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Lifestyle refers to the full range of people's aspirations and capacities, established both from a person's characteristics (linked to his/her past experience, his/her resources and his/her learning) and environmental influences. It is made up of the entirety of the experiences and activities through which a person seeks to live a life that is worth living (Sen, 1999). There are many ways of life but they are always shared collectively, whereas the question of "lifestyle" points to individual variations.
We can identify three main fields of experience underlying all ways of life (Pattaroni et al, 2009).
The experiences and activities linked to dwelling, i.e., all the elements that constitute a person's ease going about the world and his/her ontological security (cf. dwelling). In contemporary society the experience of dwelling goes well beyond being 'alone at home' and a person's 'comfort zone' can extend to places as diverse as the train (where people rest, read or work), or even some public and commercial places (cafés, etc.).
Experiences and activities involving the relationship with others and more broadly the development of a satisfying social life. Here too there are wide variations both in the idea of what constitutes a satisfactory relationship with other people (anonymity, conviviality, desire for otherness or for homogeneity) and also in the way social and family relationships are maintained (frequent home visits, outside activities, the use of internet and social networks, etc.).
Experiences and activities that reflect a functional relationship with the built environment, where the practical aspects of daily life are carried out. This last facet of our lifestyle includes choices, about modal practices, for example.
Looking at these three main fields of contemporary ways of life, what's obvious is that they are all concerned both with what motivates people to act (seeking comfort, pleasure, effectiveness, friendship, etc.) and with giving time and space to activities that give substance to experiences that matter. This definition, both broad and precise, allows us to go from approaches that are more concerned – like Bourdieu – with the reproduction of ways of life and their place within power relations, to those concerned with the ecology of ways of life and, more fundamentally, their share of reflexivity and uncertainty (Beck, 1986; Thévenot, 2006).
The lifestyle as a subject of discussion reflects an issue at the heart of the social sciences: that of analysing individual and collective regularities in human behaviour. More specifically, it points to two areas of examination. The first is that of the description and identification of specific forms of life. From which features or ranges of behaviour can we typify a "way" of life? The second is that of the explanation – or even the understanding – of these ways of life. What generates or induces these observable regularities? In this regard, the lifestyle issue doesn't refer to a specific social-science approach but on the contrary, it reflects the major theoretical perspectives that cut across it. In any case this concept has evolved over time. Thus, even if it's to be found in studies at the beginning of the 20th century, either by Halbwachs (1913) or in the writings of the Chicago School, it has regained popularity since the end of the 1970s, linked to the acknowledgement of a diversification of the ways of life within apparently homogenous groups (Beck, 1986).
As ideas of individualisation and diversity gained in importance – calling into question one of the main tools in identifying and analysing social regularities: that of social class – it became important to give more credence to the analysis of "ways of life". The evolution of this idea also reflects major societal changes and the different ways of interpreting them.
Historically, two major uses of the idea can be identified. The first arises from a tradition that can be termed "ecological". In this view, identification of a lifestyle is closely linked to a specific living environment. A famous article by Wirth comes to mind here: "Urbanism as a lifestyle", in which he describes the specificities of a manner of living that apply particularly to the city, to the urban environment (Wirth, 1939). In this article, he summarises and builds on studies already produced at the turn of the century by Simmel when he was trying to characterise the "mentality" of the inhabitants of the big city (Simmel, 2013 ).
In this interactionist view, ways of life reflect a raft of psychological traits and ways of relating to others and to the built environment, accompanying and partly led by the living conditions of a given environment. To this first view should also be added studies by ethnologists who were concerned with the living conditions of a particular ethnicity, linking the socio-spatial description of their daily activities to the economy of their symbolic system (Evans-Pritchard, 1940).
In contrast to this ecological approach, there is a second view, concerned not with linking ways of life principally to people's living environments but to their social and economic position. This Marxist-inspired view comes particularly from studies of the ways of life of the different social classes. Thus in his original study, Halbwachs emphasises the fact that "men belong to separate [social] classes; even though they live in the same environment at the same time, they give the impression that they belong to different species" (Halbwachs, 1912). Here then it's the position in the economic structure – determining the standard of living – that is mainly responsible for the diversity of lifestyle within the same environment (urban, for example).
Bourdieu's work contributes to this understanding of ways of life through social position, although his analysis is more complex. In fact he distinguishes two kinds of "capital" – economic and cultural – which allows him to identify different "lifestyles" even within the three main social classes that he analyses (ruling class, middle class and working class) (Bourdieu, 1979). Thus his analysis confronts the question that was to become more and more significant during the 1980s: that of the diversification of lifestyle within populations that were hitherto grouped in the same class, especially the middle classes, who seemed less and less homogenous in their practices and preferences (Savage et al, 1992).
So the notion of lifestyle gained currency in the 1980s (proceedings of the Dourdan symposium, 1982). It found a particular resonance in Germany, where an important body of research on "Lebensstille" developed and continues today. It is concerned with the upstream emergence of important inter-individual variations and with the downstream impact of lifestyle on sustainable development (Zapf, 1987; Rink, 2002). More broadly, these ways of life approaches sought to highlight a range of underlying factors that were different from traditional structural indicators (income, age, gender) that no longer seemed to be able to chart the different practices and values that were observed within a population (Thomas, 2011). These approaches became part of attempts to take account of new values and practices – and the continuation of the old ones – on the way towards a so-called "post-industrial" society (Inglehart, 1993).
Thus the concept of lifestyle has the benefit of revealing quite a diverse picture while remaining within the framework of analysing social regularities. It allows for more versatility in forms of life while also limiting it. The question of describing ways of life and what made them possible, however, is still not settled, and the Marxist and ecological views on lifestyle are still continuing in quite specific forms.
Thus, influenced particularly by the work of Bourdieu but also by the importance placed on consumption since the 1990s (Zukin, 1998), the majority of studies on lifestyle gradually began to focus on variations in tastes and cultural practices. Bourdieu argued that preferences in cultural practices reflected a person's social position. More fundamentally, it is the habitus, as a set of incorporated cognitive patterns, that puts him/her in a specific consumption category. In this view, for example, the residential choices an agent makes are less a reflection of a calculation that is rational (price and distance from work) or ecological (the need for space based on family size) than of specific tastes linked to "strategies" of social distinction (Aero, 2005). Thus, someone with meagre resources choosing to become a home-owner is usually seen as a desire of "distancing oneself from one's roots", those of social housing, instead of a desire for a "comfortable home" (Cartier et al., 2008).
Aimed at analysing – and revealing – the socio-structural dynamics at work in reproducing lifestyles, these views can sometimes have the effect of reducing the complex dynamic of ways of life and their inclusion in time and space to a purely symbolic and cognitive level.
In this respect the preceding example seems to offer a rather impoverished idea of lifestyle. It tends to overlook a whole range of reasons behind the choice regarding the very ecology of housing and the relationship between form and usage. This is the case, for example, on the subject of private appropriation of space for play and leisure (private garden) or the importance of organising one's environment (choice of fittings, etc.). And yet these are two reasons that come up regularly when people are questioned for studies on home-ownership, regardless of their social status (Thalmann and Favarger, 2002). What is at work here are fundamental anthropological issues that cut across the different "habitus" and the search for social distinction.
It's clear that within these two reasons there can be an element of "social construction" but it seems important to have a more systematic analysis of the link between ways of life and environmental characteristics, without reducing it neither to a symbolic relationship nor to a mechanical determination. Studies on gentrification reveal the importance of this link when they describe how the appearance of new ways of life in a neighbourhood influences its social and material reconfiguration (Knox, 1991; Pattaroni et al, 2009). This impact is linked to the fact that ways of life affect all levels of our relationship with the world, whether it's in terms of mobility, personal life, aesthetic judgement or even purchasing power.
Therefore we need to return at the earlier stages of explaining ways of life in order to reconsider how to describe it. What elements should be taken into consideration when defining "ways" of life? In this context the preceding statements suggest that we should go beyond a view of ways of life that is based merely on the cognitive and expressive aspects (preferences, tastes, judgements) or cultural practices (Birkelund and Lemel, 2013) to take in the full experiential scope of ways of life. The idea is to be able to link the most expressive aspects, possibilities and usages involved in the determination of a lifestyle, in space and time.
The definition suggested here must ultimately be seen as a tool offering a comprehensive description of contemporary ways of life. Its starting point is that the most expressive and cognitive aspects of ways of life are closely linked to their practical dimension. The lifestyle doesn't take shape from abstract values that would direct consumption habits but is based in daily life, where the various experiences that matter to a person are played out. Here the inspiration comes from studies of American Pragmatism (Dewey), theories of Situated Activity (Conein and Jacopin, 1994) and also of French Pragmatic Sociology (Thévenot, 2006).
One of the important issues relating to ways of life research is how it has evolved with time, both at the level of an individual life and in terms of societal structures.
On the individual level, we generally observe that manners of living change during the course of a life. Studies on the course of life usually explain this change by pointing to a number of socio-demographic factors, such as, for example, changes in income, becoming part of a couple or the arrival of a child. Even though it's clear that these different elements have an impact on people's daily organisation, social position and purchasing power, we must be careful not to make hasty judgments about the effect of these changes on lifestyle.
Because if we associate lifestyle with fundamental options in our manner of dealing with others, with functioning on a daily basis or with having a significant presence in the world, it's not obvious that the life events described above would profoundly alter our ways of doing things. Thus, even after the arrival of a child, a couple might continue to organise their daily life without using a car. Similarly, all the commentaries on the new middle classes – dubbed "bo-bo" (bohemian-bourgeoisie, aka "fauxhemian") in the press – is based on the idea that the rise in purchasing power of people whose values and daily habits are critical of the consumer society is reflected not in them changing those habits but in continuing them in more stable, framed by the market forms (for example, going from an old second-hand bicycle to a new reproduction of a vintage bicycle).
These observations suggest that it would be interesting to understand more systematically exactly what constitutes a person changing their lifestyle and what factors should be taken into account (change of values, life-changing experiences, a change in social network, etc.).
Evoking the new middle classes, who we imagine – as mentioned earlier – are characterised by new kinds of living, finally raises the fundamental question of the historical evolution of ways of life. Since ways of life are closely linked to the way the economic and social system is organised (production methods, transport systems, etc.), as well as to the range of approaches to defining good ways of living in society (anthropological and political models), it is therefore clear that society's evolution, both technological and in terms of ideas, is opening up new possibilities. Therefore, as the decades pass, we are witnessing the emergence of new ways of life, led both by practical opportunities and their attached value system (soft mobility, participation, sexual liberation, etc.). As the work of Marie-Paule Thomas suggests, these new ways of life are not replacing the old ones but are increasing the diversity of the maners of living already mentioned above (Thomas, 2011; Thomas and Pattaroni, 2012).
The continued existence of the old ways of life is partly due to the inertia of societal models. As sociology teaches us, this inertia is due in large measure to the fact that ways of life are not purely dependant on an individual's psychological makeup but on a entire scope of material and institutional devices that guide and channel ways of life (Thévenot, 2006; Rose and Miller, 2008). Therefore, as long as the traditional infrastructures and models remain in place (road systems and individual housing, the ideal of development through consumption, social distinction, etc.), the ways of life they make possible will remain in place as well.
Therefore it would be interesting if we could better identify the manner in which some ways of life gradually become obsolete – even excluded – as they no longer have the necessary connections in the host society. Finally, this question opens up a field that is fundamental in order to understand the individual's quest for a good life and how to organise from a social, economic, moral and political point of view the way that we live together.
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Luca Pattaroni is a sociologist (laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine (LaSUR) de l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)).


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Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself". This is achieved by an examination of the aristocratic Marchmain family, as seen by the narrator, Charles Ryder.
Time Magazine included Brideshead Revisited in its list of "All-time 100 Novels". In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying "I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled." In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accident. He is mildly disparaging of the novel, saying; "It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster — the period of soya beans and Basic English — and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful." Brideshead Revisited was brought to the screen in 1981 in the ITV drama serialisation, produced by Granada Television. A film adaptation of the book was released in July 2008.
1923: After an unpleasant chance first encounter, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, a student at Hertford College, Oxford University, and Lord Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of an aristocratic family and himself an undergraduate at Christ Church, become friends. Sebastian takes Charles to his family's palatial home, Brideshead, where Charles eventually meets the rest of Sebastian's family, including his sister Julia. During the holiday Charles returns home, where he lives with his widower father. Scenes between Charles and his father Ned (Edward) provide some of the best-known comic scenes in the novel. He is called back to Brideshead after Sebastian incurs a minor injury. Sebastian and Charles spend the remainder of the summer together. They form something between a friendship and a romance. Waugh writes that Charles had been "in search of love in those days" when he first met Sebastian, finding "that low door in the wall... which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden", a metaphor that informs the work on a number of levels.
Sebastian's family is Catholic, which influences the Marchmains' lives as well as the content of their conversations, all of which surprises Charles, who had always assumed Christianity to be "without substance or merit". Lord Marchmain had converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in order to marry his wife but soon escaped both his marriage and religion to Italy. Left alone, Lady Marchmain focused even more on her faith, which is also very much espoused by her eldest son, Bridey, and her youngest daughter, Cordelia. Sebastian, in some ways a troubled young man, seems to find greater solace in alcohol than in religion, and descends into alcoholism, drifting away from the family over a two-year period. He flees to Morocco, where the disease ruins his health. He eventually finds some solace as an under-porter/charity case at a Tunisian monastery. Sebastian's drifting leads to Charles' own estrangement from the Marchmains. Yet Charles is fated to re-encounter the Marchmain family over the years. He marries and fathers two children but his wife is unfaithful and he eventually forms a relationship with Julia, who by that time is married but separated from the wealthy but uncouth Canadian entrepreneur, Rex Mottram. Charles and Julia plan to divorce their respective spouses so that they can marry. On the eve of World War II, the aging Lord Marchmain returns to Brideshead to die in his ancestral home. As he names Julia (and not his eldest son Bridey) heiress to the estate, this would give Charles marital ownership of the house. Lord Marchmain's deathbed return to the faith in late July 1939 changes the situation: Julia decides that she cannot enter a sinful marriage with Charles, who is also moved by Lord Marchmain's reception of the sacraments. The plot concludes in the early Spring of 1943 (or possibly 1944 – the date is disputed). Charles is "homeless, childless, middle-aged and loveless". He is now an army officer after establishing a career as an architectural artist, and finds himself unexpectedly billeted at Brideshead. Charles finds the house damaged by the military occupation but the private chapel, closed after Lady Marchmain's death in 1926, has been reopened for the soldiers' worship. Charles has become a Catholic. It occurs to him that the chapel (and, by extension, the Church's) builders' efforts were not in vain, even when their purposes may appear, for a time, to be frustrated.
About the Author Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh ) was a British writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catholic background. Many of evelyn waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he savagely satirizes but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel writings and his extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published.
evelyn waugh's works were very successful with the reading public and he was widely admired as a humorist and as a prose stylist, but as his social conservatism and religiosity became more overt, his works grew more controversial with critics. In his notes for an unpublished review of Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell declared that evelyn waugh was "about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions." Martin Amis found that the snobbery of Brideshead was "a failure of imagination, an artistic failure." On the other hand, American literary critic Edmund Wilson pronounced evelyn waugh "the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw."Time magazine, in a 1966 obituary, summarized his oeuvre by claiming that evelyn waugh had "developed a wickedly hilarious yet fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world."
With the advent of the Second World War, evelyn waugh used "friends in high places", such as Randolph Churchill — son of Winston — to find him a service commission. Though 36 years old with poor eyesight, he was commissioned in the Royal Marines in 1940. Few can have been less suited to command troops. He lacked the common touch. Though personally brave, he did not suffer fools gladly. There was some concern that the men under his command might shoot him instead of the enemy. Promoted to captain, evelyn waugh found life in the Marines dull. evelyn waugh participated in the failed attempt to take Dakar from the Vichy French in late 1940. Following a joint exercise with No.3 Commando (Army), he applied to join them and was accepted. evelyn waugh took part in an ill-fated commando raid on the coast of Libya. As special assistant to the famed commando leader Robert Laycock, evelyn waugh showed conspicuous bravery during the fighting in Crete in 1941, supervising the evacuation of troops while under attack by Stuka dive bombers. Later, evelyn waugh was placed on extended leave and later reassigned to the Royal Horse Guards. During this period he wrote Brideshead Revisited. He was recalled for a military/diplomatic mission to Yugoslavia in 1944 at the request of his old friend Randolph Churchill. He and Churchill narrowly escaped capture or death when the Germans undertook Operation Rösselsprung, and paratroops and glider-borne storm troops attacked the partisans' headquarters where they were staying. During his time in Yugoslavia evelyn waugh produced a formidable report detailing Tito's persecution of Catholics and the clergy. It was "buried" by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as being largely irrelevant.
Some of evelyn waugh's best-loved and best-known novels come from this period. Brideshead Revisited (1945) is an evocation of a vanished pre-war England. It's an extraordinary work which in many ways has come to define evelyn waugh and his view of his world. It not only painted a rich picture of life in England and at Oxford University at a time (before World War II) which evelyn waugh himself loved and embellished in the novel, but it allowed him to share his feelings about his Catholic faith, principally through the actions of his characters. Amazingly, he was granted leave from the war to write it. The book was applauded by his friends, not just for an evocation of a time now — and then — long gone, but also for its examination of the manifold pressures within a traditional Catholic family. It was a huge success in Britain and in the United States. Decades later a television adaptation (1981) achieved popularity and acclaim in both countries, and around the world; a film adaptation has been released in 2008. evelyn waugh revised the novel in the late 1950s because he found parts of it "distasteful on a full stomach" by which he meant that he wrote the novel during the gray privations of the latter war years. Much of evelyn waugh's war experience is reflected in the Sword of Honour trilogy. It consists of three novels, Men at Arms (1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (1961), which loosely parallel his wartime experiences. His trilogy, along with his other work after the 1930s, became some of the best books written about the Second World War. Many of his portraits are unforgettable, and often show striking resemblances to noted real personalities. evelyn waugh biographer Christopher Sykes, felt that the fire-eating officer in the Sword of Honour trilogy, Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook, "...bears a very strong resemblance to..." Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, a friend of the author's father-in-law. evelyn waugh was familiar with Carton de Wiart through the club to which he belonged. The fictional commando leader, Tommy Blackhouse, is based on Major-General Sir Robert Laycock, a real-life commando leader and friend of evelyn waugh's, whom he greatly admired.
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Bibliography on Dementia Care Management and Intellectual Disability
An extensive annotated reference bibliography covering research and practice journal articles, books, videos, and other media, as well as tool kits related to care management and dementia and intellectual disability. Items are listed in alphabetical order by first author's last name.
To search on topics or key words use the FIND function in your Adobe Reader. The bibliography is updated periodically. Included are peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, videos and toolkits, and grey publications. To submit additions contact author.
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National Core Indicators Data Base
Report on Characteristics and Outcomes of Older Adult with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (March 2020). Report also covers information on adults with ID and dementia. Report notes that of 24,453 adults, 1.1% are adults with dementia under age 55, 6.4% are 55-64, 8.5% are 65-74, and 19.0% are age 75+
SAMHSA Guidance on Use of Antipsychotics with Adults with ID and Dementia
ISTAART Down Syndrome PIA Report on Research in 2020
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What is Dementia
An illustrated booklet, produced by Down Syndrome Scotland, to explain what is dementia to persons with an intellectual disability
Living with Dementia
An illustrated booklet, produced by Down Syndrome Scotland, which explains what it means when a family member has dementia; designed for caregivers of persons with an intellectual disability.
Edinburgh Principles
A historical article that covers the Edinburgh Principles -- seven statements identifying a foundation for the design and support of services to people with intellectual disability affected by dementia, and their carers. The accompanying guidelines and recommendations document provide an elaboration of the key points associated with the Principles and is structured toward a four-point approach: (a) adopting a workable philosophy of care; (b) adapting practices at the point of service delivery; (c) working out the coordination of diverse systems; and (d) promoting relevant research.
Dementia and People with Learning Disabilities: Guidance on the Assessment, Diagnosis, Interventions and Support of People with Learning Disabilities who Develop Dementia
Guidance publication from the British Psycholoigcal Society on the assessment, diagnosis, interventions and support of adults with an intellectual disability and dementia. Issued in 2009.
Dementia and People with Intellectual Disabilities: Guidance on the Assessment, Diagnosis, Interventions and Support of People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Develop Dementia – Update
2015 Update of publication from the British Psychological Society which include current research and practices, including new instruments and clinical interventions. [For Executive Summary]
CARF International Standards Advisory Committee's Dementia Care Standards for Individuals with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
CARF, at a meeting involving the NTG, identified a number of topics which are considered priorities for standards that can be implemented by community-based organizations providing services and supports to the persons with intellectual disability. This document provides the top themes that were identified along with specific points related to each theme.
Keep Talking About Dementia (Down Syndrome Scotland)
Brief booklet designed for siblings and professionals with some basic checklists for conversation topics regarding dementia and Down syndrome. It looks at the most relevant issues that arise for siblings and professionals and provides topics that warrant being discussed.
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Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Dementia: Practical Strategies for Professionals
This guide provides background and practical strategies that can be used by professionals—from both the intellectual and developmental disability and aging communities—when working with individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and dementia. The guide is organized into 12 sections that address different aspects of identifying and providing services to individuals living with IDD and dementia or who are at risk of developing dementia. Included also are tools professionals can share with family caregivers or other caregivers who work with individuals living with IDD and dementia.
Videos of Interest
Several of the NTG's principals were involved with the production educational videos (running about 20 minutes each) on aging and developmental disabilities and aging and dementia, as well as conference lectures, which have been posted on YouTube. They can be accessed via the links below:
Dementia and People With Intellectual Disabilities: https://vimeo.com/622964821
When People With Developmental Disabilities Age: http://youtu.be/MEtkmI2xEG8th
Down Syndrome and Dementia (Oak Grove Center) [5 min]: http://youtu.be/Clbg_j2o7tk
A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease (NTG member Mary Hogan, MAT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVA02p-Jhj0
National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices © 2022 www.the-ntg.org Updated 1/19/22


A decision by the Government to relax the tax rules on foreign sports stars competing in Britain in a move aimed at allowing high profile athletes like Usain Bolt and Rafael Nadal to take part in events in the United Kingdom on a more frequent basis, has been welcomed by top officials.
The tax rule meant that any sportsperson that was not resident in the UK was subject to income tax on any payment in connection with their performance in the country, including a proportion of any worldwide endorsement income.
Jamaican sprint icon Bolt boycotted the Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace for the last two years because the British tax system meant that he would face having to pay more money than he earned by competing.
The same issue caused Spain's tennis star Nadal to rule himself out of the Queen's Club tournament in west London this June, where he has competed for five of the past six years, and instead opt to play in Halle in Germany in the same week because he says he would lose money by competing in England.
But the new announcement, which came as part of the 2012 Budget this week, means that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) take training days into account when calculating the proportion of worldwide endorsement income subject to UK tax.
Ultimately, this means that top sporting stars will be able to compete in Britain without being heavily taxed.
"As the lead agency for bringing major sporting events to this country, we welcome anything that makes the UK a more competitive and attractive host," Simon Morton, UK Sport's Director of Major Events and International Relations, told insidethegames.
Before the move, there were already income tax exemption measures in place for the London 2012 Games to ensure that the world's highest earning stars did not boycott the event.
A similar measure is in place for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in a bid designed to try to ensure high profile stars like Bolt compete in the competition.
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) chief executive Roger Draper has also welcomed the announcement as he aims to bring the world's top tennis players to British soil.
"I am pleased that the Government, like us, recognises that the existing rules on endorsement tax pose a serious risk to the status and growth of our major sporting events," he said.
Contact the writer of this story at tom.degun@insidethegames.biz/ Inside the Games is the blog of the London Olympic Committee and is an excellent source of information relating to the upcoming Summer Olympics in London as well as the Olympic movement. This article is reprinted here with permission.
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The premiere episode of Savitri Devi College & Hospital traces the journey of a young medical intern Saachi Mishra (Swardha Thigale) who aims to fulfil her mother Jaya's (Shilpa Shirodkar) dream of becoming a doctor. As she forays into medicine, Saachi will encounter various people who will add complications to her life, the toughest being Dr. Anand Malhotra (Mohan Kapur), the hospital's head and a leading cardiac surgeon.
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Being John Malkovich. Spike Jonez' masterpiece was the best film of 1999. But what was most surprising is how well this erstwhile director of some great music videos ("Sabotage" by the Beastie Boyz and Weezer's "Buddy Holly" are prime examples of Jonze at his peak, making gold in the craphouse that is music video by riffing off of 70s television) managed to keep a true line for all 112 minutes. The film blends physical comedy, greed, lust, existentialism, and celebrity in perfect parts, and it offers several of the more finely realized comic scenes in years. Moreover, the performances of John Cusack, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener, and Cameron Diaz are all strong and witty. Keener is especially effective as a remorseless sexual capitalist. Mary Kay Place and Orson Bean also turn in unique and hilarious supporting performances.
The film is explainable, but I recommend against reading in-depth treatments of the plot, not because some great, dark secret will spoil the film for you, but rather, because the film is so audacious in content and presentation that prior explication could stifle the enjoyment. Suffice it to say that the title pretty much explains it. It is Jonez' "Alice in Wonderland" and it is a work of genius.


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Could be replaced with the faster prime number generator to add to the next prime number instead of adding 1 and checking to see if that works? Would that be faster, or would the extra coding just slow it down?
I've trying making something out of it, but it hasn't worked for me yet.
For some reason, when I executed it, it waited about 30 seconds (ti 84+), and displayed 500. I have no idea why.
I replaced that F with B and it gave me 169.
Well that worked, and fast too. I'll try and use that when thinking about the factorer.
I agree, thats why I bought a ps3.
Anyway… I had quite a while back written a sieve that concentrated only on odd numbers; I still haven't figured out the best way to write a sieve that worked with multiples of three and five already removed.
I had quite a while back written a sieve that concentrated only on odd numbers; I still haven't figured out the best way to write a sieve that worked with multiples of three and five already removed.
After taking successive differences of the target list, I snipped out the interlacing patterns, optimized, and then set it back up to reaccumulate into itself.
This makes 49, 77, 91 the first few composites returned. Find out in what pattern do these emerge, and you've got your sieve!
I know this post is five years late, and the code's applications are niche to nonexistent, but I feel extremely proud that I could optimize a piece of Weregoose's code by fifteen bytes. This also runs faster (on my 84+) by about 35% when the Pause is removed and it's looped for 1000 iterations. The 10^( is the single token.
These rock. That is all.
At first I thought it was impossible to optimize the code I posted any more, but I just found a way. Now it's shorter by two bytes, bringing the total (without the title) to 38 bytes. See if you can figure out how; I'll edit this post in a week or so with the solution.
both of which are the same size. I'll try to dispose of the addend as you did.
Mathematica crashed, and I'm throwing in the towel.
If you replace the .25 with something outside the interval (.2499982, .250055) it doesn't work. I agree that there may be something maybe a byte shorter without the addend.
EDIT: I was reminded of this, and noticed I could use a search program I wrote last year.
I made this as a prime factoring code… factorizes most 8-digit numbers in a few seconds.


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Sheffield Mencap & Gateway currently run a non-invoiced cricket group for adults with a learning disability on Wednesday evenings. There are two sessions one at 4.00pm to 5.00pm and another at 6.00pm-7.00pm. A professional Yorkshire Cricket coach runs the sessions. There is the option to play table cricket.
Lady's football is aimed at adult females with a learning disability. The team meet at Norfolk Lodge on Monday evenings at 5:30pm to 6:30pm. The team is currently recruiting and is in the early stages of training. An experienced and enthusiastic female coach runs training.
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Sheffield Mencap & Gateway currently run two men's football teams. Both teams play in the Sheffield Hallamshire Ability Counts League.
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Orchestrated Rage
January 23, 2017 January 25, 2017 / John Vagabond	/ 1 Comment
Personally, I find the tribalism associated with mass protest narcissistic, nauseating, ineffectual and frequently calamitously ill-informed. The Women's March on Washington, a celebrity-endorsed event planned for the day after Donald Trump's inauguration, was, it seems, backed by a who's-who of far-left organizations, including scores of groups financed by billionaire George Soros. Watching a few of the events around the world, they all seemed to be following a well-schooled narrative, shaped by the Left who implant the delusion that Trump is going to invade their uteruses and redefine how they choose to use them. Realistically, the organisers whose agenda is by no means loving, peaceful or inclusive, rode the wave of disappointment that their girl didn't win and they don't approve of the replacement because he uses immoderate and often combative language.
It's been instructive to watch how a simple narrative has been systematically hijacked so that almost everyone can latch on to one or other of many and varied grievances, both fictional and factual. Linda Sarsour helped organize the Women's March on Washington. She is a Muslim civil rights activist who opposes Zionism and has connections to family members who are supposedly imprisoned in Israel. The poster girl for the enlightened Muslim left is an influential endorser of the BDS movement hence a perfect rock-thrower at the phenomenon that is the new occupant of the Oval Office.
In deeming Donald Trump to be unfit to hold public office, in distorting what he says and does and then turning him into a monster on the basis of those distortions, his opponents are setting themselves against the very democratic system they supposedly wish to defend and are themselves unleashing the hatred and violence they affect to despise. What is more worrying is the sense of entitlement they feel.
The reason for such disproportionate, indeed almost pathological behaviour is obvious. Left-wing "progressives" regard themselves as the elect who alone are qualified to wield power. This breathtaking, almost Promethean hubris has arisen because, schooled in 70s social science and political rhetoric, university teachers in the West have taught their children well and they obediently trot out the Marxist platitudes of their mentors, often with woeful ignorance of the relationship between cause and effect. They alone know how society must be refashioned to bring about the transformation of human nature and the utopia of universal equality. The fact that they have now lost power is not just a setback. It simply cannot be allowed to happen.
I watched a hilarious video of an Australian presenter as he interviewed protesters in London as they milled about, waving placards with mostly meaningless slogans on them. Most were unable to sensibly defend why they were there and what exactly they were protesting about. If the presenter pressed them to explain themselves, most could not, managing only a few parroted slogans about misogyny and abortion rights. If he probed more deeply they shuffled off, declining to engage him further. Unpicking some of the organising principles and closing my ears to the primal screams, I sensed little more than a gigantic wave of carefully orchestrated rage but with its fair share of internal strife since the knock-on effect was to divide by grievance groups. Who should speak first, and who needs to be quiet? White women need to sit down and shut up. Muslims, especially if they wear a hijab, can speak. Black lesbian women should have priority. They get a voice. Privileged people (i.e., everyone who isn't me) don't, thus I have no right to open my mouth.
There has to be a more civilised way to express an opinion than Madonna's colourful profanities in her role as spokesperson for the masses. She's worth millions, and this apparently gives her something to say that's worth hearing. Nothing said about the millions of women who slid into poverty over the last eight years, instead, we got this: "I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House … But I know that this won't change anything." Metaphor or not, collecting approbation from the hip millenials has done her ratings no harm.
The 45th POTUS isn't the most cultured ballerina onstage. Yes, he has a lot to learn about politics and, more importantly, diplomacy. It may turn out that Trump is not fit for office since it remains to be seen whether he'll listen to good advice. In the meantime people in funny hats should just sit down for a while. If you're offended, get over yourselves.
A Clearing in the Silence
January 21, 2017 January 21, 2017 / John Vagabond	/ Leave a comment
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I have left teaching, I think. Or, perhaps, like a fickle lover, she has left me and we have, for the most part, gone our separate ways. Pedagogy has a lot in common with theatre in its grandeur and savagery – somebody once must have attempted a correlation between teachers and members of amateur dramatic societies – I suspect the correlation is significant. I count myself fortunate, some of my classes are etched almost permanently on my memory, those who allowed me the latitude to be myself. When a teacher gets up in front of a class, he is at once onstage, a Macbeth or a Chaplin. He is both instructor and entertainer, ignobly so since such a life is spent imitating heroes instead of listening to the heart. Sometimes, however, in the words of the old Quaker phrase, we might do well to ask ourselves "before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you."I take this to mean: "Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent." For it is this that is communicated most effectively in all the unspoken interactions with student groups, whose job it is to seek out cant and hypocrisy wherever they may find it, jeering with the crass voice of the young. And, of course, these random conversations do not only happen between students and teachers. The class may be immeasurably larger and the stakes higher than success or failure in an exam room but the 45th president of the USA might be well advised to self-examine from time to time, since his own future path is likely to be one deeply unfamiliar to him.
In retirement, as in taking an oath of office, it is not a bad thing to reappraise and actually pay attention to the small voices of the heart in light of changing circumstance, when the past indeed transforms into a foreign country. The exercise might be compared to how we perceive art; Jeanette Winterson, the novelist, had this to say: "Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art, all art, not just painting, is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. No-one is surprised to find that a foreign city follows its own customs and speaks its own language."
Like art, or a presidency, being retired is alien. It may be compared to riding a metro system whose directions are in an unfamiliar script, like Russian or Thai. Information about the route is indeed available, but not to me. Its grammar and syntax lack certainty and the familiar comfort of precision and its demands may be less capricious but no less urgent. One may choose to walk unwillingly along the paths it prescribes, along roads well-travelled but unfamiliar, or, sometimes, to sit and wait in the clearing in the silence, listening to the birdsong of the heart.
January 16, 2017 January 17, 2017 / John Vagabond	/ 2 Comments
Today is my birthday. I am sixty five years old with more stories to tell than listeners to hear them. Is this unusual? Not at all; we are all storytellers and we learned to tell stories by listening to the stories of others and making them our own. When I was very young, every afternoon, I 'Listened With Mother'. The soothing, cultured tones of the announcer, Daphne Oxenford, asked me "….are you sitting comfortably?" to which I nodded mutely at the radio. She went on "…then I'll begin." She told wonderful stories about Andy Pandy, the Flowerpot Men and Muffin the Mule. Ironically the first airing of the show was on my birthday, but two years before I was born. It ended with: "Goodbye now, 'til tomorrow. Goodbye." at which I wept inconsolably.
As we grow older, we encounter more and more complex stories — in literature, film, visual art and music, also in our own myopic stumblings through the labyrinth of existence — that give us a richer and more subtle grasp of human emotions and of our own inner world in all its chaos, unpredictability and disorder. We follow news, real and fake and the wiser among us have learned to tell the difference. We used new, strange words to frame our thoughts – the adjective 'post-truth' being the 'word of the year' last year. It means that objective fact has given way to and is less influential in shaping public opinion than feelings and emotional appeal. 'I saw it on Facebook, so it must be true' means that I have freely decided that I want to live in some post-truth world.
I spoke with a friend a while ago who told me, unblushingly, that he had stopped reading fiction altogether, concentrating on biography instead. At first, I thought that he had reduced the inner life of his imagination to something disappointingly two-dimensional and monochrome until I realised that he was able to reach into a different reality, actual circumstance, happenstance and context clothed with meaning, overlaying it with his own emotional veneer – a satisfying, vicarious journey.
This year, I shall listen to a lot of music and read a lot of stories, the real and the imagined, and I'll think about what the stories I encounter mean for my own life and lives of those I love. In that way, I will not be alone with an empty self; I will be enriched, and, much more importantly, there will be enhanced possibilities of real communication with others. As C S Lewis put it: "we read to know we are not alone."
Smugly Holmes
January 5, 2017 January 5, 2017 / John Vagabond	/ Leave a comment
People who watch 'Sherlock' fall into two categories, those who have never heard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and those who have read every word, often multiple times and are phenomenally quick at picking up original allusions. It was delicious in the early seasons to see how adroitly the production left tantalising clues, hints and half-sentences to the original stories, like a screened version of 'Where's Wally'.
Not living in the UK, I had to resort to a pirated version of Season 4:01 the day after its New Year's Day screening to over eight million, and was looking forward immensely to the experience. But, the game is afoot no longer. It's time to reboot the drive, look again at the source material and stop making the modern incarnation of the famous detective into a rather scrawny James Bond who is expected to punch well above his weight and who clearly suffers from adult ADHD. It has all become too incestuously pleased with itself, and Steven Moffett and Mark Gatiss are spreading themselves, perhaps smugly, rather too thinly. After three brilliant seasons, the supply of jam has run dangerously low and the white, tastelessly bland bread is becoming visible underneath. Watson's bouffant hairstyle and a raggedly aging Mary have begun to look a touch threadbare about the edges. Holmes has moments of sheer irritating adolescence and the quick-fire lines look a lot more wooden and scripted – perhaps Benedict C is himself finding the role tedious. Turning a Shakespearean heavyweight loose for an extended period on material having a hard time holding itself together must be tiresome. Mary's role was most probably enlarged to fulfil some feminist agenda, and as most of us know, ideology is the death of art – herein lies the spoiler, in case you haven't seen it.
I've been an admirer of ACD and his brilliant creation since scraped knees and short trousers – we dressed strangely in the 1960s. The angular Basil Rathbone's early determination and later the incomparable Jeremy Brett with those brilliant violinist's hand gestures made me want to actually wear a black frock-coat. The movies were swashbucklingly bearable; I hated the American reincarnation with a female Watson and the first seasons of the current embodiment tingled every nerve of verisimilitude. 'The Six Thatchers' just didn't, not for me. Not least because the original 'Six Napoleons' concealed a much more romantic secret than a flash drive – the black pearl of the Borgias – and it took quite an elastic stretch to compare Thatcher's legacy with that of Napoleon.
There were, however, quite a number of real and imaginary hat tips to the originals – one on Mycroft's fridge, of all places. He grabs a takeout menu which comes from a restaurant called "Reigate Square", a nod to the name of a short story that appears in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – 'the Adventures of the Reigate Squire'. Don't blink. You'll miss it. Question to scriptwriter, can you really ever envisage MH actually ordering a takeaway?
Not all is lost. There were enough loose ends to provide an interesting patchwork for the newer Holmes with a little more depth to his emotional repertoire to weave into something interesting.


Three of 2017's Gold Tier winners were ICT companies: Dell, Samsung and Xerox . Previous Gold winner LG fell to Silver, along with Vizio. Sony was a Bronze. It was disappointing to see any fewer ICT companies achieve Gold Tier status in 2017.
ICT companies also were recognized with two of the three Champion Awards.
LG's Product award is detailed in our Finding the Greenest Televisions post.
Samsung's Cutting Edge award is detailed in our Finding the Greenest Mobile Phones post.
Dell's Cutting Edge Honorable Mention is detailed in our Greener Packaging for ICT Gear post.
Four of 2016's Gold Tier winners were ICT companies: Dell, LG, Samsung and Sprint. It was disappointing not to see any more ICT companies achieve Gold Tier status in 2016.
Dell won the Product award for "...the use of post-industrial recycled (PIR) carbon filled polycarbonate in the Latitude E7450 laptop, the first laptop to use this material. By using PIR material, it has kept 170,000 pounds of carbon fiber from being landfilled in 2015."
Samsung's Cutting Edge award is citied in our Finding the Greenest Televisions post.
Four out of 2015's Gold Tier winners were ICT companies: Dell, LG, Samsung and Sprint.
Dell won the Non-Product award for "...its development of a closed loop program that uses plastics recovered from the Dell Reconnect recycling partnership with Goodwill in the U.S. to make new computers through the company's manufacturing partner, Wistron...By closing the loop for plastics, Dell achieved the following environmental benefits in 2014: Avoided 198,776 kilograms of CO2 equivalent or about 500,000 miles driven by an average passenger car; Reused 2.89 million pounds of materials taken from the e-waste stream; Collected 230.9 million pounds of used electronics from residential and business programs globally..."
Samsung's Product award is citied in our Finding the Greenest Mobile Phones post.


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Any concerns or compliments about roads or bridges should be addressed to the appropriate agency. If on a Menard County Highway, forward the concern to the Menard County Highway Department. If on a Road District road, forward the concern to the appropriate road commissioner.
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After reading and watching the below video, you will know the answer to what is the biggest coverup in human history. This affects all humans on this planet, yet few know anything about it.
It's being called, "Zero Point energy." If made known to the public, we'd be operating gravity defying vehicles and be would be able to move faster than the speed of light on and off the planet – for free!
So you can understand why this is being kept a highly guarded secret. It all comes down to money, power and greed for those in the know.
Many researchers have developed devices that make use of this carefully guarded free energy, but have either been bought out or simply bumped off to keep it under wraps. If it were to become in general use, it would change the course of the inhabitants on this planet. We would be able to rise out of the dark and prosper.
If we didn't have the expense of our utility bills and the cost of fuel for our vehicles and airplanes, We'd all be much richer. What a wonderful world this would be!
So wouldn't you agree that this is incredibly important for all people to know and understand?
So why is this kept secret?
Simply because it would put our oil, gas and coal industries out of business. If the US had this technology and other countries didn't, wouldn't we be superior?
The below video was produced by James Allen. His intent was to make it public, and of course he was caused to die. This is why most of those who talk about free energy do so only on their death bed when life no longer matters to them.
Actually what's being presented here is already old technology. The pictures here are of 1967 era craft. There have been tremendous secret advancements in the past 50 years, but it's still very enlightening to learn even this much. Many people know of flying saucers, but know nothing of how they fly. Here it's all revealed.


Consumers were generally unaware of the fake business until 2016. But for years, phony operators have been pretending to serve ads going to fake Web sites and being seen by fake customers. Sites served fake news, or real news commented on by trolls using fake names.
Even happy YouTube vloggers have had some hard times in 2016, and some have reacted by trading tips.
Video Blocks, which offers members like ad agencies, content producers and everyday people a wide array of low-cost video clips, charted what they want shopping for in 2016: The unmistakable trend is toward VR, drone and GoPro footage.
Internet-based SVOD is really where it's at. It's growing while transactional video modes are not.
Unruly's list of predictions for 2017 is also bullish on virtual reality over augmented reality, 5G technology and this weird new thing called "standards."
Among other perks not afforded to mere mortals, stars and influencers can now block out nasty words and phrases posted by viewers of their Facebook Live videos. It's a polite gesture only a few will get.
All have drawbacks and benefits, some more pronounced than others. To a large extent, you have to believe with each product there is a lot that will be improved. Here's what some early users are reporting.
Between 2015 and 2016, a stat graphic produced by Think With Google notes, time spent watching YouTube by Baby Boomer types tripled.
YouTube reportedly is now offering to help if the MCN goes along with it. An exodus? They don't think so.


As community needs change, the expectations and strain placed upon each council in local government has also increased. Leaders now need to closely manage staff performance, and grow the people in their business to increase productivity to remain viable. They need to be able to manage the changes in their environment, leading people through these changes to keep the team united and motivated. Participants will leave this course with a range of ways to help their people perform at their best. Understanding both the importance of articulating what high performance looks like, and the importance of an overall vision for motivation, and having the tools to implement them.


The Hornsmühlen Eventing is an outstanding occasion in North Germany in the competition calendar. Riders who have participated in the event, described it as exceptional, heartfelt days. The visitors say, they like the familiar and very special atmosphere.
"Such an event like the Hornsmühlen Eventing is unique in Northern Germany. It's fantastic and has top-class riders" – the upshot of the judge Karsten-Thomas Theise couldn't be better after two days of eventing in Hornsmühlen in Schleswig-Holstein.
In a few days the Hornsmühlen Eventing is going to start. On Pentecost, 19th and 20th May, riders and visitors can look forward to a CIC* One-Day-Event – the Gutshof-Ei Cup 2018.
International, exciting and familiar – Hornsmühlen eventing is one of the most popular stations in the eventing season in Northern Germany.
International riders, perfect conditions and ground in the cross country, bride sunshine with a moderate breeze – the weekend in Hornsmühlen in Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany) was perfect.


CID in collaboration with Center for Youth Activism KRIK and the University "Goce Delcev" (Faculty for Tourism, Business and Logistics) organized one-day training about creative marketing. The workshop was facilitated by Martina Nevidanska, EVS volunteer at CID and Viktorija Manevska, EVS Coordinator.
The main focus of the workshop was understanding the basics of marketing and guerilla marketing and their influence on people.There were 35 participants at the workshop – students from the faculty who showed great interest in the workshops and other activities of CID and KRIK.


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Jeremy W. Katz focuses his practice on bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganization law, bankruptcy- related litigation, and secured transactions. He represents creditors, bankruptcy trustees, and business debtors. Mr. Katz has experience litigating preference and fraudulent conveyance actions, motions for relief from the automatic stay, contested cash collateral hearings, objections to plans of reorganization, objections to proofs of claim, and removal and remand motions.
Mr. Katz has been practicing in this area of law since 1988, and has acquired extensive experience before all Bay Area and most California Bankruptcy Courts. He has represented commercial landlords in business bankruptcies and clients in bankruptcy sales of real and personal property, including intellectual property. Mr. Katz also counsels distressed business.
Representative Engagements
Successful representation of the bankruptcy trustee of Read-Rite Corporation, whose assets were sold for more than $87 million in one of the largest chapter 7 cases ever filed.
Successful representation of a Bay Area appliance store in its chapter 11 reorganization.
Successful representation of a Napa Valley winery in its chapter 11 reorganization.
Successful representation of three motel franchises in the Sacramento area in their chapter 11 reorganization.
One of several counsel who represented a national trucking company in its chapter 11 reorganization.
University of California, Berkeley (B.A., with distinction, 1975, Spanish major. Junior year abroad, Barcelona, Spain, 1973-1974)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (M.A. 1977, Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D. 1985, associate note editor Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 1984-1985)
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All courts in the State of California
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"Western Digital Gets Read-Rite"
TheDeal.com, July 24, 2003
"Construction Contracts and Bankruptcy: The Ultimate in 'Value Engineering'"
ProNet Practice Notes, Vol. 14, No.1, July 2002
Delaware Supreme Court Limits Creditors' Rights to Assert Direct Claims for Breach of Fiduciary Duty Against a Corporation's Directors


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Q: Shell Method vs Washer Method at line y=2 I was teaching today about the Washer Method vs the Shell Method and I got stuck on this volumen question:
Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region
bounded by $y=x-x^2$ and $y=0 $ about the line y=2.
So I managed to set up the washer method as:
$\pi \displaystyle \int_{0}^{1}(2^2)-(2-(x-x^2))^2dx$
and the shell method as follows:
$2\pi \displaystyle \int_{0}^{1/4}(2-y)(1/2-\sqrt{y+1/4})dy$ but both give me different answers. I got stumped and couldn't figure it out, what exactly went wrong?

A: Using the shell method, solving $y=x-x^2$ for $x$ gives $x = \frac{1}{2}(1\pm\sqrt{1-4y}\,)$, so that for a given value of $y$, the height of the shell is
$$\frac{1}{2}(1+\sqrt{1-4y}\,)-\frac{1}{2}(1-\sqrt{1-4y}\,) = \sqrt{1-4y}.$$ Thus the integral should be
$$2\pi\int_0^{1/4} (2-y)\sqrt{1-4y}\,dy,$$
which gives the same answer as you got using the washer method.

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