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"Family Burdens of Caring for a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder"
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Xue Ming1*, Binhao Wu2, Max Yang2, Apoorva Polavarapu3
1Department of Neurology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA
2Office of Research and Sponsored Program, Summer Intern Program, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA
3Rutgers Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New Jersey, USA
*Corresponding author: Xue Ming, Department of Neurology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA. Tel: +1 973-9722922; Email: mingxu@njms.rutgers.edu
Received Date: 14 October, 2019; Accepted Date: 05 November, 2019; Published Date: 08 November, 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a group of complex disorders that affect neurodevelopment, behaviors, and physical health. Caring for individuals with ASD could be emotionally and physically taxing. While understanding of ASD as a disorder and its impact on individuals with ASD has gained momentum, the awareness of the burden on families who care for these individuals is less established. This study evaluates these burdens based on a validated questionnaire. Sixteen parents or caregivers were interviewed on their day-to-day physical, emotional, social, cognitive functioning, communication, worry, and daily activity problems. Data on the child's age, race, gender, level of functioning, comorbidities, family's socioeconomic status, parental marital status, and secondary family members' involvement and support were also collected. This case serial study demonstrated high family burdens in all aspects of functioning in the majority of families participated, especially in those with low levels of functioning, medical or behavioral comorbidity, and familial discourse. Sources of burden were discussed. The investigators hope to provide a basis for further extended studies on family burdens in ASD and other developmental disorders.
Autism; Emotional Burnout; Family Burden; Social Isolation
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders with a prevalence of 1 in 59 [1]. In addition to their core symptoms of impairments in social interaction, language and communication, repetitive behaviors and restricted interests, individuals with ASD may also suffer from many medical and psychiatric comorbidities [2]. While the effects of ASD on individuals have been extensively studied, the impact which the disorder has on caretakers of these individuals in day-to-day life has not been systematically investigated. Although support systems are usually available for individuals with ASD, such as early intervention programs, special needs programs in schools, and community-wide organizations such as Autism Speaks, resources for parental or caregiver relief are less ready. One study found consistent stress profiles in mothers of children with autism [3]. The study used a questionnaire to examine mothers of autistic children of different ages and different functioning levels, and mothers were consistently stressed regarding dependency, cognitive impairment, limits on family opportunity, and life-span care. It is generally acknowledged that having a child with developmental disorders presents unique challenges to the family's well-being.
This study aims to explore the effects of ASD on family dynamics, physical and mental health, and social functioning. This study used parental interviews with questions from the PedsQLTM Family Impact Module [4] questionnaire. The questions pertain to problems with physical, emotional, social, or cognitive functioning, communication, worry, daily activities, and family relationships. It is a validated instrument for measuring parent self-reported health-related quality of life and family functioning [4]. We also assessed the impact of other factors such as the child's age, child's physical health, health insurance status, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, medical history of child, additional treatment expenses that are not reimbursable by health insurances, parental job status, current marital status, and number of caregivers to the child. These questions were modeled from a prior study of family burdens in ADHD [5]. If trends can be discovered among the quality of life of parents of children with ASD, perhaps stress can be reduced with treatment programs. Additionally, this information may lead to more research on the impact of parental stress on the clinical management and care of children with ASD.
Subjects and Methods
The subjects of this study are caregivers of children with a known diagnosis of ASD according to DSM-V. All of the children with ASD were established patients of the pediatric neurology practice and recruited during their clinic visits between June 1 through July 31, 2019. The study was offered to caregivers of ASD during this time period, and 16 sets of caregivers agreed with the interview. The caregivers were interviewed by a trained research assistant (BW or MY), supervised by the principal investigator (XM). Demographic data including age, gender, ethnicity, health insurance, level of functioning, ASD diagnosis, and comorbidities were collected from electronic health records. Primary caregivers are the person(s) who care for the child on a day-to-day basis, including mother, grandmother, father, grandfather, or other family members. Four of the sixteen families had two caregivers present at the time of interview and both were interviewed; there was little disagreement in answers among two caregivers in all four sets of caregivers. The examples of the questions are as follows:
In terms of caring for your child with ASD, "Which of the following do you have problems with: being frustrated, anxious, sad, helpless, or hopeless?" "Do you feel isolated from others, have trouble getting support from others, hard to find time for social activities, or do not have enough energy for social activities?" "Do you feel that others do not understand your family's situation?" "Is it hard for you to talk about your child's health with others?" "Do you worry about how others will react to your child's condition?" "Do you have difficulty making decisions together as a family?" "Is there stress or tension between family members?" "Do you spend out of pocket expenses for medical treatment for your child?" "What would you have done differently in hindsight?" "How has autism impact you as a person?" The answers were collated and input into a spreadsheet anonymously, the data were synthesized and shown in (Table 1). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of our university.
WWe interviewed caregivers of children with ASD aged 2 to 20 years, of whom 13 were boys, and 3 were girls. Gender skew is reflective of this male dominant disorder. One child the father was the only one being interviewed, four families had both caregivers present and were interviewed; the rest of the families were either the single mother or only the mother was available for interview. More than two-thirds of the families qualified for Medicaid, and there was a mix of different ethnicities, representatives of the local community. A majority of the families cared for a low functioning ASD child as shown on (Table 1).
The following observations were made.
1. Emotional burnouts were more likely reported in families with low functioning ASD and comorbidities.
2. Social isolation tended to coexist with families that reported significant emotional burnouts.
3. Families with more than one caregiver experienced less emotional burnout and social isolation.
4. Families who had higher Socioeconomic Status (SES) tended to spend more money on medical treatments that were not inclusive in health insurance policy.
5. There was no pattern regarding the age of the child on emotional burnout, social isolation, or familial discourse.
6. Families with an aggressive and irritable child tended to experience more social isolation and emotional burnout.
7. Comorbid medical and/or behavioral disorders were common in these 16 individuals with ASD.
Most families reported burdens, and about half of them reported familial discourse associated with caring for their child. Nine of the 16 families reported being ridiculed, misjudged for child abuse, or inappropriately submissive by the general public, thus limiting their child from attending to social events or places such as churches, supermarkets, restaurants, or public transportation, suggesting the inclusiveness of families with ASD in the general public remains to be improved.
The following example excerpts were abstracted for specific illustrations.
"My son had a meltdown at the restaurant, and a fellow customer was angry and told me that 'he needs a good butt whipping'"; "A passerby called 911 to report child abuse when I tried to restrain my son from darting into traffics"; "I switched jobs around because of my frequent absences due to caring for him." There were also positive messages offered by many of the families. "Our love grew stronger over time because of our love and care for him together"; "I am a better person, more understanding and patient with people in general"; "Autism has made us appreciate life more"; "My son inspires me to move on and forward"; "I think of the needs of others more than mine, since God gave me a child with autism."
Some families have messages for families caring for a child with autism. "Acknowledge your child's diagnosis and start treatment without delay"; "Setbacks are not the reason to give up".
The data presented provide insight into the significant impact of raising a child with ASD has on families. This may be helpful in the medical setting for doctors to provide support to their patients' parents and for the general public to be more accepting of families with ASD. In addition, the findings can be used to advocate for better resources for individuals and families with ASD to improve the quality of life of these parents and families. Furthermore, the findings may lead to new research strategies to minimize the burdens that contribute to family and parental stress. An extended research comparing family burdens of ASD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and controls will be planned.
The authors express gratitude to the participation of all the families. We acknowledge the generous donation from Knights of Columbia, East Hanover Chapter, NJ for completion of this study.
All authors declare no conflict of interest in this study.
Child's Age
(Yrs)
Child's Gender
Race, SES1
ASD Dx
Level of Functioning2
Comorbidity3
# of 1st caregivers and employment4
2nd caregivers5
Emotional Burnout6
Familial Discourse7
Social Isolation8
Additional Medical Expenses9
M, W, 1
Low, nonverbal, fully dependent
SZ, insomnia, AI
2, PI (Mom)
U (grandma)
M, B, 1
High, mainstream class with support
AI, ADHD
1, PI, Single mom
F, B, 1
SZ, Bipolar, AI
1, U, Single mom
M, H, 1
SZ, AI, hearing impairment
2, F (dad), U (mom), married
1, P, (Single mother)
2,U, (grandparents), married
Epilepsy, Insomnia, AI
1, F (mom), Divorced
1, U (mom), divorced
Insomnia, ADHD
2, F (both parents)
Epilepsy, AI, OCD
2, U (dad), F (mom)
M, O, 2
1, P (mom), divorced
GI, AI, ADHD, Insomnia
2, F (mom and dad), married
2, F (mom and dad), parents divorced
Epilepsy, AI
1, P (mom and dad), parents separated
Table legend:
1. Gender: Male (M), Race: White (W), Black (B), Hispanic (H), Other (O): Asian, Arabic etc. Social economic status as measured by whether the family is qualified for a Medicaid insurance. 1: Medicaid qualified or charity; 2: Commercial insurance
2. Level of functioning: high functioning is operationally defined as verbal, able to self-care of activity of daily life, within two grades of age appropriate academic achievements; low functioning is defined of those do not fulfill the criteria for high functioning.
3. Comorbid disorders: in addition to core diagnosis of ASD, the child has a medical or psychiatric comorbidity. SZ: epilepsy or a seizure disorder; Insomnia: sleep onset or maintenance disorder; GI: chronic constipation or dysmotility, or other GI dysfunction; AI: aggression and irritability; ADHD: attention deficit hyperactivity disorders; OCD: obsessive compulsive disorder.
4. Number # of primary caregivers: primary caregivers are defined as providers who care for the child on daily basis. Primary care-givers employment status: Full time (F), Part time (P), Part time intermittent: (PI), Unemployed: (U).
5. Secondary caregivers: family members or friends who cared for the child when 1st caregivers are not available or in need of respites.
6. Emotional burnout that arises from caring of the child: Severe: a caregiver reports hopeless, helpless, or feeling depressed; Moderate: a caregiver reports angry, frustrated or sad; Mild: a caregiver reports anxious
7. Familial Discourse: affirmative if a parent departed or parents separated in association with caring for the child
8. Social Isolation: Severe: caregivers do not socialize with others outside family or work due to child's behaviors, diagnosis, lack of time; Moderate: caregivers are reluctant to socialize, having received little support from others; Mild: caregivers limit social activities only to major activities such as church and holidays
9. Additional Medical Expenses: additional expenses associated with medical care of a child with ASD that are not reimbursable by health insurance.
Table 1: Cases of ASD and their family burdens.
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Citation: Ming X, Wu B, Yang M, Polavarapu A (2019) Family Burdens of Caring for a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Int J Autism & Relat Disabil: IJARD-127. DOI: 10.29011/2642-3227.000027
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Kobe Bryant Had a Singular Impact on His Game and the World
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Kobe Bryant was the fair heir to Michael Jordan, a scoring assassin who could rip a defender's heart out by way of a devastating dunk, or an elusive fadeaway jump shot from the baseline, his singular work of art. He won five NBA championships, made 18 All-Star teams, won an MVP award, two scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals and just last night was passed by LeBron James on the NBA's all-time scoring list: Kobe Bryant finished with 33,643 points, good for fourth.
Bryant craved competition and broke down basketball like a scholar; his brain was as elevated as his body. Bryant skipped college to take over the NBA, but after one conversation with him, you just sensed he would have thrived in the classroom, the boardroom or any path he chose.
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Kobe Bryant was complicated. Never cuddly, he could be ruthless to his underperforming teammates. Critics called him selfish, and knocked him for not passing the ball. He embraced his villainy, real or supposed, creating a pop philosophy he called "The Mamba Mentality." It was an approach to life that required extreme focus, discipline, and enthusiasm for taking on all comers.
"I always aimed to kill the opposition," he once wrote. The Mamba grew into an iconic persona all its own.
Now, the world can't fathom that it's gone.
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In one of the most stunning and tragic losses in the history of sports and global celebrity, Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles on Sunday, along with eight others, including his daughter Gianna, 13. Bryant was 41 years old. Though he wasn't cut down in the prime of his basketball career, Bryant had so much more to give. For example, he won an Oscar in 2018 for Best Animated Short Film, Dear Basketball. Deciphering Bryant's post-NBA plans became a parlor game among Kobe-watchers. Would he coach? Own a team? Go Hollywood mogul? He could have done it all, and maybe would have. He leaves behind his wife, Vanessa, and three surviving children.
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Bryant was the son of Joe "Jelly Bean" Bryant, a former NBA player, and Pam Bryant. Part of Kobe's childhood was spent in Italy, where his father also played professionally. The family eventually settled outside Philadelphia, where Bryant became a high school phenom. In 1996, in a move that changed basketball forever, Bryant decided to skip college for the NBA. The year before, Kevin Garnett had become the first player to make the direct jump in 20 years, but he was nearly 7-feet tall. Never had a guard skipped college. But Bryant was that confident in his ability. He taught a generation of players to grab their opportunity, to "get theirs." In the ensuing years, LeBron James and others decided to forgo college ball because they saw Bryant succeed.
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In a draft day deal, he was lucky enough to be acquired by a winning franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers, and an executive, Jerry West, who foresaw his talent and paired him with Shaquille O'Neal. At the 1998 NBA All-Star game in New York City, he and Michael Jordan memorably went at each other, in what was a clear generational shift. The Lakers of Shaq and Kobe — or was it Kobe and Shaq? The pair won three straight NBA titles, from 2000-2002, after Jordan had retired from the Bulls. Bryant and O'Neal had a predictable falling out: no LA sprawl could two contain two alpha-egos.
In 2003, Bryant was arrested and charged with sexual assault; the criminal case was dropped after his accuser refused to testify in court. A civil case was settled. The whole affair threatened his family and career. But Bryant continued to thrill his fans, and enrage his haters, for another decade-plus.
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Another Lakers renaissance followed: Los Angeles won back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010, and Bryant was MVP of both finals' series. Bryant willed these teams to the championship: they were the ones without Shaq, the ones he could call his own. The titles secured Bryant's place among the game's legends; he belongs in the conversation with Jordan, LeBron and anyone else.
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He continued to produce, but injuries plagued the last few years of his career. In November of 2015, he announced his retirement through a letter, "Dear Basketball," published on The Players Tribune website. "I fell in love with you," Bryant said about the game. "A love so deep I gave you my all —/From my mind & body/To my spirit & soul."
The 2015-2016 goodbye season served as a coronation to his basketball greatness. He scored 60 points, on 50 shots, at the Staples Center in the final game of his career. Bryant went full Mamba and the hoops finale was all too fitting.
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Once they hang up their uniforms, however, sports icons are supposed to age with the rest of us. They show up at ceremonies, hair a little more salty on each occasion, but the applause still raucous than ever. In his final tweet, Bryant gave a shoutout to James, who viewed Kobe as an inspiration, for passing him on the all-time scoring list. It posted at 10:39 p.m. ET Saturday night.
"Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames," Bryant wrote. "Much respect my brother." He added a flex emoji. And #33644.
This ending just doesn't make sense.
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When you enter the site you will see a cross section carved into the ruins. It shows multiple layers correlating to different eras in Trojan history. As one Troy rose and fell, a new city would be erected on top of it, preserving the layers of history below. The Siege of Troy as immortalised by Homer in the Iliad took place around the twelfth century BCE, which correlates to Troy VI (Homer's Troy).
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In the northeast of the site stands an impressive defensive tower. At over 7m it would have been massive in ancient times. Rest a while at the viewing platform and look out at the plains below. From here it's easy to imagine the frantic battle preparations and the Greeks amassing beyond the city walls.
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The other noteworthy remains are from periods either side of Homer's Troy. Don't miss the well-preserved ramp which leads into Troy II. Here a treasure trove of precious jewellery and weaponry was discovered, mistakenly thought to be the Treasure of Priam. The nearby Roman Odeon from Troy IX is also worth a look; it was built by Emperor Augustus to legitimise his spurious Trojan pedigree.
At the end of your visit, take a moment to explore the reconstruction of the Trojan horse and ponder its role in the battle. The Odyssey recalls that a horse was left by the Greeks in tribute to Poseidon, God of the sea, earthquakes and horses.
Today we remember the story of the soldiers hidden within who flung open the city gates. But was it truly the means by which the city fell or did it represent an ancient siege weapon, or perhaps even a catastrophic earthquake?
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George Koonce never considered himself Ivy League material.
He grew up in what he called a "socially and economically deprived area of eastern North Carolina," and his only goal was to try to go to college.
"I really didn't have any idea that I would one day play for the Green Bay Packers," said Koonce, now 46 years old and 15 years removed from an NFL career that lasted nine seasons, included 128 games and gave him a Super Bowl ring.
As the former linebacker shared those words, he paused for a second or two. When his next words came through the phone, it was clear he was overwhelmed by his surroundings.
"And I didn't even dream about taking a class or stepping foot on a campus like Harvard," he continued. "It's been a dream come true."
Yes, Koonce was calling from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent part of this summer at the Harvard Institute for Educational Management. He plans to take what he learned back to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he is the vice president of advancement at Marian University.
Koonce is sharing his story not to boast but rather because he hopes to show other former NFL players -- and current ones -- that just because they have a successful career on the field doesn't mean they shouldn't strive for the same off the field later in life.
It's what Koonce tried to instill in players when he served as the Packers' director of player development in 2006 before he began a career in college administration at Marquette University.
"It all started when I met Reggie White when I was 24 years old," Koonce said. "He changed my life in so many ways. The main thing that I took away was, he'd say, 'George, always be committed to changing the community you live in to make it a better place in which you found it.' If I'm living in Milwaukee or Green Bay, if I'm working for the Packers or if I'm working for Marian, I'm trying to make it better than I found it. That's something that he preached every day."
Koonce was one of nearly 100 college administrators admitted to the program at Harvard this summer. He said the only other NFL player ever to participate was Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Kellen Winslow, who also went on to work as a college administrator after his career.
Koonce, who was the first member of his family to attend college, said his dream now is to become president of a university. He has a bachelor's degree from New York University at Regents in Albany, New York; a master's from East Carolina and a doctorate from Marquette.
And now he can add Harvard to his resume.
"This gave me a chance to gain even more knowledge and insight on what other senior leaders around the nation and the world are doing on their campus," Koonce said. "I can take this information to my team and institution to maybe help us do a better job serving those 2,200 students that attend Marian, in which about 70 percent of them are from low-income families and are the first in their families to go to college."


The Lord of the Rings universe is no stranger to video game adaptations, each varying greatly in its degree of quality. But with Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor it looks like fans are getting a game with strong potential to be great as well as adding to the mythos.
While we've seen gameplay footage before, this new story trailer gives us a glimpse into what the game is about as the fallen ranger you play as is tasked with assembling an army to face Sauron. Taking place between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, how Shadow of Mordor fits into that existing story structure and adds to it will be interesting.
We're very focused on the PS4 and Xbox One.
So if you like what you see here and you want to experience it in it's full glory, you'll have to go next gen to play Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. And it should be worth it as Shadow of Mordor is looking like the Lord of the Rings game we deserve and the one we need.


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Shahidul Alam – is a documentary photographer from Bangladesh and founder of the Drik photo agency.
Paula Allen – is a social documentary photographer. She began her career, 30 years ago, photographing non-violent revolutions such as the European nuclear disarmament movement, focusing on Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in England and the Solidarity movement in Poland. She has also photographed in the war zones of Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Angola and Afghanistan. Her work has been published in numerous magazines: The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Paris Match, The London Independent Magazine, Art in America, O:The Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire, and Glamour, among others.
Lola Leoncia, age 99, Mapanique, The Philippines, March 2005 – copyright Paula Allen / Amnesty International
Paoblo Bartholomew – one of India's most decorated photographers, winning the World Press Photo twice.
Marcelo Brodsky – Argentinian photography. His stand out work looks at the issue of enforced disappearances of those he went to school with.
DJ Clark – is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily and represented as a photojournalist by Panos Pictures in London. He also researches and writes about photography as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work.
Rian Dundon – US photographer working in China. Recent work looks at heroin rehabilitation in Yunnan province
Yasmin Eid-Sabbagh – Lebanese photographer. Recent work includes participatory photography project with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
Harvey Finkle – a US based documentary still photographer who has produced a substantial body of work concerned with social, political and cultural issues. His work has been extensively exhibited and published, including three books entitled, "Urban Nomads," "Still Home: Jews of South Philadelphia" and "Reading."
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Sophie Gerrard – Specialising in environmental and social issues, including work with Foto8 and Greenpeace. Stand out work on maternal mortality and e-waste in India.
Jim Goldberg -Magnum photographer from USA Work included in 'Disposable People' project looking at modern day slavery, and 'Access to Life' on anti-retroviral treatment.
Stanley Greene – US photographer, documented various wars including Chechnya and Rwanda. More recent work includes hurricane Katrina.
John Javellana – Philippines based free-lancer currently working with Reuters. Covered Typhoon Sendong.
Nayan Tara Gurung Kakshapati – Nepalese photographer and founder of photo.circle.
Ed Kashi – US photographer. Stand out work includes 'Land of the Black Gold' looking at oil extraction in the Niger Delta.
Ciara Leeming – Manchester (UK) based photo-journalist specialising in text and multimedia.
Gideon Mendel – has been documenting the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDs in Africa for over a decade. His work linking to campaigns run by ActionAid and the Guardian particularly stand out.
Gideon Mendel, 1997, Tanzania. At a fishing village a local theater group performs a play about Aids utilizing audience participation.
Pete Muller – based in South Sudan. Has produced work for Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, UNIFEM and UNICEF.
James Morgan – Fine art documentary photographer. Has done extensive work in Asia, including Mongolia, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Bhutan and Japan.
Tom Pietrasik – British photographer with a focus on India since 2002.
Raghu Rai – Magnum photographer from India. His work includes two sets on the Bhopal gas disaster.
Espen Rasmussen – World Press Photo prize winner based in Oslo. His work largely focusses on humanitarian and natural disasters. Stand out piece is 'Transit' on displaced people in ten countries taken over seven years.
Sim Chi Yin – Singaporean photographer based in Beijing. Worked with the ILO to produce the photo book, 'The Long Road Home' studying the lives of Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore. June 2011 selected for VII's 'Mentor Programme' and in 2010 won a Magnum Foundation scholarship in documentary photography.
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Q: CDialog-based MFC application starts only in a primary monitor Say, I am starting a CDialog-based MFC application from the Windows Explorer by double-clicking its executable file. It normally shows the dialog window in the center of the screen.
But if I move the Windows Explorer window into a secondary monitor and double-click it there, its window is still shown in the primary monitor.
How do I make it show in the monitor where the app is started from?
PS. The dialog window is shown from InitInstance as such:
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Whoever else is interested, MFC has no concept of multiple monitors. So one needs to override the centering method as such:
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        this->GetWindowRect(rcThis);

        int x = ((mi.rcWork.right - mi.rcWork.left) - rcThis.Width()) / 2;
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Whenever I hear some bodybuilders use the term "definition" I always feel like asking them just what they think it means. It is a loosely used word, with certain authorities in particular throwing it about without any deep thought of what the development of muscular definement entails, or if certain types of lifters actually CAN acquire it. In fact, it is common to hear many novices talk of definition development before they have even built the foundations of a good physique.


Sightings of the 'Lewisham Natureman' white stag coming in thick and fast. Following last week's Catford appearance, Caroline H. has sent in this photo taken 'on Deptford church street. It;s near the Birds Nest pub at the bottom of Creekside, on the same side of the road as the Crossfields estate'.
I think the stag at the old greyhound stadium is no more, it appears the turnstile building has been demolished. Hopefully the dog sign will be reinstalled in time.


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PBS moderator awkwardly corrected after confusing Andrew Yang for Tom Steyer: 'I'm over here!'
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The Democrats' debate Thursday night had a rocky start after one of the PBS moderators awkwardly mixed up tech businessman Andrew Yang with billionaire donor Tom Steyer, prompting Yang to exclaim, "I'm over here!"
PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff kicked off the evening by pressing all of the seven of the candidates about the impeachment of President Trump and "what more" each could do to convince the American people that impeachment was the right move, asking them in order of their ranking in the polls. However, things took a bizarre turn with the last two candidates.
"Mr. Yang, what more could you say to the American people," Woodruff began while looking directly at Steyer.
CNN PANEL SHOWERS PELOSI WITH PRAISE FOLLOWING IMPEACHMENT VOTES: 'PITCH PERFECT'
"I'm over here!" Yang said from the other side of the stage. "I'm over here, Judy."
Yang then clapped multiple times into his microphone as Woodruff tried to question Steyer, again using the wrong name.
Judy Woodruff had an awkward moment with Andrew Yang, left, soon after the debate got underway. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
"Judy, Judy," Yang said to the moderator.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Steyer," Woodruff corrected herself. "I'm sorry."
Steyer responded by claiming he was "the one" who began the impeachment movement over two years ago and how "the court of public opinion" should drive its results. Afterward, Woodruff called on Yang, who urged Democrats to stop being "obsessed" with impeachment.
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On the Day After, an Angry Trump Looks to Vindication in November
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WASHINGTON — President Trump sat forward on the edge of his chair and chatted at length with reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, unbowed but for him a little subdued. The day after he was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, he dismissed the judgment of the House of Representatives and punched back by celebrating with a Democratic congressman who switched parties to stand with him.
"I don't feel like I'm being impeached because it's a hoax, it's a setup," Mr. Trump insisted as he showcased Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, the newly minted Republican, and looked beyond his seemingly certain acquittal in a Senate trial to next fall's election.
"I'm beating everybody by a lot," the president said, "and I think that's where we're going."
For Mr. Trump, it was the first day of his new reality, the first day when he woke up with the scarlet letter of impeachment marked with indelible ink on his page in the history books. No matter what else happens, he now enters posterity as the third president to be impeached.
But barring the unforeseen, he will also be the first impeached president to face re-election, setting up a 320-day campaign to convince voters that he was right and his accusers were wrong. He has a chance that Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton never had — to mitigate, at least, the sting of impeachment — and his political operation wasted little time mounting a counterassault on what Mr. Trump characterizes as the corrupt, liberal Democrats who orchestrated a largely party-line scheme to nullify his election.
In a fund-raising pitch on Thursday, Brad Parscale, the president's campaign manager, called the Democrats who voted to impeach him "traitors" and urged supporters to fight back. "Let's make sure they know that we will NEVER FORGET," Mr. Parscale wrote. The campaign announced a "Democrats for Trump" coalition of disaffected members of the other party.
Still, some Republicans were less confident that impeachment would be a boon at the ballot box. Corry Bliss, a Republican strategist who oversaw the party's independent but ultimately unsuccessful effort to defend its House majority in 2018, said there was a long road to Nov. 3.
"The world is going to end 500 times between impeachment and the election," he said. "We don't live in a society where anything can last for 10 or 11 months."
In a blistering editorial on Thursday evening, a prominent evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, called for Mr. Trump to be removed from office. The move was a pointed departure from the vast majority of Mr. Trump's white evangelical base, which has supported the president through myriad controversies.
"The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," wrote Mark Galli, the editor in chief. "That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral."
But the editorial is unlikely to signal a significant change in Mr. Trump's steadfast support from white evangelicals, as the magazine has long represented more centrist evangelical thought and popular evangelical leaders continue to support him.
For Mr. Trump, the day after found him still a little shellshocked, according to people close to him. Despite the clear momentum behind impeachment among Democrats in recent weeks, some of Mr. Trump's advisers tried to convince him — and themselves — that Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not have the votes and might not even bring the articles of impeachment to the floor, despite warnings from the White House director of legislative affairs, Eric Ueland, that the votes were there.
Mr. Trump's aides packed his schedule with events to keep him out of Washington as the debate took place on Wednesday. He vented his fury at a rally in Michigan that started even as the votes were being recorded. But having gotten his emotions off his chest, he was unusually talkative flying home on Air Force One. Impeachment "doesn't feel like anything," he told aides, according to one person briefed on the conversation.
However much the humiliation and the ensuing news coverage stung, Mr. Trump was intent on not showing it — even in private.
By Thursday morning, he was eager for information. He watched television coverage, listening for clues about what Ms. Pelosi might be up to. Almost as soon as she said she might delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Mr. Trump started surveying advisers about what it could mean. "Why do you think she's doing that?" he asked one person after another.
The answers varied and advisers assured him they were looking at options, including trying to push through a trial regardless or arguing that he technically was never actually impeached in the first place, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
Ivanka Trump, the president's eldest daughter, made a point of going on CBS News to make clear that Mr. Trump was undaunted by impeachment. "He's energized," she said.
To make sure of that, and to press any advantage against Democrats, Mr. Trump's aides rushed to put together an event for Thursday with Mr. Van Drew, one of two Democrats to vote against both articles.
Mr. Van Drew, who declared himself a Republican after the votes, was invited to the Oval Office on a day's notice.
"You have my undying support," he told the president. "Always."
Mr. Trump thanked him. "And by the way, same way," he said. "I'm endorsing him, O.K.?"
No other president has gone on to an election after being impeached. Johnson, who had not been elected in the first place and acceded to the office after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, was shunted aside after being acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial.
A Democrat who had joined the Republican Lincoln's ticket as his vice-presidential running mate in 1864, Johnson found himself without a party in 1868. Within weeks of the Senate verdict, both parties nominated other candidates without considering him, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant went on to win as a Republican.
Johnson later mounted a comeback of sorts when the Tennessee legislature made him a senator back in the days before direct elections, but he died several months after joining the body that had put him on trial.
As for Mr. Clinton, he was in his second term when he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999 and therefore ineligible to run again. His vice president, Al Gore, ended up losing the 2000 election.
For that matter, President Richard M. Nixon was also in his second term when he resigned after the approval of articles of impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974. His vice president and successor, Gerald R. Ford, ended up losing in 1976.
Mr. Trump resolved to reverse that record, and advisers said they had already detected a surge of support from the president's base. The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign said they had raised at least $5 million on Thursday alone and $20.6 million in the past month. About 600,000 new volunteers have signed up since September, the party said.
"It's absolutely been more unifying than anything I've seen in years," said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor. "Impeachment is really Chapter 1 for the 2020 race. It's setting up the battle lines and people are realigning their strategies based on how certain members voted."
Catalina Lauf, a former Trump administration official who is challenging Representative Lauren Underwood, Democrat of Illinois, said impeachment had fired up even some Democrats in her district. "You might disagree with the man," she said, "but you also feel the treatment he's been given since the day he was elected is pure madness."
That sense of grievance and persecution neatly fits into the message Mr. Trump has conveyed from the start — that the elites are out to get him, that they hate him and that they hate his supporters, the "deplorables," to use the word once uttered by Hillary Clinton that has become a rallying cry for the president's team.
John Fredericks, a radio host in Virginia, said the volume of calls into his morning show on Thursday was so inundating that he finally had to stop answering them.
"People are outraged because they know what is really going on is that Pelosi and the Democrats think that they know best," Mr. Fredericks said. "Their message to us is, 'You are really stupid people who go to Walmart and smell and can't be trusted.' It's an insult."
Still, Democrats are energized, too, and may be more so if a Senate trial results in acquittal along party lines. Moreover, Mr. Trump's backlash strategy did not work as well as he had hoped during last year's midterm elections when he tried to convert conservatives' anger over what they considered unfair sexual misconduct allegations against Brett M. Kavanaugh, the president's Supreme Court nominee, into turnout at the polls.
Arguably, the passion generated by the Kavanaugh hearings helped Republicans in select Senate races, but Democrats went on to capture the House.
John Whitbeck, the Republican Party chairman in Virginia, where Democrats captured the state legislature last month, said that impeachment helped Republicans see the stakes of the 2020 election more clearly. But the longer term political trends, he warned, suggested the party could still fall short.
"If you are a Trump supporter and you didn't vote in these off-year elections, I just don't see how you don't show up," he said. "But I don't know if that's going to be enough to overcome the fervor on the other side."
In states like Virginia that have trended away from Republicans, Mr. Whitbeck said antipathy toward Mr. Trump has been so overwhelming that his political operation has been unable to account for it accurately in its data.
"We spent a ton of money trying to get Trump voters engaged. We're doing everything we can to account for the high turnout. And still we've underestimated it every year," he said. "It's just historic on the other side."
Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Jeremy W. Peters reported from Washington, and Elaina Plott from New York. Nick Corasaniti contributed reporting from New York, and Elizabeth Dias from Washington.
Christianity Today Calls for Trump's Removal
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Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical magazine, called for President Trump to be removed from office in an editorial on Thursday, a day after Mr. Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives.
The editorial was a surprising move for a publication that typically avoids taking sides in bitter partisan battles and a pointed departure from the vast majority of the president's white evangelical base, which has supported Mr. Trump through multiple controversies.
"The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents," Mark Galli, the editor-in-chief, wrote. "That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral."
Still, the editorial is unlikely to signal a significant change in Mr. Trump's steadfast support from white evangelicals, as the magazine has long represented more centrist thought and popular evangelical leaders continue to support the president.
"My father would be embarrassed," Franklin Graham said in an interview, referring to his father, Billy Graham, who founded the magazine.
"It is not going to change anybody's mind about Trump," Mr. Graham said. "There's a liberal element within the evangelical movement. Christianity Today represents that."
Rep. Debbie Dingell on Trump mockery of her late husband: 'Families are off-limits, period'
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Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich. told Fox News' "Your World" Thursday that "families are off-limits, period" adding "the tone of rhetoric in this country should be bothering people," a day after President Trump mocked her late husband during a reelection rally in the congresswoman's home state.
Dingell said the president's comments about former Congressman John Dingell, D-Mich., who died in February after a long battle with prostate cancer, were particularly hurtful because he uttered them during the holiday season.
"Thanksgiving was very hard and this Christmas is very hard, and so those remarks made it harder because I miss John very much," Dingell told host Neil Cavuto.
'THE VIEW' HOSTS BROWBEAT MELANIE AND IVANKA OVER TRUMP'S JOHN DINGELL ATTACK
While Dingell, along with the majority of her Democratic colleagues, voted to impeach Trump Wednesday evening, the president held a fiery "Merry Christmas" rally in Battle Creek.
"Debbie Dingell, that's a real beauty," the president said to a rapt crowd that booed the mention of Dingell's name. Trump said he gave John Dingell the "A+ treatment" after his death last February and Debbie had called him to say "it's the nicest thing that's ever happened, thank you so much. John would be so thrilled. He's looking down."
"I said, 'That's OK. Don't worry about it.' Maybe he's looking up. I don't know," he quipped to mixed reactions from the audience.
"Maybe, but let's assume he's looking down."
The congresswoman said she hopes that the president's comments will remind Americans to "take a deep breath, try to be nicer to each other and understand that random acts of kindness can make a person's day and actually impact the quality of somebody's life."
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Dingell also defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., decision to hold off on sending articles of impeachment to the Senate before the New Year.
"I think the speaker is trying to make sure … that there's going to be a fair trial in the Senate," Dingell said.
Kansas man pleads guilty to murdering girlfriend on Bahamas cruise
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A Kansas man pleaded guilty Thursday to strangling his girlfriend then pushing her to her death off the balcony of a cruise ship that was off the coast of Florida last year, according to federal prosecutors.
Topeka resident Eric Duane Newman, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the January 2018 killing of his longtime girlfriend, Tamara Tucker, 50, "with malice aforethought," the Department of Justice said in a news release.
Eric Duane Newman has pleaded guilty to murdering his longtime girlfriend on a cruise ship last year. (Shawnee County Jail)
The couple was on a Carnival cruise from Jacksonville, Fla., to the Bahamas and staying in a cabin on the 13th deck.
Newman admitted during his plea hearing in federal court in Kansas that the couple had been arguing before the murder. He said he strangled Tucker then pushed her over the cabin room balcony railing to the 11th deck. Tucker died from blunt force trauma caused by the fall.
At the time, the cruise ship was about 30 nautical miles from New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
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Tucker was a full-time faculty member in the social work department at Park University in Parkville, Mo., from 2012 to 2017. Before that, she'd been an adjunct instructor since 2007.
Newman's sentencing is scheduled for March 18, 2020, before Chief U.S. District Judge Julie A. Robinson.
Discussion Thread: Sixth Democratic Presidential Debate | 12/19/19 | 8pm-11pm EST
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The top seven Democratic presidential candidates will appear on stage in Los Angeles Thursday night in the sixth debate of the year.
Tonight marks the smallest debate lineup yet for the 2020 Democratic presidential primary as the Democratic National Committee continues to raise the polling and fundraising thresholds to qualify.
Which candidates will be there?
Joe Biden, former vice president
Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind.
Amy Klobuchar, senator from Minnesota
Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont
Tom Steyer, business executive and activist
Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts
Andrew Yang, entrepreneur and philanthropist
The debate will be moderated by Judy Woodruff, anchor of PBS NewsHour; Amna Nawaz, PBS senior national correspondent; and Yamiche Alcindor, PBS White House correspondent. They will also be joined by Politico's chief political correspondent, Tim Alberta.
The debate is set to begin at 8 p.m. ET and last around three hours. It is co-hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico and will take place at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
The debate will be televised on PBS and CNN, livestreamed online at PBS.org, PBS NewsHour, politico.com, and CNN.com, and available on many of the news organizations' social, mobile and live-TV streaming apps. You can also listen to the debate on SiriusXM channels 116, 454, and 795. A youtube link to watch can be found here.
WATCH LIVE: The Final 7 Debate
Democratic presidential hopefuls meet for the final time in 2019 at a debate in Los Angeles hosted by PBS and Politico.
Seven candidates qualified for the debate, including entrepreneur Andrew Yang; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former Vice President Joe Biden; billionaire activist Tom Steyer; and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
PBS's Judy Woodruff, Amna Nawaz and Yamiche Alcindor, as well as Tim Alberta of Politico, will moderate the event beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
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Yang unloads on Dems' 'obsession' with Trump, impeachment at presidential debate
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Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang threw cold water on the media's "obsession" with impeachment during Thursday night's primary debate, telling attendees to applause that Americans become frustrated "the more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all our problems."
"If you turned on cable network news today, you would think [Trump's] our president because of some combination of Russia, racism, Facebook, Hillary Clinton and emails all mixed together," Yang said. "But Americans around the country know different."
He added: "We have to stop being obsessed over impeachment … and focus on the problems that got Donald Trump elected." He sounded the alarm over declining manufacturing jobs and other economic issues.
With less than seven weeks to go until Iowa's caucuses kick off and just a day after House Democrats voted to impeach President Trump, a winnowed field of Democratic presidential contenders was on the debate stage for a sixth and final time in 2019.
Thursday night's televised contest ahead of Christmas brought seven rivals to heavily Democratic California, the biggest prize in the primary season and home to 1 in 8 Americans.
The debate in Los Angeles could turn out to be the least-watched so far, as the holidays approach and impeachment drama dominates the news. Viewership has declined in each round though five debates, and even campaigns have grumbled that the candidates would rather be on the ground in early voting states than again taking the debate stage.
MCCONNELL HEADS BACK TO SENATE FLOOR LATE THURSDAY, SAYS DEMS BREAKING PRECEDENT, NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE DOING
Republicans have slammed House Democrats' plan to delay a Senate trial. Hours before the debate, Noah Feldman, the Harvard Law School professor who testified for Democrats at the impeachment inquiry earlier this month, wrote an explosive op-ed asserting that if Democrats do not forward the impeachment articles to the Senate as dictated by the Constitution, then Trump was never even impeached at all. The Constitution dictates that after impeachment by a majority in the House, a two-thirds vote is needed in the Senate to remove a president from office.
Asked why polls show that many Americans oppose impeaching and removing Trump, former Vice President Joe Biden called impeachment a "constitutional necessity," regardless of what the numbers show.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for her part, accused Trump of corruption, without addressing the popularity of impeachment.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a town hall meeting, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, in Keokuk, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar called Trump's actions a "global Watergate," saying if he is really innocent, he should be encouraging his top lieutenants to testify — an argument that has rankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence.
The lack of a clear front-runner in the Democratic field comes as Democrats complain that there will be a notable lack of diversity onstage compared to earlier debates. For the first time this cycle, the debate won't feature a black or Latino candidate.
The race in California has largely mirrored national trends, with former Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Warren clustered at the top of the field, followed by South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Yang and billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer.
Conspicuously missing from the lineup at Loyola Marymount University on Thursday will be former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who is unable to qualify for the contests because he is not accepting campaign donations. But even if he's not on the podium, Bloomberg has been felt in the state: He's running a deluge of TV advertising in California to introduce himself to voters who probably know little, if anything, about him.
Bloomberg's late entry into the contest last month highlighted the overriding issue in the contest, electability, a sign of the unease within the Democratic Party about its crop of candidates and whether any is strong enough to unseat an incumbent president. The eventual nominee will be tasked with splicing together the party's disparate factions — a job Hillary Clinton struggled with after defeating Sanders in a long and bitter primary fight in 2016.
DEBATE IS ON: DEAL REACHED IN UNION DISPUTE THAT THREATENED TO SIDETRACK SHOWDOWN
Biden adviser Symone Sanders said to expect another robust exchange on health care. "This is an issue that is not going away and for good reason, because it is an issue that in 2018 Democrats ran on and won," she said.
Jess O'Connell with Buttigieg's campaign said the candidate will "be fully prepared to have an open and honest conversation about where there are contrasts between us and the other candidates. This is a really important time to start to do that. Voters need time to understand the distinctions between these candidates." The key issues: health care and higher education.
The unsettled race has seen surges at various points by Biden, Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg, though it's become defined by that cluster of shifting leaders, with others struggling for momentum. California Sen. Kamala Harris, once seen as among the top tier of candidates, shelved her campaign this month, citing a lack of money. And Warren has become more aggressive, especially toward Buttigieg, as she tries to recover from shifting explanations of how she'd pay for "Medicare for All" without raising taxes.
In a replay of 2016, the shifting race for the Democratic nomination has showcased the rift between the party's liberal wing, represented in Sanders and Warren, and candidates parked in or near the political center, including Biden, Buttigieg and Bloomberg.
Two candidates who didn't make the stage will still make their presence felt for debate watchers with ads reminding viewers they're still in the race.
APPELLATE COURT DEMANDS HOUSE DEMS EXPLAIN WHETHER IMPEACHMENT VOTE RENDERS THEIR LEGAL CASE 'MOOT'
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro are airing television ads targeted to primary voters during the debate. Booker's is his first television ad, and in it he says even though he's not on the debate stage, "I'm going to win this election anyway." It's airing as part of a $500,000 campaign, running in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, as well as New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
A pro-Booker super PAC is also going up with an ad in Iowa highlighting positive reviews of Booker's past debate performances.
Meanwhile, Castro is running an ad, in Iowa, in which he argues the state should no longer go first in Democrats' nominating process because it doesn't reflect the diversity of the Democratic Party.
Both candidates failed to hit the polling threshold to qualify for the debates and have in recent weeks become outspoken critics of what they say is a debate qualification process that favors white candidates over minorities.
Fox News' Paul Steinhauser and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Debbie Dingell Gets Support From Another Widow Whose Husband Trump Has Mocked: Cindy McCain
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WASHINGTON — One widow instantly knew how the other one felt.
"I'm preparing for the first holiday season without the man I love," one said.
"I'm terribly sorry," the other replied. "Please know I am thinking about you."
The Twitter exchange sounded like a salutation between two women facing the season alone, but the message of support from Cindy McCain, the widow of John McCain, the Arizona senator, to Representative Debbie Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, was about a different shared experience.
It was a message of solidarity sent after President Trump had mocked Ms. Dingell ("You know Dingell? You ever hear of her, Michigan? Debbie Dingell, that's a real beauty.") and implied that her husband — John D. Dingell Jr., the former Michigan congressman who died in February — was "looking up" from hell. Ms. McCain's own husband has been the object of relentless presidential attacks since he died.
In an interview on Thursday, hours after Mr. Trump became the third president in history to be impeached — an outcome she voted for — Ms. Dingell said that her husband "was never afraid to fight for what was right" but that the president's remarks about him had cut deep.
"He hurt me," Ms. Dingell said. "I think there's some things that should be off limits."
Mr. Trump has freely and frequently brought the power of his office down on a variety of journalists, lawmakers, Foreign Service officers and members of the military he has seen as standing in his way.
But Ms. Dingell is now joining the ranks of a more select group that includes the McCains and a Gold Star military family, who have suffered profound loss only to see it mocked and used as political ammunition by the president.
Ms. Dingell said on Thursday that she was still grieving the loss of her husband, who was the longest-serving congressman in American history. He retired from Congress in 2014 after serving his district, just outside Detroit, for 59 years. His wife, who now holds his seat, called for civility as she faced her first Christmas in 38 years without her husband.
"If anything good comes out of this," Ms. Dingell said, "maybe people will take a deep breath and think about it."
But Mr. Trump is not prone to contemplation. At his rally on Wednesday night, Mr. Trump was speaking off the cuff to supporters as he called out Democrats like Ms. Dingell, who had voted in favor of the two articles of impeachment against him. But the president singled her out because she had done so after he approved an "A-plus treatment" for her husband's burial.
"So she calls me up: 'It's the nicest thing that's ever happened; thank you so much,'" Mr. Trump said at the rally, mocking the congresswoman's voice while recounting their call. He suggested that Ms. Dingell had begged for him to lower American flags to half-staff and, apparently impersonating her, said: "Do this, do that, do that. Rotunda."
Mr. Dingell did not lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda — Ms. Dingell said on Thursday that that had not been one of his requests. Still, Mr. Trump said Ms. Dingell had said her husband would be thrilled as he looked down and saw how the country was honoring him.
"Maybe he's looking up," Mr. Trump said at one point. "I don't know. I don't know, maybe. Maybe. But let's assume he's looking down."
Ms. Dingell said the president had ordered American flags lowered, but beyond that, Mr. Dingell's military service in World War II made him eligible for the only request he had made, which was to be buried at Arlington National Ceremony. At the time, she said, she had welcomed the president's call — emphasizing that he called her.
"He was very kind," Ms. Dingell said. "He had told me that he heard he was a great man and I thought it was very thoughtful for him to call at a time when I was really grieving."
But Mr. Trump's public remarks about their exchange were condemned by both Republicans — including Representative Fred Upton, who faces re-election next year in Michigan — and Democrats, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a leading 2020 candidate whose own political life has been punctuated by loss.
"This is equally as cruel as it is pathetic," Mr. Biden, whose son Beau died in 2015, said on Twitter, "and it is beyond unconscionable that our President would behave this way."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has also been called "crazy" and "nervous" by Mr. Trump as she steered her caucus toward impeachment, said there was nothing funny about what Mr. Trump said.
"What the president misunderstands is that cruelty is not wit," she said. "It's not funny at all. It's very sad."
Mr. Upton, a close friend of Mr. Dingell's who delivered a eulogy for him, called on the president to apologize, and said on Twitter, "There was no need to 'dis' him in a crass political way."
Representative Paul Mitchell, another Michigan Republican, also said the president's comments warranted an apology. "To use his name in such a dishonorable manner at last night's rally is unacceptable from anyone, let alone the president of the United States," he said. "An apology is due, Mr. President."
The Trump campaign had no comment about whether the president's comments could affect his political fortunes in Michigan, a state he narrowly won in 2016. Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, also sidestepped the question.
"I have great respect for the Dingells' decades of service to the state of Michigan and I'm very sorry for Representative Debbie Dingell's loss," Ms. McDaniel said in a statement. "I was glad to see the late Representative John Dingell honored so highly by the president when he passed away."
As the criticism mounted, the White House did not apologize and instead suggested that the public consider how Mr. Trump might feel about being impeached.
"He has been under attack, and under impeachment attack, for the last few months, and then just under attack politically for the last two and a half years," Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in an interview with ABC on Thursday. "I think that as we all know, the president is a counterpuncher."
She declined to explain how Mr. Dingell, who died 10 months ago, had thrown the first punch.
The president's rough comments on his adversaries have earned him condemnation from grieving families before. In 2016, Mr. Trump criticized the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, who had denounced the president during the Democratic National Convention. Mr. Trump said Captain Khan's father had delivered the entire speech because his mother was not "allowed" to speak.
Khizr Khan, the soldier's father, said he felt a sense of recognition when he heard that Mr. Trump had mocked the Dingell family.
"All three of them have served this nation and they have passed," Mr. Khan said of his son, Mr. Dingell and Mr. McCain. "They deserve to be respected."
Mr. Trump has particularly fixated on Mr. McCain, who died in 2018 from complications from brain cancer and, as he was dying, made plans to keep the president away from his funeral.
After Mr. McCain died, Mr. Trump waited days to issue a proclamation marking the senator's death, relenting only under enormous pressure. He has repeatedly brought up Mr. McCain's vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act at his political rallies. And when Mr. Trump traveled to Japan in May, the White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Mr. McCain during the president's visit to Yokosuka Naval Base.
The senator's daughter, Meghan McCain, offered her own sharp criticism on Thursday.
"The comments from Trump about Rep Dingell is utterly sick and cruel," Ms. McCain said on Twitter. "Take heed in knowing he only attacks people for whom he is threatened by their great legacies. History will forever judge him very harshly."
The McCain family declined to comment further. But for her part, Ms. Dingell said she did not want the president to call her again, even if he had an apology.
"No," Ms. Dingell said. "He's taken his shot."
Eileen Sullivan contributed reporting. Kitty Bennett contributed research.
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Q: Strange behaviour in devise I am currently working on a Rails project where I am encountering an extremely weird issue with Devise . Initially my client wanted me to have a two step registration i.e. a user fills out a basic information on website and than receive a confirmation link (Confirmable module). The confirmation link is going to take the user to the second step of registration where the user is going to fill out the rest of the important information needed to use the application. This was implemented successfully and was working great.
Recently my client decided to change this behaviour and just have one user registration page and no confirmation email being sent to user. I reverted all the Devise Controllers I modified to get the default behaviour and now there is an extremely weird behaviour in application. If I go to Sign up page and submit the form with user information it redirects back to the sign up page and also sign in the user. So the header changes to the one for signed in user but the page rendered is the registration page where as at the very basic level it should at least redirect the signed in user to the root path.
Same is the case with login page. The user gets signed in but keeps on getting redirected to the same login page. So far I have tried the following workarounds and none of them seems to work :
Devise Wiki
How To: Redirect to a specific page on successful sign in and sign out
Stackoverflow question
Also in addition to this I have not left even one single stackoverflow answer that resembles the problem I am having and also went through the issues in devise repo as well articles to see if I can find a clue to get this to work properly but none of them seems to resolve the issue.
I am working on this for almost two days now and none of the solutions are working out for me. Is there anyone else who also encountered this issue ? If so what was the solution to fix it.
Any help to resolve this issue would be very appreciated.
Note : I am also using Active Admin as well in this application which was implemented after I implemented the user registration flow. Is there anything I need to take care off on that side to resolve this issue ?
Thanks

A: I ended up reimplementing the devise gem with couple of custom configurations to get this working.


So I have a couple of watches, nothing to special a Casio Gshock I used to wear for sport but this has since been replaced with a Polar heart beat monitor fitness program doodah watch ad I have a Guess Steel I wear most of the time, I have had the Guess for around 14 years and it has never missed a beat ad still looks good.
But I have a hankering for a really nice watch, does anyone else or does anyone on here have a special watch and did they regret buying one? bought and sold again or bought and bee happy with it?
Some folk say that buying the right one is an investment but I won't sell it if I do buy one, thats not why I am considering it I want it for me not as an asset which can be used to release funds in the future.
Anyone got experience of 'posh' watches, are they worth having? Do they cost a fortune to service, do you service the annually?
Part of me really wants to another part says don't be stupid you have a decent watch thats never let you down why do you need to spend a heap of cash that could be used for other things on a watch.
The more I think it over the less likely it sees I will but I'd still be interested to hear others views on 'posh' watches.
I swear by my Omega Seamaster (the 007 one).
Bought it 6 years ago and the RRP has gone up by £100 every year.
But it ain't an investment, I wear it everywhere and do everything in it.
Fixing cars, painting, building, the lot. It just gets a quick wash over and comes up nearly as new.
A dress watch like a Breitling I would be more conscious of in terms of damaging it but I'm a clumsy bugger.
I collect watches.have about 40. some cheap and some NOT so cheap will put up some pics.The way i see it is if YOU like it then buy it.you are then buying it for the RIGHT reason.a quality watch will never lose money as such they always hold there own.but what you have to remember is if you did want to sell at a later date say with in the next [ 5 to 10 years] bear in mind you may have to take a bit of a price drop cos anyone wanting a quality watch and who have the money would just go out and buy 1. if its for an investment then keep it for 30 or so years and pass it down then thats where it will make proper money.like with anything if YOU like it buy it.
Rightso, I was looking online last night at various options, different Brietlings as well as some other brands and amongst what I was looking at I checked out some of the £200-£300 options as well. I was showing the missus some of the 'budget' options and her reply really caught me out, she says "but I thought you wanted a Brietling, you won't be happy with one of those so just save a bit more and have the Brietling you want".
Brietling or omega mate they increase in value and great watches. I got a To rotary aquaspeed for Xmas with a steel strap and rubber divers strap.
My mate Wayne is into watches in a big way.......... almost as much as he's into guitars.
He's got loads, and most of them are VERY expensive/exclusive brands, in fact, he seems to have a different one on every time we go to the boozer.
Brietlings, Omegas, Rolexs etc etc etc..........if my memory serves me correctly, I think the only brand he hasn't got is a TAG Heuer (which just happens to be my favourite, due to the connection with Ayrton Senna).
Only the other day he was talking about someone he works with, who sent a (prestige) watch for a service, which ended up costing £1,800!!
Sod that........most of my watches are around the £50 mark, as like Nic, I'm a clumsy bugger too, and tend to give them a bashing.
Also, due to handling airguns on a daily basis, I now favour watches with a velcro strap, as I have seen gunstocks marked/damaged by watches with metal bracelets.
I would like to acquire an Ayrton Senna TAG sometime in the future though......not one of the Limited Edition models made after his death, but one of the model he actually wore himself when alive.
The watch brand HUBLOT do some Ayrton Senna Special Editions these days (at around £18,000 - £20,000 a pop), but Ayrton was never associated to that brand, so I feel they have no real relevance.
Not sure what your showing me their Uggy?
The Brietling Avenger II or the Colt 44 are ones I like.


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Hi Yayoi! Glad the latest arrived safely and, yes, postal rates increased (highest in US postal history) on the 27th of January. Hope that rate guide helps you!!
Did you make it to 365? I feel blessed to have been a recipient of your art!
Hi Yayoi, thanks so much for your lovely card, that arrived just at Christmas! Very delicate colouring! I wish you all the best, a real good start and a happy New Year!
And I will send something for you soon!
Thnx! The commentary gets a little weighty but really FAB piece. Send anytime!
It's really unusual and special to receive something as big as 12x18, but Jane sent me this gorgeous encaustic monotype which I really love! I have never done encaustic myself, but I often admired the process.
Not sure if the orientation is correct but maybe vertical like this reminding me a tree?
Who sent this? lovely piece!
I received this ATC size mail art from Denise earlier this summer, and now getting around to post.
It reminds me the summer jazz festival that used to be here locally ages ago. I treasured this piece all summer.