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Jay Earley, Ph.D. - Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy (developed by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.) is the best "parts" work system I have ever used - and I have used all of the major ones. This brief introduction comes from Jay Earley, one of the most experienced IFS therapist, and one who is also versed in integral theory. This is a very simplified explanation - if you are interested in the model, I suggests getting the IFS book, which is down to the right on the sidebar in the list of recommended books.
Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy
Jay Earley, Ph.D.
IFS recognizes that our psyches are made up of different parts, sometimes called subpersonalities. You can think of them as little people inside us. Each has its own perspective, feelings, memories, goals, and motivations. For example, one part of you might be trying to lose weight and another part might want to eat whatever you want. We all have parts like the inner critic, the abandoned child, the pleaser, the angry part, and the loving caretaker.
IFS has discovered that every part has a positive intent for you, no matter how problematic it might be. For example, Sally has a part that says, "You couldn't be successful at your ambitious goals. Who do you think you are?" This is hurtful to her and prevents her from taking action in her life, but when she got to know this part in her IFS work, she discovered that it was actually afraid she would be punished if she stuck her neck out, and it was trying to stop her to protect her from that pain.
Bill has a part that is judgmental and competitive with other people in a way that is not consistent with his true values. However, when he really got to know that part, he discovered that it was just trying to help him feel OK about himself in the only way it knew—by feeling superior to others.
When you understand that a part has a positive intent, it doesn't mean that you give the part power. Sally doesn't want her part to prevent her from taking action, and Bill doesn't want his part to act out being judgmental and competitive. However, using the IFS approach, Sally and Bill can relate to their parts with understanding and appreciation while taking the steps to heal them.
This is fundamentally different from the way we ordinarily relate to our parts. Usually when we become aware of a part, the first thing we do is evaluate it. Is it good or bad for us? If we decide it is good, we embrace it and give it power. We act from it. If we decide it is bad, we try to suppress it or get rid of it. We tell it to go away. However, this doesn't work. You can't get rid of a part. You can only push it into your unconscious, where it will continue to affect you, but without your awareness.
In IFS, we do something altogether different and radical. We welcome all our parts with curiosity and compassion. We seek to understand them and appreciate their efforts to help us. But we don't lose sight of the ways they may be causing us problems. We develop a relationship of caring and trust with each part, and then take the steps to release it from its burdens so it can function in a healthy way.
In the IFS system, there are three kinds of parts—managers, firefighters, and exiles. The managers are the parts you usually encounter first in exploring yourself. Their job is to handle the world and protect against the pain of the exiles. Exiles are young child parts that hold pain from the past. (We won't get into firefighters in this short article.)
For example, John has one manager that tries to know everything about any organization he might work with and tries to do everything perfectly. This is an incredible burden for him and prevents him from being light and flexible in his work life. When he started to get to know this manager part, he learned that it was trying to protect him from being betrayed by people or projects he might put his heart and soul into. He also realized he had another manager part that was very suspicious of people. This part checks out people carefully to see how they might betray him. Both managers are trying to protect John from feeling the pain of an exile part that felt hurt and betrayed, first by his mother and then by an organization he was part of.
In the above example Sally had a manager that said, "Who do you think you are?" Although this message has prevented Sally from taking action as she would like, it is trying to protect Sally from the pain of an exile part who felt crushed and frightened of punishment. It turned out that Sally (and other children) had been punished by the nuns in her Catholic school whenever they became too visible, so from then on in her life, she had a terrified exile and a manager who tried to keep Sally invisible.
Parts take on extreme roles because of what has happened to them in the past. Exiles take on pain and burdens from what they experienced as children (or occasionally at other times). Managers take on extreme roles in order to protect you from the pain of the exiles. IFS has a method of understanding and working with these parts to release the burdens and heal the system, so you can function in healthy ways.
The IFS Process
So how does IFS work with our parts? IFS recognizes that each of us has a spiritual center, a true Self. This Self is naturally compassionate and curious about people, and especially about our own parts. The Self wants to connect with each part and get to know and understand it. The Self feels compassion for the pain of the exiles and also for the burdens that drives managers to act the way they do. The Self is also able to stay calm and centered despite the sometimes intense emotions that parts may feel. Everyone has a Self, even though in some people it may not be very accessible because of the activity of their parts.
The Self is the agent of healing. An IFS therapist or group leader will coach the Self in how to relate to the parts, but the Self is the true leader of the internal system and can love and heal each part, so you become free of extreme feelings and behavior.
Let's see how this works. First you learn how to access the Self. IFS has many powerful ways of doing this which are beyond the scope of this article. Then the Self chooses a part to focus on. For example, let's look at Bill, who has a manager who is judgmental and competitive. This is distressing to Bill because he believes in being cooperative and accepting and inclusive, and to some extent he is. But his judgmental manager crops up in situations where Bill feels threatened. Often he is able to hide his judgments, but sometimes they leak out and cause problems. This makes Bill considerably less effective at work and causes dissension in his organization. It also causes problems for him in his marriage.
Bill started out his IFS work by focusing on his Judgmental Part. It wasn't easy for Bill to be in Self because he felt disgusted with the Judgmental Part for not living up to his ideals. (The Self is never disgusted, so this was really another part of Bill.) However, with some work, he was able to be genuinely in his Self so that he was interested in getting to know the Judgmental Part. He found out that it was trying to protect an exile part of him that felt inadequate. Bill had a learning problem as a child even though he is quite intelligent and competent. So there was a young part of Bill that had felt inadequate in school. The Judgmental Part was trying to compensate for this inadequacy by feeling superior to people. Bill had grown up in a judgmental, competitive home, so that was the primary model this part knew. As Bill got to know the Judgmental Part, he understood why this part acted as it did and appreciated its efforts in his behalf.
He then contacted the exile who felt inadequate. He listened and watched as this part showed him scenes from his childhood where it felt ashamed and inadequate because of his learning problem, and he responded to it with compassion and caring. The young part responded to this by feeling cherished and valuable for the first time. Up until then, it had been hidden away in Bill's unconscious, which only increased its feelings of worthlessness. With love from Bill's Self and direction from the IFS therapist, this young part was able to release the burden of inadequacy it had been carrying and feel good about itself. This allowed the Judgmental manager to relax. It no longer needed to judge people to compensate for the exile's pain. This enabled Bill to respond to people in the way he always wanted, with openness and acceptance and a cooperative attitude. As a result, he became much more effective at work, and he stopped having so many fights with his wife.
This description of the IFS process is greatly simplified for the sake of this short article. It doesn't discuss many of the difficulties and complexities that IFS knows how to handle in order to accomplish this kind of healing.
Tags: Jay Earley, Introduction, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Richard Schwartz, parts, parts work, subpersonalities, Psychology, therapy, self concept, psychotherapy, IFS, managers, firefighters, exiles, child parts, inner child, protectors, perfectionist, inner critic
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Officials said that Ray was discovered by workers at the Small Animal Hospital in Milwaukee after he was screaming for help Monday morning.
Milwaukee police Capt. Aaron Raap said, "It wasn't the cat in their ventilation shaft, it was a cat burglar."
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Lagos Govt to increase investments on Information Technology in education – Adefisayo
June 10, 2022 umunnaComment(0)
The Lagos State Government says it will invest more on Information Technology (IT) in education to sustain the pace set for learning from COVID-19 Pandemic.
The state's Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, made the remark at one-day Close Out Meeting of Tax Justice and Gender Responsive Public Service Project (Breaking Barriers) in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event, which held on Thursday at Ikeja was organised by the Human Development Initiatives (HDI) in collaborations with ActionAid and Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD).
According to her, it is good that an external organisation is assessing, transparently and openly, whether tax payers money is adequately and appropriately being utilised.
"They used to say public education is free but we all know it's not free because somebody is paying for it and it's coming from our individual taxes to the state government," she said.
Adefisayo added that the Lagos government would continue to support the project.
"It is important for us to hear and know if we're doing right, what/where we are not doing well and how we can improve on what we are doing.
"The impact of COVID-19 was mostly adverse but like I used to say through that period, I did and hoped that from the ashes of the terrible event something good will come.
"What it did was to force us all to reimagine and rethink education, did we know that we could broadcast on television, radio, or give devices to our children and have a web portal?.
"Before then, we used to think that IT is expensive and we can't do it, but it set the pace for us and I am glad to let you know that we will continue to build on the learning from COVID-19," she added.
The commissioner noted that a major effect of COVID-19 was increase in 'Out of School Children' which led to a SUBEB programme tagged ' Project Zero' where efforts were made to bring students back to school.
Adefisayo noted that LASUBEB worked with the private sector, corporate sponsors,amd NGOs which she described as being instrumental to the advancement, growth, importance and impact of educational system in Lagos State.
Also, Mrs Olufunso Owasanoye, Executive Director, HID, in her address said the programme was purposely designed to draw more attention to Gender Inequality with the focus to promote quality, equitable, inclusive and free public funded education for all.
Owasanoye explained that the emphasis was on girls, children with disabilities and other marginalised group through tax justice.
"It is a unique project because of the way it was designed to link tax injustice to the provision of public services.
"This is in a way that it will respond to the needs and rights of all children, as a tool for public awareness, advocacy and ultimately positive change set to record progress.
"The critical outcome areas are '4S', : Size of state budget, Share allocated to/spend on education, Scrutiny through active community involvement and Sensitisation of government policies and programmes to the right of all children," she said.
On the success story of the project, the HID Director said that the journey had recorded unions and community stakeholders' actions demanding for improved quality, inclusive/free public education and holding government accountable.
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"These positive changes have made it clear that the LASG is listening and that our years of advocacy engagements were not in vain."
However, the project suffered from shortage of funds to execute some planned major interventions being the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, she explained.
Owasanoye expressed gratitude to the Lagos State Ministry of Education, SUBEB, ActionAid Nigeria, its partner and sponsor of the project and NORAD, government institutions, coalition groups and individuals, urging them to continue to be instrumental of improvement to quality of education in Lagos State.
Speaking, Mr Ene Obi, said that a Safe Space Club was established in some junior primary schools in Alimosho, Badagry and Epe LGAs' aimed to build the capacity of girls to know their rights, voice out their challenges and seek protection where necessary.
Obi said the Breaking Barriers Project addressed some of the barriers that prevented children, particularly girls and vulnerable children, from enjoying their rights to free, quality and inclusive public education.
He pointed out that the findings revealed that there were discrimination, inadequate financing band the proliferation of private, low-cost schools which were handled.
"In Lagos, six junior secondary, three primary schools across Alimosho, Badagry and Epe LGAs were supported to set up Safe Space Clubs amidst the pandemic and 673 translators radios were also provided to aid their access to e-learning.
"It is worthy to note that about 1,500 girls across these schools are thriving in their environment in the Safe Space Club, thanks to facilitators for their dedication, serving as confidant and role models to the girls.
Also, Mrs Olayemi Oni, Director Legal, Ministry of Finance, Alausa Secretariat, described the programme as laudable initiative in line with one of the major agenda of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu when he assumed office.
Oni said that education, as an important aspect, is the heartbeat of development in any county, hence it was fundamental to create an enabling environment for children to get basic education.
She solicited for more advocacy and initiative of the programme across the country to reduce illiteracy rate.
"Education is the bedrock of any economy; if we don't get our children educated, bridge that gap, and develop them in the right direction, it will be tantamount to the economy dying slowly.
"Such programme should be taken down to the grassroots as part of efforts to create awareness, sensitisation and on the part of government, there should be more funding and support from NGOs, she said.(NAN)
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Law schools continue to fall on the wrong side of the curve
If law schools are serious about recruiting students from diverse backgrounds and those who come from low socio-economic backgrounds, the grading system as it currently stands must be the next piece to fall.
"California continues leading the nation's economy," Newsom boasted after the December employment report was issued this month. Earlier he projected that if California were a nation, it would be close to surpassing Germany as the globe's 4th most powerful economy.
More than one million undocumented immigrants gained driver's licenses in California since new law in 2015
Since the law took effect in 2015, more than a million undocumented immigrants, out of an estimated 2 million, have received licenses, and more than 700,000 have renewed them. Besides California, 18 other states have followed suit.
College enrollment decline leads to funding changes for underperforming Cal State schools
It's a stunning reversal of fortune for the 23 campuses of the country's largest public university system, which have collectively lost 27,000 students in two years — part of a national wave of declining college enrollment.
Oil drilled in Amazon rainforest ends up in California
Much of that oil, advocates say, is shipped to California for processing. In fact, half of the crude exported from the Amazon overall goes to California, according to a report by Amazon Watch and Stand.earth, two nonprofit groups that work to protect the rainforest.
California reparations task force aims at more than dollars; seeks policies to prevent harm
"This is the meat — the actual meat — of what we're really trying to do," said Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a Democrat representing Los Angeles who also is a task force member.
A first-year attorney's survival guide
Lessons learned while weathering the pandemic in law school.
Would 'wealth taxes' bring big bucks or spur exodus?
California voters could pose those questions if newly introduced wealth tax legislation makes it through the Capitol, including a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom, and appears on next year's ballot.
Gun violence should be treated as public health crisis
To decrease violence in California, research shows that we must instead invest in our communities.
A vigil, another mass shooting in California
The motive remains unclear as law enforcement continues to investigate the massacre in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles, that claimed its 11th fatality on Monday — although some reports cited recent personal disputes and emotional problems.
Asserted claims of aerial roof measurement patent invalid
The framework for distinguishing patents that claim laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas from those that claim patent-eligible applications of those concepts is a two-step process.
US District Judge William Orrick to take senior status
When the judge takes senior status, the Northern District of California seat will move to San Jose, Orrick noted in his letter to President Joe Biden, due to the increasing volume of cases there.
To stay or not to stay – the arbitration jurisdictional split is on the docket
Coinbase sides with the majority view, lamenting in its petition that it has been forced to answer two complaints that seek to proceed as class actions and face imminent discovery
Jaywalking is now legal, but Californians still need to be cautious
Supporters have heralded the law change as a victory for pedestrians, and for people living in low-income communities of color who, statistics show, are more likely to be cited for jaywalking than people in whiter, wealthier neighborhoods.
Raising the federal debt ceiling has been the norm
The only practical solution is for Congress to promptly act to increase the debt ceiling, which it recently did with bipartisan support on three occasions during the Trump Administration, to protect the full faith and credit of the United States.
$255M class settlement with Juul Labs gets preliminary approval
The lawsuits claim the company was a major driving force behind the underage vaping epidemic.
Doctors' attorneys argue against state law limiting speech on COVID
Attorneys debated for two hours about what speech the law restrains — and how extreme that speech would have to be in order to be sanctioned.
Transit ridership falters, posing a 'fiscal cliff'
The California Air Resources Control Board has issued seemingly countless decrees, including one that would ban the sale of autos with gas- or diesel-powered engines by 2035.
School funding proposal aims to achieve equity, but does it go far enough?
Some advocates say the proposed school funding in the budget waters down the intent of the bill and will perpetuate the achievement gap for Black students.
After Monterey Park, more gun safety talk
After the massacre late Saturday night at Monterey Park's Star Ballroom Dance Studio that left 10 dead and 10 others hospitalized, on Sunday one politician after another, including President Biden, expressed sorrow and offered condolences. (An 11th person died Monday.)
Savings accounts for disabled people are opened to more of them
The change means an estimated 6 million more people, including about 1 million military veterans, will eventually qualify for the tax-favored accounts, advocates for disabled people say.
Letters of intent for commercial leases – lessons learned from the Amazon case
Non-breaching parties to a letter of intent may have a claim for costs incurred in reliance on that promise if that promise is breached.
Why is there a California Supreme Court Historical Society?
The persuasive attorney and wise jurist recognize that the historical underpinnings of a law, decision, or custom is critical to its proper application, whether in making an argument or in supporting a judicial ruling. In short, in the field of law, the past guides the future.
A veiled threat
The notion that the free expression of religion of a student group like Fellowship of Christian Athletes may threaten others is not just a myth pushed by progressives. The threat is veiled but there.
The economic laws of supply and demand mean the housing shortage results in high home prices and rents. As those costs, particularly rents, filter down to the Californians on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder, they result in California's having the highest rate of poverty of any state, 13.2%, when the cost of living is included in the calculation.
After Madera's hospital closure, could others follow?
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the 51-year-old hospital over the brink, hospital leaders said.
Abusing the shadow docket
It again is five conservative justices advancing the conservative agenda, here with regard to immigration, in violation of clear legal rules and using the shadow docket to achieve their goals.
Unemployment insurance in crisis, needs a fix
Among the many other examples, albeit less spectacular, has been a chronic crisis in unemployment insurance, the program that's supposed to cushion the devastating effects on workers who lose their jobs and their families during the state's periodic recessions.
To reel in oil industry, California should examine its maintenance practices – not tax profits
Although founded on fairness principles, Newsom's proposed tax will do little to address the underlying root causes of the price spikes.
State COVID-19 testing sites begin to close
Sites that are operating under 50% capacity are scheduled to close before the end of January. Forty-four OptumServe sites will be shuttered this week, and 48 mobile "mini-buses" will begin closing in two weeks, according to the California Department of Public Health.
California celebrates Lunar New Year
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill last year declaring Lunar New Year, which typically falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice, to be a state holiday — a way to "acknowledge the diversity and cultural significance Asian Americans bring to California," he said in his signing message.
Passing down financial values
Financial wisdom is a gift that can have lifelong rewards and last longer than a monetary gift.
Storms tell California to upgrade its plumbing
So far, only a relatively tiny amount of the immense storm runoff has found its way into storage.
How California can prepare for future floods before a megastorm hits
The future likelihood of a series of huge atmospheric rivers in California, a so-called ARk storm scenario, seems to be a certainty.
Californians' patience on homelessness wears thin
Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged the growing resentment as he introduced his new state budget last week. "People have just had it," he told reporters. "They want the encampments cleaned up."
UC housing problem persists for graduate students
Of the roughly 113,000 beds occupied by university students, just around 17,500 are for graduate students, according to fall 2022 data the UC Office of the President shared with CalMatters.
Race to zero: Can California's power grid handle a 15-fold increase in electric cars?
State officials claim that the 12.5 million electric vehicles expected on California's roads in 2035 will not strain the grid.
There's nothing clean about offshore wind development unless California tribes are involved
These shortsighted actions are also an assault on our sacred connection to the land, which is fundamental to who we are as Native people.
Trademark and copyright cases to watch in 2023
Each of these cases could significantly impact IP law. For that reason, we will keep a close eye, and I will likely write about each of these cases as they continue to develop.
Be kind to your reader
Writing clearly requires getting out of your shell as a writer, and thinking about your reader.
Scramble begins for Feinstein's US Senate seat
Feinstein, who will be 90 in June, has not said whether she'll be seeking another term next year, but recently widowed, very unpopular with the dominant progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and plagued by accounts of cognitive dissonance, she is likely to retire.
Why you should file taxes even if you don't owe any
One of the main ways California helps people financially — and redistributes wealth — is by passing money through the tax system. It's not just one-time pandemic payments; there are also yearly payments, called refundable tax credits, that provide thousands of dollars to lower-income people through the tax system.
New LA mayor on homelessness, California housing crisis
She spoke with L.A. Times reporters Liam Dillon and Ben Oreskes about the California housing crisis, the homeless population in Los Angeles and the state, and gave her opinion on related topics like gentrification and Proposition 13.
How will California deal with a big budget deficit?
Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon reveal a proposed budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that begins July 1, and it's likely to greatly differ from the 2022-23 version he and the Legislature adopted just six months ago.
A new year, but California's old crises still abound
Despite a fairly wet winter – so far – California is still coping with a multi-year drought that's devastating the nation's most productive agricultural industry, the electrical grid struggles to meet demand, public school students are struggling with learning losses from COVID-19 school shutdowns, and the state's chronic housing shortage underlies the nation's highest rates of poverty and homelessness.
How new Title IX rules could affect state's transgender and nonbinary students
President Joe Biden's administration aims to protect students who identify as transgender and nonbinary from discrimination under new rules proposed in June and now making their way through the Education Department's lengthy rulemaking process. If finalized, the changes to Title IX, the 50-year-old civil rights law, would clarify that its ban on discrimination on the basis of sex extends to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Border scramble: Why California isn't financially ready for Title 42 to end
The situation, and its use as a political backdrop, has prompted local officials to ask what state resources will be available next year with California facing a potential budget shortfall and the possibility that Title 42 will end.
California's takes steps toward pay equity
Employers must provide current employees with their pay scales upon request. Although applicants and employees likely welcome the enactment of Senate Bill 1162, or the "Pay Transparency Act," employers face some new responsibilities.
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I thought the filling for these eggs was way to salty! The flavors from the other ingredients just didn't come through that well. I will probably not try this recipe again.
I made these for a BBQ last night and there were none left (everyone liked them), but I wouldn't add as much salt next time. To me they were too salty.
This is the only deviled egg recipe that I make. I can never seem to make enough. They really go fast...never any leftovers. This is now a family heirloom recipe for us. That good!
This recipe is always a hit. Never any left - surprisingly, all the guys at a picnic, tailgate, cookouts - always love 'em. Very easy to make.


The Pinot Nero grape in the right combination with the Chardonnay grape gives origin to this sparkling wine with its own marked and distinct personality. The wines obtained from these two different vines form, in the month of March of the year which follows the vintage, the wine base which is then bottled. The wine base has been sugared and added yeasts before being bottled and it achieves the refermentation in the bottle.
At the end of this process which produces the characteristic perlage, we assist at the maturation on the yeasts which lasts about two years. After this period of time, the procedures of "remuage" and "degorgement" prepare the wine to be drunk.
The final product is ready to be consumed after two years and a half from the time the grape was harvested.
Fine and intense bubbles, persistent and lively foam with a well-blended straw yellow color; the aroma of this wine is complex with distant and vague remembrances of fruit, pleasant fragrances of yeast and bread crust. Surprising gustatory effect, which ends pleasantly with a somewhat bitter sensation.
Excellent as aperitif and delicious as a sparkling end in any situation. It matches with delicate hors d'oeuvres, savory first courses and elegant second dishes.


I hope everyone is excited for another week of fashionable, budget-friendly looks! So, as everyone knows, fall is right around the corner. Get ready for pumpkin spice raining from the sky. Do you know what else is exciting about fall? There's another designer collaboration that'll make you want to swarm Target starting September 27. Adam Lippes for Target is, as cliché as it sounds, going to make everyone mad for plaid. As an inspiration sidebar, I thought that in honor of most everyone going back to school, I would create looks that would be classroom-friendly (shout out to my teacher friends!). Trust me, the Adam Lippes for Target pieces are more than just classroom-friendly, they're run-the-world friendly. Let's get this party started!
The fashion pendulum has swung away from statement necklaces and over-the-top arm parties, and now delicate jewelry is officially "in." You see it all over Instagram: Whisper-thin rings worn on multiple fingers and barely there necklaces with slight charms are reigning on the style scene. One jewelry designer who has managed to ride the tide of jewelry trends for many years now and still remains a huge celebrity fave is Jennifer Meyer (she counts Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez and Britney Spears among her fans). I absolutely adore her whisper-thin gold band ring with a slender bar accent, but it's $175 at shopbop.com. The look for less that I found is just $10 elsewhere. See if you can spot the real from the steal by clicking either link below!


A very frequently asked question in Photoshop 911 is putting text into a circle or a shape. A number of readers have asked how to put text into a shape so it runs around pictures. This is all doable so long as you remember the rules of putting text on a path.
Putting text on a path is really very simple, like connecting to the world wide web via broadband connection, once you realize that any path in Adobe can become the baseline for text. The second thing to remember are the tool modes that allow you to first place the text, and then move it around on your shape. Finally, an understanding of the Pen tool and how it works in conjunction with the Select and Direct Select tool pointers will get you a long way toward some good graphics.
I'll walk you through some basics, and then we'll talk about variations and modifications.
If you were using the Shape tool, you would merely select the Ellipse Tool (Tap: U) and click/drag in your image window to begin drawing the circle.
To form a perfect circle from the center, use Option first, then step on the shift key once you've begun dragging out the circle.
To reposition the circle during dragging, press the space bar and drag.
But all that's too easy -- I know you want a challenge. So instead of the shape tool (Ellipse), let's get the Pen Tool. (Tap: P) Here's the design we'll be creating in this tutorial. I really can't pass up the opportunity to work with images of my car!
We really don't need a circle, but rather a gentle arch.
This begins the path. Now, without clicking elsewhere, we'll move to the spot in the image where we want our arch to end. Then click-and-drag in the direction the path would go if it were continued. Click and drag to the right and down.
Don't worry about how it looks. In a moment we'll adjust it into the perfect arch we need, using the Direct Select tool.
You'll note here that my arch came in already filled with a color. Well, we don't care about that. I could have turned that off before beginning -- but because all stroking and filling will be turned off by the text tool, why bother.
But if that disturbs you, then before drawing with the Pen Tool, simply go up to the Pen Tool Options bar and click on the second icon which will be the "pure paths" mode. Now, it won't be filled.
Using the Direct Select pointer tool we can easily drag on the handles to our anchor points, or the path itself to reshape it and modify it until we like the shape.
Tip: Editable anchors are hollow dots. Selected anchors become solid dots. Remember the pointer tool: Solid black pointer selects the whole object... Hollow pointer selects and edits anchors, paths.
If you've followed along so far, now would be a good opportunity to use the Direct Select tool to experiment with the arch.
Click on any anchor and move it.
Observe what happens to the cursor tool when hovered over various parts of the path.
On the anchors, you'll get a little "oh".
Click on the path itself and drag up and down.
Notice you can modify that path by dragging vertically or in the direction of the path.
Notice what happens to the anchor handles when you drag the path.
These concepts and techniques work as well in Illustrator, InDesign, and even Quark XPress. A little later, we'll show you some tips relating to those programs -- so no matter what program you're in, you'll be able to create text on a path like a pro!.


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package com.example.xiongcen.myapplication.porter;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff;
import android.graphics.PorterDuffXfermode;
import android.graphics.Xfermode;
import android.os.Build;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;

import com.example.xiongcen.myapplication.R;

/**
 * 孙群
 * http://blog.csdn.net/iispring
 */
public class PorterView extends View {

    Paint paint;
    float cellSize = 0;
    float cellHorizontalOffset = 0;
    float cellVerticalOffset = 0;
    float circleRadius = 0;
    float rectSize = 0;
    int circleColor = 0xffffcc44;//黄色
    int rectColor = 0xff66aaff;//蓝色
    float textSize = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.textSize);

    private static final Xfermode[] sModes = {
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_OVER),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_OVER),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_IN),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_OUT),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_OUT),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DST_ATOP),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.XOR),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.DARKEN),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.LIGHTEN),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY),
            new PorterDuffXfermode(PorterDuff.Mode.SCREEN)
    };

    private static final String[] sLabels = {
            "Clear", "Src", "Dst", "SrcOver",
            "DstOver", "SrcIn", "DstIn", "SrcOut",
            "DstOut", "SrcATop", "DstATop", "Xor",
            "Darken", "Lighten", "Multiply", "Screen"
    };

    public PorterView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init(null, 0);
    }

    public PorterView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init(attrs, 0);
    }

    public PorterView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        init(attrs, defStyle);
    }

    private void init(AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11){
            setLayerType(LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
        }
        paint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
        paint.setTextSize(textSize);
        paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
        paint.setStrokeWidth(2);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        super.onDraw(canvas);
        //设置背景色
        canvas.drawARGB(255, 139, 197, 186);

        int canvasWidth = canvas.getWidth();
        int canvasHeight = canvas.getHeight();

        for(int row = 0; row < 4; row++){
            for(int column = 0; column < 4; column++){
                canvas.save();
                int layer = canvas.saveLayer(0, 0, canvasWidth, canvasHeight, null, Canvas.ALL_SAVE_FLAG);
                paint.setXfermode(null);
                int index = row * 4 + column;
                float translateX = (cellSize + cellHorizontalOffset) * column;
                float translateY = (cellSize + cellVerticalOffset) * row;
                canvas.translate(translateX, translateY);
                //画文字
                String text = sLabels[index];
                paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
                float textXOffset = cellSize / 2;
                float textYOffset = textSize + (cellVerticalOffset - textSize) / 2;
                canvas.drawText(text, textXOffset, textYOffset, paint);
                canvas.translate(0, cellVerticalOffset);
                //画边框
                paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
                paint.setColor(0xff000000);
                canvas.drawRect(2, 2, cellSize - 2, cellSize - 2, paint);
                paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.FILL);
                //画圆
                paint.setColor(circleColor);
                float left = circleRadius + 3;
                float top = circleRadius + 3;
                canvas.drawCircle(left, top, circleRadius, paint);
                paint.setXfermode(sModes[index]);
                //画矩形
                paint.setColor(rectColor);
                float rectRight = circleRadius + rectSize;
                float rectBottom = circleRadius + rectSize;
                canvas.drawRect(left, top, rectRight, rectBottom, paint);
                paint.setXfermode(null);
                //canvas.restore();
                canvas.restoreToCount(layer);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
        cellSize = w / 4.5f;
        cellHorizontalOffset = cellSize / 6;
        cellVerticalOffset = cellSize * 0.426f;
        circleRadius = cellSize / 3;
        rectSize = cellSize * 0.6f;
    }
}

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Documentary on Butch Vig's Smart Studios gets Boston screening date, vinyl compilation
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By Michael Marottaon October 13, 2016
With upcoming in-depth looks at Oasis, L7, and the Stooges, it's a good time to be a fan of music documentaries. Now, one centered on Wisconsin's Smart Studios — the space founded by Butch Vig and Steve Marker and the base where classic albums by Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Death Cab For Cutie, and others were recorded — is coming to the Boston area.
Titled The Smart Studios Story, the 2016 doc screens at the Regent Theatre in Arlington on November 9. It's part of a 20-date tour that picks back up Monday in Austin, and the local date features a Q&A with director Wendy Schneider.
The film features contributions from Vig and Marker, obviously, as well as appearances by Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Shirley Manson, Donita Sparks, Jimmy Chamberlin, Doug "The Duke" Erikson, Chris Walla, and Tom Hazelmyer. Watch the trailer below, where Corgan offers: "There's something holy about it when you get it right. When you get the synchronicity between the gear and your inspiration and your intuition, there's a lot of magic moments to be had."
The doc is also the "official film" of Record Store Day, November 25, and as a result, will be issued with a vinyl companion LP called American Noise Volume 1. It features bands that recorded at Smart Studios, like Killdozer, Tar Babies, and Die Kreuzen.
Here's the film's description: "If you've ever been touched by the music of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, L7, Death Cab For Cutie (among many, many others), you've been touched by the music created at Smart Studios. Drawing on in-depth-interviews with musicians and producers, never-before-seen archival footage and a powerful soundtrack, The Smart Studios Story tells the story of the pivotal Midwest link to the global rise of Alternative Rock in the 1990's and the unassuming Madison, Wisconsin recording studio at its center. The post-70's explosion of independent music in America has many traceable roots, each with a compelling story. This is one of the most significant stories that has never been told until now."
The Smart Studios Story Tour Dates
10/17: Austin, TX @ The North Door
10/18: Houston, TX @ The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
10/19: New Orleans, LA @ Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
10/20: Hot Springs, AR @ Low Key Arts
10/22: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
10/23: Long Beach, CA @Frida Cinema
10/23: Dallas, TX @ The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
10/24: El Paso, TX @ The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
11/01: Minneapolis, MN @ Turf Club
11/04: Mineral Point, WI @ Opera House
11/09: Arlington, MA @ Regent Theater
11/11: East Greenwich, Rhode Island @ The Greenwich Odeum
11/13: Brooklyn, NY @ St Vitus
11/14: Washington, DC @ Black Cat
11/15: Philadelphia, PA @ MOCCA
11/16: Lansdowne, PA @ Vinyl Revival
11/22: Durham, NC @ Motorco
11/27: Madison, WI @ Sundance at Hilldale
12/02: Seattle, WA @ Grand Illusion
The Smart Studios Story – TRAILER from wendy schneider on Vimeo.
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Somebody get Alistair Overeem (pictured) some horse meat, STAT! The heavyweight's brief run in the UFC has been a disappointing one, to put it mildly. Some might say, Overeem is overrated.
After blasting out of the gates with an impressive victory over former UFC champ Brock Lesnar, Overeem was hit with a nine-month testosterone suspension which took him out of a title fight against then-champ Junior dos Santos.
The kickboxer returned from his ban and hasn't looked the same – with his fight game or physically (not as Ubereem as before). "The Demolition Man" got demolished by Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva and Saturday night to Travis Browne.
Against both fighters, Overeem was a heavy odds-on favorite and was viciously put down in lights out fashion. Following Overeem's latest loss, UFC president Dana White isn't sure what the future holds for the Dutchman.
"You guys, especially (in the media), all believed he was the best at one time," White said of Overeem. "He had a big following.
When asked pointblank if Overeem would be back in the UFC, White refused to give a definitive answer.
Overeem made $264,285 (with roughly half of his paycheck coming via win bonus) for beating Lesnar and $285,714 in his loss to Bigfoot.


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J. Schnabel
BY THE HORNS
December 31, 2017 February 4, 2018 jim
Thoughts on tauromaquia.
About a hundred fair Julys ago—it seems that long anyway—I ran with the bulls in Pamplona.
If you'd asked me why back then, I would have said simply that it seemed a fun thing to do, a thrill, an "experience" to tick off a tourist's list. It would have felt silly to describe it as a chance to prove one's courage. But I think that is mainly what it was.
We bull-runners were all men or boys. Nearly all of us wore the traditional uniform of the encierro (thin white cotton shirt, red bandanna). Many of us also carried a rolled-up newspaper, said to be useful for distracting the bull with a swat to the hindquarters if he happened to be goring a friend.
A rocket went off and burst to warn us as the first bulls were released from a pen into the zigzag course of the town's narrow streets. The animals had to pound down a lane and round a corner before they encountered most of the human runners who waited for them.
Now here they came. Who knew how fast those half-ton monsters moved? We runners lurched forward, with the twin fears of injury on the one hand and cowardice on the other. To avoid both, it certainly helped to be in a group. Running alone, becoming the sole target of all those horned beasts, was almost inconceivable. But there was danger too in being amid a jostling pack: many runners stumbled and fell with, it seemed, too little time to rise and evade what approached with such inhuman speed.
And suddenly that first group of bulls and steers rumbled by, all hooves and bulk and undulant muscle. Like most of the runners, I had managed to get to one side of the narrow, cobblestoned street to let them pass. Some other runners, though, were caught in the middle and sent sprawling. A miraculous few stayed up, jogging gamely, as the great beasts missed them by inches.
I ran again, found daylight, heard the next pack coming, let them pass, and just managed to sprint into the plaza de toros before the last bulls entered and the gate closed behind them.
To my surprise, if no one else's, a series of younger bulls was then let out to confront the few dozen of us who had made it into the bullring. One of the first animals took aim at a German tourist—a scruffy-looking character, borracho and slow—and chased him down easily, driving him face-first into the dirt. The guy might well have been killed, had the young bull's horns not been padded. Later the same animal, chasing one of us, leapt over the plaza's barrera and raced around forcing panicked bullring staff and spectators to spill into the comparative safety of the bullring itself. We runners laughed with relief as we took a breather, but soon were eager for the next novillo toro to be let out so that this primal test of our courage could start again.
At the time it seemed a forgiving test. It was clear that tourists in the encierro, especially the drunk ones, were routinely gored or trampled, but I assumed that truly serious or fatal injuries were very rare. There wasn't yet an Internet with which one could immediately check such statistics. Even at the real bullfights, in the afternoons at Pamplona, where the bulls were injured and maddened and vengeful, the matadors appeared to be in little danger; one of them kept such a cautious distance between the bull's horns and his own costumed hide that the spectators began to hurl insults—maricón! el peor!—and even seat cushions into the ring.
However, some Spanish bullfighters were reputed to be very skillful and brave. Among them was Jose Cubero ("El Yiyo") Sanchez. Later that summer, in southwestern France, I saw posters listing him in the lineup for a corrida to be held in Bayonne in September.
Alas, Sanchez didn't make it to Bayonne, or even to September. On the 30th of August, in Madrid, he was nearing the end of a seemingly routine bout when he attempted the ritual sword-thrust, which is meant to go into the bull's upper back and thence downward through the heart. He missed. The angry bull turned, charged, upended the matador, and—as the 21-year old tried to scramble away on all fours—stuck him with his left horn in the upper back. In full view of a large crowd, the bull lifted Sanchez completely off his feet so that he slid down the horn until his own heart was pierced.
Having done his work, the bull let the man go. Sanchez ran just a few steps before collapsing, famously gasping his last words, "este toro me ha matado," as they rushed him in vain to the ring infirmary.
Those memories came back last week when I read about the unfortunate Victor Barrio, the first matador to die in the bullring since Sanchez.
It happened at a late-night corrida in Teruel. Towards the end of a fight with a bull called Lorenzo, Barrio goaded the bleeding, wary animal to charge the cape. The bull at last did as he was bidden, but as Barrio swiveled for the next pass, Lorenzo without warning shifted his attention from cape to matador—some later spoke of an unlucky, cape-lifting gust of wind—and with an upthrusting left horn to the back of the knee the bull sent his human tormentor leaping evasively into the air.
It was a relatively minor goring, but the bull was not finished. The moment the matador hit the dirt, Lorenzo, using the same left horn, began trying to stab him in the chest. Barrio started to roll away but Lorenzo quickly hooked him below the right arm and, hopping on front hooves to make full use of his 529-kg weight, drove the horn most of the way through the man's chest cavity.
Lorenzo then jerked the embedded horn sideways for good measure, destroying Barrio's right lung and thoracic aorta among other things, and violently lifting his body off the ground. When, just about six seconds after making that first sudden stab to the leg, Lorenzo flung his conquered adversary off his horn, the 29-year old matador had only enough time to pull his arm over the wound in his side and roll over, face down, before darkness overcame him. He died in full view of the crowd, his eyes opening sightlessly, his muscles relaxing into the flaccidity that in traditional societies marks the release of the soul to heaven.
In bullfights, incidentally, that is the ideal ending: the killer's thrust swiftly stops the victim's heart. Perhaps no bull has ever turned the tables as perfectly as Lorenzo.
And Lorenzo as far as I know had never practiced fighting humans. Like the brother taurus that killed Sanchez, he seemed to know from long-evolved instinct to use his horns to maximum effect by going, when he could, for his antagonist's chest. As any hunter or soldier will tell you, the chest of a mammal is the prime kill zone, easily hit and especially vulnerable to mortal wounds.
In the plaza de toros at Teruel that night, it all happened too quickly for the spectators to process. Barrio had been gored somehow and was down—that was obvious. But there was no visible gush of blood. That this was because his heart had almost immediately been stopped was unimaginable. The man had been standing, smoothly handling the bull with his cape just a few moments before. His young wife, though she was seated even closer to the action than most other spectators, assumed her husband's wounds couldn't be fatal.
"I was saying to myself, 'It's serious but he's going to survive, he's been gored, but nowadays no-one dies from being gored, there'll be a solution.
No one dies? What then would be the point? As Hemingway observed, "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death."
Barrio and Sanchez surely knew that—knew about the danger, at least, even if they also knew that bullfighting doesn't always rise to the level of art.
Alas, these days, talk of danger and art are mostly lost on the audience beyond the bullring. The bien pensants of social media heaped scorn on Barrio and bullfighting in response to the story of his death.
Even in Spain, the rapid modern shifts in customs—largely driven, as elsewhere, by the cultural ascendancy of women—have meant that bullfighting is treated more and more as a bloody relic of a barbarous past.
Bullfighting is undeniably cruel, and sometimes can seem irredeemably so. At Pamplona all those years ago, I saw one bull killed in a most unsporting way, which was nevertheless common: The swords had all missed so that the matador, amid the crowd's jeers, had finally to sever the poor kneeling animal's spinal cord with a dagger to put it out of its misery. And still the bloody travesty continued: When they tried to hook the bull's carcass to a team of horses that would drag it from the ring, someone slapped the horses prematurely, before the attachment was made. The horses sprinted forward, unloaded and out of control, until the one on the far right smashed against the edge of the arena's exit, and was left writhing on the ground with serious injuries. Someone then had to come out and put it out of its misery, with a pistol if memory serves. It seemed a horrible waste—though almost incredibly it was much worse a century ago, when the picadors' horses went unpadded and were often gored so badly that their intestines spilled out and dragged on the sand behind them.
And yet I can't join the anti-tauromaquian chorus. I'm not a Spaniard and I'm generally loath to criticize other cultures—to each his own, I'm inclined to say. More specifically I think bullfighting is too ancient, and potentially too beneficial, to just throw away.
Bullfighting is many things. It is for example a drama—Hemingway called it a tragedy—symbolizing the eternal contest between man and beast: brains vs. brawn. Plausibly it also represents the higher, more hopeful struggle of mankind vs. its own mortality.
Most straightforwardly, though, bullfighting is a highly ritualized, indeed professionalized elaboration of simple, prove-your-courage-with-a-deadly-beast displays—displays that are still largely preserved in the public encierros at Pamplona and other Spanish towns, but that date back to prehistoric times. Ancient Mediterranean cultures are suffused with themes involving bulls and men, typically in conflict. The most famous surviving artifacts of the early bronze-age Minoan culture, of roughly 3,500 years ago, feature very encierro-like "bull leaping" activities.
Arguably the basic meme of man vs. bull dates back all the way to humans' earliest surviving narrative tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is about 4,000 years old.
The Bull seemed indestructible, for hours they fought, till Gilgamesh dancing in front of the Bull, lured it with his tunic and bright weapons, and Enkidu thrust his sword, deep into the Bull's neck, and killed it.
There is little in this rich history to suggest that bullfighting, or even the bull-running and bull-teasing of encierros, have as their aim the "torture" of beasts for perverse enjoyment, or the competition of "sport," or even the attainment of "artistry." All those can be (and generally are) realized in other ways that are much less dangerous to the practitioner.
It is that danger, that risk of grave injury or death, and the simple, primal manifestation of that risk in a powerful animal, that makes bullfighting and related amateur activities unique. One social benefit is that it teaches men the possibility of courage in themselves; it glorifies that courage as something worth having; and it evokes the ancient past in which such courage was utterly necessary.
Is courage so valueless these days that we can afford to part with practices that encourage it? How could we ever be sure?
If bullfighting statistics are any guide, then we the men of the West—considering matadors as our proxies—are losing our courage. More than 500 professional bullfighters have been killed in the ring since 1700, but only a handful of those deaths have occurred in the last half-century. Better medical care for wounded matadors and an improving economy (which makes bullfighting less attractive as a career choice) have something to do with that discrepancy, but surely not everything.
Another factor seems to be that matadors are on average less willing to work in close proximity to bulls—that has been part of aficionados' litany for much of the past century, as the great names of bulfighting's heyday have faded into memory. There have also been, it is said, more of the shady tricks that weaken bulls before they get to the ring. Among these is horn-shaving, a practice that Hemingway described thusly:
To protect the leading matadors, the bulls' horns had been cut off at the points and then shaved and filed down so that they looked like real horns. But they were as tender at the points as a fingernail that has been cut to the quick and if the bull could be made to bang them against the planks of the barrera, they would hurt so that he would be careful about hitting anything else. . .
Even Manolete, often considered the greatest matador of all time, was sometimes protected this way. In the 1930s and 40s his bullfights brought in so much revenue that he became an industry in his own right—and that industry didn't want to lose its key man.
But if Manolete's reputation suffered a bit from the shaving, his fatal goring in 1947 redeemed it. Late in an August bout at Linares, boldly reaching over the bull's head to drive in a sword, the 30-year old matador was nicked by a horn in his groin and began bleeding badly from his femoral artery. The bloodstain spread quickly down his left leg.
Manolete nevertheless stayed up, kept the bull working, and finally, with the animal close to death, limped away and was carried to the infirmary.
As he lay in the infirmary, Manolete lit a cigarette and asked in a weak voice, "Is the bull dead?" After being informed that the bull was, indeed, dead, Manolete said that he could not feel his legs.
These days he would have survived such an injury, but his ultimate reputation would have suffered: his decline and death would have been more drawn-out, and certainly less interesting. As it was, Manolete (whose real surname was Sanchez) died of his injury the next morning, and passed into everlasting glory.
Juan Belmonte (1892-1962), the other greatest-ever matador, may have envied Manolete's end. Belmonte despite a long career and many serious gorings retired safely, and, it seemed, lived a life not unlike that of the rare fighting bull that is spared death and put out to stud. He bought a ranch and raised horses on it, and was rich. But he kept un-retiring and resuming bullfighting again, and being injured again, and retiring again, and then un-retiring, and so on as if nothing else in life measured up to the fundamental challenge of the bullring.
Eventually in 1962, when Belmonte was 70 and in failing health, his doctor advised him to stop riding horses and performing other manly exertions. According to the dressed-up legend, which in a cultural sense may be more revealing than the facts, the old matador went defiantly out to his ranch, indulged one last time in horse-riding, cigar-smoking, drinking, and sex with a pair of young women, and then—like his late pal Hemingway—shot himself, there being no bull, or matador, available to take his life for him.
Originally published 20 July 2016
Posted in politics & culture
Copyright © 2007-18 J. Schnabel


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Law on Wills Should be Brought into the 'Modern World'
While the law on wills differs between Scotland and England & Wales, there issues that will be relevant to the law on both sides of the border. This blog explores proposals down south which may impact on how wills are written, interpreted, altered and stored in Scotland.
Proposals have been put forward before the Law Society of England & Wales that call for wills to be brought into the modern world. The Law Commission has said that current rules are "unclear" and may put people off making a will. The Commission is considering whether text messages, emails and other forms of electronic communication should be recognised as having testamentary authority. The Commission has published these and other suggestions in a consultation paper, and submissions are accepted until November 10th. At the moment, around 40% of adults die without having written a will.
These new powers, if they come into force, will affect how wills are written and interpreted in a number of ways. They will allow judges to decide whether or not an electronic message is an accurate reflection of a person's final wishes. Another proposal is to improve the test for mental capacity. The current tests are almost a century and a half old, so bringing these tests up to date seems to be an obvious step. The new test would allow for those with conditions such as dementia to make a will.
The law commissioner in charge of the consultation project, Professor Nick Hopkins, said: "Making a will and passing on your possessions after you have died should be straightforward. But the law is unclear, outdated and could even be putting people off altogether."
"Even when it is obvious what someone wanted, if they have not followed the strict rules, courts cannot act on it. And conditions which affect decision-making, like dementia, are not properly accounted for in the law. That is not right and we want an overhaul to bring the law into the modern world. Our provisional proposals will not only clarify things legally but will also help to give greater effect to people's last wishes," said Professor Hopkins.
There were weaknesses in the proposals, which the Commission identified. In particular, the need for electronic signatures to be secure and for there to be a 'viable infrastructure' for the storing of electronic wills.
In our opinion, the law on wills does indeed need to be updated to reflect modern life. That said, there are vitally important safeguards in place which must not be lost because of changes to technology. More than ever, people are challenging wills which mean any changes must ensure that the process of a making a will is definite and certain.
Balancing flexibility and security
The Law Commission notes that there is a balance to be struck between security, infrastructure and consistency and allowing sufficient flexibility to let people create wills using all the modern tools at their disposal.
The Commission says:
"A person who is seriously ill in hospital may have more immediate access to a tablet or smartphone than to a pen and paper, and may be more able to speak than to write. On the other hand, the potential recognition of electronic documents could provide a treasure trove for dissatisfied relatives. They may be tempted to sift through a huge number of texts, emails and other records in order to find one that could be put forward as a will on the basis of a dispensing power."
As the Commission notes, an obvious weakness is that a high swathe of potentially testamentary material may suddenly become available and, as we all know, our texts and emails may not always accurately reflect how we permanently feel.
Could the proposals increase court actions?
A will is a powerful document. It is vital that people understand the potential risks before committing their wishes to paper (or text!). If these changes are implemented, there may be an increase in challenges from disgruntled or dissatisfied relatives.
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