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Posts Tagged 'AFCC Across the Pond'
Blurring Boundaries Between: Nations, Sacred and Secular, Public and Private; Continually Infusing More Social Science into (=Diluting) Law. For example ℅ Nuffield Fndt'n, or Oxford Univ. Press's 'International Journal of Family Law, Policy and Social Science' (Nov. 8, 2019)
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"Blurring Boundaries Between: Nations, Sacred and Secular, Public and Private; Continually Infusing More Social Science into (=Diluting) Law. For example ℅ Nuffield Fndt'n, or Oxford Univ. Press's 'International Journal of Family Law, Policy and Social Science' (Nov. 8, 2019)." (Short-link ends "-bxq"), as moved about 2,500 words, as published, about 7,000).
Lifted verbatim from a footnote at this Sticky Post (currently third from the top of this blog):
Acknowledgements, Executive Summary (Current Projects | Rolling Blackouts) and What Makes This Blog "What You Need to Know" (July 31, 2019). (Shortlink ends "-auh", marked sticky, this is currently 9,900 words. That includes two lengthy footnotes, one of which I expect to remove to its own post.)
There, this section was a second footnote, labeled:
THIS FOOTNOTE IS LIKELY TO BECOME ITS OWN POST (IDEALLY, SOON…)
"…resulting from my curiosity about a journal I'd just discovered and the specific USA "Overseas Advisors," — "FOOTNOTE: NUFFIELD FOUNDATION (involvement in Family Law-related projects, UK)." The second footnote** I hope to off-ramp to its own post in the near future. (Hope =/= Guarantee, however….).
and, within that footnote:
WELL, I CERTAINLY LEARNED A FEW THINGS IN JUST LOOKING UP THREE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS HERE! (Aug. 2, 2019). Probably going to move this section soon to a new post.
(**The first footnote dealt with pending Family Court-related legislation in Pennsylvania in which, "surprise, surprise," the same professionals had managed to get their [pages] words in, somehow, despite not being listed even as witnesses on the testimony hearings at the time…For details, see originating post shown above).
This material stems from simple search results which led to a journal article. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (Oxford Academic) (Introducing Social Science Evidence in Family Court Decision-making and Adjudication: Evidence from England and Wales. (John Eekelaar is one of its two editors listed)
(Editors: Mr John Eekelaar Pembroke College, Oxford, UK and Professor Robert Dingwall, Dingwall Enterprises/ Nottingham Trent University, UK). Quick look at the latter: shows a career academic, now a consulting sociologist (and professor):
http://www.DingwallEnterprises.co.uk
Robert Dingwall draws on more than forty years' experience as an academic researcher studying health care, legal services, and science and technology policy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford and Nottingham. Over that time, he has held grants and contracts worth more than £6 million (at 2016 prices) in total from the Leverhulme and Wellcome Trusts, ESRC, NERC, MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, the EU, the UK Department of Health and various NHS/NIHR programmes, the Ministry of Justice, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Food Standards Agency. These have resulted in 30 books and more than 100 scientific papers. Robert Dingwall is also an experienced manager: he served for five years as head of a large social science department and founded and directed what was one of Europe's leading research institutes in science and technology studies for 12 years. He retains an academic association as a part-time professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University.
And in referencing (this is a sub-menu on the website) how he ran across the "sociology of law" — when ran into John Eekelaar, a family lawyer; "very crudely" summarized as …everything to do with the law that is not criminal, although there is some overlap in areas like regulation….
I (Dingwall) stumbled into this field because the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies wanted to develop some research on court decision-making in cases of child abuse and neglect, led by a family lawyer, John Eekelaar. My PhD research on health visitors had given me a detailed knowledge of the agencies with whom the legal system interacted in these circumstances. Together, John and I developed one of the largest ethnographic studies ever carried out in the UK, tracing child protection cases from the initial sifting of families by frontline workers in various health and social service organizations through to the disposals reached in court hearings. In contrast to many activist claims at the time, we showed that the system had a strong bias against compulsory interventions, like the removal of children. This reflected the fundamental tension between child protection and family privacy at the heart of liberal democratic ideals. Our work had a strong impact on the Children Act 1989 and key concepts like the 'rule of optimism' continue to be employed – often inaccurately – by reports on the deaths of children as a result of maltreatment.
At the end of this project, I became involved in three other lines of work that occupied me for much of the next decade: a conversation analytic study of the emerging practice of divorce mediation; a study of asbestos disease litigation, led by WLF Felstiner of the American Bar Foundation; and a programme of studies on law and health care…
Google search link for one of only six "sample publications" shown, I copied from this website: "(D. Greatbatch and R. Dingwall) 'The marginalization of domestic violence in divorce mediation', International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 1999, 13; 2: 17490. This shows the journal goes back at least to 1999. I also found one (publ. 1989) published in AFCC's mouthpiece, "Family and Conciliation Courts Review, 1990", as seen on this page (not including my emphases):
(D. Greatbatch and R. Dingwall) 'Selective facilitation: some preliminary observations on a strategy used by divorce mediators', Law and Society Review, 1989, 23; 4: 61341. Reprinted in abridged and edited form in Family and Conciliation Courts Review, 1990, 28; 1: 5364. Reprinted in C. Menkel Meadow, ed., Mediation: Theory, Policy and Practice, Aldershot, Ashgate, (2001).
Theme from my originating July 31, 2019 (Sticky) post (-auh) for Nov. 8, 2019 post (-bxq)
I knew while writing the original material as a post footnote that it should be featured more directly, soon. Here it is.
While this post has images, they're mostly screenshots of other printed documents (websites). If as a reader your need and desire today is for brighter colors, catchy icons, big logos cartoons, or photographic head-shots, to grab or hold your attention, pick a different post: this one features almost exclusively words, most of them assembled into long sentences.
The situation illustrates that journals (here, published by Oxford University itself — Oxford University Press is a Department of the University) can and do pick and choose their "international" experts according to shared value systems, whether or not in the home countries these individuals might be considered fair, neutral, or unbiased. At the time (last summer) I looked up every single one of the "overseas advisors" (shown below)… but have only posted here on those from the USA.
"Oxford University Press Is" statement at bottom of Journal page..
The post also references a sponsoring foundation (Nuffield), and in passing, the Wellcome Trust (archives of influential group psychotherapist and his wife, which directly connects to establishment of child psychiatry in Canada, to family law, domestic violence prevention, and (as this one turned out) the Association of Family and Conciliation Court ("AFCC")'s role in all of the above) but the main focus here is on the journal and its USA editors.
Here, out of all professors sharing an interest in this topic across the United States, they have chosen three (two men and one woman) who share specific beliefs about fathers' rights, at least two a shared religion, and the woman, with powerful prestige (you'll see), also openly anti-feminist and who:
…was named to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences by Pope St. John Paul II in 1994… [cite, below on this post]
PASS (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences) Wiki (top summary), viewed Nov. 8, 2019
I see that "PASS" (its acronym) was established only in 1994 (see nearby image) and that this woman was listed among (very few women) "Former Academicians" some of which have Wikipedia pages, some which do not. Of those which do, Nußberger from Germany (doctorate obtained 1993), …
From 1993 to 2001, Nußberger worked at the Max Planck Society Institute for International and Comparative Social Law, including a period as visiting researcher at Harvard University from 1994 to 1995. From 2001 to 2002, she worked as a legal adviser at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
In 2002, Nußberger achieved her habilitation, the highest academic qualification a scholar can achieve in Germany, with a thesis on public international law.
A few "former academicians" seem to have been women. Of the current 27 'Academicians' listed alphabetically on PASS's own website, I found only three women. They were from (in alpha order) England, Spain, and Norway (a Dame of Malta). Also of interest, the American Joseph E. Stiglitz (b. 1943) at Columbia University. The provision is for no less than 20 or more than 40, total. Some (not many) are from the USA.
wiki:Pontifical_Academy_of_Social_Sciences viewed Nov. 8, 2019.
United States concerned citizens should notice how academics whose views run contrary to basic concepts of law and individual rights under it have sought publication abroad, while welcoming editors from abroad to lead (in a similar-themed journal) journals labeled American (specific example in this post, I've mentioned it before on blog).
Tagged with "Keep Your Eyes on the Assets" - Remember to do the Drilldowns, "Outflanking the Nation-State: David Mitrany and the Origins of Functionalism", 'Pay Attention to the Publications!' (Academic Journals & Abstract|Indexes), AFCC Across the Pond, Built-in conflicts of interest in family law professionals, Cecil Rhodes (issues with!), Conflicts of interest, Disenfranchisement of African Blacks (cf. Rhodes Scholarships), Disenfranchisement of women (cont'd.), International Journal of Law-Policy-and the Family (Oxford Univ. Press), Ira Mark Ellman (Arizona State Univ | College of Law), Jesuits (Encyclopedia Britannica), Mary Ann Glendon (Boston College), Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (recent project), Nuffield Foundation - William Morris Motors (sponsoring Bala - see Foundation history), NuffieldFJO.org.UK (Family Justice Observatory) (see Also CAFCASS - and AFCC), Oxford University, PASS - Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (1994ff | see also Mary Ann Glendon | Joseph E. Stiglitz ('Academicians'), Psychology-Public Policy and Law® (American Psychological Ass'n) ed. Michael E. Lamb (Cambridge Univ. UK), Rhodes Scholars, Robert Dingwall (Int'l Journal of Law Policy and the Family (editor-w John Eekelaar), Sanford Katz (Boston College), Wellcome Archives re: S.H. Foulkes (Group Analytical Psychotherapy)
Trouble Navigating the pro/con "PAS" Conflict? Keep it simple: FIRST, Identify the AFCC Authors/Speakers/Presenters (often also Judges/Lawyers/Psychs, Program Operators, etc.)! THEN interrogate any remaining non-AFCC, Gov't.-Funded Violence-Prevention Leadership.. (started July 30, 2019, Publ. Oct. 30).
This post may be further edited (including being condensed) after publishing.
POST TITLE: Trouble Navigating the pro/con "PAS" Conflict? Keep it simple: FIRST, Identify the AFCC Authors/Speakers/Presenters (often also Judges/Lawyers/Psychs, Program Operators, etc.)! THEN interrogate any remaining non-AFCC, Gov't.-Funded Violence-Prevention Leadership.. (started July 30, 2019, Publ. Oct. 30). (shortlink ends "-asn"). Currently a long post…
WHY I said "non-AFCC" — most "government-funded violence prevention leadership" (speaking for in the USA, and I've seen some in Canada and the UK also) are working for or leading what by definition are AFCC-enabling violence prevention groups:
Actually, they'd be pretty hard to find. The field is pretty well financially co-opted and controlled already. Why? With AFCC comes certain father-focused grants streams (both federal and private) and known networks, as well as programs (curricula) run through the same; the DV prevention groups draw off those streams too, in the USA; this is a general "fact of life" post-welfare reform (1996 P.R.W.O.R.A and subsequent versions) to this date. Those funding streams have not been stopped, yet, and (like the AFCC) rarely (if ever) make main stream media critique tied into the family court systems.
Any"Gov't-Funded Violence-Prevention Leadership" complaining about the use of "parental alienation" as unsound science (i.e., psychology) allegedly causing the under-informed judiciary to mistake batterers (male or female) for "nice guys" without referencing AFCC probably are AFCC or colluding with to protect the mutual, respective niches. The silence when addressing the public is likely a professional courtesy to members of the "practitioner/trainer" etc. class than none of the masses, really, belong to… or need to know about….
The "Family Court Reform" regarding domestic violence or "abuse" organizations (and leadership, conferences, etc.) also tend to ignore AFCC; many seem to be a subset of the DV groups and working consistently with them. From the start until this day (I'm thinking specifically of people historically involved with the (USA) "Battered Mothers Custody Conference" held in upstate New York or Washington, D.C. area, but with organizations and individuals based in other states, including California). Basically, anyone who doesn't align with this 'ignore/enable AFCC" policy is ignored, sidelined by silenced, and certainly unlikely to gain access to the US HHS or DOJ (whether under VAWA or NIJ) funds to publicize the field and "raise awareness."
Key claim in this post, which holds some recent and I felt easy-to-grasp current illustrations of one aspect of it (although, generally, the blog handles this topic at length), you'll see this below:
I've got evidence of, what seems to be originally USA-based AFCC-associated professionals ranging across North America (including Canada, the USA (with Hawaii), Australia and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (at a minimum) ensconced for YEARS inside and leveraging their positions and influence, or outright directing: [there follows a list of what they're directing, in context below]
Which is why you should
"Read a few damn tax returns!"
and see another interpretation of why some people are so intent on establish more and more layers of administrative trainers for the entire population (Pro, or Con PAS, too…). They know more than are telling the public about available resources and while it seems proud of some of this support, still discourage the public from actually looking at or assessing it.
Even living in countries which don't make them available, you can read tax returns (or see lack of them) from companies based in the US — which AFCC and many of its spinoffs are… You can also, probably, view (where available) records of government grants to some of those larger tax returns, showing the Public/Private symbiotic relationship between corporations and government for social services. It is actually a SHORT CUT to better understanding of the family courts, though it may seem on the surface like a side-trip.
This post had a preview, published Oct. 27, now about 3,100 words.
PREVIEW Post: Sort and Label: Parent(ing) Coordination,#1 | Parental Alienation, #2 | and Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, #3. Which is Source, Which Conduit and Which (Leading-Edge) Content? [About 1,500 words, Publ. Oct. 27, 2019].
Also some of my corresponding Twitter activity Oct. 28 [see ##'s just below] deals with some links it dredged up (Pushing Parenting Coordination in the UK as prompted by AFCC-run organization/s in Toronto (From Riverdale Mediation (est. 2000?) to FLiP Faculty, Ltd. (est. Jan. 2017) although it's clear previous Canada/UK/USA connections existed and were being woven):
Tagged with AFCC Across the Pond, AFCC-Ontario (Board of Directors FYE2018), Arguing "Gardner" is "old-school" Follow the nonprofits!, beta.companieshouse.gov.uk, CAFCASS, Cambridge Family Matters Ltd (Inc 2017), CoP4C March 21 2019 Conference (in UK?), Family Separation Clinic (UK | Woodalls), Jared Norton, Julie Doughty (Univ of Cardiff), LGH Endnotes Sep 8 2018 (Exhortatn | Relate + BACP entities ℅ CompaniesHouse.gov.UK | Relate + AFCC (see my Home Page) etc), Michael Saini PhD (AFCC) Canada, Nick and Karen Woodall ('Leading practitioners' correcting PA), Parental Alienation, Parenting Coordination, Parenting the Nation through Nonprofits Contracting with the Courts
Caught! Chronically Usurping Communication btw. Government and the Governed, Pushing Back Legal Boundaries Set by Subject Matter and Geopolitical (State and National Borders), Undermining, basically, The USA [Published Sept. 16, 2019].
Caught! Chronically Usurping Communication btw. Government and the Governed, Pushing Back Legal Boundaries Set by Subject Matter and Geopolitical (State and National Borders), Undermining, basically, The USA [Published Sept. 16, 2019] ("-b4j", about 8,600 words with footnotes). [Over one dozen tags, only added Oct. 2. This post covers key important basics influencing family courts' purposes & principles]
(Top part — discussion. Mostly prose, my writing. If you want the individual professors' organizations' or advocates' names, more pictures, and links, scroll down! Based on the original word count above, I added about 2,200 words, including those long titles to connecting posts, so that's not too far. Tags for this post are shown on the previous ("Builders") one. Publishing as-is, without extensive copyediting and without apology. . //LGH Sept. 16.)
This post continues from the bottom of:
Builders and their Blueprints: Who, Really, Designed the Family Courts, How, and Since When? ("The Evidence Speaks") [Started Aug. 17, 2019, Published Sept. 15].(short-link ends "-aI6" and the middle character is a capital "I" as in the pronoun, or as in "Idaho.)
For the immediate context of that discussion, go to the very bottom of that post, which has a link to here. Handling the Blueprints/Builders topic above brought up the topics, and specific university centers, psychologists, and nonprofit government-advising institutions (i.e., Brookings Institution, in the USA) engaged in facilitating the usurpation. I'd also brought up (quoted) an article on the "Transnational Ruling Class, … or Anglo-American Establishment" referring to the historic close, friendly, relations between the RIIA (London) and the CFR (USA). I searched those two terms as symbolic of the ongoing, functional undermining/ bypassing of local (i.e., within national boundaries) representative government in "developed" countries. There's a direct connection to the family law practices through, Tavistock Relationships (<~~that Wiki, while flagged, is still informative in this context), formerly Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, but also through historic development of the "psych" fields in Europe, what's now the UK, Canada, the USA and globally. Particularly psychoanalysis (Freud & following) traditions are troubling when entrenched in government practices.
There, I had referenced and quoted:
This undermining of jurisdiction and the effectiveness of geopolitical (national, and within the USA, state, borders) process through perpetually-created crises has been taking place for at least a century, (For example, on the RIIA-CFR topic: Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy pp 189-214,CFR-RIIA Interconnections: A Transnational Ruling Class, Liberal Atlantic Community or Anglo-American Establishment? by Inderjeet Parmar, ("Chatham House" referring to the RIIA factor).
My post title here is generic but the original, specific details on this post cover common recent themes and situations in my blogging. If I were to list them, I'd say: "Psychologists and other Patriarchs, and their habitat: university centers" and then simply name specific ones, calling attention to in which countries they were, the specific (i.e., Michael Lamb, Nicholas J. Cummings, Milton H. Erikson) professionals' spheres of current and recent operation (also relevant here) and who mentored them, and how (Byron R. McCandless, Frieda Fromm Reichman) — which was the "new to me" part of this post, meaning, it's not just a re-hash of material I've already said, posted, or otherwise covered. There is much review, but it's not just review!
Also, who mentored those mentors, for example, such as Kurt Lewin, at the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station (1933-1945) he ran after emigration from Nazi Germany, and how it influenced funding and directions in American psychology. I've also included reminders about what scope of studies are involved in the Princeton-Brookings-Columbia (and now University of Cambridge) connections, as well as the patriarchy behind "Fragile Families" research, ongoing… Just look for the more colorful parts of this post….
FYI: To think you can handle the women's rights or "domestic (or family) violence (or abuse) prevention" field as somehow separate from all that is mistaken. They are two arms off the same tree trunk. and tap root. The important thing (in my opinion) is locating the root system, its nutrients, and in which direction its growing. Both arms off the same trunk want to treat and train as many people as possible, coordinate and saturate government with their knowledge, and, to the extent possible depending on just how gullible or vulnerable the public is, pretend the other arm doesn't exist. In addition, they want to get to ALL children as they are being born for proper rearing, and are using "violence prevention" or, alternately, "fatherhood promotion" or "evidence-based child development" (etc.) rationale for doing this.
(Example: Harvard Center on the Developing Child and its extended reach/special sponsors, involvement of "The Frameworks Institute" and so forth). The tangled mixture of participants, if laid out side by side and sorted into their respective categories, including "unidentified" then laid onto a chronology (identified date of origin) would be, I suppose, like a combination of the finds from an archeological/anthropological dig. Except that it's recent, and the artifacts are being created at the speed of: collaboration, electronic transmission of data, and travel expenses for personal conferences, website expenses for webinars, most of it written off as exercised in some nonprofit format.
I've DONE some digs like that on this blog (check out a few posts from April, 2017 on a center at Brown University involving the Annenberg Foundation: yegads!), with the results being characterized — properly — as "dense walls of text." One recurring challenge — I'm intent to use vocabulary which categorizes according to public or private sector, entity or non-entity (which most centers within universities are), whether tax-exempt or not, and who is in which legal domicile — while the power-players and their hired/sponsored professionals in same sectors (both public AND private!) seek to do, and successfully do the exact opposite — blurred, meldedpersona… and they hire consultants to coach them how to do this! The public, thus the more confused it is (we are) the less able they are to resist sales tactics or manipulations into, if nothing else, ongoing passive consent. This is so much! like the tactics abusers also use on their targets.
I am also Tweeting on this, as it comes up (i.e., most days) along similar lines though of course mostly focused on this subject matter.
IF neither the UK and Canada has, as the USA does (however effective is another question, but we do have) any requirement to disclose their respective charities' (tax-exempt entities') tax returns — NOT the same as financial statements, audited or otherwise — that the public, theoretically, anyone with [un-censored by their own government] access to the internet regardless of national origin (it's on the internet, in other words) could look up and look at, and learn from over time (and specifically as to individual tax-exempt entities which are required to file) then it's quite possible this might only be dismantled and comprehended from the USA point of view.
Some organizations post "available upon request" or "available for inspection at our offices" but that's impractical for any overview and financially burdensome to the person seeking it. Some organizations do seem "open and transparent" by posting theirs, but on closer look many are partial, many are not even close to the most recent tax year's (or the year's before) and many when it comes to tax returns, may have related entities — with money moving between them — but only post one of the entities' 990s. There seem to be dozens, if not hundreds, of ways to put off the interested member of the public from getting to the truth of their fiscal operations or even status.
Unless there is some parallel in other countries for developing an understanding and perspective of how their own government revenues are collected, disbursed, and most important — accounted for (invested). (See "Walter Burien" (currently out of Arizona) for more and concise summaries of this type of information on CAFRs, he says, reporting on it since 1989. He has a mailing list and while emails are rare (i.e., your inbox won't be cluttered with solicitations), when they come they are very effective communication).
Tagged with "Psychology() Public Policy() and The Law" and the Law" APA's Journal - new Editor-in-Chief Michael E. Lamb PhD (Univ. of Cambridge UK-Applied Developmental Psychology Group), 1997 Ohio Family Court Feasibility Study, AFCC Across the Pond, APA Div. 7 Developmental Psychology (Contact person: Sonja P Brubacher|Deakin Univ School of Psychology-Australia), Bendheim-Thoman Center for Child Well-Being at Woodrow Wilson School (Princeton Univ), BMCC IVAT connex (SeeAlso Journal of Child Custody|Geffner), Boyd R. McCandless (1915-1975) [SeeAlso influence upon Michael E. Lamb PhD], DevelopingChild.Harvard.edu (Harvard Center on the Developing Child), FFWS - Fragile Families Wellbeing Study, FragileFamilies.Princeton.edu, Internationalizing the AMERICAN Psychological Association, IVAT + BMCC overlap (Trauma emphasis = Psychology-Treatment-(re)Training emphasis), Journal of Child Custody & IVAT, Journal of Child Custody (Geffner IVAT Alliant et al), Milton H. Erikson & Clinical Hypnosis mainstreamed..., Nicholas J. Cummings, Publishers-Academia TandFonline.org (Taylor&Francis Group|an Informa (Ltd.-LondonEngland) Business), The Future of Children, Voices In The Middle (project of FamilyInitiative.org.UK-formed only 2016)
'From The Beginning, March 2009, FCM Has Been More About This Organization Than Me' (FrontPage Sept. 2019 Subsection #1, Published/Expanded Sept. 9).
This Post Is: ''From The Beginning, March 2009, FCM Has Been More About This Organization Than Me' (FrontPage Sept. 2019 Subsection #1, Published/Expanded Sept. 9). (Short-link ends "-aUu," as off-ramped, only about 1,500 words, with a mini-preview, about 2,500 words only and at the end of the day [9/9/2019] just over 6,000).
("FCM" meaning, this blog. FrontPage on this blog meaning "FamilyCourtMatters.org").
ANY post may be further edited (as in, condensed, or expanded, or both) after publishing. Blogger's privilege!
(This one was edited so much before, it's unlike to have major changes soon after, though).
The writing and images posted below (where clearly marked) were previously published on the long front page to the blog and probably written in December 2018. Originally, just meant to show a few images from my existing media library for a few key points of reference.
It's not intended to be a full drill-down with a developed argument and many kinds of connecting points of reference to support it, but just a call-out — an alert, not an expose.
However it still exposes many things. The images are either annotated or captioned or both, providing along with the few quotes plenty of details. The organization referenced in post title here to me symbolizes a key part of the larger system, even though it also is literally (not just symbolically) a major part of my blogging and I believe source of the ongoing problems "in" the family courts in more than one country.
However, those family courts exists within systems, not vacuums. Bottom line, they employe judges, the judges are paid by governments: a major part of those systems IS government itself (yours, mine, others'…). To understand government includes understanding its financing and who it hires (contracts with and grants to, employs etc.) to do its various businesses. That'd be a great place to start. BUT if one wants to focus, first, solely on the family courts, each one, and collectively (by jurisdiction) they still exist within an immediate level of government, and surrounding components, and encompassing (higher levels of government).
Those systems must be seen and discussed in public. Complaints about system outputs should be tied to documentation of system blueprints (original design intended). (See my next, "impassioned" inset):
"Complaints about system outputs should be tied to and premised (BUILT logically) upon
documentation of system blueprints (original design purposes)."
(//LGH 9/9/2019, NOT my first time saying this)
Some premises, if true, would preclude ANY consideration of certain corrections. These ones should be disproved (if UNtrue) first, before designing a solution to the problems occurring "in" the courts and claiming a cause-effect relationship between those courts and the problems.
If they were designed, for example, to resolve conflict through ongoing compromise of basic boundaries as exemplified in the criminal codes because ongoing conflict is psychologically worse for all (especially kids, RIGHT?) than criminal behavior — then criticism that they are failing to protect from criminal behavior is ridiculous.
This seems to be one premise behind "no-fault divorce" [First in the USA: California, 1970]. No one is "at fault" — grounds for divorce can now be just "irreconcilable differences." The other spouse person wasn't the problem, only the relationship: forget the past, move forward, crimes or no crimes. Funny how this mentality should have, it now seems, facilitated even more ways to punish and attempt to shame (or just plain old extort) people divorcing as though divorce, (or failure to marry) WERE a crime and inspired (?) or enabled the establishment of "conciliation" courts. Whether or not they've engaged in anything criminal towards the other person, society, or their own children (or anyone else's) …
If on the other hand family courts originally were designed to divert too many argumentative, annoying, obstreperous or otherwise "recalcitrant" (searchable on this blog) parents (and their kids) into behavioral modification and education/therapy-based or attitude-adjustment court-connected (local community or on-line) psycho-educational classes and treatments — to the benefit and profiting those so involved, and for the overall social good of society — then saying they've failed or are broken is likewise ridiculous.
OR, if they were designed not with a view to (despite all the talk) what's best for the children, but what's best for those in quasi-judicial, immunity-prone fields involving the social-science and psycho-based (particularly psychologists) fields (and those who compile and annotate data on effects — as in, consultants and those with database and data analysis services), as a career path looking good because courts can order it, governments MIGHT help support it, and parents will HAVE to pay it if they want to see their kids again (or, get out of jail sooner) — then I'd have to say the family court systems seem to be a resounding success. Just not for everyone run through them.
There are no doubt several other "if they were designed for, …. then …." possibilities. I think they should be listed, together, and the most illogical ones rejected, and reasons why, noted.
However what to me is equally ridiculous is failure to look into WHEN they were designed, BY WHOM they were designed, READ what those who designed said at the time, and HOW they persuaded (on what basis of public benefit) those in power to make it happen. (Administrative ruling of a chief judge (Maryland, 1990s) it took years to effect; in another (by popular vote to re-organize the courts, Kentucky, 1990s), and I recently ran across a (1998) feasibility study for Ohio mentioning who commissioned it, who provided the study, and whose ideas they were referencing. I will be posting on this, I HOPE, soon. (Partially written draft as I write).
Failing to even reference or admit this when complaining about the family court output and demanding change to alter that output — whether the complained about output ('outcome') is framed as" xx children murdered, or xx children ordered into "unsupervised" custody or visitation with batterers, or convicted child-molesters/rapists, etc. — AND whether complaint is publicized (typically, on-line) by way of:
one's nonprofit organization's website,
or mainstream media (independent journalists),
or independent journalists to whom nonprofits are pitching a story line working mainstream, free-lance, or freelance for other nonprofit investigative media (<~~you know who you are…), all of who stand to personally gain from the branding, name recognition, and further consultancies, reputation, and access to power.
or online petitions (Change.org, etc.). Or even lobbying legislators — successfully — to get resolutions passed which fail the above "common sense — not ridiculous" test above.
The original intent of my Dec. 2018 section from the Front Page being just a call-out makes this post a shorter and easier read, unless your mind works like mine, looking constantly for supporting arguments and proof when some assertion or assumption seems questionable but is unsupported.
Being so short, it doesn't really need much of an introduction or guide to its layout (!), but as I had to make some introduction, I chose to re-emphasize those points and add a very short (informal, not in-depth) update referring to a different, participant in the larger system, illustrating the "Across-the-Pond"flavor of the family courts.*
Which family courts (or at least their preceding and their judges' decisions) have upset so much of America, and which from time to time, many say and I have to agree, end up getting people killed in the context of divorce and/or in the context of separating from abuses in order to NOT, with their children get killed, or allow the children to be abused. Sometimes we know there's collateral damage (bystanders, extended family, responding officers, too). Hard to disagree that there are such problems, while assigning blame for them is still under debate**
*While doing this (summary/intro/lead-in) I as always had to deal with my tendency towards sarcasm and mouthing off. Sometimes sarcasm makes the point quicker, whether or not it proves a point…
** Family courts + professionalizing all the ancillary services they exist to order (whether by a mass-mandate or as individually, but often, court-ordered — relationship education for all… education for parents that divorce impacts kids … behavioral modification for dangerous or alleged dangerous parents…) + then professionalizing, certifying or licensing anyone hoping to become a "new-kid-on-the-block" provider apparently is expected or desirable to lessen the governmental burden of too many people seeking justice (or protection from dangerous people) in the criminal courts, so the sacrifice of life must be worth it…
("Why can't you all just get along??")(with our dangerous exes, the other parents to our children).
The next footnote has a long title, but not footnoting it would make the post top-heavy. (it also pushes the total word-count just over 5,000 words).
See FOOTNOTE "FAMILY COURTS OFF-RAMPED FROM THE CRIMINAL TO RELIEVE DEMAND ON RESOURCES. IT'S NOT WORKING. SO NOW WE SHOULD ON-RAMP CRIMINAL STANDARDS INTO THE VEHICLE/VENUE/"NEW VESSELS" INTENDED TO EXCLUDE THAT "OLD" (I.e., not "behavioral science") LANGUAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Originally, the December 2018 section had only two basic topics. On it you'll see large annotated images, some related quotes and these two headings:
From the Beginning, More about This Organization Than Me (i.e., "thanks for all the stories, but Let's talk about these systems!)** "Who am I and Why Does This Blog Look and Talk So Different Than Others on "Family Court" matters?), and
Who am I and Why Does This Blog Look and Talk So Different Than Others on "Family Court" matters?
** See Footnote "Why Talk Systems more than Our Experiential Stories"?
Having now moved it here, September, 2019, there are more additions than changes:
~~>I added this summary above (and you're still reading it), part of which I footnoted below, necessary because of my sarcastic commentary and opportunistic tendency to emphasize main points..(so, I ran my mouth and wouldn't just delete the content..). This summary came after…
~~>I added a Mini-Preview to include two short articles about a British parallel organization (so to speak) which has now become "BFF"[Best Friends oFFicially] with "this organization," both of them in 2018/2019 are more open about it than ever, although some of us detected this basic cross-Atlantic dyad of public policy romance, perhaps based in beliefs about how family court systems — and families — should be run (and, by whom)…
Tagged with "Educate Your Judge" (but don't tell how AFCC already is), 'What's Your REAL Legal Domicile?' [AFCC | NCADV| others], AFCC Across the Pond, AFCC proclivities, Blueprints of the Family Courts, CAFCASS, Cafcass' NQSW Cohort programme (Newly Qualified Social Workers), Characteristics of Cults, Family Justice Center Alliance, FCAs - Family Court Advisors (CAFCASS-employed), LGH FrontPage Subsections (Off-ramped Sept. 2019), Michael Saini PhD (AFCC) Canada, What DV Groups Don't Tell Mothers, What the Crisis in the Courts folks don't tell you
FamilyCourtMatters.org Blog Previews, In Hindsight: Short(ish) Summaries (Collected July 1, 2019ff)
Post Title ~~>FamilyCourtMatters.org Blog Previews, In Hindsight: Short(ish) Summaries (Collected July 1, 2019ff) (Shortlink ends "-adQ").<~~
I may add some "Taken From/Because" info for each, but in general the reasons are 1) No longer applicable except as a time capsule; life moves on… 2) Too damn long & 3) Embarrassing for other reasons also. I'm also curious what this personal "Wayback Machine" process may reveal about whether my current writing is just repeating with newer examples or is covering new ground.
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While reading this blog (in other words, elsewhere on this blog now that I've started this process), you may see something resembling the top few lines here (post title + purpose inside an orange border) where I removed some extra paragraphs about this blog, why I blog, or the overall situation I blog (see blog motto!) from the top of some post or page to this post. The connecting label here will be originating post title and date published. I'm also adding tags showing only the originating post's first-published date that'll read like this: "About My Blog | taken from 2019March24 post." Tags display as usual at the bottom of any post.
Wikipedia, "Drill bit"
I already know that as a blogger I'm digging into deeper layers on various subjects and/or entities, spiraling back into them over time, or if connections surface.
I don't want to keep re-writing, at significant effort, things I've forgotten because, once something is written up well enough, it's no longer the leading edge of my focus. The drill bit here, the edge, let's not forget, is the inquiry itself; my curiosity and desire to know, NOT just to show, perhaps the force behind it. Like any drill bits, focus helps efficiency. (<~~That link is to a "Wiki," with examples).
Drill bits come in so many shapes, sizes, and materials, depending the substance to be penetrated and how fast they're going to be spun. They also wear out at different rates depending on their composition, what they're drilling into (i.e., which surface may be tougher) and how fast rotated (where speed generates heat). I'm no mechanical engineer
I'm saying, it's more effective to look at certain aspects than other when trying to get through the topsoil of this whole situation involving the family courts and why families are being destroyed, not particularly helped, through them. In some ways, our own ignorance functions as a substance, an opaque mask which needs to be penetrated, aired out, and seen through; but that's an individual responsibility.
I'm most effective when highly focused without forgetting the overall direction and roadmap, and it'd help communications if there weren't a need to re-iterate what that roadmap is every time, or every third time, as there's not a whole team involved here. This post along with some others summarizing or keeping track of results as I find them (i.e., tables of contents, newly off-ramped sidebars, key posts, etc.) help me worry less about losing the chronology, better access parts of it not still residing just in my own internal "RAM" (or "cache"), etc.
They may also clear out (excess text summaries) prior drill-down sites for anyone who chooses to follow this type of inquiry and start doing (and ideally, posting, too) their own. Or even just to know the material, whether or not it's written out, when it comes to on-line discussions with others aghast at the situation in public institutions, or what's driving the ideology/ideologies behind them.
Is it really just beliefs, or a combination of beliefs and incentives, or mostly "incentives"? Wouldn't it good be to have extra information on what's on the menu of possibilities before deciding which meal to order, I'm talking, advocacy-wise?
In another blog** I know I've described the business entity (ensconced within public/private financial arrangements) drill-down process as going down a rabbit hole.
[Comments inside this blue-box added July 12, remembering the context and point of reference..]
**That blog was inspired (I began it) as a mother by a recent family outrage upon a (by then) young adult [son or daughter] and its significance in the larger context of court-connected events at the time), but in the process also deals extensively with family justice centers, who can be identified both organizationally (which parts public, which private, how they blend and where they tend to be housed — i.e., who rents to whom (Private to public, public to private, public to public, etc.) ) and who pays the staff/employees) and, if you've been to a few, by typical responses. I've been down a lot of rabbit holes in my time, looking to nail down who or what is the involved entity, and where nonprofits or government grants (i.e., potentially from either the US DHHS or the US DOJ ℅ the Violence Against Women (&/or "Victims of Crime") Act to address things related to things this blog deals with (the issues coursing through the program-producing/maintaining veins of family court systems throughout the country, and internationally)), which ones — and how much father-engagement/marriage-mongering is taking place in the name of domestic (or "family") violence prevention and — oh yes, why not also some — services.
Have done more types of investigations since I wrote that blog about six years ago but its topic covers a classic example (being replicated) endorsed by former U.S. President Bush in the early 2000s. It took me a while to understand how fiscally advantageous it was (due to tax-exemption) not to mention due to public/private blending, to co-locate "fragmented" services at "One-Stop Justice Shops" funded by the public, but often controlled or administered by a private tax-exempt foundation, making sure to encourage faith-based leadership (i.e., pastors et al.) to get involved.
Not all buildings labeled "Family Justice Center" seem to be necessarily aligned with "Alliance for Hope International, Inc." fka the "National Family Justice Center Alliance," (EIN#113692035<~FY2017 Form 990 in San Diego; also highly active in promoting batterers' intervention and supervised visitation, etc. Someone ought to start a blog on this network. I've not posted all I have, but called them out long ago; visible on this post and the one linked just above this text box. An attempt was made to pass a law designating this model as THE model for co-locating DV and CA services throughout the state. It gained support from Former President Bush. SanDiego Union-Tribune Nov. 24, 2017, under "Watchdog" by Jeff McDonald (City Attorney just hired someone (Gael Strack) that refused to cooperate with a 2013 audit of the nonprofit. She'll keep both jobs while City Attorney)<~~!!! Multiple name-changes of this filing entity and of its various "related" (or not) "Camps Hope," i.e., let us get at those vulnerable kids (and some of their Moms) for nice vacation healing times — let us do the conference circuits and trainings; provide government grants (of course), but no (see their Form 990) we will NOT post our audited financial statements, (for the most part) file on time at the State level (as required by law) or even answer direct questions on short forms when submitting them months late — and all for a budget under $5M, involving government grants AND contracts, too..
Other search results** show that this (Ms. Strack, along with Mr. Gwinn also likely true) double-paid professional made a career in NOT talking about things like AFCC or "Fatherhood.gov" (at least on public websites) and taking advantage of Survivors as Volunteers ("VOICES"), has been making over $100K a year for a while. VOLUNTEERS can do something about this by insisting their supported organization file its tax returns on time, post independently audited financial statements voluntarily (Good Grief: Are former or current victims still concerned about stalking going to want to always provide address in exchange for information?) or go find some other volunteers — and report the organization meanwhile.
City Attorney position in any distinct from District Attorneys, in charge of prosecuting crime (or, under discretionary decision-making it seems, or practical matters, not doing so). Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. **(Dec. 2017 (per url) sublinked through Bio posted at Strangulation Institute, an Alliance for Hope program (see footer © detail) // [End, comments added post-publication, on July 12].
Down those rabbit holes: With experience, it's less overwhelming, but what often shows up is in essence corruption and hypocrisy which leads to an increasing personal awareness of just how powerfully placed the most corrupt manifestations of overall and even individual public sectors are.
The actual harm shows up more on the surface (and often dramatically so, along with long term erosion of basic living conditions). But below surface, it's those previously-laid pipelines (whether electric, fiber-optic, water, plumbing & sewage, etc. — and I'm saying that metaphorically**) which show evidence of intent, planning and experienced planning at that. The infrastructure, the design, itself isn't "flawed," it's predatory.
Divisive and conflicting theories of cause are set up, disseminated, and at certain boiling points, the "resolution" committees (already prepared for this) move into "help." It's disgusting in both quality and quantity.
**While some of those utilities are involved, I'm using those terms to refer to lines of communication, business entities, cross-border societies which provide expense-writeoffs for conferences to plan each new language or theory to drive government-backed commerce to (perpetrate) upon the unawares through basic judicial or other institutions
I cannot live down there mentally; I need to come up for air and food and more casual, normal human being communications. Condensing summaries here should help my own sense of the need to keep inserting them into posts, or just re-writing which was written OK the first time, although probably in different terms.
Format here is straightforward, just be aware a new heading represents a new summary added: Block copy & Block Paste. I'll keep the same color scheme as originating post, and link back to it. If the material contains new or significant subject matter I've also posted on elsewhere, i.e., some show & tell images or links, I'll try to tag those topics by content. My second entry below has some content tags already.
Either way (with or without new or significant subject matter), I'll also tag them by date of where they came from in this format:
"About My Blog | taken from 2019March24 post"
On this post, to get to more than one summary, you must page-down past the ones on top: there are no drop-down-menus or fancy "see more at" linkages. (If you're a WordPress user, so far I compose in "Classic Edit" mode not the newer "Block" mode which might facilitate this, but seems to complicate basic formatting access).I say this because browsing or skimming more than one will not be straight repetition (I'm fairly sure) and will include other material.
Thanks in advance for your time reading on such an important topic for our times, and all times: How we understand our own governments, how to put some back light on backstage operations of advocacy groups, cross-country and cross-jurisdiction database differences, and the vital importance of identifying WHO is speaking when ANY reference is cited.
Look up those references! whether you see them as footnotes to some publication (academic or otherwise) OR in casual or credential-building reference within a paragraph in some news article. I try to and, mostly, do!
And was it ever necessary for governments A,B,C, and/or D to make it that hard to follow the money and thus (so hard to) help put the brakes on mis-appropriation of it in the name of public services?
So far (starting list of contents), previews from posts published ~> Jan. 9, 2017# ~> March 24, 2018# ~> July 9, 2019 ~> From HOME Page ("FamilyCourtMatters.org") removed Sept. 5, 2019, written sometime in 2018 'Why So Long?' ~~>(tba with each new addition)
#at that time post marked "sticky"
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Published July 9, 2019, shortlink ending "-abt" (full title included below).
The following preview is about: 2,151 words. There is some overlap.
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Curing growth: A 12-step programme
By Tom McKinlay
Prof Robert Costanza
We need to think like an addict and talk about what we value, Prof Robert Costanza tells Tom McKinlay.
We have an addiction we need to shake, Prof Robert Costanza says.
And it's not Married at First Sight, carbs or internet memes. Though they may be implicated.
It's growth. Not all growth. Our children are OK to continue putting us to the expense of new shoes.
It's the economic growth our society has raised to the highest pedestal.
Here's the problem with it. If an economy grows at 3% a year, probably enough to get most democratically-elected governments a second and third term, it is on track to be a third larger in just 10 years. Keep it up for 25 years and the size of the economy has doubled.
That may not mean double the inputs, given productivity gains, but it will mean a society's footprint has become significantly larger in a very short space of time.
The strain is beginning to show in a world now full, the professor says, in the shape of climate change, biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution, in particular. Tipping points beckon.
Prof Costanza is a long way from being alone in questioning the growth addiction.
Among those pointedly critical is Dr Jason Hickel in a short video archived at the WeAll website - with which Prof Costanza is associated - who says it is killing us.
"Right now, the entire global system is captive to a single idea, economic growth,'' the anthropologist at the London School of Economics says.
"Politicians rise and fall on their ability to increase GDP year on year.''
And yet, Prof Costanza says, not only is the obsession with growth and GDP doing us few favours, it is not even necessary.
"By analogy with all the other organisms on the planet, including our own bodies, growth is important in the early stage, but at some point organisms stop growing and continue developing,'' he says.
"We have to distinguish between growth, increasing physical size, and development, improving the quality of the system. We really do want sustainable development, if you take it in that context of improvement in quality.''
Prof Robert Costanza's systems thinking approach demands we take many more factors into account when measuring progress and sustainability. IMAGE: GETTY IMAGES
Well, Prof Costanza, who was in Dunedin last week as a guest of the University of Otago Catchments Otago research group, recommends an intervention. The sort of intervention you might make for someone with an addiction problem, whether substance abuse or a too-fond relationship with the pokies.
Specifically, a motivational interview, a tried and tested approach to addiction counselling.
What a motivational interview avoids is confronting the patient with the dire consequences of continuing their behaviour.
Instead, it initiates a discussion about life goals. So in the case of growth, the patient - that would be us - identifies what's really important to them. With the expectation that they - we - would be unlikely to place a slavish devotion to economic growth anywhere near the top of the list.
From there, Prof Costanza says, it's a 12-step programme to rehabilitate other human values and put our recovering addict on a road to a more sustainable lifestyle.
Critically, that new lifestyle will be one that takes into account a much wider and richer set of considerations when measuring success.
Prof Costanza is an ecological economist and systems thinker. He has a vice-chancellor's chair in public policy at the Australian National University, alongside a long list of international fellowships, including at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Stockholm, with which he has worked on the monitoring of planetary limits.
As a systems thinker, and someone with a particular concern for the strain our species places on the environment, Prof Costanza has been involved in the development of the idea of ecosystem services.
It's an idea that cuts across conventional measures of the economy and GDP by demanding that a much broader data set be employed when judging progress.
The concept of ecosystem services - all the benefits bestowed on us by natural systems, from climate regulation to water supply and pollination - was first valued by Prof Costanza and others in a lead article in the journal Nature in 1997.
The figure they came up with was $US33 trillion, larger than global GDP at the time.
Placing a value on them meant initiatives that might normally be regarded as contributing to GDP could now be weighed against what might be lost if the activity impacted on ecosystems.
For example, if a wetland, playing a key role in water quality and biodiversity, was converted to pasture, GDP, as normally accounted, would rise. But if a more holistic approach was taken, would that still stack up if measured against the loss of ecosystem services?
In Prof Costanza's thinking, our reformed addict is unlikely to reckon so.
A study out of Cambridge University, with which Prof Costanza was involved, underlines the point.
The study, in 2002, found a worldwide network of nature reserves on land and sea would cost about $US45billion a year to maintain. But the loss of natural goods and services if those habitats were wiped out would have a value of between $US4.4trillion and $US5.2trillion.
That, Prof Costanza says, is a benefit to cost ratio of 100 to one, no-one else gets that sort of return on investment, with the possible exception of fossil fuel lobbyists in the US.
While in the South, Prof Costanza met with Catchments Otago researchers, Environment Southland representatives and various other community representatives to talk about what an ecosystem services view would mean for how natural capital in the region might be managed.
In particular, the focus was on the Aparima catchment in Southland and how ecosystem services science can support the management of marine and coastal ecosystems.
Systems thinking then, the stuff Prof Costanza does, is about taking the blinkers off so we can see a more complete picture, how the whole system functions and where the interconnections are. We need more of that, he says.
"We have built all these silos, around disciplines, around government departments, around different aspects of life and in fact that gets in the way then of solving problems that cross those boundaries,'' he says.
"The big issues I think we are facing go across those boundaries, so we have to learn how to tear down those walls or at least build bridges.''
It's becoming even more important now we are in the Anthropocene - the geological age defined by human impacts on the climate and environment.
"If you go back 1000 years, what people did in one part of the world didn't really affect the climate or the functioning of the system or what people in other parts of the world are doing. Now it is a big interconnected global system,'' Prof Costanza says.
What we do today is having a critical impact on life supporting systems.
It's not a new idea.
The economist and philosopher Kenneth Boulding talked in the 1960s about transitioning away from the cowboy economy to the spaceship economy, Prof Costanza says.
"So we have to start thinking of the planet as our spaceship, we have to maintain and manage it in a way that is going to allow us to survive.''
We first have to understand how Boulding's spaceship works, and how it supports us all, then how to manage it in a way that will allow it to continue.
We'll need to learn more about what contributes to people's wellbeing, physically and mentally, beyond simply ever expanding material consumption.
"The way the system functions, most of the growth in GDP is going to a very small fraction of the population, so the average person is not seeing any of those benefits anyway,'' the professor says.
Even in straight economic terms it is not working.
So back to that 12-step programme and finding out what we really value.
"The first step in the motivational interview process is to re-establish what our fundamental goals are. The challenge there, is how do we engage the whole of society in that discussion?'' Prof Costanza says.
We are not yet having that discussion, though it should be the essence of a democratic society, building a shared vision, he says.
The direct democracy of something like Vermont's Town Meeting Day might point the way.
For more than 200 years, on Town Meeting Day, citizens in Vermont come together in their communities to discuss the business of their towns.
We need to do that at scale, Prof Costanza says.
The likes of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a step in the right direction, he says.
The 17 goals, agreed by the assembled nation states in 2015, for the year 2030, include things like "decent work and economic growth'' (goal eight) alongside "no poverty'' (No.1), good health and wellbeing (No.3), gender equality (No.5) and reduced inequalities (No.10), responsible production and consumption (No.12), and climate action (No.13).
"We need to take that process much further and much deeper,'' Prof Costanza says.
Maybe have a competition, to replace American Idol.
"I am convinced if you did that you would get a future that was more equitable.''
Just how inequitable things have become many surprise many, he says.
A piece of research from 2011 suggests as much. More than 5000 Americans were asked to guess how much wealth each fifth of the population had. Then, how much each fifth should have. They guessed the top fifth owned about 60% of the wealth and that the bottom 40% had about 10%. In fact, the top 20% owned more than 84% and the bottom 40% just 0.3%.
Just as strikingly, the ideal distribution identified by the survey was that the top quintile would own just 32% and the bottom two 25%.
American reality is not a good place to be, Prof Costanza says.
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's book The Inner Level describes the way in which inequality causes a bifurcation between depression or narcissism. Either you give up or decide you are a superhero.
A society-wide conversation would probably agree that, alongside a greater level of equality, we want a stable climate, a stable environment, Prof Costanza suggests.
"All the things that are included in the SDGs I think the vast majority of people, if asked, would prefer - a world that was more like that, than the one towards which we seem to be headed.''
Prof Costanza says the looming threat of environmental tipping points means we need to change quickly.
An initiative with which the professor is involved, WeAll - the Wellbeing Economic Alliance - is trying to catalyse positive change, by sharing positive new narratives "underpinned by a strong and coherent knowledge and evidence base''.
"That's what WeAll is about, trying to build that narrative more clearly.''
Its targets include not just governments, but the creative sector and wider society, with the aim of fostering co-operation.
"It really is all, not just some.''
The trigger for the sort of change Prof Costanza says we need to see could be when people recognise that all of these things are interconnected.
"Climate is not a separate problem, climate is a result of our addiction to growth, our reliance on fossil fuels, our inability to incorporate those warnings into changing behaviour. It is also responsible for rising inequality and the social problems that brings and the other impacts on the natural environment, our sense of community, so it gets back to the systems view - it is all interconnected, there is no one right thing.''
Bringing it all together means recognising we are all heading over a cliff together, but also that there is a better way.
"For the general public it is going to be quality of life and general wellbeing. That their lives are going to get better if we make the kind of changes we are talking about. It is not a sacrifice to make these changes. It is often presented as, `well we can solve the climate problem but we are going to have to stop doing all the things we are doing - it will be a sacrifice but we can do it'.
"I think it is the opposite, I think it is a sacrifice not to make these changes.''
Climate change campaigners co-ordinated by the Extinction Rebellion group block Oxford Circus, in London last week. The group is calling for a ''citizens' assembly'' to lead on the issue. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
A new democracy mooted
A radical new form of democracy might be required to guide us towards a more sustainable footing, Prof Robert Costanza says.
The systems thinker and ecological economist says vested interests, particularly the fossil fuel industry, have frustrated the shift to a more sustainable footing, and been successful because of their ability to lobby politicians.
"I think one sector of society that is really standing in the way of making this transition is the fossil fuel sector. Business in general, the business community, other than the extractive sector, I think is very much on board with these ideas.''
A lot of the assets of the extractive sector will be stranded, worthless, if society moves decisively towards clean energy as part of a response to climate change, he says.
"So you can see why they are trying to protect their current status and way of life.''
One of the reasons they have been able to stay in the game, even in situations where clean solar and wind energy are cheaper, has been continued subsidies for fossil fuel, he says.
Reforming the political system and removing money from politics would help address that.
"One somewhat radical proposal in that regard is what is called deliberative democracy.''
Under that system, representatives are randomly chosen from the population, so that they are genuinely representative and uncorruptible.
There have been experiments with it, citizens' juries for example.
"They build a shared vision, and that's the democratic process that we're talking about,'' Prof Costanza says. "Often their policy decisions are more democratic but they are also probably better decisions in terms of the wellbeing of the whole society.''
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Our TV memoriam list below starts late September 2019 through mid-September 2020:
Rene Auberjonois (actor)
Frank Biondi, Jr. (executive)
Sam Bobrick (producer)
Edd Byrnes (actor)
Diahann Carroll (actor)
John Clarke (actor)
Robert Evans (executive)
D.C. Fontana (writer)
Robert Forster (actor)
Leonard Goldberg (executive)
Buck Henry (producer/writer/actor)
Jerry Herman (composer)
Ron Leibman (actor)
Rick Ludwin (executive)
Bill Macy (actor)
John J. McMahon (executive)
Philip McKeon (actor)
J. Michael Mendel (writer/producer)
Lee Mendelson (producer/director)
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Carroll Spinney (actor)
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Rip Taylor (actor)
Allee Willis (composer)
William Wintersole (actor)
John Witherspoon (actor)
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September 30, 2019 at 2:41 pm #1203114565
Emmy-winning main title designer Wayne Fitzgerald passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wayne-fitzgerald-dead-main-title-designer-pillow-talk-godfather-part-ii-total-recall-was-89-1214053
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Two more passings:
Emmy-winning writer Hogan Sheffer. https://deadline.com/2019/10/hogan-sheffer-dead-at-61-1202749875/
Former BBC News anchor Peter Sissons. https://deadline.com/2019/10/bbc-news-anchor-peter-sissons-dies-1202750056/
October 2, 2019 at 7:42 pm #1203118397
Producer/agent Henry Capanna passed away. https://variety.com/2019/tv/obituaries-people-news/henry-capanna-dead-43-cancer-broder-kurland-1203354946/
Actress Anna Quayle passed away. https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/03/grange-hill-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-star-anna-quayle-dies-aged-86-dementia-battle-10854021/
Four-time Emmy nominated actress Diahann Carroll has died at the age of 84.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/diahann-carroll-dead-pioneering-actress-julia-dynasty-was-84-1196051?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Really saddened by this news. I pretty much lived for Diahann Carroll on "Dynasty" and "The Colbys." She had to lobby hard for the role of Dominique Deveraux. Of course, Hollywood didn't want to give it to her, but she wanted to play "the first black bitch on television," and that she most certainly did! "Julia" was before my time, but I heard great things about her Emmy-nominated role there. She was notable in so many television roles, and I remember her vividly as Burke's mother on "Grey's Anatomy." RIP to a trailblazing icon. She will certainly be missed!
I'll leave you with this brilliance:
https://youtu.be/Q7hTFqBmHH0
Diahann Carroll was also great on A Different World playing the mother of Jasmine Guy for which she received an Emmy nomination for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 1989.
So sad. RIP.
Actor Lewis Dauber. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lewis-dauber-dead-character-actor-was-70-1245634
Former Big Brother contestant Cassandra Waldon. https://deadline.com/2019/10/cassandra-waldon-dies-big-brother-contestant-killed-in-car-accident-1202753244/
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Comedian Rip Taylor passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rip-taylor-dead-flamboyant-comic-host-198-beauty-show-was-84-1196673
Emmy-nominated hairstylist Paul LeBlanc. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paul-leblanc-dead-oscar-winning-hairstylist-amadeus-was-73-1245919
Original Disney Mousketeer Karen Pendleton. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/karen-pendleton-dead-original-mouseketeer-mickey-mouse-club-was-73-1245964
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Oh no! Rip Taylor was always a hoot whenever he made an appearance.
October 11, 2019 at 7:53 pm #1203132731
RIP Robert Forster. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-forster-dead-resurgent-oscar-nominee-jackie-brown-was-78-1218184
October 14, 2019 at 12:56 pm #1203136458
Sam Bobrick, who was the creator of Saved By the Bell, has died at the age of 87.
https://deadline.com/2019/10/sam-bobrick-dead-dies-obituary-saved-by-the-bell-creator-1202759813/
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LAT: 23:03, no errors. Pretty routine (and oddly enough almost exactly what I did with the Fri NYT). WSJ: 24:38, 4 random errors on things I never heard of or made no sense. Newsday: DNF after 1:23:15, 9 errors, managed filling in all of it but the upper right.
@Glenn – I found today's 21 X 21 in the WSJ challenging. I had to really consider 44 Across as well as 88 Down and 95 & 98 Across for quite sometime before I was satisfied that I got the right answers.
I didn't think today's LAT's grid was all that difficult for a Saturday.
LAT: Half hour, no errors but a lot of good guesses. Had "Eur" for Pol. site, thinking Pol. stood for Poland in Europe.
Missed Thursday's comments. So please, can anyone explain how "Snickers almond" is the answer to "You overreact when you're hungry" candy bar?
I'd never heard of all this, either, and got it by guessing and/or from crosses.
Thank you–most I've been able to find.
with TV or movie names. Not as hard as some Saturdays.
11:55, no errors. Had not heard "chaff" used for banter before.
CC's a favorite constructor, but not for puzzles like this one. I'm not up for any CHAFF about it. Maybe if I'd ever heard of Ms. MONAE or Mr. SVEN Nykvist, or memorized the credits after a "Glee" episode … Nah, I'd enjoy a stack of plural MADS more. Sheesh!
Ah. Alex Honnold. The very mention of his name gives me sweaty palms. Actually, I did my share of solo rock-climbing; it's just that the rocks I was on were a bit less vertical and less difficult than Honnold's (like … 5.5 and below instead of 5.12 and above) … 😜.
The usual group of braggarts, shut-ins and exaggerators I see; I finished in 3 minutes without any mistakes!
@DJ – As I might say if you misidentified an animal on the Serengti, "Fake Gnus"?
@DJ (Joe?) … As I said last week, there are people capable of doing this puzzle in two or three minutes, with no errors, but I think those people have way too much class to post what you just did … 😳.
Dave, sorry about the trolling; I will henceforth cease and desist being a crossword forum provocateur!
Now that's class! Thank you!
Hi all, been away. Have alot of puzzles to catch up on. Did today's and thought it pretty easy for Saturday. Everyone be safe.
33:36 with no errors….never heard of mad magazine being pluralized as mads before. NYT 0309 1 hr and 6 min with 1 error.
@dj wow you're good. Can I have your autograph?
19:13. Usually CC has a few sports clues in her puzzles so I assume she's a sports fan.
Interesting origin of "honcho". I would have guessed it had some Spanish root, but I guess not.
As I suspected, AMBIT is from the same Latin verb, "ambire", as the word "ambitious". Apparently it used to be assumed that "to go around" was a sign of a desire for honor or power which led to the word "ambition". I assume they were referring to go around the accepted rules or norms.
Yet another person visiting Las Vegas whom I haven't seen in over 30 years. I think if I never leave Las Vegas, everyone I've ever known will pass through here so I never have to go visit anyone again..
Moderately easy Saturday for me; took 31:22 on-line with no peeking for once, since things kept flowing. Didn't know MONAE, SVEN, SAM, DIANNA, KIAS and AMBITS was new to me.
Had to change HOTSOAp, orBITS and pIAe to KIAS but that was it, although I did wait for a lot of crosses. I guess I'm going to have to watch "The Big Bang Theory" to get through some of these puzzles.
19 mins 46 sec, and lucky to survive error free. The bottom left was just a real BEAR!!!! I had ORBIT for 59A, and couldn't make it work. I had a feeling that 53D was MADS (a really poor pluralization, I must say), so in the end, I gave up, filled that in, held my nose and let AMBITS be, and filled in the rest. Was never so happy to see the auto "done" message.
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"Nana walks funny." For Sally Dowaliby, 71, these kinds of comments from her grandchildren and others finally convinced her to do something about the arthritis in her knees that made her walk with a pronounced limp and take steps one painful stair at a time.
"I didn't really think I needed a knee replacement," says Sally. "But everybody else did." Finding out she could have minimally invasive surgery with a top notch local surgeon convinced her "now's the time." She says that the new minimally invasive procedure is "unbelievable."
Sally left the hospital shortly after surgery, and was off pain medication and left her walker behind soon thereafter. "My recovery was phenomenally fast," she says. "It's amazing!" Now walking straighter, she has eliminated problems with her left ankle and heel, and doesn't think she'll need surgery on her right knee.
Married 44 years, she is looking forward to spending more active time traveling with her retired golf-pro husband, and keeping up with their three grown children and eight grandchildren. She may even take up golf now that her bad knee no longer impedes her swing. But her greatest reward is the day-to-day difference. "Nana, you're walking normal now," the little ones say. It doesn't get much better than that.
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Americans spent more on prescription drugs last year than ever before -- nearly $374 billion, according to IMS Health. That figure reflected a 13.1% jump over 2013 spending. Health insurers and government payers certainly don't like that trend and are pushing patients to use generic drugs whenever possible. And they will continue to do so for years to come.
Generic-drug makers stand to benefit from this dynamic, as do smart investors who buy shares of the stocks most likely to win in the generic-drug market. Which stocks fit the bill? Here are three of the best stocks poised to profit on the boom in generic drugs.
1.Actavis plc Actavis is the third-largest generic drugmaker in the U.S. The companymarkets around 250 generic drug product families in the U.S. Its prominent generic products include Lidocaine, the first generic equivalent for local anesthetic drug Lidoderm, and Telmisartan, a generic version of blood pressure drug Micardis.
Mergers and acquisitions have been the name of the game for Actavis -- and the company is playing the game well. Shares are up nearly 600% over the past five years, and Actavis doesn't appear to be losing steam.
Allergan became Actavis' latest conquest in March. The $70.5 billion deal launched Actavis into the world's top 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in terms of revenue. This acquisition also positions the company for continued strong growth and adds blockbuster branded products to its roster, including Botox and Linzess. Analysts expect average annual earnings growth of more than 17% over the next five years.
All of this activity led to a net loss of $1.27 billion in 2014. However, on a non-GAAP basis factoring out acquisition-related items, Actavis generated earnings of $3.11 billion. Those results were enough to drive shares up more than 50% over the past 12 months.
Actavis claims a forward earnings multiple of less than 14. I wouldn't say this is a value stock, but the growth potential at a reasonable valuation makes Actavis one for investors to seriously consider.
2. Akorn As great as Actavis' stock performance has been, specialty generic-drug maker Akorn has looked even better. Shares rocketed nearly 3,000% over the past five years and are up almost 47% year to date.
Akorn has also been busy picking up other businesses. It bought Hi-Tech Pharmacal in April 2014. Akorn acquired privately held Excelvision AG in July and quickly followed up by buying VersaPharm in August.
Thanks largely to these acquisitions, Akorn projects 2015 revenue to grow at least 47% and earnings to jump by 62% compared with last year. And those results from last year were quite solid, with revenue topping $600 million and adjusted earnings per share more than doubling from 2013.
Akorn's product lineup includes around 170 generic drugs in addition to 12 branded drugs. Among these products are Clobetasol Propionate, a corticosteriod used in treating skin conditions, andProgesterone, which is used to prevent endometrial hyperplasia. Akorn recently launched its latest promising generic,Phenylephrine HCl, a solution used to dilate pupils. The company also markets generic and branded drugs for animals.
While the company's trailing-12-month price-to-earnings ratio of 159 is in nosebleed territory, Akorn's growth prospects give it a forward P/E of a much less scary 22. I wouldn't be surprised if a larger player ultimately gobbles up Akorn.
3.Mallinckrodt plc Covidien spun off Mallinckrodt in 2013, a move that has proven to look pretty good in hindsight. Mallinckrodt's stock is up 180% since then, with shares doubling over the past 12 months.
Like many other generic-drug makers, Mallinckrodt hasn't been immune to buyout fever. Mallinckrodt bought Cadence Pharmaceuticals in early 2014 for $1.4 billion. Later in the year, it picked up Questcor Pharmaceuticals for $5.8 billion. More recently, Mallinckrodt acquiredIkaria for $2.3 billion.
Mallinckrodt's generic business unit claims around 30% market shareof DEA Schedules II and III opioid and oral solid dose medications. The company specializes in generic drugs like these that involve tight regulations. Its ability to navigate the regulatory hurdles stands as a real competitive advantage.
While Mallinckrodt is a major player in the generic-drug market, though, its deal-making has turned the company into more of a branded specialty pharmaceutical player. Last quarter, generics contributed net sales of $284.2 million. Branded specialty drugs, however, combined for $373.6 million in net sales -- led by Questcor's Acthar with sales of $266.4 million.
Mallinckrodt's forward earnings multiple currently stands at 13.6, reflecting strong growth projections for 2015. Acthar should continue to drive growth, but the company's specialty generics, especiallyoxycodone-related products, should also play a key role.
One wrinkleThere is one wrinkle to keep in mind with Actavis, Akorn, and Mallinckrodt. Each company carries plenty of debt as a result of all the acquisition activity.
Actavis has total debt of over $15.5 billion, whileMallinckrodt's debt level stands at $3.97 billion. However, both companies claim debt-to-equity ratios that aren't too concerning. Akorn's debt is lower at $1.12 billion, but it has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.9 -- a level that can raise eyebrows.
Despite the debt loads, I still think all three of these stocks should be winners over the next several years. Generics will remain a hot commodity -- and these stocks should, too.
The article 3 Best Stocks for Investing in Generic Drugs originally appeared on Fool.com.


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England ran in eight tries as they outclassed and overpowered Italy 57-14 at Twickenham to stay in the hunt for the Six Nations title.
After their 18-11 win over Scotland, Wales top the standings with 16 points, but no bonus points.
England have 15 and a massive points difference advantage over the Welsh and Ireland, who are third on nine points ahead of their home game against France on Sunday.
If Wales win their last game at home to Ireland they will complete the Grand Slam but a defeat would mean an England victory over Scotland in the final game of "Super Saturday" at Twickenham, where the Scots have not won for 36 years, would be enough to lift the title unless Ireland rack up two huge bonus-point wins.
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Family Of Muslim Teen Arrested For Clock 'Hoax Bomb' Sues Texas School
The family of a 14-year-old who was arrested in September for bringing a homemade clock to his Texas high school and then charged with having a "hoax bomb" has filed a federal lawsuit against school officials for violating his civil rights.
"For the safety of my family, I have to go back to Qatar, because right now it's not very safe for my family or for anyone who's a minority," Ahmed said Monday.
The suit claims that Mohamed's was discriminated against by school officials, the school district, and the state Board of Education. His right to equal protection under the law was violated and police arrested him without probably cause, the suit added.
"History tells us that when we have stood tall and proud for equality and freedom, we have grown as a nation," the suit said. "When we have given in to fear and hate, we flounder."
Ahmed the clockmaker: Challenging America's 'anti-Muslim bigotry'
Mohamed, who is now visiting the US, will start 10th grade at Qatar Academy next month, the AP reported. He said Monday that he will not go outside while in the US without a hat, sunglasses, and a hooded sweatshirt.
"I can't walk out of the house without being covered up because I might get shot because that happens here," he said.
In November, the family asked the school district and city to pay $15 million or face a lawsuit. The school district said it will review the suit to determine a next step. The district has denied that Mohamed was treated the way he was based on his Islamic faith.
"Irving ISD continues to deny violating the student's rights and will respond to claims in accordance with court rules," Lesley Weaver, a school district spokeswoman, told the Associated Press.
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Obama Descendant Of African Slave?
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On Monday (July 30), the genealogy experts at the website Ancestry.com unveiled research that connected President Barack Obama to the first African slave enslaved for life in America: John Punch was revealed to be the President's 11th great-grandfather, this according to painstaking research done by the website. However, the interesting angle of the revelation is that the link to Punch came by way of Obama's late White mother, Ann Dunham.
Watch Obama's tie to slave John Punch here:
Through DNA analysis, property, and marriage records, researchers determined that John Punch was bought to America before 1640 and later captured that year after attempting to escape in Maryland. He was then extradited and tried in Virginia, where he was ordered by the court to become a permanent slave. Punch would later father children with a White woman, who would pass on her freed status to their children who then became landowners. Punch fathered John Bunch, with Bunch's children marrying in to White families later.
Obama's mother is from Kansas and his father was from Kenya. According Ancestry.com's press release, genealogist Elizabeth Shown Mills said that the findings were as accurate as possible.
"A careful consideration of the evidence convinces me that the Y-DNA evidence of African origin is indisputable, and the surviving paper trail points solely to John Punch as the logical candidate. Genealogical research on individuals who lived hundreds of years ago can never definitively prove that one man fathered another, but this research meets the highest standards and can be offered with confidence," she said.
Genealogist Joseph Shumway added, "We have two of the most-significant Africans in our country's history being directly related to each other."
To learn more about Ancestry.com's research on President Barack Obama's family tree, follow this link.
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