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A framework for assessing the ethics of doctors' strikes
Current controversy
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7080-478XAdam James Roberts
Correspondence to Adam James Roberts, adam.roberts{at}oxon.org
The first aim of this article is to offer a framework for constructive and rigorous discussions of the ethics of doctors' strikes, beginning with an in-principle distinction between the questions of how one should conduct oneself while working as a doctor and when and how one can suspend that work. The second is to explore how that framework applies to the contemporary British case of strikes by English junior doctors, with my suggestion being that those strikes do meet all of the criteria proposed. In closing, I gesture towards a further ethical dimension to strikes which is too often overlooked: namely, the responsibilities of employers and others not to misrepresent or demonise those doctors who are engaged in or considering taking industrial action.
Applied and Professional Ethics
Interests of Health Personnel/Institutions
Journalism/Mass media
Philosophy of the Health Professions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-103395
Both opponents and supporters of the recent strikes by English junior doctors regularly claim that any such industrial action can only possibly be justified by reference to the well-being of patients: doctors must, they insist, always make patients' care their first concern.
Taken literally, it is easy to push that claim to absurdity. In their recent evaluation in this journal of the case for that recent action, Mark Toynbee et al make exactly that point: it would be unconventional at best to argue 'that once a person becomes a doctor they are obliged to work under any conditions, at any time, with any number of patients'.1 What is lacking in the current debate, as in others for strikes in the past, are frameworks for assessing the ethics of doctors' strikes which take that reduction seriously.
The first step is to acknowledge the independence in principle of two important ethical questions. The first is that of how doctors should conduct their work as doctors: of what moral standards apply to them while acting as medical professionals. The second is that of for what reasons and to what extent they may temporarily suspend that work, as they do when obeying a full or partial strike.
In practice, there may be considerations which bridge those two questions. Politicians, employers and others may indeed argue that only patient outcomes—a concern for doctors as doctors—can ever morally justify taking industrial action. The point, however, is that there must be such an argument: it is not analytically true that those principles which dictate how doctors should conduct themselves in their work also determine when and how they may suspend that work in protest. Far too often we simply ignore the challenge to explain how distinctively medical ethical principles scale up.
In the following sections, I attempt to develop a framework for ethically assessing doctors' strikes which does take the separateness of those foregoing questions seriously. I suggest that my conclusions make clearer the case for the recent junior doctors' strikes in the UK, and in closing gesture towards a further ethical dimension to strikes which is too often overlooked: namely, the responsibilities of employers and others not to misrepresent or demonise those doctors who are engaged in or considering taking industrial action.
A distinctive ethics
There are two intuitive ways in which strikes by doctors are ethically distinctive. The first is the scale of the risks which are in principle involved: there may be far more serious consequences to suspending medical care than, say, public transport or postal services. In practice, when emergency care continues to be provided, the best evidence currently available suggests that doctors' strikes are not dangerous.2 ,3 Indeed, on the day of the English doctors' strike on 21 June 2012, inhospital mortality rates for admitted patients fell slightly for both elective and emergency care, repeating 'the paradoxical pattern that mortality is either reduced or stays the same'.4
The second is the need to safeguard the patient–doctor relationship, 'both now and for the future'.5 Besides the stakes involved, that relationship is precisely what makes the medical profession different from many others: maintaining trust and respect is important in medicine in a way that is simply not the case elsewhere. In Britain, the General Medical Council details how doctors who value that relationship are 'competent, keep their knowledge and skills up to date, establish and maintain good relationships with patients and colleagues, are honest and trustworthy, and act with integrity and within the law'.6 In the USA, the American Medical Association lists a comparable range of demands, including that doctors provide care 'with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights' and, 'while caring for a patient, regard responsibility to the patient as paramount'.7
As it happens, neither of those two distinctions demands that strikes be justified only by reference to patient outcomes. A strike should be less easy to justify the greater the threat which action poses to patients' trust in their doctors, but if patients understood why doctors were striking and were not dangerously disturbed by their reasons for doing so, it is far from obvious that it should matter in any additional way whether long-term patient well-being was the motive for the strike. The literature is full of claims that the ethics of doctors' strikes is more distinctive still—that strikes fall 'uncomfortably close to conflicting with the primary role of the doctor',8 or that the patient–doctor relationship is in some mystical way 'sacred and ennobling'9—but it is short on substantive arguments for it being so. My suggestion here is that we do not have obvious reason to expect it to be more distinctive: the two points above capture what intuitively sets the medical profession apart.
Developing a framework
One of the best theoretical treatments of the ethics of doctors' strikes is a paper by Mpho Selemogo, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics in early 2014.10 Asserting an analogy between the intentional suspension of medical care and military conflict, Selemogo draws heavily on Thomist 'just war' or jus ad bellum theories to develop six ethical and political theoretical conditions for legitimate industrial action.
From an academic perspective, the advantage of the connection Selemogo makes is the extensive literature on just wars which is brought within easy reach. The disadvantage is that Selemogo's own theory, at least, either ignores or assumes away that in-principle distinction between the questions of how one should conduct oneself while working as a doctor and when and how one can suspend that work.
Selemogo does not trouble to argue why, in 'the healthcare context', strikes can only be justified by desires 'to confront a real and certain danger to the health of the population'. Instead, he goes so far as to suggest that disputes over pay 'constitute a just cause only if the wages of the doctors can be shown to be so poor as to compromise public health'. Yet if strikes, unlike wars, can be conducted without real threats to human safety, then 'why shouldn't doctors have the same employment rights as other workers?'11 Selemogo's ethics of doctors strikes seem those of medicine reimagined as monasticism, resting on something like 'a somewhat antiquated myth of sainthood' and all-encompassing idealism.12 ,13 Nevertheless, the other five of his six 'just war' criteria have at least some claim to be independently plausible, and it is not obvious that the failure of the militaristic analogy extends to discredit them too.
The first is that strikes should be proportionate: they 'should not inflict disproportionate harm on patients', and hospitals should as a minimum 'continue to provide at least such critical services as emergency care'.10 Since strikes can be and have been conducted safely, it is not implausible that they can be proportionate even if that constraint is challenging to define precisely. Second, there should be a reasonable hope of success, at least in the minimal sense that—however tough the political rhetoric—strikes should not be obviously futile. Third, it should be treated as a last resort: 'all less disruptive alternatives to a strike action must have been tried and failed', including where appropriate 'advocacy, dissent and even disobedience'.
Selemogo's final two criteria relate to how legitimate industrial actions are coordinated and communicated. Strikes should, where possible, be organised through a body which can 'be reasonably thought to have the legitimacy to act on behalf of doctors and project their interest'. In the case of the recent English junior doctors' strikes, that body is both politically and legally the British Medical Association (BMA), and the British Dental Association (BDA) for striking junior dentists. The last criterion is that the relevant body has made 'a formal public declaration of the intended strike'—enabling patients to prepare for the disruption, and affording doctors' employers a final chance to compromise—and that the body has attempted 'to delineate for the public the moral justification of the strike action'.
The injunction to safeguard the patient–doctor relationship feeds into the first and last of the conditions above: proportionality, and adequate communication. The need to protect such relationships does not self-evidently rule strikes out or mean only patient outcomes carry any ethical weight, but it is an essential factor which distinguishes the calculus for doctors' strikes from those in other industries. It need not be necessary that majorities of service users support the industrial action, but it does clearly matter whether patients' trust and faith in their doctors is put under threat by any strike proposed. Effective communication of the reasons for and details of any action is plausibly a vital element in the defusing of such risks.
Junior doctors' strikes
Toynbee, Al-Diwani, Clacey and Broome reached the conclusion in this journal that the recent strikes by English junior doctors were most likely morally permissible.1 They distilled the requirements for ethical industrial action down to three: that all patients 'still have access to emergency care'; that maintenance of patient well-being be 'a goal'; and that strikers believe 'that all possible other forms of communication have failed'. That third condition translates straightforwardly enough into the framework proposed here—strikes ought to be viewed as a last resort—and the first two are derivatives of a criterion of proportionality. Taken independently of the rest of that paper, however, what those requirements do not capture is how the permissibility of a strike might vary with both the seriousness of the issues disputed and the likelihood of industrial action affecting the dispute positively. On the framework suggested, it also matters first how and by whom strikes are coordinated, and second how effectively the details of and justifications for industrial action are communicated.
The question of whether the recent strikes have been legitimately organised seems straightforward enough to affirmatively answer. The coordinating body is the BMA, the trade union and professional association for British doctors. The BMA first balloted junior doctors in England on a proposal of industrial action in November 2015, with 98% of those voting stating that they were 'prepared to take part in industrial action including strike action'.14 The leading industrial relations barrister, John Hendy, rebuffed a suggestion by a National Health Service (NHS) Trust that participating in a strike might be nevertheless unlawful.15 It is also clear that the BMA has taken an exemplary approach to communicating the reasons for and details of the action taken, aided by substantial—if declining16—media coverage.
Despite the British government's ongoing threat to impose the new contract at the heart of the dispute, it has never been self-evident that strikes could not pressure the Department of Health into compromises. Indeed, scheduled strikes were cancelled in both January and early December because of indications that the Department was newly willing to negotiate.17 ,18 Threats of industrial action have also successfully drawn public attention to the dispute. In an opinion poll by YouGov at the beginning of February, 45% of respondents believed the government was 'most to blame' for the ongoing conflict, with only 12% making that assertion of the BMA.19
The hardest question to answer about any industrial action is whether it is proportionate, for the simple reason that it seems to demand an assessment of the dispute itself. Consider, however, how plausible it is that the 99.4% of junior doctors on a 76% turnout who voted in favour of some form of industrial action in November were deluded en masse about the reasonableness of their position.14 Those figures do not prove beyond doubt the propriety of any action, but they make a compelling prima facie case for the existence of robust arguments in the BMA's favour. As YouGov's Will Dahlgreen has noted, majority public support for strikes 'is relatively rare',19 and yet as of the end of March 2016, the public supports strikes by junior doctors which do not affect emergency care by 59–23%.20 Even among voters for the governing Conservative party, opposition to such strikes outnumbers support by only 1:0.8; by contrast, opposition to 1 day of teachers' strikes in March 2014 stood at 1:0.6 among the population at large, and at an overwhelming 1:0.1 among Conservative supporters.21
Toynbee et al1 note how junior doctors 'face increasing debt from tuition fees and student loans, significant real-term reduction in wages, no real control over their hours and increasingly intense and unsupported roles where the outcomes, patients' well-being and lives for which they are responsible, are increasingly out of their control'. The BMA has further claimed that some of the government's proposals have, besides being 'unfair for doctors now and in the future', also been 'unsafe for patients',14 ,22 with the supporting BDA emphasising that any supposed restrictions on safe working hours, 'no matter how good they may seem on paper, simply won't have any teeth'.23 Most recently, the Department of Health's own analysis of the disputed contract's likely impact has suggested that it may adversely affect women, carers and those who work part-time.24 ,25 There are here ample bases for legitimate industrial action if it can be carried out safely.
Employers' responsibilities
The first aim of this article has been to offer a framework for constructive and rigorous discussions of the ethics of doctors' strikes, beginning with an in-principle distinction between the questions of how one should conduct oneself while working as a doctor and when and how one can suspend that work. The second has been to explore how that framework applies to the contemporary British case of strikes by English junior doctors, with my suggestion being that those strikes do meet all of the criteria proposed.
Many debates about the ethics of strikes stop there. I want to suggest, in closing, that this is a mistake. In discussing what was distinctive about the ethics of doctors' strikes, I focused on the need to safeguard doctors' relationships with patients. It is vital that health service users are confident in their doctors' integrity and competence.
Doctors are by no means unique in having the capacity to undermine that crucial confidence; indeed, in the context of an industrial dispute, they may not even be the most likely to do so. How doctors' industrial opponents—primarily their employers—choose to frame both the terms of the dispute and doctors' morals and motives is a distinctly medical ethical issue: effective medicine's own needs and aims may be alarmingly menaced.
Consider, for example, the claim that English junior doctors risk serious harm to patients by taking industrial action, which has been made—among others—by the Health Secretary,26 the Prime Minister's office27 and an influential Conservative pressure group.28 The implication is that doctors are being reckless with patients' welfare: an assertion which, if made from a position of visibility and authority, has the potential to impact how patients view their doctors. In reality, action is carefully planned so as to minimise such risks, and—as noted—the best available evidence does not undergird those concerns.2–4
Consider also the open letter sent by the medical director of NHS England, Bruce Keogh, which was widely criticised for attempting to connect strikes by junior doctors to vulnerability in the event of a terrorist attack. Two months after that letter was sent, The Independent revealed that the text had been negotiated with the Department of Health, who had encouraged that it be as 'hard-edged' as possible.29
It is hard to conceive of an ethical defence for such media strategies. If, however improbably, they were to weaken rather than harden doctors' resolve in their dispute, the mechanism through which they would do so would be that of public shame: of making doctors as a group seem negligent rather than caring, or mercenary rather than vocationally devoted, and in this way threatening the bases of the patient–doctor relationship. Employers' responsibilities do not end at the negotiating table, and we need to make it clearer that this is true.
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Should junior doctors strike?
Mark Toynbee et al., Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016
Should Doctors strike?
John J Park et al., Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013
What are the consequences when doctors strike?
David Metcalfe et al., BMJ, 2015
Retrospective analysis of the national impact of industrial action by English junior doctors in 2016
Daniel Furnivall et al., BMJ Open, 2018
Just Wars and doctors' strikes
Mark Sheehan, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016
Impact of healthcare strikes on patient mortality: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Ryan Essex et al., BMJ Open, 2021
Doctors' pay award: what have different groups been offered, and is industrial action "inevitable"?
Adele Waters et al., BMJ, 2022
Overwhelming majority of junior doctors vote for strike action
Abi Rimmer, BMJ, 2015
"We are solid"—pay award unites profession in appetite for industrial action
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Refusing to negotiate NHS pay is a false economy
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The Fritzbox 7340 is the only real available VDSL modem/router in the Netherlands. Too bad, since it has some bugs (but what piece of software hasn't???). Fortunately, the router works well, just as long as you use it as the only networking device in your (small) network.
All the individual portforward rules in the Fritzbox are directed to the SRX100 by selecting the 'Exposed Host' in the FB.
Posted on March 11, 2011 by Willem and filed under Annoying, Hardware, Internet, Security, Tips'n Tricks and tagged Fritzbox NAT TLS portforwarding ssl srx100 Juniper.
Juniper started to migrate their firewalls from Netscreen to the Junos environment 'a couple of' months back. The advantage is that there's a universal OS for routers, switches and firewalls. Just like Cisco IOS. The disadvantage is that the Junos OS is being adapted for the firewalls. So the foundations are there, but there are still lots of features missing and bugs are also still abundant.
The bugs are thankfully mostly related to the WebGUI. On the commandlinethe bugs are in the same league as the Cisco, Checkpoint and every other vendor bugs. No piece of software is perfect.
Posted on March 1, 2011 by Willem and filed under Annoying, Hardware, Security, Tips'n Tricks, Junos and tagged firewall logging srx Juniper.
Posted on December 23, 2010 by Willem and filed under Gear, Hardware, Photography, Review and tagged LX3 Lumix Nikon p7000.
Dell U2711 MonitorThanks to some fortunate circumstances I've been able to get a new 27 inch monitor; The Dell U2711 Ultrasharp PremiumColor.
I was in need of a new monitor, since my old 24" Dell 2407WFP has some problems generating proper colors. Something which is quite important when fooling around with photographs on a computer. Another reason is that my the screen wouldn't work 'properly' with my new 27" iMac.
The 27"-er has a whopping resolution of 2560 x 1440 (WQHD), which is 'slightly more' than your average monitor. This monitor has an IPS panel, which is much better in rendering true colors than the old TN display.
The desktop real-estate is enormous (the same as the 27" iMac). Only problem so far is that my mobile devices aren't capable of using the full capacity of this display. Both my MacBook and Windows 7 Dell E6500 (work laptop) only go as high as 1920 x 1200. So I either have have some black borders, or I have to settle for a stretched screen. In both cases; the image is still extremely good. The display will be used as a second display on my 27" iMac.
Posted on December 17, 2010 by Willem and filed under Hardware, Review and tagged Dell DisplayPort Monitor PremiumColor UltraSharp adapter iMac.
Windows Phone 7 SeriesMicrosoft will be shipping a new phone operating system this year. After the Windows Mobile brand, they're switching to an alternate name; Windows Phone 7 Series. And obviously, with a new name comes a new website; http://www.windowsphone7series.com.
I can't really see why they keep bothering trying to access the phone market. Every single Windows Mobile (or Windows CE as it was called in the old days) device I've owned crashed more frequently than the 'good old' Windows Millennium Edition on an average Sunday. I can't count the number of times that I received a phonecall while doing something else (e.g. playing solitaire, or reading e-mail) and that the call finally went to voicemail. Why? because the phone froze, crashed, or answer button was unresponsive.
Posted on February 15, 2010 by Willem and filed under Hardware, Microsoft, Software and tagged 7 Series Phone Windows iPhone opinion.
Nikon 24mm f/1.4G EDNikon is catching up with Canon in regards to the (really) fast prime lenses. They announced a new 24mm f/1.4G ED (link to the techpart)wide-angle lens today. This new lens makes it possible to do low-light photography with a maximum aperture of 1.4. Especially when you're shooting with a low-light monster like the Nikon D700 or D3(x/s).
The lens should also give you a nice depth of field (DoF) when shooting wide open, and being relatively close to your subject. We all know that wide-angle lenses tend to have a large DoF due to wide-angle optic characteristics (et voila).
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Willem and filed under Hardware, Photography and tagged 24mm Nikon f/1.4 lens nikkor voigtlander.
My dad switched to an iMac a couple of weeks ago. He came from a Windows environment with lots of periferals (RF Mouse, Bluetooth dongle, HP flatbed Scanner, Espon printer, Nikon CoolScan V, HP PDA, etc.). So the challenge was to migrate as many periferals as possible.
Thankfully, most of them worked. Even the old Nikon CoolScan V film scanner worked with the supplied Nikon Scan 4 software, until last Sunday. For some reason the application crashes with a message that the preferences file can't be read (Is another instance of Nikon Scan 4 running??).
It seemed that the Nikon app wasn't shut down properly on one occasion and a lock file was left in the preferences. Removing the lock file solved the issue.
Sidenote: Weird that relatively old propriatary software like the Nikon Scan 4 software works fine, but that more recent (Nikon) software needs special updates to keep working under Snow Leopard. Was Nikon Scan 4 written by people who understand what they were doing (OS sub-version independent)? Or is this just luck?
Posted on November 18, 2009 by Willem and filed under Apple, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software and tagged Nikon Nikon Scan 4 locked.
In the post before this one I had some trouble with a Freecom XXS USB drive. I had no way of fixing it, so it went back to the store (and basically back to Freecom). But since that drive is used for offsite backups I needed a replacement unit, because the return of the old drive could take several weeks.
This time the Western Digital My Passport Essentials 500GB (2.5" USB powered) disk was chosen. A nice small device with lot's of storage capacity.
Western Digital Proprietary Connector on the LeftUpon opening the box I noticed immediately that there's something 'wrong' with this drive. The cable / USB connector is proprietary. The connector is some sort of ultra-mini-USB format. No need to say that of all the USB cables I collected over the years will ever fit. So I need to be extremely careful with the one I got with the drive.
Since I lose stuff (hell, everyone does), you could expect a blog post of me swearing 'bloody hell' (and stuff) when I have lost the cable.... but I won't, just read the rest of this review.
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Willem and filed under Annoying, Hardware, Review and tagged ChronoSync SmartWare crap harddisk massive fail passport review western digital.
For the last couple of years I've been using an offsite backup method. And today the drive I use for that failed on me. My backup program reported that it could write (or read) data to the drive.
Investigation showed that several directories in the TrueCrypt volume were gone!!!!! Thankfully, the data on my Drobo and server were still pristine condition.
Disk Utility and several other tools reported problems with the drive (or at least the TrueCrypt part/volume). So I erased the drive, and re-initialized it. No reports of trouble while I did that. After that I recreated the TrueCrypt volume and restarted the backup to the drive (which takes forever).
After that a new case for SpinRite.
Posted on October 31, 2009 by Willem and filed under Annoying, Hardware, Software and tagged TrueCrypt backup drive failure.
Before I go into the imperfections of the iPhone, I must mention that the iPhone is one of the best (smart)phones I've had so far.....My (smartphone) references are the Nokia Communicator, Nokia E61i, Nokia N95. While the PDA experience comes from Psion (to bad that they are gone), and a boatload of crappy/unstable Windows CE/Mobile platforms over the last 10 years.
Posted on October 22, 2009 by Willem and filed under Annoying, Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, iPhone.


Since our very first event, we've been working with our friends at Oh Snap! Studios to create fun, interactive photo booth experiences for our shoppers. That's TEN YEARS of amazing photos that show just how creative and silly the Unique family really is! We went way back into the archives to create this round-up of shots from the Oh Snap! galleries from throughout the years. We hope you enjoy! Don't miss this year's booth at our Los Angeles event!


Several of my farmhands spotted a treasure in a corner of a field at Four Sisters Farm that had been used as a dumping ground years ago...long before the Four Sisters Farm family arrived here.
It was on the top of the pile...sitting on the rusted bed of an old pick up truck...past the poison ivy and the ancient Frigidaire. A rusted old Radio Flyer Red Wagon with parts badly bent. So badly bent, the wheels were completely out of alignment.
We hopped into Pop's pick up to go rescue it and only got a few feet down the lane through the field when Grammy got the pick up stuck in the mud.
We didn't stop to photograph the junk pile because I keeping three farmhands out of poison ivy and barbed wire isn't an easy thing.
We left the truck and detoured past the pond on foot. After we checked out how the recent rain had filled the pond, we marched on to liberate our treasure.
The farmhands took turns helping me carry the wagon back to the farm where we looked it over. Handy Grammy has some skills from living out on the farm but deemed the wagon a task for Pop.
I tried hard to get the truck out of the mud, but was not successful. The fellows found the task boring but found a nearby dirt pile to pass the time. Farm Chick offered a hand and moral support but in the end, Pop and his tractor were the solution. Easy peasy for Pop.
Several days later while I was gone, Pop and the farmhands went to work on straightening the wagon out....and several more days later, Lil Ruthie helped me sand, clean, prime, and paint the inside of the wagon so it could be ridden in without ruining kids' clothing.
Like many of the of the things that get done at Four Sisters Farm, we all had a hand in making something usable out of something discarded. We retained the popular "vintage" appeal of the Radio Flyer but made it useful again.
While the paint dried, Lil Ruthie decided to sweep part of the garage and driveway to surprise Pop.
She said he might yell or he might be mad or he might be so happy he'd cry. Farm Chick says some of the people in her life live in glass case of emotion and apparently Ruthie knows all the possibilities!
It seems like we always forget to take true "before" pictures. We tear into a project and then I remember that we should document it! So...enjoy these "during" and after pictures. We are fully enjoying our entrance into the Four Sisters Farm house now!
Special thanks goes to Pop, our handyman (Pop said I can keep him if I'll feed him), and our daughter, DW who did the cool lettering on the storage crates Pop and I built.
I'm sure you had no idea what a legacy you and Dad began when your children were born...and certainly no idea how many grandchildren and great grandchildren would follow; but years later we are all so very blessed to have you and Dad still loving us all.
I admire you greatly. I've always seen your beauty in form and in actions. I've been privileged to hear your heart in late night talks and chats on the phone now that I have an empty nest. You demonstrate love of your husband, your children, your family, and friends. You model a heart for God and work hard at what is important.
You have battled with issues from your raising, with your health, and I'm sure things I don't even know... and have overcome. You choose to look for good in others. You remain positive in your outlook on life and it is contagious.
You are human, you've made mistakes for which you have asked forgiveness and you walk in the freedom that comes with that forgiveness. You speaks truth and continue even now to grown in grace and beauty. You are blessed.
There is nothing more I could ask for in a mother and I recognize God's sovereign hand in allowing me to be your daughter. I'm grateful that we can rely on God Who never makes mistakes and trust Him that He gives just the right children to parents and just the right parents to children in order to accomplish amazing things that neither can see during those years of raising.
In raising our own children...the Four Sisters...I've looked to you many times and seen your nod and heard your words of approval. You gave me permission to mother differently than you did and verbalized your concern when you felt it would help. You gave Pop and me freedom to do things our own way even when it was unsettling for you. Just as I continue to come back to you and thank you for things I only now realize you (and Dad) did for us, you come to me and speak love over me when you tell me I've done well.
Happy Mothers' Day, Mom from the part of your legacy called Four Sisters Farm.
To the Four Sisters of Four Sisters Farm: Since I became a mother, I've worked to continue the legacy my mother began. Now that you are all mothers, my dream of raising daughters who love their husbands, their children, their families, and others is realized. I'm grateful to God for the privilege of seeing the desires of my heart continue to play out in the hearts and lives of my daughters. I love you all very dearly.
I want you to know that serving you and your families is an honor and a privilege. When I can play with your children or snuggle a baby so you can rest (for a minute, an hour, an evening out, a whole night, a weekend, or even a week)...when I can prepare a meal to share or make you a cup of coffee...when I can fold a load of laundry or pick up the toys it is a living love note that words on a card couldn't adequately express.
As long as I am able, I will continue writing these "love notes" as best I can...motivated by God's love and powered by His never-ending grace and mercy. I had the thought today that I may very well be "paying it forward" if someday you are called to write similar love notes for me and Pop!
Happy Mothers' Day to the Four Sisters! I LOVE being your Mom!
I love the look on DW's face...that is how I felt too!
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Shot in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Mexican Dubwiser's latest "Post Futuristic Rebajada Cumbia Soul Experiment" is this chingon video with Spanglish rhymes with a mad house vibe. We like it.
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Barbie movie is a popular 2023 English-language musical comedy romantic comedy film, which is directed by Greta Gerwig
Barbie movie stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Emma Mackey, and Ncuti Gatwa in the lead roles
Barbie movie is written by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and the movie is produced by Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Robbie Brenner, and David Heyman and distributed by Warner Bros.
Pictures under the banner of LuckyChap Entertainment, Mattel Films, Heyday Films. Recently Barbie movie makers released the Barbie Movie poster
The main highlight of the movie is its lead character Barbie and the Music and Comedy and Margot Robbie's performance, where she is playing the Barbie's role
Barbie is a romantic comedy-drama film and Barbie movie tells the story of Barbie and Ken and the adventures of Barbie and Ken, their love story
how they met each other, how they fell in love with each other and how they will continue their relationship. Barbie movie is the first live-action film
which is based on the fashion doll Barbie and her story after a series of animated films and television series


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After living in this wonderful Schnapper Rock location for 14 years my vendors have committed to a move South. First time on the market since new, this large family home is constructed predominately of Linea® weatherboard. Set on 1508sqm (more or less) of freehold real estate the property is bounded by the Schopolo East and Lady Phoenix Reserves.
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L'anniversaire (en ) est un tableau réalisé en 1915 par le peintre d'origine russe et biélorusse naturalisé français, Marc Chagall. Il est conservé et exposé au MOMA de New York, aux États-Unis. En 1914, Chagall est revenu de Paris à Vitebsk. En 1915, il épouse Bella Rosenfeld qui est le modèle de la toile.

Selon l'historienne du MGU Maria Berezanskaïa, la toile nous renvoie autour du baiser aérien des époux, à plusieurs détails domestiques précis, rendus méticuleusement. Chacun est porteur d'un sens caché et transforme cette pièce ordinaire dans la ville en un endroit où le miracle du vol des amoureux se produit sous nos yeux. Les détails matériels sont importants parce qu'ils forment le lien entre le réel et le fabuleux. La culture hassidique était devenue pour Chagall un berceau créatif qui lui faisait percevoir l'environnement domestique comme une partie très importante de la vie de l'homme. L'élévation de sujets de la vie populaire quotidienne, dans l'esprit mythologique de ce vol en suspension, rapproche la peinture et les graphiques de Chagall de l'art solennel et simple à la fois de Niko Pirosmani. La sacralisation des actes de la vie quotidienne se retrouve dans les caractéristiques de la vie des anciens patriarches bibliques de l'œuvre tardive de Rembrandt. C'est une tâche fondamentale pour Chagall de représenter une multitude d'objets dans leurs moindres détails mais dans un univers chaotique, qui finalement apparaît paradoxalement comme une unité.

Une esquisse de la toile datant de la même année est exposée au centre Georges Pompidou à Paris.

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Tableau de Marc Chagall
Tableau réalisé en 1915
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Fleur dans la peinture
Œuvre conservée au Museum of Modern Art

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We colored the back side of the vellum, then adhered that to Whisper White cadstock! What a great effect, don't you think?
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Your source for the latest news on Rutgers football, basketball, and other sports
A Q&A with C. Vivian Stringer
Steve Feitl • October 20, 2008
Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer recently sat down for a Q&A session with beat writer Paul Franklin.
Rutgers beat writer Paul Franklin recently sat down with Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer who discussed, among other issues, replacing departed stars Matee Ajavon and Essence Carson while bringing in six highly touted freshmen.
Here's the interview:
By PAUL FRANKLIN
The Rutgers women's basketball season will start with the worst of both worlds.
Not only will they take the court without two of the best players in the history of the program, they will also be leaning on five true freshmen and one redshirt freshman.
Even if those six players can approach replacing Essence Carson and Matee Ajavon, duplicating what the Scarlet Knights have done the past few years will be anything but easy.
Last year the team reached the Elite Eight. The year before they reached the national championship game. During the Carson-Ajavon era there were four trips to the NCAA Tournament, one Big East Tournament championship, one regular season championship by going unbeaten in the conference, and records of 28-7, 27-5, 27-9 and 27-7 (108-28).
This is a new era for Rutgers women's basketball, an era that will begin with five McDonald's High School All-Americans. However, the team is not without experience, leadership and, for a change, depth.
Center Kia Vaughn and forward/guard Heather Zurich are the only seniors on the squad, with Vaughn coming off a second-team Big East season. Also back is shooting guard Epiphanny Prince, now a junior who led the team in scoring a year ago. She made first-team All-Big East last season.
Other key components returning are junior forward/guard Brittany Ray, junior center Rashidat Junaid and junior forward Myia McCurdy. McCurdy is coming off a serious knee injury, but seems to have fully recovered. Redshirt guard Khadijah Rushdan, who missed most of the season with a knee injury, is completely healed and should play an important role.
Rutgers will need all the help it can get as coach C. Vivian Stringer has scheduled her usual challenging nonconference schedule. Although not quite as difficult as some years … primarily due to so many freshmen … Rutgers nonetheless has to travel across the country to face California and Stanford in late November, will host Georgia and George Washington in December, welcomes defending national champion Tennessee Jan. 3., then travels to Maryland Feb. 15.
Entering her 38th season overall and 14th at Rutgers, Stringer right now has way more questions than answers. And so we asked her a few.
Q. What is it like going into a season without four-year starters Essence Carson and Matee Ajavon?
A. I miss them. I am so hurt. I've been thinking that I could never imagine life without them, it seems like I've had them forever. I had them since they were freshmen, and they were very mature as freshmen. This (freshmen) group here has great reputations, but they have a long way to go.
Q. With Ajavon gone, who is going to step in and play point guard?
A. I couldn't tell you who it's going to be. I can tell you it will be someone other than Epiphanny Prince, because we need her to score. You've got (redshirt freshman) Khadijah (Rushdan), and Nikki Speed, but both of them, for what it's worth, are freshmen. So, we'll see.
Q. What are you expecting from senior center Kia Vaughn?
A. Kia must have a great year, and I want to make sure she gets at least 15 touches (a game). She is going to be the No.'1, 2 or 3 player drafted. Period. I know that everybody has contacted me already, so they want her. She's good, she's good, and she needs to have a great year. And it looks like she committed herself to the summer. And she always did anyway. But (her relative success) depends very much on how well everyone else addresses things.
Q. What are you expecting from your only other senior, Heather Zurich?
A. Heather has to step up, and we'll play her as a guard. If Heather has the right mind set she can have an incredible year. She's demonstrated leadership already, but we need her to determine that she can finally make a difference. And the opportunity for her to be drafted is probably as good as anybody else's. I've probably said that before, but I think she is showing me that she intends to be a player this year.
Q. So Epiphanny Prince will be the two guard?
A. That would be the best place that we could put her. She needs to score, and I think she's ready to assume that responsibility. But we can only do that if one of these other people demonstrate that they can be the point guard. And that remains to be seen.
Q. Talk about the five freshmen as it relates to their early impact on the team.
A. You can never tell about freshmen. But it's obvious from practice that (6-foot forward/guard) April Sykes is a bona fide player, but it depends on how willing she is to work. As I've said before, when I went to that All-American game (in Milwaukee last spring) I was really upset. I told them I started to walk out, because I couldn't take it. There were four of them on the same team, and they were pitted against people that were going to Tennessee and some other places, and I just didn't like the fact that there was not one person who stepped up to be the leader. They didn't have any fight in them and I resented that. But I'm comfortable and confident that before the end of this year they're going to have the right kind of fight. The problem is that they've never been pushed. Not at all. Everything's been handed to them, and so when they find themselves in a tough situation, then I'll find out if they had it in the first place. And that's what the preseason conditioning is. Aside from the fact that it is conditioning, it is so much more than that. It's the mental aspect, how much they're willing to sacrifice.
Q. Will having so many new players affect how you approach the early season?
A. I'm going to try to do what I usually do, but because a few of them haven't stepped
up to the (preseason conditioning test) challenge it's a great concern.
Q. Can this team challenge for the Big East?
A. I don't think they can challenge for anything right now.
Q. Generally, what are your expectations for the upcoming season?
A. I think I'll know by the end of the month. We will always look to challenge; you know that. But I really don't know. My teams have always tried to achieve a level of excellence so it's not going to be any less than that. I can tell you that. Now, they will tell you they're going to want to win the national championship. How's that? They run their mouths. They're good kids. They're sweethearts, they're good kids, they're fun, but they don't have a doggone clue.
Paul Franklin: pfrankl@mycentraljersey.com
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 by Steve Feitl.
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The Gear S2 is making its way to retail stores worldwide at this point, but many consumers may or may not have the time currently to visit their local Best Buy or retail store to see the Gear S2 up close and personal. Perhaps at Thanksgiving, maybe, but now, there's too much workload in the way for many working worldwide citizens. If there's any way to make life slightly more convenient, then the Web is the means by which to do it.
Are you wanting to pick up the Gear S2? Perhaps you've heard about the smartwatch's circular display (and you prefer circular smartwatches) and want to see if it's worth your investment. Well, a new Gear S2 unboxing video may give some insight into what you'll experience when you visit your local retail store – that is, if you want to pick up the Gear S2 Classic (not the Gear S2 Standard or Gear S2 3G version).
In the Gear S2 video, you can see the Classic model with its genuine leather band and rotating bezel that stands out on the watch display. The Gear S2 Classic, as does the Gear S2 Standard and Gear S2 3G, have two buttons on one side of the display that allow you to navigate the display and go back to the main page if you want to get out of whatever you're doing.
The wireless charging dock works well with the new Gear S2 Standard, Classic, and 3G smartwatches; unlike last year's Gear S, which mandates the use of a "snap-in" charging cradle that can be rendered useless after frequent use (I'm replacing my charging cradle after just 10 months due to normal wear and tear), the new Gear S2 (whether Standard, Classic, or 3G models) will allow you to simply sit your watch down on the dock, walk away, and have it charge without regard to charging placement or cradle pins that can wear out after a while. Not only is the new wireless charging dock more convenient, it's also guaranteed to last longer with less frustration from users than before.
The source below also took photos the device in the video to allow you to view the device for more than just a split second. You can view photos of the Gear S2 Classic below.
The Gear S2 Classic is Samsung's take on traditional smartwatches for those who want something resembling current luxury watches (Rolex, for example) that are often characterized by a circular shape. Samsung has also priced the Gear S2 Classic above that of the Standard Gear S2: whereas the Gear S2 Standard costs $299, the Gear S2 Classic will cost $50 more ($349), and this is just for the Bluetooth Classic model. There is no Classic 3G model at the moment, but the Gear S2 3G has the same price as that of the Classic model.
The Gear S2 unboxing video linked to above is but one; Samsung has published its own unboxing video, so you can watch both and make up your mind. At any rate, those who want a genuine leather band and a traditional look and feel will be right at home with this smartwatch. For those of us who want a more futuristic look, however, the Gear S2 Standard and Gear S2 3G models will suffice.
Do you like the Gear S2 Classic more than the Gear S2 Standard, or do you like them equally? Which one do you plan to buy? Would you like to see a 3G version designed like the Classic model, or are you content with the Standard look on your Gear S2 3G model?