the UK, and that the government’s apparent concession was “much better than nothing”. “From here people can keep pushing with a hard-won admission in hand,” she added.
Others were more pessimistic. Andy Yen, founder and CEO of encrypted email service Proton, said the government fell “well short of providing the legal assurances that businesses need to continue operating and investing in the UK”.
“As it stands, the bill still permits the imposition of a legally binding obligation to ban end-to-end encryption in the UK, undermining citizens’ fundamental rights to privacy, and leaves the government defining what is ‘technically feasible’,” he said.
Head of WhatsApp Will Cathcart wrote in a post on X that powers in the bill to mandate tech companies to scan encrypted messages continued to pose a threat to privacy.
“The fact remains that scanning everyone’s messages would destroy privacy as we know it,” he said. “That was as true last year as it is today. @WhatsApp will never break our encryption and remains vigilant against threats to do so.”
Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Element and Technical Co-founder at Matrix.org, which supplies encrypted messaging services, said that the government had not backed down on scanning encrypted communications and had left open the possibility of introducing it a later date.
"The government has now verbally acknowledged that the scanning technology dreamt up as part of the OSB doesn’t exist. It now needs to recognise that scanning is fundamentally incompatible with end-to-end encrypted messaging apps,” he told Computer Weekly.
The company has warned it would withdraw encrypted services from the UK if it is required to introduce scanning technology.
And Paul Holland, CEO of encrypted mail service Beyond Encryption, said the government had admitted there is no current technology that would not fundamentally break encrypted messaging services. “It was abundantly clear to all those with knowledge of encryption that the government’s proposals were unworkable and the Online Safety Bill put them on a collision course with encrypted messaging services,” he said.
Controversial and draconian powers
James Baker, campaign manager for the Open Rights Group, which campaigns for privacy and free speech in the UK, said that despite the government’s assurances, it had kept “controversial and draconian” powers in the bill.
“The fact they are making last-minute statements to placate industry further demonstrates that the bill is an ill-thought-through legislative mess that Ofcom will now be expected to sort out,” he told Computer Weekly.
“The government should make it clear to Parliament what it actually intends to happen with this policy, and Parliament should ask the Lords to look again at the inadequate safeguards that have been put in place around the use of these powers.”
Changes over Section 122 crucial
Barbora Bukovská, senior director for law and policy at Article 19, which supports freedom of expression, said it was “absolutely crucial” to add specific reassurances to the bill to commit Ofcom not to apply Section 122 in a way that could undermine end-to-end encryption.
“Without it, the prospect of the government compelling companies to surveil private messages is not off the table,” she said. “At the same time, we have the concrete commitment from the government that the powers won’t be used until it’s ‘technically feasible’ – and will be holding them to account for that,” she added.
Rasha Abdul Rahim, director of Amnesty Tech, said the “spy clause” could lead to the private sector being mandated to carry out mass surveillance of private digital communications.
“It would leave everybody in the UK – including human rights organisations and activists – vulnerable to malicious hacking attacks and targeted surveillance campaigns,” she said. “It also sets a dangerous precedent. It remains undeniably true that it’s not possible to create a technological system that can scan the contents of private electronic communication while preserving the right to privacy.”
Speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, Labour peer Kenneth Morgan said that by handing over responsibility for encryption to Ofcom combined with potential intervention from the courts, the government had created an undemocratic process.
“The fact of the matter is, everybody knows that you cannot do what Ofcom is empowered by this bill to do without breaching end-to-end encryption,” he said. “It’s as simple as that.”
Ofcom is expected to mandate technology known as client-side scanning to inspect the contents of communications sent by secure messaging services and mobile phones before they are encrypted.
This would require communications service providers to install software capable of analysing messages and to send reports back either to a government agency or a technology provider.
Another scanning technology under consideration, homomorphic encryption, makes it possible to perform calculations on encrypted data to identify its content.
Read more about the debate on end-to-end encryption
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- CEO of encrypted messaging service Element says Online Safety Bill could pose a risk to the encrypted comms systems used by Ukraine.
- Tech companies and NGOs urge rewrite of Online Safety Bill to protect encrypted comms.
- Protecting children by scanning encrypted messages is ‘magical thinking’, says Cambridge professor.
- Proposals for scanning encrypted messages should be cut from Online Safety Bill, say researchers.
- GCHQ experts back scanning of encrypted phone messages to fight child abuse.
- Tech companies face pressure over end-to-end encryption in Online Safety Bill.
- EU plans to police child abuse raise fresh fears over encryption and privacy rights.
- IT professionals wary of government campaign to limit end-to-end encryption.
- John Carr, a child safety campaigner backing a government-funded campaign on the dangers of end-to-end encryption to children, says tech companies have no choice but to act.
- Information commissioner criticises government-backed campaign to delay end-to-end encryption.
- Government puts Facebook under pressure to stop end-to-end encryption over child abuse risk.
- Former UK cyber security chief says UK government must explain how it can access encrypted communications without damaging cyber security and weakening privacy.
- Barnardo’s and other charities begin a government-backed PR campaign to warn of dangers end-to-end encryption poses to child safety. The campaign has been criticised as ‘one-sided’.
- Apple’s plan to automatically scan photos to detect child abuse would unduly risk the privacy and security of law-abiding citizens and could open up the way to surveillance, say cryptographic experts.
- Firms working on UK government’s Safety Tech Challenge suggest scanning content before encryption will help prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material – but privacy concerns remain.
- Private messaging is the front line of abuse, yet E2EE in its current form risks engineering away the ability of firms to detect and disrupt it where it is most prevalent, claims NSPCC.
- Proposals by European Commission to search for illegal material could mean the end of private messaging and emails, says MEP.
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The article uncovers the complex process of educational policy enactment and the impact this process has on teachers as policy actors as they undertake the task of introducing a new mathematics curriculum in a Canadian secondary school. The three year study based on in-depth qualitative interviews adopts a classic grounded theory approach of concurrent iterative cycles of data collection, conceptual categorisation and analytical abstraction, to identify six emergent concepts indicative of policy actor engagement with the policy process: (1) Professional and Emotional Investment; (2) Decisional Legitimacy; (3) Hierarchical Trust; (4) System Integrity and Viability; (5) De-professionalisation; and (6) Identity Safeguarding. Further, and significantly, the grounded theory analysis identifies the core concept of Affective Disruption, conceived as an interruption to an individual's emotional equilibrium resulting from interference to their cognitive sense-making in relation to policy. It is proposed these six emergent concepts and Affective Disruption as a core concept are precipitated within policy actors in response to the tensions created by the process of policy enactment; the research findings moving towards what might be tentatively termed a policy social psychology.
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|Application number||US 11/443,418|
|Publication date||Mar 31, 2009|
|Filing date||May 31, 2006|
|Priority date||May 31, 2006|
|Also published as||US20070279867|
|Publication number||11443418, 443418, US 7511958 B2, US 7511958B2, US-B2-7511958, US7511958 B2, US7511958B2|
|Original Assignee||Cheng-Hsing Lin|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (9), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to heat dissipation, in particular to a heat dissipating assembly of a heat dissipating device, wherein a plastic retaining seat is used to replace the prior art metal seat, which is easily manufactured and is light. Thus the cost is low and the size thereof is compact. Moreover, less steps are necessary in manufacture and the cost in assembly is low.
Portable electronic devices are more and more popular. However each portable electronic device has an operation kernel with high operation frequency. However these operation kernel will dissipate a large amount of heat. Thereby there is an eager demand for dissipating the heat from the kernel effectively. Thus, in the prior art, a metal base serves to located the heat dissipating kernel and then a heat dissipating tube of a heat dissipation device is pressed to the seat so as to dissipate heat from the heat dissipation kernel. Thus heat is dissipated effectively. However in current trend, the portable device is necessary to be made with a compact size and is light. These prior art devices can not achieve the requirement and is not competitive in markets.
Accordingly, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a heat dissipating assembly of a heat dissipating device, wherein a plastic retaining seat is used to replace the prior art metal seat, which is easily manufactured and is light. Thus the cost is low and the size thereof is compact. Moreover, less steps are necessary in manufacture and the cost in assembly is low.
To achieve above object, the present invention provides a heat dissipating assembly of a heat dissipating device which comprises an integral formed plastic retaining seat; and a heat conductive tube; a part of one end of a heat conductive tube embedded into the plastic retaining seat and another end of the heat conductive tube being connected to a heat dissipation device; in using the heat conductive tube being placed above the heat source and thus heat from the heat source is absorbed by the heat conductive tube; wherein heat dissipated from the heat source is transferred to the heat conductive tube and then to the heat dissipation device so as to be dissipating out; and thus the heat source 18 has a stable working environment. A buckle can be included. Two ends of the buckle being buckled to two recesses at two sides of the plastic retaining seat and a middle section of the buckle passes through an upper surfaces of the plastic retaining seat and the part of the heat conductive tube embedded into the plastic retaining seat so as to fix the heat conductive tube to the plastic retaining seat.
The various objects and advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the appended drawing.
In order that those skilled in the art can further understand the present invention, a description will be provided in the following in details. However, these descriptions and the appended drawings are only used to cause those skilled in the art to understand the objects, features, and characteristics of the present invention, but not to be used to confine the scope and spirit of the present invention defined in the appended claims.
An integral formed plastic retaining seat 1 has a plurality of holes 11.
A part of one end of a heat conductive tube 14 is embedded into the plastic retaining seat 1 and another end of the heat conductive tube 14 is connected to a heat dissipation device 16. When a heat source 18 (such as a central processing unit) is fixed to a carrier 3 (such as a mother board). The plastic retaining seat 1 is fixed to the carrier 3 by screwing screws to the holes and then into the carrier 3. Thereby the heat conductive tube 14 is placed above the heat source 18 and thus heat from the heat source 18 is absorbed by the heat conductive tube 14.
A heat conductive block 12 is installed between the heat conductive tube 14 and the heat source 18 so as to increase a heat dissipating area from the heat source 18 to the heat conductive tube 14. Thus heat is dissipated from the heat source 18, the heat conductive block 12, the heat conductive tube 14 and then to the heat dissipation device 16 so as to be dissipating out. Thus the heat source 18 has a stable working environment.
The present invention is thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
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“Would you trade your neighbors and your friends for some shade? That’s the city we live in,” sings frontman Todd Lewis on the opening song “City of Hate” off their recently resurrected “lost album” Feeler. The song starts off slow and with a thumping beat and builds to a swirl of echoing chaos as he exclaims, “I’m a model citizen!” The guitars buzz and jangle in a catchy and propulsive way, setting up the fun and energy of the rest of the album as someone in the background mutters, “set it on fire!”
Whether you’re new to a city and it feels like an alien, hostile place or you’ve lived somewhere too long and every flaw of the place seems to eat away at your being, the sentiment of this song is one everyone can relate to. That’s the beauty of a Toadies song: it’s a fun rock song with guitar lines that begged to be played in the air and lyrics are fun and cathartic to sing along to. Just like good ole fashioned rock and roll should be.
It should be noted that their hometown is Dallas, Texas so that’s probably the city they’re referring to, if it’s an actual place he sings of. Have you been there? It’s a brutal concrete jungle and he’s right, there’s not much shade. Just kidding Dallas you know we love you…
Jarad Matula | Senior Writer

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The Man: John Coltrane
Making a jazz fan of anyone is a challenge. Making a jazz fan of a kid — a child inundated daily with drecky pop music and vapid pop stars — is virtually impossible. But nonetheless, it’s a worthwhile pursuit.
Jazz, the close cousin of blues and the father of rock-and-roll, has taken many forms since its slow growth into an American phenomenon. These days, it takes many forms: Trad Jazz, Be-Bop, World Jazz, Latin Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Funk, Avant Garde Jazz, Big Band Swing. The list is long and as varied as the artists who perform it.
But we can make the introduction easy — and fun. When kids are not predisposed to hating something — due to environment and/or influence — it’s amazing what they will try, accept and sometimes fall in love with.
John Coltrane’s sweepingly masterful composition Giant Steps could be considered a metaphor for the act of introducing someone to jazz. Have a listen …
Gahd damn that is a gorgeous piece of music. A wonderful melody, with a modulating chord structure and bubbling groove. It’s a challenge for everyone in the band to play well. And the soloists, once they understand the changes (shorthand for the chord changes over which soloists are tasked with playing over), have a field day, blowing chops all over the place.
For a better understanding of what’s going on, check this out with your budding jazz fan.
A visual deconstruction of the tune, this innovative work brings the abstract concepts in jazz into an equally abstract and colorful world of illustrations and narrative. It’s clever, cute and subversively educational.
Go back in history a little further with When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat. Scat singing, layering gibberish yet rhythmic and melodic phrasing over music, is perfect for kids. They do it anyway. Why not show them some history about the style of singing made popular by Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Hendricks, Lambert and Ross, and kept alive by masters like Bobby McFerrin and Al Jarreau?
Of course, all the reading in the world won’t mean squat if you’re not listening to jazz, and listening to a lot of it. So start with the fun stuff. Like the aforementioned Hendricks, Lambert and Ross jamming way back in ’59.
Man they could cook.
Have a more ambitious child, one who exhibits an adventurous nature? Throw this fantastic track at him or her. It’s called Teen Town, written by the late bassist Jaco Pastorius for the most-awesome fusion band Weather Report. Teen Town was inspired by a local hangout Pastorius used to frequent. It’s structure is based on the trajectory the evening would normally take for the kids who hung out there. The beginning (of the evening and the song) is light, bouncy, melodic and fun. By the middle, things are getting a little heavy; kids getting their first introduction to emotional drama (romance, break-ups). By the tune’s end, the place is rocking hard and fast — probably an “all skate,” with Pastorius, drummer Peter Erskine, keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter blowing chops all over the place. Just amazing …
For the girls in your household, you may want to break out a few female artists. Two that come to mind are bassist Tal Wilkenfeld and pianist Hiromi. Wilkenfeld, a master of her instrument as a teen, has gone on to play with jazz, blues and fusion legends like Jeff Beck, Vinnie Colaiuta, Wayne Krantz and others. Sit your aspiring female musician down for this wonderful piece of music …
After a little Wilkenfeld, it’s time for some Hiromi action. Exhibiting skill, lightning fast chops and deep groove, Hiromi plays fusion, funk, classical and traditional jazz with equal aplomb. Try to keep your jaw from hitting the floor while you watch this one, again, with jazz legends in tow (Anthony Jackson on bass and Simon Phillips on drums).
If all else fails, you can always play this classic Simpsons moment for your kid. Lisa sings Carole King’s Jazz Man.
However you choose to get your kid going on the whole jazz thing, the key is to make it fun. Jazz is deep, and its history is long. Heck, when they are old enough, you can even hip them to the epic tragedies — the many lives lost to drugs addiction, the bizarre lifestyles of the artists, the hypocrisy of ’50s-era white people dissing African-Americans by day, but loving the black jazz clubs at night. It’s American history at its most glorious and horrific best.

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A Review on Image Contrast Enhancement Techniques
Keywords:Image enhancement, Image quality, Digital image processing.
The purpose of image enhancement and image restoration techniques is to perk up a quality and feature of an image that result in improved image than the original one. Unlike the image restoration, image enhancement is the modification of an image to alter impact on the viewer. Generally enhancement distorts the original digital values; therefore enhancement is not done until the restoration processes are completed. In image enhancement the image features are extracted instead of restoration of degraded image. Image enhancement is the process in which the degraded image is handled and the appearance of the image by visual is improved. It is a subjective process and increases contrast of image but image restoration is a more objective process than image enhancement. Many research work have been done for image enhancement. In this paper, different techniques and algorithms are discussed for contrast enhancement.
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USA: NFPA calls bill addressing food biotechnology "well-intentioned, but premature"
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California ballot measure - citizen rights
assembly constitutional amendment no. 5
- 06/25/20: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 23, Statutes of 2020.
- The California Constitution, pursuant to provisions enacted by the initiative Proposition 209 in 1996, prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. The California Constitution defines the state for these purposes to include the state, any city, county, public university system, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of, or within, the state.
- Permits government decision-making poicies to consider race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin to address diversity by repealing articl I, section 31, of the
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I don't know if this will help and this post is two months old. The camera store may be right that the synchronization is the issue which tends me to point a finger at the external flash. There are at least three different flash units that will flash when the picture is made but only one type will sync with the camera. A digital flash unit is different from a film flash so a Canon EX type is required to sync with Canon TTL or TTL II digital cameras. An EZ will flash but it's off a bit, so I can only assume that your Promaster and Canon flash units are for film cameras. Okay and another thing that could be throwing things off a bit is the camera may have been programed in Custom Functions to use "Second Curtain" or "Rear Curtain". Just seams to me if the built in flash works then it's the external units at fault.
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What is life like in a Chinese megacity?
The more time one spends in China, and the more one travels within the country, the harder it is to describe "China" as a single entity. The country is far more geographically, culturally, linguistically and economically diverse — and confusing — than is evident from the photos we now often see of gleaming new shopping ...
The more time one spends in China, and the more one travels within the country, the harder it is to describe "China" as a single entity. The country is far more geographically, culturally, linguistically and economically diverse — and confusing — than is evident from the photos we now often see of gleaming new shopping malls in its wealthier eastern cities. There is not one China story, but countless.
From the windblown deserts of Gansu province to the fertile rice paddies of Hunan, from impoverished Tibetan shepherds to shopaholic Shanghaiese, from the glitzy coordination of mass events, like the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony, to the chaotic hodgepodge of daily life (orderly queues are entirely unknown), there is no single narrative or argument that encapsulates the nation. (The Atlantic’s James Fallows and others return often to this point.)
What all these aspects of China do have in common, however, is that they’re changing. Rapidly. Over the next 20 years, some 400 million people — more than the entire population of the United States — will move from the countryside to China’s fast growing cities. Imagine the many stages of American history over the last century and a half condensed into a single generation. Then you have a glimpse of the transformation underway in China.
In Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, there are only two cities with a population of more than 1 million; in the United States, there are just 10 such cities. But already in China, there are 43 cities of more than 1 million, and by 2030 there will be 221, the McKinsey Global Institute predicts.
What is life like in China’s booming megacities? To begin to answer that question, this spring I visited the sprawling metropolis of Chongqing — once a relative backwater in mountainous western China, and today place where land is converted from countryside to apartment blocks and parking lots faster than anywhere else on the planet. A dynamic inland port city, and gateway to what Beijing considers China’s still Wild West, think of it as "Chicago on the Yangtze" (check out the article here — and Matthew Niederhauser’s superb photo essay here.)
During World War II, the city was known to westerners as Chungking, when it was briefly the Nationalist capital of China. Many turns of history later, it is today a place where it is possible to drive through the northern New District for more than a half hour, past block upon block of new apartment highrises, where five years ago there were only fields. Its celebrity Party boss, Bo Xiali, is already making international headlines for his storied crackdown on Chinese mobsters and wrenching political ambitions.
For all the international attention paid to decisions made in Beijing, I have come to believe that the role that China, now the world’s second largest economy, will come to play in the 21st century will depend not firstly on the wiles of its diplomats, the size of its navy, or even the next appointments to the Politburo, but on how well China manages the largest mass urbanization in history. The municipality of Chongqing, absorbing roughly 1 million new urban dwellers each year, is at the spear tip of this experiment.
UPDATE: Chicago fires back! Writing for the Chicago Reader, Lauri Apple takes issue with the comparison, and explains why Chicago is not the Chongqing of the United States:
Chongqing’s skyline has jillions of tall buildings; we’ve got our fair share of skyscrapers, but nothing approaching Chongqing’s concrete horizon. Chongqing continues to build communist-style housing developments; Chicago is tearing them down.
Chongqing is mountainous, and its main body of water, the Yangtze, looks like a river of Yoo Hoo. Chicago has no mountains, and its water is blue (and green, on Saint Patrick’s Day). In Chongqing, people play badminton in the public areas; Chicagoans play public cornhole.
Fair enough, there’s no analogy that truly explains a Chinese megacity. But hopefully the article and photos will help a bit to demystify the abstraction.
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The crossroads is not between war and compromise, but between victory and defeat.
Washington wants to get tough on China, and the leaders of the House China Committee are in the driver’s seat.

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The mechanics of post trade
"Clearing is a complex task"
Clearing and settlement are going through a period of rapid change and London Stock Exchange Group’s clients are expected to benefit, as David Turner explains.
Clearing and settlement used to be considered the nuts and bolts of financial markets – routine, predictable and a teensy bit dull. No longer. Ever since the financial crisis, regulators have been focused on these activities, anxious to improve the way trades are settled and processed so as to reduce systemic risk.
LCH.Clearnet Group (LCH.Clearnet), part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), is at the forefront of these developments. Its subsidiary clearing house, LCH.Clearnet Ltd and LCH Clearnet SA sit in the middle of trades on their respective platforms. If either party defaults on the trade, the clearing house takes on the defaulter’s risk and becomes accountable for its liabilities. To reduce risk for participants and increase certainty they contribute margin and default fund payments. The pool of assets collected as margin or default fund contributions provide the financial back-stop required to manage the default of a member in an orderly way.
Clearing is a complex task. If clearing houses do not request enough margin, in a crisis market a clearing house may be unable to provide the protection its members expect. If clearing houses request more margin than is necessary, counterparties’ margin is tied up.
For many years a typical model among clearing houses for calculating margin requirements has been the SPAN (Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk) approach, which calculates the appropriate margin for each transaction. LCH.Clearnet however has recently been moving towards the use of VaR (Value at Risk) for calculating margin, and away from the old SPAN based approach.
“The use of VaR margining creates a consistent risk management methodology across a range of asset classes cleared at LCH.Clearnet, says Alberto Pravettoni, CEO of Repo & Exchanges business at LCH.Clearnet. “It is used for our OTC derivatives clearing services, including our interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear. We also use it for a number of our exchange-traded services, including equities clearing through EquityClear; NLX, the new London trading venue for interest rate derivatives and Nodal, the North American Power Exchange. In addition, we will be moving to a VaR-based methodology for our fixed-income and repo business.”
“VaR is a more precise and efficient way of calculating risk, which generally means that equivalent risk positions have slightly lower margins, yet it maintains appropriately conservative assumptions”, says Pravetonni.
Cassa di Compensazione e Garanzia (CC&G), LSEG’s Italy-based clearing house, is also well placed to benefit from developments in the post-trade environment, particularly the EU’s European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) directive. It stipulates that a clearing obligation will apply to a number of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives (to be determined by ESMA 2014), that would previously have being cleared by agreement between the two parties to the original trade.
“As a CSD, Monte Titoli is the third largest in Europe with over 3.3 trillion Euros of Asset Under Custody offering pre-settlement, settlement and custody services and the strong, existing knowledge and experience within the Group gives us significant appeal to customers”, Paolo Cittadini, Chief Executive of CC&G and Monte Titoli says.
Monte Titoli is responding to new opportunities in the post-trade market too. It is anticipated that from the second quarter of 2014, the CSD will be offering full-fledged collateral management triparty services through its X-Com platform.
“Monte Titoli’s collateral service is part of its strategy to offer a single point of entry for multiple platforms, and allowing our customers to efficiently serve their portfolio through a single provider”, says Alessandro Zignani, Head of Post Trade Sales at LSEG.
The development is needed now. Regulators are determined to improve the stability of the financial system so margin requirements are increasingly stringent. The EU, for example, is considering whether to limit the length of transaction chains, formed when traders who receive collateral in turn use the same securities to back separate trades. In such an environment, banks are under pressure to use their collateral in the most efficient way possible.
“By using their settlement service provider as their collateral manager, customers may be able to maximise the use of their assets, both domestic and foreign, because they can use securities as collateral as soon as a transaction is settled in accordance to their funding needs” he adds.
Besides branching out into new services such as collateral management, Monte Titoli continues to focus on its core function of settling trades. At 98 per cent, its settlement rate is one of the highest in the world, an achievement maintained at least in part through a consistent focus on innovation.
Major US bank JP Morgan announced in 2013 that it was to be one of the first users of a new London Stock Exchange Group’s central securities depository in Luxembourg and giving a vote of confidence to the new settlement capabilities by announcing that its collateral management business, one of the largest in the world, would use the new CSD, expected to be operating by the first half of 2014 for settlement, custody and asset servicing.
Cittadini attributes Monte Titoli’s high success rate for settlement not just to technology, but also to constant monitoring of client and market activity.
“Customers trading through us know that we are looking at their behaviour very carefully, and actively managing the right securities for each trade,” he says.
Proof that this eagle-eyed supervision works well came to the fore during the financial crisis of 2008, when the US investment bank collapsed and defaulted on huge numbers of trades.
“If a big player defaults, you really need to be able to understand all the positions of its counterparties,” says Cittadini. “That was possible because our database included all the transactions that counterparties have made with each other”.
Monte Titoli extracted all the transactions affected by the default from its settlement system and worked the phones to make sure all customers’ remaining positions were closed by substituting other trades. The firm achieved this within two days.
Cittadini believes the advent of Target2-Securities (T2S), the new pan-European securities settlement system scheduled to go live in 2015, will reduce the effect of similar shocks in the future. By shortening the interval between trade and settlement from three days to two, it will minimise the number of trades left in the system by a counterparty after its collapse. T2S is also expected to reduce the cost of cross-border securities settlement in Europe. By making settlement more truly international, it will increase the opportunity for Monte Titoli and CC&G to continue their expansion beyond Italy. The future for both entities looks increasingly bright.

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Prioritizing these essential doctor visits after the age of 60 can help you maintain good health and enjoy a fulfilling life. Don’t overlook the importance of preventive care and early detection in preserving your well-being as you age. Schedule these appointments regularly to stay on top of your health and address any concerns promptly. Remember, your health is your most valuable asset, so invest in it wisely through proactive healthcare management and make the most of your doctor appointment.

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■ 21 Films in Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco
Short Film News (SFN)- Iranian Film Festival is going to take place in 27th and 28th September in San Francisco, U.S.A.
In this festival which was established by the organizers of the Tiburon International Film Festival, 21 short films, documentaries and features are going to be screened.
On the first day of the festival the following films are going to be shown: Iran: Behind the Walls (Hakan Tokyay) an Iran / Turkey production, Faces on the Wall (Bijan Anquetil & Paul Costes) an Iran / France production, Behzad's Last Journey (John Murray) and Iran / Ireland production, Abyaneh, Red Village (Katayoun Afrooz), On the Road with Kiarostami and Cinema Iran (both by John Archer) from U.K, A World Between (Nazem Manouchehri), Lesson from Bam (Alireza Ghanie) an Iran / Australia production, Dead Heat Under the Shrubs (Esmael Barari), Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age (Glenn Baker) from U.S.A, and The Slap (Ehsan Amani).
And on the second day, Women Behind the Camera (Alexis Krasilovsky), 13 And a Half (Nader Davoodi & Abbas Ahmadi) an Iran / Canada production, The Shade (Mohammad Gorjestani) an Iran / Canada production, Exile Family Movie (Arash Riahi) an Iran / Austria production, American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan (Jean Daniel Lafond) an Iran / Canada / America co-production, Zero Degree (Omid Khoshnazar), The Wild Goose (Mahmoud Reza Sani), Wind, Ten Years Old (Marzieh Vafamehr), Best in the West (Maryam Kashani), and Hannibal Alkhas Colorful Poems (Mohammad Reza Sharifi) are going to be screened.
Iranian Film Festival is going to take place in San Francisco Art Institution and some of the filmmakers will be presented there to discuss about their works.


Set and filmed entirely in Yorkshire, the tense and clever drama ‘The Incident’ will be shown at Hebden Bridge Picture House on Saturday - and will be introduced by the director Jane Linfoot.
Halifax Concert Band will make its 12th annual return to Square Chapel arts centre, Halifax, on Saturday, December 3. The band’s 45 musicians will present ‘A Christmas Festival’, a programme of seasonal music and pieces from its recent repertoire.
Lovers of arts and crafts might like to pay a visit to Artsmill, Hebden Bridge this weekend for an annual fair in the Threads Café and Lounge.
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Two years in the making and Paul Foot is back with his all new show ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Piglet.
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Instagram Marketing: A Preface
When Instagram first popped on the scene in 2010, it turned out services or products other social platform: filled with selfies, pets, and photographs of food.
Fast-forward to 2022 and Instagram’s transformation coming from a simple photo sharing app with a full-on marketing channel is almost complete.
Just take a look at many of the platform’s newest features! Within the last year alone, Instagram has released a large number of new tool for businesses, including advanced analytics, shoppable Instagram posts, and new ways to bring customers from Instagram Stories, and the new standalone video platform, IGTV.
Regardless of whether you are employed in ecommerce, education, or media and publishing, it’s good to create a name on Instagram. But if you really need to succeed, you have to know system (as well as your audience) inside and outside, including what sort of content resonates most, building an Instagram Stories strategy, and how to track your metrics and KPIs.
Why Instagram Marketing is vital to Ecommerce Success
You know how great Instagram is made for sharing pics and vids with our relatives and buddies, but it’s also an unbelievable channel for ecommerce marketing. But why?
Well, an evident reason is Instagram’s format. Due to this visual nature, Instagram holds massive opportunities for ecommerce businesses planning to showcase their goods. Whether through regular photos, videos, or Instagram Stories, millions of businesses have discovered that constructing a visual presence on Instagram can hugely compliment their ecommerce marketing.
There’s also the indisputable fact that Instagram users will be more engaged compared to the average social websites user. Although trends do apparently reveal that Instagram engagement is dropping, system is still producing higher engagement rates for businesses in comparison to both Twitter and Facebook.
But Instagram users tend to be more than merely engaged – they’re also commonly web shoppers. According to a recent study, 72% of Instagram users report making an acquisition decision after looking at something on Instagram, with the most popular categories being clothing, makeup, shoes, and jewellery.
This shopping mindset makes Instagram users the ideal audience because they’re high-intent and quick to convert.
Another excuse Instagram is so just the thing for ecommerce is because of system itself. Instagram has introduced a bunch of new business-facing tools – and there’s definitely more ahead! Whether through links in Instagram Stories or shoppable Instagram posts, in no time a number of shopping on the web experiences will begin (and end) on Instagram.
Doing this said, it will be a blunder to consentrate which simply simply because you don’t sell ecommerce products your company doesn’t belong on Instagram! Beyond its capacity to move products, Instagram can be an unbelievable area for businesses to build brand awareness and fasten with new audiences (and customers).
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In today's society, everyone but the criminal is responsible for the criminals actions. That means that even people who had nothing to do with it, should be thrown in jail while the actually perpetrators remain free. For example, if I invented a rocket ship, and somebody stole my rocket ship and flew it into a building, as the inventor, I should be held responsible.
Social media creators should start being responsible for their platforms and moderate/filter abusive users. This refers to what are known as "trolls", who intentionally post hateful and derogatory comments to antagonize individuals. It is very important that the creators of websites/social media think of ways to combat this form of online bullying because it is not only affecting young kinds but also adults.
If NBC, or ABC, or CBS were to show live child porn on prime time TV, they would be fined incredible amounts of money, and would almost certainly loose their FCC licensees to broadcast. Almost certainly, persons responsible for airing the content would be tried and imprisoned. Why is it that social media outlets have no responsibility for policing what is broadcast on their media outlets. I would hazard that more than 90% of new media content is originally broadcast on the internet. Sites like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc. are the originator of much of the original media content that is broadcast every single day. Theses "social MEDIA" outlets are being PAID to BROADCAST this media. Why are they not subject to the same kind of scrutiny as other media outlets? The FCC ALREADY regulates the internet (see - net neutrality). Apparently, they currently do not currently regulate content sent over the internet (because of 1st amendment rights, or because it is too difficult/costly). I would argue that is becoming too costly NOT too. The horrors of cyber bullying, murderers and suicidal people video taping their exploits, Terrorists indoctrinating "home grown" terrorists, sharing terrorist training and displaying unspeakable carnage that anyone can stumble upon (or even actively search out) , and now the ability of foreign nations to actively wage cyber disinformation campaigns to influence our elections makes it all the more clear that the FCC MUST take a more active role in protecting American citizens from the digital bytes that have a very real physical bite.
Social media is a way for people to connect with each other. If people choose to communicate in ways that are not appropriate the creators of the program should not be accused of their actions. The people who made the platform have no control over other peoples opinions ideas or word choice.
Censoring the society doesn't help do much. But keep the ignorant more ignorant and the curious searching for other methods to access that information. If the common sites are censored, what is there left to stop the curious from accessing the dark web, and getting involved in something considerably worse.
As well as this, censorship shouldn't exist, because people need to know these things are happening, it's a big bad world out there, and not knowing what's happening will only make it worse when reality slaps you in the face.
It is not right to hold the creators of these social media sites responsible for everyone's actions. There are literally millions of users on most of these sites and that would not be fair at all. Everyone is responsible for themselves and nobody else, whether it be on or offline.
That is just the silliest question ever. We have FREE WILL for a reason! We make our own decisions no matter what the vehicle is. And this applies to using social media, driving a car, using a knife, consuming alcohol, what have you. It's just ridiculous to blame this upon anyone other than the actual person.
People often blame social media or the creators of social media when someone gets caber bullied or stalked, because they believe the site could have been doing more to prevent it. These sites were obviously not created for this purpose, and it is entirely up to the user to make such actions. Just as with anything else such as guns or cars, they can be used legally or illegally, and the actions of the individual, not the product nor the creator of the product, should be held liable.


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"Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?"
That is what will happen when you read this amazingly fantastic sequel by Marie Lu.
The romance, the excitement, the espionage... the unrequited romance. Then there's the heartbreak... Marie Lu builds up your love for this character she's made, gives him happiness, that makes us happy, then she goes and punches us in the heart, slapping away the brand new shiny thing she's given us saying "No! You aren't allowed to feel joy, this is my story of heartache." Then I am left weeping in the corner over a fictional character.... thanks a lot Marie Lu. *grumble*
But in all seriousness, this book is amazing. As I've said before, a good book makes you feel this way about its characters. Makes you feel so much a part of the story that you feel what they feel. It hurts, but it makes the reading experience all the more enjoyable.

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America Makes Announces Two New Project Opportunities Working with Selective Laser Melting
America Makes recently announced two new project opportunities open to members. The Acceleration of Large Scale Additive Manufacturing (ALSAM) and Advancing AM Post-processing Techniques (AAPT) projects are both funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Manufacturing and Industrial Base Technology Division.
As indicated in the project name, ALSAM focuses on the acceleration of large scale additive manufacturing. The overall goal of the project is to become familiar with the challenges presented by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) additive manufacturing that hinder the greater adoption of SLM for technology for production. Approximately $2.6 million is available in funding for this project, which is driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), America Makes and AFRL. Full project proposals are due Friday, September 14.
The AAPT project focuses on strengthening the understanding of available techniques to achieving qualified parts and certified processes, as well as reducing costs. The AAPT project looks to build on the uses of SLM for critical parts. Approximately $2.4 million is available in funding for this project. Full project proposals are due Friday, October 12.
“On behalf of all of us at America Makes and AFRL, we are excited to be announcing two Directed Project Opportunities, both of which we believe will play an integral role in accelerating the adoption of Selective Laser Melting additive technologies in particular,” said Rob Gorham, America Makes Executive Director. “With the second Directed Project Opportunity concentrating on the advancement of post-processing techniques, and the first Directed Project Opportunity targeting a multi-laser open platform, we are confident that the industry impact of these two R&D projects will be substantial and widespread.”
For further information regarding the ALSAM project opportunity, click here: https://www.americamakes.us/dpo_alsam/
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- Title: The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America
- Author: Burton W. Peretti
- ISBN: 9780252064210
- Page: 284
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As musicians, listeners, and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is than a history of the music Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz.
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The Creation of Jazz by Burton W. Peretti presents a study of the creation of Jazz within its cultural context. Many historians and jazz musicians seem to question whether historians will ever be able to write a comprehensive and accurate history of jazz since early sources are scarce and interpretations are highly varied. Peretti argues that it is possible to gain an understanding of it by examining the social and musical changes surrounding its development. As a social phenomenon, it can great [...]
If only because it utterly debunks the hopelessly simplistic narrative forwarded by Burns/Marsalis/Crouch, this work should be vastly better known. Written with utter lucidity and persuasiveness, this is a smart work of cultural studies. Judiciously weighing a variety of kinds of evidence, Peretti advances some clear but tentative theses about jazz in the first four decades of the twentieth century. He never advances beyond what the evidence will bear, yet in taking a fresh look at some old docu [...]
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The total value of reported fraud in 2015 was £1.5bn, an increase of 110pc from the previous year, and the highest value since 2011, according to an accoutancy firm. The latest FraudTrack report from BDO, which examines reported fraud cases over £50,000 in the UK, finds that the total number of cases, however, fell by 5.2 per cent, with only 519 reported cases in 2015 compared to last year’s 546 cases. The average value of fraud meanwhile has risen 121 per cent to £2.9m with some of the largest cases brought to court reaching over £250m.
Financial services continues to be the sector attracting the highest level of fraud. The value of reported fraud in this area more than doubled, from £238m in 2014 to £567m in 2015. 2015 saw a small number of very high value values which impacted the sector’s results, as the volume of fraud fell by more than 40 per cent, with 70 cases in 2015 down from 119 cases in 2014. Third party fraud within financial services showed the largest increase in value year on year, with a £197m increase in reported fraud in 2015. In 2015, the £210m of third party fraud within the sector, included a fake invoices case, an investor con and a £142m case where six businessmen were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud on broadband installation contracts against financial institutions.
The second biggest increase in the financial services sector was in mortgage fraud. Despite the number of cases almost halving from 24 in 2014 to 13 in 2015, the value of fraud almost tripled from £57m to £151m due in large part to a £130m mortgage fraud case in the North-East.
The trend of reported cases falling against a rise in value continued with money laundering, which showed the third biggest change with a rise of £85m in fraud from 2014 to 2015. Again, this was down to one large money laundering case of £145m money involving a London bureaux de change. The financial services sector did see a decline in employee fraud cases compared with 2014. The number of cases fell from 31 to 15 with the value also falling from £9m to £4.5m.
The report’s author, Kaley Crossthwaite, Partner and Head of Fraud, BDO LLP, said: “Whilst the value of financial services fraud would appear to have jumped sharply, the numbers have been skewed slightly due to a small number of very large cases. Stripping these ‘exceptional’ items out would show an apparent fall in volume and value year on year. Sadly this is not the full picture. Increasingly we are seeing high value complex fraud being dealt with outside of the judicial system as companies prefer to deal with these situations behind closed doors to avoid the reputational damage to their businesses. Our experience would suggest that both volume and value in real terms continue to rise despite efforts by companies in the sector to strengthen their processes.”
In terms of fraud per location, London and the South East continues to grow as the hotspot for reported fraud in UK, with the value of fraud in the area increasing to £600m in 2015 from £483m in 2014, and accounting for 40 per cent of all fraud overall. However, while London & South East remained at the top of the table, the most substantial increases regionally were seen in the Midlands, Yorkshire and North East England. Fraud in the Midlands rose more than 11 times from £33m in 2014 to £384.5m in 2015 with the number of cases rising 25 per cent from 70 to 94. Fraud in Yorkshire meanwhile, rose from £49.5m in 56 cases to £208.5m from just 39 cases. The North East rose from £18.2m in 22 cases in 2014 to £138m from 19 cases in 2015.
Kaley Crossthwaite said: “As the financial capital of the UK, London has long been a hotbed for fraud and the 2015 data shows no sign of this abating. The most alarming findings are the very sharp increase in the level of fraud in the Midlands and the North East. Tax fraud and Money Laundering in these regions have been the key drivers of this increase led by a £262m Birmingham reported tax avoidance scheme taking advantage of government breaks for the film industry.”
Prosecutions against non-corporates or individuals have continued to grow in 2015 having risen in both volume and value every year since 2012. In 2015 there were 152 reported cases of reported fraud with a total value of £277m up from 96 cases totalling £101m in 2014. An analysis of these fraud shows that the majority were committed against the elderly and vulnerable. Two of biggest frauds in this area included a £9m Ponzi scheme operated by a former Premier League footballer, and a £1.8m Ponzi scheme operated by a London banker. The biggest non-corporate fraud overall was a £130m foreign exchange fraud case in Yorkshire.
The main driver for the increase in the value of fraud in the retail sector, which grew from £30.7m in 2014 to £48.1m in 2015, was due to one large money laundering case, whereby a gang used bogus clothing and textile companies to launder £35m worth of drug money. By removing this one case, the value of reported fraud in 2015 was only £13m from 31 cases (average value per case £423k), which indicates a decline compared to 2014 with 32 cases where the average fraud per case was £578k. Kaley Crossthwaite added: “The low number of reported cases in the retail sector is an indication that most fraud is dealt in-house and not reported, due to the reputational damage and potentially a further loss of profits as customers lose trust and security in the retailer who holds their personal data.”
For a blog from Ruth Ireland Partner – Risk and Advisory Services at BDO on social engineering fraud, visit the BDO website.

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Limulus amebocyte lysate test | definition of limulus amebocyte lysate test by Medical dictionary
limulus amebocyte lysate test
limulus amebocyte lysate test (lĭm′ū-lŭs),
A test used to detect minute quantities of bacterial endotoxins and to test for pyrogens in various materials; it is also used to detect septicemia due to gram-negative bacteria. Limulus amebocyte lysate is formed from the lysed circulating amebocytes of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).
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Before using the GA in experiments, the GA was checked for endotoxin presence by Limulus amebocyte lysate test
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The Standard Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test
, gel clot method, was used to measure the endotoxin concentrations.
To determine whether the contaminant was endotoxin, we filled Vacutainer Tubes with saline and tested them for endotoxin by the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate test

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As City residents finish the task of digging out from yesterday’s snow, I thought you might like to have some idea of what the storm cost.
Sixty City employees worked for 20 hours, staffing 52 plow trucks, spreading 3 million pounds of salt, to clear 1,800 lane miles of streets. The cost of the work? About $140 thousand, an estimate which includes the amount it would have cost to rent and fuel snow moving equipment at FEMA rates.
The Streets Department described yesterday’s storm as a “fairly easy and economical” one — compared to the last ice storm, which cost about $300 thousand. The big difference between the two storms, according to Todd Waeltermann, was the temperature.


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- Adult and young adults in criminal proceedings
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Our services in this area are provided by Alison Longwill PhD, MBA, Dip. Clin. Neuropsychology. Alison has been acting as an expert witness since 1996 and holds the Bond Solon/Cardiff University Expert Witness Certificate she has considerable courtroom experience of operating for a single party or as a single joint expert.
Our practice also has considerable experience of working with organisations responsible for the custody, care and resettlement of offenders with mental health or other psychological problems as well as individual clients in these settings.
Alison has recent clinical practice experience in the NHS and Prison Services and continues to maintain a a clinical practice for clients with adult mental health problems.

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